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Students, teachers celebrate Upward Bound scholarship
Two Gophers join lawsuit against NCAA
Recipients and teachers celebrated the “I have a Dream” scholarship, which started in 1991.
The lawsuit claims the NCAA violated antitrust laws.
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Unions fight health care changes The University is altering its benefits to comply with the Affordable Care Act BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
As the University of Minnesota adjusts its employee health care plan to comply with the Af fordable Care Act, some faculty and staff members are concer ned about how increased costs could affect them. Because the r ecommended changes could increase out-of-pocket expenses for employees, some ar e ar guing the changes are unfair to those on the lower end of the pay scale. To avoid a $48 million federal tax over five years for noncompliance, the University proposed changes
to its employee health benefits plan, UPlan, for 2014. The changes would raise the cost of copays for primar y and specialty care and make employees pay deductibles, which they haven’t had to pay before. Under the proposal, the insurance classification for employees with a spouse or domestic partner covered by the plan would be combined with the category for families. Employees with families would see a cost decrease, but those currently in the couples category would see a significant increase. The University’s Benefits Advisor y Committee met Thursday to discuss the proposed changes. The BAC is a group of faculty
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Bus drivers to look for trafficking A new Metro Transit initiative will train drivers to watch for underage prostitution. BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com
To combat sex trafficking in the Twin Cities, Metro Transit officials are
looking to train bus drivers to spot suspicious activity and implement a public awareness campaign. Although it isn’t frequently seen or discussed,
the Twin Cities has one of the largest concentrations of sex trafficking and prostitution in the country. Some exper ts say transit hubs, like bus stops, provide a common meeting place for those involved with sex trafficking.
University Police haven’t had any cases of sex trafficking, said Deputy Chief Chuck Miner, but it is still a prevalent issue in the Twin Cities. u See TRAFFICKING Page 6 Problems persist, but the city is also very proactive on the issue.
BUSINESS
Goodbye local, hello corporate
u See UPLAN Page 6 Unions say the U is using the ACA to justify restructuring plans.
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U leads in LGBT programs, policies The U got a nearperfect rating, but some say there’s more work to do. BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities is the most LGBT-friendly university in the countr y, according to a recent report, but some say there are still areas for improvement — especially for students who identify as LGBT but not as gay or lesbian. Campus Pride, a national nonprofit organization that measures LGBT inclusiveness in higher education, awarded the Twin Cities campus an overall score of 99 percent and five out of five stars for the second consecutive year, according to a University news
release. The University received a five-star score in eight areas including housing, academic life and counseling and health, according to the ranking report. The ranking process included more than 50 self-assessment questions corresponding to the eight areas. According to the press release, the University received a 98 percent score on LGBT student life and a 96 percent score on LGBTfriendliness in University policies. Frankie Jader, of fice manager for the GLBTA Programs Office, filled out a sur vey after consulting with members of the University’s LGBT community, which formed the basis for
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Economics junior Grant Savage pays Staci Caldow, right, at House of Hanson on Saturday in Dinkytown. Smaller grocery stores, such as House of Hanson, are being affected by bigger chain convenience stores like CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens.
As more national chains move into the University area, some locals are hurting; others are leaving. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
been making their mark near the University of
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Minnesota in the past few
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years, leaving some smaller
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business when it moved in
displacing the small store.
a few blocks away in 2011,
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stores, such as CVS Pharmacy and Walgreens, have
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To sur vive against the big chains, she said
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Hollins continues balancing act abroad Andre Hollins traveled to Italy to study, maintaining his commitment to academics.
BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Gophers head basketball coach Richard
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Minnesota guard Andre Hollins (1) looks for an opening against a UCLA defender Friday, March 22, at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.
Pitino said he’s never heard of a scholarship athlete studying abroad. But he probably hasn’t seen many players like All-Big Ten guard and Carlson School of Management junior Andre Hollins. “You walk into the Carlson school, and Andre’s picture is up on the wall,” Pitino said. “He’s kind of like the spokesperson for it.” Carlson students are required to take a trip abroad, so Hollins and junior teammate Elliott Eliason traveled to Italy at the start of the summer as part of a course on food sustainability. “It was an amazing experience,” Hollins said. “It was kind of life-changing.” The experience may have cost him a spot on the USA Basketball team at the World University Games in July. But Hollins is used to balancing school and basketball. He graduated from high school with a 4.8 GPA and considered u See HOLLINS Page 8 Because of his busy schedule abroad, Hollins had few opportunities to play basketball.
TEACH FOR AMERICA
U moving along with TFA deal Grad students say the U is not considering their objections to the partnership. BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com
No decision has been made on the proposed partnership between the University of Minnesota and Teach for America, but some graduate students said they believe an unofficial agreement has already been decided. Nine graduate students met with College of Education and Human Development Dean Jean Quam and five members of the college’s administration July 11 to discuss the proposed partnership after penning a petition to CEHD expressing their opposition. As of July 14, nearly 300 people had signed the petition, according to a press u See TFA Page 6 The Twin Cities TFA director said the organization shares common goals with the students.
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LONDON — A crowd cheered, hundreds of cameras clicked and an image of familial perfection was beamed around the world. Prince William, his wife Kate and their infant son, the Prince of Cambridge, emerged Tuesday from London’s St. Mary’s Hospital to start a new chapter in their lives — capping a remarkable turnaround for a monarchy that had ended the 20th century at a low point of popularity. The outpouring of public and official enthusiasm — including artillery salutes, marching bands and landmarks illuminated blue for the royal baby boy — showed that Britain’s royal family is back in its subjects’ affections, especially now that it has an adorable infant heir, third in line to the throne, who could be king into the 22nd century. “It’s had its ups and downs in public opinion,” said veteran royal commentator Dickie Arbiter. “But in the last 20 years it has had more ups than downs.” Pictures of William, Kate and their baby, whose given names have yet to be announced, echoed a similar image taken 31 years ago, when Prince Charles and Princess Diana left the same hospital with baby William in their arms. William and Kate looked much more relaxed than the awkward Charles and Diana, and within a few years the older couple’s image of regal domestic bliss had been comprehensively trashed.
By the late 1980s and early ’90s, the royal family was making headlines for all the wrong reasons. More often than not the stories were about marital troubles among the children of Queen Elizabeth II, especially for Charles and his unhappy wife Diana. The divorce or separation of three of the monarch’s four children in 1992, along with a damaging fire at Windsor Castle, led the queen — in a rare admission of private feeling — to dub it a horrible year, her “annus horribilis.” Then in 1997 came Diana’s death in a car crash — a personal tragedy that also became a crisis for the monarchy. Warm, glamorous and unhappy in her royal marriage, Diana had — in the eyes of many — been badly treated by the royal “Firm.” The queen and other senior royals, caught by surprise by an outpouring of public grief at her death, appeared cold and remote. But that image has since been transformed, par tly because of the dignified endurance of Queen Elizabeth II, now in her 62nd year on the throne. At 87, she is the only monarch most Britons have ever known, a reassuring presence at the heart of national life who has in recent years given public hints of her private sense of humor — even agreeing to appear alongside Daniel Craig’s James Bond in a short film for the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony. If the queen gives the family gravitas, the emergence of an attractive young generation that includes William,
his soldier-socialite brother Prince Harry and the glamorous, middle-class Kate gives it celebrity. W illiam’s work as a search-and-rescue helicopter pilot, Harry’s army service in Afghanistan, and Kate’s girl-next-door charm have all proved assets. Even seeming faux pas such as Harry’s stripbilliards antics in Las Vegas have done little but burnish his popularity. William and Kate’s Westminster Abbey wedding in 2011 was an extravaganza of pageantry that brought thousands into the streets for celebratory parties. The baby adds a new layer of stability to help the institution thrive for another generation. For the first time since the 19th-century reign of Queen Victoria, Britain has three generations of living heirs to the throne — Prince Charles, William and his baby son. Through Kate, the future king also has a dose of nonroyal blood. Her family, although affluent, comes from an ordinar y, middle-class background. “I think this baby is hugely significant for the future of the monarchy,” said Kate’s biographer, Claudia Joseph. “It is the first future king for 350 years to have such an unusual family tree. Not since Queen Mary II has the offspring of a ‘commoner’ been an heir to the throne.” Diana was a commoner in the strict sense that she was not royal, but unlike Kate she came from an aristocratic family. The importance of that common thread was echoed
by Pippa Rowe, head teacher at the primary school in Kate’s home village of Bucklebury, west of London. “I think this will enable the children to have a real chance to connect with the monarch,” she said. “They lear n about kings and queens, but we are going to have a real live prince with one set of grandparents living down the road.” The cost of affection for the royal family, in our media-saturated times, is a hunger for intimacy. The young royals are global celebrities, and there is a vast demand for images and information about them from the world’s media. William and Kate will struggle against that hunger as they try to give their son a normal childhood, as much as possible out of the spotlight. Arbiter said William’s own childhood would help him give his son a balanced upbringing. William was educated alongside children from a wide variety of backgrounds, albeit at some of Britain’s ritziest private schools. “I’m not going to use the word ‘common,’ but it was a well-rounded upbringing,” Arbiter said. “And, of course, his mother gave him the high street. He knew what it was all about to go to a movie or go into McDonald’s or a book store. He knew how to handle money, which is something older royals didn’t do. He will bring up his children in the way he was brought up, and probably with some new touches from Catherine.”
Canada toughens train rules after deadly disaster BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TORONTO — Canadian transportation authorities banned one-man crews for trains with dangerous goods Tuesday, responding to calls for tougher regulations after an oil train derailment in Quebec killed 47 people. Transport Canada also said trains with dangerous goods will not be allowed to be left unattended on a main
track. Hand brakes must be applied to trains left one hour or more. The July 6 tragedy occur red when a r unaway train carr ying 72 carloads of cr ude derailed, hurtled down an incline and slammed into downtown Lac-Megantic. Several train cars exploded and 40 buildings were leveled. The unattended Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train had been parked overnight on
a rail line before it came loose. “The disaster brought to light several industr y practices which have caused some concer n,” said Gerard McDonald, assistant deputy minister of safety and security at Transport Canada. “Given that and with an abundance of precaution, we thought it would be prudent to implement these measures now.”
Transport Canada says the cause of the derailment remains unknown. Canada’s Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the accident, had asked for changes in regulations governing rail traffic. Transpor t Canada also is giving rail operators five days to ensure nobody without authorization can enter the cab of unattended locomotives on a main track or sidings.
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Students, teachers celebrate Upward Bound scholarship Recipients and teachers celebrated the “I have a Dream” scholarship, which started in 1991. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
Derran Bedward’s parents didn’t go to college, but he grew up knowing he would — even if it wasn’t always clear how he’d get there. “All my life, I’ve always been about breaking cycles,” he said. Bedward is one of 460 students who have participated in the University of Minnesota’s college readiness program, TRiO Upward Bound, and have also benefited from the “I Have a Dream” Scholarship over the past two decades. All Minnesota program participants receive the scholarship if they complete the program and go on to college. Cur r ent and for mer scholarship recipients, along with University faculty members and administrators, gathered for their annual event Thursday to celebrate the success of the scholarship. “This ceremony is one of the best illustrations of the profound impact financial investments in marginalized and often underrepresented communities can make when it is coupled with intentional and strategic programming,” said Miner va Munoz, University Upward Bound director. Minnesota has one of the widest achievement gaps for students of color in the nation, according to the University’s College of Education and Human Development. Upward Bound, which began nationally in 1964, started at the University in 1966 in an effort to combat
education inequalities nationwide. It’s part of TRiO, a national program that works with first-generation college students and is housed at the University within CEHD. TRiO was part of the General College until the college was dissolved in 2005. The University collaborates with three Minneapolis high schools to provide Upward Bound services to students. The scholarship began in 1991. For every year a high school student meets the program requirements, they receive a $1,000 scholarship to attend any college they want.
Increasing accessibility
The scholarship can be used for a variety of educational expenses. It makes opportunities like summer classes and study abroad programs accessible to program participants, many of whom are from low-income backgrounds. Hayat Hassen, a recent University graduate, used the funds for classes in the summer, when financial aid can be scarce. “I was able to work really hard to maintain my grades and pay off my … summer loan,” she said. “In general, Upward Bound and the scholarship was really helpful for me.” Daisy Hidalgo said she “never thought of college before Upward Bound.” Today, Hidalgo is a political science sophomore at the University with plans to attend law school. Hidalgo used some of her award funds to pursue a study abroad program, an oppor tunity she said she wouldn’t have had without the scholarship.
Preparing for college While in Upward Bound, high school students from the thr ee Minneapolis schools must meet various requirements, including
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Upward Bound Director Minerva Munoz speaks to graduates and members of TRiO’s Upward Bound program at a commencement ceremony celebrating the program’s 22 years of success Thursday at McNamara Alumni Center.
attending a five-week program every summer at the University. During that time, students attend high schoollevel classes and live in oncampus dorms. The University’s program stands out from other Upward Bound summer institutes, said Zach Easty, a TRiO math teacher who has worked with Upward Bound in other states. “This is my third Upward Bound program I’ve [taught with],” he said, “and it is the most well-grounded program I’ve been a part of.” The requirements can be daunting, said Antonio Moore, who recently graduated from the University with a sociology degree after going through Upward
Bound. “I’m ver y grateful to be par t of the program, but when I was in the program [in high school] there were times when I wanted to do other things,” he said. “If it wasn’t for [Munoz] telling me to continue on, I don’t know where I would be.” Keeping students in school is a major goal for Upward Bound and the other TRiO programs, Munoz said, because many students in the program face difficult hurdles. “Many of these ‘Dream’ scholars come from families who maybe didn’t know the language or maybe never had received formal education,” Munoz said. “Some of these successes come from
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Kayden Huang Bui speaks to graduates and members of TRiO’s Upward Bound Program about using sign language to teach English abroad.
individuals whose first real bed was living at the dorms
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Residents feel helpless in sound wall fight Residents say the voting process restricts their ability to object. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
A small number of University of Minnesota neighbor hood r esidents and property owners will soon decide whether four noise bar riers should be built along stretches of Interstate 35W. Many say the voting process is unfair and the $3 million walls are almost inevitable. That money, they say, could be better spent improving neighborhood infrastructure. The voting period for Southeast Como residents started Friday and MarcyHolmes begins Wednesday. Residents will have 30 days to vote. “This is a great example of irresponsible spending,” said Craig Janssen, owner of Southeast Como -based Elmwood Properties. Janssen said of ficials should instead add storm sewers and streetlights to the neighborhood because the sound walls are pointless. “I don’t see a benefit for the human race here,” he said.
Voting process concerns
The proposed walls would be part of a $13 million project adding a lane to nor thbound I-35W and expanding the ramp along Fourth Street Southeast in June 2014. The Minnesota Department of T ranspor tation evaluates all of its projects’ potential noise impacts, said Scott Pedersen, Mn-
DOT manager for the west metro area. While the freeway project would only slightly raise noise levels in the sur r ounding neighborhoods, residents near I-35W already face a decibel level higher than state standards, Pedersen said. The fr eeway pr oject would raise the noise level to almost 80 decibels, which is equivalent to the sound of a continuously running garbage disposal. The sound walls would bring the noise level down to the current state standard of 65 decibels. Under MnDOT voting regulations, property owner votes count for twice as many as resident votes do. But many property owners eligible to vote don’t live in Minnesota and won’t bother to participate in the decision-making process, said Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis. Because MnDOT’s default position is to build the walls, Kahn said, it will be almost impossible for concerned residents to fight them. “The worst thing about [sound walls] is the voting process,” she said. “It’s hard to vote them down.” At a public meeting Thursday, Kahn said people won’t vote against the walls because they’ll assume the process will be similar to constitutional amendments, where a lack of vote counts as a no. Here, not voting counts as a yes vote. Marcy-Holmes resident Mike Brothers said more neighborhood residents should be allowed to vote. “You need a majority to change the status quo,” he said. “I don’t like that it’s opt-out rather than opt-in.”
Brothers said he doesn’t want the walls because they could attract graffiti, like neighborhood utility boxes and railroad crossings have in the past. Advertising sophomore and Marcy-Holmes resident Mason Widmer said it makes sense that only a small group of residents can vote on the project. “They’re the ones that would have to deal with it,” he said. Widner, who isn’t eligible to vote, said he uses the fr eeway ever y day to commute to work and doesn’t think the current noise is a problem. A number of trees along the freeway will be removed if the sound walls are built. Kahn said losing trees will have a negative psychological ef fect on residents. “The idea of facing a wall of green trees as opposed to a solid, concrete, pr obably to-be-graf fitifilled wall is enormous,” she said.
Frustrations with government
Southeast Como Impr ovement Association President Wendy Menken said residents don’t have enough time to consider the sound wall project. “This entire conversation was made long ago without our consideration,” she said. Psychology junior and Marcy-Holmes resident Brian Zetah said he hasn’t heard anything about the sound wall. Zetah, who isn’t eligible to vote, said he doesn’t think the area around the highway is loud enough to justify a wall that could be an eyesore. “It looks fine the way it
is now,” he said. “If you put up a big wall, that might kind of change it.” Menken said the voting process is “broken” because people can’t decide how the government will spend money. “You can just see the disconnect between [officials] and people on the ground,” Menken said. Janssen, owner of Elmwood Proper ties, said the project is another example of g ov er n men t of f i c es spending their budgets unnecessarily. “People in political office are spending money how they want, rather than spending 100 percent on the people,” he said. “When’s the last time someone in the gover nment asked you what you thought of something?”
Prospect Park parallels
MnDOT built a sound wall along Interstate 94 in the Prospect Park neighborhood in 2011. But the wall actually reflects and amplifies noise rather than reducing it, because part of the neighborhood is on a hill above the wall. “We told them before they star ted building that [it] would create a reflected noise problem,” said longtime r esident Bob Sykora. “They built it anyway.” MnDOT commissioned a sound test for the area, confir ming the wall increased noise levels in more than 200 neighborhood homes. Prospect Park representatives are cur rently negotiating fixes to the wall with MnDOT. They voted Monday to adopt a more gradual approach to also
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A sound wall stands between I-94 and Prospect Park homes Saturday in St. Paul. Proposed sound walls in Marcy-Holmes and Southeast Como have been a source of controversy between residents and MnDOT.
focus on making the wall more aesthetically pleasing. MnDOT manager Pedersen said sound amplification won’t be an issue for the I-35W wall because the land around it is level. “I don’t think it’s the same issue,” he said.
Prospect Park residents at the meeting even said they had considered moving because the noise was so loud. “I know there are people in the neighborhood who are being driven crazy by the noise,” Sykora said.
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“Dinky” bus looks to help with parking The shuttle should start in the fall and run from the 4th Street ramp through Dinkytown. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Students and business owners agree parking in Dinkytown can be a nightmare. To improve ongoing parking woes, Dinkytown businesses are working to provide a free shuttle bus for commuting customers. A 1960s-era short school bus called “The Dinky” will circulate every five minutes from the University of Minnesota’s 4th Street Ramp to the Dinkytown area. Businesses par tnering on the project hope to have the shuttle running by the start of the school year, but a date hasn’t been finalized, said L ynn Nyman, executive assistant at the Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theater. The shuttle will operate from late afternoon until about 9 p.m., Monday through Saturday. Owners of Loring, Kafe 421, Burrito Loco Bar and Grill and Autographics Printing are the only businesses involved in the project so far, but Nyman said they’re looking for more sponsors in the neighborhood. The developers behind a proposed apartment complex in the area will also help fund the shuttle. The initiative is still in its beginning stages, and
the partners are currently working with the University to utilize the ramp. Nyman said the University has been very receptive in what could be a “win-win” situation for both the school and the shuttle. Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theater owner Jason McLean is designing the bus to make the fiveminute ride an “experience” for destination customers, Nyman said. “We want it to make parking fun,” she said.
Finding a solution Parking problems intensified in December when businesses lost 178 spaces after the University Technology Enterprise Center was demolished to make way for a new apar tment complex. The new building, which is being developed by GEM Realty Capital, Inc., will be completed next July and provide 41 public parking spaces. “As of December, we all started feeling the problem,” Nyman said. Gretchen Camp, associate partner at the architecture firm that designed the complex, said they didn’t originally plan to have public parking, instead offering more spaces to residents. She said the design changed after discussions with businesses and neighborhoods in the area. The Opus Group also added public parking spaces to their plans for a new apartment complex on Fifth Street Southeast after listening to businesses’ concerns.
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Senior Parking Attendant Michal Hawkins assists a customer with parking at the 4th Street Parking Ramp on Tuesday.
The proposed site will provide at least 68 paid stalls, nearly as many spaces as the project is displacing, said Matt Rauenhorst, senior director of real estate development at Opus. “We tried to meet as many requests as we could,” he said. Opus will also help finance the shuttle during the apartment’s construction to help out area businesses, Rauenhorst said. Even with the parking spaces from the new de-
velopments, many community members say the issue won’t be solved. City Councilwoman Diane Hofstede, who represents Ward 3, said she’s been working with the Dinkytown Business Association and area neighborhoods to fix the problem. Hofstede said the city evaluated parking options “block-by-block” around Dinkytown to see what spaces weren’t being utilized. “We’ve covered a lot of
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‘Love for the institution’
Duvall is completing projects that former CLA dean James Parente started, as well as launching his own initiatives. For example, Duvall said he’ll continue to develop Parente’s par tner-
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Brian Buhr, recently named interim dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, stands with current Dean Allen Levine outside St. Paul Campus’ Haecker Hall on Monday.
ship between CLA and the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs to create a human rights institute. He’s also working on new initiatives like developing programs for students whose major is undecided. “We want to do more by way of making sure that the College of Liberal Arts is really an exciting educational oppor tunity for the students that are here,” he said. Although some interim deans do, Duvall doesn’t plan to apply for the dean position. “I’m doing this out of love for the institution,” he said. Once a new dean is found, Duvall said, he plans to resume his position as a political science professor. He said he’ll bring what he learned about all of the different departments back to his own. “I’ve always been an enthusiastic person,” he said. “If anything, I will bring
back even greater enthusiasm.”
‘Changing the engines’
CFANS recently finished developing new majors in food systems and plant science. One of Buhr’s main tasks will be making sure the majors r un smoothly when they become available for students in the fall. “It’s sort of like changing the engines on the airplane while it’s moving,” he said, because new majors need attention even after they’re launched. Buhr said he also plans to help develop research projects for MnDRIVE, a research initiative that received funding from the Legislature last session. Although the search for the next CFANS dean will be both external and internal, Buhr said he hasn’t decided yet if he’ll apply. Allen Levine — who an-
nounced his plans to step down in early June — has ser ved as dean since 2006, when two colleges and a depar tment combined to form CFANS. He said he’s stepping down because the longterm changes he set out to make seven years ago have been completed and initiating another set of changes now would require staying on for several more years. “I didn’t want to star t things and not finish them,” he said. Levine will return to the faculty in late August and ser ve as a liaison between Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Karen Hanson’s office and the rest of the University to help them communicate about interdisciplinary learning. He said Buhr is a “solid thinker” who understands the breadth of the college. “It’s nice to have somebody who has a full picture of the college,” Levine said.
Driving around the block a few times is a typical parking experience in the area, said Josh Thorson, graphic design sophomore. “I feel like I just drive in circles until I find a place,” he said. Skott Johnson, DBA president and Autographics owner, said the shuttle will help businesses during construction, but the area needs a more permanent solution. “This is just a shor tterm solution,” he said.
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The University’s two interim deans see themselves as more than just caretakers.
The University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts and College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences are currently undergoing dean transitions, which means saying goodbye to longterm leaders and shifting to interim ones. Though they come from ver y dif ferent colleges, CLA’s Raymond Duvall and CFANS’ Brian Buhr both look to spend their time as interim deans moving their colleges for ward, not just sitting back and preventing things from going wrong. Interim deans fill the position until a permanent dean can be found. Ever since Duvall stepped in as interim dean of CLA at the end of June, he said he’s been learning ever ything he can about the college. “It’s almost a nonstop learning process for me,” he said. Duvall spends part of every day in the new position meeting with different departments so he can better represent them. But he also spends time working on projects to grow the college, he said. “Part of each day is devoted to making sure that the college is moving forward,” he said. “I’m not just gathering information about it.” As he prepares to step in as interim dean of CFANS on Aug. 26, Buhr, head of the Department of Applied Economics, has also spent time meeting with other department heads about their goals. Buhr said he also plans to be more than a caretaker. “You need to keep those moving ahead,” he said.
ground,” Hofstede said. “But we’re not finished.” Kafe 421 owner Georgia Sander said she’s optimistic about the shuttle solving some of the parking problems and hopes it can keep Dinkytown on the map. Educating customers on where to park is a large part of the shuttle’s mission, said Burrito Loco owner Greg Pillsbury. “There’s plenty of parking,” Pillsbury said. “People just need to know where to park.”
mom-and-pop shops will have to evolve and cater to their customers in a way large corporations can’t. “Be there to do the unusual,” Bauer said. With a new Walgreens opening just down the street from CVS on Washington Avenue Southeast, U of M Market owner Ahmed Mohamed is worried about his store’s future. The small convenience store opened last June before CVS moved into the streetlevel space of Stadium Village Flats. Mohamed said he was aware CVS was moving in when he signed the lease but wasn’t worried about it at the time. But now Mohamed is unsure of what will become of his shop. “The big fish is coming,” he said. “I have to do something.” Other local convenience stores face similar pressures to compete with chain stores. In Southeast Como, Joe’s Market and Deli focuses on cheap prices and specialty items for its student customer base, said store manager Mackenzie Gavic. “Cheap is definitely our goal to cater to students,” Gavic said. Joe’s also stocks up on gluten-free and vegan choices, popular options with students. “We bring in whatever opportunity to be unique,”
Gavic said. “The not-so-corporate vibe also helps bring in students.” Joe’s customer Bree Schmidt said she prefers going to the local shop over CVS for the customer service. “The people are friendly,” the theater junior said. “It’s a cute little convenience shop.” Maxwell’s Market owner Ramadan Hussein said he doesn’t have to compete with CVS because his store is on the other side of I-35W, but he worries about the area changing in the future. “We depend on the kids,” Hussein said. “If CVS moves across the street, I’ll put out the closing sign.” Maxwell’s sells basic grocery items along with cigarettes, tobacco products and hookahs, which makes his store unique, Hussein said. “You’re not going to smoke hookah at CVS,” he said. Some students who shop at CVS said they weren’t aware of other options. “This is the only place I know,” said mathematics senior Jiaqi Zhang. The familiarity of chain stores makes them more appealing to students, Bauer said. “It’s an err in their perception,” she said. After more than 80 years of business, Bauer will say goodbye to her family’s store at the end of the month. Graphic design junior Brendan Meier said he prefers to shop at Bauer’s store for its selection and sense of history. “House of Hanson is classic,” Meier said.
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U encouraging flipped classes for fall The push is part of the University’s e Learning initiatives. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
Colleges and universities around the country have begun adopting new ways to use technology in education, and the University of Minnesota is no exception. Part of that shift is the implementation of flipped classrooms — courses that reverse the traditional lecture model with the use of prerecorded lectures and online student forums. Many University professors are experimenting with the flipped classroom model, and in the coming year, even more courses are set to be flipped. “There has really been a dramatic uptick on the part of faculty that is almost a renaissance of thinking about how to teach better, and how to use new tools, that is more aggressive than it was before,” said chemistr y professor Chris Cramer, who served as the faculty liaison for the University’s Office of eLearning
and taught a flipped course last year. In flipped classrooms, professors record and post lectures online for students to view outside of class. During normal class time, students generally participate in group work, hands-on activities and class discussions. The flipped classrooms are in line with goals that Karen Hanson, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, laid out in February for the University’s eLearning initiatives, which include redesigning programs to integrate online components into courses. As part of that initiative, the Office of eLearning has been working with several other University offices to help professors looking to flip a class, said Bob Rubinyi, director of the office of eLearning. The Center for Teaching and Learning, the Office of Information Technology and the University Libraries have been collaborating with professors and administrators to provide support for faculty members who want to integrate new technology into the classroom. “We’ve all been trying to
work together over the last six months to create more wraparound support for faculty that want support in eLearning,” Rubinyi said, “so they don’t have to go to many different places for help.”
Flipped classes at the University
Though faculty members aren’t required to take up the eLearning initiative, many professors, including Cramer, have elected to. After teaching a flipped course last year, Cramer was also one of five professors to offer the University’s first massive open online courses, or MOOCs, this summer, an experience that he said prepared him to flip his second course this fall. “[The MOOC] was more work than I expected, but it was pretty rewarding,” he said. “The student feedback was phenomenal, and it really helped me learn the subject better.” Now, Cramer can take some of the content he created for the MOOC, like recorded lectures, and use it for a flipped class at the University, he said. But professors can face drawbacks when creating
flipped classes. When associate professor Michelle Driessen flipped one of her chemistry classes, she had to figure out how to engage with the large number of students who enrolled. “I was assigned to teach 350 students,” she said. “But the largest active learning classroom holds [fewer] students.” Her solution was to split the class into three sections that each met once a week for 50 minutes in a Science Teaching and Student Services active learning classroom. Because students only attended class for one session a week, she said, it was important they stay engaged during class time and listened to lectures at home. “I think once students start to get used to the idea of maybe learning a little bit differently … they enjoy the flipped classroom,” she said. “But I don’t know if a lot of the freshmen I teach are prepared for that.” Like Driessen, Cramer said he’s received mixed reviews for his flipped class. “You get baked by at least a few students that say they want you to lecture more,” he said.
Jessica Wyatt, a chemistry freshman, said it’s unrealistic for professors to expect students to learn from videos at home. “Flipped classrooms at the [University] are really obnoxious,” she said, “because you don’t get the lecture-style learning that you’re looking forward to when you go to college.” On the other side of the spectrum, graduate student Kelsey Brown said a flipped classroom format would be attractive to her. “[Flipped classes] would give students a lot more time to ask questions and already get familiar with the material so they can delve deeper into the [subject],” she said. Though Driessen said creating flipped classes takes more work than preparing for a traditional lecture course, she still plans to flip a more advanced chemistry class in the spring because of positive feedback she got from students in her current flipped course. “I feel like I’m here to put students in the best situation possible for them to learn and for me to teach,” she said. “So if it is more work for me, I guess that’s my job.”
U EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE 1915–99 U provides educational videos to U.S. classes 1946 U radio station aired learning programs for kids with polio 1987–2003 U airs TV show with medical experts and students
1996 Online courses offered at TC and Crookston campuses
2006 Moodle launched 2007 Active learning classrooms piloted at U 2010 STSS building opened with 10 new active learning classrooms 2012 Office of eLearning created 2013 U launches first MOOCs SOURCE: OFFICE OF ELEARNING, OFFICE OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND PROVOST
Man assaulted at Dinkytown McDonald’s Also, police cited a man for urinating on Dinkytown Wine and Spirits. BY KIA FARHANG mkarhang@mndaily.com
A man punched a St. Paul student in the face, knocking his tooth out, at McDonald’s in Dinkytown early Thursday morning. St. Paul College ju nior Dalton Kite said he brought two of his friends to the restaurant early Thursday morning after a 21st bir thday celebration. They were intoxicated, so he left them in the car while he went inside. Kite came back outside about five minutes later. His friends were sitting on the ground, he said, and two men were tr ying to take pictures with them. The men wouldn’t leave when Kite asked them to, he said. He stepped between the two groups to keep his friends from being photographed and said one of the strangers punched him in the face. “I just stood in the way,” Kite said. “Next thing I know, I’m on the ground.” Police ar rived at the scene and took Kite to the hospital, where staf f managed to put his tooth back in place. Kite said a police of ficer got milk from Mc-
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Donald’s to preser ve the tooth. He said his friends were grateful for his interference. “They were sitting in the hospital room with me for the whole four hours,” Kite said. Earlier this month, police used mace and pepper balls to break up an unruly crowd in the Dinkytown McDonald’s parking lot. The Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, which includes Dinkytown, has seen six other assaults this year, according to police data.
Burglar y foiled A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a University of Minnesota student’s garage early Sunday morning, according to a Minneapolis police report. Chemistr y graduate student Deirdre ManionFischer said her roommate woke up to the sound of glass breaking in their duplex on Fifth Str eet Southeast. Her roommate looked outside and saw a
group of people tr ying to open the garage door. “We’re not really clear on the number of people,” Manion-Fischer said. Her roommate then called the police. Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said two suspects were at the scene when police arrived. They ran away, but police later found one of them hiding under neath a car across the street. “We were just in the living room waiting while this was happening,” Manion-Fischer said. Nothing was stolen from the garage. ManionFischer said the suspects tried to take her bike but abandoned it when police arrived. “I was quite upset,” she said. Police have recorded 47 other burglaries in MarcyHolmes in the first half of this year.
Urination on Dinkytown Wine and Spirits
University police cited a man for urinating on the outside of Dinkytown Wine and Spirits early Saturday morning. Pedestrians on the street and sidewalk could see the man, the police repor t said, and an of ficer saw a “large puddle of urine” on the pavement.
University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said crimes like this are fairly common around bar close. People guilty of public urination or intoxication sometimes send apology letters as par t of restorative justice programs, said Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson. Johnson said he hadn’t heard of this specific incident but gets about a dozen such letters addressed to Dinkytown ever y year.
Theft from St. Paul campus parking lot
Someone broke a man’s car window and stole his laptop while the car was parked in a University lot on the St. Paul campus Thursday evening, according to a police report. The man is not af filiated with the University. Miner said thefts from St. Paul parking lots aren’t as common as other par ts of campus. Break-ins like this usually occur in the afternoon or early evening, Miner said. “T ypically,” he said, “thieves like that don’t necessarily get up early.”
Three campus thefts July 17
Three thefts occurred on the University campus on July 17.
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the ranking. Compared to other schools in the Twin Cities area, the University had one of the highest scores,
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tying with Macalester College. Stanfor d University, Ohio State University and the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor also topped the list. Jader said she believes the location of the University has a lot to do with the ranking — Minneapolis is consistently ranked one of the most LGBT-friendly cities in the U.S. “[The ranking] feels ver y comfor ting,” said Emma Ahlberg, a member of the Queer Student Cultural Center. “However, I’m not going to sit back and say the Twin Cities is per fect, because it’s certainly not.” Jader said she mostly agrees with the ranking, but said it’s not completely comprehensive. Because the questions are the same for ever y institution, there isn’t room to add details specific to the University. What’s more, some within the University’s LGBT community feel their experience wasn’t fully represented by the sur vey. T rans-identified students have experienced problems with gender identity on University records and documents, said
Gwen Carlson, facilitator of Tranarchy, a group within the QSCC. The only par t of the index the University missed was an “accessible, simple process for students to change their name and gender identity on university records and documents.” Currently, trans-identified students can change their name with One Stop Student Ser vices, but their legal name will still appear on FAFSA documents and class rosters. In Minnesota, people can change their legal name through mar riage, divorce or legal separation, or by paying a fee and filing a name change action in district court. Carlson, who legally changed her name for free with the help of University Student Legal Service, said she had trouble figuring out where at the University to submit documentation after the legal name change. “It’s not clearly connected,” she said, adding that many trans-identified students may not even be aware they can legally change their name with USLA. “I do agree that the
school is good compared to other schools,” Carlson said, “but also agree that there’s area for improvement.” Ahlberg, who identifies as a cisgender lesbian — someone whose sex was labeled as female at birth and who identifies as both female and lesbian — said she doesn’t have problems with access to resources on campus, but some of her friends and colleagues who identify as transgender do. “It’s a population within the LGBT community that gets left out,” she said, “because they don’t necessarily fit what the average straight person may see as an acceptable kind of homosexuality.” Ahlberg said she’s afraid the high ranking will make the University community feel like it can “throw in the towel” on LGBT issues. “For the University, it would be well advised to remember that queer and minority rights and safety is an ongoing process,” she said. “It’s impor tant for the University to keep in mind those students that don’t necessarily pop up on the radar right away.”
All of the victims left their belongings unattended. Police don’t have any additional information about the suspects. A man left his cellphone, driver’s license and credit card on the bleachers in the University Aquatic Center, according to a police report. He came back half an hour later and saw they were gone. Around the same time, a staff member at the Phillips Wangensteen Building
had her credit card and about $75 in cash stolen from her unlocked of fice, another report said. That night, a student staying in Comstock Hall left his room unlocked for about an hour while he went on a walk. Someone came into his room and stole his backpack, which contained his laptop, the police report said. University police don’t believe the thefts are related, Miner said.
OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: When: Where: Info:
Cell phone theft Monday Sixth Street Southeast and 13th Avenue Southeast A man stole the victim’s cellphone out of her hands, got into an orange Dodge Neon and drove away. Police action: Further investigation. Crime: When: Where: Info:
Public consumption Thursday Cedar Avenue South and Franklin Avenue East Suspect resisted arrest after an officer saw him drinking a beer and asked him for identification. He was also cited for obstructing the legal process. The man continually spat on the backseat of the police car on the way to jail. Police action: Case closed. Crime: When: Where: Info:
Stolen golf carts Sunday-Monday Les Bolstad Golf Course Four golf carts were stolen. They weren’t secured, and police don’t have any suspect info or security camera footage. Police action: Active case. Crime: When: Where: Info:
Bike theft Monday Blegen Hall Brand new bike was locked to a rack with a cable lock. Both the lock and the bike were gone when the victim got back. Police action: Inactive pending new information. SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD
House panel wants deep cut in Great Lakes program BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS T R AV E R S E C I T Y, Mich. — Federal programs designed to make headway on some of the Great Lakes’ most longstanding ecological problems, from harbors caked with toxic sludge to the threat of an Asian carp attack, would lose about 80 per cent of their funding under a spending plan approved Tuesday by a Republicancontr olled U.S. House panel. The measur e would hammer the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which has enjoyed bipartisan support since President Barack Obama established it in 2009, based on a priority list endorsed four years earlier by President George W. Bush. Also targeted for a drastic reduction is a lowinterest loan fund that helps local governments upgrade aging sewage treatment systems. The rollbacks are part of a broader spending bill that would implement the second year of “sequestration”
cuts required after Congress failed to agree on a budget. The House Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Subcommittee sent the measure to the full Appropriations Committee. It’s one of 12 bills under consideration to fund dayto-day operations of government agencies. It could be revised substantially during negotiations this fall and likely would face a veto threat from Obama even if it cleared the Democratic-controlled Senate. Still, the proposed reduction is by far the deepest yet sought for the restoration initiative, and groups that have championed the program said they were alarmed. “Cuts of this magnitude would bring Great Lakes programs to a halt,” said Joel Brammeier, president of the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Even during a time of belt tightening, he said, “what’s mystifying to me is these programs seem to be singled out for dispr opor tionate tr eat ment.”
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U opening research lab to focus on primary care
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The center plans to use increased business partnerships to improve general patient care and benefit communities. BY LIBBY RYAN eryan@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota Physicians is opening a research and development lab to make general patient care easier. The Mill City Innovation and Collaboration Center will partner with businesses later this summer to develop new health care technologies that could increase efficiency and decrease the costs of health care. The center will be part of the University Physicians’ Mill City Clinic, where new technologies can be tested and applied. “We star ted bouncing the idea around, really out of frustration from seeing a lot of good technology not being adopted,” said Rick Tanler, an Innovation and Collaboration Center board member. The center will allow businesses from around the state and country to work with University researchers to directly apply the inventions to patient care. “We wanted to establish a multidisciplinary research site, and we couldn’t do that alone at the University,” said Dr. Kevin Peterson, director of the University’s Center of Excellence in Primary Care. “So we formed a University and industry partnership.” Business and industr y money made up 7.4 percent of the University’s research funding last fiscal year. The number of grants from businesses has increased steadily over the last decade. Partnerships like this one are common at the University and can include sponsored research, product testing and design programs. “They’re an incredibly valuable opportunity to connect with real life problems
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and staff members and retirees who advise University administrators on employee benefits. Dann Chapman, Office of Human Resources employee benefits director, said the University plans to soften the blow of the cost shift for employees by giving all enrolled in the UPlan a “premium holiday” for one pay period in March 2014. During this period, the University will pay for employees’ portion of the medical program, he said. The University will also phase in the cost increase for couples over at least two years and start a “medical cost relief program” that employees can apply for to help cover the costs of the increases, Chapman said. The University could offer the program for up to three years.
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and solve them,” said Pamela Webb, associate vice president for research. One problem is the way patients receive primary care, which can often prevent future health issues. Primary care doctors see more patients per year than the total number of treatments that specialists give, Peterson said. The center will focus on improving the way patients receive primary care because right now, he said, the University’s clinics place too much attention on specialty care. “And yet, almost all of our money is spent on that one [specialty] patient,” he said, as opposed to a community seeking primary care. Technology developed at the center could also eliminate inefficient doctor’s appointments like prescription check-ups, Peterson said. “You’re doing fine … on a medicine, and pretty soon you have to take off a couple hours from work to go see a doctor,” he said. “He looks at you and says, ‘You’re doing good,’ and pats you on the
shoulder … and refills your prescription.” Instead of going into a doctor’s office, all the tests a doctor might have run could be done at home with technology from the Innovation and Collaboration Center. “It’s really an unnecessary visit,” Peterson said. “We can do all of that at home.” In addition to solving problems, partnerships between the University and businesses can benefit research and learning for faculty members and students. The partnerships keep faculty members up to date on industry practices and help prepare students for work experiences after the University, Webb said. At the Innovation and Collaboration Center, both Peterson and Tanler say they are eager for student involvement. “We are real excited about doing some work where we can tap into the student environment,” Tanler said. “We can give them the problem and see what the students come up with.”
At the BAC meeting, representatives from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees unions raised concerns that employees won’t be able to cover health care costs under the new plan. Some union members have already refused to seek medical care because the costs were too high under the current plan, said AFSCME Local 3800 President Cherrene Horazuk. With increased costs under the new plan, this would only get worse, she said. “It’s a real, serious issue for people at the bottom of
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The FBI classifies Minneapolis as one of 13 U.S. cities with a high concentration of child prostitution activity. “We’re pretty high up there on the totem pole,” said Vednita Carter, founder of Breaking Free, a Twin Cities organization that helps sex traf ficking victims. Lauren Mar tin, a University of Minnesota researcher who studies sex traf ficking, said transit hubs can be a “less obvious” place for sex trafficking. “People who ar e involved in sex trading and sex traf ficking, they live ever yday lives,” Mar tin said. “Recruiting happens on the bus, at bus stops, because it’s where people are.” Although Metro Transit Police Chief John Harrington said he hasn’t heard of any specific cases where sex traf ficking has taken place on buses, he said police have received calls from people saying prostitution appeared to be happening near bus stops. Har rington said bus drivers and transit officers will be trained to look for “classic signs” of prostitution, which includes underage girls who seem out of place, are dressed provocatively and are in the presence of an older male. The awar eness campaign will post signs in multiple languages near transit hubs telling sex
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the wage system at the University,” Horazuk said. “One premium holiday isn’t going to cut that.” The University doesn’t have substantial evidence of employees postponing or refusing medical care, Chapman said. “For most of our employee population, these changes are not that significant,” he said. “They are not going to cause most employees or their dependents to defer necessary care.” In June, AFSCME representatives wrote a letter to University President Eric Kaler protesting the cost shift, saying the ACA is “being used to justify this move.” “We believe that this proposal is not a result of the Affordable Care Act,” the letter said. “It is another example of the University administration’s decision-making that deliberately shifts costs to the most economically vulnerable
While Dayton was nullifying the TFA earmark, TFA was negotiating with CEHD to design an alternative licensing program, taking advantage of a 2011 state law that allows the hiring and placement of teachers who haven’t completed all of the usual state certification tests and requirements. “The legislation has really allowed us to think deeply — since it’s been passed — about what we would really want our program to look like and what this new law would provide,” said TFA Twin Cities Executive Director Crystal Brakke. She said conversations between TFA and the University have “centered on the mutual goal of best preparing teachers for the schools that most need them.” One issue that’s been contested between TFA and the graduate students is the fiveweek training program that TFA volunteers go through before entering the classroom. The students’ petition said the session isn’t enough time to adequately prepare teachers. Kevin Dorn, a University graduate student and alum of TFA in St. Louis, said that even though the five-week session is short, “the institute itself is very intensive.” “Holistically I’ll say for TFA as an organization, you
have to go back to thinking about what their goal is in any given region,” he said. “They came to Minnesota because Minnesota still has one of the worst achievement gaps in the country.” Brakke agreed, saying it’s important to note the fiveweek session is just one part of the training volunteers undergo. In addition to concerns about the training program, the press release from graduate students said “the partnership would contribute to the increasing privatization and exploitation of public schools in communities most affected by racism and state violence.” Brakke said she disagrees with that statement, adding that TFA volunteers are “deeply committed to addressing those same issues of racism and equal opportunities for students.” As tensions rise, it’s becoming more difficult for the two opposing sides to communicate their concerns, as well as what they have in common, Brakke said. “I know that the graduate students at the University and at CEHD share so many of the same goals that I have, and so I would really love to be able to find a way to bridge some of the divides, real or perceived,” she said. “We’re all here for the same reasons.”
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traf ficking victims how to get help. Breaking Free, located in St. Paul, is one place victims can receive help. Car ter said the group’s clients are frequently between 12 and 14 years old when they enter prostitution. Metro Transit will work with advocacy and human trafficking groups to make sure signs are ef fective, Harrington said. “It’s more than simply putting a sign up on the bus shelter,” he said. “We want to make sure we’re putting the right signage up there.”
New targeting online Today’s online environment creates a new “marketing oppor tunity” for sex trafficking, Martin
said. In Minnesota, it’s estimated that 21 girls under age 18 are sexually exploited through Inter net classifieds on any given night, according to a 2010 Schapiro Group study. Although data show Minneapolis has a serious sex traf ficking problem, the city is known for being proactive on the issue. Mar tin says Minneapolis is improving how it deals with sex traf ficking, but this could actually be skewing the numbers. “Part of the reason that it looks like numbers are high in the Twin Cities is because there is a lot of work being done on the issue,” Mar tin said. “We’re getting better at looking and prosecuting.”
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workers.” The union also started a petition requesting that employees ask the University to rethink the changes and look for other savings in its budget to lessen the cost for employees. About 1,100 University employees have signed the petition so far, said AFSCME Local 3937 President Barb Bezat. The petitioners have come from all kinds of jobs, she said, not just those covered by the unions. Faculty representatives at the BAC meeting also commented on the possible repercussions of the changes for University faculty. Some instructors at the University are paid very little, said University of MinnesotaDuluth economics professor Jennifer Schultz. The University should decrease out-ofpocket health care charges or raise employees’ salaries to cover the costs, she said. Though a number of faculty members take issue with the changes now, the full impact won’t be widely known until fall, when faculty and staf f members can update or change their health plans, said Twin Cities math professor Richard McGehee Because her husband is a freelance designer, University accounts specialist Anh Pham said they rely on the University for health coverage. This puts Pham in the category where costs are pinned to increase the most. Pham said she’s had chronic migraines for more than 20 years and sees a lot of specialists. Her husband is a cancer sur vivor, so he sees specialists, too. Since specialty care costs are set to go up under the new plan, Pham said she’s concerned. “We need to go to see these specialists to function; to be able to perform our jobs,” she said. Pham said under the new plan, she could see herself putting off a specialty appointment until her next paycheck but knows people who would have to make much tougher decisions because of the cost increases — like deciding whether to buy groceries or go to the doctor. “We’ll make something work,” she said, “but there are people who aren’t in the same position that we’re in.”
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Accounts Specialist Anh Pham in her office on Tuesday. Under the proposed changes to the University’s health care plan, Pham would have to pay more for the speciality care she and her husband need.
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release from the graduate students. According to the press release, Quam declined to make a decision by Friday on the par tnership, as requested by the students, but said the college is “well into negotiations with TFA.” In a July 15 email statement, Quam said “it’s important to note that CEHD continues to consider the possibilities, advantages and complexities of offering both TFA and traditional teacher education programs.” Erin Dyke, a graduate student who co-wrote the collective statement against the partnership, said graduate students asked petition signers to call Quam’s office before the requested Friday deadline. “They did basically tell us that they were in negotiations, so that made us think that [CEHD] has unof ficially decided that they would par tner and that they’re negotiating the terms at this point,” Dyke said. “That was our perception of the way that the dean was talking.” The proposed par tnership talks began after Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a $1.5 million TFA earmark in the state budget in May.
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How can I trust you? Authority has to be built through experience.
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ver 2000 years ago, Aristotle wrote about rhetoric. His theories on rhetoric continue to hold sway over our understanding of many things in the world. How we think about language, writing, argument, new media and various other issues are all influenced in one way or another by rhetoric. Most notable are Aristotle’s Three Appeals: pathos, the appeal to passion; logos, the appeal to logic; and ethos, the appeal to authority. These appeals can often help us construct arguments and understand the writing we encounter in both offline and online environments. However, despite the importance of all these appeals, ethos is the one I often first notice in the interactions between writers. But, what does ethos actually mean? It is an appeal to authority, or more specifically, to the authority of someone to speak on a topic. For ex-
TRENT M. KAYS columnist
ample: When you take a history course, you assume the instructor has the authority to speak about history. If you didn’t, you’d probably drop the course. You encounter and evaluate another person’s authority all the time. Most often, we do this without even knowing it. If you’ve ever had a conversation with someone and thought, “That doesn’t sound right,” then you’ve evaluated another’s authority and found it lacking. Given the nature of the digital age, it has become easy to evaluate the authority of another. Unfortunately, even if you find another’s argument capricious, it doesn’t mean that they don’t believe they have a right to speak. The queerness of the American system allows
anyone to speak on anything regardless of intelligence, authority or experience. This happens too often to be a mere thorn in one’s side. A space particularly prone to this ill-mannered transgression is Facebook, which for better or worse has allowed a greater democratization of speech and experience. How often do you get into a conversation with someone on Facebook only to find his or her argument illinformed and untrustworthy? It’s hard to trust the argument of someone who you know doesn’t have experience. What makes a student think he or she knows more than the teacher? Or, what makes a white male Republican think he knows more about women’s bodies than the women themselves? His authority is lacking for many reasons, but the primar y reason is he simply doesn’t have the experience. He has no attributes that make others trust or lend credence to what he is saying. This isn’t, of course, to suggest that he can’t think and talk about such things. It just means he has to do extra work to encourage people to trust
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his opinion, which is not something accomplished easily. But then, how do we build authority to speak on topics? Moreover, how do we get other people to trust our authority to speak on topics? We need to be explicit, especially in venues like Facebook. Our authority can only be known by our experience, study and previous conversations. We need to show our evidence, our qualifications and willingness to acquiesce. If you engage in a conversation and have no evidence to support your position, you walk a tenuous tightrope that could break at any moment. The “because I said so” rule your parents threw out when you were a child will not work. “Because I said so,” means nothing in the digital age. I can simply Google the topic and then decide if your opinion is to be trusted. It doesn’t matter how many hollow words you write: If your ethos is non-existent, much of what you say will be inconsequential. Trent M. Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.
CONGRESS
The broken filibuster The recent Senate agreement on Obama’s nominees signals the need for filibuster reform.
Students lose out in loan deal
A group of senators came up with a plan for federal loans that will hurt students in the long run.
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s if tough economic conditions and tuition hikes didn’t make things bad enough for college students and recent graduates, Congress allowed the interest rate on the subsidized federal student loans to double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent this month. The borrowing costs of more than 7 million college students doubled due to a combination of procrastination and gridlock in the nation’s capital. Eventually, some signs of progress were made. Last Wednesday, a bipartisan group of senators reached a deal that would give college students better rates on their federal loans. Unfortunately, the low interest rates afforded by this deal would likely be temporary, as the rates would be tied to the financial markets. A cap would be set at 8.25 percent for undergraduate students. Though for the short term this plan is better than allowing rates to remain at 6.8 percent, the agreed-upon cap is much too high. Unless lawmakers can agree on a more reasonable cap, they should extend the 3.4 interest rate for another year. However, regardless of what plan gets passed, it is necessary that Congress seriously address the overly complex federal loan process and make comprehensive changes to keep college affordable for years to come. Most importantly, talks of deficit reduction should no longer have a place in congressional decisions over financial aid, as has been the case this summer. Cutting back on investments to students as a cost-saving measure is absurd. USA Today reported that the current deal was estimated to reduce the deficit by $715 million in the next 10 years, which would not make a dent in the national debt but could make a real difference in making college more affordable. If those in Congress actually care about ensuring a highly educated and competitive American workforce, they should focus on creating a more stable and beneficial financial aid process to help middle- and low-income families.
After the DREAM Act Additional University action is necessary for welcoming undocumented students.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Getting U spending under control
In 2012, President Barack Obama’s salary was $400,000. Gov. Mark Dayton’s 2012 salary was $118,000. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler’s 2012 salary — in addition to Eastcliff mansion — was $610,000, more than Obama and Dayton’s salaries combined. TCF Bank Stadium cost about $300 million to build. The tuition freeze, approved earlier this year, although freezing tuition for only resident undergraduates, still raises tuition and fees for all graduate, professional and out-of-state students, in addition to hikes in room and board, student service fees and course fees. As if that weren’t enough, University Athletic Director Norwood Teague announced plans for a new $190 million practice facilities. While there is no doubt that the University is expensive to run and maintain, both administrative and athletic spending at the University have gotten out of control. Most of this spending is paid for by students who struggle to pay tuition, with the rest covered by taxpayers. The current administration has a responsibility to ensure that the students and taxpayers who finance these expensive projects have a voice in how their money is spent. I respectfully urge the Kaler administration to allow the students of the University and the taxpayers of Minnesota to vote on the construction of this new athletic facility, ensuring that University spending stays under control and the University remains
centered on academics as opposed to Division I sports. Scott Chase University student
News on the royal baby
The corporate-owned media’s power in deciding what is newsworthy is without shame. “With a Royal Baby Due, News Outlets Are on High Alert” was the headline of a recent New York Times story about TV preparations for the birth of the queen of England’s great grandchild. The New York Times said it “will be a spectacle unlike any other in the modern media age.” The ABC website has a special section (sponsored by Nestlé), while NBC News has a site called RoyalBabyGuess.com, asking for predictions about name, birth time and weight. To make it more fun, the people whose guesses come closest might be mentioned on the Today show. Both networks are sending anchors to cover the big event. In contrast, the military trial of whistleblower and WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning is underway, not far from Washington, D.C. The same networks flying reporters to London are skipping a historic, absolutely newsworthy event. You can contrast this coverage to a number of other legitimately more significant happenings on the planet, of course. In addition, it’s not a major challenge to come up with an array of things that are of greater consequence. How about the trial of Bradley Manning? Moreover,
this requires only a trip to a military courtroom in Fort Meade, Md. Corporations are unlikely to sponsor the Official Bradley Manning Trial website, but it’s hard to argue that Manning isn’t news. However, TV “news” has prematurely made their decision. This is the corporate media. To be consolidated soon by the Koch brothers. Roberto de Freitas University student
Fasting isn’t simply star ving
“Wait, so why do you have to starve yourself?” is the question I would always get during Ramadan at my school. I would have to explain that keeping away from food is only a part of the fast. During Ramadan, which began July 8 this year, Muslims turn away from food as a means to detach themselves from the physical world. Doing so allows us to focus on our spiritual well-being as well. For me, the emphasis of Ramadan is to focus on the Quran. In school, whenever I’d have to sit down to study from a textbook, I would need to have a snack every 15 minutes, which would limit my productivity. Now that I’m fasting, my mind is able to turn its attention away recreational eating, which allows me to focus better. So the next time someone says they’re fasting, you will know that they’re on a mission that is larger than simply keeping away from food. Adeel Ahmad University student
ecently, Republicans in the Senate agreed to some demands of Senate Democrats to allow voting on four of President Barack Obama’s executive nominations. In exchange, Democrats agreed to not perform a filibuster, the “nuclear option” which suspends Senate rules to allow for only a majority approval on nominations. The main result of the compromise was the approval of Richard Cordray, the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Created as a part of the Dodd-Frank bill in 2010, the group has gone without a permanent director since its creation. As someone who keeps a sharp eye on the legislative branch of government, this is positive news. Republicans, who have been obstructing much of the Obama agenda since he was elected, have finally agreed to reduce some of their delay tactics. In the aftermath of the agreement, some in the media have questioned whether this compromise will approach a new wave of long-term bipartisanship. However, given the political trends since 2009, I highly doubt that this isolated incident will spell positive change in the Senate. Moreover, this compromise should place even more pressure on the Senate to enact needed reforms to the filibuster. I wrote a column on the need for filibuster reform in January, and this deal did not accomplish any of the logical changes that should be instilled by Congress. The primary reform should be to change the rules so that only the traditional “talking filibuster,” — performed recently by Wendy Davis in the Texas Legislature and Rand Paul on the national level — would be allowed. This would reduce the rate of filibusters and make them more memorable and newsworthy. It would also allow us to monitor those that perform filibusters, as opposed to the silent filibusters that Republicans perform on a daily basis. Although agreement in a partisan legislature is always a positive sign, the recent compromise signals the need for filibuster reform. If enacted, Republican obstructionism will diminish and threats from Democrats to use the nuclear option will subside. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.
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n Wednesday, July 10, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents adopted the Minnesota Prosperity Act, or DREAM Act, provisions passed by state lawmakers in May. This means that the University will now offer in-state tuition and private scholarships to undocumented students who qualify. The DREAM Act is especially important for the University’s fight against its uniquely high achievement gap. Minnesota has the nation’s lowest on-time graduation rates for Hispanic and Native American students, according to the U.S. Department of Education. But in order for the DREAM Act to be as effective as possible, the University and other public colleges should follow through with their own policies and infrastructure. First, the University should make sure students and advisers know the guidelines on the qualifications and documentation needed under current legislation. Updating training and marketing materials would help both parties stay informed. High school advisers should also play a role in teaching undocumented students about potential new opportunities. Second, serving undocumented students opens up financial aid and fundraising opportunities. The Minnesota Office of Higher Education assumes approximately 666 undergraduate students in the state will benefit from this bill, and there will only be more as undocumented students see college as a possible option. The University should welcome the potential influx of undocumented students with unique private scholarships and financial aid. Finally, the University must ensure that these students have safe spaces and are supported on campus. Undocumented students come from a myriad of financial, ethnic and academic backgrounds. Creating an office or advising team for these students would be an apt starting point. Reaching a new group of students will help the University develop a diverse and welcoming community. The DREAM Act is a step in the right direction, but it requires further action in order to be effective.
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Two Gophers join lawsuit against NCAA BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Senior tight end Moses Alipate and senior wide receiver Victor Keise have made a minimal impact on the field in their Gophers careers. Last week they made a huge splash off of it. Alipate and Keise were two of six NCAA football players to join a federal antitr ust lawsuit against the NCAA last week. The lawsuit was first filed by former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon
in 2009. It cited that the NCAA, EA Sports and the Collegiate Licensing Company, the nation’s leading trademark and licensing firm, violated anti-trust laws by using the likenesses of NCAA players without compensating them. “These athletes are incredibly brave,” Michael Hausfeld, the lead attorney for the plaintiffs, said in a statement. “They are well aware of the risks of standing up to the NCAA, and yet they felt that this was the right thing to do.” The NCAA said in a
statement last week that it has never licensed the use of current student athlete names, images or likenesses to EA Spor ts. The NCAA football franchise doesn’t include real player names, but it includes players with the height, weight and numbers of real players. Alipate and Keise joined Vanderbilt linebacker Chase Garnham, Clemson cornerback Darius Robinson, Arizona linebacker Jake Fischer and Arizona kicker Jake Smith as plaintiffs in the case. Alipate was a highly touted quarterback recruit out
of Bloomington Jef ferson High School in Bloomington, Minn., but he never panned out. He has not played a down for the Gophers and switched to tight end last offseason. Keise was a lower-tier wide receiver recruit. He’s appeared in 14 games and caught one pass with the Gophers. News of the six new players joining the lawsuit came a day after the NCAA announced it will not renew its contract with EA Sports. Thus, the state of the NCAA college football video game franchise remains in limbo.
“We are confident in our legal position regarding the use of our trademarks in video games,” the NCAA said in a statement last week. “But given the current business climate and costs of litigation, we determined participating in this game is not in the best interests of the NCAA.” CLC spokesperson Andrew Giangola said the CLC and EA Sports still have a functional relationship and plan to release a rebranded version of the game next year. He added that he anticipates next year’s game will feature college teams, leagues and
authentic innovation that fans would expect from these games. Alipate and Keise are the only players of the six to recently join the lawsuit who do not have a player avatar in “NCAA Football 14” — the latest installment of the controversial franchise. The Minnesota Daily reached out to the Gophers athletics depar tment and both Gophers athletes for comment on the lawsuit but did not receive a response. -The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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attending Stanford because of its strong academics. During the season, his rigorous coursework in Carlson and practices can be tough to juggle. “It’s all about time management,” he said. “Getting the proper amount of rest, make sure I’m eating right … getting all my study
hours in and at the same time spending extra time getting better on the basketball court.” Hollins didn’t play a lot of basketball in Italy, and it showed upon his return. He was cut from USA Basketball’s final World University Games team, which held tryouts a week after Hollins returned home. The junior said his game was rusty and his muscles “just weren’t there” during tryouts.
“I told him, ‘You’re not going to make the team. It’s just too difficult. You were gone for a month,’ ” Pitino said.
An academic focus When asked about his trip, Hollins talked first about what he learned and how much he enjoyed his professor, Michael White. White has led the trip six times and said he doesn’t think he’s had a scholarship athlete. He said both Hol-
lins and Eliason were “fantastic class participants.” “I thought that Andre was ver y, ver y engaged and very interested,” White said, “As we got deeper into the subject matter, he got more and more excited about it.” White said the nearly four-week trip to Sicily and Rome included visits to an organic farm, a fish market, a pistachio producer and a vineyard. Hollins highlighted trips
to the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and the Colosseum. The junior said he had the opportunity to play basketball only a few times, including once with Eliason and a group of junior highaged Sicilian students. Hollins said he often had to resor t to running through Sicily’s hilly terrain for exercise. He said he experienced more of the student perspective of college without his normal athletic
obligations. “We were busy during most of the day, so I really couldn’t separate time for athletics,” he said. Now, Hollins is transitioning from a student abroad to a student of Pitino’s new up-tempo system. He appears to be catching on quickly. “I’m really getting a lot [more] comfor table,” he said. “It’s summer time, we’re having fun and we’re getting better.”
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Minn. tourney to unite ex-WCHA teams The annual event, which the Gophers will host, is in its naming phase. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Herb Brooks was one of the most influential men the spor t of hockey has ever seen. He coached Team USA to an unlikely gold medal at the 1980 Olympics, coached the University of Minnesota to three national titles in the 1970s and forever shaped the culture of college hockey in the state of Minnesota. So it’s fitting that Bob Motzko, head coach at St. Cloud State University, thinks the new annual tournament featuring Minnesota’s five Division I hockey programs should be named
in honor of Brooks. The tournament, which is currently unnamed, will star t next Januar y at the Xcel Energy Center. The Gophers will host the tournament every year, and the other four schools will rotate ever y four years to fill the three remaining spots. Minnesota State-Mankato, St. Cloud State, and Minnesota-Duluth will participate in the first tournament with the Gophers while Bemidji State will sit idle. The Gophers announced the list of eight potential names for the annual tournament last week, and “The Herb Brooks Classic” is one of the finalists. “That’s a name that I feel like would stick and fully represents the histor y of college hockey in Minnesota,” Motzko said. Motzko served as an assistant coach under Brooks
at St. Cloud State in 198687. At that time, the state boasted only two Division I hockey programs — Minnesota and UMD. Brooks aimed to change that. “His mission was to grow the college hockey presence in the state,” Motzko said. “It drove him crazy that both Michigan and Massachusetts featured more D-I programs than Minnesota.” Two years after Brooks’ only season coaching at St. Cloud State, the program made the jump to Division I. A few years later, MSUMankato and Bemidji State followed suit. That birthed the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, featuring all five Minnesota schools. The WCHA got a facelift this year, as many of its teams
left for the Big Ten Conference or the National Collegiate Hockey Conference. Minnesota, St. Cloud State and UMD left the WCHA last season much to the chagrin of many coaches involved. Minnesota will join the Big Ten Conference, and St. Cloud State and UMD will join the NCHC. MSU-Mankato and Bemidji State will remain in the WCHA. “It was really disappointing at first,” Gophers head coach Don Lucia said. “I’ve spent almost half my life in the WCHA, and it was tough to watch it dissolve.” Bemidji State head coach Tom Serratore said breaking up the WCHA lost a lot of tradition and histor y, but the silver lining is that the five Minnesota squads will play each other in the annual tournament. Serratore said the tour-
nament hopes to eventually emulate the cultural significance the Beanpot Tournament has in Boston. Lucia said he’s confident the Minnesota tournament has laid the foundation to thrive. “We understand the first year isn’t going to be like we have 20 years of tradition, but 10 years down the line this could be something the fans really look for ward to,” Lucia said. “I don’t think it will take long because we have the ingredients.” Though the historic presence of the WCHA shifted at the end of last season, Motzko said, this tournament allows teams to keep the tradition alive. “We were a league, and all of us prospered,” Motzko said. “We have to maintain the tradition. “It doesn’t just revolve
MINNESOTA HOCKEY TOURNAMENT NAME FINALISTS The Herb Brooks Classic The Hot Dish The Minnesota College Hockey Classic The Northern Lights Cup The Star of the North Classic The 10,000 Lakes Classic The North Star Classic/Cup The Taconite Cup/Classic
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around one school,” he added. “It revolves around all five, and this tournament is a great way to show that.”
SWIMMING & DIVING
Steenvoorden displays growth in her third int’l stint The ex-Gophers swimmer won two medals in Kazan, Russia, this month. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Ashley Steenvoorden tried to exchange gifts with a Chinese athlete at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia, a little more than a week ago. She said executing the trade was a challenge. “I didn’t speak Chinese and she didn’t speak English,” the former Gophers swimmer said. But that language barrier soon disappeared. “It was awesome, though,” Steenvoor den said, “because we all spoke the same language in the pool.” Steenvoorden swam away with two medals — a silver and a bronze — at the Games. She won silver in the 1,500-meter freestyle July 13 and bronze in the 800-meter freestyle a couple of days later. This marked the third time she’s competed on the international stage but the first time she reached the podium. “I’ve coached her for a number of years, and I’ve seen her experience different levels of success,” Gophers head coach Kelly Kremer said. “This was another step, and it was fun to see her perform her best on a big stage. “It’s good to see the people that deserve it have moments of success like that.” Steenvoorden said her goal was to medal at this competition, but her mindset in each race was to execute her strategy to perfection. She aimed to stay consistent the entire race and not take unnecessary risks. Steenvoorden said she re-
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Ashley Steenvoorden practices with her former Gophers team Aug. 3, 2012, at the University Aquatic Center. Steenvoorden recently won a silver medal in the 1,500-meter freestyle and a bronze in the 800 freestyle at the World University Games in Russia.
ally started to gain confidence in the preliminaries and was at an extreme high in the finals. “In the race that I won silver, I knew I was second, and in that final 100 meters I said to myself, ‘I did it. I accomplished my goal,’ ” she said. “I could see that I was [a] clear second, and to touch the wall was incredible.” Steenvoorden jumped out of the water after that race and embraced her teammate, Stephanie Peacock. Steenvoorden finished three seconds behind Pea-
cock, who won gold, but she said the fact that Americans finished one-two in the event was special. “I remember seeing both American flags afterwards, and that is a feeling I’ll never forget,” Steenvoorden said. “I was really humbled on the podium.” Molly Belk, a former Gophers swimmer and close friend of Steenvoorden, was nearly 6,000 miles away from that moment on the podium. She said she’s proud of the strides Steenvoorden has made in the past five years.
Belk hosted Steenvoorden on her official Gophers visit more than five years ago. She said she always knew Steenvoorden had the potential to be great and wasn’t surprised Steenvoorden medaled in her third international stint. “It takes some time because in some competitions, sometimes people get there and they’re wowed,” Belk said. “That might have been Ashley the first two times, but I think now she knows that other people should be wowed by her. She knows she belongs.”
Kremer said Steenvoorden’s performance showed she can compete at a high level on an international stage. He said her focus will now shift to the 2016 Olympic Trials. Steenvoorden said the possibility of swimming in the 2016 Olympics crosses her mind a lot, and this international experience increased her motivation. She finished 10th overall in the 400 freestyle and 14th in the 800 freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Trials. The top two finishers are guaranteed a
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Mbakwe, Williams await NBA invites after summer leagues Both players are more likely to sign overseas than make an NBA roster. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Let the waiting game begin for former Gophers forwards Trevor Mbakwe and Rodney Williams. With the conclusion of NBA summer league action this week, the duo, who went undrafted in the late-June NBA draft, must now wait for potential invites to NBA training camps. Offers don’t appear likely at this point, especially for Mbakwe. The 6-foot-8-inch forward struggled to get on the court during his stints in the Orlando Summer League with the Philadelphia 76ers and the Las Vegas Summer League with the Toronto Raptors. Mbakwe averaged just 2
points and 1.5 rebounds with 6.3 minutes per game over six games. The 6-foot-7-inch Williams only participated in the Orlando Summer League with the 76ers, who don’t have a Las Vegas Summer League team. But he had more of an opportunity to showcase his skills. Williams averaged 8 points and 1.2 rebounds in 22.8 minutes over five games. Williams, who played mostly power forward during his last two years with the Gophers, was forced to adjust to playing primarily on the wing, which he’d be expected to do at the NBA level. He made just one of eight three-point attempts, and he’ll likely need to improve his shooting to
make an NBA roster. He did, however, display an ability to defend multiple positions with his athleticism. Williams blocked 1.4 shots per game, good for 13th best in the Orlando league. The 76ers are likely Williams’ only hope for a training camp invite. They were the only team to contact him after he went undrafted. Mbakwe’s future is cloudy. Reports of him negotiating with German team Alba Berlin surfaced July 19 on Twitter, as the likelihood of an opportunity from an NBA team dwindles. Both players have previously expressed a willingness to play overseas to extend their professional careers.
2013 NBA SUMMER LEAGUE STATS Player Trevor Mbakwe Rodney Williams
Games 6 5
Points* 2.0 8.0
Rebounds* 1.5 1.2
Minutes* 6.3 22.8
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Rodney Williams of the Philadelphia 76ers dribbles the ball against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the 2013 Southwest Airlines Orlando Pro Summer League on July 10 at Amway Center in Orlando, Florida.
roster spot. “In four years, she has to go by about eight people,” Kremer said. Kremer said he’s confident Steenvoorden can earn a spot on the 2016 Olympic roster. He said her silver and bronze medals at the World University Games are just the start. “That performance shows her that she is improving at a fast rate, and she has about 36 months to get it,” Kremer said. “I’m really confident that we’re heading in the right direction.”
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t’s amazing how good a five gallon bucket can sound. Arriving at Pitchfork in Chicago last weekend inevitably meant being greeted by some array of the city’s “bucket boys,” groups of predominantly young street performers equipped with overturned buckets and sticks. An estimated 55,000 attendees got the drumline treatment, but the percussionists around Union Park on those sweltering three days weren’t the only people outside the green chain-link fences looking to make a buck. Vendors lined the streets, hawking everything from tickets to bottled water to beer. “I used to be a booster — used to steal,” vendor Derék Stevens said. “Now I come out and try to do something positive, selling things.” Performers outside one entrance to the festival drum as crowds of people pass by Sunday afternoon at Pitchfork Music Festival. Bridget Bennett, Daily
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tevens put the pros and cons of the gig simply: “The negatives: we encounter a lot of racism. Positives: all these fine women — you wouldn’t even know I’m gay!” He manages a beauty salon on Chicago’s South Side but, like many others, jumped at the chance to pull in some extra cash — estimates for the weekend profit varied from vendor to vendor, ranging from $600 to $1,500. It was John Bruce’s first Pitchfork festival — he recently lost his job, and his unemployment checks were close to running out. He joined some of his Englewood friends for the chance to make ends meet. Stevens and Bruce stuck to the strictly le-
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gitimate stuff — water and the like. But that was not the case for everyone. Shouts of “Cold water” covered murmurs of “Cold beer.” Tickets were being scalped all around the venue, and “You need?” was heard from time to time. Cigarettes and pints of vodka were also available for the interested — there’s an undertow to this placid surface. When a K-9 unit rolled up, there were always a few individuals who made sure to stroll in the other direction. Large events, where the police are often forced to pick their battles, allow for these unofficial business endeavors. Ticket resale is highly regulated in Illinois, with the scalping around Pitchfork be-
Goofballs Sam France and Jonathan Rado are psychedelic rockers Foxygen.
ing illegal in every sense of the word — not to mention that some unscrupulous businessmen were selling counterfeit copies of internet tickets. Peddling is also regulated, requiring a series of bureaucratic hoops. Law enforcement won’t look for these permits and credentials though, unless the vendor gives them a reason to. To a cop, it’s like liquor in a brown paper bag. Brian Mitchell, who’ll be at Lollapalooza and vends at Bulls games too, said venders are informal volunteers in a sense. They are aware of the tenuous truce with law enforcement at times like these, realizing that people screwing around are bad for business, keeping an eye out for baddies during
this temporary neutrality. They even enforce a Pitchfork rule that their security has no time for: preventing people from locking their bikes to the fence surrounding the park. All of this while maintaining an informal air of approachable professionalism. “If old man security does run us off, we’ll just go across the street,” Mitchell said. They stayed through rain, too, with one entrepreneur showing up right as the clouds did with a bag of ponchos for sale. Add the homeless, ice cream trucks, people hyping shows and simply the passers-by to this equation, and you had a bazaar rivaling what was inside Union Park that steamy weekend.
Better than linoleum Brooklyn-based post-punkers Parquet Courts go H.A.M.
F ox y g e n p e r f o r m s a t Pitchfork Music Festival Sunday afternoon in Chicago.
Parquet Courts performs Saturday afternoon at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.
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t was easy to tell that Sunday was going to be the best day at Pitchfork Music Festival when a crowd was already forming at noon to see the day’s third act, Foxygen, playing at an early 1:45 p.m. The fans were not disappointed. Two songs into the set, lead singer Sam France had already climbed high up the scaffolding on the side of the stage (the on-
ly artist to do so), bashed his drummer’s cymbals with bare hands and inadvertently gave the audience some plumber’s butt when his pajama pants fell down. France’s physical antics were mirrored by the music that Sunday — much crazier in person.
Chicago-native R. Kelly performs to a sold-out hometown crowd.
A girl hula-hoops during El-P’s set.
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pparently it is pretty damn tough to find a good bagel in Texas. In the end, that’s a good thing for punk band Parquet Courts, which has three members from the Lone Star State. Vocalist and guitar player Andrew Savage ended up bonding with bass player Sean Yeaton over this predicament one hung-over morning after Yeaton’s band
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had played at Savage’s house. Yeaton, from Boston, just wanted a bagel, but all the places Savage could think of were donut shops. This experience eventually turned into the song “Donuts Only.” Savage, his dr umming brother Max Savage, guitarist Austin Brown and Yeaton See PARQUET COURTS Page 12
Lil B fans get wild before he comes on stage.
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Part-time, Part Mammal
The local post-punk outfit Part Mammal wax nostalgic about their favorite watering hole.
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Part Mammal practices at Elliott Snyder’s home on Monday. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com
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ver y band needs a meeting spot. Between beers and bocce ball, Part Mammal first bonded at the Nomad World Pub. The West Bank bar has been the band’s natural habitat since 2010. A sign at the bar already pronounces the end of the four-piece. “Part Mammal’s Last Show,” slated for Aug. 4, reads the chalk. This statement’s not quite true. Though drummer Nick Olson is about to leave the band for Oakland, singer Elliott Snyder said Part Mammal will continue on.
“Goodbye, nostalgia,” Snyder sings on one track, but looking around the Nomad, he can’t help but feel a bit sentimental. “Nick’s the one who brought us to the Nomad,” he said. “This was a good place for us to grow as friends and as a band.” Snyder, who also plays guitar for The Shakin’ Babies, first recorded a swath of solo material before playing with the rest of the band. Par t Mammal began recording its first and only album as an outgrowth of Snyder’s senior project at McNally Smith College of Music. Usually, students will produce an outside band’s material.
“But I had a record I always wanted to make,” he said. “I had always wanted to dig in and do everything in a professional studio.” Old demos from Snyder’s high school days, inspired by the psychedelic complexity of Caribou, needed reworking. With his coworkers and band mates, he recorded “Return to Lucky Star” last year. “Ever ything’s a little more simple,” he said. ”I think I let go of doing overly complex ideas to a certain extent.” With help from Hollow Boys’ guitarist Ali Jaafar and his class, intricate melodies were simplified. “Exploring Time Split” employs
spare surf guitars as naturally as Deerhunter. “I feel like the live band has pushed me towards a more focused, cleaner sound,” Snyder said. Par t Mammal traded luxur y for convenience at the group’s first practice space. They’d hone the “Return to Lucky Star” material in the building across from the Nomad. “It was basically an oversized closet,” bassist Sean Tobin said. Andrew Jansen of Crimes also played with Part Mammal for a short time, a likeminded local guitarist with a penchant for minimal jangly tunes. Tobin also shreds
for post-metal group Lungs. Tobin said his background lends to a heavier edge for Part Mammal. “It’s definitely gotten more aggressive,” Tobin said. This doesn’t mean the band’s all business. They’re known to fill their practices with “musical in-jokes,” or as Snyder and Tobin described, weird improvisations with the sole attempt to make each other laugh. “We were just talking about this at our last practice,” Snyder said. “No one else gets this. We think it’s pretty funny, but where does that get us?” Though the current itera-
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tion of Part Mammal’s about to end, the group always has their countless shows to (hopefully) remember. “We’ve all spent way too much money here,” Tobin said. “We’ve all spent way too many times just wasting the day getting wasted.”
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n October of 1946, Hermann Goering committed suicide. Inside his prison cell, the Nazi war criminal swallowed a vial of cyanide. Following the end of World War II, the remaining leadership of Nazi Germany was prosecuted throughout the Nuremberg trials. A new book follows an American doctor’s unique role in the military tribunals. In “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist,” author Jack El-Hai uncovers the bizarre relationship between Goering and psychiatrist Douglas Kelley. El-Hai first became interested in the two after writing “The Lobotomist,” a biography of Walter Freeman, M.D., who specialized in administering lobotomies to treat psychiatric patients. “But one of Dr. Freeman’s side interests was the study of psychiatrists who had taken their own lives,” El-Hai said. Freeman’s notes led
El-Hai to Kelley’s tragic stor y. Twelve years after Goering’s death, the doctor killed himself. El-Hai wanted to understand why — so he decided to track down the psychiatrist’s son. “As it turned out, he had 15 boxes of his father’s personal and professional papers sitting in the basement,” El-Hai said. Medical records of Kelley’s long discussions with the incarcerated Goering and interpretations of Rorschach inkblot tests filled the stacks. Kelley’s initial obsession soon became clear. “He had expected and hoped to find some common disor der that ran through all of the Nazis,” El-Hai said. When Kelley found no evidence of a “Nazi personality,” he gave up his career with the U.S. Army. He eventually left, disillusioned with the field, to pursue criminology. To El-Hai, Goering had a lasting impact on the psychiatrist-turned-professor. Kelley spent long hours con-
Jimmy Pardo Fast talking Chicago native Jimmy Pardo has a sweet job,warming up the audience every night for Conan O’Brien’s late-night show. Though one could see that gig as just a doorway for a rising stand-up, Pardo’s a veteran comic. His work at “Conan” suits his ability to interact with crowds not just run through a set of jokes. Lately he’s catered his sets toward simply making fun of the audience. Pardo’s podcast “Never Not Funny” reveals his observational side, with guests joining him in skewering the latest pop culture. u Where: Acme Comedy Company, 708 N. First St G31, Minneapolis u When: 8 and 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday u Cost: $15 u Age: 18+
ducting various psychiatric evaluations inside Goering’s cell and the two grew close. “Not as buddies, but two men who had a strong professional respect for one another,” El-Hai said. Even through a German translator at each session, Kelley found Goering charming. The psychiatrist had to cope with this odd mental dissonance of seeing a war criminal as a likeable human being — at one point, Goering wanted Kelley to adopt his daughter. When Kelley learned the Nazi prisoner committed suicide on the night he was scheduled to hang, he noted how even in death Goering remained in control. The former deputy of Adolf Hitler convinced a guard to smuggle in the poison-filled capsule. “Had he been hanged, it would have been an ignominious moment — a moment of disgrace,” ElHai said. “Instead, Goering had managed to engineer a more glorious death for
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himself.” El-Hai paints both parties in “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” as parallel to one another, a revealing juxtaposition. As two men with career aspirations that would consume their lives, the author reveals dark tr uths among Nazis, but also psychiatrists. “It’s often people who have inner conflicts of their own,” El-Hai said. “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist: Hermann Goering, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII” will be released on Sept. 10.
FLOW Northside Arts Crawl Over a half-mile of West Broadway in North Minneapolis will turn into a community celebration and art showcase this weekend. Now in its eighth year, the FLOW art crawl boasts a weekend full of activities. Legendary hip-hop lyricist Big Daddy Kane will headline the festivities on the KMOJ stage at 6 p.m. Saturday, but the three-day festival is filled with dance, poetry, theater and public art installations. FLOW wants you to know that its tastes range from b-boys to ballet and graffiti to graphite. See for yourself at Northside’s premiere spotlight for its up-and-coming art scene. u Where: W. Broadway from N. Second Street to N. Penn Avenue, Minneapolis u When: 1-7 p.m. u Cost: Free
PHOTO COURTESY OF JACK EL-HAI Mythology Entertainment recently secured the rights to Jack ElHai’s “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist” to adapt into a feature film.
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Crime and medicine
Local author Jack El-Hai’s new work of nonfiction, “The Nazi and the Psychiatrist,” exposes an unexpected patient-doctor bond.
Alabama Shakes Southern rock’s resurgence this century proves we’re a long way from simple rehashes of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Yes, Alabama Shakes trade in a nostalgia-heavy sound that pays tribute to the past, but singer Brittany Howard isn’t just a revivalist. Alabama Shakes use her bleeding Joplininspired vocals to update the blues and gospel influences. After releasing their debut “Boys & Girls” last year, the old-fashioned rock ‘n’ rollers from Athens, Ala., won Rolling Stone’s best song of 2012. Now they’ll take their own advice in the single and “Hold On.” u Where: The Cabooze, 917 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis u When: 7 p.m. u Cost: Sold out u Age: 18+
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by Grant Hart Since Hüsker Dü’s break-up in 1987, Grant Har t has sporadically released a handful of records. His third album after 2009’s “Hot Wax” finds him wistful and supremely ambitious. “The Argument” is based on John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” and Har t’s relationship with William S. Burroughs. Har t hones his pop edge here, the same sensibility that countered fellow Hüsker Dü founder Bob Mould back in the local punk band’s heyday. The dark double album definitely adds to Har t’s rich songwriting legacy, often melancholy and full of hellish allegor y.
“The To Do List” A slew of films have already set out with the same objective “The To Do List” holds for its main character. Sex-obsessed Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) must lose her virginity. Set in the early 1990s, the film promises to be a tongue-in-cheek look at the tired premise. The “Parks and Recreation” star’s character worships Hillar y Rodham Clinton and published her own magazine, “Women With a Y.” Fellow comedy peers Bill Hader, Alia Shawkat and Donald Glover join the ranks of this dir ty version of “Sixteen Candles.”
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CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT “Maps About Nothing” at mapsaboutnothing.wordpress.com “Seinfeld” geeks now have the Internet to thank for a vast repositor y of ever y location Jerr y, George, Elaine and Kramer ever reference or visit. The site combines stills with quotes from each episode the place is talked about. The “Seinfeld” geography database houses information on familiar joints like Monk’s Café, J. Peterman and Yankee Stadium, for example. “Maps About Nothing” is so obsessive that it also contains the references to places outside of New York, like Argentina, where the Soup Nazi claims he’s moving. All in all, it’s 1600 entries with 70 countries total. Where’s the cof fee table book?
COMIC
Carnal comics
Local independent cartoonists Zak Sally, Tom Kaczynski and Barbara Schulz keep physical comic books alive, one drunken mouse and MCAD class at a time.
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ou can almost feel the sweat dripping of f the pages of “Sammy the Mouse,” Zak Sally’s latest series of comic books. He spent months slaving over the first volume’s run, working from home at the helm of his personal printing press. “Sammy the Mouse” stands as just one graphic novel in a growing comic community in Minneapolis, a hotbed of artists working outside of DC Comics and Mar vel in favor of experimental work tied to physical means. Initially funded through Kickstarter, Sally’s tale of foul-mouthed animals first landed on the page via his used press. As his new publisher, Tom Kaczynski, remembers, this wasn’t an easy “control P.” “He was literally just in his overalls printing and screaming at his machine as papers were r unning through,” Kaczynski said. Kaczynski, a fellow local artist and founder of Uncivilized Books, now publishes Sally’s comics, but “Sammy the Mouse: Book 2” maintains the homemade aesthetic of the original handstitched run. “There’s a griminess to his work that’s really satisfying. It feels that he really worked on it — you can almost see the hand of the artist in there,” Kaczynski said. Sally’s dark humor follows a duck dressed in Lincoln-esque garb and a beer-guzzling mouse. Both characters look ragged on the heavily textured pages, other times truly grotesque after drowning themselves in gin. Kaczynski publishes Sally’s depraved saga from his attic, one of several micropublishers in the area. He sees Minneapolis as reaching back to the era of photocopied ’zines, when Xerox machines ruled the underground landscape in the ’80s. “Now I think the ’zine
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Comic book artist Zak Sally in his studio on Tuesday.
scene is resurging,” Kaczynski said. “It’s a little bit of a pushback against everything being digital.” Uncivilized Books is not exactly in defiance of the digital age — Kaczynski recognizes the opportunity to reach more readers online. But for Sally and his old printing press, the comics are inextricably tied to the medium. “Getting a printing press was just a natural extension of the copy shop,” Sally said. The Eisner Award-nominated artist grew up amid the first boom of alternative comics in the ’80s and published his first mini-comics on his own, too. This era cer tainly influences the stark recklessness throughout “Sammy the Mouse.” It features talking animals, but Sally’s work isn’t a pastiche of Disney characters on a bender. The violence-prone cast yields a spontaneity that’s above and beyond Mickey Mouse or Pluto’s misadventures. In the tradition of most
car toonists, Sally is selftaught. Unfor tunately, he never had an oppor tunity before now to study his passion after high school. “It was unthinkable,” Sally said. “When I was that age, if you talk about comics on the street it was still garbage culture.” The ar t form once relegated as “garbage culture” now inspires a bevy of local talent, and Sally sees the Minneapolis College of Art and Design as a new breeding ground for alternative comics.
Comic college Since 1997, MCAD has of fered degrees in comic ar t, a program Barbara Schulz has taught courses in for eight years. Schulz (no relation to the Charles of “Peanuts” fame) first studied painting when she couldn’t find higher education for comics. “When I was going to college in the ’80s, it was pretty much disallowed to do comics,” Schulz said. She credits MCAD for
its strong suppor t of student publishing — Schulz encourages students to publish online to attract a readership, a far cr y from the era she grew up in. “You don’t need a distribution system, and you don’t need a store,” Schulz said. “You just need someone surfing the web who’s interested in comics.” Back when Schulz attended school for painting, no Internet meant she had to find alternative comics from the growing self-published artists. One of those early series that influenced Schulz now hangs on the walls of MCAD’s galler y. Jaime Her nandez and his brothers self-published their first series of photocopied comics in 1981. Looking around the MCAD galler y’s new exhibition of the California-born ar tist, Schulz remembers the impact of reading her first issue of “Love and Rockets.” “I think Jaime Hernandez really opened my eyes to what comics could be,”
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Their 2013 album, “We Are the 21st Centur y Ambassadors of Peace & Magic,” is a fuzzy throwback piece, at times mirroring the sound of early Rolling Stones, the bluesy folksiness of Dylan instrumentation and later acid-washed Doors material. Of f that album comes their best-known song, “Shuggie,” a lazy track with vocals that waft over the hook like the smell of fresh baked bread. While the thread of psychedelia still shined as bright as the sun that Sunday, Foxygen had a more pronounced alt-noise sound live — less acid, more PCP
and booze. In fact, the sun was so bright that keyboard and guitar player Jonathan Rado had to take extra time between songs since he couldn’t see the readings on his tuner. This gave them some dead airtime to riff. “It’s so bright,” Rado said. “My feet are hot.” “Oh, it’s so bright,” France mimicked. “Fuck you, Sam,” Rado said. “Fuck you, Sam,” France echoed. That interaction, and those that followed, would have eclipsed the actual set for those not into what Foxygen were serving and, while in good fun, might have been the sign of something deeper.
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Schulz said. “That there really was a place for comics beyond the superhero, and that was a way to reach an audience.” Combining ever ything from punk rock to pro wrestling, the youngest Hernandez expanded the genre immensely. His early comics straddled the line between classic comic book tropes and the latest pop culture of the time. But Schulz said Hernandez’s depiction of realism throughout his series “Locas” remains why his work hangs on the walls of MCAD. Hernandez and his
brothers shaped the comic book world’s imagination, allowing for both tales of immigrants and campy sci-fi. Kaczynski and Sally’s work also hinges on the pioneering work of Hernandez. The drunken tales of “Sammy the Mouse” might not fit the same universe of “Love and Rockets,” but Sally’s characters owe their dark humor to realism comic artists like Hernandez. “‘Love and Rockets’ is cer tainly going to be one of the masterpieces of comics,” Schulz said. “It will shape and influence other artists for years to come.”
Parquet Courts
Yeaton nodded his head to the pounding of Max’s drumming so hard it’s a wonder that he didn’t give himself whiplash. Max uses Ahead sticks, made with durable, replaceable polyurethane sleeves that last longer than any wooden drumstick — they’re used by the hardest of players who break a lot of sticks. Andrew’s rapid-fire verses are true-blue punk, and their group choruses have the “anthemic” quality that makes the youngsters go nuts, fists in the air and singing along. That was exactly the case with their catchy track “Stoned and Starving,” which details just such an experience while also serving as a perfect metaphor for the unsatisfactory drudgery that life inevitably contains. They’re serious but with the glib, humorous side of a group that is exploring more than just anger or disenfranchisement.
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“We have too much band drama,” Rado said after the set, refusing to elaborate. But during Foxygen’s freewheeling per formance, it was all goofiness. Since they were in Michael Jordan’s home city, Rado took a moment to mention how much he loves “Space Jam,” asking audience members with smartphones to check out how the original website hasn’t changed since the release of the film in 1996. It really hasn’t. Over the course of the 40 minutes, they took time to thank ATMs, ESPN, President Barack Obama, AOL, Red Bull, Batman, The Roots and Wilco. With all the nonsense during the set, some would slam Foxygen as immature.
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But then you see them take the time to chill on the grass with repor ters and fans alike, signing autographs, answering questions and smoking cigarettes in the afternoon heat when they don’t have to. Foxygen: they’re still amazed by their success and inexperienced with being known offstage.
serendipitously re-acquainted in Brooklyn, forming Parquet Courts. “If nothing else, the bagel situation is a totally different son of a [expletive],” Savage said. It isn’t just the bagel situation that’s changed. Parquet Courts released critically acclaimed record “Light Up Gold” in 2012, were named a “band to watch” by Rolling Stone in April and last weekend found themselves playing for a raging crowd on the small stage at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. Other than the sound check anxious fans had to sit through — an unfortunate byproduct of Pitchfork’s scheduling setup — Parquet Courts wasted little time, playing fast and loud with next to no banter except for a few cursory words of thanks.
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Today’s Birthday (7/24): Travel and partnership come easy this month. Creative efforts bear fruit. Push boldly forward. Home and family keep you grounded as you venture out. Fine-tune your image as status rises.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 8 — This month highlights love, creativity and fun. Romantic hurdles are temporary. Be sensitive to another. Complete projects now.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — The work is intricate and rewarding. Get the help you need to make things happen. Get rest, and drink plenty of water. Opposites attract.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 8 — This month your focus is on building infrastructure to support home and family. Consider the consequences of your actions.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — There is more time for love. Your career advances this month with steady, persistent action. Be patient.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — This month can be quite educational. Don’t take on new projects yet. Stay attentive: There’s a test over the next two days.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Stay close to home as much as you can. Energize your home base, and resolve a disagreement about priorities.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — This month is profitable. Don’t waste time on stressful errands, pipe dreams or con games. Study and research.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Watch for hidden agendas or jealousies. It’ll be easier to learn during this great time for study. Your bank account grows this month.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Track orders and finances carefully with attention to detail. You have an advantage with the Sun in your sign. Do without one thing to gain another.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 8 — Get into the numbers, and make extra money. Contemplate the costs, and count your wins and losses. Work now; play in a few days.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 8 — You and a partner can stir things up. A true friend is there for you. Plan a vacation without making reservations yet. Do some creative writing.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — You’ll be even more suave and debonair. Schedule carefully; the coming month is extra busy. Ask for what you want.
July 24-30, 2013
overheard “I quit Snapchat as soon as he started sending me pictures of his balls.” —Dinkytown Professor: “I was exposed to a lot of second-hand pot smoke last night at the Bob Dylan concert, and I swear it was like living inside a bong.” —Burton Hall Guy 1: (While punching the chest of Guy 2) Dude, why the [expletive] would you do that to me?! Guy 2: (Stomping a foot on the ground) I didn’t do [expletive] nothing to you! All I did was get myself [expletive] arrested! —Dinkytown CVS
Guy 1: “I met a 17 year old, she was pretty cute ... it felt weird” Guy 2: “... You should probably stop talking now.” —Dinkytown “She was pro-death penalty ... everything you look for in a woman.” —Bierman Field Athletic Building “I’m going to put beef jerky in your bed!” —Unknown Guy: “I’m not gonna show him my little titties!” —Comstock Hall
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ACROSS 1 Small thicket 6 Dry cleaner’s target 10 Simple rhyme scheme 14 Like many who tweet 15 John’s love 16 “Compliments guaranteed” corn syrup 17 *Vessel with heavy armor 19 “Take __ from me!” 20 Foxy 21 Without pretense 23 Suffix with malt 24 Algonquian language 25 Bridge over the Arno, e.g. 27 61-Down prison 30 *Rodent catcher 34 Having a steeple 36 __ Cucamonga, California 37 Trident part 38 Evoking the past 40 Continental capital 43 Ranking angel 45 Protruded 47 *Military campaign 50 Snow coasters 51 Versifier’s art 52 Varied mixture 54 “The Fox and the Hound” fox 55 Very hot and dry 59 Big bird 62 Megastar 64 What the answers to starred clues are 66 Ad writer’s award 67 Actress Petty 68 Military divisions 69 Get rid of, in a way 70 Omar of “House” 71 Peeling device DOWN 1 Fare dealers? 2 Like Humpty Dumpty 3 “No beast so fierce but knows some touch of __”: “King Richard III”
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4 Emulated Humpty Dumpty 5 Swell 6 Part of DOS 7 “Jem” sci-fi author Frederik 8 Migrant on the Mother Road 9 First-rate 10 APB letters 11 Southern capital with a French name 12 Record label owned by Sony 13 Crook carrier of rhyme 18 Present, Cockney-style 22 Design detail, briefly 24 *Professional pursuits 26 *Shakespeare play that inspired a Verdi opera 27 Clock std. 28 News org. 29 Flax product used in paint 31 Gardener’s brand 32 Old Mideast gp. 33 Condescending one
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35 “Oh, fudge!” 39 Prefix with center 41 Color in a Crayola eightpack 42 Has too much, for short 44 Light beams 46 Consuming entirely 47 Eye doctor’s science
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48 Curly-haired dog 49 Chuck of “The Delta Force” 53 Youngster 56 Not all thumbs 57 Cager’s target 58 50-and-up group 59 Arabian chieftain 60 Dole (out) 61 Cold War inits. 63 Texter’s chuckle 65 Gasteyer of “SNL”
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dr. date Dr. Date,
I recently graduated from the U and developed a romantic relationship with a guy I knew from back home. Now, I am headed to grad school six hours away from the Twin Cities. There has been mutual effort since I left to see each other, and it feels like we have a solid relationship. BUT, we discussed our situation before the move, and he said he “wasn’t looking for a long distance relationship.” That’s fair, and I understand (although I would jump at the chance to be with him), but then does that just make me a booty call he’s going to great lengths, as in six-hour-car-drives-across-two-states great lengths, to keep? Help a girl out!
—Long Distance Lover
Long Distance Sucker,
Yeah, that’s exactly what that makes you: a high-grade booty call. Worth the six-hour drive but not the commitment. Man, I’ll say that people have done more for less. But you have to wake up and smell the ethanol: Your relationship doesn’t exist at this point. He’s not down. He’s just going on a few road trips because hey, what else was he going to do this weekend? Let him know the jig is up if you don’t like being his cheap weekend getaway.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I’ve been getting familiar with a U co-ed of mine lately, and recently we started sending a few selfies back and forth. As they went on, they got steamier and steamier, and eventually I sent him one where I am, let’s say, “polar bare.” Stupidly, we weren’t using Snapchat, and now I’m really regretting sending these photos out. I trust the guy, but I’m not crazy about having these photos out there to be possibly
shared with his friends? How do I bring this up with him?
—Polar Bare
Down Unda,
Yikes! Luckily we were all raised in a media environment where literally everybody is obsessed with the potential damage from selfies — I mean, didn’t we all see those TV specials and get the subsequent long lectures from the Tyra devotees in our lives? Your special friend will probably be pretty sympathetic to your plight and — if he isn’t total scum — he’ll delete the picture and ask anyone he shared it with to do the same.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I’ve been hanging out with this girl from class for the past few weeks. We’ve gone on a few dates, and we hang out a few times throughout the week and watch movies. She wants things to get more serious, but I’m not sure if I want to take that step. I don’t go out with any other girls, but I want to get to know her a little better before getting more involved. How do I bring this up to her without making it seem like I’m just in it for the fun time in the bedroom?
—Taking It Slow
Slow,
The way you get to know her better is by getting more involved. I’m sorry, but at some gosh darn point, you’re going to have to take your hand off your smart phone for a minute so she can grab it; you’re going to have to take a little leap of faith. You don’t have to get effing betrothed, but you can spend more time together and become more serious. It’s not going to kill you. And if it is, then maybe you shouldn’t be with her in the first place.
—Dr. Date
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Green Party candidate vies for Ward 3 Kristina Gronquist is running for City Council with the Green Party’s endorsement. BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com
While most of the attention is focused on Democratic City Council candidates Diane Hofstede and Jacob Frey, a third candidate is car ving her own niche in Ward 3. Fifty-seven-year-old Kristina Gronquist, the Green Party-endorsed candidate, is running a quiet but steady campaign, focusing on issues like Dinkytown development and police profiling. The 2002 University of Minnesota graduate and lifelong Minneapolis resident lives in the Northeast area with her 22-year-old daughter and 94-year-old father, where she balances r unning a campaign and working full time at the Eastside Food Cooperative. In some ways, Gronquist’s Green Par ty af filiation makes campaigning more difficult. The party wants to “take the money out of politics,” Gronquist said, so candidates can’t accept funds from any political action committee. In addition, city law only allows Council candidates to accept donations of up to $300 from individuals, placing further limits on Gronquist’s campaign finances. No University groups have of ficially endorsed her, but Gronquist said she’ll reach out to some this fall as the election nears. Ward 3 traditionally favors Democrats, but Gronquist believes her involvement and commitment give her a shot at winning. “It’s a track record of activism, and that counts for something,” she said. University political science professor Larr y Jacobs said Minneapolis and
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Kristina Gronquist, the Green Party-endorsed candidate for the Ward 3 seat on the City Council, at her current full-time job in the Eastside Food Co-op on Monday.
Duluth are both “hot spots” for third-party candidates. “Minneapolis is ground zero for third-par ty politics, and if the Green Party can win anywhere in Minnesota, it’s in Minneapolis or Duluth,” he said. “I wouldn’t rule her out.” Gronquist says the Green Par ty is a “natural fit” for students because it’s progressive and environmentally conscious. “It’s a party that’s about the future,” she said. “I don’t know why any student wouldn’t vote Green.” Forrest Fritz-Storhaug, a campaign volunteer and recent Minneapolis Community and Technical College graduate, agreed with Gronquist and said he’s even converted some of his friends to support the campaign. “[Green Par ty candidates] actually will take action,” he said. “They will go out on a limb.” Fritz-Storhaug, who has known Gronquist as a family friend for years, said her kindness sets her apar t from other candidates. “She just really cares,”
he said. “Her compassion and her ideas about equal rights are just ver y positive, and that’s ver y important [to her].” The Green Par ty has endorsed four other candidates for City Council, including Ward 2 incumbent Cam Gordon, who represents the east side of the University campus. Gordon said Gronquist would be a good fit for the recently redistricted ward, adding that he’s excited another Green Par ty candidate is running for City Council. “The more diversity we have up here, sometimes, the better results,” he said. Jacobs said the resources available to DFLendorsed candidate Frey are impor tant, but thirdparty candidates still have a chance at winning. “In general, it’s an uphill battle,” he said. “But it’s not out of the question.” But Frey is still confident in his campaign and said he’d like to work with Gronquist on bettering Minneapolis neighborhoods in the future.
“I feel ver y confident in the ability of our campaign going forward,” Frey said.
A new take on housing
Gronquist’s perspective as a University graduate makes her no stranger to Dinkytown. W i t h t h e a r e a ’ s r ecent development boom, Gronquist said Dinkytown needs a balance between old and new. “Dinkytown can’t stay frozen,” she said, adding she realizes development increases the tax base. The campaign’s volunteer treasurer and Macalester College professor Erik Larson said Gronquist’s experience as a community leader and citizen in Minneapolis gives her an advantage over the other candidates on multiple issues, including housing. “She’ll get to know people,” he said. “She’ll get to know what’s important for people in the ward.” Gronquist said she worries a “glut” of single-use development around the University could replace
Dinkytown’s charm and history. “Obviously it’s not local businesses that are being supported in this process,” she said. To increase the amount of af fordable housing in University-area neighborhoods and elsewhere in Minneapolis, Gronquist wants to make car riage houses legal again in the city. Car riage houses, also known as coach houses, are smaller houses on the same property as a larger house, typically made from converted garages or sheds. “T hey can b e qu i te charming,” Gronquist said. Minneapolis currently outlaws them, but Gronquist said the city is considering her proposal to change that. Gronquist said she also wants to research the area’s housing needs to understand how to best ser ve residents. Larson said he joined Gronquist’s campaign this spring because she’s able to make change while remaining humble and personable. “It’s that personal, professional and community experience that she has,” he said.
A change in focus Gronquist ran for City Council Ward 1 twice in the 1980s but lost both races. This time, her problems with the new Vikings stadium approval process were a primar y catalyst in deciding to run. She called the stadium “unnecessar y” and said it should have been put to a vote so citizens could’ve approved its building and funding methods. “I can’t think of anything less sustainable than blowing up a big concrete stadium,” she said. But on May 10, her platform shifted when her friend Ter rance Franklin was shot and killed by Minneapolis police.
Kristina Gronquist OCCUPATION: Assistant general manager at the Eastside Food Co-op EDUCATION: University of Minnesota, political science major EXPERIENCE: Founding member of the Northeast Investment Co-op, treasurer on the board of the St. Anthony West Neighborhood Organization, member of Women Against Military Madness, member of Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota PARTY AFFILIATION: Endorsed by the 5th District Green Party SOURCES: GRONQUIST CAMPAIGN WEBSITE, MN DAILY REPORTING
Gronquist believes Franklin’s death is an instance of police misconduct and racial profiling, issues on which she is now focusing her campaign. She said the AfricanAmerican community in Minneapolis feels “under siege.” If elected, Gronquist wants to set up an independent investigative board to look into controversial cases like Franklin’s death. “We can’t have the police investigating themselves,” she said. The Police Of ficers Federation of Minneapolis has endorsed incumbent Hofstede. Gronquist said this is part of the problem, adding that she thinks the endorsement quiets Hofstede on issues of police misconduct. Hofstede said Minneapolis police already have ways of working with officers and the public on issues of police profiling. “I think it’s unfair to globally paint our police depar tment as engaging in that activity,” Hofstede said. Gr onquist has organized protests with the Justice for Ter rance Franklin campaign. “Terrance is still gone, he’s still gone,” she said. “And the police of ficers aren’t held accountable.”