September 10, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

City struggles to enforce recycling

Owners with more than two units must provide recycling by city ordinance. u See PAGE 3

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CAMPUS & METRO

Leg. approves disaster aid funding

A&E

Aaron Hill leads a group of youthful linebackers for the Gophers.

Students refuse to fall behind on this season’s fashions.

Gophers defense led by improved linebackers

State legislators met for a special session Monday to approve funding for areas, including the University, that were damaged by storms. u See PAGE 4

U OF M

FOOTBALL

The Fashionista is in: Fall campus style

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MINNEAPOLIS

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TUESDAY

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

STUDENT LIFE

Groups connect PSEO students to campus

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NEIGHBORHOODS

Dinkytown meets to plan future City planners sought feedback on the neighborhood’s small area plan.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Amid controversy over new development and the character of Dinkytown, community leaders and business owners are collaborating to decide the area’s future.

The City of Minneapolis unveiled its preliminary findings and possible recommendations for the $45,000 Dinkytown small area plan at a community forum at the Varsity Theater on Monday.

Minneapolis Planner

Haila Maze, head author of the small area plan, presented the city’s preliminary findings and asked for feedback on the plan, which has been in progress since the spring.

“How we accommodate continual growth and change — while still maintaining the area’s unique character — is the essential question of this planning process,” Maze said.

After Maze’s presentation, the audience was invited to give feedback, but the discussion was short.

“They asked the group to speak, and they didn’t speak,” Dinkytown Rentals u See DINKY TOWN Page 5 Some Dinkytown buildings could receive historical designation.

Second-year PSEO student and high school senior Brandon Luu, center, fills up water balloons with other members of the Asian-American Student Union at the group’s picnic Friday afternoon outside Comstock Hall.

HEALTH CARE

Many clubs and cultural centers welcome high school members.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

in student groups.

High school senior Syd-

La Raza Student Cul-

ney Tran has never been

tural Center of ficer Daisy

part of a student group at

Hidalgo — a former PSEO

her school.

student — said PSEO stu-

Now, she’s in charge of

dents shouldn’t be pre-

business relations for the

vented from joining groups

University of Minnesota’s

just because they’re in high

Asian-American Student

school.

Union.

Health reform unclear to highrisk patients

pus culture by participating

A U study found that most did not understand the upcoming changes.

“It’s the same thing as

Tran is part of the Uni-

regular college students,”

versity’s Post Secondar y

she said. “They’re obvious-

Enrollment Options pro-

ly here to come learn.”

gram, which allows high

The state pays for PSEO

school juniors and seniors

students’ tuition and text-

to take classes for both high

book costs but doesn’t

school and college credit.

cover the student ser vices

Although PSEO stu-

fees that help fund student

dents aren’t conventional

groups, said Anja Hovde,

college students, a number

student ser vices special-

of them connect with cam-

ist for the University’s

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

Many Minnesotans who need health care the most are unfamiliar with how the Af fordable Care Act will change their insurance, according to a University of Minnesota study published Monday.

The study found that more than 60 percent of people in Minnesota’s highrisk health insurance pool are uninformed about how health care reform will affect them.

“That’s a little bit trou-

u See PSEO Page 3

PUBLIC SAFETY

Campus connector in alleged hit-and-run A tow truck driver reported being sideswiped by the bus Thursday.

BY DAVID LITIN dlitin@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota Campus Connector was allegedly involved in a hit-andrun with a tow truck Thursday morning, according to a University police report.

The truck was blocking part of the lane on Pleasant Street Southeast to tow illegally parked mopeds, the report said. As the driver of the Connector tried to maneuver past, a witness told police the side of the bus hit the driver’s side of the truck.

The Connector’s driver said he wasn’t aware he hit the truck, according to University police Deputy Chief

Chuck Miner.

Miner said about two Campus Connector accidents happen per year.

“That’s not too common,” he said.

The tow truck’s front tire was damaged, and white paint was scraped onto its front bumper and tire, the police report said, and the passenger side of the Connector was also damaged.

The tow truck company, Wrecker Services, declined to comment, and University Parking and Transportation Ser vices was not available Monday afternoon.

No charges have been filed.

RELATED CONTENT A student’s Marcy-Holmes apartment was burglarized. u See Page 3

bling,” said Elizabeth Lukanen, a senior research fellow who worked on the study.

The high-risk insurance pool consists of people who have been denied coverage because of pre-existing health conditions. In Minnesota, they’re guaranteed coverage by the Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association, a nonprofit created by the state Legislature in 1976.

But beginning in 2014, the ACA will prohibit private companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions or charging them more than u See HEALTH CARE Page 4 Most patients said they’re satisfied with their current plan.

STUDENT ISSUES

St. Paul mental health clinic opens The expansion comes at a time of increasing student demand.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

A new mental health clinic on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus opened Monday, the latest in a joint initiative among University depar tments and student groups to increase mental health services on campus.

The clinic, an expansion of an existing clinic in Cof fey Hall, should help decrease wait times for students seeking mental health assistance, said Dave Golden, director of public health for Boynton Health Service.

Nearly 3,000 students used the Mental Health

JULIET FARMER, DAILY

Nurse Jody Geinger speaks on the phone at the new Boynton Health Service mental health clinic.

Clinic on the Minneapolis campus last year.

“We had waiting lists

again last year, which we really don’t like to see,” Golden said. “We needed more

u See CLINIC Page 12 The $500,000 expansion was funded by student services fees.

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MOSCOW — Syria on Monday quickly welcomed a call from Russia, its close ally, to place Syrian chemical arsenals under international control, then destroy them to avert a U.S. strike, but did not of fer a time frame or any other specifics.

The statement by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid alMoallem appeared to mean that diplomatic ef for ts to end Syria’s 2 ½-year civil war were gaining momentum. But it remained to be seen whether it represented a genuine goodwill gesture by Syria or simply an attempt by Syrian President Bashar Assad to buy more time to prepare for a U.S. military attack.

“Syria welcomes the Russian proposal out of concern for the lives of the Syrian people, the security of our country and because it believes in the wisdom of the Russian leadership that seeks to aver t American aggression against our people,” al-Moallem said during

a visit to Moscow, where he held talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

However, al-Moallem, would not give any further details in his brief statement and didn’t take any questions from reporters.

Russia’s proposal confirmed for the first time from Syria’s most important international ally that the Syrian gover nment possesses chemical weapons, and al-Moallem’s welcome was a tacit acknowledgment. Syria’s Foreign Ministr y last year retracted a threat to use chemical weapons, saying it was not acknowledging that it had them.

Moallem’s statement came a few hours after U.S. Secretar y of State John Kerry said Assad could resolve the crisis surrounding the alleged use of chemical weapons by his forces by surrendering control of “every single bit” of his arsenal to the international community by the end of the week.

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Secretar y-General Ban Kimoon urged Syria to im-

mediately agree to transfer chemical weapons and chemical precursors to a safe place within the countr y for inter national destruction. Ban said he will also propose to the Security Council that it unite and demand an immediate chemical weapons transfer should U.N. inspectors conclude that such weapons were used in an attack Aug. 21 in a suburb of Damascus.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Lavrov’s proposal “deser ves close examination” but the chemical weapons would have to be placed under international control in a shor t time and those responsible for “the chemical massacre” must be punished.

Al-Moallem and Lavrov didn’t make any immediate reference to Kerr y’s statement when they spoke to the media after their talks, but a few hours later Lavrov went before cameras to say that Moscow would urge Syria to quickly place its chemical weapons under international control and then

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“If the establishment of international control over chemical weapons in that country would allow avoiding strikes, we will immediately start working with Damascus,” Lavrov said.

“We are calling on the Syrian leadership to not only agree on placing chemical weapons storage sites under international control, but also on its subsequent destruction and fully joining the treaty on prohibition of chemical weapons,” he said.

The surprise series of statements from top U.S., Russian and Syrian diplomats followed media reports alleging that Russian President Vladimir Putin, who discussed Syria with President Barack Obama during the Group of 20 summit in St. Petersburg last week, had sought to negotiate a deal that would have Assad hand over control of chemical weapons.

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Robohand used 3-D printing to replace lost digits

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JOHANNESBURG — Richard Van As, a South African carpenter, lost four fingers from his right hand to a circular saw two years ago.

He was unable to afford the tens of thousands of dollars to get a myoelectric hand, which detects a muscle’s electric impulses to activate an artificial limb.

“After my accident, I was in pain, but wouldn’t take painkillers. I barely slept, and the more pain I had the more ideas I got,” he told The Associated Press. “Sometimes you have to chop fingers off to start thinking.”

He decided to build his own hand. After seeing a video posted online of a mechanical hand made for a costume in a theater production, he reached out to its designer, Ivan Owen, in Seattle.

Enter Robohand — a device that Van As and Owen invented that is made from cables, screws, 3-D printing and thermoplastic. It uses the rotation of a joint to enable five plastic digits to grasp. The device looks like a robot’s hand in a science fiction movie, costs about $500 to make and can be reproduced using plans on the Internet and a 3-D printer.

Van As is now on a mission to spread the mechanism to people without fingers or hands all over the world. The two gadget-lovers collaborated on developing a design for the device for a wide range of ages that could be used to grab objects, unlike most existing arm prostheses. Van As has fitted Robohands on about 170 people, from toddlers to adults, thanks to donations.

At first they used a milling machine, making Van As a metal robotic forefinger digit that helps him work in carpentry to this day.

Long-lost painting by Van Gogh is identified

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AMSTERDAM — A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist’s attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Monday, making it the first full-size canvas by the tortured Dutch artist to be discovered since 1928.

Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam authenticated the 1888 landscape “Sunset at Montmajour” with the help of Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, chemical analysis of the pigments and X-rays of the canvas.

Museum director Axel Rueger, at an unveiling ceremony, called the discovery a “once-in-a-lifetime experience.”

“This is a great painting from what many see as the high point of his artistic achievement, his period in Arles, in southern France,” Rueger said. “In the same period, he painted works such as ‘Sunflowers,’ ‘The Yellow House’ and ‘The Bedroom.’“ Museum officials would not identify the owner who brought the artwork to them in 2011 to be authenticated. Van Gogh paintings are among the most valuable in the world, fetching tens of millions of dollars on the rare occasions one is sold at auction.

The artwork will be on display at the museum beginning Sept. 24.

The roughly 37-by-29-inch “Sunset at Montmajour” depicts a dry landscape of twisting oak trees, bushes and sky, and was done during the period when Van Gogh was increasingly adopting the thick “impasto” brush strokes that became typical of his work in the final years of his short life.

It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he had painted it the previous day — July 4, 1888.

“At sunset I was on a stony heath where very small, twisted oaks grow, in the background a ruin on the hill and wheat fields in the valley,” Van Gogh wrote. “It was romantic. ... The sun was pouring its very yellow rays over the bushes and the ground, absolutely a shower of gold.”

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City struggles to enforce recycling Owners with more than two units must provide recycling by city ordinance.

BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com

Some landlords don’t offer recycling to their tenants, and the City of Minneapolis doesn’t have the resources to find all the problem property owners.

The city requires proper ty owners of more than two apar tments to give their tenants recycling containers and tell them about the program.

Kellie Kish, Minneapolis recycling coordinator, said the city lacks personnel to monitor whether landlords are following the ordinance or not. In the past, the city didn’t strictly enforce the rule, but Kish said the Depar tment of Solid Waste and Recycling is now fining landlords “to a tee.”

Katie Christianson, a University of Minnesota communications senior, said she isn’t aware of a

recycling program at her Dinkytown home. Because she can’t recycle there, she collects her recyclables and brings them to her par ent’s house.

Christanson said she wishes her building had recycling.

“Ever yone should at least have the option to recycle,” she said.

While the city now offers single-sor t recycling, landowners with mor e than two units still have to contract waste removal from a private company.

The ordinance also requires landlords to give their tenants written information — provided by the city — about the building’s recycling program.

Daniel Oberpriller, who owns more than 20 proper ties near the University of Minnesota, said he’s aware it’s a problem that some landlords don’t have recycling, but having it is “non-negotiable” for him.

When the city finds out that a proper ty owner isn’t providing “adequate” recycling containers, the DSWR sends a letter in-

forming them to star t. If that’s ineffective, the landlord could face a $100 fine and up to $700 for fur ther offenses.

Kish said the city mainly relies on residents calling the DSWR to repor t that they don’t have recycling.

To help the city find proper ties without recycling, a group of University volunteers will patrol local neighborhoods on Sept. 22 for a Thank U ser vice day project during Homecoming week, Kish said.

Recent graduate Emily Hegland said she had problems with recycling this spring. The building she lived in had recycling, but the containers weren’t big enough to hold ever ything during move-out.

Hegland said her landlord told residents they “couldn’t leave anything else on the curb” and that they’d be charged for anything outside of the container.

“It should be easier and better explained how to get rid of your trash,” she said.

Groups connect PSEO students to campus PSEO u from Page 1

Advanced High School Student Ser vices.

PSEO students are encouraged to go to groups and explain why they’re interested in joining, she said.

Brandon Luu, a secondyear PSEO student from Bur nsville Senior High School, said having to commute to campus ever y day might make it difficult for PSEO students to get involved on campus. And because they’re not required to attend Welcome Week cultural fairs, he

said, they may not know about activities in the first place.

Luu was introduced to AASU by a family member — a common case for PSEO students involved in the group, he said.

“You just kind of join our huge family,” he said.

Now the outreach chairman for the group, Luu said students can get more involved in college because, unlike in high school, groups are student-run and don’t answer to a teacher or facilitator.

AASU President Woo Chul Lee said he pushes PSEO students in his group to work hard because they’re “really pas-

sionate” about it.

“I don’t see any problems working with PSEO students because it seems like they have that maturity of mindset,” he said.

When she was a PSEO student, Minnesota International Student Association officer Grace Doherty said she didn’t get involved on campus because she didn’t feel “on the same level” as other students.

But the more involved PSEO students are, Doher ty said, the more likely they’ll beat the “stigma” of being too young or too smart.

“It’s not like they have a giant sign on their forehead,” she said.

Campus and neighborhoods see burglaries, thefts last week University student’s apartment burglarized

A University student woke when he heard a burglar outside the window of his Marcy-Holmes house Thursday morning, according to a Minneapolis police report.

Sophomore Nicholas Weitz said he saw the suspect r un away when he looked out the first floor window.

He later realized his cellphone and wallet were missing after the man left.

The police repor t said Weitz’s bedroom window was partially open.

Police have recorded 63 burglaries in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood from Januar y to July this year.

Multiple iPhones stolen from rec sports fields

Four iPhones were stolen from University recreational spor ts fields last T uesday, according to a University police report.

Political science freshman Dane Falline said he was playing Frisbee at the fields when he saw the suspect standing nearby and went to talk with him.

“He was pretty quiet,” Falline said.

Falline said he went back to the field and saw the suspect walking away

OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: Where: When: Info:

Theft from Building 17th Avenue Residence Hall Thursday Victim reported having the front tire of his bike stolen overnight. Bike was locked up in front by the entrance near the wheelchair ramp. The bike’s value was at $299.

Police action: Inactive, pending new information.

Crime: Where: When: Info:

Narcotics Violation 17th Avenue Southeast Friday Officer performed a traffic stop after recognizing he had dealt with the arrestee before. Arrestee was taken to Hennepin County Jail after dispatched confirmed his warrant for driving with a revoked driver’s license. Police discovered cocaine in his pocket when he arrived at the Hennepin County Jail.

Police action: Active.

Crime: Where: When: Info:

Theft from Building 500 Harvard Street Southeast Thursday Victim was in the hospital prior to the theft. Victim was taken for an MRI scan on a different floor when the reporting person arrived and noticed his phone was missing. The reporting person was visiting the victim. The reporting person was able to remotely lock the victim’s phone and track it to somewhere in St. Paul.

Police action: Active.

Crime: Where: When: Info:

Theft from Building Nolte Center for Continuing Education Thursday Suspect broke into victim’s locked office. No apparent forced entry. No suspect has been identified yet.

Police action: Inactive, pending new information.

SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

with a backpack on.

Cameras covering the area caught the incident on tape and found a second suspect, the police report said.

Miner said thefts of Apple products are “ver y common” around the University, but UMPD can

usually locate them using “Find My iPhone” and similar applications.

“We’ve had several successes thanks to that app,” Miner said.

H o w e v e r, a l l f o u r phones were of f and couldn’t be located, he said.

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University lab evacuated Leg. approves after chemical spill disaster aid funding State legislators met for a special session Monday to approve funding for areas, including the University, that were damaged by storms.

BY RICARDO ROMERO rromero@mndaily.com

The Minnesota Legislature passed a $4.7 million disaster relief bill Monday during a special session. The bill allocates funding for areas damaged by severe storms, including the University of Minnesota.

The money will be distributed between 18 counties throughout the state, including Hennepin County, and comes out of surplus money from past disaster relief funds.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will provide an additional $13.5 million — triple the state’s portion of the disaster relief.

Most of the state’s money

will be used for counties damaged by June storms and flooding. The remaining funds will go to southwestern areas affected by winter storms in April.

Democratic Farmer Labor Rep. Alice Hausman, who represents St. Paul, voiced opposition to the disaster relief system. She said it leaves out certain counties such as Ramsey that have damage, but not enough to qualify for aid.

Hausman’s was the sole “no” vote in both the Senate and the House.

“It’s a little bit standing up for my county, which didn’t qualify,” she said. “It’s a little bit of protest.”

Legislative leaders are open to altering the current system so in the future a special session would not be necessary to allocate funds for disaster aid, according to Senate Majority Leader Thomas Bakk, DFL-Cook.

Sen. David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, said he doesn’t see a need to change the process.

“Is it really a good thing to create a mechanism to allow us to spend money more

quickly and more easily?” said Hann, “Maybe we ought to have a higher threshold for what we call a disaster.”

Numerous other bills were also introduced in the House and Senate on Monday. Most dealt with repealing taxes from the last legislative session in May. None were passed due to an agreement between party leadership on both sides and Gov. Mark Dayton to exclusively discuss disaster relief during the special session.

Sen. Dave Thompson, RDakota County, admitted that though it was “unlikely” his bill would be officially considered, he still thought it was important to introduce it.

House Majority Leader Rep. Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, said it was likely tax repeals would be brought up in the next legislative session.

“To cut these taxes, we’re going have to find the money somewhere else. I don’t want to take it out of the investments we’ve made in education as an example,” he said.

“It’s a matter of balancing all these priorities together.”

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Zimmerman’s wife won’t press domestic violence charges

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAKE MARY, Fla. — The sobbing wife of George Zimmer man called 911 on Monday to report that her estranged husband was threatening her with a gun and had punched her father in the nose, but hours later she decided not to press charges against the man acquitted of all charges for fatally shooting

Trayvon Martin.

Police of ficers in Lake Mary, Fla., were still investigating the encounter as a domestic dispute, but no charges had been filed as of Monday night. Shellie Zimmerman left the house after being questioned by police.

George Zimmerman remained there into the early evening and his attorney denied any wrongdoing by his client. George Zimmerman was not arrested.

Shellie Zimmerman, 26, who has filed for divorce, initially told a 911 dispatcher that her husband had his hand on his gun as he sat in his car outside the home she was at with her father.

She said she was scared because she wasn’t sure what the 29-year-old Zimmerman was capable of doing. Hours later she changed her story and said she never saw a firearm, said Lake Mary Police Chief Steve Bracknell.

The Minneapolis Fire Department blocked off the street but said no one was in danger.

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

A third-floor lab in a University of Minnesota r esear ch building was evacuated Monday night after a formaldehyde spill.

The Minneapolis Fire Depar tment blocked of f stretches of 23rd Avenue Southeast and Sixth Street Southeast for about half an

hour while they contained the spill in the Cancer and Cardiovascular Research Building.

Andre Sewell, battalion chief for the fire district that includes the University, said between one and three milliliters of formaldehyde — about half a teaspoon — had been spilled. He said no one was in danger.

Sewell said blocking of f the building with fire tr ucks is standard procedure for chemical spills.

Campus Connectors stopped on both sides

of the buildings and let students of f when they couldn’t pass through the wall of fire trucks.

Hor ticulture sophomore Becca Splichal, who had been at band practice in TCF Bank Stadium across the street from the research building, said she didn’t feel unsafe after hearing about the spill.

“They looked like they were handling it pretty well,” she said. “I kind of wish they would have done a detour [for buses], just so that way we could get home.”

Mexico president gambles with left-leaning reform

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — President Enrique Pena Nieto is gambling that a surprise plan to increase social spending and raise taxes on wealthier Mexicans can quiet much of the left-wing opposition to his most ambitious proposal, opening the state-owned oil company to private investment, analysts and politicians said Monday.

Pena Nieto took aback critics and supporters alike Sunday night with a fiscal reform plan that would introduce Mexico’s first national pension and unemployment insurance plans, along with its first capital gains and dividends taxes, its first carbon tax and its first tax on sugary drinks.

The plan would also close a series of tax loopholes and raise the tax rate on the country’s highest earners.

Many of the measures are aimed at what was long thought to be the fiscal reform’s primar y goal: increasing one of the lowest tax collection rates in the developed world, analysts said. Others are clearly designed to placate the left as Pena Nieto tries to push through a controversial reform allowing private investment in the underper forming state oil firm, Pemex, before the end of his first year in office, they said.

Notably, the fiscal reform would not impose the sales tax on food and medicine, a step that had been widely expected and was certain to generate outrage from the left. The government said the reform plan, most of which needs only a majority vote in congress, would add more than $18 billion in additional revenues next year, less than many economic analysts had hoped.

“It’s really a left-wing reform, a center-left-wing reform that goes in a progressive direction,” said Carlos Elizondo Meyer-Serra, a political science professor at the Center for Economic Teaching and Research, a Mexico City think tank.

“You create less pressure in the street. In that sense it’s a correct strategy.”

During his first nine months, Pena Nieto worked with the country’s two main opposition parties to pass reforms of the tightly concentrated telecommunications market and the union-controlled education system.

But his leftist allies in the Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD, aren’t backing his overhaul of the state oil company, Pemex — the centerpiece of his bid to reverse years of economic stagnation by addressing some of Mexico’s longeststanding str uctural problems.

And leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who lost to Pena Nieto last year, then split with the PRD over its cooperation with the new president, has promised a series of protests to halt the Pemex reform. Polls say most Mexicans agree with him.

Adding to the threat for Pena Nieto are thousands of members of a dissident teachers union who flooded into Mexico City to protest his education reform and have promised to keep up a series of disruptive marches.

Pena Nieto announced the fiscal reform hours after the first of Lopez Obrador’s demonstrations in Mexico City. The announcement stole much of the attention from the protest, which saw a smaller-than-expected turnout.

“I think it was a proposal with a political sense of urgency,” said Alfredo Coutino, Latin America director for Moody’s Analytics. “The fact that it didn’t include tax on food and medicine has a lot to do with the unrest that we’ve seen.”

That was a boost for Mexico’s biggest food companies, whose stock prices went up Monday, driving a 2.6 percent rise in the index that tracks the major companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange.

The new social benefits require constitutional changes that must be approved by a majority of state legislatures and two-thirds of Mexico’s congress. If enacted, they would not be universal: Unemployment insurance would apply only to the roughly 40 percent of

workers with formal jobs, and the new pensions would be for those older than 65 ear ning less than about $70 a month.

PRD head Jesus Zambrano welcomed the fiscal reform, but in a potential sign of trouble for Pena Nieto, he warned that it wouldn’t lure his party into supporting private investment in oil exploration or backing away from demands for greater political transparency, another potential point of tension with the president’s party.

“This reform, these legal reforms, aren’t interchangeable with any other, with political or energy reform,” Zambrano said. “Quite simply, this stands by itself.”

Business groups and many analysts said the fiscal proposal did little to spread even some of the burden for government spending onto the majority of Mexicans who work outside the formal economic system.

The tax rate on workers earning more than $37,000 a year would increase to 32 percent from 30 percent under the fiscal reform.

The proposal would also impose a 10 percent capital gains and dividends tax. It would eliminate a range of income tax deductions and limit overall deductions to 10 percent of income.

“In the end, it’s pure demagoguery,” dentist David Guerrero said as he got his shoes shined on Mexico City’s central boulevard Monday afternoon. “The same people as always are going to be the ones contributing — we business people.”

The fiscal reform would cancel a 5 percent sales tax reduction in sales tax along the border, a measure that had been meant to draw U.S. shoppers. And it would impose sales tax for the first time on private school tuitions, home sales, mortgage and rent payments, pet food and hotel rooms for foreign travelers.

The reform also includes a 7 cent per liter levy on sweetened soft drinks. Mexico has one of the world’s highest rates of soda consumption, a habit blamed for much of the country’s extremely high rate of obesity.

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their lower-risk peers.

Because of this, MCHA will dissolve and the highrisk pool will be able to get coverage through three main options: Medicaid, private companies with federal subsidies, or private coverage without subsidies, Lukanen said.

But more than half of the high-risk pool surveyed will likely be ineligible for any government assistance in health care, like Medicaid or subsidized coverage, because they have incomes above 400 percent federal poverty level, the eligibility cap for that type of assistance.

“That’s a little surprising,” Lukanen said.

About 9 percent of the high-risk pool will likely be eligible for Medicaid, and 37 percent will likely be eligible for private insurance with subsidies, she said.

Making the transition

The study says stakeholders should implement education and outreach efforts to bring the high-risk population up to speed.

The sur vey was cond u c t e d l a t e l a s t y e a r, though, and researcher L ynn Blewett said she thinks public knowledge may have increased since.

“I think if we took this now, they’d know more,” she said.

Since the sur vey was conducted, MCHA has developed a transition plan for par ticipants, she said,

and has sent letters telling enrollees what they should expect to see.

Some will have an easy transition, while others could be in the middle of treatment and won’t be able to change plans right away, said Anne O’Connor, a spokeswoman for the Minnesota Depar tment of Commerce, which oversees MCHA. To deal with

these more difficult transitions, MCHA will remain intact through at least 2014.

Another challenge will be convincing high-risk enrollees to embrace the change, Lukanen said.

The study found that four-fifths of par ticipants said they were either somewhat or ver y satisfied with their cur rent

insurance plan.

A diverse group Though the study was conducted in Minnesota, researchers say the results are applicable across the nation.

Including Minnesota, 35 states have a high-risk pool. Lukanen said it’s likely most members across the countr y are somewhat

unfamiliar with health care reform.

The study was also a reminder that the high-risk pool is made up of diverse members, she said.

“We thought of this group as a monolith, and the reality is they’re ver y dif ferent,” Lukanen said.

“Sometimes you need the data in front of you to remind you of that.”

MINNESOTA HIGH-RISK POOL SURVEY RESULTS about 60%

report being somewhat or very unfamiliar with health reform

80%

report being somewhat or very satisfied with their current health coverage

55%

likely won’t be eligible for any government assistance

9%

will likely be eligible for Medicaid

37%

will likely be eligible for private insurance with subsidies

*percentages are not exact SOURCE: ELIZABETH LUKANEN, ACADEMIC HEALTH CENTER PRESS RELEASE

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owner Tim Harmsen said after the forum. “There was no emotion in this crowd. I felt like I was at a funeral.”

Those who did speak focused on protecting local businesses. Some asked about potential historical designation for Dinkytown.

Maze said the Varsity Theater and adjacent buildings could be the only ones in the four-block Dinkytown core with a chance for such designation. Further research could uncover more, she said, but new development compli-

cates the process.

“Some of these questions are urgent.” Maze said. “If an area is historic but you chip away enough pieces of it, eventually there is not enough historic integrity left to preserve.”

The process Maze said she predicts a completed draft of the small area plan will be finished before the end of the year. It will be submitted to the City Council and, if approved, made city policy.

“Which means we’re referring to that when we make other decisions [regarding the area] as a city body,” Maze said. “It’s also

a guide for the community, the proper ty owners and the businesses — to give them a vision of the area.”

Maze said these plans are for areas in transition, which tend to need detailed guidance. The entire process will take slightly less than a year. The small area plan is the first for Dinkytown, and it comes at a time of rapid change.

The buildings containing House of Hanson and other businesses were torn down over the weekend to make way for a controversial new apartment complex. Prolific area developer Kelly Doran revealed plans for another new complex in the area

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Principal Planner of Minneapolis Haila Maze speaks to an audience of about 100 about the Dinkytown small area plan while Third Ward City Councilwoman Diane Hofstede and Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson sit on stage Monday evening at the Varsity Theater.

last month.

“We are tr ying to plan areas [of Dinkytown], but they are changing while we’re planning them,” Maze said. “The analogy I like is: We are building an airplane while we’re flying it.”

The previous plan regulating the area was the MarcyHolmes Master Plan, which was originally adopted in 2003. Marcy-Holmes’ plan is being updated along with Dinkytown’s new small area plan.

Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association President Cordelia Pierson said Dinky-

town’s identity is tied to Marcy-Holmes’ and vice versa.

“When I think of MarcyHolmes as a place, Dinkytown is a huge anchor,” Pierson said. “It’s a defining element in the community.”

Creating the Dinkytown plan is a collaborative effort between the city and the community.

City staff coordinate and conduct research, which includes hiring paid consultants. Throughout the process, the community is asked to provide input at public forums like the one

hosted by the Dinkytown Business Association on Monday night.

Maze said she will present an advanced version of the small area plan later this fall.

Maze said she is seeking approval from both the DBA and the MHNA when planning the area.

“We’ve worked with them in the past,” Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson said. “They’ve supported us in the past, and we’ve supported them. They’re ver y good people to work with.”

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Pressing printing Investigating the revolution in 3-D printing technology. cor Technologies caused quite a stir when it discovered how to make three-dimensional prints at a mere 5 percent of the industry’s standard cost. In less than six months, several key patents in 3-D printing are set to expire.

All of this has led some observers to conclude, fearfully or otherwise, that the human race is standing on the brink of another industrial revolution. 3-D printing is here, and it isn’t going away.

“Industrial revolution” conjures simultaneous images of speeding silver trains and smoke-screened cityscapes.

There appears to be little room for any moral middle ground; change seems either for the best or for the very worst.

Accordingly, those who follow the news may remember the panic that followed the U.S. State Department’s investigation and subsequent castigation of Defense Distributed,

BRIAN REINKEN columnist

a corporation that had been publically posting instructions on how to print plastic guns in 3-D. The question that it posed: Should the 3-D printing revolution, suddenly more ominous than benign, be quelled before it begins?

I get it. Guns are scary. But it’s easy to forget that when modern technology is progressing at this speed. We’re already within the “next” industrial revolution.

Smar t phones, GPS and the ver y Internet itself were all unknown to our parents when they were children. All of these technologies have introduced new complications into human life. The debates that rage on about the invasion of privacy, for example, are indicative that our society is

in the middle of a tumultuous overturning of the old order, a continuous restructuring of what we consider to be the social “norm.”

Our values are being constantly tested by innovation, but to react reflexively against the path toward progress will take us as a nation — and as a species — nowhere.

Guns are an almost inevitable outcome of the revolution that is about to unfold in 3-D printing. But gunpowder, upon its invention, was used by the Chinese to make fireworks in addition to firearms. Albert Einstein’s work on quantum theory reshaped war, yes, but it also revolutionized the field of physics.

Ultimately, any object’s value rests with the manner in which that object is used. Television can be a tool, or it can be the proverbial vast wasteland. The Internet houses symphonies and poetry, pornography and hatred.

3-D printing, then, will certainly be abused by those who seek to terrorize the human race. These people, regardless of the restrictions imposed upon them, will find ways to

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 114,407- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,363 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

exploit technological advances. Thus, it is of the supremest importance that, looking forward, we dwell not on these violent, vociferous individuals, but rather on the great, silent majority whose throngs teem with doctors and engineers, with idealists and visionaries too preoccupied with honest work to speak as loudly as their defamers.

In the past year, 3-D printing has been used to generate, among other things, functional human livers, ears and skull plates in addition to viable rocket parts for NASA. Theoretically, the technology could someday be used to print food.

Should we, in a reactionary spasm, recoil in offended horror from a technology whose possibilities seem limitless?

Or should we rather embrace industrialization on account of the enormous quantities of good that it will produce?

Ultimately, we cannot run from progress — in the modern world, there’s nowhere left to go.

Brian Reinken welcomes comments at breinken@mndaily.com.

LGBT

The cycle of history History is repeating itself with LGBT rights, but the rules have changed.

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GUEST COLUMN Reforming the American dream

Unless you’re among the roughly 1 percent of America that is Native American, then immigration policy has fundamentally changed your life (after all, you live here now).

In recent months, immigration has deservedly garnered much attention as President Barack Obama has made it a key second-term priority.

Reform legislation, though, is still up in the air.

A proposed bipartisan bill that passed the Senate is currently the subject of intense controversy in the House.

Passions on both sides tend to fixate on the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. But reform isn’t just about illegal immigration: Although relatively invisible in the public conscience, fixing our broken legal immigration process remains critical for America’s future.

The current system is embarrassingly slow and complex. As of last November, more than 4.4 million people, including roughly 1 million professionals, were waiting for the green card that provides them permanent residence; some have been waiting for more than 20 years.

Many first came to the U.S. through F-1 student visas. However, the number of work permit visas that allow these students to work in the U.S. is far lower. According to the Brookings Institute, 668,513 F-1 student visas were approved in 2010, while a mere 76,627 H-1B work visas were approved in the same year, only 34.6 percent of which were for F-1

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students. Simply obtaining a work visa may take months or even years due to paperwork.

This means many people educated in America are unable to contribute their skills to the American economy.

Many who do obtain work visas are subsequently unable to obtain green cards.

Much of the problem comes from our rigid immigration rules. Despite the millions of eligible immigrants in line, only around 120,000 green cards are granted each year, with a strict quota of at most 10,000 green cards from any one countr y. This means populous nations such as China, India and Mexico are allocated the same number of spots as much smaller ones, resulting in massive backlogs of immigrants from the largest countries. Such a flat quota that doesn’t account for population size or applicant numbers makes little sense.

In fact, the very concept of an artificial quota in general is an antiquated policy that essentially discriminates between immigrants solely based on their national origin, instead of considering what benefits and skills they could offer the U.S. Because of such inane laws, millions of would-be Americans, people who already live and work in the U.S., are stuck in limbo without a green card. Many return home out of frustration — roughly one in three Indians and one in five Chinese who left the U.S. cited visa issues as a strong factor in their decision. This trend has been growing in recent years, threatening to create a “reverse brain drain” in which

talented, educated individuals leave the country.

Thankfully, the Senate’s immigration bill seeks to significantly expand and streamline the legal process. It calls for an increase in the number of H-1B work visas for foreign students and professionals. It would also significantly accelerate the green card process, stipulating that all backlogged applications be resolved within 10 years, giving priority to those delayed the longest.

In addition, the bill sensibly ends the by-country quota policy.

As a whole, immigrants contribute an estimated $37 billion per year to U.S. GDP. By utilizing their talents here, they create tremendous value and, by extension, jobs for the American economy. If anything, if economics is the primary concern, we should be trying to encourage even more legal immigration.

Of course, for the foreseeable future, the controversy of illegal immigration will continue to dominate headlines and command a lion’s share of public attention. However, whereas the phenomenon of “illegal” immigration has arisen only in the past few decades, general immigration policy has had an impact on the character and economy of America for centuries. In the long run, our approach to legal immigration will more likely be what defines our future.

Victor C. Wu This excerpt of a column was published Sept. 8 in the Harvard Crimson.

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ug. 28, 1963, was debatably the most significant moment in the civil rights movement. On that day 200,000 people rallied at the March ADITI PRADEEP on Washington columnist and Martin Luther King Jr.’s momentous “I Have a Dream“ united a nation in solidarity against racial inequality. Now, five decades later, Minnesota has become the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage.

We now have the advantage of seeing the civil rights movement as history. We read about it in textbooks in grade school. Though racism is still an issue, we can trace back hundreds of years of progress.

Today, however, the Twin Cities Pride festival brings in more than 250,000 people each year. The event brings people of all sexual orientations and gender identities together in order to celebrate and proudly display LGBT pride.

The recent similarities between the civil rights and LGBT rights movements are obvious. The LGBT rights movement has devolved to controversial state initiatives and U.S. Supreme Court cases rather than a direct act from Congress.

Justice Anthony Kennedy even cited Loving v. Virginia, the 1967 Supreme Court case that invalidated anti-interracial marriage laws, during the United States v. Windsor case on the federal interpretation of marriage.

However, the dif ferences are changing how history will remember the social movement.

While the civil rights movement had its prominent leaders, the LGBT social movement lacks individual figureheads. Though each city or state may have its own politicians championing LGBT rights, the household names of LGBT individuals are still limited to out celebrities.

The Internet, with its billions of tweets and Facebook statuses, is making support or opposition of same-sex rights reach the world in real time. Instead of leaders, organizations like the Human Rights Campaign and its red sign of equality are creating a new paradigm of user-generated grassroots activism.

In August, at least 1,640 samesex couples applied to be married.

We’re seeing progress. Perhaps 50 years from now there will be grade school textbooks and government holidays dedicated to this battle.

We’re in the midst of making history; let’s remember this revolution will certainly be televised.

Aditi Pradeep welcomes comments at apradeep@mndaily.com.

Open Minneapolis up to density Changing the Minimum Lot Area requirement would improve density throughout the city.

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he Minneapolis City Council may eliminate the Minimum Lot Area requirement in numerous local zoning districts, allowing for crucial density around the University of Minnesota.

By opening up parts of the city to smaller plots, the City Council could control density in areas that need more small residential units, such as the Dinkytown and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods.

Neighborhoods in proximity to the University of Minnesota have asked to build smaller units, but current regulations conflict with these plans, according to the Minneapolis City Council’s Zoning and Planning Commission report.

Ditching the MLA requirement in the University area would follow the local trend of rooming houses and apartments, which bring down costs for residents.

According to the report, approximately 20 percent of all major residential and mixed-use development plans received changes since the current zoning ordinance standards were added in 2009. If developers must adapt to these changes, our present zoning standards are, by definition, slowing development.

The Zoning & Planning Committee voted Aug. 22 to delay a vote on the MLA requirement amendment until Oct. 1 based on a request from Councilwoman Meg Tuthill to allow more community engagement.

A meeting is scheduled for Sept. 12 at Bryant Square in Uptown to hear feedback from the community and present information about the issue.

We urge interested students and other Minneapolis residents to attend in order to voice their opinion on the density of our city.

Defeating the emerald ash borer The city should do whatever is needed to stop the infestation and restore lost trees.

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hile Minneapolis is named for the abundance of lakes inside its borders, it could just as well be known as the city of parks and trees, which are just as important to the city’s identity.

However, the emerald ash borer has become a growing problem in Minneapolis and around the Twin Cities since it was first discovered in 2010. The insect infests and eventually kills ash trees, which make up a significant portion of the trees in the area.

According to a July 9 MinnPost article, the city is home to 38,000 ash trees on its public land and an estimated 175,000 on private property.

In a Minnesota Daily article published last week, city forestry director Ralph Sievert estimated more than 40,000 trees will need to be removed and replaced to prevent long-term damage to the city’s urban forest. The city’s Parks and Recreation Board has proposed an annual $1.2 million levy that would to go toward restoring the trees. According to the Minneapolis Parks website, the proactive replacement approach allows the MPRB Forestry Department to replace the urban forest with a diverse mix of tree types to ensure the city continues to have an abundance of trees.

Ash trees have been and continue to be a vital source of beauty and nature in Minneapolis, and the City Council should approve the proposal.

Residents should also be sure to take steps to prevent the spread of the emerald ash borer. The Hennepin County website lists several simple ways, such as buying firewood locally rather than transporting it and reporting trees that show signs of infestation so action can be taken as soon as possible.

Long-term damage caused by the emerald ash borer would be a severe loss for the area, resulting in empty parks and boulevards. The Twin Cities community should do as much as possible to stop the infestation and restore lost trees quickly.

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FOOTBALL

Gophers’ defense led by improved LBs Aaron Hill leads a group of youthful linebackers for the Gophers.

BY JACK SATZINGER Jsatzinger@mndaily.com

A quick-paced, no-huddle of fense left the Gophers’ defense disoriented at times in its season-opening win over Nevada-Las Vegas on Aug. 29.

In that game, the inexperienced group of linebackers looked confused and out of position as UNLV wore down the Minnesota defense.

In week two against New Mexico State, the Gophers were tested by the no-huddle of fense once again — but this time, the linebackers made necessar y adjustments as Minnesota won 44-21.

“I thought we adjusted pretty well,” senior linebacker Aaron Hill said.

“The coaches do a good job of throwing ever ything at us during practice, so they prepare us ver y well.

They make us think fast.

They make us react on the spot.”

Those preparations were on display early last weekend as junior college transfer linebacker Damien W ilson tackled NMSU running back Germi Morrison for a one-yard loss on the team’s first drive. On the next play, backup senior linebacker James Manuel jumped a route and deflected an Andrew McDonald pass to force the Aggies to punt.

Once the Gophers had built a 37-14 lead through a run-heavy attack, the defense scored a touchdown for the second straight week. After NMSU r unning back Brandon Betancour t fumbled, Hill scooped up the ball and

PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIC MILLER, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

Gophers senior linebacker Aaron Hill returns a fumble 50 yards for a touchdown in Minnesota’s 44-21 win over New Mexico State on Saturday.

returned it 50 yards for a touchdown.

“We knew they like to r un the zone read,” Hill said. “I came outside to play the quar terback, saw the ball was on the ground ... [and] picked up the ball.”

Hill, a redshir t senior, has turned into one of the Gophers’ leaders on defense this season even though he didn’t receive

much playing time in his first four years at Minnesota. He recorded a team-high 10 tackles Saturday.

The team’s other starting linebackers were right behind Hill with eight tackles apiece and appear to be just scratching the surface after both transferring from junior colleges.

De’Vondre Campbell is just a redshirt sophomore,

WRESTLING

Wrestling returns to Olympics

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

Just months after being cut, Olympic wrestling is back.

The International Olympic Committee voted Sunday to reinstate the spor t for the 2020 and 2024 Olympics, the Associated Press repor ted. Wrestling beat out baseball, softball and squash.

“I’m really happy that it’s there,” said Gophers redshir t senior heavyweight Tony Nelson. “In the future,

it’s a chance I might try for myself.”

Nelson is the two-time defending NCAA heavyweight champion.

The IOC dropped wrestling from its list of “core sports” in Februar y to the disappointment of many fans and wrestlers, including Nelson.

“It was disappointing to see it gone,” he said. “Now that it’s back in, those oppor tunities are still available, which is awesome.”

The International Federation of Associated Wres-

tling Styles responded to the spor t’s removal by launching a six-month campaign to save its place in the Olympic Games.

Gophers head coach J Robinson was also a major proponent in the push to get wrestling back in the Olympics.

Keeping wrestling in the Olympics is critical for the sport’s future, Nelson said.

“It’s huge, especially at a younger age,” he said.

“Kids want to get a gold medal. That’s the pinnacle of wrestling.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Brausen gets second term as captain

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s hockey team announced Monday that senior Bethany Brausen will reprise her role as team captain this season.

Seniors Sarah Davis, Baylee Gillanders and Kelly Terry will sport the “A” as alternates for the Gophers.

“It just felt like, with Brausen’s experience last year having the ‘C’, it made sense to keep her as our captain and kind of [have] those other three really suppor t her in that role,” head coach Brad Frost told the Minnesota Daily on Monday.

Frost said Terry, Gillanders and Davis got votes from the team and coaching staff, and he seconded the decision.

“To me, that said that they all have leadership qualities that our team would like,” he said.

Davis leads more by example on the ice and keeps the team loose, Frost said.

Terry is the hardest worker

on the team and the fittest, he said, and Gillanders is “somebody that everybody can talk to.”

Brausen, who was captain last season alongside recently graduated Megan Bozek, is a combination of all three alternates, Frost said.

Minnesota, which has won the past two NCAA championships, lost six players to graduation this year.

The nation’s top scorer last season, Amanda Kessel, will play for the U.S. Women’s National Team this season.

She will be joined by defender Lee Stecklein.

The Gophers will have seven freshmen this season to help offset their losses.

“It’s going to be critical for … our captains to really come alongside our young kids,” Frost said. “But it’s also up to the rest of the team … to really show our freshmen the culture and what we’re about and how we do things.”

The Gophers have started captains’ practices and will kick off their regular season Oct. 4.

CAPTAINS’ CAREER STATS BETHANY BRAUSEN SEASON 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Career Totals

GP 38 41 41 120

G A POINTS 2 7 9 6 3 9 4 14 18 12 24 36

SARAH DAVIS SEASON 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Career Totals

GP 38 39 38 115

G 11 12 7 30

A POINTS 21 32 22 34 18 25 61 91

KELLY TERRY SEASON 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Career Totals

GP 38 40 39 117

G 15 11 9 35

A POINTS 24 39 19 30 23 32 66 101

BAYLEE GILLANDERS SEASON 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 Career Totals SOURCE:

GP G A POINTS 38 0 6 6 41 2 5 7 41 1 12 13 120 3 23 26 GOPHERSPORTS.COM

and head coach Jerr y Kill said he can tur n into a Ra’Shede Hageman-like player in the future. Wilson, a junior, also has the potential to improve as his time at Minnesota plays out.

“I think both those kids are getting better,” Kill said.

“As the weeks go by, they’re on tap because they’ve got athletic ability.”

Campbell and Wilson will need to continue to improve if Minnesota plans on being competitive in the Big Ten. The conference features a multitude of dual-thr eat quar terbacks such as Nebraska’s Taylor Mar tinez, Michigan’s Devin Gardner and Nor thwestern’s Kain Colter. These mobile quarterbacks can put extra stress

on linebackers.

Those players figure to pose a much tougher test for the Gophers’ linebackers than a New Mexico State team that went 1-11 last season.

Minnesota will take on a Football Championship Subdivision team in Western Illinois this weekend before its schedule star ts to ramp up in a few weeks.

MEN’S GOLF

Lowenstein leads squad

Minnesota finished tied for fifth at the Gopher Invitational.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

It was a bunched leaderboar d entering Monday’s final round of the Gopher Invitational.

And it was a bunched leaderboard after ward.

The Gophers men’s golf team finished in a tie for fifth place out of 12 teams at the annual invitational at Windsong Farm Golf Club in Independence, Minn.

The Gophers were in sixth place after Sunday’s action, and head coach John Carlson said strong play on the front nine was crucial Monday.

“When we tur ned as a team, I think we were within one of [No. 1] California,” he said. “We were really close to making a charge, but unfor tunately we didn’t finish of f the tournament all that well.”

Senior Alex Gauger t was the highest-scoring M i n n e s o t a p l a y e r, b u t he birdied his last three holes, helping to propel the Gophers into the fifthplace tie.

“We talked about getting our team of f to a better fall start,” Carlson said.

“This is one of the star ts we were looking for.”

Junior T yler Lowenstein was the low Gophers golfer. He finished the three-round tournament at 1-over par, enough for 10th place.

New Mexico shot an aggregate 4-under par to claim the team title. Second-place Baylor finished at 2-over.

Top-ranked Califor nia

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Minnesota’s Jon Trasamar plays at the season-opening Gopher Invitational at Windsong Farm Golf Club on Sunday morning.

finished in four th place, but the Golden Bears’ top two players were playing at the Walker Cup — the top amateur golf tour nament in the countr y.

Still, Carlson said he was encouraged by Minnesota’s finish relative to Califor nia’s and anticipates being able to compete with the Bears in the spring.

Kent State’s Corey Conners, the 36-hole leader, finished at 7-under par to win the individual title for the second straight year.

Conners is the tournament’s first back-to-back champion.

This year is Windsong Farm’s first as the tournament’s host. The tournament was played previously at Spring Hill Golf Club in Wayzata, Minn.

MEN’S GOLF RESULTS

GOLFER Lowenstein DuToit Trasamar Mendez Gauger

RD1 RD2 RD3 TOTAL 72 72 70 214 72 71 75 218 76 70 74 220 75 74 74 223 72 83 69 224

TEAM 1 New Mexico 2 Baylor 3 Kent State 4 California 5 Minnesota

RD1 280 278 289 291 291

RD2 285 295 279 281 287

RD3 283 281 289 289 287

TOTAL 848 854 857 859 865

*out of 12 teams

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

Carlson said Windsong Farm is a bit more generous of f the tees and lends more of a tournament feel.

“We played with more confidence because of that,” he said.

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The Fashionista is in: Fall campus style Students refuse to fall behind on this season’s fashions.

BY JORDYN DIORIO jdiorio@mndaily.com

As the sizzling summer fizzles away, the crisp fall winds call for changes in our wardrobes.

Diving into a hectic new semester, we’re scurrying to classes, hunting for internships, consuming caffeine like water and barely finding time to brush our teeth in the morning.

But there are some students at the University of Minnesota who aren’t letting their busy schedules affect their chance to wear this fall’s fashions.

Here’s a student-inspired Gopher guide to autumn trends on campus:

Very military If you want to toughen up your look, add military pieces to your closet. Camouflage prints and loosely fitted or tightly belted army green jackets are the best way to add edge this season. Don’t forget to stomp the campus hallways with a pair of combat boots, too.

Freshman communications major Maddy Carroll sports an oversized military shirt and a black skater dress paired with dark brown ankle booties.

Rule of thumb: Try to give the masculine military look a feminine twist by pairing a jacket with a fitted dress or skater skirt.

Jewels galore Forget the diamonds — emeralds, sapphires and rubies are a girl’s best friend

(Left) Maddy Carroll made the military look feminine. (Right) Allison Kaczmarski looked bold in jewel tones.

this fall. Dark, vibrant colors should be staple pieces in your closet. Green has reigned as one of the top colors for fall, so let the Wizard of Oz’s Emerald City be your inspiration for hue selection.

On the East Bank, sophomore Allison Kaczmarski displays a bold sapphire sleeveless blouse with a pair of dark pants.

Rule of thumb: Be bold with the jewel tones; add dif-

ferent vibrant colors to your collection. Feel as precious as those jewels.

Animal instinct Take a walk on the wild side this season with some ferocious animal prints. All animals are game, so take your pick from cheetah, zebra or leopard.

Warning: The pattern should be an accent piece.

Leave the leopard bandage

dress for the nightclub — or the garbage. Slip on a pair of flats with skinny black pants, like interior design junior Jessica Bliven. Her casual combination of a white top and slim pants allows the leopard flats to shine.

Rule of thumb: Have fun with the animal kingdominspired clothing this season. But wear it to look fierce, not so people want to claw your eyes out.

JULIET FARMER, DAILY Borrow Jessica Bliven’s subtle trick: leopard flats.

MUSIC

Album Reviews: The Weeknd and Arctic Monkeys Intense Canadian crooner Abel Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd, has a new album out today. So do British rockers the Arctic Monkeys. Here’s what we think of the new releases:

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

Artist: The Weeknd Album: “Kiss Land” Label: Republic The Weeknd’s Abel Tesfaye is an unorthodox crooner. Rather than churning out love ballads with Sinatrainspired gush, he’s followed the lead of Bone Thugs-nHarmony, disguising vulgar lyrics with a voice that makes you feel like you’ve cheated on your significant other.

“Kiss Land” marks Tesfaye’s arrival into major label territor y. While his three previous mix tapes, combined to form “Trilogy,” often drifted into monotony, “Kiss Land” brings listeners on a tour through their favorite nightmares.

Tesfaye wrestles with the byproducts of fame throughout the album, including adulterous ex-lovers, drug and alcohol use and the loss of self over trance-inducing synth and drum machine beats. The resulting sound is a cross between Prince-level sexuality and Kid Cudi’s mesmerizing melancholia.

The Weeknd is a master of contradiction and flaunts it unapologetically. He sings of true love and then denies its existence. He shuns women who mistreat him and then busts out one-liners like this on the album’s title track: “You can meet me in the room where the kisses ain’t free. You gotta pay with your body.”

Tesfaye’s voice is the biggest contradiction of all, making misogynist lyrics sound like Italian arias. If it weren’t for online lyric databases, one could probably play “Kiss Land” at your next family function without a single eyebrow raise.

The Weeknd’s musings on fame, modern love and internal disconnect are strong until Drake’s guest appearance on “Live For,” when Tesfaye falls into Drake’s champagne and stripper-loving trap and doesn’t emerge.

Listeners are left to wonder who this guy really is.

Is his switch from melancholia and lovesickness to misogyny and debaucher y intentional? Are the contrasting sides of Tesfaye more interconnected than they seem? Is the point that

PHOTO COURTESY OF REPUBLIC RECORDS

there isn’t one?

“Kiss Land” should be enjoyed song by song because, honestly, this guy is impossible to pin down. Enigmatic personas like The Weeknd keep listeners interested and, most importantly, they sell.

Artist: Arctic Monkeys Album: “AM” Label: Domino It’s hard to maintain heartthrob status through your late 20s, but England’s Arctic Monkeys aren’t afraid to try.

The band’s fifth studio album “AM” indulges in youthful themes like getting back with exes and disagreements over text while segueing into new levels of maturity. This transition, however, is not without problems.

Frontman Alex Turner sounds bored. Perhaps his lackluster vocals are a result of the heartbreak underlying most of the tracks on “AM,” or maybe he’s just getting older. If it weren’t for the excessive vocal layering and powerhouse instrumenta-

tion, Turner wouldn’t stand a chance.

That said, the Ozzy-esque guitar riffs and hip-hop inspired drumbeats on “AM,” specifically in “Do I Wanna Know?” are sure to win the band new fans while nourishing the old.

The hip-hop influence is most apparent in the track “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” which nods to Dr. Dre’s beat-making and weed smoking.

Songs like “Why’d You Only Call Me” make “AM” unsettling in a good way. Listeners get a sense of lingering dissatisfaction and displacement that keeps them hanging on, even with Turner’s vocals at their worst. The eerie instrumentation is a welcome departure from the band’s usual sugary sound.

If the vocals and slower, sappier songs like “No. 1 Party Anthem” and “Mad Sounds” didn’t drag the album down as it reaches its peak, “AM” would be solid throughout. For now, savvy listeners will stick to the hits and skip the rest.

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

sudoku

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

For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

9/10/2013

Monday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (9/10): Social life provides the backdrop for your feature this year, with a full community cast. Expand your circle for new opportunities. Plan for financial growth with persistent saving.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Accept good coaching, and heed your partner’s advice.

Schedule more time for romance. Choose a fun destination.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Try something new. Your good reputation precedes you. Consider your higher values. Keep most of your resources hidden.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — It’s a very lucky day. Offers for more creative work start pouring in. Soak it up. Write the conclusion you’d like to see.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Don’t fall for a sob story. Gather facts from friends. It’s getting good. Trust your team. You’re gaining admirers and a cheering section.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Set aside stores for the winter. Pay back a social debt. There’s a beneficial addition to your home. Catch up on your reading.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — You produce a treasure, and self-esteem increases exponentially. Celebrate with an intriguing companion. See the sights.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — You’re getting wiser. Form a new partnership, providing a material advantage. Accept a hefty assignment. Gather as much as you can.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — Start planning an adventure to follow a passion. Keep others on course. You get some lucky shots.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — There’s good news from far away. Accept the applause graciously. You’re tempted to spend more than you have.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Follow your inner impulse. Plan for the future. Your personal vision inspires others. Begin, and get farther than expected.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Consider family in your decisions. You’re beloved beyond your wildest dreams. Bring out the good stuff, with the best quality.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — You’re building favor with an influential partner with good ideas. Learn. Dig in. The good news is that there’s plenty of work.

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overheard

FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Family social science professor: “All of you are here because you are a lover.

If you were a hater, you’d be in chemical engineering.”

—Unknown

Guy to another guy: “You smell like man. I love it.”

—Coffman Union

Guy: “Dude, I kind of think being hazed is fun.”

Girl 1: “You think he likes you?”

Girl 2: “Ewww, no! He has cooties!”

—Centennial Hall

“Gwen Stefani is my spirit animal.”

—Kolthoff Hall

Girl: “What about this pizza place?”

Guy: “That’s beyond our drunken interests. You must never go there, Simba.”

—Duffy’s Pizza

—Unknown

Freshman girl going to the football game: “Hold on! I’m trying to insta a selfie of us.”

—Frontier Hall

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ACROSS 1 Uniformed figure in the National Toy Hall of Fame 6 Corp. fiscal execs 10 Kiss from 10-Down 14 Epps and Sharif 15 Sow’s squeal 16 43,560 square feet 17 Oenophile 20 Indianapolis-toFort Wayne dir.

21 Sleepover wear, briefly 22 Shiny finish 23 Lone Ranger’s pal 26 iPhone’s voiceactivated personal assistant 27 Response to snake oil, perhaps 31 Steering system component 32 Caresses 33 GM labor gp.

35 Redding of soul 36 FG’s three 37 Hockey great Phil, familiarly 38 Tails and tongues do it 39 Feng __: decorating philosophy 41 Redeem 43 Privacy protector of a sort 46 Close to 47 “Incorrect!”

48 Ready to mate, animal-wise 51 Pouch 52 Just minted 55 Has a big track payday (and a hint to hidden words that begin 17-, 27- and 43Across) 59 Against 60 Dutch cheese 61 A driver who forgets something might make one 62 Info 63 Toupees 64 Evaluated

9/10/13

By Donna S. Levin

DOWN 1 Graduation wear 2 Poker declaration 3 “Psycho” Oscar nominee 4 Prospector’s quest 5 “Never mind” PC key 6 Grifter’s game 7 Swimming aids 8 Artist who lives across from Central Park’s Strawberry Fields 9 Way up the slope 10 Heroic TV dog 11 Rapper-turnedactor 12 “Mötley” group 13 Actress Deborah 18 Went (for) 19 Pokes around on the Internet 24 Some regatta equipment 25 Cpl., for one 26 Takes in, as a movie 27 Greek deli stockpile 28 Vision-related 29 Pillow-shaped diamond style 30 Golfer’s gimme 31 __ truck

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34 Took the cup 36 Sound from a contented kitty 37 Those gals, in Guadalajara 39 “Don’t __ the small stuff!”

40 Moor flora 41 Early spring blooms 42 ABA member 44 Layette suit 45 Strips of weapons

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48 “If __ my way ...”

49 Spanish lad 50 URL opener 51 Deer dad 53 French 101 infinitive 54 Mascara applicator 56 University URL ending 57 Pelt 58 H-like Greek vowel

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I started dating my boyfriend sophomore year, when neither of us was very busy. Now we’re both juniors, and things are really ramping up — work, school, internships, etc. We used to see each other every day, but since classes started this fall, we’ve only hung out twice. When we did hang out, we were both pretty tired and kind of crabby. It wasn’t much fun.

I don’t want our busy schedules to ruin what we have (I’ve never been one to say I was too busy for a relationship), but I’m not sure how to be OK with seeing each other less and to make the most of the time we do have together.

—Too busy

Hey hectic,

You stipulate that you’d never claim to be too busy for a relationship, but that’s exactly the point you are making.

It’s like you’re looking for someone to tell you, “Everything will be okay” and “You’ll find a way,” but you may just have to come to terms with altering the nature of your relationship.

If the Fates were simply conspiring to keep you apart —like some kind of never-ending missed connection on Craigslist — it’d be fodder for a great “love conquers all” rom-com. But that’s not the case, especially considering that when you do find time for togetherness, it sounds kinda miserable.

Maybe it’s time to turn off the cabin lights and let these ships pass in the night.

Who knows what future schedules may hold though, so keep his number in your black book and drop a line next

semester.

—Dr. Date Dr. Date,

A few months ago, I met this guy at a show and we exchanged numbers.

He called me two days later and we got drinks, which led to more drinks, which led to him spending the night at my apartment. It was a really nice night, and we started hanging out regularly. He seemed really great — maybe a little shy, but sweet.

I’ve noticed, though, that he isn’t very funny. He can appreciate humor and his friends are hilarious, but he just can’t pull it off himself. I always thought this was one of the things I valued most in a guy, but now I’m wondering if I should let it go. He’s great in every other way, so does this one thing matter?

—Getting serious Unfunny,

I’ll use a phrase popularized by inveterate single-woman Liz Lemon, “That’s a deal breaker, ladies!”

I look for humor in all my men. It’s not so much that relationships should be lol-fests, but humor is helpful in almost all situations.

A sense of humor generally makes boring stuff interesting, dumb stuff smarter and, most importantly, helps ease the pain during rough times.

Re lati o nshi ps c an be se ri o us enough — if there’s no reliable laughter, I worry this dude may grow stale over time as his other qualities lose their luster.

(To be clear though, do not use “30 Rock” as a go-to source for relationship tips.)

—Dr. Date

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

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BEIRUT — Those who knew Bashar Assad in earlier days say he was uncomfortable being the son of a president and never wanted to lead. A softspoken, lisping eye doctor, he enjoyed Western rock music and electronic gadgets — an accidental heir to power.

Yet Assad, who turns 48 on Wednesday, has proven to be relentlessly resilient, branded by opponents a br utal dictator who kills with chemical weapons.

His willingness to do whatever it takes in Syria’s civil war, unleashing his militar y’s might against entire towns and cities, has so far succeeded in keeping his regime core in power, even as large swaths of his countr y fall from his control or turn into devastated killing fields.

Nearly three years into the uprising against his family’s more than 40-year-rule, he has defied ever y prediction that his end is near.

The West once had the impression Assad was weak or incompetent, said David Lesch, professor of Middle Easter n histor y at T rinity University in San Antonio. “It took this unleashing of violence and bloodshed for people to reassess their view of Bashar.”

“There is revision, people saying he’s a lot tougher than they thought,” said Lesch, author of “Syria: The Fall of the House of Assad,” who had unusual access to Assad, meeting him regularly from 20042009.

In the eyes of opponents, Assad is a murderous autocrat who would do anything to cling to power.

The U.S and its allies accuse him of resor ting to gassing his own people, a claim the regime denies.

But for his suppor ters, he is a nationalist hero fighting Western imperialism and ensuring stable, secular rule in a turbulent region wracked by sectarian wars.

Assad himself appears fueled by an unshakeable belief that Syria would collapse without him, that he is not crushing a popular rebellion but fighting an attack by foreign-backed terrorists.

In a televised speech to parliament in June 2012, he likened his crackdown to a doctor tr ying to save a patient.

“When a surgeon... cuts and cleans and amputates, and the wound bleeds, do we say to him, ‘Your hands are stained with blood?’“ Assad said. “Or do we thank him for saving the patient?”

The question that has always been debated about Assad is whether he leads his regime or is led by it.

The leadership he inherited was meticulously built by his father, Hafez Assad. The Assad family and its minority Alawite sect held the most sensitive positions in the militar y and intelligence agencies. But they weren’t the only ones: Select families from the Sunni majority and from Christian and other minorities were given power ful posts or economic spheres that invested them in the regime, one of the most autocratic in the Middle East.

The son remains as reliant on them as his father did, if not more.

“He is not the strongman. How can he be?” an exiled cousin, Ribal alAssad, told the AP in London. “He didn’t come up through the militar y ranks ... He didn’t put these people in, his brother did and his father did. He’s more afraid of being assassinated by one of them than he is of Western airstrikes.”

Bashar Assad’s first months as president after succeeding his father in 2000 ushered in hopes he would loosen his father’s iron grip. Even after it became clear he too would not tolerate dissent, he was still portrayed by many as a reformer at heart, fighting against an old guard who restricted his ambitions.

Even some of his strongest critics in the current war once believed he could be a positive factor.

As a senator, U.S. Secretar y of State John Kerr y visited him repeatedly, dining with Assad and his wife at a restaurant in Old Damascus in 2009. Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy invited him to Bastille Day celebrations in 2008. Even after his forces fired on protesters at the beginning of the uprising against him in March 2011, Hillar y Clinton suggested he was different from his father — a “reformer” who should be given a chance.

So how did a purported reformer become a leader who Kerr y now compares to Adolf Hitler?

“It’s like a Greek trage d y, ” s a y s J e a n - M a r i e Quemener, whose biography of Assad, “Docteur Bachar, Mister Assad,” was published in France in 2011.

“At each step of his existence, he had every chance of choosing the right way.

But each time, either the rug was pulled from under him, or he took the wrong decision,” he told The Associated Press in Paris.

“Each time, his destiny was forced.”

Assad came to power by a twist of fate.

The elder Assad was cultivating Bashar’s older brother Basil to succeed him. But in 1994 Basil was killed in a speeding car crash in Damascus. Bashar was summoned home from his ophthalmology practice in London, put through militar y training and elevated to the rank of colonel to establish his credentials so he could one day rule.

When Hafez Assad died in 2000, parliament quickly lowered the presidential age requirement from 40 to 34. Bashar’s elevation was sealed by a nationwide referendum, in which he was the only candidate.

“When his father called him, he wasn’t ready to take power. He tried to get his younger brother to take his place,” said Quemener, referring to Maher Assad, who now heads the powerful Presidential Guard.

“His destiny was forced on him, he never wanted to be leader of Syria.”

The Syria that Hafez left his son was molded by 30 years of hidebound r ule, with a Soviet-style centralized economy. The hand over dissent was so stifling that Syrians feared even joking about politics to their friends.

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resources.”

When the University Bursar’s office left Coffey Hall in June, Golden said, space for the St. Paul Clinic doubled, making room for the mental health clinic addition.

“It really helped by having the space come up,” Golden said. “We’ve been cramped.”

The clinic cost about $500,000 and will be staffed by two new mental health employees who were funded by the Student Services Fees Committee last spring.

The new location will make mental health care more accessible to students in St. Paul, said Glenn Hirsch, director of University Counseling and Consulting Services.

UCCS employs one full-time staff member for mental health ser vices in St. Paul, but that employee doesn’t have the ability to treat severe mental health disorders or prescribe medication, Hirsch said. The new clinic will make those services available on the St. Paul campus.

“I think the St. Paul campus hasn’t always got the resources that the Minneapolis campus has,” Hirsch said. “I think this is a nice

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way to balance that out.”

Minnesota Student Association President Mike Schmit is working with Boynton and other University leaders to increase mental health care options for students on campus. He said it’s important to eliminate barriers for students who need help.

“Just traveling fr om St. Paul to Minneapolis is a huge bar rier in and of itself,” Schmit said. “I think the additional clinic in St. Paul will make mental health suppor t more convenient to students out there.”

Julie Noland, a certified medical assistant at Boynton’s St. Paul location for the last 22 years, said in

the past, students from the St. Paul campus needed to travel to Minneapolis to make an in-person appointment for first-time mental health clinic visits.

“It just took a lot of travel time,” she said.

Schmit said he thinks Boynton is doing ever ything it can with its current resources, and he’s happy with steps being taken to meet the demand for mental health ser vices. But students should continue offering their input on the issue, he said.

For Golden, the new clinic is a way to alleviate an increasing need on campus.

“We think this is a home run of an opportunity,” he said.