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More than 500 other colleges also use the course.
The Mayoral Council unites “fringe” candidates to share platforms and voters.
Philip Nelson was injured last week, and Mitch Leidner led the Gophers.
University requires freshman alcohol course
Mayoral candidates band together
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Restaurants, city U base crack the food code pay below FACULTY/STAFF
MOST HEALTH INSPECTIONS TURN UP AT LEAST ONE VIOLATION, BUT FEW ARE SEVERE.
average Faculty and staff salaries were below market value in FY 11-12. BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota faculty and staff members are paid less than average market wages but are compensated with employee benefits, according to the Office of Human Resources. A Thursday presentation to a Board of Regents committee showed base salaries for University employees
were nearly $3,300 less than salaries of comparable employees nationwide in fiscal year 2011-12. University salar y increases are also slower than those of other Twin Cities employers and educational institutions across the country, according to the report. Employees are compensated with a “strong” benefits package that helps recruit and retain employees, according to OHR Vice President Kathy Brown. “The value of our u See SALARIES Page 3 Employee compensation was 61 percent of the U’s 2012 costs.
ELECTION 2013
City candidates skip campus Some mayoral hopefuls haven’t tried to appeal to students yet. BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com
With two hotly contested constitutional amendments and a presidential election, University of Minnesota students encountered political campaigns as soon as they stepped foot on campus last year. This year, campaigning at the University hasn’t been as prevalent. And some students aren’t even aware of the upcoming Minneapolis elections, leaving candidates wondering if targeting campus is worthwhile. Political science professor Larr y Jacobs said
students are not necessarily unengaged, but mayoral candidates have a hard time “breaking through” to them. “I think the challenge for the mayoral candidates is to stand out and excite students,” he said. “As a group, [the candidates] have just failed to do that so far.” A recent Star Tribune poll of 800 likely Minneapolis voters showed 32 percent in the 18-to-39 age group were unsure of their first choice for mayor.
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Dorian McCoy wipes down counters at Raising Cane’s on Friday.
WE ALL HAVE THE SAME GOAL HERE. ... WE’RE ALL LOOKING FOR FOOD SAFETY. Kathy Louden Minneapolis health inspector
BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
work with owners and operators
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violations that are found in nearly itting in a booth at Rais-
to fix the violations they find — every Minneapolis restaurant.
ing Cane’s Chicken Fin-
On full inspections, the Minne-
gers, Kent Kramp low-
apolis team of 16 inspectors runs
ered his voice when the topic of
through a long checklist of possible
foodborne illness came up.
violations, keeping tabs on more
“It would ruin my name, as
than 4,300 facilities. Dan Huff, who
the owner, if I was getting people
oversees the inspections unit, said
sick,” he said.
it’s rare for an inspector to find
The Raising Cane’s corpo-
nothing’s wrong in a restaurant.
rate office meticulously inspects
Of the 22 restaurants and bars
Kramp’s Stadium Village restau-
that were closed by Minneapolis
rant twice a year, photographing
inspectors since the beginning of
u See ELECTION Page 4 Young voters ranked Dan Cohen highest of mayoral candidates.
underneath ever y table and ma-
2012, only one was in the Univer-
chine. Compared to that kind of
sity of Minnesota-Twin Cities dis-
scrutiny, Minneapolis health in-
trict. On campus, the University
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spections seem easy, Kramp said.
inspects its own food facilities,
City inspectors don’t set out to
and there’s no record of a health
Mayoral “fringe” candidates are banding together.
punish restaurants. Instead, they
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code-related closure.
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HEALTH ENVIRONMENT
Fairview names new president and CEO
U researchers work on NY power
University of Colo. Health president Rulon Stacey will take over Nov. 4.
The St. Anthony Falls Lab is making water power for the East River.
BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com
Fairview Health Services announced its new president and CEO on Tuesday. Rulon Stacey, the current president of University of Colorado Health, will take over Nov. 4. The Fairview health system ser ves more than 625,000 people a year and includes the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview. Fair view Board Chair Charles Mooty, who has been ser ving as interim CEO since July of last year, said the board of directors is “thrilled” by the appointment. “Ever y health system Rulon has touched throughout his career has dramati-
cally improved clinical quality and patient experience,” Mooty said in a press release. “Under his leadership, I am confident Fairview patients and families will see care and ser vice continue to get better and better.” Stacey, a graduate of Brigham Young University and the University of Colorado, served as CEO of Poudre Valley Health System for 16 years before it merged with the University of Colorado Hospital last year to become University of Colorado Health. In the release, Stacey specifically cited looking forward to working with the University. “Fairview and its partner, the University of Minnesota, are already well-respected organizations nationally,” he said, “and I look forward to joining them in their quest to continually improve and grow.”
BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota researchers are working to capture renewable energy from New York City’s East River to power homes. For the next two years, the University’s St. Anthony Falls Laborator y and Depar tment of Civil Engineering will develop water turbines for Verdant Power, a New York Citybased renewable technology company. Once installed, researchers speculate the 30 turbines will generate 22 percent of the electricity for New York City’s Roosevelt Island. SAFL director Fotis
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Fotis Sotiropoulos, civil engineering professor and director of the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, examines models of the marine and hydrokinetic turbine outside the laboratory Monday with assistant civil engineering professor Michele Guala.
Sotiropoulos said the project could demonstrate for the first time that turbine
water power is capable of providing direct electricity to households.
u See ENERGY Page 12 Water power could generate 10 percent of U.S. electricity.
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