September 24, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

A&E

FOOTBALL

The community thinks James Corner’s team will revitalize the area.

Look alive, sartorialists. It’s the Minneapolis-St. Paul Fashion Week.

The Gophers have lacked playmakers this season, but KJ Maye may fix that.

Nicollet Mall redesign team chosen

The fashionista is in: It’s fashion week

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MINNEAPOLIS

HOUSING

New apt. complex is ‘a beast’ The path is clear for a new 333-unit apartment building in Stadium Village.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

Now that CSL Plasma has found a new location in Uptown, CPM Companies can start building its 11-stor y Stadium Village apar tment complex.

The Minneapolis City Council approved rezoning Friday to allow the plasma center to relocate. CPM spearheaded the move to make way for its WaHu Stuent Housing project, the largest proposed apartment building in the University district.

The $85 million project is planned to have 333 units,

Maye emerges as legit offensive threat

404 parking spots and a number of retail spaces on the ground floor with numerous amenities.

“It’s a beast,” CPM Companies owner Daniel Oberpriller said.

CSL Plasma marketing director Scott Newkirk said the arrangement “worked out really well” for both companies.

But many University of Minnesota students and community members who donate regularly may not be able to make the trek.

Physics senior T yler Wick said news of the plasma center leaving campus is frustrating because he walks there.

ST PAUL

JULIET FARMER, DAILY

Psychology seniors Tim Garay and Nicole Woodall drive the Gopher Chauffeur, a free service that provides University students with a safe ride home, on Friday.

u See PLASMA Page 12 The relocation process delayed WaHu’s construction two years.

The University’s Gopher Chauffeur service is expanding its fleet.

Leaders in the Minneapolis Somali community spoke out Monday against this weekend’s attack on a Kenyan shopping mall by members of the Somali Islamic terrorist group alShabab.

Repr esentatives and imams from several Minnesota Somali organizations gathered at the Abuubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center to condemn the extremist Islamic group’s attack at Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Saturday.

u See SOMALI Page 3 The FBI is unsure if local men were involved in the attack.

STUDENT GROUPS

More groups to be audited this year Nearly two dozen groups, including MSA, are prepping for audits.

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

More University of Minnesota student groups are receiving funding this year than in past years, which means more are being audited.

T wenty-three groups will be audited this year to ensure they’re using funding from student ser vices fees responsibly.

The audits are conducted annually for all groups receiving fees money, with each individual group being audited ever y two or three years.

Pre-audit meetings for

new arrangement should better

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

“We reiterate that this form of extremism is a menace to world peace and requires collective cooperation amongst the world community to counteract it,” Abdisalam Adam, chairman of the Islamic Civic Society of America, said at the press conference.

On Saturday, al-Shabab members invaded a popular Nairobi mall with grenades and assault rifles, killing more than 60 people, according to the Associated Press.

Al-Shabab is an extremist Islamic terrorist group formed after warlords ousted Somalia’s longtime dictator in 1991. It announced its alliance with al-Qaida in February 2012.

the groups begin Wednesday.

Because of the increased number of groups, this year’s audit process is budgeted up to $79,000 — an increase from last year’s $71,000 cost.

Four teen groups r eceiving more than $15,000 this year in student services fees will be fully audited, while nine groups getting less than $15,000 will receive more limited audits.

Auditors for all groups compare fees requests to transaction records, bank statements, investment statements and other financial information to make sure they line up, said Megan Sweet, assistant to the u See AUDITS Page 4 A student group helps others prepare for audits.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT MNDAILY.COM

For students, more rides home

serve growing student demand.

“We will be much more ef-

Somali leaders condemn attack

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

STUDENT LIFE

NAIROBI MALL SIEGE

The Minnesota community spoke out against alShabab on Monday.

TUESDAY

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the University of Minnesota’s

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freshman to get back to Bailey Hall in St. Paul.

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urday to get picked up.

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ATHLETICS

Maturi starts NCAA oversight job The former Gophers AD started the position in August.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

Once, former University of Minnesota athletics director Joel Maturi was responsible for making sure that University athletics complied with NCAA rules.

Now, he’s making sure the rest of the country follows them.

In August, Maturi began his new position on the NCAA’s Committee on Infractions, an independent body that decides whether Division I athletics programs have broken NCAA rules.

He was one of eight new members added to the formerly 10-person committee.

“I’ve always been a pay-itforward kind of an individual,” Maturi said. “If I can help make college athletics better, I decided to go ahead.”

For years, the committee has reviewed ever y case in which athletics departments were accused of

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Former Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi, right, speaks with one of his students, junior Kyle Weinmeyer, before class in TCF Bank Stadium’s media room Sept. 12.

major NCAA infractions.

But last year, the NCAA decided the job was too much for the 10-member committee to handle.

“This is a big job,” Ma-

turi said. “It just became a big burden for them.”

Now, only seven or eight members will hear cases at any given time, a move Maturi said will help

reduce the workload for committee members. u See MATURI Page 6 Maturi dealt wtih only one official NCAA violation as AD.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

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The Days Inn near the University of Minnesota changed hands Thursday and could be redeveloped into student housing.

United Proper ties signed a purchase agreement for the 2.45-acre site near TCF Bank Stadium housing the six-story,

130-room hotel as well as a neighboring restaurant, Tea House. It is the Minneapolis-based company’s first hotel purchase.

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Champeau, who graduated fr om the Carlson School of Management in 2004, said he played a “major” role in the purchase because he was familiar with the property from his time

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Champeau said the rampant redevelopment in the area added to the property’s value.

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan security forces battled al-Qaida-linked terrorists in an upscale mall for a third day Monday in what they said was a final push to rescue the last few hostages in a siege that has left at least 62 people dead.

While the government announced Sunday that “most” hostages had been released, a security expert with contacts inside the mall said at least 10 were still being held by a band of attackers described as “a multinational collection from all over the world.”

Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohamed said “two or three Americans” and “one Brit” were among those who attacked the mall. She said in an interview with the PBS “NewsHour” program that the Americans were 18 to 19 years old, of Somali or Arab origin and lived “in Minnesota and one other place” in the U.S. U.S. officials said they were looking into whether any Americans were involved. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Monday that the department had “no definitive evidence of the nationalities or the identities” of the attackers.

The security expert, who insisted on anonymity to talk freely about the situation, said many hostages had been freed or escaped in the previous 24-36 hours, including some who were in hiding.

However, there were at least 30 hostages when the assault by al-Shabab militants began Saturday, he said, and “it’s clear” that Kenyan security officials “haven’t cleared the building fully.”

By evening, Kenyan security officials claimed the upper hand.

“Taken control of all the floors. We’re not here to feed the attackers with pastries but to finish and punish them,” Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo said on Twitter.

Kenya’s Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku said the evacuation of hostages had gone “very, very well” and that Kenyan officials were “very certain” that few if any hostages were left in the building.

But with the mall cordoned off and under heavy security it was not possible to independently verify the assertions. Similar claims of a quick resolution were made by Kenyan officials on Sunday and the siege continued. Authorities have also not provided any details on how many hostages were freed or how many still remain captive.

Three attackers were killed in the fighting Monday, Kenyan authorities said, and more than 10 suspects arrested.

Eleven Kenyan soldiers were wounded in the running gun battles.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A judge in New Jersey on Monday ordered Minnesota Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf and their cousin Leonard Wilf to pay $84.5 million to two former business partners who she previously ruled they had defrauded in a 1980s real estate deal.

The ruling from Superior Court Judge Deanne Wilson covered compensatory and punitive damages to plaintiffs Josef Halpern and Ada Reichmann. It also includes a redistribution of real estate profits dating to the lawsuit’s initial filing, in 1992. Attorneys for the Wilfs promised an appeal.

Wilson ruled last month that the Wilfs had committed fraud, breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty, and violated the state’s civil racketeering laws. In a stinging rebuke, Wilson said then that Zygi Wilf demonstrated “bad faith and evil motive” in his trial testimony.

“We believe this decision will not stand on appeal,” said Peter Harvey, an attorney for the Wilfs. He, along with Vikings spokesman Lester Bagley, once again vowed the legal troubles would have no bearing on the Wilfs’ ability to meet the Vikings’ $477 million commitment on the $1 billion football stadium planned for downtown Minneapolis.

Zygi Wilf leads an ownership group, which includes Mark Wilf, that bought the Vikings in 2005 for $600 million.

Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton pushed hard for taxpayer funding of the stadium and often stood with the Wilfs at news conferences. But after Wilson’s first ruling, Dayton said the lawsuit highlighted business practices by the Wilfs that “are far from the legal standards for doing business in Minnesota.”

The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority, which is super vising the stadium project, quickly launched a review of the Wilfs’ finances and legal troubles, to ensure they could still meet the Vikings’ $477 million commitment to the nearly $1 billion stadium. Taxpayers are covering the rest.

That review wrapped up earlier this month and found the Wilfs should have no problem meeting their commitment even in the face of the heaviest possible fines. The attorney who conducted the review described the Wilfs’ wealth as “significant.”

The stadium authority’s review of the Wilfs’ legal troubles raised one red flag: that under New Jersey law, the civil verdict could trigger criminal investigations by state or county prosecutors in the state. But Har vey said such criminal probes of civil verdicts are extremely rare.

“The stadium will be built and there will be an opening kickoff long before this is decided by the appellate court and likely, the New Jersey Supreme Court,” Harvey said.

“It has no impact on stadium construction.”

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Nicollet Mall redesign team chosen The community thinks James Corner’s team will revitalize the area.

BY ALEXA BILLADEAU abilladeau@mndaily.com

More than 20 years after its most recent update, Nicollet Mall will soon be modernized with the help of James Corner Field Operations.

The plan, proposed last Tuesday, includes new lighting, paving and furniture to be installed by the end of 2016.

These ideas coincide with the City of Minneapolis’ vision to make Nicollet Mall “more active and vibrant yearround,” project consultant Peter Brown said.

The James Corner team, which includes Twin Cities architects Shane Coen and Julie Snow, was chosen after presenting their ideas to a committee of experts at the Guthrie Theater.

The New York landscape architecture firm’s ideas set it apart from three other finalists competing for the project, said Tom Fisher, dean of the University of Minnesota’s College of Design.

“I think once ever yone saw what James Corner and his team proposed, you realize that there are just lots of opportunities along the length of the street,” he said.

Nicollet Mall was last reconstructed in the late 1980s and its design was flawed, Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon said.

The James Corner team suggested restructuring the 12-block street into three business, residential and entertainment zones.

The zones, titled Live, Work and Play, would have unique features depending on the activity there. For example, the Play zone would make use of urban furniture such as outdoor amphitheaters to create a gathering space for visitors, which Spanish and sociol-

ogy senior Megan Odom said the mall currently lacks.

While working in the area last summer, Odom said she noticed “there isn’t much community space as far as an open area.”

By adding more seating and attaching balconies to the skyway, the design team hopes to create a more social atmosphere.

For Gordon, the addition of more trees is an attractive element of the plan. He said more green space is “much needed.”

Other unique features include bus stops equipped with coffee shops and newsstands, as well as color-coded stair and skyway systems.

Fisher said the team is “really taking what’s there now in a much different direction.”

He said he thinks the new project, which the team has dubbed “Nicollet Walk,” will attract more students to the University because the light rail connects campus to downtown.

“Students want to go to places that are lively and have a lot of activity, so I think [the renovation] is going to be a recruitment opportunity for the university,” he said.

Although the project is receiving funding from the state to help cover the $30 to $40 million price tag, Brown emphasizes that the details of the design are not set in stone.

“We weren’t picking a plan,” he said. “We were picking a team.”

The designs are up for negotiation before they can be approved by City Council on Oct. 4.

Brown said he’s confident that James Corner Field Operations is “the best team for the project” and will turn Nicollet Mall into a social gathering place for Minnesotans and tourists alike.

“Everybody on the presentation committee is really excited about this team,” he said. “We think they’re going to do a great job.”

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN COURTESY OF JAMES CORNER FIELD DESIGNS

James Corner Field Operations was selected to lead the renovation of Nicollet Mall, the pedestrian and transit corridor running through the heart of downtown Minneapolis.

Student arrested after lying in, blocking street

Somali leaders condemn attack

Also, a student reported his roommate stole money from him.

Somali-American leaders were quick to distance Islam from the ter rorist group at Monday’s press conference.

“They are nothing but criminals,” Ibrahim Baraki, a Kenyan immigrant, said at the press conference.

“They are not Muslims.”

The conference was held after a Twitter post alleged that two St. Paul men were among the al-Shabab members who carried out the attack. The tweet has since been deemed inaccurate.

FBI officials haven’t yet confirmed all identities of the men who carried out

BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota student was arrested early Friday morning for blocking a street and refusing to cooperate with officers. He may have been intoxicated, according to the University police report.

While on patrol a little after midnight, a University police officer noticed a man lying at the intersection of Eighth Street Southeast and 14th Avenue Southeast resting his head on the curb.

According to the police repor t, of ficers suspected the student was under the influence of alcohol, narcotics or both at the time of the arrest.

He was wearing a Tshirt, a pair of pink boxer briefs and a bath towel, according to the report.

The student gave the of ficer his first name, but his responses were unclear when the of ficer tried to identify him further.

The police of ficer attempted to take the student to the hospital, but he was uncooperative and he refused to get inside the police car.

After the of ficer made multiple attempts to get more information, the report said, the student was ar rested for refusing to cooperate with police officers and for blocking a city street.

He was also dif ficult

when the of ficer tried to handcuff him, according to the report.

The officer brought the student to the Hennepin County Jail, where he refused to provide any more personal information until about 5 a.m.

Roommate dispute University police responded to a report Thursday that a student’s roommate in Middlebrook Hall had stolen $80 from him, according to another police report.

When the of ficer entered the room, he found at least 10 empty cough syrup boxes in the garbage, according to the police re-

por t, which the suspect told the officer he had been using to get high.

The suspect said he had been addicted to heroin but hadn’t used the drug since June. He said he is currently a member of Narcotics Anonymous and is seeking treatment at Boynton Health Service.

The suspect also admitted to stealing $40 from his roommate on two separate occasions.

According to the police repor t, the victim said he didn’t want to return to his room until his roommate moved out. The victim had been living in a dif ferent dorm room for six nights before he called the police.

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

Theft Washington Avenue Bridge Friday A student’s backpack was stolen when the student left it unattended in the indoor area of the Washington Avenue Bridge during Paint the Bridge. According to the police report, the indoor area was open to foot traffic during the painting and was “quite chaotic.”

Crime: Where: When: Info:

Theft Bierman Athletic Fields Thursday A man left his bag near the field while playing flag football.

His cell phone, driver’s license and credit card were stolen.

Crime: Where: When: Info:

Theft Eighth Street Southeast Thursday–Friday A man parked his vehicle on the street Thursday night and discovered Friday morning that it was broken into. The victim said the doors were locked, but there was no damage to the door locks or windows. The vehicle’s stereo was stolen, causing damage to the dashboard and steering wheel column.

Crime: Where: When: Info:

Theft Appleby Hall Thursday A University employee left her iPhone 5 on her desk in her office and returned to find it missing. Security footage showed a man enter her office, walk to her desk, and leave.

The victim reported seeing the man in the hallway.

SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

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the attack, said Minneapolis FBI spokesman Kyle Loven. He said they’re monitoring the situation while waiting for more information from Kenyan authorities.

“It’s still a very fluid situation,” Loven said.

He declined to comment on the validity of the tweet.

Leaders of the Minnesota Somali community said they didn’t know if any Minnesota Somalis were involved in the attack, but they said they’ll continue discussions with the community as more details emerge.

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali community in the U.S. In 2010, there were nearly 50,000 Somalis living in Minneso-

ta, with 18,000 living in Minneapolis.

Last year, a Minneapolis man, Mahamud Said Omar, was found guilty of helping at least 20 men — including two former University of Minnesota students — travel to Somalia to fight for al-Shabab.

Adam said the Somali leaders urge Muslim youth to “shun and reject the trap of being lured to or recruited by extremist groups.”

Deqa Adan, who immigrated to Minneapolis from Kenya in 2006, said she was wor ried Kenyans might think all Somalis share the beliefs of al-Shabab.

“There’s so many things going through my head,” she said. “We’re all outraged.”

Assad: Syria committed to destroy chemical weapons

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAMASCUS, Syria — President Bashar Assad pledged in an inter view broadcast Monday to honor an agreement to surrender Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons, but he said that rebels might tr y to block international arms inspectors from doing their work.

Assad’s comments came as world leaders gathered in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly, where the use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war was high on the agenda.

The Syrian leader told Chinese state TV that Damascus is dedicated to implementing the agreement reached between Russia and the U.S. to surrender its chemical weapons to international control. Syria’s stockpile, he said, is “in safe areas and locations and under the full control of the Syrian Arab Army.”

Assad cautioned, however, that the rebels might block inspectors from reaching some of the locations, in order to frame the government.

“I’m referring to places

where gunmen exist. Those gunmen might want to stop the experts’ arrival,” Assad told CCTV in the interview, which was shot Sunday in Damascus and broadcast Monday.

Under the agreement brokered Sept. 14 in Geneva, inspectors are to be in Syria by November and all components of the chemical weapons program are to be removed from the country or destroyed by the middle of next year.

The revelations of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal became public after an Aug. 21 attack near Damascus that a U.N. report found included the use of the nerve agent sarin.

Damascus met a first deadline under the Geneva agreement, submitting last week what was supposedly the full list of its chemical weapons and production facilities to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons so they can be secured and destroyed.

Opposition leaders have warned the regime will continue to wield conventional weapons in the civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people since the up-

rising began in March 2011.

The U.N. inspectors face enormous challenges, including maneuvering between rebel- and government-controlled territor y.

Last month, snipers opened fire on a U.N. convoy carr ying a team on its way to investigate the Aug. 21 incident.

Opposition fighters have insisted they will also cooperate with any inspectors or experts who come to Syria.

Ralf Trapp, a former chemical arms inspector who is now a disarmament consultant, said Assad was legally obligated to let in inspectors under the chemical weapons treaty. But, he cautioned, “they can use the security situation as an excuse. They can delay things.”

The U.S.-Russian deal has dealt a blow to the rebels, who had hoped a U.S.led militar y strike would turn the war in their favor.

Opposition leaders have warned the regime will continue to wield conventional weapons in the civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people since the uprising began in March 2011.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Student group pushes U to divest Fossil Free Minnesota is in talks with President Kaler to end investment in fossil fuel companies.

BY JULIA MARSHALL jmarshall@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota student group pushing for fossil fuel divestment is attempting to win administrative support, like many of its peer groups across the nation.

Fossil Free Minnesota members are currently in talks with President Eric Kaler, with the goal of convincing him to freeze all University investments in fossil fuel companies and completely cut those investments within five years.

Fossil Free Minnesota’s first of ficial meeting with Kaler was in July, and it has another scheduled.

Eventually, group members hope to meet with the University’s Board of Regents, which has direct control over where the University

invests its endowment.

In an email statement, Kaler didn’t offer his opinion on the group’s proposal.

“I am aware of [Fossil Free Minnesota’s] work and look for ward to continued conversations with them in the future,” he said.

Though Kaler has agreed only to further talks with Fossil Free Minnesota, some group members are optimistic that University administrators could respond to their proposal.

“Moving from that first meeting [with Kaler] into our next meeting, we’re hoping to have a conversation about how he can collaborate with us and how we can collaborate with the administration,” said Simone Childs-Walker, second-year medical student and Fossil Free Minnesota member.

University alumnus and Fossil Free member Andy Pearson said Fossil Free is reaching out to other groups as well, including student regents representatives and the Minnesota Student Association.

At Macalester College in St. Paul, the school’s student government organization

passed a resolution supporting fossil fuel divestment in April after meeting with the college’s Fossil Free chapter, said Rick Beckel, a group member and biology junior at Macalester.

“There’s pretty massive support in the student government, which is important because they’re a liaison between the student body and the administration,” he said.

Macalester’s group has talked to its college president, who, like Kaler, has neither endorsed nor rejected a divestment proposal.

Beckel said Fossil Free Macalester will seek approval from the school’s president before going to its Board of Trustees — a similar body to the University’s regents.

“The Board of Trustees is ultimately who we plan on targeting,” Beckel said, “but before they’re going to take any sort of action they expect the president to make some sort of recommendation.”

Six U.S. schools, five of which are on the East Coast, have already committed to divest from fossil fuel companies. New York University’s divestment group, NYU Divest, hopes

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its school will follow suit.

Julianne War ren, an NYU arts and sciences master teacher and NYU Divest co-founder, said group members are working with NYU’s president, administrators, students and community members.

While some tactics employed by college and

university divestment campaigns are similar, most that have committed to divestment have been small liberal ar ts schools, with the exception of San Francisco State University.

But Childs-Walker said she hopes the University could be the first Big Ten school to divest from fossil

fuel companies.

“We know that the U of M has been a leader in the Big Ten on climate and sustainability before now,” she said, “and so we’re really excited about that precedent and really hope that the school could be a leader in the divestment movement.”

For students, Gopher Chauffeur gives more rides Rides u from Page 1

Tahoe SUV, offering 26 total seats for riders.

But the leasing service is discontinuing the vans, she said, so they’ll be replaced with three seven-person minivans by

late September or early October. Combined with the SUV, that change will lower the total number of seats to 21.

Psychology sophomore Alex Urshan said the new situation seemed odd because of the lower number of seats.

“It’s kind of a weird tradeoff,” she said, adding that

more cars still seemed like a good idea since the Chauffeur gets backed up with requests.

As long as she has a warm place to wait, though, Urshan said the wait times don’t bother her very much.

“I’m just glad we have it,” she said.

The Gopher Chauf feur rar ely gets pick-up r e-

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assistant dean of students in the Office of Student Affairs.

If the final amount doesn’t align, she said, auditors will note the discrepancy in their report.

The Student Ser vices Fees Committee will take the audits into account, along with group applications, when allocating funding to each group.

Minnesota Student Association President Mike Schmit said MSA, which will be fully audited this year, was last audited three years ago.

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Schmit said MSA is currently “getting its books together” from the last fiscal year. He said he’s confident the audit will go smoothly, citing an “excellent treasurer” from last year and a newly created Chief Financial Officer position.

Amelious Whyte Jr., assistant dean of students and OSA chief of staff, said groups are looked at on a case-by-case basis if auditors find a problem in their finances.

He said he thinks the audits are a good business practice.

“It just makes sense,” he said. “It’s what we should be doing.”

quests from large groups, Sanem said, so fewer of seats shouldn’t be a problem.

The Student Ser vices Fee Committee funded the four th vehicle last spring semester. The program was granted a budget of about $87,500 for the 2013-14 academic year — an increase of about $27,500 from the year before.

Through the fee, each student will pay $1.22 for the Chauffeur each semester this year.

Preparing for the process

Before the audit process begins, group leaders will meet with U-Finance, a student group that helps peer organizations with their finances.

Because student group leadership changes yearly, some students may be unfamiliar with the audit process, said U-Finance President Andrew Russo. It’s important for groups to get help with finances before the process begins, he said.

The group has consulted other student groups on their audits since 2011, he said.

Russo said the process is getting smoother because

The Chauf feur has given rides to an increasing number of students each year since Boynton began keeping track.

For 2008-09, the Chauffeur gav e 6,400 rides, according to Boynton records. Last academic year, the number was just less than 11,000.

Sanem attributes the growth in ridership to a greater student awareness of the program.

For example, many crime aler ts sent to all

groups that were audited in 2011 are starting to cycle through again.

Alex Horner, U-Finance vice-president, said the group will break into five “case teams” that will help groups through the threeweek audit process.

But he said problems can arise if groups don’t keep proper receipts of financial transactions.

In those cases, Russo said, U-Finance will work with the student group to tell the University’s contracted auditing firm, Deloitte and Touche LLP, why information is missing and relay that reasoning to the SSFC. Russo said U-Finance

students at the University recommend that they take the Gopher Chauf feur home for added safety, she said.

“It seems like ever y year more people lear n about it,” student driver and psychology senior Tim Garay said.

And student interest in the Chauffeur is still increasing.

During the first three weekends of 2013-14, the Chauf feur has ser viced about 150 more riders than duting the same weekends last year, according to Boynton records.

Even with the extra minivan, Sanem said it’ll be tough to serve all interested students.

“I’m not sure that we will ever fully meet demand,” she said.

Student-driven The Gopher Chauffeur is staffed by student employees.

Students drive the vans, answer phone calls from customers and help drivers with navigation. Linguistics senior Henry Wahl, a Gopher

Chauffeur employee, said he usually answers calls at dispatch.

When he tells other people about his job, Wahl said they often express sympathy because he sometimes works with intoxicated customers.

Although employees have to deal with drunk students, Wahl said most of the students he works with are friendly.

“They’re almost always really appreciative,” he said.

“It’s really fun.”

One of the more difficult duties of a dispatch worker is estimating how long to tell students they’ll have to wait to be picked up, Wahl said.

“It’s really hard to tell,” he said. “We literally are totally guessing.”

Sanem said student employees go through a driving record check, first-aid training and CPR certification, but there’s no driving test for employees.

The new minivans will likely offer safer, smoother drives and better gas mileage, Wahl said.

“They won’t look like creeper vans,” he said.

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doesn’t want to simply get student groups ready for the audit, but also make sure they’re properly managing their finances so they don’t

get into hot water later.

Final audit reports will be presented to OSA, the SSFC and student groups in December and January.

US experts: North Korea can likely build key nuke parts

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean scientists are able to build crucial equipment for uranium-based nuclear bombs on their own, cutting the need for imports that had been one of the few ways outsiders could monitor the countr y’s secretive atomic work, according to evidence gathered by two American experts.

The exper ts say material published in North Korean scientific publications and news media shows that Pyongyang is mastering domestic production of essential components for the gas centrifuges needed to make such bombs.

The development fur ther

complicates long-stalled ef for ts to stop a nuclear bomb program that Pyongyang has vowed to expand, despite international condemnation.

If Pyongyang can make cr ucial centrifuge par ts at home, outsiders can’t track sensitive impor ts.

That could spell the end of policies based on expor t controls, sanctions and interdiction that have been the centerpiece of inter national ef for ts to stop Nor th Korea’s nuclear program over the last decade, Joshua Pollack, a Washington-based exper t on nuclear proliferation, said in remarks prepared for deliver y Wednesday at a Seoul symposium and provided in advance to

The Associated Press.

“If they’re not impor ting these goods in the first place, then we can’t catch them in the act,” said Pollack, who gathered the evidence with Scott Kemp, an expert on centrifuge technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “We won’t necessarily see anything more than what the Nor th Koreans want us to see.”

The state of Nor th Korea’s nuclear program is of vital concern to Washington because Pyongyang wants to build an arsenal of nuclear-armed missiles that can reach American shores. The Nor th has conducted three nuclear tests of apparently increasing power since 2006,

most recently in Februar y, and it is believed to have a handful of cr ude plutonium-based bombs. Many exper ts estimate, however, that Pyongyang has not yet mastered the miniaturization technology needed to mount a warhead on a long-range missile.

Fuel for Nor th Korea’s plutonium bombs has been made in a reactor that is large and easily monitored. But uraniumbased weapons are more dif ficult for outsiders to investigate because the centrifuges needed to enrich uranium for bombs can be easily hidden from satellites and pr ying inspectors.

The United States and ot h ers l on g s u s pec t ed

Nor th Korea was clandestinely building a uranium program, despite denials from Pyongyang. U.S. officials confronted Nor th Korea in 2002 with claims its scientists were pursuing uranium enrichment, sparking a nuclear crisis. In a reversal, visiting Americans were shown in November 2010 what they called a sophisticated, moder n uranium enrichment facility with 2,000 centrifuges at the Nor th’s main nuclear facility.

International sanctions bar ring nuclear-weapons-related shipments to Nor th Korea did not stop its progress even when it relied on impor ted equipment, but the U.S. had some success tracking the

parts allegedly used in the program. In 2007, for instance, then-U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill said Washington had evidence that Pyongyang had bought equipment used only for uranium enrichment.

News media r epor ts and unclassified gover nment documents showed Nor th Kor ea impor ted large amounts of centrifuge par ts in the early 2000s, Pollack said, but an apparent dear th of obser ved imports since then suggests that Pyongyang is making the necessar y components at home. He said the know-how for domestic production of key parts appears to have been in place no later than 2009.

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FASHION

The fashionista is in: It’s fashion week Look alive, sartorialists.

It’s the Minneapolis-St. Paul Fashion Week.

BY SARAH HARPER sharper@mndaily.com

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e can blame the volunteer ar my behind MNFashion for making our dreams of high-tailing it to New York the minute we graduate more and more outdated ever y season. Turns out, we can get it all — or at least a good, healthy, Midwestern-size portion — right here in our own backyard.

Envision Artopia kicked off Minneapolis-St. Paul Fashion Week on Friday night with winter and fall collections, and Avant Garden happened Saturday night at the Walker Art Center.

And there’s a lot left to look forward to. We’ve still got the major shows, appropriately called the Shows, and some related events, including a trunk show, so you can put your money where your eyes are.

This interim fashionista is in and excited to see what the designers — one of whom is a reality TV alumnus — have to offer in their moments on the runway.

If you’re not too exhausted from clicking through 30-page runway slideshows of New York Fashion Week, clip this guide and keep it close to your lapel as you enjoy the little apple’s fashion week — no plane ride necessary.

Priority #1: The Shows If you’re working with a limited budget, the Shows should be your first concern.

That said, you’ll get such a variety over the course of the week that if you have the means, go for broke on all of ‘em.

The Shows on Wednesday Wednesday’s batch of designers includes Christopher Straub, Cocoon, Lisa Hackwith and Samantha Rei. I’m looking forward most to Straub’s collection; it’s been long enough since he was on “Project Runway” that I’m starting to remember him for other things. It feels good to see the trees instead of the forest, because the trees have really weird style. From the looks of things, this animalloving designer (see: his spring/summer 2013 queen bee looks) has gotten himself into fish scales....

Another big one is Rei. In an interview, she described her collection as much more

ready-to-wear than what she usually sends down the runway, but her dedication to incredible detail is still there.

The recently re-branded designer’s collection is feminine with a warrior edge — think leather accessories, sheer fabrics and yes, yes, yes, vests.

“It is ‘Wizard of Oz’ meets ‘Mad Max,’ ” she said. “I’m excited.”

Me too.

The Shows on Thursday On the second day of the Shows, we’ll see collections from Idle Child, Emily Trevor, Caroline Hayden and Lindsey Hopkins.

Newcomer Trevor is one to watch out for. She was invited to be part of the Shows when her junior year collection was spotted at a studentrun show at St. Catherine University.

I’m especially looking forward to work from Hopkins.

She’s bringing the femininity in a big way with her highly researched collection, drawing inspiration from a beltway of risky themes: Mexico, religion and inner-city gang violence.

“I ended up learning a lot about Catholicism for this one, and particularly the Lady of Guadalupe,” she said.

A different kind of risk comes from Hayden, who’s breaking out of her area of expertise. Hayden has been designing bridal and evening gowns and cocktail dresses for more than 10 years, so she’s well-versed in the complicated architecture of formalwear. This season she’s going for more ready-to-wear and daytime looks.

When: 7:45-10 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday Where: Aria, 105 N. First St., Minneapolis Cost: $25 for one night of general admission, $45 for two nights; $40 for one night of runway seating, $70 for two nights

Priority #2: Everything else As far as frugal and timestrapped college jokers are concerned, the Shows are the thing. But the weekend’s offerings are the potatoes to the meat, so if you can, get yourself a heaping helping.

Friday Tim vs. Thom: The Upstarts The big show on Friday is slated to be a display of sibling rivalry like you’ve never seen. Tim and Thom Navarro are tailoring experts and twin

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Local designer Samantha Rei hosts a party to celebrate the launch of her new label, Samantha Rei, at the You and Me Boutique on Thursday.

PHOTO COURTESY OF RHEA PAPPAS Samantha Rei’s look for Fashion Week.

brothers who’ve been working together as Tim+Thom since 2004. Now they’re parting ways and going solo. Cue the backstabbing! The passive-aggressive insults! The earnest collaboration!

Each bro will show 12 looks, with the small collections forming a cohesive whole. The 24-piece supercollection was inspired by Jim Lee, co-creator of Marvel Comics’ The Upstarts, a wealthy crew of super villains pitted against each other.

Sound intense? I’m already sweating.

Where: Gallery 13, 811 LaSalle Ave., Minneapolis When: 8-11 p.m., Friday Cost: $15 Saturday MCAD Full Fashion Panic

This is the 10th year of Minneapolis College of Art and Design’s fall fashion extravaganza, directed by Rei. This year, the show’s designers are inspired by Japanese street style and the connection between anime, manga and pop culture.

“It’s up-and-coming alternative designers,” she said.

“We have one returning designer, and the rest of them are all brand spankin’ new.”

Where: MCAD, 2501 Stevens Ave., Minneapolis When: 7-10 p.m., Saturday Cost: $15 in advance, $20 at the door Sunday Sample Sale and Trunk Show Here we are at the end of

MUSIC

From basements to the big time Screaming Females, one of the better things to come out of New Jersey, hit the road again.

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

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qual parts punk rock and East Coast cool, Screaming Females has mastered the apathetic aesthetic.

Marissa Paternoster, the group’s singer and guitarist, looks like a shorter-haired Wednesday Addams with her signature collared black dresses.

On a previous tour, the self-proclaimed “mild people” behind Screaming Females were asked by two separate Canadian reporters if something was wrong.

“We were like, ‘No, we just kind of look miserable all the time.’ That’s how we roll. We’re from New Jersey,” drummer Jarrett Dougherty said.

But the apathy stops at exteriorities. When Paternoster’s lips envelop the microphone and her finger tips touch her Strato-

caster strings, the band is all business.

“We weren’t playing a house show one day and then playing to like 3,000 people another day,” she said. “It took a lot of work and time.”

Paternoster and Michael Abbate, aka King Mike, started Screaming Females in 2006. They’d played together on Tuesday nights for their Catholic high school’s afterschool program, appropriately called Music Club.

“It was moderated by a math teacher who was really into Phish [and other jam bands], which was music that I found completely horrifying,” Paternoster said.

Looking back, she said she realizes that jamming in Music Club was what taught her how to play by ear and with other people.

“I just became a way better musician,” she said.

The group stumbled into the New Brunswick, N.J., house show scene in their late teens, after finding that their town didn’t offer much in the way of music venues. Screaming Females was in good company there; The Ergs!, Lifetime and The Bouncing Souls are also from the area.

“When there’s no viable alternative, people will make do with what they have,” Paternoster said.

Dougherty remembers his first basement show fondly.

“I looked over, and there was a guy playing a keyboard and smoking a cigarette at the same time while his band was like rocking the [expletive] out,” he said. “Until that point in my life, I had never really known you could do that.”

Since then, Screaming Females has made a name for themselves, playing with bands like Garbage and Arctic Monkeys and appearing on MTV and National Public Radio.

But their DIY roots still run deep. Even the record label they’re signed to, Don Giovanni Records, is run by their friends and specializes in New Brunswick’s basement scene.

The Screaming Females’ basement punk background shows in their sound and attitude. They blend the Ramones’ repetitive and angstridden lyrical style with guitar licks that make sense of their success.

Paternoster was declared the 77th-best guitarist of all

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time by Spin Magazine in 2012. When asked how she felt about it, the apathy came back.

“It feels meaningless. It’s just, like, some dumb list.

People, like, cite it all the time, but it’s basically just some crap a magazine put together so they could fill pages,” she said.

Screaming Females conceived their newest release, Chalk Tape, by writing ideas on a chalkboard and recording each of them in their practice space without rewrites.

And by practice space, they mean grandma’s basement.

“I like hanging out with my grandma,” Paternoster said when asked about her free time. “That’s pretty much it — hanging out with her.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF RHEA PAPPAS Lindsey Hopkins’s look for Fashion Week.

Fashion Week. If you’re not completely exhausted by Sunday, and you haven’t drained your debit card on little cocktails, spend on local fashion at the sample sale and trunk show.

When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Sunday Where: Blush Beauty Room, 2004 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis

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Maye emerges as legit offensive threat

Minnesota wide receiver KJ Maye avoids a tackle from San Jose State cornerback Bene Benwikere on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.

The Gophers have lacked playmakers this season, but KJ Maye may fix that.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

Minnesota’s inexperienced receiving corps has been devoid of playmakers this season.

After the first four games, there’s not a single player on the roster with more than 100 receiving yards.

But after Satur day’s 43-24 win over San Jose State, it looks like that could change this weekend

against Iowa.

Sophomore wide receiver KJ Maye helped spark the Gophers’ offense against SJSU in a multi-faceted role, both running the ball and catching passes.

“If you can get [a receiver] that can run the ball and also be able to go vertical, it’s an advantage for you,” head coach Jerr y Kill said.

“It’s impor tant for him to continue his progress.”

Maye was the Gophers’ leading receiver against SJSU, tallying two receptions for 39 yards. He also had two carries for 19 yards, adding another dimension to an already-strong r un attack.

A majority of the Go-

phers’ success running the ball this season has been predicated on power rather than speed. That change of pace in the running game was supposed to come from tr ue freshman r unning back Berkley Edwards.

But that changed after Edwards sprained his ankle just before the start of the season. And with the way the other running backs on the roster have played so far, Edwards may not see the field this year.

“He may be a candidate that we redshirt, according to how healthy we stay at running back,” Kill said.

In turn, that change-ofpace role in the r unning game might fall on the

Maye’s shoulders moving forward.

Stretching the field While redshirt freshman tight end Maxx Williams has impressed early this season and has stretched the field with multiple catches of 20 or more yards, he didn’t have a catch Saturday.

Maye had a 37-yard catch in the second quarter — one of the few times Minnesota attempted to stretch the field.

Kill said the Gophers’ ability to execute on downfield throws in limited attempts kept SJSU from loading up the box to stop the run. SJSU elected to keep both of its safeties back in coverage for the majority of the game to

counter what Maye brought to the table, Kill said.

Still, there were times when the Spartans weren’t able to handle Maye when he got to the second level.

“He had the opportunity because of what the defense gave us,” Kill said of the 37-yard pass play. “We got him matched up on a safety, and he took advantage of it on a vertical throw.”

Waiting for Jones Kill said he’s waiting for things to click for Donovahn Jones before the true freshman wide receiver gets substantial playing time.

Jones switched over from quarterback to receiver at the start of the season and has yet

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to find comfort catching passes instead of throwing them.

“Donovahn’s got a tremendous amount of talent … and he’s still learning,” Kill said. “You never want to put a player out there before he’s … ready to play.”

Still, Jones’ presence isn’t an immediate necessity, with Maye stepping up last week and with Williams’ ability to make big plays at tight end.

The Gophers’ offense is still focused on the run, but as SJSU safeties can attest, Maye and company have the ability to help keep defensive backs honest.

“We’ve been ef ficient when we’ve thrown it here lately,” Kill said. “We’re progressing as an offensive unit.”

CROSS COUNTRY

Runners train for track Gophers 800-meter runners use cross country season to prepare for track.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Slow and steady doesn’t always win the race.

For the 800-meter track runners on the Gophers cross country team, that strategy won’t get them too far.

The group uses cross countr y to prepare for its track and field season and often participates in altered workouts to target its specific skill set.

“What happens a lot is if you put those guys into a regular cross country workout, they kind of just go to mush mentally,” head coach Sarah Hopkins said. “It’s a longer, more sustained situation, and that’s just not their comfort level.”

Sophomore Lauren Domski said the 800-meter race is the run to which her body reacts best.

“It can bring a lot out in a person – really finding that one niche, that one race that you respond to and that lets you push beyond that limit,” Domski said.

Instead of doing the regular cross country workout, the middle-distance runners

usually have different training.

“We’ll do a little bit shorter of a work out, but we’re kicking the pace up a little bit,” Domski said. “We’ll run with [the top group] for about half of what they’re doing, and then usually we’ll pull away.”

This is the second year the Gophers have used this type of training for their 800-meter runners, and Hopkins said it allows the runners to leave practice while retaining their “swagger.”

Hopkins said volunteer assistant coach Nikki Swenson, who has more of a middledistance background, has taken the group under her tutelage.

Domski said the 800 runners were “kind of guinea pigs” last year when they first star ted to build the group up.

Now they have a unit that trains together, and Domski said the 800-meter runners feel less separate from what the cross countr y training group is doing.

“We’re doing this for a reason because our bodies respond to this, and this is helpful training. It’s not something we’re doing just to let go or let off the gas a little bit,” Domski said.

Though the group is mostly track-minded, there are many benefits for them in training with the cross coun-

try team.

“If I decide to do stuff on my own, if I’m not doing it correctly, who’s monitoring that? And who’s going to realize that I’m doing this wrong or that wrong?” senior Te’Shon Adderley said.

Adderley said the distance helps with the discipline necessary for the 800-meter race.

It also gives the group a competitive environment, even if they aren’t going to be the team’s top cross country runners.

“They’re all competitive people, and so when you put them in a big group setting, even if it’s not the workout that they love to do, they’re going to compete with everybody else,” Hopkins said.

The training has helped them develop chemistr y, which Hopkins thinks will stick with them moving forward.

“They play off of each other. They feed off of each other, and they definitely push each other,” Hopkins said.

“The dynamic that they’re developing right now will be a dynamic that stays very true through the whole year.”

Hopkins said the team rarely ventures onto the track during the cross country season because the track season is long enough.

“Grass and scenery and not going around in small circles I think is advantageous

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Senior Te’Shon Adderley practices Wednesday at the Les Bolstad Golf Course.

to avoid some burnout come May and June,” she said.

Still, even though the Gophers are not on the track, the training the runners are

doing is important in preparation for the track season. “[It’s] a smoother transition … seeing [the year] as a whole unit and how each

separate part works,” Domski said, “rather than taking one chunk, throwing it behind you and going on to the next step.”

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or the second straight year, Minnesota will open conference play with a shiny 4-0 record.

Life is good for Gophers fans.

But if fans are expecting the unbeaten streak to extend into the Big Ten schedule, they could be in for a rude awakening.

Minnesota entertained the worst nonconference schedule of any Big Ten team this season — and the worst for any Gophers team since 2008.

The decision last year to buy out a North Carolina game this season made Minnesota the lone Big Ten team without an opponent from a Bowl Championship Series conference.

There were several Big Ten teams that even traveled to play BCS foes in their nonconference schedule.

But not the Gophers.

They stayed true to their bowl-game-by-any-means blueprint.

The UNLV team Minnesota opened up its season with was 6-32 from 2010 to 2012.

The Gophers’ only road trip so far this season was to Las Cruces, N.M., for a week two date with hapless New Mexico State — a perennial laughingstock that has never been relevant on a national scale and is still winless this season.

The Gophers beat Western Illinois of the Football Championship Subdivision in week three, but that team was so bad, UNLV blew it out a week later.

Then it was on to San Jose State out of the Mountain West Conference — Minnesota’s

toughest test to date but still a mid-major opponent. SJSU played the Gophers tough for a half before eventually falling victim to its physical disadvantages.

Being 4-0 with that schedule should be an expectation, not something fans are gloating and celebrating about.

That said, Gophers players have no control over who they play.

Their job is to show up and compete, and for the second straight season, they’ve beaten the teams they’re supposed to beat.

Credit where credit is due.

Still, we won’t be able to correctly gauge exactly how good this year’s squad is until midway through the Big Ten season.

Iowa comes to town this Saturday and will undoubtedly present Minnesota its biggest physical challenge so far.

The Gophers opened as a one-point favorite in what is a very winnable matchup.

But remember last year, after the hot start, the Gophers were eviscerated by Iowa in their Big Ten opener.

That loss snowballed into what turned out to be another disastrous Big Ten season. The Gophers finished 2-6 and were blown out by all of the usual suspects.

That could cer tainly happen again this season, and fans shouldn’t hold this team to the expectations a 4-0 record normally would suggest.

It’d be a disservice to everyone involved.

Ya feel me?

He said the new members will bring a different perspective to the committee because most of them are “closer to the reality” of college athletics.

“Obviously, five years from now, I’ll be pretty far removed, too,” he said. “If I’m going to be involved in these cases, I need to stay on top of what college athletics really is, because it’s changing.”

‘It’s OK to report violations’

When Maturi first arrived on campus in 2002, the University was recovering from one of the worst academic scandals in decades.

In 1999, it was reported that former Gophers head basketball coach Clem Haskins tolerated major academic fraud within the program.

In response, the NCAA placed the University’s men’s basketball program on probation for four years.

Maturi was hired two

years later, while the school was still on probation.

“Joel had a high level of integrity while he was here,” said University Office of Athletic Compliance Director J.T. Bruett. “He made it very clear when he came in that compliance was to be taken seriously.”

Former Gophers head football coach Glen Mason said Tom Moe, the athletics director before Maturi, did most of the work to alleviate the damage of the scandal.

“I think we were already in great shape before Joel arrived,” Mason said.

Under Maturi, the University athletics depar tment had no major NCAA violations.

Maturi estimated the athletics depar tment had about 20 minor violations per year, most of which were self-reported.

Maturi said he encouraged the University to self-

report ever y violation during his tenure. He said he’s seeing more self-reported infractions around the country now than he did 10 years ago.

In 2009, Maturi encouraged the University’s Office of Compliance to investigate allegations against head wrestling coach J Robinson.

The allegations, instigated by a Minnesota Daily report, said some wrestling coaches, wrestlers and former wrestlers were renting and selling properties to one another, and some acquired properties directly from Robinson.

Robinson was found to have not broken any NCAA rules, but the incident demonstrated Maturi’s commitment to running a clean program.

Robinson did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

“It used to be the mentality of, ‘Oh, we don’t want to say we did anything

wrong,’ ” Maturi said. “It’s OK to report violations.”

A man of integrity When Maturi looks around the NCAA, he said, he sees more pressure to win than ever before — and that means more temptation to cheat.

“It concer ns me,” he said, “and I don’t think it’s going to go away easily.”

Though he said he wants to make sure the rules are enforced, Maturi said being fair in his decision-making will also be a priority.

Former Gophers women’s cross countr y coach Gary Wilson said he’s confident Maturi can handle the new job.

“He’s a man with the most integrity of anyone I’ve ever met in my life,” Wilson said. “He’ll be the best person for the job they could have hired in the United States — and five foreign countries.”

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STUDENT LIFE

EDITORIALS

The golden (gopher) rule

The studentathlete dilemma

Crowdfunding has the potential to improve the University.

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esterday, the University of Minnesota celebrated homecoming week by unveiling a six-foot statue of our mascot, Goldy Gopher. The statue, which now stands outside of Cof fman Memorial Union, cost $95,000 to complete.

I’ll inevitably be dubbed an iconoclast by Goldy’s duly faithful, but this spending seems wholly unnecessar y to me. It’s true that the statue was predominantly crowdfunded, which is to say that it represents, at least in part, the voluntary contributions of the University’s staff, students and alumni, but bureaucracy was involved from the beginning of the project.

According to the statue’s web page, the Goldy idea was unanimously endorsed by the Student Unions and Activities’ student Board of Governors.

Furthermore, the Office for Student Affairs and Dean of Students promised to “provide

BRIAN REINKEN columnist

matching funds up to $50,000” to finance the project. The OSA received that money as part of the University’s beverage contract with Coca-Cola, which provides “discretionary funds” intended to “enhance student life and build community for students attending the university.”

Truly, in these troubled times, nothing has the potential to enhance student life quite like a golden calf — er, gopher.

Skeptical though I am, I’m no expert in the finer points of university and personal finance, so I’ll dispute neither the OSA’s nor the public’s decision to help fund the statue.

However, I will express my hope that the success of the

Goldy project is used to initiate other, more genuinely utilitarian, efforts to improve the school. If crowdfunding stops at the erection of a monolithic rodent, then a tremendously valuable opportunity will be wasted. Crowdfunding has the capacity to benefit the University in very meaningful ways.

The statue, for consideration, cost $95,000. This is easily enough to cover the cost of a year’s tuition. If the University were to endorse a crowd-funding program designed to give a single, underprivileged student four years of an all-expensespaid college education, it would change that person’s life forever. Additionally, it would give the project’s public contributors a sense of legitimate purpose and contribute more positive publicity to the University than any statue ever could.

A plan like this would be, in stark contrast to Goldy, unglamorously faceless, and it would probably require more prolonged involvement than did the statue. Yet this shouldn’t deter visionary students from attempting to raise the money. If the OSA or an-

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other organization offered to match raised funds, the idea of a crowd-funded scholarship wouldn’t be far-fetched.

The power of a mass audience should not be underestimated. Crowdfunding is truly miraculous in that it can begin with a single grassroots activist and end with a product of the people. With suf ficient organization, there is the potential to actualize an almost unlimited breadth of projects designed to improve student life on campus. Scholarships are just the beginning; the end may not even exist.

The Goldy statue — in all its gargantuan, anthropomorphic glor y — stands outside of Cof fman Union, a building allegedly designed to look like a gopher. Coffman Union itself is above the subterranean network of tunnels known as the Gopher Way. Evidently, Goldy and his cult have had their day. The time is now to use crowd-sourcing to craft a legacy that’s actually worth preserving.

Brian Reinken welcomes comments at breinken@mndaily.com.

GUN CONTROL

A grande issue Can we rely on businesses to change gun culture?

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Emily Johnson welcomes comments at ejohnson1@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Fast-food wages

Fast-food workers are adapting the Occupy Wall Street message in their own movement to push for a $15 minimum wage in restaurants like McDonald’s.

Deemed the Fast Food For ward movement, fastfood workers and their labor unions are collectivizing and staging walk-outs to protest low wages.

I recall when I was in high school that it was time to seek my first job opportunity. So, I decided to apply at McDonald’s, following in the footsteps of my brother and sisters.

The first time I applied, the store manager asked me the proverbial question: Why should I hire you?

My response: Because I need the money. That was the wrong answer.

The following year I applied to the same place. This time when asked the same question, I answered, “Because I can get the job done.”

This time I got the job.

With my small amount of experience, I was actually able to take charge of a team and pull order out of chaos. This resulted in my promotion to swing manager when I transitioned from high school to college.

Exploitation of my services was the furthest thing from my mind as the goal was to earn enough money to pay for college.

The commonly accepted idea was that this was a temporary stepping stone to better career opportunities once

you graduated from college.

I would certainly agree that my experience at McDonald’s allowed me to utilize some of my abilities. In other words, it wasn’t all just about flipping hamburgers.

One time the owner of the franchise put his hands on my shoulders and said he wanted me to be paid $4 per hour. It never happened and I spent the remainder of my time there earning just a smidgen above what the crew earned.

Today, we recognize the dramatic demographic changes that have occurred in the fast-food industr y.

Now, instead of young adults holding these jobs, the average age of a fast-food worker is now almost 30. It was 22 in 2000.

Consequently, the industr y has transformed from being a temporary stepping stone to a full-time career opportunity that still pays very little relative to the profits of McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s.

One could argue that there is very little opportunity in our economy for someone with a high school diploma, especially for those with no diploma at all. These sorts of recession-proof service jobs are the only ones available, and it will be that way for a long time to come, in all likelihood.

In the meantime, people employed by these companies still qualify for public assistance because of the low pay and lack of medical benefits. We read daily of the

failure to teach people to read and write upon graduating college or even high school.

If this whole situation doesn’t smell of a carefully planned booby trap, then I don’t know what does.

Accordingly, I am in favor of increasing the minimum wage to $15 per hour.

This would target servicesector jobs in fast-food restaurants to provide more livable wages, in addition to other benefits.

I do not believe that doing so will cripple major chains.

It may reduce the amount of money flowing into the top of these companies, but it is doubtful that it would alter CEOs lifestyles.

Of course there are those who will argue that the price of the food will increase and result in less business and therefore less employment. But this is the accepted thinking of an outdated paradigm. Even Henry Ford was wise enough to pay his workers more so they could afford to buy his cars. However, perhaps in a corruption of this idea, McDonald’s low wages push employees to turn to its food rather than more sustainable alternatives.

Major fast-food chains are time-tested businesses capable of paying employees livable wages. The Fast Food For ward movement has the right idea in demanding fairer wages from inequitable fast-food chains.

Joe Bialek Daily reader

he next time you o r d e r that tall caramel mocha, you should also hold a gun, according to Starbucks.

The cof fee giant’s CEO Howard Schultz ADITI PRADEEP recently made columnist a statement, not explicitly banning guns, but asking customers to leave guns at home. However, store employees will still serve customers if they see a firearm.

Starbucks made the statement not out of an anti-gun mentality, but to remain politically neutral.

Pro-gun activists used Starbucks’ open-gun policy as a platform for protesting gun control initiatives, even holding a “Starbucks Appreciation Day.” Gun rights supporters misleadingly associated Starbucks with open-carry firearm policies, Schultz said in open letter to be published as an ad in major newspapers.

Starbucks is not the first company to assess its policy on guns on private property. Several companies have gone further with explicit rules banning guns on their premises. Whole Foods, Buffalo Wild Wings, California Pizza Kitchen and Walt Disney World all have policies that limit carrying guns on their property.

In a countr y ravaged by infamous acts of gun violence, any progress in firearm policies can change gun culture. After each publicized shooting, the gun control debate is thrust into the limelight, but legislative action isn’t taken. If the public sector can’t — or simply won’t — act, it appears the private sector is taking the responsibility for some of the change.

Schultz went on to say that Starbucks isn’t out to make policy, but he explicitly stated it to be assessing the issue of open-carry firearm laws.

It’s impor tant to realize that Schultz was tr ying to refocus the Starbucks brand. While genuine feelings may have also motivated the anti-gun response, money fueled the change.

It’s noteworthy, however, that corporations are taking gun policies into their own hands. At least recently, this is more than we can say for the federal government. The gun control debate is a complex topic that requires a complex solution, but with each tragic shooting, we realize that the problem isn’t going away by itself.

Aditi Pradeep welcomes comments at apradeep@mndaily.com.

Colleges should put more emphasis on the “student” portion of “student-athlete.”

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or years, various sports commentators, newspaper columnists, players and fans have been trying to crack the student-athlete conundrum. The issue is figuring out a way for college students who participate in high-revenue Division I sports to be treated as students, with academics being their No. 1 priority, without being taken advantage of as they bring in billions of dollars to their schools.

It’s understandable that many fans and players feel it is unfair that coaches and athletics directors are paid multimillion-dollar salaries while the players do not receive a penny.

The shocking extent of how winning college teams can pay off big was demonstrated when University of Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino bought the Louisville sports information director a $50,000 car to say thank you after Pitino’s team won the national championship. Because of NCAA rules, Pitino could not extend similar gestures to any players of the basketball team.

The problems Many Division I student-athletes receive athletic scholarships, and in many cases full rides — a big deal given today’s inflated tuition rates and the growing necessity of a college diploma in today’s workforce. However, when there are such massive financial stakes in college athletics programs, abuse and corruption are almost inevitable.

When boosters of college athletics offer players cash under the table, it’s hard for studentathletes to say no. Ever y year, it seems, there continue to be NCAA-related scandals at various colleges and universities involving compensation deals and recruiting violations.

Earlier this month, a report by Sports Illustrated revealed shady practices within the Oklahoma State football program, including a number of star players allegedly receiving $25,000 under the table annually. Also in the report, explayers claimed that tutors and even an assistant professor completed homework assignments for team members.

While the extent of the potential infractions at Oklahoma State is extreme, student-athletes receiving payments or having their schoolwork done for them is not uncommon.

In 1999, the NCAA gave the University of Minnesota four years of probation after it learned the men’s basketball program was involved in “widespread and intentional” academic fraud. Earlier that year, the Pioneer Press reported that a tutor had admitted to writing more than 400 papers for players over five years. More than a decade later, it’s clear that academic fraud continues to be a problem in Division I sports.

Potential solutions

Rather than try to solve the problems of college athletics by making student-athletes more like salaried professional athletes, colleges should place more emphasis on their academics and regular student life. This can be done in a number of ways.

In June, the Minnesota Daily reported on a culture shift that led to significant academic improvement of the Gophers football team. Head coach Jerry Kill said that simply making players go to class had a big impact.

“It’s amazing what happens when kids go to class, are on time and do what they’re supposed to,” Kill said in the June article.

The Minnesota Student Association has also made it easier for players to participate in student life. Last week, the Daily reported that MSA unanimously passed a new bylaw allowing University athletics teams and spirit squads to apply for voting representation in student government.

The NCAA, as well as a number of athletics departments, has done a poor job emphasizing the importance of academics in the lives of student-athletes. They have subsequently created a culture in which under-the-table payments and academic fraud are not uncommon.

However, coaches, administrators, students and players can change the shady culture of college athletics by demonstrating their commitment to the ideal that academic careers take priority over athletics.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

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Today’s Birthday (9/24): It’s easier to work as a team this year. Home, romance and career remain the focus, and travel especially tempts. Study and explore a new passion. Take a class or two. Go there, maybe.

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 6 — Don’t stick your neck out for the moment ... it’s not necessary. It’ll be easier to learn for the next two days, and you’re extra brilliant.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Create a plan for the long-range future with short-term actions, and schedule them. The next two days are good for travel. Don’t try to impress anyone.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — It’s getting easier to make household changes. Add candles, new textiles, or a pretty detail. Make more money than you spend today and tomorrow.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 5 — Do financial planning today and tomorrow. Discuss shared finances. Discover you’re worth more than you thought.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — You’re hot today and tomorrow. Don’t take anything for granted. Conditions are changing in your favor, though. Don’t start anything new yet.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Negotiations resume. It’s all in the game.

Compromise is required for the next two days. A misconception gets uncovered.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — Finish your work in private today and tomorrow, and postpone a financial discussion, expense or trip. Finish up old projects instead.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Power on for the next two days. There’s plenty of work coming. Something you want is prohibitively expensive.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 5 — Fantasies may need to be delayed. Don’t fall for a sob story. Talk it out with friends today and tomorrow and handle a misunderstanding.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Take more time for play today and tomorrow.

Maintain a modicum of decorum. You’re lucky in love.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Don’t encourage the peanut gallery, when you all should be quiet and respectful. Keep them focused and occupied. There may be a test.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — Associates provide answers today and tomorrow. Revise vague statements. Reconsider beliefs, dogma or an outdated view.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

overheard “Someone’s text tone is the Kim Possible ringtone!”

—Between Johnston Hall and Northrop Auditorium

Drunk guy looking at Post-its on a guy’s door: “Who lives here?”

Girl: “His name is Kyle.”

Guy: “Oh ... is that a guy?”

Girl: “He is a guy.”

—Comstock Hall

“I would totally [expletive] Snape.”

—The Elysian

Professor: “Does anyone know what DDT was used for?”

Student: “I think it was used to kill eagles.”

Professor: “That is incorrect.”

—Unknown

“I’m 21! I can post pictures of my drinking shenanigans on Facebook if I want!”

—St. Paul campus

“I used to wear a hockey helmet when I was a little kid. I ran into things a lot.”

—Keller Hall

“She’s so Swedish, we call her IKEA.”

—17th Avenue residence hall

“Those fries were so good, I’m like satiated on their goodness.”

Girl: “I heard he got Lyme disease!

Isn’t that funny?”

Guy: “No, not at all. Why is that funny? Do you really think that’s funny?”

Girl: “I mean, he got bit by a tick and wondered if he was going to get it. And he did! … I mean, it’s sad, but funny — like how did he get it?”

—Unknown

Girl: “So what’s this chronic bitchface that ever yone keeps talking about?”

Random guy: “Look in a mirror.”

—University Avenue

Two girls biking: Girl 1: “Wooh, that was really hard.”

Girl 2: “Did you hear me? I just, like, had an orgasm!”

—Outside Coffman Union

Guy: “If you do that, you’ll get an F. But hey, you’ll get an A from life!”

—Washington Avenue

Guy 1: “Why are you over here?”

Guy 2: “I have Carlson classes.”

Guy 1: “Oh, you’re one of those Carlson douchebags.”

Guy 2: “Haha, yeah.”

Guy 1: “I thought you were just one of those hipster douchebags.”

Guy 2: “I’m both. I brew my own espresso and trade my stocks, too.”

—Outside Willey Hall

—Bailey Hall

Quantum physics professor: “Humans are just ugly bags of mostly water.

Any Star Trek fan knows that.”

—Unknown

Guy shouting to friend across the street: “Are you ready for Tour de Franzia tonight?”

—Outside Moos Tower

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ACROSS 1 Babbling waterway 6 Pillow covers 11 Healthful facility 14 Nocturnal primate with a ringed tail 15 Squiggle in “piñata” 16 Make a mistake 17 *1972 hit with the line “The day the music died” 19 Feel sick 20 Sharp turn 21 Auction cry 22 “I’m innocent!”

24 Pennsylvanie, par exemple 26 *County fair prize 29 Receding tide 31 On edge 32 Sambuca flavoring 35 Place for a polar bear 37 Street shaders 40 *Home-based business 43 __ II razor 44 Tells in a bad way 45 Biblical beasts 46 Blue gem, for short 48 “I __ you one” 49 *Beef-braisedwith-tomatoes dish 53 Jones with a locker 57 Cagney’s TV partner 58 Spring bloomer 60 Go head-to-head 61 Prefix for the birds 62 Green Bay Packer fans ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues 66 Pince-__ glasses 67 Prefix meaning “sun” 68 Krupp Works city 69 Afternoon ora 70 Bagel flavoring 71 “Star Wars” surname?

DOWN 1 Burn brightly 2 Send a money order, say 3 Alpha’s opposite

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4 “__ Man in Havana”: Graham Greene novel 5 Barbra’s “A Star Is Born” co-star 6 Delay on purpose 7 Many an Indian, religiously 8 The Eiger, e.g.

9 Start of the 16th century 10 Greeted and seated 11 Vehicle safety devices 12 First-class 13 Former senator Specter 18 __ salad 23 Excessively preoccupied 25 Precedent setter 27 Boarding school jackets 28 Bassoon vibrator 30 “But I don’t wanna __ pirate!”: “Seinfeld” 32 Do some film work 33 Partner of neither 34 Highlight in print, in a way 35 Banquet

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36 Put a match to 38 G.I. grub 39 Part of TBS: Abbr.

41 Pinot __ 42 Detroit labor org.

47 Film with a classic shower scene 48 Sooner State migrant 49 Bias 50 Have second thoughts

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51 Five-letter song refrain 52 Felonious fire 54 Salt’s “Halt!”

55 Audio counterpart 56 Like “Will you marry me?” questionwise 59 Storage building 63 Clucker 64 Yale alum 65 Suffix with Brooklyn

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dr. date Dr. Date,

What are the rules on dating a friend’s ex? One of my buddies dated this girl for a few months over a year ago. He broke up with her so he could be “free for the summer.” She and I had always gotten along, but there weren’t ever any romantic feelings between us.

Now, we’re in class together and have been talking a lot. I want to ask her out, but I don’t want things to be weird with my friend. Help me out here, doc.

—Bad Friend?

Fair Game,

Ahhh, the ex-crossover: friendcest’s very own Eskimo sibling — at least, that was my doctoral thesis.

I’ve thought about this many a time in the course of my schooling, residency and now public practice, both in a professional and personal light. So rest assured, what follows is the pinky-swear, honest truth. I am not an adherent to the “don’t date friends’ exes” school of thought, especially in this clear-cut case.

Screw your friend and his emotions.

It was over a year ago, and he sounds like he broke up with this girl for a total a-hole reason: He’s a free bird who wanted to sex other people in the dog days.

If he gets miffed about you asking her out, that’s his business, not yours.

But it’s especially difficult to not make these situations awkward, the degree of awkwardness depending on the relationship status of your friend and the ex who you’re contemplating courting.

Do they currently exist in a sour flux?

They ought to, given the breakup reason — a real “winner.”

Try to tread a different path from your friend when you start seeing her (if you do). Here’s hoping it won’t be a problem.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My boyfriend and I are in the same major and are interested in pursuing the same career. Usually it’s great, because we understand each other’s work and can be supportive.

I recently found out, though, that we’re looking into the same internship for the summer. I’m worried that one of us will get it and the other won’t. How can we talk about it? Should we make plans for what we’ll do if only one of us gets the internship?

—Worried

Conflict Of Interest,

Whoa — burn notice in effect.

Sounds like y’all need to get yourself acquainted with the seminal work of Joseph Heller.

First, when you say that you found out, does that mean that he is still unaware? If he is still unaware, I’m tempted to just say let the sleeping beast lie, and if you get the job, cross the bridge then.

I realize that could be a bit of a sheisty move if the cards don’t fall right, and you’re undoubtedly a standup person. So just talk about it together, and be happy for him if he gets it.

If he’s a worthy mate, he’ll be happy for you too. But life’s a cruel mistress, and chances are you both won’t get the internship.

How big of a deal is this, really? You need to do some basic math involving information I’m not privy to. Is this a coincidental overlap of two extensive job searches? How many people are looking at this position? If the answers are “yes” and “a lot,” then I’d say you don’t even need to worry about it — it’s just one of those random moments that characterize life.

—Dr. Date

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

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New apartment complex is ‘a beast’

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The City Council has approved the relocation of CSL Plasma, located on University Avenue Southeast. CPM Properties will begin moving forward on construction of a 13-story luxury student apartment building.

“I won’t use it anymore, that’s for sure,” he said. “I will not travel to Uptown.

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said. “We’ve been trying to relocate [CSL] for a ver y long time.”

The pr oject was delayed for two years, Oberpriller said. In Minneapolis, plasma centers are restricted to a zoning type linked to pawnshops, gun stores, sex shops and exterminators, which makes them difficult to relocate.

Wa r d 2 C o u n c i l m a n Cam Gordon, who represents the Stadium Village area, voted in favor of the rezoning because he said the label isn’t appropriate for plasma centers since they save lives and ser ve the public good.

“Many people use it as par t of their income, so it made sense to have it within the city,” he said.

When relocation was first floated last December, CSL sought to move just a few blocks to a new space in Prospect Park.

Several neighborhood residents and business owners opposed the move, saying the center attracts crime and generally hurts the neighborhood.

Oberpriller said CSL’s lease, which r uns until August 2014, required his company to find its new location, lobby for rezoning and build them a new facility.

“This is just one step.

The other step is the hard par t,” he said. “I have to build this building for them in a record amount of time and at a record

speed at the quality they are expecting, [so] now we need to start sprinting.”

The current CSL Plasma center is around 9,000 square feet with 80 employees, Newkirk said.

The new facility at 304 Lake St. E. will be about 12,300 square feet.

Newkirk said the relocation was two years in the making.

“When we were looking for property in Minnesota, we had ver y limited options,” he said.

Gordon said CSL Plasma came to him asking for help relocating and that it may have left the state if it wasn’t given a new location.

“Mostly I was tr ying to solve a problem somebody else came to me with,” he said. “It’s a relief they found another suitable location.”

Gordon said both the Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association and the city’s planning commission approved of the rezoning.

WaHu is planned to have 27,000 square feet of retail space, including 60-footwide patios for restaurants.

Oberpriller said he expects the lots facing the stadium will be “big-scale” eateries and bars.

“The site is designed for creating a connection to the stadium as well as the University that people will want to live at,” Oberpriller said.

Egypt’s ban of Brotherhood opens way to crackdown

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday ordered the banning of the Muslim Brotherhood and the confiscation of its assets, opening the door for authorities to dramatically accelerate a crackdown on the extensive network of schools, hospitals, charities and other social institutions that was the foundation of the group’s political power.

Security forces have already been moving against the Brotherhood’s social networks, raiding schools and hospitals r un by the group since the militar y’s July 3 ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The sweep points to the ambitions of Egypt’s new leaders to go beyond the arrests of top Brotherhood figures to strike a long-term, even mor tal, blow to the group by hitting the pillars of its grassroots organization. Doing so could cripple the group’s political prospects far into the future.

“The plan is to drain the sources of funding, break the joints of the group, and the dismantle podiums from which they deliver their message,” said one senior security of ficial, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss security agencies’ intentions.

Blurring its political and religious nature, the Brotherhood vaulted to election dominance in large par t

because of its multiple business interests that provide funding, as well as schools, mosques and power ful social institutions providing cheap medical care and ser vices to millions of impoverished Egyptians.

As a result, after the 2011 ouster of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the Brotherhood swept parliament elections and lifted Morsi into office as the country’s first freely elected leader.

“The hospitals and schools are among the most power ful tools to garner suppor t, which would be translated into votes,” said Ahmed Ban, a researcher and former Brotherhood member. Schools give the group “a large pool to recruit new cadres at a very stage

of their lives,” he said. Hospitals send the message that “we are offering good and cheap services, and we are the good Muslims.”

In election seasons, Brotherhood hospitals, joined by candidates, would send medical convoys offering free care to villages where state ser vices are absent. The past two years, the Brotherhood’s political party, the Freedom and Justice Par ty, held markets selling reduced-price food and clothes.

Outlawed for most of 85-year existence — with successive regimes alternating between repression and tolerance — the Brotherhood built its networks largely underground. That made it difficult for authorities to

track, since many institutions were registered under individuals’ names.

After Mubarak’s ouster, the group emerged to work openly, opening a formal headquarters and forming a political party. Ironically, that made parts of its structure more visible. The senior security official said intelligence and the National Security agency have been working through banks, oversight agencies and state records to compile a database of Brotherhood members and assets. An earlier court ruling froze the assets of 24 senior figures, including deputy head Khairat el-Shater, a wealthy businessman seen as the group’s top financier and strongman.

Monday’s court ruling,

if upheld over any appeals, gives authorities a legal basis to move against those assets.

The sweeping verdict banned the group as well as “any institution branching out of it or ... receiving financial support from it,” which legal exper ts said could also force the disbanding of the Freedom and Justice Party. It also ordered the group’s assets and property confiscated.

The cour t’s explanation gave few specific legal grounds, beyond saying the group used Islam “as a cover” while it “violated citizen’s rights.” It gave a broad political denunciation, saying that during Morsi’s year in of fice, “Egyptians found only r epr ession and arrogance.”