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Canadian exhibition gets physical

The game resulted in 25 penalties including five game misconducts. u See PAGE 8

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The New York trip ended in 3-1 and 8-3 victories for the Gophers.

Volunteers helped analyze photos of 300,000 galaxies on the web.

Minnesota sweeps Colgate to start season

To ID galaxies, University asks public for help

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

ANARAE SCHUNK

Hundreds gather to remember U student

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FOOTBALL

Kill’s seizure raises more questions Jerry Kill didn’t coach after his fifth game-day seizure Saturday morning.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Friends read Anarae Schunk’s 2008 confirmation testimony Sunday afternoon during her memorial at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center.

Nearly 1,000 attended a memorial service Sunday for Anarae Schunk.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

“She was the heart of us

Mold found in dorm rooms

Schunk, said as she cleared Anarae Schunk, an

her throat.

Anarae Kristine Schunk,

er, had a heart that was “too

20, spent most of her time

big to be checkmated.”

at the University working

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nesota student’s memorial

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ing chess — her lifelong

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passion.

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Ar ts Center’s auditorium,

game of life,” said her for-

where nearly 1,000 attend-

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ees heard stories about the

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sociology student, who was

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tember.

last Monday after she had

Schunk’s parents and family huddled together on

Students in eight Frontier Hall dorm rooms had to move out temporarily.

BY DAVID LITIN dlitin@mndaily.com

The humidity and heat during the University of Minnesota’s move-in caused a mold outbreak in Frontier Hall this fall.

Mold was found in 16 rooms, and students in half of them had to move out.

Some students said they were concerned about their health, and those displaced aren’t sure when they’ll be able to move back into their rooms.

Connie Thompson, assistant department director of Housing and Residential

been missing for more than a week.

stage, expressing their frus-

She was last seen Sept.

tration, grief and love for

22 with Anthony Lee Nel-

Anarae.

son when he allegedly shot u See SCHUNK Page 3

COURTS

BY MELISSA BERMAN mberman@mndaily.com

The Alpha Omicr on Pi Women’s Fraternity is locked in a legal battle with the owners of its University of Minnesota chapter house.

The U.S. District Court for Minnesota released a preliminary ruling Sept. 23 saying AOII has no financial control of a house owned by Tau, Inc. Tau is a Minnesotabased nonprofit af filiated with the University’s chapter of AOII for housing purposes. AOII’s international office formed Tau to manage proper ties in Minne-

Life, said there have been minor reports of mold problems in the past, but nothing of this scale.

“We’ve never had this in my 24 years working here,” she said.

Neil Carlson, a public health specialist from the University’s Environmental Health and Safety depar tment, said when the hot, humid air outside mixed with the air-conditioned rooms, it created condensation that “over whelmed” the cooling system.

Students first reported the mold Sept. 23, safety and health compliance specialist Michael Buck said.

Affected students could select from open spaces in u See MOLD Page 4 It’s not yet clear how much the cleanup will cost, officials said.

ENVIRONMENT

Ownership of greek house is in limbo The owner of AOII’s U house alleged it tried to take ownership.

u See KILL Page 7 Players said Kill’s absence didn’t negatively impact the team.

HOUSING

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University of Minnesota head football coach Jerr y Kill had his fifth game-day seizure Saturday mor ning and didn’t coach in the Gophers’ 42-13 loss to the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Though coaches and players have stressed there is a protocol for when a seizure occurs, Kill’s latest seizure has raised questions about his ability to lead the program.

Kill, who has epilepsy, had a seizure three weeks ago during the Gophers’ 29-12 victory over Western Illinois University on Sept.

14, but Saturday was the first time he had to miss a full game.

“You have to question his ability to effectively lead a team when he’s missing multiple games a season,” finance junior Matthew Lowe said.

Kill had his first on-field, public seizure with Minnesota in a 2011 game against New Mexico State University. In 2012, he had his second game-day seizure after a loss to Northwestern University and his third at

sota, because AOII bylaws prohibit chapters from purchasing or leasing housing.

“AOII fraternity was advised it would be best that we form a corporation in the state where the properties are located, so these corporations were formed on behalf of the fraternity to own those houses,” Kandyce Harber, AOII’s legal counsel, said.

R yan Sugden, one of Tau’s attorneys, said the lawsuit began because AOII’s board tried to take control of the house for its own financial gain.

According to Tau’s most recent civil complaint, filed Sept. 3 against AOII as a whole, the women’s fraternity allegedly attempted to take financial control of its u See HOUSE Page 4 AOII denied the allegations and said it never intended to sell.

For film, alumnae travel the river A group of 11 is canoeing down the Mississippi, looking for stories.

BY JULIA MARSHALL jmarshall@mndaily.com

In a journey across the Mississippi River, nearly a dozen canoeists floated into Minneapolis’ Boom Island Park for a quick lunch break last Friday afternoon.

Despite drear y weather and exhaustion, the group, which has three recent University of Minnesota graduates, celebrated returning to their hometown, albeit briefly.

The group, called Paddle For ward, soon continued their canoe trip, which set to end in New Orleans

by Thanksgiving. Along the way, they’re making a documentar y about what they find.

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Sami Pfeffer and Martha Brummitt paddle on the Mississippi River into Boom Island Park on Friday.

Erika Gotcher, a University alumna, said the group doesn’t have a specific

agenda for its documentary, but they plan to talk with people living along the river

u See CANOE Page 14 Some members hope to explore pollution’s effect on the river.

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s counterterrorism police unit released closed-circuit television footage Sunday that showed two men entering a local bank where they collected money and paid for a car used to bring terrorists to Nairobi’s Westgate Mall, indicating the deadly attack was planned weeks in advance, officials said.

Boniface Mwaniki, the head of Kenya’s Anti-Terrorism Police Unit, said the men had gone to Barclays Bank on Sept. 6 and retrieved enough money to pay for the $4,000 car. The Mitsubishi Lancer was found blocking the main entrance of the mall with two grenade pins inside, indicating the grenades had been thrown from inside the vehicle, Mwaniki said.

Several survivors of the attack, who were near the entrance of Westgate, said that the terrorists first lobbed

grenades into the interior of the mall, a blast which caused the glass facade of a jewelry shop to shatter, stunning the unarmed guards, who abandoned their posts.

“If you know how a grenade works, you’d know that you remove the pin, and then you throw it (the grenade.)

The pin gets dropped wherever you are,” Mwaniki said, to explain how police used the location of the pin to identity the vehicle as the attackers’ car.

Long after shoppers returned to the mall to retrieve their abandoned cars, the gray-colored Mitsubishi, with Plate No. KAS 575X remained unclaimed in front of the shopping center, he said.

The footage played for reporters on Sunday showed two men entering the Queensway branch of Barclays in Nairobi. One of the men is described as light-skinned, around 5-feet-8-inches tall and believed to be Kenyan of Somali origin, from Mandera, a

town near the Kenya-Somali border, according to a statement. Police identified him as Abd Kadir Haret Muhamed, also known as Muhamed Hussen. They said that he spoke Swahili fluently, as well as Sheng.

The suspect is married to a Kenyan woman, Shurekha Hussen, who was recently arrested by police and helped investigators identify the second suspect, Mwaniki said.

The second man captured on camera is believed to be Somali, identified as Adan Dheq, also known as Hussen Abdi Ali as well as Abdulahi Dugon Subow, police said.

He is 5-feet-5-inches tall, and speaks “broken” Swahili, according to the statement.

The newly r eleased names come a day after Kenya’s militar y spokesman identified four attackers, who were seen strolling through the mall, machine guns strapped to their bodies. It brings to six the number of suspects that have been iden-

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LONDON — Seven days after the Pakistani Taliban shot her in the head, Malala Yousafzai woke up confused in a place that wasn’t home. Her first thought? “Thank God I’m not dead.”

Malala, whose campaign for girls’ right to education made her a Taliban target, describes the shooting and its aftermath in a book that comes out Tuesday, a day before the anniversary of the assassination attempt.

In an excerpt in The Sunday Times, the now 16-year-old describes riding in a school van with her girlfriends when it was stopped by two men, including the gunman who shot Malala in the left eye socket at close range.

“I woke up on October 16, a week after the shooting,” she writes. “The first thing I thought was, ‘Thank God I’m not dead.’ But I had no idea where I was. I knew I was not in my homeland. The nurses and doctors were speaking English though they all seemed to be from different countries.”

She gradually found out that she had been taken from Pakistan to Birmingham, England, for specialist treatment. The book excerpt describes how she gradually regained her sight and her voice and was reunited with her parents.

Malala, who has been mentioned as a possible contender for the Nobel Peace Prize to be announced Friday, also describes her amazement at finding out that some 8,000 people had sent messages of support to the hospital.

“Rehanna, the Muslim chaplain, said millions of people and children around the world had supported me and prayed for me,” Malala writes. “Then I realized that people had spared my life. I had been spared for a reason. I realized that what the Taliban had done was make my campaign global.”

Malala, who is now residing in the U.K., also described her goal of one day returning to Pakistan despite the risks: “To be torn from the country that you love is not something to wish on anyone,” she writes.

The book is titled “I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban.”

BERLIN — Germany handed Afghanistan’s security forces control Sunday of a key militar y base in the countr y’s northern province of Kunduz, where German troops spent almost a decade as part of the international effort to combat Taliban insurgents.

The handover is par t of the gradual pullout of Western forces due to be completed by the end of next year.

The Kunduz base, which lies some 155 miles nor th of Kabul, shaped the German armed forces “like hardly any other place,” German Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said according to prepared remarks. Nowhere else since World War II have more German soldiers died in combat. “(We) built, fought, cried and consoled, killed and fell here,” de Maiziere was quoted as saying.

Some 20,000 German troops were deployed in Kunduz during a 10-year operation, and 20 of Germany’s 35 combat deaths in Afghanistan occurred in the province.

Another 17 died of noncombat injuries, including seven who were killed in a 2002 helicopter crash in Kabul.

For many Germans, the base is synonymous with a 2009 NATO airstrike ordered by German forces that killed 91 Afghans and wounded 11, most of them civilians.

De Maiziere made an indirect reference to the incident, which caused a political furor and the resignation of several senior German officials at the time.

“Kunduz was also the place where grave decisions were made, had to be made,” he said. “It is a place where there were many deaths — on all sides. Let us today remember all of these deaths together.”

Germany, the third-largest international troop contributor in Afghanistan after the United States and Britain, plans to reduce its force levels in the countr y from 4,000 to about 800 by 2015. Those remaining will be stationed in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, responsible largely for training and support of Afghan troops.

The U.S. is expected to keep about 10,000 troops in Afghanistan as a residual force after 2014, but no final decision has been made.

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Egypt: 51 dead in bout of street violence

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — Security forces and Islamist protesters clashed around the country Sunday, leaving 51 killed, as a national holiday celebrating the militar y turned to mayhem. Crowds from Egypt’s two rival camps — suppor ters of the ousted Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, and backers of the militar y that deposed him — poured into the streets and turned on each other.

Several neighborhoods of the capital, Cairo, resembled combat zones after street battles that raged for hours. Morsi suppor ters fired birdshot and threw firebombs at police who responded with gunshots and tear gas. Streets were left strewn with debris, and the air was thick with tear gas and smoke from burning fires, as the crack of gunfire rang out.

An Associated Press photographer saw nine bodies lying on the floor of a clinic in the Cairo district of Dokki, scene of some of the heaviest clashes. Most of the bodies had gunshot wounds to the head or chest.

Sunday’s death toll of 51 was the highest on a single day since Aug. 14 when security forces raided two sit-in protest camps by Morsi suppor ters, killing hundreds.

Even as fighting continued in the streets, the military went ahead with lavish celebrations for the holiday marking the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Mideast war with Israel.

In the evening, a concert was aired live on state TV from a militar y-r un Cairo stadium where pop stars from Egypt, Lebanon and the Gulf sang anthems to the army and dancers twirled on stage before a cheering crowd. Militar y chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah elSissi, other top brass and interim President Adly Mansour attended the show.

“There are those who think the militar y can be broken,” el-Sissi said in an address at the concert.

“You see the Pyramids? The militar y is like the pyramids, because the Egyptian people are on its side.”

The clashes were the latest chapter in the turmoil roiling the countr y since the ouster in February 2011 of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

The new violence is certain to set back ef for ts by the interim, militar y-backed government to revive the economy, especially the vital tourism sector, and bring order to the streets of Cairo, where crime and lawlessness have been rife.

Morsi was Egypt’s first civilian and first freely elected president, succeeding four since the early 1950s who hailed from a militar y background. But after a

year in of fice, Morsi was faced by massive protests demanding his ouster, accusing his Muslim Brotherhood of taking over power — and on July 3, el-Sissi removed him.

The military is now back as the real source of power in Egypt, and state and independent media have been depicting it as the country’s savior — with growing calls for el-Sissi to r un in the presidential election due early next year.

Sunday’s holiday was an opportunity for Egypt’s leaders to fur ther fan the pro-militar y fer vor sweeping the countr y since the coup. But the holiday was also a chance for Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies to show that they are sur viving a fierce crackdown that has jailed more than 2,000 from their ranks since the coup.

Thousands of their backers held marches in various par ts of Cairo, while at the same time crowds in suppor t of the military took to the streets.

In some cases, the two sides set upon each other, pelting each other with rocks and firebombs.

The Health Ministr y repor ted 51 people killed nationwide, with at least 40 of them in Cairo, and more than 240 injured. The Interior Ministr y, which is in charge of the police, said 423 Morsi supporters were detained across the nation.

Drug aircraft down in Colombia, 3 American citizens killed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOGOTA, Colombia — The twin-engine turboprop plane that crashed in nor ther n Colombia on a U.S. counter-drug mission, killing three American contractors and a Panamanian aboard, had been tracking a suspected smuggling vessel over the western Caribbean when it lost radio contact, the U.S. military said.

The two other Americans aboard the Dash 8 were seriously injured in Saturday’s pre-dawn crash, the U.S. Souther n Command said.

Under contract with the U.S. Air Force, the plain was a “prospector” aircraft, equipped with surveillance equipment and employed to track speedboats and other vessels that smuggle cocaine north from Colombia, said Jody Draves, spokeswoman for the U.S.-sponsored multinational task force in Key West, Florida, known as JIATF-South that runs interdiction in region.

Draves said the plane was operating in coordination with a Colombian surface vessel and had flown out of Panama. It was near that country’s border that it crashed, near the city of Capurgana.

The two injured Americans were rescued by Colom-

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and killed a man in the parking lot of a Burnsville restaurant.

Nelson, 31, was charged with seconddegree murder soon after the shooting.

Nelson’s cur rent girlfriend, Ashley Conrade, 24, was also at the scene of the shooting. She told police that she, Nelson and Schunk went to Conrade’s Rosemount home after the shooting, where Schunk’s trail went cold.

Schunk first met Nelson at a bus stop when he asked her about the chess book she was reading, friends and family said Sunday.

She soon lear ned of Nelson’s criminal past — which includes convictions for first-degree aggravated robber y and time in prison — but Schunk’s friends said she wanted to help turn his life around.

“She believed in the good of the human soul,” Schunk’s brother T yson

bian soldiers and taken to a hospital in the capital, Bogota, Southcom said in a statement.

The names of the Americans were withheld pending notification of next-of-kin.

Panama’s National Air Service identified the deceased Panamanian guardsman as Lt. Lloyd Nunez. Host-countr y nation ser vice personnel routinely accompany U.S. military contractors on such missions.

Gen. Nicasio de Jesus Mar tinez, commander of the Colombian army’s 4th Brigade whose troops traveled to the accident scene, ruled out the possibility that the plane was shot down by rebels active in Colombia.

“There was no aggression, no impact,” said Martinez, adding that it was too soon to know if the crash was caused by mechanical failure, human error or the weather. Southcom also said there was no indication the plane was shot down.

The region where it crashed is mountainous jungle and rebels of the Revolutionar y Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, operate there along with drug traffickers.

Local farmers reported that the plane went down at about 1 a.m. in a rural part of the municipality of Acandi, said Mayor Gabriel Jose Olivares. Capurgana is in

said at Sunday’s ser vice.

“That we’re all created equally.”

Schunk broke up with Nelson last Thanksgiving after learning he was in a relationship with another woman. But there wasn’t “bad blood” between the two, Schunk’s longtime friend Sarah McNulty said.

Schunk had only reconnected with Nelson recently to get back $5,000 she had loaned him while they were dating, friends and family said.

Those who knew Schunk said she was a forgiving person who angered rarely.

“She always had something good to say,” said Marissa Kratochvil, a high school classmate.

Schunk graduated from Bur nsville High School in 2011, where she gave a commencement speech.

University professors said Schunk’s presence will be missed and that she was dif ficult to forget in a class of hundreds.

“She made a mark on an enormous University,” Schunk’s former sociology

the municipality of Acandi.

Colombian Col. Luis Miguel Gomez, commander of the army’s XVII Brigade whose troops were the first to arrive at the accident site, said that the plane’s “black box” that records data from the aircraft had been found and turned over to the Colombian Air Force.

Carlos Ivan Marquez, chief of Colombia’s national office for disaster response, said the sur viving Americans had injuries including multiple bone fractures and burns over at least 40 percent of their bodies.

Santiago Castro, director of Colombia’s Civil Aviation agency, said the plane wasn’t civilian so he couldn’t provide details about its route, origin or destination.

The plane was contracted to provide detection and monitoring of drug trafficking routes in the coastal region of Central America as part of Operation Martillo, Southcom said.

“We express our sympathies to the families of the deceased, and are particularly saddened by the loss of a Panamanian Air National Guardsman,” said Gen. John Kelly, commander of U.S. Southern Command. “We also want to thank the Colombians for their outstanding rescue and recovery efforts.”

“It is now cr ystal clear that the coup is a nightmare for Egypt and its people and is trying so hard to tear the fabric of this nation,” a coalition grouping the Brotherhood and its allies said in a statement.

“At the time when festivities are arranged for one section of the population, they call on Egyptians to dance on the dead bodies of their compatriots who oppose the coup,” it said, calling for a rally in Tahrir Square on Friday.

The scene of Sunday’s fighting in Cairo contrasted sharply with a carnival-like mood in the city’s central Tahrir Square, where thousands of supporters of the militar y waved Egyptian flags, blew whistles and touted posters of el-Sissi.

Adding to the festivities, a militar y band in green jackets and off-white pants played, and men spun in whirling der vish-style dances.

Demonstrators distributed petitions demanding that el-Sissi run for president.

“We cannot find a man who can run the countr y at this stage except for him (el-Sissi),” said aspiring actress Wafaa el-Sharqawi, who was distributing the elSissi petition in Tahrir. “Can we possibly have a civilian president who is weaker than his defense minister?”

Soldiers barricaded entrances to central Tahrir Square with barbed wire

and armored personnel vehicles to guard it against possible attempts by Morsi supporters to enter the plaza, Egypt’s most prominent political stage since it was the epicenter of the antiMubarak uprising nearly three years ago.

Metal detectors were installed at the entrances and demonstrators pouring into the square were searched by troops. Army helicopters flew low over the square, with Egypt’s red, white and black flag trailing. Some two dozen F-16 jet-fighters staged a celebrator y flight over Cairo in late morning, ushering in the commemoration of the 1973 war.

At 2 p.m. — the time the war began in 1973 — church bells tolled and chants of “Allahu akbar,” or “God is greatest,” blared from mosques in par ts of Cairo.

Still, not all in the square were enthused about the military.

Moamen Mahmoud, a 23-year-old student, was in Tahrir on Sunday and mused about the ironies of the shifting sands of Egypt’s politics in the past 2 ½ years. He said he took par t in the 2011 uprising and in subsequent protests against the military’s direct rule of the country for some 17 months after Mubarak’s fall.

“I came here today because I cannot miss an occasion like this, but sadly

the revolutionaries are no here. I was here once chanting against militar y r ule and now look at this. We forgot the principles of the revolution,” he said.

“Those who criticized the Brotherhood supporters for hoisting Morsi posters are now doing the same with el-Sissi’s posters,” said Mahmoud Badawi, a 27-year-old university graduate who is opposed to the July 3 coup.

“Throughout histor y, military rule is corrupt.”

The climax of the day’s festivities was the extravaganza at the military-owned stadium in the eastern part of Cairo, attended by el-Sissi and kicked off with a dazzling display of fireworks.

El-Sissi’s predecessor, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, was among those attending the ceremony, making his first public appearance since Morsi removed him and his chief of staff, Sami Anan, in August last year. Tantawi served Hosni Mubarak as defense minister for 20 years and took over the reins of the countr y when his mentor was ousted in a 2011 uprising.

Anan, who has presidential ambitions, was not present.

Also in attendance was Gihan Sadat, widow of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, revered as the countr y’s 1973 war hero and the architect of his countr y’s peace treaty six years later.

Storm system Karen dissipates off Gulf Coast

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAFITTE, La. — After days of lumbering toward the Gulf Coast, the storm system Karen dissipated Sunday as storm preparations in the region were called off or scaled back.

As tides began to recede along coastal Louisiana, crews worked to pick up sandbags and some fishermen took to the water. In Lafitte, the tide had water levels along Bayou Barataria lapping at the edges of piers and sections of the main roadway into the small fishing village prone to flooding.

“We’re very lucky,” fisherman Ken LeBeau said. He added that he was anxious to get out shrimping Sunday — while the tide is up, shrimp may be farther inland; fisherman don’t have to venture as far out to catch them.

The community has been swamped with flooding by several storms since Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Many are just recovering from Hurricane Isaac last summer.

Some are in the process of having their homes raised, and Mayor Timothy Kerner said levees are being planned for the area.

“It was a blessing from

God that we actually dodged a bullet this time,” Kerner said. He estimated that 40,000 sandbags had been put out and said the precautionary measure was worth it: “It’s always easier to pick up sandbags than to clean up a flood.”

The National Hurricane Center in Miami said the remnants of Karen were moving eastward of f the coast. Forecasters expected what remains of Karen — which had been a tropical storm, then a depression — to continue moving generally east over the next day to two days. Rain accumulations of 1 to 3 inches were expected.

Even as residents breathed a sigh of relief, forecasters and emergency officials warned them to keep an eye on developments.

As the threat lifted Sunday, Plaquemines Parish closed a shelter where 80 people had taken refuge Saturday. “We got some rain, no street flooding, so we’re looking pretty good. ... We’re not expecting any flooding,” parish spokeswoman Caitlin Campbell said.

Wind and waves uncovered tar balls on the beaches of Grand Isle, La., and crews headed out Sunday to check on them, Mayor David Camardelle Jr. said. He

said he was sure they were from the 2010 Gulf oil spill.

“After a spill like that in the Gulf of Mexico, anytime low pressure stirs up the Gulf it comes back and stirs up the oil on the beach. Tar balls have been spread all over.

We always expected it,” he said.

In an email, BP spokesman Jason R yan said, “Should any residual Macondo material appear and require removal, we will retrieve if directed by of Coast Guard, just as is required of any responsible party. We have repeatedly demonstrated our ability to respond quickly following severe weather, and we are prepared and ready to do the same if necessary after this storm.”

Vessel traffic at the mouth of the Mississippi River resumed at 12:15 a.m. Sunday, the Coast Guard said. Two cruise ships delayed by the storm were expected at New Orleans on Sunday, Carnival Cruise Lines said in a news release.

In Florida, the state emergency response team returned to normal operations.

At Pensacola Beach, beachcombers, bike riders, kite surfers and dive students enjoyed the cloudy skies and cooler breezes.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Friends look through scrapbooks with photos of Anarae Schunk, her adventures and her accomplishments Sunday afternoon during her memorial at the Burnsville Performing Arts Center.

professor Karen Seashore said in a letter.

Sociology professor

Penny Edgell said Schunk visited her of fice hours often, was ver y engaged

in class and often asked the questions no one else would.

“It’s hard to get to know students,” Edgell said, “but not Anarae.”

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Libya bristles as US captures militant

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A suspected Libyan alQaida figure nabbed by U.S. special forces in a dramatic operation in Tripoli was living freely in his homeland for the past two years, after a trajectory that took him to Sudan, Afghanistan and Iran, where he had been detained for years, his family said Sunday. The Libyan government bristled at the raid, asking Washington to explain the “kidnapping.”

The swift Delta Force operation in the streets of the Libyan capital that seized the militant known as Abu Anas al-Libi was one of two assaults Saturday that showed an American determination to move directly against terror suspects — even in two nations mired in chaos where the U.S. has suffered deadly humiliations in the past.

Hours before the Libya raid, a Navy SEAL team swam ashore in the East African nation of Somalia and engaged in a fierce firefight, though it did not capture its

target, a leading militant in the al-Qaida-linked group that carried out the recent Kenyan mall siege.

“We hope that this makes clear that the United States of America will never stop in the effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday at an economic summit in Indonesia. “Members of al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can’t hide.”

Nazih Abdul-Hamed alRuqai, known by his alias Abu Anas al-Libi, was accused by the U.S. of involvement in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 220 people. He has been on the FBI’s most wanted terrorists list since it was introduced shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 attack, with a $5 million bounty on his head.

U.S. officials depicted his capture as a significant blow against al-Qaida, which has lost a string of key figures, including leader Osama bin

Laden, killed in a 2011 raid in Pakistan.

However, it was unclear whether the 49-year-old alLibi had a major role in the terror organization — his alleged role in the 1998 attack was to scout one of the targeted embassies — and there was no immediate word that he had been involved in militant activities in Libya. His family and former associates denied he was ever a member of al-Qaida and said he had not been engaged in any activities since coming home in 2011.

But the raid signaled a U.S. readiness to take action against militants in Libya, where al-Qaida and other armed Islamic groups have gained an increasingly powerful foothold since the 2011 ouster and killing of dictator Moammar Gadhafi and have set up tied with a belt of radical groups across North Africa and Egypt.

Libya’s central government remains weak, and armed militias — many of them made up of Islamic militants — hold sway in many places around the country,

including in parts of the capital. Amid the turmoil, Libyan authorities have been unable to move against militants, including those behind the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed. Libyan security officials themselves are regularly targeted by gunmen. The latest victim, a military colonel, was gunned down in Benghazi on Sunday.

Several dozen members of the Islamic group Ansar al-Sharia, which has links to militias, protested on Sunday in Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, denouncing alLibi’s abduction and criticizing the government. “Where are the men of Tripoli while this is happening?” they chanted, waving black Islamist flags.

Al-Libi’s capture was a bold strike in the Libyan capital. He had just parked his car outside his Tripoli home, returning from dawn prayers Saturday, when 10 commandos in multiple vehicles surrounded him, his

brother Nabih al-Ruqai told the Associated Press. They smashed his car’s window and seized his gun before grabbing al-Libi and fleeing.

He was swiftly spirited out of the country. U.S. Defense Department spokesman George Little said he was being held “in a secure location outside of Libya.”

He did not elaborate further.

In a statement Sunday, the Libyan government said it asked the U.S. for “clarifications” about what it called the “kidnapping,” underlining that its citizens should be tried in Libyan courts if accused of a crime. It said it hoped its “strategic partnership” with Washington would not be damaged by the incident.

Still, the relatively softtoned statement underlined the predicament of the Libyan government. It is criticized by opponents at home over its ties with Washington, but it is also reliant on security cooperation with the Americans.

According to the federal indictment of al-Libi in a New York court, American pros-

ecutors say he helped the African embassy bombings by scouting and photographing the embassy in Nairobi in 1993. Al-Libi was a computer expert who studied electronic and nuclear engineering at Tripoli University.

Al-Libi’s son Abdullah alRuqai told The Associated Press his father was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an Islamic militant group that waged a campaign of violence against Gadhafi’s regime in the 1990s. Many of the group’s members — including alLibi, were forced to flee the country at the time. A faction of the group allied with alQaida, though others in the group refused to.

Al-Libi is believed to have spent time in Sudan in the 1990s, when bin Laden was based there. In 1995, al-Libi later turned up in Britain, where he was granted political asylum under unclear circumstances and lived in Manchester. He was arrested by Scotland Yard in 1999, but released because of lack of evidence and later fled Britain.

Another Arab state feels heat from the street

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KHARTOUM, Sudan — In recent times Sudan has gone through two major civil wars, the loss of its rebellious southern oil region, and the indictment of its president for war crimes. Now, with its economy in disarray, it’s the latest Arab country to be feeling heat from the street.

The crunch came with the government’s elimination of the subsidies that had long sustained cheap prices for fuel and other basic needs. The near-doubling of prices that resulted set off a week of rioting beginning Sept. 22, in which at least 50 protesters are estimated to have died.

The vast security machine whose buildings dominate the skyline of Khar-

toum, the capital, is expected to prevail, for now. But the government is overloaded with debt — estimated by the International Monetary Fund at $46 billion in 2013 — and unable to borrow from international lenders.

Inflation has reached nearly 50 percent in 2013, with the Sudanese pound weakening and foreign reserves down to just 1.2 billion dollars.

So Sudanese activists predict a resurgence of protests and ultimately a repeat of a 1985 uprising that also resulted from an economic crisis and ended up toppling the government.

It’s a sorr y contrast to the days when Sudan was considered a rising oil power. Adding to the disarray, President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war

crimes and crimes against humanity committed while putting down a rebellion in the Darfur region, where UN says 300,000 were killed and 2.7 million displaced.

The rundown capital reflects what many say is vast mismanagement of Sudan’s oil revenues, estimated at more than $80 billion over a decade, and the investment of 60 to 70 percent of the state budget in the military and security arsenal instead of agriculture, Sudan’s other big potential export market.

Oil revenues were also wasted by corruption while al-Bashir fought armed rebellions in east, west and south Sudan The oil boom days ended when South Sudan became an independent state in 2011, taking two thirds of oil production with it. The

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house, located at 1121 Fifth St. SE in Minneapolis and threatened to sell or mortgage the property.

Tau said in the complaint that AOII’s international office attempted to change its bylaws and make Tau its subsidiary, which would allow AOII to control Tau’s finances and make housing decisions.

U.S. District Judge John Tunheim wrote in a preliminary ruling that AOII had no

authority to make Tau its subsidiary and take control of the property. “[I]f AOII’s bylaws said that it has the right to control the Walt Disney Company, that provision would have no legal effect and would not be binding upon the Walt Disney Company,” Tunheim wrote in the preliminary ruling.

AOII denied the allegations. Harber said the women’s fraternity never intended to sell the house.

“We have never had any plans to sell the house, and we have been clear about that from the beginning,” she said.

The preliminar y ruling acts as a temporary restraining order, prohibiting AOII from making property decisions until the case is resolved at trial, according to the preliminary opinion.

Sugden said that for Tau, the lawsuit is about maintaining the chapter house.

“The local alumni who have donated their own time and their own money to maintaining the house over the years, for decades — that’s what we’re trying to protect,” he said.

The case will be decided in a final hearing next fall.

rest of Sudan went from oil exporter to importer. Sudan controls the export pipelines but disputes over transit fees prompted the South Sudanese government to halt oil production in 2012. South Sudan gets nearly all of its revenue from oil.

The al-Gezira Scheme, an agricultural project between the White Nile and Blue Nile in central Sudan, was to planned to become Africa’s breadbasket but was neglected for years.

The abolition of subsidies brought out the unpopularity of al-Bashir, his family and inner circle. “We rebelled against the people who stole our sweat,” the crowds chanted. They denounced Al-Bashir as “a Kafouri thief,” Kafouri being the upscale compound in Khar toum where the president’s large

family is said to be living.

But as the government’s unpopularity grows, it is sure to pour even more state money into its security apparatus instead of what experts say is most needed: structural economic reforms.

Money saved on subsidies will likely be wasted, said Professor Hamid Ali, a Sudanese public policy expert at the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

“Corruption is rife from the top of the political regime, where they live in luxurious villas and upscale areas,” he said. “Look at all his (al-Bashir’s) villas, farmlands, and factories in and outside the country in Malaysia and Sudan. Where did he get all of this from?”

U.S. diplomatic cables revealed by Wikileaks, the anti-secrecy website, said al-

Bashir has stashed $9 billion in London banks.

Abda al-Mahdi, a prominent economist in Khartoum, said: “The government spent oil revenues as if there was no tomorrow” and now has to repay international loans for most of the bridges and dams financed by international lenders.

“The government debt increased tremendously,” she said. “Now the government economy is at its weakest.”

“People felt the mismanagement of the economy and this is the source of all problems. Oil was covering up all the problems and they surfaced when oil dropped,” she said.

Floods In August damaged thousands of acres of crops and displacing nearly half a million people, adding to farmers’ suffering.

Mold

Schmanski said.

Her room had mold in the air-conditioning unit, but she didn’t have to move.

Physics freshman Savoy Schuler said there was a lot of commotion among residents after the mold was discovered.

“Everyone was freaking out,” he said.

Schuler said he and his roommate bleached out the mold in their air-conditioning unit.

University Ser vices spokesman Tim Busse said Frontier Hall residents received an email explaining the situation and were advised to check their rooms for any indication of mold.

Residents who reported mold were told to empty their rooms so the staff could clean them, Busse said. Some rooms had to have the carpets removed.

“They were cleaned from top to bottom,” he said.

Pre-health freshman Chloe Laabs said staff members tested multiple rooms on her side of the building.

“They turned off the airconditioning and opened windows,” she said, “just in case.”

Laabs said she saw many workers going up and down her hallway in the days since the mold outbreak was first reported.

Busse said the cost of all of the mold removal is still uncertain.

No other residence halls have reported mold this year, Thompson said.

Frontier Hall was built in 1959, and it was renovated in 2000, which Thompson said included updating the heating and cooling systems.

Thompson said HRL is working to figure out what it can do to keep mold away next year.

“There’s no assurance that it won’t happen again,” she said.

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other residence halls or University apartments.

Accounting freshman Katie Fineout chose to move to Yudof with her three roommates. They had to move all of their stuff last weekend, when Fineout said she had exams.

“It was really inconvenient,” she said.

Fineout said University staff told her and her roommates they could move back into Frontier as soon as next week or as late as the end of the semester.

Biomedical engineering freshman Jane Schmanski said she thought her recent illness was just allergies, but it actually stemmed from the mold.

“We were sick a few days before we discovered it,”

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POLITICS

The Tea Party hostage crisis The government shutdown is due in large part to a group that is anything but patriotic.

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t’s been nearly a week since the U.S. government shut down for the first time in 17 years.

How did we come to this?

Congress’ approval ratings and productivity levels have consistently slid since 2009. It doesn’t take a great leap in logic to see that this rise of dysfunction correlates with the rise of a new political faction within Congress and the countr y: the Tea Party.

But how did this once relatively small movement come together in such a short time to hijack the GOP and then the nation?

The Tea Party movement sprang up in early 2009 as hundreds rallied to protest help for families facing home foreclosure. But the Tea Party wouldn’t be too focused on the housing market for long — no, they had larger

LUIS RUUSKA columnist

ambitions.

On Independence Day that year, the “patriots” of the Tea Party held their first protests against Comrade Obama’s love letter to socialism – also known as the Affordable Care Act. This crusade against the health care law is what would spur Tea Par ty politicians into power in later years.

As it grew over the next several years, the Tea Party sent dozens of politicians to Congress who then waged war on ever yone from women to immigrants, but never lost sight of one of the primar y promises they made to their constituents: to take down Obama’s health care law.

But they failed, more than 40 times. Obama signed the

ACA into law in 2010. The U.S. Supreme Court held up its constitutionality in 2012.

Ever y attempt to repeal the ACA in Congress failed.

So what could the Tea Party do to save face as Oct. 1 brought its worst nightmare? Take the GOP and then the nation hostage.

Once again, the Tea Party coerced House Speaker John Boehner and the GOP to go along with their antics to refuse to compromise with Democrats. Boehner and the GOP have gone along with them.

Why? The Tea Party now has a significant presence in Congress and a passionate following. Boehner and his GOP colleagues know that if they are seen as too liberal, they will lose their seats in the next election.

So here we are, in a government shutdown, because the Tea Par ty lost on one of the main issues that got so many of its members elected. Of course, instead of conceding, the Tea Par ty is continuing to drag the shutdown debate in Congress.

The American people are

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 114,835- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,374 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

suffering the consequences.

The gover nment furloughed 800,000 federal workers without pay, though these employees will likely see back pay due to a bipar tisan bill passed in the House.

Even colleges are feeling the ef fects of the shutdown as all “nonessential” scientific research at public universities has been halted. All five militar y ser vice academies around the nation faced disruptions in ser vice for their students.

Whether the Tea Par ty will sur vive in the future is unclear. This shutdown will either strengthen the Tea Par ty or destroy it. Polls indicate the public blames the GOP more for the shutdown. Prospects for the Tea Party aren’t looking good.

One thing is clear, however: If we want to restore some functionality and sanity to Congress, the first step is to remove the cancer currently plaguing the GOP. Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Study abroad safely

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Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Time is running out for politics More than 30 years ago, the U.S. and the Soviet Union came face-to-face with the possibility of nuclear annihilation due to risky political and military brinkmanship.

So too today, the country is now embroiled in yet another risky political, economic and social game of chicken. The game bears a strong threat to the survival of our countr y as well as what it means to be a government of the people, for the people and by the people.

The issues before the countr y are clear. According to the U.S. Treasur y, the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling must be raised by Oct. 17 to avoid a potential default on the national debt. The ramifications of this would be an economic Armageddon for the entire planet.

We are already witnessing the effects of this shutdown on our countr y, whether it is through government furloughs all the way to the stoppage of government services — not to mention the exponential effect on the private sector.

The “sticking point” that caused the impasse between President Barack Obama, Senate Democrats and House Republicans is the issue surrounding the Af fordable Care Act, or Obamacare. I don’t know if this is the first time that a government shutdown was used as leverage to challenge legislation at the risk of putting the country and the world in serious jeopardy, but it certainly seems very

foolish to do so.

In retrospect, the goal of extending health care to all Americans should have been the result of expanding Medicaid — not the ACA’s overhaul of the health care system.

Congress did not present the ACA well from the beginning. Our legislators should have passed the ACA with bipartisan agreement, instead of ramming it down the throats of the opposition par ty. Health care should have been our second priority behind unemployment, the issue the countr y is truly ailing from. Job one for the president and Congress beginning on Jan. 1, 2009, should have been developing the means to getting this countr y moving again by helping to unleash America’s most power ful machine: its economy. Bailing out Wall Street and the “banks too big to fail” was one of the dumbest policy decisions Obama and Congress ever made. The government should have seized control of these financial institutions and facilitated the selling off of parts to medium-sized banks that did not engage in the behaviors that resulted in the “mortgage meltdown.” It’s too late now.

As for getting people back to work, the solution is not as complicated as it may appear to be. We need to bring back an agency similar to the Work Progress Administration that should take a two-pronged approach. One is the most obvious: Hire people to perform the very services that the private sector will never

engage in simply because it is not profitable to do so.

The second approach is a wee bit more complicated but can be successful by utilizing private-public partnerships. Let the government develop a plan to share in the salary expense of unemployed people so that they could work full time, regain their lost skills and eventually retain a full-time position paid by a private company. This would result in an immediate restoration of lost government revenues, as well as help to prime the pump for the newfound consumer demand. Increasing demand will result in the need for increased supply. Hence, an increase in production will result in increased employment. You could think of this stimulus plan as a rocket booster that slowly fades away as the economy picks up. Isn’t this what government is supposed to do beyond providing safety for its citizens? Is it too late now? I hope not.

To continue to waste time over which side wins while the countr y goes to hell risks moving America’s dissatisfaction with government. The question before us all is how far down must this countr y sink before it becomes clear that current government officials have forfeited their right to govern? Time is running out.

Our legislators must do the job we elected them to do.

End this shutdown before it reaches a point of calamity that breaks our country.

Joe Bialek Daily reader

n a Sept. 30 editorial, “Prioritizing student safety abroad,” the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board called for the state Legislature to “require colleges to ensure the safety of their study abroad programs.”

As the University of Minnesota’s international health, safety, and compliance director, I couldn’t agree more that safety should be a priority in study abroad.

But can we ensure that students will be safe abroad? No. Neither can we promise they will be safe here at home on the University campus. But the University community should be proud of our safety and security record and our role as a leader in study abroad nationally.

While the vast majority of students return from abroad with no health or safety incidents, the unfortunate reality is that no college or university can completely ensure the safety of students abroad.

Just as on Minnesota campuses ever y day, some students abroad will become ill, get injured, become the victim of a crime, commit crimes themselves or, in the most tragic and rare cases, die.

The Jeanne Cler y Act, which requires colleges to report crime statistics, including those that happen abroad, reported only one incident abroad for the University in the last two years. It was a burglar y of a University office when no one was present.

Despite the relatively low number of incidents, we at the University take these risks seriously. We hire and train talented staf f who work to educate our students on a range of risks and techniques to avoid them, while ensuring that suppor t systems are in place. We require that all students complete a mandator y health and safety orientation, carr y international travel health and security insurance, and have an emergency communication plan.

At the University, we car e deeply about the health and safety of our students and take our responsibility extremely seriously, but regrettably, there is no way to absolutely ensure the safety of our students. I look for ward to an informed conversation with legislators, exper ts and others who are interested in this topic. Policy decisions war rant careful attention to the facts, realistic discussion of implications and thoughtful consideration.

Stacey Tsantir Director of International Health, Safety, and Compliance University of Minnesota Global Programs and Strategy Alliance Comments should be sent to letters@mndaily.com.

Celebrating Schunk’s life As a community, we cannot allow the story of a killed University student to be forgotten.

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he Minnesota Daily Editorial Board would like to offer our condolences to the loved ones of University student Anarae Schunk.

Schunk was last seen Sept. 22 after reconnecting with her ex-boyfriend Anthony Lee Nelson, who allegedly shot and killed a man at a Burnsville bar. Schunk disappeared after the shooting, with no sign of her even after Nelson’s arrest. Her body was found in a ditch last Monday, and police are investigating her death as a homicide.

After a frantic search, Schunk’s family and friends now have some closure, a small comfort in the face of heartrending tragedy.

Steven Matula, whose sister Mandy is still missing, aided in the search for Schunk and other missing Minnesota children. Matula serves as a humbling example of how one might move forward in times of great sorrow.

The Matula family’s story is also a reminder of those still missing in Minnesota, and their loved ones’ search for truth and justice.

In her obituary, Schunk’s family said she “had a keen interest in education” and had dedicated her life to helping others learn. Schunk was pursuing a sociology degree.

Schunk’s commitment to her community and education provides an example all University students can learn from. We can grow as a community despite tragic loss if we make a similar commitment to investing in each other.

Schunk’s family is taking donations at any U.S. Bank location or through PayPal. More information can be found at the “Please Help Find Anarae Schunk” Facebook page.

We encourage any struggling University students or staff to seek out University counseling services.

State action against forprofit colleges In lieu of Congress, state lawmakers should work to curb the unethical practices of for-profit colleges.

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ore than a year after the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions produced a shocking report on the manipulative and wasteful practices of the nation’s for-profit colleges, Congress has yet to take any meaningful action on the issue. And despite the bad press it received after the Senate’s investigation, for-profit colleges continue to use abhorrent recruiting practices to get students to enroll in worthless degree programs. Thankfully, a group of students has decided to take action.

Last week, Minnesota Public Radio reported that “a Minneapolis attorney has filed a consumer fraud lawsuit on behalf of five former and current students who say they were misled by Globe University / Minnesota School of Business.” The attorney is seeking class-action status for the suit.

The suit claims Globe violated Minnesota consumer-protection laws by way of false advertising, using misleading job placement and starting salary statistics, and misinformation about program accreditation. A similar suit against Globe was decided in August, in which the school was ordered to pay approximately $400,000 to Heidi Weber, a former dean who was fired after reporting the school’s unethical practices.

It is unlikely that Congress, unable to accomplish even the most fundamental tasks, will take action against the for-profit college industry. The state Legislature should therefore take it upon itself to crack down on for-profit schools in Minnesota. The state could require schools to be more upfront about their program accreditation, as well as monitor the accuracy of job-placement rates and other statistics put out by the school.

Regardless of how the pending lawsuit turns out, the Legislature must focus on ways to protect students, who far too often enroll in schools like Globe after being misled by false advertising, and leave with a worthless degree and a substantial amount of debt.

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The language of success

The University’s secondlanguage requirement should be extended to include all students.

BRIAN REINKEN columnist

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he University of Minnesota’s secondlanguage requirement is elegant in its simplicity. Before graduation, students enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts must either complete four semesters of a second language or pass the language proficiency exam. This sounds like a sensible system, but how does it compare to the second language requirements of other American universities?

To answer this question in brief I examined a handful of schools from across the country.

Any statistician would probably skewer the size of my data pool, but it was kept small for the sake of brevity.

All the private universities I examined, as well as the University of California-Los Angeles, require all their students to have studied a second language before graduation. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has a more expansive requirement than its foil in Minnesota.

The University’s language requirement, while not the flimsiest in the group, fails to stand out from its peers.

Here in Minnesota, CLA students are encouraged to study a second language because of the professional and personal fulfillment that doing so will grant them. Some of these students — political science or linguistics majors, for example —obviously benefit from proficiency in another language. But students majoring in, say, English or religious studies don’t benefit as much from a second language.

For these students, a new language serves a humanistic purpose, and it opens up a world of foreign literature. Still, a day job in these fields probably won’t require much conversation with foreigners.

Compare this to the reality faced by the scientists, engineers and businesspeople outside of CLA. With the increasing industrialization of the world comes the increasing internationalization of science and trade. It’s more important now than ever for people outside of the humanities to learn a second language.

Carlson School of Management students are required to have international experience before they graduate, typically through studying abroad. With the exception of international business students, they are not expected to complete any study of a foreign language.

Of course, learning abroad is a bit facile when you don’t speak the host country’s native language. And while it’s true that you could do business in Australia or the United Kingdom, there are equally auspicious financial opportunities in Germany, Singapore and Japan.

Many of the finer points of business depend upon being able to connect with clients and coworkers. Is it worth the professional risk to only understand one language?

In the U.S., a country in which English isn’t meaningfully threatened by another language, it can be easy to forget that the world does not cater to American English. English is spoken

internationally, and it’s easy enough to survive without speaking anything else. Native Anglophones, however, shouldn’t mistake English’s prevalence for its superiority.

The University doesn’t require all of its students to be proficient in a second language. It should. Those outside of CLA must realize that their careers may someday rest on their ability to speak another language.

These students may protest a change in the language requirement, arguing that they’re already drowning in a major whose credit load vastly outweighs that of the common CLA major. Necessity, however, rarely confines itself to a convenient time frame. The benefits of a second language are more than worth the amount of time required to learn how to speak it.

There will be those who denounce the proposal for a universal language requirement as platitudinous and idealistic. But the world is shrinking, and even if the University of Minnesota doesn’t enforce bilingualism, there are plenty of schools that do. Many of these — Harvard, Yale, UCLA, etc. — are considered to be the best universities in the country. And it’s their students against whom University graduates will someday need to compete for jobs.

Brian Reinken welcomes comments at breinken@mndaily.com.

LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS BY UNIVERSITY PUBLIC

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 51,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS UNDERGRADUATE LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: CLA students 4 semesters or LPE

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 51,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS Depends on major; “intermediate” proficiency

HARVARD UNIVERSITY 21,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS All students one full course or two half-courses; SAT II; or LPE

STANFORD UNIVERSITY 18,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS All students 3/4 of a first-year program; SAT II; or AP

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 37,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS All students must take classes. Quantity depends on college, AP test or LPE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 13,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS All students first-year language sequence, LPE or AP

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA 52,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS CLA students must take at least one course; or AP

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON 43,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS CLA students take 3 or 4 levels, depending on major; or LPE

YALE UNIVERSITY 12,000 ENROLLED STUDENTS All students 3 terms, AP or LPE SOURCE: RESPECTIVE UNIVERSITY DATA

Monday, October 7, 2013

LGBT ISSUES

Educating against homophobia Education is better than any punishment in limiting hateful thinking.

TRENT M. KAYS columnist

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niversity of Mississippi football players recently hurled gay slurs at performers during a university production of “The Laramie Project.”

Audience members, who were primarily first-year students, interrupted the play about the murder of Matthew Shepard.

The event serves as a reminder that homophobia still exists. While it’s becoming increasingly laughable, homophobia still permeates parts of our society and culture. Stereotypes and ignorance die hard. It’s unfortunate because it means some people still live in a world that should have perished long ago.

Some communities are better than others.

These communities have evolved to accept their fellow humans as they are and not as they “should” be. This situation will now test the ability of the Ole Miss community to move past stereotypes of the South.

In response to the gay-bashing, Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze tweeted: “We certainly do not condone any actions that offend or hurt people in any way.”

Freeze indicated the school was looking into the event. This, of course, is no guarantee any action will be taken; however, it’s a good sign to see Freeze move so quickly to address the situation.

As a former Southerner, I was not surprised by this turn of events. I certainly don’t think every place in the South is bigoted, but it’s still unsurprising.

So what should happen to these football players?

I’m not sure. Education and punishment are both viable options. There are many days when I think that punishment is more viable.

It’s easy to punish and harder to educate, yet it’s obvious that punishment will not work.

If someone hurled gay slurs because they believe homosexuality is wrong, I suppose they are entitled to that despicable perspective. Their intolerance is based in ignorance and a poor reading of a 2,000-year-old text. I don’t want to punish them. I want to pity them.

Education is a wonderful thing because it teaches us the flaws bigotry is based in. I’m not a homophobe apologist. I do think changing a bigoted heart is hard, though this doesn’t mean I condone such behavior. I find it vile.

However, in the state where people beat and burned Marco McMillian, an openly gay politician, in 2013, it’s time to consider the culture in which we allow this to happen.

The argument can be made that the firstyear Ole Miss football players were acting out their hyper-masculinity through gay slurs. The act of yelling “fag” or “faggot” serves as an utterance of disapproval within an arena where “fags” are often found: the theater.

On the other side, mob mentality and groupthink are strong forces, especially in

football. I suppose it’s possible that other football players felt the need to support their comrades. Still, it’s unfortunate that no one in the group stood up to their fellow players.

In 1998, 15 years ago this week, police found Matthew Shepard severely wounded, likely targeted for being gay. Shepard died nearly a week later from his injuries.

When this group of football players disrupted the performance, they dishonored the memory of Shepard. Their words interrupted education on a gruesome narrative that McMillian’s life painfully illustrates.

They are certainly entitled to their own opinions, but we are entitled to ours. Until they prove otherwise, we should assume these students are bigots.

“When this group of football players disrupted the performance, they dishonored the memory of Shepard. Their words interrupted education on a gruesome narrative that McMillian’s life painfully illustrates.”

That may seem harsh, but education can be harsh. I don’t think they should be suspended.

A suspension doesn’t solve the cultural problem. These football players are students first, and they need to be reminded of the priorities in their lives.

I would be happy to forgive students who hurl gay slurs. They are in need of forgiveness; we should educate and show them the error of their ways.

This, of course, becomes exceedingly hard because we allow gay slurs or language appropriation to continue without consequence.

Every time we allow “that’s gay” to be used negatively, we’re allowing subtle homophobia.

I hear this phrase often, especially from the current college generation. How is this different than “fag” or “faggot”? They each evoke shame based on small differences between people.

Would we be as upset if the Ole Miss football players yelled “That’s gay!” instead of “Fags!”? The latter is definitely meant to hurt, but doesn’t the former also hurt? I would say it does. It’s meant to show disapproval and unwelcomed distinction. Yet, I doubt the football players would be in as much trouble as they are had they just said the more colloquial and commonplace hate speech.

Punishment is not an appropriate option.

It doesn’t teach the football players anything.

First-year students are in a delicate position.

They’ve just left the lives they’ve known and have been introduced to an environment where they are expected to be adults. This is hard to adjust to. You can’t be an adolescent on Sunday and then an adult on Monday.

I’m not excusing their behavior. I’m sure they now realize that what they did was wrong. But now they have the chance to understand why it was wrong and how language wounds.

They should be given the opportunity to learn from this experience, to grow from it and to understand it. This is what education is all about.

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

MEDIA

Where did the real news go?

The ongoing feud between Sinead O’Connor and Miley Cyrus is not newsworthy.

MATT HOY columnist

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his is an open letter to Sinead O’Connor and Miley Cyrus.

I wasn’t going to write this letter, but I’m growing tired of seeing my Facebook news feed clogged by the incessant ramblings of people who read into your preposterous feud like it’s some great debate between the pre-eminent scholars of our time.

Seriously, my Facebook friends are paying more attention to this pathetic excuse for discourse than the fact that our government isn’t currently functioning. Maybe that’s more of an indictment of my inability to reject friend requests than of your ability to function like adults, but the fact that your typo-laden bickering is receiving any consideration at all is insane.

The two of you can’t even seem to use the English language to communicate with

one another. The “comments” sections of your posts are the only examples of writing on this subject that are less coherent than your own.

Yet somehow this petty squabble has been turned into some great debate about feminism. The fact that it gets mistaken for one ought to be offensive to those who legitimately have those debates.

This is a meaningless fight between an aging artist who took a Prince song and made it outstanding and a Disney Channel pop star turned 21-year-old public relations maven with sex-symbol aspirations.

It’s staged over social media with no implications of philosophical grandeur whatsoever. It’s like an episode of “Celebrity Deathmatch” with less tact and fewer consequences.

This has not stopped opportunistic pundits from slut-shaming Cyrus, accusing O’Connor of slut-shaming Cyrus, defending Cyrus’ actions by calling them empowering and even building a 45-foot-tall golden monument of the two engaged in an epic battle on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Okay, so I made that last one up; the Lincoln Memorial is closed because we are governed by children with the same talent for communication as the two befuddled pop stars.

What seems to be lost in this entire conversation is that O’Connor’s central point — that male music executives stand to profit from Cyrus exposing herself — is neither controversial nor contested.

We lost sight of the fact that Cyrus is

not the first pop star to get naked in order to sell music. Thanks to our freedom of speech, it’s her intrinsic right to do whatever she wants with her body. Thanks to that same freedom, it’s O’Connor’s right to reach out to Cyrus. This whole thing, very simply put, is not newsworthy.

Neither of them did anything wrong to begin with. Since the drama has escalated, however, both have revealed that they’re not the type of people you would want to know.

Cyrus mocked O’Connor for having a mental illness. O’Connor petulantly threatened to sue Cyrus over Twitter if she didn’t get rid of those tweets.

Cyrus did tr y to end the debate with a shameless piece of self-promotion and an emoticon. O’Connor chose not to accept the terms of a face-to-face meeting and instead chose to continue a social media barrage because conversations should happen through a medley of Twitter and Facebook and not between two thoughtful adults who know how to use their words in reality.

What I’m trying to say is that this quarrel was the second-stupidest argument that took place last week. In any normal week, it would have easily been No. 1.

I would appreciate it if we could stop pretending like the relationship between these pop stars is at all important. In fact, it would be nice if we could take a look at how crazy our reactions have been to the whole thing.

Isn’t it telling that when a pop star tries to make a point about institutional fer vor

to exploit the lives of pop stars for personal gain, we respond by exploiting a feud between two of them?

If we as consumers of pop culture were not so eager to capitalize on these types of interactions, would O’Connor ever have felt the need to post such a personal letter on Facebook? Would Cyrus have ever felt the need to “reinvent” herself as a hammer-fellating sex symbol?

I think the answer is no.

This issue isn’t on the two of them; it’s on us. We watch TMZ, and so terrible people are incentivized to follow celebrities everywhere they go in an attempt to catch the person doing something controversial. We watch music videos like the one for “Wrecking Ball” hundreds of millions of times and then complain about the fact that our female pop stars feel pressure to straight up get naked. Why wouldn’t the next pop star looking to make a splash do this exact same thing?

Whether we agree with Cyrus, O’Connor, both or neither of them, we do a disservice to our cultural discourse, our arts and our friends on social media by debating silly conflicts as if they were serious news items. It’s especially heinous when we have serious news items that warrant discussion.

So please, to everyone who keeps inundating me with social commentary about this situation, make the world a better place and stop talking about it.

Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Sports

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FOOTBALL

Kill has fifth game-day seizure

QUICK HITTERS

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com Michigan 42, Gophers 13 Saturday, Oct. 5 Ann Arbor, Mich.

RECAP Minnesota was tied 7-7 with Michigan late in the second quarter despite playing without head coach Jerry Kill. Kill didn’t travel with the team Friday and planned to meet it Saturday for the game, but he had a seizure early Saturday morning. The Wolverines scored 28 points in the second half to open up the game and capture the Little Brown Jug for the sixth consecutive time. Minnesota redshirt freshman quarterback Mitch Leidner played well in his first Big Ten start, but the offense lacked the firepower to keep up with Michigan.

KEY PLAY Michigan quarterback Devin Gardner and receiver Devin Funchess connected early in the third quarter.

Funchess caught a diving 21-yard pass on third-and-11. That set up a 2-yard touchdown run by running back Derrick Green a play later.

IT WAS OVER WHEN: Gardner completed a 22-yard pass to Funchess on third-and-11 with about five minutes left in the game and the Wolverines up 28-13.

Michigan scored a touchdown six plays later to slam the door shut.

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Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill expresses his discontent with a review of a Gophers touchdown against Wisconsin on Oct. 20, 2012.

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halftime against Michigan State University.

In all instances, Minnesota defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys took over the head coaching duties from the press box.

So far, the Gophers have adjusted well to playing without Kill on the sideline.

After Saturday’s game, senior defensive back Brock Vereen said Kill’s absence from a full game didn’t affect the team negatively.

“He wasn’t on the flight with us, so at that point we were already mentally preparing for him to not be out here,” Vereen said.

Kill felt sick and remained in Minneapolis to visit with his doctors Friday when the Gophers traveled to Michigan. He planned to fly to Ann Arbor for the game Saturday but opted to stay home after the seizure.

Without Kill on the sidelines, the Gophers hung around for the first three quarters but couldn’t generate enough offense to keep up with the Wolverines’ attack.

Michigan’s of fense racked up 348 yards of total offense for its first Big Ten win of the season.

Minnesota athletics director Norwood Teague addressed the media after the loss and said Kill was resting at home.

University President Eric Kaler was also at the game in Ann Arbor. Teague said that he and Kaler had a conversation on Saturday about Kill.

“Dr. Kaler and I spoke, [and] he thinks the world of Jerr y as a coach,” Teague said. “He’s concerned about him, but he also knows that [epilepsy] is a moving target. [Kill is] managing it, trying to find ways to manage it better.”

Claeys speculated Sunday morning that an adjustment in Kill’s medication might have contributed to the seizure Saturday morning.

Leidner starts over Nelson

After the game, Claeys said the coaching staff elected to start redshirt freshman Mitch Leidner at quarterback over sophomore Philip Nelson. Nelson started seven times last year and the first three games of this season, but he led a sputtering offense last week against the University of Iowa.

Minnesota only scored seven points with Nelson at the helm. He threw two interceptions and rushed nine times for minus-18 yards.

Leidner could have crumbled in his first career road start in front of an announced crowd of 111,079 without his head coach.

2. Michigan’s offense outmatched the Minnesota defense, especially in the second half.

The Wolverines scored touchdowns on three straight drives, starting with a touchdown late in the second quarter. Michigan ran the ball well during that stretch, and its receivers made several acrobatic catches.

3. The Gophers have been less disciplined in Big Ten play.

They’ve committed 11 penalties in two Big Ten games after committing 10 in four nonconference games.

4. Minnesota has a potent return game.

Michigan appeared to keep the ball away from junior return man Marcus Jones. Jones did have one long return — a 45-yarder late in the third quarter that was partially negated by a 10-yard holding penalty.

5. The Leidner-Maxx Williams connection has potential.

Williams caught five passes for 54 yards and the Gophers’ lone touchdown. The 6-foot 4-inch, 254-pound tight end has a wide frame, good hands and an ability to catch passes in traffic. Both Leidner and Williams are redshirt freshmen and should continue to improve.

“You have to question his ability to effectively lead a team when he’s missing multiple games a season.”

QUOTE OF THE GAME

He’s been working extremely hard behind the scenes on it. When he has this come up, it’s frustrating for him. ... He wants to be here more than anybody else.

MATTHEW LOWE finance junior

The last time a Gophers freshman quarterback started on the road at Michigan, the team lost 58-0 behind Max Shortell.

Leidner looked shaky early on, fumbling the ball on the third play of the game, but he bounced back on Minnesota’s next possession, leading a 16-play, 75-yard touchdown drive.

Leidner capped the drive when he lobbed a pass to the corner of the end zone and redshirt freshman tight end Maxx Williams came down with the ball to tie the game at 7-7. Williams led Minnesota with five receptions.

Leidner finished with 145 passing yards, completing 14 of 21 attempts. He also ran for a team-high 66 yards.

After the game, Leidner said quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski has helped him hone his passing abilities over the past few weeks.

“I was definitely more

1. Minnesota’s offense looked better than it did against Iowa.

The Gophers sustained three 50-plus-yard scoring drives with Leidner under center, after struggling last week with Philip Nelson at quarterback. Leidner went 14-for-21 for 145 yards with a passing touchdown.

He also added 66 yards rushing Saturday.

Norwood Teague on Kill’s epilepsy

TWEET OF THE GAME

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Gophers quarterback Mitch Leidner runs the ball against Michigan on Saturday at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.

comfortable today,” Leidner said. “We’ve been putting in a lot of extra time with receivers. … Coach [Zebrowski] has been working with me.”

Kill’s wife sends team a message

Claeys said that before the game, Rebecca Kill, coach Kill’s wife, sent him a text message to read aloud to the players.

Claeys said the message told the team that she and Kill missed it but wanted the players to compete hard in an ef for t to bring the Little Brown Jug back to Minnesota.

The Gophers haven’t won the Jug — the oldest rivalry trophy in college football — since beating Michigan in 2005.

Minnesota wasn’t playing only for a trophy Satur-

day; it was also playing for its coach.

“He inspires us so much,” Vereen said. “He’s going through so much, and deep down we know he wants to be here more than anything. It’s hurting him not to be here, and that’s motivation to play harder.”

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“I bleed Maroon & Gold and I believe in coach Kill and what he is trying to do here. #gophers” Gophers fan Tim Wood @woodygopher

UP NEXT The Gophers have a bye week before playing Northwestern on Saturday, Oct. 19, in Evanston, Ill.

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Monday, October 7, 2013

MEN’S HOCKEY

Canadian exhibition gets physical The game resulted in 25 penalties, including five game misconducts.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s hockey team had just one exhibition game before the start of its 2013-14 season.

While the Gophers may have hoped for it to be a slow and easy warm-up, that notion was quickly smashed into the boards.

Minnesota beat Lethbridge 5-1 at Mariucci Arena on Saturday, but not without a combined total of 25 penalties assessed to the teams.

There were 105 total penalty minutes — including five game misconducts that led to ejections for three Lethbridge and two Gophers players.

“That was a little shocking,” junior forward Travis Boyd said. “You know a Canadian team’s going to play physical, but I don’t know if we expected it to be that chippy and that kind of dirty, almost.”

In a game that was meant for testing out lineups and giving as many players as much ice time as possible, the penalties were counterproductive for head coach Don Lucia.

“You can’t get some guys out there, and that was a big part of today,” Lucia said.

“You want to evaluate as many players as you can in a game like this.”

While the freshmen were in the mix, scoring three of the Gophers’ five goals, the upperclassmen tried to keep them from mixing it up with the other team.

“Hudson Fasching was getting into it quite a bit,” Boyd said of the freshman forward. “And I think [Nate]

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Minnesota forward Travis Boyd fights for the puck against Lethbridge on Saturday at Mariucci Arena.

Condon came over to him and said, ‘ … We don’t need any of that, especially at an exhibition game.’ ” Junior forward and captain Kyle Rau went to the box three times for minor calls but always seemed to be in the middle of whatever glove-shedding, sticks-flying scuffle ensued.

“It feels good to get out there and do that stuff because you go six months without doing it,” Rau said.

“So you need it.”

While the roughing was a bit distracting, the Gophers still managed a good showing for their first time on the ice. They outshot the Pronghorns 46-12, eliciting 41 saves from Lethbridge goalie Dylan Tait.

“He made a lot of good saves tonight,” Lucia said.

“We had to work hard to beat him.”

“That was a little shocking. You know a Canadian team’s going to play physical, but I don’t know if we expected it to be that chippy and that kind of dirty, almost.”

TRAVIS BOYD junior forward

Lucia said even though he played all three of his goalies, his team didn’t learn much defensively in the game and

will have to test its defense next weekend in the season opener.

Fasching scored the first goal of the night, assisted by Rau and junior defender Ben Marshall at 6:29 in the first period.

Lethbridge managed to tie it up at 7:50 in the second period via Guillaume Naud from David McMullen on the power play.

Boyd notched a powerplay goal of his own at 14:55, and freshman defenseman Michael Brodzinski netted a goal at 19:04 to make it 3-1.

The Gophers tacked on two more goals in the third period behind freshman forward Taylor Cammarata and sophomore forward Ryan Reilly.

While Minnesota did

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

Lethbridge Minnesota

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2 1 2

3 0 2

FINAL 1 5

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

produce a winning result, Boyd said the Gophers had a tough time figuring out lines and playing with new partners nearly every shift.

“I think we’re still searching for our identity,” Boyd said. “As a team, I don’t know exactly what kind of team we’re going to be this year.

“We’ve got a lot of new players, a lot of new guys that need to fill roles that we lost last year, so I think it’s still a work in progress.”

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Minnesota sweeps Colgate to start season The New York trip ended in 3-1 and 8-3 victories for the Gophers.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Minnesota completed a sweep of Colgate to begin its season for the second straight year, but the similarity between the two series ended there.

Minnesota found itself down a goal in both games but bounced back to win 3-1 and 8-3 over the weekend, a change from last year, when the Gophers overpowered the Raiders 18-0 in two games.

“You don’t lose so many great players … and expect to come out and roll over teams,” head coach Brad Frost said. “You never want to get down a goal, but it was good to see the way our players responded.”

The Gophers didn’t face a lot of adversity at the begin-

ning of last season, and junior defenseman Rachel Ramsey said it was nice for the team to see it could overcome challenges this weekend.

She said Colgate’s team improved from last year.

“I think it was good for us to start off the season not with a blowout team and actually get some good competition going,” Ramsey said.

The Gophers fell behind Friday night after Colgate scored a power-play goal just two minutes into the first period.

Sophomore Hannah Brandt responded with a goal later in the first period, but the two teams were tied until the third.

“We just realized that we didn’t come out how we wanted to … and that we needed to pick it up,” junior Rachael Bona said of the first two periods. “I think we all knew that we had more in us than we were showing.”

Bona scored two goals in the third period to seal the win for the Gophers, including an unassisted, shorthand-

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Minnesota forward Rachael Bona yells out to her teammates after scoring against MinnesotaDuluth on Feb. 2 at Ridder Arena.

ed goal.

Frost said he was happy with the way the team competed Saturday. “[We] put a little more energy on the puck and got

some more rewards with some goals,” he said.

Colgate took a lead early on and then took another just seconds after the Gophers tied the game.

But Minnesota scored the next five goals, two of which were from Bona, to put the game away.

“She’s always been somebody with great hands and some scoring ability, but she’s taken that to another level and just been a real leader for us on the ice,” Frost said of Bona.

Bona has been playing on a line with Brandt and sophomore Maryanne Menefee.

She played with the two a little bit last season, and Bona said they play well together.

“They’re both great players, so it makes it really easy,” she said.

The line had four goals and eight assists in Saturday’s game.

Minnesota was able to overcome 14 penalties over the weekend thanks to its scoring effort, but the Gophers know they need to commit fewer penalties moving forward.

Ramsey said the team has a rule to try committing three or fewer penalties per game.

Ramsey said the style of play out East is less physical and the referees in the WCHA “tend to let a little bit more go.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY Minnesota Colgate

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3 2 0

FINAL 3 1

3 2 1

FINAL 8 3

SATURDAY Minnesota Colgate

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2 2 0

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“When we start playing some of the top teams in the countr y, that could really come back to hurt us,” Frost said.

The Gophers are still shuffling around lines and defensive pairs, which Ramsey said made the team’s systems a little “chaotic” this weekend.

Frost said the team is getting closer to solidifying its defensive pairings.

He said sophomore Brook Garzone, a for ward who’s been playing defense for Minnesota this season, got hurt in practice during the week and will be re-evaluated this week.

“Depending on Brook’s status, that may clarify some things one way or another [defensively],” Frost said. “So we’ll just kind of wait to see what her status is … and go from there.”

Minnesota will face off against Wisconsin in its home opener next weekend.

err y Kill’s most recent seizure Saturday highlighted the Gophers football program again for the wrong reasons.

His seizures — not the games — have become national news, but pundits around the countr y have lauded Kill’s braver y and his position as a role model.

And it’s easy to see why.

He’s a man of in tegrity, and he fights through his epilepsy to guide the program in accordance with his strong morals.

But his seizure on Saturday was his fifth on a game day and the first that forced him out of an entire game during his tenure at Minnesota.

Kill and Minnesota’s athletics depar tment have been transparent about their approach to his epilepsy since his first public seizure with the Gophers in September 2011.

Now that he’s missed an entire game — a rivalr y game against a ranked opponent — it’s silly to pretend that his seizures don’t have an ef fect on his ability to coach this football team.

If he’s missing games, then he can’t do his job.

Kill has said this publicly.

But even when Kill is on the sideline, the team continues to struggle in the Big Ten, and that’s the bigger picture.

This is a resultsbased business, and under Kill there are little signs of improvement.

Demolishing inferior nonconference competition doesn’t indicate legitimate progress.

If Michigan — a Big Ten powerhouse — is a measuring stick the Gophers use to char t progress, then there has been no progress in Kill’s three seasons.

Three years. Three carnages.

The Gophers hung around on Saturday for a couple quar ters, but Michigan eventually asser ted its dominance and toyed with Minnesota in the second half.

A tough schedule the rest of the way isn’t doing the Gophers any favors, either, and they could be in for another long year in the Big Ten. If Kill was leading Minnesota to a 6-2 or 7-1 record in the conference, his wins would be tangible evidence that the seizures aren’t negatively af fecting the program.

This, however, is his third year, and meaningful wins are few and far between.

The Gophers are 4-14 in the Big Ten in the Kill era, and only a handful of the conference games have been remotely close.

Still, Minnesota athletics director Nor wood Teague said he backs Kill “100 percent,” and his players hold him in high reverence as well.

While the loyalty is commendable, it’s all rhetoric when the team isn’t competitive in the Big Ten. It’s time to stop examining Kill’s epilepsy and start examining his win-loss record.

Ya feel me?

Sam Gordon welcomes comments at sgordon@mndaily.com or on Twitter.

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Monday, October 7, 2013

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VOLLEYBALL

Women struggle on first Big Ten road trip Nebraska beat the Gophers in three sets before Iowa took them to five.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers volleyball team kicked of f its first road trip of the Big Ten season in rocky fashion.

No. 10 Nebraska swept No. 8 Minnesota on Friday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center before the Gophers mounted a comeback fiveset victor y against Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, on Saturday.

The Cornhuskers’ brand new arena hosted 8,223 fans, but Gophers head coach Hugh McCutcheon said the rabid fan base wasn’t to blame for the loss.

“It was a packed stadium and a nice facility,” McCutcheon said. “We were thinking it was an opportunity.”

But the Gophers failed to seize that opportunity — Nebraska outhit Minnesota .385 to .226 and put up seven more team blocks.

The Cornhuskers’ success hinged on senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson, who tallied a matchhigh 21 kills and .450 hitting percentage.

“We knew what she was going to do,” McCutcheon said. “We just had trouble dealing with her off-speed, and she did a very nice job mixing up her shots.”

Senior middle blocker Tori Dixon said Robinson embodied the Cornhuskers’ best trait — accuracy.

“It’s really, really hard to [defend her] because she has a lot of range,” Dixon said. “She doesn’t make a lot of errors in general. … She sees the court really well, and she kind of just placed it where we weren’t.”

The Cornhuskers didn’t give Minnesota any breaks in the match, Dixon said.

VOLLEYBALL RESULTS FRIDAY Minnesota Nebraska

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SATURDAY Minnesota Iowa

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“They keep the ball in and make the play a lot, which I think is just different from what we normally see,” Dixon said. “They’re really smart with the ball, and they don’t just slash through our block.”

Senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman said that while Nebraska did many things successfully in the match, her team str uggled to focus on its own strategy.

“I think they were a really stable team,” Wittman said. “I think we kind of backed down to them.”

The match against the unranked Hawkeyes was a chance for a bounce-back win, but the match still didn’t start well.

The Gophers dropped the first two sets to unranked Iowa and looked poised for an upset loss.

During a break between the second and third sets, McCutcheon said he didn’t make a grand speech. Instead, he was calm and rational about the need for a turnaround.

“In the first two sets, we were having some issues with ser ve receive,” McCutcheon said. “We came into the third, we got our rhythm and away we went.”

That rhythm car ried over into the rest of the match for a comeback fiveset win.

The Gophers are now 15-2 overall and 3-1 in the Big Ten. They will play on the road again this week against ranked teams Penn State and Ohio State.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota middle blocker Tori Dixon prepares to spike the ball against Purdue on Sept. 28 at the Sports Pavilion.

SOCCER

Gophers beat No. 7 Penn State, improve to 9-3-1 Minnesota beat No. 7 Penn State 1-0 after tying Ohio State.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers were more like giant slayers Sunday.

Minnesota (9-3-1, 2-2-1) beat No. 7 Penn State 1-0 at Elizabeth L yle Robbie Stadium. It was the first time since 2007 the Gophers have defeated the Nittany Lions (10-2-1, 4-10).

“The seniors, they had never beaten Penn State,” sophomore for ward Haley Helverson said. “To do it for them, I love it.”

It was the second consecutive weekend Minnesota took down a top-15 opponent. The Gophers beat then-No. 13 Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., last Sunday.

Minnesota jumped on Penn State, the defending national r unner-up, early Sunday.

Helverson finished a cross from senior for ward Steph Brandt in the 16th minute to put the Gophers up 1-0. “[Penn State’s] a team with ver y high intensity,” Helverson said. “We know if we could get one in right away, then we could bring that down and we could compose the game.”

And that was all freshman keeper Tarah Hobbs

needed.

Minnesota took the lead into the locker room at the half. The Gophers’ backline allowed just one shot on goal against Penn State’s potent of fense through the first 45 minutes.

“They played phenomenal,” Hobbs said of her defenders. “I can’t even explain how well they played.”

The Nittany Lions’ attackers responded in the second half and generated six shots on goal to go along with many scoring opportunities.

“We’re very proud of this team. For us to be able to rebound the way that we have over the course of the last couple games has been pretty big.”

STEFANIE GOLAN head coach

“We knew they were going to be much better than they were in the first half,” Gophers head coach Stefanie Golan said. “We were going to have to weather the storm a little bit.”

That storm was weathered, amid the rainy day on the pitch, and Hobbs played a major role in it.

Hobbs was unflappable in net and recorded seven saves for her third consec-

SOCCER RESULTS FRIDAY 1 0 0

Ohio State Minnesota

2 0 0

OT FINAL 0 0 0 0

SUNDAY #7 Penn State Minnesota

1 0 1

2 0 0

FINAL 0 1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

utive shutout.

Golan said the team gains confidence fr om Hobbs’ presence in goal.

“You look over at [Penn State’s] coaching staf f, and they’r e amazed at some of her saves,” Golan said. “It’s just another day for us.”

Minnesota’s upset ended Penn State’s 25-match unbeaten streak in the conference, dating back to September 2011.

The win came two days after Minnesota battled Ohio State to a scoreless draw through rainy, windy conditions Friday night during a game in which oppor tunities were few and far between.

Ohio State outshot the Gophers 20-7, but the ongoal total was 7-4.

Hobbs stood tall on those seven scoring chances she did see, recording seven saves.

After a 0-2 star t to conference play, the Gophers have of ficially rebounded.

Minnesota is 2-0-1 in its last three Big Ten matches.

“We’re ver y proud of

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs sets up for a kick against Louisiana State on Sept. 6 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

this team,” Golan said.

“For us to be able to re-

bound the way that we have over the course of

the last couple games has been pretty big.”

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CROSS COUNTRY

Simons paces Gophers to fourth place John Simons also placed fourth at the Notre Dame Invitational.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Last weekend at the Roy Griak Invitational, the Minnesota men’s cross country team had problems from the onset. But Friday’s Notre Dame Invitational was a different story.

The Gophers came out with a purpose and didn’t look back en route to a fourth-place finish.

Head coach Steve Plasencia said the team had a “different demeanor” than last weekend, when it hosted the Griak.

Senior captain John Simons said the captains encouraged the team to be more aggressive in the first half-mile of the race so that the team could be in a good position.

“And all of our guys took that to heart today,” he said.

“It wasn’t like we got so much more fit in a week.

We were capable of doing it at the Griak. We just actually ran the correct strategy today.”

The Gophers finished eighth at the Griak after a runner fell at the start and another lost a shoe. That left the team trying to make up for lost time for most of the race.

“There’s a touch of embar rassment at home,” Plasencia said. “I think sometimes a bad race fuels the next good one.”

With the Griak just six days before the race at Notre Dame, sophomore Adam Zutz said the team didn’t have time to change things up much at practice.

“We knew this was going to be a tough race with a lot of good teams, so we just tried to focus on a good strategy and really get out hard,” he said.

Minnesota, which is unranked, finished behind three ranked teams but ahead of multiple ranked teams at the Notre Dame Invitational.

“It’s an awesome feeling to actually see it on the sheets after wards and see that this is how good we really are,” Simons said.

Simons paced the Gophers on Saturday, just as he did at the Griak. He finished four th overall with a time of 24:31.7, which he said he was ver y excited about.

He said his goal heading into the meet was to be a top-10 contender and realized it was a possibility as soon as the race started.

“Then you star t to reevaluate the goals during the race,” Simons said. “‘Can I finish top five? …

Can I finish top three?”

Minnesota’s scoring was

Minnesota senior John Simons runs in the men’s Division I Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

BLUGOLD INVITE 6K Serres Thiel Olson Johnson Decker Larson Mikkalson Piepenburg Timm Young

TEAM Luther Lakehead St. Olaf Minnesota St. Catherine Minnesota

Winona State

TIME 21:47.5 21:58.3 22:04.7 22:09.1 22:12.1 22:14.8 22:17.0 22:17.7 22:21.2 22:23.8

TEAM Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota Minnesota

TIME 17:29.0 17:30.2 17:34.8 17:35.3 17:41.1 17:52.0 17:54.5 18:03.6 18:05.5 18:08.9

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

rounded out by Zutz (34th), senior Andr ew Larsen (36th), senior Steve Sulkin (37th) and junior Blayne Dulian (44th).

“I think we surprised ourselves,” Simons said.

“Even on the optimistic side, I don’t think that anybody thought we were going to finish fourth today.

This was all positives.”

Women win SDSU Classic, Blugold Invite

The women’s team went in two different directions over the weekend — literally — but came out on top in both meets.

The team’s top runners traveled to South Dakota to participate in the SDSU Invite, while another group went to Eau Claire, Wis., for the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Invite.

Gophers head coach Sarah Hopkins said her team faced 25 mph winds throughout the SDSU Invite, but she said the team

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

SDSU CLASSIC 5K Kayfes Bollig Docherty Moraczewski Budd Dyson Drake Berkholtz Mincke Urick

raced well.

Minnesota, which was led in South Dakota by junior Molly Kayfes, boasted the first 10 finishers of the race.

“I think we surprised ourselves.

Even on the optimistic side, I don’t think that anybody thought we were going to finish fourth today. This was all positives.”

JOHN SIMONS senior runner

Kayfes was the four th finisher for the Gophers at the Griak and 24th overall.

Hopkins said Kayfes wasn’t satisfied with that finish a week ago.

“When she gets a little ticked off, she uses it as motivation for the next one,”

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL 8K Rotich Caldwell McClintock Simons Rae Topfer Scott O’Hare Udland Boit

TEAM UTEP New Mexico Purdue Minnesota Notre Dame Illinois Tulsa Tulsa Princeton UTEP

TIME 24:18.6 24:22.3 24:26.5 24:31.7 24:33.9 24:36.1 24:38.1 24:38.7 24:39.2 24:40.0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Hopkins said. “It doesn’t surprise me in the slightest that she threw a few more punches today and got herself back to where she knows she can be.”

The team’s top four finishers — Kayfes, senior Maggie Bollig, senior Laura Docherty and senior Katie Moraczewski — were also the Gophers’ top four at the Griak, though they finished that race in a different order.

“That’s the fun par t about this team right now,” Hopkins said.

“It doesn’t mean that anybody had a bad race, but we’ll mix up order.”

Hopkins said the team has a lot of “interchangeable parts,” which is comforting because if one runner has an off-day, it doesn’t mean the whole team will struggle.

She said she thought the runners in the group vying for the team’s fifth spot made progress Friday, as well.

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota junior Molly Kayfes runs in the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

“[They] took a big step … to kind of get some confidence and know that they can be closer [to the top pack],” Hopkins said.

The contingency sent to Eau Claire also came out

on top.

The Gophers were led by redshirt freshmen Haley Johnson, who finished fourth overall, and Taylor Mikkalson, who placed sixth.

SWIMMING & DIVING

First competition of season ends in respective sweeps Both the men’s and women’s teams won in dominant fashion over ASU.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams started their 201314 seasons with a pair of wins over Arizona State University on Saturday at the University Aquatic Center.

The men defeated ASU 190-95, and the women won 197-94.

Junior Becca Weiland led the women’s team with four victories, and freshman Daryl Turner led the men with four as well, including a win over teammate Derek Toomey in the 100-yard freestyle.

Turner led for most of the race and won with a time of 44.65 seconds.

Gophers head coach Kelly Kremer said Toomey, a senior captain, and Turner will continue to push each other to get better.

“I know Derek will tr y and get him the next time, and Dar yl will tr y and get

MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS

Minnesota Arizona State

FINAL 190 95

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS

Minnesota Arizona State

FINAL 197 94

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

him the next time,” Kremer said. “But they are two team players.”

Toomey had a strong showing in the 50 freestyle, however, winning the event with a time of 19.99 seconds.

He led the entirety of the race and beat the closest competitor by nearly a second and a half.

The Madison, Wis., native finished third in the event at the NCAA championships last season and said his goal is to win the event this year.

The men’s team finished fourth at last season’s Big Ten championships and 18th at the NCAA championships,

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota senior Derek Toomey swims in the men’s 100-yard freestyle against Arizona State on Saturday at the University Aquatic Center. Toomey finished second behind freshman teammate Daryl Turner.

but it is relatively young with 14 freshmen and just five seniors this year.

Turner, a Greenwood Village, Colo., native, is one of those freshmen. He was named the 2013 Colorado Swimmer of the Year.

“His athletic achieve-

ments and accomplishments are going to help us,” Kremer said, “but he’s also a guy who can really help take us to another level.”

The women’s team has even higher expectations for itself after winning a second straight Big Ten champion-

ship and finishing 10th at the NCAA championships last season.

Junior Devin Ste. Marie said the team is hoping to improve off last season’s championship finishes this season.

Ste. Marie, who won the 200 mixed butterfly Saturday,

said she thought the meet went well after a hard week of practice.

Minnesota’s men’s team competes against Florida next Saturday at the University Aquatic Center, and the women will host Michigan on Friday.

Monday, October 7, 2013

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horoscopes

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

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Today’s Birthday (10/7): Venus enters Sagittarius today, portending a passion for travel and adventure this year. Creativity and independence call, especially this month. Exploration is the theme. Pamper yourself.

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 5 — Venus enters Sagittarius today (until Nov. 5). Follow your heart, and stick to it. For four weeks, traveling is easier. Connect with a teacher.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Trust your heart to lead you, and increase your profits.

Keep track of earnings. There’s no need to do it the hard way. You get farther than expected.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 5 — Listening is the key to communication. Your reward comes later. Ask for what you need in partnership. Accept a generous offer.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Prepare your best argument. You’re the star, and your words get farther than expected.

Share heartfelt thanks.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — Confer with your team. You’re extra persuasive, and word travels. More planning is a good idea. Put in corrections. Compromise comes easier.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Give in to a brilliant idea. You’re irresistible for a month. Ponder the situation. Others ask your advice. The career groove is just right.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 5 — Your work becomes more fun. Consult a significant other. Get family to help. Invest in your business. Add adventure to the mundane.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 5 — Allow yourself more quiet time to follow a passion. Some of your theories succeed. Finish an old job. Revel in the abundance.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 5 — Love is easier to find these days. Show your appreciation. Be respectful. You’re irresistible.

Take notes on what works.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 5 — Group activities go well over the next month.

Create a buzz. Push your own agenda. Offer encouragement. Share adventure stories.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Home and family take priority. Get a project under way. Do it for love, not money. Seek solid data, and check all details twice. Stick to logic.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — Get social this month. Go out and play! Get your chores done first. Nurture your strongest connections. You’re very quick now.

Monday, October 7, 2013

overheard TA: “So what you have isn’t true ‘growth’ — it’s dead cells eating other dead cells.”

Girl: “So it’s like zombie growth, right?”

—Biological Sciences Center

“Think they’d give me a groin massage?”

—Washington Avenue Bridge

Guy: “It’s either too big or too small.”

Interviewer: “So you’ve had that experience before?”

Guy: “Yeah.”

Inter viewer: “So maybe it just wasn’t adjusted properly.”

—Recreation and Wellness Center

Guy: “We can’t get to the site because it’s down due to the government shutdown.”

Girl: “What!? The government shut down? Oh my God, you’re freaking me out.”

Guy: “Don’t you have Facebook or Twitter?”

—Starbucks

Ballroom instructor: “The girl should always be on top! Trust me, it works better that way!”

—Recreation and Wellness Center

Professor: “They’re playing some bizarre S&M game we don’t know about.”

—Blegen Hall

(Two guys talking about a girl one of them likes) Guy 1: “Just don’t give her your Facebook password, and you’ll be good.”

Guy 2: “She already has my banking information....”

—Centennial Hall dining hall

Guy 1: “I feel so bad-ass when I ask people for their x500 number. It’s like I’m the law.”

Guy 2: “So why didn’t you ask that girl for her actual number?”

Guy 1: “Don’t question the law, son.”

—Route 3 bus

Teacher: “Will someone please try and answer the question on the board? Anybody?”

Student: “I can try.”

Teacher: “Well, you are probably wrong, but go for it anyway.”

—Blegen Hall

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crossword

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 7, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 A dromedary has one 5 Smart guy?

10 Exec’s “I need it now!”

14 Black-and-white snack 15 Military training group 16 Actress Hatcher 17 Like a clock reading 5:05 at 5:00 18 “Eat!” 19 Tenant’s expense 20 *Space-saving computer monitor 22 Fateful March day 23 Equipment on a balance sheet, e.g.

24 Immunity builder 26 Cuban dance 30 Defective cars 33 Devious laughs 36 “That stings!”

38 Often __: about half the time 39 Foofaraw 40 Untidy waking-up hair condition, and what the first word of the answers to starred clues can be 42 Historical span 43 Posh 45 Freezer bag feature 46 Bluish hue 47 Go away 49 Southern speech feature 51 Turn out to be 53 Zodiac transition points 57 Arizona Indian 59 *Title racehorse in a 2003 film 63 Mont Blanc, par exemple 64 Rabbit relatives 65 Foreign Legion cap 66 Falsehoods 67 “Fame” singer Cara 68 First family’s garden site?

69 Oater stronghold 70 Tickle pink 71 Cubicle furnishing

10/7/13

By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke

DOWN 1 Labor leader who vanished in 1975 2 Range dividing Europe and Asia 3 Southwestern tablelands 4 Kiln users 5 Adaptable, electrically 6 Wilderness home 7 Rim 8 Reacts to a tearjerker 9 Pet’s home away from home 10 Some hotel lobbies 11 *Start-up capital 12 “Rule, Britannia” composer 13 Depressing situation, with “the” 21 Early Beatle Sutcliffe 25 Enjoy King and Koontz 27 Cohort of Curly 28 Future blossoms 29 Felt pain 31 Director Ephron 32 Kenton of jazz 33 Difficult

Thursday’s Saturday’s Puzzle Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

34 Falco of “The Sopranos” 35 *Jalapeño, for one 37 Listen to 40 Polar explorer Richard 41 Menu words 44 Most off-the-wall 46 Sounded like a chicken 48 Buttocks, informally 50 Loos, for short

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52 Necklace gem 54 Soft leather 55 Plumber’s concerns 56 Reek 57 Football game division 58 Hodgepodge 60 Real estate measurement 61 Curved 62 “That makes sense”

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dr. date Dr. Date,

My girlfriend is sad and I don’t know why. When I ask her what’s wrong, she says nothing.

We still have sex all the time, but she’s just not as smiley as she’s always been.

I’m worried about her and I want her to be happy again. How do I get her to confide in me? Should I stay away?

How do I help her?

—Sad Chad

Frowny Town,

I hate to break it to you, Chad, but sometimes these matters are out of your control. No one likes to see a loved one unhappy, but your desire to cheer your girlfriend up won’t work on its own. She could be experiencing a variety of things — depression, general discontent with life, an emotional trauma she’s suppressed, etc. But no matter how hard you try to get her to confide in you, you can’t force answers.

When she’s ready, she’ll approach you. If you attempt to coerce answers out of her, she’ll likely grow resentful and create more distance. My suggestion is to remind her that you’re always here to listen, and that you’re worried but willing to give her space if she needs it.

Everyone goes through spurts of sadness, but fortunately, they’re usually not permanent. If you want to avoid conflict, you should probably refrain from telling her she’s not as “smiley” as she’s always been. That’s the last thing I’d want to hear if I was going through some sort of emotional turmoil.

Though her emotional stability is out of your control, you have power over yourself. If her moods are affecting your own, it’s up to you to make changes. Maybe you should seek

some support outside of your relationship by reaching out to close friends or relatives.

Make sure your girlfriend knows she’s loved, but remember that change comes from within.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My boyfriend is a good-looking guy, and other girls are constantly flirting with him. He usually doesn’t notice at all (and when he does, he ignores it), but it gets on my nerves. I know our relationship is solid, but I think it’s disrespectful when girls do that. I’ve never flirted with other people’s boyfriends. How can I get used to it?

—Anonymous

Flirt Police,

Could you be mistaking harmless human interaction for flirting? Or are these ladies literally panting and grinding up on your man? From my perspective, interactions between your man and another lady wouldn’t spark jealousy or annoyance unless you harbor some insecurity about your own relationship. If your man is as devoted as he sounds, you have nothing to worry about. Just brush ‘em off like gnats and be proud that your man is like a porch light for moths.

You may never get used to watching ladies lust over your good-looking guy friend, and there’s no shame in having those feelings. That said, I’d suggest looking inward and trying to find the root instead of assigning blame to other people. It’s unrealistic to expect your dude to avoid all women while he’s with you, and vice versa. If you start to suspect something, speak up — but at this point, it sounds like he’s only got eyes for you.

—Dr. Date

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To ID galaxies, U asks public for help Volunteers helped analyze photos of 300,000 galaxies on the web.

BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com

Vo l u n t e e r s f r o m a l l over the world identified the size, shape and type of more than 300,000 galaxies in 14 months — a project that would have taken an astronomer three years or more.

University of Minnesota researchers collaborated with an international research team to classify and catalog the galaxies using a website called Galaxy Zoo. The public combed through more than a million pictures, classifying them using three categories and helping to discover new space objects. Another tool, Galaxy Zoo 2, of fered analysis of about 250,000 galaxies using 37 characteristics.

GALAXY ZOO 2

BY THE NUMBERS

Feb. 2009 PROJECT BEGAN 14 months TO COLLECT DATA 300,000 TOTAL GALAXIES CLASSIFIED 37 DETAILS PER GALAXY 83,000 VOLUNTEERS 60 million CLICKS SOURCE: KYLE WILLETT, LUCY FORTSON

The images came from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a robotic telescope in New Mexico that’s been taking pictures of space since 2000.

Researchers said the data, now assembled in a public resource catalog, can help answer questions about histor y of the universe, the dif ferences between galaxies and the galaxies surrounding the Milky Way. Research associate and lead author Kyle Willett said because the catalog has only been available for about a month, few papers have been published. He said he hopes there will be more in the future.

“Volunteers can help us better understand the full diversity of galaxies in our local neighborhood,” said associate physics professor Lucy Fortson.

Since the par ticipants weren’t necessarily astronomers, each picture was shown multiple times to make sure the galaxies were classified accurately.

One volunteer, physics graduate student Miranda Straub, said the project successfully taught participants about space in an engaging way.

“I feel like I know more about galaxies now after looking at pictures,” she said. “I think just from the exposure I’ve learned something.”

Volunteers were valuable because they identified galaxies more ef ficiently and found previously unidentified objects, Willett said. The public could also discuss and share obser vations directly with researchers on the website.

“Building that commu-

nity has been a really important reason the project has succeeded,” Willett said.

The public discovered a star-forming type of galaxy called “Green Pea Galaxies.” Willett said they are green because of their high oxygen levels. The Green Pea Galaxies are small but form stars quickly for their size.

“Eight to 10 billion years ago, all galaxies used to form stars in this way,” he said. “For some reason, [the Green Pea Galaxies] are still forming stars at this hyperactive rate that galaxies used to.”

The next step, Fortson said, is to categorize older galaxies into a second catalog and compare them to the current one.

“When we have the earlier galaxy catalog done, then we will be able to look much more at the evolution,” she said.

HOW PARTICIPANTS CLASSIFY GALAXIES IS THE GALAXY SIMPLY SMOOTH AND ROUNDED, WITH NO SIGN OF A DISK?

HOW ROUNDED IS IT?

COULD THIS BE A DISK VIEWED EDGE-ON?

DOES THE GALAXY HAVE A BULGE AT ITS CENTER? IF SO, WHAT SHAPE?

IS THERE A SIGN OF A BAR FEATURE THROUGH THE CENTER OF THE GALAXY?

IS THERE ANY SIGN OF SPIRAL ARM PATTERN?

HOW TIGHTLY DO THE SPIRAL ARMS APPEAR?

In the classroom Since instr uctors are using Galaxy Zoo in their classes at the University, students can contribute to the research, too.

“It’s a great way of doing experimental, or hands-on, astronomy,” Willett said.

Physics and astronomy research associate Thomas Nelson used Galaxy Zoo in his classroom last spring.

“I think it’s really cool that they’re able to use college students and use our knowledge … to help fur ther science,” said international business and French sophomore Marisa Melcher t, who took Nelson’s class in the spring.

She also said she thought the method was more efficient for research-

HOW MANY SPIRAL ARMS ARE THERE?

?

HOW PROMINENT IS THE CENTRAL BULGE, COMPARED TO THE REST OF THE GALAXY?

IS THERE ANYTHING ODD?

YES NO IS THE ODD FEATURE A RING, OR IS THE GALAXY DISTURBED OR IRREGULAR?

SOURCE: MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

ers and helped students learn at the same time.

In the future, For tson said she wants to add Gal-

axy Zoo to more astronomy labs and freshman seminars.

“It’s an oppor tunity for

students to play with real astronomical data as it’s coming off the telescope,” Willett said.

State Department asked U prof for advice on Syria Kathryn Sikkink created a possible solution for the Syrian conflict.

BY NATHANIEL RABUZZI nrabuzzi@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota professor’s proposal to solve the Syrian conflict is being discussed at the national level.

The U.S. Department of State asked political science professor Kathryn Sikkink to submit her ideas to solve problems in Syria — a rare occurrence for University professors.

Sikkink, who’s been at the University for more than a decade, was one of about 10 academics selected to draft solutions for the Syrian crisis, an effort led by the

Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Her proposal, which she plans to submit Monday, focuses on creating accountability for war crimes, such as the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the treatment of political prisoners.

Academics submitting proposals to the State Department come from all over the country. Sikkink said she hasn’t worked with the federal government in this capacity before.

Farrah Tek, political science graduate student and Sikkink’s research assistant, said she was excited that Sikkink submitted her recommendation to the U.S. Department of State.

“I see it as … the future blend between academia and public policy,” she said. “It’s very exciting that the work

Mass exodus of Cuban people fuels clash of new and old

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — At a small store on Eighth Street near Miami’s Little Havana, Armando Perez paid $25 to activate his daughter’s cell phone in Cuba. Store owner Laura Benitez sat behind a glass window, typing in the phone numbers for Perez and others calling Cuba.

“I call my daughter ever y week, even if it’s just for her to say, ‘Papi, I love you,’“ said Perez, a thin man who left the island on a boat in 2008.

Benitez, who fled with her parents shor tly after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, doesn’t have family in Cuba. Many of her clients, however, grew up under the communist system and immigrated in the last 10 years.

“They need to go back to Cuba to see their family,” Benitez said. “I don’t understand because my parents are here. Maybe if they were in Cuba I would go back.”

Some 46,662 Cubans left the island legally and per manently last year, the largest migration in a

single year since 1994, according to figures from Cuba’s National Statistics Of fice. Since 2002, the number leaving has hovered around 30,000 annually, making the last 10 years the largest exodus since the start of the revolution.

That’s in addition to an estimated 7,000 to 19,000 who leave Cuba illegally each year — some by boat and many with the U.S. as their final destination.

The influx of new arrivals is evident throughout Miami, the heart of Cuba’s exile population, fr om myriad shops offering cell phone services to street fliers about performances by artists who still live on the island.

Cubans arriving today grew up on the island after the revolution, and their relationship with their homeland is dif ferent than the wave of immigrants who arrived immediately after Fidel Castro took power.

Their growing numbers are bringing those stark contrasts to the fore, leading to moments of friction between groups and putting into question what it means to be a Cuban “exile.”

that people in this field do can reach the public on another level.”

The United Nations Security Council voted at the end of September to remove or destroy all of the chemical weapons in Syria by the middle of next year — a response to an alleged chemical attack by Syrian forces that killed hundreds of civilians.

On Sunday, UN inspectors started eliminating the country’s supply of chemical weapons, according to the Associated Press.

Sikkink said her solution is based on her research at the University that focuses on how developing countries handle accountability and justice.

“We have seen that countries that use human rights prosecutions are associated

with improvements in human rights … and that this holds even in times of civil war,” she said.

Sikkink said it’s important to get the process of creating a justice system for war crimes in place so that “people on the ground are aware that they may be held accountable” and peace negotiations can be made easier.

Critics of her claims say peace agreements should come first, before any war crime trials, so that those participating in the international talks feel comfortable, Sikkink said.

“Sometimes it’s hard to strike a peace agreement when people feel that the human rights violations aren’t going to end,” she said.

More than 4 million Syrians have been displaced since political violence began

in 2011, according to a report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Associate professor Andrew Furco, who is also the associate vice president of the University’s Office for Public Engagement, said it’s rare for University professors to make this kind of advisement on international policies.

Bridget Marchesi, who is a political science graduate student and graduate director of Sikkink’s proposal, said the State Department’s choice made sense.

“Kathryn has been working in the human rights field and in transitional justice for a long time, and so she’s one of the world’s leading experts,” Marchesi said.

Sikkink said she remembers former University professor, Colin Kahl, who is

now an associate professor at Georgetown University, being asked by the federal government to give input on the Iraq War, but she couldn’t think of any other examples.

Next semester, Sikkink said she plans to transfer to Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government — where this kind of interaction with the federal government is more common — and continue her national public policy research.

But while she’s still at the University, undergraduate and graduate students are able to analyze her proposal and take part in the feedback process, Marchesi said.

“The Syria memo was definitely something different because the audience was very specific,” she said. “It was a specific request from the State Department.”

Canoe

said Chris Lenhar t, research assistant professor in the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering.

He said the Minnesota River carries large amounts of sediment and pollutants from agricultural r unof f that are later fed into the Mississippi.

Joe Magner, another bioproducts and biosystems engineering professor, said pollution is one of the Mississippi’s biggest issues.

“Probably our biggest issue that we’re focusing on today is the amount of pollutants that we send down to Louisiana and in

particular the Gulf of Mexico,” he said.

But Paddle For war d members said they didn’t go on the trip just to find evidence of pollution.

Lee Vue, a 2013 political science graduate, said she wants to simply talk to those living along the river.

“We’re just paddling the Mississippi River, interacting with communities along the river as well as star ting conversations about how people interact with the river and how they want the river to look in the future,” she said.

The group planned to depart from the Mississip-

pi’s headwaters near Lake Itasca, Vue said, but the water was too low, forcing them to leave from Lake Bemidji instead.

Gotcher said the group paddles about 30 miles each day and camps along the way.

Other Paddle For ward members hope to look at the Mississippi with fresh eyes after their trip, she said.

“Going to school at the U, we cross over it on the Washington Avenue Bridge — I crossed over it ever y single day,” Gotcher said.

“But now I have to slow down. … It gives you a really different perspective.”

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to see how the Mississippi impacts their lives.

“We want to talk to the communities and see what they are experiencing, because they’re the ones who are affected by the river,” she said.

Ever y canoeist in Paddle For ward has a dif ferent personal goal for the trip.

Elizabeth Just, a 2012 environmental science and policy management graduate, said she wants to find out if people understand how their everyday choices impact the river’s environmental health.

She said Paddle Forwar d members plan to compare nor ther n par ts of the Mississippi River with its southern half, adding that group members felt the water was cleaner closer to the river’s headwaters.

“We felt safe at the very beginning even filtering water or putting iodine in water and drinking it,” she said. “Now we probably won’t do that anymore, just because we’ve already passed so many paper mills, and a nuclear plant, and dams.”

Just south of the Twin Cities, the Minnesota River empties into the Mississippi and the pollution increases,

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

University alumnae Elizabeth Just, Erika Gotcher and Lee Vue at Boom Island Park on Friday.

Just, Gotcher and Vue are paddling down the Mississippi River to learn about watershed communities and their relationships with the river.