October 9, 2013

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EDITORIALS & OPINIONS

Pollution has damaged about 140 lakes in the metro.

Off-campus residents see a rise in theft at the start of the school year.

Off-campus insecurity

Leaves make lakes reek u See PAGE 5

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Jerry Kill missed his first full game Saturday.

Part four of a seven-week series that profiles Minneapolis mayoral candidates. u See PAGE 12

Kill recovers after seizure

Candidates talk stadium, education

u See PAGE 7

u See PAGE 6

U OF M

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OCTOBER 9, 2013

TRANSPORTATION

Keeping the Green Line safe

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Budget through after stall MSA passed its budget Tuesday after an initial vote failed.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

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A pedestrian crosses the light rail tracks on the intersection of Oak Street and Washington Avenue on Monday. The line is slated for completion in 2014.

As the rail system moves on to campus, Metro Transit is taking precautions.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

in 2004, Metro Transit’s Hiawatha light rail — now re-

Hill walked across the light rail

branded the Blue Line — has

tracks on Washington Avenue

had 75 incidents with nine

and Church Street Southeast

deaths. Most of these were

on Monday with his earphones

vehicle accidents, but almost a

in and his head down.

fourth of the 21 pedestrian ac-

ACHIEVEMENT GAP

U, MPS partner on childhood ed U research will help Minneapolis Public Schools increase grad rates.

cidents were fatal.

is more dangerous than other

“Light rail trains empirically

forms of transpor tation be-

kill more people than buses,”

cause it takes longer to stop

said David Levinson, a civil en-

and runs on street level. Come

gineering professor and trans-

mid-2014, the Central Corridor

portation studies expert.

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

light rail, or the Green Line, will

Metro Transit spokesman

cruise through the University

John Siqveland said the Green

of Minnesota at about 20 mph

and Blue Lines were built

and across the Washington Av-

with safety in mind and that

enue Bridge at up to 50 mph.

the Green Line will generally

“I could definitely see that

run slower since it will travel

being a potential issue,” Hill

through more densely popu-

said. “There are a lot of people

lated areas.

here. That’s a problem, people walking with headphones.”

The vast majority of lightrail and streetcar systems

u See RAIL Page 3

STATE LEGISLATURE

BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

Even though the legislative session doesn’t begin until next February, leaders of the state’s higher education committees aren’t taking a break from analyzing issues that could affect the University of Minnesota.

Chairs of the state’s higher education committees, Sen. Ter ri Bonof f, DFL-Minnetonka, and Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFLWinona, are spending their months away from the Capitol working on plans that would cut student costs and increase transparency at the constitutionally autonomous University.

Last session, Pelowski

University of Minnesota researchers are teaming up with Minneapolis Public Schools to improve early childhood education in the city’s schools.

The University will contribute its research in the par tnership to help MPS create higher-quality facilities to better prepare children for kindergarten, with the goal of improving graduation rates.

Concern over Minneapo-

lis’ achievement gap — lower graduation rates among underrepresented students — helped spur the partnership, MPS Chief Financial Officer Robert Doty said.

“The idea of focusing attention on getting kids ready for kindergarten is a renewed focus,” he said.

Half of Minneapolis public school students graduated from high school in 2012, compared to nearly 78 percent statewide, according to the Minnesota Department of Education.

The new early childhood education centers will take at least two years to plan and build, after raising money u See GAP Page 4 Currently, there aren’t enough centers to meet demand.

SCHOLARSHIP

On break, higher ed chairs keep U in mind Pelowski and Bonoff are starting new initiatives and continuing old ones.

u See MSA Page 3 MSA was still able to distribute some funds to student groups.

Since it began r unning

Graduate student Jonathan

Exper ts say the light rail

The Minnesota Student Association passed its budget for the 2014 fiscal year at a Tuesday forum after failing to do so two weeks earlier.

The new budget is almost 17 percent larger than last year’s and includes increased funding for MSA leadership stipends, a contentious point with University of Minnesota students.

MSA failed to pass a budget at its last forum because there weren’t enough

voting members to make a decision and there was a fierce debate over stipends — which continued briefly at Tuesday’s forum.

Minnesota International Student Association Secretar y of Cultural Relations John Otts said student leadership stipends should go toward campus events.

“We took these leadership positions to help others, not ourselves,” he said.

M S A’ s s t i p e n d s f o r the 2014 fiscal year total $35,500 split among 22 positions, which is about a 12 percent increase in stipend spending from last year.

MSA President Mike

authored legislation to increase state funding for the University and freeze tuition for two years for instate undergraduates.

“We need to review tuition, and even though we cannot force the U to do anything,” he said, “I’d like to make sure they aren’t raising outside fees to offset the cost of the freeze.”

Jason Rohloff, special assistant to the president for government relations, said the University has kept students’ costs down since the tuition freeze.

But even though costs are down in some areas, some student fees went up, and non-resident and graduate student tuition increased alongside the freeze.

Pelowski also developed strategies last session to u See HIGHER ED Page 4 Pelowski will visit campus to review the bonding request.

Rachel Drake runs toward success The runner was nominated for the Rhodes Scholarship.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Gloria Drake can recall a time when her daughter, Rachel, came home from school and decided she wanted to be a frog ophthalmologist.

That was in fifth grade.

Now, Rachel Drake is a biochemistr y and Spanish double major at the University of Minnesota, all while competing for the Gophers on the cross countr y and track and field teams.

Her interest in science hasn’t waned, but it has shifted from frog eyes to human hearts.

Drake has been conducting cardiovascular research at the University and hopes to continue that — in Oxford, England.

The senior is one of two

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota senior Rachel Drake runs in the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course. Drake was nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship.

students who were nominated by the University for the prestigious Rhodes

Scholarship.

Along with the University of Minnesota, Drake

u See DRAKE Page 8 32 U.S. students are selected as scholarship finalists each year.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Electrical problems have stalled the planned opening this fall of the nation’s new $1.7 billion epicenter for fighting global cyber threats — a Utah data center filled with superpowered computers designed to store massive amounts of classified information.

The Army Corps of Engineers discovered the problems during tests ahead of the scheduled Oct. 1 opening of the center south of Salt Lake City, on a National Guard base, Corps spokeswoman Diedra Cordell said in an emailed statement.

The facility will be the National Security Agency’s largest data storage center in the U.S., constantly using 65 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 33,000 houses. But what exactly will be happening there remains shrouded in mystery. There is no visible marker bearing the facility’s name and operator, and the NSA has been tight-lipped about what they’ll be doing there.

The Corps, which is in charge of construction, says experts are working to correct the electrical problems.

Cordell did not provide details about the exact nature of the issue, or say if it has caused any major damage.

NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines acknowledged the problems in an email but declined to provide any more information.

“The failures that occurred during testing have been mitigated,” Vines said in a statement. “A project of this magnitude requires stringent management, oversight, and testing before the government accepts any building.”

The problems were first reported by the Wall Street Jour nal (http://on.wsj. com/1bF9VUr).

NSA officials say the center will play a key role in the nation’s effort to protect national security networks, and allow U.S. authorities to monitor for potential cyber threats.

The secrecy is necessary to protect classified information that is highly sought-after by foreign spies, said a former U.S. intelligence official who

Rebels attack army base in northern Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria — Rebel fighters dressed in camouflage uniforms carefully loaded mortar rounds, then with a loud boom and a burst of smoke the shells zipped off in the direction of a nearby government army base.

“We are coming to get you, shabiha!” a man surrounded by rebel fighters shouted in an apparent reference to President Bashar Assad, using the term the opposition uses to refer to pro-government gunmen.

The shelling Tuesday, the latest salvo in an assault on the militar y facility, was part of a broader rebel effort to capture the remaining regime outposts in the largely opposition-held countr yside of northern Syria.

Dramatic footage shot by The Associated Press showed a group of 45 young rebel fighters launching an attack on the militar y base, and others deploying improvised cannons and makeshift mor tars. Some were also seen firing anti-aircraft weapons at attacking government helicopters.

The rebels captured the strategic city of Maaret alNuman a year ago after systematically seizing the army’s outposts in the area, a major supply route linking the capital, Damascus, with the contested Idlib region and Syria’s largest city, Aleppo.

But despite repeated assaults on the nearby militar y installation of Hamidiyeh, in the Wadi Deif area east of the city, the rebel fighters have failed to break through the heavily fortified base.

spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the program publicly.

Richard “Dickie” George, who retired from the NSA in 2011 after 40 years, says the facility isn’t nearly as mysterious as some think. The center only holds data, with NSA agents elsewhere combing through the information to understand how terrorist groups operate and who plays what roles. George calls it no more than a “big file cabinet” out West.

The Army Corps also found an air flow problem with the generators that they are working to fix, Cordell said. The agency is working to complete its final inspection of the center before handing it over, she said.

NSA officials have said the agency chose the Utah location over 37 others because electricity is cheaper here, and because it was easier to buy enough land to build the center’s long, squat buildings that span 1.5 million square feet. The center sits on a hill in Bluffdale, a community of about 8,000 people 25 miles

south of Salt Lake City that is known for its rodeo and annual Old West Days.

The utility that powers the data center said it determined the electrical problems are the fault of the NSA data center and not the power grid.

The utility’s engineers did a detailed analysis of their systems during the times the NSA reported problems, said Rocky Mountain Power spokesman David Eskelsen.

“It’s something internal to the NSA system,” Eskelsen told The Associated Press.

James Bamford, the author of several books on the NSA who last year wrote about the Utah center in Wired magazine, said the problems sound ver y serious from what he read in the Wall Street Journal story.

The center has some standard servers, but most of it is extremely unique, stateof-the-art equipment that is expensive. It’s not surprising to Bamford that they are encountering problems considering how much data they are trying to store and make available around the world via fiber-optic cables.

United Kingdom seeks regulator for press

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LONDON — British officials have endorsed a plan to impose a government-backed watchdog on the countr y’s scandal-scarred media, a minister announced Tuesday, dealing a blow to newspaper owners’ efforts to preser ve their system of self-regulation.

Media Secretar y Maria Miller told lawmakers that the government-backed watchdog was the best way to deal with the abuses uncovered in the wake of Britain’s phone hacking scandal. That scandal revealed how journalists across the U.K. media routinely broke the law — eavesdropping on phone messages, bribing officials, and hacking computers in the pursuit of stories.

The revelations shocked the countr y, but there’s been little consensus on how to make sure the problem never resurfaces, and one critic of government regulation said Miller’s endorsement wasn’t the final act in the battle between politicians and the press.

“It’s still ver y much up in the air,” former tabloid editor and media commentator Paul Connew told The Associated Press. “It’s not the end of the game yet.”

The government, acting on the recommendations of a judge-led inquir y into the scandal, is proposing to establish a regulator with the power to impose hefty fines and order apologies and corrections.

The watchdog is intended to be independent of both the press and the government, a tricky balancing act which of ficials have tried to per form by setting up a complex membership process involving a board, an appointments committee, and a recognition panel.

Many journalists argue the system still places too much power in the hands of of ficials, and are instead pressing for a form of self-regulation.

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Libya prime minister says raid won’t hurt ties

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRIPOLI, Libya — Relations between Tripoli and Washington will not be hurt by the U.S. raid that seized an al-Qaida suspect from the Libyan capital, Libyan leaders said Tuesday, as they requested Washington allow the family of the detainee — now being held on a U.S. warship — to establish contact with him.

The comments reflected the predicament of Libya’s weak central government after U.S. special force snatched Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, known by his alias Anas alLibi, on Saturday. The leadership is wary of criticizing its needed ally, the United States, but it also is trying to counter anger among powerful Islamic extremists at home who accuse the government of allowing or even colluding in the abduction of a Libyan citizen.

Al-Libi is alleged to be a senior al-Qaida member and is wanted by the United States in connection to the bombing of American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, with a $5 million bounty on his head. Immediately after the raid, the government issued a statement saying the raid was carried out without its knowledge and asking Washington for “clarifications” about the operation.

In his first public comments since the raid, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan insisted that Libyan citizens should be tried in their homeland if they are accused of crimes and vowed, “Libya does not surrender its sons.”

But Zeidan said the incident won’t hurt ties with Washington. “The US was

very helpful to Libya during the revolution and the relations should not be affected by an incident, even if it is a serious one,” he said at a press conference with his Moroccan counterpart Abdelilah Benkirane during a three-day visit to Rabat. He said the justice minister has been examining “different legal options to solve this problem in a wise and reasonable manner taking into account Libyans’ rights and preserving relations.”

U.S. officials say al-Libi was immediately taken out of the country and is now held in a U.S. warship for questioning.

In Tripoli, Justice Minister Salah al-Marghani said he has met with the U.S. ambassador to Libya to inquire about details of the seizure. Al-Marghani said that while the abduction was illegal according to Libyan laws, al-Libi is now in U.S. custody and will be subject to its justice system.

“We will focus on human and citizen rights and on the necessity that he gets a fair trial,” al-Marghani told reporters. “The government is putting higher national interests in mind.”

He said he asked the U.S. diplomat that the family of alLibi be allowed to speak with him by telephone wherever he is and eventually visit him, and that the Red Cross be allowed to see him. He also said he asked that the Libyan consulate in New York, where al-Libi has been indicted and could face trial, be allowed to establish contact with him.

Al-Marghani said his government is concerned about al-Libi’s health because he suffers from hepatitis, and asked he be looked after.

In Washington, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said U.S. ambassador Deborah Jones conveyed to al-Marghani that al-Libi is “being treated humanely” and that Washington has been in touch with the International Committee of the Red Cross, though she did not say if a visit would be allowed.

Harf underlined that the U.S. values the partnership with Libya and will “continue working with them on counterterrorism and security issues” to improve the Libyans capabilities. She would not say whether Washington gave Libyan authorities any prior notification of the raid.

U.S. Secretar y of State John Kerry on Monday defended the capture of al-Libi, saying the suspect was a “legal and appropriate target” for the U.S. military and will face justice in a court of law.

The Tripoli government remains weak, two years after the fall of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, unable to extend its authority around the countr y, while armed militias — including Islamic extremists — hold sway in many areas. Some of those groups now accuse the government of colluding with the Americans in the raid, or at least turning a blind eye, raising concerns about violent retaliation.

Tariq Mitri, the U.N. representative in Libya, emphasized in a statement the importance of national sovereignty and the rights of the accused to a fair trial.

“The gover nment of Libya and the Libyan people have ever y right to know the circumstances of the abduction,” he said Tuesday.

Two win Nobel for Higgs theory

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

STOCKHOLM — Nearly 50 years after they came up with the theor y, but little more than a year since the world’s biggest atom smasher delivered the proof, Britain’s Peter Higgs and Belgian colleague Francois Englert won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping to explain how matter formed after the Big Bang.

Working independently in the 1960s, they came up with a theor y for how the fundamental building blocks of the universe clumped together, gained mass and formed ever ything we see around us today. The theor y hinged on the existence of a subatomic particle that came to be called the Higgs boson — or the “God particle.”

In one of the biggest breakthroughs in physics in decades, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced last year that they had finally found a Higgs boson using the $10 billion particle collider built in a 17-mile (27-kilometer) tunnel under the SwissFrench border.

In a statement issued by the University of Edinburgh, where he retired as a professor, the famously shy, 84-year-old Higgs said he hoped the prize would help people recognize “the value of blue-sky research.”

Engler t, 80, said the award pointed to the importance of scientific freedom and the need for sci-

Keeping the Green Line safe Rail u from Page 1

around the country run on street level, Siqveland said.

Metro Transit has two train routes and 125 bus routes. Of the 81 million rides Metro Transit gave last year, 86 percent of riders use buses and 14 percent use trains.

Since the Blue Line opened in June 2004, the agency’s buses have had 6,979 incidents, which resulted in five deaths. Like the light rail, the majority of collisions involved motor vehicles. Of the 145 bus incidents involving pedestrians, four were fatal.

“Buses serve a lot more people and run a lot more miles … but have fewer fatalities,” Levinson said. “The [fatality] rates are obviously much higher for light-rail trains. Still, it’s a lot safer than driving a car.”

The 11-mile light-rail route connecting downtown Minneapolis to downtown St. Paul is decades in the making and cost $957 million.

“It’s been built, so it’s too late. It’s an at-grade light-rail facility — there’s nothing we can do about it without spending another billion dollars,” Levinson said. “We don’t operate in this world to maximize safety and only safety; we have trade-offs.”

The low-friction nature of train travel makes it efficient, but it also makes stopping a problem, said Stephen Zitzow, Minnesota Traffic Observatory laboratory manager.

METRO BLUE LINE INCIDENTS

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BUS AND LIGHT RAIL INCIDENTS SINCE JUNE 2004 BUS COLLISIONS BUS DEATHS

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Each train weighs about 300,000 pounds, and bringing one to a complete stop from 55 mph takes the length of two football fields. At 20 mph, it takes 81 feet, Siqveland said.

“It doesn’t have the option to swerve out of the way of someone in the way,” Zitzow said. “The difference here is that most vehicles can maneuver much more than a light rail, which is stuck.”

Central Corridor project spokeswoman Laura Baenen said the Green Line will begin running before the Major League Baseball All-Star game at Target Field in July.

Baenen said the Metropolitan Council has taken many safety considerations, including creating a pedestrian mall and using posters and community educators.

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Baenen said a street-level light-rail track is less costly than an underground or elevated one, which was “prohibitively expensive.”

Siqveland said part of the Metro Transit safety campaign will have links to its website posted at every train stop.

When asked if he’d visit the website, graduate student Hill said he most likely wouldn’t.

“If I am an example,” he said, “[other students] probably will not.”

entists to be allowed to do fundamental research that doesn’t have immediate practical applications.

“You don’t work thinking to get the Nobel Prize,” said Englert, a retired professor at the Free University of Brussels. Still, “we had the impression that we were doing something that was important, that would later on be used by other researchers.”

The Nobel selection committees are notoriously cautious, often allowing decades to elapse before honoring a scientific breakthrough, and their choices are hard to predict. But this time, the prize went to people who were widely expected to get it.

“In CERN here, most all of the physicists I know, about 95 percent, expected those two would win it. The question was if there would be a third and who it would be,” said Joe Incandela, a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara and leader of the CMS experiment, one of the two groups that discovered the Higgs particle.

Before the announcement, there had been questions over whether a group of American scientists who published a paper shortly after Higgs would also be honored, or whether any of the thousands of scientists at CERN would share in the prize, too.

But that would have been a tricky decision for the judges, since each Nobel Prize can go to only three winners.

Ulf Danielsson, a mem-

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ber of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which awards the physics prize, noted that the prize citation also honored the work done at CERN. “This is a giant discovery. It means the final building block in the so-called Standard Model for particle physics has been put in place, so it marks a milestone in the history of physics,” Danielsson said.

The two winners will share a prize worth 8 million Swedish kronor ($1.2 million). The Nobel Prizes, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, have been given out since 1901.

CERN Director General Rolf Heuer said he was thrilled for Higgs and Englert, while many of the thousands of scientists who worked there broke into applause when the announcement was made after an unusual — and unexplained — one-hour delay. (It could be a while before the world finds out the reason for the delay, because the academy’s deliberations are kept secret for 50 years.)

Englert and Higgs were trying to provide an answer to a riddle: How did matter form soon after the Big Bang?

They proposed the existence of an invisible field that sprawls through space like a net. The building blocks of matter, they suggested, acquired mass when this field trapped them.

Much later, as the universe cooled, they formed atoms that eventually became stars and planets.

Stocks fall as investors wait on Washington

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NEW YORK — The stock market’s slow bleed got a little worse Tuesday.

The decline is the result of squabbling in Washington over raising the nation’s debt limit and a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than a week.

The stock market’s moderate losses in the first days of the shutdown have accelerated this week as the U.S. has moved closer to an Oct. 17 deadline for lifting the government’s borrowing authority.

Stocks opened flat, moved steadily lower and slumped in the final minutes of trading Tuesday. The loss added to a three-week decline that has knocked the Standard & Poor’s 500 index down 4 percent since it hit a record high on Sept. 18.

Swings in the market will likely increase the closer the U.S. gets to the debt deadline without a resolution, said Randy Frederick, Managing Director of Active Trading and Derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.

“Virtually ever yone expects that there will some sort of a resolution,” Frederick said. “But I wouldn’t be surprised if it only came right before the last minute.”

The S&P 500 index dropped 20.67 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,655.45. It was the biggest one-day drop for the index since Aug. 20. The declines were led by phone companies.

House Republicans have insisted that a temporar y funding bill include concessions on President Barack Obama’s health care law.

The president wants a bill to simply reopen the government, without strings attached.

Obama said he had told House Speaker John Boehner he’s willing to negotiate with Republicans on their priorities, but not under the threat of “economic chaos.” Speaking at a press briefing in Washington Tuesday, the president warned that the U.S. risked a “ver y deep recession” if the debt ceiling wasn’t raised.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 159.71 points, or 1.1 percent, to 14,776.53.

The Nasdaq composite dropped 75.54 points, or 2 percent, to 3,694.83.

Ner vous investors also dumped short-term government debt as they worried that the standoff in Washington could jeopardize the nation’s ability to pay its bills, including interest on its debt, as early as next week if Congress doesn’t raise the borrowing limit.

MSA pushes annual budget through after stall, increases overall budget MSA u from Page 1

Schmit said MSA added new positions like a marketing director and treasurer this year, accounting for the increase. Schmit’s stipend was cut by $1,000 this year.

MSA Secretar y of Programming Suji Jin said she’d like to be compensated for leading a group, but she took the job knowing she wouldn’t be paid.

“We don’t expect stipends,” she said. “We joined the student group

knowing that we’re going to put in a lot of work but not get paid.”

MSA leaders disagree with the Student Ser vice Fees Committee’s decision to cut many leadership stipends last spring, and Schmit said MSA won’t cut its own stipends just to be in line with other student groups.

“We don’t want to set the precedent that we agree with the [fees committee’s] decision of last year,” he said. “We think student groups should have stipends, especially those with roles that provide a ton of benefits to the University.”

Overall budget increase MSA’s budget includes more funding for programming expenses, grants and advocacy efforts this year.

MSA member and Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition Chairman Matt Forstie said a 14 percent increase in student services fees largely accounted for the new revenue.

“I’m really happy to see the budget reinforced by forum,” he said.

The budget also increases total programming expenses by more than 20 percent, allowing MSA to help

fund more campus events.

“There was ton of demand last year for event grants for student groups,” Schmit said. “We wanted to further meet that demand.”

Schmit said moving into a new office space on the second floor of Coffman Union was another added expense.

“There’s a lot of things we needed to purchase and replace,” he said. “It’s part of the process of moving into the new office.”

MSA leaders were worried the lack of a budget would delay disbursement of student group grants.

But Grants Director Con-

nie Dong said MSA bylaws allowed leaders to pass a temporar y $5,000 operational budget and provide some funds to student groups.

If the temporary budget wasn’t passed, Dong said, student groups wouldn’t have received grants at all in the interim.

“A lot of groups rely on MSA for grants to fund their events, she said. “Being unable to distribute those grants would have been bad.”

Though many MSA leaders are happy the budget passed, some students are still critical of it.

Drew Christensen, an MSA representative from Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, said voting members should have taken a closer look at the budget before rushing to vote.

He said he’s concer ned there’s an “over whelming feeling” in the forum that voting members don’t want to take time to discuss the budget line-by-line.

“It’s up to us as voting members to do the due diligence on the budget and to be responsible stewards of the students,” he said. “We need to think further about how we spend this money.”

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Egypt scarred by 2½ years of turmoil

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — Egypt’s capital has long been proud of its nickname, “Mother of the World” — a metropolis of 18 million throbbing with the vitality and fun of other great cities, even if at times it seemed unmanageable and chaotic.

But Cairo’s spirit has been deeply scar red by 32 months of turmoil and bloodshed from two “revolutions,” constant protests and crackdowns, and a military coup.

Residents talk of an unfamiliar edginess. People are more suspicious of each other, whether because of increased crime or constant media warnings of conspiracies and terrorism.

Families are split by bitter ideological differences.

Fights are sparked by a word or a gesture seen as supporting either the militar y or the Islamists who were ousted from power by the armed forces.

The mood goes beyond ideology. With police battered by the upheaval and rarely enforcing regula-

tions, many people flout laws with no thought of the consequences — whether it’s the cafes that take over sidewalks or thugs who seize plots of land.

A cur few in place for nearly two months has put a damper on Cairo’s nightlife.

It has been eased to start at midnight, but that was usually the hour when streets and parties were just getting lively.

Political violence has killed more than 2,000 people in the city and wounded many others, starting with the Jan. 25, 2011, revolution that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. That was followed by demonstrations against the militar y rulers who replaced Mubarak, the protests during President Mohammed Morsi’s year in of fice, and the June 30 “revolution” that prompted the July 3 coup against the president.

“Political dif ferences have made some people lose their humanity,” said Shaiymaa Awad, a 32-yearold Morsi supporter.

Awad said she was in a bus recently that drove past Rabaah el-Adawiya, the

mosque where hundreds of Islamists were killed in August when police cracked down on a sit-in demanding Morsi’s reinstatement.

When she broke down cr ying, “other passengers looked surprised, but none of them understood why,” Awad said.

The Rabaah mosque is not the only city landmark now more famous for one of the violent incidents of the past 2½ years. Others include: — A historic bridge over the Nile, once a favored romantic spot for couples, that was the site of a battle between police and antiMubarak protesters.

— The towering Nileside state TV headquarters nicknamed “Maspero,” now known for the army’s killing of more than 25 Christian protesters.

— Moqattam, once simply the rocky plateau overlooking the city where couples went to steal kisses, now remembered for a bloody street fight between Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents.

New neighbor hoods joined the list Sunday,

when Morsi supporters and police clashed, killing at least 40 people. With more streets strewn with debris and blackened by fires, Cairenes fear the city is turning into a Baghdad or a Beirut at their most violent.

“Blood is ever ywhere,” said Belal Fadl, a popular satirical columnist and scriptwriter.

“It is good that life goes on after ever y episode of bloodshed, but it is terrible from a human perspective,” he said, adding that people now react to violence “as if they are watching it on a silver screen.”

Cairo has long been an unruly, tough place — densely populated, heavily polluted and choked with traf fic. With few parks or green spaces, and almost no street enter tainment, residents have few public outlets for escape.

Yet it also was the place where all Egyptians — rich, poor, intellectuals, laborers and migrants from the countr yside — were jammed together, forced to get along by smoothing over their differences with a sense of humor.

There was no contradiction seen between deep religious piety — another Cairo nickname is the “City of a Thousand Minarets” — and raucous street weddings with beer and belly dancers.

The city has gone through rapid lurches. The anti-Mubarak uprising saw an idealistic, “revolutionary” optimism. Under Morsi, conser vative Islamists were emboldened, scolding the public to adhere to “God’s law” and vilifying Christians and secular Egyptians.

Now the mood is defined by a media blitz demonizing the Islamists, idolizing militar y chief Gen. AbdelFattah el-Sissi, and intimidating critics.

One recent morning, a police officer shouted at a man whose car had broken down on a busy overpass.

The man had a beard — a hallmark of an Islamist — and the policeman angrily accused him of intentionally trying to snarl traffic.

Later the same day, workers in one of the city’s countr y clubs berated a bearded colleague for

putting worship ahead of work. “You cannot be at the mosque all day while we do all the work,” one barked.

The Aug. 14 crackdown near the Rabaah mosque left perhaps the deepest scar. The bloodshed gave Islamists a strong sense of martyrdom — but much of the rest of Cairo’s population showed little sympathy, embittered by Morsi’s presidency.

While the largely promilitary media hardly mention the deaths of Morsi supporters, the Sept. 19 killing by Islamic militants of a police general led to an outpouring of emotion for his widow and children. The interim president received them in his palace, and the education minister personally escorted two of the general’s children to school on the first day of classes.

The cur few imposed during the anti-Mubarak uprising was openly ignored, but uncustomar y discipline has marked the nighttime restrictions put in place since August. Many say they are doing so to aid the crackdown against Islamists.

For Minn. Catholics, troubling new abuse scandal

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jennifer Haselberger tried to ring alarm bells at the top ranks of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese when she found evidence pointing to recent, troubling behavior by two priests — including pornographic images on one priest’s computer discs and documents suggesting the other was addicted to sex.

But Haselberger, who resigned last April as the archdiocese’s chancellor for canonical affairs, said she felt ignored. She has since gone public with concerns that Minnesota’s archbishop and top deputies failed to truly reform how they handle problem priests, despite repeated promises to do so.

“I do not believe it can be said that the archdiocese is honoring its promise to protect” children and young people, Haselberger said last week in a statement to the media.

Unlike many of the abuse revelations that have rocked the U.S. Catholic Church, the allegations Haselberger brought to light aren’t decades old or involve perpetrators long retired or dead.

They all happened after 2002,

when U.S. bishops held a high-profile meeting in Dallas and approved broad policy changes meant to quickly remove predator y priests from parishes and restore the church’s tattered credibility with millions of Catholics.

“They weren’t just going to sweep stuff under the rug. They weren’t going to move him around,” said Joe Ternus, who in 2004 found what he called “a ridiculous amount of pornography” on the hard drive of a computer he purchased at a church rummage sale and that had belonged to Jonathan Shelley, a parish priest.

Ternus, whose parents and sister attended Shelley’s church, turned the hard drive over to archdiocesan officials.

“I was given assurances that this wasn’t going to happen, but that’s exactly what happened,” Ternus said.

Haselberger’s allegations have the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese playing defense. Last week, Archbishop John Nienstedt’s top deputy, the Rev. Peter Laird, resigned, saying he hoped to “repair the trust of many, especially the victims of abuse.” Nienstedt also convened what he said would be

an independent task force to examine the way church officials have handled accusations of sexual misconduct by priests.

But chur ch leaders weren’t initially so eager to deal with the cases. Minnesota Public Radio News obtained a letter from Nienstedt to Cardinal William Levada, the now-retired Vatican official who ran the office that oversees errant priests, spelling out how an archdiocese investigator found pornographic images on Shelley’s hard drive that were at least “borderline illegal, because of the youthful looking male images.”

“My staff has expressed concern that the fact that CDROMs containing the images remain in the cleric’s personnel file could expose the archdiocese, as well as myself, to criminal prosecution,” Nienstedt wrote in the letter.

Haselberger told MPR News she was later told Nienstedt’s letter was never actually sent to the Vatican.

The archdiocese declined to make Nienstedt or Laird available for inter views.

Spokesman Jim Accurso said media coverage of the recent allegations “leave a false impression about the commitment of the archdiocese to

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and working with community members, Doty said.

The first center is planned for North Minneapolis, with plans to create another within several years.

Educational psychology associate professor Michael Rodriguez, who has researched early childhood education at the University since 1999, said the partnership serves as a chance for young children and their families to gain access to an education they may not have had before.

“We are essentially taking advantage of an opportunity to provide access …

to high-quality educational facilities,” he said.

The education centers’ designs have yet to be determined, but their general structure will be based on University research, said Maureen Seiwer t, MPS executive director of early childhood education.

The centers will focus on increasing parental involvement and creating the best environment in which to deliver instruction, she said.

Educational psychology professor Scott McConnell, who is involved with the partnership, said the state has been “aggressively” moving to expand and improve its early childhood services over the last few years. A bill passed last

GRADUATION RATE TRENDS

2008

2010

2011

50.1%

46.9%

76.9% 47.2%

75.5% 42.3%

2009

77.6%

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74.3% 45.3%

74.3%

STATEWIDE

2012

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legislative session granted $40 million in early childhood learning scholarships to the Minnesota Depar tment of Education.

While there’s sufficient funding for children to attend early childhood education centers now, he said, there aren’t enough of them available.

“First we had enough high-quality spaces but not enough kids to attend them,” McConnell said. “Now we have enough money for kids to attend them but not quite enough spaces.”

MPS leaders hope to fund the partnership by raising money, Seiwert said, in addition to using funds promised by the federal government.

Many public schools in Minneapolis are already rated four-star, the highest rating a program can have, according to rankings by the Parent Aware for School Readiness committee.

Though Seiwer t said MPS is already doing well as a school system, she said she still hopes the partnership will improve high school graduation rates in Minneapolis.

“If we focus on the disparities in student achievement and increase the early childhood oppor tunity for children,” she said, “research really suppor ts the fact that those kids [will] have better lifelong outcomes.”

identify and address sexual misconduct by priests.” He said eliminating any form of abuse is the “highest priority” for the archdiocese.

Tom Wieser, an attorney for the archdiocese, has called Haselberger “a disgruntled former employee.”

She worked at the archdiocese from 2008 to last April, when she resigned because of concerns about the way sexual abuse allegations were handled.

According to a recent police report, Haselberger found computer discs and a report in the vault last year that appeared to be evidence from a 2004 internal investigation into the images. The document accompanying the discs details thousands of por nographic images including some depicting someone who appeared to be a prepubescent boy, the police report said.

The police repor t also said Haselberger told Laird what she found, and was instructed to “put them back in the vault.”

An attorney for the archdiocese said a computer forensics expert found no evidence to support Haselberger’s allegations. Police also found no evidence of child pornography but ac-

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improve administrative oversight — a process he plans to continue.

After criticism of the University’s administrative costs last year, legislators requested increased reporting about the institution’s spending.

Pelowski said he’s started preparing for next session and plans to review and streamline policies already in place regarding the University’s transparency.

In addition to continuing work from last session, both legislators are working on new projects.

Bonof f said she would like to work on setting up an apprenticeship program next session that would partner students with public and private businesses.

The system would be similar to programs that exist in Germany, she said, where businesses agree to pay students’ college tuition if the students agree in turn to join the company after graduation.

“We need to ask busi-

knowledged in the report they didn’t have the computer itself.

“Two sets of eyes have looked at these discs. Both have concluded that they do not contain child pornography,” said Shelley’s attorney, Paul Engh.

Police received new information from Ternus on Friday, and on Tuesday afternoon they announced they were reopening the child pornography investigation.

In the other case at issue, the Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer was allowed to remain in ministry in St. Paul, and was promoted to pastor in 2009, despite ample evidence that archdiocesan leaders knew of sexual misconduct, Haselberger said. He is now in prison for sexually abusing two children in 2010 and for possessing child pornography.

Months after Haselberger was hired in 2008, she noticed Wehmeyer’s file contained documents that said he had a sexual addiction and had violated the archdiocese’s code of conduct several times, MPR reported.

She warned church officials.

“Having worked on similar cases in other dioceses, I was completely unprepared

for the responses I received in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis,” she wrote in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday.

In a Sept. 27 letter, Nienstedt said he did not suspect Wehmeyer was a risk to children when he named him pastor and that now it is clear Wehmeyer should not have been in active ministry. He apologized for not handling the matter more aggressively.

The new policies formulated by bishops in 2002 were specifically designed to quickly root out problem priests. One church leader instrumental in that process was Harr y Flynn, Nienstedt’s predecessor in St. Paul-Minneapolis. Flynn is implicated in some of the decisions that Haselberger brought to light. Flynn could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

“Since 2002, there was a real sea change, and I believe most bishops got it,” said Nicholas Cafardi, an expert in church law. A professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Cafardi said he would be personally shocked to learn that top officials in any diocese sheltered potential abusers since then.

nesses like Medtronic, General Mills and Cargill to invest in our students right out of high school,” she said.

Bonoff, who spent three weeks touring colleges and universities across the state as par t of a higher education “Listening Tour,” said upcoming discussions should focus on alleviating student debt.

On the tour, Bonoff said, she wanted to get a “firsthand perspective” from students.

“Hearing from the students is allowing us to lay out our agenda for the upcoming term,” she said.

She said even though next session is not a “budget-setting” year at the state Legislature, she will work to curb student costs.

Pelowski said another issue he plans to “keep a close eye on” is enrollment rates at the University and within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

“We’re seeing a significant drop in enrollment in the MnSCU system,” he said. “This could signify that students are either maxing out on student debts or that the economy

is doing well and more people are going back to work.”

Pelowski said he will be on the University’s campus in the coming weeks to review the 2014 bonding request with President Eric Kaler.

“Touring campus gives [legislators] a better understanding of what happens here,” Rohlof f said.

“We have to show them our physical needs.”

Rohloff said the request to fund a variety of construction projects throughout the University system focuses on science and research buildings.

The University has been inviting legislators to tour campus and get an understanding of the request, he said.

Students will be encouraged to visit the Capitol to suppor t the bonding request in 2014, Rohloff said, much as they were when the University was advocating for the tuition freeze last spring.

“It’s one thing for University staff or faculty members to talk with legislators about our requests,” Rohlof f said. “But it is much more power ful when students do.”

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Leaf pollution makes urban lakes reek

BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com

While falling leaves blanket the University of Minnesota campus with maroon and gold, they may also be polluting metro-area lakes and rivers.

On rainy days, leaves wash into storm drains and their nutrients can build up, polluting urban lakes. University researchers found leaves account for about 60 percent of damage from too many nutrients in urban lakes. Excess nutrients

increase algae growth — a common threat to lakes in the metro area.

When leaves fall in forests, they don’t cause problems, because the soil and surrounding plants recycle their nutrients.

“In the city you have a really different situation,” said Sarah Hobbie, an ecology, evolution and behavior professor. “A lot of the leaf litter actually falls into the street. And as those nutrients are released in decomposition, nothing can hold them into place.”

Forest resources junior scientist Christopher Buyarski, who conducted most of the experiments, said they identified the problem by filling bags

with leaf litter, driving over them once a week to simulate traffic and testing the material once a month for carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus.

At first, Buyarski said, the team expected leaves to break down slowly since the street isolated them from other plants and organic matter, but the opposite was actually true. The collected leaves shared space with dirt, grass and worms, and they decayed faster.

“You don’t nor mally think of streets being that productive,” he said.

Since excess nutrients can’t be recycled, they wash into storm drains. When the leaves progress into surrounding lakes, Hobbie said,

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

University of Minnesota researchers discovered that leaf litter can be a source of pollution for urban lakes and rivers, and reducing leaf litter can improve water quality. University Landcare workers will begin removing leaves in the next few weeks.

they reduce species diversity and make lakes “smelly” and unpleasant.

City street sweeping Most cities purify water with rain gardens or stormwater holding ponds to dilute the leaf nutrients, but the methods are expensive and require space that some cities lack.

EEB assistant professor Jacques Finlay said the researchers are working on ways to demonstrate the benefits of street sweeping to city officials.

The researchers are also beginning to par tner with some cities on their clean-up ef for t. Bioproducts and biosystems engineering research professor Lawrence Baker said excess nutrients have damaged about 140 lakes in the metro area.

Baker has worked closely with Prior Lake, Minn., and said sweeping streets three or four times during the fall removed more nutrients and cost less than other methods.

Most cities sweep streets twice a year — once in the late fall and once in the early spring, Baker said.

Since leaves fall at dif ferent times throughout the season, this needs to happen more often to reduce pollution.

The research team is developing workshops to show public officials the benefits of sweeping, Baker said. St. Paul and Minneapolis have both expressed interest.

Even if city officials decide to increase their street sweeping, it will take a few years to implement the new

PERCENT OF NUTRIENT POLLUTION IN PRIOR LAKE BY SEASONS NITROGEN

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Excess nutrients have damaged about 140 lakes in the metro area.

SOURCE: LAWRENCE BAKER

policies, Finlay said.

“I think we’re getting there,” he said. “It’s just hard to change the way things are done.”

Neighborhoods take charge

Some Minneapolis residents are tackling the algae problems in their neighborhoods.

In 2009, Janna Caywood organized a neighborhood network to address the algae pollution in Como Lake.

“We saw all the algae out there, and it looked so sad,” she said. “We had a vague notion the city was working on a project. ... We thought, ‘There has to be something we can do.’”

The group organized an annual project called the “Como Curb Cleanup,” which invites neighborhood residents to clean up and bag excess leaf material that accumulates in gutters, driveways and streets.

Caywood said they also infor m neighbors how

LEAF POLLUTION

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LAKES IN MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL METRO AREA THAT ARE NUTRIENT-IMPAIRED

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URBAN LAKES ORIGINATE FROM FALLEN TREE LEAVES

$1,000–$2,000 THE COST PER POUND OF

PHOSPHORUS FOR CURRENT NUTRIENT REMOVAL METHODS

$100 or less THE COST PER POUND OF

PHOSPHOROUS FOR STREET SWEEPING SOURCE: LAWRENCE BAKER, SARAH HOBBIE

leaves — “public enemy No. 1” — pollute their lake.

“We think of ourselves as par tnering with gover nment agencies working hard on issues,” she said, “They can’t do it by themselves.”

Ward 2 City Council candidate runs quiet campaign Diana Newberry is a member of the Socialist Workers Party.

BY ALEX CHHITH achhith@mndaily.com

Diana Newberry works in a candy factory during the day and goes door-knocking with a small group to campaign for the Socialist Workers Party at night.

Newberry is a Minneapolis City Council candidate for Ward 2, which covers parts of campus and other University of Minnesota neighborhoods.

She said her ideas on economic and social issues could

benefit the area, which has been represented by Green Party candidate Cam Gordon since 2006.

While working to secure a spot on the City Council, Newberry is also looking to spread the messages of the Socialist Workers Party.

“She’s ver y passionate about the importance about posing an alternative to the two main parties,” said Joanne Murphy, Newberry’s colleague in the Socialist Workers Party.

If she’s picked for the position, Newberry said, the only issue she would push is improving workers’ rights and helping them mobilize.

The Socialist Workers

Party supports increasing state and federal minimum wage, improving working conditions and reforming city departments, Newberry said.

After Newberr y spent more than a decade volunteering for the organization — including three years in Minnesota — her colleagues urged her to run for a City Council spot.

She’s r unning with a strong dedication to the Socialist Workers Party, and said she would travel and protest on issues, like abortion and workers’ rights, anytime and anywhere.

After her eight-hour workday as a production employee

at Pearson Candy Company in St. Paul, Newberr y has been spending her evenings going to neighborhood doors,

“I’ve been offered tilapia straight off the grill once.”

DIANA NEWBERRY City Council candidate

ramping up support for her par ty by selling Socialist books and subscriptions to the Militant — the party’s new publication.

Murphy said Newberry is “very energetic” when she goes door-knocking and she

receives positive feedback from residents.

“I’ve been offered tilapia straight off the grill once,” Newberry said.

Murphy said Newberry is upfront with her strategies when she’s campaigning and would use the City Council seat to work for issues supported by members of the Socialist Workers Party.

Newberry’s political resume extends beyond her current campaign for City Council. In the past, she said, she briefly ran for governor of Iowa. She also ran for other political offices in California.

Gordon and Ward 3 City Councilwoman Diane Hofst-

ede said they weren’t familiar with Newberr y’s platform and her presence in the race has been quiet.

“It’s nice that someone else entered the Ward 2 City Council race,” Gordon said.

Having candidates like Newberr y in the election, Hofstede said, is part of the democratic system.

“I look forward to meeting [Newberry] on the campaign trail one of these days,” Gordon said.

Though Newberry’s campaign hasn’t been as visible as her opponents’, she said the people she’s met on the campaign trail will remember her name when they go out to vote.

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ike many of my fellow University of Minnesota students, I was out at a party last Saturday night. While I was enjoying weekend shenanigans, someone snooped in my supposedly empty house in Marcy-Holmes.

My roommate woke to see a dust outline where his Xbox normally lay. I spent over an hour tearing up the house searching for my MacBook Pro. By noon, we realized we were robbed.

I’ve moved on from the grief of losing more than a year’s worth of memories and irreplaceable files. I now question the security of my neighborhood.

If someone can come in to my house, grab my $1,500 laptop and walk to my roommate’s bedroom and take his Xbox, then what is to stop them from hiding and waiting for my roommates and I to come home?

It is a terrifying proposi-

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tion. I had my parents drive down with my old baseball bat, just in case.

Robberies and similar thefts take place at a higher rate as the summer ends and the school year begins compared to any other time of year. Between Jan. 29 and April 1, there were 36 home burglaries in the 2nd Precinct, which contains Marcy-Holmes and other University-area neighborhoods. Just between Aug. 27 and Sep. 30, the number of home burglaries jumped to 65.

In the first week of October alone, the 2nd Precinct reported 19 burglaries, 11 thefts from motor vehicles and 15 larceny offenses.

The 2nd Precinct reported similar spikes in off-campus thefts during the first few

weeks of the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.

I don’t blame the thief.

Burglars are commonly men under the age of 25, trying to make living expenses or fund drug use. Anyone who is desperate enough to run into a home and loot it without concern of confrontation is in a far worse place in life than I am.

I’ll be the first person to admit that my own carelessness could have contributed to this debacle. I recall several instances in which I left the house without checking our locks or have returned home to find the door unlocked. It’s entirely feasible that the thief could’ve used an unlocked door.

That being said, I don’t believe as a tenant I should be expected to take on the full responsibility of the stolen goods. Had I known how dangerous this neighborhood is, and how regularly burglaries take place, I may have taken out renters insurance or gone to greater lengths to protect my valuables. Rather, I let myself be lulled into a false sense of security. I believed that I would be safe in a neighborhood so close to campus and so highly populated by fellow

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 114,841- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,374 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

students.

I love living in MarcyHolmes. The neighborhood welcomed my fellow roommates and me. It showed us nothing but kindness since we moved in. The bus stops right on our corner and zips to campus every morning. The market down on Eighth Street covers most of my basic grocery runs, and my neighbors are always happy to chat. There is no other location, on or off campus, where I would rather live. I just wish the area wasn’t so dangerous.

Tomorrow, I will have my locks changed by my rental company. I need my peace of mind restored; I can’t say I’ve slept well since that night.

Although this precaution will help alleviate my concerns, I wish that I had been warned by my rental company about the dangers of living in these areas before I moved in.

I hope that future student residents, freshly moved into the neighborhood, take up precautions to keep their property safe from theft.

Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Comments on “Study abroad safely” letter to the editor Stacey Tsantir, University of Minnesota director of Health, Safety and Compliance, is a leader and role model that many universities would do well to model after. We are extr emely for tunate to have had her keen skills as director of ClearCause Foundation for almost three years. There aren’t many colleges and universities that have stepped up with staffing study abroad safety directors. Those that do, do not all possess the skills of Tsantir, or her passion.

ClearCause Foundation, an organization that advocates for students’ safety abroad, understands that the Clery Act only requires universities who receive federal money to repor t health and safety infractions on campuses they own and control abroad.

This isn’t much.

As much as the Cler y Act repor ts, many incoming freshmen and their families aren’t even aware of its information. Even when students repor t breaking the law, it’s a long road to get sanctions.

Information is a tool to make an informed decision. As parents, we used safety repor ts mandated by the Cler y Act to make an informed decision about our son’s college selections and preparations.

Students and families interested in richly reward-

ing experiences of study abroad deser ve no less.

It is not rewarding if you are raped, robbed, killed, abused, scammed or endangered on a program abroad.

Programs that do not live up to the bar heralded

by University of Minnesota deser ve to be scrutinized and sanctioned for placing our best and brightest, who are often poorly prepared, in dangerous situations.

Sadly, we hear all too often from families of deceased children who went abroad with some prestigious programs in which staf f did not notify them, would not answer their questions or asked students or families to stop calling.

Where does this family turn? Civil lawsuits do not mitigate changes.

Some students in risky environments may be told they will not graduate, receive refunds or credits if they cancel when they feel endangered. We need an environment where it is OK to report necessar y safety information. It is possible to prevent death and injur y. Look at what laws have done for airline safety.

Safety means the world to our most precious treasures, our next generation, when they study abroad.

Safety is not an accident.

Sheryl Hill Executive Director, ClearCause Foundation

Like first lady Michelle Obama stated in a recent

speech, our children are the “center of our universe.”

It is the exact sentiment that keeps us fighting, as no other child should have to lose their life in a preventable accident abroad.

No other family should have to watch their life’s work — because a beautiful loving, compassionate, giving family takes work — come apart by the seams.

I lost my beautiful son Ravi while he was on a Duke University and Organization for Tropical Studies program in 2012.

The research on the safety measures of study abroad programs focuses on what students should and shouldn’t do, yet I hear nothing about the leaders who are ultimately responsible for my son’s life.

It is clear that accidents can happen here at home and abroad, but if risks are preventable, measures should be in place to avoid them.

The loss of our son is as over whelming since day one. The risky study abroad programs go on.

Stacey Tsantir, University of Minnesota director of Health, Safety and Compliance, is passionate about students’ health and safety abroad. Along with ClearCause Foundation, we can continue to work together to ensure safety while abroad and the future of our children.

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ike many of my peers, my first introduction to the social networking world was Facebook.

In my first few days of Facebook, I sent out LUIS RUUSKA friend requests columnist in batches to anyone and everyone I had mutual friends with. In a matter of weeks, I amassed more than 800 friends; most I had never met in person.

I used to not give much thought about the fraction of people that I appeared to know online. In fact, meeting these Facebook “friends” was almost a treat.

However, I recently realized just how artificial and unsettling it was to be “friends” with so many strangers.

Worse yet, I looked at the amount of people I had hidden from my timeline simply because their posts annoyed me. It was more than 80.

The epiphany hit me: I needed to be active on social media.

I began to unfriend people I didn’t know and people whose posts annoyed me. Weirdly, I felt a pang of guilt each time I hit the unfriend button.

This notion of guilt over something so trivial seemed foolish, but I realized why I felt ill from my Facebook baptism by fire.

Unfriending someone is the equivalent of telling someone you don’t want them in your real-world life. There is a dramatic weight that comes with disconnecting with people in cyberspace.

Social networking sites were never meant to be a substitute for reality, but now 72 percent of all adult Internet users are using them. In many ways they have become an alternate social reality. We’ve learned the hard way that online actions can have realworld consequences, so we should be active in constructing our digital experiences.

We have a right to pick and choose who we want to interact with online just as we do in reality. We have a right to surround ourselves with the people we like or want to know. We shouldn’t feel obligated to blindly connect with people for the sake of connecting.

Ultimately, we don’t tether ourselves to worn-out or even unhealthy relationships in the real world. Why should it be different in cyberspace?

Be active about creating your social media experience. I promise it will change your experience online.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

Disability presents double challenge The University must stay aware of varying ability in the classroom and campus buildings.

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he Minnesota Daily reported last week that some students find disability is often left out of conversations about diversity.

“I think that, in general, disability is just not on people’s wavelengths in the same way that race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation have been,” Jeanne Higbee, professor and director of graduate studies for postsecondary teaching and learning, told the Daily.

This issue is compounded in higher education. Not only must coursework be accessible and representative to many different perspectives and abilities, but historic buildings often come with accessibility challenges.

The University of Minnesota’s success on these fronts has varied. Many spoke highly of the University’s Disability Services program in last week’s Daily article, but the community at large is less conscious of those with disabilities.

Of the 131 University courses that fulfill the diversity liberal education requirement, none of them are focused on disability and only three mention disability in their course descriptions.

Furthermore, much of campus was built before the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act, and many buildings were not designed with accessibility in mind. Facilities have been updated to comply with the federal law, but these solutions are often inconvenient or, at worst, thrown together.

Some buildings have ver y few accessible entrances or temporary ramps. Recent construction around campus has not made this any easier.

While some of these issues are not easy to solve, it certainly doesn’t reflect well on the University to offer so little coursework focused on disability.

When weighing new coursework and renovations, the University should keep in mind the varied abilities of those in the classroom — and how they’ll get into the building.

Orchestra lockout hurts local arts The ongoing bargaining impasse is severely damaging the Twin Cities’ arts reputation.

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t’s been more than a year since the Minnesota Orchestra lockout began. Orchestra musicians voted to reject the latest contract proposal put forth by management (the Minnesota Orchestra Association) on Sept. 28. Last Tuesday, renowned conductor Osmo Vänskä resigned as it was announced that the orchestra’s upcoming Carnegie Hall concerts would be canceled.

Vänskä’s resignation brings the fallout of ongoing negotiations between musicians and management to a new low. Both the Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra have been involved in lockouts forcing concert cancellations over the past year. Though the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra was able to reach an agreement and has resumed playing, the lockouts represent the state of disarray many of the nation’s major orchestras have fought through as a result of economic instability.

It is clear that neither the musicians nor management is ready to offer major concessions on a contract proposal. Orchestra musicians claim on their website that accepting the Minnesota Orchestra Association’s contract proposals would reduce the organization to a “third tier team,” while the Minnesota Orchestra Association suggests salary cuts and other contract concessions are needed to adapt to changing economic conditions as other orchestras have done across the country.

The ongoing lockout is an embarrassment to the reputation of the Twin Cities’ arts community; continued cancellation of concerts as well as Vänskä’s resignation will severely damage the Orchestra’s world-class standing.

Though there is no simple solution to such a multi-faceted conflict, if compromise is not reached soon, the public will be left to wonder whether the Twin Cities is really a place where art can survive economic instability, let alone thrive during it.

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FOOTBALL

Student attendance decreases nationally Since opening in 2009, TCF Bank Stadium has only sold out three times.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Students cheer for the Gophers against Western Illinois on Sept. 14 at TCF Bank Stadium.

TOTAL FAN ATTENDANCE AT TCF BANK STADIUM PER YEAR

2009

2010

Campus unity Last season, the Gophers finished with a 6-7 record despite winning the first four games of the season.

Once Minnesota star ted losing, fans stopped coming to games.

The best way to boost fan attendance at Minnesota is to change the culture around the football program, Othen said.

“It’s a little bit of a bandwagon ef fect,” he said. “Later [in the season], there’s this lack of team spirit.”

That isn’t a problem at schools like Oklahoma and Florida State, which have strong football traditions.

“OU is synonymous with football,” Coghlan

2011

2012

320,902

the games.

“I personally wasn’t too interested in going to games before,” he said.

“But star ting last year, I think people are star ting to get more excited about football.”

326,456

ef fect on attendance, success on the field can have a positive effect.

University of Oklahoma business and supply chain management senior Briana Coghlan said her school’s student section always seems full.

“The University tries to get us to go to volleyball games,” she said. “They’re not worried about getting us into football.”

Coghlan pointed out that many Oklahoma fans even make an annual trip to Dallas to watch the rivalry game with Texas. The school cancels classes the Friday before the game.

“Our ‘fall break’ is to go to that game,” she said. “I know maybe five people who aren’t going to Dallas.”

UCLA cognitive science and sociology junior Ben Bordofsky said he’s seen an increase in attendance at football games this season.

The Br uins improved their record from 6-8 in 2011 to 9-5 last season, which Bordofsky said helped bring more fans to

333,996

Still, Minnesota’s student section isn’t the only fan base with shrinking numbers.

Student attendance is declining nationwide, according to a recent Wall Street Jour nal repor t.

Even per ennial powerhouses like Georgia and Alabama sometimes find it dif ficult to get students to come to games.

University of Tennessee political science senior Tanner Beck said student attendance has declined at his school in the past 10 years because the team has underachieved.

Although a r espect able number of people still come to games, he said, the team’s struggles have had a significant impact on attendance.

“I don’t think it’s gone down because of disinterest in football,” he said.

“It goes down when your team doesn’t per form as well as people expect.”

While poor per formance can have a negative

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A national trend

355,635

The 2013 homecoming football game between Iowa and Minnesota drew a record crowd at TCF Bank Stadium.

But recent attendance numbers at home games suggest the record draw may have been a fluke.

Fan attendance at Gophers home football games has decreased ever y year since TCF Bank Stadium opened in 2009. And at the current rate, the 2013 season will continue that downward trend.

All seven home games were sold out during TCF Bank Stadium’s inaugural season. Since then, the stadium has only sold out three times in three and a half seasons.

Though many fans have contributed to the drop in attendance, marketing senior Tyler Othen said he’s noticed a dwindling number of students attending games lately.

Othen has held season tickets ever y year he’s attended the University, and he said student attendance this season is the worst he’s ever seen.

“Homecoming is one thing,” he said. “But with some upcoming games, you kind of forget about them because you don’t hear about it.”

Othen said he thinks Minnesota’s struggles on the field have had the biggest impact on student attendance. The Gophers are 9-25 in Big Ten games since TCF Bank Stadium opened.

In addition to the team’s poor play over the years, Othen said the cold Minnesota weather keeps even more students away from games late in the season.

“People sometimes view [football] as a warmweather, social event,” he said. “When it starts to get cold, there’s barely anyone in the stands.”

2013*

*Projected attendance

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said. “The administration doesn’t have to market football at all.”

Florida State media production senior David Swinburne said his university shuts down when the football team plays.

“They close down the streets around the school,” he said. “You can find a tailgate anywhere within four miles of the school.”

It’s that feeling of campus unity that Minnesota lacks, Othen said. While winning more games will help, he said, it’s up to the students to commit to suppor ting the team through good times and bad.

“The stadium should fill up,” Othen said. “There needs to be some kind of centralized feeling, something that can bring a campus together.”

FOOTBALL

Kill recovers at home after last week’s seizure Jerry Kill missed his first full game of his Gophers career Saturday.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Gophers defensive coordinator T racy Claeys said T uesday that head coach Jerr y Kill is at home and “doing good” after a seizure Saturday morning before the game at Michigan.

“He’s continuing to get the rest he needs and work with the doctors to do the best they can to get the situation under control with his medicine,” Claeys said.

Kill has yet to rejoin the team, Claeys said.

Filling in for Kill on the weekly media call for Big Ten coaches, Claeys said he talked to Kill on the phone Tuesday morning. He declined to elaborate, however, when asked about the details of their conversation and said he doesn’t know when Kill will return to work.

“It’s all around when his doctor’s appointments are and that type of stuff,” Claeys said. “We’ll just take it one day at a time and see how it goes.”

Kill didn’t travel with the team to Ann Arbor, Mich., on Friday because he wasn’t feeling well, according to a news release.

He had planned to meet the team Saturday, the release said, but remained in Minneapolis after the seizure. This was the first time in Kill’s Minnesota tenure that he’s missed an entire game because of health.

Claeys ser ved as interim head coach at the game as the Gophers (4-2, 0-2 Big Ten) lost 42-13.

“We know coach’s situation; we know we have to be ready. I don’t think this changed anything.”

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Claeys told repor ters Sunday he thinks Kill’s health issues may have been caused by adjustments to his medication. “[His doctor] claims that when [Kill] gets his medication regulated, they’ll have great control over this,” Claeys said Sunday. “Every time it happens, it’s a bad thing … but in his doctors’ eyes, he’s getting closer to being able to control the situation.”

On T uesday, Claeys said the team was “a lit-

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill watches on the sidelines in the first half against Western Illinois on Sept. 14 at TCF Bank Stadium.

tle disappointed” when it heard Kill wouldn’t coach the game against Michigan, but he said his absence didn’t have any ef fect on how the team played.

“We know coach’s situation; we know we have to be ready,” tight end Maxx W illiams said after the game. “I don’t think this

changed anything.”

Minnesota has a bye this week, which comes at a good time for not only Kill, but the entire team.

Injuries have depleted the team’s secondar y, which may for ce the team to make adjustments at cornerback in the coming weeks, Claeys said.

“If we played today,

we’d be without four [defensive backs],” he said Sunday, noting injuries to Derrick Wells, Mar tez Shabazz, Cedric Thompson and Briean BoddyCalhoun.

Claeys said the team will work on fundamentals and third-down play during its three practices this week, which begin

Wednesday. The Gophers will star t preparing for Nor thwestern later in the week — with or without Kill.

“Really, it’s the same process,” Claeys said, “And when he gets back, he gets back.”

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CROSS COUNTRY

Drake runs toward success Drake u from Page 1

has also done research at the University of Washington and the University of Oregon.

The Rhodes Scholarship would offer her an opportunity to research at Oxford University, which boasts one of the best cardiovascular research centers in the world.

The Rhodes process began with Drake submitting a personal statement, three letters of recommendation and a resume.

Then a campus nominating committee notified her that it wanted to inter view her.

Drake’s academic advisor, Rachel McKessock, was the one who told Drake she would be a good potential candidate for the scholarship.

“I was like, ‘Yeah, right. I mean, are you kidding me?

Who gets the Rhodes Scholarship?’ ” Drake said.

McKessock advises about 140 to 150 studentathletes fr om multiple teams each year and said in an average year, she has “anywhere from five to 10” advisees completing dual

degrees.

“She is without a doubt, academically one of the top student-athletes that I’ve had in the three-plus years I’ve been doing this,” McKessock said of Drake.

Drake was honored as a Big Ten Conference Distinguished Scholar last year, an award given to returning student-athletes with a minimum 3.7 GPA for the past academic year.

In addition, she was named one of the top-five student-athletes at the University of Minnesota, according to her father, Craig Drake, who found out from one of his coworkers.

“She came into my office and said, ‘Craig, I can’t believe it. That’s awesome,’ ” he said.

“And I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ” But when the University nominated Rachel Drake for the Rhodes Scholarship, the Drakes found out right away.

“She called, and she was in tears,” Craig Drake said.

“She had called earlier that week in tears for another reason, and I thought, ‘Oh no. Now what?’ Well, they were tears of joy.”

Both of her parents admitted to Googling the scholarship to find out more

information.

“The only thing I knew about it was that Bill Clinton was [a Rhodes Scholar],” Gloria said. “I think it’s an honor. It’s a huge opportunity for her. It’s very exciting.”

Only 32 students across the U.S. are selected to receive the Rhodes Scholarship each year.

The country is split into 16 districts. Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin comprise District 11.

“It’s kind of like ‘The Hunger Games,’ ” Drake said. “Each district has two tributes.”

She humbly said it was “unlikely” she would get an inter view, even though there is a real possibility she might.

“It’s just crazy to be even considered [and] that this is even a possibility,” Drake said.

Balancing the student with the athlete

As a student-athlete, Drake doesn’t spend all her time inside a classroom.

Gophers head coach Sarah Hopkins said Drake is able to balance her academics and her athletic career.

“Even if you’re a great student, you shouldn’t study

24 hours a day all the time because you need to have that other element,” Hopkins said.

Drake redshir ted her freshman year — a common practice for members of the cross countr y team — so she is a fifth-year senior.

Her senior teammate Katie Moraczewski has known her since first grade and said the balance between academics and athletics has gotten easier over the years.

“We have a pretty solid routine of when we can do our homework,” Moraczewski said of the cross countr y team. “When you only have two hours a night to do it, you really have to focus.”

Drake said cross countr y helps her be more productive.

“When I’m out of season and I don’t have practice every day, I see that my schedule becomes more lax,” she said. “But then I don’t get as much done because I’m not as strict with myself.”

In season, she said, she plans her days hour by hour to figure out what needs to be finished.

Hopkins said practice time can ser ve as a “nice yin and yang” because student-athletes can use the time to focus on something

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA

Minnesota senior Rachel Drake runs in the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

besides academics.

Hopkins wrote Drake a letter of recommendation for her Rhodes Scholarship application. In the letter, she said, she wrote about Drake’s leadership skills and her ability to overcome injuries.

“Wherever she goes down the road, she’s still going to be focused on not only making herself better but making other people better,” Hopkins said.

Drake is currently balancing 18 credits, cross country, medical school applications and her Rhodes

application, among other things.

Her parents said Drake is no stranger to an intense schedule. In high school, she was student council president, homecoming queen, a member of the speech club, a sailor and, of course, a runner.

“We thought, ‘Well, all right. She had a great run in high school, and I’m sure she’ll do OK in college,’ ” Craig Drake said. “And now, we can truthfully say she’s had a great run in college as well. We’re not sure where this all ends.”

VOLLEYBALL

Hauer hits stride in sophomore season with Gophers Karlie Hauer has played more in her second year.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

While most of Karlie Hauer’s teammates are just arriving at practice, the sophomore outside hitter is already on the court, practicing her spike and her serve to the nearly empty gym.

That extra work has paid

off. Hauer has seen her playing time increase and her role on the team expand over the last year.

“We all want to play,” she said. “We all want to have our opportunities. It’s nice to know that putting in hard work on the court in practice has been able to give me the opportunity to go and show what I’ve been working on in games.”

Hauer has started five matches this season, playing in 11 overall. She’s amassed

47 kills, averaging 1.74 per set with a .258 hitting percentage. She played in 23 matches and started none last season, tallying only 11 kills.

Gophers head coach Hugh McCutcheon said the explanation behind Hauer’s progress from freshman to sophomore year is simple — she’s gotten better.

“She’s cer tainly much more invested in the process of becoming the best that she can be,” McCutcheon

said, “and that’s great to have someone as committed as she is to those ideals.”

Hauer said the whole team worked during the spring season to rebuild fundamentals and relearn basic skills the correct way. So while every aspect of her game has improved, she said, certain categories stand out.

“My serving has gotten a lot better as well as, probably, my blocking,” Hauer said.

“I’m working on trying to get a more powerful arm swing and just have faster arm swings.”

She said she starts her practices early to keep improving the small details.

“I try to come in and just try to warm up my arm a little bit, work on my serve, just try and hit different spots,” she said.

Sophomore outside hitter Daly Santana said she’s noticed Hauer’s extra effort paying off.

“She’s playing with a lot more confidence,” Santana said, “and her communication has also improved.”

The strides are coming at just the right time for Hauer.

She and Santana look to be the next generation of big hitters for the Gophers once seniors Ashley Witt-

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NO. 4 PENN STATE

6:30 p.m. Wednesday in University Park, Pa.

MINNESOTA: Minnesota (15-2, 3-1 Big Ten) will head to Pennsylvania to take on Penn State (12-2, 3-1 Big Ten). The Gophers lost in three sets to Nebraska before coming back from two sets down for a 3-2 victory against Iowa last weekend.

Minnesota is 8-40 against Penn State since 1983. The Gophers dropped all three matches to the Nittany Lions last season and have not beaten them since 2010.

PENN STATE: Penn State only lost three matches all of last year, but it lost in the Final Four to Oregon.

The Nittany Lions enter the competition on a three-match winning streak. They are 12-2 on the season and suffered an upset loss to Michigan State at the start of Big Ten play.

Penn State most recently completed a perfect road trip to Indiana with wins against Indiana and Purdue.

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man and Tori Dixon graduate this spring.

“They have to be [ready], because pretty soon they’re going to be [leaders],” McCutcheon said. “They have to get, I think, accustomed to the idea that they have a load to carry, and they have to get used to carrying it.”

While Hauer has enjoyed seeing more court time, she said she knows she’s not a perfect player and must improve her passing and

game-day nerves.

Having so many new players this year has helped motivate Hauer to fight for a starting spot, but it has also brought her the comfort of knowing the team is in good hands.

“Whether or not I’m on the court always or whether it’s someone else,” Hauer said, “I would say that we’re not going to have a problem trying to fill the shoes of Ashley and Tori.”

CHELSEA GORTMAKER

Gophers outside hitter Karlie Hauer passes the ball during a match Sept. 28 at the Sports Pavilion.

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Today’s Birthday (10/9): Set lofty goals this year. Expand boundaries in many senses. New income opportunities arise, and career thrives with love. Strengthen old partnerships, while inviting new ones.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 6 — Somebody at home lays down the law. Confide in a wise relative. Break through! A pleasant development surprises.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Your team gains strength. Show them your appreciation. Energy builds at work. Don’t argue with the rules. Streamline your routine.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 5 — An old love may resurface in an amazing development.

Set down strong roots. Meet with the important people on a project. Consider the big picture.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — New opportunities open to express your creative talents. You’re gaining points as well as experience. You’re really cute, too.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — Set your course in a new direction. Finish what you started first. Choose the wording carefully.

Accept a bonus or fringe benefit.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Set long-range goals. Your home can be a showplace. Search out the best deals. Learn from an older, wealthier person.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Take pride in your basic principles, and add a few new ones to live by. Ask probing questions, and get the message out about what you discover.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Ponder the situation. Revise plans and try a new tactic.

Follow a strong recommendation. Listen carefully. Whose support do you want?

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Work out financial details. You have more than expected.

Be practical. Wait for further consideration. Let your conscience guide you.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Wrap up old business. The more you sell, the more you earn. Be among the best. The money is not what you expected, for better or worse.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Provide support to help another advance. There are perks involved; gather them gratefully. Rules are reinforced. You see the big picture.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Old ideas gel. A lucky break sparks a new opportunity.

Come up with a brilliant solution to a persistent problem. Take a different route.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

overheard “Are you wearing pants today?”

“No. Never.”

—Centennial Hall dining hall

it.”

“I’ve had sex before! But I just don’t like

—University Avenue

Girl to guy: “Please don’t [expletive] all my friends.”

“No one loves white people more than me, especially the ones from Eden Prairie.”

“I’m not going to crossbreed with a monkey ... unless I don’t find a nice girl.”

“He was hot until he told me he was in Carlson.”

“Maybe I can scare off the twiggy girl.

God, I hope she’s a lesbian. I have never wanted someone to be a lesbian so badly before.”

“It was me, a girl and a pledge brother, and it got weird, and I had a three-way, so …”

—Applebee’s

—Moos Tower

—Washington Avenue

“And like, he just gave me his Jesus music on the bus and left.”

—Campus Connector

Person 1: “I don’t even know how to get tested for STDs.” Person 2: “Pretty sure you just walk into OneStop and say you want to get tested.”

Person 3: “I don’t think that’s right.”

—17th Avenue dining hall

“I’m pretty independent now ... I only go home on the weekends to get food and have my mom do my laundry. Besides that, I basically do everything myself.”

—Carlson School of Management

Guy: “I’m going to war ...”

Girl: “What?! I didn’t know you were in the army!”

Guy: “... with my exam. [whispers] Bye.”

—St. Paul campus

Nutrition professor: “I let my kid eat shit as much as he wants.”

—Unknown

—Royal Cigar and Tobacco

—Campus Connector

—Unknown

“I’m going to open the door.”

“Why?” “To let the Internet get in more easily.” “... What?”

“I need a fan to help it flow.”

—Middlebrook Hall

“What should I be for Halloween?”

“Drunk.”

—Unknown

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crossword

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 9, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 10% donation 6 “12 Angry Men” actor 10 Credit card bill nos.

14 Lucy’s landlady 15 __ code 16 Sodium hydroxide, on a chem test 17 1949 Olivia de Havilland film 19 Kathryn of HBO’s “Oz” 20 Dermatologist’s concerns 21 Rowboat propeller 23 “Where __ sign?”

24 Cold drink brand 25 Home of the Clinton Presidential Library 29 White House tween 31 Delightful time 32 Singer Shore 33 Pope of 903 35 Van Cleef & __: French jeweler/perfumer 36 Bead in a necklace 40 Small sword 41 Corduroy ridges 42 “__ Is Born” 43 Double-helix molecule 44 Coke and Pepsi 49 Sam’s Choice, e.g.

52 Dramatic opening?

53 Blackguard 54 Small pop group 55 When, in Act III, Romeo cries, “O, I am fortune’s fool!”

57 Course for Crusoe?: Abbr.

59 Nitpick, and what this puzzle’s circled letters represent 62 Actor Jared 63 What NHL shootouts resolve 64 Mountain ridge 65 Galley order

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By Gerry Wildenberg

66 Sound that fits this puzzle’s theme 67 Outmoded DOWN 1 Shape-fitting game 2 Cayuga Lake city 3 Ph.D. hurdles 4 Dastardly chuckle 5 Gen. Robert __ 6 Train unit 7 Mineral resource 8 Stupefies with drink 9 __ metabolic rate 10 “Wheel of Fortune” buy 11 The president, vis-à-vis one Thanksgiving turkey 12 Autodialed electioneering tactic 13 Arab tribal leaders 18 Map speck: Abbr.

22 Right, as a wrong 26 Lab assistant of film 27 Greek café 28 Longtime Philbin co-host

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30 Took in or let out 34 Andorra’s cont.

35 Msg. to the whole squad 36 Hand-held clicker 37 Current 38 Perjurer 39 Gorilla observer Fossey 40 “Good Lovin’” group, with “the” 43 Stop by unannounced

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45 1998 British Open champ Mark 46 Declares untrue 47 Warnings 48 “That’s quite clear” 50 Some gallery statuary 51 Summer hrs.

56 English guy 58 Caught on to 60 Floral chain 61 AOL, e.g.

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I have been stuck in a dating slump for my entire college career.

Over the past three years that I have been at the U, I have pursued/been pursued by various kinds of guys (friends, classmates, co-workers, guys I’ve met at bars and parties, etc.), but they all seem to only want to hook up with me and want nothing more than that.

I am reasonably attractive and in great shape, with a killer sense of style. I am also ambitious, funny and incredibly sassy, so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong.

I have been told that I am kind of intimidating since I am very vocal and I don’t take any shit from anyone. I’m not much of a flirt (unless I’m drunk), and I also have a bitchy resting face, which probably doesn’t help either, but I shouldn’t have to change myself or be drunk all the time in order to get a guy.

I’ve tried waiting and being patient for a great guy to come around, and I’ve also tried actively pursuing guys that I am interested in, but neither of those options have worked well.

My family and friends keep telling me to be patient and that an awesome guy will sweep me off my feet when I least expect it.

Well, I’ve stopped looking and I’m trying to be patient, but how long am I supposed to wait?! I haven’t had a boyfriend since I was 15, and the last time I went on a date was more than a year ago, so this whole waiting around thing isn’t really working for me.

Since I’m a senior, I don’t necessarily want anything too serious right now that will tie me down. Honestly, some casual dating experience would be good enough for me at this point.

I’m not wild about the whole bar scene, and I’ve also tried the online dating thing a few times, but that didn’t bring much success. My friends never seem to have anyone to set me up with either.

I’m not too picky when it comes to guys, but I do have somewhat high expectations because I have really high expectations for myself and I don’t think I should have to settle for less.

I seem to have exhausted all of my options, so that’s why I’m reaching out to you, Dr. Date. Can you help this unlucky lady?

—Never Lucky In Love

Mrs. Tolstoy,

That was quite the memoir. It was hard to follow at some points, but I think I get the gist: You’re looking for perfection. Just the fact that you took time to write a 10-inch question tells me you’re putting too much

thought and energy into finding someone who probably doesn’t exist.

Don’t take that to mean you’ll never find a boyfriend. I just think you need to relax a little bit. You’re, what, 22 years old? It’s not like you’re slated for a solo retirement next year. You’ve got time, and you should take it.

You don’t need to prove to anyone that you’re worth something. The people who are worth being with will love you for reasons other than your appearance.

If you’re not happy as a single lady, you won’t be happy in a relationship. Learn to love yourself, and others will follow. Do I sound like a self-help book? Good. Sometimes clichés have their place.

Stop thinking so much. Love yourself.

Treat yourself in ways you wish a man would treat you.

And ask yourself this: What am I really missing in life?

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My boyfriend recently told me that he wants to be a professional break dancer.

That’d be great, but he can’t breakdance.

He thinks he can, but he can’t. I’ve seen him. I gently suggested he take some classes, but he said he doesn’t need them. He just needs time to “work on his art.”

I’m worried he’ll be embarrassed or depressed if this doesn’t work out.

—Breaking The Truth

Breaking Bad,

You’ve brought a smile to an old hag’s face. I don’t mean to patronize, but this is the cutest question I’ve read in weeks.

I want to start by asking you this: Are you worried that he’ll be embarrassed or that you’ll be embarrassed for him?

There are a lot of bad break dancers out there, just as there are hoards of bad singers, rappers, painters and basketball players. I know how it feels to sit in the audience of an open mic, cringing at the sight of granola bros playing Jack Johnson covers.

But you know what? It takes a lot of courage to put yourself out there. If your boyfriend isn’t good, he’ll know it soon enough. And when he gets to that point, maybe he’ll take your advice and sign up for some classes.

Everyone has lofty dreams. Just last semester, I convinced myself I’d learn Russian and move to Moscow. Obviously it didn’t work out — I’m still sitting at my Minneapolis desk, writing about people with break dancing deficiencies.

—Dr. Date

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

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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Candidates talk stadium, education Leading up to the Nov. 5 election, the Minnesota Daily will be running a seven-week series that profiles Minneapolis mayoral candidates who are looking to follow in Mayor R.T. Rybak’s footsteps.

BY NATHANIEL RABUZZI nrabuzzi@mndaily.com

A new Minneapolis mayor will be elected in about four weeks, and as the race heats up, candidates are focusing on issues like the new Vikings stadium and the city’s education system.

Mark Anderson, Abdul Rahaman, Doug Mann, Christopher Zimmerman and Ole Savior discussed their views on these topics in interviews with the Minnesota Daily, with plans ranging from stopping stadium development to implementing more hands-on learning programs in Minneapolis classrooms.

Savior, the only candidate on the Nov. 5 ballot to file as a Republican, said he supports the city’s approach to funding the new Minnesota Vikings stadium.

He said if elected, he would use the new stadium to improve the city’s budget and add venues, like a casino, to spur economic growth downtown.

The other four candidates inter viewed raised issues with the stadium, including the way it’s being funded.

Last year, the Minneapolis City Council voted to build a new stadium downtown for the professional football team.

The plan has received some criticism from residents and political leaders for its $975 million price tag.

Some funding for the project will come from the team, while the rest will come from the city and state.

Zimmerman said he’s against the funding plan because he thinks it’s a waste of money.

“I’d love to get Minneapo-

Christopher Robin Zimmerman

Ole Savior

Abdul M Rahaman “The Rock”

Background: B.S. in computational mathematics from University of California-Riverside, technical writer for Symantec

Background: High school graduate, attended the University of Minnesota without completing a degree, currently working as an artist

Background: B.A. in sociology and psychology from Macalester College, attended Dunwoody College of Technology without completing certification, former marketing representative for IBM, mechanic supervisor for Metro Transit

Background: Associate in Arts degree, practical nursing degree and legal medical consultant certification from Minneapolis Community and Technical College, licensed practical nurse at New Millennium Health Care

Background: B.S.B. in accounting and a master’s degree in business taxation, both from the University of Minnesota; former treasurer of Bancroft Neighborhood Association; corporate tax accountant for 3M

Party: Libertarian

Party: Republican

Party: Independent

Party: Green Party

Party: Independent

Major Principle: None of [the] above

Major Principle: Pro Vikings stadium

Major Principle: “We the people…”

Major Principle: People over profits.

Major Principle: Simplify government

Key initiatives: Promote transparency in all city data.

Renegotiate the city’s Wi-Fi contract to create easier access for everyone.

Key initiatives: Support the Vikings stadium deal.

Balance the budget and increase both revenue and spending by adding a downtown casino.

Key initiatives: Push policies to get rid of “tainted” water and genetically modified food.

Whenever a controversial issue arises, give the people affected an opportunity to vote on it.

Key initiatives: Strengthen the city’s Department of Civil Rights to end discrimination in housing and employment.

Stop schools from grouping students by their abilities in the classroom.

Key initiatives: End all economic development initiatives in the city.

Simplify the occupational licensing process.

What would you say to students at the University?

“Please vote.”

What would you say to students at the University? “[The University] should lower the students’ fees because right now … they’re wasting a lot of money over there, and they’re taking it out on the students.”

What would you say to students at the University?

“You can’t have change unless you change yourself. You have to learn to love yourself so you can love other people.”

What would you say to students at the University?

“I want to eliminate racism and I’ll need your support.”

What would you say to students at the University?

“What happens in the city affects them too. Higher taxes means their rents will be higher.”

lis out of the stadium business,” he said.

In July, Mann filed a civil lawsuit against the Minneapolis City Council to try to give the city’s residents more power in the stadium deal.

The case is currently being examined by a judge in Hennepin County District Court, and there has not been a final ruling.

Anderson, a tax accountant, said he’s against initiatives that try to make the city

more attractive, like the Vikings stadium deal, because they’re “basically throwing money away.”

He said the city needs more “financially minded” people in government positions who will oppose projects like the new stadium and the new streetcar line the City Council approved last month, which would run down Nicollet and Central avenues in Minneapolis.

Rahaman said he’s also

opposed to the new stadium project. It’s an example of elected officials going against the U.S. Constitution, he said, by not letting residents give their input.

“We all take an oath to uphold the Constitution,” he said.

In addition to development, the five candidates interviewed also discussed the city’s education system.

If elected, Zimmerman and Rahaman both said they

would go to the school board and teachers to get feedback while drafting education policies.

Rahaman said the system needs to implement better curricula to teach students critical thinking skills and selfawareness.

He also said schools should instate more “hands-on” technical learning programs, similar to what is taught in trade and vocational schools.

Mann said if he’s elected mayor, he plans to work with the school district to alleviate racial discrimination.

“Students of color [are] being exposed to inexperienced teachers and watereddown curriculums,” he said.

Anderson, Rahaman, Mann, Zimmerman and Savior will be on the November ballot along with 30 other mayoral candidates looking to succeed Mayor R.T. Rybak in leading the city.

Doug Mann

Mark V Anderson