October 14, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

Money woes continue for grad students

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

CAMPUS & METRO

Students push for sustainable food

Women survive first test of season, sweep Wisconsin

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The No. 1 Gophers beat the No.4 Badgers 2-1 and 2-0 this weekend.

A survey found many are forced to get This weekend, students called for the U to second jobs to make ends meet. make 20 percent of its food sustainable. u See PAGE 3

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STUDENT LIFE

Students with kids search for inclusion, understanding

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BOARD OF REGENTS

Regents OK $300M request The 2014 capital request will be presented to the legislature in Feb.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

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Zoyah Khan and her mother, senior psychology student Shazia Khan, listen to poetry by Ekere Tallie at Student Parent Visibility Day at Northrop Plaza on Wednesday.

Some student-parents struggle to find their place on campus.

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

ates who balance coursework with parenting. Some of these student-parents

It’s Chantel Folden’s

struggle with inclusiveness

first semester at the Univer-

on campus and understand-

sity of Minnesota. After two

ing from professors, but

years at Inver Hills Commu-

the University is increas-

nity College, she applied to

ing efforts to address those

the University on a whim

problems.

and decided to pursue a

Susan Warfield, director

bachelor’s degree in com-

of the University’s Student

munication studies when

Parent HELP Center, said

she was accepted.

some student-parents don’t

Though she may seem

feel connected to the Uni-

to be a typical transfer stu-

versity in the way that other

dent, Folden said she has to

students do.

balance “school time” and

“Most of the higher ed

“mommy time” with her

research strongly shows

2-year-old daughter, Ahly-

that connection to campus

via, in addition to academic

is a good indicator of col-

work.

lege success,” she said.

Folden is one of many

“[Student-parents] are not

University undergradu-

going to be able to find a

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Kill takes leave to manage epilepsy

BY DANE MIZUTANI AND NATE GOTLIEB dmizutani@mndaily.com ngotlieb@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota athletics director Norwood Teague announced Thursday that head football coach Jerry Kill will take a leave of absence to focus on his epilepsy treatment.

Teague did not give a timetable for when Kill would return. In the meantime, Minnesota defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys will ser ve as interim head coach.

“President [Eric] Kaler and I have met and talked

u See REQUEST Page 4 The request includes money for a new St. Paul lab.

NEIGHBORHOODS

Cedar-Riverside preps for rail The neighborhood is anticipating more development after the light rail opens.

BY ALEX BITTER abitter@mndaily.com

Community groups in Cedar-Riverside are joining other University of Minnesota neighborhoods’ efforts to control the ef fects of development.

At a joint meeting of the West Bank Community Coalition and the West Bank Community Development Corporation on Thursday, members discussed remaking the neighborhood’s small area plan to manage the effects of development around the West Bank light rail station.

WBCDC Executive Director Tim Mungavan said revising the current small

area plan may help insulate residents from the effects of higher proper ty values expected after the light-rail Green Line opens in 2014.

Those higher prices around the station could lead to higher property taxes and, in turn, higher rent for Cedar-Riverside businesses, he said.

“That’s our major concern: What will happen to businesses that are renting?”

Mungavan told the crowd of about 30 at the Coyle Community Center on Thursday.

The cur rent plan, approved by the Minneapolis City Council in 2008, didn’t include enough input from those who may be threatened with displacement, Mungavan said, particularly the neighborhood’s immigrant communities. u See LIGHT RAIL Page 14 Some say immigrants didn’t have enough input in the current plan.

IMMIGRATION

FOOTBALL

Head coach Jerry Kill hasn’t rejoined the team since a seizure last week.

At its monthly meeting Friday, the University of Minnesota Board of Regents passed a budget request President Eric Kaler called “ambitious” to improve campus facilities.

The 2014 capital budget request totals nearly $300 million — about $233 million of which would come from the state — to distribute across the University system for improving and building campus

buildings after last legislative session left several projects unfunded.

Kaler said he has high expectations going into this session, which is why the University is asking for such a large amount.

In May, Chief Financial Officer Richard Pfutzenreuter said items from the last request would be added to this session’s bonding request.

If approved by the Legislature in Februar y, this year’s request would fund six constr uction projects around the University’s five campuses.

extensively with coach Kill and Rebecca [Kill],” Teague said at a press conference Thursday. “We feel that giving Jerr y the time to focus on and continue his treatments is the best course of action.”

Teague said Kill will remain close to the program and stay in contact with Claeys during the process.

He did not confirm or deny whether Kill will seek medical treatment outside of Minnesota.

Kill released a statement through the team Thursday before the press conference.

“This was a difficult decision to make, but the right decision,” he said in the statement. “Our staf f has u See KILL Page 8 It’s not clear if Kill will travel to Northwestern on Oct. 19.

U-area church talks immigration University Lutheran Church of Hope hosted a forum Saturday.

BY ALEX CHHITH achhith@mndaily.com

As an immigrant from Malawi, Wenson Masoka has faced societal barriers in coming to Minneapolis.

“Don’t judge me by my accent,” he said. “You speak, you have an accent.”

Masoka, who is a chaplain intern at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fair view, spoke at the University Lutheran Church of Hope on Saturday, where church and community members discussed issues immigrants face and ways to help resolve them.

Immigration reform has heated up on the national level in recent weeks. U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, DFL-Min-

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Sarah Radosevich, policy research analyst for the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, talks during a small group session at “Welcoming Immigrants to our Communities” at the University Lutheran Church of Hope on Saturday afternoon. neapolis, was arrested Tues- migration reform protest. u See IMMIGRATION Page 5 day on the National Mall for Nearly 80 people attendAttendees also discussed job occupying a street for an im- ed Saturday’s discussion, opportunities for immigrants.

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TEHRAN, Iran — Tehran will not send any of its enriched uranium abroad as part of a deal with world powers to ease sanctions over its contested nuclear program, a top Iranian negotiator said Sunday.

Abbas Araghchi’s comments published on Iranian state television’s website came ahead of new negotiations between Iran and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members and Germany in Geneva on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The negotiations with the group, collectively known as the P5+1, come as international sanctions over the nuclear program contin-

ue to batter Iran’s economy.

Iran insists its nuclear program is peaceful and only seeks reactors for energy and medical use, while the West suspects Iran seeks to make a nuclear weapon.

Iran is urging the U.S. to ease sanctions in exchange for nuclear concessions.

But Iran has not publicly specified what measures it could take to satisfy Western concerns.

On Sunday, state television quoted Araghchi as saying “shipping the material abroad is our red line. We do not allow shipment of even one gram of uranium from Iran.”

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Libya PM says his abduction was attempted ‘coup’

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s Western-backed prime minister on Friday said his brief abduction by gunmen this week was an attempted coup by his Islamist political rivals, using militias which he warned are trying to “terrorize” the government and turn the North African nation into another Afghanistan or Somalia.

In a sign of the turmoil, a car bomb detonated outside a building housing the Swedish and Finnish consulates in the eastern city of Benghazi, where militias are particularly prominent. No one was hurt, but the blast damaged the building’s facade. The city, Libya’s second-largest, has seen frequent violence, including killings of security officials and a string of attacks on foreign missions that have driven most of diplomats out of the city.

With his nationally televised address, embattled Prime Minister Ali Zidan appeared to be trying to leverage public shock over his abduction a day earlier into momentum against his political opponents and against the multiple armed groups stirring chaos since the 2011 toppling of dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Militias, many including Islamic extremists, carry out daily violence nationwide and have defied attempts by the weak central authorities to rein them in.

Zidan also gave his first account of the events Thursday, when militiamen broke into the luxury Tripoli hotel where he lived before daybreak and took him away, holding him in a basement prison with criminals for hours until he was freed.

to make nuclear weapons.

His remarks contrasted those of Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, who last week said Iran would be willing to discuss its “surplus” uranium stockpile with Western powers.

Araghchi also said he will be in charge of the talks on Tuesday and Wednesday. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif apparently only will attend the initial and final sessions of the talks.

“If they are honest in their words and claims, this will be achievable for them,” Araghchi said of the talks.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, elected this summer with the backing of centrists and reformists,

has pledging a new approach to relations with the West. While previously saying Iran’s “enrichment right is not negotiable,” Rouhani has hinted his country may be willing to make as-of-yet unspecified concessions.

The nuclear negotiations come amid a thaw in relations between Iran and the U.S., which included a phone conversation between President Barack Obama and Rouhani. It was the highest-level dialogue between the countries since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerr y also met Zarif in the sideline of the U.N. General Assembly, the highest one-to-one talks between the two countries in more than three decades.

Officials say few deaths in massive cyclone

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BEHRAMPUR, India — Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials said Sunday, as the countr y sorted through the wreckage of flooded towns, tangled power lines and tens of thousands of destroyed thatch homes.

Cyclone Phailin, the strongest storm to hit India in more than a decade, destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of crops, but more than 20 hours after it made landfall in Orissa state on the country’s east coast, authorities said they knew of only 17 fatalities.

The final death toll is expected to climb further as officials reach areas of the cyclone-battered coast that remain isolated by downed communication links and blocked roads, but the evacuation of nearly 1 million people appeared to have saved many lives.

“Damage to proper ty is extensive,” said Amitabh Thakur, the top police officer in the Orissa district worsthit by the cyclone. “But few lives have been lost,” he said, crediting the mass evacuations.

On the highway to the seaside city of Gopalpur, where the storm made landfall early Saturday night, two tractortrailers with shattered windshields were lying on their sides, while a hotel nearby was in tatters, with tables and chairs strewn about.

“We were terrified,” A-1 Hotel owner Mihar Ranjan said of himself and 14 other people who had been huddling inside when the wind ripped the tin roof off the building.

On Sunday, Gopalpur’s power lines sagged nearly to the ground and a strong surf churned off the coast. But some shops were opened, doing brisk business selling bottled drinks and snacks, and locals expressed relief that the damage wasn’t worse.

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Money woes continue for grad students A survey found many are forced to get second jobs to make ends meet.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

Living expenses and rising education costs continue to burden University of Minnesota graduate students, according to a recent survey.

A biennial sur vey released last week by the Council of Graduate Students found that many students have to find second jobs or take out loans to cover tuition, fees and living expenses.

The COGS 2013 Graduate and Professional Student Sur vey polled more than 3,800 graduate and professional students. This is the first year that professional students were surveyed.

About 64 percent of respondents said searching for ways to pay their entire student bill was a source of stress.

Although her job as a teaching assistant pays all of her tuition, geography doctoral candidate Hillar y Waters said she’s had to take out loans to help pay her student fees.

“The fact we all have to pay fees makes the cost of living even harder. We don’t have a lot of money to begin with,” she said.

Student fees continue to be a significant burden

for graduate students, Waters said, because they aren’t covered by students’ University compensation packages.

About 65 percent of survey respondents said paying student fees is a burden.

Waters said about 10 percent of her teaching assistant supplement goes toward student fees.

Economics doctoral candidate Kailin Clarke said it would be better if the University deducted student fees from students’ paychecks, because then fees wouldn’t be taxed.

“Just that alone would make things better than the way they are,” he said.

About 41 percent of survey respondents said they supplement their income with other jobs outside of their assistantships, though that number varied widely by discipline.

Students say having an outside job in addition to academic work can be a struggle. Speech, language and hearing sciences graduate student Danneka Miller said it’s difficult to balance doing well in school with working a second job.

“It causes a great deal of strain in managing and trying to juggle ever ything,” she said.

Waters said finding additional ways to make money takes away from time that she could use to do research.

“I think extra jobs are a huge thing that limits our progress towards our de-

gree,” she said. “It can keep us from doing the work we need to do to get our degree.”

Psychology doctoral candidate Rachel Clark took a second job in addition to working as a graduate instructor in order to pay living expenses and school costs, a situation she said is common among other students.

“The cost of living can be very tough for graduate students,” she said. “A lot of times you need more than one job to make it work.”

COGS President Andrew McNally said some administrators and student leaders wor r y whether graduate and professional students will be able to pay their way through school.

“I think there’s a large interest among graduate students and University administrators in growing support for graduate students financially,” he said. “But there are a lot of challenges.”

While many graduate students receive tuition support and stipends through assistantship and fellowship programs, McNally said those funds don’t always cover the entire cost of attending school. Many students still pay some tuition and fees with their own money, he said.

Miller said that in the speech, language and hearing sciences depar tment, there’s rarely opportunity for master’s students to earn money in an assistantship program.

2013 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT SURVEY RESULTS PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO SUPPLEMENT THEIR INCOME WITH OTHER EMPLOYMENT OUTSIDE OF THE TA OR RA POSITION

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PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO CONSIDER PAYING STUDENT FEES A BURDEN

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Though there are some opportunities to get a parttime research assistantship, she said, those positions don’t completely cover tuition, fees or living costs.

“It’s just the nature of the beast,” Miller said. “We

NATURAL PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL AND OVERALL RESOURCES AND MATH SCIENCES BEHAVIORAL CONSERVATION SCIENCES SOURCE: COGS 2013 GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL SURVEY

bear the brunt of both tuition and living expenses with little financial assistance from the University.”

Overall, Waters said, the University should increase financial assistance to graduate students to show they

are a “valuable resource” to the institution.

“I don’t think if you look at how much we get paid right now that you can actually see that we’re valued members of the community,” she said.

Spending stalemate in Congress prolongs shutdown

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WA S H I N G T O N — Senate Republicans and Democrats hit an impasse Sunday over spending in their last-ditch struggle to avoid an economy-jarring default in just four days and end a par tial government shutdown that’s entering its third week.

After inconclusive talks between President Barack Obama and House Republicans, Senate Majority Leader Harr y Reid,

D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., took charge in tr ying to end the crises, although a conversation Sunday afternoon failed to break the stalemate.

“Americans want Congress to compromise,” Reid said at the start of a rare Sunday session in the Senate, during which he pressed for a long-term budget deal.

The two cagy negotiators are at loggerheads over Democratic demands to undo or change the au-

tomatic, across-the-board spending cuts to domestic and defense programs that the GOP see as crucial to reducing the nation’s deficit.

McConnell insisted a solution was readily available in the proposal from a bipartisan group of 12 senators, led by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., that would re-open the government and fund it at current levels for six months while raising the debt limit through Jan. 31.

“It’s time for Democrat leaders to take ‘yes’ for an

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community as easily as an 18-year-old living in a dorm.”

Folden said finding a community of people at the HELP Center with experiences similar to her own made her feel more included on campus.

It’s difficult to measure how many student-parents are on campus, but War field said 300 to 400 University students claim dependents on their financial aid forms each year. She said she expects that number to increase as four-year college degrees become more valuable.

Student-parent resources were mandated in 1972

by Title IX, which required that pregnant and parenting students have the same access to school programs as their peers.

In 1967, the University became one of the first in the countr y to implement a program for studentparents. Today, programs like the HELP center are becoming more popular nationwide.

“In the last two years especially, there was money tied to the [Affordable Care Act] to fund college access programming for teen parents and single women under 25,” Warfield said.

In June, the U.S. Depar tment of Education issued a letter drawing attention to these programs and asking both high schools and colleges to do more to help studentparents. “[The letter] came out with suggestions of what

schools should do to make a more friendly environment for students attending both college and high school,” Warfield said. “For the first time they said … that they’re going to expect post-secondary [education] to focus on their students with children as well.”

“The amount of work that they’re going to have to do while parenting at the same time …

That’s very scary to them.”

MELISSA WINSHIP High school counselor

The HELP center held its 10th annual Student Parent Visibility Day on Wednesday to increase awareness of undergraduate student-parents.

Amelious Whyte, Office of Student Affairs assistant dean, said the University has also attempted to address student-parents’ issues with inclusiveness by inviting them to participate in events such as the homecoming parade and a faculty and staf f event at University President Eric Kaler’s home.

In May 2010, the University’s absence policy changed to include the “illness of the student or his or her dependent” as an absence for which instructors should make reasonable accommodations.

Despite this change, some student-parents say their professors don’t make it easier to balance school and parenting.

Jared Erickson, a University senior studying biochemistr y and microbiology, is the father of a 3-year-old and an 8-monthold. Though working with classmates on group assignments contributes to his academic stress, he said, his biggest issue comes from instructors.

“Ever ybody’s busy with classes,” Erickson said.

“It’d be easier if the instructors were more understanding.”

Wa r f i e l d s a i d m a n y professors and advisers aren’t always supportive of student-parents and don’t often know about resources like the HELP Center, which is why it holds events like Wednesday’s Visibility Day. Melissa Winship, a counselor at South Education Center Alternative Learning Center, a high school with a program for pregnant students and studentparents, said she wants her students to know that it’s possible to go to school while being a parent.

“The amount of work that they’re going to have to do while parenting at the same time … that’s ver y scary to them,” she said.

Though the University could do a better job of increasing awareness of student-parents, Whyte said, the institution’s main focus is helping those parents in need.

“Do you spend a lot of your time on outreach, or do you spend most of your time focusing on the students you’re tr ying to serve?” he said. “And [University programs] spend most of their time focusing on students they’re tr ying to serve.”

answer,” McConnell said in a statement.

The latest snag comes as 350,000 federal workers remain idle, hundreds of thousands more work without pay and an array of government services, from home loan applications to environmental inspections, were on hold on the 13th day of the shutdown.

Several parks and monuments remain closed, drawing a protest at the National World War II Memorial on Sunday that included tea par ty-backed lawmakers

who had unsuccessfully demanded defunding of President Barack Obama’s 3-year-old health care law in exchange for keeping the government open.

Unner ving to world economies is the prospect of the United States defaulting on its financial obligations on Thursday if Congress fails to raise the borrowing authority above the $16.7 trillion debt limit.

Christine Lagarde, the Inter national Monetar y Fund’s managing director, spoke fear fully about the

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disruption and uncertainty, warning of a “risk of tipping, yet again, into recession” after the fitful recovery from 2008. The reaction of world financial markets and the Dow Jones on Monday will influence any congressional talks.

Congress is racing the clock to get a deal done, faced with time-consuming Senate procedures that could slow legislation, likely opposition from tea partyers and certain resistance in the Republican-led House before a bill gets to Obama.

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Students push for sustainable food At a conference over the weekend, students called for the University to make 20 percent of its food sustainable.

BY JULIA MARSHALL jmarshall@mndaily.com

Students from around the countr y gathered at TCF Bank Stadium this weekend to share ideas about food sustainability.

The students are continuing to push their schools to improve food sustainability by committing to the Real Food Challenge’s goal of 20 percent “real food” by 2020.

The Real Food Challenge defines “real food” as environmentally friendly and locally and socially responsible. It monitors the percentage of “real food” at colleges around the countr y, using a measurement system called the Real Food Calculator.

Katie Blanchard, the Real Food Challenge’s Midwest coordinator, said the University was selected to host the conference because it has the power to influence change.

“As a large, land-grant institution … it has a lot of power,” she said, “and also a lot of potential to lead efforts toward a more just and sustainable food system.”

After months of nego-

tiations, the University has agreed to pilot the calculator in one dining hall, said Laura Dorle, an environmental science and policy senior and student organizer for the Real Food Challenge.

Nearly 20 schools have committed to 20 percent “real food” by 2020. Dorle said she’s happy the University agreed to test the calculator but hopes University Dining Ser vices will do more with food sustainability in the future.

“While UDS has been making ef for ts to purchase more local and sustainable food, there’s a lot more that we could be doing in terms of tr ying to shape the local market, since we’re such a huge purchaser,” Dorle said.

UDS is scheduled to meet with U Students Like Good Food, the student group pushing for the calculator, again this week, accor ding to an e ma i l statement from Leslie Bowman, executive director of contract administration at the University.

“UDS has been a strong contributor to academic sustainability initiatives,” she said in the statement.

UDS declined to comment f ur th e r be caus e ne go tiations with the student group are ongoing.

Many students from other schools at this week’s conference are also working with their respec-

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Students put together breakfasts at Real Food Rising, a national summit of student leaders, on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.

At the summit, they engaged in strategizing, training and discussion about the current food movement.

tive dining services and administrators to implement the calculator.

The University of Vermont has already committed to the 20 percent goal. Annalena Bar rett, an environmental studies sophomore at UVM, said students are working with dining staf f to meet the sustainability goals.

“We work with dining services people and faculty regularly,” she said. “They make up half of our working group, so we’re always in contact with them.”

Administration from the University of MinnesotaMorris is resisting the calculator despite significant suppor t from the student body, said American Indian

studies junior Laura Yourd.

Though only a few schools have agreed to the Real Food Challenge’s goals, student groups at about 300 colleges nationwide are pushing their administrations for more food sustainability, Blanchard said.

When the University begins piloting the food

calculator, students from two courses will be in charge of calculating how much real food is used in the selected dining hall, Dorle said.

“If all goes well, we hope we’ll have data by the end of the semester and then be able to look into it at the beginning of the spring semester,” she said.

Vikings’ Peterson says he never wavered on playing

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Adrian Peterson would have been forgiven for sitting this one out.

Two days earlier, Peterson’s 2-year-old son was killed in an alleged case of child abuse in Sioux Falls, S.D. The alleged assailant is in jail, and Peterson rushed to the hospital Thursday to see the child before vowing to play against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

Even after his Minnesota Vikings were thumped 35-10 by the Panthers and booed

off the field by their home crowd, Peterson said he never wavered in his decision to play.

“I was set on it,” said Peterson, who was held to 62 yards on 10 carries.

“I just look at things and I don’t ask people to understand my mindset and how I think. Anything bad, I try to take good from it. That’s the way I approach life in all situations. I never thought about not playing. It was all about just going out there and praying that I have the strength to get through and help my team. That was my focus.”

Fans held signs that read “Stay Strong 28” and “Prayers for Adrian,” and several teammates offered hugs and well wishes before the game for their MVP. “I just prayed and asked God to give me the strength just to get through the game, just play and focus,” Peterson said. “And for the most part, I did. It was a terrible way to lose, but we can learn from this, make some corrections and get back on track.”

The Vikings (1-4) delivered as flat of a performance as they’ve had in recent memory to fall even further

back in the muddled NFC playof f picture. Matt Cassel was intercepted twice, the defense was burned for big play after big play and the Vikings trailed 28-3 with 6 minutes left in the third quarter to send fans heading for the exits.

The stout Carolina defense made things tough for Peterson. He was able to rip off one run of 31 yards, but was bottled up for the rest of the afternoon and was held to his lowest yardage output since Week 2 last season.

Peterson declined to discuss the relationship he had with the boy, who lived with

his mother in Sioux Falls.

The mother’s boyfriend, Joseph Patterson, is charged with aggravated assault and aggravated battery.

“Can we focus on football?

I’m not really trying to get into details on that,” Peterson said. “We just got blown out by (25) points. So let’s focus on football and what the Minnesota Vikings can do to get better.”

Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said he thought his star running back handled himself well during the trying circumstances.

“It’s a difficult, difficult situation and there are a lot

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About $100 million of the state’s contribution would be used for the general upkeep and maintenance of campus buildings, known as Higher Education Asset Preser vation and Replacement.

U health committee meets for first time

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

“$100 million sounds like a very big number, but when you’re dealing with 29 million in square footage, it’s really needed.”

CLYDE ALLEN University Regent

Last year’s HEAPR request was $125 million, and 2012’s was $90 million. Regents said at the meeting that the money is essential because the University is so large. “$100 million sounds like a ver y big number, but when you’re dealing with 29 million in square footage, it’s really needed,” Regent Clyde Allen said at the meeting.

Other par ts of the request include funding to construct a new Microbial Sciences Research Building, moder nize existing labs and renovate the Tate Laborator y of Physics — a proposal that failed last session.

At the meeting, Regent Laura Brod said funding for the labs would improve safety, not just aesthetics.

“This really is a strategic investment for the state for fur ther job creation, fur ther research,”

of people trying to support him within in the organization, his teammates as well,” Frazier said.

Panthers safety Mike Mitchell, who had two interceptions and a sack, sought out Peterson during the game to offer some words of encouragement. Mitchell said he mentioned to the deeply religious Peterson the Bible verse Jeremiah 29:11 about God providing hope for the future.

“I told him that to keep that in his heart as he continues to take this challenge going for ward,” Mitchell said.

The University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents meets Friday morning at the McNamara Alumni Center.

Regent Thomas Devine said at the meeting.

After a bonding bill failed in May, about $110 million in University construction projects was left unfunded. The Legislature passed a smaller bonding bill later but didn’t fund any

University projects.

“We’re going to advocate as hard as we possibly can for all that we need,” Kaler said. “These are critical elements for the University, and we’re going to tr y to build a constituency for all of them.”

BOARD OF REGENTS OCTOBER APPROVALS

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$10 million donation from the Bentson Foundation to provide scholarships for up to 500 Doctor of Nursing students – the largest gift in the program’s history.

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An $8 million, five-year contract with Surdyk’s Inc. for food and alcohol sales at Northrop Memorial Auditorium.

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The 2013 University Plan, Performance and Accountability Report SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

2014 CAPITAL REQUEST $36 MILLION

Duluth Chemistry and Material Sciences

$100 MILLION

Higher Education Asset Preservation and Replacement

$18 MILLION

Laboratory Improvement Fund

$15 MILLION

Crookston Wellness Center

$299 TOTAL

$45 MILLION

Microbial Sciences Research Building

$85 MILLION

Tate Science and Teaching Renovation

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

A new committee designed to inform University of Minnesota administrators about changing practices in health care met for the first time at last week’s Board of Regents meeting.

The Academic Health Committee discussed the University’s relationship with Fair view Health Services, specifically in terms of the recent integration of the University, University Physicians and Fairview.

The integration, which the Regents approved in May, combines the organizations’ operational practices and finances without actually merging them.

The agreement came after Fair view declined in April to consider a proposed merger with the University.

At this month’s meeting, a presentation to the committee said the relationship between Fair view and the University “continues to evolve.”

Regents chair Richard Beeson previously said the committee will not be looking at merger acquisitions.

As part of the five-year integration agr eement, the University’s Medical School will receive an additional $7 million annually for the first two years, $8 million for the second two and $10 million for the fifth year. Provided the agreement is renewed, it will receive $10 million for the following five years.

The committee will meet once more this academic year, in May.

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Board approves new campus eateries Northrop and the Rec Center will both get new restaurants.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota will soon have two new campus eateries after the Board of Regents approved contracts on Friday.

The new café-style restaurants — to be managed

by Taher, Inc. and Surdyk’s Inc. — are destined for the recently renovated Recreation and Wellness Center and the under-construction Northrop Memorial Auditorium, respectively.

Executive Director of Contract Administration Leslie Bowman said the decision allows the University to begin negotiating the specifics of the deals with the companies, and ultimately determine when food service can start. Surdyk’s and Taher have to sign the contracts before they’re finalized, but the contracts are expected to begin around April 1 of 2014.

“Ever yone would like it to be done quickly,” Bowman said. “The Rec Center would like ser vice as soon as possible, and Northrop wants it when it reopens.”

T h e t w o c o m p a nie s won the contracts through a competitive application process, and the University is of fering them five-year deals, with two three-year renewal options. Surdyk’s is projected to make $8 million and Taher is expected to generate $10 million if

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most of whom were church members. The event featured a video from U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who coauthored an immigration reform bill that the U.S. Senate passed in June.

Attendees at Saturday’s

the contracts last the full 11 years.

Purchasing Services Director Tim Bray said adding the two renewal options is “not automatic by any means” and that the University will re-evaluate after the first five years to ensure quality control.

If the contracts go the full 11 years, the University is expected to receive a revenue-based commission of $1.38 million.

Surdyk’s will offer catering and alcohol at Northrop, and Taher’s snack bar will be located just inside the Recreation Center’s entrance.

Northrop is one of seven locations on University campuses that has a license to sell alcohol. The Board of Regents reapproved the building’s liquor license at its July meeting.

Aramark, the main food service provider on campus, renewed its contract, valued at $96 million, with the University in 2008. Bowman said the Northrop and Recreation Center spaces were excluded from the Aramark contract because both buildings were planned to be under construction at the time.

Northrop Director Christine Tschida said the vendor search was a joint operation involving officials from both facilities.

“We were both seeking food ser vice at the same time, so it just made sense to look together,” she said.

“We are both really happy with those choices.”

Tschida said Nor throp chose its food provider based on its “fresh and

event discussed some of the less tangible issues that immigrants face — stereotypes, for example, or finding their place in a new culture.

Some non-immigrant attendees said they have felt uneasy entering new cultural settings in Minneapolis and would like to find solutions for overcoming that discomfort.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

The University Recreation Center is ready for a cafe, to be managed by Taher, Inc., to move in and occupy the space on the left side of the lobby.

unique” daily menu, which includes a variety of deli items as well as the versatility to offer “white-cloth” options for evening events.

Nor throp can’t accommodate a large kitchen because of venting constraints in the 85-year-old building, she said, so it couldn’t have a full restaurant.

In addition to a new eater y, the Northrop revamp will include a dramatic boost in student study space. Tschida said ever y floor of the renovated build-

ing will have two student lounges.

“We really want Northrop to be active for student use,” she said.

University students and staff said they were intrigued by the prospect of additional restaurant options on campus.

Adam Brunner, University Honors Program communication specialist, said the program will occupy Northrop’s entire third floor

when it reopens in April. He said he thinks the program’s staf f will enjoy the new Nor throp dining ser vice when they relocate to the building.

“It will be a nice perk for the people in the building,” Brunner said.

Fisheries and wildlife senior Melissa Bownik said she’s interested in food being offered at the Recreation Center.

“That would be awesome. I would eat there a lot,” she said. “I feel like

most people want to eat right after they work out.”

Bownik said eating at the Recreation Center will save time when she can’t go home between classes.

Recreation Center member services advisor Bahea Manasra has worked for the depar tment for two years and said she was told the café will begin construction this month, if approved.

“I think students would love it,” she said. “I think it would be a great hangout spot on campus.”

John Bablitch, University Lutheran Church of Hope outreach liaison, said church members hope to volunteer around the community in the future to help immigrant families but don’t yet have specific plans.

Presenters at the event also addressed the issue of employment opportunities for immigrants.

In addition to language barriers and societal issues, Masoka said, immigrants can struggle to find jobs. It’s upsetting, he said, because immigrants “are willing to work hard.”

Katherine Fennelly, a University professor in the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, said immigration reform likely won’t happen in

the immediate future because the federal government is focusing on other issues, like the government shutdown.

Still, she said, it will eventually be addressed because “right now we have a broken system.”

Doug Hartmann, a University sociology professor and church member who gave a presentation Saturday

on immigration trends, said the event was a step in the right direction for local community members to become aware of the challenges immigrants have to overcome.

“This discussion helped people think about how to deal with immigrants,” he said, “and how to make them feel welcomed in the community.”

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This isn’t fantasy News of Ty Doohen’s death was met with very disappointing reactions from fantasy football fans.

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MATT HOY columnist

no stretch of the imagination could my situation, especially in comparison to Peterson’s, be considered unlucky. Sadly, I was hardly the only person who reacted that way.

The fantasy implications of this incredible tragedy were the biggest topic of discussion with my coworkers all weekend.

I saw ESPN’s ticker constantly supplying information on Peterson’s game-time status.

My social media was ablaze with similar concerns.

It’s hard not to react this way. The social capital that can be lost from a bad week of fantasy football is immense.

Those of us who play can get swept up in the game, forsaking school, work and personal commitments in favor of reading up on quality flex plays for a

given week.

Within this context, it makes sense that personal tragedy would be a part of this equation.

In a broader sense, it doesn’t make any at all.

A few weeks ago, Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was injured on a non-contact play. Some fantasy players who spent a first-round pick on him responded by telling him he ought to die.

In 2011, Houston Texans running back Arian Foster aggravated a hamstring injur y during the preseason.

Foster sent a Twitter message for anyone who was worried about their fantasy team over his personal health: “u ppl are sick.”

In something of a similar phenomenon, fans at games have been booing players who get hurt on the off chance that they are faking the injuries. It’s disgraceful.

These are real people who work incredibly hard to achieve a dream few even get a chance at. They do it at great risk of physical injury that can not only interfere with their professional goals, but can ruin their lives. They do not

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belong to us, and their lives are more important than our fantasy teams.

These events are testaments to the way that fantasy football can dehumanize the players we claim to love. They cease to be real people with real aspirations.

Players become names and numbers for us to rearrange on a screen.

It’s an unfortunate effect of a largely positive game, and there doesn’t seem to be any real way to eliminate it within the system. So it falls on those of us who play to change the culture associated with it.

The lives of these people are vastly more important than our fantasy teams. Regardless of how this tragedy affects your score this week, Peterson lost a son. So the next time you find yourself, a coworker or a friend complaining about your fantasy misfortunes because someone you drafted got hurt or is struggling, try to remember that this injury, bad week or personal tragedy is a lot harder on them than it is on you.

Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.

LEGISLATURE

Style without substance Local Republicans are attacking online voter registration for political gain.

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Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Alternative medicine for Kill’s epilepsy An impor tant aspect of the stor y about Gophers head football coach Jerr y Kill’s pr edicament has gone unrepor ted. If Kill were coaching at Michigan or Oregon or back in his previous job in Illinois, his doctors could take advantage of laws in those states to see if marijuana could successfully control his seizures.

Marijuana is a natural herb, and in my view far less toxic than commonly prescribed anti-seizure phar maceutical medications. For many patients it can be more ef fective.

W ise physicians listen to what patients have lear ned. Scientists have shown the anti-convulsive properties of marijuana.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has long disputed the medicinal uses of marijuana. Despite its view, the American Medical Association testified in favor of marijuana when Congress passed the original Marijuana Tax Act in 1937. In the late 1980s, the DEA’s own administrative judge held it was “unreasoning, arbitrar y and capricious” for the DEA to continue to deny suffering patients access to marijuana.

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SOCIAL NETWORKING

he horrifying death of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson’s son Ty Doohen caught fire on social media last week, capturing the collective consciousness of Minnesota sports fans.

Apar t from the obvious tragedy of the situation, many fantasy football fans — myself included — feared that this situation would bring personal tragedy on the imaginar y gridiron.

Earlier in the week I traded a huge bounty of players to get Peterson on my fantasy team.

My first reaction after the initial sympathy was to wonder whether Peterson would play this week against the Carolina Panthers. In my mind I lamented how unlucky I was that the name and numbers I had just traded for might not produce for me.

The reality of the situation set in a few moments later: By

Monday, October 14, 2013

Since 1996, 20 other states have approved medicinal m ar ij uana us e.

But Minnesota politicians slavishly cling to the DEA’s legal fictions about medicinal marijuana.

Under the state’s new castle law, a Minnesotan can legally kill someone to defend their life, but a Minnesotan cannot medicate with marijuana. And as long as our lawmakers are afraid of the political risk of medical marijuana, patients with serious illnesses will continue to unnecessarily suffer.

Oliver Steinberg Daily reader

AFSCME negotiations

Local American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union of ficials at the University of Minnesota are in unsuccessful negotiations.

It has become necessar y to bring the Bureau of Mediation Ser vices in to see what they can do.

Negotiating teams see nothing but a University unwilling to discuss some contract negotiations.

Is this truly how negotiations should happen? Is this how University staf f members want their administration to deal with

coworkers? Is this fair?

When President Eric Kaler came into an AFSCME of fice, we wer e convinced that we had found an ally. That does not seem to be the case now. We would like Kaler to step in because there is nothing that is being asked for that is so unreasonable, unear ned or unfair that negotiations should be conducted in such a manner.

University administration made it quite clear that they would be in charge and take little feedback from AFSCME, even though what they offered is not only ridiculous, but insulting.

Union contracts expire ever y two years. Ever y two years it is necessar y to sit down and tr y to work out a wor thwhile contract for the union members, as well as the University itself. However, ever y two years there is grief and fr ustration, as well as a whole lot of pressure and disrespect in negotiations.

We still hope Kaler will set negotiations right in order to settle the University’s contract with us. We have earned these proposals, as well as the respect needed to come out with a fair contract.

Judy Grandbois AFSCME employee

ince the state adopted a new online voter registration system, local Republicans have been attacking Secretar y of State Mark Ritchie for RONALD DIXON subver ting the columnist powers of the Legislature.

Four prominent local Republicans and the conser vative group Minnesota Majority expressed concern over the voter registration system.

They argue that the recent MNsure database leak is reason to place the program under tight scrutiny. These politicians believe Richie did not have the authority to launch the program and that the Legislature should have implemented the online registration system.

The rhetorical choices of these Republicans, though, cast doubt on the sincerity of their intentions. Instead of improving government, they appear to be using online registration as a mechanism to gain political points.

We see this through the comparisons with MNsure, the Minnesota health insurance exchange program created through the Affordable Care Act. Critics of the data breach, where initial analyses of MNsure detected an abnormal level of data security risk, apply similar arguments to the online voter registration system. For example, Dan McGrath, the president of Minnesota Majority, declared, “Minnesotans deser ve a peace of mind knowing that their privacy should be protected in all aspects of government.”

Republicans have a heightened incentive to critique DFL policies in the lead-up to 2014 midterm elections. Ritchie has said he will not seek another term as Secretary of State.

This may serve as an opportunity for Republican candidates to use online voter registration as a vehicle to forge a campaign to take back the state executive branch.

I wish not to give the impression that politicians should not critique governmental programs. However, local Republicans must provide actual substance to their claims.

If they do not take issue with the substance of online voter registration, why does the local GOP critique Ritchie’s authority?

Rather than attacking Ritchie, these Republicans should focus on making the program safer in order to open elections to more Minnesotans.

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

Self-inflicted wounds The pain caused by the government shutdown must spur compromise in Washington.

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s the federal government shutdown staggers on, many federal employees in Minnesota and across the countr y are anxiously wondering when they’ll see their next paycheck.

The Star Tribune reported Oct. 2 that there are around 18,000 federally employed workers in Minnesota, “nearly half of whom could be furloughed indefinitely” due to the ongoing shutdown. Meanwhile, Congress is not showing any signs of compromise.

Though many states have avoided closure of federally aided programs through state funds, some government programs in Minnesota, like SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), will run out of money by the end of October, with no state money to fall back on come November.

Government investment in science has also taken a hit during the shutdown. Springtime field research is just beginning in Antarctica, but because of the shutdown, much of that research may have to be put on hold. Proposals for research in Antarctica are planned years in advance, and with only a short window of time to do field work in such a cold climate, there is fear that this year’s entire research season will be canceled, National Public Radio reported. Add that to the limited data the Centers for Disease Control is able to collect on the flu just before its peak season, possible delays in Food and Drug Administration approval of drugs and 97 percent of NASA employees furloughed, and it’s clear the shutdown has been severely detrimental to health and science research as Congress continues to squabble over political ideology.

As students of a well-reputed research institution, we urge Minnesota lawmakers in Washington to set aside differences for the well-being of their constituents and for the future of the country. Allowing the shutdown to continue any longer is not a viable option.

A quality farm bill Americans should not accept substandard agricultural policies.

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s most college students know, procrastination never pays off. House Speaker John Boehner, responding to questions about a farm bill and food stamps, told reporters “we’ll get to that later” in early July. The rest of Congress had a similar mindset.

Three months later, in midst of a federal government shutdown, lawmakers are still negotiating various proposals for a farm bill that, if signed into law, would go into effect several days or more after its deadline has passed.

Because there was no farm bill extension passed by Oct. 1, the permanent agricultural policies passed in the 1949 farm bill will take effect, policies that were crafted for a farming industry radically different than the one we have today.

While a farm bill may not seem ver y pressing as the country faces a government shutdown and a possible default, it’s important to understand how cobbled together agricultural policies can affect everything from the economic livelihood of Midwestern farmers to the price of dairy products at the grocery store.

There’s a lot at stake in a farm bill, and lawmakers are pulled in many directions by lobbyists and constituents looking to benefit from federal subsidies. Fervor surrounding talks was exacerbated this year when House Republicans passed a Farm Bill without food stamp funding, signaling their intent to make significant cuts in the anti-hunger program.

With so little progress in our nation’s Capitol, there’s a strong tendency for voters to accept any thrown-together farm bill that does not implement necessary reforms or sufficiently fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Our elected officials are fully capable of working out a deal to end the shutdown while passing a satisfactor y farm bill. It will do the countr y no good if we accept anything less.

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BRIAN REINKEN columnist

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or the moment, a por tion of mainstream media is fixated on two stories per taining to the Minneapolis Somali community: the reaction to last month’s terrorist attack in Kenya and the meteoric rise to stardom of Somali actors in the movie “Captain Phillips.”

Both of these stories present some aspect of Somali-American life, but they fail to present the whole truth.

The news media shapes the public’s perception on reality merely by selecting stories to report. Because there are more stories in the world than could ever be shared, the news media must carefully choose what’s worthy of dissemination. Logically, this is necessary. The alternative would be an infinite informational transmission.

The need for selection, however, results in the omission of literally millions of stories in favor of the few that are deemed most salient. At best, the result is myopic.

At worst, it can be malevolent. Either way, it isn’t objective.

The ver y act of selecting any potential story over another indicates hierarchal prioritization of relative importance. No longer is objectivity in the news a question of how something is said. Rather, it’s a question of what’s chosen to be said in the first place.

Ever y single journalist, reporter and editor is subject to this selection bias, in addition to a host of other inevitable human prejudices. Suddenly, the reporters charged with generating wholly objective news are proven to be incapable of doing so.

To illustrate this, imagine that two newspapers publish stories on Syria. One chooses to publish a study that measures the acreage of publicly owned land in Syria.

The other decides to release a statistical summary of monthly death tolls in the ongoing Syrian civil war. Assume that both of these stories are examples of objective repor ting. Now realize that the stories’ respective readers will nevertheless walk away with radically different views on Syria. Politics of opinion worm their way into objective news despite the barriers erected against them.

This should be self-evident, as should the fickle nature of the mainstream media.

Stories of Syria gave way to those of the government shutdown. The public’s concern over the civil war a few weeks ago is now marginalized. By implication, the lives of foreigners are more impor tant when Americans are involved than when they aren’t.

It’s only natural to pay attention only to what affects you. That’s certainly true to some degree, but at a point the idea reaches close-mindedness.

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TRANSPORTATION

The sound of silence: Two sides of Somali-American life It’s not how the papers report; it’s what they’re not reporting.

Monday, October 14, 2013

In Somalia, in Syria and in Minneapolis, lives persist beyond the printed page. In the news media, facts without context have the effect of fiction. They are the direct result of innumerable, unconscious omissions designed to prevent overload.

For the media to overlook this and still invoke objectivity is preposterous. Selection bias is impossible to overcome and has serious implications for the real world.

First is the fact that inherent biases are especially dangerous when the news stories they affect pertain to foreigners and ethnic or cultural minorities. These groups, already on the outskirts of the mainstream public’s collective consciousness, are at an extremely high risk of becoming a proverbial “other” against which the mainstream culture is measured. But the stor y of the Somali community is more complex than anything that could ever be published, and the Syrians existed for millennia before America considered striking their country.

Second, selection bias is not limited to any culture, or country, or group. Rather, it is the product of human consciousness and of the fundamental idiosyncrasies that pervade the fabric of every individual’s experience.

Third, objectivity is ultimately unattainable, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t seek it. It’s crucial to be active, inquisitive and passionate in order to achieve a better grasp of reality. We mustn’t get our news from a single source, for these often focus on communities’ radiant heights or crushing lows. Almost always, media occlude a middle ground.

Those in the news media surely do the best they can to spread awareness, but the field has limitations. Recognizing these confines will lead to greater social awareness.

The stories of terror and of fame depict two totally different sides of the SomaliAmerican experience. But a culture is not a coin. There are thousands of sides to every story, and the space between the best and worst of times contains something far too valuable to be overlooked.

Brian Reinken welcomes comments at breinken@mndaily.com.

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Who will pay the price of safety?

Before ticketing bikers, change the fee amount and create better infrastructure, or face long-term consequences.

CHRIS IVERSON columnist

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am Wheelock, vice president of University Services, sent an email to students Friday regarding bicycle and pedestrian safety around campus.

In the email, Wheelock noted that a recent campus traffic study showed an increase of 1,000 bikers, or a 13 percent increase, on campus over the last year. While a greater bike count is promising for public entities like the City of Minneapolis that want to see increased bike traffic, it also raises new concerns about transportation safety.

In a truthful but stern message, Wheelock requested all people maneuvering through campus to be more careful. She advised pedestrians to get their eyes out of their phones in order to be more aware of their surroundings, and she encouraged cars to drive defensively through the multi-modal campus streets. Lastly, she urged bikers to pay attention to non-biking areas in the area and threatened ticketing for not obeying the orders.

Although I support Wheelock’s message, I question her intimidating cyclists and pedestrians. Sure, there are always the outliers who warrant complaints — the stereotypical sidewalk or lane blocker who is as attentive as the inebriated pub-crawling zombies from last weekend. Careless driving also bleeds into the non-motorized world, as reckless biking and walking cause many incidents of their own.

However, does lane-based ticketing honestly do the best job to encourage safety around campus?

If the University of Minnesota is looking for a short-term patch up, then perhaps it is. After all, Washington Avenue will reopen soon, alleviating east-west traffic flow. Long-term ticketing will scare away riders. The fastest way to discourage biking overall is to supply them with a hefty fee of about $100.

Two years ago, University police began ticketing bikers on Scholars Walk a couple of weeks into the fall semester.

One fateful evening after a night class, I unfortunately became a starry-eyed and in-denial victim.

The Minnesota Daily ran a story in 2011 on UMPD’s crackdown starting the next morning, but it was too late a warning for my already skinny wallet — I had to pay $115 for my apparent misdeed.

After that, I basically stopped biking for the remainder of the semester out of pure disgruntlement. I was not alone in these efforts, either; 62 people were ticketed in a two-week period. Several of my friends joined in dropping their wheels, more out of fear than the

inability to bike anywhere on campus. I guarantee the best way to decrease bike ridership is to threaten and issue hefty $100 fees.

The heftiness of the fine is harrowing. Before ticketing cyclists, however, I want to see the fee decrease. Nearly $100 for biking on a non-designated walkway is a ludicrously high fee, considering the fine for parking your car in a bike lane is less than half that amount. A ticket that is $30 or even $40 would be reasonable for students to bear, and would get the point across without discouraging biking altogether. Severely fining bikers will make many take their bikes back home to mom and dad, and many will never pull them out again.

In the same light, revising the ticketing schemes on campus and adjusting fining priorities for all modes would put many at ease.

According to a Hennepin County Traffic Violations list, there is a ticket for walking bikes in pedestrian areas, illegally chaining a bike to a tree and not using roller skates in bike areas. All of these offenses have higher fines with surcharges than blocking a traffic lane with your vehicle. If we are trying to move individuals out of the car and onto the sidewalk, we shouldn’t hinder the efforts by threatening large fees.

This appropriate ticketing method is certainly a start, but it’s like the equivalent of putting a cute smiley Band-Aid on a major gash.

Yes, you might be able to mitigate that area of the problem, but that won’t prevent you from healing the entire wound.

Something is wrong with the infrastructure on campus, and there needs to be more traffic segregation to design for that oblivious pedestrian and that terrible biker listed before.

Everyone knows campus is dense, and accommodating all walking traffic is a constant challenge. Now, add bikers to the mix.

This naturally creates a spatial challenge of its own, as only a portion of the walkways can be designed to hold bikers. The University should segregate bike lanes and pedestrian zones more efficiently. Although it has done a good job by adding separated bike paint on pathways, more work should still be done. Small, non-intrusive concrete barriers between bike lanes and walkways can be installed to differentiate between the movements. This could easily be started on the Washington Avenue Bridge, where some bikers still power through the south side of the bridge while pedestrians intrude on the bike lane on the north side.

With Washington Avenue no longer a fourlane nightmare, the University should also seriously consider alleviating the area near the Science Teaching and Student Services building by constructing a ramp from the top deck to the street below, where bikers can continue riding toward the east. This would be challenging due to the new catenary rail wires overhead, but should be looked at. This would not alleviate all biker traffic, but would certainly help take pressure off major problem points.

Growing up, my parents always gave me a stern warning if I did something wrong and punished me if I did it again. Wheelock’s email was a good warning, and students will appreciate the reminder. The University should now progress on modifying ticketing protocol and improving physical infrastructure to ensure the continued growth of bikers and pedestrians in the area.

Chris Iverson welcomes comments at civerson@mndaily.com.

PROTEST

A rainbow American flag The combination of a rainbow and the American flag tested a Tennessee university community’s pride.

TRENT M. KAYS columnist

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ddie Izzard once performed a comedy set where he discussed the tremendous power of national flags. In this set, Izzard, a famed transvestite comedian, talked about how England stole other countries and communities through the “cunning use of flags.” That is, as Izzard proclaims, “No flag, no country!” This is how England colonized and stole the world.

Of course, Izzard is a comedian and given to verbosity. However, the undertone of his set couldn’t be more correct: National flags are symbols of power. I’ve always found the American flag to be a bit of an anachronism.

It doesn’t actually represent the demographics of contemporary America. It can be seen

as more of a relic of struggle than a guiding beacon. This is especially true in the 21st century, given how the American influence creeps across the globe.

Even attempts to reimagine the flag to represent America are blasphemy. One only need look at Tennessee.

An LGBT group at Middle Tennessee State University recently displayed a rainbow American flag, where the traditional red and white strips were replaced with the rainbow.

It sparked outrage. The flag was hung in support of LGBT History Month, celebrated in October.

One local TV news channel viewer wrote, “This is just un-American and against the law.”

To say the least, I’m not surprised by this response. It’s un-American to redefine patriotism.

Regardless of what anyone writes into a news station, it isn’t against the law. It’s an act of free speech and protected by the Constitution. People still stomp, burn and “desecrate” the flag. Why would this event strike such a nerve?

I have a 48-star flag that flew over a county courthouse in Arkansas for 47 years. It’s a treasured item for me, and I’ve had it properly presented and hung. Like many Americans, the flag means something to me. It’s a symbol of everything the United States is, should be and can be. But I don’t consider it sacred. Or, perhaps, I don’t consider it sacred in the way we often think of it.

The problem with the flag is that it’s become a symbol of worship. People fawn over the flag like it was a god or religious text. They talk about it in the most revered terms. How-

ever, we should not forget that for some, the American flag is more a symbol of oppression than liberty. I’m sure many countries understand the American flag as a symbol to be despised, not worshiped.

Yet if the flag should represent something in the U.S., it should be freedom: freedom to change, to improve and to live.

I applaud the LGBT group at MTSU for changing the flag to represent their pride for both their community and America.

Still, not everyone applauds this act. Someone at MTSU was so upset with the LGBTinspired American flag that they stole it. In the same part of the U.S. where you’ll find the Confederate flag proudly displayed, a thief absconded with a symbol of America more representative of freedom than the current flag.

This makes little sense to me.

If we agree flags are symbols of something, then why would anyone condemn the LGBTinspired American flag, but not the Confederate flag?

The former stands for inclusivity and equality, and the latter stands in for a time of racism and slavery under the guise of liberty.

Even though the act of stealing the LGBTinspired flag is disgraceful, it was returned two days later, after being found with another student.

Events like this give a new meaning to southern hospitality. Is this what we should expect from those in the southern United States?

Of course not. This is the 21st century, and this sort of outdated ideology and, perhaps, bigotry should not be considered un-American.

I’m not sure I can buy into the notion

that we should tolerate others’ intolerance anymore. For years, I followed that line of thought, and it has continued to be harmful.

Across the globe, LGBT communities are being oppressed, arrested and terrorized all for simply being who they are.

My frustration is limitless on this issue.

The MTSU flag incident highlights the undercurrent of intolerance LGBT communities still face in the U.S. This is the same country that embraces the Statue of Liberty — a beacon with the inscription, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free …”

I’m glad the flag was returned, and I’m glad there are accepting and tolerant people in Tennessee. I just wish they would be more vocal and proclaim their support loudly. Those who are intolerant will only be drowned out by the collective voices of tolerance.

If we are to worship the American flag, we should do so actively and proudly. LGBT identity and patriotism are not mutually exclusive.

Combining these two interests is not un-American; rather, it’s a profound symbol of pride and acceptance.

If Izzard is correct, the LGBT community stands to gain a lot of power through the idea of a rainbow American flag. Denying this flag symbolically denies the community of being both American and LGBT. I’d fly the LGBT-inspired American flag any day.

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

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Sports

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FOOTBALL

Kill takes leave, focuses on treatment Kill u from Page 1

been together a long time, and I have full confidence inCoach Claeys and them during my time away.”

Kill wasn’t feeling well before the Gophers’ Oct. 5 trip to Ann Arbor, Mich.

He stayed in Minneapolis and planned to meet the team, but he had a seizure before the game and didn’t travel.

As standard procedure, Claeys took over head coaching duties. Kill has had five game-day seizures in two and a half seasons with Minnesota, but the loss to Michigan was the first time in his career that he missed an entire game.

Claeys said missing a whole game might have sparked Kill’s decision to step away. Claeys, who has worked as an assistant to Kill for 19 years, said the head coach has never taken extended time off.

“I mean, to get him to go on vacation for two days is a long, hard conversation,” Claeys said. “I think they made [this decision] as a family.”

Claeys said he told the team of the decision during a team meeting Thurs-

day afternoon.

“They’re concer ned about him and all that,” he said, “but one thing about the players is they’ve always known things first.”

Claeys, of fensive coordinator Matt Limegrover and the team’s graduate assistants ran practices last week in Kill’s absence. Minnesota’s other assistant coaches were out recr uiting last week, and Claeys said he’s not concer ned about losing ground on recr uits with Kill out.

The Gophers had a bye this weekend and will travel to Northwestern on Oct. 19. Neither Teague nor Claeys would speculate whether Kill will return for the Northwestern game.

Claeys said he would consider coaching from the sideline, instead of the press box, if Kill is out for that game.

“I think that would be important if it comes down to it,” Claeys said.

Teague dodged questions about plans moving for war d with the head coach position, but he said he has confidence the athletics depar tment is making the right decisions.

Claeys said he is also confident this is the right decision, and he said this is “a big step” for Kill.

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Minnesota athletics director Norwood Teague announces that head football coach Jerry Kill will take a leave to continue focusing on his epilepsy treatment on Thursday at TCF Bank Stadium. Tracy Claeys will serve as the acting head coach in Kill’s absence.

“As a staf f, we are all happy that he has made

this decision to do this,” Claeys said. “We suppor t

him 100 percent, and we will represent him well.”

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Women survive first test of season, sweep Wisconsin

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Minnesota sophomore goalie Amanda Leveille lunges to protect the goal against Wisconsin on Saturday at Ridder Arena.

The No. 1 Gophers beat the No. 4 Badgers 2-1 and 2-0 this weekend.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Rival Wisconsin tested the Gophers this weekend, even outplaying them at times.

But resilience is a mark of a good team, and the Gophers managed to fight through to extend their winning streak to 53 games.

No. 1 Minnesota came away with 2-1 and 2-0 wins over No. 4 Wisconsin after separating itself in the third period of both games.

In three of its first four games this season, Minnesota has entered the locker room knotted up after two periods.

“Our team has been here

before … and we’ve been able to come out with the win each time,” head coach Brad Frost said Saturday. “It was great to see our kids push forward.”

Minnesota fell behind midway through the first period Friday on a Wisconsin power-play goal.

The Gophers tied it up shortly after when a shot by senior forward Kelly Terry deflected off sophomore forward Maryanne Menefee for a power-play tally.

Wisconsin dominated most of the second period, and Frost said his team was lucky to escape with a tied score.

“We’re young and we’ve got to learn some lessons the hard way,” he said Friday.

“And for us, that second period and being embarrassed like that was learning a lesson.”

Minnesota was outshot 185 in the period. Sophomore goalie Amanda Leveille said

communication could have been better between her and her defense in the second period.

“In the third, we figured it out,” she said.

Minnesota was accustomed to outplaying teams last season, and sophomore defenseman Milica McMillen called it “a little scary” to be on the other side of the coin.

“If [Leveille] wasn’t back there, it could have been a 5-1 game by the end of the second,” McMillen said. “So I think it was a little eye-opener for us.”

Frost said the team knew how “embarrassing” the second frame was, and he was proud of the way it was able to “forget” it in the third.

“We were still in a tie game even though it didn’t feel like it,” Frost said. “All we had to do was win a period.”

And they did.

The Gophers looked noticeably better in the third and

used a timely power-play goal

by McMillen to seal the win.

McMillen picked up the puck during a Minnesota change and riffled a hard shot past multiple Wisconsin defenders and goalie Alex Rigsby.

On the other end of the ice, Leveille made a number of crucial saves to keep her team in the game.

Frost said Friday was really the first time Leveille’s back was up against the wall, and so giving up only one goal was special.

Leveille continued her stellar play Saturday with her first shutout of the season.

She made 27 saves in the process.

Leveille took over the net from All-America goalie Noora Räty, who graduated after last season. Terry said the sophomore has performed well early this season.

“We’re just getting more and more confident in her,”

Terry said. “Eventually it’s just like having Noora back there again because she’s just doing amazing.”

Leveille kept her team in a scoreless game, warding off 11 shot attempts in both the first and second periods.

Terry collected a rebound and gave Minnesota the lead 5:42 into the third period.

Wisconsin looked as if it had tied the game shortly after that , but the play was reviewed and overturned.

Minnesota widened its lead later in the period when senior defenseman Baylee Gillanders took a shot, which Terry was able to redirect into the net.

“I saw it coming, and I just tried to tip it in,” Terry said. “I was actually kind of worried it’d be a high-sticking, but it went through.”

The line consisting of Terr y, freshman for ward Kate Schipper and freshman Dani Cameranesi gen-

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erated scoring chances all night Saturday. Cameranesi said she thought the trio works well together because they’re all speedy skaters.

That line was rewarded twice Saturday, and Terr y said she was joking around with the freshmen that the first goal might have opened the floodgates for them.

Minnesota will have a chance to see if that comes to fruition next weekend when it heads up north to play Minnesota-Duluth.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Minnesota hoists first trophy of season The Gophers beat Mercyhurst and New Hampshire en route to the title.

BY JACE FREDERICK AND NATE GOTLIEB jfrederick@mndaily.com ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Gophers sophomore goalie Adam Wilcox made the big save in the big moment, as he always seems to do.

This time, he brilliantly flashed the leather with seven seconds left to secure the No. 5 Gophers’ 3-2 win over No. 13 New Hampshire on Saturday night at Mariucci Arena.

“He’s got a flare for the dramatic,” senior defenseman Justin Holl said. “He was just laughing when he came back to the bench.”

The win ear ned the Gophers the Ice Breaker Tournament title, as they improved to 2-0-0 on the season.

Minnesota beat Mercyhurst 6-0 on Friday night to make it to the final.

Gophers head coach Don Lucia said playing for a trophy in the first few games of the season might have given his team a little extra motivation.

He added that playing a game against a ranked opponent so early is also beneficial.

“It’s a good measuring stick,” Lucia said of the win against New Hampshire. “We had to play a good, smart game tonight, and I thought we did.”

After a scoreless first period, the second stanza was filled with fireworks.

New Hampshire struck first as senior defenseman Eric Knodel deflected the puck past Wilcox.

Minnesota responded with a rush and threw pucks

on net until freshman forward Hudson Fasching tied the game less than four minutes later.

The Gophers fell behind again in the second when senior center Nick Sorkin scored. But barely a minute later, the tournament MVP, junior forward Sam Warning, scored to knot the game at 2-2.

“No one’s going to give up,” junior forward Seth Ambroz said of the team’s comeback abilities. “When we answered those goals right away, it gave us a lot of momentum.”

Freshman forward Vinni Lettieri broke the tie with the eventual game-winning goal with 2:10 to play in the second. Lettieri gathered the puck, spun around and fired from the circle to beat Wildcats junior netminder Casey DeSmith.

That goal proved to be the difference.

Minnesota outshot New Hampshire 34-23, but DeSmith’s solid goaltending kept the Wildcats competitive throughout. He finished with 31 saves on the night.

Though they skated away with a win, the Gophers were miserable in the special teams department. Minnesota was 0-for-6 on the power play Saturday and failed to produce any really meaningful chances.

Its penalty-kill unit wasn’t much better, as both of New Hampshire’s goals came with the man advantage. The Wildcats were 2-for-5 on the power play.

Lucia, though, didn’t seem concerned with the early struggles.

Minnesota’s weekend may have ended well, but it started even better.

The Gophers received a

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strong showing from their junior class against Mercyhurst as Ambroz, Warning and Kyle Rau scored the first three goals Friday night.

Minnesota saw 10 skaters record a point, and freshmen Justin Kloos and Michael Brodzinski scored their first career goals.

Rau scored the Gophers’ first goal of the season on a power play in the first period, tapping in a shot from the point.

Minnesota dominated the second period, scoring three goals and outshooting Mercyhurst 19-5.

It all started with Ambroz’s goal — by far the most bizarre of the night.

Ambroz fired a shot that deflected off the left post. He gathered his own rebound and flipped the puck near the crease, where it bounced off the skate of a Mercyhurst defender and into the net.

Lucia said that goal flipped the script in the game. He added Ambroz could try that 100 times and it might not happen again.

“That’s how he scores his goals,” Wilcox said. “No one else is going to do that.”

Warning added the team’s third goal midway through the period, and Kloos scored his goal a little less than five minutes later.

Sophomore defenseman

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Minnesota junior Sam Warning handles the puck against Mercyhurst in the Ice Breaker Tournament at Mariucci Arena on Friday night. The Gophers won 6-0.

Mike Reilly added a goal, and Brodzinski flicked in a wrist shot with less than two minutes remaining.

Wilcox notched his fourthcareer shutout in the game

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and was largely unchallenged by the Mercyhurst attack.

Wilcox finished with 46 saves on the weekend.

Fasching, Wilcox, Warning and Rau were named to

Gophers rebound with win at OSU Minnesota lost to Penn State last week but bounced back in Columbus.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

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Minnesota senior Derek Toomey swims in the men’s 100-yard freestyle on Saturday at the University Aquatic Center.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams saw different opponents and dif ferent results at the University Aquatic Center this weekend.

Minnesota’s women continued their winning ways 174.5-125.5 against the Michigan Wolverines on Friday night. The men ran into a buzz saw No. 5 Florida squad and had their first loss of the season 172-124 the following afternoon.

Minnesota won 10 of 16 events on the women’s side Friday night.

Its first victor y of the night came from junior Kiera Janzen in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Janzen added first-place finishes in the 500-yard freestyle and as a member of the 400-yard freestyle relay team.

“We swam really great across the board tonight,” Janzen said after the meet.

“We had some great races. It’s been a hard week of training, and people stepped up tonight.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Women dominate, men fall to ranked Florida

Minnesota split the weekend at the University Aquatic Center.

the all-tournament team.

Minnesota travels to Bemidji State next weekend to take on the Beavers.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

“I think the team did a good job of competing and executing a plan, not letting travel and having a hard game on Wednesday affect anything.”

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Janzen said she was satisfied with her per formance but added she wants to progress and drop times early in the season.

Gophers head coach Kelly Kremer said the meet provided a confidence boost for his team but said there’s still a lot of room for improvement.

“It’s probably more important to keep practicing the things we want to do at the end of the season,” he said. “We’re seeing teams that we’re going to see down the road, and it prepares us for what’s to come.”

Minnesota didn’t fare so well on the men’s side, winning only four events.

Even with the substantial deficit, Kremer said the meet with Florida was a good measuring stick moving forward.

“Florida is at a spot right

The Gophers volleyball team has lost only three matches this season, but all have been against ranked opponents. In fact, Minnesota had only beat one ranked opponent all season.

Until this weekend.

No. 11 Minnesota defeated No. 14 Ohio State in three dominant sets Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

Senior middle blocker Tori Dixon said the difference between the Buckeyes match and past matches with ranked teams was simple.

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Minnesota senior Sarah McCrady dives in the 3-meter competition Friday at the University Aquatic Center.

now where we want to get to as a program,” he said after the meet. “It’s good to see a team like this, and it’s easy to see the difference.

It’s easy to see the things we need to improve.”

Derek Toomey won the Gophers’ first event of the meet in the 50-yard freestyle. The senior co-captain, who specializes in sprint races, said the Gators were an intimidating presence in the pool but his team didn’t back down.

“It kind of puts ever ything into perspective for us,” Toomey said after the meet. “It gives us goals to shoot for. We put up a good fight, but we can always get better.”

Toomey said he was “ver y happy” with his 50 freestyle time but wants to drop his time in the 100 freestyle. Freshman team-

mate Dar yl Turner bested Toomey for the second week in that event.

Turner, a standout from Aurora, Colo., has looked fast in the pool, and Toomey said he will play a pivotal role on the team this year.

“It will also help me because I don’t want to lose to a freshman,” Toomey said. “It’s going to push me to keep training harder all season.”

Minnesota divers found success in both the men’s and women’s realm this weekend.

Gophers senior Maggie Keefer won the 1-meter, and senior Sarah McCrady won the 3-meter competition for the women.

Sophomore Dylan Zoe stood out for the men, placing first in the 3-meter competition and third in the 1-meter.

ASHLEY WITTMAN senior outside hitter

“We got on them really early from the get-go, and then we just stayed on them,” she said. “They really never had a chance to get a run or get any kind of momentum.”

Dixon led the match with 12 kills and seven blocks. She also contributed six digs and a .360 hitting percentage.

Freshman outside hitter Sarah Wilhite came in second in kills with 10 and hit .500 with two ser vice aces.

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Wilhite also impressed in Wednesday’s five-set loss on the road at Penn State, and she said she’s just happy to have the oppor tunity to play after hard work in the gym.

“Switching positions has been hard, but practice is definitely paying of f,” she said. “I’m getting used to playing on the right side rather than the left side.”

While the whole team built of f the tough match against the Nittany Lions, W ilhite wasn’t the only player to carr y over success in a specific aspect of her game. Senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman recorded a match-high 12 digs against the Buckeyes.

“I think about where I’m supposed to be on the cour t when dif ferent hitters are hitting — just staying loaded and ready at all times,” Wittman said.

Three of the Gophers’ next four matches will be at the Spor ts Pavilion.

After a two-week r oad trip with three matches against ranked teams, the team is welcoming the break from travel.

Wilhite called the p a s t w e e k “ c r a z y. ” Dixon said she was sick of the stress of traveling.

But Wittman said the strain didn’t show in the team’s performance.

“I think the team did a good job of competing and executing a plan,” she said, “not letting travel and having a hard game on Wednesday af fect anything.”

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SOCCER

Gophers take step back, lose on road Minnesota lost to Northwestern this weekend and fell to 2-3-1 in Big Ten.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

Two steps for ward, one step back.

The Gophers soccer season has appeared to follow that trend — for ever y big victor y or successful stretch of play, there’s a setback.

And that’s exactly what Minnesota’s 2-0 loss to Nor thwestern was Saturday in Evanston, Ill., as the Gophers were coming off a program-defining win over then-No. 7 Penn State last Sunday.

A matchup with Northwestern, which hadn’t won a conference game this season and hadn’t beaten Minnesota since 2006, seemed like a slam dunk — especially considering the Gophers came in riding a three-game unbeaten streak.

But nobody told the Wildcats.

Northwestern got on the board in the 41st minute when junior for ward Katie Landgrebe beat Gophers freshman goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs. The Wildcats took the 1-0 lead into halftime and outshot Minnesota 12-1 in the first 45 minutes.

The Gophers cranked up the of fensive pressure in the second half, but to no avail.

Wildcats freshman forward Addie Steiner scored

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Minnesota midfielder Katie Thyken fights for the ball against Louisiana State on Sept. 6, 2013.

in the 80th minute to put the game away.

Hobbs once again played well in net, compiling seven saves in the game despite allowing the two goals.

Still, Hobbs has no control over the offense, and the Gophers’ offensive ineptitude did them in again.

Minnesota was shut out for the fourth time in six Big Ten games.

Including Saturday, the Gophers have been outshot 77-25 in their last four games.

They were 2-0-1 in the three games before Saturday.

Gophers head coach Stefanie Golan said she was proud of the way her team

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rebounded from conferenceopening losses to Indiana and Michigan State after last Sunday’s win over the Nittany Lions.

After this Saturday’s loss, the Gophers will have to bounce back yet again.

The team’s first opportunity to do so comes this Friday when it takes on Iowa at Elizabeth L yle Robbie Stadium.

MEN’S GOLF

Golfers gear up for invite

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

Minnesota head men’s golf coach John Carlson said he had high expectations for his team in the qualifying tournament before the Alister MacKenzie Invitational.

His team did not match his expectations.

After a disappointing eighth-place finish in the Tucker Invitational on Sept.

27-28, the Gophers played a three-round qualifying tournament last week to determine the lineup for the upcoming Alister MacKenzie Invitational in Sonoma, Calif.

But after the tournament, the five players who usually travel for the team remained in the top five spots.

Carlson said he expected some of his young players to challenge for a spot on the five-man traveling team.

“I certainly think some of our freshmen were in it on the last day,” he said. “But they weren’t able to put any pressure on the top five.”

As a result, the Gophers will use the same lineup they’ve used for each tournament this fall.

Senior Alex Gauger t played well for the Gophers in the qualifying tournament. He finished second on the team with an aggregate score of 5-over par.

“I never really thought of losing my spot,” he said.

“I just played my game and saw what happened.”

Freshman Jose Mendez, who has been the team’s top golfer all season, was the Gophers’ lowest scorer in the qualifier. He finished at even par for the 54-hole tournament.

The other three Gophers who kept their spots in the lineup were redshirt senior Jon Trasamar, junior Tyler Lowenstein and sophomore Jon DuToit.

“Those five guys have certainly solidified themselves in our lineup,” Carlson said.

“But I need to see more in the upcoming tournaments.”

He said if he doesn’t see better scores in tour-

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Minnesota senior Alex Gaugert hits a drive down the fairway on Oct. 6, 2013 at Edina Country Club.

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MINNESOTA 10:15 a.m., Monday and 10 a.m., Tuesday in Sonoma, Calif.

PREVIEW: The Gophers men’s golf team will play in the annual Alister MacKenzie Invitational on Monday and Tuesday at Sonoma Golf Club in Sonoma, Calif. The team will look to improve upon its eighthplace finish in the Tucker Invitational in New Mexico two weeks ago.

The 16-team tournament is hosted by California, which is ranked No. 4 in the Golfweek rankings. No. 23 Arizona State is the only other top-25 team in this year’s tournament.

The Gophers last played in the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in 2010, when they tied for 10th. Senior Alex Gaugert was the only member of this year’s team to play that year.

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naments, he’ll stop having qualifiers and just hand-pick the lineup.

Looking ahead to the Alister MacKenzie Invitational, Carlson said he expects his team to compete for a top spot.

Tournament host California is currently ranked No. 4 in the Golfweek rankings.

The Golden Bears are the only top-10 team playing in the tournament.

“California is obviously the odds-on favorite,” Carlson said. “But I think second place is certainly up for grabs.”

The Sonoma Golf Club, the site of this year’s tournament, hosted the Charles Schwab Cup Championship — a PGA Champions Tour event — from 2003-09.

Carlson said he’s never played or visited the course,

but he understands how it plays from seeing it on TV. “It’s a tight tree-line golf course, similar to the courses we qualified at,” he said. “I think we’re going to have a little advantage having just played tree courses.”

The last time the Gophers played in the Alister MacKenzie Invitational in 2010, they tied for 10th.

Gaugert, then a freshman, is the only golfer on this year’s team to have played in that tournament.

He said he expects the Gophers to be much more competitive this time around.

“We were right there two weeks ago in New Mexico against some tough competition,” he said. “I think we can compete with anybody in the country if we just play our game.”

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BACKTALK sudoku

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

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

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (10/14): Discovery and adventure flavor this year. Develop and renew work habits, honing skills for the next five months. New avenues open regarding finances, education, partnership and social life.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 5 — A blissfully insightful moment interrupts mundane affairs.

Add some creative spice to the package. Listen and watch. Pay attention. Keep any secrets.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Don’t fret about household expenses. It’s not good timing to shop either, but worrying is futile. You see what needs to be done. Clean up messes.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 5 — You work well with others, and your attention is in demand. Visualize solving a work-related problem. Stand firm. Follow a definite strategy.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 5 — Increase your profits through organization.

Make up an outline to minimize confusion.

Follow the money trail, and provide value.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 5 — Make creative, inexpensive repairs. Report on your activities. It may take preparation. Go for the raise or status rise. Take careful action.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Form a solid communications connection where it was missing. Choose faith over doubt.

You’re entering a more domestic phase.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — You see the direction to take. Get farther than expected.

You may need to scrape change for gas money.

Provide excellent service.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — Get ready for another great learning experience.

Ask for more and get it. Expand your territory.

Meetings could conflict with family time.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Remain open to new ideas as you provide well for family. Store provisions for the future, and use what you’ve kept. Plan ahead.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Manage finances over the next two days. Keep it simple and organized. It could be quite profitable. Make your feelings public.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Pay back a debt. Postpone travel. Spend time with an attractive person, and let deadlines ride. You’ll have more help. It could be very nice.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — Give yourself time for feelings and logic to mesh.

Review the facts before taking action. Rest up and enjoy simple pleasures.

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overheard “The people in this building, they’re gettin’ it!”

“The only thing I’m getting is sleep deprived and fat ...”

—Comstock Hall

“Wait, but what would I wear to a toga party?”

—17th Avenue residence hall “Why are you wearing two bras?”

“I have very strong nipples.”

—Campus Connector

“Last year my family hit a new low when my brother got into Madison. I have no pressure because anything I do will be better than that.”

—Recreation and Wellness Center

“You guys can have the threesome without me. Then it’ll just be the two of you.”

—Outside the Weisman Art Museum

Girl: “I kind of want to dress as a fox — you know, from that “What Does the Fox Say” video — because that would be soooo original and funny, but I feel like not many people have heard of it, and no one will get it ...”

—Unknown

Guy 1: “Whatcha doing this weekend?”

Guy 2: “Oh, I have a few assignments to do. You?” Guy 1: “Oh, I’m just gonna trip balls and look at nature.”

—Unknown

Professor: “Once a building wins an architectural award, it is doomed.”

—Structural engineering class “DID YOU LOSE THE FISH!?!”

—Washington Avenue

Person 1: “Why would you ever wear that hoodie with those pants?”

Person 2: “If you’re not intending to get a piece of ass today, then why bother?”

—Roy Wilkins Hall

“Dude, remember when we got drunk last year and we put a mouse on your head?”

“I thought it was a hamster, and we put it on your head!”

—17th Avenue residence hall

“I’m afraid if you can’t accept a wrinkly dick, this relationship can’t continue.”

—Middlebrook Hall

Girl on her phone: “Whatever, we’re going unicorn hunting.”

—Coffman Union

“Sooo, which bus do I take to get to Minneapolis?”

—Bus stop at the Metrodome

“All the middle school girls look at me like I’m a piece of meat.”

—Unknown

TA: “My claim to fame is that when I was 19, I almost dropped out of school to join a metal band. Would’ve gotten a tie tattooed on my chest so that I’d always be classy.”

—Unknown

“You know what you are is an educational experience!”

—17th Avenue residence hall

“I think I was high. ... I had a little bit of something.”

—Pleasant Street

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FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 14, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Actor Damon 5 Like unfizzy soda 9 Relatively cool heavenly body 14 Suffix with buck 15 Grocery section 16 “All done!”

17 Long-running musical variety TV show 19 Hunter’s hides 20 Spiral-shaped __ fries 21 Fair-hiring abbr.

23 Wiesel who said, “Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil” 24 “Just __ suspected!”

25 Pre-playoffs baseball drama 29 Work on, as a vintage auto 31 Sudoku grid line 32 Honorary legal deg.

33 ’30s-’40s film dog 34 Logger’s tool 36 Man and Capri 38 Final triumph after apparent failure 42 Fancy mushroom 45 Metric distances: Abbr.

46 Roadies’ loads 50 Prefix with sex 51 Yale student 54 Kevin Kline’s “French Kiss” co-star 56 Offensive in the First Gulf War 59 __-Caps: candy 60 Bug-killing brand 61 Deer daughter 62 How some stock is sold 64 Sent to the unemployment line 66 Retrace one’s steps, and what ends of 17-, 25-, 38- and 56-Across can literally have 69 Key in 70 Mine, to Mimi 71 Java Freeze brand 72 Swiped 73 Tree anchor 74 Breakfast, e.g.

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DOWN 1 Eyelash application 2 Stirs to action 3 One of a vacationing busload 4 Turnpike fee 5 Pres. on a dime 6 “Glee” actress __ Michele 7 Sci-fi invader 8 Karaoke singer’s ineptitude, to the chagrin of the audience 9 Gas additive letters 10 See-through 11 Revealing, as a celeb interview 12 “An” or “the” 13 Tends to a lawn’s bare spot 18 AutoCorrect target 22 John’s Yoko 26 Distinctive periods 27 Bagel shop call 28 Itty-bitty branch 30 Fish story 35 Moose relative 37 __-Pei: wrinkly dog

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39 Angel or Athletic, briefly 40 Rifle range need 41 Laptop operator 42 Confuses 43 Price of bubble gum, once 44 Trattoria rice dish 47 Leader in social networking until 2008 48 Cure-all 49 Enjoy coral reefs

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52 Inc., in the U.K. 53 Meteorologist’s pressure line 55 Future MBA’s exam 57 Actress Georgia of “Everybody Loves Raymond” 58 Julio’s “I love you” 63 Quick haircut 65 Profitable rock 67 Suitor’s murmur 68 Model-ship-to-be

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I went out of town this weekend and met the love of my life. This guy and I totally hit it off, and I’ve been thinking about him nonstop. Besides the fact that we live 1,000 miles apart, there’s one major caveat: We recently became Facebook friends, and his profile says “Interested in Men and Women.”

First of all, how do I go about asking whether or not this is true?

It’s not exactly a colloquial conversation piece. Also, if it is true, how do I deal with the fact that I’m competing against twice the playing field as usual, and what if his bros are more than just “friends”?

I’m trying not to sound insensitive, but I’m new to this situation. Should I just give up? I haven’t felt so happy about a guy in nearly three years.

—Anonymous

Fairytale Teller,

Whoa, Nelly! You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions. Do you really think this guy is the love of your life, or do you want to get in his pants? I know it’s hard to tell sometimes. Because you just met him, I’m gonna say you’ve got a case of lust.

I’ve been in enough “knight in shining armor” situations to know they don’t work out. Throw in the longdistance aspect and you’re basically doomed, unless you decide to pack your bags and move to him, which I do not recommend. I’ve done it. It was lonely and terrible, and two weeks in I realized I was dating a douchebag.

To answer your initial question — it’s 2013. Everyone and their mother is bisexual. You may consider educating yourself before assuming that being bisexual means boning all your same-sex friends.

Alas, I wouldn’t give up based on

the bisexual piece — I’d give up because he lives 1,000 miles away and one weekend isn’t enough time to really know you’re in love.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I have recently moved to the Twin Cities from far away and have taken on a completely new look. On top of that, I’ve become more active and have been trying to put myself out there.

However, I have no idea how to start dating at the U. I just got out of a longterm relationship, so I’m a little rusty, and on top of that I’m attracted to either gender. What should I do?

—Little Fish In A Big Pond

Fish Out Of Water,

A tree can’t grow without roots, little fish. You need to build a solid foundation for yourself before seeking out a romance, or you’ll be setting yourself up for future problems. I don’t mean to tell you what to do, but my honest advice would be to make friends first.

Think about it. Let’s say you meet an amazing man or woman, move into their apartment, start hanging out with all of their friends and spend every single waking moment together for a few months straight. Then doomsday hits. Plates are thrown at walls, tears are shed and you’re kicked out of the house. Who do you turn to?

Yeah, my example is extreme, but if you don’t make solid friends before entering a relationship, you could end up more alone than when you started.

Once all is settled, something could very easily fall into your lap. I’m not a huge fan of dating sites or groups, or whatever people do these days, but if all else fails, OkCupid is decent for one-night stands.

—Dr. Date

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Syrians in Egypt pay for European dream

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — A human rights lawyer from central Syria and an amateur soccer player from Syria’s Mediterranean port of Latakia found their fates colliding just off Egypt’s coastline one afternoon. The two had fled their country’s civil war to Egypt,

only to flee again — this time on a smuggler’s boat bound for Italy’s southern shores.

The lawyer Hassan and the athlete Abdul-Rahman paid around $3,000 each to smugglers for the voyage, but the ship was barely underway last month when it was intercepted by coastal patrols. Two people died

in gunfire and the rest — about 100 mostly Syrian refugees — were hauled to prison in the seaport of Alexandria, they told The Associated Press.

Desperate migrants seeking work or refuge in Europe have attempted the clandestine crossing of the Mediterranean for decades.

But the growing turmoil

and bloodshed in the Arab World — including Syria’s civil war and political upheavals in Egypt — have brought more boats, packed decks and higher risks in rougher post-summer seas.

In the past week alone, at least 339 people, including many Syrians, died after their vessel capsized trying to reach the Italian island of

Lampedusa. A day later, another boat went down, with rescue crews managing to save most aboard but reporting seeing bodies in the water.

On Friday, 12 people drowned in a shipwreck off Alexandria’s coast. Another 116 survived, according to Egyptian state media.

Malta Prime Minister

Joseph Muscat warned Saturday: “We cannot allow the Mediterranean to become a cemetery.”

“A year ago, Egypt was like a flower that was opening. It was the start of a new life. Things were fresh and new and I thought to come here and live,” said the lawyer Hassan, speaking from prison on his mobile phone.

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“Development is coming very fast, so we have got to be prepared for it, Diverse development otherwise, we’re Displacement was an issue during the urban regoing to be victims vival projects on the West of it.”

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by public action,” Mungavan said.

A 2010 city study labeled the area around the stop on Washington Avenue Southeast between the University’s West Bank campus and Interstate 35-W a “potential development zone.”

While some residents could be displaced, Bernard said higher land prices could also be a benefit for people who want more market-rate housing, and the city has to consider both perspectives.

The debate around Cedar-Riverside’s future received a boost after Faisal Roble, a Los Angeles city planner, gave a speech at a community meeting in June.

Roble focused on his experience with public transit systems and their effects on the communities they pass through.

WBCC Executive Director Hussein Ahmed said the community hopes development around the lightrail station will bolster the

neighborhood.

“We want to be in a good position to take advantage of the light rail,” he said.

“We don’t want to be the least developed or a forgotten area.”

Ahmed said revamping Cedar-Riverside’s small area plan is key to realizing that goal.

“Development is coming very fast, so we have got to be prepared for it,” he said.

“Otherwise, we’re going to be victims of it.”