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Rybak to teach U classes After his mayoral term ends, R.T. Rybak will teach three semesters at the University.

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

After more than a decade at City Hall, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak is going back to school.

Rybak will begin teaching courses next semester at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School and the College of Design, the University announced Wednesday.

The outgoing mayor will teach “Mayor 101” this spring and lead an urban case studies class in CDES next fall, said Humphrey School Dean Eric Schwartz.

R ybak has ser ved as Minneapolis’ mayor since 2001. His successor will be Senior James Arnason decorates his room Wednesday evening as part of Chi Psi’s haunted house.

Chi Psi is turning its house into a “Haunted Lodge” for a second year.

BY MELISSA BERMAN mberman@mndaily.com

chair Dan Olsen said the Haunted Lodge star ted because the fraternity was

On Halloween, one Uni-

looking for a fall philan-

versity of Minnesota frater-

thropy event and realized

nity house will be haunted.

it could provide an alcohol-

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free option for students on

and spider webs, Chi Psi’s

Halloween, which he said

University Avenue house

isn’t always easy to find.

will turn into the Haunted

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ed houses,” he said. “It’s a

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Frater nity members

have to go out to drink.”

will lead hor ror-seeking

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students through Chi Psi’s

Haunted Lodge will go to

darkened house, ending

Second Harvest Heartland,

in the dining room, where

a hunger relief organiza-

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and socializing.

or $3 with a nonperishable

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u See RYBAK Page 18 The classes will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students across the University.

SEQUESTER

Cuts could hit grants The second round of sequestration cuts could threaten the Pell Grant.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

With the second round of sequestration cuts approaching in January, federal financial aid for students remains at risk.

The first across-the-board cuts last March spared some federal education aid programs, but it’s unclear how they will fare in the upcoming second wave.

With future federal student aid funding in limbo, University of Minnesota officials don’t know how they will plan for potential cuts. u See GRANTS Page 4 Nearly 12,000 University undergraduates received Pell Grants in 2012.

STUDENT LIFE

Popping pills to get ahead Experts caution against using Adderall to study, but students say it’s easy to do.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

Libraries adapt to changing research As fewer students use books, University Libraries is upping its online offerings.

BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com

When midterms and assignments pile up, some University of Minnesota students turn to drugs they aren’t prescribed to get an extra boost of energy and focus — a practice that’s getting easier.

A popular choice is Adderall, the stimulant often prescribed to treat attention deficit disorders. Although Adderall can provide the extra concentration students are looking for, health experts warn the drug is addictive and perhaps too easy to get.

Adderall use is “fairly popular” among

Florescent lights cast a shadow upon rows of unused bookshelves in the BioMedical Library as students instead study their computer screens.

Technology is transforming the University of Minnesota Libraries. Students use more online reference materials than ever before, according to a University Libraries sur vey. For students, online sources for studying or researching are becoming the norm, while print materials collect dust.

University Libraries are revamping how they offer materials as students rely more on the Internet. One way of responding to

u See ADDERALL Page 5 An expanded ADHD definition could make it easier to fake, experts said.

u See RESEARCH Page 4 Online materials are easier to access and more up-to-date than print, students said.

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Israel plans more than 1,500 new settlement homes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — Israel announced plans Wednesday to build more than 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank, dealing a setback to newly relaunched peace efforts hours after it had freed a group of long-serving Palestinian prisoners.

The construction plans drew angry condemnations from Palestinian officials, who accused Israel of undermining the U.S.-led talks by expanding settlements on the lands where they hope to establish an independent state.

U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon also condemned the Israeli decision, and Washington said it would not create a “positive environment” for the negotiations.

Israel had freed the 26 Palestinian prisoners as part of a U.S.-brokered agreement to restart the talks. The construction was meant to blunt anger over the release of the prisoners, all of whom had been convicted of murder in the deaths of Israelis.

Israel’s Interior Ministry said 1,500 apartments would

be built in Ramat Shlomo, a large settlement in east Jerusalem, the section of the holy city claimed by the Palestinians as their capital. It also announced plans for archaeology and tourism projects near the Old City, home to Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy sites.

Israel first announced the Ramat Shlomo plan in 2010 during a visit to Israel by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, sparking a diplomatic rift with Washington that took months to mend. Wednesday’s decision is the final approval needed, and construction can begin immediately, officials said.

Ofir Akunis, a lawmaker from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, said construction also had been approved for several West Bank settlements.

“The building in Judea and Samaria will continue and be intensified,” said Akunis, using the biblical term for the West Bank.

In addition, he told parliament that Netanyahu had given orders to “advance plans” for more than 2,000 homes in a longer list of settlements across the West Bank.

While these projects still

need additional bureaucratic approvals, they are especially provocative because several of the settlements are deep inside the West Bank and almost certainly would have to be dismantled as part of a peace deal.

Israel captured east Jerusalem, along with the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek all three areas for a future state.

The Palestinians, along with virtually all of the international community, consider the settlements to be illegal or illegitimate.

Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, condemned the settlement plans, saying they were “destructive to the peace efforts and will only lead to more tensions.”

“It’s a message to the international community that Israel is a state that doesn’t abide by international law and continues to put obstacles in the way of peace,” he said.

In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “We do not consider continued settlement activity or East Jerusalem

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U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said the secretarygeneral “deplores” the Israeli announcement.

“Settlement activity is contrar y to international law and constitutes an obstacle to peace,” Nesirky said. “Any measures that prejudge final status issues will not be recognized by the international community.”

The previous round of peace talks broke down in late 2008 and remained frozen for nearly five years, in large part because of Palestinian objections to settlement construction.

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Under heavy U.S. pressur e, the Palestinians dropped a longstanding demand for a settlement freeze over the summer and agreed to resume negotiations with the understanding that Israel would slow construction.

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LONDON — Recent research has suggested that teen pregnancies in the developing world are declining, but more than 7 million girls under the age of 18 are still giving birth each year and suffering drastic consequences, a U.N. report said Wednesday.

The U.N. Population Fund expressed particular alarm about the dangers facing girls 14 or younger, who account for 2 million of the 7.3 million births to women under 18 in developing countries. This group faces the gravest longterm social and health consequences from giving birth as teens.

The report looked at births to women under 18 worldwide, the underlying causes of teen pregnancy, and possible solutions to the problem, which the U.N. said is part of a vicious cycle of rights violations.

“Adolescent pregnancy is most often not the result of a deliberate choice, but rather the absence of choices,” Osotimehin wrote in the report, citing lack of access to an education, job opportunities or health care.

The report said that high rates of adolescent pregnancies correspond with other social problems, like powerlessness and poverty. In many instances, the pregnancies are a result of sexual violence.

The issue is most evident in the developing world — with 95 percent of births to women under 18 occurring there. Ten percent of women ages 20-24 in the Middle East reported at least one birth before age 18, while 22 percent did in South Asia and 28 percent did in Western and Central Africa, the report says.

LONDON — A prosecutor said Wednesday that there was “a conspiracy which involved a significant number of people” to hack phones at the Rupert Murdoch-owned News of the World, revealing that three senior journalists at the now-defunct newspaper have pleaded guilty to illegally eavesdropping on voicemails.

Opening the long-awaited hacking trial of former News of the World editors Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson and others, prosecution lawyer Andrew Edis said hacking and other illegal activity at the paper and its sister tabloid, The Sun, went on for a decade. He said it was inconceivable that the top executives didn’t know about it.

“They were in charge of the purse strings,” Edis said, adding that they signed off on illicit payments.

“Mrs. Brooks personally approved nearly 40,000 pounds for stories” to a senior defense official, Edis said.

The long-awaited trial stems from the revelation in 2011 that employees at the News of the World tabloid eavesdropped on the phone voicemails of celebrities, politicians, crime victims and others in their search for exclusive stories.

The scandal led Murdoch to shut the 168-year-old newspaper and spurred wide-ranging criminal investigations into phone hacking, bribery and other illegal behavior by the nation’s newspapers.

It also has rattled the country’s media, police and political establishments. Brooks and Coulson — once top aides to Murdoch and associates of Prime Minister David Cameron — are charged along with six others on a variety of counts related to phone hacking, bribing officials and obstructing justice. All deny the charges.

Edis revealed that four others pleaded guilty before the trial began. Three worked at the News of the World, all former news desk editors.

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New Dinkytown surveys reach students The city is looking for student input on Dinkytown’s small area plan.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

As the City of Minneapolis and the Dinkytown community draft the district’s small area plan, student voices have been hard to come by.

But a new outreach initiative found a way to find what students care most about when it comes to Dinkytown. The feedback

comes at a key time with the plan’s third and final community outreach meeting taking place on Nov. 18 at Varsity Theater.

In sur veys by the Creative CityMaking partnership, respondents ranked restaurants, biking and walking accessibility, and unique character as the area’s most important qualities.

To conduct the surveys, a team met students at the University of Minnesota Community Involvement Fair in September and talked with patrons in Dinkytown.

Almost two-thirds of the 340 respondents to the

“Dinkytown Zine” sur vey were born in 1990 to 1999.

The second “Dinkytown Community Sur vey” had about 1,000 respondents.

Both are preliminar y results now, but Minneapolis principal planner Haila Maze said the two sur veys will be an important piece of the small area plan.

Strategic communications junior Kiara Lenford said she’s been coming to Dinkytown since she was a child and would’ve given her input if she knew the area was planning its future policy.

“I’ve never heard of how

to get involved,” she said.

“I definitely would want to have a say in what they’re going to do.”

Lenford said she thinks students aren’t responding because they don’t know, not because they don’t care.

The city can only do so much to gather opinion, Maze said, and Dinkytown proved to be especially difficult.

“It’s no surprise we can’t get ever yone’s input on every plan,” she said. “Getting ever y person involved in ever y process would be exhaustive amounts of work.”

DINKYTOWN COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS What characteristics of the area are most important to you?

What sort of development would you like to see?

93% 92%

74%

7%

FINANCIAL SERVICES

17% 15%

PROFESSIONAL OFFICE SPACE

22%

DRY CLEANERS

28% 27% 26%

MEDICAL CLINIC

31%

HARDWARE/HOME IMPROVEMENT

SIT-DOWN RESTAURANTS

RESTAURANT/COFFEE SHOPS

GROCERY/SUPERMARKET

ACCESS TO HIGHWAYS/ MAJOR ROADS

44%

CARD/GIFT SHOP

47%

54%

GOOD PLACE TO LIVE

SUSTAINABLE/GREEN LIVING

CULTURAL/EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

58% 57%

MIX OF RETAIL/SERVICES

ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION OPTIONS

ACCESS TO U OF M

UNIQUE CHARACTER OF THE AREA

ABILITY TO WALK/BIKE IN THE AREA

DINING/RESTAURANTS

75% 75%

QUICK SERVICE RESTAURANT

71%

GENERAL MERCHANDISE

89% 89%

In ranked order by category.

CLOTHING/ACCESSORIES

In ranked order by category.

6%

SOURCE: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

Maze said the city applied a different approach to bring students into the discussion on this small area plan. The new initiative was a success, she said, and the city hopes to use it as a model in the future.

“It’s a lot of people whose opinion hasn’t been asked in the past. That was an exciting part of it,” Maze said.

Respondents in both sur veys said they wanted to see a grocer y store in the area more than anything else. A new grocer y store is already coming to the Marshall, a 326-unit apar tment complex under construction at the former site of the University Technology Enterprise Center, Maze said.

After a supermarket, respondents said they would like to see more restaurants.

Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson said there’s a limit to how many eateries the area can support.

“I can see their point,” he said. “On the other hand, from the restaurants’ point of view, you can only divide the pie so many ways before it gets painful.”

Johnson said he was reassured to see so many students respond to the sur vey. “ We t r i e d t o r e a c h them through a multitude of ways,” he said. “I understand it’s not going to

DINKYTOWN ZINE SURVEY Have you provided information to inform city planning before today?

68% NO

16% YES

12.5% NOT SURE

3.6% NO RESPONSE SOURCE: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

reach all of them. I think the people [who] it really matters to know.”

In the “Zine” sur vey, only 16 percent of respondents said they had contributed to city planning efforts in the past.

Dental student Ben Schneider said students are hard to reach when it comes to long-term projects because they don’t see themselves as permanent residents.

It was beneficial for the city to go the extra mile and get student par ticipation, he said, because they frequent the area most.

“I think that’s what it takes when you’re dealing with undergrad students,” Schneider said. “If it’s not in your face, you’re probably not going to spend time on it.”

EU spying backlash threatens billions in US trade

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BRUSSELS — The backlash in Europe over U.S. spying is threatening an agreement that generates tens of billions of dollars in trans-Atlantic business ever y year — and negotiations on another pact worth many times more.

A growing number of European officials are calling for the suspension of the “Safe Harbor” agreement that lets U.S. companies process commercial and personal data — sales, emails, photos — from customers in Europe. This little-known but vital deal allows more than 4,200 American companies to do business in Europe, including Internet giants like Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon.

Revelations of the extent of U.S. spying on its European allies is also threatening to undermine one of President Barack Obama’s top trans-Atlantic goals: a sweeping freetrade agreement that would add an estimated $138 billion a year to each economy’s gross domestic product.

Top EU officials say the trust needed for the negotiations has been shattered.

“For ambitious and complex negotiations to succeed, there needs to be trust among the negotiating par tners,” EU Justice Commissioner V iviane Reding said Wednesday in a speech at Yale University.

At the ver y least, the Europeans are expected to demand that the U.S. significantly strengthen its privacy laws to give con-

sumers much more control over how companies use their personal data — and extend those rights to European citizens, maybe even giving them the right to sue American companies in U.S. courts.

The Europeans had long been pressing these issues with the Americans.

But since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden began to leak surprising details on the extent of U.S. sur veillance in Europe, the European demands have grown teeth.

“I don’t think the U.S. gover nment can be convinced by arguments or outrage alone, but by making it clear that American interests will suffer if this global sur veillance is simply continued,” said Peter Schaar, the head of Germa-

Obama cites early setbacks of Massachusetts health law

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — President Barack Obama chose the site where Massachusetts’ health care system became law to promote his signature health insurance program, arguing that the state plan also faced initial setbacks and low enrollment but in time gained popularity and became a success.

“All the parade of horribles, the worst predictions about health care reform in Massachusetts never came true,” he said. “They’re the same arguments that you’re hearing now.”

The Massachusetts’ law provided the model for the federal health insurance overhaul. Obama spoke in Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall, where Massachusetts Republican Gov. Mitt Romney was joined by the late Democratic Sen. Ted Kennedy to sign the state’s 2006 health care overhaul bill.

The president pointed to benefits already available under the 3-year-old health care law, including ending discrimination against children with pre-existing conditions and permission to keep young people on their parents’ insurance plans until they turn 26.

But he conceded the troubled launch of the open enrollment period that began Oct. 1.

“I am not happy about it,” he said.

Underscoring the president’s challenge, the HealthCare.gov website was down, because of technical difficulties, during his remarks.

Republicans say the current computer dysfunction is more reason to repeal the law, and they’re pressing Obama administration officials for an explanation.

Obama also tried to clarify the most recent controversy surrounding the law — the wave of cancellation notices hitting small businesses and individuals who buy their own insurance. Obama repeatedly had vowed that people who liked their insurance would be able to keep it.

The cancellation notices apply to people whose plans changed after the law was implemented or don’t meet new coverage requirements. The president said those changes ensure that all Americans are able to get quality coverage.

He said that because of government subsidies, most people who must get new policies will pay less than they do now. But he acknowledged that “a fraction of Americans with higher incomes” will likely pay more.

Romney took issue with Obama’s characterization of the Massachusetts health care law. In a statement, he said “had President Obama actually learned the lessons of Massachusetts health care, millions of Americans would not lose the insurance

they were promised they could keep, millions more would not see their premiums skyrocket and the installation of the program would not have been a frustrating embarrassment.”

During the 2012 presidential campaign, Romney had pledged to work for the repeal of Obama’s health care law if elected.

Obama, who lived in Boston while a student at Har vard University, was in town for a World Series game day, but his spokesman said he didn’t plan to make a side trip to Fenway Park, mindful of the impact his security entourage has on the public.

While in Boston, Obama also spoke at a fundraiser for House Democrats, where about 60 people dined on Spanish-influenced fare, followed by Red Sox cookies honoring the World Series game being played in town the same night.

Invoking the school shooting in nearby Connecticut and the Boston Marathon bombing, Obama said it had been a “challenging year.” He said he had hoped the tragedies would presage a new spirit of cooperation in Congress, but Americans got obstruction, instead.

“However low people’s estimations were of Washington before the shutdown,” Obama said, “they’re lower now.”

ny’s data protection watchdog.

One sanction the European Union could slap on the U.S. would be to suspend the Safe Harbor deal, which allows American businesses to store and process their data where they want. It aims to ensure that European customers’ data are just as safe as in Europe when handled in the U.S. “But if you look at the U.S. legal environment, there is no adequate legal protection for EU citizens,” said the European Parliament’s leading data protection lawmaker Jan Philipp Albrecht after talks with U.S. of ficials in Washington.

By signing up for the self-repor ting scheme supervised by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, U.S.

companies gain the right to move data about their business and consumers back and forth between the EU and the U.S. as needed.

Without it, U.S. firms would face either a lengthy and complicated case-bycase approval procedure by European data protection authorities, or a technological nightmare of having to ensure that European data is stored and processed only on ser vers within the 28-nation bloc. That would be costly and in some cases impossible — and could force U.S. businesses to stop ser vicing European customers.

“There is really no viable alter native in the near-term,” said Chris Babel, chief executive of San Francisco-based TRUSTe, which helps American firms get Safe Harbor cer-

tification from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

He estimates that U.S. companies would face tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue and additional costs to redesign their technological infrastructure.

Facebook declined to comment on what a suspension of Safe Harbor would mean. Microsoft hailed the agreement for establishing “legal cer tainty” but declined to elaborate. Spokespeople for Google, Apple and Amazon could not immediately be reached.

Of course, any suspension would hur t Europe as well, just as the 28-nation bloc is emerging from a recession. Consumers and businesses would find themselves without U.S.based ser vices from flightbooking websites to email providers.

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In Egypt, charter debate goes on

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — During his presidency, Islamist allies of Mohammed Morsi pushed through a constitution that alarmed many Egyptians with its provisions strengthening the role of Islamic law and car ving out extensive powers for the military. Now, after Morsi’s ouster, it is the turn of liberal, secular and leftist politicians to amend the charter.

But far from pushing through a radically new vision as many democracy advocates hoped, they are likely to preser ve the Islamic law provisions and grant even greater powers to the military.

Egypt’s stormy politics are the reason.

There is only one Islamist politician on the 50-member panel amending the constitution — but his objections have been enough to prevent the secular politicians who dominate the assembly from acting. They fear doing so will drive his ultraconservative al-Nour Party into the streets to join the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists in their continuing protests against Morsi’s July 3 ouster.

At the same time, the military that toppled Morsi is pressuring the assembly to make it virtually independent of — or even above — the elected gover nment. The panel has been sharply divided over an article that would allow the generals, not the president, to choose the defense minister — a sign of the army’s wariness of being under the control of an elected civilian.

Democracy advocates warn the provisions could erase other significant democracy gains that are in the final draft still being shaped.

New articles definitively guarantee freedom of faith, expression, thought and the press, better due process and bans on tor ture, said Bahey Eldin Hassan, head of the Cairo Institute For Human Rights. On the basis of those articles alone, “this will be the best constitution of all Egypt’s charters,” Hassan said.

But, he said, the controversial ar ticles would

“constrain those gains.”

For example, Islamists could restrict civil liberties and rights of women and Christians by arguing they contradict Islamic Shariah law— an aim one ultraconser vative cleric proudly boasted about when the articles were introduced last year.

Proposed amendments to ban religion-based political parties and lift restrictions on building churches could also run into contradictions with Shariah rules.

And granting an untouchable status to the military could give it political power over the government.

It “will only sow the seed for a militar y state,” said Hussein Abdel-Razek, a leftist politician in the assembly. “This logic is terrifying because it could simply end up with the army in power.”

Over the past week, panel members began approving a final draft, voting article by article. But they have only taken up uncontroversial por tions, leaving contentious articles for last.

Fearing that Morsi supporters will exploit any sign of division, the panel has been working in secrecy.

Sessions, which began in September, are being held behind closed doors — a stark contrast to the Islamist-dominated panel that wrote the constitution during Morsi’s year in power, in which sessions were televised.

The draft is to be put to a public referendum in Januar y. Interim authorities are hoping it wins with more than the 63 percent of the vote that the Morsi-era constitution garnered in a 2012 referendum. If the alNour Party turns against it, however, that could deeply damage its prospects. AlNour is the only Islamist faction that has supported Morsi’s removal and the militar y-backed transition plan.

The constitution has been at the center of hopes for enshrining a new, more democratic Egypt since the 2011 uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

After his ouster, Islamists surged to power by winning multiple elections, dominating parliament and capturing the presidency in

2012. Parliament formed an Islamist-majority panel to write a new constitution — and it was quickly mired in controversy. Over time, all the non-Islamist members quit, accusing Islamists of ramming through their agenda.

With the cour ts about to dissolve the assembly, Morsi issued decrees last November granting himself and the assembly sweeping immunity from judicial review. That allowed Islamists to finish writing the document and get it to a public referendum.

But the decrees prompted the first large protests against Morsi, and fueled the growing public perception that Islamists were trying to impose their vision on the countr y. The antiIslamist backlash culminated in massive protests by millions that triggered the coup.

Now out in the cold, the Brotherhood and its allies have been crippled by a heavy security crackdown.

Egypt’s liberal and secular elite are in the rare position of being in the drivers’ seat.

Secular members of the assembly have bristled with frustration over compromises forced by the sole Islamist politician.

“This is the golden oppor tunity” for dramatic changes, said Abdel-Razek, the leftist assembly member. But delegates fear Islamists will campaign against the charter as “antiIslam” and want al-Nour’s suppor t to bolster its credentials.

“The campaign by the Muslim Brotherhood already star ted,” AbdelRazek told The Associated Press. “And the worry is alNour will join them if it fails to impose its vision.”

Two key articles are at issue.

Ar ticle 2, first introduced in 1971 by then-President Anwar Sadat, states that Islam is the religion of the state and “the principles of Shariah are the main basis for legislation.” That article has effectively become untouchable, seen by many as a reflection of the country’s Muslim identity.

Abdel-Razek said he tried to propose changes, but the assembly wouldn’t consider them. “It was like I was talking to myself,” he said.

Infosys to settle fraud case

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PLANO, Texas — Infosys announced a $34 million settlement Wednesday to end a federal investigation into allegations that the Indian technology outsourcing giant circumvented immigration laws to bring thousands of lower-paid workers into the United States.

Federal prosecutors in Texas and Infosys said the settlement would head of f any criminal case.

Infosys, which operates in more than 30 countries with more than 160,000 employees, had been under investigation for using shor t-term B-1 visas to bring thousands of workers to the United States instead of the more expensive H1-B visa for specialized workers. The

U.S. caps the number of H1-B visas issued each year, making the process highly competitive among companies looking to hire foreign employees.

Authorities accused Infosys of gaining a leg up by impor ting qualified workers with the B-1 visa and paying them an Indian wage, which allowed them to underbid competitors. Prosecutors said they didn’t know what those workers were paid and whether they still remained in the United States, but said Infosys had agreed to changes that would bring it into compliance with American law.

Infosys was also accused of making errors on thousands of I-9 forms that are required to determine a person’s work eligibility.

Agents from Homeland Se-

curity Investigations who reviewed about 9,000 I-9 forms as part of the federal probe found more than 80 percent of them had errors.

In a statement, the company blamed paperwork errors for the problems on I-9 forms and said it had made changes to prevent future mistakes. Infosys strongly denied it had misused B-1 visas or committed any visa fraud. It did not admit any criminal liability as part of the settlement.

An Infosys consultant flagged what he said was an illegal practice and contacted authorities. The whistleblower, Jay Palmer of Alabama, stands to collect millions from the settlement under the False Claims Act, a federal whistleblower law, which could award him as much as 25 percent, according to U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.

Sequester cuts could hit grants Grants u from Page 1

The Pell Grant, the largest federal need-based grant program, was protected this school year by the Budget Control Act of 2011. But now, the grant could be included in the next sweep of federal cuts.

In 2012, nearly 12,000 University undergraduates received Pell Grants, totaling nearly $47 million in federal aid, according to Of fice of Institutional Research data.

Although it’s unknown what the U.S. Department of Education would do to protect Pell Grants if the second round of sequester cuts go into effect, University officials are beginning to discuss what the institution would do to prepare, said University Of fice of Student Finance Director Kris Wright.

“There is a degree of uncertainty,” she said.

If federal Pell Grants are reduced, students could see the ef fects as soon as next fall, Wright said.

But because cuts to student aid programs are con-

tingent on decisions made by the federal gover nment, it’s almost impossible to say just how students could be af fected, she said.

For example, if the grants were cut 5 percent across the board, Wright said, students at the University could risk losing more than $3 million in federal Pell Grants.

Each student who received $5,645 from the program — the maximum amount awarded this school year — would lose nearly $300 per year.

“It certainly doesn’t rise to a point of, ‘Let’s panic and think that we’re not going to be able to work something around,’ ” Wright said.

The University’s workstudy program could also face more federal cuts next fall.

University undergraduate students received more than $6.2 million in work-study funds in 2012, according to OIR data.

The White House estimated that about 500 fewer students in Minnesota would get work-study jobs in the 2013-14 school year due to the sequester.Research funding at the University has also suf fered

from the sequester.

In an Oct. 15 inter view, University President Eric Kaler said the University is losing $40 to $50 million in research suppor t this year from the cuts.

“That’s real money that impacts impor tant work that’s being done,” he said.

The Of fice of the Vice President for Research is cur rently creating a research plan for the next five to 10 years that could help curb the effects of the budget cuts.

Because it continues to harm colleges and students across the state, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn.

— who ser ves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee — said he’ll push to end the sequester.

“We can cut spending and get our fiscal house in order,” he said in an email, “but we need to do it in a much smar ter and more targeted way than the across-the-board cuts included in the sequester.

“I’ll continue to push to end the sequester before it does more harm to students and to colleges and universities in Minnesota and across the countr y.”

Libraries adapt to changing research Research u from Page 1

the demand is by expanding online databases from existing materials.

In January, students will have access to more print and online materials through MNCAT Discover y — a categorized search system on the University Libraries’ website.

Mary Schoenborn, libraries liaison to the Humphrey School and Carlson School of Management, said the University is buying access to more materials so Discovery can be a “one-stop shop” for research.

Students can find some online materials through library databases now, but not as many as the upgraded MNCAT Discovery will offer.

Online sources aren’t necessarily less reliable than books, she said. Students can find trustworthy sources online, although they may have to pay a fee to view the documents.

Online search tools will

save students time, she said.

Accessing print materials is time-consuming because students need to go to a library, figure out which book they need and see if it’s available, Schoenborn said.

Physiology freshman Kelly Zwilling said she prefers using online sources because they’re easier to access anytime, anywhere.

A year ago, fewer online resources were available.

Students had to search for online materials on their own or find print sources.

“For the most part, it’s easy for students to access [print] reference materials,” microbiology senior Nathan Kemp said.

“Sometimes there is one copy of a book in high demand, and that can make it harder for students.”

Kemp has worked as a student librarian in the University’s Walter Library for about four years. He estimated that on average, four or five students check out books and print materials each hour.

Usually, he said, students use the librar y’s books to

study for finals or do homework. Books of fer more details than most online articles, but online sources have more recent information and can help clarify ideas.

“Personally, I rarely need to reference books,” Kemp said. “In some cases, the information may not be completely up-to-date.”

Freshman Nicholas Rodriguez said he used Google Scholar to find reliable articles for his writing class.

“It’s much easier to find an article online than to go through a bunch of newspapers,” he said.

Zwilling said she would likely use online sources for the majority of her career but would source books if they were required for upper-level courses.

But some students may opt for both print and online works, depending on the rigor of the course.

“I think it’s better to use a little of both,” Kemp said.

“Start with assigned course material for research or studying. But if you need to clarify something, online sources are helpful.”

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U research-based startups honored Researchers behind both companies said earning grants is highly competitive.

BY ALEX BITTER abitter@mndaily.com

Two startup companies that rely on University of Minnesota research projects are being recognized for their innovative use of federal funding.

The Science Coalition, a national nonprofit that advocates for federal investment in research universities, recognized Heat Mining Company LLC and Steady State Imaging as leading examples of using federal funding to con-

duct research that led to economic growth.

Both startups spawned from, or heavily draw on, University research. Lead researchers from both said they probably wouldn’t have started without funding from the federal government.

The Science Coalition gave honors to 100 companies in total, all of which began with federally funded research at major universities.

Harnessing carbon dioxide for energy

Mar tin Saar, a University earth sciences associate professor currently on sabbatical, led a study on a new type of geothermal energy that harnesses carbon

dioxide stored underground to generate electricity.

Heat Mining Company of Rapid City, S.D., later bought the energy technology and refocused its business around the Universitycreated research.

Saar said two federal grants totaling $3.7 million allowed his research team to investigate the advantages of using carbon dioxide, instead of water, to generate geothermal energy.

“We needed those federal grants, or the research would not have gone forward,” he said.

Saar said the fact that the federal government was willing to invest in the project made it easier to attract private investors.

“By simply showing

how much the federal government is willing to invest in research for this new technology, that is … an endorsement,” he said.

Jimmy Randolph worked with Saar on the project as a post-doctoral researcher, and now he is the chief technical officer for Heat Mining Company. He said his company is considering more research facilities in Canada, where public funding is more accessible and less competitive than in the United States.

“It’s going to be a while before we do anything here, because we … only [look for] private sources of funding,” he said.

Randolph said the team has considered itself lucky to receive as much federal funding as it did.

Quieting MRI machines Michael Gar wood, a professor at the University’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research, led the effort to develop a new magnetic resonance imaging machine that makes less noise than traditional models. Garwood and a colleague founded Steady State Imaging in 2005 after developing the technology.

In 2011, General Electric purchased SSI to use the technology in its own MRI machines.

Part of a grant from the National Institutes of Health funded the research, Garwood said.

But today, across-theboard federal budget cuts, known as the sequester,

have made the competitive grant application process even more cutthroat, he said.

“You get two shots at [a grant application],” Garwood said. “You can revise it once, and if you don’t make it, you’re done — you’re not supposed to resubmit it again.”

University Vice President for Research Brian Herman said in a press release that the two companies illustrate the importance of protecting federal funding for research.

“Basic research is an essential driver of innovation, and continued federal investment is critical for the future growth and health of our local communities and our society at large,” he said.

U fraternity makes haunted house for charity Haunted u from Page 1

MATT MEAD, DAILY

Many students use Adderall, a mix of amphetamine salts, to enhance their concentration when studying or taking tests. But experts warn that the drug is addictive and that its longterm effects are uncertain.

Adderall u from Page 1

University students, said Kohlman Harshbarger, a marketing and English sophomore who uses the drug occasionally.

“Pretty much ever yone I know has used it at one point or another,” he said, adding that some students use the drug more than others do.

About 5.7 percent of University students on the T win Cities campus reported taking a drug they weren’t prescribed at least once in the past year, according to data from Boynton Health Ser vice’s 2013 College Student Health Survey.

Nationwide, 6.4 percent of 18- to 22-year-old, fulltime college students repor ted using Adderall for nonmedical purposes in the past year, according to 2006 and 2007 data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.

Harshbarger said when he studies without Adderall, he has recurring urges to do something else, like check social media or email. But on Adderall, he said, he becomes engrossed in the task at hand.

“It’s a game-changer,” he said.

Exper ts say there’s a reason doctors prescribe the dr ug specifically to those with disorders.

Chemically, Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine salts and is a powerful stimulant, said Susan Marino, director of the University’s Center for Clinical and Cognitive Neuropharmacology.

“It’s pretty intense,” she said. And although some students don’t think so, she said, Adderall “is a big deal.”

The long-term effects of taking the drug are unclear because few studies follow users over long periods of time, Marino said.

Still, she said, stimulants like Adderall do have the

potential to be physically or psychologically addictive.

A psychological addiction is when a drug user feels unable to function without taking the dr ug, Marino said.

For Dr. Gar y Christenson, Boynton’s Chief Medical Officer, one of the big issues with using Adderall without a prescription is a “philosophical” one.

Because per formanceenhancing drugs like steroids are considered cheating in athletics, he said, he thinks using dr ugs that could enhance concentration on tests or in the classroom should also be considered cheating.

Marino and Harshbarger disagreed. They said Adderall may help students focus, but it won’t help them learn the information they’re expected to know for a test.

“It’s not going to put information in your head that isn’t there,” Harshbarger said.

Saying the ‘right things’

Students often get Adderall from friends who have prescriptions, Harshbarger said.

But health exper ts are concer ned that students who know what to tell their doctors could get a prescription even if they don’t

need one.

The latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders makes it fairly simple to fit the criteria for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Marino said, and students could take advantage of that.

Before, she said, the manual assumed symptoms for ADHD appeared most often in children. Now, it includes adults.

Christenson echoed Marino’s thoughts, saying students could have little trouble getting an unwarranted prescription if they’re clever enough.

“It’s probably pretty easy for someone to come in and say the right things,” he said.

This worries political science and history freshman Noah Hummel-Hall, who has ADHD and an Adderall prescription.

He said he thinks it could get much harder for those who actually need a prescription to get one if the industry implements more stringent r ules to deter substance abusers.

He said without Adderall, he sometimes feels like he’s in danger because he’s not as aware of his surroundings while walking.

Without Adderall, he said, “I don’t really function that well in society.”

REPORTED NONMEDICAL ADDERALL USE AMONG 18- TO 22-YEAR-OLDS IN THE PAST YEAR FULL-TIME COLLEGE STUDENTS

OTHER 18- TO 22-YEAR-OLDS

6.9%

6.4%

6.0%

3.2%

3.0%

TOTAL

MALE

2.9%

FEMALE

SOURCE: 2006 AND 2007 NATIONAL SURVEYS ON DRUG USE AND HEALTH

Last year, the Haunted Lodge raised $600 and 500 food items, according to Luke Follmer, the fraternity’s external vice president.

Sor ority Alpha Omicron Pi will also help at the lodge by running the door, setting up and cleaning after the event.

Matt Levine, program director for the Of fice for Frater nity and Sorority Life, said the event contributes to the University community by providing a safer party alternative.

“It’s another way to engage students on a night that can sometimes be associated with high risk,” Levine said.

Alpha Omicron Pi social chair Sam Peterson said she hopes the so-

rority’s involvement will change any negative perceptions of the group.

“There’s always a stigma that greek life is all about alcohol and par tying, and really there’s a lot more to it than that,” Peterson said.

Butcher shops to zombies

In the house, each frater nity member is responsible for decorating his own room with a certain theme and providing scares in that area. Past themes have included zombies and butcher shops.

Brandon Haraldson, a Chi Psi member and accounting sophomore, said he’s most excited to scare attendees.

“I’m looking for ward to scaring people a lot,” he said. “I love haunted houses, and I’ve never been on the other side of it, so it’s

going to be a blast.”

While creeping through the haunted house, Chi Psi public relations chair Chris Humphrey said students can expect surprises and complete darkness.

“One of the main plans is to get the lodge as dark as possible because a lot of people are scared of the dark,” Humphrey said.

Psychology and histor y junior Sarah McNulty attended the Haunted Lodge last year and said she loved it.

“It was amazing,” she said. “I couldn’t tell where I was in the lodge the whole time, and it was really scar y.”

Olsen, the fraternity’s philanthropy chair, said he’s hoping to see both greek and non-greek students attend and enjoy the Haunted Lodge.

“Ever yone is welcome; it’s not an exclusive thing at all,” he said.

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Columnists’ opinions are their own.

POLITICS

EDITORIALS

We need female political role models

Students need more from police

There needs to be more focus on positive female politicians.

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t. Paul held a mayoral forum last week for candidates to speak to constituents. Out of the four candidates present, one of them was visibly different from the rest: Sharon Anderson.

Wearing an eye patch and referring to “Ciley Myrus,” Anderson was hard to take seriously. Even incumbent mayor Chris Coleman was laughing throughout her unusual comments.

Anderson, the only female candidate present at the forum, didn’t even answer the questions posed to her. When she was asked about the condition of city infrastructure, Anderson didn’t answer the question and said she supported legalizing marijuana and prostitution.

Though many who watched the forum know Anderson’s outlandish statements aren’t representative of most female politicians, my immediate concern was for impressionable viewers.

Specifically, I worried about

SAM JASENOSKY columnist

young girls who see Anderson and think she’s an example of a serious female politician.

Even people who don’t keep up with politics noticed the forum. Friends of mine from St. Paul, who are uninterested in politics, posted links to videos of the forum on Facebook because of Anderson’s bizarre demeanor.

In Minneapolis, the female candidates for mayor are much more realistic role models. Betsy Hodges was responsible for reforms that saved Minneapolis from $20 million in potential property tax increases. Jackie Cherryhomes served as president of the Minneapolis City Council for eight years.

The issue isn’t that positive female politician role models don’t exist — Minneapolis’ candidates prove they do. The

problem is that sensational candidates like Anderson receive more media attention than some realistic candidates like Hodges and Cherryhomes.

Twenty years ago next week, Sharon Sayles Belton was elected mayor of Minneapolis.

Sayles Belton was the city’s first African-American and first woman to be elected mayor. Under Sayles Belton’s office, crime rates were at their lowest in decades. Her office also brought Target to Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis, which improved the local economy.

In fact, her accomplishments were so beneficial to Minneapolis that Mayor R.T. Rybak announced in February that the renovated Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired bridge over Interstate 94 would be named the Sharon Sayles Belton Bridge.

Women like Sayles Belton, Hodges and Cherryhomes are the kinds of female political candidates that should garner media attention.

According to the Global Gender Gap Report for 2013, the United States is ranked 60th in the world for women in politics, meaning 59 other countries

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 115,133- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,383 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

have done better jobs of closing the gender gap in politics than we have. The U.S. doesn’t even make the list of the top 20 countries overall (economic equality, health, education, etc.) for women.

We live in a country where women are half the population yet don’t even hold 100 seats in Congress.

The message sent out to young girls who see Anderson’s crazy escapades is that this is what the country thinks of female politicians: They’re eccentric, they’re sensational and they wear tacky pirate gear in professional settings.

It’s bad enough that a multitude of factors embedded in our culture already work against encouraging young girls to seek positions of power. We don’t need the media to emphasize the outlandishness of one female politician even more.

Instead, young girls should be exposed to the great strides that women like Hodges and Cherryhomes aim to make for their city.

Sam Jasenosky welcomes comments at sjasenosky@mndaily.com.

ELECTION

Voting: Just do it No matter how students lean politically, it’s important to remember to vote.

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Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Questioning effects of media in the classroom This letter is in response to the article “Students to rebuild broadcast scene” from the Oct. 24 issue of The Minnesota Daily.

The ar ticle mentioned several student groups that are working to bring muchneeded media curricula to the University of Minnesota.

As a member of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs student group, I wanted to add another important piece to the puzzle.

Given our current levels of media saturation and the phenomenal pace of technology, many of us are starting to feel the effects of all-pervasive technologies in our lives.

That’s not to say that media is bad — rather, I want to point toward the remarkable potential that media has to make positive change in the world.

Media outlets have moved us to tears in the wake of the Egyptian revolution. The Internet has sparked our desire to connect deeply. Television and film often inspire, engage and move us toward political action. The average American spends more than eight hours a day staring at a screen (computers, smartphones, tablets, TVs, etc.).

If this is where we are now directing our creative and emotional energies, then we must pay attention.

We must also begin to ask questions that address how the media is shaping our political, economic and personal landscapes.

Who controls the media?

Whose stories are being told?

By whom? How does the media limit us? How does it awaken possibilities?

At HECUA, we address these questions through offcampus study programs and

internships that help us engage with the vital community that surrounds us. HECUA programs offer students the chance to get off campus, explore the Twin Cities and wrestle with these challenging and exciting times. Students also have the chance to gain hands-on media skills that they will bring back to campus and into the world in the pursuit of media justice.

Tina Harrison Vice president University HECUA student group

Dayton’s legislative agenda a refreshing approach

Governors are expected to set the agenda for legislative sessions, and Gov. Mark Dayton has a refreshing one.

Dayton is calling for next year’s session to be an “unsession.”

Dayton wants lawmakers to focus on pruning unneeded laws from the books, rather than focusing entirely on adding new laws.

Dayton’s plan isn’t focused on saving money — although that would be one of the positive results. Instead, he wants lawmakers to remove old laws that needlessly slow down Minnesota businesses and residents who deal with government agencies. In short, he wants to remove redundant or excess rules to make government better, faster and simpler.

Minnesota Public Radio repor ts that nearly 1,600 suggestions have come in and the governor has been personally sorting through them.

Some of those suggestions are common sense and fairly simple to do, such as a “plain-language implementation” that would cut jargon that many people don’t un-

derstand. Others are grander, such as to reduce the number of legislators.

Of course, there will be plenty of other business that lawmakers want and need to deal with in the upcoming session.

High on the list will be a bonding bill — something that is traditionally done in even-numbered years.

There is a long backlog of construction and repair projects in the state that have been delayed during the years of budget crisis.

College and university buildings, the state hospital in St. Peter, renovation of the Capitol and other worthy projects around the state need attention. And Mankato has for years watched as a strongly supported improvement to the Civic Center has been ignored.

As always, there will be debate on the scale of any bonding bill, but a sizable one will be necessary to begin to catch up on construction and repair.

Lawmakers also will be revisiting some of the tax changes made in the last session, such as an unpopular and what many call counterproductive tax on repair work.

Whatever is on their agendas, lawmakers should not only follow Dayton’s “unsession” lead but also take Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk’s advice to heart. Bakk noted that the session will be short and doesn’t start until the end of February: “People are going to have to get their ideas on paper and in bill form and really ready for introduction probably in that first week or two of the session if anything serious is going to be considered.”

The Mankato Free Press Originally published Oct. 24.

n the wake of the recent government shutdown, there are likely few who would argue our countr y’s politicians are paragons of LUIS RUUSKA cooperation and columnist functionality.

But this only stresses the importance of getting out to the polls to vote, especially with Election Day less than a week away.

It sounds almost too idealistic and patriotic to refer to voting as a civic duty as so many do, but in a world where so many other societies still do not have free elections, it’s our responsibility to take advantage of this privilege.

This responsibility becomes even more apparent when you realize just how many young people (ages 18 to 29) are eligible to vote: 46 million.

With young voters making up nearly a third of the electorate, you would think that politicians would be pandering for our vote, but this is not so.

As it turns out, only 45 percent of young voters actually turned out to vote in 2012.

In spite of this dismal number, young Minnesotans had the thirdhighest turnout behind Mississippi and Wisconsin at 57.7 percent.

The solution may actually be as easy as getting younger voters registered to vote in the first place.

This was apparent in the 2008 election season when 84 percent of youth who registered to vote turned out to the polls to cast their ballot.

Minnesota is one of just a handful of states to of fer same-day voter registration, a ser vice that 61 percent of all Minnesota voters — mostly the youngest and oldest voters — take advantage of.

Even out-of-state students are eligible to vote so long as they list their campus residence as their residence and can prove that they have resided in Minnesota for at least 20 days prior to Election Day. Many students who feel busy enough might regard voting as the last thing they have time for, but the tr uth is that your vote — or lack of it — might af fect our community.

We have the numbers and the power to create change. We have a golden oppor tunity to elect officials who will work for the interests of students. So what’s stopping us?

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

When crime happens around campus, the University needs more information, not victim-blaming.

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recent slew of crimes on and around the University of Minnesota campus has drawn media attention and scrutiny to University

police.

In a letter to the editor printed in Wednesday’s Minnesota Daily, University police Chief Greg Hestness gave context to the recent crimes, outlined efforts by police to stop them and discussed how students can protect themselves. This was an encouraging step in the right direction from a police force that needs to be more proactive and transparent in informing students about crime on campus.

In his letter, Hestness encouraged students to read the crime alert emails sent to University students, faculty and staff. University police send these alerts in compliance with federal law, and they act as the most direct line of communication between police and the University community.

Unfortunately, these alerts aren’t working as well as they could. They’re little more than a police report grafted to the same generic advice about walking alone and being aware of one’s surroundings.

At worst, the alerts give conflicting or incorrect information. An alert sent Monday afternoon about a weekend sexual assault near Van Cleve Park contained two errors. The email misidentified the neighborhood the assault occurred in, and the alert’s map erroneously indicated the assault happened a block away from its real location.

These mistakes are dangerous and undermine the point of crime alerts. Furthermore, the boilerplate advice included in the alerts, while well-intentioned, begins to feel like victim-blaming the more it’s repeated.

Additional context and analysis, like in Hestness’ letter, would go a long way to make students safer and better informed.

Wary about need-aware Private colleges should avoid rejecting applicants because of financial need.

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arlier this month, George Washington University admitted to taking requests for financial aid into consideration for admission decisions, misleading applicants with its selfprofessed “need-blind” status.

The GW Hatchet reported Oct. 21 that the university had publicly admitted “it puts hundreds of undergraduate applicants on its waitlist each year because they cannot pay GW’s tuition.”

Until only ver y recently, GWU had officially said its admissions policy was need-blind. According to an Inside Higher Ed article, there are only a few private colleges and universities that claim to be need-blind.

It’s unfortunate GWU was dishonest about its admissions policy, but at least now the university is being more transparent about the process. Colleges and universities must be open and honest regarding the factors that go into considering applicants.

While the university deserves to be criticized for hiding the fact that its admissions process is need-aware, a policy that considers financial need should not necessarily be condemned.

Private colleges and universities only have so much money they can budget for financial aid grants, and it is only practical to ensure that there is enough to go around.

However, need-aware universities should avoid making financial decisions for qualified applicants that do not come from wealthy backgrounds. Even if the financial aid budget is tapped out, a university’s admissions department should consider that a student may be willing to attend despite the high financial toll.

No student wants to take on debt from private loans, but higher education provides unique opportunities. George Washington and other need-aware schools should remain wary of rejecting students simply because of financial need.

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Sports FOOTBALL

Gophers seek to limit Ind. offense

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FOOTBALL

Hopes high for third Big Ten win

Minnesota will look to freshman Donovahn Jones to score touchdowns.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

The Gophers’ defense will have a lot to handle Saturday against Indiana.

The Hoosiers average more than 42 points per game, and quar terback Nate Sudfeld leads the Big Ten in passing touchdowns with 14.

“Indiana is extremely explosive on of fense,” defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys said. “They score in big plays. … We’ll have to do a great job to maintain their offense.”

Claeys said Minnesota has a “tremendous challenge” playing Indiana, especially given the Hoosiers’ extra time to prepare with a bye week.

Claeys stressed that the Gophers’ offense needs to have an impact this weekend going up against such a high-powered attack.

“Part of that is keeping our offense on the field as much as possible,” Claeys said. “Limiting their snaps.”

Donovahn Jones was huge for the offense in last week’s win over then-No. 25 Nebraska.

Jones had 42 r ushing yards on four carries.

Most of that of fensive progress came in the form of jet sweeps, which Jones said are his favorite play.

“It was fun. They just tell me to wait for my time to come, and that’s what I did.”

DONOVAHN JONES freshman wide receiver

Jones moved from quar terback to wide receiver late in training camp due to the depth at the quar terback position with Philip Nelson and Mitch Leidner. He’s also helping to mitigate the losses of Devin CrawfordTufts and Andre McDonald in the receiving corps.

Still, receiver seems to be a natural position for the tr ue freshman, who said he’s one of the fastest players on the Gophers.

Jones said he’s faster than anyone on the team in a dead sprint except for freshman r unning back Berkley Edwar ds, r edshir t senior wide receiver Derrick Engel and freshman defensive back Jalen Myrick.

That speed gives the Gophers added playmaking ability.

“We want to get Donovahn involved because you see how smooth he can run the ball,” Nelson said. “He can really turn a 20-yar d play into an 80-yard touchdown.”

Jones had barely played in his collegiate career before last week but said he has worked hard and was patient for his opportunity.

After slicing through Nebraska’s defense, Jones appears ready to contribute.

“It was fun. They just tell me to wait for my time to come, and that’s what I did,” Jones said.

Still, Jones said he isn’t ready to be the focal point of an of fense at receiver yet, and most of his of fensive production will still come on run plays.

“I have a little more to lear n,” Jones said. “But I’m not that far away.”

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Minnesota defensive lineman Ra’Shede Hageman sacks Western Illinois’ quarterback Sept. 14

After two upset wins over Big Ten rivals, the Gophers seek to streak.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Sophomor e quar terback Philip Nelson said his teachers greeted him with congratulations in his business class Tuesday, something he said is “a little bit new” for him.

Nelson threw for a touchdown and rushed for two more last Saturday as the Gophers beat Nebraska 34-23.

The Gophers would likely need to win their remaining four games — starting this Saturday against Indiana — and also get some help to make the Big Ten championship game.

But players said they think the team has a chance to win out.

“The sky’s the limit, but we definitely have to stay humble and still work hard,” redshirt senior defensive lineman Ra’Shede Hageman said T uesday.

“We can’t fall short just because they’re Indiana.”

The Gophers’ hopes of winning Saturday will hinge on their ability to stop Indiana’s quick-strike offense.

The Hoosiers have averaged 42.4 points through seven games this season and scored 47 in a loss to Michigan on Oct. 19.

Minnesota defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys said many of Indiana’s big plays come on short passes and subsequent missed tackles. He said the Hoosiers’ passing game is similar to San Jose State, which the Gophers beat Sept. 21. But the Hoosiers have a stronger rushing game than the Spartans, he said.

Claeys’ defense held a Nebraska offense that had been averaging more than 40 points per game to scoring just 23 last Saturday. It limited the Huskers to a 33 percent conversion rate on third downs, sacked Nebraska quarterback Taylor Mar tinez four times and forced two turnovers.

Junior defensive end Michael Amaefula said he thinks the team will be just

as successful this weekend if it focuses on stopping the run and forcing the Hoosiers to pass.

He also said the Gophers will need to generate pressure on Indiana quarterback Nate Sudfeld.

Sudfeld leads an Indiana offense that averages more than 340 passing yards a game. He and fellow sophomore quarterback Tre Roberson have combined for 22 passing touchdowns this season.

Claeys said the Gophers will tr y to limit Indiana by keeping their offense on the field as much as possible.

The Gophers did just that last Saturday, dominating the time of possession battle by more than 10 minutes. Their offense kept Nebraska off-balance through a power running game, a flurr y of pre-snap motions and wide receiver sweeps.

Nelson played well for a second consecutive game last Saturday, replacing redshir t freshman Mitch Leidner at quarterback in the second quarter.

He said the team’s confidence is on the rise after strong per formances the

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INDIANA

2:30 p.m., Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.

MINNESOTA: After beating a ranked opponent for the first time in the Jerry Kill era last week, the Gophers are bowl eligible. Still, the team has stressed that it isn’t content with six wins — the same total as last year.

Minnesota wants to improve its record every season, and it has the opportunity to do so against Indiana on Saturday. Kill, technically still on leave to focus on his epilepsy treatment, said Tuesday that he will be watching the game from the coaches’ box just as he has the past two weeks.

With back-to-back upsets of Northwestern and Nebraska, the Gophers are 2-0 with Kill in the press box. He said he’s a superstitious man, and that won’t change this weekend.

NEBRASKA: The Hoosiers’ record likely doesn’t show how well they’ve played this season. Their main quarterback Nate Sudfeld is third in the Big Ten in passing yards this season with 1,726.

Indiana uses another quarterback consistently, too, in Tre Roberson. He has 644 passing yards on the year and eight touchdowns.

Indiana’s offense may be high-powered, but its defense is not.

The Hoosiers have given up 43 points per game in Big Ten play.

The most the Gophers have given up all season is 42 points in a loss at Michigan.

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past two weeks.

Claeys has said he thinks the Gophers are better than they were a year ago, when they won six games.

“Now we’ve got an op-

por tunity to go out and prove that,” he said. “Nobody’s satisfied with where we’re at right now.”

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Minnesota faces first foes

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VS MINNESOTA

CARDINAL-STRITCH

7 p.m., Friday at Williams Arena

MINNESOTA: Friday marks the first time the Richard Pitino-led Gophers will take on someone other than themselves.

And the players seem ready for the change.

While there are a lot of new faces on the roster, the Gophers return eight players from last year’s NCAA tournament squad.

Minnesota hasn’t lost an exhibition game since it fell to Winona State 69-64 in 2006.

“Friday will be a good test,” Pitino said.

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Minnesota forward Oto Osenieks guards North Florida forward Charles McRoy on Dec. 1, 2012, at Williams Arena.

The Gophers will play their first exhibition game this weekend.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers have been going toe-to-toe with one another in practice and at intrasquad scrimmages since the beginning of the summer, and everyone is tired of it.

“They are sick of each other. You can tell it,” Gophers head coach Richard Pitino said. “They’re definitely sick of it. I’m sick of watching them against each other.”

The Gophers will hit the floor against an opponent wearing something other than maroon and gold for the first time in the Pitino era Friday, when they take on Cardinal-Stritch in an exhibition game.

It’s a welcomed contest

for Pitino’s players.

“We can’t wait to get out in a real game and play against some other people,” junior for ward Oto Osenieks said. “We’ve been playing each other a lot.”

Senior guar d Malik Smith said the Gophers’ practices have been filled with intensity as the players battle their teammates, but he said it’s getting old going against the same players.

“Nobody calls fouls in practice. So it’s very physi-

CARDINAL-STRITCH: The Wolves enter the season as the defending NAIA Division II national champions and are ranked No. 1 to start 2013-14.

Cardinal-Stritch fell to Notre Dame 70-56 in a preseason exhibition game last season.

The Wolves return senior guard Derek Semenas from last year’s championship squad. Semanas averaged 16.2 points per game last year.

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cal,” Smith said. “We’re just ready to hit somebody else instead of hitting ourselves.”

Pitino said his players have shown a great attitude and willingness to get better in every practice except “maybe one” throughout the fall. He added that finally having a game to look forward to might change the players’ mindsets.

“I think ... when they have a calendar and they see a game at the end of the week, they get much more fired up

for practice,” he said. “When they don’t see a game for 10 or 15 days, they dread it.”

Pitino’s up-tempo style features a pressing defense meant to create turnovers.

It’s created a catch-22 in practice, as the Gophers have forced turnovers but have also been the team turning the ball over.

That won’t be the case on Friday — finally.

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SOCCER

Kolander sings and scores for Gophers Simone Kolander performed on stage before fields.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

Gophers freshman forwar d Simone Kolander belted out the national anthem with pristine pitch before her squad’s Oct. 20 matchup with Nebraska.

Then she hit the pitch.

That sequence alone captured Kolander’s lifelong balancing act between per formance and athletics, while excelling in academics to boot.

Theater life Kolander’s mother wanted her to be wellrounded growing up. She was active in both theater and sports while achieving in school as a child.

Kolander star ted in theater productions at 9 years old and per formed at the Chanhassen Dinner Theaters and the Guthrie Theater.

K o l a n d e r ’ s m o t h e r, Natalie Kolander, said most of the productions were two- to three-month commitments but said a Chanhassen per formance of Beauty and the Beast had a seven-month run.

“During ever y play, the play would take precedent [over athletics],” Kolander’s mother said. “But when she was in soccer or basketball [as well], she would play those when she could.”

Simone Kolander said she sometimes would go from a show to a basketball tournament to a soccer practice all in the same day.

But Kolander said once she made Lakeville Nor th High School athletics teams, she could no longer per form and play at the same time. So she chose sports.

“That was a big par t of my life growing up,” she said. “But I kind of had to pick and choose.”

The voice The familiar opening stanza of the national anthem is nothing new to Kolander.

She sang the national

anthem to open many Gophers sports games growing up, including basketball, hockey and soccer.

She also sang at a Minnesota Vikings preseason game.

But as soon as she got to high school, Kolander was eligible for recr uiting and could no longer sing at Gophers events.

She continued to sing at high school events and community activities. She participated in the Dakota County Fair talent contest and won. She advanced all the way to the finals at the Minnesota State Fair.

“When you love something, it’s hard to not [do it].

I just have a lot of passions.”

SIMONE KOLANDER freshman forward

“That’s what she was able to do when she could no longer be in [theater],” Natalie Kolander said, adding that her daughter still sings at weddings.

Simone Kolander said soccer is her primar y focus right now, but music is still a passion of hers.

“When you love something, it’s hard to not [do it],” Kolander said. “I just have a lot of passions.”

She said she hopes to continue to perform music in some capacity in the future.

“It’s going to be here with me for most of my life,” she said. “If I could do something with music, that would be awesome.”

A family of Gophers Kolander said the University of Minnesota seemed like the “per fect fit” for her.

Her parents both attended the University. Her father, Chad Kolander, played basketball, and her mother played club soccer.

“I’ve been spor ting the Gopher gear since I was a baby,” Simone Kolander said.

Natalie Kolander said she didn’t pressure Simone into attending Minnesota.

But Kolander didn’t

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Minnesota forward Simone Kolander fights for the ball against Illinois State on Aug. 30 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

need the push. She said she loved the pr oximity to her hometown, the size of the school and the prospect of facing Big Ten competition.

“I just knew it would be perfect,” she said.

Natalie Kolander said she would have been happy regardless of her daughter’s decision but said she was pleased Simone was staying close to home. “ We d i d n ’ t h a v e t o throw away any of the Gophers gear that we had in our closets,” Natalie Kolander said, “or buy anything new.”

School and soccer While balancing school and athletics is tough for any college student, it can be especially challenging for a freshman in the Carlson School of Management.

But Kolander is wellschooled in time manage-

ment from her performing years.

And no matter how busy she was gr owing up, her mother said she always made sur e she completed her homework.

She said Simone would do homework in the car on the way to practice, after practice and even sometimes during play intermissions.

“She lear ned how to manage her time ver y well,” Natalie Kolander said.

Simone Kolander said those time management skills are paying off now.

“It is tough, but it’s definitely doable,” she said. “I love soccer, and I wouldn’t say I love homework, but it’s something that I know I need to do.”

She missed her Wednesday, Thursday and Friday classes last week due to the team’s trips to W isconsin and Purdue, and she could miss plenty

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VS MINNESOTA ILLINOIS 2 p.m., Thursday at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium

MINNESOTA: The Gophers enter Thursday’s game riding consecutive conference wins for the first time all season.

Minnesota (11-5-2, 4-4-2) has scored five goals in its past four Big Ten games after scoring just two goals through its first six.

The Gophers’ offense is led by junior midfielder Katie Thyken. Her two goals in Sunday’s 2-1 win over Purdue gave her seven for the season, tying her 2012 total.

ILLINOIS: Illinois is led by junior forward Jannelle Flaws. Flaws leads the conference in goals (19) and shots (87).

Illinois is second in the conference in goals scored (43), trailing only Penn State (52).

The winner of Thursday’s matchup clinches a berth in next week’s Big Ten tournament, but the loser may also qualify.

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more if the team advances to the Big Ten tournament and possibly the NCAA tournament.

But a hectic life is something Kolander’s

used to.

“I have been so accustomed to the on-the-go lifestyle,” she said, “going from one thing to another and it not even fazing me.”

CROSS COUNTRY

Minnesota seeks improvements at Big Ten meet The men look to rebound from last meet’s results.

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY PREVIEW

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s cross countr y team heads to the Big Ten championships fresh of f an eighthplace finish at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational.

After that race, head coach Sarah Hopkins said she was thrilled with the results, but the team wasn’t yet at its best. Her runners agreed.

“We all know that none of us had our best day,” senior Laura Docherty said. “No one did bad, but we all know that we have a lot more. So that was also really encouraging.”

The Gophers finished behind one other Big Ten team at that meet and ahead of three others.

Minnesota is ranked 15th in the nation, behind just Michigan State and Michigan in the Big Ten. The Gophers finished fourth at the Big Ten championships last year, but this year they think they have enough depth and experience to finish higher.

“I think anytime you walk into the Big Ten championships, your goal is to win it just because it does mean a lot,” Hopkins said. “I think realistically, we’re a top-three team.”

She said she told the runners the team could toe the line and run a great race and win — or run a great race and finish third.

“We can’t control that part of it. We just have to control our race,” Hopkins said.

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BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

NO. 15 MINNESOTA 10:45 a.m., Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind.

PREVIEW: The women’s team is riding the momentum from an eighth-place finish out of 37 teams at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational on Oct. 19.

Last year, the team placed fourth at the Big Ten championships.

Then-junior Laura Docherty led the way for Minnesota, finishing ninth individually. She took home All-Big Ten Second Team honors.

The women’s team last won the Big Ten championship in 2008.

Wisconsin and Michigan have won the most Big Ten championships with 13 and nine, respectively.

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Minnesota senior John Simons outruns Brigham Young’s Jason Witt at the finish of the men’s Division I Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

Junior Molly Kayfes said another team goal is to have three to five runners garner All-Big Ten honors. “[Docher ty] did it last year, and I know we can have more girls do it this year,” Kayfes said.

Making All-Big Ten requires finishing in the top 14. Kayfes said her personal goal would be to make AllBig Ten. Docherty finished ninth individually last year and was Minnesota’s first finisher.

She said she’d like to improve on that this year.

“I’m hoping to be anywhere in the top,” Docherty said. “It could be first or second; it could be ninth or 10th. But it just is going to depend on the day, I guess.”

Docher ty and Kayfes have led the Gophers all season. The group Minnesota is sending to West Lafayette, Ind., is highly experienced and filled with

upperclassmen.

Hopkins said many of the runners in the group have run at least two, if not three, Big Ten championships before, which will be an advantage for the team.

“To have a group that’s been there before that knows what’s going on … you can’t coach that. You can’t teach that,” Hopkins said.

Men look to bounce back

The Gophers men’s team had a rough weekend at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational a couple of weeks ago, finishing 29th out of 35 teams.

But the runners are looking to put that finish behind them and focus on what has worked for them in the past.

“We’re just tr ying to shake it off,” senior John Simons said. “I think that everybody understands that for whatever reason, just about

“To have a group that’s been there before, that knows what’s going on … you can’t coach that. You can’t teach that.”

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everybody on our team had a rough day, and those things can happen.”

Minnesota head coach Steve Plasencia said he thinks the group can use the poor finish from a couple of weeks ago as motivation for the Big Ten championships.

“When your pride gets bruised a little bit, you kind of want to come back and show people, ‘This isn’t what we are,’” Plasencia said.

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MINNESOTA 9:45 a.m., Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind.

PREVIEW: The men’s team had a setback Oct. 19, finishing 29th out of 35 teams at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational. Minnesota’s top runner all season, senior John Simons, had a poor day, and the Gophers will need him to bounce back this weekend.

Last year, the Gophers finished fifth at the Big Ten championships. Simons led the team with an 11th-place finish individually.

The men’s team last won the Big Ten championship in 1969. The Gophers have won four team titles. Wisconsin has established a history of dominance in Big Ten cross country with 46 team titles.

The next-closest school, Michigan State, has 14.

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Simons, the team’s top runner this season, finished 257th overall.

Plasencia said he thinks Simons will rebound this weekend.

“I think in any given year, you can allow one bad one,” Plasencia said. “I think that happens to guys. I know that happened to myself as a competitor.”

Simons finished 11th

individually at the Big Ten race last year, and he said he wants to be competing for the win this year.

“I know I had a pretty rough weekend last week,” Simons said. “But I think I’m going to shake it of f, and I’m definitely one of the guys who should be competing for a top-three spot, if not for the individual crown.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Howard sets up team for setting success Sydney Howard transferred from South Dakota State this season.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

For the second straight year, a talented setter has transfer r ed to the Gophers. It was senior Alexandra Palmer last year.

T h is y e a r, i t ’ s S y dne y Howard.

The sophomore came to Minnesota after playing in 29 matches and 116 sets for South Dakota State last season.

“I picked Minnesota [because] I loved the atmosphere here and being in the city life,” Howard said. “I just wanted a bigger school, [and] the coaching and the team fit well.”

Howard looked at some other Big Ten schools as well as some schools

in the Big 12 before ultimately deciding on the Gophers.

But with three other setters on the team, her role at the beginning of the season was up in the air.

“When [Howard] came to us, she was physical, but she had some biomechanical inefficiencies that kind of got in the way of her being good for long periods of time,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said.

Still, amid those inefficiencies, her stout physicality earned her a role on the team.

“She’s a good blocker,” McCutcheon said. “She does do a nice job of getting stops, and she gets good touches. She’s been an asset to us in that role.”

For the 5-foot-11-inch Howard, blocking the ball has never been an issue.

But she said she wants to continue to improve her other skills.

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McCutcheon said he’s impressed with her development so far.

“I think, to her credit, she’s made some pretty significant changes,” McCutcheon said. “She’s been able to smooth out, and it’s nice now that she’s physical, and she’s got some skill to go with that.”

With so many setters on the roster, some coaches might find it taxing to decide which players merit cour t time, but McCutcheon sees it as a positive.

“It’s always good to have depth, and competition is a great thing to have,” he said. “Not only between positions, but also just generally in your gym.”

Palmer echoed her coach’s remarks and said she feels comfortable with a plethora of skilled players behind her.

“It’s really nice knowing, for this season, if I’m not getting things done

of fensively or at the net, that [Howard, freshman Katie Schau or sophomore Kar yn Israel] are able to come in and help the team out,” Palmer said.

Howard, with 58 sets played this year, said she’s proud to have any role on the team. She said she didn’t know if she would even have much playing time this year. But over the course of the season, she has grown more comfor table with playing her part.

“I’m just glad I have the opportunity — any chance I get to be out there,” Howard said.

Palmer noted that with players like Howard, she knows the team is in good hands next year. “[It’s nice] … knowing that the program has setters who are younger than me that can come help this program still stay dominant in the Big Ten,” Palmer said.

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VS NO. 10 MINNESOTA

NO. 16 PURDUE

INDIANA

6 p.m., Friday and Saturday in West Lafayette, Ind. and Bloomington, Ind.

MINNESOTA: For the second time this season, the Gophers volleyball team will play consecutive matches against Purdue and Indiana. Minnesota will hope to repeat the success it had earlier this season when it swept both teams.

After a tough loss at Wisconsin last week, the Gophers dropped three spots in the AVCA rankings, falling to No. 10.

Senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman earned the Big Ten Player of the Week honors for her performances against Wisconsin and Northwestern. Wittman had 5.6 digs and 4.4 kills through two matches while also notching a career-high 29 digs against the Wildcats.

PURDUE: Purdue is tied for fourth in the Big Ten standings and will play host to Minnesota as it hopes to continue its four-match winning streak.

The Boilermakers are led by junior middle blocker KiKi Jones, who was honored this week as the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week. In her last two matches, she averaged 1.6 blocks per set and helped hold her opponents to a combined .177 hitting percentage.

INDIANA: Despite being ranked last in the conference, the Hoosiers were able to knock off Michigan State in their last match.

Before that victory, Indiana had lost 11 straight matches.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Trasamar improves swing, leads team to last fall tournament

Gophers’ first line still finding legs sans former leading scorer Kessel

Jon Trasamar has improved his golf game throughout the fall season.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

Jon Trasamar struggled to find his swing over the first half of the Gophers’ fall season.

N o w, h e a p p e a r s t o have it back.

The senior on the Gophers men’s golf team shot an average of 12-over par through the first three tour naments of the fall season.

In the past two events, however, he’s averaged a score of 2.5-under par.

“My play was a little disappointing from a result perspective,” Trasamar said. “We all had expectations coming in from the summer. So it would have been nice to get off to a better start.”

He said finishing tournaments was his biggest weakness through the first half of the season. Head coach John Carlson has stressed finishing strong at tour naments for most of the season, Trasamar said.

It clicked for him at the Barnabas Health Intercollegiate last week.

He shot 7-under par during the final nine holes and finished second overall in the individual standings. His per for mance also helped lead the Gophers to their first tournament title since the 200607 season.

“It was tremendous for our program to get our first win in seven years,” Carlson said. “Jon finished it off for our team, really.”

As T rasamar has improved, so has the rest of the team, Carlson said.

Trasamar agreed and pointed out how the rest of the team also finished strong at the end of that meet.

“We all had it going there on the back nine,” he said. “That last round was pretty fun.”

The Gophers will face

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Minnesota’s Jon Trasamar plays Oct. 6 at the Edina Country Club.

a much tougher challenge this weekend in the Wendy’s Kiawah Classic at Tur tle Point Golf Club in Kiawah Island, S.C. Minnesota ranked at least 50 spots higher than any of its opponents at the Barnabas Health Intercollegiate, Carlson said.

This time, he said, his team will contend with two teams ranked higher than it, including No. 29 South Carolina.

Trasamar said he’s looking to carr y momentum from his strong finish two weeks ago into this upcoming tournament.

“We’ve set ourselves in a good position to go up in the rankings,” he said.

“We have a good chance here to finish up the fall with hopefully another victor y.”

Carlson said he’s seen a lot of improvement on his team in the fall season, especially compared to last season. At this point last year, the Gophers w e r e r anke d 1 2 2 nd in the county, he said. This year, they’ve jumped to 54th.

And Trasamar said the team could get even better once the spring season begins.

“We’ve done a good job of beating the teams we should beat this fall,” he said. “The next step is to take down some of the better teams in the countr y.”

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NO. 1 MINNESOTA Sunday–Tuesday in Kiawah Island, S.C.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers men’s golf team will play in its final tournament of the fall season at Turtle Point Golf Course in Kiawah Island, S.C. Minnesota is coming off its first tournament title since the 200607 season after winning the Barnabas Health Intercollegiate on Oct. 20-21. Senior Jon Trasamar will look to lead the Gophers to another title after finishing second overall at the Barnabas Health Intercollegiate.

The Gophers last played in this tournament during the 2011-12 season. The team finished in sixth place after shooting an aggregate score of 48-over par.

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Minnesota forward Hannah Brandt battles Minnesota State-Mankato forward Kari Lundberg on Nov. 17, 2012, at Ridder Arena.

The three main Gophers forwards must step up their scoring game.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

The Gophers’ top-producing line looks a lot like it did last year, based on personnel.

Minnesota r etur ned sophomores Hannah Brandt and Maryanne Menefee, two of the three forwards who make up the line.

But the player missing from the trio changes the line’s whole complexion.

The Gophers are without forward Amanda Kessel this season while she competes for the U.S. national team.

Kessel was the nation’s leading scorer last season with 101 points, and Gophers head coach Brad Frost called her “arguably the best player in the world.”

Frost said playing without her has been a transition for Brandt and Menefee, who “need to learn what it’s like to not play with Amanda Kessel.”

Because opponents focused on containing Kessel, Brandt and Menefee saw more chances last season than they’ll likely see this year.

“They need to start being more of the go-to players that Amanda was,” Frost said.

Junior Rachael Bona has filled the open spot on the top line, and so far this season she’s been the Gophers’ top scorer.

“It’s obviously a big role to step into, and I’m not going to be coming even close to what she did for this team,” Bona said. “But … I’ve been

“It’s important for that group to lead us offensively and … to make sure they’re at least generating some chances and some momentum for us.”

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trying to score more and get more points because we did lose her, and she [was] a big part [of the offense].”

Bona played with Brandt and Menefee a few times last season and said she thought that has helped them this season.

At the same time, Bona said it’s taken them a little while to click. There was an adjustment period of getting used to playing with each other, she said, but she thinks the line is starting to come together.

In the team’s first weekend against Colgate, the line combined for seven goals and 10 assists.

Against Bemidji State last weekend, Brandt had two goals and an assist, Bona had a goal and two assists and Menefee had two assists.

In the two weekends between Colgate and Bemidji State, the line didn’t score at the same clip, but Menefee said she didn’t think the line played poorly.

“I think we were just average and not up to our potential,” she said. “We’re really trying to step it up be-

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VS NO. 1 MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA STATE-MANKATO

7:07 p.m., Friday at Ridder Arena and 3:07 p.m., Saturday in Mankato, Minn.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers will return home for a game before hitting the road yet again.

Minnesota and Minnesota State–Mankato will face off in a homeand-home series this weekend. The first game will be played at Ridder Arena, and the second will be played in Mankato.

MSU will have its hands full this weekend — the Gophers head into the series unblemished with an 8-0-0 record.

Minnesota hasn’t lost to the Mavericks since 2007.

MINNESOTA STATE-MANKATO: Last year, the Gophers dismantled MSU. In the four wins, the Gophers outscored the Mavericks 26-2.

The Mavericks head into the series 3-5-0 on the season. They were most recently swept by Minnesota-Duluth, which the Gophers swept earlier this season.

The Mavericks are winless in WCHA play so far this season.

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cause we know we have to produce.”

Frost said the line needs to be consistent because the team needs production from it this season.

“We’re going to rely on them to score,” he said.

“And so they need to be doing that every weekend, not just sporadically.”

Menefee said the line communicated more on the ice during the Colgate and Bemidji State weekends.

And the line has started to set goals for itself, she said.

Now, one of the line’s goals is for each member to get four shots on net per game.

“Our line tends to try to make pretty plays,” Brandt said. “So we need to get used to just shooting the puck more, and that’s kind of the point of that goal.”

So far, the line boasts the team’s top three scor-

ers, even though its members are routinely subjected to opponents’ top defensive pairings.

For Brandt, who was second in the nation behind Kessel in points last season, the two goals against Bemidji State were her second and third this season.

Frost said Brandt has high expectations for herself.

“She wants to be a huge par t of our team,” Frost said. “And she’s starting to do that on a more regular basis now.”

That’s a good sign for the Gophers, because she’s the anchor of their top-producing line.

“It’s important for that group to lead us offensively,” Frost said. “And … to make sure they’re at least generating some chances and some momentum for us.”

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GHOSTS ... until they rattle my chains.

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

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or our Halloween issue, I teamed up with two local paranormal groups, the Twin Cities Paranormal Society and Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota, and accompanied them on investigations. Both groups conduct their extensive investigations free of charge, viewing them as both a hobby and a ser vice to those affected by spiritual forces.

There’s a lot of evidence against the existence of supernatural entities, and most of the time “hauntings” are just electrical or piping problems that can quickly be fixed and dismissed. But paranormal groups insist that some things can’t be explained.

“It’s kind of like fishing.

You sit there and sit there and, most of the time, you don’t catch anything,” said Braden Jeunesse, the Twin Cities Paranormal Society’s lead investigator.

But when you do catch something, it has the potential to uproot your concept of truth.

Case 1: Kathy and Joe Werner claim four human ghosts and one ghost cat are haunting them at their rambler-style home in Otsego, Minn.

Background: The Werners’ home was built in 1965, but they’ve lived in it for only five years. They claim to have been haunted in their previous home and that the ghosts followed them to Otsego. Before they moved into their new house, it served as a home for wayward teens. The last house that sat on the property burned to the ground.

Investigative repor t: It’s the evening of Oct. 5, and I’m accompanying three investigators from the Twin Cities Paranormal Society to the Werners’ home.

The Werners give a tour and then leave us alone at the house while they spend the evening at a local casino.

We start by setting up infrared cameras in the kitchen, the master bedroom, the basement and the guest room, other wise known as the “ghost room.” The camera wires are taped to the hardwood and connected to a DVR. Before we begin, Jeunesse hands me a flashlight and a K2 EMF meter, which is used to detect electric fields, and in our case, ghosts’ alleged ability to alter these fields. The lights are turned of f, and we descend to the basement.

The first 10 minutes are spent in a terrible silence, which is meant to help us get acquainted with our sur roundings.

I’m told to speak up after audible bodily functions, like belches and coughs, so they’re not mistaken for electronic voice phenomena later.

The 10 minutes are up.

Jeunesse star ts by introducing himself, which he says is to let any spirits know we’re friendly and genuinely interested in them.

“We’re not here to hurt you,” he says.

We ask why they’r e haunting the Werners. No answer. We ask what we can do to help them. No answer. We split up, even though I’m shaking and desperate to hold someone’s hand. A pipe in the next r oom drips water periodically, and a light shines through a window, but no spirits are making direct contact. We move upstairs.

The ghost room is next.

We sit cross-legged on the carpeted floor. When the lights were on, I saw

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY The group Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota stands around spray paint on the ground of one of abandoned buildings on the land in Faribault, Minn.

a picture of Kathy’s mother sitting on the dresser, her eyes closed and head thrown back — now it’s all I can think about.

The air is cold and heavy. We sit for the 10 minutes of silence, and the questions begin. Jeunesse addresses the two men and the ghost cat that have been haunting the Werners, to no avail.

He addresses Kathy’s mother, the woman from the photograph who, according to Kathy, has been leaving dimes around the house even though she’s been dead for years.

“Mrs. Doris Nichols, have you been leaving dimes around the house for your daughter?” Jeunesse says.

The K2 meter is rapidly flashing red and green behind me. No one moved; no one touched anything.

How can I rationalize this?

The next question is addressed to Joe Nichols, Kathy Werner’s father.

“Mr. Joe Nichols, are you also here? Can you please show us a sign of your presence?” Jeunesse asks.

Another light flashes.

“It’s getting colder,” Jeunesse says.

W ithin minutes, the room warms up and any spirits that were present stop responding. We move to the master bedroom, where I sit next to a female investigator on cheetah print bedding. It’s freezing again, and I can barely stand looking at the fulllength mir ror positioned in front of me, lest an apparition appear.

“Can you knock like this?” Jeunesse asks. He knocks on the wall. Seconds later, an identical knock comes fr om the kitchen.

The Twin Cities Paranor mal Society’s conclusion: “The investigation was exciting in that it is rare that the K2 meter actually fully lights twice after questions are posed to the same entity. At no time did any of the investigators feel threatened.

It seems the paranormal experiences experienced by the investigators were protective in nature in the Ghost Room.”

Case 2: Walcott Mills at Faribault State Hospital Background: Walcott Mills was once used as a training facility where

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Mae Kelley sets up an audio recorder at one of abandoned buildings on the land in Faribault, Minn.

the highest-functioning mentally disabled patients from Faribault State Hospital could learn farming practices. The majority of the buildings were tor n down in the mid-1960s, but two remain — and ever yone knows they’re haunted.

Investigative repor t: I meet the Super natural Investigators of Minnesota at the Faribault A&W and listen to the histor y of Faribault State Hospital while eating greasy chili cheese fries — the first mistake of the night.

The drive to Walcott Mills is long and winding.

One car in our four-vehicle caravan gets lost, and we sit alongside the road for 20 minutes, periodically approached by stray, longhaired locals who peer into our windows with disconcerting curiosity.

When driving resumes, I gaze at the full moon.

The exhaust from an overhead plane is illuminated in the moonlight like a white rainbow against the night.

We tur n down a dir t road sur rounded on all sides by cor n. The main car pulls into a small lot, and our crew files out. The rules are recited: no smoking, no whispering and

always announce audible bodily functions.

Jerr y Ayres, founder of Supernatural Investigators of Minnesota, lights a bowl of sage and tells us to line up for cleansing. One by one, he wafts sage up and down our bodies with an eagle feather, replacing any negative energy with positive.

When cleansing is complete, we walk single-file through the woods toward the first building. Our groups split up when we reach the first building. I’m left with Mae Kelley, Kacie Ayres and George Donaldson, the resident skeptic.

The walls of the first building are layered with terrible graffiti, beer cans are strewn about the floor, and an abandoned dog food bowl collects rainwater and bugs in the corner. Toward the building’s exit, someone has written gut-punching graffiti on the ground: “Your not alone. Think of your friends and family.”

Bad grammar aside, it’s enough to terrify.

The lights are tur ned of f, and the questions begin. Kelley first addresses Mar y, a spirit they allegedly made contact with on their last visit.

Ayres and Kelley suggest bringing out the

ghost box, a device that scans radio waves. Some believe spirits can manipulate radio waves to communicate, but it generally isn’t considered legitimate evidence. I’m skeptical until I hear it say my name.

The other half of the group retur ns, and the Minnesota Daily photographer and I star t goofing around with a camera, tr ying to show someone how to take a picture. In the midst of our hysterical laughter, Jerry Ayres cries out in pain.

The K2 meters are flashing rapidly, and he’s complaining of chest pains.

“Why are you doing this?” he asks. We gather around him and watch.

I announce to the group a sadness that hits me like a gym class dodge ball. They move toward me.

“It’s gotten really cold right here,” Jerr y Ayres says. “Emily, when I say ‘now,’ [say] the first thing that pops into your head.

Now.” “A kid,” I tell him. The sadness multiplies.

“Is there a young person here that has a connection with Emily?” Jerr y Ayres says.

The K2 meters are flashing.

“Emily is crying now. Is

that how you feel and you’re just using Emily to express how you feel?” Jerry Ayres says.

I no longer remember why I’m crying. The feeling is gone.

We spend the next few hours exploring the second building, otherwise known as the bat cave (a reference to its current inhabitants) with a device that measures shadows by projecting a purple graph onto the surrounding area, but no feedback is received.

Our last stop is the graveyard where babies belonging to former Faribault State Hospital patients are buried. No contact is made.

At this point, I’m relieved.

When the night finally ends, my head is spinning with upturned beliefs. I decompress at Perkins over pancakes while local teenagers laugh and share gossip a few tables away. Would they think I’m crazy if I told them what happened to me? Am I crazy?

I won’t sleep well tonight.

C o n c l u s i o n : Wa l c o t t Mills is widely believed to be haunted, and numerous paranormal societies have collected evidence confirming their suspicions.

My experience was no different.

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DEMONS

The demon doctor A prayer a day keeps the demons away.

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

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xorcism — the practice of removing demonic forces from a person — is a lot more controversial than it was a few centuries ago. With advancements in medical knowledge, scientists and mental health professionals call alleged cases of demonic possession mental illness.

But Rev. Michael Schroeder of Madison, Wis., hasn’t had a dull moment in his year as an ordained exorcist.

Schroeder said he usually performs one exorcism per week, sometimes more.

To clear up what it means to be an exorcist, A&E chatted with Schroeder about unexplained scratches, flying

objects and the difference between demonic possession and mental illness.

How did you get into doing exorcisms?

About 20 years ago, I was praying, and normally when we pray, we don’t hear responses –– at least, I don’t on an ongoing basis. But I actually heard God talking back to me, and we had just a very short conversation about how I could help people, and I was told that this was something I could do — I could help people get rid of demonic spirits.

I found a program that I went through to be trained.

The program is through the American Association of Exorcists.

I’m not going around, you know, exorcising the demon of nicotine out of people.

I’m talking about real cases where people are genuinely

demonized and need some sort of spiritual intervention to help get these things away from them.

What are some of the symptoms you might see in someone who’s been demonized?

Well, dark figures that are different shapes, different forms.

Where do you see those?

People usually see them passing through areas or around areas or up above them. They also hear voices.

I’ve been growled at from nothing. I was watching the news and was growled at.

I’ve been hissed at. I’ve seen demons. People talk about being, you know, attacked, scratched out of thin air. A lot of times they’ll feel something burning, and then they’ll look and they’ll see scratches that go across their body.

I’ve had a number of

things thrown at people, I’ve had people held down in their beds or had their covers ripped off them. A lot of times the person will feel some pains — maybe pain in their chest or an extreme headache or something, or feel incredibly hot. Things that they go through while trying to get rid of the demonic spirit.

There’s a clear difference between what mental health people deal with and the demonic spirits that I deal with.

I’m dealing with the spiritual side of the person, whereas a mental health person would obviously be dealing with the psyche.

How do you determine that difference?

Mental health doesn’t scratch you, it doesn’t … bite you, it doesn’t push you, it doesn’t punch you, it doesn’t throw things at you, it doesn’t flip your furniture, you know,

it doesn’t make you nauseous.

What is the exact procedure for an exorcism?

Well, each one is a little bit different, but I start with a series of prayers and commands and questions that I learned through a spiritual warfare practice. You’re essentially commanding the demon to make us aware of what its name is, why it’s there, what it’s doing, and we kind of try to chip away at removing one.

A lot of times there’s more than one. We take them one at a time and remove them.

I use a large portion of the Catholic Rite of Exorcism to get the demons to respond if they’re not responding initially.

Do you do this for free, or do you get paid for it?

I do it for free. Sometimes people will help cover my expenses, like gas or my hotel,

but no ... I don’t even bring that up.

So you have a full-time job outside of that?

No, I’m pretty much doing this on a full-time basis.

How long does an average exorcism take?

Average would be a couple hours. After a couple hours, you have a pretty good idea if it’s going to be successful or if there’s something else that needs to be done before.

What if it’s not successful?

Well if it’s not, then we need to look at reasons why.

It might not be successful if they have some kind of sin that they haven’t turned over to God and asked for forgiveness. Another thing is that they may not, honestly, really want to get rid of it. We all have free will, and if we choose to follow Satan and we choose to not fight Satan — then it’s not gonna happen.

WEEKEND/HALLOWEEN

Children dish out Halloween tips

(Hint: It’s all about candy.)

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Three-year-old Samuel Luhmann, dressed as an alligator, and 5-year-old Johanna Anderson, dressed as Toothiana, sit down with the Minnesota Daily to talk about Halloween at the Como Student Community Cooperative on Friday. CSCC provides housing for University of Minnesota students and their families.

BY THOM Q. JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com

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little tiger toddled around the community room of the Como Student Community Cooperative in Minneapolis’ Southeast Como neighborhood.

Her sister Johanna, a 5-year-old dressed in a glittered Toothiana costume, replete with wings and crown of foam feathers — “Toothiana is basically the tooth fair y,” she said — hung out with her mom near the apple slices and hot cider.

“I stayed up all night making that costume,” said Ingrid Johanson, the girls’ mother. “When I gave it to her, she said she hated it!”

But that didn’t stop Johanna from wearing the costume whenever she could.

Scores of University of Minnesota students and their families call CSCC’s 360 units home. Some children have lived their whole lives there, so they’re more than qualified to tell us the best ways to celebrate Halloween on and around campus.

A 3-year-old alligator named Samuel explained that to take in the motherlode of candy, he and his brother get to stay up “super, super late.” Super, super

late means 8 p.m., his mom reminded him from across the room.

“Yeah, until it gets super dark,” Sam said.

The kids confirmed that all of the Halloween traditions are still alive and well: Rich people give out the best candy, and it’s best to go late at night when houses leave out bowls to pick through and to travel in groups to avoid getting spooked.

If you can’t go trick-

or-treating, the best thing to do is throw a party for your friends, said Ryan, an 11-year-old vampire princess.

“It’s Halloween, for crying out loud! Have some fun,” she said. “There’s no reason why you shouldn’t have some fun.”

How do you prepare your house for a rockin’ Halloween party? Jocelyn, 9, also a vampire princess, suggested inviting all of your friends and doing up your house with

a few simple decorations.

“Get some fake webs and hang them from your roof, and get some ghosts, too,” she says.

Adeline, 7, who was dressed as a flamenco dancer, also suggested setting the mood: “And turn off the lights!”

There was a consensus on whether college students should feel free to go trick-or-treating. In fact, the group agreed that there was

no maximum age for individuals to enjoy the holiday.

Jocelyn: Don’t be embarrassed to go trick-or-treating ...

Adele: ’Cause it’s just for fun.

Jocelyn: And if people say mean things about you …

Ryan: Say, “Are you a chicken?”

Jocelyn: Just say, “It’s not nice to call people those names, and I can do

whatever I want.”

Adele: And people are different!

Good advice, kids. Good luck hitting as many houses and apartment units as possible!

Check out the video of these costumed kids’ interviews on mndaily.com. You’ve got to see the video to really understand where these kids are coming from.

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LITERATURE

Turning the page Curator for Children’s Literature Research Collections Lisa Von Drasek sets out to illuminate the deeper power of the prebedtime tradition.

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

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olding in a yawn, a parent sets down a copy of “Goodnight Moon” and looks at their starr y-eyed child. It’s way past bedtime but still, two small hands grip the cover and the begging commences: “Read it again!”

Maybe you were this kid, maybe you weren’t. For Lisa Von Drasek, Curator for Children’s Literature Research Collections, that pleading phrase is what inspired her upcoming talk in the University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections’ inaugural installment of their “First Fridays” lecture series.

She sat at her desk in the Elmer L. Andersen library, equipped with a sweater, thinly framed glasses and a smile. Judging by the innumerable copies of children’s books and the way her eyes widened when anyone mentioned them, one thing was clear: Von Drasek is a booklover through and through.

She was the director of the Center for Children’s Literature for 15 years at the Bank Street College of Education in New York. Also a librarian at the school, Von Drasek made a name for herself as an archivist and a critic, reviewing children’s books in the New York Times and other publications.

“I believe that, for me, children’s literature is the touchstone for lifelong literacy,” she said.

When she heard that the previous curator, Karen Nelson Hoyle, was retiring, Von Drasek set her sights on Minneapolis.

“I went after the job like I was invading Normandy,” she said. Her gung-ho approach won her the job, and now she’s been at the University for about a year.

LISA PERSSON Lisa Von Drasek, curator of the Children’s Literature Research Collections at Elmer L. Andersen Library, showcases the original, hand-painted cover of the classic children’s bedtime story “Goodnight Moon” by Margaret Wise Brown.

The Elmer L. Andersen library is an oasis for booklovers like Von Drasek. It has one of the most respected archives in the world and is home to the Kerlan Collection. It’s a world-renowned children’s literature amalgam that contains more than 100,000 books, original manuscripts, illustrations and countless other materials.

Von Drasek’s giddiness was palpable when she headed underground to the librar y’s Fort Knox of an archive, using her key card more than four times to unlock her way into the fortress.

Ever y time her access was granted, she grinned at the handle.

“Green light,” she said.

As she entered the main door, Von Drasek pointed at the endless rows of tightly packed shelves.

“I’m looking at our collection and the books that are timeless. What is it about those books and those images that make us want to return to them?” she said about her “First Fridays” talk.

For Von Drasek, the children’s genre is just as invaluable to literature as “Moby Dick,” since it influences reading habits at an early age.

“This is a time in our childhood that we gain empathy,” she said. “This is the beginning of a child’s love for literature.”

These books encourage repeat readings, she said,

because they’re an exposure to cultural narratives.

Von Drasek pointed to Ezra Jack Keats’ “The Snowy Day,” one of the first picture books to feature an AfricanAmerican protagonist.

“Kids are seeing their own lives reflected, but also windows into other lives,” Von Drasek said.

Kate Dietrick, an assistant archivist at the library, said that the books are impor tant from a historical perspective as well.

“We probably won’t see the payoff until a hundred years from now,” she said.

“The goal of archives is to help research; we want to keep the process of the art.”

Author and literature professor Julie Schumacher is one author fur thering

children’s lit, penning five books for kids. She’s written for older audiences as well, but after years of reading bedtime stories to her children, she said she wanted to create characters they could relate to.

“Childr en deal with all of the same emotions that adults do; it’s just that they’re experiencing it for the first time,” she said.

Schumacher agrees with Von Drasek on the genre’s significance.

“It fosters a parent-child bond by having someone sit with you and listen to a stor y — there’s a sense of intimacy and trust created,” she said.

Perhaps this brings up memories of your tattered Dr. Seuss collection, your

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parent playfully voicing characters at your bedside or a first visit to the library.

Any book geek can confirm that initial experiences with literature run deep.

Von Drasek is just happy to be a part of that magic.

“It’s serendipity,” she said, clutching onto a hardcover. “The archives are full of it.”

MUSIC

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

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friday

alking to Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy is jarring. They aren’t unfriendly — they’re Canadian — so don’t be mistaken; it’s just that it isn’t every day you see reincarnations of the Partridge family.

MacMaster and Leahy are touring the United States, shredding Celtic tunes on their fiddles. They’re married with five small children who travel and occasionally play alongside them (a violinwielding David Cassidy, anyone?).

Their adult life isn’t too different from their past, considering they both grew up in musical families that lived in rural communities.

“My parents were farmers,” Leahy said. “As a little one, I’d be falling asleep and my parents would be having a party. My father would get

all excited, come in my room, wake me up, and I’d jump out of bed to go downstairs and play the fiddle.”

Leahy and MacMaster grew up in Lakefield, Ontario, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, respectively. Both of them fondly remember discovering music through these house parties by step dancing with neighbors and picking up instruments for the hell of it.

It’s a little cornballish, but the pair has the chops to pass on their cultural traditions.

MacMaster said her path to being a professional was gradual, but that’s questionable. She started fiddling at age 9, released her first album at 16, got married to Leahy after college and never stopped the music.

“It’s all I’ve ever done. It’s the only job I’ve ever had — if you want to call it a job,” she said.

The duo sizzles when they play their patented repertoire of Celtic classics and flooring, string-soaked original songs. When MacMaster clicks her heels before step dancing — a trademark Cape Breton move her mother taught her — she and Leahy saw at their fiddles and shuf-

A Modest Proposal This dark comedy is all about poor Irish parents eating their babies. The O’Reallys are barely surviving in 1729 Ireland. They’re constantly borrowing money just to provide for their ever-growing family and can’t seem to catch a break. Then an essay by Jonathan Swift starts floating around suggesting that if parents can’t make ends meet, they should consider making their children into meat. Come watch this hilarious satire by Box Wine Theatre go horribly, tastefully wrong. u Where: Bryant Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Minneapolis u When: 7 p.m. u Cost: $10 advance, $12 at the door

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“Masters of the Fiddle” Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy conjoin tradition with passion by going positively ham in performance.

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fle their feet in sync.

The couple’s musical influence is mostly Celtic, but they incorporate a variety of styles. Whether it’s a Cajun rouser, the complement of a funky drum kit or straight classical tunes, they look for ways to put their stamp on the sound. This usually means social dance footwork with kicks and jigs as well as a few hardy riffs from any accompanists that join them.

In their younger days, MacMaster and Leahy performed more than 225 shows a year. With five kids and a baby on the way, though, they’ve slowed down.

“I was tired,” MacMaster said. “That’s not something I want to go back to, ever.”

On the other hand, they both said their ever-expanding family keeps the tour going, even with a homeschooling schedule and diaper duty.

PHOTO COURTESY OF MACMASTER AND LEAHY Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy pluck and bow their way through high-energy, dance-fueled concerts.

Leahy said the kids exude music, joking that they’re “genetically forced to.” They hold house parties like their parents used to and placed fiddles in their children’s hands at an early age.

“It’s like when a little kid has his own hockey bag and his own stick, and he’s so

“Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010) The Uptown Theatre typically screens cult classics like “The Room” (2003) or “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (1975) as midnight features on the weekends. Sometimes it will rerun some of the greatest movies of all time, like the “Back to the Future” trilogy or “Titanic” (1997). And then sometimes it’s like the guy who makes the movie selections found an old DVD case under his couch and said, “Oh yeah! I remember this movie. It was pretty good.” This seems to be the case with Saturday’s featured flick, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010). Michael Cera stars as an awkwardly cute boyfriend who must battle seven of his girlfriend’s exes to win her heart. It’s funny, clever and based on a graphic novel, which gives it some street cred. u Where: Uptown Theatre, 2906 S. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis u When: 12:30 a.m. u Cost: $9

proud — it’s something that means a lot to them,” Leahy said, reflecting on seeing his kids with instruments of their own.

This is how it’s always been. MacMaster and Leahy have no lofty artistic manifestos — they just enjoy the music.

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Fiddle me this

“I want to be the deliverer of something that makes people happy,” MacMaster said.

Leahy agreed, saying this is what makes their performances honest.

“You can’t fool the audience,” he said. “They can see right through you.”

Lindi Ortega Singer-songwriter Lindi Ortega will charm your boots off with her wilting country songs and bright red lips. Her debut full-length album, “Little Red Boots,” put her on the map in 2011, and her third album, “Tin Star,” dropped this month.

Many of the Canadian-born singer’s songs are tinged with country music heartbreak, but her sound is a fresh take on an American classic. Her Alison Krauss-like voice will croon you into a relaxed state after a long weekend. The Icehouse is an intimate setting designed for small-scale shows, making this the perfect spot for up-and-coming artists like Lindi Ortega. u Where: Icehouse, 2528 S. Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis u When: 8:30 p.m. u Cost: $15 u Age: 21+

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Didn’t get enough chills and thrills this Halloween?

You might have seen the horror film classic by the same name, with the safety of the television screen to protect you. The original “Night of the Living Dead” takes place in a farmhouse, where a group of people tr y to sur vive the zombie invasion. This Mounds Theatre production puts the audience at the center of the plot. While most of the action takes place on stage, the zombies staggering through the aisles make the audience feel like they are the sur vivors huddled in the farmhouse. Will you sur vive the evening or become another gr uesome victim of the living dead?

Lambchop Shari Lewis might turn in her grave, but lamb meat is seriously misunderstood and under used. Some people like the overly spiced, pressed version you most often see in gyros but then get all scared when it’s in its purest form, like a tender T-bone or succulent chop. It’s rare to see a restaurant consistently of fer lamb yearround, but it tends to pop up on menus in the fall and spring. World Street Kitchen on L yndale Avenue South of fers a soft, caramelized lamb belly in a rice bowl with pickled cucumbers, daikon radish, a soft-cooked egg and creamy “secret sauce.” Top it of f with their homemade hot sauce, and you’ll be hooked.

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The Night of the Living Dead: Live and Undead

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CULTURE COMPASS BY CALLIE SACARELOS Mr. Little Guy If you stopped believing in fair y tales a long time ago, perhaps a visit to a real elf ’s house will rekindle your childhood imagination. Mr. Little Guy is an elf who lives at the base of a hollowed-out tree on Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. His house is marked with a tiny door with brass hinges and a lion’s head doorknocker. More than 10 years ago, children and adults alike star ted leaving notes and letters for the elf behind the door.

When they returned, the little house was full of little typed replies. Mr. Little Guy’s house is located on West Lake Harriet Parkway between South Russell Avenue and Penn Avenue South.

MYSTICS

Discovery by divination

BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com

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or a brief period every fall, witches, wizards and the supernatural come out to play with the mainstream.

It’s a great time to explore some of the practices and lifestyles that are a reality for some people 365 days a year.

Divination is easily approachable. Whether you choose to get your reading at a strip mall, a quaint old house or a regular storefront is up to you.

It isn’t about whether it’s “real” or scientifically proven to work. Readers feed you the shell of a thought, a basic truth about you or something that’s going on in your life.

Then you flesh out that idea by connecting that shell to what you know about yourself.

All forms of divination offer different ways to view yourself and your life. The only trick is finding a good reader.

Written in the stars When Heather Robbins started my 15-minute reading at Eye of Horus, it was my first astrology reading and the first time she had seen my chart.

She pulled up my chart on her laptop by using my time, date and location of birth. The details of my chart sounded like a foreign language: “Virgo moon in Scorpio with a Cancer rising — one degree cancer … Jupiter had just risen over the 12th house. Mars in Aries was directly above

the chart …”

I had no idea what she was saying.

Western astrology readings are a complex interplay of elements like the zodiac, moon nodes, astrological houses and many other things that are, frankly, hard to fathom.

Basically, the position of the sun, moon and some of the planets has an effect on our personalities and future depending on when we were born.

After a basic personality reading that seemed freakishly accurate, I told Robbins I was considering moving. She immediately cautioned me to wait a year because, according to my chart, I have some important personal matters to attend to first.

Fifteen minutes is hardly enough time to even scratch the surface of all the information your chart has to offer.

If I went again, I’d wait until I wanted specific questions answered and also budget more time. A 15-minute reading costs $35 at Eye of Horus.

Cards on the table The tarot deck includes 78 cards with characters, scenes and symbols. The reader can interpret the meaning of the cards individually or how they tie together, depending on the spread.

Getting a tarot reading is like getting a pep talk from your best friend. Tarot readers have rarely told me something I didn’t already know about myself or a certain situation, but they got me to think from a different, enlightening

perspective.

The reader places the cards in a specific layout.

Each spot in the layout represents an area of life ranging from personal challenges to career trajectory to romantic entanglements.

The simplicity of seeing all the major areas of your life categorized into little piles on the table can make problems that once drove you crazy suddenly obvious.

I met Christine Athena at Magus Books and Herbs in Dinkytown.

I was a little put off at first by the crystal ball sitting in the middle of her table. It smacked of the swindling stereotype that makes so many people skeptical of divination.

She told me it was just a prop for her store setup but that images do appear if a person stares at it long enough.

Athena used a Celtic Cross spread, her card layout of choice, for my general reading.

Her interpretation of the cards that she drew for my family, career and relationship situations echoed many of the same things I heard in the astrology reading the previous night.

At times I felt like she was reaching for something that wasn’t there, like when she asked if my mother was a worrier.

The Norse connection Runes are letters that were used in Germanic languages before the Latin alphabet ruled the world.

Although there isn’t much proof that runes were used

MUSIC

Through space and time Beats Antique, the California-based tribal electronic band, takes their audience on a mythical journey.

BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com

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eats Antique has cultivated a style of performance that looks like a Baz Luhrmann scrapbook.

The California-based tribal fusion band embodies the oddly effective clash between all things Bohemian, a raving good time and a freakish love for curios.

Their current “Thousand Faces” tour is their most ambitious production, but far-off lands and bizarre performance art were already an integral part of the band.

Beats Antique formed in 2007 when David Satori, Zoe Jakes and Tommy Cappel came together to create music for belly dancing. Their first album, 2007’s “Tribal Derivations,” is a concept album, just like this month’s “A Thousand Faces — Act 1.”

“Making an album just for people to dance to in that specific genre was a concept album in my mind. From there, we just kept making tracks and developed our own sound,” Satori said.

That sound is an instrument-heavy mix of tribal fusion, electronic, afro-beat and Middle Eastern belly dance music.

The group uses acoustic string instruments, horns and bell sounds from around the world. Most of the songs use chord progressions and harmonies popular in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern music.

“We’re influenced by so many cultures, producers and music. We feel proud of the sound that we make. There’s

not a lot of it out there that sounds like us,” Satori said.

The band’s current tour and album is based on Joseph Campbell’s novel, “The Hero with a Thousand Faces,” in which he discusses his theory of the monomyth’s, or hero’s, journey. The idea is that most myths from around the world follow a hero character through the same fundamental story structure.

The band based the 19 songs, which they split into two albums, on the different stages of the book’s monomyth.

“We were looking for a structure to follow for our concept album, but we didn’t want to tell a literal story like, ‘Here’s John, and he goes on this journey.’ ” Satori said. “ ‘A Thousand Faces’ is about the crowd and bringing everybody on this journey with us.”

For Satori, one of the most powerful moments of the new show is when their journey takes them across the threshold into the underworld.

“We have this moment where the whole set gets enveloped by water. This big flood happens in our show, and that moment is really intense, and it’s fun to perform,” he said.

The elaborate stage production for this tour includes a full set design and video components that create worlds for the audience to travel through, Satori said.

They raised almost $60,000 in their Kickstarter campaign to help fund the elaborate tour production.

As a reward, the campaign donor who pledged the most money will get a DJ Party Buddy package, which includes a private house performance by the band after one of their shows.

But Satori isn’t sure if the donor is even aware that he has not one, but two, private Beats Antique DJ sessions

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coming his way.

That’s because the campaign’s highest donor is Sean Parker, who pledged $15,000 on a whim and claimed both rewards by default.

“He saw the project through a friend and was like, ‘Yeah, just fulfill it.’ He didn’t even know how much it was,” Satori said.

Parker made his billions with business ventures like Napster, Facebook and Spotify. Satori said they’ve been trying to contact him to thank him.

His donation brought the band to its $50,000 goal, ensuring that the project would be funded. His rewards include the two DJ Party Buddy packages at the $5,000 level.

“I think we’re going to have some interesting DJ parties ahead of us, if he even remembers,” Satori said. And if he doesn’t, “that’s his loss.”

After the tour, which is scheduled to end in December, Satori said they will finally take a break “like a normal band.” They have produced an album every year since 2007.

“We can’t stop. We’re all very motivated artists,” Satori said. “We love doing it, and the fact that we’re surviving on it is so inspiring to us that we just keep making it. We don’t slow down because of it; we speed up. We love exhausting ourselves on it.”

The stars, ancient runes and a deck of cards offer a portal into self-exploration.

BRIDGET BENNETT Psychic Christine Athena reads a client’s tarot cards on Wednesday evening at Magus Books and Herbs.

for divination in ancient times, modern readers created their own systems based on snippets of rune history.

The set Kari Tauring uses at Eye of Horus looks like small wooden medallions cut from a skinny tree branch, all etched with simple symbols.

Each symbol has a shape, sound and meaning from both cultural and mythological Nordic stories.

Tauring handed me a basket containing the wood chips and instructed me to shake it as I thought about my questions.

During the reading, I drew three runes from the basket.

The first represented my past, the second represented

my present and the third represented “necessity,” or what I need to work through the situation.

My past rune was Raido, which looks like a capital ‘R’ and represents a vehicle or journey.

I drew Othel, a fishshaped symbol that represents homeland and ancestry, for the present.

Hagal, the hailstorm rune shaped like a capital ‘N,’ represents necessity. Hailstorms cause destruction but also clear things away. The symbol represents a clearing of all the things in my life that don’t serve me well. This selfexamination and exploration might be stormy, but after

the hail clears a path, it melts away.

In the context of the three runes, Tauring said I am about to embark on a journey of deep personal exploration that will include looking not only at myself, but also at my family history while exploring my homeland.

Tauring’s interpretation of the runes centered on my relationship with my mom, a recurring theme that popped up in all three readings.

I thought it was significant that each reader told me that before I could enter the next phase of my life, I had some issues to work out with my mom. Then again, who doesn’t?

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Thursday, October 31, 2013 FOOD

College Kitchen: Horror d’oeuvres Equip your Halloween party with the right snacks.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

There’s only one reason anybody actually goes to par ties: the promise of free food. The world’s leading par ty scientists have proven that a rager’s coolness is directly correlated with the amount of snacks on display. That’s why Jay Z always makes sure to have plenty of Bugles at any of his exclusive nightclub parties.

Halloween provides a perfect opportunity to step up your party snack game.

Sure, you could settle for store-bought candies and treats, and your guests would be pretty happy.

Or you could blow their minds with your handcrafted goodies. You make the call.

Homemade peanut butter cups Play out this scenario in your brain: You roll up to the coolest Halloween party in town, thrown by the captain of your high school football team. You open up the door and BOOM: record scratch, silence. All eyes are on you and your too-clever costume. Out of nowhere, you whip out a pan of these bad boys. Music star ts up, people star t dancing. Party’s back on.

8 ounces chocolate chips 4 ounces smooth peanut butter — the trashier, the better 2 ounces sugar Melt the chocolate chips in a sauce pan

over ver y low heat. Stir constantly as it melts. It should only take a minute.

Add the sugar to the peanut butter until entirely incorporated. Alter the ratio if you find the mixture too sweet or not sweet enough.

In a non-stick muf fin tin or in muffin cups, layer the chocolate and the peanut butter. You know the order. Let it freeze for about an hour before eating.

Straight-up dirt cake Dirt is a gross thing to eat. Halloween, though, is a day when people like gross things. If you’re really dedicated, put this in actual flower pots rather than a baking pan.

1 p a ck a g e g u m my worms 16 ounces Oreos, coarsely chopped 12 ounces Cool Whip 1/2 cup sugar 4 tablespoons butter 2 cups milk 2 3.5-ounce packages of instant chocolate pudding mix 8 ounces cream cheese In a mixing bowl, whisk together the sugar, cream cheese, butter, pudding mix, milk and Cool Whip.

Star ting with the chopped Oreos, alternatively layer the Cool Whip mixture and the Oreos until you run out of ingredients. Top with the gummy worms for the full dirt effect.

Rat meatballs with bloody tomato risotto

I’m not going to lie to you: These meatballs are more adorable than scar y.

Unless you tell people

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Homemade peanut butter cups, a delicious and easy-to-make Halloween dessert treat.

they’re made of actual rat meat, you’re really not going to spook anyone.

Think of this as more of a formal Halloween dinner.

If you’re completely devoid of whimsy, technically you don’t have to make these meatballs into rats.

Just enjoy your life of boring, rat-free food.

1 pound ground beef 1/2 cups bread crumbs 1/2 onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 teaspoon dried parsley Salt and pepper Olive oil Uncooked spaghetti Frozen peas

1 carrot, cut into thin rounds In a mixing bowl, combine the ground beef, onion, garlic, bread crumbs, dried parsley, salt and pepper. Using your hands, lightly mix the ingredients together. Don’t over work the meat, or else the meatballs won’t stay together.

Form egg-shaped balls with the mixture and set aside.

In a skillet, brown the meatballs on all sides in olive oil, about three minutes per side.

Make tails and whiskers with uncooked spaghetti, ears with the chopped carrots and eyes with the frozen peas.

Ser ve on top of the risotto.

1 cup short-grain rice 1/2 onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 bunch spinach, roughly chopped 1 28-ounce can diced tomatoes 2 cups water 2 tablespoons butter Olive oil Salt and pepper Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Sauté the onions and garlic for about five minutes.

Add the uncooked rice to the skillet and mix until entirely coated.

Pour in about half of the canned tomatoes (along with their juice) as well as a cup of the water. Bring

the mixture to a boil and then let simmer.

Gradually, as the mixture absorbs the liquid, add in more of the tomatoes and water, stir ring the entire time. The rice should take around 25 minutes to cook.

Risotto is all about texture, so tasting the rice often is key. Ideally, the finished product will be creamy but with some resistance to the bite. Perfecting the dish takes a good deal of practice, but when you’ve got it down, it works as a convenient and versatile side dish.

When the rice is almost tender, mix in the spinach and butter. Season it with salt and pepper to taste.

WEEKEND

Minneapolis musical masquerades Halloween bands to make them dance.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

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ny schmo can throw on some wacky clothes and call it a costume. A select few, however, can take it much further and really dedicate themselves to their costume.

Cover bands — or tribute acts, if you buy their shtick wholesale — may exist yearround, but there’s no better occasion than Halloween to partake in their campy goodness. Here are three possibilities for this weekend to see just how serious people can be about their costumes.

The 9th or 10th Annual Halloween Spectacular

Triple Rock Social Club, 629 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis 8 p.m., Thursday $8 with a costume, $10 without 21+ Featuring groups covering Dio, Danzig, Guns N’ Roses, the Sex Pistols and Slayer, the Triple Rock’s night boasts some of the more hard-rockin’ cover bands of the weekend.

Dio, which We Rock is covering, makes for ideal Halloween listening. Almost every album cover features some kind of wizard, demon, pentagram or completely ripped man. Expect power metal songs about the same.

The epitome of this: the music video for the song “Holy Diver.”

Daigaro, which is paying tribute to Slayer, offers a less campy approach to all things Satanic. Its brand of thrash metal is as unrelenting as it is blasphemous.

Impaler, Rock & Roll Whores and Joe Lyon: Magician of the Living Dead

Cause Restaurant & Soundbar, 3001 S. Lyndale Ave.,

Minneapolis 9 p.m., Thursday $5 21+ As brutal as its name suggests, Impaler delivers more spectacle than concert.

They’re not strictly a cover band — through their 30-year histor y, they’ve touched about every genre of metal out there, frequently playing songs by the likes of Motörhead and Alice Cooper.

Impaler’s live shows featur e plenty of fake blood, severed heads and a Kiss-like devotion to face paint. They are the musical equivalent of a slasher flick and, therefore, the perfect Halloween experience.

And who is the most logical opener for Impaler?

Joe L yon, the Magician of the Living Dead, of course.

Nothing beats the classic one-two punch of magic and heavy metal.

Halloween Roxxtravaganza Turf Club, 1601 W. University Ave., St. Paul 9 p.m., Friday $8 21+ A cover band is only as good as its name is clever.

This means that Wangs, an all-male Wings/Paul McCartney tribute act, undoubtedly reigns supreme.

They will be joined by Bruce Springsteen-esque Tramps Like Us and an Alice Cooper set courtesy of Mauled Glass.

Featuring nine members, including three Pauls and no Lindas, Wangs may not be the most authentic tribute band around, but they ensure a good time.

Tramps Like Us has been hailed as one of the best tribute acts in the Twin Cities.

Fronted by Michael Anderson and his perfect Springsteen growl, the group takes impersonating the E Street Band more seriously than anyone this side of New Jersey.

Thursday, October 31, 2013

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (10/31): Follow your heart creatively this year. Projects and opportunities abound. Especially when you love your work, partnerships thrive the first half of the year.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — Sometimes it’s easy to get distracted from what’s important. Focus on what and whom you love. Definitely no gambling.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Energy surges are predictable. Make good use of them, rather than getting shocked. Take on a leadership role.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Put your heads together. Focus your creative energy on practical ideas to make money. Cut expenses.

Plan now and expand later.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Clean up old messes. Heed a practical person’s warning, and consider potential outcomes. Women affect your future, whether you like it or not.

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

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Who said being in love was easy? Make every move count and increase the quality of your relationship.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — You’re entering a party phase, which could interfere with work, which in turn could interfere with romance. Offer help to someone in need.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — There’s another rush job coming in. It’s better to give each step its due than to hurry. Patience is a virtue, especially now.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — The next two days are good for decisions. Devote yourself to the process fully. There will be time for fun and games later.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — You’re entering a learning phase. Study and research get fun. Kids have the best ideas. Create, build and network. Don’t buy the next round for the gang.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — There may be dark paths or even zombies. Fortress walls could spring out of nowhere. Stay flexible, and balance studies with fun.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Start getting practical. Scratch out what you can’t afford and what you don’t really need. You’re especially powerful around finances now.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — A lack of funds could threaten the plan. Listen to all considerations, then reappraise. Build your character.

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10/31/2013

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

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

secret admirers Dear Joe from Chem 4502 last semester,

You’re either a Chem E or Mat Sci major, but, damn, are you hot. Thanks for the push to go to class. Because of you, I got a good grade in it. You give me hope that there are other hot and smart guys like you in the world.

—Unknown

Girls at 17th Avenue dining hall,

Maybe it’s something in the food, but all of you have got it going on. I’m overwhelmed by such a high concentration of beauty.

—Unknown

Dear guy with the shirt and hat with the word Life on it,

You made my night when I saw you handing out lemons to people on University Avenue, and I was confused when you handed one to me. Sadly, by the time I figured it out, you were long gone. I loved your costume, and you were pretty cute, too.

Sincerely,

—A girl who would love to make lemonade with you Dear guy who played “Fix You” by Coldplay in Coffman today,

You have a great voice — please keep playing. It totally made my day. Also, you are cute.

Sincerely,

—Girl who loves Coldplay

Dear kid who stole my laptop,

I will buy you dinner and a computer if you give me mine back. I have a thing for thieves; maybe this could be the start of something new.

Sincerely,

—A girl who really needs her files for her portfolio Dear guy with the puppy in the Floco courtyard,

I must say, your puppy was so incredibly adorable, I didn’t even pay attention to you. But as soon as I looked up, you literally took my breath away. I was so

flustered between the cuteness of the puppy and your absolutely gorgeous face, I didn’t even ask you your name. But don’t worry — I remembered the puppy’s name was Carly. I can only hope to run into you again someday in the courtyard.

Sincerely,

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—In love with a guy and his puppy

Anthony,

Wearing a suit to present in APEC made my heart flutter, and now I can’t stop staring. Of course, we only seem to make eye contact when I’m slumming it in sweats. I promise I can dress up well.

Sincerely,

—I just really love sweats

To the guy in the gladiator costume that saved us from getting mugged in Como on Saturday night,

Thank you from the bottom of our hearts. It’s great to see there are still gentlemen out there. I wish we would have had the chance to properly thank you.

Love,

—Two girls who feel much safer thanks to your heroics.

Attention all men,

Friday marks the beginning of the magical month of No Shave November.

Gentlemen of the University of Minnesota, let’s see those beards.

Sincerely,

—A girl who loves a scruffy man

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ACROSS 1 Works by future doctors 7 One of two N.T. books 10 Mellowed, perhaps 14 24/7 Rollerball maker 15 Address for a PFC 16 Traffic controller 17 African adventure 18 Buttinskies 20 1954 Luis Buñuel film 22 Eur.’s ocean 23 Diva quality 24 Smallish cells 25 “__ Love”: Natalie Cole hit 26 Lamarr of Hollywood 28 Harrison colleague 30 Sluglike “Star Wars” alien 31 Map corner item, maybe 33 Crossreferencing words 35 1974 Lina Wertmüller film 38 Rat Pack leader 40 Pizza order 44 Start for sphere 45 Moved, as a trireme 48 Aussie flock 49 Benchmark: Abbr.

50 “For shame!”

51 Portuguese royal 53 PGA money winner, e.g.

54 1963 Peter Brook film 58 Unwanted import from the East?

59 Words that may precede weeping?

61 Word with blue or bean 62 Neurologist’s test, briefly 63 Temper 64 Covers the gray, say 65 Tokyo, long ago 66 They raise dough

10/31/13

By Gerry Wildenberg

DOWN 1 Festoons with certain tissue, for short 2 Give courage to 3 Swathes 4 Attempt 5 Spine-tingling 6 Baby carriers 7 Hunter’s garb, for short 8 Clearing 9 A.L. Rookie of the Year after Tommie Agee 10 Rights protection gp.

11 Has a date 12 On the way 13 With 44-Down, setting for 20-, 35and 54-Across 19 TV’s Oz and Gupta 21 Barstool topper 22 Yellowfin tuna 27 Like nononsense questions 29 “When You Wish Upon __” 30 Big name in games 32 Bygone Delta rival

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34 “Illmatic” rapper 36 Cajun crawfish dish 37 Went on and on 38 In a manner of speaking 39 Ready to go forward 41 Blocks 42 Attack with profanity 43 That, in Tabasco 44 See 13-Down

10/31/13

46 Before, to a bard 47 Offset, as costs 50 It may be gross 52 “The L Word” producer Chaiken 55 Woody Allen’s “Radio __” 56 Science fiction prize 57 Collector’s suffix 60 D.C. United’s org.

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dr. date Dr. Date,

Help me out, Doc. My last relationship ended a year and a half ago. It was toxic, and I was more than happy to get out of it. I never expected to see or hear much of him again, being that we go to different schools. I thought we had both moved on when I found out he had a new girlfriend.

But recently, my ex has been writing unkind things on my Facebook or texting me things to remind me of our relationship. This week he told me he had dreamt of me. This is making me ridiculously uncomfortable. I’m not sure if he’s just going through a rough patch with his main squeeze or if he honestly hasn’t gotten over our past hookup. Either way, I feel like it’s seriously damaging to me and my efforts to be open and vulnerable with someone else. I’ve deleted his posts and haven’t responded to his texts, but they keep coming. How can I tell him to bark up his own girlfriend’s tree?

—Don’t Bring Me Down

ELO Fan,

Once toxic, always toxic, eh?

The first step when dealing with hazardous material is containment — you seem to have handled that appropriately by deleting his posts and not responding to his messages. Good.

But it sounds like he’s just gonna continue to fan his noxious personality your way regardless of response. So now it becomes an issue of cleanup.

Honestly, the only “quick” way to get him off your back would be to confront him and have one of those “Get out of my life!” moments. However, that shouldn’t be your responsibility, and he’d likely take the newfound attention as a sign that his guilt trip/douchebaggery is somehow working. If that happens, he’d likely continue in his poisonous ways.

Your physical separation is a boon given that the best way to proceed is

more of the same: ignore, ignore, ignore.

Do you know the identity of this new girl? It might be worth informing her of her new beau’s weird transgressions into your privacy. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned — let the new gal unleash the wrath with you comfortably on the sidelines.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’ve realized something about myself recently, and I’m not sure what to make of it.

I feel like guys don’t take me very seriously. A few different times now, I’ve had a guy show interest in me — and maybe even take me on a date or two — only to find out that he A) is already seeing someone, B) only wants to sleep with me or C) both. The first one is the most disconcerting to me, but obviously, it’s all problematic.

I’ve gone out with a lot of different kinds of guys, so I don’t think I have a particular “type.” (Maybe just the douchebag type.) Is there something I can do to get out of this rut?

—Seriously?

Bad Track Record,

Surely (I hope you don’t mind me calling you that), you know that isn’t the only type of fellow out there.

If you wish to break out of this “rut,” this trend of terrible types, you first need to break your own habit-forming methods of seeking a mate. Break the vicious circle by exploring new territory, going to new bars, different shows and the like.

Hell, get on the Internet — everybody’s doing it.

That being said, at least you’ve realized something is up with the men around you. Better this than being a woman who continually laments her relationships while continuing to make the same boneheaded mistakes over and over.

—Dr. Date

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Key Muslim Brotherhood leader arrested in Egypt

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces arrested a key Muslim Brotherhood figure in a raid early Wednesday morning, a man on the run since the July coup that toppled the country’s Islamist president, the Interior Ministry said.

The arrest of Essam elErian, the deputy leader of the Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice party, was the latest in a wide-ranging crackdown of both the Islamist group’s leaders and its rank-and-file members since the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi, who also hails from the Brotherhood.

Morsi, himself in detention, has been held at an undisclosed militar y location

since the July 3 coup. He is facing charges of inciting supporters to murder his opponents while in office.

Morsi’s trial is due to begin Nov. 4. It is not yet clear if the 62-year old ousted president will appear in court.

El-Erian is also one of the defendants in the Morsi trial. He is accused of inciting Brotherhood followers to break up anti-Morsi protesters gathered outside the presidential palace late last year.

In photographs broadcast on state television following his arrest, the smiling 59-yearold el-Erian is wearing a white galabiya, the traditional male robe, and a skullcap.

The official state news agency MENA said el-Erian was arrested after a raid on an apartment in the eastern

suburb of New Cairo, where he had been hiding. He was later transferred to the Torah prison complex in southern Cairo, where most of the group’s arrested leaders are held.

The agency said he will be interrogated at Torah on accusations of inciting violence in a number of anti-government protests. The prosecutors later ordered el-Erian detained for 30 days on new accusations of inciting murder and attempted murder, organizing an armed mob and inciting the possession of arms during two protests in Giza against the current government that left more than nine dead.

While Morsi was in power, el-Erian frequently spoke publicly, often causing a stir as he turned from a moder-

ate to a hard-line member of the group.

During a large-anti-Morsi demonstration last December outside the presidential palace, el-Erian went on a Brotherhood-affiliate television channel to ask supporters “in the tens of thousands, to besiege those thugs.” At least 10 people died in subsequent clashes outside the palace.

While in hiding, el-Erian distributed messages to followers, urging them to denounce the coup and demand Morsi’s reinstatement.

In a recent pre-recorded message aired on the AlJazeera satellite news network, el-Erian criticized the military and the interim authorities and called on supporters, including students, to keep up their protests.

After term, Rybak to teach two U courses Rybak u from Page 1

chosen Nov. 5 when 35 mayoral candidates — eight with active campaigns — will be listed on the ballot.

Rybak announced Wednesday that he will also serve as the executive director of Generation Next beginning in January. Founded in 2012, the group works to close the city’s achievement gap and is co-chaired by University President Eric Kaler.

The outgoing mayor will hold a unique position at the University, Schwartz said.

“I don’t think we’ve ever done this,” he said. “I think it’s really a unique, exciting opportunity for our students in both programs.”

Because programs from the two colleges often intersect, Schwartz said, it was natural for the two to partner for Rybak’s joint appointment.

The classes will be open to undergraduate and graduate students, and CDES Dean Tom Fisher said he would like students from across the University to have access.

“Given light to Mayor Rybak’s public life and public policy, the Humphrey appointment made all of the sense in the world,” Schwartz said. “By the same token, given Mayor Rybak’s engagement in issues in urban design, the association with the College of Design also seemed like a very logical one.”

The new class being offered this spring will address problems that actual cities or neighborhoods face.

“The course will focus on four core themes that Mayor Rybak believes are absolutely critical,” Schwartz said.

He will explain to students how to grow a city, invest in the city’s people and the common good, and create a safe “place to call home,” Schwartz said.

Humphrey School Dean Advisor y Council member Roger Parkinson met with Rybak last winter, and Schwartz and Fisher were involved in the conversation shortly thereafter, to discuss what the mayor would pursue once his tenure came to a close.

“I began talking to Mayor Rybak many months ago,” Schwartz said. “I thought that it was an extraordinary opportunity for us to take advantage of a wealth of experience that Mayor Rybak has had as mayor, for well over a decade, in one of the most dynamic urban areas in the country.”

With Metropolitan Design Center Director Ignacio San Martín resigning soon, CDES will be in need of an instructor, Fisher said.

“We thought that R.T. would be a great person to do that because of his involvement in and his knowledge of how urban places get designed and built,” he said.

San Martín said Rybak would offer a fresh perspective for students because they often learn about the nuts and bolts of design but rarely learn about the challenges cities face while implementing the plans.

“I think that R.T. is going to bring a very unique ability to understand the realities and the politics of being mayor and implementing how to bring the city forward,” San Martín said.

He said Rybak will be able to give students a comprehensive and “realistic understanding” of what it takes to build a city.

The course enrollment caps have not been identified, but Schwartz said they will not be “huge” classes.

The position is supported by private funds from University gifts, according to a University press release.

During his time at the University, Rybak will also lead a conference about the challenges cities face and will teach a course next spring that has not yet been identified.

“My goal is to blend my practical experience as mayor with the intelligence, curiosity and idealism of the U’s great students, in order to help them become the next generation of leaders and visionaries for our cities,” Rybak said in a University statement.