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Man dies after jump in U bldg. A fall in the Nils Hasselmo atrium killed a University employee. BY NICK STUDENSKI CODY NELSON EMMA NELSON nstudenski@mndaily.com cnelson1@mndaily.com enelson1@mndaily.com
A University of Minnesota employee committed suicide in Nils Hasselmo Hall on Monday morning, University police said.
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Candidates vie for split power In Minneapolis’ “weak-mayor” system, personality and leadership style determine power.
The 37-year-old man was a part-time University employee, said University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner. His name was not released Monday, pending notification of his family. The man jumped from an upper level inside the building and landed on the basement atrium floor around 8:30 a.m., according to the police report. University employees and others on the scene u See SUICIDE Page 3 Counselors were available to witnesses throughout the day.
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Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak begins a proposition for the renovation of the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis before the City Council on Thursday.
FINANCIAL AID
Private loans linked to high student debt Private student loans are 7 percent of the market but 15 percent of the debt. BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com
When it comes to financing her education, University of Minnesota art and psychology freshman Aubrey Peng doesn’t have a choice. Th is a ca de mi c y ear alone, Peng will bor row $25,000 in private student loans. She said she has no plan in place to pay off her debt after graduation. Private student loans, or PSLs, account for 15 percent of the countr y’s $165 billion outstanding student loan debt despite being only about 7 percent of all student loans taken out last
year, according to a U.S. Public Interest Research Group report released Oct. 24. The repor t analyzed 4,300 complaints about PSLs filed with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since March 2012 and found that Peng’s lender, Sallie Mae, was the most complained-about private student loan firm in ever y state but Minnesota and Alaska. In Minnesota, it ranked second. The CFPB estimated Sallie Mae owns half of the private student loan market. Last year, 10 percent of undergraduates at the University’s Twin Cities campus collectively took out about $8 million in private u See LOANS Page 3 Students can report problems with lenders to the CFPB.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Halloween robberies add to growing list near U Three incidents near campus have police upping their presence. BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com
Over Halloween weekend, three robberies added to the growing number of violent crimes reported this semester around the University of Minnesota campus. University police Chief Greg Hestness emailed a crime alert to students Friday afternoon detailing the three incidents on campus Thursday and Friday night. Hestness said in the alert that he asked Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau to make the area around the University a “top priority” following the recent robberies. Around 1:20 a.m. Friday mor ning, four people —
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three of whom are University students — were the victims of a robber y and assault at the intersection of 14th Avenue Southeast and Sixth Street Southeast, according to a Minneapolis police report. Electrical engineering junior Wyatt Zulkosky said he was walking with friends early Friday morning when he ran into a woman who was upset because she had been robbed. He said he and his friends were walking in the direction the woman said the suspects had gone, when they saw a man rob psychology sophou See CRIME Page 12 Police said suspects in recent robberies are not U-affiliated.
“I have always [known] that in paper and in reality, this was a place where you could be a very strong mayor — if you acted like it.” -R.T. Rybak, Minneapolis Mayor
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ith the first new mayor in 12 years and a city council in flux, this election could offer the most sweeping changes to Minneapolis City Hall in recent histor y. Because power in Minneapolis government is fractured among many offices, experts and candidates agree Minneapolis’ next leader will have to focus on building consensus rather than governing from the top down. “This isn’t the cleanest, clearest form of government,” Mayor
R.T. Rybak said. “There [is] a lot of power in the mayor’s of fice, a lot of power in the council, a lot of power in the city coordinator, but you can’t really get anything done unless ever ybody is generally working together.” Minneapolis gover nment is often described as a weak-mayor system, but the position’s power ultimately depends on the mayor’s personality and leadership style. In Minneapolis, the mayor proposes the budget, has some appointment powers and either signs or vetoes policies passed by the City Council. see
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FOOTBALL
Kill’s leave, Gophers’ wins impact recruiting A coach’s presence and a team’s ability to win are both on recruits’ minds. BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
The Gophers took another step in the right direction in the Jerry Kill era with their 42-39 win over Indiana University on Saturday.
It was the Gophers’ seventh win of the season and ensured they will finish this season with a better record than last season. That’s huge for recruiting, especially in a year that the state of Minnesota has some of the better high school prospects in the nation, including Minneapolis Washburn High School running back Jeff Jones and Chanhassen High School offensive lineman Frank Rag-
now. “You have to star t at home, and you have to secure those kids that you feel like can help you win a Big Ten championship at home,” defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys said. Still, as much as recruits have said they admire Kill and his staff, there are still reservations about the program. Jones said Kill’s battle
with epilepsy affects his recruitment tremendously. “You never know if [Kill’s] telling the truth or not, but I believe him,” Jones said. “I don’t believe he’ll be going anywhere any time soon, but it’s always in the back of my head when I’m looking at another school that has a coaching staff established.” u See RECRUITING Page 7 Ragnow said he isn’t concerned about Kill’s health problems.
STUDENT LIFE
Poor sleep habits wear students thin Despite students’ heavy workloads, experts warn against lost sleep. BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com
Coursework is piling up, professors are prepping for final exams and student sleep schedules are suffering under the weight of academic pressures. Only about half of Minnesota college students said they felt they get enough sleep three days per week or less, according to a 2012 University of Minnesota Boynton Health Survey. Students say while they know sleep is impor tant, demands of school can take priority. Experts say sleep helps the human body repair
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Sophomore Lucienne Nagel takes a nap Thursday in the basement of Coffman Union.
itself and gives the mind time to make memories, and it may also prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, according to a
University of Rochester Medical Center study published last month. In the study, researchers discovered that mice
brain cells shrank during u See SLEEP Page 12 Sleep deprivation can affect memory and judgement.
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