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HODGES TAKES LEAD Frey Andrew informally conceded Tuesday. @jamrockstar

What color smoke means there is a new #mplsmayor? @cam_winton

Congrats to Betsy Hodges @ betsyhodges on (assuming City Clerk confirms apparent results) her election as mayor! #micdrop #mplsmayor

37% BETSY HODGES BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

snags Ward 3

Nearly 62 percent of voters ranked Jacob Frey as their first choice for City Council, unseating Diane Hofstede.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

Jacob Frey has been elected to replace two-term incumbent Diane Hofstede as the Minneapolis City Council member for Ward 3.

Frey secured more than 61 percent of first-choice votes and joined two other Council newcomers in unseating incumbents Tuesday night.

“I think it’s become so much more than about me. I think it’s a movement towards a new Minneapolis,” Frey said at his election night party at Elsie’s Restaurant, Bar and u See WARD 3 Page 4

MINNEAPOLIS

MAYOR

DIANE HOFSTEDE JACOB FREY

27%

FIRST-CHOICE VOTES

61%

11% DON SAMUELS HOLLY PETERSON, DAILY

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Betsy Hodges poses with El Nuevo Rodeo owner Maya Santamaria at Hodges’ election party Tuesday evening. Hodges received the most firstchoice votes, landing ahead of runners-up Mark Andrew and Don Samuels.

“There is a lot we do not know right now. We do not know who the next mayor of Minneapolis is.”

BETSY HODGES Mayoral frontrunner

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN AND KIA FARHANG mholden@mndaily.com mfarhang@mndaily.com

The next mayor of Minneapolis had not been officially decided as of Tuesday night, but City Councilwoman Betsy Hodges had about 36.5 percent of first-choice votes — enough to force her closest rival to admit defeat.

Mark Andrew unof ficially conceded in a speech Tuesday night after winning nearly 25 percent of first-choice votes, trailing Hodges in second place. Don Samuels, in third, received about 10.5 percent of the

Gordon wins again The Green Party incumbent City Council member will serve a third term in Ward 2.

BY NATHANIEL RABUZZI nrabuzzi@mndaily.com

Ward 2 incumbent Cam Gordon secured four more years on the Minneapolis City Council on Tuesday when voters re-elected him for a third term. He has held the position since 2006.

Gordon, a member of the Green Party and a 1977 University of Minnesota alumnus, won the race with about 87 percent of first-choice votes, defeating his only challenger, Diana Newberr y, who represents the Socialist Workers Party.

After results were announced Tuesday night, Gordon said he was “grateful and honored.”

“I’m looking forward to some new ener-

DIANA NEWBERRY CAM GORDON WRITE-IN

11%

87%

CITY COUNCIL

WARD 3

25% MARK ANDREW (CONCEDED)

FIRST-CHOICE VOTES

6% first-choice votes.

“Welcome to ranked-choice voting, Minneapolis. There is a lot we do not know right now. We do not know who the next mayor of Minneapolis is,” Hodges said in a speech to supporters Tuesday night.

The three DFL members ran against 32 other hopefuls in the first open Minneapolis mayoral race using a ranked-choice voting system in which voters list their top three preferences.

Because none of the candidates won more than half the first-choice votes, election officials will continue counting ballots

6%

KRISTINA GRONQUIST MICHAEL KATCH

u See MAYOR Page 3

For St. Paul, it’s Coleman Incumbent mayor Chris Coleman won with nearly 80 percent of first-choice votes.

CITY COUNCIL

WARD 2 FIRST-CHOICE VOTES

gy and some change that we’re going to see in City Hall,” he said. u See WARD 2 Page 4

POLLING

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

With more than 78 percent of firstchoice votes, St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman sealed his re-election Tuesday night, defeating three challengers by a wide margin.

Coleman was highly favored for re-election, touting endorsements from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and the St. Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee and the support of all seven St. Paul City Council members.

The victory makes Coleman the first St. Paul mayor in 23 years to serve more than two terms.

“I’m just ver y excited to have another four years to keep on moving the city of St. Paul for ward,” Coleman said. “[I’m] ver y glad for the strong showing we’ve had.”

Tim Holden, Kurt Dornfeld and Sharon Anderson opposed Coleman, who has been in office since 2005. u See ST. PAUL Page 12 TIM HOLDEN CHRIS COLEMAN KURT DORNFELD SHARON ANDERSON

3% 2%

16%

78%

ST. PAUL

MAYOR FIRST-CHOICE VOTES

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

University graduate student Eva Reinicke prepares to vote Tuesday afternoon at the Van Cleve Recreation Center.

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Minneapolis attorney Jacob Frey announces his victory over Ward 3 Councilwoman Diane Hofstede on Tuesday at Elsie’s Restaurant, Bar and Bowling Center in Minneapolis.

City Council sees turnover

BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

Come Januar y, the Minneapolis City Council could have more freshman members than returners.

Six incumbents won re-election, leaving seven of 13 council seats open for new faces.

Three incumbents lost their seats on Election Day, and of the four seats with no incumbent, only one had a winner after first-choice votes were counted.

Cam Gordon, who was re-elected to his Ward 2 seat, said new council members will bring bold ideas to City Hall.

“Old members can lose their creativity,” he said.

Hamline University law professor David Schultz said the fresh faces represent a shift for Minneapolis’ Democratic-Farmer-Labor party.

“Assuming [Betsy] Hodges becomes mayor, what you really are going to see is a generational shift in Minneapolis politics,” he said.

Schultz said the “new” DFL is distinguished by its commitment to social justice issues, independence from labor organizations and focus on neighborhood issues over downtown development.

Turn to page 12 for a full breakdown of City Council winners.

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CAIRO — Deep in the deser t and far from his for mer base of power, ousted President Mohammed Morsi is being held in a sprawling penitentiar y that is notorious as one of Egypt’s highest-security prisons.

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GENEVA — After a rocky day of U.N.-brokered talks, the United States and Russia failed to agree on a date to bring Syria’s warring sides back to the negotiating table, and the two powers remained divided Tuesday over what role Iran should play in a hoped-for Geneva peace conference.

The U.N.-Arab League’s top envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, told reporters at the end of the talks involving the U.S., Russia and other nations that the impasse did not mean all hopes of resuming negotiations from June 2012 were dashed. Another round of U.S.-Russian talks on arranging a second peace conference in this city is planned for Nov. 25.

“We are still striving to see if we can have the conference before the end of the year,” he said.

Brahimi said one of the biggest hurdles is various divisions among the Syrian opposition. “It is no secret to anyone that the opposition has a lot of problems and is working seriously to overcome these problems to reach a position and to appoint a convincing delegation to represent them in Geneva, and that is what has delayed us a bit,” he said.

The diplomatic talks among world powers in Geneva at the U.N.’s elegant Palais des Nations contrasted sharply with the heavy shelling and missile attacks being waged in a civil war that both sides still believe they might win on the battlefield.

India launches complex first mission to Mars

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NEW DELHI — India on Tuesday launched its first spacecraft bound for Mars, a complex mission that it hopes will demonstrate and advance technologies for space travel.

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Election

2013 Minneapolis City Council

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Percent of first-choice votes received

INCUMBENT

WARD 1

WARD 2

WARD 3

WARD 4

WARD 5

WARD 6

WARD 7

Kevin Reich

Cam Gordon

Jacob Frey

Barbara Johnson

Blong Yang*

Abdi Warsame

Lisa Goodman

76%

87%

61%

57%

42%

64%

95%

FIRST ELECTED: 2009

FIRST ELECTED: 2005

FIRST ELECTED: 1997

WARD 8

WARD 9

WARD 10

WARD 11

WARD 12

WARD 13

Elizabeth Glidden

Alondra Cano*

Lisa Bender

John Quincy

Andrew Johnson

Linea Palmisano*

98%

41%

64%

67%

54%

43%

FIRST ELECTED: 2005

*To secure victory, candidates must have received more than half of the first-choice votes on election night.

PHOTOS: CANDIDATE WEBSITES SOURCES: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE

FIRST ELECTED: 1997

FIRST ELECTED: 2009

Betsy Hodges leads mayoral race Mayor u from Page 1

Wednesday, star ting with second-choice votes.

Each round of counting eliminates the least-popular candidates. If a voter’s first choice is eliminated, their vote goes to their second choice. Whichever candidate receives the majority of

the votes casted will succeed current Mayor R.T. Rybak.

Until second- and thirdchoice votes are tallied, Andrew can’t formally concede.

Results for the mayoral election are expected Wednesday night.

Andrew bids farewell At his election party Tuesday night, Andrew told supporters that clawing his way back into the race seemed

TOP 10 MAYORAL CANDIDATES

BY FIRST-CHOICE VOTES 37%

DOUG MANN

1%

MARK ANDERSON

2%

STEPHANIE WOODRUFF

3%

DAN COHEN

4%

BOB FINE

JACKIE CHERRYHOLMES

9% CAM WINTON

11% DON SAMUELS

MARK ANDREW (CONCEDED)

BETSY HODGES

25%

1%

1%

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE

HISTORICAL MINNEAPOLIS VOTER TURNOUT

President Barack Obama is re-elected, and two hotly contested constitutional amendments are turned down. at least

The Minneapolis mayoral race goes to the second round of ranked-choice voting tabulation.

34%*

2013

Ranked-choice voting

Republicans take the House of Representatives in an election that unseated 36-year incumbent Democrat Jim Oberstar in Minnesota’s 8th District.

81%

2012

56%

2010

Incumbent mayor R.T. Rybak, heavily favored to win and running against 10 other candidates, wins 74 percent of the first-choice votes.

20%

2009

Incumbent mayor R.T. Rybak defeats County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin.

30%

2005

R.T. Rybak is elected mayor over incumbent Sharon Sayles Belton.

41%

2001

almost impossible.

The former Hennepin County Commissioner and University of Minnesota alumnus’ campaign fundraising efforts walloped his opponents’. Andrew had raised about $420,000 by the end of October, compared to about $285,000 for Hodges, the only other candidate to crack $200,000.

In a speech T uesday night, he said he supports Hodges and doesn’t hold anything against her.

Since entering the race in Febr uar y, Andrew secured a number of highprofile endorsements and came closer than any other candidate to securing the Minneapolis DFL endorsement at a convention in June.

Andrew said his campaign, which focused on improving transit, closing the achievement gap and expanding the city’s environmental efforts, attracted many young voters.

Marketing senior Moriah Greenblat said she voted for Andrew because he was the most visible candidate.

Greenblat praised Andrew’s focus on younger voters and said he took college students seriously rather than writing them off.

Augsburg College freshman Jaelyn Ar ndt said she only marked Andrew on her ballot because she didn’t know of any other candidates and she likes his ideas to improve the city’s bike trails and recycling program.

Arndt voted at the polling place positioned at Augsburg, where 147 people had cast their ballots by mid-morning Tuesday.

*does not include same-day registration voters, the information for which was not available at press time SOURCE: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA DAILY ARCHIVES

Some voters said they prefer red ranked-choice voting over traditional methods because the system gave them more choices in a crowded field of candidates.

Cam Winton, who ran as an independent, received nearly 9.5 percent of the first-round votes, just behind Ward 5 City Councilman Don Samuels.

Samuels said his strat-

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Betsy Hodges waves and thanks supporters at her election night party at El Nuevo Rodeo on Tuesday evening.

egy depended on the rankedchoice voting system, but he doesn’t know if he can make up Hodges’ lead.

“It certainly is going to be tough,” he said.

Political science junior Drew Christensen said he supported Winton because “he’s not a political insider; he’s a fresh set of eyes.”

“It’s been an amazing campaign, bringing people together from across the political spectrum,” Winton said.

Theater senior Grace Christenson said she likes ranked-choice voting because it allows citizens to throw their vote behind a less-popular candidate while still supporting a major one.

Hodges leads polls Hodges’ hold on the lead surprised some who expected fiercer competition in a race with almost three dozen candidates and about $1 million in campaign contributions.

“The fact that Hodges has as big a lead as she does is really surprising. I thought this was going to be tighter,” said David Shultz, a Hamline University law professor.

Sen. Scott Dibble, DFLMinneapolis, co-chair for Hodges’ campaign committee, said he’s supported Hodges for a long time.

“She really brings a progressive vision for change

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Cam Winton arrives at his election-night party Tuesday evening at the Red Cow in Minneapolis. Winton was fourth in first-choice votes, behind Betsy Hodges, Mark Andrew and Don Samuels.

to address disparities and gaps and lack of access to oppor tunities,” he said.

“And at the same time, being really hard-nosed and doing what needed to be done to bring the city back to good fiscal and financial footing.”

Before her City Council term, Hodges worked as a fundraiser for the Minnesota Justice Foundation.

“She seemed like a progressive candidate who’s going to be a good fit,” biomedical engineering junior Connor Nolan said.

Ward 3 resident Max Donsker said he voted for Hodges because “she’ll take a more active role in the city’s development.”

Donsker voted at the polling place stationed at First Congregational Church of Minnesota, where about 90 people had voted by midmorning.

Charleen Bacigulpo, a Hodges suppor ter from Ward 7, said one wouldn’t expect Hodges to dominate in such an open field.

Hodges thanked nearly 300 supporters Tuesday for their help in garnering votes during the final days of her campaign.

“Here’s to today, Minneapolis, and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.”

Alma Pronove, Nathaniel Rabuzzi, Cody Nelson and Holly Peterson contributed to this report.

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Frey snags Ward 3 council spot Ward 3 u from Page 1

Bowling Center in nor theast Minneapolis with nearly 200 lively supporters.

Beginning in Januar y, the Minneapolis attorney and former Team USA marathon runner will represent a ward that encompasses par ts of the University of Minnesota area, including Dinkytown and MarcyHolmes, as well as portions of Nor theast and downtown.

Hofstede, who has held the office since 2006, watched election results with about 100 suppor ters at a friend’s home on Eighth Avenue Northeast, two blocks from Frey’s party.

When all precincts reported, Hofstede informed her suppor ters that the results weren’t what they hoped.

“We have had a wonderful eight years,” she said.

“This is my home, and this is my community, and I’m going to be here participating and making it better.”

Frey also beat Green Par ty candidate Kristina Gronquist and Liber tarian Party candidate Michael Katch, who each garnered about 6 percent of firstchoice votes.

“The idea that two DFL candidates would put almost a quarter of a million dollars into Ward 3, which is a really humble ward of mostly working-class people, is obscene, actually,” Gronquist said. “It’s a tough act to beat. It’s an almost impossible situation for a third party.”

Throughout this election season, Frey amassed more than $100,000 in campaign contributions, nearly double what Hofstede reported.

Sen. Scott Dibble, DFLMinneapolis, was at Frey’s event Tuesday and said Frey’s strength came in his energy and ability to “gather people around his ideas.”

“Jacob really built a force. He drew upon a lot of new energy,” Dibble said.

Minneapolis attorney Jacob Frey thanks his supporters Tuesday at his election night party at Elsie’s Restaurant, Bar and Bowling Center.

“People were wanting to get involved in issues that were important to them.”

Frey told the Minnesota Daily last month that his priorities as a City Council member are to be responsive to constituents and include ever yone in the decisionmaking process.

He also said he hopes to push for initiatives that will spur population growth in the city and increase housing density.

Last year, Frey launched a strong grassroots campaign and locked in the DFL endorsement in the spring with more than 70 percent of the delegate vote.

Throughout his campaign, he also secured endorsements from nearly 40 elected officials and orga-

nizations, including six of Hofstede’s colleagues on the Minneapolis City Council.

Hofstede also clinched some notable endorsements, including those of Gov. Mark Dayton, former Vice President Walter Mondale and three of her City Council colleagues.

Hamline University law professor David Schultz said he thought Hofstede may have been too complacent.

“I don’t think she took Frey as seriously as she should have,” he said. “She hustled, but I don’t think she hustled nearly as much as she could have or should have. I think she took her seat for granted.”

Throughout Hofstede’s time on the City Council, she’s voted on a number of

controversial issues, including the Vikings Stadium deal, which she supported. In August, Hofstede proposed a moratorium on Dinkytown development, which failed to pass the full council.

Hofstede reflected Tuesday on her accomplishments in the ward, particularly regarding riverfront development and strengthening ties with the local East African community.

“We have so many initiatives that we’ve started,” she said. “Keeping up momentum in the third ward is a very rigorous juggling act.

We have high expectations in this community.”

Frey credited his campaign’s success to the strong group of suppor ters he amassed.

Gordon wins third council term Ward 2 u from Page 1

Ward 2 includes par ts of the University area and Southeast Como and the Prospect Park and CedarRiverside neighborhoods.

Newber r y, who ran a quiet campaign during election season, said she was “aiming to build a movement” with her presence in the race.

Gordon is known for his work on environmental issues, including his urban farming program. He said he has new plans to present to the City Council in his third term.

Gordon’s planned initiatives include improving biker safety and accessibility and bringing businesses into the ward — particularly grocery stores — so residents don’t have to travel as much.

He also said he’ll spearhead a program that’s part of the City Council’s 2013 Climate Action Plan to use public transportation to connect residents with local businesses.

Another initiative is working to loosen Minneapolis’ zoning laws, specifically on the number of unrelated adults who can live together in one place — an issue that significantly impacts students.

“Undoubtedly, the team we’ve put together is rocksolid,” he said. “They’re a whole bunch of misfits from a bunch of different backgrounds that joined in a perfect fashion.”

University economics junior Conrad Zbikowski said he first met Frey last year before he announced his City Council bid and started volunteering as soon as Frey announced his candidacy.

“He just had such a positive attitude,” Zbikowski said.

“When I learned that Jacob was going to be running for City Council, I wanted to get on board.”

Originally from Virginia, Frey first moved to Minneapolis in 2009. During his nearly five years in the city, he organized the Big Gay

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Political science senior Adam Bolling said he voted for Gordon because he supports the Green Party and because Gordon’s initiatives are what “Southeast Como needs.”

Bolling voted at the Van Cleve Park polling place in Southeast Como. By midmorning, 101 people had voted at Van Cleve.

Some Ward 2 voters said they didn’t vote for City Council spots because they didn’t know enough about

the candidates.

“I was not informed about it,” said Zach Malecha, an Augsburg College youth and family ministry senior.

University economics freshman Ben Lattimore said he voted for Gordon at the Grace University Lutheran Church polling spot, where 68 people had voted by mid-afternoon.

Before sitting on the Minneapolis City Council, Gordon worked as a preschool teacher and was a

bassist and composer in two rock bands.

He said he worked with musical groups like The N ew Ps y c h o na ut s a n d The Swinging Tombo and earned himself a spot on the First Avenue stage more than once.

“I sort of went from wannabe rock star to preschool teacher to City Council member,” Gordon said.

Kia Farhang and Lexi Gusso contributed to this report.

Race to help defeat last year’s marriage amendment, was appointed to the city’s Capital Long Range Improvement Committee by Mayor R.T. Rybak, and was the first recipient of the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. Award.

“I think Mr. Frey is going to bring some really interesting, progressive politics to the council,” Schultz said.

Frey said he hopes to continue the momentum he’s gained into his term and reach out to more constituents for ideas.

“I’m looking forward to getting my hands extremely dirty by working in the community,” he said.

Roy Aker, Alma Pronove and Nathaniel Rabuzzi contributed to this report.

McAuliffe elected governor of Va.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Minneapolis Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon was elected to a third term Tuesday night.

Gordon, a Green Party member who won with about 87 percent of first-choice votes, will represent parts of the University area, Southeast Como, Prospect Park and Cedar-Riverside.

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

TYSONS CORNER, Va. — Terry McAuliffe wrested the governor’s office from Republicans on Tuesday, capping an acrimonious campaign that was driven by a crush of negative advertising, non-stop accusations of dodgy dealings and a tea party-backed nominee who tested the limits of swingvoting Virginia.

McAulif fe received 47 percent to Cuccinelli’s 46 percent, with 97 precincts reporting. He immediately promised to reach across party lines, starting with a pledge to meet with Republican lawmakers to find areas where they might collaborate.

“Over the next four years most Democrats and Republicans want to make Virginia a model of pragmatic leadership,” McAuliffe said. “This is only possible if Virginia is the model for bipartisan cooperation.”

McAuliffe, a Democrat, ran strong among unmarried women, voters who made abortion a top issue and those who called the suburbs of Washington, D.C., home, according to preliminary results of an exit poll conducted for The Associated Press and

the television networks. Cuccinelli, meanwhile, fared well among tea party backers, gun owners and among the state’s rural residents — but there were not enough of them to yield a victory.

In winning, McAulif fe broke a stubborn streak in state histor y. During the past nine governor’s races, the party that controlled the White House at the time has always lost.

That’s not to say voters rushed to back McAuliffe’s vision for Virginia. Turnout was low, and both candidates worked through Election Day to reach as many potential voters as possible.

Only 52 percent of voters said they strongly backed their candidate, while the rest had reser vations or backed a candidate because they disliked the other options, according to exit polls.

Neither major candidate’s ideological views seemed “right” for a majority of Virginians; 50 percent called Cuccinelli too conservative; and 41 percent said McAuliffe is too liberal.

The exit poll included interviews with 2,376 voters from 40 polling places around the state. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Bill de Blasio elected mayor of NYC, Bloomberg ends 12-year term

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Bill de Blasio was elected New York City’s first Democratic mayor in two decades T uesday, posting a potentially record landslide victor y while r unning on an unabashedly liberal, tax-the-rich platform that contrasted sharply with billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s record during 12

years in office.

With 51 percent of precincts repor ting, De Blasio, the city’s public advocate, had 73 percent of the vote compared with 25 percent for Republican Joe Lhota, former chief of the metropolitan area’s transit agency.

De Blasio, 52, will take of fice on Jan. 1 as the 109th mayor of the nation’s largest city.

He ran as the anti-

Bloomberg, railing against economic inequality and por traying New York as a “tale of two cities” — one rich, the other working class — under the probusiness, pro-development mayor, who made his fortune from the financial information company that bears his name.

“Today you spoke loudly and clearly for a new direction for our city,” de Blasio told a rollicking

crowd of supporters at the YMCA in his home neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a far cr y from the glitzy Manhattan hotel ballrooms that usually host election night parties.

“We are united in the belief that our city should leave no New Yorker behind,” he said. “The people of this city have chosen a progressive path, and tonight we set for th on it together as one city.”

De Blasio, who held a commanding lead in the polls throughout the campaign, reached out to New Yo r k e r s h e c o n t e n d e d were left behind by the often Manhattan-centric Bloomberg administration, and he called for a tax increase on the wealthy to pay for universal prekindergar ten. He also pledged to improve economic opportunities in minority and working-class

neighborhoods.

He decried alleged abuses under the police depar tment’s stop-andfrisk policy and enjoyed a surge when a federal judge ruled that police had unfairly singled out blacks and Hispanics. The candidate, a white man married to a black woman, also received a boost from a campaign ad featuring their son, a 15-year-old with a big Afro.

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Experts say light rail won’t bring crime Research shows concern in Prospect Park about safety is unfounded.

BY ALEX BITTER abitter@mndaily.com

When the newest leg of Minneapolis’ light-rail system opens next year, Prospect Park residents and businesses may find things safer than they imagined.

Some in the neighborhood have expressed concern that the Green Line may bring higher crime rates when it opens next year, but authorities say

they don’t need to worr y.

Eric Stadstad, who owns Anytime Fitness at the cor ner of University and 29th avenues southeast, said he’s been concer ned about the light rail’s ef fects since he bought the gym six months ago. He said the Prospect Park Station just up the street could bring mor e criminals to the neighborhood.

“It’s just easier for people to get around,” he said.

But University of Minnesota Humphrey School of Public Af fairs assistant professor Y ingling Fan said Stadstad’s worries are unsubstantiated.

She led a sur vey that included respondents from Prospect Park and other neighbor hoods ar ound the University. The survey found that residents along current and future Twin Cities light-rail lines associate the stations with more crime.

“People are expecting higher crime rates after the initial implementation of the Green Line,” she said. “This is just people’s perception.”

Fan said studies in other cities around the countr y, including one that examined the ef fect of a rail line on crime rates in Los Angeles, have similarly re-

Representative Kahn proposes ban on indoor e-cigarettes The proposed bill would treat e-cigarettes like regular cigarettes.

BY ALLISON KRONBERG akronberg@mndaily.com

Minnesota could star t treating e-cigarettes just like regular cigarettes.

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFLMinneapolis, pr oposed a bill Friday to include e-cigarettes in the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act, which she authored in 1975, that would ban their use indoors.

She said she’s proposing the bill because the health ef fects of e-cigarettes are unclear, the smokeless alternative can appeal to young people and it would make the law consistent.

“The same controls that apply to smoking regular cigarettes would apply to smoking e-cigarettes,” Kahn said.

This summer’s new tobacco tax raised the price for a pack of cigarettes by $1.60. Since then, e-cigarettes have gained even more popularity with smokers in Minnesota.

Kahn said she’s heard many people support the bill.

“The negatives all come from people who are users of the e-cigarettes and maybe one from a manufacturer,” she said.

Bad for business In its print ads, e-cigarette company FIN has encouraged its customers to “rewrite the rules.” Its website encourages users to “smoke when you want, where you want.”

University of Minnesota biology, society and environment sophomore Josh Meidl said he’s never smoked regular cigarettes and doesn’t plan to, but he

carries his e-cigarette with him ever y day because he likes the taste.

“I feel like [the bill] just totally defeats the purpose of the e-cig, because one of its main purposes was to bring smokers back indoors,” he said.

While the move inside is a draw for some, businesses and agencies around the state are enforcing their own rules on the product.

Metro Transit spokesman John Siqveland said the public transpor tation network banned e-cigarettes from its buses, trains and facilities this summer. Hennepin County banned e-cigarettes on county property in July, a move that county administrator David Hough called proactive at the time.

Joe Berg, general manager of the Library Bar and Grill in Dinkytown, said statewide regulation would be beneficial. Now, the Librar y asks people not to smoke e-cigarettes on the proper ty, and they generally comply, he said.

Kahn said opponents of the bill argue e-cigarettes are beneficial for smokers who are trying to quit.

“And the answer is no, we’re not going to take it away from you,” she said.

“You use it exactly where you’d use a regular cigarette.”

Nasario Sepeda, manager at Smokedale Tobacco in Stadium Village, said the store relies “heavily” on ecigarette sales and doesn’t agree with the ban.

“The only way to see if it has any effect on us is if it passes,” he said.

Health effects unknown

The U.S. Food and Dr ug Administration doesn’t regulate e-cigarettes, and exper ts say they’ve been researched

little.

A 2009 FDA study found potentially harmful substances in a majority of the e-cigarettes sampled.

E-cigarettes often have nicotine and can be addictive.

“One thing is that the FDA is still str uggling over the safety,” Kahn said. “We’re looking at if it’s a safe thing for individuals to use.”

Kahn said e-cigarettes could be a gateway to their more dangerous counterpar ts, especially for young people. University research found young people would experiment with e-cigarettes because they’re often flavored and because the students view them positively.

Ferdinand Schlapper, director and chief health of ficer at Boynton Health Ser vice, said the smokeless alter native just prolongs addiction, although many use e-cigarettes to help them quit smoking.

“Proven ways to stop smoking are nicotine replacement therapy and the patch, along with a suppor tive environment,” Boynton senior health advocate Timothy Bell said.

School of Public Health associate professor Deborah Hennrikus said she would suppor t a ban on indoor e-cigarette use because there is still so little known about them.

“Ther e isn’t enough known to the extent to which e-cigarettes can help people stop smoking, or to the extent to which they appeal to adolescents as a gateway to using other tobacco products,” she said.

“They’re new enough that the research hasn’t been done.”

Melissa Berman contributed to this report.

jected the perceived correlation between crime and rail transit systems.

“The consensus is that a light rail line has no significant impact on crime rates in the station neighborhood,” she said.

By the time the Green Line opens, the Metro Transit Police Department will have added 22 officers, spokesman John Siqveland said. The additional forces will specifically patrol the new line, including its stretch through the University and Prospect Park.

The neighborhoods along the Green Line already see many commuters, thanks to multiple bus

lines that ser ve the same route, Siqveland said.

“It’s [just] a change from bus ser vice to rail ser vice,” he said.

MTPD east command captain Jim Franklin said his depar tment has been training with University police to prepare for the line’s opening.

Franklin said he’s visited communities, including those around the University, to tr y to change minds about the rail’s ef fect on crime.

“We’re really tr ying to reach out to the communities to tr y to resolve some of these perception issues,” he said. “It’s percep-

tion versus reality.”

Dick Gilyard, an architect who was involved in the development of the Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association’s LR T Station Area Plan, declined to comment on whether he thought the rail would bring more crime to Prospect Park.

He said additional businesses and research facilities on land near the rail line could make the area less attractive for criminals.

“That level of development and the nature of the mix [of businesses] would become a deter r ent to crime,” he said.

University to combine myU and One Stop into central site next fall The project is part of a comprehensive software upgrade priced at $84M.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota is set to replace its myU por tal for students, faculty and staff on all campuses by next fall.

The new por tal, which has yet to be named, will combine parts of One Stop and the current version of myU into one centralized system.

The project is part of the University’s Enterprise Systems Upgrade Program, a comprehensive, $84 million software upgrade.

Par ts of One Stop will still exist when the new site launches, but myU will be defunct.

Students, faculty and staf f will be able to customize the portal and view personalized information like grades, financial aid, paycheck distribution and class registration, said pr oject dir ector Susan Geller.

“The vision is that people are going to go to the new por tal because they know that when they go there, it’s going to tell them something that they’re so glad they didn’t miss,” she said.

The new site is the product of years of complaints from people at the University who don’t know how to access their personal information, which is currently split among several entities, Geller said.

“People have talked about how it doesn’t make

sense that we have dif ferent front doors to access individualized information for a long time,” she said.

Before the enterprise upgrade was approved last year, there wasn’t a good way to addr ess issues with University websites, said Santiago FernandezGimenez, ESUP assistant program director.

He said University officials knew of complaints regarding the lack of centralization in websites, but creating the new por tal wasn’t cost-ef fective until the $84 million upgrade was approved.

“We wanted to make sure the new portal would be created in the most efficient way possible,” Fernandez-Gimenez said.

The new por tal project kicked of f last Febr uar y, when officials from all five University campuses held joint listening sessions and workshops with students, faculty and staf f to pinpoint problems with existing portals and determine what users would like to see in a new version.

Public relations and communications senior V ishakha Mathur said she attended one of the workshops and suggested the University converge personalized information from myU and One Stop to “eliminate confusion” regarding each website’s purpose.

She said combining the two websites into one portal could especially benefit students who are new to University technology.

“It can be difficult to go hunting for information on different portals,” she said.

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education junior Samantha Dolezal said she thinks many students don’t consistently use current University websites like myU and One Stop because they aren’t always useful and they aren’t aesthetically pleasing.

“The setup is ver y bland, there’s too many words and you can find a lot of the information on both portals in other places,” she said.

The University released a rough draft of the new por tal in mid-October for students, faculty and staff to evaluate and offer feedback on what can still be improved.

The site draft is cleaner than its predecessors and includes a wide spread of information on the home page, including adviser contact information, upcoming events and “today’s classes.”

Jon Jef fr yes, an assistant University librarian, attended workshops with the new portal’s designers to gauge opinion on the rough draft. He said making the site customizable makes it easier for users to get the information they need.

“The rough draft seems to be much less overwhelming than what we have currently,” he said.

“It seems like relevant information will be easier to access.”

Geller said the new por tal won’t be a finished product when it launches next fall.

“We want to make sure that the foundation is right, so we can grow and adapt the portal to people’s needs in the future,” she said.

Toronto mayor admits crack use, plans to keep job LAX shooting survivor the state that I was in.”

“Am I an addict? No. Have where initiatives like down- says he crawled for his life

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TORONTO — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor,” but he refused to resign despite immense pressure to step aside as leader of Canada’s largest city.

Ford said he loves his job and “for the sake of the taxpayers, we must get back to work immediately.”

Allegations that the mayor had been caught on video smoking crack surfaced in news reports in May. Ford initially insisted the video did not exist, sidestepped questions about whether he had ever used crack and rebuffed growing calls to leave office.

The mayor was forced to backtrack last week after police said they had obtained a copy of the video in the course of a drug investigation against a friend of Ford’s.

“Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine,” Ford told reporters earlier in the day.

“There have been times when I’ve been in a drunken stupor. That’s why I want to see the tape. I want everyone in the city to see this tape. I don’t even recall there being a tape or video. I want to see

Later at a news conference, he said acknowledging the drug use made him feel as if he had “1,000 pounds off my back.”

Authorities have said the video, which has not been released publicly, does not constitute enough evidence to charge the mayor with a crime.

Police have said they want to talk to the mayor, but his lawyer so far has declined.

Police spokesman Mark Pugush said Ford’s acknowledgement of crack use will be passed on to investigators. Several Toronto city councilors called on Ford to step down, and Canada’s justice minister urged him to get help.

The controversy has drawn comparisons to the 1990 arrest of then-Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who was videotaped smoking crack cocaine in a hotel room during an FBI sting operation. Barry served six months in federal prison for misdemeanor drug possession but later won a fourth term in 1994.

Earlier in the day, the 44-year-old Ford walked out of his office and asked reporters to ask him the question they first posed back in May. He then acknowledged he smoked crack but said:

I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors a year ago.”

Municipal law makes no provision for the mayor’s forced removal from office unless he is convicted and jailed for a criminal offense.

City Councilor Denzil Minnan-Wong, a member of Ford’s executive committee, said he would put forward a motion asking Ford to take a leave of absence.

“My first reaction was ‘Wow’,” Minnan-Wong said.

“He’s lost the moral authority to lead.”

Councilor Jaye Robinson said the mayor needs to step aside and address his problems.

“We have become a laughing stock of Nor th America, if not the world,” Robinson said.

Canadian Justice Minister Peter MacKay said it was “a sad day for the city of Toronto.”

“As a human being, I think the mayor of Toronto needs to get help,” MacKay said.

The populist Ford has been dogged by allegations of bad behavior since becoming mayor three years ago, promising to end what he called wasteful spending at city hall. His campaign galvanized conservatives in Toronto’s outlying suburbs,

town bike lanes were considered excessive and elitist.

The crack episode is not the first time Ford has been forced to admit drug use.

During the campaign, he acknowledged after repeated denials that he was busted for marijuana possession in Florida in 1999.

Ford apologized over the weekend for excessive drinking. He said he should not have been “hammered” drunk in public when he appeared at a street festival in August, calling it “pure stupidity.”

He also said he got “a little out of control” after St. Patrick’s Day in 2012, when city hall security guards said they witnessed a “very intoxicated’ Ford having trouble walking and swearing at aides.

The mayor has also been accused of making an obscene gesture from his car and texting while driving. In 2011, Ford angered the city’s gay community by declining to attend Toronto’s gay pride parade, breaking with tradition observed by three previous mayors.

Earlier this year, the mayor was fired from his cherished side-job as a volunteer high school football coach after he made disparaging remarks to a TV network about parents and their kids.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — A teacher said Tuesday that he crawled to escape a gunman at Los Angeles International Airport and used a sweatshirt as a tourniquet after his leg was shattered during last week’s deadly shooting.

“I didn’t know what his intention was,” Brian Ludmer said from his hospital bed.

“I only saw me and him. ... I was in total panic.”

Ludmer, 29, said he was heading to his hometown of Chicago to attend a wedding when gunshots erupted Friday on a floor below him as he waited in a long, snaking line at a Terminal 3 security checkpoint.

“It was hard to know what was going on, where the shots were coming from,” he said.

Downstairs, Transportation Security Administration Officer Gerardo I. Hernandez was killed and the gunman was tr ying to shoot other TSA workers.

Ludmer recalled that he and other travelers pushed through metal detectors after hearing shots, scattering into the terminal and down ramps into bathrooms, shops and stores, even onto airplanes — any-

where to get away from the shooter.

As Ludmer ran, a bullet hit him in the calf.

“My leg collapsed. It just instantly wouldn’t support me,” he said. “Below the bullet wound my leg was just hanging.”

He looked back and saw the gunman alone in the terminal hallway. Ludmer collapsed against a wall and started crawling for his life on all fours. He found a shop, scrambled into a storage room and shut the door. He found a sweatshirt and tied it around his leg to reduce the bleeding.

Ludmer was terrified that he would pass out and bleed to death or the gunman would follow and finish him off.

Soon, however, he heard voices, dragged himself to the door and peeked out.

A wave of relief swept over him when he realized police officers were clearing the terminal.

Two of ficers told him they would get him out safely — but not quite yet, because the gunman might still be on the loose. Ludmer said his leg was bleeding, and he needed a paramedic.

The officers helped him into a wheelchair and dashed through the terminal.

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Bullying persists even in adulthood The Miami Dolphins’ “Bullygate” scandal serves as a reminder that bullying doesn’t vanish in adulthood.

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CONNOR NIKOLIC columnist

A&M University died during a hazing event for the drum line. Before a band member could become dr um major, the highest honor within the mar ching band, one would have to complete the “crossing over” ritual. This entailed walking through a bus while being beaten by his peers in the seats. Champion didn’t sur vive the ordeal. His stor y is a harrowing reminder that bullying into adulthood is a ver y real, ver y serious topic.

The University of Minnesota doesn’t have a reputation for hazing. However, bullying in the workplace is common nationwide. The Workplace Bullying Institute found more than a third

of respondents had experienced some kind of bullying at work.

A 2009 study of Loyola University-Chicago shows 36.6 percent of faculty experienced bullying over five years. Researchers defined bullying as harassing, offending, socially excluding, or negatively affecting someone’s work tasks regularly and repeatedly.

Cyberbullying is also a problem with college students. University of TexasArlington researchers surveyed hundreds of University of Minnesota students on cyberbullying. Students repor ted that harassment via social media, text messages and even educational technology infrastr ucture is a problem. Students also repor ted that cyberbullying justified a response from administration.

In the 10th grade, I found out the damage bullying can do when one of my classmates took her own life. I can’t even imagine what kind of pain she must have gone through, but I wish her bullies would have realized the

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hurt their words caused before it was too late.

I’m lucky, insofar as I can’t recall more than a few instances I’ve been bullied since middle school.

I can only hope that our University, the state and the countr y as a whole will see less bullying in grade school and beyond.

Perhaps the biggest shock in Mar tin’s case is that he works in a physically dominating and powerful industr y. Even if you’re a big, strong football player, you can still be bullied, which might be a disconcer ting thought for some.

We are all obligated to prevent bullying when we see it, before someone is hur t, or worse. As adults, we may feel too mature, too old or “above” bullying, but that shouldn’t mean we let it slide. Whether bullying takes place in the workplace, the classroom or online, we can’t allow it to dominate the lives of others.

Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

STUDENT LIFE

Catcalls aren’t compliments Catcalling is a form of harassment despite its supposedly innocuous nature.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR More scholarships for students affected by sequester cuts My letter is in response to the article “Sequester cuts could hit grants” from the Oct. 31 issue of The Minnesota Daily.

As one of those nearly 12,000 students who received a Pell Grant this school year, I am highly upset and unsettled by the funding cuts.

Financial aid is a large part of why I am able to continue my education here at the University of Minnesota.

I know this is the same for many students here.

The funding I received here also played a role in my decision to stay in the state for school. With this funding at risk, instead of focusing on my studies, I am now worried about how I will be paying for them in the 2014-15 school year.

What upsets me the most is that the University does not have a plan to make up for these cuts. It upsets me that in this time of budget and funding cuts, the University is continuing with multimilliondollar renovations and an unnecessary bronze Goldy statue.

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f fensive tackle Jonathan Mar tin left the Miami Dolphins last week after bullying from a teammate became too much to bear.

The “Bullygate” scandal is a painful reminder that bullying can occur after high school and well into adulthood.

Bullying has been a serious problem in Minnesota schools for years. Incidents of bullying-related suicides in the Anoka-Hennepin School District incited nationwide debates on bullying in schools. State legislation protecting high school students from harassment and bullying failed this past session, but it will again be debated this upcoming spring.

Sadly, bullying does not stop when students graduate from high school.

Back in November 2011, Robert Champion of Florida

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Although these projects may have outside funding, I believe it is the University’s responsibility to reach out to generous donors with pleas for things that will actually benefit students at this time.

I’d like to see an increase in the number of scholarships offered for students, especially those who will be affected by these cuts.

Although a few thousand dollars may not seem like a hardship to some, attempting to come up with that extra money could mean a semester off for others.

Kiara Lenford University student

Winter gasoline As one who prefers playing golf to skiing, I get a little glum as the days shorten and the cold strengthens.

There is one consolation, however: Gasoline prices tend to drop in winter as oil refineries produce winter blends with more cheap butane in the gas mix.

Gasoline evaporates, and the warmer it is, the more it tends to emit those polluting vapors. To control this, refineries change the amount of

butane based on the season and geography.

The mix helps control gas volatility and is blended into the gas.

In the summer, butane content can be as low as 2 percent. In the fall or winter and up north, more butane can be added — up to 10 to 12 percent.

This extra volatility helps with cold weather starting.

But that same more volatile gas in a warm area like Phoenix, Ariz., could vaporize too soon, like back in the fuel pump, causing vapor lock.

The addition of low-cost butane lowers our winter gasoline’s cost and increases its supply.

Couple that with reduced winter demand, and we should see lower prices till spring, which helps a little as we slip and slide on icy streets.

All this has been complicated by the arrival of ethanol.

Ethanol is also volatile and requires that refineries reduce butane content, slightly raising gasoline’s cost.

Rolf Westgard Lecturer University Lifelong Learning Program

Prepare for body cameras

Though there are questions left to answer, Minneapolis should have body cameras on police.

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hree Minneapolis City Council members found funds to test police body cameras last month, but a pilot program needs input from police leadership before moving forward.

Council members Betsy Hodges, Cam Gordon and Gar y Schif f said Minneapolis could equip 25 officers with cameras for $25,000.

Having body cameras on police is far from simply equipping law enforcement. Law personnel should experiment with cameras and prepare relevant policy.

However, given Minneapolis’ problems with alleged police misconduct lawsuits and perception of crime, we hope body cameras can be implemented soon.

William Farrar, police chief in Rialto, Calif., and researchers from the University of Cambridge and Hebrew University released a yearlong study this summer on Rialto police’s use of body cameras.

They saw a nearly 60 percent drop in instances of police use of force and an 88 percent decline in complaints from citizens overall.

The city of Minneapolis has paid out more than $9 million since 2009 in of ficer-related lawsuits and settlements. It’s clear that having cameras on Minneapolis’ 569 city patrol officers could pay for itself over time.

In 2010, the Burnsville Police Department became the first in the state to use body cameras. Though equipped officers were then dubbed “Robo Cops,” the movement is gaining traction in New York City and New Orleans. Duluth is also in the process of adding body cameras to police uniforms.

Law enforcement personnel must answer questions before implementing body cameras.

What will be OK to videotape? Will there be limitations on public access to police videotape?

What policies will be put in place to monitor police videotape for misconduct?

The last resort

couple of days ago, I had a rather eye-opening social media experience.

A Facebook friend of mine posted a link to the photo series ADITI PRADEEP “City of Brothcolumnist erly Love” in which Philadelphia-based photographer Hannah Price turned her camera toward the men who catcalled at her. The series went viral last month, appearing on National Public Radio and BuzzFeed.

However, my close friend’s response to the link truly shocked me.

My friend left a comment saying she enjoyed catcalling. She said she felt appreciated when men hollered, whistled, etc., at her.

“If a man whistles at you, do not respond. You’re a lady, not a dog.”

This quote, usually posted with a picture of its supposed source, Adele, also went viral during this year. Despite its meme qualities, the quote brings up an impor tant question: Should women be expected to feel flattered when a man catcalls?

Catcalling is not a form of flatter y; rather, it’s derogator y street or sexual harassment. Catcalling robs its subject of control in an unner ving way. How would you feel if someone sexualized you without your consent, especially in public?

A Minneapolis woman called out a man who catcalled at her via a Missed Connection ad on Craigslist in September.

“When you comment on a woman’s appearance, you are not doing it for her,” the ad reads. “You are doing it for you.”

A catcall is not simply a compliment, and women shouldn’t welcome the objectification. Catcallers do not deser ve a response or reciprocation.

There’s also the question of safety. Do you speed up or slow down when you’re walking down the street and someone hollers at you? Making public advances incites fear in a ver y direct way. In some cases, a woman may feel unsafe or threatened by a sexual comment.

Catcalling shouldn’t be welcomed or considered flatter y. Catcalling problematically falls under the guise of a compliment, but it can be harassment.

A lawsuit may be necessary to curtail Mark Ritchie’s unilateral action over online voter registration.

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he Associated Press reported earlier this week that four GOP lawmakers, along with two conser vative groups, have filed a lawsuit seeking to suspend the voter registration website implemented by Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie earlier this fall.

While the plaintiffs say they are not opposed to online voter registration, they argue that Ritchie does not have the authority to unilaterally launch the website, and they contend the system should go through the state Legislature.

Last week, the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board wrote in support of online voter registration but argued that changes to the election process must go through the Legislature. The Board also said a legal battle would be unnecessar y and Ritchie should simply suspend the website until the Legislature formally authorizes it.

However, it now appears Ritchie was not bluffing when he said courts could decide the issue. Despite several Democrats, including DFL Gov. Mark Dayton, saying online registration should be authorized through by Legislature, it doesn’t appear Ritchie will budge.

Given Ritchie’s stubbornness, a lawsuit is apparently the only remaining viable option.

Regardless of online registration’s merits, changes to the election process must be examined and scrutinized by lawmakers before they go into effect. Another problem with unilateral action is the question of maintenance — if the secretar y of state can implement online voter registration by himself, can he also decide to take it down just as easily? What specific policies, if any, are in place to ensure the website is simple and accessible? These are the kinds of questions that plague any new system when it’s not authorized properly.

Online voter registration has many benefits, but Ritchie’s action could jeopardize them. This unfortunate lawsuit seems to be necessary.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers’ juniors together on and off ice Minnesota’s group of juniors all live together in a house near campus.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The rink at Mariucci Arena isn’t the only place Gophers hockey players have to show their toughness. For the six players in the team’s junior class, that grit is carried over to their home life.

Though they may not be threatened with hard hits into the boards like on the ice, the six men have to watch their backs for pranks or jokes when they’re at home.

“You’ve got to have thick skin in our house,” said for ward Seth Ambroz, one of the six juniors.

Ambroz and fellow for wards Kyle Rau, Sam Warning, Travis Boyd and Christian Isackson, as well as defenseman Ben Marshall, all share a house near campus.

“We joke about it, but it’s so tr ue — to live in our house, you have got to be able to take a joke, and you’ve got to be able to give it back because we don’t go ver y easy on each other,” Boyd said.

In fact, the six men can’t go more than an hour or two before someone in their house becomes the victim of a practical joke.

Five of them lived together last year and are used to the treatment, but Rau is still getting acclimated. Rau moved in this year after his roommates finished school.

“Rau is definitely the quietest,” Boyd said, “and just kind of goes of f by himself the most.”

Isackson said he also tries to keep a low profile, but for an entirely dif ferent reason. He, along with Ambroz, has been accused of being the messiest by the other roommates.

“I tr y to fly under the radar a little bit and tr y to just do my par t,” Isackson said, “but I don’t think that’s enough for them

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota’s Christian Isackson, Travis Boyd, Seth Ambroz, Sam Warning, Ben Marshall and Kyle Rau on Saturday at Mariucci Arena. All six players are juniors on the Gophers men’s hockey team and live in a house together.

sometimes.”

Isackson does have one leg up on Ambroz, though.

War ning said Ambroz is the least likely to do the dishes but is getting better — mostly thanks to some learning experiences.

“We actually had to teach him how to do the dishwasher and the laundr y,” Warning said.

S t i l l , Wa r n i n g h a s ear ned the status as the destr uctive one of the bunch.

“If something breaks in the house, you’re going to look to 11 first,” Boyd said.

A few weeks ago, Boyd said, the roommates were riled up with energy after practice, and Warning lived up to his reputation.

“He ended up going through our TV,” Boyd said.

“We had a big 52-inch flat screen, and he ended up just falling right through that. So we had to get a new TV a few weeks ago.”

And War ning’s teammates made him pay for the expensive landing spot — literally.

“We left that one up to War ns,” Boyd said. “We said, ‘Warns, you broke it.

You got to figure out a way to get us a new one.’ ” Though conflicts are inevitable in the house, Marshall said much of the tension is diffused on the ice.

An extra check or a slightly-harder-than-necessar y hit in practice is enough to resolve any problems.

For the r oommates, cleanliness is one of the major points of contention.

“Marshall’s a neat

freak, apparently,” Ambroz said. “Ever y once in a while, he kind of has to clean the whole house and then tries to make us feel guilty for it, but that’s his decision.”

“It’s a lot of fun living with the other guys, and I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.”

SAM WARNING junior center

Warning said Marshall definitely believes he’s the cleanest.

“He likes to think he

does the most chores in the house,” Warning said.

“So I’ll have to give him credit there. He does a lot.”

Marshall said he isn’t ashamed to admit he’s the most responsible when it comes to the house. He said it’s just par t of being the “alpha male” of the group.

“Marsh has this really weird idea in his head that he is like the alpha male of our house. … I have no idea where he got that from,” Boyd said. “So he likes to think he can boss people around for not taking the trash out or something. I think it’s par t of my job to set him straight a little bit — to bring him down to earth.”

Boyd said he is definite-

ly the “real alpha male” of the house.

Then again, Ambroz contested he was the actual leader.

Rau isn’t convinced either way.

“The guys who are saying that clearly don’t know,” Rau said. “They just think they are.”

While debates still rage over who is the alpha male, the messiest and the cleanest, all the juniors can agree on at least one part of playing house with teammates.

“It’s a lot of fun living with the other guys,” Wa r n i n g s a i d , “ a n d I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.”

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FOOTBALL

Minnesota looks to continue hot streak amid injuries Jon Christenson is out for the season, and other players are banged up, too.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

When of fensive lineman Jon Christenson went down with a season-ending leg injur y in Minnesota’s 42-39 win at Indiana on Saturday, the rest of the of fensive line picked up the slack.

That was especially tr ue for Tommy Olson, who came in for Christenson at the center position.

“The exciting thing for us is Tommy Olson came in for Jon and did a heck of a job,” head coach Jerr y Kill said.

Olson will be the Gophers’ star ting center going for ward.

Christenson is still in the hospital after leg surger y, Kill said.

If Olson wer e to go down, Kill said, Zac Epping would move to fill in. Epping will get reps at center in practice this week, just in case.

Olson said Christenson beat him out for the star ting spot in training camp but said he’s kept working to make the most of his opportunity.

“I’m just going to tr y to take a leadership role in the first string again,” Olson said. “I was there last year.”

Olson switched from guard to center during the offseason. He said that the move came after he talked to of fensive coordinator Matt Limegrover, who said Olson would likely receive more playing time at center.

Olson said it’s taken some time to get used to snapping the ball in addition to blocking, but he said that he showed he could do it during last week’s win.

“Two years ago, we had three wins.

Now we’re having success, but we’ll never forget where we’re from.”

TOMMY OLSON junior forward

While Christenson’s injur y puts him out for the year, there are other key of fensive players who could also be banged up for Saturday’s tilt against Penn State.

Sophomor e quar ter back Philip Nelson sustained a hip pointer injur y against Indiana but came back to finish the game.

He said he received some shots in the locker room in order to do so.

Kill said Tuesday that he expects Nelson to play this week.

Senior wide receiver

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Minnesota medical staff tend to Gophers center Jon Christenson after a leg injury against Indiana at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Ind., on Saturday. Christenson is out for the season.

Der rick Engel, who had a career-high two touchdown catches at Indiana, was also injured toward the end of the game and has been limited in practice this week.

Kill said Engel has an ankle sprain and is “not running at full speed” but will do what he can to get ready to play.

Olson’s ability to fill in for Christenson and not miss a beat characterizes the depth the Gophers have this season, Kill said.

Nelson has missed games, and Mitch Leidner has produced in his abs en c e, n ot a b l y a f ou rtouchdown per formance Sept. 21.

Engel has stepped in

and produced after the team’s top receivers left the program. He’s gone from a Division II player at Winona State University to the top receiving threat on a winning Big Ten team.

Senior safety Br ock Vereen said the team’s confidence level “couldn’t be any higher” after three straight conference wins.

Still, even with the recent victories, the Gophers aren’t letting it get to their heads.

“Two years ago, we had three wins,” Olson said.

“Now we’re having success, but we’ll never forget where we’re from.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Wittman maintains career dominance Ashley Wittman is in her senior year and wants to leave behind a legacy.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

Ashley W ittman has dominated the sport of volleyball since she stepped on the court as a fifth grader.

Over the course of her career, she’s gar nered enough awards to measure up to the best college athletes.

In high school, Wittman won three state championships, earned a spot on the all-state roster three years in a row and earned the Gatorade National High School Player of the Year title as a senior.

In college, she has garnered All-Big Ten and AllAmerica accolades.

Still, in her final season with the Gophers, the senior outside hitter wants to achieve more and leave behind a legacy greater than anything she’s done before.

Humble beginnings Wittman’s career started as a hobby. Volleyball was her favorite sport growing up — she played with her friends in elementary school — but she didn’t take it seriously until high school.

“It was just fun to play in front of my family and to play with the group of people I played with,” Wittman said.

Still, her natural abilities even early in her career were undeniable — as a 12-year-old, she played alongside 14-year-olds. That was when Shakopee High School head coach Matt Busch first saw the future volleyball star.

Two years later, he became her coach.

“We had basically five hitters on that team, and arguably, she was in the top two at that age already,” Busch said of Wittman’s freshman season. “What was more

Gophers senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman sets up for a spike against Purdue on Sunday at the Sports Pavilion.

impressive was that she was a consistent player. … She was very intuitive. She didn’t make a lot of mistakes.”

Her success as a freshman rolled over into her sophomore year — the same time Shakopee’s run of three straight state championships began.

Wittman became a prominent name across volleyball recruiting boards, but her college choice came down to Minnesota or Wisconsin.

“She’s a very driven, very goal-oriented person, and that’s what shot her up the ranks at a very quick pace, I would say,” Busch said.

Wittman won Gatorade Minnesota Volleyball Player

Off to college

of the Year her junior and senior years.

She committed to the Gophers before the start of her senior year.

And with the recruiting process out of the way, Wittman put together an outstanding final year. She had 569 kills, 294 digs, 50 blocks, 26 service aces and posted a .662 hitting percentage.

Wittman capped her career with a Gatorade National High School Player of the Year award, becoming one of only three Minnesotans to receive the honor.

“That’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Busch said of having Wittman on his squad. “That just doesn’t happen again.”

Heading into college, there was added pressure to perform, Wittman said.

“I did do so many great things in high school, and people built me up to be this great volleyball player,” she said. “I wanted to fulfill that thought, and I didn’t want to screw up and make anyone doubt me.”

Fortunately for both Wittman and Minnesota, that didn’t happen.

As a freshman, she accumulated 442 kills and 400 digs — one of the best performances ever by a Gophers freshman. She earned Big Ten Freshman of the Week three times that sea-

SOCCER

Gophers ‘fairly safe’ for NCAA bid Graham Hays, an ESPN women’s soccer analyst, said Minnesota is safe.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers bar ely snuck into the Big Ten conference tour nament this week.

But regardless of this week’s results, Minnesota (11-6-2, 4-5-2) is a strong bet to receive an at-large bid when the NCAA selection committee announces its tournament bracket Monday, ESPN women’s soccer analyst Graham Hays said.

“I’d have to say they’re fairly safe,” he said.

Hays said the Gophers spor t a stronger tour nament r esume than the likes of Big Ten counterpar ts Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa — all of which finished ahead of Minnesota in the regular season conference standings.

“After [Michigan, Penn State and Nebraska], Minnesota’s safer than the other teams in the league,” he said.

The Gophers rank 23rd in the Ratings Percentage Index, which measures a team’s winning percentage, strength of schedule and opponents’ strength of schedule.

Minnesota has wins over Big Ten powerhouses Penn State and Michigan — both tournament locks.

The Gophers had suc cess in the nonconference schedule as well, with wins over Louisiana State, Ole Miss and Illinois State — all top-100 teams in the

RPI. “If you have a team ranked in the top 25 of the RPI and has the resume [the Gophers] do, there’s just no precedent for them to be left out,” Hays said.

Hays said the RPI favo r s th e B ig Te n th i s year, and the conference could get as many as nine teams into the NCAA tour nament — including Ohio State, which failed to qualify for the Big Ten tournament.

The Gophers take on top-seeded Nebraska in the Big Ten quar ter finals Wednesday.

“If you have a team ranked in the top 25 of the RPI and has the resume [the Gophers] do, there’s just no precedent for them to be left out.”

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Becca Roberts steals the ball from Louisiana State at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium on Sept. 6.

SOCCER PREVIEW

VS

Freshman goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs ear ned the Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year award Tuesday.

She posted a leaguehigh 114 saves to go along with four shutouts and a .870 save percentage.

NO. 18 NEBRASKA

4:30 p.m., Wednesday in Champaign, Ill.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers slipped into the Big Ten tournament as the eighth and final seed after they lost to Illinois on Thursday to finish regular-season play.

Their reward? A quarterfinal matchup with the regular season conference champions: Nebraska.

Minnesota (11-6-2, 4-5-2) fell 1-0 to the Cornhuskers on Oct. 20.

The Gophers played well in the game, outshooting Nebraska 20-16.

NEBRASKA: Nebraska’s conference-championship season came as a surprise to many after its 2012 campaign, in which it won just four conference games.

The Huskers (15-3-1, 10-1-0) lived on the edge throughout the Big Ten regular season — eight of their conference wins came by one goal.

Nebraska has plenty of offensive firepower. The Huskers sport three players with eight or more goals this season. The Gophers’ regular-season leading goal-scorer was junior forward Katie Thyken with seven.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, HUSKERS.COM

enjoyed.

“It’s a bummer she’s a senior. I think we’re just starting to get going here,” he said.

“It would be nice to have a couple more years.”

Wittman said she plans to play professionally for the next “three to four years” and then pursue a career in coaching.

Though Wittman’s career with the Gophers will come to an end soon, she said she’s ready for the next stage in her life.

“I’m at the point where I’ve had a great four years, and I want to come out with a bang this year,” she said. “It’s kind of bittersweet, but I’m excited for what’s next.”

MEN’S GOLF

Minnesota falters in final fall tournament

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

MINNESOTA

Hobbs wins ‘Keeper of Year’

son, the second-most since the award’s inception in 2009.

The Gophers began a new era after the 2010 departure of former head coach Mike Hebert, who recruited Wittman. Laura Bush became interim head coach before moving to associate head coach when current head coach Hugh McCutcheon took over.

Wittman said the multiple coaches in a short span of time didn’t have a negative effect on her — she just “went with it.”

Still, she said she was happy to have at least two years with former U.S. Olympic coach McCutcheon. It’s a bond McCutcheon has also

Jose Mendez shot a 6-over par and tied with his teammate Tyler Lowenstein.

GRAHAM HAYS ESPN women’s soccer analyst

Hays said a loss likely wouldn’t af fect the Gophers’ strong tournament position.

“They’re in pretty good standing right now,” he said.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

The Gophers came into their final tournament of the fall season with high hopes for a strong finish.

But a poor first round Sunday derailed any chance of that.

The Gophers finished 10th out of 18 teams at the Wendy’s Kiawah Classic at Turtle Point Golf Course in Kiawah Island, S.C. “The first day, we played our worst round of the year,” head coach John Carlson said. “It was a bitter end to a really solid fall season.”

He said strong winds on the first day of play contributed to the slow start. While ever y team shot higher scores that day, the wind affected Minnesota more than most of its opponents, Carlson said.

The Gophers shot 21-over par in the first round and finished in 15th place.

All five Gophers golfers shot over par for the round.

Minnesota played better on the second and third days of the tournament, shooting a combined 19-over par in the final two rounds.

Freshman Jose Mendez and junior Tyler Lowenstein were the team’s lowest scorers. Both shot an aggregate 6-over par for the tournament and finished tied for 16th place.

Carlson said he was surprised by Lowenstein’s per formance. Lowenstein

had to earn a spot in the Gophers’ top five during a team qualifying tournament last week, he said.

“It was a lot of fun to see Tyler play well,” Carlson said. “He’s a very good driver of the golf ball, and the golf course fit him perfectly.”

South Carolina hosted the tournament and won the team title with an aggregate score of even par. Marquette finished a distant second after shooting an aggregate score of 22-over par.

Marquette sophomore Nick Nelson won the individual title, finishing 6-under par for the tournament.

The Gophers won’t play again until February.

Carlson said he’s ver y pleased with the way the fall season turned out, but he hopes his team can elevate its play in the spring.

“I hope my players really challenge themselves mentally and physically this offseason,” he said. “I expect us to be very competitive when we return in the spring.”

MEN’S GOLF RESULTS

GOLFER Mendez Lowenstein Gaugert Rachey Trasamar

RD1 RD2 RD2 79 73 70 76 72 74 80 73 77 79 79 77 75 83 82

TOTAL 222 222 230 235 240

TEAM 1. South Carolina 2. Marquette 3. Winthrop 4. Missouri 5. Presbyterian College 10. Minnesota

RD1 RD2 RD3 283 286 295 292 296 298 295 298 294 299 293 296 292 297 301

TOTAL 864 886 887 888 890

309 297 298 904 *out of 18 teams

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

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Today’s Birthday (11/06): Follow love this year. Write down a dream, and schedule it. Living conditions improve over the next seven months, with Neptune direct.

Creative projects come alive.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — Look beyond your own self-interest. What can you provide for your community? Your leadership skills are in demand and get tested.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Add enthusiasm and inspiration to your projects by looking for the heart connection. Use what you know and what you feel.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Your research flourishes. Build a strong foundation for the future. The small steps you take now will benefit you tenfold later.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Confront what you think you know. Watch what you take for granted. The prize is not in the answer but in the questioning.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You’re on fire when it comes to finances.

Consider new elements or ones you’d forgotten.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — New opportunities for making money keep showing up. Revise your budget, planning for the long term.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — This phase is good for compromise. For example, stick to your budget.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — You’re surrounded by love these days. Add extra doses of self-confidence to the equation, and the result can be explosive.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Creativity floods your zone. Dive into imagination, and discover something you didn’t know about yourself. Take care of your physical body.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Find the time and space for quiet contemplation.

Disconnect from social media or other distractions for a while.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Shift your approach from the analytical left brain to the creative right. Love continues to be part of the big picture.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — You’re inclined to play, and that’s fine. But don’t let it distract you from accomplishing your goals.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

overheard Professor: “So when I say the word ‘tree,’ what comes to mind?”

[Students say ‘roots,’ ‘leaves,’ etc.]

Guy: “Uhhhhh, ‘tree’?”

—Film class

“Before, I got an allowance from my parents, and I could only have a few beers, but after working I could buy 10 times more.”

—Unknown

“Like, it’s not like I’m hungry. I just, like, want food, ya know?”

—Unknown

Guy 1: “You know when you are hugging by a girl and you stick your hands in their pockets? I HATE WHEN THERE IS NO POCKET THERE! Women’s pants, man ...”

Guy 2: “What is wrong with you?”

—Unknown

Professor: “What can we do to find money to settle debt?”

Student: “Prostitution.”

—Accounting class

“It wouldn’t be ideal for me to date a werewolf, but if it was Taylor Lautner, I would consider it.”

—Bailey Hall

“As long as you keep it casual, what’s a little road dome among friends?”

—15th and Fifth avenues

“You can’t withhold porn from a girl!”

—Bailey Hall

“If they didn’t want us building barricades, they wouldn’t leave all this stuff out in the hall!”

—Civil Engineering Building

Professor: “If you treat people like idiots, they will act like idiots!”

—Unknown

Guy: “Is this the wall that, if you stare at it long enough, Chuck Norris pops out at you?”

—Dinkytown

“College makes me want to kill stuff.”

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“I don’t get it. Our Shakespeare teacher really loves Shakespeare.”

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“How’d it even get in there? I thought horse dicks were, like, really big?”

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“I’m pretty sure the Bible would be a lot more fun if you were high.”

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3 Pink shades 4 Invasive vine 5 WC 6 Actor Roth 7 Arterial trunk 8 Kingly 9 Like the village blacksmith’s hands 10 Philosophies 11 Rio automaker 12 Laugh syllable 13 Shunning the spotlight, maybe 19 Computer that may use Snow Leopard 21 Toastmaster 24 Caustic comeback 25 Accustom (to) 26 Firearms pioneer 27 Backside 28 Hard to look at 32 Nectar collectors 33 High spirits 34 Pierre, e.g.

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I met this girl in an online chat room. I know, I know, it sounds weird/scary/crazy, but it’s true. And we have great conversations — in fact, I’ve told her more about myself than I’ve ever told anyone else.

Recently, I asked if she’d like to come visit me, and I was super surprised when she responded with “Maybe” and a smiley face. I asked what she meant, but she didn’t respond. We’ve talked about other stuff since, and it’s been fine, but she hasn’t mentioned visiting. What’s going on?

—Catfish

Cold Fish,

Well, I can’t say for certain, but it sounds like the girl’s got cold feet — and rightfully so. Your usage of the word “visit” tells me you guys aren’t exactly next-door neighbors, and I’m sure she’s nervous about getting trapped in an uncomfortable situation.

I hate to tell you this, but for some people, online dating is all about attention-seeking. And by some people, I mean almost everyone. Sure, OkCupid and Match.com can boast a few success stories, but the majority of people on dating sites are lurkers. They want you to fawn over them and send flattering messages, but meeting in person comes with too much baggage.

The handful of folks who do end up meeting in person are almost exclusively trying to bang, which is totally fine if that’s your thing. But the fact that she didn’t respond when you asked her to visit tells me she’s on the attentionseeking end of things.

I’m sorry to say it, but I don’t think your love affair with this lady will extend beyond the virtual. Now get off the Internet and meet some human beings!

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My boyfriend has this really annoying habit of kissing me every time I get mad at him. We’ll be fighting about something, and he’ll just grab me, thinking it’ll make me forget how mad I am. His plan never works, obviously, but he keeps doing it. I’ve told him how much it bothers me, but he just smiles like I’m joking. I’m not joking! How can I make him understand that?

—Madwoman

Peeved With Purpose,

You’ve got a right to be mad. If you’re telling him you don’t want to be kissed and he does it anyway, it’s verging on assault. Now I know there’s a certain boundary we allow our significant others to cross, but he’s taking advantage of his privilege, and it needs to stop.

There’s not much more you can do in this situation. The fact that he continues to push your boundaries after you’ve repeatedly told him not to is worrisome. I’m not trying to jump to conclusions, but I take someone’s refusal to heed the word “no” as a huge warning sign.

Even the word “grab” has some negative connotations. Is he forcing you down and literally kissing you against your will in the midst of heated arguments? If so, I’d show this dude the door, stat. An inability to respect people’s personal boundaries is a big relationship no-no.

Now, if this isn’t as serious as I’m making it out to be, have a firm conversation with him in which you clearly state that his behavior is unacceptable.

Still, I don’t think he deserves all the changes in the world. There has to be a breaking point, right?

—Dr. Date

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poised Coleman takes St. Paul Illinois to allow gay St. Paul u from Page 1

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman was elected to a third term Tuesday night, garnering more than 78 percent of first-choice votes.

While Minneapolis’ mayoral race included 35 candidates and more than two dozen debates, Coleman’s road to re-election was much smoother. Just one of his challengers ran an active campaign, and there were only two scheduled debates in the mayoral race.

Holden, Coleman’s main opponent and a small-business owner, captured 16.3 percent of first-choice votes Tuesday. He did not immediately respond to requests for comment after results were posted.

According to campaign finance repor ts, Holden spent about $23,000 on his campaign. Coleman spent a little more than $100,000.

Anderson ran against Coleman in the last St. Paul mayoral election but received less than 4 percent of votes in the primary.

This election, she received 2.9 percent of firstchoice votes. In past years, she has unsuccessfully run for state Senate and Minnesota Attorney General.

Like Minneapolis voters, St. Paul voters used the ranked-choice method Tuesday.

Anderson said she plans to challenge the election results because she believes rankedchoice voting is unconstitutional.

Dornfeld, a city street maintenance worker who was r unning for the first time and appeared on the ballot as “Dir ty Kur ty,” received 1.76 percent of the vote. He didn’t run an active campaign, filing no campaign finance reports.

Coleman said his No. 1 priority for his next term is closing the achievement gap in St. Paul.

“We’re glad that we can focus our energy now past the election and get to the work we have ahead of us,” he said.

Mpls. picks park, tax boards

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

Minneapolis races for two Board of Estimate and Taxation seats and Park and Recreation Board commissioners at large had to go to a second round of ranked-choice voting tabulation Wednesday.

Tuesday’s ballot also asked voters whether the Minneapolis City Charter should be reorganized, modernized and rewritten in plain language, which passed with nearly 80 percent of voters saying it should. The second ballot measure asked if wine and liquor sale provisions should be rewritten in clear-

er language, which citizens overwhelmingly approved, with nearly 86 percent voting “yes.”

This year showed decreased voter turnout compared to last year. Of the voting population, at least 34 percent voted Tuesday — down 47 percentage points from last year. Voter turnout for this year doesn’t include voters who registered on Election Day, so it could be higher.

However, voter turnout is traditionally higher in years with a presidential election.

Board of Estimate and Taxation

After the first round of

MINNEAPOLIS PARK AND RECREATION BOARD DISTRICT COMMISSIONER RESULTS FIRST-CHOICE VOTES

LIZ WIELINSKI COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 1

97%

NO ELECTION NIGHT WINNER COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 2

UNCHALLENGED INCUMBENT

SCOTT VREELAND

ANITA TABB

76%

79%

COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 3

INCUMBENT

STEFFANIE MUSICH COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 5

98%

COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 4

INCUMBENT

NO ELECTION NIGHT WINNER COMMISSIONER DISTRICT 6

UNCHALLENGED

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE

Christie re-elected gov. of New Jersey

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ASBURY PARK, N.J. — Gov. Chris Christie was reelected with ease Tuesday, demonstrating the kind of broad, bipar tisan appeal that will ser ve as his opening argument should he seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016.

With 94 percent of precincts repor ting, Christie had 60 percent of the vote to Democratic state Sen. Barbara Buono’s 39 percent, putting him en route to become the first Republican in a quar ter-centur y to receive more than 50

percent of the New Jersey vote.

This, in a state that President Barack Obama carried a year ago by more than 17 points, his biggest margin in the nation.

“Thank you, New Jersey, for making me the luckiest guy in the world,” Christie said in a victor y speech late T uesday in the shore town of Asbur y Park.

After a campaign that centered more on his record and personality than his agenda for a second term, he told suppor ters that he has big plans for education reform and tax cuts, among other issues.

counting, incumbents Carol Becker and David Wheeler had 49 and 34 percent of the first-choice votes, respectively.

The Board of Estimate and Taxation helps manage the overall debt of the city and consults with citizens to assign the maximum tax levies for tax funds like the Park and Recreation Fund. Minneapolis voters had to choose two candidates to serve on the board.

Challengers David Pascoe and Douglas Sembla had 12 and 5 percent of the firstchoice votes, respectively.

Park and Recreation Board

Minneapolis voters had to choose nine people to serve on the Park and Rec-

reation Board, which manages both land and water areas of the city’s park system.

The Board consists of one commissioner from each of six districts and three commissioners at large.

Of the 10 at-large candidates, John Er win, Annie Young and Meg Forney led the race with 25, 16 and 13 percent of the first-choice votes, r espectively, on Tuesday night.

Er win and Young are incumbents. Three incumbent district commissioners were also re-elected, and two races will be counted on Wednesday. The only new commissioner, Steffanie Musich of District 5, ran unopposed.

marriages

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday positioned their state to become the largest in the heartland to allow gay marriage, finally pushing the measure through the House after months of arduous lobbying in President Barack Obama’s home state.

Under the legalization measure, which the state House approved 6154 before sending it on to the Senate for technical changes, gay weddings could be held in Illinois star ting in June. The bill heads next to Gov. Pat Quinn, who has pledged to sign it, though it wasn’t immediately clear when.

Four teen states plus Washington D.C., allow same-sex marriage.

The road to the Illinois vote was long with a stalled attempt earlier this year, something that frustrated activists in the state where Democrats lead the House, Senate and governor’s office. Chicago Democratic Rep. Greg Harris, who is the main sponsor, decided not to bring the bill for a vote in May because he said he simply didn’t have the support.

Then the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to strike down a provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, something he said resonated with lawmakers.

Backers also launched a furious campaign, hiring a union lobbyist, the former head of the Illinois Republican Par ty and field organizers statewide.

“To treat all our citizens equally in the eyes of the law we must change this,” Harris said on the floor.

“Families have been kept apart.”

Debate lasted more than two hours, and the

final roll call was met with hearty cheers. Supporters’ speeches echoed themes of equality and civil rights with mentions of Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and Matthew Shepard, a gay college student whose 1998 death sparked hate crime bills.

Among those celebrating were Suzie Hutton and Danielle Cook of Bloomington, who’ve been together for a dozen years and have a teenage son.

“We care about our kids.

We care about our communities. We’re involved in our church. We just wanted the dignity (of marriage),” Hutton said.

Polls show suppor t for gay marriage has surged since 1996, when Gallup found that 27 percent of Americans backed it. Now Gallup finds the majority support giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry.

In Illinois, the measure had backing from both the state’s U.S. senators and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It also got a lastminute boost from longtime House Speaker Michael Madigan, who serves as chair of the state’s Democratic Party. The Chicago Democrat said he used the “art of persuasion” to bring on more than five votes in the last week. “ To d a y t h e I l l i n o i s House put our state on the right side of histor y,” Quinn said in a statement.

“Illinois is a place that embraces all people and today, we are an example for the nation.”

Obama praised the Illinois Legislature — where he once ser ved as a state lawmaker — saying in a statement that the matter was conducted in a way that would recognize the impor tance of a “commitment to religious freedom.”