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Wards 2 and 3 showed some of the lowest voter turnout on Nov. 5.

Students say high costs and tight course schedules are discouraging.

The Gophers start the regular season on Friday against Northern Iowa.

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Riché changes positions, looks to emerge as threat

THURSDAY

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

CITY GOVERNMENT

Hodges celebrates ‘win’ Betsy Hodges is poised to become the next mayor of Minneapolis.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN ALEXI GUSSO JESSICA LEE mholden@mndaily.com agusso@mndaily.com jlee@mndaily.com

Though votes were still being counted Wednesday night, Minneapolis residents can expect City Councilwoman Betsy Hodges to lead City Hall come January, succeeding three-term

Mayor R.T. Rybak.

Hodges addressed a crowd of about 250 supporters at 612 Brew in northeast Minneapolis Wednesday night. She was introduced as “the next mayor of Minneapolis.”

“On Jan. 2 ... it will be my job to live my gratitude by doing what I said I would do

to work with you, to work with the community to build and grow Minneapolis,” she said in a speech.

Hodges’s closest rival, Mark Andrew, conceded from the race just hours u See HODGES Page 4 Hodges said transportation is a key issue facing the University.

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PROPERTY

U, tribe connect over land dispute A research center limited tribe members’ use of reservation land.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

After years of miscommunication bor n from land ownership issues, a University of Minnesota research center and neighboring Native American tribe are working to find common ground.

The University’s Cloquet Forestr y Center is located on the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Reser vation, and the two par ties are now working to resolve communication issues and share the land.

The LaPointe T reaty of 1854 created the Fond du Lac reser vation, which is just more than 100,000 acres in size, and gave the tribe cer tain rights to the entire proper ty, including the rights to hunt, fish and gather.

These rights car ried over when the Forestr y Center of ficially acquired the proper ty in 1909 through federal and state legislation.

The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences currently uses the approximately 3,500-acre Forestr y Center for research and educational purposes.

About five years ago, the u See LAND Page 3 The tribe likely won’t pursue legal action against the University.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Pitino follows his father’s footsteps On his way to Minnesota, the new coach learned from the best.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com University graduate student Eva Reinicke votes Tuesday afternoon at the Van Cleve Recreation Center.

The long list of mayoral hopefuls has officials still counting.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

The first time Minneapolis unveiled ranked-choice voting in 2009, mayoral incumbent R.T. Rybak swept the majority of votes in the first round, quickly ending the potentially laborious process.

This year, with an open mayoral field of 35 candidates, the process was more complicated.

T uesday marked the second time Minneapolis used the system, in which voters can list their top three choices for each office.

If there isn’t a majority on the first vote count, the least-popular candidate is eliminated. Ballots listing that candidate as the top choice then become votes for the candidates listed in those ballots’ second-choice

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spots.

Votes are then recounted, and the process repeats until one candidate reaches a majority.

This process left some positions, including mayor, undeclared Tuesday night.

Secondar y counting began early Wednesday afternoon.

All races should have a winner by Friday, said Cam Gordon, elections committee chair and Ward 2 councilman.

In 2009, it took more than two weeks to count the municipal ballots by

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hand, but this year’s electronic voting booths will make the process smoother, he said.

Despite non-immediate results this election, proponents of ranked-choice voting still say the system is a good one.

Jeanne Massey of FairVote Minnesota, which advocated for rankedchoice voting, said even though it takes longer than

Richard Pitino’s coaching career seems like a scripted fairy tale.

He grew up watching his father Rick Pitino coach a national powerhouse.

He eventually joined the family business and coached under his father, a family friend, then his father again before landing his own head coaching gig.

Pitino led a remarkable one-year turnaround at a

mid-major program and was named the new head coach at the University of Minnesota in April.

He is the face of a Big Ten basketball program at age 31, but it wasn’t easy.

Born into the game As kids, Pitino and his brothers used to go to the University of Kentucky’s basketball practices after school in Lexington, Ky. They would play quietly on the side basket to avoid getting in trouble with Dad — sometimes unsuccessfully.

“They’d get into fights,” Rick Pitino said with a u See PITINO Page 8 Pitino has worked under his dad and other basketball greats.

u See VOTING Page 5 Student voters said they didn’t mind the change.

HIGHER ED

Prospect Park wary CSOM ‘glass ceiling’ ad hits opposition online of U expansion A new project has renewed concerns about the U buying more land.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

Some Prospect Park residents are worried the University of Minnesota is planning to seize their homes in order to complete future projects.

The University is planning to build a $182.5 million Ambulator y Care Center just east of Frontier Hall, and some are worried about what could come next should the University decide it wants to expand on the property around the center.

“There are people who own homes in that neighborhood, and they are unsure as to whether the University is going to buy them out,” said Prospect Park East River Road Im-

pr ovement Association master planning chair Tamara Johnson. “There’s a larger looming issue of uncertainty that hasn’t been resolved.”

The 2009 Twin Cities Campus Master Plan highlights portions of Prospect Park for future growth.

University Capital Planning and Project Management departmental director Monique MacKenzie said the University is aware of community concerns and has applied community feedback to the project’s design.

The University is building the center with Fairview Health Ser vices to provide a much-needed expansion that will allow clinics to move out of the outdated Phillips Wangensteen Building.

MacKenzie said the u See EXPANSION Page 5 A University official said the U will buy more land, not seize it.

One in a series of new ads has been criticized online as ‘sexist.’

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota alumna posted a blog entry nearly three weeks ago that said a Carlson School of Management advertisement is offensive to women.

Displayed in Minneapolis’ downtown skyway system, the ad featured a woman pressed up against glass and text reading, “Hit the glass ceiling?”

The ad marketed CSOM’s Master of Business Administration program and finished running at the end of October, but CSOM will continue displaying more advertisements from the same campaign.

Johnny Thompson, CSOM executive director

of communications, said the larger campaign represents barriers young professionals may face in the workplace.

“They find themselves in corporate environments or company environments, and they can’t seem to move up any way,” he said, “and the answer is our MBA program.”

But Deborah Car ver, who authored the original blog post, said she thought the adver tisement used the term “glass ceiling“ inappropriately and in the wrong context.

The term typically refers to artificial barriers that can prevent women and minorities from advancing in the workplace.

“It’s not really a marketing term to be thrown about,” she said. “As far as using [the advertisement] u See AD Page 3 A U professor agreed that the ad uses the term incorrectly.

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University of Minnesota head men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino coaches from the sidelines during the game against Cardinal Stritch University on Friday.

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1991 Basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson stuns the world by announcing his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers after testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. HISTORYCHANNEL.COM/TDIH

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Al-Qaida takes responsibility for French reporters’ deaths

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DAKAR, Senegal — AlQaida’s branch in North Africa claimed credit Wednesday for slaying two French radio journalists who were abducted in northern Mali over the weekend, according to a statement published online. It was an admission of responsibility for a kidnapping that experts said didn’t fit the terrorist network’s usual standards of operation.

A Mali intelligence official involved in the case said investigators believe the kidnapping was the work

of a lower-level jihadist trying to return to the good graces of the al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb after being accused of stealing money.

The militant is believed to have been reporting to Abdelkarim al-Targui, a prominent Malian in the al-Qaida branch, the official said.

Radio France Internationale’s Ghislaine Dupont, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, a production technician, were kidnapped Saturday. Hours later, their bodies were found next to the abductors’ suspected vehicle, which had broken down, outside the town of

Kidal, where they had just finishing inter viewing an ethnic Tuareg rebel leader before being taken.

The al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb claim of responsibility was reported on the website of Sahara Media, a portal previously used by the jihadists. It said the journalists were killed in retaliation for the “daily crimes” committed by French and Malian forces in northern Mali, where France launched a militar y operation in January to flush out the Islamic extremists.

“The organization considers that this is the least of the

price which (French) President Francois Hollande and his people will pay for their new crusade,” the statement attributed to the terror cell says.

Investigators have been puzzled by why the attackers chose to kill the two journalists, rather than hold them for ransom. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has raised at least $89 million in ransom payments since 2003, after successfully carrying out at least 18 kidnappings of foreigners, many of them French nationals, according to global intelligence unit Stratfor.

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AMSTERDAM — Google’s latest offer to settle a European investigation into the alleged abuse of its dominant positions in online search and advertising leaked out Wednesday, with one competitor calling it “a new form of abuse.”

The European Union’s competition commissioner, Joaquin Almunia, has praised Google’s latest proposal as a “significant improvement” from earlier versions and appears to be near a decision to approve it. But Google competitors and some consumer groups are fiercely critical of the plan.

John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, the U.S. consumer rights group that circulated the 96-page document, which is dated Oct. 21 and marked confidential, said he did so because it was in the public interest. “(The plan) does nothing to fix the underlying problem of how Google manipulates search results to unfairly advantage its own services like Google Shopping or Google Maps over competitors,” Simpson told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Screenshots of how search results would look under Google Inc.’s proposed settlement show the Internet giant would still give its own services pre-eminent placement in commercial searches such as for hotels, restaurants or plane tickets. Three competitors could bid to display their services, complete with logos, in subordinate slots. Both Google’s and competitors’ offerings would be labeled as “sponsored” results.

Google spokesman Al Verney on Wednesday repeated the company’s position that opponents of the deal are seeking to entangle Google in never-ending legal disputes.

GENEVA — One of the biggest challenges in this week’s talks on Iran’s nuclear program will be winning over two tough audiences that won’t be at the table: hard-liners in Tehran and Washington.

After nearly a decade of deadlock, Iran seems more amenable to making concessions to the six countries seeking to ensure it doesn’t develop nuclear weapons: the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. New reformist President Hassan Rouhani has indicated he could cut back on the nuclear program in exchange for an easing of crippling economic sanctions.

But factions both in Iran and in the United States are demanding their own interests be met first — and fast. Iranian hard-liners want significant sanctions reductions in exchange for scaling back enrichment, while some U.S. lawmakers want the enrichment to stop altogether in exchange for loosening sanctions. In the talks Thursday and Friday, negotiators will face strong pressure from both camps even as they try to find common ground among their own positions.

The talks concern the size and output of Iran’s enrichment program, which can create both reactor fuel and weaponsgrade material suitable for a nuclear bomb. Iran insists it is pursuing only nuclear energy, medical treatments and research.

Both the U.S. administration and Iran’s clerical leadership are urging critics at home to support the talks. In Tehran on Sunday, Khamenei asked Iranians not to “weaken” the negotiators. And Deputy U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Monday: “The U.S. needs to speak with one voice when we’re sitting down at the table.”

In Washington, the White House is trying to tamp down an effort in Congress to impose new sanctions on Iran, which could derail the talks.

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Clock ticking CSOM ad hits opposition online for sickest patients Ad

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

POR TLAND, Ore. — With federal and state online health care marketplaces experiencing glitches a month into implementation, concern is mounting for a vulnerable group of people who were supposed to be among the health law’s earliest beneficiaries.

Hundreds of thousands of people across the country with pre-existing chronic conditions such as cancer, heart failure or kidney disease who are covered through high risk-insurance pools will see their coverage dissolve by year’s end.

They are supposed to gain regular coverage under the Affordable Care Act, which requires insurers to cover those with severe medical problems. But many of them have had trouble signing up for health insurance through the exchanges and could find themselves without coverage in January if they don’t meet a Dec. 15 deadline to enroll.

Administration officials say the federal exchange, which covers more than half the states, won’t be working probably until the end of November, leaving people just two weeks to sign up if they want coverage by Jan. 1.

“These individuals can’t be without coverage for even a month,” said Tanya Case, the chair woman of the National Association of State Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans, which represents the nation’s high-risk pools. “It’s a matter of life or death.”

High-risk pools were created by state legislatures to provide a safety net for people who have been de-

nied or priced out of coverage. The Af fordable Care Act will forbid insurers from turning away people in poor health. And while coverage can be purchased outside the exchanges, those who qualify for subsidies can only get them through a state or federal marketplace.

More than a dozen of the 35 states that run insurance pools for people with serious medical issues will permanently close their pools within a month and half. Other states will keep their pools running for a few more months.

The federal pool covers about 100,000 people and was created in 2010 by the Af fordable Care Act as a temporar y bridge until the law fully kicks in. It will cease to exist at the end of December.

“I’m scared. I’m in the middle of my cancer treatment, and if my insurance ends, I’m going to have to cancel the rest of my treatment,” said Kelly Bachi, an Oklahoma boat repair business owner who has breast cancer and is cover ed through a pool.

Cancer treatment without insurance would cost her about $500,000, she said.

Bachi has not been able to enroll via the healthcare.gov federal website, although not for lack of tr ying. She attempted to sign up half a dozen times, was eventually able to create an account, but was later blocked from accessing the account.

Others — including Jill Morin of Raleigh, N.C., who has a severe hear t condition and is covered by her state’s pool — have not attempted to enroll.

MNsure signups triple in week 2

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The number of people who signed up for insurance through Minnesota’s online exchange nearly tripled from its first two weeks of operation to its second two weeks, but it’s impossible to say whether MNsure is succeeding in the key goal of the federal health overhaul: reducing the number of people without insurance coverage.

MNsure of ficials said Wednesday that about 10,940 people signed up for insurance in the site’s first month of operation and an additional 4,328 people completed the application process but haven’t yet picked an insurer. What’s lacking is an accounting of how many of those enrollees previously did not have insurance.

The reason? MNsure isn’t asking.

“Our application itself does not ask what someone’s previous coverage was,” said April ToddMalmlov, MNsure’s executive director. “It’s not a required question to ask if someone previously had coverage.”

Todd-Malmlov acknowledged that reducing rates of the uninsured was among the chief goals of the health care law championed by President Barack Obama and passed by Congress in 2009. While Minnesota is one of 14 states operating its own exchange rather than deferring to federal control, Todd-Malmlov said MNsure’s application was based on a standard federal application that also doesn’t ask whether enrollees previously had insurance.

“What we were really focusing on, given a compressed timeline, was making sure we could get our application approved in

time,” Todd-Malmlov said.

“We didn’t really look at things other than what we thought was necessary.”

At least a handful of states similarly operating their own exchanges are asking applicants if they are insured. Those include Nevada, Oregon and Washington state.

For Minnesota, that means a key measure of MNsure’s success or failure won’t be available until March 2016. That’s when the state Depar tment of Health will release its biennial sur vey of uninsured rates in Minnesota. The survey that will come out in March 2014 will cover 20122013, meaning it will only ser ve as a “baseline” for pre-MNsure rates, ToddMalmlov said.

“I think most people would agree the main objective from Day 1 was that those without health insurance would be getting covered,” said state Rep. Tara Mack, R-Apple Valley. “If we’re not going to get answers about that for several years, that big question that begs is, who will be held accountable for whether or not this massive health care reform has met its main objective?”

The last Department of Health sur vey, released in March 2012, found that 9.1 percent of Minnesota residents were uninsured — an estimated 490,000 people, including 70,000 children.

A 2011 study for the state Department of Commerce estimated that 300,000 uninsured Minnesotans would be able to obtain coverage through the new federal law. Many more people who have been buying insurance on the private market are also eligible for shifting to MNsure.

Todd-Malmlov said MNsure’s board could reconsider what information it asks of potential enrollees.

to sell MBA degrees, that irked me a lot.”

Thompson said he was aware of the blog post but hadn’t been contacted about the ad. He said the advertising campaign’s creative team evaluated using the term “glass ceiling” before the advertisement debuted.

“Now, we didn’t help her address gender issues; we

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gave her an education. That’s the point of the ad,” he said.

Jennifer Pierce, a University American studies professor, specializes in topics including gender, workplace

and labor studies. She agreed with Carver that the ad used the term incorrectly.

“The individuals who crafted the CSOM ad clearly do not understand the meaning of the term ‘glass ceiling,’ ” she said.

Pierce said getting a business degree doesn’t make the glass ceiling go away.

“If we want to break the glass ceiling, it is workplace organizations’ and managers’ exclusionary practices that have to change,” she said.

Carver’s blog post, which

called the adver tisement “sexist,” garnered social media attention after it was posted on Oct. 18.

It received 48 notes, meaning “likes” or shares, as of Wednesday night.

In an emailed statement, University Mithun Chair in Advertising John Eighmey said the glass ceiling is a “harsh metaphor,” and it’s important to note that young businesswomen are seizing opportunities.

“This may not be the best metaphor to reach them,” he said.

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center began restricting use of the property, putting up “no trespassing” signs and granting recreational use only via temporary permits.

Band members immediately took issue with being barred from land on which they had rights to hunt and gather.

“It’s here on [our] reservation, but they [told] us that we can’t use it,” Fond du Lac Planning Director Jason Hollinday said. “A lot of people have problems with that.”

The signs were removed in early October, but issues regarding the land linger.

Because the “no trespassing” signs prevented people from interacting with nature, they contradicted traditional Native American perspectives, American Indian studies assistant professor Clint Carroll said.

Carroll said he hopes increased communication can bridge this “presumed disconnect between nature and people” and that the center and the tribe can learn from one another.

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The University of Minnesota’s Cloquet Forestry Center is on land that an 1854 treaty granted to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The center’s “no trespassing” signs, which caused some conflict with the tribe, were taken down in early October.

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‘A history of mistrust’ Carrie Pike, a researcher at the Forestry Center who ser ved as interim director from January 2012 to August 2013, said the center’s previous director planted the “no trespassing” signs around 2008 to prevent people from interfering with a certain type of grouse research.

She said the center didn’t approach the tribe before putting the signs up.

“We’ve seen, over the years, the political fallout of that,” she said. “It’s been damaging to the University.”

The University’s and CFANS’ reputation “is not very good” among tribal leadership, she said.

The center took the signs down in early October, Pike said, but the question of what tribal rights the center should acknowledge still remains.

“It becomes a big legal question, and I don’t know the correct answer,” Pike said, “and so what we’re trying to avoid is going to court to find out what the true legal answer is.”

Fond du Lac Tribal Chairwoman Karen Diver said the controversy with the signs spurred greater communication and cooperation between the tribe and the Forestry Center. The Band is “grateful for that,” she said.

Diver said she doesn’t anticipate the Band will take the issue up as a legal case.

Karl Lorenz, director for diversity and inclusion in CFANS, said he hopes the college can recognize that Native Americans have legitimate concerns about land ownership and use, especially for land that’s historically in their reservation boundaries, like at the Fond du Lac Reservation.

“There is a real history of mistrust, and I think there are good reasons for that,” he said. “Our concern at this point really is to move in a different direction, and that is to recognize that we need a more trusting relationship.”

University professor Linda Nagel took the Forestry Center director of operations position in August. She said the center plans to create new

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signs that better reflect the University’s policies and the way it wants the land to integrate with the surrounding community.

The center also hopes to develop hunting and gathering guidelines that would work for a variety of users, she said.

Though changing the center’s hunting policy would mean changing its designation as a state game refuge, Nagel said, the center is still exploring those options.

For now, she said, the center’s goal is to open up communication about how it can work with the Band to understand everyone’s perspective and better their relationship.

“We’re ver y welcoming to that communication,” she said.

A ‘lot to lose’ Pike, the Forestry Center researcher, said there would be a “lot to lose” if the center’s land was ever transferred out of University control.

“We can’t replace 100 years of forest research,” she said, “so it really puts us in a difficult position where we want to do the right thing but we need to protect our research.”

In the long-term future,

Chairwoman Diver said, it would be ideal for the Band to discuss reacquiring the land and leasing it to the University in a way that’s a “win-win” for both communities.

“I think it’s just the plain right and moral thing to do to recognize that they were beneficiaries of an action that [was] harmful to our tribe and our homeland and to work to rectify it,” she said.

‘Building a trail’ After the signs went down in early October, the center held an open house that Band members attended, Pike said.

Taking down the signs is the first step in developing better communication with the tribe, and the center is also working on ways to collaborate with Band members on educational endeavors, she said.

Currently, the center is partnering with a representative from the Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College to host the 13 Moons program, a cultural education initiative.

Through the program, Band members collect material from the Forestry Center to make traditional crafts that show how natural resource issues relate to Ojibwe culture.

“I think it’s just the plain right and moral thing to do to recognize that they were beneficiaries of an action that [was] harmful to our tribe and our homeland and to work to rectify it.”

KAREN DIVER Fond du Lac tribal chairwoman

Pike said now there may be increased interest in bringing tribal students to the center for education and research.

“They can teach us how they know to use the forest,” she said.

Hollinday, planning director for the Fond du Lac reservation, said he’s in talks with the Forestry Center about creating a walkway connecting some of the center’s trails to the reservation.

“It’s ver y positive,” he said. “Especially if we can start building a trail [and] kind of link things together.”

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Low voter turnout in student wards Wards 2 and 3 showed some of the lowest voter turnout on Nov. 5.

erside and Prospect Park.

This year, Ward 2 had the third-lowest turnout of 13 wards, and Ward 3 had the fifth-lowest. Both fell below the approximate citywide rate of 34 percent.

After voting at the University Lutheran Church of Hope, third-ward resident Jim Erickson said he expected turnout to be even lower than what he saw.

“We’re not voting for major offices like president,” he said.

Political science associate professor Kathr yn Pearson said municipal elections have low turnout, even when the races are competitive.

“A lot of voters probably are thinking, ‘Well, I just voted in a presidential election a year ago. How can it already be election time?’ ” she said.

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Initial results from Tuesday’s Minneapolis municipal election show only about a quarter of voters in studentheavy wards showed up to the polls to vote for a new mayor, City Council members and other local offices.

In the 2012 election, students rallied around two controversial amendments and a presidential election, pushing the tur nout for wards 2 and 3 both above 80 percent.

Those wards contain the University of Minnesota, Marcy-Holmes, Dinkytown, Southeast Como, Cedar-Riv-

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Libya warns against buying oil from militias

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s gover nment on Wednesday war ned oil companies not to buy from export terminals seized by militias in the east of the countr y.

Separately, the government said that it would cut financial suppor t to militias who assist in providing security by the end of the year. The weak central government’s authority is challenged by armed groups, but it also relies on them to keep order.

In its strongly worded statement on the oil terminals, the government said such dealings were a “blatant violation” of Libyan sovereignty and a “crime” punishable by law.

It said that it had a list of companies who it claimed were “tr ying” to buy oil and that they are under sur veillance.

Air and naval forces were ordered to “confront any vessels (violating the order) with force, ar rest and detention,” the statement said.

Dif ferent militias took over the ter minals this summer. Some have aspirations for self-rule in the

eastern region while others accuse the government of corruption in oil deals.

Since the seizures Libya’s oil production sharply declined from 1.4 million barrels a day to few hundred thousand bar rels a day. The government has been negotiating with the militias and up until now has not used force against them.

Rebels-turned-militias have mushroomed in number and force since the toppling of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. The government relied on them at first to fill a security vacuum, but many have since pressed various agendas based on regionalism, pre-war gr udges, and in some cases hardline Islamist ideology.

The gover nment said on Wednesday that it will stop paying militias by Dec. 31 this year. It said it was time to star t “integrating the revolutionaries (into the army and police) and dismantling the armed groups.”

“There will be no payments of any rewards or grants after this day except for an employee or a state worker” in the police and army, the statement said.

Sid Teske, an election judge at the Van Cleve Recreation Center polling place, said he saw a turnout consistent with past city elections.

Teske said students don’t often vote in city elections because they only live in the city for a few years. Local officials won’t affect them the same way federal officeholders do, he said.

Only one-fifth of registered voters turned out to cast ballots for Minneapolis’ last municipal election in 2009. That year, wards 2 and 3 tied with Ward 6 for the lowest turnout when they repor ted less than one in seven registered voters had cast a ballot.

Before this year’s election, Minneapolis City Council member and Council Elections committee chair Cam Gordon said he would be “really happy” if turnout reached 50 percent.

Only Ward 13 came close to that goal, with a turnout of around 43 percent. Ward 13 is represented by Councilwoman Betsy Hodges, who is poised to win the mayoral election.

Gordon also said he expected student turnout to be higher than it was in 2009.

“I think because there is a contested mayoral race and people are running really hard to campaign … that will get more people out to vote, and they’ll be more interested,” he said before this year’s election.

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

A student registers to vote Tuesday at the Weisman Art Museum.

Pearson said Minneapolis’ ranked-choice voting system may have affected the turnout by contributing to the wide field of mayoral candidates.

“Voters incurred more costs, learning about more candidates,” Pearson said, “but on the other hand, voters may have also felt more benefits because they could cast a vote for the candidate that they like the most and then cast another vote strategically.”

The voting system’s effect on turnout is uncertain, Pearson said.

Environmental sciences, policy and management senior and Minnesota Public

Interest Research Group cochair Cora Ellenson-Myers said MPIRG’s campaign to encourage voting this year was the largest it had ever done for a municipal election.

She said MPIRG expected higher voter turnout than 2009 because the group used the same tactics as it did during the 2012 election season.

Student turnout shifts on a larger scale between municipal and federal elections, Pearson said, because students are “are less habitual voters.”

MPIRG reported meeting with more than 1,500 residents of Dinkytown,

Marcy-Holmes and Como in the weeks leading up to Nov. 5. Even with these effor ts, some students said they felt uninformed.

Ellie Chenoweth and Whitney Wasko, University freshmen, both said they did not vote in City Council elections for that reason.

“I didn’t know much about that,” Wasko said.

Kia Farhang, Alma Pronove and Tyler Gieseke contributed to this report. *Turnout numbers based on 2012 numbers of registered voters (2013 numbers are not available yet).

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after polls closed Tuesday.

At that time, he trailed Hodges by more than 11 points.

“We were surprised and disappointed, of course, but Betsy won it fair and square, and I don’t think it was a predictable election,” Andrew said.

City Councilman and mayoral candidate Don Samuels said he was surprised Andrew didn’t lead the race.

“In a way, [Andrew’s concession] was making sure that his people are OK and that he doesn’t cherish or hold onto one day more of hope just for the sake of delaying the inevitable,” he said.

Hodges said she had a “good conversation” with Andrew after his concession.

“It was an honor to be in the same field as him,” she said.

Andrew’s campaign outraised Hodges’ by nearly $135,000. Andrew said he has no plans to pursue a different political office at the moment.

“It was a spirited campaign, and it was a privilege to compete for the mayor’s job, and we’re disappointed, but we wish council member Hodges well as she transitions into the mayor’s of fice,” Andrew said.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Betsy Hodges, poised to win the mayoral race, speaks to supporters at 612 Brew in northeast Minneapolis on Wednesday.

Hodges touts a list of accomplishments from her eight years representing southwest Minneapolis as Ward 13 councilwoman, ranging from improving city transit to alleviating property taxes.

“Anybody that knows Betsy knows that she is very detailed and strategic, so she can think on different levels at the same time,” said Gar y Cunningham, a Metropolitan Council member and Hodges’ husband. “She has great people skills.”

Hodges said the biggest issues facing the University of Minnesota are housing, public safety and

transpor tation. She said rail transit in par ticular will benefit students and increase their access to the city.

T uesday marked the first Minneapolis mayoral race without an incumbent that used a ranked-choice voting system in which voters list their top three preferences.

Ranked-choice voting tabulation continued into the night Wednesday because none of the 35 mayoral candidates secured more than half of the firstchoice votes on election night.

Each round of counting eliminates the least-pop-

ular candidate. Until one reaches a majority or there are only two candidates remaining, there is no official winner.

The second round of counting the nearly 80,000 votes eliminated 118 writein candidates. Subsequent rounds knocked many of the 35 candidates on the ballot from contention.

The Minneapolis Charter Commission discussed raising the $20 filing fee for mayoral races Wednesday.

Pending City Council approval, the change could simplify future municipal elections if the increased fee dissuades some candidates from running.

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project has been in the works for about a decade, but the University will make up for lost time with an “aggressive” construction schedule. The project is scheduled to break ground in January 2014, with the doors opening in early 2016.

MacKenzie said she’s heard the University may have circulated a letter to residents in the past implying the school could use eminent domain to seize private land from property owners unwilling to sell. But she said the school has changed its policy since then.

“The approach we’ve been taking is people have to be willing to sell for there to be a transaction,” she said.

She said the University doesn’t intend to implement its land-grant right to procure private property anywhere — now or in the future.

“I can’t fault people for [their concern],” MacKen-

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ings as a courtesy,” he said.

Ferguson said he, too, has seen past evidence that the University considered using eminent domain.

“The University has a lot more authority than other institutions,” he said. “If the community was against [the project], I don’t think they would stop them from doing it.”

PPERIA board member Dick Gilyard said the communication with the University on this project has been OK, but the University isn’t as open about its plans as other developers are.

“It’s difficult to live next to a large-scale business, because it’s hard to always sort out what’s going on,” MacKenzie said.

Gilyard said overall, the University’s alteration of the neighborhood is inevitable.

“That area is going to change a lot over the next 25 years,” he said. “Although the University says it has no plans, ultimately we know the University never gets smaller.”

For Ahmed Zaher, studying abroad would delay his graduation a full year. The mechanical engineering junior said he needs to stay on track.

“For my schedule, it’s difficult, because I have to graduate in four years,” he said.

“If I take less than 12 credits, I can’t finish.”

For University of Minnesota students in the sciences, studying abroad can be an extra challenge to fit in with their coursework. In 2011-12, only 3.4 percent of College of Science and Engineering students studied abroad, according to the Learning Abroad Center — the lowest of any undergraduate college.

CSE international programs coordinator Adam Pagel said he’s concerned students don’t know what their options are or think they can’t afford to study abroad.

“They hear it’s hard to go, and they don’t look into it,” he said.

More than a decade ago, CSE didn’t have its own international programs office, Pagel said, but a grant from the Bush Foundation allowed it to create the office in 2001. The number of CSE

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zie said. “If it would happen once, why wouldn’t it happen again?”

The University has sent purchase offers to residences around the site of the new center, but no money has changed hands so far, she said.

Johnson said PPERIA will be watching closely. The community has raised concerns for years, she said, but things have improved recently.

The University has no additional projects planned for the area at the moment, Mackenzie said.

University Director of Community Relations Jan Morlock said the next Ambulatory Care Center meeting Nov. 12 will be the last of several sit-downs with area residents, Prospect Park and the Stadium Village Commercial Association.

SVCA member Chris Ferguson said the business district has no serious problems with the project, and Prospect Park should count itself lucky for even getting a heads-up about the project.

“They held those meet-

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students studying abroad has increased slightly since, though it remains low.

Zaher said he’s also concerned that if he did study abroad, the credits might not transfer to his transcript.

Pagel said the University has conversion polices in place that can transfer credits from schools overseas, but the student has to provide syllabi or other course information for approval by a University professor in the discipline. Students can check if a class will transfer before or after they go, he said.

“We are getting more proactive about helping students,” he said. “If you just put it all on the student, it’s intimidating.”

Mechanical engineering junior Oluwadamini Ajayi said he chose not to study abroad because he couldn’t afford it and didn’t want to apply for a visa.

“I am aware of the scholarships,” he said, “but they’re not guaranteed, and I’d want a 70 percent chance of getting one.”

Last year, nearly 31 percent of applicants received financial aid from the Learning Abroad Center.

Ajayi said he was also worried classes abroad wouldn’t match the “technical rigor” of his classes at the University.

Students aren’t necessarily limited by the quality of classes other universities offer, Pagel said, but the office is generally working on im-

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Students say high costs and tight course schedules are discouraging.

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TORONTO — Toronto’s embattled mayor on Wednesday rejected the advice of city council allies to take a temporary leave of absence, returning to work a day after acknowledging he had smoked crack.

Deepening the crisis, Rob Ford’s long-time policy adviser resigned, continuing an exodus that started in May when news reports emerged of a video showing the mayor smoking what appears to be crack. Police announced last week they had a copy of the video, which has not been released publicly.

After months of evading the question, Ford acknowledged for the first time Tuesday that he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor.” But he has refused to step aside despite immense pressure.

Ford arrived at City Hall just past noon on Wednesday but took a back stairway to his office to avoid a crush of media.

The mayor later blew a kiss to members of the media as he gave a tour of his office to school children.

More than 200 people protested outside City Hall.

“Hey hey! Ho ho! Rob Ford has got to go!” they chanted.

City Councilor James Pasternak said the controversy consuming Canada’s

largest city cannot go on day after day. He said several city councilors asked Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly to approach Ford and “orchestrate a dignified exit from city hall.”

Kelly met with Ford and suggested he take a temporar y leave until later this year or early next year, but Ford rejected that idea.

Councilor Frances Nunziata, also a Ford ally, said they are all frustrated Ford won’t step aside temporarily.

“We’re tr ying to give him sound advice as suppor ters,” she said. “He needs to listen and he’s not listening and I’m ver y disappointed.”

Nunziata said Ford needs to get help but only he can make that decision.

Kelly earlier said Ford didn’t tell anyone he would admit to smoking crack before he did so Tuesday.

“It came right out of the blue,” said Kelly, who lear ned about it from a member of Ford’s staf f after the mayor stopped on his way to his office to tell repor ters. “I was like, ‘What? What have you been smoking?’“ There is no clear legal path for Ford’s critics to force him out. Municipal law makes no provision for the mayor’s forced removal from of fice unless he is convicted and jailed for a criminal of fense. Police have not charged Ford.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Studying abroad can be difficult for CSE students

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proving program offerings.

“It’s something we’re working on,” he said, “but the truth is, we can’t have it all over the world.”

There is some flexibility for students who want to go abroad during winter or summer break, but he said students could have limited options if they don’t know a second language.

Not all CSE students have given up on fitting a trip into their undergraduate careers.

Mechanical engineering sophomore Aaron Grant said he plans to study abroad in Florence, Italy, next summer.

Grant said he chose the summer program because it was easier on his schedule and he didn’t want to leave his family for more than a month.

“The cost is a major aspect,” he said. “But at the same time, based on the amount of stuff I can do with scholarships and stuff, I’m not that worried. I hope to get an internship this summer to pay my way.”

Grant said he decided against taking science classes while abroad and plans to fulfill liberal education requirements instead. Being a CSE student is difficult, Grant said, but studying abroad is still possible with enough planning.

“If you actually have a plan in place, you start to get really passionate about going abroad,” he said. “There’s nothing that can stop you from doing what you want to do.”

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traditional voting methods, the process was a success.

“It’s just a one-day delay in knowing the final outcome,” she said. “I don’t think that’s going to be a setback in anybody’s mind.”

Minnesota Public Interest Research Group also continues to suppor t the system, regardless of the stall in results, said Kate Dobson, co-chair of the University of Minnesota chapter.

Dobson said students saw the advantages of the system Tuesday and seemed prepared to use it when they entered the polls.

Economics freshman Ben Lattimore said the voting process was easy.

“I read about it beforehand, so I didn’t have much trouble,” he said.

Assistant Election Judge Mike McKee said voters at the Van Cleve Park Ward 2 polling place had few questions on how to cast their ballot.

Some voters even brought sample ballots mailed out by the city to the polling place to follow along as they voted, he said.

Other polling places had similar experiences with the system.

Sid Teske, who’s been an election judge for more than 10 years, said he expected confusion from voters but said the process was clearly understood when voters came in Tuesday.

Although some veteran voters said they preferred traditional voting methods, students generally didn’t mind the change.

Political science senior Adam Bolling said rankedchoice voting gives people more options than a typical election and could bring more voters to the polls.

Others took advantage of their extra choices to vote for fringe candidates.

“I put [Captain Jack Sparrow] as my third choice because I didn’t think it was that big of a deal,” said Zach Malecha, Augsburg College youth and family ministr y senior.

Gordon said overall, the process was effective, but the city will look at making some changes for the next election, including increasing the number of ranking options.

“Potentially, it worked pretty well,” he said.

Kia Farhang, Alexi Gusso and Alma Pronove contributed to this report.

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TELEVISION

More minority representation needed Rethinking “SNL” producers need to act rather than mock.

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ast weekend’s episode of “Saturday Night Live” delivered its highest ratings of the year since March.

Using host Kerry Washington, “SNL” skewered recent criticism of the show’s diversity.

Washington’s hosting perhaps drew viewers, coming at a pivotal time in the debate over the show’s diversity. In October, longtime “SNL” cast member Kenan Thompson told TV Guide the cast’s lack of black women was due to the small number of talented black comediennes, rather than holding the producers responsible.

Though the increased audience may not be aware, Washington, star of ABC’s “Scandal,” is the first black female lead on a prime-time network drama since the 1970s.

Washington began last weekend’s show in a skit as first lady Michelle Obama.

Eventually, the skit called for Oprah Winfrey to appear. The camera focused awkwardly

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on Washington in an attempt to satirize the show’s need for Washington to play all of the black female roles.

When Washington left for a third black female character change (Beyoncé), text appeared on the screen apologizing for the show’s lack of diversity.

The apology mentioned the producers’ habit of hiring white male comedians for the cast, which they said is “not an ideal situation.” Six white, male cast members impersonating Matthew McConaughey then jokingly dominated the stage.

Though there is value in recognizing the problem, the skit was a lazy attempt to avoid responsibility for the lack of diversity on the show.

In an inter view with the

Huffington Post, Miriam Petty, professor at Nor thwestern University and black popular culture expert, said while she doesn’t think there’s a conscious attempt to exclude black women from the “SNL” cast, the fact that most of the men making the casting decisions are white suggests that racial and gender bias is “going to happen.”

I agree with Petty’s observation. However, I don’t think the seemingly inevitable prospect of gender and racial bias justifies the lack of representation on television.

University of Connecticut sociologist Gaye Tuchman coined the phrase “symbolic annihilation” to mean media’s neglect to represent minority groups at all, which ultimately reinforces their minority status within society. Tuchman found that media’s inaccurate portrayal of certain groups may play a part in limiting those groups’ chances at success, which is symbolic annihilation at work.

I’m not blaming “SNL” producers for the distress of all black comediennes, but they are fostering their struggle.

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 115,148- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,383 AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

It’s counterproductive for Thompson to assign blame for the marginalization of a group to that group’s lack of “ready” talent. Rather, Thompson, other cast members and “SNL” producers should consider that perhaps there would be more “prepared” black female talent if there was representation of that talent on TV in the first place.

Talented comediennes of color do exist: Consider upand-comer Issa Rae. Rae has nearly 150,000 YouTube subscribers, and her videos have more than 20 million views.

Producers need to seek cast members like Rae to diversify roles on TV. There is not any one person responsible for the lack of representation on “SNL” — even the producers aren’t solely to blame.

But they are the people with power to shift representation in the future. They should be working to implement change, rather than mocking that power.

Sam Jasenosky welcomes comments at sjasenosky@mndaily.com.

HEALTH CARE

The ACA isn’t out yet Don’t confuse the failures of the website HealthCare.gov as the failure of the Affordable Care Act as a whole.

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Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Conceding peace One of the most basic concepts discussed in an introductor y economics class is that people r espond to incentives.

Whether they are used to reward positive and wanted behaviors or to punish unwanted ones, incentives play a major role in the decision making of individuals.

Gover nments oftentimes use incentives to promote a cer tain policy amongst their citizens.

Last week, for example, the Israeli government released 26 Palestinian prisoners — all convicted murderers — as a goodwill gesture to encourage and expedite the Americanbrokered peace talks.

Unfor tunately, ther e seems to be a failure by the international community to recognize that this can be seen as a dif ferent sor t of incentive — an incentive to kill, kidnap and terrorize with the expectation of a reward. While this Israeli concession is an incredible commitment to peace, it is hard to ignore the damage that the release of murderers can have on the security and welfare of the countr y.

Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has been encouraged to exercise restraint when faced with attacks. World leaders

have subtly — and not so subtly — hinted to Israeli leaders that giving away land would prove Israel is truly serious about a twostate solution. Even during wars of self-defense, Israel takes tremendous and lifethreatening precautions to ensure minimal civilian casualties.

Col. Richard Kemp of the United Nations Watch said the Israel Defense Forces “did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the histor y of warfare.”

The sacrifices that Israel makes should be met with equal sacrifice on the part of the Palestinians.

A few years ago, in exchange for one captured and imprisoned soldier, Gilad Schalit, Israel released more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

Schalit, too, was released with the hope that if Israel capitulated to Palestinian demands, then maybe, just maybe, there would finally be stability or even peace.

It is, then, upsetting that Israel must concede to sacrifices to those in the Palestinian leadership who encourage terror activity.

It is even more upsetting when those sacrifices are met with even more destruction and losses of life.

If you have ever been mugged, assaulted or kidnapped, consider the

release of your aggressor into society, without any preconditions and necessar y rehabilitation. Such a thought is completely unfathomable. Such an action would only encourage more crime.

Should Israel, concerned with the protection and safety of its people, be expected to behave dif ferently?

Speaking from an Israeli background, we know Israelis are tired of war. We hope for and believe in a time when true peace will ar rive in the region. Peace, however, will not come if Israel will be forced to release more convicted criminals, give up more land or continue to concede to unconditional demands.

The Palestinians should generate a reasonable plan for peace, present it to the Israelis and demonstrate that they can responsibly carr y out that plan. When there is a commitment to peace by responsible leaders and concrete progress is made, Israel, as it has displayed, will willingly sacrifice for the sake of peace.

Ron Feingold, Vice president Shira Frishman, Officer Students Supporting Israel

ince its debut, HealthCare.gov has been a prime example of not how to build, launch and operate a website.

LUIS RUUSKA Mired by columnist slow loading times, inter nal errors and a myriad of user complaints, HealthCare.gov has undeniably been a blow to the Affordable Care Act. Even though most of the ACA’s initial low enrollment numbers can be attributed to HealthCare.gov, it is more important than ever not to confuse the website’s shortcomings as the ACA’s.

Even if HealthCare.gov had launched without a hitch, enrollment numbers may still have been low.

This would not exactly come as a surprise to the health care industry, because it’s happened before.

In 2006, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney signed the Massachusetts Health Care Reform Law, informally known as Romneycare, into law.

Business Insider recently reported that only 123 people actually signed up for health care through Massachusetts’ health care law the first month. This was only 0.03 percent of the share of total residents who eventually signed up for health care through the Romneycare.

Massachusetts’ residents did not make their decisions lightly, either. A study showed only one out of every 18 customers who engaged with the website for a while ended up committing to a plan. Additionally, the greatest jump in enrollees was 20 percent, which came during the final month before the deadline was up.

Massachusetts’ health care law eventually overcame its own initial low enrollment numbers, and in subsequent years, it has generally been a success. It should not come as a surprise if enrollment numbers for the ACA follow a similar pattern.

The failures of HealthCare.gov have only been fodder for the ACA’s detractors, but the truth is we will not be able to even begin to get an idea of the ACA’s effectiveness until next March, when the enrollment deadline passes.

Even then, there are various deadlines in the years ahead. There is still plenty of time for the ACA to sink into the health care system.

The ACA has only just been born.

We cannot expect it to run before it has even begun to crawl.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

Adderall use

While not necessarily cheating, unprescribed use of Adderall gives students an unfair advantage.

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he Minnesota Daily recently explored how some students use Adderall to improve their focus while studying.

In the ar ticle published last week, exper ts discussed the unknown health ef fects of the drug over time and weighed the potential for drug use to constitute cheating.

A student with ADHD told the Daily he relies on Adderall just to achieve a manageable amount of anxiety and focus.

Finger-wagging from the Daily’s editorial board isn’t going to stem student Adderall use, but we must acknowledge popping pills to help with coursework, while not “cheating” per se, is dishonest, at least. College is a time to learn focus and time management skills, and prescription drug abuse undermines that.

Finally, it’s important to remember that using Adderall and other drugs to increase academic success is a ver y privileged practice.

It doesn’t just require access to higher education and the means to get drugs. Taking Adderall to study for finals or complete a particularly difficult assignment means the user likely already has control of his or her anxiety and focus. Many students aren’t so lucky.

Using unprescribed Adderall for schoolwork is a personal choice and shouldn’t be considered cheating, at least not exactly. All things being equal, the students are still learning and completing coursework themselves.

But this type of Adderall use does give students an unfair advantage, especially over those who rely on the medication to manage a disorder.

The sequester, round two Students may see a dip in financial aid next fall as the sequester cuts continue.

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he countr y will continue to feel the unnecessar y pain caused by the $85 billion in federal budget cuts known as sequestration until Congress is able to restore funding. The Minnesota Daily repor ted last week that Januar y’s second round of sequestration cuts might severely reduce federal financial aid for students next fall.

The Pell Grant, which is the largest federal need-based grant program, was originally protected from the sequester but may be included in the next round of cuts. Work-study grants could also take a hit, as the White House estimates that about 500 fewer students in Minnesota will get work-study jobs in the 2013-14 school year because of the budget cuts.

The sequester hurts the University of Minnesota in other ways, too. In October, University President Eric Kaler told the Daily the University anticipates losing $40 to $50 million in research funding.

To their credit, University of ficials and state lawmakers have put in a lot of work over the past year, both in keeping tuition costs down and maintaining strong investments in research programs. However, their ef for ts may be jeopardized as suppor t from the federal government is reduced.

The Associated Press repor ted last month that in the two years before the 2012-13 academic year, “the federal aid per full-time equivalent undergraduate student declined 9 percent, or about $325.” With dramatic cuts in research, declining financial aid and more cuts to come, incompetent congressional leadership is severely harming the nation’s future.

Congress must repeal the sequester before it does any more damage.

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chuckle. “I’d have to throw them on the treadmill — all three of them.”

Rick Pitino said Richard was like most of his children.

They all followed Rick’s career religiously and were always around basketball.

Richard was the only one of the children to follow in his dad’s footsteps.

“I was just the only one stupid enough to join the profession,” he said.

Richard Pitino fell stupidly in love with the game of basketball from the moment of his first memory of the sport — a moment that probably should have pushed him away from it.

In 1992, a 9-year-old Pitino watched his dad’s Wildcats battle the Duke Blue Devils with a trip to the Final Four on the line.

In the game, Kentucky held a one-point lead with 2.1 seconds left when Duke forward Christian Laettner caught a full-court pass and drilled one of the most legendary shots in college basketball history.

“Seeing that go in and just seeing the heartbreak ... it’s kind of surprising that I got into coaching after that,” Pitino said.

Getting into coaching Pitino worked as an assistant coach at the high school level while in college but eventually started working with Providence College while still in school there.

He did a lot of film and grunt work and tried to stay out of the other coaches’ way. “[I] balanced going to school as well as coming in early, staying late and just seeing if that’s truly what I wanted to do,” Pitino said.

Apparently, it was.

Pitino joined Northeastern as an assistant on thenhead coach Ron Everhart’s staff in 2005.

Everhart, now an assistant at West Virginia, said he wanted someone who could groom star point guard J.J. Barea and be a great recruiter at the same time.

“It only took about 10 minutes to figure out that [Pitino] was that guy,” he said.

Pitino oversaw player development that season. Everhart linked Barea’s development to Pitino — now, Barea plays guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

The next season, Everhart took the head coaching job at Duquesne — a threewin team the year before. He brought Pitino with him to restructure a program that was

in “complete disarray.”

The situation at Duquesne became more complicated when five players were shot in an on-campus incident in September 2006 — just three months after Everhart and Pitino’s arrival.

The incident drew nationwide attention, and Everhart received interview requests from major media outlets. He said he leaned on his youthful assistant for advice in the aftermath.

“Richard helped me through that, and I think that kind of really attests to ... his maturity level,” Everhart said.

Pitino left Everhar t’s staff to join his father at Louisville after just one season at Duquesne, but Everhart gives Pitino a lot of credit for Duquesne’s turnaround.

“It was because a lot of the groundwork and foundations that Richard laid when he was there,” Everhart said.

Learning from Dad and Donovan

Rick Pitino said he wanted Richard Pitino on his staff because he needed someone who would “get after it recruiting-wise.”

The Cardinals advanced to two Elite Eights during Richard Pitino’s first stint in Louisville.

He left to be an assistant at Florida shortly after his dad became entangled in a sex scandal. “[It was a] really difficult situation,” Pitino said. “You look at a guy who was on top of the world and made a mistake, and now everybody’s real critical of him.

“We just said, ‘Listen, man, we’re supporting you left and right, and we’re with you until the end.’ And he … came out on top and just got through it.”

At Florida, Pitino learned under two-time national champion head coach Billy Donovan.

“It was a tough decision [to go to Florida], but I thought ... in the end this is going to make me better,” Pitino said. “There’s no doubt in my mind it did.”

Pitino returned to Louisville a changed man, Rick Pitino said.

“The way he acted with the players was totally different,” Rick Pitino said. “He was much more in a leadership role the second time around.”

Richard Pitino said he still seeks advice from both his dad and Donovan.

“It would be silly for me to ignore those guys,” he said.

Richard Pitino said he texts his dad every day.

“He bounces everything off of me, from the opening starting lineup video to recruiting things,” Rick Pitino

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Minnesota head men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino answers questions at his introductory press conference April 5 at Williams Arena.

said. “He bounces everything off of me every day.”

FIU — ‘a disaster’ Florida International hired Richard Pitino in 2012. He said he thought it was an attractive place to recruit.

But Rick Pitino said his son didn’t know about the Golden Panthers’ academic issues.

FIU received a postseason ban for the 2013-14 season for poor academic progress rate scores accrued before Richard Pitino took the job.

And the situation on the court wasn’t much better.

FIU had only three players on scholarship when Pitino took the job.

“That program was a disaster,” Rick Pitino said.

But Richard Pitino didn’t complain. He brought in eight new players and went to work.

“He pretty much gave us his all last year,” said Gophers senior guard Malik Smith, who was on Pitino’s FIU squad and followed him to Minnesota.

In Pitino’s first season, FIU recorded 18 wins — the most the program had

achieved in 13 years. The Golden Panthers came up just three points shy of a Sun Belt tournament championship and a berth in the NCAA tournament.

Rick Pitino watched his son turn around a team that featured two walk-on starters.

“He really coached his ass off last year,” he said.

First to come, last to leave

Pitino entered the Williams Arena media room with his voice at less than full strength and an exhausted look on his face after Minnesota’s exhibition bout with Cardinal Stritch on Nov. 1.

He had just put in a relentless effort on the sideline, as he’s done throughout his career.

That effort isn’t only present on game days. He said come winter, he barely even notices the weather.

“I’m like a zombie walking around during the season,” he said.

And those around him can’t help but try to match his efforts. “[When] he’s around the basketball program, that program can’t help but to take on

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LEHIGH

7 p.m. Friday at Williams Arena

MINNESOTA: This Friday marks the official beginning of the Richard Pitino era.

Minnesota returns its top two scorers from last season, when it finished 21-13 (8-10 Big Ten). The backcourt combo of junior Andre Hollins (14.6 points per game last season) and senior Austin Hollins (10.7) will lead the way.

The Gophers went 15-2 at home during the 2012-13 campaign.

Minnesota hasn’t lost a season opener since 1991.

LEHIGH: The Mountain Hawks lost their top three scorers from their 2012-13 squad, which finished 21-10 (10-4 Patriot League).

Lehigh was predicted to finish sixth in the Patriot League preseason poll. The Mountain Hawks have sported a winning record each of the last five seasons.

Former Lehigh guard C.J. McCollum was drafted 10th overall by the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2013 NBA draft.

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some of his personality — the intensity, the passion,” Everhart said. “Everybody’s all in because he is.”

Pitino said there was no hesitation when he accepted the Gophers coaching job.

“I had to jump at it right away,” he said. “I’m not sure if there’s ever anything that

gets you ready for this.”

Now he’s tasked with resurrecting a program that’s underachieved in recent history.

Pitino said he’s hoping to build the Gophers brand, which takes time.

His career path suggests he does things a little quicker than most.

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Riché changes positions, looks to emerge as threat The Gophers start the regular season on Friday against Northern Iowa.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

After three years of playing in the middle, Micaëlla Riché has switched to the power forward position this season as the 6-foot-5-inch Amanda Zahui B. has taken over at center.

In this Saturday’s game at Northern Iowa, Riché’s position will be on display for the first time in regularseason action.

“My biggest strength last year was being on the inside,” Riché said. “This year, I’m playing outside on the perimeter a lot more.

“It’s been different to get used to, but I definitely think ... I can make myself more useful on the perimeter.”

Zahui B. shined in both of Minnesota’s exhibitions with 28 points in one game and 14 in the next. Riché sat out of the first exhibition with an ankle injury but played in the second, netting

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NORTHERN IOWA

Noon Saturday in Cedar Falls, Iowa

MINNESOTA: The Gophers won both of their exhibition games against Winona State and Minnesota State-Moorhead.

Now the regular season begins.

Minnesota returns top scorers Rachel Banham and Micaëlla Riché, who has switched positions from center to power forward. Amanda Zahui B. is the team’s new center and looks to be a big part of the team this season.

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10 points.

Riché said she worked on different aspects of her game over the summer to prepare for the change. She said she’s gotten better at dribbling down the lane, using a two-dribble power move and creating her own shot.

The move will allow Riché to showcase some of those skills in addition to unparalleled athleticism.

Gophers head coach Pam Borton said she thinks that will result in mismatches.

“She’s one of the most explosive post players I’ve seen in a long time,” Borton said. “I think she attacks the rim really well, is a great rebounder and is an absolute nightmare to defend. … She’s going to be a mismatch.”

Riché should also provide guard Rachel Banham with some much-needed scoring

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Minnesota forward Micaëlla Riché tries to get past Virginia player Simone Egwu to score Nov. 29, 2012, at Williams Arena. support this season. around the paint. Riché said lize versatile lineups.

“I don’t want to be a one- she’ll be doing that often this “I know for myself, when person show,” Banham said. season after losing weight I have someone dancing cir“I want to get everyone in- and getting in better shape. cles around me, it’s so annoyvolved, and that’s what being That will contribute to ing,” Riché said. “Depending point guard is.”

Riché being a mismatch, as on who I play, I’ve learned to That should be easier for Borton forecasted, but should be really active or push them Banham with Riché dancing also allow the Gophers to uti- out of the lane.”

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FOOTBALL

Gophers roll into matchup with Penn St. Minnesota is very young, but Jerry Kill knows his team can improve more.

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BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

The Gophers are heading into their game against Penn State (5-3, 2-2 Big Ten) on Saturday with a glimmering 7-2 record, the program’s best start since 2008.

But that season, Minnesota lost its last five games, falling from a 7-1 record to a 7-6 finish.

This year, under head coach Jerr y Kill, the Gophers know they’ve improved but realize how much further they still can go.

“We have the possibility of doing something really special around here,” senior defensive back Brock Vereen said. “It seems like yesterday we were [at] two wins and fighting for the third. … It’s a testament to coach Kill. We believed in his system.”

Minnesota’s last game at Indiana was a learning experience, Vereen said. The Gophers led 35-13, but the Hoosiers fought their way back to take a 39-35 lead before Minnesota squeaked out a 42-39 win.

Vereen said the near collapse showed the Gophers a game is never over. And the season isn’t over yet either.

If Minnesota loses the rest of its games, it will fin-

MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA: Minnesota (7-2, 3-2 Big Ten) is looking for a fourth straight Big Ten win Saturday, a feat the program hasn’t accomplished since 1975-76.

The Gophers beat Indiana 42-39 last weekend in Bloomington, Ind., but nearly blew a 22-point lead in the second half. Sophomore quarterback Philip Nelson led the offensive on a game-winning drive late in the fourth quarter, and redshirt senior linebacker Aaron Hill recovered a fumble to seal the win.

Nelson earned Co-Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week honors for his performance against Indiana after throwing for 298 yards and four touchdowns, both career highs.

Junior running back David Cobb needs 197 more yards to become Minnesota’s first 1,000-yard running back since Amir Pinnix in 2006. Cobb’s cousin — junior linebacker Damien Wilson — leads the Gophers with 50 tackles.

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Minnesota quarterback and wide receiver Donovahn Jones carries the ball upfield during the home game against Nebraska on Oct. 26.

ish 7-6, including a potential bowl game.

That’s an improvement over last year’s 6-7 record, but Minnesota’s coaches were adamant when the season star ted they wouldn’t be satisfied with that result.

Kill said the recent success is only the tip of the iceberg for this team.

“We’re still not even close to where we can be and where we’ll be a year from now,” Kill said.

“They’re all young players.”

The only senior of fensive star ters are Derrick Engel, Ed Olson and Mike Henry.

FOOTBALL

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers football team was driving to the airpor t after its win over Indiana last Saturday when redshir t freshman tight end Maxx Williams got a surprise.

The W illiams family had been at the game and was on the side of the road waiting for the team bus to pass.

“My dad calls me and goes, ‘Be ready,’ ” Williams said. “Two minutes later, we hear horns going of f, people cheering out the windows of these vans.

I was like, ‘Wow.’ I just stood up [and said], ‘Sorr y, ever yone. It just might be my family.’ ” Williams comes from a family of collegiate and professional athletes and has become one of the team’s top targets early in his career. He’s the Gophers’ second-leading receiver this season with 15 receptions for 251 yards and three touchdowns.

“I think he’s an unbelievable player for the age he is,” head coach Jer r y Kill said. “His future’s endless.”

Williams played a key role against Indiana on Saturday, catching four passes for 78 yards and the gamewinning touchdown.

Sophomor e quar terback Philip Nelson found Williams streaking down the middle of the field late in the four th quar ter. The 50-yard touchdown pass gave Minnesota a 42-39 lead.

Nelson said having a big, physical tight end like W illiams is “a quar terback’s dream.”

“Something that we really like to look for in our of fense is tr ying to get Maxx matched up on a safety or a corner,” Nelson said.

Engel emerged as the team’s leading receiver with 361 receiving yards and five touchdowns. But Minnesota’s young receivers have also proven themselves this season.

Freshman Donovahn Jones said he’s one of the fastest players on the team, which showed in Minnesota’s 34-23 win over Nebraska when he ran four times for 42 yards. Last week against Indiana, Jones had three receptions for 59 yards — generating extra yardage after the catch.

Jones is still learning to play receiver after switch-

ing from quar terback, but his role in the offense continues to grow.

Kill speaks highly of Drew Wolitarsky, another freshman receiver who recorded a reception in four of Minnesota’s five Big Ten games.

Olson has been sharing minutes this season with redshir t freshman Ben Lauer at left tackle, who Kill said has shown tremendous improvement.

Henr y has five receptions over the past three games from the H-back position and has been a big blocker up front during run plays. Still, redshirt fresh-

PENN STATE: The Nittany Lions (5-3, 2-2 Big Ten) have won two of their past three games, including a 24-17 overtime victory last Saturday against Illinois.

Penn State is in the second year of a four-year bowl ban the NCAA instituted in wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Penn State head coach Bill O’Brien is 13-7 in one-plus seasons at Penn State and earned Big Ten Coach of the Year honors in 2012.

The Nittany Lions haven’t played the Gophers since Oct. 23, 2010, when they beat Minnesota 33-21 at TCF Bank Stadium. Penn State leads the all-time series 8-4.

The winner of the rivalry game will receive the Governor’s Victory Bell trophy.

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man Maxx Williams is listed at the same position and ranks second on the team in receiving yards, with 251.

“We know how good we are, but we know how good we can be,” Williams said.

Underdog no longer Minnesota has won each of its past three games as the underdog. Against Penn State, the Gophers will be favored to win.

Vereen said he recognizes Minnesota’s next step is a national ranking — which he said should happen if the Gophers keep winning. But Vereen said he doesn’t necessarily want to be ranked.

“I like being the underdog,” he said. “If it comes, it would be great for this program. And if we keep on this track, we inevitably will.”

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Williams makes an impact in first year Maxx Williams is the second-leading receiver on the team this season.

PENN STATE

11 a.m. Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium

Nelson and the offense have awakened in the last two weeks, scoring a combined 10 touchdowns in wins over Nebraska and Indiana. The of fense had scored just three touchdowns in its first three Big Ten games.

Williams said players on the team will occasionally peek at bowl projections, but players are focusing on getting their eighth win this Saturday.

“It’s just another step in making histor y,” Williams said of Saturday. “Just being a part of that is a great feeling.”

Kill says Gophers don’t tolerate hazing

Kill said on Wednesday he’s aware of the Miami Dolphins-Richie Incognito hazing scandal but indicated he hasn’t had time to process it yet.

“I’m aware of it, but …

I’ve got enough issues and so for th, but I’m sure I’ll catch up on all that stuf f,” he said. “I do all of that usually on Thursday night and Friday.”

The Miami Dolphins indefinitely suspended Incognito on Sunday for “conduct detrimental to the team.”

Incognito allegedly sent Dolphins of fensive lineman Jonathan Mar tin racist and threatening text messages, multiple media outlets have repor ted.

He also allegedly forced Martin to pay for a $15,000 trip to Las Vegas, ESPN reported.

The stor y has prompted a national debate about hazing in pr ofessional football.

Kill said he doesn’t tolerate such behavior.

“We don’t do it here,” he said. “I’ve always been that way — I’ve always been that a freshman comes in, and our job … is to make sure they feel comfor table and get better.

“There may be something I don’t know about, but as a head coach, I’m pr etty awar e of any of those kinds of things.”

Minnesota led by its strong hitters Tori Dixon and Ashley Wittman have been key for the Gophers.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

Minnesota has outmatched its opponents of fensively over the last three matches with kill after kill after kill.

The Gophers boasted a .333 hitting percentage and 13.58 kills per set in wins over Nor thwestern, Purdue and Indiana.

And with seven players on the roster averaging more than one kill per set, Minnesota has a plethora of ways to score.

“It’s nice to have lots of ways you can kill the ball,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “It makes it tough on the opponents when they are setting up their defense.”

Junior outside hitter Adrianna Nora has been a key cog in the offense lately. She’s had 49 kills in her last four matches.

McCutcheon said Nora has smoothed out and become more consistent lately.

“Anytime you come in as a transfer, there’s generally an adjustment period,” he said, “but she’s just gone from strength to strength.”

Her status as the star ter is on lock at the

moment.

“Right now, there’s nobody better,” McCutcheon said.

With the star ting lineup solidified, opposing defenses collected only 12 total team blocks last weekend.

That dominance at the net star ts with the senior tandem of Tori Dixon and Ashley Wittman.

“They both have really powerful arm swings,” sophomore outside hitter Karlie Hauer said. “Both of them do a great job of executing.”

And while they make a phenomenal impact on the offense, it’s their leadership on the cour t that makes the difference.

“It’s great. Ashley has done a lot for this team, and so has Tori,” Hauer said. “Especially this year taking on that leadership role, I think both of them have kind of shined.”

Wittman shined bright last Friday against Purdue, helping her team respond to adversity like a captain should.

“I think Ashley did a great job of taking the lead and saying, ‘Hey, we’re not going back down. We’re not going to lose this game,’” Hauer said.

Wittman and Dixon will need to bring that same type of leadership this weekend, especially Sunday against Nebraska.

The Gophers trail the Cor nhuskers by one

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IOWA

NO. 11 NEBRASKA

7 p.m. Friday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday at Sports Pavilion

MINNESOTA: After a weekend road trip featuring victories over Purdue and Indiana, the Gophers return home to the Sports Pavilion for matchups against Iowa and Nebraska.

Minnesota moved up one spot in the American Volleyball Coaches Association poll released Monday to No. 9 in the nation.

The Gophers are rolling right now — they’re winners of six of their last seven matches. They currently sit one match behind Nebraska in the Big Ten standings. Iowa is tied for last in the Big Ten. IOWA: Despite the Hawkeyes only having one win in conference play, it took the Gophers five sets to defeat Iowa the first time Minnesota faced them this season. The Hawkeyes maintain a 10-14 record overall.

NEBRASKA: With three players taking home Big Ten weekly awards Monday, Nebraska doesn’t lack talent.

Senior outside hitter Kelsey Robinson won her second Big Ten Player of the Week award after averaging 4.5 kills, 3.0 digs and 1.1 blocks per set in her last two matches.

Sophomore Cecilia Hall and freshman Kadie Rolfzen took home Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and Co-Freshmen Player of the Week honors, respectively.

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m a t c h i n t h e B i g Te n standings. And with Nebraska sweeping Minne-

sota earlier this season, this marks a match the Gophers will want to win.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Lucia to face off with son this weekend

The Gophers will travel for a battle with Notre Dame over the weekend.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

Three weeks ago, Gophers senior for ward Tom Ser ratore reunited with his family when the Gophers played at Bemidji State.

This weekend, head coach Don Lucia will partake in a family reunion of his own, but this trip isn’t all for pleasure.

“It’s a business trip,” he said of playing his son, Notre Dame sophomore for ward Mario Lucia, this weekend.

Both met as opponents last season when the Gophers beat Notre Dame 4-1 at Mariucci Arena in Januar y.

This weekend, Don Lucia will retur n to his alma mater on the visiting bench.

This won’t be the first time the two have seen each other this season.

In fact, the head coach has watched his son play in each of the past three weeks.

Lucia flew out to see his son play a Sunday game against Michigan Tech after the Gophers finished a Saturday game at Bemidji State. A week later, Notre Dame traveled to Minnesota-Duluth the same weekend the Gophers hosted Boston College. And last weekend on a bye week, Lucia flew to Vermont to again see his son play.

Mario Lucia doesn’t get to see his father much, and he said it was nice to

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NO. 4 NOTRE DAME

7 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday in South Bend, Ind.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers men’s hockey team is fresh off a bye week and is heading into its strongest competition yet this season.

Minnesota tied and beat Boston College 3-3 and 6-1 two weeks ago before taking a weekend off.

The Gophers sport a 5-0-1 record so far in the nonconference season.

NOTRE DAME: The Fighting Irish may have an advantage heading into their meeting with the Gophers — and not just because they’re at home.

Notre Dame competed last weekend at Vermont, losing 2-1 and winning 3-2, and won’t have to worry about the post-bye week lag.

The Fighting Irish have only lost two games this season, with the other being a 4-1 loss at Minnesota-Duluth. They are 6-2-0 overall and 1-1 in the Hockey East conference.

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have him in the stands.

“It’s been really nice just being able to have him as my father around,” Mario Lucia said. “Last year, I think he only got a chance to see me play three or four times. And this year, he’s already surpassed that, and we’re only like four weeks into the season.”

The Lucias aren’t the only Notre Dame-Gophers tie.

Senior for ward Nate Condon’s older brother used to play for the Fighting Irish as well, and his whole family will be at the game. Condon said the family ties won’t really affect the game.

“It might be a funny thing when coach says ‘Lucia’ on the lineup,” Condon said, “but other than that, it’s not something that’s really discussed.”

Sophomor e defenseman Mike Reilly also has a connection to Mario Lucia.

The two were room-

mates when they played with the Penticton Vees of the British Columbia Hockey League in 2011-12.

“Mikey, he’s one of my best friends,” Mario Lucia said. “He’s one of the best defensemen I’ve ever played with.”

Reilly was just as complimentar y of his friend’s playing skills.

“He’s big, and he’s got a great shot and a quick release,” Reilly said. “And he’s really good on the power play.”

Reilly said his former roommate’s close associations with Minnesota won’t make him go any easier on him.

“We’re going to do ever ything we can to stop him,” Reilly said.

While Mario Lucia didn’t choose to play for his father like his older brother Tony did, Don Lucia said he’s happy with how ever ything panned out.

“Par t of me wishes

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Gophers head men’s hockey coach Don Lucia.

he was here and I had a chance to coach him,” he

said. “But the other side is there’s contentment know-

ing that I get to be his dad in this situation.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Davis loosens up locker room with grit and goofiness Sarah Davis scored her 100th career point last weekend against Mankato.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

By her own admission, Sarah Davis didn’t have the best season last year.

She recorded 25 points on seven goals and 18 assists, a drop-of f from her sophomore season.

But Davis came through in the clutch at the end of the year and scored a crucial overtime goal to send the Gophers to the NCAA championship game.

“I obviously didn’t have the best season last year,” she said, “but I would have that season and score that goal again anytime.”

This year, Davis said her focus has been on playing hockey and not measuring success on the stat sheet.

“Since I’ve done that, the points have come a lot easier,” Davis said.

She currently has nine points through 10 games.

Davis recorded her 100th career point on an assist against Minnesota State-Mankato on Saturday.

She said the milestone was nice, but she has no intention of stopping there.

Davis’ linemate, senior Bethany Brausen, said their line — which also includes junior Meghan Lorence — has tried to be a “bigger impact line” this season.

Brausen said that doesn’t necessarily mean scoring points but said the line was “competing as hard, or harder, than anyone else.”

Gophers head coach Brad Frost called Davis someone who “works her tail off both in practice and in games.”

This year, Davis is one of three alternate captains.

She is known for her loud, goofy personality off the ice. But on it, Brausen, the team’s captain, said Davis quiets down and leads by example.

“When it comes down

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Minnesota forward Sarah Davis skates toward the puck in a game Friday at Ridder Arena.

to game time, she knows how to really zone it in and focus,” Brausen said.

So much so that Davis said her teammates have told her it’s OK to smile once in a while on the ice.

Brausen said the team does a 3-on-3 tournament sometimes during the season, and Davis is always sought after in the draft because she battles so hard.

The Brausen-Davis-Lorence line is often tasked with shutting down teams’ top of fensive lines, and Brausen said Davis is an “unbelievable defensive for ward.”

“She works har d on

both ends of the ice, and that’s something that you can’t teach players,” Brausen said. “She just has a knack for it naturally.”

Though Davis is serious on the ice, she’s able to loosen up the locker room.

“If we were to vote on funniest person in the room, she would handsdown get a landslide victor y,” Brausen said.

Brausen said she’s never met someone that Davis hadn’t been able to make smile.

But she wasn’t always so outgoing. Frost said Davis was “really shy” during her freshman year. “[I] didn’t really know

that [she] was as goofy and crazy as she is, but once she came back after her freshman year, she really came out of her shell,” he said.

D a v i s i s a j o k es t e r, Frost said, and the one the team looks to when it needs loosening up.

Davis said she’s just tr ying to be herself and said making her teammates laugh helps with the daily grind. “ Yo u ’ v e j u s t g o t t o make the most of it,” she said. “You’re here playing hockey at the University of Minnesota — No. 1 team in the countr y. Just enjoy it and embrace it and appreciate it.”

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ST. CLOUD STATE

3:07 p.m. Friday and 3:07 p.m. Saturday in St. Cloud, Minn.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers will hit the road yet again this weekend.

This time, they’ll head up north to take on St. Cloud State.

Minnesota was 4-0-0 against the Huskies last season and has historically dominated St. Cloud State in the series.

Minnesota heads into the weekend still undefeated at 10-0-0. The Gophers are fresh off of a sweep of Minnesota State–Mankato.

ST. CLOUD STATE: The Huskies enter the match up 1-6-3. They defeated and tied Minnesota-Duluth last weekend. St. Cloud State currently sits sixth in the WCHA standings.

While Minnesota leads the WCHA with 4.40 goals per game, St. Cloud State is at the bottom of the conference, averaging just 1.30 goals per game.

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WRESTLING

Nelson, Gophers ready to start season Minnesota starts the season on the road at the Bison Open this Saturday.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers wrestling team opens its 2013-14 season Saturday at the Bison Open in Fargo, N.D. Minnesota is ranked No. 3 in InterMat’s preseason national poll.

The Gophers finished third at the NCAA championships last season and will return eight All-Americans, including redshir t senior heavyweight Tony Nelson, a two-time defending Big Ten and NCAA champion.

Nelson has a 98-11 career record at Minnesota.

He became the fifth Gophers wrestler to win backto-back NCAA championships last March and the second heavyweight to do so.

He said his goal for this season is to win a thirdstraight NCAA championship.

Nelson is one of five seniors on a squad that returns nine of 10 wrestlers from last season’s NCAA lineup.

In addition to Nelson, the team returns redshirt junior Dylan Ness, junior Logan Storley and redshirt junior Scott Schiller, who finished fourth, fourth and fifth in their respective weight classes at the NCAA championships last season.

Nelson, Schiller, Storley and redshirt senior Kevin Steinhaus make up Minnesota’s formidable group of upper-weight wrestlers.

InterMat’s preseason rankings have Nelson, Schiller and Storley first, second and fifth in their respective classes. The website ranks seven Minnesota wrestlers in the top 10 of their respective classes.

Gophers assistant coach Luke Becker said Steinhaus will miss the early part of the season with a torn ACL. The team is otherwise healthy, he said.

Minnesota will use the Bison Open to determine its 10-man lineup for the early par t of the season, Becker said.

Minnesota won five individual titles at the 2012

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The Gophers fell 4-1 to top-seeded Nebraska on Wednesday in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals.

Minnesota (11-7-2) now must wait until Monday to see if its name is called when the NCAA tournament field is announced.

Gophers freshman forward Simone Kolander put her team on the board with a goal in the first minute — her second goal of the season and first since the first game of the season. She finished with four shots on the night.

The Cor nhuskers responded with two goals in 14 minutes — the second by senior Jordan Jackson, who was named Big Ten Midfielder of the Year on Tuesday.

Nebraska added two more goals in the second half to all but put Minnesota away.

The Gophers outshot the Big Ten regular-season champions 15-12 in the loss.

“It’s really fr ustrating when we have the ball and control of the game [and

BISON OPEN

NO. 3 MINNESOTA All day Saturday in Fargo, N.D.

No. 3 Minnesota kicks off its 2013-14 season with the Bison Open.

Gophers assistant coach Luke Becker said 10 to 12 teams will compete in the event but said Minnesota and North Dakota State will be the only Division I schools.

The Gophers return eight All-Americans from last year’s squad, Becker said, including back-to-back Big Ten and NCAA heavyweight champion Tony Nelson.

Minnesota finished second at the Big Ten championships and third at the NCAA Championships last season.

Gophers head coach J Robinson is entering his 28th season at the helm of the program. Minnesota has claimed three national titles under Robinson, the most recent coming in 2007.

The Gophers start their dual-meet season against Purdue on Nov. 22.

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Bison Open.

It finished 16-2 in dual matches last season, won the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Dual Championship and finished second at the Big Ten championships.

Nelson said there’s still

some room for improvement.

“If we could jump from our second- and third-place finishes to win the national title, it would bring the team closer than it already is,” Nelson said.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Minnesota ousted in first round with loss

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

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PREVIEW

SOCCER

The Gophers were first to score, but Nebraska roared back and won 4-1.

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Minnesota’s Tony Nelson wrestles against a Michigan opponent Jan. 27, 2012, at the Sports Pavilion.

SOCCER RESULTS

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can’t convert],” freshman midfielder Josee Stiever said.

“We have to work on our final third and finishing.”

The four goals were the most Minnesota has allowed this season.

The game was originally scheduled to be played at the University of Illinois soccer field, but inclement weather pushed the game to a recreation turf soccer field.

Teams played two quarterfinals at the same time at the complex.

“It was a different atmosphere,” Stiever said. “It was a little odd having the two other teams playing like 20 feet away from us.”

O n T u e s d a y, E S P N women’s soccer analyst Graham Hays told the Minnesota Daily the Gophers were “fairly safe” for an NCAA tournament bid, regardless of Wednesday’s result.

“We have a good chance of being in the NCAAs,” freshman defender/forward Ashley Pafko said. “It’s definitely a weight off of our shoulders that we did get those big wins in the beginning of our season.”

Gophers prepare for big overhaul The second pack will need to step up next year after losing seniors.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

This Sunday’s Rocky’s Run at Les Bolstad Golf Course will highlight significant pieces of the women’s cross country team’s future.

As top runners prepare for the NCAA Midwest Regionals, members of the team’s second group will have an opportunity to assert themselves.

Rocky’s Run is the last meet of the season for the second pack and serves as a chance for coaches to gauge progress from the Oz Memorial, the first meet of the season.

“We’ll definitely see who wants it next year, because if they take the race seriously and really want to do well, then that shows me, as a leader for next year, that these girls are ready,” redshir t sophomore Liz Berkholtz said.

Berkholtz is in the team’s top pack and will be one of the most experienced runners on the team next season. As one of the younger runners in the top group, Berkholtz has spent a lot of time with this year’s fifth-year seniors and said she looks up to them.

“I definitely think it was a blessing for me just to be involved in this group for the past two years and sticking my nose in there with them,” Berkholtz said.

Minnesota will graduate a deep fifth-year senior class after this season, including Laura Docherty, Maggie Bollig, Katie Moraczewski, Rachel Drake, Kelli Budd and others.

Gophers head coach Sarah Hopkins said the team went through a similar scenario in 2009. It graduated a majority of its top runners, and the current fifth-year senior class had to take over.

She said that group was able to learn the ropes before it was “thrust into the spotlight the next year as redshirt freshmen to take the reins of the program.”

And now, the cycle is close to repeating itself.

“The good thing is that the group that is going to hopefully come in and take over will have been here for three years instead of just one. So I think that will give them a leg up compared to this group that first year,” Hopkins said.

Though the Gophers will be losing a talented group, Hopkins said the team takes pride in its depth. She said even though the team has had to rebuild in years past, it’s never fallen off the map.

“A lot of that is just because those younger kids, they learn and they grow … and then when they have an

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The Gophers men’s team will head to Collegeville, Minn., for the Fall Finale this weekend.

Then-sophomore Blayne Dulian led the way for the Gophers at the meet a year ago. Dulian finished first overall, and then-freshman Alex Brend and then-junior Steve Sulkin were fourth and fifth, respectively.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will run in the NCAA Midwest Regionals next weekend.

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Minnesota’s women’s team will participate in Rocky’s Run this weekend — one of its final meets before the NCAA championships.

Then-junior Cassy Opitz was the team’s top finisher in the 6K race last year.

Rocky’s Run began in 1981 in honor of Rochelle “Rocky” Racette, a former Gophers runner who died in a car crash when she was 22.

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opening, they really sink their teeth into it,” Hopkins said.

Minnesota redshirt freshman Taylor Mikkalson said compared to last year, she’s seen “huge improvement” in the second pack, especially in the way they’ve been working together as a team.

Though the two packs don’t really run together in practice, Mikkalson said it’s helpful to see the top group.

“They just kind of help us because we can see them off in the distance, and that’s what we’re working toward,” Mikkalson said.

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WEAVING

It all starts with sheep

The Weavers Guild of Minnesota hosts its 39th annual Fiber Fair this weekend.

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

C

hillon Leach knows a lot about sheep. She can tell you which breeds have more crimp in their fleece, which fleeces best hold dye and how much fleece the average sheep can produce. At most, some breeds can produce up to 20 pounds, she said.

Leach is a spinner. She purchases fleece from local sheep farmers, washes and dyes it and finally spins it into yarn. Leach bought her most recent batch of fleece from a University of Minnesota professor who raises Jacob sheep.

“They name them and you get to meet them, which just adds this whole other thing,” she said.

Thanks to the Weavers Guild of Minnesota, located in the Textiles Center on University Avenue, Leach can complete the whole spinning process in one place.

Leach, along with other spinners and weavers, will be showing off her skills at the Weavers Guild’s upcoming Fiber Fair, a three-day event at the Northrup King Building. The Fiber Fair is an opportunity for members to sell anything from fleece and spun yarn to hand towels and tapestries just before the holidays.

“We have 70 artists, and each artist brings like, 20 to 100 pieces,” said Becky Franklin, operations manager of the Weavers Guild.

The Weavers Guild started in 1940 and moved to the Textile Center in 2001.

The Guild has grown to 450 members. Each member pays $50 per year to access the biggest textile-focused lending library in the countr y, take part in any of the 200 classes offered throughout the year and rent equipment like looms and spinning wheels.

“The guild promotes a craft,” Franklin said. “It used to be more about the apprentice idea. There would be the masters and the people who learned from them.”

The guild has changed in modern times. Guilds are still used to promote various crafts and facilitate the exchange of valuable information and resources, but teachers and students have replaced the master-and-apprentice concept.

Keith Pierce joined the Weavers Guild just more than two years ago and is

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Karen Larson weaves Monday afternoon at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota.

already teaching classes in card weaving and winning blue ribbons at the Minnesota State Fair. His initial attraction to the craft stemmed from his background in mathematics. Card weaving, unlike knitting or crocheting, allows Pierce to create geometric shapes with yarn.

On Thursdays, he meets up with other Guild members who call themselves the Banditos. Their study group focuses on back strapping, a process for weaving smaller projects without utilizing the floor loom.

A normal loom is like a cross between an organ and a harp. Groups of strings, called warps, are separated by metal wefts that weavers move around by pressing down on floor treadles, akin to the floor pedals of an organ. Each weft is attached to a different treadle, which allows weavers to switch colors and make different patterns.

Setup is the slowest part of weaving because each individual warp has to be threaded through a weft.

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That’s a lengthy process when you’re working with about 160 strings. However, the actual weaving is quick.

“That’s what’s so satisfying about weaving versus knitting,” weaver Geri Retzlaff said. “You can have a finished product a lot quicker than you can with knitting.”

Like knitting, weaving and spinning are often meditative. Leach said working with multi-colored fleeces is just enough to cheer her up during harsh Minnesota winters.

When she’s not running

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Arlene Monk helps Margaret Olson with weaving Monday afternoon at the Weavers Guild of Minnesota.

fleece through a drum card, a device that aligns fleece fibers, Leach is a full-time painter. She said she comes to the Guild not only for the community, but for the inspiration. Most members are willing to share new tech-

niques and information with others.

“As an art major, when I started spindle spinning, all the sudden I started getting ideas for installation art,” Leach said.

Ever yone approaches

weaving and spinning differently. Some like to work fast and freely, while others work slowly and with great precision.

“It’s ver y personal,” Pierce said. “It’s a reflection of yourself.”

MUSIC

If you don’t know, you better ask somebody The Blind Boys of Alabama use their Southern gospel charm to bring the “good news.”

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

J

immy Carter — not the peanut farmer — is the last founding member left in the Blind Boys of Alabama. At 82, it’s impressive the guy’s still touring.

His gregarious personality was on full display when he spoke to A&E about his gospel group and their praisefueled genre.

“We’re called to spread the good news of the Lord,” the singer said. “God got me into the gospel, and no matter who you are, we want to share it with you.”

The Blind Boys of Alabama first sang together in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind — three of the five members are blind, hence their moniker.

They didn’t officially become a group, however, until 1944.

They’ve been touring steadily ever since.

The boys toured throughout the Jim Crow South, pil-

ing into cramped vans and playing to church crowds wherever they could.

“We weren’t harassed all that much, but we knew where we were,” Carter said.

“It was a difficult time, and we have come a long way since then.”

During the ’40s and ’50s, the group was strictly gospel, developing playful and stylish renditions of the standards.

Carter is known for holding the pinnacle note of “Amazing Grace” for longer than a minute.

The group began to embrace secular music as they aged. They applied soulful takes to the music of Tom Waits, Ben Harper and a whole legion of other moder n ar tists, winning the group five Grammys since 2000. The group was also honored with a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in 2009. Their most recent album, “I’ll Find a Way,” was produced by Justin Vernon of Bon Iver fame.

“We were asked if we’d like to do a record with Mr. Vernon, and I said, ‘Sure!

Who is that?’ ” Carter said.

“I’ll Find a Way” features a track list peppered with a variety of musical seasonings.

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They range from speedy, piano-banging hymns like “Jubilee” to a rich marriage of horn and vocal harmonies in “I’ll Find A Way (To Carry It All).”

For a group of men 70 and older, “I’ll Find A Way” tackles contemporar y gospel with youthful fer vor.

There’s no shortage of powerful vocal riffs, pew-cracking hand claps and metronome-steady instrumentals gallivanting through the speakers.

Ricky McKinnie, who’s been with the boys for 23 years, said that popular music makes the group more accessible to a large audience.

“I’ve had non-religious people come up to me after shows and tell me that they want to try going to church,” he said. “That’s wonderful to

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAMERON WITTING The Blind Boys of Alabama deliver music designed “to spiritually uplift” and share the gospel — can we get a witness?

me.”

“I’ll Find A Way” features photos of the five men sporting silver suits and jazz-cool

sunglasses, standing in a row and looking out into the distance with toothy smiles.

“We never expected any

of this,” Carter said. “I feel blessed every day of my life.”

With a career as long as theirs, it’s not hard to believe.

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DANCE RADIO

The convergence is coming Public Radio host Ira Glass talks about NASCAR, journalism, dance and firecrackers.

BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com

E

ver yone’s a critic.

Directors, musicians, politicians, and chefs all get a good thrashing in both professional reviews and candid conversation among friends.

But what happens when the subject of your criticism, someone you thought you’d never meet, actually calls you out?

That was an unintended outcome of A&E’s interview with Ira Glass, the host of the popular public radio show “This American Life.”

Glass toured the countr y with stage versions of the show, in which he simply stands on stage, talking about the production process and playing audio clips.

His new theater show, “One Radio Host, T wo Dancers,” is similar, but it uses dancers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass to interpret the stories.

A few weeks ago, I told my friend Mike about my upcoming inter view with Ira Glass and his new theater show. Mike is a fan of “This American Life” but thought the idea of combining radio stories with interpretive dance sounded, well, stupid.

Surprisingly, Glass said he knows audiences come to the show thinking “that it’s gonna suck.”

“Nobody listened to my radio show and said, ‘You know what this really needs is some modern dancers.’ Nobody in the world wants that,” Glass said.

When I told Glass about my friend who didn’t want to see the show, Glass gave him a call. After Mike realized that it wasn’t a prank, Glass got to the heart of the issue.

“And, mainly, it’s not cor ny, it’s not dumb and it’s not pretentious. You’re not going to sit ther e

wondering, ‘Am I getting this?’ ” Glass said. “And if you buy tickets and you don’t like it, I will personally give you the money back in cash. You can just come backstage afterward.”

Glass even gave his cell phone number to my friend to prove his point.

The rest of the interview with Glass was just as unpredictable as the three-way phone call with my friend Mike. One minute we were talking about the high cost of producing paint-by-numbers sets, and the next he was telling me about dancing in Yoko Ono’s new music video with the Beastie Boys, Rober ta Flack and Questlove. My attempt to talk about “One Radio Host, T wo Dancers” as a metaphor for convergence jour nalism led to of f-the-wall responses about machines taking over the world, NASCAR and NBC anchor Brian Williams.

Does presenting your material in a different form bring out a different result?

This is like a little bit of a stoner kind of thought, but [having dancers] turns the experience into something more universal and mythic. So ever y stor y has more power by the fact that there’s this element that’s kind of abstract but kind of representational.

For me, to per for m [“This American Life”], it’s like I’m going out with somebody who I really like and we’re having a nice long talk. And it’s really fun. And there’s a lot of joking around.

And [“One Radio Host, Two Dancers”] feels like that, plus we’re throwing firecrackers ever ywhere and confetti is going of f now and then, metaphorically. It just feels like things are exploding all over the place in this way, which is really, um … This is the most stoner interview I’ve ever done, which is really fun to do. Nobody has ever asked me to describe the feeling of what it’s like to per form something on stage.

T h e r e a s o n I ’ m a s k-

PHOTO COURTESY OF STUART MULLENBERG Ira Glass is taking radio in a new direction by adding dancers to his new stage show.

ing these questions is this buzzword — that if you want to survive in journalism, you have to latch on to this “convergence” idea.

Wait, is convergence the thing where the machines get intelligence?

What’s that one called?

I don’t know. Artificial intelligence?

I t ’ s t h e s i n g u l a r i t y.

That’s what it is. Is it going to be like the singularity where all of the computers develop intelligence and decide to destroy us?

I don’t even know what you’re talking about. Explain it again.

It’s like TV is no longer just TV, and radio is no longer just radio. Everything is blended together, in reference to journalism.

I don’t think your journalism professors were refer ring to, “And also, dance is totally going to be part of that. Let’s add a means of expression that predates the alphabet.”

But what if they did?

What if that was the whole point? Like, this is convergence to the

extreme.

If that’s the case, then I want to push it fur ther and go totally the way of … body paint. And combining radio stories and ... NASCAR. The marketing possibilities are crazy, when you think about it.

The money to be made.

People are shouting the quotes to you from windows as the race cars pass you by: “And then she said ...” And then the next car comes up, and some lady yells out the next line, and the next car is like, “But anyway, it turns out that wasn’t tr uuuuue.”

And then the next car is like, “We sent out a private detective and what we leeeeear ned.” And then the final car with the answer crashes, and it stays a myster y.

I’m just going to pitch that the next time I have a story.

Please do. No, I’m going to get a copyright on that, so you’re going to have to act fast.

The craft is a little different if you’re doing it on TV or print or radio or the Internet as a blog

or something. But in the end, the kind of reasoning, thinking, investigating and inter viewing you’re doing aren’t that dif ferent.

I hear stuf f like that and I just think, “What’s the big deal?”

I feel like jour nalism needs to get over itself or something. And I say that with respect. People have high standards and are interested in the world. It’s gonna be fine.

Is this [show] the convergence that people talk about jour nalism doing?

I would love it if this becomes so popular that ever y major jour nalistic outfit, in addition to having a web presence and a mobile app, has to put out its own dance show.

If the New York T imes and CNN and Brian Williams — you can tell that that guy is kind of a good mover — if they have to do their own journalism-plusdance show, that is my new goal as of this interview.

Someday, people are going to be looking back on this show as like, “Remember when that show

work around the problem and continue to have lifelong, great sex. It just may look different,” she said.

Price wrote two books on senior sexuality and tours the countr y with her senior sex workshops. She fields common questions, like what to do about lack of lubrication from menopause or how to have sex without an erection.

“There’s a solution to absolutely ever ything that people are facing.

It doesn’t mean they’re always easy solutions.

But if we use creativity, knowledge and a sense of humor, we really can overcome just about any sexual problem,” she said.

Most of her information could apply to anyone who is sexually active. Sex toys, nontraditional relationships and masturbation are just some of the practical topics she covers, except she gears the language toward an older generation.

Kuhlmann said Price’s sex toy reviews and Smit-

ten Kitten staf f training helped her to think about sex and the store’s products from a dif ferent perspective.

“It didn’t occur to me, ‘Is this toy easy to hold onto if you’re using tons of lube and using it for a couple of hours? Is it going to fly out of your hand, especially if you have fatigue in your hand from sore joints?’” she said.

People often ask Price about sex after cancer, erectile dysfunction or post-menopausal symptoms like dr yness and decrease in sexual desire.

Health issues aside, Price said older folks can be wonder ful sex par tners because they know what they like, know how to communicate and have already made their relationship mistakes in their youth.

“My favorite thing is when people come in and, in spite of my experience, I’m still like, ‘I bet I can guess what they might be interested in,’ ” Kuhlmann

came through before ever ybody was doing dance and journalism together?

Were you at that one?”

“No, I didn’t go to that one. It sounded stupid.”

You’r e not going to want to be that person.

What they’re about to witness is journalism histor y.

These quotes are going to look so pompous written down.

These are exactly the kinds of quotes that are really funny when you say them in a conversation on the phone. But then you look at the newspaper and you see them and go, “Was I drunk when I did that inter view? I don’t remember being dr unk that afternoon.”

OK, so we’re set, right?

You have plenty for a short article.

We have plenty, yeah.

If you decide to release this as your own podcast, I suppor t you in that. That will help you with the convergence. No, seriously.

It’s going to help you. The convergence is coming, 10 minutes before or after the singularity, so you gotta be ready for that.

SEX

BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com

I

friday

n an interview with Matt Lauer last month, Miley Cyrus jokingly said that people over 40 “don’t really have sex anymore.”

When Lauer told her he was 55, she replied, “Oh, well then, you’re really, definitely not sexual.”

Joan Price, a senior sex advocate and author, said we get our notions of what’s sexy from mainstream media, which “features young people as sex objects and the people who are both having sexual desire and the object of sexual desire.”

In addition to sex education for seniors, Price works to normalize the idea of senior sex in society, which she says is youth-oriented.

She said she would like to see more positive sex

images of older people in mainstream culture and wants to hear them talk openly and confidently about their sex lives.

Michelle Lekas, a cultural studies and comparative literature lecturer at the University of Minnesota, said ageism is an economic, political and cultural problem, stemming from capitalism. But fixing the problem is more complicated than just raising senior sexuality from its subcultural level.

“Being left out of the confessional of sexuality that has embraced our entire consumer culture is not the worst thing in the world. And that’s an impor tant perspective,” she said. “You can’t manage something you don’t hear about.”

People over the age of 40, or 55, may not blast their sex lives all over the media. But hang out in a sex shop for more than 10 minutes, and you’ll see people old enough to be your grandparents are still

“The Clumsy Man” Michael Sommers brings audiences into his esoteric, puppet-filled world inspired by the life of Hans Christian Andersen. Actress Kimberly Richardson takes on the role of Andersen, exploring his life as a gregarious outcast through Sommers’ trademark visually driven style. Featuring dance, mask, puppetry, music, projections, immersive sound and lighting design, “The Clumsy Man” may just create an entire world inside Open Eye’s intimate space. If you’re looking for a whacked-out Friday, this is your best bet. u Where: Open Eye Figure Theater, 506 E. 24th St., Minneapolis u When: 7:30 p.m. u Cost: $18-22 or limited pay-as-able

gettin’ it on.

Hannah Kuhlmann, a sex educator and sales associate at Smitten Kitten, said customers of all ages come in on a regular basis.

“Consistently, people are like, ‘I bet you don’t get folks as old as me in here, usually.’ And my response is, ‘Stick around for 10 minutes.’ And then they’re surprised. If they’re in the store for 10 or 15 minutes, they’re like, ‘You’re right. Ever ybody comes in here,’” she said.

The shop is welcoming like a cozy bookstore, except the shelves are lined with dildos and vibrators instead of books. Employees ar en’t the “coolerthan-thou, Urban Outfitters type,” Kuhlmann said. “We’re just a bunch of friendly nerds who love talking about this stuff.”

Price said that people over the age of 50 tend to think that if sex isn’t the way it used to be, then it’s probably over.

“That’s not true. It just means that we find ways to

saturday

A healthy and satisfying sex life doesn’t have to end with the beginning of the Golden Years.

The Black Crowes Kings of the ’90s guitar hook The Black Crowes return after a two-year hiatus. In a music world snugly wrapped in dream pop and synth punches, these oldies provide some distortion to your headphone game. Some good stuff to catch up on before you head to the show: “Shake Your Money Maker” is the album they released at height of their success, but their work on “Three Snakes and One Charm” works their deeper repertoire and will give you an edge in lyric-screaming at the show. Noisy, audacious and full of that old-time 93X charm, The Black Crowes have proven to be relentless in making their mark on the rock scene. u Where: Myth Live Event Center, 3090 Southlawn Drive, St. Paul u When: 9 p.m. u Cost: $49.50-55

sunday

Sex: Like a fine wine?

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said.

“Then they blow my mind with an awesome question like, ‘I’m tr ying to hang from the ceiling while I have an orgasm in this crazy way. What can you recommend?’ And I’m like, ‘Teach me what you know.’”

Nathaniel Yaffe Any cellists in the house? University of Minnesota graduate Nathaniel Yaffe is coming to Ferguson Hall to lead a master class on playing the instrument. An accomplished fellow, Yaffe plays for the North Carolina Symphony. In the past, he played for such organizations as the Minnesota Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the New World Symphony.

While this is a performance class, it’s open to the public, and you’ll definitely check out some incredible performance skills. And hey — maybe it’ll inspire you to pick up and play someday! u Where: 225 Ferguson Hall, 2106 S. Fourth St., Minneapolis u When: Noon u Cost: Free

CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KELLEN

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Now that October is officially over, we’ve entered the holiday season, which begs the question: Have you ever seen a crudely constructed turkey puppet murder someone? If not, it’s time you reevaluated your holiday spirit and popped “ThanksKilling” into your DVD player. This movie is spectacularly awful, prompting comparisons to “The Room” and “Birdemic: Shock and Terror.” Its plot follows a group of stereotypical college students enjoying their holiday break until an expletive-spitting, bloodthirsty turkey decides it’s time for his revenge. Prepare yourself for the impending piles of stuffing and awkward family interaction with this delightful stinker.

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CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KELLEN @coffee_dad If there’s anything A&E can get down with, it’s dark humor. Coffee Dad is a great account to get your so-funny-you-shouldn’t-laugh fix. The user usually posts updates at all hours about Coffee Dad’s caffeine consumption with misused hashtags, a few examples being “time #for coffee” and “need coffee#.”

Others take a serious tone: “When the air starts to cool and the leaves begin to change, I feel a pain so deep in my heart that I can’t stand it. I’ll love you forever.” Yeah, I hadn’t mentioned this yet, but the parody account also includes this character’s unresolved grief over his dead son. Whoever owns the account is dedicated to making the repression realistic — they only post tweets like the last one every few months, so keep your eye out, sadists.

THEATER

Raising hope Hope Theater Company produces its first show, “Love Letters from the Middle East,” lending a new cultural voice to local theater.

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

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iomars Moradi spent a lot of time on buses when he immigrated to the United States, mostly because he didn’t know how to get off.

“I passed a lot of stops,” he said with a laugh.

The founder of Hope Theater Company didn’t speak a word of English when he arrived in Minnesota in 2010. He’s come a long way since then, directing, writing and designing lights for Hope’s first show, “Love Letters from the Middle East.”

Moradi is well-known in the international theater world, having received awards in countries like India and Spain. Additionally, he’s made appearances at the Avignon Festival and taught at Azad University of Iran.

Moradi emigrated from Tehran after one of his close friends at the university was imprisoned. And his play “The Skyless City” about Iran’s indifference to human trafficking had gotten him into trouble with the government.

“I said to myself, ‘I have to go.’ They took my opportunities, and I didn’t have a chance to do something,” he said.

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Moradi’s br other-inlaw was his only relative in the U.S. With his help, the director settled in Minnesota. After starting English classes and going to meetings at Springboard for the Arts, he began to meet up with other artists in the cities, specifically Zaraawar Mistry of Dreamland Arts.

“He helped me find theater groups, introduced me to many people, many places. He taught me how to write grants,” Moradi said.

Mistry also gave Moradi a place to produce. Moradi’s remount of “The Skyless City” received great acclaim in its run at Dreamland in 2011. Now, “Love Letters from the Middle East” marks his first step toward establishing himself as a consistent voice in the theater community.

The show follows three women — two from Iran and one from the U.S. — and their experiences in the crossfire of war. The stor y is told through three separate monologues, with each character speaking for about 25 minutes about their individual realities.

JULIET FARMER, DAILY Emily Rose Duea, Meredith Larson and Alyssa Perau take the stage Monday in “Love Letters from the Middle East.” The play, written by Kiomars Moradi, runs Nov. 7-17 at Dreamland Arts in St. Paul.

“Love Letters” deals with heavy material — the terrors of violence and its lasting effects — but roots itself in a hope for a better future.

Moradi decided to create Hope Theater Company soon after moving to Minnesota, having noticed the microscopic Iranian population in the Twin Cities.

“We got together and we thought, ‘Why not?’

We could actually create a company to do something

different,” he said.

In a society that can hold hostility toward the Middle East, Moradi decided to make theater that reflected his culture’s untold stories.

“There is a revolution in this conversation,” he said.

“We need to talk about these people.”

Actress Emily Rose Duea stumbled upon Hope Theater Company through an audition for “Love Letters.”

After two months of working on the piece, she found

herself greatly inspired by Moradi.

“We all feel like a family,” she said. “My favorite thing about working with Kio is that he’s very collaborative — he takes into account that ever y actor brings something to the table.”

Though Rose Duea is playing an Iranian character, she is not from the Middle East. Moradi did that intentionally.

“I said to myself, ‘Kio! You’re in the United States.

You need to work with ever ybody, not just actors who are Middle Eastern,’ ” he said.

Rose Duea was quick to add to Moradi’s statement.

“It has to be done in a way where you are portraying a person, not a race,” she said. “We aren’t constraining ourselves to being one type of company.”

Constraint is the opposite of Hope’s intentions — all Moradi wants is an open forum.

FOOD

College Kitchen: Shop smart When to treat yourself and when to get over yourself.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

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ook, saving money is almost universally rad — coupons instantly transform any grade-A nerd into a leather jacket-clad cool kid. However, there are some things worth dropping extra cash on. Knowing what’s wor th splurging on and what’s not is essential to successful home cooking.

Things to splurge on Bread Bread makes or breaks a sandwich. No matter what you stuff between those two limp sheets of paper you call wheat bread, your sandwich will just taste like a mushy mess. Get yourself something nice and crusty — a bread with real character.

Paired with some butter or olive oil, a solid sourdough works as an appetizer. Toast some slices and use them as buns to class up a hamburger.

Make a sub out of a softer baguette. Spoon bruschetta over toasted slices for a fancy hors d’oeuvre (recipe below).

Cheese What you put on your grilled cheese is between you and God. When it comes to a table cheese, though, spending a little extra makes a huge

difference.

Putting out American cheese and Ritz crackers in your home is like telling guests, “I do not respect you on a fundamental level.”

Creamy brie costs a little more but gives guests the respect they deserve. If you want real fresh-pulled mozzarella for pizza or appetizers, you’ll need to shell out.

wine like us peasants.

Even for drinking, there are plenty of box wines that hold their own against their bottled brethren. It’s not all just Franzia. Boxes are cheaper than glass bottles to produce, so you can get better wines for less. But, you may have to deal with some ridicule from uninformed peers.

Steak There really is no substitute for a finely marbled hunk of steak. Sure, there are slight variations like flank steak and top sirloin that are delicious in their own right, but they’re not steak.

If you want a real rib eye, T-bone or New York strip, you’re going to have to spend.

Cooking one yourself rather than eating out will save you some money, though. As long as you’ve picked out an adequate slab, cooking one up yourself is easy. It’s simply a matter of getting the center done to your liking.

Coffee Let me run some stats by you: a cup of coffee at Starbucks costs approximately $1 trillion; a bag of whole beans, which will produce about 200,000 cups, costs $12.

You do the math. Even nicer brands of beans will cost a fraction of coffee-shop joe.

Most beans from a grocer y store will stack up to your standard coffee-shop fare as long as you have a proper machine to brew it.

For the full effect, feel free to keep a Starbucks togo cup and refill it with your home-brew cof fee ever y morning.

Things to save on Wine Don’t bother cooking with a wine whose name you can’t pronounce. Whenever you simmer wine, you’ll end up burning off its distinct flavors and characteristics.

If you peek into the kitchen of the fanciest, Frenchest restaurants around, you won’t see them adding a well-aged vintage to any of their sauces.

Instead, they’re using box

Spices The quality of most spices depends primarily on their freshness. The cheaper, storebrand spices have often been sitting around in warehouses for months and months. Ensuring freshness, however, is not a matter of just buying the top-shelf stuff.

Buying spices whole and grinding them yourself guarantees that they won’t be stale. Small bags of unground

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Bruschetta, an Italian appetizer, consists of diced tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and olive oil on toasted bread.

spices only cost a couple of bucks and will last you years.

Most supermarkets don’t stock whole spices, though, so you’ll have to look to alternative grocery stores.

Bruschetta recipe A recipe like bruschetta demands high-quality ingredients. Since there’s little actual cooking involved, the flavors of the components need to shine on their own.

For this dish, Roma tomatoes work better than other varieties due to their solid center. Ideally, bruschetta

should have chunks of tomato rather than be a gooey mess.

5 Roma tomatoes, diced 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 cup fresh basil, cut into ribbons 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 1 teaspoon olive oil 1 baguette, cut into slices 6 ounces mozzarella, sliced Salt and pepper Brush the slices of bread with olive oil and rub with a clove of garlic. On a lightly

oiled baking sheet, toast the bread until golden brown in an oven heated to 400 degrees.

In a large mixing bowl, combine the tomatoes, garlic, basil, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and a touch of salt and pepper. Balsamic vinegar can easily overpower a dish, so be careful to not add any more than you have to.

Place the mozzarella slices on the bread, then spoon the tomato mixture on top. Place in the oven for a minute or two until the mixture has slightly melted.

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ART

Painting with light and time Twin Cities light painters use timelapse photography to create a colorfully surreal blend of graffiti and urban exploration.

BY THOM Q. JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com

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ana Maltby and Cam Torgerud paint in total darkness.

The two members of the tight-knit Minnesota light painting community capture light to create images.

Light painting requires an absence of ambient light, so artists must head underground or wait until sundown to do their work.

Their cameras are set to hold an exposure for thousands of times longer than usual to capture streaks of light, turning any flashlight or LED into a paintbrush.

The result is a surreal and color ful photograph that seems to bend time in a way that’s almost ghostly.

The local practitioners of this craft are a close group. Unlike the modern

graffiti scene, the style of which can be traced back to scribblings on New York City subways in the 1970s, light painting got its start as a global art form spread via the Internet. Each community is grassroots and tends to be decentralized.

“There’s usually only one [light painter] per state and sometimes one per countr y, so the fact that [the Twin Cities] even has five is impressive in itself,” said Maltby, who goes by the moniker Twin Cities Brightest.

Midwester n modesty aside, local painters, including Maltby, took two of the top six positions at the first International Light Painting Award earlier this fall. It’s nice recognition for a group of people who’ve learned the methods together.

Torger ud, aka Light The Underground, remembers when the whole cadre would get together on weekends to shoot photos and swap techniques.

In the community, “You can ask anyone anything.

No one tries to be really

secretive,” Torgerud said.

“A lot of inspiration comes from seeing other people’s photos. In fact, the first light painting I saw was a Twin Cities Brightest.”

There’s a constant exchange of ideas about the best way to expose a photo, locations to shoot at and clever new uses for common handheld light sources.

There’s a strong connection between urban exploration and light painting, giving each region’s art a connection to its histor y, Maltby said.

European ar tists can paint in 1,000-year-old cathedrals, and the coasts have urban jungles. In Minnesota, it’s “the grain elevator and sandstone milling tunnels on the Mississippi River. It’s the coolest, least light-polluted area and part of Minnesota histor y,” he said.

A few light companies of fer gear sponsorships, and the winners of the International Light Painting Award did receive prizes of premium photography equipment. But the field,

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAM TORGERUD Cam Torgerud, aka Light The Underground, paints pictures with light.

like most street ar t, remains a place for amateurs.

“A lot of people are tr ying light painting,” Torgerud said, “but not many really revolve around it like we do.”

As digital cameras be-

come increasingly powerful and accessible, almost anyone can make a simple light painting in a blackedout room.

The art form is still in its infancy, and there are many frontiers left to explore.

Maltby said that sense of exploration still calls to him.

“Pushing myself and not being able to give up, basically doing something that no one has done — that’s what keeps me coming back.”

FOOD

Down to a science The U’s Science of Food and Cooking class praises the practical.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

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tudents flooded into the pristine white lab. The unadorned stove tops and cabinets looked more like an Ikea showroom than a classroom.

To many, Science of Food and Cooking, frankly, seems like a blow-of f course. It fulfills a physical science requirement, the tests are simple, there isn’t much reading, and on this day, students were making coffee.

Despite this, lab instructor William Lendway believes students will retain more from the course than any alter native science classes.

“This building was originally used for home economics,” food science lab coordinator Kendra Kauppi said. Home economics may seem like an antiquated concept, but Science of Food and Cooking freely accepts its similarities to the bygone program.

Though Lendway concedes the class is easy, he sees it as more relevant than other science courses.

“This class is practical; people can apply this to their lives,” Lendway said before grilling a student on the dif ferences in astringency between two cups of coffee. “Astronomy is interesting, but it just doesn’t apply to people’s lives like this class.”

A degree in food science is geared more toward dedicated scientists than budding chefs. Food science

Junior Neil Horan pours coffee into a bucket of compost in his food science class in McNeal Hall on Friday.

and nutrition senior Alyssa Pagel, who works as a TA in the food lab, said alumni often go into more corporate food ventures, like research and development and quality control.

Lendway, a 25-year culinar y veteran who cut his teeth in kitchens rather than classrooms, sticks out in the depar tment. In such a science-oriented program, a dyed-in-the-

wool chef of fers a unique perspective.

The science, in his mind, works towar d entir ely practical ends. Rather than constructing the kind of bizarre molecular gastronomic creations associated with scientific cooking, Lendway emphasizes perfecting standard recipes. Focusing on the specific processes at work helps dispel the old wives’ tales surrounding

cooking. He sees himself as a sort of Mythbuster for food.

“There’s a lot of interest in food and in the science behind it,” Lendway said.

He’s optimistic about what students will take away from the class.

Despite all this, Lendway stresses that the course isn’t a cooking class. Even with all the practical knowledge, the subject matter is

approached in a scientific context.

Though Lendway’s tone is generally lighthear ted and conversational, he gets serious when asking a student how coarser-ground coffee affects the taste. He expects a specific, scientific answer. When baking muffins a few weeks prior in the class, they methodically tested the effects of various leaveners.

HOLLY PETERSON, DAILY

The class is casual, and Lendway likes it that way.

During the lab, students chat and make jokes. They sip on their coffee samples and slowly get through their work. Without the rigor of a traditional college classroom, Lendway said he likes to believe that what they learn here will stick with them longer than material from any other course.

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Thursday, November 7, 2013 BIKING

You CAN bike in the winter

BY THOM Q. JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com

Winter is coming. The days grow darker, and the icy winds foretell the approaching age of cold feet and frostbitten cheeks, of long months trapped inside of buildings and the rolling tombs some call “cars.” Ye men and women who do not possesseth the proper physical and mental for titude necessar y to sur vive, take heed!

But, hark, what is this, a dissenting voice to the chorus of doomsayers?

“If you’re prepared for it, biking in the winter can be enjoyable,” Neil Linder, a sales associate at Varsity Bike & Transit in Dinkytown, dared to proclaim.

“A lot of it is about the psychological barrier of getting outside and doing stuff when the weather is bad,” Linder said. “Your first [winter] ride is going to be sketchy, even for experienced riders … but with the right preparation, anyone can do it.”

Lo! Here are four tips necessar y to mount thy metal push-powered steed in the winter months whilst remaining comfortable and in possession of thine sack of gold coins.

Protect your extremities

It’s easier than changing gears to drop a ton of dough on winter outerwear from head to toe — that $55 Merino wool undershir t, the $130 moisture-wicking, reflective pants tailored exactly for bicycling. But generally, if you have a decent set of winter wear, your only special considerations should be your hands, toes and face.

“Spending money on good gloves and good socks will make a lot of difference,” Linder said.

Be visible Winter is dark, and your regularly protected bike lanes are often filled with snow, so staying visible to passing cars is a must.

Minneapolis requires cyclists to use at least a reflector in the back and a white light in the front, but picking up an extra batterypowered red light and tricking yourself out in reflective tape is best. In headlights, you’ll glow like a Christmas tree.

Prep your ride If you already ride a mountain bike around campus, you’re probably more than halfway to a decent

winter bike already. Tire size and shape is the No. 1 factor in getting a good grip on the road. Like the guy says in that Pontiac commercial, “Wider is better.”

Skinny road tires are a definite no-no when pedaling over snow and ice.

Studded tires, basically regular bike tires with a lattice of little metal studs costing around $40 a pop, are even better.

“You’ll definitely lose efficiency pushing them on clear ground,” Linder said. “[But] on ice, they can’t be beat.”

Fenders, which sit between the wheel and the frame to protect the rider from spray, are cheap necessities for a comfortable ride.

Prepare for the worst Always have a way out of a situation. Your gears could break down, or it might be one of those blizzarding days when even walking down the sidewalk without toppling is a feat. Whether that’s carr ying a baggie of quarters in bus fare or designating a friend on speed dial who can come bail you out, you’ll never regret keeping a “worst case” option in your back pocket.

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (11/7): Jupiter’s retrograde adds a theme of peaceful introspection and planning to the year. Enjoy domestic comforts over winter, with bursts of creativity and romance.

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

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

Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

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All rights reserved.

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 — Gather up as much as you can, and share. As you look for the next opportunity, listen to your subconscious desires, and make a significant move.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Startling revelations occur about now. You want to jump for joy. And you’re exceptionally attractive now.

Your characters come alive imaginatively.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Review the long-range view and adjust as needed.

Don’t spend all your loot on your friends. No need for loud voices. Get lost in a good story.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — It could get messy. Embrace the dirt and gain power to do something about it. Don’t be afraid to revive old topics of discussion.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Activities at home demand review. Don’t brag, or you’ll stir up discontent. Make travel plans.

Passion drives your argument.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Your willingness to see things differently opens up new income opportunities. Re-evaluate valuables.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Your team is hot. Reinvent your partnership by aligning on a renewed mission. Harvest the energy for long-term results.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — You’re on top of your game. However, it’s a good idea to get advice from another professional to figure out a difficult problem.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Solicit ideas from imaginative experts, keep your objective in mind and gain respect. Listen to your conscience, and consider all the consequences.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 8 — You’re looking very good, even if you don’t quite see it.

Believe you can succeed. Work from behind the scenes suits you well now.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 8 — For the next few months, practice, practice, practice. And don’t give up, even when emotions are in turmoil. Get rid of excess baggage, and take action.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Keep digging, and find a valuable clue. Dress up. Aim high. Push. Invest in your equipment, but leave your savings alone. Explain again, patiently.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

secret admirers To the girl in the orange whitespotted shirt I saw on the Connector today who tripped as she was sitting down and thought no one was looking:

I saw you! But when I saw you look up at me, your stunning eyes and gorgeous smile brightened my day instantly. I’d like to see that smile more often.

Sincerely,

—Wished I’d gotten the courage to ask you out on a date To the boy who was dressed as a sexy pizza roll at the Halloween party last Thursday:

Normally I would say no to the carbs, but I’ll feast on your cheesy bits anytime.

—Unknown

To the girl dressed as Katniss on Halloween at a party on 12th:

You changed your costume to Lara Croft because apparently no one besides me could tell who you were. You were gorgeous and fun to talk to before you left for the Library with your friend the sexy librarian, but regrettably I have no idea who you are. Hit me up and we’ll get drinks this week.

—Harry Potter, movies 5-7

To the girl with the bright orange fox hat and umbrella that could easily cover five people:

Your cheeky grin brightened my day immensely.

I hope you can always keep smiling like that. (Maybe next time I’ll get up the nerve to ask what the fox would say if asked on a date.)

—Unknown

To the gymnast guy on the 6:

I thought it was oddly adorable that you were obviously late for the bus and only brought a slice of bread to eat. I’m all about bread sandwiches.

Hope you were on time the rest of your Monday,

—Fellow 6 rider

The Lady dressed as Eve this weekend:

I noticed you weren’t roaming the garden with an Adam. Independent women are sexy, but you need a man like me.

Sincerely,

crossword

—Future Adam

To the man on West Bank who strutted past me in stilettos and a black corset:

I wish I could rock that look even half as much as you.

Sincerely,

—Girl now putting sweatpants on for the rest of her life To the guy with the puppy named Chloe in McNamara Plaza today:

Not only was your puppy adorable, but so were you. If you ever need a walking buddy to go with you on your walks, let me know.

—Unknown

Dear Goldy Gopher,

All I’m saying is that I saw Goldy unmasked, and I think I’m in love. Where do I have to start hanging around in order to meet these Goldy guys? Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me.

Sincerely,

—In love with the mascot and the guy underneath

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ACROSS 1 Hollywood special effects, briefly 4 Did, but doesn’t now 10 1970s-’80s sketch comedy show 14 “Prince Valiant” prince 15 Brian McKnight/ Vanessa Williams duet with the line “It conquers all” 16 Chain with stacks 17 Wine enthusiast’s list of killer reds?

20 “I __ Symphony”: Supremes hit 21 Hoover underlings 22 Stands the test of time 25 Out to lunch, so to speak 28 Shed tears 29 Kaput 31 Mineo of film 32 Barcelona bar bites 34 Dust particle 36 Wine enthusiast’s “That’s how it goes”?

40 Bankrolls 41 Man-to-boy address 42 Feel ill 43 It’s saved in bits 44 Stinging insect 48 Effervesce, as some wine 52 Helter-__ 54 “Uh-oh” 56 Sierra __: Freetown’s country 57 Wine enthusiast’s philosophy?

61 Champagne choice 62 First novel in Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle 63 Take steps 64 Eggs sprinkling 65 Levels of society 66 __ down the law

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DOWN 1 Nut used in Asian cooking 2 Novelist Graham 3 Overrun 4 Arm bone-related 5 Lawn maker 6 Celebration time 7 Fall on __ ears 8 Choice piece 9 Singer K.T. 10 Judged, with “up” 11 Waters off Taiwan 12 Cargo unit 13 Cheney and Biden: Abbr.

18 Lost one’s temper 19 Sumac of Peru 23 Glimpse 24 __-Pei 26 Golfer Johnson 27 Antlered animal 30 Neighbor of Kobe and Kyoto 33 Mule parent 34 “Sammy the Seal” author Hoff 35 Cat burglar 36 Bon mot 37 Illicit

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38 Google goals 39 Minn. neighbor 40 Scale notes 43 Hit the road 45 Like many a John Cage composition 46 Largest of New York’s Finger Lakes 47 Comely 49 Butler of fiction

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50 Ornamental pond fish 51 Draws the short straw, say 53 Justice Kagan 55 Lasting mark 57 Lots of ozs.

58 Keogh plan kin 59 Ottoman dignitary 60 Sci-fi sidekick, often

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I date a fair amount, but I usually don’t have a boyfriend. Recently, one of my friends told me that I’m too picky and that if I want to be in a relationship, I need to lower my standards. I was really surprised and a little hurt to hear that.

I always thought that I just had good taste and a good sense of what I want in a relationship, but now I’m not sure.

Maybe I am too picky. I mean, I did once break up with a guy because I couldn’t stand how hairy he was.

—Unreasonable Expectations?

Never Surrender!

Forget what your insensitive chums tell you — you know what you like better than anybody else. There’s nothing the matter with knowing what you want out of your partner. It’s worth wondering if you’re potentially being shallow, as in the case of the hairy gent, but if you view a problem as insurmountable to true intimacy, why not break it off?

I wouldn’t worry about you having too high a standard — rather, you may be writing off certain candidates too soon without getting to know them. If your parameters are so strict from the outset, you could be missing those diamond-inthe-rough boys who, with a quick polish, are crown jewel-worthy.

I hate the fact that people are content to “settle” or even endorse “settling.” Being ready to love someone, warts and all, shouldn’t mean some drastic compromise. I’d rather be single than mired in a relationship that clearly won’t work out.

Take your time and drown out the haters.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My boyfriend of two months broke up with me via text. About a week later, he was Facebook official with someone else. I think he may have been cheating on me, and I’m really shocked. I never suspected anything when we were together. Should I confront him about it?

—Spurned

Backstabbed,

All I find myself thinking about is that great song from the O’Jays, “Back Stabbers.” Here’s some dude, smilin’ in your face while courting some other gal. “Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist / Aimin’ straight at your back / And I don’t think they’ll miss.” He sure didn’t miss.

Point I’m getting at is this guy is a total cop-out wimp. I imagine somebody who looks like the Scumbag Roommate meme. I mean, he broke up with you via text. Really? That’s just poor form.

I’d be hesitant to confront him about cheating, because he may have just realized it wasn’t going to work out because there was someone else who intrigued him romantically. However, a week’s turnaround does seem awful quick. But even if he was cheating, would confronting him help you in any way? It’d probably just twist you up one way or another when you should be doing your darnedest to forget this bum.

Consider the duration of your relationship as well. Two months isn’t all that long. Were you guys on the same page about your relationship status?

Maybe he never really considered himself your boyfriend.

—Dr. Date

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For orchards, apple season lasts all year Pepin Heights Orchard works year-round to grow Universitydeveloped apples.

BY JULIA MARSHALL jmarshall@mndaily.com

As fall draws to a close, so does the apple har vesting season at Pepin Heights Orchards.

In early November, Dennis Courtier can be found packing up apples at his Lake City, Minn., orchard and getting them ready to ship throughout the Midwest.

Pepin Heights Orchards and many others across the state depend ever y fall on apple varieties developed at the University of Minnesota, their busiest time of the year. But for orchards, apple season never really ends.

In spring, orchard workers bring in bees to pollinate the apple tree blossoms. During winter, crews prune the trees daily.

“Any day that it’s above zero, we’ll be out pr un-

ing,” said Cour tier, Pepin Heights’ owner and president.

But in fall, he said workers at Pepin Heights busy themselves determining which of the orchard’s 50 to 100 different apple varieties will sell best.

“It sounds so simple and straightforward. But at the end of the day, we never forget that apples are food,” Courtier said. “They have to taste good, and they have to have great texture, and it’s got to be a variety that we think is significantly better than something else that’s out there on the market now.”

Different apple varieties ripen at different times in the har vest season, which star ts around the end of August and ends by November.

Cour tier said workers keep busy because new varieties ripen throughout the season. At Pepin Heights, har vesters take their time and attend to details like clipping the stems out of each apple, he said.

The har vested apples are stored until they are sent to grocer y stores. At

GROWING APPLES BY SEASON

SPRING

Trees come into blossom, bees are moved into the orchard to pollinate the flowers, new trees are planted and old ones are taken out.

SUMMER

General orchard maintenance - pest management and continuous mowing in the orchards.

FALL

Apples ripen at different times.

After they are ripe, the apples get harvested, washed and packed into boxes for shipping to grocery stores.

WINTER

Around late November, workers start pruning the trees. They do this throughout winter each day temperatures are above 0 degrees.

SOURCE: DENNIS COURTIER, APPLES.UMN.EDU

some orchards, apples are typically picked and packed up for shipping in less than two weeks, Courtier said.

Pepin Heights is a large orchard by Minnesota standards but is average to small on a national scale.

“We grow more apples than any other orchard in the state by quite a chunk,” he said. “But by Midwestern standards, we’re just sort of average size. By Washington

state standards, we’re really quite small.”

Pepin Heights grows and sells seven apple varieties.

Five of them were developed at the University, including the popular Honeycrisp.

University apple breeder David Bedford said Honeycrisp apples have a homestate advantage in Minnesota because they were specifically developed by researchers to grow well in colder

climates.

Bedford said the older apple varieties researchers used to create Honeycrisp offered new tastes for consumers.

“There were some wonderful genes for texture and flavor that [other apples] didn’t have,” Bedford said.

University researchers first developed Honeycrisp apples in 1960, and they’ve since become one of the

most sought-after varieties in the industr y.

James Luby, a University hor ticultural science professor and apple researcher, said it’s rare to create an apple as popular as the Honeycrisp.

“Seldom do really blockbuster apples come around like Honeycrisp,” Luby said, “but if you’re fortunate, you may get one in your lifetime.

Egyptian court upholds Muslim Brotherhood ban

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — A cour t in Egypt upheld Wednesday an earlier ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated,

the state news agency reported. The decision moves for ward the complicated process of the government taking control of the Islamist group’s far-reaching social network and its finances.

The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters rejected the Brotherhood’s appeal to suspend the Sept. 23 ruling that ordered the group’s assets confiscated and its activities banned.

The sweeping September verdict was viewed as a legal pretext for the interim authorities to move against assets owned or administered

by Brotherhood members, including schools, hospitals,

charities, and businesses.

It is part of a wider government crackdown against the group following the popularly backed coup in July that removed President Mohammed Morsi, a Broth-

erhood member and Egypt’s first elected leader after the 2011 fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.

Senior leaders have been arrested, and many of them sent to trial on a number of charges, including Morsi himself.

His trial began Monday on charges of incitement to murder.

Egypt’s militar ybacked authorities for med a committee on Oct.2 to review the Brotherhood assets but have not moved against its finances.

Outlawed for most of its 85-year existence — with successive regimes alternating between repression and tolerance — the Brotherhood built its networks largely underground. That made it difficult for authorities to track, since many institutions were registered under individuals’ names.

Br other hood lawyer Osama el-Helw said the group will file another appeal against Wednesday’s ruling, but this appeal unlike the first will not suspend implementation of the ban unless it is accepted by a court. It is also unlikely to reverse the initial ruling, legal experts said.

Ahmed Ragheb, an independent rights lawyer, said the decision has legal flaws: It comes from the wrong court and its guidelines for a government monitoring Brotherhood assets are unclear.

Technically, Wednesday’s verdict allows the government to move in on the group’s assets. The committee that includes judicial, security and intelligence officials has started to do an inventory of the group’s finances.

The gover nment has come under pressure from politicians and public figures to fast-track the financial crackdown on the group, blaming the government-formed committee of stalling on implementing the court ruling. On Wednesday, the Cabinet asked the committee to issue regular reports about its work.

The leftist Tagammu party, which filed the case demanding the banning of the group, said the new ruling should give the authorities the green light to move.

“The government must take urgent measures to implement the cour t r uling ... and prove it is serious about implementing the law,” Hani el-Husseini, a Tagammu member, told the of ficial MENA news agency.

El-Helw said the government has already violated due process by forming the committee and allowing it to begin its work while the group had filed for suspension of ruling.

“We will pursue legal means. Let the law be the arbiter,” el-Helw said.