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U argues at Brenny trial Attorneys called on men’s golf coach John Carlson to testify for the U.

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Riverside Plaza was recently honored with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary’s Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation.

The historic apartment complex was honored for renovations, but tenants say problems persist.

BY ALEX BITTER abitter@mndaily.com

The award comes about a year after Sherman completed a $132 million reno-

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BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a person of interest in Monday’s alleged armed robbery in Anderson Hall.

University police sent a campus-wide email Wednesday containing security camera stills showing a man running through Blegen Hall one minute after the incident.

The robber y put the campus on aler t Monday amid repor ts the suspect

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BY NICHOLAS STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com

Many University of Minnesota students illegally download music and movies, despite the risk of harsh penalties.

But students who use the University’s Internet to download pirated media could have their Internet blocked. If they use the copyrighted material for financial gain, they could pay a fine of up to $500,000 or spend up to five years in prison.

Chemical engineering freshman Sabrina GoetzPadilla said she doesn’t pirate music but knows a lot

had a gun. Police told students, faculty and staf f to seek shelter while they searched. The suspect got away, and the shelter-inplace order was lifted.

That evening, University police sent a campus-wide email with a security camera image of a man police said they believed to be the suspect. Wednesday’s email said the man had since been identified and cleared of any wrongdoing.

The man approached police after realizing he was a suspect, University police Chief Greg Hestness said.

During the search, Hestness said he quickly realized that the victim’s deu See ANDERSON Page 7 The University sent 68,000 text alerts Monday afternoon.

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Piracy is common, not monitored by U However, students can still face harsh penalties from copyright holders.

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The man was seen running through Blegen Hall after the incident.

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u See BRENNY Page 6 Carlson called his relationship with Harris “uncomfortable.”

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project on West Bank.

The federal government

On Wednesday afternoon, attorneys for former University of Minnesota associate women’s golf coach Katie Brenny closed their case in the discrimination lawsuit against the University’s Board of Regents and former Director of Golf John Harris.

The University’s head men’s golf coach, John Carlson, a witness for the de-

fense, and a human resources consultant who served as a witness for the prosecution gave conflicting testimonies Wednesday about Harris’ treatment of Brenny. The lawsuit, filed by Brenny nearly three years ago, alleges that Harris restricted her coaching duties upon discovering she was a lesbian.

The trial star ted last Monday.

According to the complaint, Harris prohibited Brenny from giving instructions to golfers and limited her contact with nonfreshman athletes. She also wasn’t allowed to travel with the team.

of people who do. Illegal downloading doesn’t seem to be strictly monitored, she said.

“The people who monitor that have better things to do,” she said.

University law professor Tom Cotter, who specializes in copyright law, said national agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation aren’t typically looking for illegal downloads.

“Normally, it’s up to the copyright owner to enforce it,” he said.

Kinesiology junior Drew Markwor th said he occasionally pirates music.

“I just don’t want to pay for it,” he said. “It’s not like I have a lot of money, so I might as well just get it where I can.” u See PIRACY Page 5 The Office for Student Conduct can discipline students for piracy.

When belts tighten, U saves space In lieu of new funding, the U gets creative with old buildings.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

An old vacant dairy barn went unused on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus for years, but because of a high demand for space, it was renovated to meet the school’s needs.

The University is renovating old spaces to utilize every square foot and maximize costs after funding to renovate buildings fell through at the state Legislature in May. “We realize that we can’t continue to keep up with the cost of aging buildings that we have, much less do that and build a whole bunch of new buildings,” said Monique MacKenzie, the University’s depar t-

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A view of the interior of the Learning and Environmental Sciences building on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus.

mental director of capital planning and project management, “so we’re working ver y hard to use what we have first.”

After a renovation in 2007, the old bar n now houses the College of

Ve t e r i n a r y M e d i c i n e ’ s 12,000-square-foot center filled with classrooms, offices and common areas.

“We didn’t have a need for a barn facility, but we did have a need for this educational facility,” CVM

Chief Financial and Operations Officer Paula Buchner said.

Because of the decrease u See SPACE Page 5 Renovations can maximize space and cut maintenance costs.

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On a more hopeful front, a company on Wednesday reported encouraging results from its first human tests of a possible vaccine against a different type of bird flu that has been spreading through Asia since first appearing in China last spring that is feared to have pandemic potential.

The woman, 20, was hospitalized in May with a lung infection. After being treated with Tamiflu and antibiotics, she was released. One of her throat swabs was sent to the Taiwan Centres for Disease Control. Experts there identified it as the H6N1 bird flu, widely circulating in chickens on the island.

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BEIRUT — Failure to reach a deal between Iran and world powers over Tehran’s nuclear program could lead to a war in the Middle East, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said Wednesday.

A successful conclusion of current talks over the disputed program however would strengthen the Islamic Republic and its allies in the region, said Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, whose group is backed by Iran and Syria.

Talks between Iran and six world powers — the U.S., France, Russia, China, the United Kingdom and Germany — ended over the weekend without an agreement on a preliminary deal that would have set the stage for broader talks. Diplomats said talks broke down in part because the international powers refused to formally recognize Iran’s right to enrich uranium.

Iran insists it is not pursuing a bomb and only wants to enrich uranium for energy and medical applications.

Negotiations are due to resume in Geneva on Nov. 20.

In exchange for nuclear concessions from Iran, the U.S. and world powers are offering Tehran limited and reversible relief from economic sanctions that have strained its economy.

“Regarding Iran’s nuclear program, they will either reach an agreement or disagree and the situation heads to war,” Nasrallah told hundreds of supporters in a rare public appearance in a giant hall south of Beirut to attend a Shiite Muslim religious ceremony.

“If war breaks out, everyone should be worried but others should be worried more than us,” Nasrallah said.

Libyan protesters shut down oil refinery

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Scores of Libyan protesters on Wednesday shut down an oil refinery in the country’s east to demand jobs they claim were promised for 1,000 people, a state-owned oil company official said.

The closure is the latest disruption to hit the country’s troubled economy in recent months, after militias seized a series of oil and gas terminals, severely cutting production and sapping much-needed state revenue.

The protesters blocked entrances to the offices of The Arabian Gulf Oil company, a branch of the state-owned National Oil Corporation, in the eastern port city of Tobruk, the official said. They also blocked a road intersection leading to the refinery and forced the administration to halt production of fuel and natural gas destined for local consumption, he added.

Since the summer, militias have closed Tobruk’s main al-Hariga terminal and four other oil export terminals in the country’s east, demanding semi-autonomous status for the region that produces the majority of Libya’s oil.

Local militias this past week split into two factions, one of which struck an agreement with the government to reopen the terminals within a week. But with another faction unsatisfied, it is unclear whether the ports will remained blocked.

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Since the militias began blocking oil production last summer, Libya’s output has plummeted to only a few hundred thousand barrels per day, from a previous 1.4 billion barrels.

The government says the closure costs the state some $130 million a day.

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clinic CEHD decreases textbook Philippines overrun with costs by giving out iPads typhoon victims The college uses open textbooks because its students have tablets.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

After three years of testing out iPads in University of Minnesota freshmen classes, the College of Education and Human Development has found surprising new ways to save students money.

Other colleges nationwide are reaching out to CEHD for guidance with open textbooks — free, open-source, peer-reviewed publications — which the college implemented while it searched for ways to use

the iPads.

Since last year, 11 CEHD faculty members have used open textbooks for their courses. CEHD information technology director Dave Ernst estimated the switch saved students $145,000 over three semesters.

The University’s library houses 140 open textbooks, Ernst said, which more than 178 countries have used.

“It’s gone way beyond the University,” he said.

This week, Er nst received a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to help other schools implement open textbooks.

Although schools across the nation are interested in the program, Ernst said the University hasn’t been as re-

ceptive to open textbooks.

“There are a lot of questions,” he said. “When you’re choosing academic materials … it’s a sensitive thing with faculty, because they really care about their textbooks and the course materials for their students, and they want them to be the best.”

The Minnesota House of Representatives introduced a bill advocating open educational resources last legislative session, but it failed.

Students and faculty are also divided on whether the iPads, which are funded with private donations, should remain in CEHD. The college spent $216,000 to give 440 iPads to incoming freshmen in 2011.

Ernst said the college will

continue distributing iPads to freshmen for at least the next year.

In an email, Of fice for eLearning director Bob Rubinyi said the Provost’s office isn’t pursuing initiatives to give iPads to the University as a whole.

A CEHD survey showed that students generally used their iPads for classwork, but some students say they’re unnecessary.

Family social science sophomore Zac Henderson said he wasn’t aware of the open textbooks and rarely uses his iPad. “It can be helpful for people who like to look at lecture notes online,” he said. “For me, I think writing down in pencil and paper is most effective.”

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Freshman CEHD student Andrea Harpestad uses her University-provided iPad to read and highlight a text while typing a related assignment on a computer Wednesday.

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TACLOBAN, Philippines — A run-down, single-story building with filthy floors at Tacloban’s ruined airport has become the area’s main medical center for victims of last week’s powerful typhoon. It has little medicine, virtually no facilities and very few doctors.

What it is not short of are patients.

Hundreds of injured people, pregnant women, children and the elderly have poured into the squat, white building behind the control tower since Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the eastern Philippines on Friday, killing thousands. Doctors who have been dealing with cuts, fractures and pregnancy’ complications said Wednesday they soon expect to be treating more serious problems such as pneumonia, dehydration, diarrhea and infections.

The medical woes add to the daunting tasks for authorities, including dealing with looters and clearing the bottlenecks holding up thousands of tons of aid material from coming in.

“The priority has got to be, let’s get the food in, let’s get the water in. We got a lot more come in today, But even that won’t be enough, We really need to scale up operation in an ongoing basis,” U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos told reporters after touring Talcoban, the capital of Leyte province. Her office has released $25 million in emergency relief fund, accounting for a chunk of the millions of dollars pledged by countries around the world.

The World Food Program distributed rice and other items to nearly 50,000 people in the Tacloban area Wednesday, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

While the cogs of what promises to be a massive in-

ternational aid effort are beginning to turn, they are not quick enough for the 600,000 people displaced, many of them homeless, hungry and thirsty.

With the Tacloban airport battered and roads made impassable by debris, very little aid has arrived in the city.

Most of it is stuck in Manila and the nearby airport of Cebu, a 45-minute flight away.

Many among the desperate residents have resorted to raiding for food. Mobs overran a rice warehouse on Leyte, collapsing a wall that killed eight people.

Thousands of sacks of the grain were carted off. Also Wednesday, security forces exchanged gunfire with an armed gang.

Tacloban Mayor Alfred Romualdez urged residents to flee the city because local authorities were having trouble providing food and water and maintaining order, The New York Times reported.

He said the city desperately needed trucks to distribute relief shipments accumulating at the airport as well as equipment to pull decaying corpses from the rubble.

Despite those incidents, police said the situation was improving.

“We have restored order,” said Carmelo Espina Valmoria, director of the Philippine National Police special action force. “There has been looting for the last three days, but the situation has stabilized.”

With the local police force unable to operate — most were victims — the government r ushed thousands of soldiers and 600 policemen from other parts of the country. The security forces, including army engineers, are helping clear roads and remove the dead, many of them on roadsides. A 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew was in place.

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Court rehears race-admissions case

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AUSTIN, Texas — A federal appeals cour t asked lawyers for the University of Texas on Wednesday to explain how they would decide when af firmative action for minority students is no longer necessar y as it considered a lawsuit seeking to eliminate the school’s current policy.

The 5th Circuit Cour t of Appeals is rehearing the case of Abigail Fisher, a white woman who in 2008 was not admitted to the University of Texas at Austin because she did not graduate in the top 10 percent of her high school class — the criterion for 75 percent of the school’s admissions. The school also passed her over for a position among the remaining 25 percent, which is reser ved for special scholarships and people who meet a formula for personal achievement that

includes race as a factor.

The 5th Circuit Cour t of Appeals originally ruled in favor of the university, but the U.S. Supreme Court ordered it to rehear the case because the appeals court didn’t properly follow case law. The Supreme Court has said that a university may use af firmative action only when there is no other workable solution to bring about diversity, and only until minorities reach a critical mass on campus.

No one with Fisher’s GPA was admitted in 2008, but Fisher’s attorneys argued that enough minorities attend the university that race should no longer be a factor.

“There are alternative ways that do not use race to achieve similar results,” Ber t Rein, who represented Fisher said. “When you label ever ybody by race, that is what concerns the Supreme Cour t. It’s an odious thing. We have an

equal protection clause that says ever yone should be considered on their own merits.”

B u t t h e u n i v e r s i t y, which has about 48,000 undergraduate students, said it has made progress in minority enr ollment only because of race-based criteria and that minorities still are not yet sufficiently r epr esented in all col leges. Attor ney Gregor y Garre told the cour t that the university has not yet reached what the Supreme Cour t in past decisions has called a “critical mass” of minority students.

The Supr eme Cour t has r uled quotas unconstitutional and has defined critical mass as when minority students do not feel like tokens, the cultural climate on campus accepts minorities and college officials believe classrooms are suf ficiently diverse to provide an educational benefit to all students.

The challenge to the

Texas plan gained traction in par t because the makeup of the Supreme Cour t has changed since the last time the justices r uled on af firmative action in higher education in 2003.

Then, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote the majority opinion that held that colleges and universities can use race in their quest for diverse student bodies.

O’Connor r etir ed in 2006, and her r eplacement, Justice Samuel Alito, has shown himself to be more skeptical of considerations of race in education.

Judge Emilio Garza noted that in sending the case back, the Supreme Court ordered the appeals judges to apply a strict standar d to deter mine that critical mass, a question that occupied much of Wednesday’s discussion.

Gar re said statistics showing how few minorities fill each classroom demonstrate the univer-

When belts tighten, University saves space

sity has not reached that point, but offered no numbers for what a critical mass might look like.

Judge Patrick Higginbotham asked if the entire admissions policy — the top 10 percent rule and the personal achievement index — should be considered. He pointed out that the Texas Legislature made the top 10 percent r ule to achieve racial diversity and that the state’s school districts ar e largely segr egated and var y dramatically in terms of student per formance. He suggested this cr e at es a n ad m i s s i o n s system that might favor underper forming minorities in poor schools while hur ting high per for ming minorities in wealthy schools.

University President Bill Powers said the policy is the only way to ensure diversity at the school, which has a histor y of racial discrimination.

Syrian civil war prompts polio vaccinations

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LISA PERSSON, DAILY

A view of the interior of the Learning and Environmental Sciences building on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus.

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in state funding for building projects at the University in recent years, the atmosphere is drastically dif ferent than it was a decade ago, MacKenzie said.

Last legislative session, a nearly $110 million bonding bill failed, leaving constr uction projects across campus unfunded, including $35 million for renovation and upkeep of existing buildings.

The 2014 capital request asks for $233 million from the state to improve and build campus buildings. If the state Legislature approves it come May, the request would fund six construction projects across the five-campus system.

For one of the projects, the University is asking for more than $56 million from the state to renovate the Tate Laborator y of Physics.

MacKenzie said that by completing the project, the University would be able to save space across campus, creating a domino effect.

Once Tate is renovated, faculty housed in Pillsbur y

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Markwor th uses YouTube-to-MP3 conver ters to download music, and he said he doesn’t think they’re illegal.

Cotter said the legality of these converters is unclear.

If the music’s owner didn’t upload the material, then downloading it is always unlawful. But the law isn’t clear on the legality of downloading music that someone lawfully posted on YouTube.

Of fice of Information Technology Chief Informa-

Hall will move to Tate Lab, leaving Pillsbur y open for new occupants from the College of Liberal Ar ts, she said.

Other colleges face similar space limitations.

This summer, the Animal Science and Veterinar y Medicine Building refurbished an unused classroom that was scattered with wooden cubicles to meet the demand for group space.

“We can’t af ford to do completely new buildings, and we don’t have excess space in the college, so when we want to upgrade something, we need to renovate it,” Buchner said.

The $900,000 project funded by the college transformed the outdated room into a classroom that can support new technology, she said. The space can host more types of classes than before, Buchner said.

Besides maximizing the available square footage, renovations can also potentially cut maintenance costs.

When the University revamps a building, Buchner said, energy management controls and equipment are installed and upgraded, which reduces overall operating costs.

From storage to research center

tion Of ficer Brian Dahlin said the University doesn’t monitor student Internet usage, but students can still be caught pirating.

Dahlin said OIT routinely receives notifications from organizations that believe University users are violating their copyrights.

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires the University to accept notifications of copyright infringement. Under the DMCA, the copyright holder can sue an illegal downloader for damages.

The copyright owner tracks the misuse to the University through the IP

address and sends a notification to OIT, Dahlin said, and OIT notifies the student via email. If the student doesn’t respond, the University could block his or her Internet access until they do.

If the student was pirating, OIT could refer the case to the Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity, which decides on discipline.

Cotter said the copyright holders typically monitor for infringement themselves, but some larger groups will contract an outside company to protect their copyrights.

Sophomore Mary Streiff

The University uses the Learning and Environmental Sciences Building on the St. Paul campus to showcase a unique way to maximize space in a money crunch.

The intricate building houses eight dif fer ent depar tments, including six College of Education and Human Development units.

Kelly Valusek, communications coordinator for the STEM Education Center located in the LES building, said the building had space open up as other depar tments moved out in recent years, which caused continuous renovation.

In 2009, for example, two CEHD units moved into the building’s unoccupied areas after the college under went restr ucturing in 2005 that left it with less space, according to the college’s website.

“They do a crazy job at changing a space that used to be a storage warehouse kind of space into something that is now state-of-the-ar t research obser vations rooms and conference rooms,” she said.

Just this month, a new lab space opened in the basement of the LES building. “ We ’ r e r e a r r a n g i n g , moving stuf f non-stop,” Valusek said.

UNUSED SPACE AT THE UNIVERSITY

2002 671,000 ASF unused space out of 16.3 million overall ASF

2012 254,000 ASF unused space out of 18.1 million overall ASF

Note: Numbers are system-wide ASF: Assignable square footage SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OFFICE OF CAPITAL PLANNING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT

said she doesn’t illegally download music but thinks it’s pretty common.

“I’m pretty sure like 98 percent of people do it,” she said.

Streif f said free music streaming sites like Pandora can reduce piracy and make money for the artist.

Cotter said piracy is still common, but it’s easier to legally download and listen to music now.

“There are more ways today than there were 10 years ago to download music lawfully, and I think that’s made some inroads in discouraging people from doing it unlawfully,” he said.

“Prior to the introduction of the admissions p o l i cy b ei n g d efen d ed today, the university saw the number of minority enrollments drop precipitously or stagnate, despite more targeted recruiting, increased scholarships, the use of socio-economic factors in holistic review, and the introduction of the top 10 percent law,” Powers said after the hearing.

Fisher, though, said she was fighting to end discrimination based on ethnicity.

“I am going to fight for other people’s rights,” said Fisher, who has since graduated from Louisiana State University.

The cour t, nor mally based in New Orleans, chose to hold a rare hearing in Austin, where the university is based and Fisher lives. Appeals courts may choose to meet anywhere within their district.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Health officials are rushing to vaccinate millions of children from Egypt to Turkey, fearing a polio outbreak in Syria could spread as tens of thousands of refugees flee the civil war.

The of ficials want to reach all children under 5 years old in seven vulnerable places: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, Turkey and Syria, about 22 million in all.

The $30 million campaign by the U.N. and Arab health of ficials seeks to inoculate even those who already may have been vaccinated against the highly contagious virus that can paralyze or kill.

“There is no choice: ever ybody has to be vaccinated. It’s not a matter of ‘I want to,’ (or) ‘I don’t want to.’ No. With polio there is no cure, you have nothing but prevention,” said Soha Boustani of the U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF. The scramble to vaccinate is palpable in neighboring Lebanon because of the sheer number of refugees over whelming the health care system.

This week, hundreds of health workers and volunteers were fanning out across Lebanon — especially in its vulnerable slums — of fering free vaccinations and hoping to reach the countr y’s half-million children under age 5.

U.N. officials established new vaccination points across Lebanon’s eastern and northern borders with Syria to catch children before they cross. Radio spots urge parents to vaccinate their children in local clinics.

The four-day campaign was due to end Tuesday but was extended until Friday because of the need to knock on nearly every door, said a Lebanese health official, speaking condition of anonymity because she wasn’t allowed to talk to reporters.

Another vaccination campaign will start in December, health of ficials said.

Syrian refugees in Lebanon said officials ordered them to bring their children for vaccination as a compulsor y step to renewing U.N. identity cards entitling them to aid, but U.N. officials denied that.

“We heard on the television that we have to vaccinate the children,” said Ghufran Turun, a 28-yearold mother of three, at a U.N. center in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, where dozens of families waited on rows of plastic chairs.

Tur un’s mother-in-law clutched her unvaccinated granddaughter, 2-monthold Loujain, while Turun’s

4-year-old son, Zein alAbedeen, had to be revaccinated.

Nearby, two other girls worriedly clung to their father as they waited. Their brown eyes widened as their mother handed their toddler brother — too young to know what was happening — to a nurse who swiftly injected him as he cried in pain and surprise. The little girls inched closer to their father.

The polio vaccine is usually administered orally but the U.N. also was offering injections against measles, rubella and chicken pox.

Inside Syria, in areas beset by fighting, health officials were trying to reach children in mobile clinics, UNICEF said.

The campaign began after the World Health Organization, a U.N. agency, confirmed 10 polio cases in the northeastern Syrian province of Deir al-Zour in November. On Monday, another three children in the area were found to have the virus.

The WHO also found strains of the virus in sewage samples in Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian territories. Although Arab countries traditionally have high immunization rates of about 90 percent, tens of thousands of children were seen as vulnerable, said Mike Ryan, WHO’s polio response coordinator.

The polio vaccinations did not guarantee full protection, which is why millions had to be inoculated again, Ryan said.

The campaign underscores how one ef fect of Syria’s three-year conflict — the collapse of its medical system in some areas — has rippled through the region.

Syria’s 90 percent vaccination rate plummeted to 68 percent during the civil war, leaving a half-million children without inoculations, the U.N. estimated.

The children are among the 4 million Syrians who have fled to other parts of their country and the 2 million who have left it entirely.

Lebanon is par ticular at risk, Ryan said, with 1.4 million Syrians pouring into the country in the past two years — a mix of refugees and immigrants.

The poorest crowd into apar tments, unfinished buildings, storefronts and about 40 tin-shack slums, the U.N. said, and many have no running water or sewage systems. Polio is usually spread by food and drink contaminated with feces.

Tur un and her family are among those poorest of refugees. They live with other relatives in a room of an apar tment under constr uction, with no toilet, r unning water or power.

They use bricks to block gaping holes in the wall.

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Some students, alumni and groups shun nuclear Despite a recent push for nuclear power, some prefer investment in renewable energy.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

Despite a recent push from scientists to create safer nuclear power, some University of Minnesota students, alumni and environmental groups don’t think it’s worth the time and money.

Four top climate scientists wrote letters earlier this month urging environmental groups and policy leaders to support development of safer nuclear energy to cut fossil fuel emissions, the Associated Press reported. But some locals disagree, saying priority should be given to renewable energy development.

Renewable energy sources alone won’t be able to cut fossil fuel production fast enough, the scientists said.

Nuclear generators create heat by splitting uranium atoms instead of burning fossil fuels like coal, natural gas or oil. But the resulting waste is often stored underground, making some local environmentalists concerned about the waste’s toxicity and radioactivity.

“I’m not sure that safe nuclear power exists,” said Rob Sargent, who advises the energy program for Environment Minnesota.

Michelle Rosier, senior campaign and organizing manager at the Sierra Club’s Minneapolis-based Nor th

Star Chapter, said the club has long advocated against Minnesota building any new nuclear power plants.

Freshman and Fossil Free Minnesota member Noah Shavit-Lonstein said though nuclear power could be an option later, he’d like to see funds invested in wind or solar power before beforehand.

“Renewables should come first,” Shavit-Lonstein said.

Fossil Free member Roland Welter said exploring safer nuclear power is a good idea, but producers would need to be tightly monitored.

“If we don’t regulate them properly, they can produce disasters,” he said.

Recent University alumna Patty O’Keefe, an advisor to Fossil Free, said she has mixed feelings on nuclear energy development.

While some see nuclear as a bridge between fossil fuels and renewable sources, the decision to use it shouldn’t be taken lightly, she said.

“We do need to be considering bridge fuels, but we need to do it with extreme caution and care,” she said.

O’Keefe said bridge fuel research and examining the nation’s current energy consumption deserve equal funding.

“Research is great, but this nation’s been researching nuclear power since the 1940s” and it hasn’t been successful on a commercial scale, said Dan Endreson, program coordinator at Clean Water Action Alliance of Minnesota.

MINNESOTA’S NUCLEAR LANDSCAPE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS POTENTIAL NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL AREAS

MONTICELLO NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT generates about 600 megawatts PRAIRIE ISLAND NUCLEAR GENERATING PLANT generates about 1,100 megawatts

SOURCE: XCEL ENERGY, MINNESOTA CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY

Minnesota has potential for renewable energy, Endreson said, and there’s more value in studying renewable technologies that don’t come from the ground.

Minnesota is on the U.S. Department of Energy’s list of potential places to build nuclear waste repositor y sites.

Xcel Energy will continue using nuclear power for the next 20 years, along with wind, solar and hydropower resources, a statement from the company said.

In 1994, the state Legis-

lature passed a moratorium on building any new nuclear power plants.

Because nuclear plants produce energy constantly, Xcel doesn’t expect to need a new plant until about 2025, the statement said.

“We do think it would make sense to be able to consider nuclear power as one option among all the rest for meeting future energy needs, and that would require the moratorium to be lifted,” the Xcel statement said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Doctors told to get serious about obesity

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA — Next time you go for a checkup, don’t be surprised if your doctor gets on your case about your weight.

The medical profession has issued new guidelines for fighting the nation’s obesity epidemic, and they urge physicians to be a lot more aggressive about helping patients drop those extra pounds.

Doctors should calculate your body mass index, a weight-to-height ratio. And if you need to lose weight, they should come up with a plan and send you for counseling.

“We recognize that telling patients to lose weight is not enough,” said Dr. Donna Ryan, co-chair of the guidelines committee.

The good news? By next year, most insurance companies are expected to cover counseling and other obesity treatments, following in the steps of the Medicare program, which began paying for one-on-one help last year.

More than a third of U.S. adults are obese, and that’s

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Carlson had no such restrictions, according to the complaint.

Brenny resigned in October 2010 after ser ving only two months as associate coach.

Arlene Ver non, a human resources consultant from Eden Prairie, Minn., was hired by Brenny’s attorneys to investigate the University’s handling of Brenny’s complaints. Vernon presented a lengthy repor t Wednesday that alleged the University didn’t do enough to address the issues Brenny raised.

Ver non called restrictions placed on Brenny a “demotion,” saying she had been stripped of all

been the case since the middle of the last decade.

Of ficials define someone with a BMI of 30 or higher as obese. A 5-foot-9 person would be obese at 203 pounds.

Doctors are well aware that excess weight can trigger diabetes and lead to hear t disease and other health problems. Yet surveys have shown that only about a third of obese patients recall their doctor talking to them about their BMI or counseling them about weight loss.

The guidelines were released this week by a group of medical organizations that include the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology and the Obesity Society.

They come amid a spate of important developments in the fight against obesity.

Last year, the Food and Dr ug Administration approved two more obesityfighting dr ugs. And this year, the AMA labeled obesity a disease, a measure intended to get doctors to pay more attention to the problem and prod more insurers to pay for treatments.

Yet many people have been on their own when it comes to slimming down, left to sift through the myriad diets and exercise schemes that are promoted for weight loss. And most doctors have little training in how to help their obese patients, other than telling them it’s a problem and they need to do something about it.

“I feel for these guys,” said Dr. T im Church, a researcher at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center. “They have patients who come in and ask them about the latest fad diet. They’re not trained in this stuf f and they’re not comfor table” recommending particular diets or weight-loss plans.

The guidelines advise doctors to: — At least once year, calculate patients’ BMI, measure their waists and tell them if they are overweight or obese.

— Develop a weight-loss plan that includes exercise and moderate calorie-cutting.

— Consider recom-

mending weight-loss surger y for patients with a BMI of 40 or for those with a BMI of 35 who also have two other risk factors for heart disease such as diabetes or high blood pressure.

— Refer over weight and obese patients who are headed for heart problems to weight-loss programs.

Specifically, discuss enrolling them in at least 14 faceto-face counseling sessions over six months with a registered dietitian, psychologist or other professional with training in weight management.

Web or phone-based counseling sessions are considered a less effective option.

Diane LeBlanc said the new guidelines are overdue.

More than year ago, the Baton Rouge, La., woman sat down with her longtime family doctor to talk about her weight and get a referral for some kind of help. She had tried dieting without success for more than a decade, had high blood pressure and was about to hit a dress size of 20.

coaching responsibilities. She said Brenny also lost some coaching duties because she instr ucted a women’s golfer after Harris told her not to.

According to the complaint, Har ris allegedly gave more instruction responsibilities to former assistant coach Ernie Rose, who is also his son-in-law.

When Brenny voiced concer ns about the restrictions to former associate athletics director David Cr um, the University responded by altering her job description, according to the complaint.

The new description omitted the duty of “Ser ving as Associate Head Coach, Woman’s Golf,” according to the complaint.

An attorney representing the University asked both Vernon and Carlson if Brenny still received the same base salar y as Carlson, and both said she did.

Vernon said Crum conducted a mid-year evaluation of Harris and found serious issues with his per formance. Given the number of student and

employee complaints, she said, she was surprised the University did not discipline Harris.

Rose also received poor reviews, Vernon said, adding that some players felt unsafe around him.

Har ris also allowed Carlson to accompany him on recruiting trips, including one to Wisconsin in which he evaluated potential female recruits, according to Carlson’s crossexamination testimony.

In his testimony, Carlson said he found it odd that he was chosen to evaluate recr uits instead of someone on the women’s coaching staff.

Carlson said Har ris’ attitude toward Brenny changed for the worse after the 2010 Gopher Invitational — the first tournament of the year and the first major event Brenny was involved in.

Carlson said that’s when he found out Brenny could only have contact with freshmen. He also pointed out how Harris no longer seemed excited to have Brenny on his staff.

During cross-examination, Carlson said he never heard Har ris discuss Brenny’s sexual orientation or say anything offensive.

The trial will resume Thursday morning.

Defense opens its case

Following Vernon’s testimony, the defense called Carlson as its first witness.

Ca rl s on s a i d H a r ri s kept a ver y business-like atmospher e among his employees. He called his relationship with Har ris “uncomfor table,” saying Har ris gave him menial administrative tasks and was a poor communicator.

Carlson said that, like Brenny, his coaching responsibilities did not include instructing players.

“Har ris made it clear we were there to obser ve,” he said.

During cross-examination by Brenny’s attorney, Carlson said he was able to travel with his team. He also traveled once with the women’s team in spring 2011.

Organ donor’s request delays killer’s execution

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s governor delayed a condemned child killer’s execution on Wednesday to study the feasibility of accommodating the unusual request by a state death row inmate to donate his organs.

Gov. John Kasich’s decision came less than 24 hours before Ronald Phillips was scheduled to die for the rape and death of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter in Akron in 1993.

His lethal injection Thursday was to be the first time a new two-dr ug combination was tried in the U.S. In stopping the execution, Kasich said he wanted to allow time to study the request the 40-yearold inmate made Monday to see if a donation could help someone else. Phillips’ execution was reset to July 2.

Kasich said that if Phillips is found to be a viable donor to his mother, who has kidney disease and is on dialysis, or to others awaiting live transplants of non-vital organs, the stay would allow time for those procedures to be performed and for Phillips to be returned to death row.

Kasich said that while Phillips’ crime was heinous, his willingness to donate organs and tissue could save another life and the state should tr y to accommodate a donation.

“I realize this is a bit of unchar ted territor y for Ohio, but if another life can be saved by his willingness to donate his organs and tissues then we should allow for that to happen,” Kasich said in a statement.

Some 3,500 people in Ohio and more than 120,000 nationally are currently awaiting organ donations, said Marilyn Pongonis, a spokeswoman for the Lifeline of Ohio organ donation program.

Ohio’s prison medical policy accommodates organ donations, but prison officials cited logistics and security concerns in rejecting Phillips’ request Tuesday.

A spokeswoman said the department moved swiftly to evaluate the request but determined it was not equipped to accommodate

pre- or post-execution organ donations.

Phillips also wants to donate his heart to his sister, who suffers a heart ailment.

It appears that request would not be possible under the governor’s directive, since the heart is a vital organ and cannot be donated after death. The person must be alive when the organ is donated.

“It just wouldn’t be possible,” Pongonis said. “Organ donation occurs following brain death and the organs are maintained on a ventilator. When a prisoner is executed, the oxygen stops flowing, the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing.”

Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said Delaware death row inmate Steven Shelton was granted a request in 1995 to donate a kidney to his mother while in prison, though he was not facing imminent execution like Phillips.

“This step by the governor puts it into a more normal discussion of an inmate, without any security problems, can help save another person and is that the right thing to do,” he said.

“With 24 hours to go before an operation had to be carried out, it definitely gets in the way of that process.”

Vital organ donations raise larger ethical issues and have so far not been allowed during U.S. executions, Deiter said. They have occurred in China, he said.

Dieter, whose group opposes the death penalty, added: “If the whole idea is to save a life, there’s one life to be saved simply by not executing the person at all.”

Phillips made his request after the governor denied him mercy and Phillips had exhausted his other legal options. His attorney said it wasn’t a delay tactic but an attempt to do good.

The state had left it up to Phillips’ family whether the organs would be harvested after his death.

Phillips had been moved to Ohio’s death house Wednesday, but a prisons spokeswoman said he was being retur ned to death row immediately after Kasich’s stay was issued to await the assessment’s findings.

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New CFANS policies received well The college added three new policies in attempt to better prepare students for jobs.

BY ANNIE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

The College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences revamped its curriculum this semester to include three new requirements.

So far, most faculty members and students have responded positively to the changes, which relax credit requirements to allow CFANS students to take more classes outside their major and require new students to engage in more lear ning outside of the classroom.

With the new policies, C FA N S a d m i n i s t r a tor s

hope to better prepare students for the job market, said Jay Bell, CFANS associate dean of academic programs and faculty af fairs.

He said faculty members had an “unexpected” reaction to the policy changes.

“They identify themselves and identify their cur riculum where highimpact experiential learning and interdisciplinar y learning is something that they encourage,” he said.

“And I think they feel kind of proud about it.”

Professor Paul Por ter, chair of the Undergraduate Policy and Review Committee, said though there are both positive and negative aspects of the change, faculty members seem mostly pleased with the outcome.

One of the biggest changes in policy requires students to engage in at least one “experiential learning” oppor tunity be-

fore graduation, Bell said, which could include things like studying abroad or internships.

Many CFANS majors already require internships for graduation. Before the policy change, students could do other experiential learning, but of ficials changed the policy because advisers said some students weren’t getting all they could out of experiential programs, said Dan Gallaher, food science and nutrition professor.

Now, students will have more advising resources.

Gallaher said students will also have “preflection” and reflection meetings with advisers before and after the program.

Though Gallaher said he hasn’t seen pushback from students on this requirement, it’s too early to tell what student opinion will be.

In Venezuela, appliances crackdown spurs uncertainty

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

C A R A C A S , Ve n e z u ela — Even by Venezuela’s volatile standards, it’s been a difficult few days.

Basic staples such as flour and vegetable oil have gr own scar ce throughout the countr y, the currency is plunging in a thriving black market and inflation that’s already among the highest in the world is accelerating.

Amid so much unease, President Nicolas Maduro has settled on radical, and some say self-defeating, solutions. In recent days he’s ordered the militar y to take over appliance stores, which he’s told to slash prices, leading bargain hunters to form block-long lines across the country.

The populist measures seem designed to help Maduro’s party get over the hump of next month’s mayoral vote, its first electoral test since the president narrowly defeated opposition leader Henrique Capriles in April. But while the measures apparently are popular with voters, Maduro runs the risk of cannibalizing an already damaged economy.

Some analysts are now asking whether the late President Hugo Chavez’s socialist revolution has reached a point of no return, where what little private investment is left vanishes completely and Maduro has no choice but to fully embrace a statist model.

“It’s a ver y high-risk strategy,” said sociologist David Smilde, who has spent part of the past two decades teaching in Venezuela and is now a senior fellow at the U.S. think tank the Washington Office on Latin America. “If this week, it’s electronic stores,

then the automotive sector, and you keep doing this for the four weeks until elections, you could do some real damage to the economy.”

It’s hard to overstate the grim predicament the government and country face.

A lth o ugh Ve ne zue l a claims the world’s biggest proven oil reserves, the nation of 30 million is suffering shortages of everything from electricity to auto parts to medical equipment.

Nearly 73 percent of Venezuelans say they’re pessimistic about their countr y’s prospects, 20 points more than when Maduro was elected by a razor-thin margin that the opposition still disputes, according to a poll taken last month by the Venezuelan firm Datanalisis that was reported by local media. Another 67 percent see the countr y’s political situation as unstable.

Maduro has responded by appearing daily on TV to announce the confiscation of businesses he accuses of helping wage an “economic war” on Venezuela. Congress is expected to approve a bill as early as this week granting him special decree powers, which would give him authority to expand the crackdown.

Just recently, Maduro had been tr ying to woo investment.

The government eased investment rules for the oil industr y, the source of 95 percent of export revenue, and rolled out the red carpet for a new factor y by Swiss food giant Nestle.

Even while avoiding a politically costly devaluation of the countr y’s fixed-rate cur rency, Maduro’s government has supplied more dollars to local producers.

Now, analysts say, Maduro is scuttling that attempt at moderation, with the risk that confiscations and price

controls will prompt companies in more critical areas such as food and pharmaceuticals to freeze production.

“The biggest risk he faces is that fear becomes widespread,” said Luis Vicente Leon, the Caracasbased pollster for Datanalisis.

Yet the alternative for Maduro would be even worse: His candidates could get trounced in Dec. 8 elections, which would strengthen opposition attempts to force him out of office.

Leon said Madur o’s electoral strategy of slashing appliance prices while blaming unloved merchants for gouging consumers has so far seemed to work, providing a compelling political narrative that for the first time shows him in command.

The question is how long he’ll keep earning those political dividends. Earlier conspiracies floated by Maduro, such as an alleged assassination plot by the opposition and a secret plan to carr y out an “electrical coup” with power cuts, barely resonated with voters.

And the economy keeps getting worse by the day.

As a result of the emergency measures taken last week, the U.S. dollar shot up past 60 bolivars on the black market, 10 times its of ficial rate, while yields on the nation’s bonds jumped to a near two-year high.

“We know that if we don’t buy now there will be nothing left around Christmas,” said Mariza Bermejo, a 21-year-old housewife who had been standing in line for more than 24 hours outside a JVG appliance store in eastern Caracas to buy a refrigerator at a deep discount.

Bell said CFANS hopes the experiential learning program will encourage students to study outside of the United States.

“The big goal we have right now is we want to get at least 50 percent of our students doing some type of international or intercultural experience,” he said.

Another policy gives most CFANS students 21 credits to explore areas of interest outside their major.

Some won’t benefit from the policy change, like agricultural education majors, who can’t use the credits for dif ferent classes because they have to follow teacher licensure requirements.

With those credits, Bell said, students can have space to take classes they may not have been able to fit into their schedule before or put the credits toward a minor.

Tessa Ries, a plant science freshman who took PSEO courses at the University, said she thinks the credit freedom is beneficial.

But because of the difficulty of CFANS classes, she said, some students may see an opportunity to take classes they think are easier as a way to boost their GPA. “Students who are really determined to have a career when they graduate ... will definitely use those credits to their benefit,” Ries said. “But on the other hand, a lot of students will see those as a great opportunity to get their GPA back up.”

Fisheries, wildlife and conser vation biology senior Alex Halverson said he’s supportive of the credit policy and doesn’t think students will use the credits unwisely.

“I could see how it could go wrong and how students

could abuse it, but I don’t know that many will,” he said. “I think it’s a good idea.”

Bell also said he believes the increased flexibility will help them meet CFANS’ graduation rate goal. The college’s graduation rate is approaching the University’s overall goal of 60 percent, Bell said.

A third new policy will generate more than 20 new classes within the college, most of which will be interdisciplinary to correlate with the college’s goal of a more well-rounded education, Bell said.

There was initially some difficulty with defining an “interdisciplinar y” course, Bell said, and the college will continue to work with its current guidelines to better define them. But as of now, it considers about 15 courses interdisciplinary, Porter said.

Next generation of biofuels years away

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — The first trickle of fuels made from agricultural waste is finally winding its way into the nation’s energy supply, after years of broken promises and hype promoting a next-generation fuel source cleaner than oil.

But as refineries churn out this so-called cellulosic fuel, it has become clear, even to the industry’s allies, that the benefits remain, as ever, years away.

The failure so far of cellulosic fuel is central to the debate over corn-based ethanol, a centerpiece of America’s green-energy strategy. Ethanol from corn has proven far more damaging to the environment than the government predicted, and cellulosic fuel hasn’t emerged as a replacement.

“A lot of people were willing to go with corn ethanol because it’s a bridge product,” said Silvia Secchi, an agricultural economist at Southern Illinois University.

But until significant cellulosic fuel materializes, she said, “It’s a bridge to nowhere.”

Cellulosics were the linchpin of part of a landmark 2007 energy law that required oil companies to blend billions of gallons of biofuel into America’s gasoline supply. The quota was to be met first by corn ethanol and then, in later years, by more fuels made with non-food sources.

It hasn’t worked out.

“Cellulosic has been five years away for 20 years now,”

said Nathanael Greene, a biofuels expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

“Now the first projects are up and running, but actually it’s still five years away.”

Cellulosic makers are expected to turn out at most 6 million gallons of fuel this year, the government says.

That’s enough fuel to meet U.S. demand for 11 minutes.

It’s less than 1 percent of what Congress initially required to be on the market this year.

Corn ethanol is essentially as simple to make as moonshine but requires fossil fuels to plant, grow and distill. For that reason, it has limited environmental benefits and some drastic side effects.

Cellulosic biofuels, meanwhile, are made from grass, municipal waste or the woody, non-edible parts of plants — all of which take less land and energy to produce.

Cellulosics offer a huge reduction in greenhouse gases compared with petroleumbased fuels and they don’t use food sources.

In Vero Beach, Fla., for example, agricultural waste and trash are being turned into ethanol. In Columbus, Miss., yellow pine wood chips are being turned into gasoline and diesel. In Emmetsburg, Iowa, and Hugoton, Kan., construction is nearly complete on large refineries that will turn corncobs, leaves and stalks into ethanol.

But despite the mandate and government subsidies, cellulosic fuels haven’t performed. This year will be the fourth in a row the biofuels industry failed by large margins

to meet required targets for cellulosic biofuels.

“Has it taken longer than we expected? Yes,” acknowledges Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

The Obama administration’s annual estimates of cellulosic fuel production have proven wildly inaccurate. In 2010, the administration projected 5 million gallons would be available. In 2011, it raised the projection to 6.6 million.

Both years, the total was zero.

The administration defended its projections, saying it was trying to use the biofuel law as a way to promote development of cellulosic fuel. But the projections were so far off that, in January, a federal appeals court said the administration improperly let its “aspirations” for cellulosic fuel influence its analysis.

Even with the first few plants running, supporters acknowledge there is almost no chance to meet the law’s original yearly targets that top out at 16 billion gallons by 2022.

“It’s simply not plausible,” said Jeremy Martin, a biofuels expert at the Union of Concerned Scientists. “2030 is the soonest you can anticipate it to be at that level.”

The EPA is weighing how deeply to reduce targets for cellulosic fuels for next year and beyond. Biofuel supporters want higher targets to spur investment in new facilities. Opponents want low targets to reflect what’s available in the market and the chronic underperformance of cellulosic makers.

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2 more plead in Florida A&M University marching band hazing

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. — A former band member charged in the hazing death of a Florida A&M drum major pleaded no contest to manslaughter Wednesday and could become the first person to go to prison for his involvement in the beating.

Prosecutor Jeff Ashton described Jessie Baskin, 22, as being “most-consistently identified as the most enthusiastic” band member participating in the hazing ritual that led to Rober t Champion’ death. Baskin was beating Champion with his hands and feet, Ashton said.

A deal with prosecutors calls for Baskin to spend nine years in prison, though his attorneys can argue for a lighter punishment when a judge sentences him in February.

Champion collapsed and died in November 2011 after prosecutors said he walked down the aisle of a bus as other band members beat him with fists and instru-

ments. The bus was parked outside an Orlando hotel following a football game.

Also Wednesday, Harold Finley, 21, pleaded guilty to felony hazing. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors dropped manslaughter and misdemeanor hazing charges and he was sentenced to one-year of house arrest, four years of probation, 100 hours of community service and he must complete an anti-hazing course.

Judge Marc Lubet said the sentence would also be contingent on Finley graduating from a college he is enrolled in and continuing to cooperate with prosecutors.

“I want you to graduate from college and go and make something of yourself,” Lubet told Finley.

Ashton told the judge Finley par ticipated in the hazing of another band member the night Champion died, but he was only present for Champion’s hazing and did not hit him.

Six remaining defen-

dants also had their cases set for trial, but they will continue to discuss possible plea agreements.

Champion’s mother, Pam Champion, listened to Finley’s sentencing by phone. As she had done during previous sentencing hearings, she talked about what her family has been through.

“There is a time when you must really answer for what you have done,” she said, speaking to Finley.

“When that time comes, there will be no lawyers ...

It will just be you.”

Fifteen for mer band members were charged with manslaughter and hazing in Champion’s death.

Eight now ha v e a c cepted deals, with seven already sentenced to combinations of probation and community service.

Another defendant, Caleb Jackson, pleaded no contest to manslaughter in April, but has yet to be sentenced.

scription of the suspect, distributed to campus via text aler ts during the search, was too vague to be ver y useful.

“I ended up stopping a couple of guys, and within one or two, I kind of determined, ‘This is a very common description,’ ” he said.

University spokesperson Steve Henneberry said the school’s alert system sent more than 68,000 text messages giving students, faculty and staff updates Monday afternoon.

Though the system had some technical issues, Hestness said, it was “a pretty ef fective means of getting a message out.”

Hestness said police will increase patrols in the area following Monday’s robbery, and University police are working with other metro police depar tments to investigate several crimes that occurred on or near campus.

“We’re doing a tremendous amount of analysis,” he said.

Hestness said this fall’s crime is similar to past years, but students shouldn’t hesitate to call 911 if they feel they’re in

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University police Chief Greg Hestness addresses questions and concerns on Wednesday at UMPD headquarters regarding the alleged armed robbery in Anderson Hall on Monday.

danger.

Hestness said ther e have been 17 robberies in the campus area, including two that were on campus.

“When you’re tr ying to

tell [parents], ‘It’s all average and it used to be worse,’ it’s not a ver y comforting thing to say,” he said. “Statistically and in reality, our campus remains very, very safe.”

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POLITICS

EDITORIALS

The power of one

Expand Gopher Chauffeur

Malala Yousafzai’s story should empower each one of us.

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omen’s fashion magazine Glamour held its annual Women of the Year award show Monday. During her acceptance speech, Lady Gaga said she’d for feit her December cover of the magazine to Malala Yousafzai if she could.

Malala was named honoree of the Women of the Year fund, a campaign produced

by Glamour that will help support The Malala Fund.

The 16-year-old made international headlines last year when a member of the Taliban shot her in the head.

She miraculously sur vived.

The Taliban could not stop her from blogging about her life under their regime in Pakistan.

Malala began blogging for BBC’s Urdu site in 2009 using a fake name. She wrote blogs thinking that the Taliban “had never come for a girl,” not knowing what the group would later do to her.

SAM JASENOSKY columnist

United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon called Malala “a role model for the world.” She would have been the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient last month, but the award went to an international chemical weapons watchdog group instead.

Regardless, Malala embodies courage the world needs to know about.

Malala is proof words are powerful. After all, it was her blog the Taliban wanted to silence.

Malala also demonstrates that real change can star t with one person.

We’r e pr esented with monumental problems every day. Yet, it’s hard to believe there is anything we can do as individuals. Malala’s story

is evidence that it only takes one person to start change.

The first step towar d progress is recognizing the problem and creating an open dialogue. That’s what Malala did with her blog.

But Malala didn’t just talk about the problem; she risked her life to talk about the problem. Malala was dedicated to educating herself and young girls ever ywhere. The Taliban couldn’t stop her.

“Even if they come to kill me,” Malala said in an inter view with a Pakistani television network, “I will tell them that what they are tr ying to do is wrong — that education is our basic right.”

The situation for young girls’ education in Pakistan under the Taliban is grim.

The year Malala began blogging, only about 40 percent of girls age 15 and older in Pakistan were literate, though this number is rising.

The literacy rate in nor thern Pakistan among girls is only 6 percent, according to UNESCO. The dismal education situation in Pakistan is due to many factors, such as a

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 115,203- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,384 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

lack of resources and a poor economy.

“No one among the elite wants to oversee progressive change in Pakistan,” Pakistani rights campaigner Allah Dita Anjum said in an inter view with Financial Times. “Ever yone just wants to preserve the status quo.”

Malala’s braver y shook that status quo.

Her single action was felt worldwide, and it’s beginning to impact young girls.

The Malala Fund’s first grant will fund 40 girls’ education in the Swat Valley, an area in Pakistan with a huge Taliban influence.

W ithout Malala, those 40 girls wouldn’t receive an education.

I encourage us all to think about those 40 girls the next time we find ourselves against an issue that feels impossible.

If Malala’s single action star ted real change, then each of us can create change, too.

Sam Jasenosky welcomes comments at sjasenosky@mndaily.com.

RELIGION

Having faith in the progressive pope Pope Francis’ unprecedented survey may be a sign of progressive policies to come.

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Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Time for a campus safety discussion

Let me first say that I am beyond grateful the situation on Monday involving an armed man didn’t escalate into something much worse.

While our first and foremost concern should be making sure everyone is safe on our campus, I fear many will read this letter and initially feel that it’s “too soon” to raise serious questions about the campus weapons policy. I contend that it’s never too soon to talk about how people on campus can remain safe. If anything, it’s too late.

After a recent string of armed robberies on and near the University of Minnesota campus, it’s no surprise that people on campus feel less safe in our community. Unfortunately, because of an undoubtedly well-intended policy, even law-abiding citizens are restricted in their basic right to self-defense at the University.

How many of these horrifying school shootings and incidents will occur before we realize that these self-inflicted gun-free zones are doing nothing to protect the safety of students?

Instead, whenever such a situation arises, students are forced into panic as they have no real means of protecting themselves. The weapons policy leaves people at the University defenseless against those who wish to do them great harm.

As a law-abiding carr y permit holder licensed by the state of Minnesota, I personally feel safest when I possess a means of defending myself, which is when I carry. It is

when I am restricted of this human right that I feel terribly unsafe and unprotected.

It is the role of University administration to provide the student body with a safe environment for learning and development. Writing words in a Board of Regents policy that criminals don’t follow falls short of doing just that.

Like many others, I am sick and tired of being exposed to such danger. While I understand that my opinion is likely not that of the majority, I still urge all members of this community to understand that now is the time for a real campus discussion about safety.

Adam Motzko University student

What’s in a name?

Protestors recently rallied outside the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis against the Washington football team’s nickname, the Redskins.

The name change argument is central to the nation’s growth and supporting equality. However, those same activists have overlooked the name change of a city landmark that is similarly disparaging: Lake Calhoun.

Why focus on a national topic when you could try to fix something local?

Lake Calhoun is a city landmark named in honor of former Secretary of War, Vice President and S.C. Sen. John Calhoun. Calhoun promoted slavery and spent his political career fighting abolitionism.

Yet, we do nothing to change the name. We stand outside the Metrodome tak-

ing photos behind signs while Lake Calhoun’s name safely continues.

For living in this progressive city, I feel this name is an embarrassment. As citizens, we have a right to protect the idea of equality within our community, not just those of nationwide spectacles. For the past three years, since I found the true origin of the name of Lake Calhoun (thanks to Matthew Carhart, a history professor at Minneapolis Community and Technical College), I have seen nothing change.

Terry Niebeling University student

Nitrogen: It’s plant food

I am responding to Rolf Westgard’s Nov. 12 letter “CO2: It’s plant food.”

Regardless of what eutrophication alarmists think, I can simply note that nitrogen is also plant food. Thus, it is obviously great for us to allow tons of excess nitrogen from fertilizer to run off into the environment. Sure, that ignores rate-limiting resources, ecological changes and the fact that human land use has fundamentally changed the earth, but it’s a great catch phrase, isn’t it?

Just to be safe, I will say the stock market has generally trended upward throughout history to support my point. And it also must be OK to let huge amounts of nitrogen run off into the environment because there is nitrogen in human excrement.

Nicholas Goldsmith graduate student

lthough Pope Francis has only led the world’s smallest country since March, he’s on his way to becoming the LUIS RUUSKA most popular columnist pope yet.

From his inclusive statements about the LGBT and non-religious communities to his impromptu, picture-per fect moments with followers, the pope has captivated the hearts and minds of many inside — and outside — the Roman Catholic Church.

Now Francis may be striving for more than international appeal.

Francis tasked a group of bishops convening in Baltimore on Monday to make the Church more welcoming by surveying their dioceses.

This is an unprecedented move from the Vatican, which is known for its lack of new ideas. While Vatican leaders have the final vote on Church policies, feedback from Catholics could spur the papacy to modernize.

Francis’ 38-question sur vey raised eyebrows because it asks what the Church can do for people in same-sex unions with adopted children, those who are divorced or remarried, and non-practicing Catholics or non-believers. These are topics the Church has shoved under the rug in the past.

The Vatican left it up to bishops to decide how to best distribute the survey to their respective dioceses.

Bishops have until January 2014 to collect sur veys and send them to Rome for review.

I can’t help but appreciate the pope’s latest move as a sincere effort to bring the Church into the 21st century by modifying policies not based in doctrine.

It would seem Catholics want change too. In a March CBS News/ New York Times poll, 66 percent of American Catholics said they wanted a younger pope with new ideas.

More than half wanted a pope with more liberal teachings.

Let’s hope Francis puts his mozetta where his mouth is and creates a more open-minded Church. If the pope is willing, we have seen only the beginning of papal progression. Even a non-Catholic like me can say amen to that.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

A little more funding would help the popular service reach many more students.

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he Minnesota Student Association is pushing Boynton Health Ser vices to offer its ride ser vice, Gopher Chauffeur, on Thursday nights and expand hours overall, the Minnesota Daily reported Monday.

Boynton director of public health and communications Dave Golden told the Daily that Boynton is taking MSA’s recommendations “ver y seriously,” but he cited budget issues.

After reports of an armed man caused University police to issue a shelter-in-place notice Monday, the University should be looking for ways to assure students that campus is safe.

Monday’s incident notwithstanding, expanding Gopher Chauffeur should be a no-brainer.

Gopher Chauffeur currently offers students rides home from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday nights, and it gave nearly 11,000 rides last school year.

Adding ser vice Thursdays would cost about $7,000 per semester, Golden said. Adding an hour or two each night would bring more costs, but it would still be a modest increase to the program’s $87,500 budget and a drop in the bucket for the University.

Boynton has demonstrated a desire to broaden its ser vices through accessible, preventative programs like PAWS, its weekly pet therapy program. Expanding Gopher Chauffeur would fit that goal.

Although crime on campus is still relatively low, the perception of safety is almost as impor tant. Expanding Gopher Chauf feur would be an easy, inexpensive way to put more students at ease.

Campus diets need improvement A recent study should encourage the University of Minnesota to improve campus food options.

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new University of Minnesota study found that a lack of healthy food options still plagues college campuses, the Minnesota Daily reported Monday.

According to the study, Twin Cities college students who lived of f campus but purchased food on campus had similar diets as people who eat fast food regularly. The study also found that students who brought food from home were generally healthier.

The University should continue to look for ways to add more healthy options on campus.

It will help that the two new campus eateries approved by the Board of Regents are committed to buying from local and organic producers. The University should also consider adding more healthy foods to the Gopher Express convenience stores.

About half of students in a 2012 Boynton Health Ser vices Repor t repor ted being overweight, obese or extremely obese. While young adults are more likely to exercise, they generally eat fewer fruits and vegetables, the report said. Additionally, young adults eat fast food 2.5 times per week on average.

The University should also encourage students to bring food from home by adding more eating spaces across campus — not just in Coffman Union — and making more microwaves available. Campus study spaces have more vending machines than microwaves, but this creates a dependency for food options on campus.

The findings are troubling and should spur University officials to act. While it’s ultimately up to students to eat healthy, the University’s lack of healthy options and kitchenettes is a detriment to students’ diets.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers officially sign three recruits Josh Martin, Carlos Morris and Nate Mason signed their NLIs Wednesday.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

New head men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino’s first three recruits are now officially Gophers.

Carlos Morris, Nate Mason and Josh Martin — all three-star, 2014 recr uits, according to Rivals.com — signed their letters of intent to Minnesota on Wednesday.

“All three, I think, fill specific needs that we wanted to address,” Pitino said at a press conference Wednesday. “All three bring different things to the table. So we’re excited about them.”

Pitino said Martin, a 6-foot8-inch forward from Bothell, Wash., is probably going to

start his career at power forward, but Pitino said Martin wants to play the three. Martin has a great motor that doesn’t stop, Pitino said.

“It star ts at warm-ups and doesn’t end until the final buzzer sounds,” Pitino said.

He joked coaches could call the future combination of Mar tin and sophomore for ward Joey King “the bash brothers.”

“That’s just the way they ar e,” Pitino said.

“They’ve just got that type of motor and that type of mentality. I think they’ll be really good together.”

Pitino said Mar tin isn’t a typical power for ward.

“He’s quick. He’s athletic, and he’s a bit of a mismatch,” he said at the conference.

Nate Mason is a 6-foot1-inch guard from Decatur, Ga. Pitino said Mason can play point guard or

shooting guard.

“We felt like he was a steal,” Pitino said.

Pitino said he heard about Carlos Morris when Morris was at Arlington County Day High School and Pitino was at Florida.

Morris originally committed to South Carolina before ultimately playing junior college ball at Chipola College.

The Gophers are currently succeeding on the court with point guard DeAndre Mathieu, another junior college product.

Pitino said he plans to call Mor ris by his nickname, “Squirrel.”

“I’ve never called him Carlos,” Pitino said. “[He’s] ‘Squirrel’ to me.”

Pitino said all three recruits have the chance to play right away next season.

Pitino has faced a few challenges in recr uiting since being hired from Florida Inter national in

GOPHERS BASKETBALL COMMITS POSITION Josh Martin Nate Mason Carlos Morris

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April. He had less time to build relationships with recruits than most coaches, and he didn’t have a large body of work to display to players.

“Nobody knows you,” Pitino said at the conference.

“Nobody knows your brand.

Nobody knows your style.

Certainly they’re not watching a lot of FIU basketball.”

Pitino said the Gophers will continue to recruit for this year. Former Robbinsdale Cooper High School five-star guar d Rashad

MINNESOTA

RICHMOND

6 p.m., Saturday in Richmond, Va.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers are 2-0 heading into their first road contest of the season Saturday.

Junior guard Andre Hollins has taken on more of a scoring role this season. He’s averaged 21.0 points through two games this year.

In the frontcourt, junior center Elliott Eliason is carrying the load down low. He blocked a career-high five shots Tuesday in Minnesota’s 84-58 win over Montana.

RICHMOND: The Spiders are 2-0 at home this season with wins over Delaware and Belmont.

Richmond is led by senior guard Cedrick Lindsay. Lindsay has averaged 17.5 points and 3.0 steals through two games.

Richmond doesn’t provide much of a threat from beyond the arc.

The Spiders are shooting just 15 percent on triples.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, RICHMONDSPIDERS.COM

Vaughn, among other recruits, will make his college decision in the spring.

“I don’t think you ever want to settle,” Pitino said.

“If you can get a guy who can help your program, we’re looking for that.”

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Minnesota women beat Charlotte in home opener Rachel Banham led her team with 20 points and scored 18 in the first half.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

The Gophers (2-0) committed 17 team fouls in the first half, but that didn’t stop them in a 90-55 blowout win over Charlotte (1-2).

Minnesota post players Micaëlla Riché, Amanda Zahui B., Kayla Hir t and Jackie Johnson all had three fouls in the first half, which forced head coach Pam Bor ton to use a rare five-guard lineup.

“It was weird,” junior guard Rachel Banham said.

“When coach subbed in a guard, I was like, ‘What’s happening?’ … It was definitely different, but I thought we adjusted pretty well.”

Banham’s presence was key throughout the game, and she finished with 20 points, scoring 18 in the first half. She shot 3-for-4 from behind the three-point arc in the game.

Banham was more than just a scorer for her team Wednesday night, though.

She had two blocks and two steals in the first half.

“I’ve been working on [defense] a lot,” she said.

Senior guard Sari Noga said before the season that the coaches looked to her

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MINNESOTA Player Riche Zahui Banham Mullaney Noga McDaniel Johnson Hirt Hedstrom Bailey Total

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FG FT Reb M-A M-A O-T Ast 4-5 4-6 2-6 0 9-18 1-5 3-12 5 7-16 3-3 0-2 3 3-5 2-2 0-4 5 2-4 4-4 2-6 2 2-5 3-4 2-3 5 1-5 2-4 0-6 0 3-5 0-0 0-2 0 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 0-0 2-2 0-1 2 32-66 21-30 17-54 22

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to be a steady presence this year. She was up to the task amid the early foul trouble.

Noga reeled in six rebounds for the Gophers to go along with nine points.

Zahui B. and Riché both had big nights despite playing limited minutes due to foul trouble.

Zahui B. finished with 19 points and 12 rebounds. Riché added 12 points and six boards.

“It was fun being out there,” Zahui B. said. “I learned a lot.”

Gophers sign recruits

Wednesday was National Signing Day, and Minneso-

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota forward Micaella Riche tries to get past Virginia’s Simone Egwu to score Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at Williams Arena.

ta added five players.

Carlie Wagner is Minnesota’s highest-rated recruit, listed 54th in the nation according to espnW. Borton said Wagner is similar to Banham and for mer

Gophers guard Lindsay Whalen.

“Carlie is a prolific scorer,” Bor ton said. “Those two players that we’re comparing her to are exactly the same way.”

The Gophers also signed Rangie Bessar d, Josie Buckingham, Grace Coughlin and Tory Jacobs.

Buckingham’s 6-foot-5inch frame shows Minnesota’s attempt to get bigger

as a team.

“We’ve got to have a little more size on our team,” Borton said. “I think we’ve got to keep getting bigger at that center position, and Josie gives us a little more depth.”

TIMBERWOLVES

Love, Timberwolves rip Cavaliers 124-95

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — When Kevin Martin had to be scratched about 30 minutes before tipoff because of an illness, the Minnesota Timberwolves were in desperate need of another scorer to fill in.

Corey Brewer has done everything else in his short time back in Minnesota, so why not him?

Brewer scored 27 points, Kevin Love had 33 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and the Timber wolves beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 124-95 on Wednesday night.

“I checked to see if it (said) Kevin Martin on the back,” Ricky Rubio said of Brewer. “He was wearing his jersey or something. He was making shots and he was being Corey too, running on the fast break. He’s been great for us.”

Rubio had a careerhigh 16 assists to go with 16 points, six rebounds and three steals, and the Timber wolves outscored Cleveland 29-6 in transition points to run the Cavaliers

out of the building.

Martin is the team’s second-leading scorer, averaging 24.6 points and shooting 55.8 percent on 3s.

Normally a reluctant shooter who feasts on easy opportunities on the break, Brewer morphed into an aggressive scorer in the first half to ease any concerns about Mar tin’s absence.

Brewer scored the first nine points for Minnesota and 12 in the first quarter to get the Wolves out quickly.

He hit all five of his 3-pointers and helped lock down Kyrie Irving and Dion Waiters on the other end. His energy carried over in a dominant first half. The Wolves outscored the Cavs 22-0 on the fast break and scored 16 points off seven turnovers to rack up 70 points in the first 24 minutes.

“It was fun tonight,” Brewer said. “We were passing the ball. Ricky had a great night. Kevin Love had a great night. The game’s easy when you’re passing the ball.”

Ir ving scored 20 points on 8-for-17 shooting and sur vived a nasty collision

in the first quarter for the Cavaliers. Anderson Varejao had 13 points and five rebounds star ting for Andrew Bynum, who missed the game for personal reasons. The Cavs fell to 0-6 on the road this season.

“Things that we’re not doing out there, things that need to be addressed within the locker room doors that are going to continue to be addressed,” Ir ving said.

“We just have to do better next time.”

The Wolves led by as many as 39 points, allowing their starters to sit the entire four th quar ter and get some much-needed rest during a grueling start to the schedule.

The Cavaliers were caught flat-footed. They were outrebounded 49-37, outscored in the paint 56-32 and surrendered 100 points before there were 10 minutes gone in the third quarter.

One game after coach Mike Brown surprised everyone by inserting Bynum into the starting lineup, the Cavs were without their center while he tended to

a family matter. Bynum is expected to miss two games, and the Cavs said it had nothing to do with his bothersome knees or an eyebrow-raising comment he made recently about having considered retirement. Bynum is expected to return on Saturday against Washington.

Ir ving came into the game shooting just 37.7 percent while he gets adjusted to a new system in Brown’s first season. Brown said he wasn’t worried about the early season slump, but the coach clearly was concerned when his star player hit the deck hard after taking an inadver tent elbow from Brewer with under five minutes to play in the first quarter.

Ir ving appeared to be a little woozy as he walked to the locker room holding a towel to his jaw. He was taken for X-rays, which came back negative, and returned in the second quarter.

In a rocky star t to his first season back on the Cavs bench, Brown tried to offer some encouragement after the ugly performance.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Pair of freshmen adjust

VOLLEYBALL

Minnesota led by its defense late in season The Gophers will face Ohio State and Penn State over the weekend.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota forward Justin Kloos skates against Mercyhurst in the first round of the Ice Breaker Tournament at Mariucci Arena on Oct. 11.

Justin Kloos and Taylor Cammarata played together in juniors last year.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

Adjusting to Division I hockey on the No. 1 team in the nation can be daunting for any freshman, but Gophers forwards Justin Kloos and Taylor Cammarata said the transition has been easier together.

The two played in the United States Hockey League with the Waterloo Black Hawks before taking the ice with Minnesota.

“We built a pretty good relationship on the ice and off the ice last year,” Kloos said.

“So I think we were able to come here and get through some of the tough periods together.”

Though the pair spent a lot of time together on the junior hockey team and roomed together on the road, they still needed about a month of the season to figure each other out on the ice.

“It took us a little bit last year to get used to each other, but we started clicking about 10 games in,” Cammarata

said. “And we’ve been clicking ever since.”

With Waterloo, Cammarata topped the league with 38 goals and 93 points. Kloos was right behind him with 87 points.

And as linemates on the Gophers, the two have continued their scoring prowess early in the season. Kloos and Cammarata each have three goals, while Kloos has one more assist. They are third and fourth on the team in points, respectively.

Minnesota head coach Don Lucia said the chemistry Kloos and Cammarata built at Waterloo helps them on the Gophers.

Still, the coaching staff questioned if it should keep the pair on the same line heading into the season.

Initially, Cammarata paired with junior forward Kyle Rau when junior forward Sam Warning was out with a shoulder injury.

While Cammarata and Rau played well together, the pairing didn’t last long, and Lucia opted to reunite Cammarata and Kloos with senior for ward and captain Nate Condon.

And with the early success of the line, breaking it up would be difficult, Lucia said.

Kloos said he would un-

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MINNESOTA: The Gophers maintained their No. 1 ranking after splitting a series with No. 4 Notre Dame last weekend, losing 4-1 on Friday before winning 5-4 on Saturday.

Freshman forward Hudson Fasching earned the Big Ten’s weekly Third Star award for his performance against the Fighting Irish. Fasching recorded two goals and an assist in South Bend, Ind. Minnesota now sits at 6-1-1 overall as it kicks off a three-week, sixgame homestend.

MINNESOTA STATE-MANKATO: The Mavericks are receiving votes for a national ranking after splitting a home series with Bowling Green, losing 4-3 on Friday before winning 1-0 on Saturday.

The Gophers’ former conference rivals have gone 6-4-0 in the last 10 meetings between the teams and are 9-32-6 all-time.

MSU-Mankato is 4-4 overall and 2-2 in the WCHA. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

derstand switching up the lines, but he wouldn’t mind sticking with Cammarata for the rest of the season.

“He’s kind of a special, different type of player,” Kloos said. “He’s different than any player I’ve ever played with. He’s definitely one of the most creative, offensively gifted players.”

And Cammarata said he was similarly impressed with Kloos.

“He’s very fast,” Camma-

rata said. “[He’s got] unbelievable speed in the neutral zone that I haven’t seen very often.”

Kloos and Cammarata have made an impressive scoring impact in their first few games with the Gophers, but the best may be yet to come.

“I think so far we’ve done some good things,” Kloos said, “but we’ve got a ways to go.”

Whatever the position and whoever the player, the Gophers have stepped up on defense over the past couple of weeks.

With two talented hitting teams coming to the Spor ts Pavilion on Friday and Saturday, the Gophers want to make sure their defense stays stout. “[Ohio State] plays with a lot of dif ferent of fensive schemes. So as a blocking and defensive team, we have to be ver y aware of what’s going on,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “We’ve got to be able to manage the dif ferent schemes they’re going to throw at us.”

Minnesota has shown its solid defense. Minnesota has out-blocked opponents in four of its last five matches, holding them to an average .193 hitting percentage.

Sophomore outside hitter Daly Santana stepped up in the five-set loss to N eb r as k a , l ea d i n g t h e team with 14 digs to go along with her 15 kills.

In four of the last five matches, a position other than the libero has led the team in digs — a trend for the Gophers the entire season.

“As a program, we’re tr ying to develop generalized specialists — people who are good at ever ything, not just one or two things,” McCutcheon said.

“I think a lot of the underclassmen ar e grasping the concepts and applying [them].”

R e c e n t l y, M c C u t c h eon played junior Morgan Bohl and sophomore Lindsey Lawmaster together as defensive specialist

and libero, respectively, instead of having them compete for the libero position.

“Both of those athletes have ear ned the right to be out there,” McCutcheon said. “This allows us to play to their strengths.”

Their strength is in defense, something the Gophers will need this weekend. Penn State is the No. 1 team in the Big Ten for hitting percentage, and Ohio State senior outside hitter Kaitlyn Lear y leads the conference in kills per set.

“I think we bring the best out of each other,” Bohl said. “We’ve always been in the position of having to compete for one spot, but now since we’re both on the cour t, we’re both able to help each other out while still competing.”

Bohl and Lawmaster averaged a combined 16.5 digs per match this past weekend, something they said they hope to continue into this weekend’s contests.

Gophers land recruit

The Gophers announced Wednesday the addition of 6-foot-3-inch middle blocker Molly Lohman of Mankato West High School to the 2014 signing class.

“Molly is a wonder ful addition to our program,” McCutcheon said in a release. “She is a talented and driven volleyball athlete, and we look for ward to working with her in 2014 and beyond.”

Lohman, an all-state selection, finished her high school career with 853 kills, 51 assists, 94 aces, 250 blocks and 307 digs.

She was an AAU All-American with the Nor ther n Lights club team. Lohman ranked No. 38 on Prep Volleyball’s Top 100.

Lohman’s 115 blocks this year ranked second in Minnesota while her 365 kills ranked ninth.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers players display versatility

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

When head coach Brad Frost first talked to sophomore Brook Garzone this summer about playing defense this season, she thought he was joking.

“I wasn’t really thinking about next year,” Garzone said. “He was obviously already thinking about it.”

Garzone was a defenseman gr owing up but played for ward in high school and in her first year at Minnesota.

She has been playing on the blue line this season, but Garzone stepped back into her forward position the past two weeks for an injured teammate, embodying the versatility her team has needed this season.

“I’m glad to do whatever coach [says],” Garzone said.

“I’m happy either way just to be playing.”

The Gophers already have a shorter bench this year because of the Olympics, but they’ve also been dealing with sickness and injur y in the past two weeks, so players have had to step into different roles.

Minnesota freshman forward Kate Schipper, sophomore for ward Mar yanne Menefee and junior forward Meghan Lorence were all out of the lineup last weekend.

Frost said Tuesday that he expects Schipper back this weekend but said he was not sure about Menefee or Lorence.

Gophers freshman defenseman Kelsey Cline slid up to forward to fill Schipper’s spot last weekend.

Cline said the coaching staff talked to her earlier about the possibility of jump-

ing up to forward because of the team’s short roster and injuries.

“They were just like, ‘…

This stuff is going on. So mentally, just be ready in case,’ ” Cline said. “I think they were just giving me a warning, and once it actually happened … I was ready for it.”

Cline said the move last weekend was difficult because she wasn’t exactly sure what to expect. She said her linemates for that game, senior Kelly Terry and freshman Dani Cameranesi, helped her.

Garzone said moving back to defense at the beginning of the season was an adjustment, but she said Frost always tells the team to know each position so the transition is easier.

Minnesota freshman Megan Wolfe also made the switch to defense at the start of the season. She said she had never played defense before.

Garzone and Wolfe bonded over the switch.

“We kind of [kidded] around a little bit at the beginning,” Garzone said. “We looked at each other like, ‘Uh, we have no idea what we’re doing.’ ” Garzone said now she and Wolfe have gotten used to the position and it’s starting to come more naturally.

Junior Jordyn Burns has also been in a position where she has had to fill in on both ends of the ice for the Gophers this season.

Frost said the ability to adjust to both positions depends on the player’s attitude and how smart the player is when it comes to hockey.

“If they’re willing to do what’s right and really dig in and try to learn, then they’re

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota forward Brook Garzone plays against Ohio State on Oct. 20, 2012, at Ridder Arena.

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Minnesota libero Lindsey Lawmaster bumps the ball against Nebraska on Sunday at the Sports Pavilion.

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VS NO. 1 MINNESOTA

NO. 4 NORTH DAKOTA

2:07 p.m., Saturday and 2:07 p.m., Sunday at Ridder Arena

MINNESOTA: The Gophers will be tested this weekend when they host No. 4 North Dakota. Minnesota is 12-0-0 this season and is riding a 61-game winning streak into the series.

Minnesota used a late third-period rally to sweep St. Cloud State on the road last weekend.

The last time the Gophers and North Dakota played was March 16, 2013, in the NCAA quarterfinals. The two teams went to triple overtime before Minnesota pulled away with a 3-2 victory.

NORTH DAKOTA: North Dakota enters the series 8-1-1. It did not play last weekend, but it swept Bemidji State the weekend prior to that.

North Dakota was the last team to beat the Gophers. It won 2-1 in overtime on Feb. 17, 2012.

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going to be fine,” Frost said.

“If they resist it a little bit … then it could be difficult.”

Wolfe said she thought anyone on the team could play either position.

Senior captain Bethany Brausen wasn’t so sure she could have made the jump

to defense like some of her teammates.

“They could never throw me back on defense and expect anything special. So I think we’re really lucky and blessed to have a few players on the team that have that versatility,” Brausen said.

NO. 11 MINNESOTA

OHIO STATE

NO. 2 PENN STATE

7 p.m., Friday and 7:30 p.m., Saturday at Sports Pavilion

MINNESOTA: The Gophers went 1-1 last weekend when they faced Iowa and Nebraska. The Gophers swept the Hawkeyes easily and then fell to the Cornhuskers in five sets.

Minnesota dropped two places in the American Volleyball Coaches Association rankings, falling from No. 9 to No. 11.

The Gophers currently sit third in the Big Ten standings — two matches behind Nebraska and three behind Penn State.

OHIO STATE: Ohio State is currently 10th in the Big Ten standings, but they are a much grittier team than they appear on paper.

The Buckeyes boast one of the Big Ten’s most prominent hitters in senior outside hitter Kaitlyn Leary. Leary leads the Big Ten in kills per set.

Ohio State freshman Taylor Sandbothe took home this week’s Big Ten Freshman of the Week award for her performances in the last two matches. She averaged 3.7 kills and 1.3 blocks per set while posting a .309 hitting percentage.

PENN STATE: Penn State comes in as the second-ranked team in the country and will be arguably the toughest opponent the Gophers have left on the schedule.

Penn State leads the Big Ten in hitting percentage, opponent hitting percentage and blocks per set. The Nittany Lions are led by Katie Slay, who was named this week’s Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.

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SOCCER

Gophers prepare for NCAA tournament Minnesota made a run at the Sweet 16 the last two times it qualified.

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BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers may not always make the NCAA tournament, but when they do, they win games.

Minnesota will play Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, in the first round of the tournament Friday.

It marks the third time in the last six years that the Gophers have qualified for the dance.

The last two times featured notable runs.

2008 The Gophers came into the 2008 tournament after ear ning a share of their first regular-season Big Ten title for the first time since 1997.

Minnesota was led by senior keeper Lindsey Dare, who posted 17 shutouts in 26 star ts and allowed just 12 goals that season.

Dare paced the Gophers in a 2-1 win over Marquette in the first round. Minnesota followed that up with a 2-0 shutout win over South Dakota State at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium to advance to the Sweet 16.

Minnesota battled topseeded and undefeated

MINNESOTA

TEXAS TECH

7 p.m., Friday in Lubbock, Texas

MINNESOTA: The Gophers are making their third NCAA tournament appearance in six years and first in three years this weekend.

The last two times Minnesota made the tournament, it advanced to the third round of the tournament before being knocked out.

The Gophers (11-7-2, 4-6-2) have been led by their defense all season. Minnesota allowed 1.11 goals per game in the regular season — good for fifth in the Big Ten. The Gophers feature Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Tarah Hobbs in net.

TEXAS TECH: The Red Raiders finished second in the Big 12 regularseason standings (17-2-2, 6-0-2).

Texas Tech senior keeper Victoria Esson has played more than 1,822 minutes in net this season and allowed just seven goals.

The Red Raiders are 9-1 at home this season.

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Notre Dame in the next round and lost 1-0 in overtime. Notre Dame went on to lose in the national championship game.

2010 The Gophers entered the 2010 tournament with a balanced scoring attack and a youthful, talented keeper.

Five dif ferent players scored six or more goals that season, and sophomore keeper Cat Parkhill recorded 66 saves.

Minnesota benefited from hosting the first two rounds this season as well.

It defeated Creighton 4-2 in the first round and upset four th-seeded Texas A&M two days later on the

strength of Parkhill’s seventh shutout of the season.

But even with home-field advantage, the Gophers fell once again in the Sweet 16 with a 1-0 loss to unseeded Georgetown.

2013 This year’s Gophers squad is similar to the team that went to the Sweet 16 in 2010.

Minnesota again presents a strong defense with Big Ten Goalkeeper of the Year Tarah Hobbs in net.

And junior midfielder Katie Thyken leads the team with seven goals — the same number that tied as the lead mark in 2010.

The bracket even lines

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

up the same. The Gophers are set up to face No. 4 seed Texas A&M in their

find out if these similarities lead to similar tournament success.

WRESTLING

CROSS COUNTRY

Minnesota confident entering NCAA regional Minnesota finished in third place on the women’s side at the Big Tens.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s track and field team left the Big Ten championships with a third-place finish. This weekend, it’ll head to the NCAA Midwest regional.

“Year in and year out, the way you perform at the Big Ten meet ends up being pretty similar to what shakes out at the region meet,” head coach Sarah Hopkins said.

That’s good news for Minnesota.

Senior Kelli Budd said another takeaway from the Big Ten race was the fact that other runners on the team stepped up. There isn’t as much pressure on the team’s top five runners this year, she said.

“Some of the girls that usually are in the top five didn’t have the best day, but it showed that we still did pretty damn well for not having some of our best r unners up there,” Budd said.

Hopkins said she believes the regional meet will come down to Minnesota and Iowa State.

The Cyclones and the Gophers enter the regional meet as the top two teams in the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Countr y Coaches Association Regional Rankings. Minnesota and Iowa State finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in September’s Roy Griak Invitational.

The Cyclones finished fifth and the Gophers finished eighth Oct. 19 at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational.

The regional will take place in Ames, Iowa, and the Cyclones will have a home-course advantage.

But Budd said she thinks the Gophers can overcome that.

“There’s no question in my mind that if we all run how we can, then we can beat Iowa State,” she said.

The top two finishing teams at the regional qualify for the NCAA championships, but 13 teams also receive at-large bids.

Minnesota has performed well this season and could still earn an atlarge bid should it fail to finish in the top two.

“We have that luxur y of

second-round matchup — just as they did in 2010.

Minnesota will soon

Gophers adjust, five wrestlers move up a class pete in one of 10 weight classes, ranging from 125 pounds to heavyweight.

Wrestlers are not allowed to compete below their established minimum wrestling weight and must weigh in on the day of the competition.

“The wrestling season is really long,” Thorn said. “And cutting a lot of weight only makes it that much longer.”

Zilverberg, a redshirt senior and a 157-pound wrestler last season, said he and a couple other wrestlers were initially apprehensive but wanted to do what was best for the team.

Zilverberg competed in the 165-pound class Saturday at the Bison Open and went 3-1, losing a 4-2 decision in the finals to Nor th Dakota State’s Steven Monk, the nation’s third-ranked 165-pound wrestler.

Eggum said Zilverberg controlled most of the title match, and his opponent was “saved by the buzzer” in the first round.

Zilverberg is replacing All-American Cody Yohn at 165 and said he didn’t feel undersized last weekend.

Chris Dardanes, a redshir t junior who moved from 133 to 141, said Sunday that ever yone is feeling good about the move.

Eggum appeared confident the move would benefit the team.

“Those guys are strong enough competitors and great wrestlers,” Eggum said. “If we didn’t believe that they had the abilities to be a national champion at that weight, we wouldn’t ask them to do it.”

Minnesota’s 125through 157-pound wrestlers moved up a weight class.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Molly Kayfes runs in the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 28 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

not having to put all of our marbles on one weekend,” Hopkins said.

The Gophers head into the race extremely experienced and with a par ticularly deep senior class.

“It’s really just about being confident and doing it for each other because a lot of us are seniors, and it’s going to be our last chance,” senior Laura Docherty said.

“So I think that’ll be a lot of the motivation.”

Men’s team also runs

The men’s team heads into the regional fifth in the Midwest Region.

Minnesota finished four th at the Big Ten championships, and seniors Derek Storkel and Andrew Larsen paced the

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Minnesota’s top returning 125- through 157-pound wrestlers gained weight over the summer. But instead of cutting the pounds to stay in their weight classes, the wrestlers decided to roll with it.

Now, they’re competing in a heavier weight class — an unusual move for five men on a team to make at once.

“You’ll see a guy move up here and there, but five people is pretty unheard of,” said redshir t senior David Thor n, an AllAmerica 125-pound wrestler who moved up to 133 pounds.

Minnesota’s coaching staf f approached the five wrestlers —Thorn, Chris Dardanes, Nick Dardanes, Dylan Ness and Danny Zilverberg — in September about moving up.

The five wrestlers had gotten bigger and stronger over the summer and would have str uggled to make weight in their old classes, Thorn said.

Head assistant coach Brandon Eggum said the coaches made it clear they wanted the wrestlers to decide for themselves.

He said the coaches wanted the wrestlers to focus on getting better rather than making weight or losing pounds to qualify for a lower weight class.

College wrestlers com-

MINNESOTA

WRESTLING PREVIEW

MEN: 12 p.m., Friday; WOMEN: 1:15 p.m., Friday in Ames, Iowa

The Gophers men’s and women’s teams will head to Ames, Iowa, to participate in the Midwest regionals this weekend.

In the latest U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association poll, the men’s team is ranked fifth in its region. The women’s team is ranked second.

The women’s team finished third at regionals last year. The Gophers were led by then-sophomore Molly Kayfes and then-junior Laura Docherty.

The men’s team finished seventh at last year’s regionals and was led by then-junior Derek Storkel, who finished in 36th place.

The top two finishing teams in each region will advance to the NCAA Division I championships. Thirteen at-large bids will be rewarded as well.

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team.

The Gophers finished seventh at the NCAA Mid-

west regional last season and did not compete in the NCAA championships.

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MINNESOTA All day Saturday in Ames, Iowa

The No. 3 Gophers will compete against No. 9 Iowa State, among others, this weekend at the Harold Nichols Open. The Gophers won eight titles last Saturday at the Bison Open.

Minnesota redshirt senior heavyweight Tony Nelson won the heavyweight title, going 4-0 in the tournament, and the Gophers won more than 75 percent of their matches at the Bison Open.

Minnesota’s dual-meet season begins Nov. 22 against Purdue. The Gophers will face No. 6 Oregon State in a Nov. 30 dual meet.

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FURNITURE

‘Pardon the mess’ A local furniture dealer works his magic to restore vintage pieces but has a hard time letting them go.

BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com

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he 85-year-old tan brick building just of f East Franklin A v e nu e a n d In t e rs ta te 35W looks vir tually abandoned. Per haps you’ve seen it from across the street at The Electric Fetus or while riding the 2.

The three-stor y building used to operate as a 13-unit apar tment building with multiple storefronts on the street level. But in the last 20 years, only a select few have been inside.

The only indications that the building isn’t completely deserted are a maroon business sign to the right of the main entrance and a short man with tightly curled gray hair and glasses who pops in and out from time to time.

Steve Mogol lives in one of the apar tments on the third floor and operates his vintage furniture business, Past Pr esent Future, inside his familyowned building. He uses the remaining 12 apar tments, plus the hallways, basement and old shop spaces, as a 32,000-squarefoot storage unit for his furniture and random collections.

“Unlike most people, my stuf f appreciates. What is one man’s junk is another man’s treasure,” he said.

“There’re enough people out there that understand my treasures.”

The problem might simply be knowing where to look. The shop display windows are not exactly set up to attract customers. Instead, they reveal stacks of furniture, partially wrapped in shipping material, scattered among cardboard boxes and shelves lined with fur niture par ts and tools.

The only arranged window awkwardly displays a sturdy gray metal roller chair next to a baby blue two-drawer metal cabinet.

One broken window is patched with a piece of plywood and duct tape, while others are boarded up entirely.

“I’m not open to the public that easily. I qualify ever ybody. It’s not easy to

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Steve Mogol polishes the arm of an old office chair Tuesday afternoon at his shop Past Present Future in Minneapolis.

get in here,” Mogol said.

“I don’t even sell things to people I don’t like anymore.

There’s hardly any negotiation with me. I know what everything is worth.”

Mogol is an of fbeat entrepreneur with grandiose business visions, like renovating the proper ty into a boutique hotel and opening up the “Mogol Museum of Industrial Design” in association with the Smithsonian.

He estimates that he might be a multi-millionair e on paper but said he doesn’t have the cash flow to realize any of his dreams. Most of his wealth lies in assets: 15odd semi-trailers, several storage units and an entire building all stuf fed full of mid-centur y American industrial office furniture.

“We were the greatest industrial nation on earth, and that’s what I’m all about here. This is physical proof that it was made in America, it’s everlasting and timeless,” he said.

“I’m paying homage to the workers and the designers that did this furniture.”

If his mission is to pay homage to the past, the metal chairs stacked to the

ceiling and stuf fed into a gutted apartment certainly look like a shrine in his vintage furniture mecca.

But the collecting doesn’t stop with the tanklike desks and credenzas of a bygone era. Vintage metal fans are stuffed into one room while lamps and lampshades are stacked in another. Mogol has a cabinet full of thermometers, a drawer packed with beautiful vintage leather wallets, another brimming with hand gloves and a small hallway overloaded with wastepaper baskets he has yet to r estor e.

That’s “just the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Mogol’s business is deeply rooted in the past, in more ways than he ever anticipated. He said sales have declined in par t because he can’t keep up with technology to stay competitive.

“In the old days, when sales were good, my kill ratio for making a sale was one phone call. But now it takes more time for people to buy something,” Mogol said. “You have no idea how many emails go back and forth answering ridiculously stupid questions

sometimes.”

While the point of Mogol’s business is to sell furniture, he skirts around the issue of which items are actually for sale. Many of his most valuable pieces are par t of his personal collection.

Rather than wanting to sell his fur niture, he has visions of using it in several elaborate business ventures of his own invention. He said he fully intends to start using all of those leather wallets, and each pair of gloves has a purpose.

His first recollection of wanting to salvage something was when he was 7 or 8 years old. His grandparents owned a wooden antique cabinet that he was fond of, and one day it was suddenly gone.

“I wanted that one day for myself. I was 7 years old. Who thinks like that?” he said.

Later on, he had an argument with his parents after they gave away some luggage. He retrieved it.

“They didn’t really understand. Most people don’t,” Mogol said. “I’m sentimental with cer tain things.”

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Chairs are piled on top of each other at Steve Mogol’s shop Past Present Future in Minneapolis. Mogol has the one of the largest collections of mid-century American office furniture in the world.

SKATIN’

Rink rats: Just roll with it Roller rink reinforces relationships.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

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am skating. Chicago style. J.B. skating.

Freestyle. Ar tistic skating.

No two patrons of St. Louis Park’s Roller Garden could agree on the exact terminology for what many of them dedicate several nights a week to doing. No two patrons have the exact same motivation for coming, either.

In the early evening, the Roller Garden resembles any roller rink from your youth: Patient par ents watch as their children stumble on roller blades to the sound of Top 40 hits blaring over the speakers.

But after 8:30 p.m., the rink is strictly 18-and-up, and an eclectic mix of skaters begins trickling in.

Graceful adults replace bumbling children, and Michael Jackson replaces Katy Perry.

“Some people come from over 100 miles out,”

said Tom, who declined to give his last name but said he’s skated at Roller Garden since the 1980s. “Most people who come are regulars.”

Tom pointed out that casual patrons can be distinguished by the bright orange skates they rent from the rink, whereas dedicated skaters bring their own.

Ever y age gr oup is represented in the motley crowd. By 9 p.m., the rink is packed with skaters. Some speed around the edges of the rink while others do freestyle dance moves in the center.

The Roller Garden hasn’t always been this successful. Manager Russ Johnston said the rink is currently seeing a resurgence in interest.

“Well, I think skating is kind of cyclical,” Johnston said. “The heyday was obviously in the ’70s and ’80s, but people are star ting to come back.”

Older people who frequented the Roller Garden in their youth are coming back, too, Johnston said.

For Horatio Whaley

and younger patrons like him, skating has nothing to do with nostalgia. With an Oakland Raiders beanie pulled tight over his head and headphones stuffed in his ears, Whaley’s skating style incorporates tight spins and technical moves.

Whaley said he doesn’t like the music the Roller Garden plays, so he listens to his own — a sentiment shared by several other skaters. Though the mix of classic rock and ’70s pop songs appeals to retro sensibilities, younger skaters don’t see that par ticular allure.

“I only started skating a couple years ago,” Whaley said. Though he appreciates the community aspect of the rink, he said he would “skate even if there was no one else [at the Roller Garden].”

Skating is good exercise, Whaley said, but for dedicated skaters, it’s much more.

“This place means the world to me,” said Angela Higgins, who began roller skating after getting laid off several years ago. Skat-

TYLER NEWMAN, DAILY The crowd skates at the Roller Garden on Nov. 5 in St. Louis Park. The Roller Garden has been a community staple for more than 40 years.

ing gave her something to do during the day, she said.

Higgins’ moves are reminiscent of a ballerina’s. She ef for tlessly glides around the floor with deliberate, fluid

movements.

“Because of skating, I quit drinking, I quit smoking,” Higgins said. She comes five to six times per week because the Roller Garden provides a release.

“I really think this place

is iconic,” Johnston said as he looked over the rink.

Though people don’t skate for the same reasons they did in the ’80s, the skaters of the Roller Garden have car ved out a unique community for themselves.

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MUSIC

Performing the romantics in turbulent times The Musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra organize their first concert since the departure of music director Osmo Vänskä.

BY THOM Q. JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com

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he musicians of the Minnesota Orchestra are trained first and foremost to play their instr uments. But since their contract negotiations broke down in October 2012 — leaving them without administrative support or even a place to play — they’ve had to learn to do much more.

To prepare for the “Titans of the Romantic Era” per formance series this weekend at the University of Minnesota’s Ted Mann Concer t Hall, the group sold tickets, booked the venue, managed promotions and made arrangements with collaborative artists. They even recruited renowned conductor Stanislaw Skrowaczewski to lead the performance.

Skrowaczewski has ties to the orchestra stretching back to 1960, when he was appointed music director of what was then the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.

In a show of solidarity, Lydia Artymiw, a piano professor at the University, donated her services as soloist for the upcoming concert.

“It’s a sad situation,” she said. “Ever yone just wants to go back to concentrating on the music again.”

The lasting toll of the lockout, the longest in the histor y of professional American orchestras, can be seen in what the orches-

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducts the Minnesota Orchestra as they rehearse for an upcoming performance, “Titans of the Romantic Era,” at Ted Mann Concert Hall on Wednesday.

tra is missing. Over the past year, it’s lost more than a dozen musicians, some to other oppor tunities. On Oct. 1, its star music director, Finnish maestro Osmo Vänskä, resigned.

“The music director is the vision of the organization,” said Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, a horn player with the orchestra. “With no music director, you have no vision.”

As difficult as the change has been, Smith said the orchestra is far from floundering in its added responsibilities.

“We’re the ones in control of the event, and for us, that’s a new thing, and I think we like it,” she said.

The musicians will be performing Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from “Tristan and Isolde,” along

with Mozar t’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, a piece said to represent all that made the composer great. It’s melodic, elegant and falls from joy to sadness with an unmatched grace. Ar tymiw said she would list it as one of her top five favorites.

“It is one of the most tragic and compelling slow movements of all of the Mozar t piano concer tos,”

Artymiw said. “The piano is grieving, and the orchestra brings that grief to full flower. It’s so inward the way the piano solo begins, and then, when the orchestra comes in, I get chills. You can feel like Mozart has finally come to tears.”

There’s no wor d on when the Orchestra’s situation will come to a resolution, but for now, it’s nice to enjoy the music.

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BEARDS

To beard or not to beard

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friday

ichael “MJ” Johnson’s imperial partial beard protrudes from his face like two dark-brown, upside-down walr us tusks. The thick, coarse hair star ts at his jowls and connects to his mustache before curving up near his eyes.

In early November, his elaborate facial ’do won second place in the Imperial Par tial Beard categor y at the World Beard and Moustache Championships in Germany.

Here in Minneapolis, the beard and mustache community is also thickening, thanks in par t to popular events like “No Shave November,” local bearding competitions and an upcoming photography book about men and their beards.

But the cultural craze didn’t originate in this state chock-full of bohemian dandies. Other states have prominent mustache and beard groups and host some of the biggest competitions in the country.

Johnson founded the Minneapolis Beard and Moustache Club two years ago after he saw photos of the beard-growing world champion. He said he was surprised to learn this type of competition exists.

Inspired by the photos, he participated in a competition in Austin, Texas, that included the lead singer of ZZ

Rory Scovel Rory Scovel is a refreshing alt-comedian who delights in the oddball non-sequitur while coming across as both bemused and aloof. He lords over the audience, seeming to take delight in how slowly people catch up with his jokes.

He weaves his material up, down and sideways before ending up somewhere that surely isn’t the middle. He shares an eerie similarity in voice, appearance and comedic sensibility with Chris Elliot while somehow managing to not seem as weird. Check out Scovel’s bit on “Conan” from two months ago, where he delivers standup in a tux with twinkling piano accompaniment. u Where: Acme Comedy Club, 708 N. First St., Minneapolis u When: 8 p.m., 10:30 p.m. u Cost: $15 u Age: 18+

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Michael “MJ” Johnson, founder of the Minneapolis Beard and Moustache Club, and Chris Sorensen, media coordinator for the MBMC, at Dangerous Man Brewing Company in Northeast Minneapolis on Wednesday.

beard? Why is it a bonding thing? Even if you’re a part of a club, you don’t have all the answers,” Johnson said.

Another topic of heavy debate is the inherent politics of the competitions.

“Ever ybody wants to be the star. When there’re beard contests and somebody doesn’t win and they think they got cheated or something, it’s on!” Johnson said. “They get sad, mad, a broken heart, de-friend people. In general, most people you meet are awesome, but there’s more turbulence than I was expecting.”

Several of the men in the group also posed for local photographer Joseph D.R. OLear y’s new book, “Of Beards and Men: A Portrait

of Man.” OLeary started the project two years ago, before mustaches and beards became a trend.

The book features men with various beard and mustache styles posing with a prop or in an outfit they selected themselves. OLeary said about 90 percent of the men are from Minnesota.

“What I truly appreciate about the book is that [OLeary] captures each individual’s personality beyond their beard. He’s able to portray our various interests beyond our beards,” said Charles Awad, who also posed in the book but isn’t a member of the club.

OLear y started a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project, raising 150 percent

Adult Prom Night Cliff N Norm’s Bar claims that this is a chance to relive your prom, but other than the chance to dress up, this bar crawl will probably be nothing like your prom. Well, if you were 21 years old in high school and opted to go paint the town red instead of actually attending prom, maybe this will be similar. Anyway, libation-seekers will skedaddle all around Northeast before ending up back at Cliff N Norm’s for more drinks, karaoke and a free meal. You can opt to become a “Board Member” for $10, which ensures that every night at the bar will be one where “everybody knows your name.” u Where: Cliff N Norm’s Bar, 2024 N. Washington Ave., Minneapolis u When: 5 p.m. u Cost: Price varies u Age: 21+

of his goal between July and August. Since then, media outlets and publications from England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Russia, Australia and the Netherlands have contacted him for interviews.

“It’s definitely not me that they’re interested in,” OLeary said. “They’re more interested in the beards.”

Awad said he’s been sporting a beard for the last few years, before facial hair became as socially and professionally acceptable as it is today.

“A decade ago, no one would have complimented my beard,” he said. “They would’ve been like, ‘Shave!

You look like a lumberjack.’”

A downside to the growth in facial hair’s popularity is it

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Top on its judges panel.

“It was one of the best parties with the best people,” Johnson said.

He wanted to recreate that environment in Minneapolis, so he started his own club.

He was the only member when he first star ted the club on Facebook, so he added his wife, sister and mom. Now the group is a hair away from 500 members, “and it’s not just people adding their moms,” Johnson said.

Core group members, who stand out with their elaborate and well-manicured facial locks, meet about once a month at Dangerous Man Brewing, the group’s official sponsor.

“A lot of people think that the only thing you can do with a full beard is just let it grow,” Johnson said. “That’s so far wrong, it’s incredible.”

Last week’s meeting focused on styling tips from the pros. Johnson and Chris Sorensen, the group’s media coordinator, brought specialty mustache wax, combs, hair spray and mirrors to the brewer y. They did demonstrations and helped others groom their whiskers while knocking back a few beers.

Conversation centers mainly on the technicalities of growing different styles, but it sometimes slips into beard philosophy.

“Why, when you walk by somebody else with a beard, do you nod at each other? Why is it that when I go out, strangers will come up to me and compliment my

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Minnesota bearders have a serious rep.

can project an unwanted stereotype, Awad said.

“Sometimes beards are identified with hipsters,” he said. “I hear the term ‘neck beard’ sometimes, and I’m like, ‘No, I’m just a guy with a beard. I don’t associate with a type of individual just because I have facial hair.’”

For the men in the mustache group, however, the camaraderie is perhaps the best part of the experience.

“At the start of it, it was all about individuality, like what kind of beard am I going to grow for me,” Johnson said. “But then you go to the contest and meetings or meet people in other cities and countries, and you quickly realize that bearding is about people and adventure.”

“Driving Miss Daisy” Y’all might be more familiar with the Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy film, but “Driving Miss Daisy” was first a successful play by Alfred Uhry. The Jungle Theater is putting on this epic piece, which spans 25 years of tumultuous southern history. It covers the before, during and after of the civil rights movement, as seen through the eyes of a strong-willed Jewish widow and her African-American driver. An initially chilly relationship turns heartwarming as both characters’ outlooks are profoundly changed by virtue of their friendship. To make things even more stellar, the lead roles are played by James Craven and Wendy Lehr, two local masters of their craft. u Where: The Jungle Theater, 2951 S. Lyndale Ave., Minneapolis u When: 2 p.m., 7:30 p.m. u Cost: $20-38

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This show gets little love and it’s a darn shame. Now in the midst of its second season, “Real Husbands of Hollywood” is a parody of reality shows with similar titles, rocking a hilarious all-star cast who play fictionalized versions of themselves while going about their day-to-day celeb routines. The protagonist is bitesize funnyman Kevin Har t, whose raging insecurity and huge ego provide the source of most the show’s conflict. How that manifests varies widely from show to show, but it inevitably leads to drama within his friend circle, comprised of Nelly, Nick Cannon, Boris Kodjoe, J.B. Smoove, Duane Mar tin and occasionally Robin Thicke. Ever yone from Bobby Brown to Cedric the Enter tainer to Shaq has guested on the show.

Mykki Blanco Where to begin with this gal? I guess you could call her a rapper. But her music really isn’t hip-hop; it’s more glitch, glam, ravepop with a unique voice laid on top like a raspy cherr y. She’s the per forming alter ego of Michael Quattlebaum, but there’s nothing gimmicky here. Her gender-bending aesthetic gels so completely with her genre-blending, it seems like it could be no other way. Check out “Angggr y Byrdz” and “David Blaine Bitches” of f her EP “Betty Rubble: The Initiation” for a tr uly entrancing experience.

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THEATER

FOOD

Veterans Play

College Kitchen: Myths deconstructed Tackling some myths, misconceptions and misinformation in cooking.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

lot of cooking is a science, and most chefs are not scientists. So, inevitably, there are lots of people pretending to know what they’re talking about without much real information.

Chefs will spout all kinds of pseudo-scientific nonsense to support their methods. Most of these methods are nothing more than superstitions and habits. Here are some common misconceptions chefs hold about cooking and why they’re wrong.

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MSG is bad for you

Different salts vary in taste

Only flip meat once for the best flavor

Chefs tout the wonders of kosher salt compared to the relatively bland table salt. Supposedly, the larger, jagged cr ystals of kosher salt stimulate your taste buds better than the smaller, uniform crystals of table salt.

This is nonsense. For 99 percent of dishes, you can’t tell the difference in taste. Kosher salt has its uses — big pretzels, for instance. And unless you’re a carnie, big pretzels should not comprise 99 percent of your meals. Table salt seasons dishes perfectly well and costs much less than kosher salt.

If you ask 10 chefs about how you should grill a burger, you’ll get 10 different answers. Many insist that flipping a patty more than once will ruin it. But flipping a burger multiple times — or any hunk of meat, really — will cook it more uniformly.

Sharper knives are more dangerous

JULIET FARMER, DAILY The Veterans Play Project, created by Footprints Collective and presented by Mixed Blood Theatre, rehearses Tuesday at Base Camp at Fort Snelling.

Local veterans star in “The Veterans Play Project.”

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

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eah Cooper’s parents were pacifists. As a kid, the closest the artistic director of the Footprints Collective ever got to the military was at peace rallies.

When Mixed Blood Theatre Artistic Director Jack Reuler gave Cooper an opportunity to put on a show, she told him she wanted to work with veterans.

“I found myself looking for some way to blend great art and letting people tell their own stories,” Cooper said.

The piece she ended up working on, “The Veterans Play Project,” is based on real stories. After inter viewing more than 100 veterans about their experiences during and after their service, Cooper drafted a script that used their lives as its main source.

“Once we connected with the vets, the ones that came to our story circles were remarkably candid and kind of fearless about sharing their stories,” she said.

Cooper was compelled to make theater based in her community, taking inspira-

tion from California’s Cornerstone Theater Company, a group she completed a fiveweek residency with in 2009.

Cornerstone’s model for developing theater starts with gathering stories from local citizens. Then, those community members have the chance to be cast in the play and are asked to tell those stories in a barebones way.

The company’s goal is to authentically reflect the human experience, using reality to escape the confines of fabricated plots and trained actors.

“The Veterans Play Project” worked in the same way.

It features eight professional actors and 13 veterans, some of whom had never acted before.

One is Roger Ezell, who was a medic during the Vietnam War. He’s seen a lot, but he never thought he’d get the opportunity to act in a professional production.

“I was a singer, and I had done a few community theater plays,” he said. “I was a little nervous to come do this, but everyone was so inviting and welcoming, so that didn’t last too long.”

Kirsten Stephens, who enlisted in 2002, had a background in theater before joining the military.

“You know, what’s cool about this is that it brings stories to life that people don’t

necessarily want to listen to,” she said. “It’s refreshing to just be heard.”

The play takes place in the fictional Midwestern town of Smedley and follows its local veterans to examine how they grapple with life after war.

When two Hollywood filmmakers come to town and decide to make a war memorial out of a giant rock that sits in the middle of their community, the characters are forced to consider what militar y ser vice means to them.

“The Veterans Play Project” is site-specific, taking place at Fort Snelling’s Base Camp. The space provided challenges — it’s the size of an airplane hangar and includes a 28-foot rock wall.

Cooper said she thinks these obstacles ended up being beneficial — without the rock wall, the company never would have been able to add the plot point of the memorial to the center of the play.

“We decided that it wouldn’t take place in a theater,” Cooper said. “We figured that veterans and their families would feel more comfor table and excited about going to a space they know, rather than some theater they’ve never been to before.”

The project is all about enabling vets and their commu-

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nities to illuminate the impact of service.

“I would say that the project is accurate about what it’s like to have these experiences,” Ezell said. “Getting the opportunity to talk about this stuff is healing for me, and I think it’ll be healing for others, too.”

Cooper said the play has helped her learn about the nuances of participating in war and has demystified distortions she’s seen in mass media.

“Their motivations for ser ving in the militar y are remarkably similar to my motivations for creating art,” she said. “They want to be a part of something bigger than themselves, they want to experience the world, they want to affect the world and they want to grow personally.”

moisture.

When this concept comes under scr utiny, it falls apar t. Keeping your meat juicy has way more to do with your method of cooking than with how well you seal in liquid.

Though this would seem like common sense, even if you’re properly handling a knife, having a dull edge makes you more prone to slicing yourself. Since it won’t slice as easily, you’ll often have to force the blade, causing it to slip.

Maintaining a sharp blade will ensure your knife slices only what you intend.

Expiration dates are the be-all-end-all This varies between food items, but be aware that expiration dates aren’t hard and fast rules. Things labeled “sell by,” like milk and eggs, can be used for up to a week after they’re said to expire.

Now, don’t go noshing on rotten beef ’cause you think you’re invincible.

Just know that the dates printed on products don’t always mean the same thing.

Inform yourself. Use the Internet. There are some good people on there.

Searing meat seals in juices This oft-cited piece of common knowledge maintains that the best way to prevent a cut of meat from dr ying out is to quickly brown it at a high temperature, thus “sealing in” the

At some point, people in the United States star ted believing that MSG, or monosodium glutamate, is harmful to your health.

Chinese restaurants have been getting a bad rap for decades. But according to the Food and Drug Administration, MSG is no more harmful than salt.

Restaurants that boast of using “no MSG” are, in a sense, lying. MSG naturally occurs in many ingredients, and it’s unavoidable in some styles of cooking.

Pork needs to be cooked especially long to kill bacteria

For decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommended that pork should be cooked to 160 degrees.

But in reality, cooking a pork chop to this temperature will turn it into a brick.

Fortunately, the USDA realized the er ror in its ways. In the past couple of years, it has shifted its policy and now says that pork needs to get to only 145 degrees. Medium-rare pork is safe and often more moist than its well-done rival.

You need to let meat warm up to room temperature before cooking it

You’ll see many recipes that tell you to let a piece of meat sit out for an hour or so before cooking. They’ll insist that this helps the meat cook more evenly.

Actually, getting an average steak from the fridge to room temperature would take hours. In reality, no one lets meat sit long enough to produce any noticeable difference in flavor.

Salt makes water boil faster Any recipes that involve cooking pasta will instruct you to add salt to the water.

People erroneously believe that this makes the water boil faster. Salt only slightly raises the boiling point of water. The actual difference is a fraction of a degree.

The main purpose of salting water is flavor.

Adding salt to the water helps draw some of the starch out of the pasta while giving it a little extra character.

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Sweaty dudes make good Nashville’s Diarrhea Planet serves up tasty licks, blazing solos.

BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

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iarrhea Planet is dead serious about rock ‘n’ roll.

They’re not joking when it comes to screwing around on stage, reeling of f harmonized guitar solos and generally blowing the minds of anyone who happens to see them.

Though Nashville is better known for its county and pop than scuzzy guitar rock, growing up in the Music City has undoubtedly influenced Diarrhea Planet. Frontman Jordan Smith believes their highly touted per for mances — Pitchfork called them the “greatest live show on Earth” — are a product of the city.

“Ever ything there has a little extra flash,” Smith said about Nashville.

Their approach to performing helps the band stand out from their peers for reasons other than their name. Ever y show looks like a sweaty, lowbudget approximation of

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an arena rock concert.

“We probably look like jackasses up there,” Smith said. “I feel like it’s not pretentious at all. We just have fun.” Smith also attributes the band’s propensity for huge, shout-along choruses to their city.

“Ever yone in Nashville has a good ear for hooks,” he said. “Songwriting is really at the forefront.”

According to Smith, Diarrhea Planet’s impenetrable wall of rif fs wouldn’t be possible without its fleet of guitars.

“People ask us what the point is of having three dudes play the same chords. It’s ’cause the sound is completely huge.”

Despite what music

critics have written, Diarrhea Planet’s par ticular brand of unapologetic rif f rock has little in common with the cur rent garage rock scene.

“I don’t mind the association; it’s just that if you make one lo-fi record, you’re automatically a garage rock band,” Smith said.

The “garage” label, Smith explained, is gradually replacing “indie,” which replaced “alter native” years ago. There really is nothing “garage” about Diar r hea Planet, however. Their blistering guitar solos r ecall Van Halen more than the Kinks. As the band has steadily gained popularity, their recordings have moved away from the poor audio quality associated with the garage rock genre.

Rather than give in to the lo-fi aesthetic, Diarrhea Planet has opted to buck the trend. This year’s “I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams,” the follow-up to their 2011 debut “Loose Jewels,” features the same wailing guitar solos as the prior release, albeit with much higher recording quality.

PHOTO COURTESY OF EMILY QUIRK Diarrhea Planet is much more than a crazy name.

Though Smith admits lo-fi recordings often can have more character, he believes Diarrhea Planet’s maximalist sound necessitates cleaner r ecor dings. A half-dozen guitar par ts don’t come through clearly without some crisp recording.

Diarrhea Planet hasn’t always been the (selfproclaimed) international mega stars they are now.

Prior to starting the band, four of Diarrhea Planet’s members worked at a Papa John’s together. Smith is doubtful they’ll ever become the of ficial sponsor of Papa John’s due to their name.

The name also meant Diar r hea Planet had a tough time finding a booking agent. “ We f o u n d t h e g u y who books gigs for the

band Fucked Up, but he wouldn’t even touch us,” he said. “At least you can say our name on the radio.”

Only recently has the band gained enough traction for the members to quit their day jobs.

Smith repeated a quote that T itus Andr onicus’ Patrick Stickles told him: “Rock ‘n’ roll has delivered us from pizza.”

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Q&A: Cursive’s Tim Kasher Tim Kasher gives A&E his take on songwriting, his new solo record and being the youngest in a huge family.

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

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he cover of Tim Kasher’s newest record, “Adult Film,” is disgusting. His eyes are hidden by the title of the album, and he’s covered with some sort of glazy, dirty mixture. His hair is slicked back by the hopefully artificial ooze.

This style isn’t new to Kasher. As the spearhead of underground thrashers Cursive and folksy story spinners The Good Life, Kasher has released records called “Mama, I’m Swollen” and written songs about death and sex with a twinkle in his eye.

Of course, Kasher’s not all about being gross. He usually gets attention for his clever, literary lyrics and expansive concept albums. His candid nature benefits his storytelling. A&E got a taste of that by catching up with him as he finishes touring for this record.

It seems to me that Adult Film is more about the realities of adulthood rather than pornography …

(Laughs) But I was curious: What do you think they have in common?

Um ... nothing, really!

I think it’s just a play on words. Those two words, “adult” and “film,” got placed together probably 35 years ago, if not longer ago, and it came to mean another thing. I considered the term about half a year ago, and it occurred to me that if you

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kind of deconstruct what “adult film” is, it doesn’t have to be about that at all.

Instead, it’s this kind of filminess that we collect as we age.

Yeah, I got that sense on the record. There’s a lot of stuff about death. I think it’s pretty clear that you’re fascinated by that, as we all are, in a way.

Yeah, I think we all are.

You’re right. I agree. I think I’ve become more fascinated with it as I’ve gotten older. I’m starting to deal with things that are more finite, rather than the infinite.

Based on a record like “Happy Hollow,” I can imagine that the idea of an afterlife doesn’t really jive with you.

Yeah, I guess that I really need to get over the frustration and maybe the panic life has blessed me with over the past few years.

I mean, it’s absurd. I’m not even quite 40 yet, but I’ve already started thinking that I have to be really careful about what I plan next.

I feel like some of the music you’ve put out gets this rap for being like “gloomy” or something.

But what’s nice about this record is that — what’s the last line? Isn’t it that you “don’t regret the honey or the sting” of life?

Tim Kasher pens literary pop rock with a wink and a bite.

Yeah! It definitely had to do with a sense of optimism.

Over 20 years, I’ve kind of ended albums with a question mark and sometimes with a pretty bleak outlook.

Others have been more uplifting or, I guess, positive. It just kind of turned out that, for as dark and obsessed as this record was getting, I wanted to at least have the last period be some type of optimism. I’m not really a negative person, you know?

Tell me a little bit about what’s fascinating to you about combining narrative with music. I know you didn’t want to be pegged as “the concept album guy,” but I know it’s

something you really like to do. What draws you to it?

I just like putting the extra effort in to make something fully cohesive, you know. If you choose to have an immersive listening experience, you can — it’s there! You can sit with the lyrics sheet, and there’s a lot more you can unravel. I think that’s great.

Do you feel like more of a writer or a musician? Or some kind of hybrid animal?

I dunno. I’m definitely both, but I consider myself a writer more, but that goes for songwriting. I feel like I’ve managed this dubious extended stay in music because I have more of a capability in songwriting. My musicianship’s not really all that great. Not really my forte.

(Laughs) What sort of characters are you attracted to as a writer?

The stuff I like to read the most I think is always charac-

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ter studies. I think the study of us as human beings and how we relate to each other and communicate is in the wheelhouse of what I like to do.

You write a lot about family, and I know you have a big family. Are those relationships inspired by your family?

I think probably inevitably so. I don’t really think about it in those terms all that much.

I almost never consider my family when I’m thinking about what to write, but I think as a result of having so much family, that sort of stuff comes up more often than I realize.

How have they influenced you as a person making art?

That’s probably a bigger question I’d have to think about. As the youngest in the family, I had a lot of delusions that the Kasher family was a very wildly successful, famous people, when we really were nothing. It was just that

my older brothers and sisters were really popular in school, so I thought that that meant they were the coolest people on the planet. (Laughs) But that must’ve done something.

If nothing else, it probably instilled some sort of confidence in me.

This is kind of an unfair question, but, if I gave you total funding to make any project that you wanted to, what do you think you would do?

Actually, I think that’s kind of an easy question. I’d probably just put it into a film because they’re so expensive. I mean, a lot of stuff, you know.

I can do another album. I can fund my own album. I’d put it into a film, or maybe I’d do a huge Broadway musical.

Something very expensive that would be a blast to do but I don’t have money for.

You’re into the theatrical?

In something that’s that grand of a statement? Yeah, that’d be a blast! It’d be so huge.

MOVIES

The African connection “Remembering Nokutela” set to screen at the Images of Africa film festival beginning this weekend at St. Anthony Main.

BY THOM Q. JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com

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or many years, African cinema was left in its infancy, held back by arcane laws and practices steeped in bigotry like the French “Laval Decree,” which sought to limit the role Africans played in film production, until it was nullified in the 1960s.

In the time since, filmmakers have produced rich stories beyond those that relegated the continent to

portrayals of a wild jungle land without history.

The “Images of Africa” film festival, presented by the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, pulls together an impressive collection of 27 films — including documentaries, dramas and animation — that showcase the richness of the African experience as modern filmmakers have picked up cameras to tell their stories from their own perspectives.

The fest’s organizers have made a special ef for t to include the works of local African filmmakers, a small but energetic group of self-taught individuals.

Some films in this series seem to imitate the models of Hollywood, while others stray far from them. The

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self-taught and professional qualities are blended together to create a nuanced picture of Africa.

Chérif Keita, director of African/African American studies at Carleton College in Nor thfield, Minn., produced the film “Remembering Nokutela.” He said he remembers walking into the dean’s office many years ago requesting the money to buy a simple video camera.

“I’ve definitely made that purchase back,” said Keita. His work stems from investigations into the founder of the African National Congress, John Dube, and his family.

Keita’s third film on the subject, “Remembering Nokutela,” follows Keita on a trip to South Africa, where he pieces together the histor y of Dube’s allbut-forgotten wife. He’s an enthusiastic host, visiting the villages of Nokutela’s family and delighting in the connections he finds — living proof that the stor y is still full of unknown turns.

He even made the discover y that the Dubes received their early education via the work of a missionar y couple from none other than Northfield.

It was a connection “beyond what anyone could imagine,” said Keita. “That a small r ural settlement in the 1880s could have a global reach is truly remarkable.”

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horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (11/14): Passion is your golden key this year. Weave favorite subjects into routines. Practice arts and skills, with extra bursts of productive creativity this autumn and next spring.

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

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

Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

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

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 an 8 — Your newly gained power may keep you from seeing something important in your peripheral vision.

Don’t forget to look around.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Something doesn’t go quite as planned.

Creativity and patience are required to work it out. Luckily, you’ve got both.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — It may feel like the world is on your shoulders.

Release some of your imaginary load. The improvement is almost immediate.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Don’t show skeptics unfinished work, or you might get disillusioned. Don’t try to solve a problem with money, either.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Someone has unique problems. Have a good time solving them. It’s better with friends. A barrier’s dissolving.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — The more you shift and move things around at the risk of stirring up controversy, the more you discover.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Better make sure you have all the pieces and that they all fit together, to avoid overlooking details that could cause delays.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Finish your homework as best as you can.

Don’t be harsh on yourself if it’s not perfect.

Keep practicing, and your skills increase.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Romance works if you don’t push too hard. Things could get spicy and adventurous. On the financial front, frugality and simplicity work fine.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Postpone shopping or splurging. Begin a personal journey, and document it thoroughly. Don’t spend or make foolish promises to impress.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Get one or more geniuses to help. They’ll get cranky if they don’t hear from you. Support your team.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Unusual fears could appear. Follow your inner wisdom and improvise as you go. There’s time to edit later.

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overheard Student 1: “This problem is impossible!”

Student 2: “You would need to go to [expletive] Hogwarts to figure this shit out.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

TA: “Trees probably shouldn’t have all of the rights that people do. While it may be okay to go into a forest and cut down a whole hectare of trees to build your house, it’s probably not OK to go into Times Square and machete down a bunch of people to build your hot dog stand.”

—Ecology class

“I didn’t recognize you with clothes on!”

—Cooke Hall

“I need to get old and frumpy really fast. How does one do this?”

—Territorial Hall

“You need a job.”

“Nah, I’m just going to go to the sperm bank.”

—Coffman Union

Professor: “Now, imagine you are a bug walking on a Mobius strip, and you bowl a lot, so your right hand is huge.

Once you do a loop on the strip, you will now be left-handed and food will taste different because the glucose molecules will be flipped. ... Oh no. I’ve been talking for 20 minutes now, and all I’ve done is drawn a Mobius strip, a pacifier and an octopus thing.”

—Calculus class

“Dude, what are you wearing? Are those even shorts? I can see your entire ... deal.”

—Recreation and Wellness Center

Guy: “Free hugs!”

—Frontier Hall

“I am allergic to furless dogs.”

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—Boynton Health Service

Professor: “If you don’t go to your friend’s funeral, they won’t go to yours.

It’s karma.”

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

—Unknown

“It’s the rectal thermometer of the universe.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

Girl: “So where do you think you want to go to grad school?”

Guy: “Probably California. Like Berkeley or Stanford.”

Girl: “You should go to SeaWorld!”

—Unknown

“I am so dropping out of school and becoming a clown.”

—Unknown

Girl: “Yes, I know every word to all the songs in Legally Blonde!”

—Northrop Mall area

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ACROSS 1 Moll’s leg 4 Word after fire or power 9 Like some wedding dresses 13 Biblical priest who trained Samuel 14 Zellweger et al.

16 Together, in music 17 Architect’s add-on 18 *Make it not hurt so much 20 Tre times due 21 Bark relative 22 IHOP array 23 *Marching order 26 Type of cranial nerve 28 Role for John Cho in “Star Trek” 29 Jets and others 31 __ nutshell 32 Mex. neighbor 34 Motor extension?

35 At any time 36 *Has unfinished business with the IRS 40 Spot on the tube 41 Good buddy 42 Play about Capote 43 Ran across 44 Film critic Jeffrey 46 Long haul 49 __ de Chine: light fabric 51 *Entice with 54 Eggheads 56 Govt. surveillance group 57 PTA meeting site 58 *Sagacious 60 __ out: barely make 61 Aleutian island 62 Faunae counterparts 63 Grassy area 64 Harness part 65 Yeats’ “The Wild __ at Coole” 66 Many AARP The Magazine readers: Abbr.

DOWN 1 Silly sorts 2 Strike zones?

3 Social setting

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4 Mr. Holland portrayer 5 Put on again 6 Hip joint 7 Author Harper 8 Conversation opener 9 Drink à la Fido 10 Capable of change 11 Cookbook categories 12 Nikkei Index currency 15 Lacking the required funds 19 Winged god 24 Turned around 25 Opponents of the ’60s-’70s New Left 27 Golf, for one 30 Simpsons creator Groening 33 “Eight Is Enough” wife 35 Bedroom community 36 Orthodontic concern 37 Ride the wake, say 38 Awakenings 39 Some auction transactions

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40 “Movies for movie lovers” network 44 “Aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper?” speaker 45 Isabel Allende title 47 Stands for things 48 Any of the top 25 NFL career scoring leaders 50 Song of praise

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52 Egyptian dam 53 MLB team, familiarly (and what’s missing from the sequence found in the answers to starred clues?)

55 Bad check letters 58 Card game for two, usually 59 “What are you waiting for?!”

Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

dr. date Dr. Date,

My best friend just got engaged and asked me to be her maid of honor. I of course said yes. But now, my whole life has turned into Wedding Preparations (capitalization intended). All she and I ever talk about is appetizers and bridesmaid dresses and black and white photography versus color. It’s exhausting and, frankly, pretty boring. How do I get through the next six months without going insane?

—Maid-zilla

Hitch,

Chances are your sanity will suffer no matter how many measures are put in place to maintain it. I like to think of situations like these as a game. If you get too caught up in the reality of the hours you’re wasting on paltry wedding prep, you’ll probably want to physically harm yourself — after all, time is money.

Think of the TV show “Survivor.” You need to “outwit, outplay and outlast” this wedding. Start keeping track of keywords your friend overuses, tabulate her tears — things like that can make the time pass by much more quickly. Also, you can always discover a brand-new, time-consuming hobby that keeps you, apologetically, away from your friend and the hellish reality of this upcoming marriage.

There are two other possibilities, and both of them are selfish, but hey, you’ve got your sanity on the line. Do you like her fiancé? If you legitimately don’t, try to get the wedding called off. Plus, have you mentioned the benefits of advancing the date and time? If you could make six months turn into one month … But these would likely ruin a friendship, so keep that in mind.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My girlfriend is always checking Buzzfeed — when we’re in the middle of a conversation, when we’re eating dinner and even one time while we were making out! I once hid her phone so she’d stop checking it, but then she just made me call it until she found it. What can I do? I feel like she’s cheating on me with lists of weird celebrity haircuts and how to know you were born in the ’90s.

—Tech Stress

Buzz,

Hahaha. Wait, seriously? At least she’s probably pretty good with random trivia, right? (Start watching “Jeopardy” with her to see which tidbits are really sinking in.)

Are you boring, or is she one of those people who’s tethered to her tech like a toddler to their parent at the mall? Sever that umbilical cord! She needs to learn how to sit in a room by herself and do nothing but laugh at the world. Being capable of existing without the constant stream of information is a human quality that is rapidly going the way of the dodo, courtesy of outlets like Buzzfeed.

First, I’d make sure you’re a really good kisser. She clearly isn’t caught up in necking if she’s checking her phone all the god dang time.

And how passive of a Midwesterner are you? Did you immediately leap to the conclusion that hiding her most prized possession should be your first course of action? I ask because from the tenor of your question, it seems like you haven’t even expressed your displeasure with her. Do that first, and then see what happens.

—Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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Preserving Riverside Plaza Riverside u from Page 1

She said the awar d, while prestigious, carries no monetar y prize.

“It’s about the recognition,” she said.

But many residents and community leaders say they are disappointed with the scope of the recent renovations.

Mohamed Jama, resident and general director of the Cedar Riverside Youth Council, said the Plaza’s managers have assured residents they will look into their concerns.

But Jama said most of the issues raised remain unaddressed.

“Some of the [apar tments] are still run-down,” he said. “We’re still having a hard time figuring out what is happening in terms of security and in terms of improvements.”

Jama said security is a major concer n for many residents, especially since crime rates have been higher in the neighborhood than nearby areas in recent months.

“Sherman Associates, [which] houses more than 5,000 people, is not taking security concerns seriously,” he said.

Deqa Adan moved to Riverside Plaza four months ago and said she’s also worried about safety.

People who don’t live in the Plaza got access after multiple spare keys disappeared from the complex’s office, she said.

Morsi: No stability unless coup reversed

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Riverside Plaza in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood Tuesday.

“They didn’t infor m anyone,” she said.

Adan said Sherman should allow more residents to take staf f jobs at the Plaza instead of hiring from outside of the community.

“Any job that comes up, it should be [used] to give people in the community the oppor tunity to do better for themselves,” she said. “Apparently, that doesn’t work in Riverside Plaza.”

Sher man Associates didn’t return multiple calls for comment.

Originally named Cedar Square West, Riverside Plaza was designed by former University of Minnesota School of Architecture dean Ralph Rapson.

Completed in the early 1970s, Riverside Plaza was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Preser vation Alliance of Minnesota Executive Director Doug Gasek said the complex is emblematic of the “new towns in town” philosophy.

The concept stresses building schools and businesses into large new complexes to provide a new community rather than just housing, Gasek said.

It was a popular design philosophy for large apartment and condominium complexes built in the 1960s and ’70s after the Plaza.

Gasek said the Plaza’s recent renovation will likely ser ve as a model for fu-

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ture upgrades to housing complexes built around the same time.

“It’s a project that really exemplifies how housing rehab can be done in a modernist building,” he said. “A lot of people will be looking to this project in the future to understand how to renovate architectural pieces from our recent past and incorporate housing in those buildings.”

Jama said moving forward, Riverside Plaza residents will continue to tr y to work with management to fix the problems, despite the lack of reception they say they’ve received so far.

“We’re hoping that the management takes the tenants seriously,” he said.

CAIRO — Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi accused the military chief who deposed him of treason in a message from prison read by lawyers on Wednesday, saying the countr y cannot return to stability until the coup is reversed and those behind it are tried.

The statement was part of a bid by Morsi to rally his suppor ters since his emergence from the secret militar y detention where he had been held, with virtually no contact with the outside world since his July 3 ouster.

Morsi was moved to a high security civilian penitentiary last week after the first session of his trial on charges of inciting murder.

There, he had his first extensive meeting with a team of lawyers from his Muslim Brotherhood and other allies on Tuesday, outlining to them his “message to the Egyptian people.”

But he is emerging to a dramatically changed situation from four months ago.

Since then, a fierce crackdown by security forces has crippled the Brotherhood, several thousand members have been ar rested, and hundreds have been killed. The group has been banned by a court order and a government-

appointed committee is reviewing its financial assets with an eye to seize them.

The new militar y-backed gover nment is pushing ahead with a transition plan aiming for new presidential and parliamentary elections early next year.

In the most recent verdict in the crackdown, a cour t sentenced 12 proMorsi suppor ters to 17 years in prison each over charges linked to violence at Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam’s main seat of learning. The Brotherhood described the defendants, who may appeal the ruling, as Morsi supporters. The court set bail for each defendant at $9,000 pending any appeal.

The verdict said the defendants were convicted for “gathering to influence authorities and impede implementation of the law,” as well as thugger y, assault, sabotage and other charges. Egypt’s of ficial news agency says protesters at the time had hurled chunks of marble at the building and insulted the grand imam.

Under the crackdown, protests by Morsi’s supporters have dwindled and have been reduced to small gatherings in universities or localized neighborhood rallies. Security of ficials, however, worr y the protests could flare stronger with the lifting of a 3-monthold state of emergency and curfew, which the government confirmed in a statement will happen Thursday.

Ahead of the lifting, the government said in a statement that it had reviewed the security plan to be put in action, which included increasing police deployments, including mobile and fixed checkpoints in the streets.

“Any attempts to destabilize the country or undermine state or citizen’s security will be dealt with firmly in accordance with the law,” the statement said.

The militar y-backed interim gover nment also announced the setting of a maximum wage for gover nment employees, a step aimed at achieving social justice long demanded by those who led the 2011 uprising which ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak of power.

The Cabinet decided that star ting in Januar y, the top gover nment wage will be $6,000 a month.

The minimum wage was raised several months ago to $171 a month.

Morsi’s statement laid down a hard line, praising protesters for their “steadfastness” and vowing the coup would be reversed.

“The coup has begun to fall apart and will topple in the face of the steadfastness of the Egyptian people,” he said in the statement, read by the lawyers at a press conference. His lawyers stressed that they had taken notes from Morsi and articulated the message themselves.

He said Defense Minister Gen. Abdel-Fattah elSissi, who heads the militar y, had violated his oath of loyalty and committed “treason against God” and “treason against the whole nation by driving a wedge among the people of Egypt.”

He also said Egypt will not see stability until “the militar y coup is eliminated and those responsible for shedding Egyptians’ blood are held accountable.”

The 62-year-old Morsi also gave his first account of his detention. He said was “kidnapped forcefully and against my will” on July 2, a day before el-Sissi announced the installation of a new interim president. He said he was kept in a Republican Guards facility for three days, then moved to a naval base.

Military and security officials refused to divulge where Morsi was kept until his trial, citing concerns for his safety. Morsi also said he did not meet any militar y leaders during his detention.

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FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 8, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Something to pass or lower 7 Crocus kin 11 Samosa veggie 14 Biblical dancer 15 Item in a musician’s kit 17 Western, e.g.

18 Kind and caring 19 Stadium section for charity workers?

21 Keats work 23 Steam 24 Calypso relative 25 Keats’ “Sylvan historian” 26 Really old hardwood?

32 “Phooey!”

34 Give a damn?

35 Disney’s “Bambi”?

41 Paralyze with dense mist, as an airport 42 “Horse Feathers” family name 44 “Merrie Melodies” theme song?

50 One of two single-digit Yankee uniform numbers that aren’t retired 51 A, in Acapulco 52 “Mazel __!”

53 Ranch handle 54 Emperor Justinian as a young man?

61 “That’s my intention” 62 Around the bend, so to speak 65 “Flavor” singer/songwriter 66 Beat badly 67 Letters to the Coast Guard 68 TV component?

69 Quick DOWN 1 Chicken general?

2 Boar’s Head product 3 Like November, in a way 4 Simple tie 5 First name in flight

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By Jeffrey Wechsler

6 Library requirement 7 “The wolf __ the door” 8 Get to 9 Sit in traffic, say 10 Very, in Vienna 11 Words of tribute 12 Golden State motto 13 California Zephyr operator 16 “Law & Order: SVU” rank 20 Bottom line 21 Word of possession 22 Western challenge 27 Terse refusal 28 Who, in Paris 29 Item shortened at bitly.com 30 Md. hours 31 Cooperative group 33 Cake recipe word 36 As well 37 Massage beneficiary 38 Its atomic number is 50 39 Common sorting basis

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40 Lakeside Pennsylvania city 43 Love letters?

44 Ark units 45 “As I was sayin’ ...”

46 They may be straight 47 4 x 4, briefly 48 Policy at some restaurants 49 Align carefully 55 Prefix with culture 56 Bar order

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57 “The devourer of all things”: Ovid 58 Statue of Vishnu, e.g.

59 Oenophile’s criterion 60 __ Squalor: Lemony Snicket character 63 Composer Rorem 64 English cathedral city

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FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 9, 2013

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

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

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

Solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.

All rights reserved.

ACROSS 1 Long-odds track bets 10 Early launch rocket 15 Marketing resource 16 Gear part 17 Small-time 18 All, in Assisi 19 Piece of work 20 Questionable strategy for a runner?

22 Tastes 23 Kept from spreading 24 Media __ 27 Kind of colorful shirt 28 Bad blood 29 Stale quality 33 Fire 34 A cup may be one 35 Computer menu option 36 Polite assent 38 Scrubber’s target 39 Comedian Fields 40 Capitulate 41 Soil test measure 44 Reduce 45 Golf tournament display 47 Cristal maker 50 “__ Smith and Jones”: ’70s TV Western 51 Available to order 53 “__ honest ...”

54 Like a tense person’s teeth?

55 One who’s doomed 56 Read impatiently DOWN 1 Latino Muppet prawn 2 It calls for immediate attn.

3 Buzzed

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4 “Jaws” omen 5 Mythological paradise 6 Woodworking devices 7 They have points 8 Dog star 9 Make safe for use, in a way 10 Diplomacy figure 11 Bring up something sensitive 12 Singer Lenya 13 Where to see some old clothes 14 Culture __ 21 Fed. security 22 Bodybuilding goal 24 Conspiratorial 25 French bean product?

26 River inlets 27 Come about 29 Head out West?

30 Emmy winner Falco

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31 __ Valley 32 Uzi predecessor 34 Actor Gallagher 37 Tennis shutout 38 Floral-sounding Los Angeles suburb 40 Sonic server 41 Braid 42 First response to a call 43 Former boxer Ali

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44 Page of music 46 Short run, for short 47 Eliot title character 48 “Listen to Your Heart” singer in the musical “Young Frankenstein” 49 Prompted 52 “Big deal”

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