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University libraries are promoting National Novel Writing Month.
On Monday, a state Senate committee reviewed processes for sentencing and treatment.
Malik Smith came to Minnesota with Richard Pitino and has adjusted well.
We’re doing it wrong.
In November, a novel experience for U writers u See PAGE 3
Minnesota senators mull sex offender guidelines u See PAGE 4
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The Fashionista is in: Study abroad style
Smith embraces role on Gophers
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MINNEAPOLIS
ST PAUL
TUESDAY
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
LIFESTYLE
Suspension without suspense
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NEIGHBORHOODS
Dinky could go historic The area may seek historic status, but some residents are opposed. BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com
The unprecedented city planning for Dinkytown is nearing an end, but some stakeholders are concerned about the plan’s current direction. Neighborhood residents flocked to the Varsity Theater on Monday for the third and final community forum on Dinkytown’s small-area plan. The city presented the most current version of the plan, renamed the Dinkytown USA Business District
BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY
Brianna Sheehan suspends Thursday in Minneapolis. After a previous attempt, she got up on her second try with the help of friend Nate Janke.
To reach new heights, body manipulation artists hang by their skin. BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com
nearly touched. Janke passed the rope
Nate Janke hoisted him-
off to his friend and began
self of f the ground in his
to swing his legs back and
downtown Minneapolis
forth in tandem like a kid
apartment with an orange
pumping higher and higher
rope attached to a theater
on a swing set. In the last
rig.
10 years, he has suspended
One end of the rope ran
from various points on his
through holes in the con-
body, including his knee,
traption. The other weaved
stomach and chest, but has
through two wishbone-
come back to these two ex-
shaped metal hooks nested
act spots almost 30 times.
under his skin, just inside his upper shoulder blades.
“I like them. They’re really comfy,” he said.
A single line of blood
Suspension is a form
trickled down his spine
of body manipulation
from one tattoo to the
that involves hanging the
next. The hardware slowly
body from hooks pierced
moved together as his skin
through the skin. It is most
loosened, until the hooks
notably rooted in Native
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STUDENT GROUPS
Groups take on typhoon relief Students are raising funds to help Filipino communities get back on their feet. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
After Typhoon Haiyan killed and displaced thousands when it struck the Philippines on Nov. 8, some student groups are jumping to help by raising money for relief. The University of Minnesota’s Philippine Student Association is involved with a number of fundraisers to help alleviate typhoon victims, and the Vietnamese Student Association is also helping the relief effort by supporting PSA’s work and raising money at its own events. The typhoon, known as Yolanda in the Philippines, killed more than 3,900 people and left nearly 1,600 missing as of Monday. It also displaced more than 4 million people. To help, the PSA sold shirts displaying the group’s logo and will donate all prou See T YPHOON Page 3 Foreign aid to the Philippines totals more than $270 million, with $20 million from the U.S.
Plan, to the approximately 120 people in attendance. A 10-minute documentary showed aesthetic shots of the area overlaid with inter views of business employees, students and city staff giving their opinions on the state of Dinkytown. Principal City Planner Haila Maze said Monday’s 104-page form of the plan was a “completed draft” but not the final version. She said the city will add the community’s most recent feedback and flesh out the report into a finished draft. Once the Dinkytown Business Association and the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association u See PLAN Page 5 Property owners recently formed a group to weigh in on policy.
CRIME
Two held up in Marcy-Holmes Police arrested four men fleeing the scene after an armed robbery. BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com
More robberies hit the University of Minnesota area this weekend. A Marcy-Holmes resident and his friend were robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning, according to a Minneapolis police report. Police caught and arrested the suspects shortly after the incident. Haley Nelson, 22, said she was sitting with a friend outside his house on Eighth Street Southeast at about 3 a.m. Sunday, waiting for their friends to get back. Nelson said when they saw a man approaching the house, her friend told her to get behind him.
POLICE REPORT
“[He] looked kind of sketchy,” Nelson said. The man asked them for a cigarette, Nelson said, and her friend said they didn’t have one. The man then pulled out a gun, Nelson said, and demanded her friend hand over “ever ything he had.” Nelson said her friend gave up his cellphone, but she refused to hand over hers when the man pointed the gun at her. “I back sassed him a little bit,” she said. By then, Nelson’s friends had ar rived and u See CRIME Page 4 Police arrested three men following a break-in at Coffman.
ADMINISTRATION
At office hours, students kick it with Kaler Kaler met with about a dozen students to talk bikes, safety and other campus issues. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler sat in his Morrill Hall office Friday afternoon as a dozen or so students bustled in and out, pitching their ideas to improve campus. Kaler, who started hosting monthly office hours last spring, discussed bicycle traffic, safety procedures and other University issues last week. Mechanical engineering senior Ben Pearce said he would like to see more bike lanes on the East Bank to alleviate accidents and increase accessibility. Pearce said a permanent bike lane down the middle of the pedestrian-only section of Church Street would ease some of the congestion in that area. Kaler agreed and said he would present the idea to the University’s Parking and Transportation Services. “This is a missing link in organized biking,” Kaler said. The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group unsuccessfully proposed a similar
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Junior Justin Halverson, Sustainability Coalition member, talks to University President Eric Kaler at his office hours at Morrill Hall on Friday.
plan in 2010, but Kaler said because bike traffic has increased in recent years, there’s a better chance of PTS creating the lane.
u See KALER Page 3 One freshman said his professor didn’t know what to do after an armed man was reported on campus.
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