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University health efforts span the globe A former faculty member is working on health issues in Sierra Leone. u See PAGE 3

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Derrick Engel has led the Gophers all year as one of their best receivers.

Researchers evolved algae from single-celled to multicellular.

Engel injures knee, could miss game

U study recreates evolution’s first steps

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HEALTH

U program cuts jobs The nutrition education program SNAP-Ed will lose about 44 percent of its staff.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

Responding to successive cuts in federal funding, University of Minnesota Extension announced Monday it will scale back a program that helps low-income families make healthy, cost-effective food choices.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program-Education will cut 67 of its 152 employees by early next year, slowing education for the thousands of people who use SNAP. With the across-the-board federal cuts known as sequestration in effect and uncer tainty sur rounding the next Farm Bill, future funding prospects look grim.

“We were hoping these cuts were going to be shor t term,” said Extension Dean Bev Durgan. “It doesn’t look like it’s going to be short term.” u See SNAP-ED Page 5 Extension’s budget for SNAP-Ed was cut by $2.4 million, or about 28 percent.

HIGHER ED

University of Minnesota head football coach Jerry Kill discusses his football career in his office Nov. 13.

The head coach’s seizures follow him on and off the field.

BY SAM GORDON AND DANE MIZUTANI sgordon@mndaily.com dmizutani@mndaily.com

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niversity of Minnesota head football coach Jerr y Kill turns around football programs.

In the last 15 years, he’s toured the Midwest, taking over four struggling teams and redirecting them.

He’s climbed the coaching ladder, and this season his Gophers are 8-2 and once again relevant in the Big Ten. But health concerns have followed Kill at nearly every stop in his career.

He’s had seizures on and off the field, intensified after a bout with kidney cancer.

CITY GOVERNMENT

Rybak’s legacy: ups and downs Despite the mayor’s victories, certain policies will leave some people disappointed.

BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

R.T. Rybak will exit the mayor’s office in January, leaving behind a legacy of 12 years of leading Minneapolis.

Since he was first elected in 2001, the city has experienced policy changes ranging from budget reform to increased student engagement.

Many who watched Rybak during his time in office consider his work on the budget to be a crowning achievement.

“As far as coping with budget cuts, he did relatively well, especially if you take the 2008 economic collapse into consideration,” Hamline University law professor David Schultz said.

Ward 4 City Councilwoman Barbara Johnson agreed and said his work put the city “on really good financial footing.”

“He’s really led us in a way to hold the line on spending, and that has produced a city that came out of the recession in way, u See RYBAK Page 6 Rybak first ran on neighborhood revitalization but is known for downtown development.

Until last year, he didn’t publicly acknowledge his epilepsy — a brain disorder in which a person has repeated seizures.

This season, he finally decided to do something no one thought he would: step away from the sidelines and focus on his condition.

“I’ve got my back against the wall,” Kill said. “I’ve got to quit putting a Band-Aid on it.”

In October, the University announced Kill would take extended time away from the team to focus on his epilepsy treatment.

“We feel like we’ve got the help we needed, and we’ve learned even more in the last month,” said Rebecca Kill, his wife of 30 years. “I feel like we’re on the right track.”

Jerr y Kill has had two game-day seizures this season and hasn’t of ficially coached a game since Sept. 28. His assistants have handled the majority of coaching duties in his absence, inviting speculation about how Kill’s epilepsy affects his coaching career.

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[I’ve] never taken time off much, [and I’ve just] focused on

going 100 miles per hour to turn programs around, and at the end of the day,

it caught up with me.

Honors runs on low funds A review found the University Honors Program has a lower budget than its peers.

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

An external review of the University of Minnesota’s Honors Program found that its budget is low for its size.

The program runs on $1.5 million for its 2,300 students, according to a spring 2013 external review recently obtained by the Minnesota Daily, and some students, especially in the College of Liberal Arts, say honors courses are lacking.

University Honors Program Director Serge Rudaz said increasing the program’s budget could lead to more honors courses. But Bob McMaster, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education, said he “doesn’t see the honors budget increasing significantly.” u See HONORS Page 4 Some students said they’ve had trouble finding honors courses that fulfill necessary requirements.

URBAN FARMING

Come winter, chicken owners balk Urban farmers are abandoning birds, a trend that climbs when temperatures drop.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

Mar y Britton Clouse has 20 rescued chickens living in her Minneapolis home.

On Sunday, one wandered off.

She searched for the lost companion in her house, which doubles as a sanctuar y for stray and abandoned chickens.

Her organization, Chicken Run Rescue, sees an increase in rescue requests during the colder months when people do not always want to take care of their birds.

Britton Clouse said people sometimes drop chickens off at her door.

University of Minnesota political science professor Wendy Rahn, who raises three pet chickens in her St. Paul backyard, said the “homeless chicken problem” is a recent phenomenon.

“The urban chicken boom reflects this interest in local, sustainable and organic agriculture, but there are some realities to it that people don’t confront,” she said.

Jane Shey, city contractor for the program Homegrown Minneapolis, said chicken raising has a strong presence in the city because of its immigrant community and because residents use eggs as an inexpensive source of protein.

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University student Mose Kusik holds a chicken at Chicken Run Rescue on Sunday afternoon.

“Many people, depending on where they came from, raised chickens where they lived before,” she said, “and so in some

u See CHICKENS Page 5 Chicken Run Rescue received six rescue requests in 2001 but nearly 500 last year.

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Colorado teen gets life for kidnapping, killing 10-year-old GOLDEN, Colo. — A psychologist described him as sadistic, and prosecutors said he methodically killed and dismembered the 10-year-old girl he grabbed on her way to school.

But lawyers for Austin Sigg said Tuesday the 18-year-old was still a child himself, he might have suffered trauma before and during bir th, and he had anxiety, a learning disability and an emotionally distant mother.

Judge Stephen Munsinger rejected that image and the defense argument that Sigg should be eligible for parole in 40 years. He instead ordered the teen to ser ve a life sentence for killing Jessica Ridgeway plus 86 years for other offenses, including sexually assaulting her and tr ying to attack a jogger a few months before. The sentence ensured Sigg will never be released.

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teers, searched for her and then her killer. While people now know how Jessica was killed, Munsinger said they might never know why.

“Evil is apparently real,” he said. “It was present in our community on Oct. 5, 2012. Its name was Austin Sigg.”

Sigg — who was 17 when he killed the fifthgrader — gave no remarks during the two-day sentencing hearing and displayed no apparent emotion as he was sentenced. His mother, Mindy, who called police when he decided to turn himself in, watched from a few rows behind.

He did wipe away tears Monday as photos of Jessica were displayed. Mindy Sigg also wept as Jessica’s grandmother, Angie Moss, testified about what it would be like to know your child was capable of such an act. Hearing the cr ying, Moss added, “I can’t imagine the damage that’s been done to his mother.”

Jessica’s mother offered no opinion on Sigg’s sentence either during or after the hearing. She also de-

clined to testify about how her daughter’s murder has af fected her and her family, saying “the defendant” didn’t have the right to hear that.

The defense showed photos of Sigg growing up interspersed with teachers’ comments, repor ts cards and medical and counseling records.

Lawyer Katherine Spengler said Sigg’s mother inhaled paint fumes and fell down stairs while pregnant with him. She also said Sigg might have suf fered brain damage from several falls as a child.

Spengler displayed a misspelled note to Santa Claus from a 7-year-old Sigg as evidence of his problems with writing.

“Der Santa, Watever will do,” it said.

Starting at age 12, Sigg began getting counseling for pornography, anxiety and a compulsive disorder, apparently with little support from his parents, who divorced when he was a toddler, Spengler said. She said Mindy Sigg seemed to retreat during his high

school years.

Spengler also urged the judge to consider testimony from a University of Colorado cognitive neuroscientist, Marie Banich, who said the parts of the brain that govern complex decision making usually aren’t fully developed until people are in their 20s.

“We aren’t talking about someone who is developmentally an adult,” Spengler said.

She said Sigg’s background didn’t excuse or explain his horrible crime, but she urged the judge to consider it in determining his sentence.

A Madison, Wis., psychologist hired by prosecutors earlier told Munsinger that Sigg was “sadistic” and had planned his attack.

Anna Salter, who studies sex of fenders, testified Monday that Sigg did Internet searches for tor ture, rape and child pornography.

“He cer tainly had no empathy for Jessica Ridgeway,” Salter said. She reviewed and cited gruesome details from police interviews with Sigg but didn’t speak to him herself.

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — The HealthCare.gov website will still be a work in progress beyond the end of the month, Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday, appearing to soften a promise that the site will be working by then for the vast majority of users.

“The 30th of November is not a magic go, no go date. It is a work of constant improvement. We have some very specific things we know we need to complete by the 30th and that punch list is getting knocked out ever y week,” Sebelius told The Associated Press.

Sebelius made stops in Orlando and Miami on Tuesday to address the fallout over the new health care law’s paltry enrollment figures and continuing website problems.

The Obama administration has staked its credibility on turning HealthCare. gov around by the end of this month. From the president on down, officials have said the website will be r unning smoothly for the “vast majority of users”

by Nov. 30, but have been

vague about what that actually means.

The definition has morphed in the past few weeks. At an Oct. 30 congressional hearing, Sebelius projected “an optimally functioning website” by the end of November. On Nov. 5, Marilyn Tavenner, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, testified that the site would be “fully functioning” by that date.

Last week, President Barack Obama said the “the improvement will be marked and noticeable.”

On Tuesday, Sebelius told the AP it would work for most users by the end of the month, but would still require fixes because of the magnitude of the first-of-its-kind project.

“We recognize that there will still be periodic spikes, glitches, whatever that people will experience,” she said.

When asked why officials pushed ahead with the Oct. 1 launch date despite warnings the site hadn’t been properly tested, Sebelius said they were hoping to give consumers as much time as possible to enroll before coverage begins in January.

NYC bans tobacco sales to anyone 21 years and under

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed landmark legislation Tuesday banning the sale of tobacco products to anyone under the age of 21, making New York the first large city or state in the country to prohibit sales to young adults.

During a brief ceremony at City Hall, Bloomberg said raising the legal purchase age from 18 to 21 will help prevent young people from experimenting with tobacco at the age when they are most likely to become addicted. City health officials say 80 percent of smokers start before age 21.

The mayor, a former smoker, also signed legislation setting a minimum price for all cigarettes sold in the city: $10.50 per pack.

The same new law bans retailers from offering coupons, 2-for-1 specials, or other discounts.

In signing the bills, Bloomberg tur ned away

criticism that the measures would be economically harmful to thousands of city convenience stores and possibly lead to job losses.

“This is an issue of whether we are going to kill people,” Bloomberg said.

People who raise the economic argument, he said, “really ought to look in the mirror and be ashamed.”

The ban does have limitations. People under age 21 can still possess tobacco legally, they just can’t buy it.

Underage smokers will still be able to steal cigarettes from their parents, bum them from friends, stock up during trips beyond city limits or buy them from the black-market dealers common in many neighborhoods.

Young smokers puf fing away outside the main library at New York University on Tuesday ridiculed the law as an infringement on personal freedoms and questioned whether it would really lead to reduced smoking rates.

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Forstie gives students a political voice With Matt Forstie, students have more influence at the Capitol than ever.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

Matt Forstie had a keen eye for politics and current events from a young age.

Growing up in Rochester, Minn., Lori Forstie said her son read the newspaper every day.

The finance senior joined five student groups when he came to the University of Minnesota in fall 2010. But only one stuck — the Minnesota Student Association.

Forstie said he stayed in the undergraduate student government because he felt it was the best way to make an impact. Now as chairman of the Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition, Forstie has helped ramp up MSA’s ef forts at the state Legislature, and students and officials say MSA has more impact at the Capitol than ever before.

When he joined MSA, Forstie noticed student advocacy ef for ts lacked tangible goals for University students, calling the ef for ts more reactionar y than proactive.

“Looking back, it’s almost criminal how little we were doing at the state Capitol in terms of advocacy,” he said. “But I knew all it would really take is a couple of people to decide that we could do better to change that.”

W ith Forstie at the helm, the MSLC drafted and lobbied for the state’s m e d i c a l a m n e s t y l a w,

which protects underage drinkers from citations when they call 911 in a medical emergency. The group lobbied for the bill during the spring legislative session, and the governor signed it into law in May. Rep. Kim Norton, DFLR o c h e s t e r, h a s k n o w n Forstie since he was in high school. She said MSA’s boosted presence at the Capitol and unprecedented lobbying ef for ts have upped the group’s credibility among lawmakers.

“It’s been obvious that students at the University are serious about their mission,” she said. “They have built their own credibility by having a strong presence [at the Capitol] and understanding a wide variety of issues.”

Forstie has been MSLC chairman since fall of his junior year. He oversees and coordinates student advocacy efforts for all five University of Minnesota campuses, responsibilities that include planning Suppor t the U Day ever y spring and drafting an advocacy platform for each legislative session.

Last year, Forstie and the MSLC advocated for medical amnesty, open textbooks and the tuition freeze for resident undergraduates.

Forstie said University students had more than 250 meetings with legislators last session, which he said was the biggest student advocacy ef for t the MSLC has ever led.

“Legislative advocacy has just been a natural thing for Matt,” Lori

Suicide bombings at Iran Embassy in Beirut kill 23

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Suicide bombers str uck the Iranian Embassy on Tuesday, killing 23 people, including a diplomat, and wounding more than 140 others in a “message of blood and death” to Tehran and Hezbollah — both suppor ters of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The double bombing in a Shiite district of Beirut pulled Lebanon fur ther into a conflict that has torn apar t the deeply divided countr y, and came as Assad’s troops, aided

by Hezbollah militants, captured a key town near the Lebanese border from rebels.

The bombing was one of the deadliest in a series of attacks targeting Hezbollah and Shiite strongholds in Lebanon in recent months.

An al-Qaida-linked group said it carried out the attack as payback for Hezbollah’s backing of Assad forces against the mainly Sunni rebels as the Syrian civil war increasingly becomes a confrontation between regional powers.

The Syrian army’s border of fensive is par t of a larger gover nment push that star ted last month and has seen forces loyal to Assad firmly seizing the momentum in the war, taking one rebel stronghold after another.

The attacks raised fears in Lebanon that Islamic extremists, now on the defensive in Syria, would increasingly hit back in Lebanon. The countr y is suffering the ef fects of competing sectarian loyalties.

“People fight outside (Lebanon), but send their messages through Lebanon. With bombs,” said a mechanic whose store windows were shattered by the blasts.

The midmor ning explosions hit the neighborhood of Janah, a Hezbollah stronghold and home to several embassies and upscale apar tments, leaving bodies and pools of blood on the glass-strewn street amid burning cars.

In the chaotic aftermath, volunteers tried

to extinguish bodies still aflame from the blast by covering them with their sweaters and blankets.

U.N. Secretar y-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attacks and called on all Lebanese to recognize that “such appalling and indiscriminate acts of violence” target ever yone in the countr y, U.N. acting deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said.

U.S. Secretar y of State John Ker r y called the bombings “senseless and despicable,” and said “our hear ts go out to the Iranian people after this violent and unjustifiable attack claimed the life of at least one of their diplomats.

The dead Iranian was identified as Ibrahim Ansari, a 54-year-old diplomat who took up his post a month ago and was overseeing regional cultural activities, said Iranian Ambassador Ghazanfar Roknabadi, speaking to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV from inside the embassy compound.

Also among the dead was Radwan Fares, a Lebanese national who headed the facility’s security, according to a Lebanese official at the embassy who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to give of ficial statements.

The first suicide attacker was on a motorcycle with 4.4 pounds of explosives and blew himself up at the embassy’s black main gate, damaging the three-stor y facility, another Lebanese security official said. He also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.

Less than two minutes later, a second suicide attacker driving a car rigged with 110 pounds of explosives struck about 10 meters (yards) away, the official added.

Previous large-scale attacks on Hezbollah strongholds include an Aug. 15 car bombing in the southern Beirut suburbs that killed 27 people and wounded more than 300. A less powerful car bomb targeted the same area July 9, wounding more than 50.

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University student Matt Forstie discusses campus safety during a Minnesota Student Association executive board meeting Nov. 13. Forstie is entering his fourth year in MSA and is the only current member to have been involved with student government for four years.

Forstie said. “I think he was just unique in that he kind of had a drive to follow his interest in what’s going on in the world.

Next session, the MSLC will advocate for University bonding projects, open-source textbooks and changes to the Higher Education Act during its reauthorization this year.

Forstie said his experience lobbying and testifying in legislative hearings during his freshman and sophomore year helped

him develop relationships with lawmakers and learn how advocacy could become a tool to improve student life at the University.

Lori Forstie said her son has been comfortable reaching out to community leaders ever since he lived at home in Rochester.

“Matt never really felt he needed to become an adult before he could get started on something,” she said. “He has a great ability to make connections and surround himself with like-

minded people and figure out how to get involved.”

MSLC founder Chris Tastad said he saw potential in Forstie early on.

“He displayed the work ethic, high-level knowledge and communication skills that you want in somebody leading the student body at the Capitol,” Tastad said.

As Forstie has seen the power of advocacy at work, he said he has realized it’s impor tant to teach others the craft.

He said he hopes his work inspires the next group of students to approach legislative advocacy as a tool to help solve issues and make the University a better place.

“We’re a par t of a generation that’s facing a lot of financial, economic and social challenges,” he said.

“Using advocacy as a tool and spreading awareness of that tool to people will naturally help our generation overcome these problems.”

U health efforts span the globe A former faculty member is working on health issues in Sierra Leone.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

When Gar y Johnson’s wife told him they were having guests, he set out chairs and made coffee. He didn’t realize the meeting about women’s health in Sierra Leone would end up taking him across the globe.

Johnson, a former University faculty member, is par t of the Rural Health Care Initiative, a new nonprofit working to improve health resources for pregnant women in Sierra Leone’s remote chiefdom of Tikonko.

As communication and transportation technologies turn the planet into a global village, health experts say it’s increasingly important for the University of Minnesota to engage in research on an inter national platform.

The University has ties to health initiatives on at least four continents, said School of Public Health Dean John Finnegan, who’s been involved with the University since he started as a doctoral student in the 1970s.

“I’ve never seen this University more globally engaged than it is right now,” he said.

After the meeting in his home, Johnson decided to get involved with RHCI and travel to Sierra Leone to lay the groundwork for health initiatives there.

During his travels, he compiled a photo galler y portraying the lives of people he met. On Wednesday, the public can view the photos at Boynton Health Ser vice — an effort to increase awareness of health issues in r ural areas, especially Tikonko.

“You never know when the next transfor mative volunteer is going to suddenly drop into your lap,” Johnson said.

The program is still new; Alice Karpeh, a Boynton nurse and Tikonko native, founded the nonprofit two years ago.

Growing up, Karpeh said, going to the hospital wasn’t af fordable, so

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Former University student and faculty member Gary Johnson’s gallery of photos taken in the chiefdom of Tikonko in Sierra Leone hangs at Boynton Health Service. Johnson is involved with the Rural Health Care Initiative, a nonprofit founded by a Boynton employee that works to improve infant and maternal health care in Tikonko.

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China Food science and veterinary medicine Thailand Established a master’s program in public health

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people in Tikonko didn’t go unless they were near death.

Pregnant women wouldn’t have prenatal checkups and often wouldn’t know of any complications until they were in labor, she said.

Sometimes, at that point, “there’s nothing to do about it,” Karpeh said.

Women who experienced birth complications would either die or become disfigured.

Tikonko’s population is about 45,000, and about 23 women die during childbirth each year.

Once she came to the U.S., Karpeh decided to organize a program to help residents of her childhood home.

Now, Boynton employees and other Sier ra Le-

one natives volunteer their time for the initiative, often in addition to full-time jobs elsewhere.

The group is raising funds to set up a home for pregnant women in Tikonko and has arranged to deliver a solar-powered light source to a nearby hospital, which doesn’t have r unning water or electricity.

“Things that we just so take for granted just aren’t there,” said Dr. Carol Nelson, Boynton physician and RHCI’s fundraising chair.

Since the meeting at Johnson’s home, he said, the project has progressed. He said he’s excited to see where it goes from here.

“This was built from the ground up,” he said.

“We’re poised.”

Going global From lowering infant and mater nal mor tality rates in Sierra Leone to conducting AIDS research in Uganda and educating health care professionals in Thailand, University health initiatives span the globe.

One University project assists Easter n African and Southeast Asian countries in preparing responses to the potential spread of infectious diseases, Finnegan said.

Infectious diseases are one reason public health has become a global issue, he said. With modern transportation, a disease could quickly and easily cross international borders.

“It’s really a new world,” Finnegan said.

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Honors Program runs New claim made U on less funds than peers against Zimmerman Honors

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANFORD, Fla. — George Zimmerman’s girlfriend said he tried to choke her about a week ago during an altercation that was not initially reported to police, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday during Zimmerman’s first court appearance on domestic violence-related charges.

Samantha Scheibe feared for her life because Zimmerman mentioned suicide and said he “had nothing to lose,” according to Assistant State Attorney Lymary Munoz.

After the hearing, Zimmerman’s public defenders said he did not appear to be suicidal and expressed confidence he would be acquitted of any wrongdoing in Monday’s domestic dispute.

Hours later, Zimmerman was released from jail after posting $9,000 bond. He was seen walking out of the jail smiling and getting into a car.

Judge Frederic Schott ordered him to stay away from Scheibe’s house, wear a monitoring device and refrain from contact with her. He was forbidden from possessing guns or ammunition or travelling outside Florida.

Zimmerman has been charged with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison. He also has been charged with batter y and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors. An arraignment was set for Jan. 7.

The judge said Zimmerman’s previous br ushes with the law were not a factor in the conditions he imposed, but he did cite the new allegation of choking as a reason for the bond amount.

Earlier this year, Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges in the fatal shooting of teenager Trayvon Martin in a case that drew worldwide attention. The Justice Depar tment has been investigating whether to file civil rights charges against Zimmerman related to Martin’s death, and a department spokesman said Tuesday that it would announce its decision soon.

Zimmerman, 30, wore gray jail gar ments and handcuffs during the hearing and spoke only when answering yes or no to the judge.

Public defender Jef f Dowdy said Zimmerman’s family has been supporting him financially.

“I would think it would be difficult for George Zim-

merman to get a job in central Florida,” he said.

In an affidavit filed Tuesday, Zimmerman asked for a public defense, saying he has liabilities and debts of at least $2 million and no income. He said he had less than $150 in cash on hand.

Dowdy and another public defender, Daniel Megaro, said Zimmerman was not suicidal.

“He doesn’t appear to be a danger to himself or a danger to anybody else,” Megaro said.

Zimmerman has previously used a website to raise money for his legal and living expenses, including $95,000 spent on bail in the Mar tin case. The site also says tens of thousands of dollars were spent on living expenses and security.

The most recent posting on the site, weeks before Zimmerman’s acquittal, said the fund ran out of money in late May but raised tens of thousands more after public requests for help.

A link to donate via PayPal did not appear to be working Tuesday.

In this latest scuf fle, both Zimmerman and his girlfriend called 911 and provided dueling descriptions to dispatchers about the argument at the home she rented where Zimmerman was also staying.

Scheibe accused him in the emergency call of pointing a gun at her, smashing a coffee table and then pushing her outside. Zimmerman also called dispatchers, denied pointing a gun at her and blamed her for the broken table.

The girlfriend told deputies the ordeal started with a verbal argument and that she asked Zimmerman to leave the house. Her account in the arrest report says he began packing his belongings, including a shotgun and an assault rifle.

She says she began putting his things in the living room and outside the house, and he became upset.

At that point, the report said, he took the shotgun out of its case.

Zimmerman told his girlfriend to leave and smashed a pair of her sunglasses as she walked toward the front door, the report said.

Scheibe told deputies he pushed her out of the house when she got close to the door.

“You point your gun at my fricking face,” Scheibe is heard telling Zimmerman on a 911 call. “Get out of my house. Do not push me out of my house. Please get out

of my house.”

Seconds later, she told the dispatcher, “You kidding me? He pushed me out of my house and locked me out. ... He knows how to do this. He knows how to play this game.”

Moments later, Zimmerman called 911 from inside the house to tell his side of the story.

“I have a girlfriend who, for lack of a better word, has gone crazy on me,” Zimmerman said.

Zimmerman then said he never pulled a gun on his girlfriend and that it was she who smashed a table.

He also told the dispatcher that Scheibe was pregnant with their child and that she had decided she would raise the child on her own.

When Zimmerman started to leave, “she got mad,” he said.

Seminole County Chief Deputy Dennis Lemma said at a news conference that Scheibe was not pregnant.

He also said Zimmerman was compliant and unarmed when deputies came to the house.

On T uesday, Dowdy said he could not confirm whether the girlfriend was pregnant.

The arrest on Monday was the latest legal problem for Zimmerman since he was acquitted last summer of criminal charges in the fatal shooting of Mar tin.

Zimmerman has said he shot the 17-year-old to defend himself during a fight in Februar y 2012 inside a gated community in Sanford, just outside Orlando.

Relatives of Martin, who was black and unarmed, accused Zimmerman of racially profiling the teen and instigating a fight. Zimmerman, who identifies himself as Hispanic, said he shot the teen in self-defense.

The case sparked nationwide debates about race and self-defense laws.

I n S e p t e m b e r, j u s t months after his acquittal, Zimmerman was accused by his estranged wife of smashing an iPad during an argument at the home they had shared. Shellie Zimmerman initially told a dispatcher her husband had a gun, though she later said he was not armed.

No charges were ever filed because of a lack of evidence. The dispute occurred days after Shellie Zimmerman filed divorce papers. George Zimmerman was served the papers while in custody on the latest charges, said Shellie Zimmerman’s lawyer, Kelly Sims.

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Since the Honors Program launched in 2008, McMaster said it has been able to grow and allocate resources despite budget cuts. Rather than increasing the program’s funding, he said it will have to “become even more efficient.”

The review noted that one similarly sized honors program had a $2.5 million budget.

Political science sophomor e S a ra h F l i n s pa c h said major-specific honors courses are lacking.

“A lot of the times, there’s only one section of honors, and if you can’t get that to fit in your schedule, well then you’re stuck,” she said.

Flinspach said she has had to enter honors contracts for non-honors courses to fulfill University honors requirements. In an honors contract, students sign an agreement with a professor to register for a non-honors course, but they take on extra class material.

Because of the contract, Flinspach said she ends up completing extra work alone when she’d rather learn with other students in the classroom via an honors course.

The College of Science and Engineering of fers more honors courses than CLA. But mechanical engineering sophomore Anirudh Srivatsa said it was very difficult to find honors classes for requirements he hadn’t already fulfilled with Advanced Placement credits.

Because of its size, McMaster said CLA has had trouble finding professors to teach honors courses.

Unlike some other honors programs, University faculty teach honors courses in addition to nonhonors ones. McMaster

said there are no specific honors program professors.

Josi Lillion, a marketing and English sophomore, said she’s only been able to find honors courses that satisfy liberal education requirements.

“I haven’t been able to find any honors classes that are within my major,” she said.

Lillion said the University could add oppor tunities for honors experiences — another component honors students must complete.

Honors experiences can include research, creative projects, studying abr oad, inter nships or other options. Lillion said students must petition an experience unless the honors program has preapproved it.

Institutional support Christian Brady, dean of the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State University, was one of three people who conducted the University Honors Program’s exter nal review last spring.

Brady said funding is impor tant to a healthy honors program, but the University Honors Program also needs administrative suppor t to boost its number of honors-only courses.

“The president and the provost need to say, ‘We feel it’s imperative that more honors courses be of fered,’ and they need to convey that to the deans,” he said.

Some faculty members may want to teach an honors course, Brady said, but a depar tment head must release them from another course they teach.

He said most depar tment heads will allow faculty members to teach an honors course — but only as an addition to their workload.

UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM

BY THE NUMBERS

2,300

STUDENTS

$1.5 million BUDGET 6HONORS CLASS REQUIRED DURING DEGREE COMPLETION

138 DEPARTMENTAL HONORS

COURSES (SPRING 2014) SOURCES: HONORS EXTERNAL REVIEW, UNIVERSITY HONORS PROGRAM; ONE STOP STUDENT SERVICES

“It’s really about working with the depar tments and helping the depar tments see that this is in their best interest,” he said.

Rudaz said the University Honors Program is always working with individual colleges to increase the number of honors course of ferings, depending on available resources.

Looking ahead Rudaz said because of the University’s overall budget constraints, he’s not expecting a funding increase.

McMaster said additional resources would be helpful for non-classroom components of the honors curriculum.

He said with the program’s move to Nor throp Memorial Auditorium, this spring could open up space for new honors activities, like special lectures.

Rudaz said he’s proud of what the program has accomplished since it began in 2008. But he doesn’t see any growth without more resources.

“I think we’ve hit the limit,” he said.

Gettysburg Address: a short speech long remembered

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — In solemnity, thousands of people gathered at a central Pennsylvania battlefield park Tuesday to honor a speech given 150 years ago that President Abraham Lincoln predicted would not be long remembered.

The inspirational and famously short Gettysburg Address was praised for reinvigorating national ideals of freedom, liberty and justice amid a Civil War that had torn the countr y into pieces.

“President Lincoln sought to heal a nation’s wounds by defining what a nation should be,” said Gov. Tom Corbett, calling Lincoln’s words superb, his faith deep and his genius profound. “Lincoln wrote his words on paper, but he also inscribed them in our hearts.”

Echoing Lincoln, keynote speaker and Civil War

historian James McPherson said the president took the dais in November 1863 when it looked as though the nation “might indeed perish from the earth.”

“The Battle of Gettysburg became the hinge of fate on which turned the destiny of that nation and its new birth of freedom,” McPherson said.

In the July 1863 battle, considered the turning point of the war, Union forces fought back a Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.

Lincoln’s speech was delivered more than four months later, at the dedication of a national cemeter y to bur y the battle’s casualties.

In the short oration, he spoke of how democracy itself rested upon “the proposition that all men are created equal,” a profound and politically risky statement for the time. Slaver y and the doctrine of states’ rights would not hold in the “more perfect union” of Lincoln’s

vision.

“In 272 words, he put together what ever yone was thinking, what ever yone should know,” said park historian John Heiser. Because of var ying transcriptions, scholars generally put the text at 268 to 272 words.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia administered the oath of allegiance to a group of 16 immigrants, telling them the national identity is unique, illustrated by the existence of the word “un-American” and by the people’s “fidelity to certain political principles.”

President Barack Obama, in a 272-word handwritten essay released by the White House, connected the legacy of Lincoln’s address to gay rights, women’s rights and modern technological transformations.

“Lincoln’s words give us confidence that whatever trials await us, this nation and the freedom we cherish can, and shall, prevail,” he wrote.

Russian crash probe blames faulty pilot maneuvers for collision

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOSCOW — The pilots of a Boeing 737 that plunged into the ground at Kazan airport lost speed in a steep climb then overcompensated and sent the plane into a near-vertical dive, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by Russian aviation experts. All 50 people aboard were killed.

The Moscow-based Interstate Aviation Committee, which oversees civil flights in much of the former Soviet Union, said the plane’s engines and other systems were working fine until the moment the plane crashed Sunday night.

The Tatarstan Airlines plane was flying from Moscow to the central city of Kazan, 450 miles to the

east. The Russian aviation experts said the plane’s two pilots had failed to make a proper landing approach on their first attempt, so they began a second try.

The report did not specify why the pilots aborted the first landing.

To get the plane ready for the second tr y, the pilots put the plane’s engines on maximum power and raised the plane’s nose up to an angle of about 25 degrees, the report said. That caused a loss of speed.

The normal procedure during an aborted landing is to apply near-maximum power and assume about a 5-to-7 degree nose-up attitude, said Kevin Hiatt, a former Delta Air Lines chief pilot and president of the Flight Safety Foundation, a U.S.-based

nonprofit.

“T wenty-five degrees nose-up is excessive. There’s no question about that whatsoever,” Hiatt said. “Why they determined they needed to go to that high an angle will be part of the investigation.”

At an altitude of about 2,200 feet, the crew tried to gain speed and avert a stall by putting the nose of the plane down. The report said the plane then went into a dive of about 75 degrees and smashed into the ground.

Airplanes can sometimes recover from steep dives but they must be at a sufficiently high altitude.

The plane’s climb and its subsequent plunge lasted only about one minute and it str uck the ground going about 280 mph, the report said.

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ways, it’s a natural extension.”

There are no city restrictions to how many chickens a resident can request to raise, but proper ties must pass city inspection before residents obtain a permit.

“Over the years, we’ve loosened up and made it a little easier for people to keep chickens,” Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon said. “I know [some] are concerned that they’ve seen more chickens abandoned, tur ned in and abused.”

The number of abandoned roosters and hens in Minneapolis has increased exponentially since about 2007, when interest in raising backyar d chickens began to increase, Britton Clouse said.

Chicken Run Rescue received only six rescue requests when it opened in 2001, she said. Last year, it had nearly 500.

The organization collaborates with Minneapolis Animal Care and Control, the Minneapolis Animal Humane Society and wildlife rehabilitation clinics — groups that also receive chicken rescue requests.

Ann Thelen, permit coordinator for Minneapolis Animal Care and Control, said chickens make up less than 1 percent of the organization’s rescue requests.

Thelen estimated most of the loose chickens MACC deals with are owned by people without proper city permits.

There are currently 278 permits in Minneapolis, but Britton Clouse said she thinks only about 3 percent of chickens in the city actually belong to licensed owners.

Thelen said MACC probably received 10 to 15 permit application requests a week during the warmer months this year. Applications are less common in

the winter, she said.

Applying for a one-year chicken permit costs $50, compared to $150 for a fiveyear permit.

Currently, chickens can only be raised at a home or permanent residence and can’t be slaughtered.

The city also regulates housing str uctures for chickens, and MACC inspects coops annually.

When Homegrown Minneapolis was drafting its Urban Agriculture Policy, Britton Clouse unsuccessfully proposed a cap on the number of chicken permits allowed in the city.

“We recommended to the city of Minneapolis that they cap the number of permits they issue because they don’t have the resources to inspect and regulate and enforce anti-cr uelty

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Formerly refer red to as food stamps, SNAP is a federal program that helps low-income people buy food, said Erin Sullivan Sutton, Minnesota Depar tment of Human Ser vices assistant commissioner for children and family ser vices. SNAP-Ed, which Extension r uns, educates low-income families about making affor dable, healthy food choices.

In Januar y, Extension’s SNAP-Ed budget was cut by 28 percent, or $2.4 million, after federal cuts went into ef fect, Durgan said.

Humphrey School of Public Af fairs political science professor Lar r y Jacobs called the SNAPEd job cuts “an example of a patter n.” Groups without large lobbying presences in Washington are seeing budgets cut and programs suf fer because of sequestration, he said.

Extension has tried to find more funding to continue its ser vices under the cuts, Durgan said, but cutting staf f is necessar y now.

Extension’s SNAP-Ed won’t be able to work as closely with schools or work one-on-one with food shelves any longer, she said.

This could be a problem for some of the 63,000 Minnesotans the program reached last year, Durgan said — especially if people are accustomed to working with a particular SNAP-Ed staf f member.

“We will not have that local presence that we usually do, that we have for the last 20 years,” Durgan said.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Mary Britton Clouse guides chickens outside into her Minneapolis home Sunday afternoon.

SNAP

BY THE NUMBERS

534,000

MINNESOTANS RECEIVED SNAP AID IN SEPTEMBER

$2.4 million FUNDING U SNAP-ED

RECEIVED IN JANUARY

152 FACULTY AND STAFF

CURRENTLY WORK FOR U SNAP-ED

85 FACULTY AND STAFF WILL

WORK FOR U SNAP-ED AFTER LAYOFFS

44 percent

REDUCTION IN U SNAP-ED FACULTY AND STAFF SOURCE: MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA EXTENSION

The ‘epic battle’ in Congress As the U.S. House and Senate continue heated debates over reductions to the Farm Bill, exper ts aren’t optimistic SNAP-Ed will get more funding anytime soon.

Both houses of Congress have proposed decreased funding in the new Farm Bill, although the Republican-controlled House passed a measure with far more cuts than the Senate, Jacobs said.

SNAP-Ed funding comes from the Farm Bill, so the future of the program depends on the bill, he said.

Sullivan Sutton said she was uncer tain about the negotiations’ outcome. “ We c e r t a i n l y d o n ’ t anticipate an increase [in funding] at this time,” she said.

Jacobs said he wasn’t confident the pr ogram would be funded.

“This is the type of program that’s probably on the chopping block,” he said.

laws as it is,” she said.

Shey said the Homegrown Minneapolis website does not of fer any educational resources, but she might introduce them in the future.

Britton Clouse said city planners have approached her to help draft educational documents about proper chicken care.

Gordon, who has championed many urban agriculture initiatives, said more education on raising chickens could “probably prevent some abandoned chickens.”

Britton Clouse found her chicken 10 minutes after losing it Sunday. She picked the hen up, returned it to its coop and admired it.

“She’s gorgeous,” she said. “She’s just eye candy, isn’t she?”

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

A rooster looks though the holes in a cage outside Bert and Mary Britton Clouse’s home Sunday afternoon.

Deal closer: Iran concedes on its right to enrich uranium

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VIENNA — Since the star t of talks on Iran’s nuclear program, Iran has asser ted it has a right to enrich uranium — and the United States has disagreed. Both have refused to budge over nearly a decade of negotiations.

Until now.

Iran has suddenly gone public with a significant concession just days ahead of a new round of talks with six world powers later this week in Geneva. It still insists that it has a right to the program, but it now says that the six no longer need to publicly acknowledge its claim, opening a way to sidestep the dispute and focus on more practical steps both sides can agree on.

It is the latest sign of

Iran’s new pragmatic approach to the nuclear issue.

Tehran is unlikely to ever completely stop enrichment. But by dropping a demand that makes no practical difference, it can move on to its most pressing concern; an easing of sanctions crippling its economy.

Less than two months ago, Pr esident Hassan Rouhani conditioned any agreement on recognition by the United States and its allies of such a right. But with both sides hoping to seal a deal at meetings that star t Wednesday, Tehran tweaked its message Sunday.

Tehran’s right of enrichment remains “nonnegotiable,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency. “But (we) see no

necessity for its recognition as a right.”

Despite previous signs that Iran is ready to compromise under the moderate Rouhani, such a major shift is a surprise. Former U.S. State Department official Mark Fitzpatrick calls it a “ver y significant development, representing a key concession by Iran and a way to overcome a major hurdle to a deal.”

It’s unlikely that Rouhani acted without seeking approval from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But the change is sure to add to concern among skeptics in Tehran fearful that Iran may be giving away too much for too little in return — and increase pressure on Iran’s negotiators to show other wise.

Fitzpatrick, who now is a

director at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, says he expects Iranian hard-liners “to raise hell about it.”

Enrichment is a hotbutton issue because it can be used both to make reactor fuel and to arm nuclear missiles. Iran argues it is enriching only for power, and scientific and medical purposes. And it says it has no interest in nuclear arms.

But Washington and its allies point to Tehran’s earlier efforts to hide enrichment and allege it worked on developing such weapons.

Gar y Samore, par t of the U.S. negotiating team with Iran until earlier this year, describes the dispute over Iran’s claimed right as being “at the heart of the nuclear negotiations for the past decade.”

Federal judge grants stay of execution

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. LOUIS — A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday granted a stay of execution to white supremacist serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin just hours before his scheduled death, citing concerns over the state’s new execution method.

U.S. District Cour t Judge Nanette Laughrey ruled that a lawsuit filed by Franklin and 20 other death row inmates challenging Missouri’s execution protocol must be resolved before he is put to death.

The state appealed Laughrey’s ruling to the 8th U.S. Circuit Cour t of Appeals in St. Louis on Tuesday night, though it wasn’t clear how quickly that court would rule. A second lower court federal judge, weigh-

ing a separate defense appeal contesting Franklin’s competency to be executed based on his mental illness, also granted a stay and said the issue needs “a meaningful review.”

Laughrey’s 14-page ruling criticizes the timing of the state’s changes to how it carries out capital punishment, specifically its plan to use for the first time a single drug, pentobarbital. It also takes issue with a plan to acquire the drug from a compounding pharmacy.

Laughrey wrote that the Missouri Depar tment of Corrections “has not provided any information about the certification, inspection histor y, infraction histor y, or other aspects of the compounding pharmacy or of the person compounding the drug.” She noted that

the execution protocol, which has changed repeatedly, “has been a frustratingly moving target.”

It wasn’t immediately clear whether the state would appeal the r uling.

Messages left with the state attorney general’s of fice were not returned.

If a federal appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court str uck down Laughrey’s ruling, the execution could go for ward. Franklin’s attorney, Jennifer Herndon, said the execution warrant allows it to be carried out anytime Wednesday.

Herndon said Franklin, who has been diagnosed as mentally ill, didn’t seem to fully understand the stay.

“He was happy,” she said.

“I’m not really convinced that he totally understands that he was going to die.”

Franklin, 63, was convicted of seven other murders, but the Missouri case was the only one resulting in a death sentence. Franklin also has admitted to shooting and wounding civil rights leader Vernon Jordan and Hustler magazine publisher Larr y Flynt, who has been paralyzed from the waist down since the attack in 1978.

Like other states, Missouri long had used a three-dr ug execution method. Dr ugmakers stopped selling those drugs to prisons and corrections depar tments, so in April 2012 Missouri announced a new onedr ug execution protocol using propofol. The state planned to use propofol for an execution last month.

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US, Afghans work on night-raid pact

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KABUL, Afghanistan — In a phone call Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged “mistakes” and asked Afghan President Hamid Karzai to allow American forces to enter Afghan homes in “exceptional circumstances” as the two sides rushed to finalize the wording of a draft security agreement ahead of a meeting of tribal elders who must approve the deal.

Deep divisions in Afghanistan over legal immunity for American soldiers and contractors as well as night raids have threatened to derail diplomatic efforts to keep thousands of American soldiers in the country beyond next year’s with-

drawal deadline. The issue has taken on added urgency amid a spike in violence that has raised fears the Afghan forces aren’t ready to take over the battle against the Taliban and al-Qaida linked militants without more training.

Night raids by American forces have been one of the touchiest issues in the 12-year-old war and an agreement to allow them to continue, even on a conditional basis, would clear a major obstacle that has held up the pact. U.S. officials said Monday that Karzai had conceded that the Americans could maintain exclusive legal jurisdiction over U.S. soldiers and contractors after 2014 as part of the deal.

The U.S. declined to release specific details about the negotiations and stressed nothing was final until the gathering known as the Loya Jirga makes its decision.

State Depar tment spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the two sides continue to make progress, but “we’re not there yet.”

Approval by the traditional council of 3,000 prominent Afghans that begins meeting on Thursday was by no means guaranteed.

The group can revise or reject any clause of the draft agreement, and a flat-out rejection would most likely prevent the Afghan government from signing it. Even if it is approved, the final decision will be made by

Egypt revolutionaries graffiti state memorial

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAIRO — Egypt’s revolutionar y activists, overshadowed since leading the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak, showed a new vigor Tuesday, scuffling with supporters of the military-backed government in Cairo’s Tahrir Square and wrecking a state memorial dedicated to slain protesters only hours after it was inaugurated.

The vandalizing of the memorial reflected the youth activists’ anger against what they see as an attempt by the current military-backed rulers, boosted by popular support since the July coup against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to paper over past bloodshed and rewrite history.

The interim prime minister inaugurated the memorial’s empty base - a statue to top it is planned later - with great fanfare on Monday afternoon. By Tuesday morning, the pedestal was reduced to a lump of concrete covered in revolutionary graffiti after activists before dawn ripped off its stone cladding and spray-painted it with slogans denouncing both Morsi and his nemesis, military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.

“The revolution continues,” one slogan across it proclaimed. “Down with all those who betrayed- military, former regime, or Muslim Brotherhood.” Activists set a mock coffin draped with the Egyptian flag onto the pedestal.

Secular, leftist youth activists were at the forefront of Egypt’s revolutions, starting with the 2011 uprising

that ousted the autocrat Mubarak. But they have been overshadowed since.

They have also been divided over how to deal with the new order after the military removed Morsi, the countr y’s first freely elected president, on July 3 following massive protests against him.

Since then, the streets have been dominated by promilitar y rallies or smaller, near daily protests by Morsi’s backers, amid a heavy crackdown on Islamists.

Non-Islamist critics of the new leadership have been reluctant to speak out for fear of being seen as supporting the Brotherhood and Morsi, whom they also sharply oppose.

But revolutionary groups were energized by the second anniversary Tuesday of the “Mohammed Mahmoud” clashes - one of the fiercest confrontations between protesters and security forces, named after the street off Tahrir where they took place.

On Tuesday afternoon, they turned out in small numbers in the square - a few thousand - but their return to Tahrir was a rare anti-military protest by the secular revolutionaries since Morsi’s ouster.

“We are against both the Brotherhood and the military because they did not do anything for the revolution,” said Omar el-Sibai, a 19-year-old architecture student. “And now if anybody says his opinion and is against the authorities, he is either a terrorist or Brotherhood.”

Like others in the square, he denounced authorities for setting up a memorial to martyrs while neglecting a top

demand of the revolution - retribution against those behind the killing of protesters.

Chants to drum beats echoed in the square, “Both the military and the Brotherhood can’t be trusted” and “El-Sissi, it is now your turn.” A banner in the square showed Morsi, el-Sissi and four other Brotherhood and military officials, with nooses around their necks.

Scuffles erupted when a group of supporters of the military also entered, carrying portraits of el-Sissi - whose birthday was on Tuesday.

The two sides hurled stones at each other in intermittent clashes as activists chased out the military backers. Police fired one volley of tear gas, but largely stayed clear of the square.

Shortly before midnight, black-clad anti-riot police made a final push, fired heavy tear gas and police vehicles swept through the square dispersing the demonstration.

Shortly after, army vehicles and closed some entrances to the square.

No Morsi supporters were seen in the square.

The 2011 Mohammed Mahmoud clashes were prompted by a crackdown on anti-police brutality protests that spiraled into demands for the end of rule by the military, in power after Mubarak’s fall until Morsi’s 2012 inauguration. More than 40 protesters were killed. Last year, three were killed when police under Morsi cracked on down protests marking the anniversary - turning the date into a rallying point for sentiment against the military, police and the Brotherhood.

Parliament.

The U.S. wants to keep as many as 10,000 troops in the countr y to train and mentor the Afghan national security forces and go after the remnants of al-Qaida.

If no security agreement is signed, all U.S. troops would have to leave by the end of 2014.

Many American allies have also indicated they will not keep troops in Afghanistan if there is no U.S. presence. Billions of dollars in funding for Afghan forces and development will also likely be at stake. Afghan security forces are generally considered to be not yet fully prepared to fight the Taliban without further foreign training and international funding.

A Dari-language statement from Karzai’s of fice said Kerry asked the president to allow U.S. troops on counter-terrorism missions to conduct operations that might require entering Afghan homes in “exceptional” circumstances.

Karzai agreed to include the wording if Kerr y defends it at the Loya Jirga debate. Other wise the Afghan leader told Kerr y to wait and negotiate the final agreement with the new government following next year’s elections. Karzai is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term.

In response Kerr y told Karzai that the U.S. government understood that the concerns of both the gov-

ernment and the Afghan people stemmed from “mistakes committed by American forces in the past in Afghanistan,” according to the statement. The top U.S. diplomat also promised his government would write a letter detailing what would constitute “exceptional” and of fering guarantees that Kerr y would address concer ns and objections based on past U.S. behavior.

A senior State Depar tment official said that during their telephone call, Karzai asked for reassurances that he could communicate to the elders at the gathering regarding the security relationship with the U.S. going forward and addressing past issues, such as civilian casualties.

Mayor Rybak’s legacy: ups and downs

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak talks about his involvement with the University of Minnesota at City Hall on Nov. 10, 2011.

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way better shape than other cities across the countr y,” he said.

Rybak also kept involved with students at the University of Minnesota.

Political science junior Laura Pratt, president of the University’s College Democrats, said Rybak had a strong relationship with students and the University.

“He’s been ver y accessible to students,” she said.

“He’s on campus all the time, promoting students participating in politics and the political process.”

Rybak came to the University campus last fall for Voterpalooza and led a gun control panel at Cof fman Union in February.

“He’s a household name, which I think is something that’s very unique in a mayor,” Pratt said.

The I-35W bridge collapse in 2007 is sometimes noted as the greatest crisis Rybak faced while in office.

“That was a challenging time for anyone to be in public office, and I think he was an effective leader,” said Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon.

Despite Rybak’s popularity, Schultz said his career as mayor did have its shortcomings.

“In terms of gun violence and murder rates in Minneapolis and allegations of police br utality, it’s not clear how well he really did,” Schultz said.

“He hasn’t fundamentally changed police culture.”

Gordon said the Vikings stadium deal is one of his biggest disappointments in the Rybak era.

“I think we’re going to

have enormous debts to pay, and all of our sales taxes will be tied up in this,” he said.

Ward 6 City Councilman Robert Lilligren said Rybak will leave behind a “strong” legacy, but the stadium issue was a point of contention.

“I think he’s very proud of the Vikings stadium, but we disagreed on that deal,” he said.

Schultz said some will remember Rybak’s mayoral term as ironic.

“He first got elected after criticizing the current mayor for focusing on downtown development, and he promised to revitalize neighborhoods,” Schultz said. “But he will be most known for the Vikings Stadium and other downtown developments.”

mittee and do volunteer work.

He’ll also ser ve as the executive director of Generation Next, an organization that focuses on closing the racial achievement gap in schools and the job market.

Schultz said he thinks Rybak will run for the governorship sooner than anticipated.

“He’s positioned himself here for governor,” he said.

“My guess is that he can be a commentator on the news and retain some political relevancy.”

What’s next?

2002

Pushes for affordable housing

2003

Cap placed on annual increases for the city’s share of property taxes; Minneapolis gains national praise for strong arts programs

2004

The Hiawatha Light Rail begins regular service

2005

Wins second term; reforms city budget after state cuts funding

2006

Focuses on lowering gun violence

2007

I-35W bridge collapse, calls for an increase in transportation funding

2008

Introduces programs to lower youth violence, raises property taxes by nearly 10 percent

2009

Crime rates at their lowest since 1980

2010

Pushes to lower property tax rates; St. Paul light rail expansion begins

2011

Launches an initiative to close the racial unemployment gap

2012

Pushes for construction of the new Vikings stadium; supports the overhaul of the Civilian Review Authority model

2013

Supports President Barack Obama’s proposal for gun safety reform; marries first same-sex couple at City Hall

Rybak announced last winter he wouldn’t seek re-election, but he will busy himself in other ways after leaving office. “… Doing this job in the way I’ve chosen to do it involves some personal sacrifices, and right now, I owe it to those around me, and to myself, to get a bit more balance in my life,” he said in a December press release.

Rybak said earlier this month he doesn’t plan to r un for another political office in the near future.

“The only other thing I would ever run for is governor,” Rybak said Nov. 6.

“But that would be many years down the road.”

After councilwoman and mayor-elect Betsy Hodges takes R ybak’s spot next year, he plans to teach at the University, ser ve as vice chair of the Democratic National Com-

MAYOR R.T. RYBAK, 2002-PRESENT

SOURCE: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS

Vatican unveils controversial frescoes in Catacombs of Priscilla

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled newly restored frescoes in the Catacombs of Priscilla, known for housing the earliest known image of the Madonna with Child — and frescoes said by some to show women priests in the early Christian church.

Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s culture minister, presided over the opening of the “Cubicle of Lazzaro,” a tiny burial chamber featuring 4th century images of bibli-

cal scenes, the Apostles Peter and Paul, and one of the early Romans buried there in bunkbed-like stacks as was common in antiquity.

The labyrinthine cemetery complex stretching for kilometers (miles) underneath northern Rome is known as the “Queen of the catacombs” because it features burial chambers of popes and a tiny, delicate fresco of the Madonna nursing Jesus dating from around 230-240 A.D., the earliest known image of the Madonna and Child.

More controversially, the catacomb tour features two scenes said by proponents of the women’s ordination movement to show women priests: One in the ochrehued Greek Chapel features a group of women celebrating a banquet, said to be the banquet of the Eucharist. Another fresco in a richly decorated burial chamber features a woman, dressed in a dalmatic — a cassock-like robe — with her hands up in the position used by priests for public worship.

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Work-study woes The government must work to minimize any future cuts to the Federal Work-Study Program.

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LUIS RUUSKA columnist

tunate to have work-study funds at all.

In 2011, Congress passed the Budget Control Act, which automatically cut a projected $1.2 trillion from federal programs earlier this year.

These sequestration cuts hit the Federal Work-Study Program, slicing $51 million from the student assistance program.

The blow eliminated work-study funds for an estimated 33,000 students nationwide this year, including about 500 from Minnesota.

Those remaining in the program face fewer jobs and small paychecks. Even job security may be on the line for students across the countr y with work-study

positions.

If Congress fails to pass a budget deal soon, the socalled “second sequester” will bring additional cuts across the board in January.

If that happens, the Federal Work-Study Program may take another hard hit.

Students may find themselves out of work-study jobs they’ve held onto throughout college.

The sequester also cut $38 million from other financial assistance programs for students. This baf fles me when compared with the amount of money slashed from the Federal Work-Study Program.

I fear a second round of sequestration cuts could affect work-study more than other forms of financial aid, though I can’t understand why lawmakers would consider this the best course of action.

After all, there is no shortage of employable students.

The 18- to 29-year-old demographic has an unemployment rate of 11.6 percent, and fur ther limiting the amount of available work-

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study jobs will likely make matters worse.

Some por tray college students as freeloaders who would rather receive handouts than work for their money and education, but what combats this negative — not to mention inaccurate — stereotype better than workstudy?

Work-study jobs allow students to pay their dues, as well as to cultivate a variety of relevant career skills and professional contacts.

Additionally, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found a cor relation between par ttime work and a higher GPA. Bureau of Labor Statistics researchers found freshmen at four-year universities who worked one to 20 hours per week had higher GPAs than their unemployed peers.

I hope Congress and the U.S. Depar tment of Education account for these benefits before putting workstudy funds in front of the firing squad once again.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA

What’s your rating?

A new app allows women to rate the guys in their lives.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We must win the Gophers-Badgers rivalr y game

I went to high school just a few blocks from Camp Randall, the infamous football stadium on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Maybe it’s because I didn’t grow up in Madison, but I’ve never been able to grasp the mass sense of exceptionalism that is so present there. I have never quite understood why anyone in my high school would want to move two blocks down to go to college. The way I perceived it, your undergraduate education is a chance to get away from what you know and experience something different for four years — except for most Madisonians.

Obviously, that is a matter of personal opinion, so I applied to multiple schools, including UW-Madison.

UW-Madison accepted me, among some others of my top choices. I decided on the University of Minnesota.

About 30 percent of my senior class went to UWMadison, while many who didn’t get in went to other state schools with the intention of transferring back.

Since attending the University of Minnesota, I have become extremely sensitive to the superiority complex plaguing most of the UWMadison students I have encountered.

Whenever I return to visit my friends there, it is guaranteed that one of their new college friends will ask me, “If you’re from Madison, why didn’t you go here?

Did you not get in?”

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HIGHER ED

s November draws to a close, I have a folder full of countless cover letters, writing samples, resumes and references, and I still have nothing to show for it.

I had no idea looking for a work-study job would be so stressful. These days, I visit the University of Minnesota’s online employment system as often as social networking sites.

Ultimately, I can’t say I’m surprised. After all, there are only so many job postings each week, and with a heavily populated campus, employers may receive hundreds of applications.

H o w e v e r, w o r k - s t u d y funds are an essential part of my financial aid package. Not having a work-study job feels like these funds are the carrot at end of an obnoxiously long stick.

However, I know I’m for-

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Maybe I’ve become too sensitive, but these types of conversations have instilled in me this sense of competition that I haven’t felt since competing in state-level high school sports. I think I speak for ever y Gopher from Wisconsin when I say: We have to win this game.

I don’t appreciate belittling those going to a different Big Ten university.

Both schools have their own merits, but let’s highlight some of the great things the University of Minnesota is known for. We have two top-ranked hockey teams, our pharmacy program is ranked third nationwide and our engineering programs consistently rank in the top 20 nationally.

The fact that there are more than 50,000 students here should testify to the great things happening on our campus. So, to all you Gophers from Wisconsin who are considering wearing red on game day: Don’t.

You are a Minnesota Gopher, and that is a wonderful thing. It’s time to relish in it.

Stay golden, Gophers. Ski-UMah! Erin Mulvoy University student

Nothing wrong with T-shirt policy

The current University Recreation and Wellness Center T-shirt policy is good for me and the University of Minnesota.

Contrary to the sentiment of the Nov. 18 Minnesota Daily article, “Students want right to bare arms at rec,”

there are many who like the current dress code policy. It strikes a balance: Dress safely and comfortably, but keep armpits covered.

Like the article, the Minnesota Student Association survey question lacked balance. The wording of the poll was begging for a positive answer. Countering that, one could ask, “Do you have a problem with the current dress code policy at the rec?”

The results would likely be different.

The commercial fitness club comparison, as a source used in the Daily article, was problematic as well. The URW is not a private fitness club. The URW has an obligation to promote health and wellness to thousands of people who are forced to pay for membership. That entails fostering an inviting and energizing environment for both the hesitant and the hardcore gym-goer. At minimum, the 20-year-old freshman, 28-year-old graduate student and 58-year-old faculty member must all feel welcome.

Dropping the sleeve requirement opens other issues. For one, it raises the question of what diameter hole is acceptable for an altered T-shirt. It also opens sweaty armpits to direct contact with fitness equipment.

Both are unnecessar y and distract from the URW’s mission of “enriching the campus experience and encouraging healthy lifestyles.”

Keep it simple; keep the T-shirt policy.

Hamid Mokhtarzadeh Graduate student

new dating app is generating buzz for being the “first-ever app for girls.”

Launched in Febr uar y, Lulu allows female users to rate ADITI PRADEEP male Facebook columnist friends. So far, Lulu’s 1 million users have rated 180 million guys, but the “girl talk” app is negatively af fecting our social lives.

Verified through their Facebook profiles, the app’s users can judge men on their appearance, humor, manners, ambition and commitment. Lulu takes an average score and displays it on a guy’s profile.

Women can also assign a guy prewritten hashtags. These include positive tags like #EpicSmile or #RemembersBir thdays and negative tags like #Bur nsCor nflakes.

The magic of Lulu is in its anonymity and gender restriction.

Each rating is completely anonymous, so users can rate any male Facebook friends, whether they are a cr ush, friend, ex, hook-up, relative or boyfriend. The app also bars male users from signing up.

While would-be users could simply make a differently gendered Facebook profile, Lulu remains largely a network for girls.

But what’s the cost of all this?

Anonymous users aren’t accountable for what they say. Those interested in revenge or defamation can easily hur t someone’s reputation.

Lulu takes the stereotype of girls as gossip queens to new levels, turning judging others into a hyper-social and competitive action.

Users put men under the spotlight, which may harm guys’ selfimage in a form of cyberbullying.

Like other types of bullying, this could have implications both on the screen and in real life.

Online interaction is becoming more and more normalized. Socializing and even dating don’t require ever meeting face to face. But this distance makes it harder to empathize with the people we may be hurting.

Lulu’s users unfairly and unhealthily discuss friends behind their back.

While the app may give girls a medium to express their feelings, men deser ve a chance to make their own impressions.

Aditi Pradeep welcomes comments at apradeep@mndaily.com.

Protection for studentathletes New legislation provides better protection for college players.

W

hile it’s unlikely that Congress will pass any major legislation before the year’s end — be it a long-term budget deal or comprehensive immigration reform — there is one measure lawmakers might agree upon.

Back in August, Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., and Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, introduced the National Collegiate Athletics Accountability Act, which would require the NCAA to be more transparent and guarantee more protection for student-athletes.

The bill, currently in the Subcommittee on Higher Education & Workforce Training, would require NCAA member schools to perform baseline concussion tests on athletes in high-contact sports, according to a report in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The measure would also require NCAA schools to guarantee four-year scholarships to athletes who play in collision sports. Both Dent and Beatty rightly believe many athletes are afraid to report concussions and other serious injuries out of fear that they may lose their scholarships. Earlier this year, the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board wrote in support of guaranteed scholarships unless a player’s academic performance fails to meet minimum requirements.

The bill also includes a provision that would require due process for schools accused of violating NCAA rules. While the NCAA could certainly improve its punishment process, we believe this part of the measure is unnecessary and would be an unwarranted use of congressional power. It could also prove to be a point of contention in Congress and could prevent important player protections from being enacted.

Student-athletes, like all employees with occupational hazards, deserve federal protections.

Lawmakers should work to pass the sensible reforms included in the National Collegiate Athletics Accountability Act before the year’s end.

Patrons’ right from bare arms We should keep community needs in mind while considering the URW dress code.

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majority of rec center users surveyed in a Minnesota Student Association poll said they support changing the University Recreation and Wellness Center dress code to allow sleeveless shirts. While a student in a Nov. 18 Minnesota Daily article, “Students want right to bare arms at rec,” said the rec center’s T-shirt requirement is unnecessary, a balanced dress code is important for safe and appropriate exercise areas.

The T-shirt requirement serves the needs of the University of Minnesota community. If gym patrons could wear sleeveless shirts or other revealing clothing, some people may find the gym less open to all body types. Though this intimidation pervades society, the gym can be a particularly judgmental or even competitive space.

Though private gyms may allow sleeveless shirts, tank tops and other more revealing clothing, these clubs are voluntary. Rec center exercise spaces are open to all those paying the student services fee, in addition to staff, faculty and other University community members. This naturally attracts a diverse group of people. Rather than make rec center spaces more like private clubs, students must realize the center’s diverse patronage is something to be proud of.

The T-shirt requirement is not a burden on anyone. If the MSA and other students are serious about changing the URW dress code, then it should change similarly to Purdue University’s policy. Purdue’s gym patrons can wear sleeveless shirts or tank tops that expose arms but cover the torso. Howard Taylor, director of Purdue University’s Division of Recreational Sports, told the Daily some believe this policy is too restrictive. However, Purdue’s policy strikes an appropriate balance.

If MSA passes a statement supporting a policy change at its Dec. 3 forum, it will present the policy change to the URW Advisory Board. We hope MSA and the URW Advisory Board remember our community’s needs while making their decisions.

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KILL from page 1 Aug. 24, 1961

Jerry Kill is born in Wichita, Kan.

1979

Jerry Kill graduates from Cheney High School in Cheney, Kan.

1979

Jerry Kill starts playing college football at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kan.

1981

Jerry Kill goes to dinner at his college roommate’s house and meets Rebecca Smith.

1983

Jerry Kill graduates from Southwestern College with a major in education.

1983

Jerry Kill and Rebecca Smith are married in Winfield, Kan.

1985–87

Jerry Kill serves as a defensive coordinator at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan.

1988–89

Jerry Kill works as a head coach at Webb City High School in Webb City, Mo.

1991–93

Jerry Kill returns to Pittsburg State and serves as offensive coordinator.

1994–98

Jerry Kill earns first head coaching job at Saginaw Valley State in University Center, Mich.

ANTHONY KWAN, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Gophers head football coach Jerry Kill’s wife Rebecca embraces him after the game Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, against Miami (Ohio) at TCF Bank Stadium.

STILL COACHING Silence in the stands

2002

Sept. 10, 2011. Kill’s first home game at Minnesota. The Gophers were locked in a close battle with underdog New Mexico State.

In the waning seconds of the four th quarter, Minnesota drove down the field, trying to avoid an embarrassing upset.

With all eyes on the field, the Gophers’ first-year head coach collapsed on the sideline.

A packed TCF Bank Stadium, cheering raucously seconds before, was stunned into silence as emergency medical personnel tended to Kill. They took him off the field before time expired.

It was Kill’s first public seizure at Minnesota. A week later, he told media he had 20 seizures in a six-day span.

For the first time, Minnesota faithfuls were privy to a condition that had stalked the coach since 2000.

Oct. 15, 2005

Emporia State

1999

Jerry Kill is hired at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan.

1999–2000

Jerry Kill coaches for two seasons at Emporia State.

2000

Jerry Kill has the first documented seizure of his coaching career a day after an Emporia State game.

2001

Jerry Kill is hired at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Ill.

2001–07

Jerry Kill coaches for seven seasons at Southern Illinois.

Jerry Kill has a seizure during the season at Southern Illinois.

Jerry Kill has an on-field seizure at the end of a game against Illinois State.

2005

Jerry Kill is diagnosed with kidney cancer after being hospitalized following the onfield seizure.

2006

Jerry Kill has another seizure the day after a game.

2008

Jerry Kill is hired at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.

2008–10

Jerry Kill coaches for three seasons at Northern Illinois.

2008–10

Jerry Kill has an unspecified number of seizures while at Northern Illinois.

Sept. 25, 2010

A Jerry Kill-led Northern Illinois team comes into TCF Bank Stadium and beats the Gophers.

Dec. 5, 2010

The University of Minnesota announces Jerry Kill as the new head coach of the football program.

Sept. 10, 2011

2000. Emporia State athletics director Kent Weiser said he was sitting at home on a Sunday morning when defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys called him and said, “Coach Kill is in the hospital.”

It was the only “episode” Weiser remembered in Kill’s time at Emporia State, but it signaled the balancing act that would follow.

Kill’s health and job performance could directly correlate, according to Dr. Imad Najm, director of the epilepsy center at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland. Najm said both sleep deprivation and stress are linked to seizures. As a college football coach, Kill subjects himself to what Najm called “predisposing factors” that provoke seizures.

In press conferences, Kill has alluded to long workdays and mentioned arriving at the football facilities as early as 6 a.m.

“When your brain don’t get rest and you’re sleeping two and a half hours a day … sooner or later, something is going to give,” Kill said.

Weiser said he was concerned for his football program after Kill’s seizure but said he was also worried about his coach’s health.

Jerry Kill has a seizure on the sidelines in the waning seconds of the Gophers’ loss to New Mexico State.

Oct. 13, 2012

Jerry Kill has a seizure after a loss to Northwestern.

Nov. 24, 2012

Jerry Kill has a seizure at halftime in a loss to Michigan State.

Sept. 14, 2013

Jerry Kill has his fourth game-day seizure in a win over Western Illinois.

Oct. 5, 2013

Jerry Kill misses first game of his career after a seizure before the Michigan game.

Oct. 10, 2013

The University of Minnesota announces Jerry Kill will take a step back from the team to focus on his epilepsy treatment.

Oct. 19, 2013

Jerry Kill drives to Evanston, Ill., to watch the Gophers’ win over Northwestern.

Oct. 26, 2013

Southern Illinois 2001. Southern Illinois University’s football program was in shambles.

Until Jerry Kill.

“The program hadn’t won in years,” Kowalczyk said. “From A to Z, the program needed some stewardship and leadership, and Jerry provided that.”

In two years, Kill transformed Southern Illinois from a 10-loss team to a 10-win team, but his health got lost in the success.

Kill had a seizure during the 2002 season, but his first on-field seizure at SIU was in October 2005.

University of Minnesota professor Ilo Leppik specializes in epilepsy and said when someone has a seizure, they have no control over their body and are unaware of their surroundings.

“It’s something that a person with epilepsy has to worry about every day because they may not know when the next seizure is coming,” Leppik said.

Kill said his seizures might have started in college, but he didn’t point to an exact date. The seizures escalated after he was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2005, a discovery prompted by the on-field seizure at Southern Illinois.

Rebecca Kill said football saved her husband’s life after his initial diagnosis.

“They told him he could have his surger y after the whole season,” she said. “[Football] kept him going. It kept him positive.”

Joel Sambursky, a four-year star ting quarterback under Kill, said the seizures and cancer didn’t distract the team.

“We weren’t sitting around saying, ‘I wonder if coach is going to get through this,’” he said.

Kowalczyk said Kill had a few seizures while they worked together at SIU but they didn’t happen as often as they do now.

Mario Moccia took over for Kowalczyk as athletics director in 2006, and he said Kill had only one seizure while they worked together.

“He actually recuperated that weekend and flew to the next game,” Moccia said.

“He was fully back the next week.”

Kill turned SIU into an FCS championship contender amid his seizures, and a Division I football program five hours north took notice.

Northern Illinois

Jerry Kill coaches from coaches’ box in the Gophers’ win over Nebraska.

Nov. 9, 2013

Gophers move to 8-2 and record their first four-game winning streak in a Big Ten season since 1973.

“He just kind of kept going” and refused to take a step back, Weiser said.

That tendency followed Kill as he moved up to Southern Illinois University, a Football Championship Subdivision program.

Weiser said then-SIU athletics director Paul Kowalczyk reached out to him about hiring Kill in 2001.

The two discussed Kill’s medical history, but Weiser said he “didn’t know much about it at the time.” Kowalczyk said he didn’t know much about Kill’s seizures either.

“We knew he had a condition, and that was about it,” Kowalczyk said. “His positive qualities and everything he brought to the table certainly outweighed any issues he had with his health.”

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Jerry Kill coached at Emporia State from 1999-2000.

September 2010. Unranked Northern Illinois University marched into TCF Stadium and beat the Gophers.

At the helm for the Huskies: Jerry Kill.

Third year’s the charm Saginaw Valley State Emporia State

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7-3 10-2 10-3 8-2

Kill took over for retiring coach Joe Novak at NIU after the 2007 season. The next three years brought three bowl games and an unspecified number of seizures.

Throughout his career, Kill has cultivated a strong coaching staf f that steps up when his health interferes, but players don’t always know the full picture.

“It was definitely ver y scar y,” former NIU quarterback Chandler Harnish said.

“It was also a confusing time because we were never given a whole lot of information as players.”

Former Northern Illinois athletics director Jeff Compher declined multiple interview requests for this story.

Jordan Delegal played under Kill in 2009 and 2010 and said when he came to campus, he didn’t know anything about Kill’s medical condition.

“We had one game [in which] he had a seizure,” he said. “I was scared because I never knew of it.”

Delegal sensed that the seizures happened regularly, based on the way assistant coaches and others within the program, including Kill, responded.

“Everybody has things in life that they go through. Football is our escape,” Delegal said. “As long as he stays around the game, the better he’s going to be.”

Toledo defensive coordinator Tom Matukewicz coached under Kill for more than 10 years. He said he was first aware of the seizures at Emporia State.

Coaches knew about the seizures and weren’t surprised when they happened, Matukewicz said.

“That shows what kind of coaches he surrounds himself with, because in case of emergency, the ship doesn’t stop sailing,” Delegal said.

Kill’s Huskies finished the 2010 season 103. He left before their bowl game to take over the Gophers’ struggling football program.

Minnesota 2010. Outspoken head coach Tim Brewster was fired midseason after a blowout loss to Purdue.

The Gophers finished the year 3-9, desperately needing a culture change.

In walked Jerry Kill.

He started at Minnesota with the same fiery mentality that got him to the Big Ten, but five game-day seizures and extensive media coverage have forced him to adjust the way he approaches epilepsy and coaching.

“When you’re at Emporia, nobody knows [about the seizures] at that kind of media market,” Matukewicz said. “Southern

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epilepsy, according to the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota.

During his time at Minnesota, Kill has changed various aspects of his life in an attempt to deter seizures. He said he was in the best shape of his life this summer, but it wasn’t enough.

Seizures forced him to miss an entire game for the first time in his career Oct. 5, when Minnesota played at Michigan.

Senior safety Brock Vereen has been on the team for all of Kill’s seizures and said that the first time, during his sophomore year, was “scary.”

“I knew that’s how the freshmen probably felt for the first time seeing it,” he said.

“So the older guys were really helpful as far as explaining to the younger guys how the process will go.”

Less than a week after Kill missed the Michigan game, Teague and Claeys announced Kill would be taking a step back from coaching to seek additional treatment. “[I’ve] never taken time off much, [and I’ve just] focused on going 100 miles per hour to turn programs around,” Kill said. “And at the end of the day, it caught up with me.”

There are two types of epilepsy intervention — brain surger y and medication.

Both Teague and Claeys have mentioned Kill has tinkered with different prescription combinations this season.

Teague said he’s “not sure” how many seizures Kill has had during his 16 months as athletics director.

“I don’t ask him to tell me when he has a seizure, and I don’t expect him to do so,” Teague said.

Kill has gradually returned to coaching, but he’s delegating responsibility to his assistant coaches more than ever.

“It allows me to make sure I don’t have a setback,” Kill said. “I’m moving forward for the first time in a long time.”

So is the football team.

Minnesota is set to battle rival Wisconsin this Saturday in one of the most highly anticipated games in a decade.

“He’s obviously been the right shortterm coach,” Maturi said. “Now, can he be the right long-term coach? That’s dependent on his health, and that’s dependent upon his success.”

COURTESY OF BOB FOOS, WEBB CITY SENTINEL

Jerry Kill won a state title at Webb City High School in 1989.

Entire Season

COURTESY OF SCOTT WALSTROM, NIU MEDIA SERVICES

Jerry Kill coached at Northern Illinois from 2008-10.

7-6 6-7 3-9

2008 2009 2010

Big Ten

3-5 3-5 2-6

Gophers records before and after Jerry Kill 2011 2012 2013* *season still in progress

8-2

3-9 6-7

Jerry Kill coached at Webb City High School from 1988-89.

IN 2/3 OF PATIENTS EACH YEAR AT LEAST

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200,000 PEOPLE AMERICANS THE CAUSE IS ARE DIAGNOSED WITH EPILEPSY LIVE WITH EPILEPSY DIAGNOSED WITH EPILEPSY,

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was the same way. Northern, too.”

Gophers athletics director Nor wood Teague said he expected this much media attention.

“It’s a Big Ten football job … and it becomes more of a national stor y,” he said.

“You’re under the microscope.”

Former Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi said when he considered Kill for the job, he was more concerned with Kill’s cancer history than his seizures.

“The last thing I wanted was to have somebody come here and have their cancer come back and die in two years,” Maturi said. “I spent more time trying to figure out his health from his cancer standpoint than I did from his epilepsy.”

But two games into Kill’s first season with the Gophers, epilepsy caught Maturi’s attention. He was standing beside Kill during his seizure Sept. 10, 2011.

Maturi said the seizure was frightening and “tough to watch.” He saw many more at the hospital during the next few days.

“If I were to hire him today, I’d be more concerned about the epilepsy than the cancer,” he said.

Former Gophers linebacker Ryan Grant played two seasons under Kill and was also on the sideline when Kill collapsed.

“It was definitely probably the weirdest football experience I’ve ever had in my life,” Grant said.

Throughout the ensuing media storm and subsequent seizures, Kill began to come to terms with his epilepsy.

At first, he referred to it as a seizure disorder. But that changed last year at a gala held by the Epilepsy Foundation of Minnesota.

He listened to powerful testimony by other attendees with the condition and was inspired to share his own story.

“I got up and spoke and said, ‘I’m Jerry Kill, and I am epileptic,’” he said.

Kill has become a hero for many with epilepsy and a spokesman for the condition.

He said he receives at least 10 to 12 emails per day and some handwritten letters.

Rebecca Kill said the couple has embraced that role, and they are tr ying to raise awareness of the condition.

One in 10 people will have a seizure in their lifetime, and one in 26 will develop

COURTESY OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ATHLETICS

AN ESTIMATED

Jerry Kill coached at Southern Illinois from 2001-07.

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WORLDWIDE CURRENTLY

LIVE WITH EPILEPSY

HAVE EPILEPSY Jerry Kill’s records as a head coach

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY FILE PHOTO

1994

Saginaw Valley State

6-4-0

1995

Saginaw Valley State

7-3-0

1996

Saginaw Valley State

7-3-0

1997

Saginaw Valley State

9-2-0

1998

Saginaw Valley State

9-2-0

1999

Emporia State

5-6-0

2000

Emporia State

6-5-0

2001

Southern Illinois

1-10-0

2002

Southern Illinois

4-8-0

2003

Southern Illinois

10-2-0

2004

Southern Illinois

10-2-0

2005

Southern Illinois

9-4-0

2006

Southern Illinois

9-4-0

2007

Southern Illinois

12-2-0

2008

Northern Illinois

6-7-0

2009

Northern Illinois

7-6-0

2010

Northern Illinois

10-3-0

Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill is rushed off the field after collapsing with 20 seconds left in the fourth quarter Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011, at TCF Bank Stadium.

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GRAPHICS SOURCES: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, CUREEPILEPSY.ORG, EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA

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Sports

@MNDAILYSPORTS

FOOTBALL

Engel injures knee, could miss game Derrick Engel has led the Gophers all year as one of their best receivers.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

In the of fseason, the Gophers lost Devin Crawford-T ufts and Andre McDonald — two of the team’s most talented wide receivers.

They might have just lost a third.

Senior Der rick Engel went down with a knee injur y during practice Sunday afternoon.

Gophers head coach Jerr y Kill said at his Tuesday press conference that he would not comment on whether Engel tore his anterior cruciate ligament until he knew test results.

“He [got] banged up,” Kill said. “We’ll know more as the process goes with his doctor. At this point in time, he’ll get an MRI.” Engel leads Minnesota with 401 receiving yards this season. He had four receiving touchdowns during the Gophers’ fourgame winning streak.

That would be a lot of production for Minnesota to replace.

Kill said the team’s freshman receivers will need to be ready to fill the void if Engel is out for the

season.

“We’ve got some young guys that are playing [receiver],” Kill said. “I’m going to tell them, ‘Hey, you’re sophomores now.

You’ve gone through … games. You’ve got to play like a sophomore.’ ” So far, the Gophers’ freshmen receivers have showed promise.

Donovahn Jones came into camp as a quar terback but now lines up outside. He’s shown an ability to make big plays catching passes or taking handoffs.

Drew Wolitarsky has made a few receptions this season, too, but could play a much bigger role Saturday against Wisconsin if Engel is out.

Sophomor e quar ter back Philip Nelson said Wolitarsky has been improving steadily.

“Ever y single week, he gets better and better,” Nelson said. “He’ll be just fine out there.”

The Gophers have also gotten pr oduction from redshir t freshman tight end Maxx Williams, who’s second on the team with 299 receiving yards.

Williams has stepped up in cer tain situations this season, including a gamewinning 50-yard touchdown catch in the game at Indiana.

“Maxx W illiams is a tight end, but he really can play inside receiver,”

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota wide receiver Derrick Engel is tackled by an Iowa player Sept. 28 at TCF Bank Stadium.

Kill said. “We tr y to mix and play around with personnel groupings all the time.”

While potentially losing a top receiver before one of the biggest games in a decade isn’t ideal, injuries are nothing new for Minnesota.

Gophers defensive back Briean Boddy-Calhoun is out for the season

with a knee injur y, and center Jon Christenson is sidelined for the rest of the year with a leg injur y.

Donnell Kirkwood and Rodrick Williams Jr. have both missed time at r unning back this season, too.

“Coach [Matt] Limegrover says, ‘You’ve got to be ready. You’re one play away from being in there,’ ” of fensive lineman

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers get to rack after half, pull away from Coastal Carolina in win Andre Hollins led Minnesota with 19 points in a win over the Chants.

“It’s easier to learn off wins than losses. We’re going to learn off this and get better in practice tomorrow.”

ANDRE HOLLINS junior guard

Minnesota led by just six at the break, and Coastal Carolina cut the deficit to one early in the second half. The Gophers didn’t build a double-digit lead until midway through the second half.

The Chanticleers shot 51.9 percent from the field

The trio has shown flashes of potential this season, but if Engel can’t play, the group of freshman receivers will need to have sustained success.

“Der rick’s a great receiver,” Nelson said. “It will be a loss if we do lose him.”

@DailyattheBank

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Minnesota looks to stop Gardner in post The Gophers are fresh off a 63-52 loss to Creighton over the weekend.

in stopping Gardner on Wednesday.

That is, if she can stay in the game.

Zahui B. has had trouble with fouls early in her career.

“I have to play aggressive but think about the fouls,” Zahui B. said.

That aggressive nature seems to come naturally to the 6-foot-5-inch Sweden native, who currently leads the Gophers in scoring.

In two games, Zahui B. is averaging 16.5 points per game. She said it means a lot to be one of the of fensive focal points, and she said Bor ton told her she was going to have a big role.

Banham has been the Gophers’ top scorer pretty much her entire career, but she said she’s faced more pressure from defenses this season.

“I’ve always been guarded pretty tight, but it’s even harder [this year],” Banham said. “It’s nothing I can’t handle. I just need to keep getting better at it.”

Zahui B.’s emergence has given Minnesota another option, but Banham said she needs to do a better job of impacting the game as a whole.

“I need to do more,” Banham said. “I have to do so much more. I need to be able to score more, no matter if there are two or three people on me.”

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The Gophers attempted a lot of three-point shots Tuesday night.

It may have been too many — especially for a team that shot just 28.6 percent from the beyond the arc in the game.

Minnesota took 28 total threes — 17 in the first half — but still managed an 82-72 victor y over Coastal Carolina at Williams Arena.

“We fell in love with the three,” junior guard Andre Hollins said. “We should have attacked them [and gotten] to the foul line.”

Senior guard Malik Smith said it’s tough to balance taking open threes while not simply settling for the perimeter shot.

“It’s kind of hard for us not to fall in love with it because we’re so good at shooting,” Smith said, “but we tr y to attack the rim as much as we can.”

The Gophers got to the hole more often in the second half, and it proved successful. They made 21 trips to the free-throw line after halftime.

Ed Olson said. “Ever yone treats it like we’re star ters.”

When Christenson went down in Minnesota’s win over Indiana, Olson’s younger brother Tommy replaced him, and the offense didn’t skip a beat.

Still, as a junior, Tommy Olson has more experience than Jones, Wolitarsky or Williams.

HOLLY PETERSON, DAILY

Minnesota guard Andre Hollins pushes the ball up the court against Coastal Carolina on Tuesday at Williams Arena.

to stick around throughout the game.

Coastal Carolina freshman guard Elijah Wilson finished with 25 points on 10-for-14 shooting. “[It] wasn’t a great performance … defensively,” Gophers head coach Richard Pitino said. “I don’t th ink th e ir e f for t w a s bad. It was more just their mental sharpness wasn’t great.”

But the Gophers were able to force turnovers on the defensive end. They had 20 takeaways in the game, which led to 31 points.

“We did a good job of speeding them up,” Hollins said. “They didn’t run too many sets. They didn’t get comfortable.”

Hollins was once again the catalyst for the Gophers’ of fense. He led

Minnesota with 19 points, but three other Gophers players finished in double figures.

While Pitino didn’t seem happy with the performance after the game, he said the main thing was the Gophers got the win.

“It’s easier to learn of f wins than losses,” Hollins said. “We’re going to learn of f this and get better in practice tomorrow.”

King injured Sophomore for ward Joey King left the game in the second half after he collided with Hollins.

Team spokesman Matt Slieter called the injur y a jaw contusion. King experienced some pain and did not return, Slieter said.

Pitino said the Gophers aren’t sure of the extent of King’s injur y yet, and

COASTAL CAROLINA 72, MINNESOTA 83 Coastal Carolina Minnesota

33 39 — 72 39 43 — 82

In their 63-52 loss Saturday at Creighton, the Gophers couldn’t stop Bluejays forward Sarah Nelson, who scored a game-high 22 points.

“Nelson played the four position, and she was extremely versatile,” Minnesota head coach Pam Borton said. “I thought she was a really tough matchup for our team.”

In Wednesday night’s game against Kansas, the Gophers will have to deal with another athletic post player — Chelsea Gardner.

Gardner scored 24 points and reeled in 13 rebounds in Kansas’ first game of the season.

Junior guar d Rachel Banham said Kansas is one of the fastest and most athletic teams in the countr y, but Gardner controls the paint when she’s on the floor.

“Gardner is a great post player. She’s got great footwork,” Bor ton said. “She can put on a clinic posting up.”

Borton said she expects redshirt freshman Amanda Zahui B. to play a big part

COASTAL CAROLINA Player Enanga Ndieguene Wilson Gillis Smith Ray-st Curtis Cameron Buffkin Total

FG Min M-A 32 1-8 31 4-6 32 10-14 17 3-7 19 1-3 29 6-6 10 0-0 21 3-9 9 0-1 200 28-54

FT Reb M-A O-T Ast PF 0-0 0-1 2 5 1-7 1-7 2 3 2-3 2-3 0 3 0-3 0-3 2 4 0-3 0-3 1 1 1-5 1-5 6 4 0-4 0-4 1 0 0-0 0-0 4 2 0-0 0-0 0 3 7-8 7-33 18 25

Pts 2 10 25 7 5 15 0 8 0 72

FG FT Reb M-A M-A O-T 4-8 4-5 1-5 2-5 4-4 3-11 5-12 3-4 2-3 6-14 4-4 1-5 6-11 5-6 2-4 1-3 0-1 0-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 2-7 0-0 1-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 27-62 20-24 12-33

PREVIEW

VS MINNESOTA

KANSAS

7 p.m. Wednesday at Williams Arena

MINNESOTA Player Min Osenieks 30 Eliason 34 Hollins, Au. 30 Hollins, An. 34 Mathieu 32 King 13 Ellenson 6 Smith 18 Ahanmisi 3 Total 200

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Ast 0 0 4 4 6 0 0 1 0 15

PF 2 3 3 3 2 2 0 1 0 16

Pts 13 8 15 19 17 2 2 6 0 82

he’ll be re-evaluated in the morning.

@DailyintheBarn

MINNESOTA: After losing their first game of the season Saturday at Creighton, the Gophers look to bounce back Wednesday against Kansas.

Minnesota committed 22 turnovers in the contest and forced only seven. Gophers redshirt freshman center Amanda Zahui B. and junior guard Rachel Banham each scored 14 points in the contest.

Zahui B. is averaging 16.5 points per game to Banham’s 16.3. Banham led the team in scoring last season with 20.7 points per contest.

KANSAS: The Jayhawks are undefeated this season but have yet to play a road game. That changes Wednesday when Kansas travels to the Barn.

The Jayhawks received 17 votes in the USA Today coaches’ poll, whereas Minnesota accumulated just two votes.

Kansas’ Chelsea Gardner recently scored 24 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in an 84-62 victory against Oral Roberts.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

BACKTALK sudoku

horoscopes

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.

11/20/2013

Yesterday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (11/20): Creativity flavors this year, animating your career. Romance and partnership rise to a new level. Travel with your work around summer when you’ve got the microphone and people are listening.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 6 — Stay close to home as much as you can; re-juice and restore. Keep up the good work; you’re making a good impression.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Career opportunities arise. You must be willing to play the game. Sometimes all it takes is a bold declaration or to sign on the bottom line.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Dream up a juicy goal, and then make it happen. Your skills are getting more impressive. Stop for long enough to give yourself credit.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — It’s adventure time! Go to where you’ve never been before. Discover something new about yourself by listening intently.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — There are opportunities to make money, as well as some to lose it. Keep a clear head. Don’t let it slip through your fingers.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Get ready for transformation, or just accept it. You feel rejuvenated and ready for action. Curiosity makes you quite attractive.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Your power is intense. Don’t bowl someone over with your enthusiasm. Your dreams are achievable, and you see it.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — You’re an expert at creating the right team for the task at hand now. You’re encouraging and encouraged.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — It’s easier to get things done privately now. Finish up old business with your creative touch.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Embark on a challenging project at work, and succeed by thinking from a different perspective than normal.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Everything seems clear. You see the changes you want to make. You’re inclined to get a lot of work done; don’t forget to play.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Love is definitely in the air and serves comfort when money’s tight. Finish something you promised.

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

overheard Professor: “I don’t know why anyone would just stop and let the cops hand them a ticket. I’d just run. They’re probably like 400 pounds; they’re not gonna come after you.”

—Unknown

“There were three nosebleeds today.”

—Frontier Hall

“Nuts against butts? It must be a Canadian thing.”

—Walter Library

“Know where you should study abroad? Denver.”

“Sweetie, Denver is in Colorado. You can’t study abroad in Colorado.”

“Damn Miley Cyrus for messing up twerking. ... I’m sorry. I had a rough weekend.”

“I like my women how I like my potatoes: baked and covered in parmesan.”

“Hi, sir. I just need a pen that won’t explode on me!”

—Coffman Union

—Middlebrook Hall

“Why does my butt itch?!”

—FloCo Fusion apartments “I ONLY got eight hours of sleep last night.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

—University Bookstore in Coffman Union [During a fire alarm] “I could be studying right now!”

—Middlebrook Hall

—Centennial Hall

McDonald’s employee: “I hate all of today’s music. I only listen to songs from the ’60s and ’70s.”

Student: “How can you hate something that you’ve never heard before?

Turn on KDWB; you might like what you hear.”

McDonald’s employee: “No, I won’t turn it on because I know I will hate it.”

—Dinkytown McDonald’s

“It’s so weird how these paintings were hanging in rich people’s houses, and now we’re looking at it with our peasant eyes.”

—Minneapolis Institute of Art

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FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

ACROSS 1 Food at a bar 6 54-Across vaccine developer 10 “My stars!”

14 Run off, in a way 15 Help in solving 16 Age-old stories 17 Series of “Got milk?” spots, e.g.

19 Suffragist Lucretia 20 Emmy-winning Arthur 21 “__ Gang” 22 Tolstoy work subtitled “The Story of a Horse” 24 Queen’s subjects 26 Dismissive cry 28 Kitchen attraction 29 Ran off with 31 Multi-institutional financial crisis 34 Mexican cover-up 36 JFK Library architect I.M. 37 Connecticut hrs.

38 It’s used to break a habit 42 That girl 45 Garden pond fish 46 Weather map line 50 American bacon source 54 See 6-Across 55 Whirlpool subsidiary 56 Sweet tuber 58 MacDonald’s home 59 Ristorante dish 62 Apprehend 64 Place for some me-time 65 Make a muffler, perhaps 66 Browser feature, or what the ends of 17-, 31-, 38- or 50-Across can have 69 Clothing fluff 70 Actress Elisabeth 71 French sweetie 72 Tense 73 Undiluted 74 Company with “counting sheep” ads DOWN 1 Popular food fish

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2 Ristorante request 3 The “L” in URL 4 Org. for shrinks 5 Showroom model 6 Sacred beetle 7 Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Da __ G Show” 8 Galoots 9 Reporter known for ducking into phone booths 10 New York city near the Pennsylvania border 11 “Well played!”

12 Sister of Apollo 13 Take away (from) 18 Watering hole 23 See 68-Down 25 Fries alternative 27 Antepenultimate fairy tale word 30 Prefix with center 32 Not paleo33 New Zealander 35 Actress Sommer 39 Typed chuckle 40 Seer’s claim 41 Sleigh’s parking spot 42 Vivacity

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43 Neanderthal, for one 44 Frequent schoolroom activity 47 Weapon for Han Solo 48 Touchdown site 49 Bucharest’s country 51 Difficult 52 Club on the diamond

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53 Mariano Rivera, e.g.

57 Fairy queen of English legend 60 1/16 of a cup: Abbr.

61 Site of the Ko’olau range 63 Tampa NFLers 67 Lowlife 68 With 23-Down, what an accused thug may beat

dr. date Dr. Date,

Dr. Date,

—Disenchanted

—MissPronounced

Do you believe in soul mates? I know it’s probably just a cliché or whatever, but I’m curious to hear what you think.

My parents and most of my friends’ parents are divorced. Most of my friends are single, and those in serious relationships aren’t very happy. I believed in the whole idea of “the one” when I was younger, but now I’m not sure I do.

Should I be less cynical?

My boyfriend is obsessed with using big words, but he can’t really pronounce any of them. It’s not something he’s always done — it’s just cropped up in the last few months or so. It’s kind of sweet but also kind of embarrassing.

I try to politely use the word in a different conversation so he notices the difference, but so far it hasn’t taken.

Thoughts?

Soul Searcher,

Wannabe Speech Therapist,

—Dr. Date

—Dr. Date

Short answer: no. I believe someone you love can become a soul mate, but I don’t think soul mates are hiding in bushes like wild Pokémon waiting to be hit with your Poké Ball.

I spent a good deal of my life waiting for someone to swoop in and surpass the rest, without realizing that my visions were outlandish. There is no fairytale Prince Charming. Those who come close still burp, fart and fall down stairs like the rest of us. We’re imperfect! And it’s beautiful!

As a society, we set our expectations too high. Things go well for couples throughout the first few months (sometimes years) of the relationship, but usually only because they’re still hiding parts of themselves. Eventually, their defects start to show through.

The question is not, “Will these defects exist?” but “How much crap am I willing to take?” Because trust me — even the president leaves his dirty underwear on the floor sometimes.

Most things that seem too good to be true probably are, so don’t wait too long to reveal your true self. Lay out your defects like a summer’s day picnic, and go forth!

I grew up with some Southern family members who couldn’t pronounce some of the simplest words, so I feel your pain. My mother, for example, said “oakmeal” instead of “oatmeal,” “murcurry” instead of “mercury” and “pee-can” instead of “pecan.” Now I realize the last example is just a Southern thing, but there was never a good excuse for the other two.

As a kid, I’d either scoff at my mother or tease her by repeating the mispronounced word with an obviously disdainful inflection. But no matter how often I corrected her, the pronunciation wouldn’t change. With time, I realized that I wasn’t accomplishing anything other than hurting her feelings.

I’m powerless over my mother. I can either choose to continually try and fail at changing her mannerisms or accept her as she is. I’ve finally come to see that mispronunciation adds some endearing charm to my mom’s speech.

If your boyfriend hasn’t taken the hint at this point, I would try to let go. Chances are one of his friends will point it out eventually, and frankly, it’s better them than you.

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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U study recreates evolution’s first steps Researchers at the U evolved algae from single-celled to multicellular in 219 days.

BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com

Uncovering past scientific processes without a time machine seems impossible, but a University of Minnesota study offers a glimpse into biological histor y by evolving single-celled organisms into multicellular ones in the present.

Multicellular development is a process that many creatures go through to become more complex, but scientists don’t yet understand exactly how the process first occurred.

University r esearchers have taken a first step by showing how one type of unicellular algae can evolve into a multicellular one despite having no multicellular ancestors. They published the research in Nature Communications earlier this month.

“Understanding how multicellularity has evolved is really critical in understanding how complexity

arises in nature,” said ecology, evolution and behavior postdoctoral fellow William Ratcliff, who worked on the research.

By putting the algae in test tubes and selecting the cells that settled faster, researchers forced them to evolve into larger cells.

Some of those cells became multicellular within 219 days, a process scientists previously thought took millions of years.

“This is our back to the future thing,” associate ecology, evolution and behavior professor Michael Travisano said.

Genetics senior Katie Howell took microscopic photos of the algae so the researchers could analyze how many cells were in clusters. Out of 10 algae populations, one developed multicellularity.

This is only the second time researchers have recreated multicellular evolution in the lab, Ratcliff said.

The first time, the team evolved brewer’s yeast, which has a multicellular ancestor and took only about 60 days.

In the most recent study, Ratclif f and T ravisano chose a type of algae that doesn’t have a multicellular

ALGAL CELL CLUSTER FORMATION AFTER MITOTIC REPRODUCTION BY HOUR 25 micrometers

Cells after 0 hours

Cells after 8 hours

Cells after 16 hours

Cells after 24 hours SOURCE: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

ancestor to see if they could replicate their results.

An important part of organisms’ success is multicellularity, said Indiana University-Bloomington professor and ecology, evolution and behavior expert James Bever. Since it’s difficult to study the origins, he called the research “remarkable.”

Travisano said scientists generally think of multicellular evolution as a lengthy, difficult process.

“The first steps in evolution to multicellularity are probably easier and faster than previously appreciated,” Ratcliff said.

The speed of the evolu-

tion probably means it happens more frequently than previously thought, Travisano said. But since the world is full of developed organisms already, he said, the newly evolved ones usually don’t sur vive, because established ones outcompete them.

NASA Astrobiology Institute postdoctoral fellow Matthew Herron from the University of Montana collaborated with Ratcliff and Travisano and analyzed the cell clusters. He discovered they were all identical, meaning they all came from the same line — called a single-cell bottleneck.

The researchers also found that cell competition decreased, but reproductive success temporarily increased.

Cells don’t need to compete if they are identical, Travisano said, because their genetic line is guaranteed to continue no matter which cell produces of fspring.

Exper ts speculate multicellularity may have evolved to settle competition among cells, but the researchers said this study only found a side effect of decreased cell conflict.

“The single-cell bottleneck doesn’t have to evolve

to settle among cell conflict,” he said. “It can evolve because … it has other benefits, like increasing shor t-term reproductive success.”

Now Herron said he’s working with the algae to see if they will evolve differently when he introduces predators into the environment.

Bever said the research sets up a model system for fur ther studies about the origins of multicellularity.

“We can’t go back and study how humans are multicellular,” he said, “but we can go back and recreate this event.”

Libyan protesters in Tripoli keep pressure on militias

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan protesters again took to the streets of Tripoli on Tuesday, repeating their call for the countr y’s recalcitrant militias to leave the capital after a militia attack on a similar protest killed 47 and wounded more than 500 last week.

Meanwhile, lawmakers of the countr y’s interim parliament questioned embattled Prime Minister Ali Zidan over the violence and pressed the government to take action against the mi-

litias. Some called for dismissing him and his Cabinet with a no-confidence vote and forming a new, crisis government.

The army deployed troops to the capital on Monday, in what was the first show of state control there since the overthrow of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. However, disgruntled militias accused the government of packing the force with former pro-Gadhafi fighters, describing the deployment as a “coup.”

Residents have given

the troops a warm reception, ululating, clapping and flashing V-for-victor y signs in suppor t. Some marchers Tuesday chanted: “Libya is not (war) booty.” During the rally, protesters distributed sweets to policemen who arrived to protect the demonstration.

Tripoli University spokesman Mahmoud Fathallah told the of ficial news agency that the university is on strike until Thursday in protest against the militias. The rest of the city has not fully ended a

strike that began just after Friday’s killings.

During and after the war, thousands of rebels who fought Gadhafi formed “brigades” which the new government later used to fill a security vacuum until the national army and police could be rebuilt.

Over time however, the units turned into militias, expanding in power and size and putting pressure on the fledgling gover nment and parliament.

Tuesday’s protest was the latest show of public outrage against ar med

groups since Friday’s deadly shootings, which happened outside the headquar ters of a militia from the western city of Misrata.

It had deployed to Tripoli to battle Gadhafi’s forces but later took over residential areas, villas and camps.

Since the killings, some militias from outside Tripoli have left the city under public pressure.

On Monday, Zidan flew to Misrata for talks with city council of ficials and militia commanders, according to privately owned al-Nabaa TV. There were

unconfirmed repor ts he was forced out of the meeting after disgruntled militiamen gathered outside the building.

Misrata militias and other militias in Tripoli accuse rival political and armed groups of orchestrating the demonstrations and firing at the protesters to turn public opinion against them. They describe the army troops that swept into the capital on Monday as remnants of Gadhafi’s forces and denounce the move as “coup” against the revolution.

Major carriers reject ‘kill switch’ for stolen or lost smartphones

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, has proposed installing a built-in anti-theft measure known as a “kill switch” that would render stolen or lost phones inoperable, but the nation’s biggest carriers have rejected the idea, according to San Francisco’s top prosecutor.

District Attorney George Gascon said Monday that AT&T Inc., Verizon Wireless, United States Cellular Corp., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. rebuffed Samsung’s proposal to preload its phones with Absolute LoJack anti-theft software as a standard feature.

The wireless industr y says a kill switch isn’t the answer because it could allow a hacker to disable someone’s phone.

G a s c o n , N e w Yo r k Attor ney General Eric Schneiderman and other law enforcement of ficials have been demanding that manufacturers create kill switches to combat surging smar tphone theft across the country.

Almost 1 in 3 U.S. robberies involve phone theft, according to the Federal Commu n i c a t i on s Com mission. Lost and stolen mobile devices — mostly smar tphones — cost consumers more than $30 billion last year, according to a study cited by Schneiderman in June.

Samsung of ficials told the San Francisco district attorney’s office in July that carriers were resisting kill switches, and prosecutors have recently reviewed emails between a senior vice president at Samsung and a software developer about the issue. One email in August said Samsung had pre-installed kill switch software in some smar t-

phones ready for shipment, but carriers ordered their removal as a standard feature.

“These emails suggest that the carriers are rejecting a technological solution so they can continue to shake down their customers for billions of dollars in (theft) insurance premiums,” Gascon said. “I’m incensed. ... This is a solution that has the potential to end the victimization of their customers.”

Samsung said it is cooperating with Gascon, Schneiderman and the carriers on an anti-theft solution but declined to comment specifically about the emails.

“We are working with the leaders of the Secure Our Smar tphones (SOS) Initiative to incorporate the perspective of law enforcement agencies,” said Samsung spokeswoman Jessica Redman. “We will continue to work with them and our wireless carrier par tners toward our common goal of stopping smar tphone theft.”

Although the popular Samsung Galaxy smar tphones are shipped across the country without LoJack as a standard feature, users can pay a subscription fee for the service.

CTIA-The Wireless Association, a trade group for wireless providers, said it has been working with the FCC, law enforcement agencies and elected officials on a national stolen phone database scheduled to launch Nov. 30.

The CTIA says a permanent kill switch has serious risks, including potential vulnerability to hackers who could disable mobile devices and lock out not only individuals’ phones but also phones used by entities such as the Department of Defense, Homeland Security and law enforcement agencies.

“The problem is how to you trigger a kill switch in a secure manner and not be compromised by a third par ty and be subjected to hacking,” said James Moran, a security adviser with the GSMA, a United Kingdom wireless trade group that has overseen a global stolen mobile phone database and is helping to create the U.S. version.

Last year, about 121 million smartphones were sold in the U.S., according to International Data Corp., a Massachusetts-based researcher. About 725 million smartphones were sold worldwide, accounting for $281 billion in sales, IDC said.

Samsung Electronics Co., with its popular Galaxy S4 smar tphone, shipped 81 million phones — more than the next four manufacturers combined — during the most recent sales quarter for a market share of 31 percent, IDC reported in October. Apple Inc. shipped 34 million iPhones for a market share of 13 percent.

In June, Gascon and Schneiderman held a “Smar tphone Summit” in New York City to call on representatives from smartphone makers Apple, Samsung, Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to adopt kill switches that would be free to consumers.

That week, Apple said such a feature, an “activation lock,” would be part of its iOS 7 software that was eventually released this fall.

In July, pr osecutors brought federal and state security exper ts to San Francisco to test Apple’s iPhone 5 with its activation lock and Samsung’s Galaxy S4 with LoJack.

Treating the phones as if they were stolen, experts tried to circumvent their anti-theft features to evaluate their effectiveness, and that work is continuing.