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Minnesota limited the Spartans in the game but couldn’t score on offense.

The Gophers fired 101 shots on goal over the weekend en route to a sweep.

Acquiring new members each year affects how student gov’t operates.

Gopher Hall aims to help freshman commuters connect to the University.

Gophers stumble in season finale u See PAGE 6

Minnesota dominates series with Princeton

MSA grapples with student turnover

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HEALTH

Students report more depression The 2013 Boynton Health Survey also found fewer students smoke.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

This year, more University of Minnesota students

reported being diagnosed with depression than in 2010, according to a recent sur vey. Exper ts say the finding mirrors a growing demand for mental health resources on campus.

The sur vey also found that a smaller number of students are using tobacco — at a time when the University community is debat-

ing a tobacco-free campus policy.

Boynton Health Service’s 2013 College Student Health Sur vey, released late last month, provides insight into the health of students on the University’s Twin Cities campus. Other recent sur veys of the campus were in 2010 and 2007.

In the past three years,

the percentage of University students who reported being diagnosed with depression in their lifetime has increased from 16.6 percent to 19.3 percent, according to the survey.

The number of students who repor ted being diagnosed in the past year also increased — from about 6 percent to nearly 8 percent.

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It’s unclear why there was an uptick in reported diagnoses, but the numbers seem to mirror increased requests for mental health resources on campus, Boynton’s Director of Public Health and Communications Dave Golden said.

“Demand is really quite high,” he said.

Chemistry junior Callah-

an Clark said it’s likely that students’ stress contributes to the increase in depression diagnoses.

“School is really stressful,” she said.

Pre-nursing freshman Shauna Ling agreed. u See SURVEY Page 3 The University is reviewing a proposed tobacco-free poilcy.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

GAPSA ousts fees member The group voted to remove a fees committee member last month.

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly voted late last month to remove pharmacy student Willie Wilberg from the Student Ser vices Fees Committee.

W ilberg’s removal is the first of its kind in three years.

GAPSA and the Minnesota Student Association must approve all members of the fees committee every year. Each group can vote to remove up to two mem-

bers, with alternates filling any vacancy.

MSA passed its fees slate without removing anyone Oct. 22.

SSFC adviser Megan Sweet said neither organization is required to give a rationale for removing individuals from the committee.

Wilberg, who was a fees committee member last school year, said he thinks he was removed because he opposed funding travel expenses for a GAPSA event in Duluth.

GAPSA requested $2,300 in funding for a “Duluth Open House and Leadership Retreat” for the 201314 fees cycle, $1,500 of it for u See GAPSA Page 3 The fees committee halved GAPSA’s funding for the trip.

SCIENCE

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

University of Minnesota men’s hockey players celebrate forward Seth Ambroz’s game-winning goal Saturday at Mariucci Arena.

Minnesota opened its first-ever Big Ten weekend with two wins over the Badgers.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Gophers junior for ward

weekend was the biggest ries for Minnesota.

Gophers junior center

est player the new Big Ten

Travis Boyd forced a cru-

hockey conference has ever

cial turnover in the offen-

seen — at least through the

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conference’s first weekend

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of existence.

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University of Minnesota researchers are beginning to move in to the newly finished Physics and Nanotechnology Building.

Faculty and staf f are moving their of fices and lab equipment into the new space, nested between the Scholars Walk and engineering buildings, but the grand opening isn’t scheduled until April 2014.

In 2011, the state Legislature approved $51.3 million in bonding funds for the $83 million project.

Physics and astronomy head Ron Poling said the building will staff about 27 professors and 125 graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and staf f

in the game.

“I was for tunate to be

in the Gophers’ series sweep

there,” Ambroz said, cred-

of the Badgers during the

iting Boyd for the game-

weekend. He had four goals

winning assist. “It was one

in the series, including two

of the biggest goals of my

game-winners, to push his

career.”

team high.

BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com

with less than a minute left

his career, was fundamental

total to seven this season — a

Researchers are moving into the $83 million lab and office building.

and capped a successful se-

Seth Ambroz is the great-

Those are the types of goals the team has come to

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Nanotechnology building complete

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members.

“Research groups will be closer together [in the building],” physics and astronomy professor Paul Crowell said. “Although the building doesn’t have classrooms, it does have seminar and meeting rooms, which we don’t have in [Tate Laboratory].”

The new building was designed to make research easier for scientists in physics and nanotechnology fields, which include research on everything from computer chips to pharmaceutical drugs.

The building features a cleanroom, which is a controlled environment that has a low level of pollutants like dust, said Minnesota Nano Center Director Stephen Campbell.

The new cleanroom was necessar y, Campbell said, because researchers have u See NANO Page 12 The building also boasts a 20-foot-tall laboratory.

STUDENT LIFE

Few CBS grads go to work right away Students say the college aims only to prepare them for more school.

BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com

When Carah Kucharski receives her bachelor’s degree, she plans to jump straight into the workforce.

But the University of Minnesota genetics, cell biology and development senior said taking College of Biological Sciences classes to prepare her for work after graduation has been difficult because they aren’t focused on the industry.

In a 2013 CBS Dean’s Office sur vey, only about 6 percent of CBS seniors said an undergraduate degree was the highest de-

gree they planned on earning.

Since the majority of CBS students plan to attend further schooling, options for those who want to go straight into the workforce are advertised less, Kucharski said.

“I don’t even know where to star t in looking for internships,” she said. “[In the] career center, there are plenty of med

school internships, but not really for industry.”

About 58 percent of students surveyed by CBS said they plan to receive a professional degree after graduation. About 22 percent plan to earn a doctorate, and 14 percent plan to earn a master’s degree. u See CBS Page 3 The college offers a one-credit class exploring career options.

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University physics professor Paul Crowell shows the high bay in the new physics and nanotechnology building Wednesday.

This area will be used to assemble large apparatuses.

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Following a string of violent crimes this fall, University of Minnesota students are petitioning for more police on and near campus, in an attempt to improve the area’s safety.

As of Sunday night, more than 3,400 people — from professors to students’ friends in neighboring states — had signed the student-authored petition.

“The crime on campus has gotten out of hand, and it needs to be stopped before it gets any worse,” says the MoveOn.org petition.

Since the star t of the school year, University police have issued 11 crime alerts for 17 incidents on or near campus, including an attempted kidnapping near

the intersection of University Avenue Southeast and Oak Street Southeast early Wednesday.

Created by University students Sara Gottlieb and Rachel Sadowsky, the petition says the incidents have inter fered with students’ ability to learn — noting fear of walking to study spots at night — and have caused some to apply to transfer.

“We have reached our breaking point,” it says.

The petition says current attempts to alleviate crime — like issuing alerts and reminding students to walk in groups — aren’t working, and it says University and Minneapolis police should work together to improve campus safety.

University President Eric Kaler and Vice President

for University Ser vices Pam Wheelock met with Minneapolis mayor-elect Betsy Hodges last month to discuss the University’s desire for additional city resources to help deal with crime. Wheelock and University police Chief Greg Hestness also met with Minneapolis police Chief Janée Harteau.

“Our [University police do] a great job of responding to crime in the neighborhoods. We feel, obviously, a responsibility for the safety of our students, but we do hope to get some additional help from Minneapolis for their precincts,” Kaler said in a previous interview with the Minnesota Daily.

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Chemical engineering professor Chris Macosko, who signed the petition, said it has “extreme” wording, but he agreed the recent string of crimes is a problem for the area.

Macosko attends Stadium Village Church on Oak Street Southeast and said many churchgoers express similar concerns — they fear walking alone at night and hope the number of violent crimes will decrease.

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“I feel sorr y for the police — [the suspects are] a bunch of bad guys,” he said.

“You can’t have one cop for every person.”

US carriers to comply Record crowds over weekend, but with China air zone spending declined

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NEW YORK — Did stores shoot themselves in the foot?

Target, Macy’s and other retailers offered holiday discounts in early November and opened stores on Thanksgiving Day. It was an effort to attract shoppers before Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that traditionally kicks off the holiday shopping season.

Those tactics drew bigger crowds, but failed to motivate Americans to spend.

A record 141 million people are expected to shop in stores and online over the four-day Thanksgiving weekend that ends Sunday, up from last year’s 137 million, according to the results of a survey of nearly 4,500 shoppers conducted for The National Retail Federation.

But total spending is expected to fall for the first time ever since the trade group began tracking it in 2006, according to the survey that was released on Sunday. Over the four days, spending fell an estimated 2.9 percent to $57.4 billion.

Shoppers, on average, are expected to spend $407.02 during the four days, down 3.9 percent from last year. That would be the first decline since the 2009 holiday shopping season when the economy was just coming out of the recession.

The survey underscores the challenges stores have faced since the recession began in late 2007. Retailers had to offer deep discounts to get people to shop during the downturn, but Americans still expect those “70 percent off” signs now during the uneven economic recovery.

Stores may have only exacerbated that expectation this year. By offering bargains earlier in the season, it seems they’ve created a vicious cycle in which they’ll need to constantly offer bigger sales to get people to spend. That’s because shoppers who took advantage of “holiday” deals before Thanksgiving may have deal fatigue and are cautious about buying anything else unless it’s heavily discounted.

“The economy spoke loud and clear over the past few days,” said Brian Sozzi, CEO and chief equities strategist at Belus Capital Advisors. “We are going to see an increase in markdowns.”

BEIJING — The United States advised U.S. carriers to comply with China’s demand that it be told of any flights passing through its new maritime air defense zone over the East China Sea, an area where Beijing said it launched two fighter planes to investigate a dozen American and Japanese reconnaissance and military flights.

It was the first time since proclaiming the zone on Nov. 23 that China said it sent planes there on the same day as foreign militar y flights, although it said it merely identified the foreign planes and took no further action.

China announced last week that all aircraft entering the zone — a maritime area between China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan — must notify Chinese authorities beforehand and that it would take unspecified defensive measures against those that don’t comply. Neighboring countries and the U.S. have said they will not honor the new zone — believed aimed at claiming disputed territor y — and have said it unnecessarily raises tensions.

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Worst bugs are over for Healthcare.gov

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WASHINGTON — The worst of the online glitches, crashes and delays may be over for the problemplagued government health care website, the Depar tment of Health and Human Services said Sunday.

But that doesn’t mean HealthCare.gov is ready for a clean bill of health.

Officials acknowledged more work remains on the website that included hundreds of software bugs, inadequate equipment and inef ficient management

for its national debut two months ago. Federal workers and private contractors have undertaken an intense reworking of the system, but the White House’s chief troubleshooter cautioned some users could still encounter trouble.

“The bottom line — HealthCare.gov on Dec. 1 is night and day from where it was on Oct. 1,” Jeff Zients told reporters.

More than 50,000 people can log on to the website at one time and more than 800,000 people will be able to shop for insurance cover-

age each day, the government estimated in a report released Sunday. If tr ue, it’s a dramatic improvement from the system’s first weeks, when frustrated buyers watched their computer screen freeze, the website crash and er ror messages multiply.

The figures — which could not be independently verified — suggest millions of Americans could turn to their laptops to shop for and buy insurance policies by the Dec. 23 deadline.

“There’s not really any way to verify from the out-

side that the vast majority of people who want to enroll can now do so, but we’ll find out at least anecdotally over the coming days if the system can handle the traffic and provide a smooth experience for people tr ying to sign up,” said Larry Levitt, a senior adviser at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

But, he added, HealthCare.gov is clearly working better than when it first went online. Its challenge now is to convince users who were frustrated during their first visit to give it another chance.

Politically, a fixed website could also offer a fresh start for President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats after a wave of bad publicity surrounding the president’s chief domestic achievement.

“This website is technology. It’s going to get better.

It’s already better today,” said Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat who is a co-chairman of the liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus. “And we’re only going to be working out more kinks as we go forward.”

HealthCare.gov was envisioned as the principal place for people in 36 states to buy insurance under Obama’s health care law.

But its first few weeks were an embarrassment for the administration and its allies.

Obama set Saturday as the deadline to fix several significant problems and the administration organized a conference call with reporters Sunday morning to boast that 400 technical problems had been resolved. Officials, however, declined to say how many items remain on the todo list.

U students report more depression, less smoking Survey u from Page 1

“There’s more pressure on students nowadays to get a job quickly and do good in school,” she said.

But Clark said she wondered whether the higher numbers meant more students were diagnosed with depression or if more were seeking help.

The University is becoming more vocal about the mental health support it offers, she said, citing a recent email from Vice Provost for Student Af fairs and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young as an example.

Brown Young sent the email to the University’s faculty, staf f and students last week, encouraging those in need of suppor t to visit the University’s mental health website and seek resources.

Communication like this could influence more students with depression to look for help and be di-

agnosed, Clark said. “ M ay be th e r e ’ s j u s t more awareness,” she said.

Falling tobacco use The por tion of 18- to 24-year-old University students using tobacco has decreased by more than half since 1998, the survey found.

Golden said he’s been predicting for years that tobacco use numbers will level of f, but they’re still dropping.

He attributed the continued downtur n to a growing number of incoming students who don’t smoke. He said those students have grown up in a society where tobacco use is restricted in many places and where fewer people use tobacco in general.

Ling said she thought a higher tobacco tax could be a factor in lower use.

“Prices have become ver y expensive,” she said, “and college students are poor.”

The drop in tobacco

STUDENT TOBACCO USE AND DEPRESSION DIAGNOSIS Percentage of University students who report being diagnosed with depression WITHIN THEIR LIFETIME

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Career Center for Scienc e a nd E n gi ne ering Director Mark SorensonWagner said counselors at the center help students prepare for further schooling or work after graduation — like suggesting they attend University career fairs to connect with people in industry.

Biochemistry senior Peter Gorman, who hopes to work at Cargill after graduating, said career fairs were helpful because he could figure out his options and meet industry recruiters in person.

But Kucharski said most CBS students overlook industry as a viable option for career or internship opportunities because they mainly concentrate on going to medical school.

“CBS only focuses on the knowledge you need to know to get accepted somewhere else,” she said.

Sorenson-Wagner said CBS students star t from the point of view that they’ll go on to further schooling, whereas College of Science and Engineering students don’t.

“What we see a lot of, especially for CSE, the engineering students typically go straight into industr y,” he said. “I think that one of the struggles as well [is] a lot of CBS students coming in thinking they want to go into [a] pre-health field, re-

GAPSA u from Page 1

travel expenses.

But the fees committee recommended that GAPSA receive only half of its request for travel expenses, according to the committee’s final rationales, saying the request was “too extravagant.”

GAPSA Vice President of Finance Kevin Lang said the overnight trip lets GAPSA members from the University of MinnesotaT win Cities strengthen

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use comes at a time when the University is set to adopt a tobacco-free campus policy.

Golden said the President’s Policy Committee will review a draft of the proposed policy this week.

Once the PPC approves the final draft, it will be-

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come available for 30 days of public comment. The University could make changes to the policy based on feedback.

The University of St. Thomas recently approved a ban on tobacco use. Its Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses will be tobacco-

After graduation, few CBS students go to work CBS

Percentage of University students who report using tobacco by year

search, etc.”

CBS offers a one-credit class called Biology Colloquium to students who are interested in learning about their career options.

“A lot of freshmen come in thinking about med school,” associate biology professor Kathr yn Hanna said. “But a lot will change their mind. … Par t of my goal is to show them careers they’ve never heard of.”

Each year, about 150 students take the colloquium class, Hanna said, and about two-thirds of the students are in CBS. Professionals from different fields visit the class to talk about their work, Hanna said, and students take a field trip to a company.

Gorman, who took the colloquium concur rently with his internship, said the class helped him evaluate whether he wanted to continue in the field, but his other biochemistry classes don’t apply to his internship because they’re researchheavy.

“Everything we study is pretty directed to going into med school,” he said.

Kucharski said she wished her classes would teach students how to apply their research to industr y rather than just focus on the medical field or conducting basic research.

Biology senior McKenzie Fitzgerald said when she interned for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Crofton, Neb., she only

needed a basis of ecology, and she learned most skills in the field rather than in the classroom.

The career center is trying to teach students about other options by bringing in companies, Sorenson-Wagner said, but it’s up to CBS students to consider other options beyond graduate or professional schools.

Before his internship experience at Medtronic, biology junior Andrew Taylor said he was set on medical or dental school.

“Experience in industry … it’s definitely changed my mind and perspective about oppor tunities avail-

able to CBS students,” he said.

Taylor said resources that students need to find internships and careers are there if they put in extra effort to find them.

Gorman and Taylor said they used GoldPASS, a University networking database, and attended career fairs to connect with potential employers.

Hanna said students could also connect with local companies through temporar y staf fing agencies, a ser vice the University doesn’t provide.

“There’s a whole other world out there,” she said.

relationships with GAPSA representatives and students from the University’s Duluth campus.

Lang said many GAPSA members were concerned with Wilberg’s “anti-Duluth” rhetoric in regard to funding of travel expenses for the event.

W ilberg said GAPSA could have hosted the event vir tually over ITV, which the assembly currently uses to communicate with representatives from the Duluth campus during meetings.

“I felt ther e was no need to pay for [GAPSA’s

executive board] to go up there,” he said. “If they did need to go up there, I didn’t think it was unreasonable to drive there and back in the same day.”

Lang said it would be better to have an SSFC member who would offer a “positive critique” of GAPSA’s pr ogramming and didn’t oppose traveling to Duluth just because it costs more money.

“We want to be able to go out of our way to go up to Duluth once a year,” he said. “Just that one twoday meeting up there has really helped form tight

bonds with not just the executive board and assembly members up there, but the students [as well].”

Keaton Miller, a Council of Graduate Students representative to the assembly, said he thinks Wilberg’s removal was an abuse of GAPSA’s privilege to remove someone from the fees committee.

“It was ver y clear to me from the meeting that [GAPSA] removed him specifically because he questioned some of the things that they did,” he said. “It sounded retaliator y to me.”

FEW CBS STUDENTS PLAN TO EARN ONLY A BACHELOR’S DEGREE 6.4%

14.2%

Master’s degree

Professional degree (medical, dental, law, business, etc.)

Highest degree CBS graduating seniors plan to earn

21.9% Ph.D.

SOURCE: CBS DEAN’S OFFICE

— her uncle and grandfather died of lung cancer.

Although Clark said she would be happy to not smell smoke on campus anymore, she thought others wouldn’t be as happy.

“I feel bad for my friends that smoke between classes,” she said.

New York train derailment kills 4, hurts more than 60

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Bachelor’s degree

57.6%

free starting Jan. 1.

“They’ve been talking about it for quite a while,” Golden said. “It’s really nice to see St. Thomas jump in.”

Ling said she would like to see a tobacco-free campus. She said she’s “not a big fan” of smoking

NEW YORK — A New York City commuter train rounding a riverside curve derailed Sunday, killing four people and injuring more than 60 in a crash that threw some riders from toppling cars and swiftly raised questions about whether excessive speed, mechanical problems or human error could have played a role.

Some of the roughly 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan were jolted from sleep around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend in the Bronx where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. When the motion stopped, all seven cars and the locomotive had lurched off the rails, and the lead car was only inches from the water. It was the latest accident in a troubled year for the nation’s second-biggest commuter railroad, which had never experienced passenger death in an accident in its 31-year history.

Joel Zaritsky was dozing as he traveled to a dental convention aboard the train.

He woke up to feel his car overturning several times.

“Then I saw the gravel coming at me, and I heard people screaming,” he told The Associated Press, holding his bloody right hand.

“There was smoke ever ywhere and debris. People were thrown to the other side of the train.”

In their efforts to find passengers, rescuers shattered windows, searched nearby woods and waters and used pneumatic jacks and air bags to peer under wreckage. Crews planned to bring in cranes during the night to right the overturned cars on the slight chance anyone might still be underneath, National Transpor tation Safety Board member Earl Weener said.

The agency was just beginning its search into what caused the derailment, and Weener said investigators

had not yet spoken to the train conductor, who was among the injured.

Meanwhile, thousands of people braced for a complicated Monday morning commute, with shuttle buses ferr ying passengers to another line.

Investigators were due to examine factors ranging from the track condition to the crew’s per formance.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the track did not appear to be faulty, leaving speed as a possible culprit for the crash. The speed limit on the cur ve is 30 mph, compared with 70 mph in the area approaching it, Weener said.

Authorities did not yet know how fast the train was traveling but had found a data recorder, he said.

One passenger, Frank Tatulli, told WABC-TV that the train appeared to be going “a lot faster” than usual as it approached the sharp cur ve near the Spuyten Duyvil station.

Nearby residents awoke to a building-shaking boom.

Angel Gonzalez was in bed in his high-rise apartment overlooking the rail cur ve when he heard the roar.

“I thought it was a plane that crashed,” he said.

Mike Gallo heard the same noise as he was walking his dog. He looked down at the tracks, saw injured people climbing out of the train and “knew it was a tragedy right away.”

Within minutes, dozens of emergency crews arrived and carried passengers away on stretchers, some wearing neck braces. Others, bloodied and scratched, held ice packs to their heads.

The MTA identified the victims Sunday as Donna L. Smith, 54, of Newburgh; James G. Lovell, 58, of Cold Spring; James M. Ferrari, 59, of Montrose; and Ahn Kisook, 35, of Queens.

Three of the dead were found outside the train, and one was found inside, authorities said. Autopsies were scheduled for Monday, said the New York City medical examiner’s office.

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Thankful for Minneapolis Minneapolis needs to advertise all its great features for its future well-being. itting at my aunt and uncle’s Thanksgiving table Thursday, I was thinking about the many things to be thankful for this holiday season.

Urban-obsessed as I am, my mind meandered to how great living in Minneapolis is.

I forgot that to outsiders, the city might as well be a bunch of igloos. This may be true mid-January, but Minneapolis has more to offer.

The problem is that we don’t advertise our attributes well enough to impact the country’s notions of our state and its largest city.

Minnesota’s stereotype is rooted in programs like “How I Met Your Mother,” which portray a less-than-sophisticated Minnesotan attitude. The popular Minnesota Public Radio program “A Prairie Home Companion” constantly refers to Lake Wobegon as a wellknit, quaint Minnesotan community.

CHRIS IVERSON columnist

But Minneapolis is everything that a young, graduated professional would want in an urban setting.

The American Fitness Index said Minneapolis was the fittest city this year along with Bloomington and St. Paul, and Forbes Magazine declared Minneapolis the healthiest city nationwide. The City of Lakes is also well-known as one of the top biking cities in the country. Bicycling Magazine said Minneapolis was the second-best bike-friendly city last year, behind rival Portland, Ore. Minnesota has also done wonders in the post-recession period. The Twin Cities and Minnesota have unemployment rates of 4.7 and 4.8 percent, respectively — some of the lowest nationwide. Also,

Minnesota has more Fortune 500 companies per capita than any other state. With major companies and more jobs than many urban areas, the city has a lot to offer young people and recent graduates.

We can’t just let these traits speak for themselves. We must do more to advertise our awesomeness.

Our stereotype of being traditional and quaint, although not negative, is still something we should combat in order to attract outside talent.

The University of Minnesota does a great job of providing young Minnesotans, but in order to continue the city’s growth, we need more than Golden Gopher graduates to fill the job market.

Some Minneapolis officials, like R.T. Rybak, have done their best to attract young, outof-state talent.

Rybak’s recent Midwest tour to promote Minneapolis as a same-sex marriage destination garnered positive national attention, and it could bring money and young people into the city. This type of thinking needs to continue as the next round of city officials

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enters office next year.

Mayor-elect Betsy Hodges and the seven new City Council members need to build upon the city’s successes. National advertising efforts for the city and the state should attempt to capture not just the millennial population but also young families and retirees of all ages.

In my opinion, Minneapolis’ features are strong enough to bring masses to the state.

With a larger population base and a bigger, younger, educated workforce, Minneapolis will be able to thrive both fiscally and socially.

Upcoming events like the 2014 Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Minneapolis will help highlight the city’s positive traits. We should capitalize on the national attention.

Minneapolis should build upon city tours and advertising campaigns to show outof-towners that living in Minneapolis is not a bitter-cold thought.

Chris Iverson welcomes comments at civerson@mndaily.com.

SHOPPING

Holiday shopping with purpose Consumers should take advantage of services combining consumerism and charity.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR GAPSA leaders clarify COGS funding and attempts to collaborate

This letter is in response to a recent letter and coverage about the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly’s relationship with the Council of Graduate Students in the Minnesota Daily. There are two primary claims in these documents: GAPSA hasn’t collaborated with COGS, and GAPSA denied money it owed COGS. Money is given to GAPSA as a student fee to pass on to the councils of the students in the graduate and professional student body. COGS is tr ying to claim money from students represented by our program-specific councils, especially public health and education. We can’t pay councils twice. The students who meant to benefit from the pass-through dollars already received the funding through School of Public Health Student Senate and through the Graduate Students in Education and Human Development — or through smaller sets in our other councils. COGS has often and inconsistently used membership in public health and education to preclude those students’ qualification for COGS travel grants.

These are students COGS claims to represent.

COGS asked GAPSA for money from its reserve, paid by fees from both graduate and professional students, to cover the double payment they expect. The Student Ser vices Fees Committee recommended that GAPSA have a reserve. COGS wasn’t

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recommended to have a reserve, but it currently holds about the same amount as its annual budget in reserve, and that reser ve benefits only a part of GAPSA’s total population.

Our finance vice president and a board member who was previously president of the SPHSS — both graduate students — authored a resolution to potentially give them a portion of our reserve money, and the measure failed in the GAPSA assembly.

In order to help offset some of COGS’ programming funding, GAPSA offered to co-sponsor several initiatives.

In their own council, COGS members voted down GAPSA’s co-sponsorship of a graduate student teaching award and international student programming. They failed to advertise a family bowling night to GAPSA’s professional students, who also pay a fee per our agreement. Their sudden penchant for collaboration seems disingenuous and rhetorical.

Naming GAPSA’s president Brittany Edwards specifically in a previous letter suggests that she acts independently from GAPSA leadership’s input and support, which is not the case.

GAPSA council presidents asked Edwards to become GAPSA president in 2012.

Many of us were inspired to become involved in GAPSA because of Edwards’ ability to lead in a more inclusive and thoughtful way. One of Edwards’ strengths is her gift for collaboration. This was apparent in GAPSA’s recent forum, which included

regents; legislators; graduate, professional and undergraduate student leaders; and stakeholders in higher education from across Minnesota and the University of Minnesota.

COGS is now pursuing a separate fees request through general student service fees. This would bill all of our students, plus undergraduates, twice in order to get money from students COGS claims to represent, under the guise of pursuing independence. We don’t find this fiscally responsible, fair or collaborative in a time of budget cuts.

During the past three years, several University program and college councils and students under the graduate school have asked GAPSA to represent them, instead of working through COGS. This recent structural change, which COGS initiated, will allow those students to have a direct voice in University matters, which they don’t get through COGS. GAPSA is pleased to give funds and more direct representation to those students. GAPSA is also happy to reduce redundancy in administrative costs it provided COGS previously, which it would do by eliminating an assistant position earning $15,000 per year, beyond its pass-through amount, and its officer stipends, which other councils do not receive.

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i t h Black Friday madness now a fresh memor y, and only three weekends left for Christmas LUIS RUUSKA shopping, the columnist holiday season is upon us.

The National Retail Foundation expects consumers to spend $602.1 billion this season — a 3.9 percent increase from 2012. About $82 billion of that will be spent online.

While we shop for our loved ones, most consumers have causes in mind.

Communications fir m Cone found in a 2010 sur vey that nearly nine out of 10 consumers want companies to do more to suppor t causes during the holiday season.

Companies have picked up on this and developed ser vices to make it easier than ever for consumers to donate.

Socialvest, for example, allows consumers to give to charities whenever they shop at an approved retailer. These retailers will rebate anywhere from 1 to 35 percent of a purchase to the consumer’s Socialvest account, which the consumer can donate to any nonprofit organization in the countr y.

T h e w e b s i t e We - C a r e . c o m works in a similar way, of fering both a website and a plugin that donates a percentage of a consumer’s purchase to any nonprofit, school or other association.

We-Care.com also conglomerates coupon codes from across the web — like at RetailMeNot.com — for consumers, which stretches shopping dollars even further.

Although Amazon.com is nothing new, it does have a new program called AmazonSmile that allows users to select a charity to receive 0.5 percent of their eligible purchases.

Americans gave only $298.3 billion to charity in 2011, a number that pales in comparison to what we spend at retailers this time of year.

It’s unrealistic to expect most people to spend more on charity than on loved ones, but by shopping smar t and using these ser vices, consumers don’t have to choose. Plus, shopping with charities in mind is a great way to spread some holiday cheer and your dollar even further.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

Experiential learning should be required CFANS’ new policy exposes students to real-world applications of their education.

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he College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences has implemented changes to its curriculum that include relaxing credit requirements and promoting “experiential learning,” the Minnesota Daily reported last month.

Despite the possibility of a merger with the College of Biological Sciences, CFANS seems intent to further define itself as a unique college and give its students greater access to relevant and distinctive learning opportunities.

It can often be difficult for students to keep on track to graduation — fulfilling major requirements — and still have a meaningful studying abroad or internship experience. CFANS’ new policy stresses the importance of these experiences — its added flexibility to major requirements as well as the addition of 20 new classes, most of which will be interdisciplinary, will give students a broader learning experience.

Each major at the University of Minnesota is unique, and some departments necessarily have a stricter set of prerequisites. However, CFANS has recognized that incorporating internship and studying abroad experiences into required curricula can actually make students’ academic lives easier and their education more enriched. It would allow them to receive credit for an opportunity they were going to take anyway, or it would open up space in their graduation timeline for them to pursue those opportunities.

Experiential learning is becoming more common and valuable in higher education — and to future employers. By incorporating a flexible program of required experiential learning opportunities, like CFANS has, other colleges at the University can follow this example to help students find their niche in their careers and in the world.

Bridging the achievement gap New research shows how small changes in the classroom can play a big role in reducing academic disparities.

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educing the achievement gap may require specific changes to how curricula are taught — in addition to broader policy re-

forms.

Last month, the New York Times reported on a study at the University of Texas that found that quizzing college students at the beginning of each class increases both attendance and overall performance. It’s especially significant that researchers learned that academic performances improved the most among students from lowerincome backgrounds under the frequent quizzing model.

The study demonstrates how the “testing effect” can reduce the disparity in academic performance between low- and high-income students.

Frequent quizzing pushes students to keep up with readings and pay attention in class. The authors also found that the quizzes can help students improve the way they study.

Though the study was done on college students, its findings have limited usefulness in higher education, where students are solely responsible for their academic performance and should be free to attend or miss class at their own choosing.

The study’s findings are encouraging, though more research is needed to understand how widely they can be applied.

Minnesota K-12 schools, which have some of the nation’s largest achievement gaps, could stand to benefit from the testing effect. High schools, particularly those located in districts with higher rates of poverty, may want to use frequent quizzing as a way to keep students focused and attending class.

The state Legislature, as well as teachers and school administrators, should understand that reducing the achievement gap may require specific changes in the way material is taught and how knowledge is measured. Those in leadership positions should keep new and important research in mind when making reforms aimed at reducing the achievement gap.

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The splendid little War on Christmas Sarah Palin and her cohorts are profiting from the war on Christmas.

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y favorite p a r t of the holiday season is the nonsense that sur rounds the supposed “War on Christmas.” I’m always hopeful that this year’s chaos will exceed last year’s.

T h a n k f u l l y, timelier than Santa Claus, Sarah BRIAN REINKEN Palin granted my columnist seasonal wish.

Palin visited the Mall of America late last month as par t of her ongoing book tour promoting “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Hear t of Christmas.” Therein, she talks about how disturbing it is that the United States has marginalized a “traditional” holiday like Christmas.

The War on Christmas, if we’re to believe people like Palin, grows more brutal each year. However, in America, the warmongering isn’t new. In fact, it goes back to the days of colonial New England.

The John Birch Society introduced the war in its modern form in 1959 when it published a pamphlet titled “There Goes Christmas?!”

The pamphlet’s author — I promise I’m not making this up — claimed the United Nations and the communists had allied in a plot to conver t America into a nation of atheists, thus weakening the United States’ moral character and its resolve to fight in the Cold War. The first step of this conversion, naturally, was to undermine the holiday spirit in depar tment stores.

This proved such a power ful nar rative that we continue to recycle it today.

America might look a little dif ferent. It might be fighting different enemies. But that golden myth of Christmas corruption chugs along essentially unchanged.

The war has sur vived because it’s easy to believe. People like Christmas, and they hate war. People like what they know and are suspicious of what’s different or unknown. The back cover of Palin’s book is implicitly xenophobic in its condemnation of secularization.

Unfor tunately, most arguments about the war run along a similar line. Talking head Bill O’Reilly has criticized depar tment stores’ decisions to wish customers a “happy holidays” or “season’s greetings” instead of “merr y Christmas.” He echoes another conser vative figurehead, Patrick Buchanan, who once called the same phenomenon a hate crime against Christianity. Yes, he went there.

It’s the people like Buchanan who bring the War on Christmas into our living rooms. Sure, there are fringe groups who whisper about the similarities between the words “Santa” and “Satan” — as though ever yone on the planet speaks and writes in English — but these people don’t typically have the media power of Palin or O’Reilly.

That power is a crucial aspect of the War on Christmas. Palin and O’Reilly are hugely influential figures, and they know it. It’s because they have power that they’re able to sell their ideas and that people keep buying them. It’s a self-perpetuating cycle, but what’s a war without a few profiteers?

Make no mistake: Palin is making plenty of money off of her book. O’Reilly does the same on television. You can’t help but get the sense that the War is a legend a few stakeholders actively cultivate.

I’m fully convinced — well, mostly convinced — Palin recognizes the irony inherent in using a commercialized book about Christmas to talk about the overcommercialization of the holiday in today’s society.

The deeper irony, one that Palin may not realize, is that her politicization of Christmas works to destabilize the holiday in the way she most fears.

In one way, the warmongers are right.

Christmas isn’t supposed to be about Christmas trees or the “yule log.” But by arguing about how oppressive it is that society doesn’t display a tree on every street corner from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Day, Palin and the like-minded have made Christmas about commercialization.

The warmongers have made Christmas into an issue like taxation or immigration. They argue the holiday is supposed to be about religion, not shopping, but the manner in which they argue makes the holiday about something else entirely. Christmas becomes another way to criticize a political system with which Palin and her kin disagree. It becomes a tool for Palin’s version of the Kingdom of Caesar, a part of the Christmas landscape that’s as enduring as television specials and department store sales.

Ultimately, if anyone out there wants to stop the War on Christmas, the first step would be to avoid Palin’s book, which is fueling the war lobby’s rhetorical fire. Without kindling, her arguments just can’t burn.

Although I suspect Palin would disagree, it might be best to invoke the Christmas words of John Lennon and Yoko Ono: “War is over / if you want it.”

THREE MYTHS ABOUT CHRISTMAS is an inaccurate alternative 1“Xmas” to “Christmas.”

The “X” is actually in place of the Greek chi, which is the first letter of Christ’s name in Greek.

yule log is a 2The Christian symbol.

The Druids, not Christians, began the yule log tradition.

The Celts adopted yule logs to banish evil spirits.

correct stores recently coined 3Politically the phrase “happy holidays.”

The politically correct holiday-greeting alternative has actually been around for many years.

SOURCE: CHRISTIAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE, BBC, HISTORY NEWS NETWORK

Brian Reinken welcomes comments at breinken@mndaily.com.

Monday, December 2, 2013

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POLICE

Solutions for a uniform malfunction In the second part of this twopart series, I explore solutions to law enforcement’s public relations problem.

MATT HOY columnist

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wrote briefly last week about a recent negative experience I had with Minneapolis police.

Ironically, since that column, I had another incident at work, and the police were extremely helpful and competent. It was as if some form of karma had decided to nest itself in the middle of my argument.

It becomes a lot more difficult to point out widespread, institutionalized law enforcement problems when individual cops are so dissimilar to the stereotype.

Regardless of this exception, social media directed me to a number of videos on recent police brutality cases. It’s hard to get far from controversy when researching this topic.

And that’s the problem with covering police culture. For every nightmarish tale of cops in New York assaulting an innocent person of color, there is an uplifting story of an officer serving and protecting — even changing — their community.

This problem is so fraught with emotion that finding reason among the words is difficult. This only worsens with the added context of the violence, race relations and social hierarchy within the officer-citizen relationship.

With that qualification in tow, I would like to advance more cautiously than I did last week. I believe there are solutions on the end of police officers that can alleviate cop culture issues.

Minneapolis mayor-elect Betsy Hodges and two other Minneapolis City Council members have discussed one such solution. Her proposal, a body camera pilot program, would outfit 25 police officers with cameras for $25,000. This could create an unprecedented level of oversight among officers and the public.

As with every major public policy decision, there is controversy and inertia within the responsible parties. We can expect the government and the media to have privacy concerns. National Security Agency surveillance scandals polarized our countr y, so privacy concerns are bound to rear their head. But the program has a lot of potential.

When thinking about law enforcement controversy, racial profiling and police brutality are top of mind. While cameras will not cure these underlying problems, ensuring punishment or greater oversight for officers who act unethically could go a long way toward dissolving these issues.

If my premise that police need to rede-

fine the way they interact and communicate is true, such a measure could be the first step toward a vastly improved public relations message.

The motif of the stone-cold officer is so per vasive that its use as an interrogation tactic has become one of modern storytelling’s most common tropes. But that same veneer has come to represent the tension between officers and the public. Ultimately, the police exist to ser ve and protect common people. This duty is distant from the discourse between officers and the public.

Cameras wouldn’t necessarily fix that.

To repair the damage already done to law enforcement and the public’s relationship, there needs to be a new approach to public outreach.

Giving people opportunities to meet and talk with officers in non-hostile environments could yield huge benefits.

More broadly, police could make our relationship less adversarial by giving out fewer tickets and having more conversations with the public. Anything police can do to humanize the uniform would help alleviate tension.

After the recent string of major crimes on and around the University of Minnesota campus, I know I would feel safer if we had a more pronounced, warmer police presence.

In a twisted way, some in the University community now see law enforcement as part of the crime problem because of Minneapolis police’s perceived unresponsiveness. It’s crazy. As members of the University community, we may feel vulnerable because our campus seems to be the target of a progressively higher number of brazen crimes.

It doesn’t help that we all received texts last month alerting us to “shelter in place” because of an alleged armed robber y in Anderson Hall. I don’t mean to say I am ungrateful for the alerts — I mean quite the opposite. However, the alert served as reminder of campus security issues.

The police response has been less than some in the University community need. A student petition for increased police coverage is making the rounds on Facebook. We feel that police are abandoning, ignoring or not listening to us, so we’re reaching out to our peers online to help out.

This request should not be interpreted as implicit support of police. The petition’s supporters and sharers have anger or animosity in their posts. It’s apparent some people feel as if their interests do not matter to the institution that is supposed to protect them. They feel like this should have been taken care of long ago. And most of all, they feel as if they shouldn’t have had to post a petition online.

We can mend this relationship. It can start with small, common-sense changes.

The proposed body camera program would help lessen negative police interaction. We also need more dedicated patrolling officers whose job is community outreach-focused and not necessarily ticket-focused. Safety is a communal effort, but it’s only when we have a positive relationship between police and the public that we can work together.

Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA

When are conversations private?

Social media allow others to publish our private words and actions online.

TRENT M. KAYS columnist

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n Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Hester Pr ynne has an af fair and births a child. As a result, she must wear a large red “A” on her clothing so that all will know of her adultery. Hawthorne’s work is an excellent commentar y on the role of shaming in society.

In “The Scarlet Letter,” a community comes together to shame a woman for her non-normative behavior. Today, social media does the same thing at lightning speed for a global audience.

On Thanksgiving, “The Bachelor” producer Elan Gale live-tweeted a war of words between him and an airline passenger named Diane.

Gale felt inspired to initiate the passive-

aggressive debate because a flight delay exasperated Diane.

The conversation made national headlines — from publications of the Huffington Post to the U.K. newspaper The Daily Mail.

Gale tweeted out every message he sent Diane and showed the responses he received. Gale’s behavior toward Diane was far from polite.

Gale’s act of shaming Diane is problematic. Did Gale have the right to tweet what he heard and saw on an airplane to his more than 160,000 followers?

I would say he did. There is no expectation of privacy on an airplane, and if Diane was being obnoxious, Gale could share what he heard.

However, Gale’s actions cloud any potential for understanding this event positively. Instead, Gale’s actions teach us that prigs can have the loudest mouths.

Social media shaming and the dilemma of public versus private continue to codify public behavior.

Despite the perceived justice Gale ser ved through his tweets, social media’s prevalence shouldn’t mean more public shaming.

In many ways, it is a classic computermediated communication problem: Some social media users forget that real humans exist and that those real humans communicate with other real humans via a network.

If the person isn’t in front of us, we often have trouble empathizing with them.

Even children aren’t immune from social media shaming.

Early in November, a mother discovered a Facebook group that existed solely for the purpose of posting pictures of ugly babies.

Adults posted comments on pictures of infants, chastising children for being ugly.

Babies have no control over their appearance, and adults should know better than to deride the helpless.

This means there are some people so degraded that they consider mocking a baby an acceptable behavior. These people clearly have the right to free speech; however, even if we choose to shame people unable to feel offense, our actions can still hurt others. Some, like the media and parenting blogs, for example, retaliated against the Facebook group.

Once again, these acts took place in a public space, and thus, the baby-shaming adults’ speech is worthy of critique. They are entitled to free speech, but those who would call out their behavior are equally entitled.

Still, I struggle to understand how any person could make fun of an innocent child.

It almost pains me to know that such people exist and took pleasure in their acts.

Of course, we see the public nature of some conversation as a good thing, even if conversing may have a shaming effect.

In October, former Huffington Post reporter Tom Matzzie tweeted a phone conversation he heard former NSA Director Michael Hayden having on a train. Instead of criticizing his actions, readers and commenters praised them. Is it OK because Matzzie gave a Hayden a taste of his own

medicine? Would it have been OK if it were someone who wasn’t a public figure?

The dichotomy of public versus private is a tired subject. Gale’s shaming of Diane, social media users’ shaming of ugly babies and Matzzie’s potential shaming of Hayden all happened in public social media spaces, yet some still argue that we should respect each other’s privacy. Why? When did we star t accepting the privacy of conversation in public? If you wish to have an exclusively private conversation these days, you shouldn’t converse in a public space.

I doubt that true privacy actually exists. The act of shaming transcends the public-private binar y. For example, even our intimate conversations between family members in public spaces could lead to shaming. However, like the cases in this column, shaming in public often occurs between people who don’t know each other. As with the case of “The Scarlet Letter,” public shaming is problematic and powerful. With social media in our hands, we have the power to shame each other in unethical ways.

Just like Hester Prynne, Diane and others don’t always deserve to be singled out for their behavior. Instead, we should understand how social media can limit our empathy, and we should choose not to publically shame others.

Trent M. Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.

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Monday, December 2, 2013

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Gophers stumble in season finale SCORING SUMMARY

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com MSU 14, Minnesota 3 Saturday, Nov. 30 East Lansing, Mich.

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Michigan State’s defense was highly touted entering Saturday’s matchup, but its offense looked impressive early on. The Spartans (11-1, 8-0 Big Ten) drove 80 yards on just seven plays on their first drive, which culminated in a touchdown.

Still, Michigan State’s defense ended up making the plays necessary to beat the Gophers (8-4, 4-4 Big Ten). Minnesota running back David Cobb rushed for 100-plus yards for the sixth time this season, but the Gophers passed for only 125 yards and threw two interceptions in the 14-3 loss.

IT WAS OVER WHEN: The Gophers failed to gain any yards in a must-convert situation on their own 20-yard line with three minutes left. Minnesota redshirt freshman quarterback Mitch Leidner threw an incomplete pass to freshman receiver Donovahn Jones, and the Gophers turned the ball over on downs.

KEY PLAY The Gophers drove down to Michigan State’s 11-yard line, trailing by 11 points in the fourth quarter and knocking on the door to score. Then Michigan State defensive lineman Shilique Calhoun sacked Leidner and forced a fumble that the Spartans recovered.

FIVE OBSERVATIONS 1. Minnesota misses its veteran receivers.

In a game ripe with “what-ifs,” it’s hard not to think about “what could have been” had the Gophers not lost nearly their whole receiving corps from last year. A.J. Barker, Devin Crawford-Tufts and Andre McDonald all left the program in the past 13 months. And Derrick Engel, Minnesota’s leading receiver in 2013, is out for the season after injuring his knee in practice two weeks ago.

2. The Gophers’ freshman receivers are improving.

While they went up against a stingy defense, Drew Wolitarsky and Jones showed flashes in Saturday’s game, catching three passes each for a combined 103 yards.

3. Minnesota’s defense is legit.

In consecutive weeks, the Gophers held two ranked opponents in check on the defensive side of the ball, allowing only 34 points total.

4. Minnesota’s offense is out of whack.

The Gophers’ offense hasn’t scored a touchdown since the first half against Penn State on Nov. 9.

5. The Gophers’ bowl prospects have taken a hit.

Minnesota was still in contention for the Rose Bowl heading into last week’s game against Wisconsin.

Now the Gophers might end up with the same postseason game — the Texas Bowl — they played in last year, despite drastic improvement.

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Minnesota limited the Spartans in the game but couldn’t score on offense.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

EAST LANSING, Mich.

— Ra’Shede Hageman was visibly disappointed after the Gophers’ 14-3 loss to Michigan State on Saturday.

Hageman hung his head and tightly grasped the straps of his backpack as reporters filled the space around him after the game.

“I definitely didn’t want to go out [with a loss],” Hageman said of his last Big Ten game.

His defense had just capped another impressive performance, but for the second week in a row, it had a loss to show for its effort.

Minnesota’s of fense struggled for the second consecutive week in the game against the Spartans, leaving Hageman contemplating how he could have made a bigger impact in the game. “‘Should I have picked that ball up [and tried to score]?’” he said in reference to his fumble recovery in the game.

“I feel like the defense had … to contribute to scoring.”

That feeling has been magnified lately. The Gophers haven’t scored a touchdown on offense in the last 10 quarters.

Still, Hageman shouldered a lot of the blame after the loss to the Spartans.

“It’s up to the defense to make plays,” he said. “It’s all about making plays.”

The Gophers’ defense forced a pair of turnovers in the game but never had the full support of the offense.

Minnesota limited Michigan State to 324 yards of total offense, but its own offensive unit never got into a groove against a stout Spartans defense.

The Gophers amassed just 249 yards of total offense, but junior running back Da-

We definitely have a lot of work to do [offensively]. We can’t leave our defense VOLLEYBALL on the field like that.

I felt like the defense played great. We have to come up with more points.

vid Cobb did his part, finishing with 101 yards against the No. 1 rushing defense in the nation.

“We moved the ball,” said head coach Jerry Kill. “We just didn’t finish drives. … We just need to make a few more plays.”

Cobb said the offense has to improve its efficiency in the red zone.

The Gophers got inside the opposing 20-yard line three times in Saturday’s game and had only a field goal to show for it.

“We can’t leave our defense on the field like that,” Cobb said. “I feel like the defense played great, and we have to come up with more points.”

The Spartans scored twice — once at the start of the game and again at the beginning of the second half. That proved to be the difference.

While the Gophers have lost the last two games, Kill said he’s been satisfied with the physicality his team has showcased in both losses.

Minnesota showed more fight against Wisconsin a week ago and Michigan State this weekend than it has in recent memory. It only lost to those two teams by a combined 24 points after losing by a combined 36 points in 2011 and 41 points in 2012.

“We showed that we’re a physical football team that can play against any style of offense,” junior cornerback Derrick Wells said of the last two weeks.

There has been a noticeable shift this season — a shift Hageman said happened after a tough loss to Michigan at the start of the Big Ten schedule.

The team came together after that loss and “kind of caught a groove,” he said.

“We went on that fourgame winning streak,” Hageman said, “[and] we identified who we were.”

That fueled the team down the stretch, and it won four of its last six games.

Amid the moral victories of the last two weeks, the

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota defensive lineman Ra’Shede Hageman moves to tackle an Iowa player Sept. 28 at TCF Bank Stadium.

BIG TEN STANDINGS Legends Division Team

Conference Record 8-0 5-3 5-3 4-4 3-5 1-7

Michigan State Iowa Nebraska Minnesota Michigan Northwestern

Overall

% Record % 1.000 11-1 .917 .625 8-4 .667 .625 8-4 .667 .500 8-4 .667 .375 7-5 .583 .125 5-7 .417

Leaders Division Team

Conference Record 8-0 6-2 4-4 3-5 1-7 0-8

Ohio State Wisconsin Penn State Indiana Illinois Purdue

Overall

% Record % 1.000 12-0 1.000 .750 9-3 .750 .500 7-5 .583 .375 5-7 .417 .125 4-8 .333 .000 1-11 .083

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games have also showed that this team still has room to grow. That growth will come over the next month in preparation for a bowl game for the second year in a row.

“We’re definitely excited about going to a bowl game, but we’re not satisfied with losing to Wisconsin or Michigan State,” Cobb said, “because we felt like we had oppor tunities to win both games.”

While frustrated that his final Big Ten game ended with a loss, Hageman took solace in the fact that it

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota running back David Cobb protects the ball from Western Illinois on Sept. 14 at TCF Bank Stadium.

wasn’t the last game of his career.

“If we weren’t bowl-eligible, the season would really be over, so the fact that we have another game to prepare for is always a good feeling,” he said.

Kill has said all season that this team has come along faster than even he expected. He said it again Sat-

urday and gave all the credit to his players.

“We gave a great effort and came up short and we feel bad about that … but we know we’re still playing,” Kill said. “There’s still an opportunity to accomplish a lot this season.”

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Minnesota caps regular season with win

Junior running back David Cobb TWEET OF THE GAME

“That was disappointing… but I like the direction of the #Gophers program. Losing … to a top 15 team by 11 instead of 55-0 is progress.” @meeliel5 UP NEXT A bowl game, but the Gophers won’t know where they’re headed until after next weekend. The Gator Bowl appears to be within reach, but Minnesota could be in the Texas Bowl for the second straight season despite winning two more games in 2013.

The Gophers will battle Radford in the first round of the NCAA tourney.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

The Gophers finished out their regular-season schedule on point, sweeping No. 18 Illinois on the road.

Minnesota used an 8-0 run to start the match, and rode that early momentum until the end.

“I think our athletes came in ready to play,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said.

“They were engaged in terms of the plan, and they just executed.”

Eleven attack errors from Illinois aided the Gophers’ first-set win.

“I don’t think you have to worry about perfection [in volleyball],” McCutcheon said of the Illini’s errors, “but I do think you have to worry about being good. It’s tough to be good when you’re making errors.”

While Illinois’ offensive attack was far from perfect, Minnesota was nearly perfect defensively, totaling 14.5 team blocks.

“We kind of are able to

read the game a little better and a little faster, which equals more hands in the front of the hitter,” senior middle blocker Tori Dixon said, adding that the coaching staff put together a good scouting report.

But it wasn’t just the blocking defense that led the Gophers — it was also their floor defense.

Sophomore outside hitter Daly Santana, who led the team with 15 digs, recorded double-digit digs for the second straight match. “[The difference is] when we get to study the team really well and their tendencies,” Santana said. “That’s helped me a lot to get into the right places and just dig the ball.”

Sophomore libero Lindsey Lawmaster also stepped up in the contest.

Lawmaster was fresh off a career-high 21-dig performance in her team’s fourset win over Wisconsin on Wednesday, and she continued her dominance against Illinois.

McCutcheon said he’s been happy with her improvement in recent weeks.

And having won the last four matches in a row, the whole team seems to have improved its game.

“All four teams that we’ve played are really good teams

VOLLEYBALL RESULTS

Minnesota Illinois

1 2 3 FINAL 25 25 27 3 10 19 25 0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

and will compete with us,” Dixon said. “I think it’s just really good that we were able to play our game against them.”

Dixon said she feels confident that Minnesota will make a big splash in the NCAA tournament.

“We’ve gotten a lot better at managing the game,” she said, “not making so many unforced errors and relying on our defense and our block to win us some points. … That’s good heading into the tournament.”

Though the Gophers have been on fire lately, players said they’d like the advantage of hosting the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament.

“It would be great to have it at home,” Santana said.

“Hopefully we’ll have the privilege of it.”

NCAA selection results

Minnesota was placed No. 10 in the Lexington region of the NCAA tournament. The Gophers will host Radford on Friday night at the Sports

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Minnesota outside hitter Daly Santana hits the ball Wednesday night against Indiana at the Sports Pavilion.

Pavilion.

If they win, the Gophers will take on either Colorado or Iowa State on Saturday night at the Sports Pavilion.

“This is what you work so hard for … to get to the NCAA tournament and to hopefully make a good run,” McCutcheon said.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers sweep Big Ten opener WITH SAM GORDON

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CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Gophers forward Seth Ambroz skates against Wisconsin on Saturday at Mariucci Arena. Ambroz scored the game-winning goal, and Minnesota won 4-3.

Hockey u from Page 1

“He’s going to score some goals by getting around the net and the blue paint,” head coach Don Lucia said, noting the overall improvements Ambroz has made since last season.

“We’re playing him a lot of minutes [this year].”

Lucia said he stressed to his team the importance of opening up the conference slate with a win.

Ambroz and the rest of his line apparently got the message and accounted for half the goals in the series. “[They were a] big reason we were able to get two wins,” Lucia said.

In the series opener Friday night, the third line accounted for two goals in a

4-1 win. Lucia rewarded the trio with the start Saturday.

Gophers junior captain Kyle Rau said the third line deser ved to start Saturday and said its play was essential.

“There are some studs on that line,” Rau said. “It’s not like they’re a third line.

They could be a first line for some other teams.”

The Gophers went down early in Saturday night’s 4-3 win but were able to respond in the face of adversity each time.

Wisconsin took an early lead less than five minutes into the game, but Minnesota was quick to answer with a game-tying goal less than a minute later.

The Badgers retook the lead at the end of the first period, but Ambroz tied it with his third goal of the

weekend late in the second frame.

“There are only six teams [in the Big Ten] right now.

They’re all good teams. There’s some depth in the league. … [So] every point counts now.”

SETH AMBROZ junior forward

In the third period, both teams traded goals before Ambroz lifted his team to the win with a “dirty goal” in the crease.

Ambroz got most of the glory this weekend, but he

credited his linemates for putting him in the right positions. “[We’ve] been working hard, causing tur novers and mucking it up,” he said.

“I was just lucky enough to get the goals.”

Minnesota was slotted to finish second behind Wisconsin in the Big Ten preseason poll, but after the first series in the new conference, the Gophers are the team to beat.

Lucia said the series served as a good test for his team early in the Big Ten season.

“It was a good weekend for us,” he said. “There’s a reason they were favored to win the league.”

Still, the Gophers said they understand many games are left in the conference and are happy to take

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY Wisconsin Minnesota

1 1 2

2 0 0

3 0 2

FINAL 1 4

3 1 2

FINAL 3 4

SATURDAY Wisconsin Minnesota

1 2 1

2 0 1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

points away from the rivalry matchup.

“Ther e ar e only six teams [in the Big Ten] right now,” Ambroz said.

“They’re all good teams.

There’s some depth in the league. … [So] every point counts now.”

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Minnesota dominates series with Princeton The Gophers fired WOMEN’S HOCKEY 101 shots on goal RESULTS over the weekend SATURDAY en route to a sweep.

1 2 3 FINAL

BY DAVID NELSON AND BETSY HELFAND dnelson@mndaily.com bhelfand@mndaily.com

Minnesota head coach Brad Frost has had the oppor tunity to play with his line combinations the past couple of weekends.

So far, so good.

The Gophers swept Princeton this weekend with 6-0 and 9-1 victories.

The new lines created plenty of scoring opportunities, and Minnesota capitalized throughout the series. The Gophers fired 101 shots on goal in just two games.

“You could tell the momentum was in our favor,” Frost said. “The kids were up on their toes, and that was a huge start for us tonight.”

While the Gophers star ted slowly Saturday, they jumped ahead early Sunday with goals from senior Sarah Davis and junior Meghan Lorence.

It took less than four and a half minutes for the Gophers to put multiple goals on the board Sunday against Princeton.

The four-goal flur r y in the first period helped Minnesota rout the Tigers in the final game of the sweep.

“We didn’t play our best in the first period yesterday,” Davis said, “so we re-

Princeton Minnesota

0 1

0 3

0 2

0 6

3 0 3

FINAL 1 9

SUNDAY Princeton Minnesota

1 0 4

2 1 2

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

ally wanted to make a statement today, and I think we did that.”

Because the team was up by so many goals, it could have coasted. But the Gophers remained aggressive, crashing the net and firing shots at Princeton goaltender Kimberly Newell.

“That’s kind of what we’re trying to get with our lines,” Frost said. “I thought all four of our lines tonight and last night … were huge.”

Princeton battled back and put its first goal on the board with less than eight minutes left in the second period, but Minnesota was too much for the Tigers to contain.

Nine dif ferent players scored for the Gophers as part of a balanced scoring attack Sunday.

“It’s so hard to shut down more than one line, and if a team has two, it makes it hard. But if you have three, it’s even worse,” Frost said.

The Gophers got big games Sunday from Davis and sophomore Hannah Brandt, who combined to

JULIET FARMER, DAILY

Gophers forward Sarah Davis controls the puck against Princeton on Sunday at Ridder Arena.

score two goals and tally four assists.

“We’re always talking about getting to the net [and] getting shots on net,” Brandt said Sunday.

On Saturday, it took a while for Minnesota’s offense to get going, but once it did it was hard to

stop.

Gophers freshman forward Dani Cameranesi started and finished Minnesota’s scoring with first- and third-period goals.

In between, senior forwards Bethany Brausen, Davis and Kelly Terr y and sophomore Brandt scored.

Cameranesi led the Gophers of fensively, taking seven shots and recording an assist in addition to the two goals.

The Gophers now sit at 6-0 in nonconference play and will return to conference play next weekend against Ohio State.

ow the waiting game begins.

The Gophers closed out their regular season Saturday with a 14-3 loss to No. 10 Michigan State.

The Spar tans will continue on to play No. 2 Ohio State on Saturday for the Big Ten title before bowl matchups are announced.

Some projections pit Minnesota against Texas Tech in a rematch of last year’s Texas Bowl, which followed a mediocre 6-6 Gophers season.

This possible repeat matchup is hardly indicative of the progress the Gophers have made this season.

Other projections are slating a possible matchup with Kansas State or Boston College, but either way, what’s the significance of a repeat appearance in the same second-tier bowl game?

The Gophers were whipping boys in the Big Ten last year. This year, they were competitive in all but one conference game and doubled their Big Ten win total.

This year’s squad is superior to last year’s in ever y way, shape and form.

And they’re going to be rewarded with the same bowl game?

Last season, playing postseason football was a victor y. This season, it was an expectation.

The Gophers had eight tangible victories this season, including four in the Big Ten. They beat a ranked Nebraska team for the first time in 50 years, an achievement far more meaningful than any bowl game the Gophers could be invited to at season’s end.

A shift in the football culture and dynamic on campus is a much bigger victor y, and winning four consecutive Big Ten games for the first time in 40 years says far more about this season than winning a bowl game ever could.

While some Minnesota fans may relish the limelight of the “Texas Bowl,” the truth is that most bowl games are glorified exhibitions created by television networks and sponsors in an ef for t to make an extra buck.

There’s little to no merit in most of the 35 bowl games — mediocre 6-6 teams from around the countr y routinely qualify for postseason play.

Ther e wer e about 20,000 empty seats in Reliant Stadium in last year’s Texas Bowl, and there’s almost sure to be plenty of room in the stands at this year’s game.

That’s not to say there isn’t value in a postseason game — the value is just not in the game itself.

The bowl game is important for the Gophers because it allows 15 additional practices, which are valuable in the context of rebuilding a program.

It’s also a chance for the squad to end its season on a positive note in the lap of luxur y.

But even so, what this team has accomplished this season is already more impressive than beating an average Big 12 team in a bowl it has already played in.

Ya feel me?

Sam Gordon welcomes comments at sgordon@mndaily.com or on Twitter.

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WRESTLING

Gophers beat Oregon St.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Banham catches fire in paradise The Gophers made the trek to Hawaii and left with two wins in three games.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Scott Schiller wrestles against Hofstra’s Victor Pozsonyi in the 197-pound class Nov. 9, 2012, at the Sports Pavilion.

Scott Schiller beat the No. 1 ranked 197-pounder in the nation Saturday.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Redshirt freshman Sam Brancale won his first dual match and redshir t junior Scott Schiller defeated the nation’s top-ranked 197-pound wrestler, as the No. 2 Gophers defeated No. 18 Oregon State 28-12 on Saturday in Cor vallis, Ore. The Gophers won eight of 10 matches in the dual — a year after squeaking past the Beavers with an over time decision in the final match.

“We just started out on a really good note,” head as-

sistant coach Brandon Eggum said. “Right now, they’re all competing very well.”

“We wrestled well as a team. It just shows that our team’s made a lot of improvement over the last year.”

LOGAN STORLEY junior

Brancale (125 pounds) opened the match with a 10-1 major decision against Oregon State’s Pat Rollins.

Brancale had lost matches the weekend before against wrestlers from Purdue and Wyoming, but he dominated Saturday.

“He just looked ver y confident out there,” Egg-

um said. “It was a good step for him.”

The Gophers built a 14-0 lead after wins by Brancale, David Thorn (133), Chris Dardanes (141) and Nick Dardanes (149), but Oregon State came back with pins at 157 and 165 pounds.

Oregon State’s RJ Pena (157) pinned Brandon Kingsley four minutes into their match. Kingsley, a redshirt freshman, filled in for redshir t junior Dylan Ness, who was out sick.

Oregon State’s Alex Elder (165) pinned redshirt senior Danny Zilverberg at 6:58, trimming Minnesota’s lead to two.

Gophers junior Logan Storley extended the lead to five with a 12-7 decision at 174 pounds. Redshir t freshman Brett Pfarr gave Minnesota a 22-12 lead with a technical fall at 184, and

WRESTLING RESULTS

Minnesota Oregon State

Rachel Banham is one of the top players in the country, but earlier this year, she wasn’t even her team’s leading scorer.

That changed after a weekend in paradise.

Banham was red-hot as the Gophers went 2-1 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Rainbow Wahine Showdown in Honolulu over Thanksgiving break.

She trailed redshir t freshman center Amanda Zahui B. for the team lead in points per game early this season, but she is now averaging more than 20 points per contest.

Before the season started, Banham said she was going to focus on distributing more.

But Banham heated up her scoring game when Minnesota (7-2) traveled to Hawaii.

She shot about 89 percent from three-point range in the Gophers’ first two contests for a combined 61 points.

Banham tallied 36 points against Chattanooga — just three points off her career high — and Minnesota needed every one of them in the

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RESULTS

Chattanooga Minnesota

FINAL 62 63

Colorado State Minnesota

FINAL 55 79

Minnesota Hawai’i

FINAL 71 77

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

63-62 win. Zahui B. scored only two points in that game but reeled in 13 rebounds.

Sophomore Kayla Hirt helped Banham in a 79-55 win in the second game in Hawaii. Hirt scored 16 points to complement 25 points from Banham.

Banham did her par t again late Sunday night with 24 points, but the Gophers lost to tournament host Hawaii 77-71 in overtime.

Banham hit a three-pointer that gave Minnesota a three-point lead with 4.6 seconds left in the game.

But the Warriors tied the game seconds later with a bank-in three-pointer to force overtime.

The Gophers scored just five points in the overtime session.

After a busy week, Minnesota doesn’t play again until its matchup with Miami on Thursday for the annual Big Ten/ACC Challenge.

SCORE 28 12

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Schiller followed with a win at 197 against No. 1 Taylor Meeks.

Schiller had wrestled Meeks three times before Saturday’s dual, losing all three matches. But he won in overtime Saturday, giving the Gophers a 25-12 lead in the dual.

“It shows that I’m improving,” Schiller said, “working on my positions and getting better at the positions I need.”

Redshir t senior heavyweight Tony Nelson capped the dual with a 6-0 decision.

Nelson won an overtime decision with the score tied 18-18 against Oregon State last season at the Sports Pavilion, but the Gophers had a more comfortable margin Saturday.

“We wrestled well as a team,” Storley said. “It just shows that our team’s made a lot of improvement over the last year.”

The Gophers will wrestle No. 3 Oklahoma State on Sunday in Stillwater, Okla.

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

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Minnesota guard Rachel Banham looks to pass against Purdue on Feb. 24 at Williams Arena.

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ACROSS 1 Mooing critter 4 Ancient region surrounding Athens 10 Reagan era mil. program 13 Disgusted grunts 15 Resident of Tibet’s capital 16 Muscle spasm 17 Illegal activity admitted by Lance Armstrong in January 2013 19 Writer for whom the Edgar award is named 20 Not sacred 21 Secret matters 23 Baba who stole from thieves 24 Singer with Crosby, Stills & Nash 27 Glass container 29 Actress Cannon 30 Peter Fonda’s title beekeeper 31 Opposed (to) 34 Hurts with a tusk 37 ESPN show with an “Inside Pitch” segment 42 Willem of “Platoon” 43 100-lawmakers group 44 “Peter Pan” pirate 47 Hang around 49 Pretoria’s land: Abbr.

50 Trousseau holder 53 Stomach-punch response 55 Start of the line that includes “wherefore art thou” 56 Female star 60 Comfy room 61 Volcanic Hawaiian landmark, and a hint to the first word of 17-, 24-, 37- and 50Across 64 Night’s opposite 65 __ Pie: ice cream treat 66 Reached base in a cloud of dust 67 “Tasty!”

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DOWN 1 Baby bears 2 Look at lasciviously 3 “So what?”

4 Alan of “M*A*S*H” 5 Like rosebushes 6 Pub spigot 7 “Woe __”: Patricia T. O’Conner grammar book 8 Gondolier’s “street” 9 Hopping mad 10 One of Minn.’s Twin Cities 11 Singer Warwick 12 Frigid historic period 14 Aretha’s genre 18 551, at the Forum 22 Dad’s nephew 25 Aerie hatchlings 26 Playing an extra NBA period, say 27 Quick blow 28 Gardner once married to Sinatra 29 Refusing to listen 32 Use, as a coupon 33 Entrepreneuraiding org.

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51 Formally gives up 52 Raise, as a sail 53 Old fort near Monterey 54 Sounds of wonder 57 Grandson of Adam 58 Depilatory brand 59 Hot tub swirl 62 Alias letters 63 Former Russian space station

dr. date Dr. Date,

When I came here for my exchange, I was hoping to meet new people, see some snow and take a class that wasn’t offered back home. I’ve currently accomplished two out of the three, but things haven’t exactly been conducive to actually getting to know people.

Yes, I’ve casually met a few people, but because the majority of those in my classes are seniors and other people with massive time commitments outside of school (medical students, woohoo), I have yet to find more than one or two whom I’ve seen outside of class.

One of them is a lady who I find incredibly attractive, with tremendous intellect, conversational skills and athletic prowess. However, she only introduced herself to me recently, and while I’m interested in getting to know her better, the semester is almost over, and when it ends, I’ll have to leave.

Do you think it’s appropriate to try to advance our relationship — say, going out with her for coffee — or should I just focus on finishing out the semester and going home?

—Stranger In A Strange Land

Greener Grass,

Hmm. Well, that depends on what you’re looking for. Would you be comfortable with a few coffee dates, a possible roll in the hay and a kiss good-bye, for what could be forever?

Relationships are really the same wherever you go, though I understand the impulse to date or sleep with someone from across the seas just to, well, see.

I’ve met people while traveling abroad, and I’ve met people who were traveling. It’s amazing if you’re looking for a hookup, because it’s inherently no-strings-attached. But if there’s an actual connection, the separation can be devastating. It’s all about where

you’re at and what you’re looking for.

Is there a possibility that you’ll come back in the next few months? If so, forging a relationship would make more sense. If not, I’d take a few days to think hard about the possible outcomes.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

When I was home for Thanksgiving break, I saw my ex for the first time in more than three years. I broke up with him before college because I figured I’d meet more mature guys. But now that my senior year is half over, I’ve realized I had it pretty great when we were together. I’ve missed him a lot, and seeing him again made me realize I want him back.

Should I go for it?

—Last Chance

Take Back The Towel,

What a coincidence! Three years is just enough time to forget everything that drove you crazy about your ex when you were together. I hate to break it to you, but I doubt much of that has changed. Sooner or later, you’ll both dig up the old dirt and, once again, get stuck in the mud.

It’s too early to throw in the towel.

You’re a senior in college, not a senior in a retirement home (no offense, old people). I know it feels like the sands of time are slipping from your diplomawielding hands, but they’re not.

Settling for something that didn’t work out in the past will lead to a lifetime of regret. Trust me. I spent two years going back and forth with an ex and missed out on a lot of opportunities for growth. The only thing I got out of it was having my heart broken 10 times in a row.

If the food didn’t taste good when you ordered it, there’s no point in bringing home the leftovers. Take this time to explore who you are and what you want from life.

—Dr. Date

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

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group looks to MSA grapples with Student help first-year commuters student turnover

BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com

When a national nonprofit offered University of Minnesota sophomore Olive Martin a job, she knew she had to make a decision.

“I go to school, work at the [Recreation and Wellness Center] and am involved with the Minnesota Student Association,” she said. “Something had to give.”

Martin currently serves as MSA’s student outreach and engagement director, but she elected to step down from her position at the end of the semester and take the new job.

Like Martin, many MSA members leave student gover nment because of graduation, study abroad trips, new jobs or time constraints. This turnover affects MSA’s ability to tackle long-term goals, especially legislative advocacy.

MSA President Mike Schmit said high turnover rates hinder MSA members’ ability to maintain relationships with leaders on campus and at the Capitol, slowing MSA’s ability to achieve its goals.

“You have to establish a relationship with an administrator or state legislator before you can start working to make a change,” he said. “That process can really impede our ability to get the ball rolling on issues early in the school year and maintain a consistent effort in regards to some longterm initiatives.”

Martin took her post as student outreach engagement director this fall. She said it took a lot of time this semester to build necessary relationships with other student group leaders, and her successor will go through the same process next semester, which will slow his or her work.

“The sooner you begin to build relationships, the better,” she said.

MSA adviser Megan Sweet said transition periods can have a significant impact on groups’ success, but Sweet also said groups can combat adverse effects by preparing for transitions and keeping an organizational history.

“How an organization handles transition is the No. 1 indicator of how successful they will be when tur nover happens,” she said.

Schmit said tur nover impacts MSA’s ef for ts to address issues like the achievement gap and college affordability because it’s dif ficult to maintain a consistent message and keep members passionate about an issue when faces and roles change.

“For an organization that operates on a one-year cycle and experiences significant membership turnover like MSA, it’s natural to question how we can respond to something that’s going to take years to change,” he said. “It’s a challenge we’ve always been faced with.”

Schmit said tur nover can also af fect MSA projects that spill over from one year to the next, like the group’s Renter’s Survey.

Reorganizing the survey was once a top priority for MSA, Schmit said, but it’s taken a backseat because some students leading the project have left.

Though turnover presents its share of challenges for MSA, Schmit said, it also brings in new voices every year. He said MSA must balance new perspectives with existing ones.

“With new people coming into the organization every year, we have a tremendous oppor tunity to hear new ideas,” he said. “But it’s also important we’re doing our best to continue to work on things already going on.”

MSA recently added a general membership option and created the freshman internship program.

Sweet said these initiatives show the association’s effor ts to engage younger students so they gain experience and get ready to

fill MSA leadership roles in the future.

Sweet said earlier engagement makes for smoother transitions and more consistency in longterm initiatives.

“Turnover does have the potential to present some challenges when it comes to continuity and projects that take more than one academic year,” she said.

“But [MSA is] taking some great steps to … help ease [younger students’] transition into new positions in the future and support longer-term goals.”

Despite the potential obstacles, MSA freshman intern Chris Ceglia said he’ll make an effort to stay in the group for all four years that he is at the University of Minnesota.

Ceglia said that because he’s interested in long-term projects like advocacy for open-source textbooks at the Capitol, it’s important for him to stay in MSA as long as possible and help it maintain a consistent message and strategy.

“How an organization handles transition is the No. 1 indicator of how successful they will be when turnover happens.”

MEGAN SWEET MSA adviser

“In my time with MSA so far, I’ve really been educated on the big picture,” he said. “It’s shown me the benefits of being involved for the long haul.”

Because there will always be membership turnover in MSA, Schmit said, members need to accept its effects and make the most of the situation.

“Turnover will never go away for a college organization like MSA,” he said.

“But we’re always looking to continue to negate the impact it has on how we operate now and over the course of several years.”

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

Freshman Thuylinh Vuong spends an hour on the bus to get to the University of Minnesota every day.

Then she spends an hour getting back.

Vuong, who’s studying nursing, said commuting has improved her organizational skills but also presents some challenges.

“Considering you’re in college and not really knowing where you can go or who you can talk to is kind of tough,” she said.

It can be dif ficult for freshmen who commute to meet people and find resources at the University.

But the student group Commuter Connection is piloting a new program this fall that aims to help freshman commuters overcome these barriers.

The group, Gopher Hall, is in its first year. It aims to ser ve as a community in the way that a University residence hall does, but it’s hosted on a Facebook page. Three University upperclassmen with experience as commuters ser ve as community advisers for group members.

The advisers use the page to shar e campus events and resources. In the future, they hope to hold one-on-one meetings with freshman commuters to check in and offer advice.

Genetics senior Leah VandenBosch, an adviser to the group, said she’s noticed that commuter students who don’t get involved on campus when they first arrive often never do. Commuter Connection members tend to be more involved, she said.

“The students that do end up coming into our group regularly do sor t

of open up and seem to develop as people,” VandenBosch said.

It’s easy for commuter students to fall into a routine of going to class and going home right away, VandenBosch said. Gopher Hall is a way to help students avoid that.

Being in a student group can develop students’ social lives and help them get more out of their college experience, she said.

Gopher Hall is modeled of f a similar program at Australian National University, which has a large commuter population, said Amelious Whyte, chief of staf f to the University of Minnesota’s vice provost for student affairs.

Commuter Connection co-adviser and Of fice for Student Af fairs graduate assistant Caitlin Badger said much of Gopher Hall’s first year has been spent gauging the needs of student members.

“Ever ybody has different needs,” she said. “ We ’ r e j u s t t r y i n g t o broaden the dif ferent typ es o f o p p o r tu n i ti es available for students who … are looking for dif ferent ways to find out more about the University.”

Vuong, who’s par ticipating in Gopher Hall, said the Facebook group has given her a sense of community at the University.

But she’s never seen anyone in the group on campus, she said.

VandenBosch said the group is currently working to make one-on-one appointments between students and community advisers to address that issue.

‘Close that gap’ Whyte said making connections at the University and establishing friendships are the biggest challenge for freshman commuters.

Making it to meetings on campus at night can be especially challenging,

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which makes it dif ficult for freshman commuters to get involved in student groups and other campus activities, he said.

On the academic side, Whyte said, it can be difficult for commuters to meet on campus for group projects.

OSA has worked for years to mitigate the effects that living of f campus can have on students’ lives, he said.

“It’s a constant work in progress,” he said.

The office created Commuter Connection and has developed Welcome Week programming focused on helping commuters meet other students and make use of campus resources, he said.

“The challenge is we have a large number of commuters,” Whyte said, “and so it’s a constant effor t to tr y to make sure they’re engaged, that they know about dif ferent events [and] that there are things that we can do to help them mitigate the fact that they don’t live on campus.”

Commuter students may have less academic success than their peers who live on campus, Whyte said.

“We want to close that gap,” he said.

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outgrown the current one, which is located in the corner of Keller Hall’s basement.

Since it opened in 1990, the Minnesota Nano Center has grown to more than 330 users, including 100 researchers from other universities.

The additional cleanroom will help researchers use the space more ef ficiently, Campbell said, since they’ve outgrown their cur rent lab. Having two cleanrooms will also provide backup equipment.

In the new building, the cleanroom is located next to the scientist’s laboratories, which helps scientists work more easily.

“Sometimes scientists need to make materials [outside of] the cleanroom and then bring them in and apply them,” Campbell said.

Associate professor Vincent Noireaux, whose research focuses on tr y-

ing to synthesize artificial cells, said the building’s organization and extra space will help make his research more efficient.

Associate professor of experimental physics and astronomy Vuk Mandic said the cleanroom is impor tant for the next steps of his experiments, which focus on looking at germanium or silicon cr ystals in order to understand the universe.

Poling said the building’s 20-foot-tall laborator y is another benefit because it will allow enough space for researchers to design and build large experiments.

“In the NOvA project, we … weren’t able to do a lot of testing at [the] design stage of modules because there was no space big enough to do it,” he said.

The newer facility has other upgraded utilities like fume hoods and better network access, which will make the work environment better for research, Mandic said.

The physics and nano-

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Acquiring new members each year affects how student gov’t operates.

Gopher Hall aims to help freshman commuters connect to the University.

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technology building’s new lab space will also help the University hire new researchers, Crowell said.

“Now when we hir e new faculty members, they can par ticipate with design,” Cr owell said.

“The laborator y space is there, and major utilities are in place. Hopefully [it will] help us in recruiting for the University.”

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