April 6, 2017

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■■ Boynton creates new physical therapy center

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■■ U nursing to expand mental health services

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A $2.1M grant will help better serve rural Minnesota. PG 2

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Dayton says he will veto higher ed funding bills Gov. Mark Dayton is pushing legislators closer to the $96.8M he recommended for the U.

BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH AND KEVIN BECKMAN rfaircloth@mndaily.com, kbeckman@mndaily.com

CARTER JONES, DAILY

Genetics junior Edward Zhai, left, Technical Writing sophomore Nathan Ernst, middle, and political science and history junior Nick Dutoit play League of Legends on April 1 at Argyle House. “There’s different competitive scenes around the world. It’s fun to analyze different tendencies,” Ernst said.

U’s League of Legends club hopes to level up

Members of the University of Minnesota’s League of Legends club say they’re seeking official student-athlete status — and faster internet speeds.

With sponsorship from the game’s founding

BY SAMIR FERDOWSI sferdowsi@mndaily.com

company, Riot Games, the inaugural Big Ten Net-

For five hours Saturday, a squad of students squared off against strangers on a digital battlefield.

work League of Legends tournament attracted all 12 schools in the athletic conference. As colleges across

The students are part of the University of Min-

the country have begun to recognize League of Leg-

nesota’s official League of Legends club, which is

ends teams as official sports, the University’s players

registered with the Big Ten Network. Last week, the

are looking to level-up.

team’s six players each received $5,000 scholarships

Days after the competition, the team started tr y-

for par ticipating in the first-ever Big Ten espor ts

outs for next season. Members have their eyes on one

competition.

main goal: unlocking student-athlete status. u See LEGENDS Page 8

CAMPUS

After rise in anti-Semitism, officials working to foster dialogue Officials are addressing biasrelated concerns with increased campus panels and workshops.

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

Outside Dylan Singer’s door hangs a small, Hebrew-inscribed scroll.

After a spate of anti-Semitic incidents raddled the University of Minnesota Jewish community, Singer thought about the consequences of leaving the parchment scroll, called a mezuzah, on his door.

“It was difficult to be outwardly Jewish,”

Singer said, a University senior and Minnesota Hillel’s — the school’s campus Jewish organization — president. “I considered the ramifications [the mezuzah] had when it was up. That wasn’t something I ever thought I would be doing.”

In a string of anti-Semitic incidents on the University’s campus that swelled in November and slowed in mid-February, drawings of swastikas were found in bathrooms and treaded in the snow on a football field. One student found a drawing of a concentration camp in his Pioneer Hall dorm room, and near McNamara Alumni u See BIAS Page 2

RABBI YITZI STEINER

Recently passed spending bills by the Minnesota Legislature would provide significantly less state funding for the University of Minnesota than requested by the school.

The House higher education omnibus bill, passed by a 77-53 vote Tuesday, recommended the University receive $22 million of its requested $147.2 million biennial budget increase. The Senate’s bill, which was passed in a 36-31 vote last week, would provide about 20 percent, or $29.6 million, of the University’s request Some Democratic lawmakers criticized the bills while Republicans defended them, saying millions more state dollars have been allocated for higher education.

“The bill overall puts about 150 milu See FUNDING Page 8

STUDENT ISSUES

Dorm advisors will receive new Title IX training Student-leaders say CAs aren’t currently equipped to handle sexual misconduct reports.

BY NATALIE RADEMACHER nrademacher@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota community advisors will now receive more in-depth training on addressing sexual misconduct.

While training details aren’t finalized, it will cover how CAs can best respond to students who have concerns or who have experienced sexual misconduct. It will also include information on how the reporting process works so that CAs can inform students and give them the right resources, said Tina Marisam, University Title IX coordinator and Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action director.

CA training used to be handled by Housing and Residential Life, but the revamped training will be assisted by EOAA. The new program will be in place for the next school year.

Current and former CAs — students who provide support to students who live in residential halls — and the Minnesota Student Association pushed for revamped training. u See TITLE IX Page 8

MEDICINE

To remedy long waitlists, splitting livers could be key to saving lives U surgeon Dr. Chinnakotla is advocating a rarely-used liver transplant technique.

BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

Pam Davies spent a year waiting for a new liver as she grew more sick every day. Eventually, she got two-thirds of what she wanted.

Davies, a business and life coach, underwent a split liver transplant in 2013 at the University of Minnesota.

The procedure takes one donated liver and splits it into two differently sized lobes, saving the lives of two patients.

Srinath Chinnakotla, the University’s surgical director of the liver transplant program, performed the split liver transplant

on Davies; the technique was developed almost 25 years ago, and Chinnakotla says more doctors should adopt it.

Chinnakotla said patients have to be smaller in stature for the split liver transplant to work, and many children receive the smaller liver portions.

“The number of livers available in the country to split are close to 2,000,” Chinnakotla said. “Less than 200 are being split every year.”

After spending years working long hours and traveling constantly for most of her life, Davies said she neglected self-care and was constantly busy.

She said she was diagnosed with a thyroid condition in her late 20s but kept pursuing her career. The thyroid disease caused Davies to u See LIVER Page 2

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Dr. Srinath Chinnakotla poses for a photo in his office in the Phillips-Wangensteen Building on Eastbank on March 30.

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Therapist Joseph Schoess poses for a portrait inside the new physical therapy room at the University Recreation and Wellness Center on April 4.

Rec opens physical therapy office

BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

Boynton Health opened a third location for physical therapy at the Recreation and Wellness Center last week to offer more appointment times for students.

Four therapists share an office to see patients on the building’s main floor in addition to the existing St. Paul and Boynton locations.

Jamie Suchy, the allied health director and a physical therapist at Boynton, said he’s wanted physical therapy to be a part of the RecWell facility since he started 10 years ago, but couldn’t make it work until this year.

“Starting last year, we renewed conversations with the RecWell management,” Suchy said. “We were able to … make something work.”

He said an advantage of the new location is its proximity to exercise equipment and personal trainers for patients ready to exercise or train normally.

After completing physi-

cal therapy, Suchy said patients are encouraged to stay active or follow an exercise plan.

“Some people need a little more help with that,” he said. “They’re ready from a PT standpoint, but they just don’t feel ready to do that on their own yet, and that’s where someone like a personal trainer is a great handoff.”

Suchy said that he hopes to develop programming with personal trainers for these types of patients.

Since the location’s opening, he said appointments have been full, and Boynton hopes to hire additional staff in the fall.

“Physical therapy and exercise and wellness go hand-in-hand,” Suchy said.

“Being in an area like the Rec Center … allows us to have more interactions.”

Dave Golden, Boynton’s communications dir ector, said the location frees up space and allows more students to access physical therapy services, which see about 5,000 patients

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A new location for physical therapy services in the University Recreation and Wellness Center.

each year.

“We love working over in the new facility,” he said. “It’s just a nice collaboration.”

Lisa Lemler, associate director for wellness at the University, said she discussed the collaboration

with Suchy for the last six years. She said since the opening of the new RecWell facility four years ago, the possibility of a physical therapy office became more realistic.

“I think it makes sense

for both of us,” Lemler said. “For RecWell … we feel like it’s under the umbrella of what we do and what we should of fer if we’re really talking about being a wellness provider to campus.”

Mental health services to expand in rural Minn.

The nursing school will help bring services to underserved parts of the state.

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing is expanding mental health services to underserved parts of the state.

After receiving a $2.1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration, the School of Nursing will partner with the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, Touchstone Mental Health and Northern Pines Mental Health Center to train students and provide mental health and primary care to rural areas of the state and those with limited access.

The initiative involves training pharmacy, psychiatr y and family nurse practitioner students together to breach barriers between disciplines and provide better care, said Merrie Kaas, nursing professor and project lead.

“They all get an interprofessional and integrated care experience in their particular program,” Kaas said.

Students train together

and provide care at the centers for underserved populations.

“Our goal is to train, mentor and bring along the next generation of mental health professionals who hail from communities that don’t typically get mental health services because they don’t have someone who reflects their culture, language and background,” said Amy Ward, director of health initiatives at the Wilder Foundation.

Many who work with mentally ill people and their families aren’t trained to work with others who approach similar issues in a different discipline, which can lead to alienation of some patients, Ward said.

The initiative stemmed from increased awareness of a lack of mental health resources across the state and a link between poor primary care and poor mental health, Kaas said.

“When one has a mental health problem, it af fects their physical health and limits their ability to reach out and get primar y care

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services,” she said.

While ser vices the program provides at Northern Pines’ six locations can reach a more rural population, Kaas said people in urban areas also often lack access to mental health resources and primar y care — Wilder and Touchstone can help with that.

The initiative uses telehealth technology, or the use of telecommunication technologies to suppor t long-distance clinical health care and education to promote collaboration across the three disciplines and three sites.

Kaas said telehealth technology can help provide more flexible care.

“There are a number of clients in urban environments who don’t come to a clinic for care who could be served if we were able to access them through telehealth capabilities,” Kaas said.

To sustain the initiative once grant money runs out, Touchstone and Wilder will help fund the program. Additionally, Wilder and Northern Pines are two of the eight Minnesota Certified Community Behavioral Health

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“Our goal is to train, mentor and bring along the next generation of mental health professionals who hail from communities that don’t typically get mental health services because they don’t have someone who reflects their culture, language and background.”

AMY WARD Director of health initiatives, Wilder Foundation

Clinics, making them eligible for federal grants.

Minnesota was one of 12 states in the country given a waiver to develop CCBHCs as a model to deliver integrated care for the mentally ill that includes primary care.

40 psychiatr y students participate in the program, Kaas said. About 20 pharmacy students participate, along with roughly 40 family nurse practitioner students.

“Our mission in working with all these disciplines is to bring people together so that they become attuned to working in a team environment and attuned to listening to one another and respecting one another as professionals,” Ward said.

Additionally, patients

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are more satisfied with the health care they get because they don’t have to repeat their stories multiple times.

“Better decisions are made when people work together,” Ward said. “Consumers of health care greatly suffer when people don’t know how to work together.”

Working across disciplines improves cultural competency of the health care providers themselves, allowing them to understand people with different professions, said Glenn Anderson of Northern Pines.

“They have to step outside of their own vision of reality and understand people with different professional cultures,” he said.

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Officials work to address recent bias report concerns on campus

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Rabbi Yitzi Steiner poses for a portrait on campus on March 21. “Be proud of who you are and respect who you are.

That’s how you take care of Jewish students,” Steiner said.

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Center, white-supremacist posters with swastikas were hung from telephone poles.

Now, through panel discussions and workshops the University is working to address increased reports of bias-related incidents.

The University’s Bias Response and Refer ral Network repor ted seven cases of swastikas, neo-Nazi propaganda and other antiSemitic graffiti on campus from early December to Feb. 8, and said the incidents were part of a larger, national trend.

Rabbi Yitzi Steiner, codirector at Chabad at University of Minnesota, said his organization gave suppor t to concerned Jewish students and encouraged them to be proud of their heritage.

Steiner, who has been at the University since 2010, said the anti-Semitic incidents that occurred in the short period this year were the most he has seen on campus.

While the incidents were happening, Steiner also reached out to the 18-yearold University student who was arrested for allegedly vandalizing a desk in the 17th Avenue Residence Hall with a swastika.

Steiner said understanding why someone would feel compelled to draw the symbol is crucial. He said the 18-year-old student didn’t fully understand what the swastika meant to people of Jewish heritage.

“My outlook is, ‘let’s bring those students together,’” Steiner said. “Let’s build a bridge and do something positive where positive things can come from it.”

When the anti-Semitic incidents slowed, Knudson and other University of ficials met with Singer and other student and

“Of course we’re going to advocate for more resources but that’s difficult sometimes given budget constraints so we try to do what we can.”

LAURA KNUDSON OEOAA rep.

community leaders to listen to their concerns.

Singer said the meetings came later than he would’ve liked, as he had experienced anti-Semitism on campus well before a Feb. 19 statement by President Eric Kaler, Provost Karen Hanson and Vice President of Equity and Diversity Katrice Albert condemned the hate acts.

But Singer said the meeting in late Februar y was beneficial, and is waiting to see what the next response will be by the University if other anti-Semitic incidents occur.

On campus, officials working to address bias

As par t of an increased ef for t to discuss bias-related incidents, University of Minnesota police, local FBI and other University of ficials who deal with hate speech and discrimination held a panel last week.

The panel aimed to inform the campus community what happens when incidents of bias do happen and which University organizations — like the Bias Response and Referral Network — handle the situation.

“This is what we do now and this is what we need to continue doing,” said Karen Miksch, a CEHD associate professor and panelist.

“This needs to be par t of our culture. [There] needs to be ongoing places and

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Members of the FBI, U of M Police Department and the BRRN speak on bias, discrimination and hate speech incidents on Friday.

spaces where we have dialogue and ongoing conversations.”

The panel included a representative from the University’s Office of Equal Oppor tunity and Af firmative Action, assistant Vice Provost for Student Advocacy and Support Laura Knudson, Miksch and a BRNN representative.

“This probably isn’t the last discussion we’re going to have,” said UMPD Chief Matt Clark. “There may be future incidents … what’s important is opening it up to folks that are in the campus community and having these discussions.”

In addition to Friday’s panel, the University’s Campus Climate Engagement Team will put on a workshop to help deal with incidents that cause them personal harm on April 12.

“Universities really tr y to make this a priority,” Knudson said. “We’ve had more events … we want this to be what the University is known for and stands for.”

Still, Steiner and Singer said there is more the University can do to make Jewish students feel safer on campus, whether including Hanukkah colors during the Holidays or featuring kosher food in dining halls.

Katrice Alber t, who helped author the University’s statement condemning the anti-Semitic

acts, said students will be the ones leading campus discussion in coming months.

“We work ver y closely with [the Office for Student Affairs] so that students are in the driver’s seat for these sor t of initiatives,” Alber t said.

Alber t said the University has been in contact with Minnesota Hillel to gauge what Jewish students need and what resources the University can provide.

As of now, the panel and discussions are the main responses by the University to the rise in anti-Semitic and other bias-related incidents.

“Of course we’re going to advocate for more resources but that’s difficult sometimes given budget constraints so we tr y to do what we can,” Knudson said. “We have been moving the University forward in addressing this.”

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develop a metabolic disorder which eventually resulted in a diagnosis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in 2011.

“You’re ending up with fatty deposits in your liver,” she said. “I had no idea that was going on.”

Davies said she woke up one morning to find her skin turned yellow and was diagnosed at the University’s hospital system. She said doctors told her the liver disease could kill her in one year if she didn’t receive a new organ.

After gaining weight due to the disease over the previous year, Davies found she was too sick to even be on the liver transplant list.

With the help of a hepatology team at the University, Davies said she lost 100 pounds over the course of seven months.

“My job suddenly became getting on the transplant list and trying to stay alive,” she said. “I spent a whole year on the transplant list and was still getting sicker.”

In 2013, Davies said Chinnakotla and his team told her they had a liver available but that the transplant was going to be different than typical transplants. She agreed to the surgery and left the hospital six days after it was completed.

“It is such an amazing situation that they were able to save two people,” she said. “I was so small that they were able to take two-thirds [of the liver] and give that to me.”

She said she had never heard about this type of surgery before it was performed on her by Chinnakotla.

Chinnakotla said many doctors initially assumed the split liver transplant would result in more patient deaths.

He said studies done in the last five years show that patient survival after a split liver transplant is no different than survival after whole liver transplants, though bile duct complications are 10 percent higher.

Chinnakotla said bile duct complications are easily treatable and don’t compare to the possibility of saving two lives with one organ.

Not all livers can be split, and the donor has to be under 40 years of age.

Besides a lack of experienced surgeons, Chinnakotla said the research policies that help allocate livers to patients don’t favor splitting the organ.

Many doctors don’t want to take the risk of splitting the liver if they could safely use

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the entire thing.

Chinnakotla said in 2015, 10 percent of child patients and 20 percent of adult patients waiting for a liver died on the waiting list.

About 7,000 livers were donated last year.

“In a conser vative estimate, if we think 25 percent of them are splittable, we have about 500 donors that can be split,” he said. “But in general, we are only doing 100 splits a year.”

In his entire career, Chinnakotla has completed over 20 split liver transplants, five of them being done at the University. The University of California-Los Angeles also performs a majority of the split procedures in the United States.

“Splitting a liver needs some expertise,” he said.

Susanne Hollister, a liver transplant social worker, helps patients like Davies psychologically work through the transplantation process and said she reviews whether patients are healthy enough to receive the new organ.

“Part of the difficulty … is waiting,” Hollister said. “[The patients] don’t know when a transplant is going to occur.

There needs to be a donor available.”

She said the evaluation process and the recovery for patients receiving a split liver is the same as if they were receiving a full liver.

“Obviously, we don’t have enough organs for ever ybody,” she said of people on the waiting list.

Hollister added that the technique is one way to help ensure that more people are transplanted.

“Anything we can do to increase the availability of donors would be very important,” she said.

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THEATER

“The American Clock:” A countdown to graduation The University of Minnesota’s BFA Actor Training Program’s 2017 senior class will perform the Arthur Miller play April 13 - 23 at the Guthrie Theater.

BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com

T

he style of “The American Clock” dif fers from Arthur Miller’s more traditional plays like “All My Sons”.

The production has been described an “epic vaudeville.”

“It’s ver y presentational,” said Cullen Arbaugh, who plays Frank Howard, Kapush, Theodore Quinn and a Mississippi sherif f.

“When we first star ted rehearsals, we spent one of the first days really exploring what epic vaudeville means and doing some traditional vaudeville acts.”

“The American Clock” features over 50 characters. Many actors take on multiple roles.

The multitude of personalities would normally prove difficult to cast, but the senior BFA acting students at the University of Minnesota have their ensemble-building techniques cemented.

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Brad Hildebrandt performs a rehearsal with other student actors in “The American Clock” on Saturday at the Guthrie Theater.

“We have such a special situation because we’re a group of 21 who have been working together for the past four years,” said Olivia

Wilusz, who plays Rose Baum. “We have a shor t hand with one another where we can really get to the meat of something we

want to talk about.”

The production blends nar rative, song and dance to tell the stor y of the Great Depression in

the United States.

“The American Clock” is also a celebration of oral histor y. It’s based on Studs Terkel’s book, “Hard Times: An Oral Histor y of the Great Depression.”

“I know a lot of us got our hands on the book pretty early on to star t reading some of those stories and getting into the mindset of people at that time,” Wilusz said.

The actors found a link between this grand, presentational style and the emotional intensity of the Great Depression.

“Our capacity for emotion is so great, and they always say when you’re under really harsh circumstances, that capacity grows even more,” Wilusz said. “So the term [‘epic vaudeville’] shows that people don’t have to justify their behavior … in a realistic sense because the stakes are so high.”

With the play ser ving as a culmination of four

years of training at the University and with the Guthrie Theater, the production will be a showcase for a group of young actors about to launch their careers.

“There have been so many moments where I’ve said, ‘Hey, can you tr y this,’ and what they do is brilliant and great,” said Joseph Price, the director of “The American Clock.”

“As a group, they’re ver y talented. There’s real individuals in that company, and that’s really great to be ar ound. They’r e all good, strong individual people.”

The play is not a dusty, dated historical play. Proving the cliché that histor y repeats itself, its themes still feel relevant in 2017.

“There are things about the Depression that remind us that as a nation we’ve been through dark times in our past … but we’ve come through them, and we continue to move for ward,” Price said.

OPERA

Opera arrives at U Faculty, classical musicians and acting and vocal talents help revive old-world art for new-world audience.

BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com

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ast weekend, the University of Minnesota’s University Opera Theatre performs its spring production, Giacomo Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and “Gianni Schicchi.”

Directed by David Walsh, the production’s operatic performers were backed by an orchestra made up of University students.

Today, Puccini is considered one of the greatest opera composers. “Suor Angelica” premiered in 1918.

“He was very disappointed that it was not a success at its premiere at the Metropolitan Opera,” Walsh said.

“It has never been one of his most popular operas either, with the public or with critics. However, it contains very beautiful music and an amazing story that I think still resonates with people today.”

“Suor Angelica” is about a young woman who has a child out of wedlock. Some years later, her son passes away. After trying to kill herself by ingesting poison she has a vision of her son in heaven. At the end of the opera, it isn’t clear if it’s fantasy or reality.

“It’s obvious that these

themes have made it a difficult opera to present,” Walsh said. “But it speaks to many important aspects of human nature and existence. I think it’s important for us to reexamine these themes today.”

The opera’s title role was played by Carole Schultz, a doctoral candidate in voice performance at the University. For Schultz, the emotionally-draining role is more than just a title character in a short opera. “[‘Suor Angelica’] holds a special play in my heart,” Schultz said. “It was the first opera I ever performed in. In Madison I sang in the chorus and had one lone solo line. Now I’m singing the title role.”

Schultz’s turn from choir member to lead has not been meteoric. In typical fashion, she chipped away at roles before finally breaking through.

For those taking its roles on, “Suor Angelica” provides interesting insight into growth, aging and family.

“It’s a heart-breaking part to sing,” Schultz said. “I’m very glad I get to sing this before I have children as it’s just packed with emotion.”

Many claim the art form of opera is unlike any other.

“It incorporates voice, text, music,” Walsh said. “As Richard Wagner once said, ‘It is the complete work of art.’

So just on that basis alone it’s already unique and exceptional. Opera is one of the most intense forms of artistic experience one can have. It

can operate on multiple levels at the same time.”

The joys and challenges of interpreting a character are not unique to opera. They come with any form of musical theatre.

“But what makes opera special is the music,” Schultz said. “The sound you have to produce in order to be heard over an orchestra is incredible.

It’s a whole body workout.”

The challenges of performing an opera center on a few key differences from, say, a musical, or a folky play.

“We’re trying to act and make the story impactful for the audience,” University senior and vocal performance major Valentina Sierra said.

“We constantly have to think about our technique vocally and watch the conductor to make sure we’re together with the orchestra. It’s such a glamorous yet raw and complex art form and most operas have messages that still prevail in our society today.”

Understanding the difference between emotional and technical complexity and overindulgent sadism is difficult.

There’s a fine line between beautiful and schmaltzy.

Still, that line can be blurred by preconceived notions of what opera is.

“Contrary to what many people unfamiliar with opera imagine, opera powerfully addresses many issues everyday people face,” Walsh said.

“It contains real and tangible human emotions and is not at all remote and elitist.”

CHRIS DANG, DAILY

An actor playing a nun performs during a dress rehearsal for Giacomo Puccini’s opera, “Suor Angelica,” on March 29 in Ted Mann Concert Hall on West Bank.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017

Sports MEN’S HOCKEY

Collins to forgo senior year, signs pro deal The junior’s signing marks the fifth of the offseason, first early departure.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

Though the season ended nearly two weeks ago, Minnesota found its first early men’s hockey departure.

Defenseman Ryan Collins signed with the Columbus Blue Jackets of the NHL Wednesday and will forgo his senior year with the Gophers and his remaining NCAA eligibility.

Collins joins the Blue Jackets on a three-year, entr y-level deal, and he will repor t to their American Hockey League affiliate, the Cleveland Monsters, as soon as Friday.

The Monsters, formerly the Lake Erie Monsters, are the reigning AHL Calder Cup champions and are in playof f contention.

The Bloomington, Minnesota native was selected by the Blue Jackets 47th overall in the second round of the 2014 NHL entr y draft.

Collins is the fifth player to sign a professional contract after Minnesota’s season came to an end in the NCAA regional last month, but he’s the first — and only — early departure for the Gophers so far.

Minnesota had three players leave before their college careers were maxed out last season: for ward Hudson Fasching, defensemen Michael Brodzinski and Nick Seeler.

In his three seasons with Minnesota, Collins scored 22 points with 18 assists. He was the team’s Rookie of the Year following his freshman season in 2014-15.

For mer Gophers defenseman Mike Reilly was also drafted by the Blue Jackets in 2011 but chose to not sign with the team following his college career and later signed with the Minnesota Wild as a free agent.

Though the season ended nearly two weeks ago, Minnesota found its first early men’s hockey departure.

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SOFTBALL

Dwyer keeps mood light, hitting heavy

The junior is second on the team in both batting average and home runs this year.

BY KYLE STEINBERG ksteinberg@mndaily.com

Every team needs a joker, and for the Gophers softball team, it’s Sydney Dwyer.

Dwyer, a junior infielder, carries a reputation for cracking up her teammates — an importantasset in a long, road-heavy softball season.

“She’s definitely one of the funniest people I’ve met in my entire life,” said senior pitcher Sara Groenewegen. “She’s always bringing laughter to our locker room, which is much needed in some cases.”

So just how does Dwyer keep the mood light? She describes herself as witty, and she is and known to pull a

prank from time to time.

“I took the toilet paper out of the one bathroom we have on the bus,” Dwyer said with a laugh. “[Associate head coach Jessica] Merchant got the end of that one, so no more taking the toilet paper out of there.”

While the team joker doesn’t always carry a lot of weight when competition time rolls around, the same can’t be said for Dwyer.

She is second on the team in batting average at .411 and home runs with six, and she is ranked fifth in the nation in RBI per game at 1.31.

Last season, she hit a .302 average, which was sixth on the team.

She has already reached her home run total from last season and has surpassed her RBI production from 2016 as well — and there are still 19 games remaining in the

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Junior Sydney Dwyer anticipates a catch during a game against South Dakota on Tuesday.

regular season schedule. “[Dwyer’s] just matured as a softball player,” said head coach Jessica Allister.

“I think the biggest piece is she has been ver y consistent with her approach.”

Dwyer’s improvement coincides with a more dynamic Minnesota of fense this season.

The Gophers have four hitters batting .400 or better. Last year, their leading hitter batted .366.

There are still quite a few games to be played, but the Gophers are scoring at a torrid pace.

They rank in the nation’s top ten in many team categories, including second in doubles per game, fifth in batting average and slugging percentage, and sixth in total scoring.

“The more depth, the better,” Allister said. “I think that’s one of the strengths of our team. We can score up and down the lineup.”

The jokester is right in the midst.

During the season’s first road trip to Texas, the Gophers made a music playlist for the bus tailored

to where they were playing, whichmeant country music.

The first song on the playlist was heavy on the fiddle, and that’s where Dwyer took over.

“She was doing all this fiddle, stupid dancing,” said Groenewegen. “Now it’s an inside joke with ever yone that she is the fiddle player.

We’re going to buy her a fiddle on Amazon just to make the joke even funnier.”

One thing is for certain: if Dwyer can play an actual fiddle as well as she plays softball, it will be some sweet music.

GYMNASTICS

Gophers men head to Big Ten meet with confidence Minnesota earned the best team score in the conference in its last competition.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

The Gophers head into the postseason knowing they can outscore any team in the Big Ten. No. 5 Minnesota scored a Big Ten best 426.950 in its dual against Nebraska before it heads to Champaign, Illinois for the Big Ten Championships on April 7.

“The score indicated that we were on our game that night, which was outstanding,” said head coach Mike Burns. “This is kind of the whole point of our regular season: to get ready for our championship season.”

Minnesota holds the conference best team score and also has a Big Ten Co-Gymnast of the year on its roster.

Sophomore Justin Karstadt earned conference Gymnast of the Year along with Ohio State’s Jake Martin recently.

Karstadt also won National Gymnast of the Week for his performance against the Cornhuskers. He was named First Team All-Big

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Jalon Stephens yells a chant in between events Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

Ten last season.

No. 3 Ohio State and No. 4 Illinois are the two teams in the conference ranked ahead of Minnesota. The Gophers lost to both teams during the regular season.

“We have too many good teams that are coming into championships,” said junior Jalon Stephens. “It’s a little stressful, but if we do our job, just like we’ve been doing, I think we can come out on top.”

The Gophers lead the Big Ten in three events — the

vault, still rings and floor.

Minnesota is coming off a year where it earned a thirdplace finish in the conference championships. The Gophers return six of eight gymnasts that made it to the finals in the conference championships last season. The team also returned Joel Gagnon, who was an alternate in the finals.

“We don’t want to go to another championship meet and have a good performance but still be underwhelmed with our finish,” said junior

Alex Wittenberg.

Senior Zach Liebler could not perform in the conference championships a season ago. Liebler — a two-time All-American — suffered an injur y before the postseason, but he’ll compete at this weekend’s meet.

Minnesota will look to do something this week that it hasn’t done in 22 years.

Though Minnesota has won the conference championship 21 times, the team has not done so since 1995.

The last Gophers gymnast to win the Big Ten Championship for All-Around competition was John Roethlisberger in 1993. Karstadt is only behind OSU’s Martin in the Big Ten for All-Around season average. “[Karstadt] is kind of a flat-line sort of guy,” Burns said. “That’s what you want in your top guy.”

Minnesota will need to be in the nation’s top 12 after the conference championships to make an NCAA qualifier. Last season, the Gophers made the qualifier and the NCAA Championships as the No. 5 team in the nation.

Burns said he is focused more on the team’s preparation than the pressure of the performance.

“I just want to go out and focus on the process,” Burns said. “If we do that, then no matter where you finish, you’ve got to be happy.”

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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN

Clear campus guidelines on speech needed Free speech has been a topic of conversation, but there needs to be clear rules.

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peech has flown around campus relatively unchecked by the administration this year from my perspective. At first, the concept of free speech offered nothing for me to counter.

But freedom isn’t free, folks, and alongside the realization of social movements there are “build the wall” panels — and there are vandalisms against “build the wall” panels. The current University policy on free speech is ambiguous and its weak foundation produces speech that, on one hand, could have unmet potential and, on the other hand, be reduced to curt and spiteful jabbering intended to be a gut punch.

But there’s greater discussion in mending the policy, and hopefully it will be smartened up through input from the Council of Graduate Students and others.

Bipar tisanship has become inescapable, but sometimes, with new compromise, we lack discernible rules. People take advantage of vagueness by pushing

TAYLOR SHARP columnist

their limits.

To combat this, a speech policy should be clear and fair. A shapeless wasteland without clearness to guide group-oriented speech has only continued to enable violence and distance reasonable people from actually tr ying to ar ticulate their view.

In a time where personal stories and sympathy-laden convictions are audible, we ought to have a system that makes it convenient to rally, place ourselves on campus with clear purpose and promote what matters to us.

An ideal policy should promote unity, but also outspokenness. If this hypothetical document existed, its role would be to equally encourage the best of all sides to construct thoughtful displays of speech and to allay them so that freedom stays unbound for anyone tr ying to get the word out.

Any confinement comes only from the notion that solid criteria will

complicate the formulation of speech. A rulebook would aid students, enlivening free speech as well as fine-tuning it with humanitarianism and care, emboldening those already inspired to circulate their speech.

Don’t think of any boundaries as a one-way ticket to fewer options for saying what you want and how you want it.

Rather, I think with clearer guidelines and organization, groups will have the strongest faculty possible to express ever ything they feel compelled to express.

While leaving freedom of speech undiminished, I think having rules also guides expression, so that it’s more meaningful than harmful.

A more explicit str ucture leads to a more productive network, in tur n connecting elemental voices. Let’s encourage those driven mainly by hostility and the desire to hur t others away from those tendencies by using our speech productively.

Taylor Sharp welcomes comments at tsharp@mndaily.com.

2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 15,298 Total number of deaths: 3,867 Total number of mass shootings: 83 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org

DAILY DISCUSSION Minnesota lawmakers move to protect internet privacy The GOP Congress last week passed a bill that repeals Federal Communications Commission rules that protect the privacy of computer browsing and opens the way for a host of people’s personal information to be sold.

The move by Congress can only be viewed as a sellout to large corporations who can sell your private information to marketers and other companies.

Fortunately for Minnesotans, the Legislature quickly moved to pass a bill that reinstates the privacy protections in the state.

When Congress, with little debate or public knowledge, repealed the protections it left all Americans vulnerable. The Internet Service Providers — other than in Minnesota — can now sell a broad spectrum of personal data.

Imagine all of the things you or others enter into computers during searches or doing other things online, from shopping to banking to entertainment. Even Social Security numbers and other highly important information is inputted.

Opening the way for people’s private web habits to be sold drew quick outrage from liberal and conservative groups and from a wide spectrum of technology companies.

It’s likely other states will respond to Congress’ assault on privacy. That will only create a patchwork of varying regulations that could have been avoided by leaving the reasonable FCC rules in place.

Putting people’s private online data up for sale was troubling move by Congress. Fortunately wiser minds responded in Minnesota.

Editor’s Note: This editorial was originally published in the Mankato Free Press.

CONTACT THE EDITOR Grace Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com

Helen Teague welcomes comments at hteague@mndaily.com.

COLUMN

Being a more mindful consumer Ethically sourced stores can be expensive, but there are other sustainable clothing options.

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often used to shop at Forever 21. With a limited budget, I found quick gratification in buying a bunch of cheaply made clothes for the price of one highquality garment. Eventually, I forced myself to question this practice. Forever 21 and similar fast fashion suppliers — and for that matter, most retail stores — produce their inventor y in sweatshops overseas where workers, including children under fifteen, are underpaid in poor working conditions.

For me, it’s hard to save up for clothing that comes from the limited options of ethically sourced stores. Instead, I’ve mostly turned to thrifting — an activity that I already enjoyed.

While reusing unwanted clothes instead of buying new is a good personal choice, it doesn’t have much of an effect on slowing down production in sweatshops. To do that, we need to hold companies to stronger moral standards.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR From one sur vivor — it’s time we to put our energy toward ending sexual assault On Feb. 18, I saw a new sign on the front lawn on the University of Minnesota Students’ Cooperative that read: “FRAT BOYS: STOP RAPING PEOPLE.” The night before, I’d been informed that the University’s local Delta Upsilon chapter had been suspended by its national headquar ters for “serious violations of the fraternity’s ideals and principles.”

About a year before, after members of Delta Upsilon were apparently aware that their then-president had been found responsible by the University’s EOAA office for sexual assault the previous April, neither his membership nor his presidency were suspended. After a second EOAA hearing, he was again found responsible for sexual assault but still attended spring formal the next weekend.

If the suspension of DU has spurred thoughts and actions sur rounding the issue of sexual assault within the greek community, maybe the losses that I — and the other student who repor ted my same perpetrator — have endured were worth something after all.

The common rhetoric of “yeah, sexual assault is bad, but calling all frat boys rapists isn’t going to solve anything!” is unproductive at best. If one’s knee-jerk response is “but not all fraternity men have committed sexual assault,” the point has been missed entirely.

No one is tr ying to claim that all fraternity men commit sexual assault. However, it is tr ue that there are a number who have, some of whom have been disciplined for their actions, and others who have not. And yet, I hear far many more voices cr ying slander than I hear actually addressing the issue of campus sexual assault.

Stop whining, quit denying the

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Doubling the wages of sweatshop workers would only increase the price of a product by 1.8 percent, according to a 2004 study in the Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Another 2004 study by economists Ann Harrison and Jason Scorse found that during the surge of sweatshop protests in the 1990s, student activism was a factor in increasing wages by 50 percent in Indonesian Nike factories.

We need to directly take a stand against poor working conditions and tell companies we aren’t okay with their exploitive source practices. As consumers, it’s crucial to be aware of all of the steps it takes for a product to reach our hands. Not only for clothing, but for food and ever ything else we buy.

Kathryn Schultz welcomes comments at kschultz@mndaily.com.

truth, get up and do something about it.

Recr uit brothers who have respect for women. Understand that victims have nothing to gain personally from reporting an assault. Take official University investigation findings seriously. Promote a culture in which pressuring, harassing, “taking advantage of” and assaulting women are seen as unacceptable — even when they may be drunk, not fighting back or dressed in a certain way.

To sorority women: foster sisterhoods where victim-sur vivors are suppor ted, and do not continue to spend time with the men who have assaulted them. Do not invite known offenders to philanthropy or social events.

If those who take issue with the University co-op signs would use a tenth of the energy they expend complaining about them, to instead work on solving the actual problem at hand, the signs wouldn’t be needed in the first place.

Thursday, April 6, 2017

EDITORIALS Steps forward in STEM diversity

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tudent groups in the College of Science and Engineering such as Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, Society for Women Engineers, and other CSE diversity-oriented groups came together Monday to discuss diversity shor tfalls in STEM education and what CSE ought to do in the future to improve.

Dean Samuel Mukasa’s remarks in his keynote address are representative of a leader strongly committed to ensuring a diverse student body. CSE currently boasts an all-time high of 26.2 percent women in the college, including undergraduate and graduate students. What’s more, 29 percent of CSE’s faculty hired in the last 5 years is female.

To some, these numbers may seem rather under whelming, but national numbers by various studies repor t even lower values. A 2015 study from the National Student Clearinghouse repor ted that 19 percent of students pursuing an engineering bachelor’s degr ee ar e women. The number is even lower for fields like computer science — 18 percent. The national numbers are even more star tling when considering wage gaps. These types of gaps don’t simply exist between gender; they also exist in terms of racial and socioeconomic divides.

Ensuring that any student that demonstrates interest towards STEM education has access to it ought to be a vital goal of the college. Dean Mukasa’s dedication to the development of outreach programs in various Twin Cities communities is one of the many ways to do this. In recent years, groups like SWE have under taken vast ef for ts, nationally, and at our own University, to develop partnerships with K-12 education systems.

More could be done with fur ther developing programs for students in high school to par ticipate in research and innovation at the University. Some high schools already offer these kinds of oppor tunities, but collaborations with the Cedar-Riverside Community School, for example, and similar education platfor ms could be a unique way to develop more hands-on appreciation for the scientific process over a longer period and with underser ved communities.

Without demonstrating that science and engineering is a laborious process — one where failure and success via experimentation are equally impor tant — the excitement generated surrounding engineering could potentially be based purely on excitement.

The goal of outreach programs cannot simply be to get students to attend the first year of school in engineering, but ought to be to develop the resilience to graduate with a STEM degree.

Without more systematic and sustained outreach initiatives, this could be more challenging.

Other projects at the University, such as the “This Is What STEM Looks Like” campaign by the CSE Student Board, and other initiatives by various other student groups, are also important to maintaining the level of diversity already present.

Cer tainly, there is tremendous room for improvement. Open dialogues and forums to discuss the challenges associated with enriching diversity in STEM education, as well as oppor tunities for students and faculty to collaborate in addressing this problem, are all ways that the University can continue to improve its numbers.

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I want to kill my girlfriend’s bird.

Whoa, that sounded like a euphemism. Let me explain.

She’s got this bright green cockatoo named Brad (red flag number one right there), and Brad is a total jerk.

I can’t be alone in the room with Brad. He’ll shimmy back-and-forth on his pitch, glaring at me and twitching his head.

“Hey,” he’ll say. Just, “Hey, hey, hey.”

“What, Brad?” I’ll finally say.

“Do your taxes?” he’ll ask.

Seriously, every time we’re in a room alone together, that’s the proceedings.

One time, while my girlfriend and I were about to get freaky, Brad just starts screaming, “GAAH! HERNIA! HERNIA! HERNIA!” and he wouldn’t stop until my girlfriend got up to calm him down. Totally killed the mood.

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sisters. But never a frickin’ bird.

Help.

Sincerely,

Bad Bird

Dear Bird,

I know what it’s like to be with someone who has an annoying pet. When I started dating my husband, he had this snake that would break wind whenever he was around us. Talk about a mood killer!

One time he broke wind so loud that it woke up my husband’s little brother — and he’s deaf.

I ended up having to catch the snake while my husband was away and take it to my dad’s taxidermy office. He ended up selling it.

So I guess my advice to you is this: kill the bird.

But be careful, because it’s got to look like it died of natural causes. Maybe some strychnine in its birdseed? Hope this helps.

Sincerely,

Dr. Date

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The University of Minnesota’s League of Legends team holds its first practice on Saturday at Argyle House. The team plans on holding tryouts then meeting once every two weeks.

U League of Legends team levels up

“Students are coming and saying, ‘I heard from someone who has gone through this, and I want to have the knowledge and skills to respond in a way that is sensitive and humane but also gives them the information they need.”

TINA MARISAM University Title IX coordinator

JENNIFER SCHULTZ State representative

threshold was released after the Legislature asked what it would take to keep tuition flat, Kramer said.

Still, the University’s of fer to fr eeze tuition won’t be enough to secure more money, said Rep. Gene Pelowski, D-Winona, a member of the House Higher Education Committee. “[The University] may have sent it, but it’s a little bit late,” he said.

University administrators and members of the Board of Regents star ted discussions over possible tuition increases for next school year during a March meeting. Under the current budget framework, tuition would jump by 10 percent for some students.

Initiatives to expand University medical services, fund research and suppor t the Bell Museum of Natural Hist o r y, a m o n g o t h e r s , were included in the school’s budget increase request.

Duluth campus eco nomics professor, Rep. Jennifer Schultz, DFLDuluth, said the House bill severely under funds higher education.

“Funding for higher ed is under attack across the entire countr y, and this bill is no dif ferent,” she said at the floor hearing.

At the floor session, Pelowski said the bill ignores the University’s core missions and could r esult in tuition hikes for students.

“This bill tries to do a great many things,”

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lion new dollars into higher education, and it also deals with accountability and accessibility issues,” House Majority Leader Joyce Peppin, RRogers said Tuesday at a hearing.

In an inter view Wednesday, Gov. Mark Dayton said he’d veto the current higher education omnibus bills, pushing legislators to come closer to the $96.8 million he recommended for the University in Januar y.

“I’m going to hold out for the numbers … in my budget because I believe those are appropriate and necessar y,” he said. “With a healthy budget surplus, there’s no justification for not doing what we need to do for … areas like higher education, which is so critical to our future.”

While University President Eric Kaler previously said tuition could increase even if the school received its entire request, V ice President for University and Gover nment Relations Matt Kramer said in a Tuesday press release t h a t t h e s c h ool w ou l d freeze tuition for two years if it received at least $128.6 million from the state.

Under the House and Senate bills, a tuition freeze for Minnesota State schools would be fully funded.

In the press release, Kramer said he was unsure why Minnesota State received money to freeze tuition while the University of Minnesota did not.

“It’s really disappointing … the two main educational institutions in this state, the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State, were always treated with some degree of parity,” Kramer said in an inter view Wednesday.

“On another basis though, I look at these and it’s just par t of the process. The legislature … [has] to get it approved by the governor, they also have to reconcile pretty significant dif ferences between the House and Senate positions.”

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“Funding for higher ed is under attack across the entire country, and this bill is no different.”

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Abeer Syedah, MSA president, said MSA members, many of whom are cur rent or for mer CAs, wanted additional training because they didn’t feel that the cur rent system properly trained CAs to handle sexual misconduct cases.

“Right now, CAs are just not equipped to deal with the kind of hor rific things that you deal with when you live that intimately with students,” Syedah said.

A study of 305 sexual assault claims at 104 colleges and universities nationwide by United Educators, a higher education insurance company, found

connection with members of the EOAA, an of fice that can seem kind of distant because of the work they do,” she said. “It is good to get feedback from t h e CAs b ec a u s e t h ey work so closely with the students.”

Additionally, last summer, EOAA star ted Title IX training for first-year orientation leaders after the of fice r eceived r equests for it.

While repor ting incidents is not mandator y for orientation leaders, this additional training helps encourage and inform leaders to repor t to EOAA, said Jenny Por ter, associate director for Orientation and First-Year Programs.

Increased awareness of campus sexual assault may have contributed to a student push for greater training for leaders, Marisam said.

“Students ar e coming and saying, ‘I heard from someone who has gone through this, and I want to have the knowled ge a n d s k i l ls t o r espond in a way that is sensitive and humane but also gives them the information they need,’” she said

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that 53 percent of repor ts occur red in a residence hall. The repor t was released in 2015.

Th ough it’ s uncle a r how often sexual assault occurs in University residence halls, in 2015, there were six repor ts of rape or fondling in University residence halls and 10 in 2014, according to Cler y Act data.

The additional training comes amid an increase in the number of sexual misconduct repor ts at the University.

Lauren Adamski, HRL coordinator of student conduct, said she hopes the Title IX training will help CAs become more comfor table with reaching out to EOAA. “It is incredibly important for CAs to have that

We’re tr ying to get a few more players on the roster who have that drive, and overall we want to make the team stronger,” Dutoit said.

With University funding, the team could bring the school’s League of Legends program to the top-tier of electronic sports in the Midwest, Dutoit said.

“The league club is ver y fun, and I just want more organized infrastr ucture for the team,” Dutoit said.

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Right now, the University’s team is focusing on recr uiting the best players on campus in order to get attention from the Athletics Depar tment and big-name brands, Dutoit said.

At the competition, the University placed four th in its six-team division and qualified for playof fs but lost in the first round.

“This season was a little rough, but it definitely showed the weakness of the team.

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Legends player Evan Lawson, who receives an athletic scholarship from Robert Morris.

RMU Associate Athletic Director Kur t Melcher said because the players spend just as much time practicing and competing as other student-athletes do, they deser ve the recognition.

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“ We w a n t t o t r e a t League as if it were a real spor t,” said communications coordinator and team member Jef f Wang. “It’s definitely just as rigorous and has as equal depth as any game.”

The team said that they would like the University’s Athletics Depar tment to grant them a devoted team lounge, open 24/7, with increased internet speeds.

until the added help, we’re tr ying to take it as seriously as we can.”

Some colleges, like Columbia College, Lourdes University and Rober t Mor ris University, have star ted recognizing their League of Legend team players as student-athletes and awarding them scholarships.

“Having lots of people who understand what you’re doing and respect what you’re tr ying to do for the school is awesome,” said League of

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“We have a group that is putting in time and ef for t to represent the school,” Wang said.

Th e te am s ai d they hope to have all their requests hashed out with the University within three years. In tur n, they say, their players will be better equipped to compete against school League of Legends teams with similar funding.

“We know other teams are taking it way more seriously than the U is taking it,” Wang said. “And

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he said. “It just doesn’t do any of them ver y well.”

Will Dammann, Minnesota Student Association director of gover nment and legislative affairs, said he wishes the state’s allocation was larger considering this year’s $1.65 billion surplus.

“When they talk about disinvestment from higher education, this is a great example,” he said.

The House omnibus bill will now head to the Senate before a conference committee works out the dif ferences between each bill’s allocations. Any final bill would have to be signed by Dayton.

Nor nes said in an inter view that although there is still work to be done, he hopes the bill will pass. If vetoed, legislators would “have to go back to the drawing board.”

“Since … I’ve been chair of [the] higher education [committee], I’ve never had [an omnibus bill] vetoed yet, and I hate to say that because it might be bad luck,” he said. “We generally work out the details before it’s over.”

“Since … I’ve been chair of [the] higher education [committee], I’ve never had [an omnibus bill] vetoed yet, and I hate to say that because it might be bad luck.”

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