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Pundit Ben Shapiro to speak at U The conservative editor and media personality will visit the St. Paul campus in February.

BY MADELINE DENINGER mdeninger@mndaily.com

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City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins listens to City Council member Phillipe Cunningham during the morning meeting on Friday, Jan. 12, at Minneapolis City Hall.

On council, Jenkins will bring U expertise The former curator of the University’s Transgender Oral History Project was elected as the City Council’s vice president in the fall.

BY MADELINE DENINGER mdeninger@mndaily.com

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ard 8 Minneapolis City Council Member Andrea Jenkins gained national recognition in November when she became the first openly transgender black woman elected to public office.

She hopes to use her experience in public policy and as a University of Minnesota oral historian to serve her Ward 8 constituents.

Jenkins was inaugurated as a first-term

council member on Jan. 8, where she was also announced as the body’s vice president.

“She is a remarkable leader. It’s a huge accomplishment to be vice president as a firsttime council member, and I think the position is incredibly well-deserved,” said Ward 4 City Council Member Phillipe Cunningham, who serves as Jenkins’ vice chair on the Committee of the Whole. Cunningham became one of the first openly transgender men elected to public office in November.

Prior to her election, Jenkins served as a policy aide to former Ward 8 council members

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Popular conservative figure Ben Shapiro will visit the University of Minnesota on Feb. 26 as part of his 2018-19 campus tour, according to Young America’s Foundation, the tour’s sponsor.

Shapiro is the editor-in-chief of the Daily Wire, a conservative news outlet. The event is being hosted by student groups Students for a Conservative Voice, Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow and Minnesota Students for Liberty.

Shapiro drew large protests at his appearance at the University of California, Berkeley in September, costing the school an estimated $600,000 in security, according to The New York Times.

“The student organization is working with the Student Activities Office and [University of Minnesota Police Department] to prepare, which is standard protocol,” said Steve Henneberry, director of communications for the University’s Office for Student Affairs. The event will be held in the North Star Ballroom on the University’s St. Paul campus from 7-8:30 p.m.

Shapiro is the latest conservative speaker to come to the University of Minnesota.

Conservative commentator Lauren Southern’s talk in October, organized by CFACT and Students for a Conservative Voice, drew around 200 protesters. The protest resulted in one arrest.

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Marcy-Holmes apartment will move forward The tower, planned by developer Kelly Doran, faced early delays due to historical concerns.

BY CARTER BLOCHWITZ cblochwitz@mndaily.com

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Attorney claims Lynch feels ‘falsely accused’ of sex assault The basketball player is being recommended for expulsion for breaking school conduct code.

BY JACK WARRICK jwarrick@mndaily.com At his office Wednesday Ryan Pacyga, Gophers men’s basketball player Reggie Lynch’s attorney, said Lynch “categorically denies” every allegation of sexual misconduct against him. “Right now, what [Lynch] is most concerned about is that he truly feels like he is being falsely accused,” Pacyga said.

Lynch was suspended from the team on Friday by athletics director Mark Coyle, following an investigation by the University’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action. The investigation recommended a two-year suspension of Lynch, while another investigation — which was reported Tuesday — recommended expulsion, due to alleged sexual misconduct violations in two u See LYNCH Page 3

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Attorney Ryan Pacyga speaks during a press conference held to discuss his new role as council for Gophers men’s basketball player Reggie Lynch. Lynch has been accused of sexual misconduct and recommended for expulsion by the University of Minnesota.

Plans for a large-scale development project in Marcy-Holmes are now moving forward after developers successfully appealed a denial from the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission.

The proposal for a 26-story apartment tower and other low-rise apartment buildings was approved by the Minneapolis City Planning Commission last week after developers made changes to its design. The development, which would occupy an entire city block, has drawn criticism from neighborhood residents for its size relative to nearby buildings.

The Expo, a 372-unit apartment complex proposed near St. Anthony Main nearly a year ago by developers Doran Companies and CSM Corporation, will now enter a 10-day appeal period before the commission’s decision is final. The proposal was initially denied in October 2017 by the Minneapolis Heritage Preservation Commission due to issues with the height and appearance of the tower.

Revised plans for the apartment complex along University Avenue Southeast added a story to the tower while narrowing its width, and changed material and color palettes for the now six-story L-shaped apartment building that would span the corner of 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue Southeast. Townhomes u See TOWER Page 2

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STATE REPORT MINNESOTA EXPECTS TO SEE MORE STRONG GROWTH IN SOLAR ENERGY ST. PAUL — Minnesota is expected to see more strong growth in solar energy after the state added enough solar panels in 2017 to power about 53,000 homes.

The state has an overall capacity of more than 700 megawatts, according to the Minnesota Department of Commerce.

“Our goal is to possibly reach a full gigawatt of solar in Minnesota by 2019,” Commerce Commissioner Jessica Looman told Minnesota Public Radio.

Community solar gardens are fueling the growth.

Thirty different utilities added solar gardens in the state last year. The gardens provide solar electricity to customers who don’t want to install panels on their own homes.

“It’s a way for them to participate in the growth of renewable energy themselves, receive electric credits on their utility bill,” said David Amster-Olszewski, founder and CEO of Colorado-based SunShare.

The company opened community solar gardens in Waverly and Montrose last month. More facilities will go online this month, and construction on additional gardens is expected to resume this spring, AmsterOlszewski said.

Battery storage is another important part of the solar energy boom. It can help store energy more effectively and save it for when the power is most needed.

“Solar plus storage is like peanut butter and chocolate.

Two great things that go even better together,” said Sean Gallagher, vice president of state affairs at the Solar Energy Industries Association.

While Minnesota is lagging on solar storage when compared with other states, a study last year from the University of Minnesota’s Energy Transition Lab indicated a strong potential for solar energy and storage to help meet electricity demands.

State officials hope to vastly reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

The state hopes 2025 will have levels that are 30 percent less than 2005 levels.

The state failed to meet its 2015 goal of a 15 percent reduction.

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are still proposed to run between the tower and lowrise apartment building.

Plans for significant retail space, underground parking and a handful of affordable housing units within the complex were also outlined at the meeting.

Despite the successful appeal, residents of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood remain concerned with the height and presence of the tower structure.

Chris Lautenschlager,

executive director of the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, said many of the neighborhood suggestions had been met, though the height of the tower did not align with the previous 18-story maximum suggested by the MHNA. Others at the meeting, like Marcy-Holmes resident Jonathan Moore, a park ranger with the National Park Service, believed the tower should not exceed the height of the neighboring Red Tile Elevator, which stands above all other structures in the area at 17 stories. Moore said he feared the tower’s height

would spoil the historic St. Anthony Main skyline.

Moore and other speakers pointed to City and neighborhood comprehensive plans to argue against the size of the proposed project.

“The Expo Tower is in clear violation of the City’s comprehensive plan,” said Erich Wunderlich, a MarcyHolmes resident. “The Red Tile Elevator and other similarly tall structures were explicitly not to be used as a precedent for development.”

Kelly Doran, founder of Doran Companies, attempted to ease concerns about the tower’s height by showing several

digital representations of the tower superimposed in the skyline.

Peter Crandall, senior city planner for the City of Minneapolis, said the final construction approval process would likely take around two months before Doran and CSM could break ground.

“Doran Companies and CSM Corporation share a long-standing commitment to the Twin Cities,” said CSM Corporation’s CEO Gary Holmes in a press release. “We are looking forward to breaking ground later this year and bringing this vision to life.”

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Prayers for victims Trump says end is near of mudslide; death for dreamer program toll reaches 20

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MONTECITO — Parishioners prayed on Sunday for those killed and for families still searching for missing relatives in a Southern California community ravaged by mudslides, and authorities announced another body had been found, increasing the death toll to 20.

The body of 30-year-old Pinit Sutthithepa was discovered Saturday afternoon. His 2-year-old daughter, Lydia, remained missing. His 6-year-old son, Peerawat, nicknamed Pasta, and his 79-year-old father-in-law, Richard Loring Taylor, also were killed in the mudslides.

The list of those still missing in the mudslides has shrunk to four.

Because most churches in Montecito are in an evacuation area, many worshippers attended services in nearby towns.

At a church in Santa Barbara, they carried flowers, lit candles and prayed for the families who have lost loved ones.

The victims were their friends and neighbors, they said.

“Our whole community is devastated,” Hannah Miller said at the Trinity Episcopal Church. “There isn’t anyone who doesn’t know someone who has been affected by this disaster. It is truly awful. We can just pray they find those poor missing people.”

In the disaster area, firefighters went door to door to check the structural stability of the houses damaged by a powerful rainstorm that preceded the mudslides and scoured what’s left of toppled homes and mangled cars as they searched for the missing.

The storm sent flash floods cascading through mountain slopes that were burned bare by a huge wildfire in December. Workers used backhoes, jackhammers and chain saws to clear away masses of mud, boulders and toppled trees.

Crews have made it a priority to clear out debris basins and creek canals before another rainstorm. Long-range forecasts gave the crews about a week before the next chance of rain — and potential new mudslides — although the precipitation was expected to be disorganized and light.

Another system was possible two days later.

“If we don’t get those debris basins cleaned out, then we’re not going to be prepared for the storm and we don’t know what that storm is going to look like,” said Robert Lewin, Santa Barbara County’s emergency management director.

PALM BEACH — President Donald Trump said Sunday that a program that protects immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children is “probably dead,” casting a cloud over already tenuous negotiations just days before a deadline on a government funding deal that Democrats have tied to immigration.

At issue is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by President Barack Obama to shield hundreds of thousands of these individuals, known as “Dreamers,” from deportation. Trump, who has taken a hard stance against illegal immigration, announced last year that he will end the program unless Congress comes up with a solution by March.

“DACA is probably dead because the Democrats don’t really want it, they just want to talk and take desperately needed money away from our Military,” the Republican president tweeted. “I, as President, want people coming into our Country who are going to help us become strong and great again, people coming in through a system based on MERIT. No more Lotteries! #AMERICA FIRST.” Republicans and Democrats were already at odds over funding the government, and the negotiations became more complicated after Democrats — whose votes are needed to pass a government funding bill — insisted immigration be included. Government funding expires midnight Friday without a deal in place, and some government functions will begin to go dark.

F u r t h e r ro i l i n g t h e t a l k s a r e c o m m e n t s b y Trump during an Oval Office meeting in which he questioned the need to admit more Haitians to the U.S., along with Africans from “shithole” countries, according to people briefed on the conversation but not authorized to describe it publicly. He also said in the Thursday meeting he would prefer immigrants from countries like Norway instead. The White House has not denied that Trump said the word “shithole,” though Trump did push back on some depictions of the meeting.

A confidant of Trump’s told The Associated Press that the president spent Thursday evening calling friends and outside advisers to judge their reaction on his inflammatory remarks. Trump wasn’t apologetic and denied he was racist, instead blaming the media for distorting his meaning, said the confidant, who wasn’t authorized to disclose a private conversation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

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Bell Museum preps for summer debut Staff are installing new exhibits and dioramas before the new facility opens.

BY KATRINA PROSS kpross@mndaily.com

Staff at the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of Natural History are busy installing new exhibits and dioramas ahead of the new facility’s anticipated summer 2018 opening on the St. Paul campus.

Employees expect the new building to triple the number of patrons per year because of increased space and accessibility compared to the East Bank location. With the building’s exterior completed, staff are now focusing on scheduling public events and building community connections.

University officials and legislators spent years pushing for funding for museum renovations and received state support for the project in 2014. Construction on the $64 million building began in April 2016. Exhibits in the more than 75-year-old Minneapolis building closed in December 2016.

“The new location is perfect for connecting visitors to the work and research that goes on at the University,” said Bell Museum Scientific Director and Curator of Flowering Plants, George Weiblen.

Constructing the museum in St. Paul allows more space for exhibits and parking than the previous location at the corner of Church Street and University Avenue, said Holly Menninger, director of public engagement and science learning for the museum.

Patrons can expect to see new-and-improved versions of

some Bell Museum favorites at the St. Paul facility as well as brand-new features.

The “Touch and See Lab,” which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, will include more specimens and give visitors more chances to interact with museum installations, Menninger said.

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Robert Lilligren and Elizabeth Glidden. Cunningham said he believes the relationships built by Jenkins during her time in the Ward and her prominence in the community will serve her well in the new position.

“Hopefully with someone being as trusted and as connected as Andrea is, that will translate to an increase [in] trust and also engagement with local governing,” he said.

Jenkins previously served as oral historian for the University of Minnesota’s Transgender Oral History Project, where she interviewed 200 transgender and gender nonconforming individuals from the upper Midwest and helped document their stories.

The stories were compiled to form the Tretter Transgender Oral History Project Online Exhibition, a part of the University of Minnesota Libraries’ JeanNickolaus Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies. The entire archive contains around 250 hours of footage.

Cunningham was one individual who took part in

the project.

“I was excited to be a part of [the project] because I have a somewhat unique experience being black, queer and trans,” he said. “It’s important for people to know that folks like me exist.”

Th o ug h J en k in s departed the project after her election, she sees the experience as something she can bring with her to the council.

“One of the things I’ve learned from that project and that process is the ability to listen,” she said. “In being involved with the oral history project and interviewing so many people, it really became clear to me that the ability to listen and just understand where people are coming from is really important.”

Among Jenkins’ biggest concerns at the beginning of her term are what she calls “bread and butter issues,” which include economic development, affordable housing and public safety.

One issue Jenkins sees as a top priority is the proposed Metro Transit D Line rapid transit bus route, which would stretch from North Minneapolis to South Minneapolis. Jenkins said the proposed route is an equity issue.

“[The project] was very recently downgraded to a second-tier priority, meaning it is not up for funding in 2018,” she said. “And we are going to be fighting very hard to reinstate that project and get that back in the prioritization project so that we can begin work on the D Line to begin moving low-income and people of color back and forth from jobs.”

Lisa Vecoli, curator of the Tretter Collection, said the election of Jenkins and Cunningham to the city council shows Minnesota’s leadership in LGBT inclusion and equality.

“That has happened in the past, and it continues to happen today, as evidenced by the election of Phillipe Cunningham and Andrea Jenkins to the Minneapolis City Council as the first African American trans elected officials in the country,” Vecoli said.

Cunningham said Jenkins’ public service background will help her tackle issues in her ward and across the city.

“She has put in a lot of work to be a powerful leader in our city, not just for the trans community, but really our entire city,” Cunningham said.

Attorney claims Lynch feels ‘falsely accused’ of sex assault Lynch u from Page 1

separate incidents occurring in April 2016, Pacyga said Wednesday.

In each case, Lynch was investigated by police and not charged. However, the University is required by Title IX laws to do its own investigation into any case involving sex discrimination.

Under the suspension, Lynch is able to practice with the team but not travel.

Pacyga said Lynch declined to travel for the Gophers game against Northwestern Wednesday at 8 p.m., but a University spokesperson said Lynch did not have a choice.

Pacyga said he has requested a hearing and the processes for an appeal could last until March or later.

“By the time it’s all over, it could be the end of the basketball season or even worse,” Pacyga said.

Pacyga said Lynch has appealed the two EOAA rulings, but he said he isn’t sure whether the two hearings will be combined, though

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A rendering shows the planned exterior for the new Bell Museum of Natural History.

he thinks they should be separate.

Lynch “fully cooperated” with the EOAA investigation without a lawyer, Pacyga said, attending multiple interviews during the investigations, which started on Oct. 9 and Oct. 27.

Pacyga said sexual assault cases often favor the accuser or victim. He said both cases were not investigated until 18 months following the alleged incidents, which would erase a lot of potential evidence.

“My experience when I walk into a court room in these sorts of cases is that your average juror naturally and instinctively wants to rush to protect the accuser or the victim,” Pacyga said.

Lynch’s former lawyer, Lee Hutton, declined to represent Lynch, according to Pacyga. Pacyga said he took over as Lynch’s lawyer around noon on Jan. 9.

Hutton and Pacyga were involved with the 10 Gophers football players in last year’s case of an alleged sexual assault. The case ended with five players cleared, one suspended for one year

and four expelled.

Pacyga compared the accusations against Lynch and the current climate toward sexual misconduct to the hysteria that led to Japanese internment camps during World War II. “This is not the perfect analogy, but it seems to me it’s a little bit like where there was all of this hysteria when World War II started,” Pacyga said. “We had the Japanese internment camps and everybody rushed out of fear to do something like that.”

Lynch appealed the previous suspension and has five weekdays to appeal the latest, according to the Star Tribune.

Lynch was the 2016-17 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year after sitting out the 2015-16 season due to transfer rules. He came to the Gophers from Illinois State.

“We do a lot of background and we never saw any red flags leading up to this, certainly,” head coach Richard Pitino said Friday, when asked about recruiting Lynch.

dome – a new museum attraction – started last August.

“There hasn’t been a true modern planetarium in the metro area in well over a decade,” said Bell Museum Executive Director Denise Young.

The planetarium will be able to show everything from

a tour of the brain or heart to the flight of a monarch butterfly in migration, Bell Museum communications manager Andria Waclawski told the Minnesota Daily in August.

The museum has already booked a wedding ceremony at the planetarium, Weiblen said. Other new attractions

include an observation deck with telescopes and an outdoor learning landscape.

The museum will have more space for K-12 school groups, summer camps and field trips, which make up a large portion of the museum’s visitors, Young said.

“This museum is special, and everyone in the metro.”

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Third-period surge helps U split series Minnesota scored five goals in the final period alone on Saturday night.

BY MAX BIEGERT mbiegert@mndaily.com Minnesota’s game against Vermont on Saturday came down to the last period.

The final score, however, did not reflect that.

The No. 5 Gophers (17-62) beat Vermont (6-14-4) 6-1 in game two of the weekend series against the Catamounts at Ridder Arena on Saturday night. The game was tied at one after two periods, but it was all Gophers in the third period, as they scored five goals to put away the Catamounts and split the series.

“The chances that we had in the second period were really good chances and we just kept going at it,” head coach Brad Frost said. “We talked about if we just continued to play the way we were playing. We just had to keep faith that things were going to go our way.”

Goaltender Alex Gulstene had 16 saves and forward Nicole Schammel had two goals. The Gophers outshot Vermont 43-17.

By the 10-minute mark in the third, the Gophers had opened up a four-goal lead. Forward Taylor Wente scored 45 seconds into the period to give the Gophers their first lead of the

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series. Schammel slid across the net and had enough strength to get it past Vermont’s Sydney Scobee for the score just three minutes later. Minnesota’s Lindsay Agnew added her third goal of the year to extend the lead to 4-1. Schammel got her second goal on a tip-in. Defenseman Sydney Baldwin added one more goal with six minutes left in the game to solidify the win.

In the first minute of the first period, Vermont’s Mackenzie MacNeil scored to grab the early lead. The Gophers Olivia Knowles tied the game two minutes later with a wrist shot that squeaked through to the back of the net and the Gophers never looked back.

“We were continuing to build off the chances we created in the second period,” Grace Zumwinkle said. “We just came out with more intensity and urgency in the third period and the pucks went in.”

Gophers stunned in first game of series.

The No. 5 Gophers lost 4-2 to Vermont. The Gophers outshot the Catamounts

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Redshirt junior forward Nicole Schammel skates with the puck on Friday Dec. 8 at Ridder Arena.

25-11, but the Catamounts capitalized on their opportunities. Scobee, a high school teammate of Zumwinkle, stopped 23 shots. She had her shutout ruined with 5:48 to go in the third period. Schammel broke the shutout with her goal.

“We played 40 minutes of pretty good hockey there tonight,” Frost said. “We are not good enough to play 40 minutes and expect to get

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away with it, but they tried to do it tonight and it didn’t work.”

Vermont went out to a 2-0 lead in the first period.

Vermont’s Taylor Flaherty found the back of the net for her fourth goal of the season midway through the period. The Catamounts Eve Audrey-Picard scored her sixth goal of the year on a 4-on-4 situation to get out to that lead.

In the second period, Alyssa Holmes of Vermont forced Frost to change goaltenders after her shot went through the five hole of Sydney Peters. Gulstene came in and Holmes beat her for a score. The Gophers went on a power play three times in the period, but could not find the net.

Scobee held the shutout for 15 minutes, facing a barrage of shots from the

Gopher before giving up the goal to Schammel. Quickly after, Baldwin scored her fifth goal of the year on a 6-on-5 with little time left, but it was not enough for the victory.

“We got to find a way to compete and win battles,” Baldwin said. “I don’t think anyone was happy with how we started and our energy was a focus the rest of the game.”

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Unranked Michigan wins two games versus UMN

Minnesota lost the first game 5-3 and then went down in the second 3-1.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

Gophers players said after Friday’s loss that they would need a jolt of energy to turn the weekend around and beat the Wolverines Saturday.

The team held a playersonly meeting to ensure they saw a change before the next game.

But No. 9 Minnesota (1312-1, 4-9-1-1 Big Ten) didn’t have the jump on Saturday, and the Gophers finished winless in four tries against Michigan (10-10-2, 5-7-2-1 Big Ten) this season, losing the final game 3-1 and dropping the season series 0-3-1.

“Tonight they got two quick ones,” captain Tyler Sheehy said. “We put ourselves in a hole like that, and it’s hard to come back.”

Like Friday, Saturday began with the Gophers going down early.

The first goal for Michigan came on its first

shot of the game. The Wolverines padded their lead with another goal 3:06 into the game. Before the Gophers settled in, they found themselves down 2-0.

“As the game progressed, sometimes we got in our own way,” head coach Don Lucia said. “The harder you try, the worse it gets. Then you start to become individualistic, and you don’t share the puck and make the right play because you’re trying too hard.”

Lucia said many of the Gophers problems would be solved if the usual offensive talent provided the scoring.

It was forward Darian Romanko who scored the lone goal Saturday, just his third of the season.

Minnesota’s offense is tied for 41st in college hockey.

The team has not scored goals to send games into overtime or comeback.

“Guys aren’t having the years that they want,” Sheehy said. “It’s a team effort every night, we’ve just got to come together these next 10 games and then [in the] postseason we’ve got to be great.”

The team couldn’t find enough offense to come

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within reach, and by the time four minutes had passed in the first period, Michigan had scored the eventual game-winning goal.

The Wolverines offense got scoring from the toptwo lines, with a goal each c o m i n g f ro m f o r w a r d s Brendan Warren, Josh Norris and Cooper Marody.

The message after Friday’s loss was that players, especially veterans on the team, needed a better start from the first drop of the puck, but the message Saturday was to get the team on the same page for the last 10 games of the season.

“What we’re doing right now isn’t working and we know that,” Romanko said.

“We’ve got to get everyone on the same page and just buy into the system.”

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Senior Ciara Gardner leaps during her floor routine. Gardner scored a 9.725 and placed fourth overall on her floor exercise during a home meet on Saturday, Jan. 13.

Lexy Ramler impresses in her collegiate debut for Minnesota Ramler finished in first place for the all-around event at Maturi Pavilion.

BY ERIK NELSON enelson2@mndaily.com Lexy Ramler began her collegiate gymnastics career on Saturday in a quad meet.

She didn’t disappoint.

Ramler, a freshman from St. Michael, Minnesota, finished first in the beam portion and tied for first in the vault portion.

She also finished first in the all-around category, earning a score of exactly 39.

Even though she ended up taking home multiple first-place finishes, the freshman wasn’t thinking about winning.

“My focus is to do the best that I can and help my team as much as I can,” Ramler said.

Minnesota (1-0, 1-0 Big Ten) finished first overall in the team category with 194.2 points, edging out Maryland by less than a point. Maryland finished with 194.025. Minnesota faced Maryland, Northern Illinois and Winona State at Maturi Pavilion in the season opener.

Sophomore Ivy Lu

finished in first place on bars, earning a score of 9.9 out of 10. It was Minnesota’s best event, as the Gophers registered a score of 48.950 to finish first.

Head coach Jenny Hansen said there were more positive takeaways from the season opener than negative ones. She wished that Minnesota performed better in the floor event, though.

“I was pleased with how we did on the other three events,” Hansen said. “We got a lot to take away from this in a good way and a lot to build on for next week.”

Sophomore Paige Williams finished in first place in the floor exercise, earning a composite score of 9.8. Minnesota finished first in every event. Senior Hannah Hitchcock earned a score of 9.775 on two bar exercises, which was good for a share of third best on the team alongside senior Rachel Rowland.

Hitchcock averaged 9.7 points on her two vault exercises. “[Hitchcock is] very steady for us,” Hansen said.

“We count on her for not only her performances but also her leadership.”

Now Ramler has gone through one collegiate

meet. She hopes the team will improve in preparation for Minnesota’s meet against the Spartans while continuing to build on strengths.

“We had a really strong bars and beams,” Ramler said. “I’m super excited about that. We could work on our floor [next week].”

Minnesota’s next meet is on Saturday against Michigan State at Maturi Pavilion at 4 p.m.

Hansen didn’t expect the first meet to be this close, but she’s optimistic that Minnesota will learn from its season opener.

“You never know where everybody’s at. This is the first time for our athletes to perform and a lot of them are [competing] for the first time for us,” Hansen said.

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TEAMS SCORE Minnesota 194.200 Maryland 194.025 Northern Illinois 193.575 Winona State 184.750 MINNESOTA LEADERS Floor Williams, 9.8 Beam Ramler, 9.925 Vault Loper, 9.775 Ramler, 9.775 Bars Lu, 9.9 All-around Ramler, 39.0

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Black Label Movement opens their 2018 season at the Ritz Theater The dance company opens their second decade of performance with “TeamWork,” a repertory show devoted to the company’s myriad collaborations.

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n its 11 years, the dance company Black Label Movement has collaborated with dancers, musicians, visual artists, composers and even biomedical engineers. As Black Label Movement moves into the next phase of its artistry in the Ritz Theater, the company chose to honor this history of collaboration.

Their 2018 season, which runs through Jan. 21, is entitled “Teamwork.” As a repertory show, the production highlights multiple collaborations through dance, music and an exhibit.

“This is our first full season in our second decade as an organization … [and] the tendency when you’re doing [a show] like this is to do a retrospective … and I just didn’t find that galvanizing,” said Carl Flink, artistic director and dance professor at the University of Minnesota. “I felt like as a company … I wanted us to really show where we are and what is happening with Black Label Movement today.”

For Black Label Movement, that means exploring the physically intensive aesthetic central to their missions as a dance company.

“Being in that physical space of the possibility of failure … is a place of discovery,” Flink said. “When you’re at the extreme space, you have to decide how am I dealing with this, and where am I positioning myself? Am I pushing myself away because I

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got scared, or am I going to pull through?”

For dancers, or “movers,” in the company, this risk-taking is thrilling and freeing.

“It was really about finding your inner animal and not being afraid to dance,” said Crystal Edwards, the managing director of Black Label Movement who started as a mover in the company. “[You] really throw yourself into every movement from your core.”

After performing at the Cowles Center for five seasons,

Black Label Movement moved to the Ritz Theater in Northeast Minneapolis, a space that breaks away from a traditional proscenium stage and mirrors the organic style of Black Label Movement.

“When you clear out the curtains, the Ritz is an extremely raw space. … It has chipping here and there and this amazing industrial [feel] in the building. … Our aesthetic is very raw, very physical — trying to pull away a lot of refinement and getting at the root of movement,” Flink said.

The nontraditional space in the neighborhood of Northeast Minneapolis also lets the company better connect with its audience.

“We’re hoping that this intimate venue will let us program things our way that make sense in this specific seating arrangement. …

The Ritz hasn’t had a lot of dance recently … and for us and Northeast Minneapolis, we’re hoping that it revitalizes people to say, ‘The Ritz is here, and it can be a place for dance.’”

The lobby of the Ritz showcases a gallery of the work from collaborators Bill Cameron, Lara Hanson and Anne Swan entitled “Eye Hand Gesture.” Curated by the University’s Arts and Architecture librarian Deborah Ultan, the exhibit explores the history of Black Label Movement through the lens of these collaborations. A parallel exhibit will also be shown in the University’s Wilson Library through March 9.

“Unlike the visual arts,

where you might come back to a museum … and see a work of art many times, most people don’t think about seeing dances multiple times,” said Emilie Plauche Flink, an artistic associate of Black Label Movement who also worked on the exhibit. “I don’t think it’s encouraged from the audience’s point of view, and I think dance in America isn’t supported in such a way that we are … able to perform multiple times. … I think that it’s important to discover things in many layers, which just adds to the experience.”

As the curator of the exhibit, Ultan communicated Black Label Movement’s physically intensive movement through the staging of photographs and videos.

“Part of my mission and philosophy in curating is taking risks, which is in sync with Black Label Movement, and I like to work in alternative spaces to see how we can make those challenges and break the boundaries of spaces,” Ultan said. “The intersection of where the energy of the artist … and the gesture of the dancer is a very exciting concept. … How can I as a curator make that statement happen for somebody to just walk into the space?”

What: BLM No. 11 - TeamWork When: January 17-20 at 7:30 pm, January 20 at 2:00 pm, January 21 at 4:00 pm Where: Ritz Theater, 345 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis Cost: $10 for students, $20 general tickets, $5-$20 on January 17

MOVIES

Review: ‘The Post’ brings spectacle and drama to history Spielberg’s latest film honors the power of the press in the face of censorship and avoids melodrama.

BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com

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he Post,” Steven Spielberg’s latest sweeping historical drama, opens in the midst of a war — in the thick of a jungle in Vietnam, to be exact. It’s a heated, bloody opening to a movie about the austere world of Washington politics and the papers that cover them.

As “The Post” shifts its focus from the gruesome Vietnam War to the steely, paper-filled halls of The Washington Post, Spielberg keeps all the drama, movement and turmoil from his first setting. “The Post” covers the leak of the Pentagon Papers, a historic survey of US involvement and abuse of power in Vietnam. When The New York Times is blocked from publishing any more of the documents, The Washington Post is faced with the decision of publishing the papers to share the truth with the public, or to stay quiet.

The difficult decision is complicated by the new leadership of Katharine Graham, played by Meryl Streep.

Taking over the paper after her husband Phil Graham’s death, she holds the power of the paper but fights against her friendships with government officials. Streep’s performance is brilliant — she balances Graham’s introspection while finding her identity as a publisher with daring turns of commanding the room. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, it’s stirring to watch her find her footing in a room full of men who doubt her abilities.

The rest of Spielberg’s cast is not to be ignored, either. Tom Hanks as The Washington Post’s executive editor, Ben Bradlee, is persistent and stubborn,

conducting his team of reporters with ease. Hanks similarly commands the film’s extensive ensemble of well-known actors with a refined polish — Carrie Coon, Sarah Paulson, Tracy Letts, Michael Stuhlbarg, Matthew Rhys, Bradley Whitford, David Cross, Bob Odenkirk and more play various characters in the drama surrounding the Pentagon Papers. Without outshining each other, each actor plays out their moments appropriately.

With a driving John Williams score playing underneath it, “The Post” can feel as suspenseful and dramatic as Spielberg’s other films. Shadowy exchanges in seedy motel rooms and phone booths borrow from film noir classics. Nixon, the primary “villain” in the film, is never fully seen. Instead, Spielberg chooses to film the president through the windows of the Oval Office. He talks on the phone and paces around his office, with real dialogue from Nixon’s extensive tape recordings playing over the phone. The president is a reflection of the looming executive power and a dark symbol of the censorship on screen.

This spectacle could easily turn into melodrama.

But, the film’s focus on the mechanics of a newspaper is punctuated by montages of the newspaper in edits, production and distribution.

By filming the reality of publication with such drama, Spielberg elevates the power of the press.

“The Post” rallies viewers behind the First Amendment, but sometimes in these rallying calls, the movie stumbles over its own goals.

Even with Streep at its helm as the influential Katharine Graham, the other female actors in the film seem to be overlooked.

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As Bradlee’s wife, Sarah Paulson delivers a stirring monologue about Graham’s position as the only woman in the boardroom. Spielberg incorporates subtler nods to gender disparities, emphasizing Graham’s singularity when she walks through a crowd of female secretaries to enter a male-dominated boardroom. But, with renowned actresses like Streep and Paulson onscreen, it’s natural to leave the theater wanting more, though this could easily be a byproduct of the limited power of women during this era.

Phil Graham popularized the phrase “journalism is the first rough draft of history.” “The Post” is the more polished revision of this story — its suspense and well-rounded performances dramatize history. Even the last notes, in which Spielberg hints at the Watergate break-in, make the course of history cinematic fodder, as if the next turn of events could play out as “The Post 2.”

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Don’t give up on your New Year’s resolution

Athletics must address sexual assault issues

If you want to achieve your New Year’s resolution, you first should change your mindset.

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s we all begin to settle into 2018, the excitement and determination we have to stick to our New Year’s resolutions can wane. If you’re struggling, you’re not alone — 80 percent of people give ELLEN AILTS up on their resolutions columnist before the second week of February. The most popular resolutions include losing weight, exercising more and quitting smoking, but changing our behavior can be frustrating, especially if it’s a habit we’ve lived with for a while, or one that has helped us cope with hardship in the past.

The arrival of the New Year might inspire hope in some, yet in others it might bring about feelings of stress or self-criticism. It’s a reminder that time is passing, whether we’re taking advantage of it or not, and we’ve perhaps made less progress in moving toward our imagined ideal

self than we’d like. But passing a benchmark in time gives a sense of a fresh start, and we can capitalize on that feeling by reflecting on the gap between where we are and where we want to be.

New Year’s resolutions might be written off by some, with only about half of all adults partaking in the tradition. Still, setting goals and taking concrete steps to achieve them is crucial to self-growth, whether you frame it as a New Year’s resolution or just a personal goal. The way we frame our resolutions in our minds is crucial to whether we’ll achieve them; overthinking what we should do only makes that thing seem way more daunting, and breeds guilt and shame in the moments when we slip up. Instead, framing it as something you will do, or even get to do, creates possibility for empowerment and focus. Another reason people don’t see their resolutions through is “false hope syndrome,” which is characterized by unrealistic expectations about how easily or quickly they’ll be able to change a behavior.This might lead to a sprawling list of resolutions, all of which are too vague and lofty to realistically achieve. For example, if you say you want to lose 20 pounds or get an A in your hardest class but don’t have a defined strategy or plan of action to make that

happen, it’s less likely you’ll be able to. The key to keeping resolutions is to be realistic. Take things one step at a time and reward yourself along the way. Cutting out bad habits cold turkey only serves to make things a lot more difficult.

Focusing on changing your character and your mindset is a worthy goal, no matter what time of the year. Instead of resolving to change something superficial, like “lose x pounds,” focus on the root of the problem, whether it be bad habits with time management, avoiding your fears, a lack of self-confidence, etc. Instead of beating yourself up for your shortcomings, focus on self-care and self-love, and frame your goals around changing not because you don’t like yourself but because you know you deserve better. In truth, we shouldn’t take our resolutions so personally. They should be used as a tool, a goal that inspires us to be mindful of our behavior — there’s no reason we should expect overnight changes, or changes that will receive external validation. Be patient with yourself, and do it for you.

Ellen Ailts welcomes comments at eailts@mndaily.com.

Robert McGrady welcomes comments at rmcgrady@mndaily.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR I have had enough of athletes violating sexual misconduct code at the University of Minnesota Over the last decade, the University of Minnesota athletics department has received numerous complaints about sexual violence, including former athletics director Norwood Teague’s sexual harassment of colleagues and reporters and multiple incidents of male student-athletes taking turns raping an intoxicated young woman. Basketball player Reggie Lynch is the latest male student-athlete to have made headlines for violating the athletics department’s sexual misconduct code. I have had enough.

I was introduced to this disastrous cocktail of hypermasculinity, rape culture and entitlement during my first semester as a University of Minnesota soccer player.

My friend reported that a fellow studentathlete had taken her into a bedroom while she was intoxicated, and she couldn’t remember what happened after that. She felt scared and violated, but no one reported the incident because we did not understand that what had happened was rape nor that it was illegal. While this was the first act of sexually violent behavior I heard about perpetrated in my athletic community, it was far from the last.

Sexual violence perpetration by male student-athletes is not a problem unique to the University of Minnesota. Researchers have evidence Division I male studentathletes commit more sexual violence than their non-varsity peers. Alcohol use, belief in traditional gender roles and rape myth acceptance have all been linked to increasing the likelihood of committing sexual violence, but these behaviors and beliefs are not limited to student-athletes. So why does this difference exist?

Male student-athletes have incredible power and social status on campus. Many people want to hang out with them, and some of those people want to have sex with them. However, the athletics department is not doing a sufficient job of teaching our student-athletes the difference between rape and consent or holding them accountable when they choose to commit acts of violence.

Most Division I student-athletes do not perpetrate sexual violence, and none are inevitably predators. They, like everyone else, learn from their culture, mentors and peers.

What if we spent a fraction of the athletic budget on creating a comprehensive sexual violence prevention program for studentathletes including education, bystander training and clear policies? Perhaps, with this sort of training, the young studentathletes who “gang-raped” the intoxicated young woman, or those who assaulted my friend, would have understood that a person cannot consent if they are incapacitated or passed out. Maybe the University’s Board of Regents wouldn’t have hired an athletic director with a history of sexual harassment (Teague) or a football coach with no understanding of rape (Claeys). With this training, perhaps I would have better understood how to support my friend.

This letter has been lightly edited for clarity and style.

Jamie Cheever is a former University of Minnesota soccer player and track and field athlete.

She is currently a social work graduate student at the University and a professional runner.

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Let’s be proactive about opioids The University has the ability to protect the lives of its students from drug abuse.

All across the country, people are finding bodies in cars, on the streets and in bedrooms.

They are of many ages, genders and social classes and they are the latest victims of our country’s opioid epidemic. Since JONATHAN ABABIY the 1990s, pharmaceuticolumnist cal companies have been heavily and often misleadingly marketing opioid drugs to doctors as a cure for all pain. In turn, doctors began to write too many prescriptions of the highly addictive drugs. Once patients become dependent on the drug, they often turn to cheaper illegal opioids, like heroin or fentanyl.

This crisis even claimed one of our own last year, Dr. Jason Beddow, a professor of applied economics in St. Paul. He was found dead in his office, the victim of a fentanyl overdose, which is an opioid over 100 times stronger than heroin that is often laced into other drugs.

The University of Minnesota cannot end the epidemic — it’s something that President Trump and Governor Dayton must fix — but the University can play a serious role in preventing opioid overdoses. The University should stock naloxone (more commonly known as Narcan), a kind of miracle drug that can revive those who have overdosed on heroin, in places like dorms and fraternity houses to save lives.

According to a 2016 Minnesota Daily article, heroin usage by University students is currently half the national average of 1 percent.

Additionally, many people who overdose die from drugs mixed with fentanyl. Lil Peep, a rising Soundcloud rapper, died from fake Xanax bars cut with fentanyl. As Carol Falkowski, CEO of Drug Abuse Dialogues, told KARE11, “The fact that this synthetic fentanyl is showing up both in street drugs and pressed into counterfeit pills that look like legitimate pills is an incredible change in the drug abuse situation.”

Not everyone suffering from opioid addiction is buying the drugs illegally. Opioids are prescribed so heavily in our country that a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that there were enough prescriptions in 2012 to give every adult a bottle of opioid pills.

Thousands of people die every year from overdosing on their painkillers.

Increasing access to naloxone is about increasing the safety of our campus. It won’t decrease addiction on campus, but it will save people’s lives. Studies have found that distributing naloxone doesn’t increase consumption.

There really is no reason that the University shouldn’t increase access to the drug. A nasal spray kit costs only $40. The drug has no serious health consequences, even if accidentally taken, and has no addictive qualities. The nasal spray is also easy to use.

Our University must take a stand for the safety of its students. The small cost of naloxone is nothing to the immeasurable worth of our students, faculty and staff struggling with addiction. The University of Minnesota should be at the forefront of the battle against opioid overdoses.

Jonathan Ababiy welcomes comments at jababiy@mndaily.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR It is time texting and driving be firmly addressed

It is time that texting and driving be firmly addressed. Everyone knows they should not do it. It’s dangerous, it’s distracting, it’s unnecessary. Yet not only does it continue, it gets worse everyday.

I could easily spend the next few paragraphs spouting statistics about distracted driving. I could bullet point that according to the Department of Motor Vehicles, texting and driving is rapidly approaching the leading cause of fatalities for teens across the country. I could note that texting and driving is six times more likely to cause an accident than driving drunk.

I could go on and on, listing facts that may or may not stick.

But instead I’d like to do an activity: close your eyes and count five seconds. Actually do it, slowly, for the full five seconds. It’s longer than you probably thought it would be. It takes approximately five seconds to read a text. That’s five seconds when your eyes are completely off the road and you are 100 percent distracted from driving. Keep in mind that most text conversations aren’t just one text long. So add another five seconds to that. And another. And another. Twelve texts later, you’re looking at a full minute of driving essentially blind.

Let’s talk excuses for a minute. So often people say, “I only text when stopped in traffic,” or “it’s a red light, it’s fine,” or “I’m not the problem

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he Minnesota men’s basketball team will play its 21st game of the season against Maryland Thursday. In the meantime, Gophers starting center Reggie Lynch will practice with the team while he appeals a two-year suspension and expulsion for two sexual misconduct violations that allege sexual assault.

This incident is the second sexual assault scandal Gophers athletics has endured within a short period of time, after several players on the football team were expelled after similar allegations surfaced in December 2016. Athletics director Mark Coyle has been soft on these issues. Coyle made it known in a Jan. 5 press conference that Lynch was suspended from game play, however, Lynch is currently practicing with the team and enjoying many of the benefits associated with being a Big Ten basketball player. Although Coyle’s tenure as the athletics director is short, there are several instances where alternative actions could have been more consistent, transparent and fair.

Lynch was allegedly involved in several reported incidents stemming from April and May of 2016 with three different women. He was arrested in May 2016 for one instance, however, the Hennepin County Attorney did not prosecute and the University of Minnesota Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EOAA), which holds its own investigation, found that Lynch did not violate the school conduct code. Now, Lynch is facing an appeals process after he was recommended for a two-year suspension and expulsion from the University in the other two cases. This entire time, Lynch has been allowed to practice with the basketball team, use team facilities, and utilize many amenities associated with being a University athlete. Unfortunately, we were not able to learn much of anything from Coyle and head coach Richard Pitino’s press conference, as they cite student privacy laws as a reason to not answer many of the questions.

Reggie Lynch, to say the least, should be suspended from the team completely until the appeals process concludes. According to school protocol, Coyle and Pitino were aware of the second and third investigations in October.

Lynch should have been suspended from the start of the investigation process for a plethora of reasons. He was being investigated for several incidents involving multiple different women. This gives his case weight, making it obvious to Coyle that Lynch should be done with sports until settled. Not only is Lynch still allowed to practice with the team, he played in most of the Gophers’ games, despite Coyle being fully aware of the allegations that arose before the season even started. Lynch should have been shut down by Coyle immediately, to allow due process to occur and justice to be found. This separates a possible offender from the team immediately and even protects the accused from being publicly attacked if found innocent. Regardless, that should have been the route taken by Coyle and Pitino immediately.

This incident follows a series of missteps regarding the basketball and football teams.

Just two seasons ago, several basketball players were suspended after posting a sex video on Twitter, and last year, several members of the football team were expelled after an investigation into sexual misconduct was completed.

Transparency was an issue then, and it certainly seems to be an issue now. We would like to see consistent action from University athletics when similar incidents arise, and transparency between athletics and its followers throughout the entire process.

Coyle has not fared well regarding these several happenings, and no matter how good of an athletics director Coyle is behind the scenes, his failure to handle sexual misconduct publicly calls into question if he can serve well in this current climate. We believe it is time University officials review Coyle’s performance in his short tenure and determine if he is the best person for the job moving forward. Sexual misconduct allegations of all magnitudes need to be handled with care, consistency and poise for the sake of every party involved.

– I can multitask.”

Except that you can’t. No one can.

Now ask yourself this: how necessary or important are the texts you are sending and receiving? Probably not very important. Take a look back at the last couple conversations you’ve had. Did any of them include cat pictures? Or making plans that could easily wait to be made? What about screenshots of another friend’s snapchats? None of those things need to be addressed while operating a vehicle.

There is a simple solution: stop. Don’t text and drive. If it’s too tempting, put your phone out of reach. Currently, 47 states have texting and driving laws. In Minnesota, the law states the following: “It is illegal for drivers of all ages to compose, read or send electronic messages or access the Internet on a wireless device when the vehicle is in motion or part of traffic. This includes being stopped in traffic or at a light.”

Although these laws are in place, they also have to be enforced by the police. This means we need to hold ourselves accountable for our actions. Illegal or not, texting and driving continues. It truly is an epidemic. Your driver’s license is a privilege. So is your smartphone.

Stop abusing both of them while putting lives at risk.

This letter has been lightly edited for clarity and style.

Maggie Arends is a graduate of the University of Minnesota.

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DR. DATE Dr. Date,

I am a 23-year-old woman working on my undergrad here at the U. I am behind in school due to my military commitment.

I try to participate in campus life and meet new people, but I have a hard time meeting men my age or older, much less ones that I would date or would want to date me.

I am reasonably attractive (not what you typically think of when you hear “military girl”); I have gained some weight since leaving the military, but I am on my way (slowly) back to my normal weight. I have tried just about everything and still have no luck finding a guy. I don’t know if it is a confidence issue because of the weight, feeling different because I have life experience beyond my years or if I’m just unlucky. Any advice on how to meet a good guy who can understand that?

—Vet Looking For Love

Vet Love,

What you wrote about having life experience beyond your years is a big part of the problem. You’ve served our country; you’re a hero. Look around you. Here at the University of Minnesota, the pickings aren’t too slim, but the pickings are indeed young and immature and guzzling and weird and hanging up ugly posters.

You’re a hawk among some truly ridonkulous roosters.

I always feel uncomfor table doing this because there are about a million people who attend this fine institution of higher learning and about a million activities happening on it, but I have to do it: Go off-campus to find love. Instead of participating in campus life, participate in off-campus life. Depending on where you go and what you do, you’ll find a slightly older pool of bachelors who will be much more appreciative of your transforming figure and your rich life experiences.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

How do you talk about important sexual things? What I mean to say is, there are some things that are too important to talk about mid-coitus. But when we’re not about to have sex or already doing so, it seems awkward to just bring something like that up. How do I go about doing that?

—Not For Pillow Talk

Snap Chat,

The Doc believes pretty strongly that, in a healthy relationship of course, midcoitus talk should be limited to words like “yeah” and “oh God” and “yeah” and “ow, [safe word.]”

So if you can manage, avoid mid-coitus talk. Post-coitus? Depending on what you want to discuss, it very well may be too late at that point. We’re left with one option, and that’s pre-coitus. Yup, you have to fit the talk in pre-coitus — even if that means that there’s going to be no coitus.

I’ve come up with a few strategies for you, which are all dependent upon what issue of the dark you want to shed a little light on: If you want your partner to stop doing something: Bring it up as soon as you can. Be very straightforward. I know it sounds nervewracking to change the subject of a normal conversation into an awkward one, but what must be done must be done.

Bring it up during the day. Be in private.

Make coffee. Have the TV on in the background. Hold hands. But be very clear that you don’t want whatever is happening to keep happening. Hold fast and don’t compromise.

If you want to try out something new: Go for the text. That’ll give your sex mate time to think it over. Make sure you preface your text with “I’m being serious” because there’s a good chance you’ll get an “LOL” in response, depending on how wacky your idea is. But smart sex mates know there’s a truth to every goof. God bless ’em.

If you want to stop havi ng sex altogether: It depends on how long you’ve been having sex and on your commitment/exclusivity status. If you’re not really together and you haven’t been doin’ it for that long, an assertive but warm phone call is acceptable. If you’ve been smashin’ for a while or if you’re in a relationship, whether it be FBO, a face-to-face announcement is considerate and kind.

Oh baby, it’s a wild world, and I know there are more scenarios than these three, but I hope these are good jumpingoff points for you to decide how you want to open the channels of communication.

Whatever you decide, the cardinal rules are to be honest and have respect for yourself and whoever it is that you’re boinkin’.

—Dr. Date

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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

New committee sets sights on housing

MAX OSTENSO, DAILY

Ward 2 Council Member Cam Gordon poses for a portrait in his office at Minneapolis City Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Gordon will head a new committee focusing on affordable housing.

The Housing Policy and Development committee will meet on January 31.

BY MICHAEL ACHTERLING machterling@mndaily.com

A new Minneapolis City Council committee will focus on boosting the city’s affordable housing stock.

The formation of a new Housing Policy and Development committee was announced last week with the approval of other standing committees and new council leadership. The HPD committee will have

primary oversight on current and future affordable housing policies.

“I think there is a real need for public housing to especially serve the lowest income folks and the people without any income in the city,” said Ward 2 City Council member Cam Gordon, who chairs the new committee.

The HPD committee is a refocusing of the City’s previous Community Development and Regulatory Services committee.

Gordon said he hopes to form a housing advis o r y g ro u p i n v o l v i n g various community stakeholders to report to the

HPD committee.

“As we develop policy changes, we’ll have a group of appointed community representatives that can speak out on [the issues],” he said.

Gordon said he wants to seek input from the University of Minnesota community due to the large number of students living off-campus. He said the committee may hold listening sessions in the future to gather feedback.

Cody Olson, executive director of the Southeast Como Improvement Association, said affordable housing is a main concern among students.

“Our students and our communities right now are paying too much money just for rent, and helping that burden is something that would truly have an impact on a lot of students in the University area,” Olson said.

Each Minneapolis neighborhood is unique, he said, adding that he recommends the committee not take a “one-size-fits-all” approach to affordable housing policy.

“Each community would have a different definition of what affordable housing means, and each community has a different definition of their affordable housing needs,” Olson said.

The committee will work with the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, recommending its board members and voting on the authority’s executive director, according to Gordon.

The HPD community will also be responsible for residential real estate development, redevelopment and homelessness prevention.

“I think [the committee] is really going to support all residents of Minneapolis,” said newly elected Ward 5 City Council member Jeremiah Ellison, vice-chair of the HPD committee.

Enforcement of current

housing ordinances and laws is another aspect the committee should look at, Ellison said.

“If we can’t figure out how to make sure that [the ordinances and laws] are followed, then they basically count for nothing,” he said.

Stricter enforcement of laws will help the City crack down on predatory landlords, Ellison said, as many residents don’t know how to combat unfair practices.

“I think [affordable housing] is going to be something that this council really has to take leadership on,” he said.