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LOCAL MUSICIANS REFLECT ON THEIR FIRST AVE STARS PAGE 9

■■ City gets funding to investigate hate crimes

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■■ MN receives grant for mental health program

The city’s civil rights dept. will hire a full-time attorney. PAGE 4

A ‘one-stop shop’ will give mental health services. PAGE 12

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Proposed bill could make U free for some The bill would give free tuition for Minnesota families making less than $125,000 a year.

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

A bill that would make college tuition-free for some Minnesota families was introduced at the Minnesota Legislature on Tuesday.

The Minnesota College Af fordability Act, authored by Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, would promise free undergraduate education for high school graduates under an income threshold at the University of Minnesota or schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

The law would make two and four-year college programs free for families making less than $125,000 a year, with the state covering any tuition left after federal and state grants. The program would be paid for through the state’s general fund.

“Our youngest generation shows great promise and ingenuity,” Latz said in a

GRACE GUTS & GOLD With 18 national titles, the University of Minnesota Dance Team has cemented its legacy.

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Gripes over food service led to U student action A Student Senate resolution would ask the U to submit a list of concerns to Aramark.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

University Student Senate leaders are pushing for changes to the University of Minnesota’s food provider.

A Student Senate resolution, if passed, would ask the University to deliver a set of food quality and business ethics concerns to Aramark, the school’s food provider. It also calls for an advisory board to oversee complaints with Aramark and University Dining Ser vices and the addition of student representation to the committee that reviews the contract with the provider each year.

The resolution will be voted on in the Student Senate Consultative Committee on Jan. 26 and the Senate Consultative Committee in Februar y. If approved by both committees, it would be on the agenda for the March 2 Student Senate and University Senate meetings.

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Top: The University of Minnesota Dance Team circles up to energize before their performance at the Spirit Squad Nationals Send Off on Jan. 9. Above: The team performs their jazz routine on Jan. 9. Below: Dancers make their way to Williams Arena on Jan. 9.

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athered at the center of a basketball cour t in the Bierman Field Athletic Building, the University of Minnesota’s dance team prepared to enter its seventh hour of practice.

At 8 p.m. in early Januar y, the building is other wise silent. The women faced each other with their eyes shut and visualized a first place win at college nationals.

“Think of what you want to happen, not what could happen,” the team’s longtime jazz choreographer, Karl Mundt, instructs.

A coach hit the stereo’s play button. The women opened their eyes and began their jazz routine — ever y moment was orchestrated, even the exhales.

For two minutes, the dancers per formed in place with locked eyes and intertwined hands. Ever y few seconds, they shouted another teammate’s name in motivation.

The song ended, and a handful of the women shed tears.

The dancers are most publicly seen on the sidelines of football and basketball games, but behind the scenes, they’re working toward international recognition.

The University’s 18-member dance team has dominated the college dance world since 2002, bringing home inter national awards and leading nationwide changes to how dance teams compete. Earlier this week, the team won its 17th and 18th national first-place finishes at the Universal Dance u See DANCE Page 6

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Librarian publishes first transgender Notable poets’ work finds U home U archivists will sort and catalog oral histories at U 350 boxes of material from poets “Our purpose is to gather maRobert Bly, Bill Holm and others.

Andrea Jenkins has collected 130 interviews for the project; the first 13 were just published.

BY SAMIR FERDOWSI sferdowsi@mndaily.com

BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com

A f e w y e a r s a g o , U nive r sity o f Minnesota librarian Lisa Vecoli noticed that her collection lacked stories from transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

“We have much more content about cisgendered gay, white men than we have … about lesbians, people of color, the transgender community and the bi, pan, fluid, omni-plus communities,” said Vecoli, curator of the Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender studies.

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When University of Minnesota Libraries received 350 boxes of materials from three prominent local poets, assistant curator Kate Hujda knew it would take months to make them available to researchers.

With $88,000 wor th of funding from the Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grants Program, this month, Andersen Librar y will begin its year-long project of organizing and preser ving the works from poets Rober t Bly, Margaret Hasse, and Bill Holm, and local literar y publisher Milkweed Editions.

By Januar y 2018, the materials will be free and accessible to the general public, Hujda said.

“We identified [the collections] as

terials that have permanent historic value and preserve them for researchers to use, now and into the future.”

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being special collections and really having a lot of research value that would be game- changing for future researchers,” Hujda said.

With motifs of prairie landscape, farmland and agricultural work, the literar y works all possess a common theme of Minnesota, Hujda said.

Titled “Prairie Poets and Press: Literar y Lives of the Upper Midwest,” the project entails archivists manually u See POETS Page 12 VOLUME 117 ISSUE 31

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STATE REPORT INDIAN ACTIVIST PELTIER’S SUPPORTERS HOPE FOR CLEMENCY MINNEAPOLIS — Supporters of American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison in the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975, hope President Barack Obama will grant him clemency and shorten his sentence to the four decades he has already served before Obama leaves office Friday.

Among those suppor ting Peltier’s last-ditch bid for freedom is Pope Francis, who wrote to the White House on Tuesday, Peltier’s attorney, Mar tin Garbus, said Wednesday.

“We’ll see if that has any ef fect,” Garbus said. “We have not had a denial of the clemency application.”

The White House declined to comment on deliberations about clemency for Peltier or most people who have sought it in the closing days of his administration.

Peltier was not on the list of 273 people granted commutations or pardons Tuesday.

The White House has said Obama would grant more commutations Thursday, though officials said those would focus on dr ug offenders and would not likely include any other famous names.

Peltier’s supporters argue he was wrongly convicted in the killings of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975. He has exhausted his appeals and his requests for parole have been denied.

The FBI maintains he is guilty, leaving presidential clemency as his last hope.

Peltier’s suppor ters presume he has no chance after Donald Trump becomes president.

Now 72, Peltier is incarcerated at the federal prison is Coleman, Florida. The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee says he’s in poor health.

“If the president doesn’t grant clemency, he’s condemning him to death in prison,” said former U.S. Attorney James Reynolds, who oversaw post-trial actions in the case following Peltier’s conviction in 1977 and wrote to Obama last year.

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Chelsea Manning: a potent new symbol for transgender Americans

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — For most Americans, Chelsea Manning has been a hero or villain based on how they view her decision to leak classified material. For transgender people, she has another dimension — ser ving as a potent symbol of their struggles for acceptance.

With T uesday’s commutation of her prison sentence by President Barack Obama, she’s now due for release in May, when she will re-enter a society bitterly divided over many aspects of transgender rights.

Known as Bradley Manning at the time of her 2010 arrest, Manning came out

Federal study on Dakota Access pipeline to advance

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BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge said Wednesday he won’t keep the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline’s disputed crossing under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg denied Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners’ request to stop the Corps from proceeding until he rules on whether the company already has the necessary permission to lay pipe under Lake Oahe, the water source for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

The Army published a notice Wednesday of its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement on the Lake Oahe crossing. ETP won’t be able to lay pipe under the reser voir while the study is ongoing; it is currently blocked from doing so anyway.

A study could take up to two years, but the study notice can be withdrawn if Boasberg were to eventually rule that ETP has permission for the crossing, Army attorneys said. The notice says public comments will be accepted until Feb. 20 on “potential issues, concerns and reasonable alternatives” that should be considered in a study.

The stretch under Lake Oahe is the last big chunk of construction for the 1,200-mile pipeline. ETP has said in court documents there is already oil in a portion of the pipeline leading up to the lake in anticipation of finishing the project. But the Corps wants to look at alternate routes, the potential for a pipeline leak and tribal treaty rights in the wake of opposition by Standing Rock.

The Standing Rock Sioux and its supporters believe the four-state pipeline threatens drinking water and cultural sites. The tribe issued a statement Wednesday saying the study is “yet another small victor y on the path to justice.”

ETP disputes the tribe’s arguments and says the pipeline will be safe.

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as transgender after being sentenced to 35 years in an all-male military prison.

Under Army rules, she was barred from growing her hair long while incarcerated, and only after litigation by her legal team was she approved for hormone therapy.

She spent long stints in solitar y confinement, and twice tried to kill herself.

Chase Strangio, the American Civil Liber ties Union attorney who filed the medical-care lawsuit, said Manning has viewed herself as a transgenderrights activist even in the isolation of her confinement at Fort Leavenworth.

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hero to me,” said Strangio, a transgender man. “Her story really does reflect so much of the systemic discrimination that transgender people face — struggles growing up, suppression of her gender that prompted her to join the militar y ... and facing particularly egregious conditions in prison.”

“She’s an incredibly thoughtful and devoted person,” Strangio added. “She’s felt a sense of responsibility to the transgender community and wanted to be someone who contributed to the fight for transgender justice.”

Jennifer Finney Boylan, a transgender author who teaches at Barnard College

in New York, expressed hope that Manning would remain an activist and share her experiences. In an email, Boylan depicted Manning as “a woman who’s been trapped both physically and metaphorically, finding herself smack in the middle of national disagreements about both the meaning of our war in Iraq as well as the ongoing national conversation about gender.”

“She is seen as a ver y public face for the complexity of gender, particularly the injustice facing anyone doing time in a facility for men who is surely, by the measure of her own heart, a woman,” Boylan wrote.

Orlando gunman’s wife pleads not guilty

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OAKLAND, Calif. — The widow of the Orlando nightclub gunman pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of aiding and abetting her husband’s support of the Islamic State group and hindering the investigation of the attack that killed 49 people and injured 53 others.

Noor Salman, 30, entered her plea in an Oakland, California, courtroom two days after she was taken into custody at the home she shared with her mother in suburban San Francisco.

Her arrest came after she was interviewed numerous times by FBI agents investigating the June 12 attack in Florida.

Federal prosecutor Roger Handberg said in court Tuesday that Salman knew about the plan by her husband Omar Mateen to attack the gay nightclub and then lied to investigators after it was over. Mateen was killed at the scene by authorities.

Handberg declined further comment on the indictment outside court, and no further details of the charges have been disclosed.

Salman will return to court Feb. 1 to argue for her release pending trial on the counts that could result in a life sentence if she is convicted.

Salman’s uncle Al Salman has defended his niece, saying she is an innocent person who was physically and mentally abused by Mateen.

He said she remained in the marriage because she feared losing custody of the couple’s 4-year-old boy.

Noor Salman was living with Mateen in Fort Pierce, Florida when he proclaimed his allegiance to Islamic State and attacked the nightclub.

The indictment charges her with aiding and abetting Mateen in providing material support and resources to Islamic State between April and June of last year. She was also charged with obstruction, accused of misleading and lying to police and the FBI during their investigation.

Charles Swift, her lead attorney, declined comment Wednesday outside court. He is director of the Texas-based Constitutional Law Center for Muslims in America.

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Minneapolis approves over City leaders to study hate crime $1 billion in construction The five-year trend will likely continue into the near future.

BY ANDREW HEISER aheiser@mndaily.com

If you build it, they will come.

Last year was the fifth consecutive year in which Minneapolis approved more than $1 billion in building permits, a result of the city’s dynamic economy.

The numbers — released by the city’s Community Planning and Economic Development department — are tied to several factors, including a string of stadium projects, a strong housing market and development along transit lines.

The city finished 2016 with almost $1.8 billion in approved construction, an increase of nearly $40 million from the previous year.

It was also the city’s secondhighest total since 2000, the last time Minneapolis reached $1 billion before the current stretch.

Above all, Minneapolis is a place where people want to live and work, said city Director of Development

Services Steve Poor.

“The five year run is really unprecedented,” Poor said. “It’s exciting.”

He said the constr uction of Target Field and U.S. Bank Stadium led to the spike in permit valuations that pushed 2014’s total over $2 billion, and the effects are still taking root downtown.

The new stadiums and anticipation for the 2018 Super Bowl have been catalysts for other development in the area, par ticularly lodging.

“We’ve had a lot of hotel constr uction,” Poor said.

“You’ll continue to see those coattails from developments for the next few years.”

Specific data on University of Minnesota-area per mit appr ovals wer e not immediately available, but the impact of projects like the Green Line light rail are visible on c ampus.

Transit systems like the Green Line tend to rejuvenate property values along their routes and inspire developers to take advantage of the traf fic they create, said University of Minnesota professor Ed Goetz, who leads the school’s

Center for Urban and Regional Affairs. For example, a new 27-stor y apar tment complex on Washington Avenue is being marketed toward professionals who work downtown, which connects to campus through the Green Line.

Goetz added that Minneapolis is rebounding well from last decade’s housing recession, and Mayor Betsy Hodges has made it clear that she wants to see economic growth during her time in office.

“All in all, it’s very good news for the city,” Goetz said. “It reflects the actions of the city really tr ying to make itself attractive to private sector investment.”

Developers have also nabbed previously undervalued vacant lots, particularly in the North Loop.

Poor said that development has been accompanied by strong trends in home and apar tment construction as more people move into the city.

“Minneapolis is a ver y desirable place to live and work,” Poor said.

It’s unclear how long the $1 billion streak will last.

Goetz predicts that the pace of constr uction will slow

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slightly in coming years, but it won’t suddenly drop off.

“It’s a good thing while it lasts, but I don’t think it will last forever,” Goetz said.

That doesn’t mean Minneapolis will stop experiencing the ef fects of the constr uction wave.

Poor said the investments happening now will pave the way for more building.

“When these projects are proposed, it’s about a year or two before they go online,” Poor said. “The development we reported at the end of 2016 will carr y over into 2017 and 2018 in terms of construction.”

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statement. “We should not be hampering their potential with insurmountable debt.”

While Latz said he expects a lot of resistance to the idea — especially from

Republicans, who control the Legislature — he said he hopes GOP members will recognize the importance of lowering college tuition.

“You’ve got students who are taking on tens of thousands of dollars of debt to get their education,” he said. “This is all about reducing the financial barrier

so that everyone who is capable of handling the work and has the dedication to doing the work will be able to go to college and get a degree.”

Latz said the initiative might take several years to realize but that legislative democrats will continue to work on the idea.

“We’ll have to make the broader case that this is a broader step for ward for their constituents,” Latz said. “It’s an important case to make, and I think it’s the job of the Democrats to make that case.”

The bill has been referred to the Senate’s higher education committee.

Bill aims for 100 percent renewable transportation

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HONOLULU — Hawaii has the most aggressive renewable energy targets in the nation, aiming for its utilities to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045.

Now advocates want to extend that goal to the transpor tation sector to urge all forms of ground transportation to fuel up using renewable sources by 2045.

“The majority of our fossil fuel goes into transportation, and that’s a challenge that we have to solve, and we currently don’t have a vision for what that future looks like,” said Jeff Mikulina, executive director of the Blue Planet Foundation, which is pushing the bill.

But Hawaii of ficials aren’t planning to make everyone get rid of their fuelpowered cars — at least not yet.

“Nobody wants to step in and force people to get rid of cars that they might love now,” said state Rep. Chris Lee, chairman of the Energy and Environment committee.

The goal represents a steep climb for the auto industr y in a state where there are about 5,000 electric vehicles, out of an estimated 1 million cars on the road.

“Our ability to achieve it is really going to be dependent on what happens throughout

the entire automotive industry,” said Hugh Baker, managing director of HD Baker & Co., an energy consulting company. “We can say we want 100 percent clean transpor tation technology, but the market in Hawaii is not nearly big enough by itself to move the whole global automotive industry. It will really take more than just Hawaii.”

Unlike Hawaii’s groundbreaking 100 percent renewable goal for electricity, where utilities in the state will be fined if they don’t comply by deadline, the proposed transpor tation goal isn’t a mandate.

With 1 million cars on the roads, hundreds of auto dealerships and multiple counties with fleets of vehicles, it’s unclear how the state could enforce a renewable fuels mandate, advocates said. Beyond the vehicle stakeholders, there are cyclists and pedestrians in the mix, making it challenging for the state to even measure what percentage of the state’s transportation fuel comes from renewables.

The bill is being introduced in the Hawaii Legislature, which began Wednesday. If passed, Hawaii would be the first in the nation to set such a high goal for its transportation sector. Vermont also has an aggressive goal for renewable fuel in transportation, but most states don’t have such targets in place.

“That’s a huge, huge transformation,” said Hawaii Gov. David Ige in a recent inter view with The Associated Press. “We are the most isolated community on the planet, and we import virtually all of the oil we use today.”

Details of the bill are still being worked out, but it’s undecided whether it will come with funding, Lee said.

The state recently created a new position in the Department of Transportation to work on renewable fuels in transpor tation, and it is planning to build infrastructure to increase electric vehicle charging stations at work locations in Honolulu’s urban core using state funds, he said.

Lawmakers also are introducing a bill to boost the required number of electric vehicle charging stations, which is currently 1 station per 100 spaces, so that commuters can charge electric vehicles during the day when more energy from the sun is pumping into the grid.

Encouraging more electric vehicles — or “batteries on wheels” — could help Hawaii meet its renewable electricity goals.

“It’s easier to manage more renewable energy when we have electric vehicles on the grid that can suck up that excess and hopefully in the future put some energy back on the grid,” Mikulina said.

Auto dealers in Hawaii suppor t the transition to renewable energy, but they believe it will take a massive advertising campaign by the state to encourage people to buy vehicles powered by alternative fuels, said David Rolf, executive director of the Hawaii Automobile Dealers Association.

“I’m passionate about this goal, but I’m also realistic,” Rolf said.

Hawaii’s residents ranked second in the nation in 2015 with 2.94 electric vehicles for every 1,000 residents, just behind California, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Tackling the fossil fuels used in air travel — which is critical to Hawaii’s tourism-driven economy — will have to wait.

About a quarter of the 36 million barrels of oil Hawaii imported in 2015 was used for commercial aviation. But the long flights require energy in a dense form, and with today’s technology that’s generally only available in fuels, energy experts said.

“They need to go so far between recharge opportunities that they really need something with a higher energy density than batteries, and it’s just not even physically possible for an airplane to carry enough batteries to go where it needs to go,” said Matthias Fripp, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

The civil rights department will get $100,000 and a full-time attorney.

BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com

After a contentious election year with issues of race coming to the forefront, the Minneapolis Department of Civil Rights is receiving more funding to investigate hate crimes and acts of discrimination.

Ward 6 Council Member Abdi Warsame , who represents the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, said the funding was a reaction to concerns from his constituents.

People are wor ried about distrust toward Muslims in the U.S. now more than ever, he said. “[There’s] a general anxiety in the city with [hateful] language and rhetoric,” Warsame said.

Wa r s a m e s a i d t h e amendment was created for the civil rights department to r esear ch hate crimes, hate speech and acts of discrimination in the city.

“We have to empower the civil rights department … but it’s already overstretched,” he said.

The amendment will allow the city’s civil rights department to hire one fulltime attorney to oversee issues of discrimination and identify any patterns.

Warsame said constituents also voiced concerns over depor tation, and if potential changes to immigration laws would af fect family members coming to visit.

Warsame and Ward 8 Council Member Elizabeth Glidden added $100,000 to the 2017 Mayor’s budget to increase resources for the civil rights department.

Wa r s a m e s a i d t h i s amendment was an extension of an anti-discrimination resolution he authored in December, following pr esident-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

The Public Accommodation Anti-Discrimination Enforcement resolution requested more funding and resources to be allocated to the civil rights department.

Velma Korbel , direc-

tor of the civil rights depar tment, said the depar tment is just beginning the process of investigating hate crimes and hate speech in Minneapolis. The new, full-time attorney has not yet been hired.

University of Minnesota law professor Heidi Kitrosser said while hate crimes can be easily classified, hate speech is more difficult to investigate.

Only when speech falls into special categories like “threats of violence” or “fighting words” can it be investigated and found unlawful, Kitrosser, who specializes in First Amendment Law , said.

Other wise, speech, even if it is hateful, is protected by the First Amendment, she said.

In recent months, there have been multiple occurrences of alleged hate speech and hate crime near and on campus.

In July, Anthony Sawina was charged in Hennepin County District Court with five counts of second-degree assault in connection with the alleged, non-fatal shooting of two Somali men in Dinkytown.

Prior to the altercation, a member of Sawina’s group made derogator y statements toward the Somali men. The Minneapolis Police Department said the incident would be investigated as a possible hate crime.

Last semester, the Muslim Student Association’s panel on the Washington Avenue Bridge was vandalized with the word “ISIS” spray-painted on it.

Campus-wide debates also sparked over the College Republican’s panel, which read “Build the Wall .” The mural ignited an outcr y from the University community, adding to an ongoing conversation surrounding free speech on campus.

In the end, it’s about anti-discrimination, Warsame said, adding that it’s necessary to teach acceptance to both the broader community as well as the immigrant community.

Warsame said he will continue to hold meetings with residents on how to deal with and combat discrimination.

Columbian rebels agree to free captive; start talks

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s second-largest rebel group has agreed to free a prominent politician held captive for almost a year, clearing the way for repeatedly postponed peace talks to begin next month.

The agreement worked out during months of backchannel talks with the National Liberation Army was announced at a news conference Wednesday in Quito, Ecuador.

The two sides have been holding explorator y peace talks for more than three years. Almost a year ago they announced the star t of formal negotiations, but those talks were frozen before even getting off the ground over Santos’ demand that the group renounce kidnapping and free the politician it has been holding for 10 months.

President Juan Manuel Santos praised the breakthrough from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

“This is very, very good news for the countr y,” said Santos, who won last year’s Nobel Peace Prize for reaching a peace deal with the much-larger Revolutionar y Armed Forces of Colombia. “We have been trying to start these official negotiations for over three years. It has been a very difficult process. But this second stage that starts next month is very important because it will allow us to have complete peace.”

The smaller group, known by its Spanish initials as the ELN, has an estimated 1,500 fighters and largely finances its insurgency through extortion and kidnappings. Like the bigger FARC, it is classified by the U.S. government as a foreign terrorist organization.

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Lettieri finds his stride in senior season

The forward scored his first career hat trick last weekend against Michigan.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

Senior for ward Vinni Lettieri hasn’t always been a staple for the Gophers but is truly proving in his final season the impact he can make.

As No. 7 Minnesota (13-52) prepares for a border battle matchup against rival Wisconsin, Lettieri quietly continues to prepare the way he has for four years.

“Coming to the rink ready every day,” Lettieri said. “Having two good workouts with [strength and conditioning coach] Cal [Dietz] … We’ve got to keep working hard and get ready for them this weekend.”

Lettieri is coming off a weekend that included his first career hat-trick.

The hat-trick was especially unique due to the ways the goals were scored: the first on the power play, the second on a short-handed penalty shot and the third to seal the victory was an empty net goal.

The senior forward said it was a good weekend for both him and the team. Hard work during the week was key to the success that they all had.

Letttieri is playing some of the best hockey of his career right now and is on pace for his highest season point total.

“He came in as a true freshman,” said head coach Don Lucia. “It wasn’t like he was a 20, 21-year-old freshman, so there’s going to be natural improvement from your freshman to your senior year.”

In two seasons at Minnetonka High School, the forward scored 95 points in 50 regular season games and scored five points in five playoff games.

Lettieri moved on to play with the Lincoln Stars in the United States Hockey League during his senior year.

He was almost a point-pergame player, with 56 points in 61 games.

By the time he got to Minnesota, he wasn’t expecting much.

“When I came in as a freshman, I was [on the] fourth line, just trying to not get scored on really, but now as you go up, you’ve got to produce. Now, I’m at the time of my career here where I’m a production player,” Lettieri said. “You take on new roles as years go on, and now I’m just happy where I’m at and I’m just going to keep improving.”

Lettieri has 11 goals this season — his career high — and has nine assists, his

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Gophers forward Vinni Lettieri chases the puck into the corner against Michigan on Friday, Jan. 13 at Mariucci Arena.

second highest total with Minnesota, behind the 19 assists he recorded last season.

He has primarily been playing on a line with forwards Leon Bristedt and Tommy Novak, but with Novak out for the season with a

GYMNASTICS

Men’s and women’s teams look to build on past season’s success The men’s team finished sixth at last year’s NCAA championships,.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Expectations are high for the Gophers women’s gymnastics team after qualifying for the NCAA Championships last season, and it’s going well so far.

No. 21 Minnesota finished in first place out of four teams in its first road action, a quad meet, on Jan. 14 in College Park, Mar yland.

“We’ve got a lot of new people in our lineup than we had last year,” said head coach Jenny Hansen. “Everyone’s roles have kind of shifted, and it’s been really fun to see the new people step in and the seniors step up.”

The Gophers have added seven freshmen and one transfer to their team this season, while veterans are stepping up.

Junior Ciara Gardner and senior Kaitlin Rahon both tied for first place in the beam at the quad meet. The duo helped the Gophers earn a 49.025 and a firstplace finish in the event.

Gardner also finished first in the all-around.

Although Minnesota finished first in its most recent meet, the Gophers dropped their opening dual to Den-

ver with a tight 195.875194.725 final.

Senior Bailey Abernathy has earned two straight firstplace finishes on the floor, however, which Hansen said is the team’s strongest area.

Her performance against Denver helped her earn Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week.

Minnesota advanced to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 2013 last season and is also coming off a regular season title in the Big Ten. The Gophers lost twotime Big Ten Gymnast of the Year Lindsay Mable to graduation, but it gives other athletes new opportunities.

“We were a great team last year, but we did have a superstar like Lindsay Mable … but we don’t necessarily have a superstar on the team [this year],” Hansen said. “We’re a wellrounded team of really great athletes.”

The No. 5 Minnesota men’s team is coming off a top-10 finish at last season’s NCAA Championships and returned 18 out of 20 gymnasts for this season.

But the Gophers’ most recent meet showed that experience may not be enough for success.

M i n n e s o t a f i n i shed fourth out of six teams at the Windy City Invite in Chicago on Jan. 14.

“We were a little rusty in

some spots, but at the same time, I thought we did some things really … well,” said head coach Mike Burns. “We just got to get more guys doing things really … well.”

One of Minnesota’s 18 returners is junior Yaroslav Pochinka.

Pochinka finished the highest of any Gophers gymnast on vault with a score of 14.650, which was good for a second-place tie. Pochinka is coming off a top-10 finish in the event at the Big Ten Championships last season.

“The beginning tends to be pretty rough for everyone, and I came away pretty pleased with how I did,” Pochinka said. “No matter who it is, it’s a brand new environment every single season.”

Junior Joel Gagnon has earned All-American honors in his previous two seasons.

The team captain earned a 13.700 on the floor at the Windy City Invite for 15th place while teammates Zach Liebler and Alex Wittenberg placed 14th and 9th, respectively.

Minnesota is also coming off a year where it finished third at the Big Ten Championships. The team is currently ranked No. 3 in the conference.

“We were second going in, and we ended up fourth going out [in the Windy City Invite]” Burns said. “Reality is more what we focus on than prognostications.”

FOOTBALL

Fleck adds 13 members to staff Nine of Fleck’s picks worked with him at Western Michigan.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

Newly-appointed Gophers head coach P.J. Fleck added nine assistant coaches and four staff members to his team Tuesday.

“I am proud to announce these additions to the Minnesota staff,” Fleck said in a press release. “I have worked with the majority of these elite men and am confident they will help take Gopher football to the next level.”

Nine of the 13 new members of the Gophers coaching staff worked with Fleck at Western Michigan, including the new offensive coordinator, Kirk Ciarrocca; one of the staff members formerly worked with Fleck at Rutgers.

The Broncos were ranked ninth in the countr y for points scored in Ciarrocca’s final season with the Western Michigan team.

Kenni Burns, Matt Simon Brian Callahan and Ed Warinner are also on the offensive coaching staff.

The new defensive coordinator — Robb Smith — comes from Arkansas, where he held the same position for the Razorbacks for the

last three seasons. The team ranked No. 94 in rush defense and No. 65 in defensive passing efficiency last season.

Maurice Linguist, Bryce Paup and Rob Wenger round out Smith’s defensive coaching corps.

Ger rit Cher nof f, Dan Nichol, Marcus Hendrickson and Matt Childers were also added to the staff by Fleck.

They will hold the positions of general manager, head strength and conditioning coach, director of player personnel and director of video, respectively.

The staff hires will undergo standard University procedures before appointments are made official.

lower-body injury, it looks like Lettieri will move to center.

“I definitely have good chemistry with Leon,” Lettieri said. “We’’ve been playing a lot together since I’ve been here. And off the ice, I hang out with him too.”

The senior has been named Big Ten Second Star of the Week twice this season — on Nov. 29, 2016 and for this past weekend on Jan. 17 “Vinni has always put in a lot of time,” Lucia said. “He’s one of those guys that [is] al-

ways in the weight room. He takes care of himself, he stays out after practice, he’s on [the ice] early. He’s always working on his game because he wants to be a player, and all of that hard work has paid off for him.”

WRESTLING

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Tommy Thorn competes against Rutgers wrestler Anthony Ashnault on Jan. 17, 2016.

Lizak and Thorn return with immediate impact The pair was recently reinstated from suspension for violating rules.

BY KYLE STEINBERG ksteinberg@mndaily.com

The Gophers wrestling team will get a much-needed boost in the lower weights with the return of two starters from suspension.

Ethan Lizak, who wrestles at 125 pounds, and 141-pound Tommy Thorn were part of a group of four wrestlers suspended earlier this season for an unspecified violation of team rules.

They were cleared to return on Jan. 1, and immediately saw action at the Southern Scuf fle tournament in Tennessee.

“From a team standpoint, it makes a huge difference,” said head coach Brandon Eggum. “We’re excited to have them in the lineup.”

The Gophers can use their help.

In their absence, Minnesota went just 31-30 in the two weight classes combined and just 1-9 against ranked opponents.

In order for Minnesota to contend with the likes of No. 4 Ohio State and No. 3 Iowa — both of who lurk on the Gophers schedule — more production is needed from the lower weights.

Both wrestlers are nationally ranked in their weight class, with Lizak at No. 6 and Thorn at No. 13.

The Gophers have struggled against Big Ten opponents from 157 pounds and below, and hold an 8-12 record. Adding two top-15 wrestlers should help Minnesota compete at a high level.

“They can beat anybody in the countr y,” Eggum said. “The expectation is those guys go out and find a way to win, that’s one of the changes [at 125 and 141].”

Lizak made a statement in his first action on the mat after the suspension. In five Southern Scuffle matches, he earned four major decisions and a technical fall to win the title at 125 pounds.

The title earned Lizak Big Ten Co-Wrestler of the Week honors on Jan. 3.

The victories could be key for the redshirt sophomore moving forward, giving him something to capitalize on heading into the Big Ten gauntlet.

“It’s huge,” Lizak said.

“It’s just momentum … I can build on that and keep getting better.”

Thorn also wrestled well in the Scuffle and won his first four matches. He kept Oklahoma State’s No. 1 Dean Heil close and fell in just a 2-1 decision.

“I know I can wrestle with [Heil],” Thorn said.

“That’s never been a question in my mind … going forward, it’s just figuring out how to score more points in those matches.”

Minnesota’s regular conference season schedule features four teams ranked in the top five in the nation.

“The Big Ten is by far the toughest [conference],” Eggum said. “Our home schedule is brutal, but it’s a great opportunity for our guys to compete against the best guys, and be prepared.”

While the Big Ten certainly presents an array of challenges, the Gophers aren’t happy with just conference success — Thorn and Lizak hold much bigger aspirations.

“If you’re on the Gophers team, your goal is to be a national champion,” Thorn said. “I’ve wrestled pretty much everyone in my weight class, and I know if I’m on my game, I can beat them.”

If you’re on the Gophers team, your goal is to be a national champion.

TOMMY THORN wrestler

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Dance team coach Amanda Gaines encourages the team as they practice their pom routine on Monday prior to their performance at the Spirit Squad Nationals Send Off.

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GRACE GUTS & GOLD Dance u from Page 1

Association’s College Cheerleading and Dance Team National Championship.

To get there, it took a minimum of eight hours of practice each week, upped to 30 hours in the weeks leading up to nationals.

Before that, high school dancers honed their moves in the studio and on school dance teams in preparation for moving on to college teams like the University’s.

Team leaders said the University’s athletics department provides as much moral and financial support as it can. Still, despite the team’s winning streak, dancers have to pay minute expenses to compete and perform.

Women who graduate from the program often find success in post-college dancing. The team’s coaches, assistant coach Ashley Hanne and head coach Amanda Gaines, are both team alumnae.

Outside personal growth, current and former team members say they’re proud to run in sync. “[Young dancers] don’t r eally know individual dancers on the team, but they know Minnesota, as a whole,” said senior captain Kelsey Sutter. “To be able to represent that as a team, that’s one of the best things.”

The daily grind Dancers began their second practice of the day at 6 p.m. in the weeks leading up to competition. The team rehearsed two routines: The first, jazz, the other, pom — which resembles cheerleading.

After some stretching, the team jumped into its pom routine. Coaches and choreographers can spend up to half an hour fixing one minor detail, such as spacing, which is worth 10 points of their total score.

Pom is fast-paced, energetic, and reminiscent of what fans see performed on football sidelines — complete with playful facial expressions and sharp movements.

Jazz, however, is slower and composed of lyrical movements charged with deep emotion.

Breaks in practice are anything but. Dancers help each other perfect turns or jumps. There’s no desire to sit still.

After two hours of pom practice, Mundt, the team’s jazz choreographer, instr ucted the women to perform their jazz routine, simulating the team member’s movements from their backstage huddle to their choreographed walk-off.

“So, how did that feel?”

Mundt asked the group afterward.

Sweating, tired and nearing a seventh hour of dance that day, Jenna Meyers looked at her 17 teammates and replied: “It felt for each other.”

Building an empire The University of Minnesota dance team dates back to the 1960s, though it didn’t reach its apex until the early 2000s.

Of the team’s 18 national title wins since 2003, 12 were double title wins in jazz and pom — including 10 over five consecutive seasons.

The University’s team has also taken home three world champion awards as Team USA. Since the Universal Dance Association split its 1A dance division into jazz and pom categories in 2010, the University’s team has taken first in pom ever y year.

The team’s national success stretches beyond awards. They were the first to perform a jazz routine using one song in 2002 — a move head coach Amanda Gaines called “groundbreaking.”

By 2003, dance teams across the country followed suit. It’s now commonplace for a team to perform to one song.

Sunday’s national title is the program’s eighth in a row.

“We get two minutes out on the floor, and we don’t get any second chances,” Sutter, a team captain, said.

“We don’t screw up in the first half and get to redeem ourselves in the second, so what we really tr y to do is make ourselves better ever y single minute of ever y practice.”

Some young women dream of being part of the powerhouse.

Kristina Monsen’s love for the squad dates back to her high school days.

“The first time that I saw the U of M per form [in high school], I wanted to be on that team,” Monsen, a team alumna, said.

“I only applied to the U of M just to tr y out for the team, which I know prob-

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Members of the cheer teams line the stage as the University of Minnesota Dance Team preforms their pom routine on Monday during the Spirit Squad Nationals Send Off.

ably wasn’t the smar test path, but that was what my dream was. I know that’s what a lot of girls want to do now just because the team is on an upward path, and they keep growing ever y year.”

Being an inspiration to young dancers is one of the most rewarding aspects of being on the team, captains say.

“We all take that to heart,” said senior captain Alli Woodbeck. “The fact that we are ambassadors to these younger kids … We hold ourselves to a higher standard of always being professional and nice and kind and humble.”

In auditions, about 40 or 50 women — including returning dancers — compete for 18 spots.

Audition par ticipants learn shor t jazz and pom numbers and endure two rounds of cuts over the course of two days.

On the third day, each of the remaining 30 to 36 women performs both routines, as well as their own solo number, in front of judges. Coaches also conduct personal interviews.

Though each dancer brings uniqueness to the team, one attribute consistently remains — “coachability.”

“A big, big part of it is being coachable, moldable, adaptable,” Woodbeck said. “The coaches spend a lot of time with you dur-

We get two minutes out on the floor and we don’t get any second chances.”

KELSEY SUTTER Team captain

ing the weekend, and they want to see that you don’t have to be perfect, but that you are able to hit it when it counts.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF AMANDA GAINES

A worthwhile price

The University of Minnesota Dance Team celebrates its 17th and 18th first-place finishes at Universal Dance Association College Nationals on Jan. 15.

While the dance team is not eligible for athletic scholarships, it receives some funding from the University.

Other costs, such as high-end choreographers and costumes, are covered through fundraising efforts.

Compared to its peers, the University’s team receives better administrative support, Gaines said.

“There are a lot of universities across the country that have to fight a lot of battles to even be able to compete,” she said. “We’re really fortunate with that.”

The University helps

cover national competition expenses. Coupled with fundraising dollars and help from the Universal Dance Association, team members shell out little to no money out-of-pocket, Gaines said.

“We don’t get the recognition. We don’t get the spotlights or maybe all of the benefits that all of the other athletes get,” said senior captain Nicole Bruhn.

“It’s really a very humbling and cool experience to get to be a part of and be on a team with 18 people who really, truly love what they do, and

that’s why they do it.”

Leading in life Dancers at the University often find that their success on the team carries over into life beyond college, alumnae say.

Besides coaching, Gaines and Hanne both work full-time jobs — Gaines is a senior store communications specialist with Target, and Hanne is a national advertising sales coordinator with FOX Sports North.

Gaines, who grew up in Minnesota watching the

Thursday, January 19, 2017

University of Minnesota Dance Teams practices their jazz routine on Monday at Williams Arena prior to their performance at the Spirit Squad Nationals Send Off.

team, didn’t envision herself on the squad.

“When I was in high school, I was always like, ‘I’m not going to stay in Minnesota for school. I’m going to go somewhere far away,’” she said. “And then as I became a junior and senior, that’s when Minnesota star ted winning, and I was like, ‘This is actually pretty legit.’”

Gaines injured her hamstring in her senior year at the University and didn’t compete at nationals.

Instead, while sitting on the sidelines, Gaines watched for hiccups and helped her teammates per fect their moves.

Her leadership skills bought her the job as assistant coach in the fall of 2009. She has been the head coach since 2013.

Team alumnae often take coaching or choreography jobs at youth and collegiate levels.

So m e t i m e s , d a n ce r s will coach while still on the University’s team, like Woodbeck, who coaches at Edina High School.

Monsen coaches at Prior Lake High School with alumna Mar y LeVoir, who broke out of team dance shor tly after graduating from the University in 2015.

She was featured on

Season 12 of “So You Think You Can Dance” and teaches master classes, team clinics and choreography.

She said her team experiences taught her to work well with others and helped her connect to oppor tunities in the dance world.

“The goals that this team sets are beyond anything I’ve ever experienced in life, work, anything,” LeVoir said. “After being on the team, and now being off the team, it’s something I desperately miss and something I look for in all of my relationships. … Something I have yet to find.”

Dance — as a spor t — is often dominated by athletes who per form alone and strive for individuality.

On the University’s team, though, dancers pride themselves on being united and in sync.

By their senior year, the captains say they care more about the team than themselves — it’s second nature.

“I’m a dif ferent person than I was when I was 18,” Sutter said. “This team has gone through some hard times, individually, and as a team, and being able to be there for each other is something that you can’t simulate.”

Team members said

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Dance team coach Amanda Gaines, left and assistant coach Ashley Hanne, right, speak with their team during a practice on Monday prior to their prior to their performance at the Spirit Squad Nationals Send Off.

they had the oppor tunity to bond last weekend at the Universal Dance Association’s National Championship in Orlando.

The Dance Team ranked first in Division 1A pom and jazz categories, though competition was

close in pom this year. “… Even though we felt so good coming out of our pom r un after, we didn’t know what was going to happen,” Bruhn said.

The team’s jazz routine this year was set to an original song, with movements based

on the four elements — a representation of nature in Minnesota, Sutter said.

After per forming their jazz routine, the dancers had a feeling they would place first, Woodbeck said.

“It was such a cool journey,” Bruhn said. “To

have those juniors and sophomores experience that feeling of winning a [double national title] and cross that off their UMDT bucket lists and to lead them to that is so rewarding. I’ve never been more proud.”

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University of Minnesota Dance Teams members circle up after practicing their jazz routine on Monday at the Sports Pavilion prior to their performance at the Spirit Squad Nationals Send Off.

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Editorials & Opinions 2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 2,789 Total number of deaths: 737 Total number of mass shootings: 16 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org

GUEST COLUMN Dear campus, consider writing a guest column for the Daily.

We are happy to introduce a brand-new feature to the Minnesota Daily’s Editorials & Opinions page: The guest column.

Starting this semester, each paper will highlight the perspective of a different member of our community. Whether you’re the leader of a student group on campus — or a perceptive individual that has an engaging story worth sharing — we’re looking for your voice.

The new guest column section will replace the content traditionally housed in “Daily Discussion” — readers’ comments from our website, which the Minnesota Daily’s editorial board decided was not cultivating a thoughtful, productive dialogue on issues affecting our campus community.

While we’ve always accepted letters to the editors from our readers, we hope this new section will serve a broader purpose.

If you’re a leader of a group on campus, you could use the space to pitch your group to perspective members or iron out misconceptions some may have about the purpose of your organization. Or perhaps you’re a student wanting to articulate your opinion on a University policy that affects our campus community; or maybe you’d like to elicit support for a specific event that your fellow students may find important.

Our hope is that this space will be a hub for discussion of important campus topics.

We want our readers to be engaged and learn from the great diversity of perspectives and lived experiences on our campus.

Have an idea? Email our Editorial & Opinions Editor Grace Thomas (jthomas@mndaily.com) if you are interested in participating. We look for ward to hearing from you.

COLUMN

The long struggle to get off the couch after break How to handle the daily grind and tackle the new semester.

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ew semester, 2017. All we have are the clothes on our backs and the prevailing sense of doom that haunts our consciences.

The former is manageable (we simply wear the clothes), but the latter is per vasive and toilsome.

I don’t know if the feeling of gloom in the air has lowered my serotonin levels or if I’m just at a brooding age in my boyhood, but lately dread has defined my life.

The January blues aren’t solely responsible. During these months, lethargy and the end of holiday season festivities can heighten mental health issues, and college-aged kids’ favorite tweets read something along the lines of So Sad Today’s tweet “just sitting here quietly thinking I’m a loser,” because they relate to them.

We recognize that we’re overwhelmed, and so we humorously share those feelings with others to diminish the feeling of isolation that threatens to swallow us whole.

Such strong pessimism seeps into life’s minutia. When the idea of going to class is worse than actually being there, dismay is omnipresent.

TAYLOR SHARP columnist

It is during long inactive periods when I watch Star Trek that I’m focused on how much I’m going to hate the second of standing up and going to the History of Thesauruses in Lind Hall. Every time I think too hard about my daily plans, I end up with a cumbersome mishmash of dread and this kind of pessimism.

College is a stressful time, but frankly, it becomes intolerable when mundane errands like walking up the stairs of Walter Librar y yield the same worr y I used to find only around midterms, busboy duties and tax season.

We need some sort of release. Poking fun at our dread on Twitter eases the tension because it reduces festering introspection and turns it into empathy and humor. And, to be honest, the walk up the stairs to the Boynton Mental Health Clinic would probably be worth it for me, but it’s tough to take that first step.

Now that the semester has arrived, the khaki-colored facade of Cof fman seems as unappetizing as whatever group project is assigned to me next week.

But, most things are achievable the ver y minute you actually start doing them.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR To the Editor, I hope that the ten University of Minnesota football players who were suspended for their participation in an alleged sexual assault receive the fair hearing they requested and are entitled to under University and Title IX policies.

Once the outcomes of those hearings are determined, I hope that the new athletic director Mark Coyle and new football coach P.J Fleck will clearly and strongly signal that the University is headed in a new direction, and that, in President Kaler’s words, “certain behavior is simply unacceptable and antithetical to our institutional values.”

Irrespective of whether their behavior was “criminal,” any of the players finally determined to have participated in the sexual assault or sexual harassment should be permanently dismissed from the football team. This is the only way that Coyle and Fleck can truly embody President Kaler’s words.

Richard Portnoy HR/Finance Manager Minnesota Population Center EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.

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COLUMN

Take the initiative to address mental health for the better Addressing mental disorders makes them more real but also more manageable.

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ust before winter break, I walked into Boynton to directly address my mental health for the first time.

A heavy pit formed inside of me at some point between middle and high school, which grew and shrank in cyclical tides.

I blamed that pit on living in a small town and insisted I was simply misunderstood — like some quasi-Angela Chase poster child of the sensitive teen in a nineties sitcom.

Unfortunately for me, the pit didn’t go away in college. During my sophomore year, it grew to take up more space than ever. I felt unstable. It interfered with my schoolwork and became harder to keep under wraps.

When I finally made the trip to the U’s mental health clinic, I was diagnosed with

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KATHRYN SCHULTZ columnist

depression and general anxiety, prescribed medicine and appointed with therapy. At first I was intimidated, but ultimately I felt relieved. Getting a diagnosis and taking medicine felt like actual, productive steps toward feeling better. My medicine isn’t a magic wand, but so far I feel generally more carefree and excited to take on the new semester.

Mental disorders like depression and anxiety are common among college students, but it’s har d to take the initiative to address them for the first time.

Tending to mental health should be a normal step in ever yone’s self-care routine. This is especially tr ue in college, where stress can feel like a permanent fixture in a librar y-ridden life. For other first-timers, an easy place to start is mentalhealth.umn.edu.

EDITORIALS Protesting the political faux and the political foes

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ore than 60 members of Congress are planning to boycott Donald Trump’s Friday inauguration at Capitol Hill, citing opposition to his divisive policies, and calling his presidency illegitimate due to allegations over Russia’s interference with U.S. election outcomes.

One of the congressman boycotting — Rep. John Lewis from Georgia’s 5th Congressional District — argued in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press,” which will air Sunday, that he did not see Trump’s presidency as legitimate. Lewis and many other legislators view Trump’s mandate as inadequate due to Hillary Clinton’s nearly 3 million vote lead in the popular vote.

Boycotts have had a vital function in activism throughout American history. Iconic boycotts, like the 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott, were effective because of the consolidated power of the boycotters. African Americans at the time comprised 75 percent of the ridership of the busses in Montgomery.

In the case of Trump’s boycott, the situation is quite different. The Democratic Party on the whole was handily defeated in electoral votes and congressional seats. Democraticelected officials have very limited power to block any moves made by the GOP — this is already evident with the Affordable Care Act, which is widely expected to be gutted by Congress.

Boycotting the inauguration is a symbolic action that will mark the transition of the Democratic Party into a party of obstruction — something nearly all Democratic leaders criticized the GOP for doing during Barack Obama’s presidency.

And while Democratic bases will rally around their legislative leaders, progress on important issues that necessitates bipartisan leadership will once again fall short.

This isn’t what the Democratic Party should become. Avoiding obstructionism doesn’t mean compromising the foundations of the Democratic Party — it means avoiding futile and symbolic tactics with the purpose of sticking it to the other side.

Boycotting’s only impact will be to raise some eyebrows and draw attention to an outcome that will not change — if anything, it will provoke Donald Trump into more rash action.

This speaks broadly to what role the Democratic Party must have moving forward. The debate should be centered around the issues facing our country and not attempting to denigrate the foundation of our democracy which the electoral process built. The reality is the GOP was — unfortunately, for very many Americans — effective in their tactics to ascertain control of the House, Senate and presidency. The Democratic Party must reevaluate its strategy to be more effective in the coming years.

Our country cannot afford empty moves by the only political organization substantively standing between our civil liberties and Trump. It needs congressional leaders to step up to help, collaborate and guide their Republican colleagues to avoid the worst outcomes.

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MUSIC

Stone Arch Isles finds early success The sextet has started to gain early attention and a local following.

1,000 likes and they’ve played nearly 15 shows in the Twin Cities area. These are no small feats for a band that has only been playing live shows together since September.

“When you’re in college, it’s harder to have time for music,” Levine said. “I think by forcing ourselves to play all those shows it’s made us better musicians.”

While the Stone Arch Isles members say they have the talent and music to make it, success and fame are not their only drives.

Writing their own music has brought happiness, joy and personal connection.

“You’ll star t to do the other things in your life and be like, ‘This is all I want to.

Why can’t I make this the only thing that I do?’, Stroschein said about playing in the band. “But then, when it’s the right time … it’ll be the right time. For me, I feel like we’re doing the right things right now.”

BY KATIE LAUER klauer@mndaily.com

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espite only four months of live performance under their belt, local indie-rock band Stone Arch Isles is set to headline Skyway Theater’s Studio B at the end of January.

“Ever yone’s been contacting us,” said bassist Trevor Stroschein, a senior finance major at the University of Minnesota. “For a new band that’s really weird. We were getting contacted and setting up shows with no tangible material.

Why are we having this success? I think it’s about the music.”

The University studentled band has created its own authentic indie sound — as heard in songs like “Pen and Paper,” “Picture Frames” and “Take It Away” — with three-par t harmonies, intricate acoustic guitar riffs and walking basslines.

Stone Arch Isles draws inspiration from fellow rockers Young the Giant, Catfish and the Bottlemen and Glass Animals. Still, members capitalize on their dif ferent individual styles and musical backgrounds.

“What you see is what you get,” said guitarist and vocalist Phil Levine, a University psychology senior.

COURTESY OF STONE ARCH ISLES

Members of Stone Arch Isles left to right, Matt Gleason, Carlos Kelley, Phil Levine, Daniel Chapdelaine, Alex Chapdelaine and Trevor Stroschein.

“I think our personalities get translated really well into the videos and the music itself. Watching us perform is watching us live.”

Members compare themselves to different artists painting on the same

canvas. They all bring different, complimentar y palettes to the table during the songwriting process.

“I think about [Levine], [Kelley] and [guitarist and University graduate Matt Gleason] … they go there

and draw the skeleton of the painting,” said University graduate and vocalist and ukulele player Daniel Chapdelaine. “They outline it and then the rest of us fill in the colors.”

The band is still “shop-

ping around” for the right place to record and produce. The material they have online, however, has gained a following not just at the University.

The Stone Arch Isles’ Facebook page has over

Stone Arch Isles Where Studio B at Skyway Theatre, 711 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis When 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 28 Cost $15 advance, $10 with college ID Ages 18+

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Local group mixes feminism and filmaking

First Avenue continues to support local music

Local organization Feminist Video Quarterly receives funding and go-ahead.

BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com

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or many people, finding adequate representation in the arts is difficult, but local visual arts organization Feminist Video Quarterly is tackling that issue head-on.

The group’s main goal is to suppor t female and femme-identifying visual artists by showing and funding their work.

“I can tell you from my experiences as a female artist that there is a table for women artists to sit at,” FVQ co-founder Paige Tighe said.

“It just isn’t as big as the men’s [table].”

FVQ fosters a community that acts as a hub for collaboration, and artists hold each other accountable.

“I have a ver y contentious relationship with art,” FVQ event organizer Chelsea Parker said. “I don’t really love high art; I like different things. So I felt uncomfortable in different art circles and decided to create that comfortable space myself.”

Inspiration for the organization sprung from a similarly themed group of femme artists — the Guerrilla Girls. Parker and Tighe visited their exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art last year. “[Tighe] had the idea to star t FVQ almost exactly a year ago,” Parker said.

“For the first screening she asked me to submit a piece, and I loved it so much. I told her I wanted to get more involved, and we both agreed that we knew so many female, non-binary and trans artists who weren’t being given a platform. We could help change that.”

Initially, FVQ screenings were attended mostly by friends and acquaintances.

The pair eventually reached out to filmmakers online and received work from people and places with untapped artistic talent.

“By the second showing it was mostly artists we didn’t know,” Tighe said. “But everything is local. We want to represent filmmakers who u See FEMINSIM Page 10

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The iconic venue’s outer walls currently feature more than 60 Minnesota musicians right alongside larger, historic acts.

BY KATIE LAUER klauer@mndaily.com

T

he stars on First Avenue’s exterior flaunt the iconic venue’s impressive histor y, and many of them have been dedicated to local artists and bands.

Out of the nearly 530 stars, close to 65 have roots in Minnesota.

Names like Prince, U2 and Nir vana are displayed alongside local acts such as Atmosphere, The Replacements, Trampled by Turtles and Soul Asylum.

T win Cities musician Mark Mallman has a star and said the intermingling of names is evidence of the venue’s respect for the local music community.

“All the stars are the same size, and I think that’s crucial,” Mallman said. “My star is the same size as Joan Jett and Ice Cube’s [stars], who are on the top and bottom of me. I think that says that no matter how famous or wealthy you become, we all

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Mark Mallman poses for a portrait with his star at First Avenue in Minneapolis on Monday, Jan. 16.

hold a certain place as an artist. We’re equal.”

Mallman has played over 50 shows on the venue’s various stages.

“For me, it’s like etching your name on the mailbox of your house,” he said. “Like, ‘Ah yes, I live in Minneapolis, I play in Minneapolis, I come from Minneapolis.’”

And having the star motivates Mallman to work hard as a musician.

“Your popularity [as a musician] goes up and down at different times,” Mallman said. “But to have some type of permanence on the wall — it’s an honor. It’s a tremendous feeling. It’s a safe feeling. It’s really home.”

Hugo Escudero, known as DJ Fresko, says having a star helped shape his career — especially when DJ music was still building momentum.

After playing his first show

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in the Mainroom in 1996, he went on to play multiple Latin nights within the venue as well as host the radio show, “Los Lokos Del Techno.”

“It opened a lot of doors for me,” Escudero said, despite no longer having his name on the building. “A star has a lot of power — it was a big deal. Thanks to that star I’m still doing shows.”

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On the event’s Facebook page, Yeah Maybe asks, “What piece of art do you want to share on the day after the inauguration?” A bunch of talented local folks (including University professor Michael Gallope) thought about it and are going to let us in on their choices. Music starts at 9 p.m.

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GAMES

Roundup: the best local board gaming spots Game of Thrones garb not required.

BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com

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efor e online video games, board game culture thrived in comic book store backrooms and basements.

T o d a y, g a m e s l i k e Dungeons and Dragons or Magic: The Gathering provide an outlet for natural puzzle solving skills, and act as a means for socializing in the physical world.

Fantasy board and card games are not for ever yone. In a world that is focused on seconds rather than minutes, spending hours at a table eating Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and speaking in Elvish can sound like a waste of time.

Similar to the way they bond over food, people also bond over games — think families hovering over their dinner table screaming about Monopoly. If you get past the selfimposed smugness we all hold toward our nerd overlords, you could actually enjoy yourself.

And you should.

Get outside your comfor t zone and spend some time at one of these game shops:

Stars u from Page 9

When Minneapolis collective and record label Doomtree got its star in 2010, founding member Aaron Mader felt the support first-hand. Known as Lazerbeak, professionally, Mader has seen the local scene grow immensely since he first played the venue nearly 21 years ago.

“I remember when it was kind of unheard of for a local band to have a lead show at

Fantasy Flight Games

A sprawling space that welcomes both the casual and veteran gamer, this is one of the most popular spots in the cities for good reason.

The games are affordable and the shop’s events are huge and wellattended. This is the type of place that is unlikely to scare off newcomers.

Gamer L yla Allen says it can be hard to get ever ybody in one place at one time. Still, there’s nothing that can replace playing friends in-person.

“As a Dungeon Master, the worlds I make put my players through trials that are my own,” Allen said. “They’re free from hate and bigotr y unless I choose to add it. They’re devoid of hideousness and cruelty unless it’s needed.

It’s mine. It’s hard not to feel camaraderie while planning out how to slay a dragon or usurp a tyrant king.”

Tower Games Don’t let their website fool you — Tower Games isn’t as pristine or advanced as it seems. This is your typical Dungeons and Dragons haunt. It’s a little less clique-y than some of

First Avenue,” Mader said.

But when he played First Avenue for the first time with his band The Plastic Constellations as a teenager in 1996, they performed to a sold out crowd.

“It was very rare,” Mader said. “First Avenue might have taken a financial loss on a lot of those shows at first, but it showed the community that it was possible.”

Mader feels the homegrown talent pool is reaching a new level of saturation.

He says it would be tough to decide who will get a star during the next painting

the larger game stores.

Week l y b oa r d g a me nights and days designated for Dungeons and Dragons, Settlers of Catan and Pathfinder make up a bulk of the shop’s calendar.

This operation focuses a little more on the selling of games rather than playing them. Therefore, the staf f is extremely knowledgeable and adept at teaching the basics.

Tower Games is known for its Warhammer 40,000 and War machine game nights. The new-ish tabletop games are considered moder n classics of the genre and matches are hosted ever y day of the week.

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Rob Schleicher explains the game Call of Cthulhu to Ryan Albright as both learn how to play it at Fantasy Flight Games in Roseville on Jan. 16, 2016. .

Level Up Games Level Up Games is a much more personal gaming store. The owners are there most of the week and are gamers themselves.

Their knowledge is unparalleled.

“We know how [gamers] want to be served and treated,” co-owner Tony Hoaglund said. “We obviously are here so we can survive, but the goal is to create an open and welcome environment for older and newer gamers.”

“For me, [the star is] like etching your name on the mailbox of your house.”

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overhaul due in 2020 — a good problem to have.

“I think it’s only getting better,” Mader said.

“It’s almost like [there’s a new generation across all genres that’s] really starting to make it.”

Fantasy Flight Games

Tower Games

Level Up Games

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Much of Level Up Games’ events are focused on roleplaying games. Other types are offered as well, and each provides something different for the gamer.

“I like different types of games to stoke my brain,” Hoaglund said. “Puzzle games sharpen my brain.

Because I have a stutter, RPGs help str engthen my communication skills.

Board games sor t of get me out of my natural habitat, which is reading comic books at home.”

Level Up Games stresses a community-driven ethos.

“It’s people communi-

cating the way games are meant to be played: face-toface,” Hoaglund said. “With the advent of online games and apps, it’s natural to be an introvert. Game events let us be extroverts, even if it’s in a controlled environment for a controlled amount of time.”

Feminism

at my studio space, and we have a big dinner,” Parker said. “We just sit, talk and eat. For those that want to, we offer a support system where you can meet contacts and other artists.”

FVQ recently received the Visual Arts Fund grant from the Midway Contemporar y Ar t Librar y. The grant helps pay artists and cover concession costs. Up until this year, artists would perform for free.

“Before undergoing the arduous process of applying for the grant I wanted to make sure it was a right fit,”

Tighe said. The grant was for organizations that are supporting a creative community with the desire to pay artists for their work.”

Now in its second year, FVQ has grown from an ambitious upstart to a widely recognized organization.

“I think how quickly we were able to get artists who we didn’t know proves there’s a demand,” Tighe said. “The demand for venues to hear marginalized voices. We’re trying to create a community that fosters that — I guess that’s our mission statement.”

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work around the Twin Cities.

Social media helped us get there — our Facebook page is central.”

Events are held four times a year. They typically include a musical per formance followed by an hour where roughly 10 visual artists screen their short films.

Venues var y and include informal DIY spaces and established galleries.

“After wards, we meet

Thursday, January 19, 2017

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Work of notable poets finds home at U Poets

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digging through hundreds of boxes then logging the various poets’ works, letters and scribbled ideas. All of the materials have been previously unavailable to the public.

The project curators — Cecily Marcus and Hujda — plan to hire a full-time project archivist and a part-time student assistant to sort through the materials. The two lead archivists will then finalize the material’s categorization and release the collection.

Kris Kiesling, University archivist and governing member of the Society of American Archivists, said she hopes researchers will find these previously private materials valuable and influential.

“Our purpose is to gather materials that have permanent historic value and preserve them for researchers to use now and into the future,” Kiesling said.

This process is becoming more complex with the advent of the digital age.

Both Hujda and Kiesling said digitizing materials increases the content’s reach, but this adds another step to the overall process.

Nowadays, there are two steps to professional archiving. Kiesling said an archivist’s first job is to categorize materials they receive from a source.

Once this process of arranging the physical data

ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY

Boxes of writers’ materials are laid out on Tuesday at Andersen Library on West Bank. After receiving a grant, the University’s Archives and Special Collections Department is sorting through new materials to provide insight into Minnesota writers’ processes.

is complete, the archivist then logs collections into online databases.

At the moment, “Prairie Poets and Press” is not expected to go digital, but

curators hope to make this a goal once the initial data has been thoroughly sorted.

“We will go box-by-box.

Start with box one and open it

up and see if there is any discernible order,” Hujda said.

“Are things in folders, and do those folders make sense?

Are they labeled? … Once we get into the box and ma-

terials, we organize them in a way that we think will make sense to everybody.”

Fueled by hopes of universal access, both Hujda and Marcus want to make “Prairie

Poets and Press” available to everyone from students to professors to library visitors.

“We want to make it so anyone can come and play,” Hujda said.

‘One-stop shops’ for mental health to come to MN

BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

First developed under President John F. Kennedy, community mental health clinics are making a comeback in select states under a new federal program.

Minnesota received a federal grant this month along with seven other states to pilot Cer tified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, which offer both mental illness and substance abuse disorder ser vices to patients who often have to hop between clinics to receive full treatment.

The program will star t

by July 1, and six clinics around the state will be-

come “one-stop shops” for adults and children who need care for multiple health issues.

Minnesota Department of Human Ser vices’ assistant commissioner Claire Wilson said the program’s goal is to help patients better navigate the process of receiving care for several health issues. Rather than having to go to multiple locations for treatment, they can be assessed at one location for chemical and mental health needs.

Jill Wiedemann-West, CEO of People Incorporated, a TwinCities nonprofit that ser ves people with mental illness, said her organization works hard to collaborate and integrate

care needs for the community. Its Cedar-Riverside clinic cur rently ser vices epilepsy patients, but the Cer tified Community Behavioral Health Clinics program will allow for those patients to access other ser vices at the same location as well.

W ilson said her administration oversees the ser vices and has worked closely with planning the new clinics.

The project was passed in 2014, Wilson said.Congress allowed all 50 states to apply in 2015 for a planning grant that would fund the preparation of the clinics, though only eight received funding.

“I believe that the feder-

al government recognized that our histor y of ingenuity and innovation wellprepared us to be one of the demonstration sites,” Wilson said, calling the program the largest investment in community mental health since Kennedy.

Missouri, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania were the other states awarded the grant.

“One reason why this is a par ticularly interesting project is because the pilot sites are existing community health centers,” Wilson said. “This is transforming our deliver y of care system to allow clinics ... to grow on that expertise and provide more coordinated

University of Minnesota Student Senate resolution addresses complaints with food service provider Food u from Page 1

If passed there, it would then go to the University’s administration.

“I’ve been in student gover nment for three years, and I would say the number one concern brought to student leaders is food quality,” said Trish

Palermo, chair of the Student Senate Consultative Committee.

Aramark spokeswoman Karen Cutler said they annually poll campuses about how to improve, and they consistently hear about expanding dietar y options for religious and health reasons.

Cutler said Aramark has received a satisfaction score of 5.25 out of 7 from

3,200 students in its surveys.

But in a March 2016 Minnesota Student Association sur vey of Aramark, 57 percent of 2,089 student respondents said the food was “not of high enough quality” and 61 percent said the food was too expensive.

According to Aramark’s 12-year contract with the University, Aramark receives a $50,000 bonus annualy if it meets benchmarks in 15 dif ferent areas, such as safety, sanitation and customer satisfaction.

Max Hurst, political science sophomore and CLA student senator, said that if Aramark responds inadequately to the push, the Student Senate will push the University to withhold the performance incentive and pursue other food vendors.

“It’s not just them sending a letter back and saying, ‘Yeah, we understand we have poor food quality and service,’” he said.

The resolution, if passed, gives Aramark until Jan. 1, 2018 to respond to the concerns.

Hurst said he and Paler mo are planning on presenting the resolution to the Association of Big Ten Students in February.

He said they hope to motivate other universities that have contracts with Aramark to push for similar resolutions, and receive a cosign on their own resolution.

Aramark first provided

food ser vice to the University’s Twin Cities campus in 1998.

A year after the company began providing food, the University Senate passed a similar resolution.

At that time, the resolution noted a perceived ‘increase in price and a decrease in quality, service and choice” in food service provided by Aramark.

Aramark has been under scrutiny in recent years for alleged issues with their prison food quality and other ethical concerns.

In 2014, Aramark was fined $200,000 by the state of Michigan for unapproved menu substitutions and staff misconduct in its state prison systems. In 2015, the state ended its contract with Aramark.

Cutler said the fines were legitimate, but that they only pertained to food substitutions, not the quality of the food.

In Ohio, a maggot infestation was found to be the “joint responsibility” of Aramark and the state’s corrections department..

Palermo, the Student Senate chair, questioned if the University’s values aligned with the alleged unethical business practices.

“As students we’re taught, you know, to fight for what we think is right … The reality is that the values of the University do not align with Aramark’s values,” she said.

Cutler said ethical concer ns are a “smear campaign” against the company.

care.”

Sue Abderholden, the executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Minnesota, said the mental health community in Minnesota is highly collaborative. NAMI worked with the state legislature to apply for the grant and talked with mental health patients to learn how to best develop the clinics.

“When President Kennedy envisioned a new way to provide treatment to people with mental illness … he envisioned community mental health centers that would be one-stop shops,” she said.

Conversations on mental health in the govern-

ment are common now, said Abderholden, par tly because there is less stigma around mental illness and more organization in treating it.

“We do have a good mental health system,” she said of Minnesota. “We are ver y much a collaborative state.”

Collaboration and organization, she said, will be necessary for the new clinics to work, especially for locations in the metro area.

“When this project came out … we just thought it was a great opportunity to participate in a demonstration project that would take what we were already doing to a much bigger audience,” she said.

History

much more manageable and much more accessible.”

The project has been an educational experience for all involved. Jenkins said conducting interviews has confirmed her belief that gender awareness, expression and fluidity will dominate U.S. culture in the near future.

“How do we move beyond these stereotypical notions around gender-based life and become more fluid and more fully integrated within ourselves as human beings?” she said. “That could potentially lead to greater equity, greater equality and greater appreciation for all of our … identities.”

The published interviews, each about an hour long, feature the stories of transgender and gender non-conforming people.

“It was actually pretty amazing and moving, not just because of me as an individual gender-nonconforming person, but really thinking about the voices of transgender and gendernonconforming people who are often on the margins,” said inter viewee Nasreen Mohamed.

Jenkins inter viewed Mohamed, director of the University’s Student Engagement for International Student and Scholar Services — whose interview is not yet online — last summer.

Preserving the stories of average members of the LGBT community, not just outspoken or charismatic leaders, is especially important, he said.

“These are people who are living their lives as honestly and as authentically as can be in the face of incredible threats of violence,” Mohamed said. “It really gives you an account of this moment in history.”

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History Project. Led by poet, activist and University assistant librarian, Andrea Jenkins, the project launched in 2015 and documents the personal stories of gender-nonconforming and transgender individuals in the Midwest.

The first set of interviews has now been published and nearly 200 more will be available by the end of next year.

So far, Jenkins has collected 130 interviews, 13 of which have been published. Participants say the project, on track to be completed next year, is an important step in archiving the histories of marginalized communities. “[These are] people that have been disaffected and abused … and relegated to the margins of our society,” Jenkins said. “We want to document and make sure that we are preserving those voices.”

Jenkins relies primarily on her own network to find interviewees, she said, and also recruits people at her public speaking events.

By early 2018, Jenkins will have collected between 200 and 300 interviews, or up to 400 hours of footage, Vecoli said.

Once the interviews are transcribed and posted online, an exhibit designer will work with the University to create an online exhibit featuring curated components of the project, she said.

“Someone who’s doing really intensive research may watch dozens of hours or read dozens of transcripts, but most people aren’t going to do that,” Vecoli said. “The last part of the project is to try to turn this vast amount of content into something that is