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CASTILE SHOOTING

Castile verdict brings thousands to march A Ramsey County jury found officer Jeronimo Yanez not guilty on all charges Friday.

BY MN DAILY STAFF

Since Philando Castile’s shooting death last July, his family, friends and the millions who watched his final minutes online waited for a verdict in the case against the officer involved.

Now, after a year of marches, hearings and a growing number of national cases with similar verdicts, anger turned into resignation.

Friday’s not guilty verdict struck many as unsurprising, and thousands took to the streets

in protest.

St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez, 29, was acquitted by a Ramsey County Court jury Friday, for the shooting death of Castile, 32, last July during a routine traffic stop.

Castile’s death was livestreamed on Facebook and drew national attention for its resemblance to the string of other high profile police shootings of black men, like Eric Garner and Jamar Clark.

“I’m incredibly disappointed with the jury’s verdict … It is a sad state of affairs when this type of criminal conduct is condoned simply because Yanez is a u See CASTILE Page 4

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A protester stands in front of a line of law enforcement officers in St. Paul on Friday, June 16.

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Final U budget promises hikes in tuition amid disagreements The University’s Board of Regents approved the budget at a meeting Tuesday.

BY NEHA PANIGRAHY npanigrahy@mndaily.com

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BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE idally-steele@mndaily.com T wo years after banning flavored tobacco from corner stores, the Minneapolis City Council is ready to swipe mint flavors from the aisles as well.

Ward 2 Council Member Cam Gordon and Ward 10 Council Member Lisa Bender introduced a proposal on Friday to add menthol or mint flavored tobacco to the existing blacklist that keeps other

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POLICE

For next two months, UMPD will test out body cams for officers

child-enticing flavors, like bubblegum and cherry, off convenience store shelves.

Twin Cities activists have been working to take down menthol for years but the flavor’s popularity and big tobacco’s affinity for it has made progress difficult, said Betsy Brock, research director for the Association of Nonsmokers–Minnesota.

The association teamed up with Minneapolis’ Northpoint Health and Wellness Center to conduct research, education and outreach initiatives to get the policy to city

The department had held off on adopting the technology until 2016 laws changed which parts of footage were public.

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BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE idally-steele@mndaily.com

MUSIC

An eclectic lineup shows three years in, Vernon’s still got it The “Bon Iver” artist displays his “appreciation of art itself” with each year’s festival effort.

BY KATIE LAUER AND GUNTHAR REISING klauer@mndaily.com & greising@mndaily.com

Walking through the fields of the Eaux Claires Music and Ar ts Festival last Friday, puf fs of cotton floated in the air — setting the scene for a dreamlike weekend. The many stages, ar t installations, craft tables and trails made for a festival chock full of good music and company, even if the weather didn’t always cooperate.

Friday’s first musical highlight was Francis and the Lights. After starting out confusingly quiet with a cover of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the quirky 80s synth of “See Her Out (Thats Just Life)” jumpstarted the set.

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University of Minnesota students will see tuition hikes in the coming year after the Board of Regents finalized the 2018 fiscal year budget Tuesday.

In a meeting dominated by discussion over how much, or whether, they should raise tuition, regents approved a budget with a slightly lower increase for residents and a steeper hike for nonresidents than originally proposed.

The finalized budget raises tuition by 2 percent for residents, and 12.5 percent, or $2,778, for nonresident students. Continuing nonresident, nonreciprocity students will see an increase of 5.5 percent.

Historically, tuition for resident students has increased by 1.4 percent per year at the Twin Cities campus.

“I believe we have a reached a compromise that will sit with everyone,” said University President Eric Kaler at the meeting.

The original budget proposal included a 3 percent increase for residents and a 10 percent increase for nonresidents without

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Danny Brown performs his set on Saturday, June 17 at Eaux Claires in Wisconsin.

If you’r e spending time ar ound University of Minnesota police, remember to smile — because you might be on camera.

After months of planning, the UMPD started distributing tester body cameras to officers June 14. For the next two months, of ficers will wear the cameras and give feedback on their usability.

If the department is pleased with the technology, it will request funds to secure the cameras for good.

“I think what’s profound about bodyworn cameras is that the officers seem to be interested, and the public seems to be interested. Both sides want these things,” said UMPD Lieutenant Erik Swanson.

The University’s Twin Cities, Duluth and Morris campuses are all partaking in the testing process as each campus will need to assess their own security needs, said UMPD Chief Matt Clark.

Each campus is testing a different brand of camera, with the Twin Cities campus using ones from security company Axon.

Other brands in consideration include Motorola, Panasonic and WatchGuard.

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Alumna honors Dakota heritage U alumna Vanessa Goodthunder is developing a Dakota language app.

BY NEHA PANIGRAHY npanigrahy@mndaily.com

Only five fluent Dakota language speakers remain, but Vanessa Goodthunder is working to improve that.

Growing up in the Lower Sioux Reser vation, a small 10-mile-radius community, Goodthunder found a void of Dakota histor y in her childhood studies.

“I never saw my history in the books, I never saw my language being spoken

outside of my community,” she said.

Back then, she said there were 20 fluent speakers, but they were dwindling and aging — even now, the five fluent speakers are all 55 and older.

To combat that trend, she and Ryan Dixon, lead Dakota language teacher at the Lower Sioux community, are working on a cell phone app to teach students the Dakota language.

As a child, Goodthunder lear ned the Dakota language in bits by listening to the community elders speak, but it wasn’t an ideal way to learn.

The app aims to be a better, and modern, way

U administrator takes job at U of Illinois Danita Brown Young takes onVice Chancellor of Student Affairs role.

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A top University of Minnesota administrator is leaving for a similar position at the University of Illinois.

Danita Brown Young, Vice Provost for Academic Af fairs and Dean of Students, will be Illinois’ next Vice Chancellor of Student Af fairs star ting August 7, pending approval from the Illinois Board of Trustees, the University of Illinois announced.

The school of fered Brown Young the position earlier this month and she accepted soon after.

She said the position caught her eye over others she was in consideration for.

“Being closer to family is what really drew me to this oppor tunity,” she said.

She said her new position of fers her expanded, and welcomed, responsibility over students.

“I think this is a prime oppor tunity to

“I think this is a prime opportunity to get on the ground floor of creating a new vision and university strategic plan.”

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get on the ground floor of creating a new vision and university strategic plan,” Brown Young said.

She said Provost Karen Hanson is cur rently waiting for nominees to r eplace her at the Of fice for Student Af fairs in the interim. She expects they will star t looking for a long-term replacement by late fall or early spring.

“I’m going to r eally miss working with our team members here and our students, but I know we will stay connected,” she said.

B r o w n Yo u n g ’ s l a s t day at the University will be July 5. She has worked at the University since 2013.

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for the youth to learn. It focuses on teaching Dakota language through games like Jeopardy and Heads Up. “We are going to revitalize the language,” she said.

Dixon and Goodthunder worked with youth from the Lower Sioux community to develop the app and cater it to the young people.

“Vanessa is really passionate about teaching kids, and she is great to work with,” Dixon said.

In May, Goodthunder graduated from the University of Minnesota with a master’s in education.

Throughout her studies, she focused on her passions: the Dakota

language and teaching.

“I haven’t seen us represented outside our community,” she said. “So not only did I want to teach Dakota histor y but also other history.”

She came to the University feeling it was the right fit.

The University has the oldest Native American Studies program in the nation and of fered her a chance for new experiences.

She said a scholarship from the University’s Circle of Indigenous Nations enabled her to be successful throughout college.

Jillian Rowan, senior coordinator of the Circle of Indigenous Nations, who

gave Goodthunder the scholarship, said she could always tell Goodthunder was goal orientated.

As a student, Goodthunder wrote a play in Dakota and translated a diabetes bingo game to Dakota, Rowan said.

“Academically, she has been one of our best scholars,” she said.

Goodthunder now works in Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton’s office as a senior aide to the chief of staff. She also works as a policy advisor for the Native American community.

“When it comes to strong young women, she is the full package,” Rowan said.

Dashcam video shows officer firing 7 shots into Castile car

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota police of ficer who pulled over Philando Castile politely told the driver that his brake lights were out and calmly instructed him not to pull out his handgun before suddenly drawing his own weapon and firing seven rounds into the car, a video released Tuesday showed.

The dashboard video taken from St. Anthony police Of ficer Jeronimo Yanez’s squad car illustrated how a simple traffic stop of a black man shifted in an instant from a routine exchange to a deadly confrontation.

When Yanez opened fire, another of ficer near the car jumped back, and Yanez began yelling at the driver. As more police and an ambulance arrived, Ya n e z c o u l d b e h e a r d breathing heavily and swearing and tr ying to explain his actions to fellow officers.

The video was made public just days after the Latino of ficer was acquitted on all counts in the case. Although the squad-car footage was described repeatedly and was shown to jurors in the cour troom, it had never been made public until Tuesday.

The shooting on July

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6, 2016, in the Twin Cities suburb of Falcon Heights gained widespread attention because Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, livestreamed its gruesome aftermath on Facebook.

Unlike Reynolds’ video, the squad-car video shows the situation’s quick escalation and the shooting itself.

Yanez, who was found not guilty of manslaughter and other charges, began firing only seconds after Castile told the of ficer he had a gun.

“Sir, I have to tell you, I do have a firearm on me,” Castile said.

Before Castile finished that sentence, Yanez began pulling his weapon out of the holster. Yanez said, “OK. Don’t reach for it then.” He told the driver twice more not to pull out the weapon and then star ted firing into the car.

After the firing ends, he screamed, “Don’t pull it out!”

Castile, a 32-year-old elementar y school cafeteria worker, had a permit to carr y the weapon.

The release of the video made some people even angrier about the death.

Steven Belton, the black president and CEO of the Minneapolis Urban League, said the footage was “power fully painful” and that Castile was “gunned down like a

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rabid animal.”

Bekuh Sibet, a 29-yearold waitress from nearby Richfield, said it was obvious to her from the video that Castile was complying.

“I feel like it’s 10 times worse now,” said Sibet, who is white.

Craig Hutchinson, a white employment recruiter from the Minneapolis suburb of Plymouth, said in a tweet to The Associated Press that he was surprised at how quickly the situation intensified.

Hutchinson, who said he has a concealedcarr y permit, also said the video left room for reasonable doubt, because it does not show where the gun was. He also said Yanez could have acted differently.

“If the of ficer would’ve exercised more caution, it may not have escalated as fast,” he said.

M a r c e l l L e n o i r, a 24-year-old insurance worker fr om suburban Brooklyn Center, referred back to testimony that the of ficer thought Castile resembled a suspected armed robber.

“He already thought in his mind that this was a suspect in a robber y, and he just panicked and he messed up,” said Lenoir, who is mixed race, African-American and white.

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UMN and MPLS study greener houses Minneapolis will build nine green homes, and the U will study them.

“It’s really key in affordable housing to provide energy efficiency for folks who don’t have a lot of resources.”

BY CHRISTOPHER LEMKE clemke@mndaily.com

PAT HUELMAN Cold Climate Housing Program Coordinator

The City of Minneapolis will help test an innovative, green housing design called MonoPath homes, developed by two University of Minnesota alumni.

The Minneapolis City Council is r eceiving a $22,400 grant from the U.S. Depar tment of Energy through the University.

The University and the City will study nine MonoPath homes as they are built, looking for ways to make future homes better, faster and cheaper.

Steve Schirber and Andy Campbell originally developed concepts for MonoPath homes during their time r esear ching with the University and are attempting to bring their ideas to market.

The City will study two MonoPath homes this summer. The other seven are to be built in the next 18 months.

The homes are designed to be more durable, use less energy, cost less and be more environmentally friendly, Schirber said.

An aspect of MonoPath homes that helps achieve these goals is a concept the researchers have been working on since 1999 —

the perfect wall, said Tom Schirber, research fellow at the University’s Cold Climate Housing Program and father of Steve Schirber.

The perfect wall places the buildings’ insulation and water barrier on the exterior of the str ucture, as opposed to the conventional method that has the insulation on the interior side, Tom Schirber said.

Standard houses have insulation in the wall’s cavity, which is an inef ficient way to insulate a house, Campbell said.

With the per fect wall’s exterior insulation, he said “It’s like wrapping the whole house in a blanket.”

Despite its name, builders have not widely adopted the perfect wall for normal homes, Tom Schirber said, because it is expensive.

But, “MonoPath de veloped a way to even out that expense by decreasing the costs of construction,” he said.

MonoPath homes cut down on how much skill the workers constr ucting the building need to have, the number of

subcontractors involved and the number of home designs to choose from, Steve Schirber said.

Aside from having a design that is more envir onmentally friendly, MonoPath houses are more durable and energy ef ficient, Steve Schirber said.

Pat Huelman, a Cold Climate Housing program coordinator and associate professor who led the project, said the project’s focus on interior systems — like smaller furnaces and air conditioners — helps with energy efficiency.

“It’s really key in affordable housing to provide energy ef ficiency for folks who don’t have a lot of resources. It’s important to provide durability … and provide a healthy indoor environment,” Huelman said.

Campbell said MonoPath homes also cut costs down by being constructed differently than regular houses.

Standard houses are built with hundr eds of r e l a t i v e l y s m a l l w o o den panels that ar e assembled piece by piece, Campbell said.

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Minneapolis and the U are using a grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy to study nine MonoPath houses when they are built later this year.

MonoPath homes, on the other hand, use large 8 by 24 foot panels that get hoisted by a crane and are nailed into place — all within one day, he said.

The durability and cost ef ficiency of MonoPath homes helps at a time when the City wants more people to build af fordable homes on land vacated after the 2008 financial crisis and the tor nado that hit nor th Minneapolis in 2011, said Roxanne Young Kimball, a city of Minneapolis Super visor of Community Planning and Economic Development Project Coordination.

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For graduate researchers, a missed opportunity The NSF’s grant offered an opportunity to pursue research.

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Earlier this month, University of Minnesota graduate student T yler Imfeld went to an informational meeting for a biology grant.

He was hoping to use the research funding to make 3D models of songbirds and mentor an undergraduate student.

The following week, Imfeld, a student in the department of ecology, evolution and behavior, received bad news.

The National Science Foundation was discontinuing the Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant over the high workload required to review proposals and monitor active projects.

“I try to remain optimis-

tic about this stuff as best as possible, but I do worry that the cancellation of the DDIG is just a symptom of a larger problem, the constant struggle in the everdwindling pool of funding available for science at a national level,” Imfeld said.

The National Science Foundation cancelled the $13,000 per student grant on June 6, which focused on fields like organismal and environmental biology. The DDIG offered Ph.D candidates, like Imfeld, a chance to expand on their dissertations by funding an extra project.

Seven University graduate students received the grant in the past two years.

Last year, the organization also cut back its Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which funds living costs for researchers.

Last fiscal year, the NSF awarded 136 students about $2.55 million through the DDIG. The grant was an

oppor tunity for young scientists, like John Benning and Leland Werden, University graduate students in plant biological sciences, to pursue uncommon and novel research.

Benning used the DDIG to fund a project looking into manipulating precipitation and soil microbes in the wild.

“No one that we know of has manipulated soil microbes this intensively in a field experiment before, which is kind of one of the novel aspects of it,” he said.

Werden received the DDIG in 2016 and used the funding for an expensive DNA sequencing process on fungi.

“For me, it’s been really helpful to kind of add this really cutting edge, exciting project on to my work,” he said.

Compared to other grants, the DDIG had a high acceptance rate and was one of the largest sources of funding for

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council, Brock said.

The agencies found menthol products are dispropor tionately used by youth, black and LGBT communities, said LaTrisha Vetaw, policy manager for Northpoint. Nearly 80 percent of black smokers use menthols.

“You make a community believe this is your choice of tobacco poisoning,” Vetaw said.

Brock said a common misconception with menthol cigarettes is that they’re healthier than regular tobacco. This contributes to its immense popularity and apparent immunity to regulation, she said.

When the Food and Drug Administration outlawed flavored cigarettes in 2009, it exempted mint.

It’s no surprise, Brock said, that Minneapolis’ 2015 flavored tobacco ordinance — which contained flavored tobacco to tobacco stores — made the same distinction.

“At that time, we were not ready to include menthol [in the ordinance],” said Gretchen Musicant, Minneapolis Health

Department commissioner.

“None of the groundwork had been done.”

While the Association of Nonsmokers–Minnesota and Nor thpoint have now done that groundwork, Brock doesn’t expect the or dinance process will come easy.

When the council worked on the flavor ordinance in 2015, various store owners testified against it, and the convenience store Holiday even hired a lobbyist to oppose the ordinance, she said.

Now, ANSR is worried those invested in keeping menthol in stores will make similar moves. Such worries may be well-founded, as local and national tobacco supporters have started to bristle.

Tom Briant, executive director of the National Association of Tobacco Outlets, said the association is already working with local convenience stores and gas stations to resist the ban.

Some owners will start hanging protest banners at their stores next week, Briant said, and are stocking up on fliers to raise awareness of the financial impact the ordinance could have.

“If enacted, this ordinance would cost Minneapolis retailers approximately

73 million dollars per year in sales,” Briant said. “In the average convenience store business model, 36 percent of all sales is in tobacco.”

Richard Bohnen, owner of two Minneapolis gas stations, said paired with a heightened minimum wage, a menthol ban would devastate his stores.

If the ordinance passes, Bohnen said he won’t bother renewing the tobacco license for at least one of his stores.

In addition to straining business, Briant said the ban could also have a negative ef fect on the Minneapolis community, as menthol consumers might be pushed to buy their product from unlicensed sources.

“This will create conditions for criminal elements to come into Minneapolis and sell tobacco,” Briant said. “And ironically, that makes it easier for underage youth to get [tobacco].”

Although Bohnen said he plans to continue basing his stores in Minneapolis for the time being, he’s scouting for locations out of the city.

“I’m looking for opportunity out there,” he said. “As far as what I do, they don’t want me here.”

graduate students, said Sarah Hobbie, professor in the department of ecology, evolution, and behavior and a 1990s recipient of the DDIG. Benning said most graduate student grants range from $500 to $2,500.

Graduate students can receive funding through their advisers grants if the research is very similar, but the DDIG was one of a few grants that allows students to do independent research, Hobbie said.

“There’s a high value in evolutionar y biology and ecology and organismal biology to be able to demonstrate independence in research and so that’s one of the reasons that the DDIG was so important in those disciplines,” Hobbie said.

The grant was also a way for young scientists to learn the process of applying for NSF grants, she said.

Imfeld said it would have been a great way for him to show potential employers he is capable of receiving funding from the NSF. “It shows that you are a very competent, intellectually merited scientist,” he said.

As a response to the DDIG’s discontinuation, Hobbie and other scientists started sending letters to the NSF suggesting ways to minimize the administrative workload.

A social media campaign also started on Twitter, with researchers sharing stories of how the DDIG helped them in their research.

“It’s been heartening to see the response and just

the willingness of people to give more of their own time … to ensure that future graduate students have this opportunity for intellectual freedom in their dissertation,” Benning said.

Scott Lanyon, vice-provost and dean of graduate education, said in an email he received from the DDIG and it was “a significant event in my career.”

“It is ver y unfor tunate that the NSF finds itself in such dire financial straits that it has been found necessar y to end this program,” he said. “Perhaps the ending of such productive programs will eventually convince the federal gover nment to properly fund the NSF and allow the US to regain its position of leadership in the sciences.”

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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

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Protesters walk towards law enforcement officers on I-94 in St. Paul on Friday, June 16.

Thousands

march after Philando Castile verdict After officer Jeronimo Yanez was acquitted for the death of Philando Castile, protests at the Capitol led to a march through the streets of St. Paul Friday, culminating in the arrests of many on I-94.

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policeman,” said Castile’s girlfriend Diamond Reynolds in a statement.

Yanez was also found not guilty of two other lesser charges of recklessly discharging a firearm.

The verdict was met with immediate outrage and a protest held at the state Capitol in St. Paul, before moving onto Interstate 94.

Friday night protest People first gathered on the Capitol steps to protest the verdict at 7 p.m. Friday night.

The rally grew to nearly 2,000 strong by 9 p.m. when demonstrators began moving west on University Avenue, away from the Capitol.

Marchers held signs reading, “Philando still matters.

Yanez still guilty,” “Hand in Hand, we will fill the streets” and “When will black lives matter?”

At around 10:24 p.m., protesters moved onto I-94 without any initial police presence, but police arrived almost immediately after to redirect traffic further down the highway.

The crowd size dwindled as the night progressed and State Patrol officers halted marchers’ progress at around 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

“I’m incredibly disappointed with the jury’s verdict … It is a sad state of affairs when this type of criminal conduct is condoned simply because Yanez is a policeman.”

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DIAMOND REYNOLDS Castile’s girlfriend

Protesters stand on top of a car while chanting in St. Paul on Friday, June 16.

Police officers arrested 18 people — including a Minnesota Daily editor, David Clarey, who was filming the protest and City Pages reporter Susan Du — for failing to leave the freeway.

The freeway was open to vehicle traffic by around 11:44 p.m.

Last summer, another demonstration on I-94 in response to Castile’s shooting led to over 100 arrests or citations after protesters threw rocks, bricks, bottles and fireworks at police.

Different case, same result

To many demonstrators Friday, the verdict came as little surprise and fit into a larger catalog of situations between police officers and black men.

High-profile cases like the deaths of Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Eric Garner ended with the acquittal of the police officer or officers involved or with the charges dropped.

In March 2016, a Hennepin County prosecutor did not file criminal charges against two Minneapolis police officers involved in the shooting death of Jamar Clark in Nov. 2015.

These cases and others prompted several marches and demonstrations highlighting sentiments reiterated by those at the protest Friday.

Minneapolis mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds said at the State Capitol rally, “We have a right to be sick and tired of being sick and tired …

[Gov. Mark Dayton] said we would get justice. Where is our justice, [Gov. Dayton]?”

University of Minnesota student Aurin Chowdhur y said she was disgusted by the verdict, but not surprised.

“The same people keep paying this price. The system clearly isn’t working,” Chowdhury, who serves as president of Women for Political Change, said at the protest.

“The community is deeply

“We have a right to be sick and tired of being sick and tired … [Gov. Mark Dayton] said we would get justice.

Where is our justice, [Gov. Dayton]?”

NEKIMA LEVY-POUNDS Minneapolis mayoral candidate

disappointed with the jury’s verdict in the trial of Jeronimo Yanez for the death of Philando Castile and endangerment of Diamond and Dae’Anna Reynolds,” said a press release from Communities United Against Police Brutality and the Twin Cities Coalition for Justice 4 Jamar, organizations that planned the event.

State leaders and police respond

Dayton and Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., released statements Friday when the Verdict was announced.

“Mr. Castile’s death was a terrible tragedy … I believe that, working together, we can make the changes necessary to secure both safety and justice, in all of our communities, for all Minnesotans,” Dayton said in the statement.

Ellison said in a statement the jury’s verdict “re-opens old wounds, on top of the scars from past injustices that make so many Black Americans feel that their lives don’t matter.”

The City of St. Anthony fired Yanez Friday afternoon.

“The public will be best served if Officer Yanez is no longer a police officer in our city,” a statement released by the City of St. Anthony said.

David Clarey, Maraya King and Neha Panigrahy contributed to this report.

Second day of Philando Castile protests continue in downtown Minneapolis About 150 people met in Loring Park and marched through downtown Minneapolis.

BY CASSIDY KIECK ckieck@mndaily.com

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Protesters walk on both sides of I-94 in St.Paul on Friday, June 16.

A gathering and march ensued in downtown Minneapolis Saturday in response to the not guilty verdict for the St. Anthony police officer who fatally shot Philando Castille.

About 150 people met on the rainy day and marched through downtown, at times stopping light rail trains and slowing traf fic, to call for an end to police violence.

The march came just a day after protesters shut down Interstate 94 in response to the verdict.

The march stopped in front of the Minneapolis Police Depar tment, where mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds, who helped organize the march, critiqued

police officers.

“You call yourself a good cop, but you see one of your colleagues b e a t i n g s o m e b o d y, ” she said. “Repor t them.

That’s what a good cop does.”

The demonstration, Solidarity March Against Police Violence and White Silence, began and ended in Loring Park. It saw a substantial drop in attendance from the previous day’s events, where an estimated 2,000 protesters marched at its peak.

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Top left: Protesters move down University Avenue blocking street and light-rail tracks St. Paul on Friday, June 16. Top right: Protesters march on University Avenue. Bottom left: Mia Holmes raises her hands while chanting in front of a group of protestors. Bottom center: Bystanders watch protesters on I-94. Bottom right: Taye Clinton, left, and Susan Montgomery walk in front of a crowd of protesters on University Avenue.

Journalists among those arrested at Castile rally Reporters David Clarey and Susan Du reflect on their Friday arrests.

BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE idally-steele@mndaily.com

Two Minneapolis repor ters were ar rested Friday night during a confrontation between law enforcement and those protesting the acquittal of Philando Castile’s shooter.

Susan Du, a City Pages repor ter, and Minnesota Daily Campus Editor David Clarey were among the 18 arrested by the Minnesota State Patrol for lingering on Interstate 94 at the end of Friday’s protests and were held in Ramsey County’s Adult Detention Center overnight.

Clarey was arrested at about 12:40 a.m. Saturday and was released around 9:30 a.m. Du was arrested and released around the

same time as Clarey.

He was charged with two misdemeanors, unlawful assembly and public nuisance, said Minnesota Daily Editor in Chief Mike Hendrickson.

C l a r e y, w h o s e l i v e stream of the protest on the social media platform Periscope was cut shor t with his own arrest, said the experience was shocking.

Clarey said he didn’t expect police to arrest a journalist.

“I really felt, as a reporter, my duty was to continue covering what was happening and getting ar rested for that decision seems absurd,” he said in an email.

He said while he could have reported on the protests from afar, he decided to stay within the crowd for better coverage.

“He was super immersed in the reporting of his stor y to the point that he wasn’t concer ned for his safety,” Du said.

Du said she had been more aware of her surroundings than Clarey, as she has often taken on the duty of covering protests in the past.

She said she was retreating with other journalists near the side of the interstate when police began to move in, but narrowly failed to evade the circle of troopers at the last minute.

Hendrickson said the arrest won’t affect Clarey’s work at the Minnesota Daily, nor should it hold any negative repercussions for the newspaper.

“I’ve never heard of a previous incident like this at the Daily,” Hendrickson said.

“But I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s happened before.”

Hendrickson said it r emains to be seen whether the Minnesota Daily will update reporter training in view of the arrest.

Clarey said no changes necessarily need to be

Protesters overlook law enforcement officers from an exit ramp in St. Paul on Friday, June 16.

made for reporting training.

In these cases, journalists need to be able to assess the best course of action, he said, even though that decision making process can be tricky.

“I don’t think we need to ‘self-police’ jour nalists any fur ther,” Clarey said. “We need to tr ust our own ability to make decisions.”

Du said there are always risks that go along with reporting stories, including the possibility of being caught up in protest arrests. Still, she said the biggest downside is when these events detract from the overall stor y, in this case the not guilty verdict for former St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez.

“It’s always unfor tunate when a repor ter has to take par t in the stor y unwittingly,” Du said.

Nick Wicker contributed to this report.

A GUIDE TO THE CASTILE SHOOTING, VERDICT AND PROTESTS

July 9, 2016 More than a hundred arrested or cited during I-94 protest; 21 police officers injured

June 5, 2017 Yanez trial begins June 16, 2017 Yanez found not guilty on all counts; St. Anthony Police fire Yanez

June 16, 2017 9:00 p.m., protesters begin marching west on University Avenue

June 17, 2017 12:30 a.m., State Patrol arrests 18 people, including Minnesota Daily Editor, David Clarey, and City Pages reporter, Susan Du.

July 6, 2016 Philando Castile shot by St. Anthony Police Officer, Jeronimo Yanez

Nov. 16, 2016 Yanez charged with second-degree manslaughter and two counts of recklessly discharging a firearm June 12, 2017 Jury begins deliberations

June 16, 2017 7:00 p.m., 2,000 demonstrators gather at State Capitol in St. Paul

June 16, 2017 10:24 p.m., around 1,000 marchers go onto I-94

June 17, 2017 150 protesters gather in Downtown Minneapolis SOURCE: MNDAILY REPORTING

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Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas belts out during his performance on Saturday, June 17 at Eaux Claires in Wisconsin.

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Fans retreated to the forest for a late night DJ set after Chance the Rapper’s performance on Friday, June 16 at Eaux Claires in Wisconsin.

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Eaux Claires cofounder Justin Vernon sings with Big Red Machine on Saturday, June 17 at Eaux Claires in Wisconsin.

FESTIVALS

Review: Oh, Eaux Claires A&E looks back at Justin Vernon’s two-day festival in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, which brought tunes, dance moves and rain showers.

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moves. He flailed his ar ms, legs and body to the music during the whole set. Tucked away near the Chippewa River, one might think it looked like a joyous rain | dance.

That guess would be spot on.

Leading right into the “Bon Iver Presents John Prine & The American Songbook” set, the clouds started to roll in. With Vernon introducing additional band members and features throughout the set, more than a dozen songs were performed. Personal standouts included “Unwed Fathers,” “It’s a Big Old Goofy World” and “Angel from Montgomer y,” the latter featuring the The Staves’ inter twining trio of voices. Despite a downpour, people kept dancing beneath trees and ponchos.

Soon enough, the rain stopped for Sylvan Esso. But they wouldn’t have stopped for the rain.

One of, if not the only, major electronic acts, the duo of fered a nice change of pace. The sun had just set, letting the duo’s multitude of bright lights and lasers enhance their show as they moved from “Die Young,” and “Signal” to “Hey Mami” and “Cof fee” — a Chipotle lobby playlist classic.

The festival’s stage layout was both compact a n d c l e v e r. T h e m a i n two stages, Lake Eaux Lune and Flambeaux, shared a main lawn area, but took tur ns hosting artists.

There was only ever

a little bleed from The Creek stage, which held smaller, mor e intimate shows. The wood features and proximity to the river made The Cr eek seem permanently at home in nature.

After Sylvan Esso, Chance the Rapper came on, drawing the bigge st cr o wd o f th e en tire weekend. It seemed anyone who had left because of the downpour came back to see the 24-year-old.

Between his own tracks, Chance covered some of his collaborations, including his recent feature on D.J. Khaled, “I’m the One.” “Y’all better act like you love this one,” Chance said to the audience in the intro. Perhaps he was self-conscious, but the audience wasn’t there to judge his commercial sellout.

Francis and the Lights came out to play “Friends” with Chance, and they didn’t miss the oppor tunity to do Francis’ choreographed dance to the song. The two ar tists got Justin Vernon on the stage for the dance as well, and he looked just as comfortable as he did in his music video with Francis and Kanye.

Chance closed the first day of the festival with “Blessings” — a p r a y e r h e g o t t h e e ntire audience to say with him.

Reflecting on day one, it’s easy to see this festival wasn’t the pop bop of Coachella. It didn’t have the raging EDM of EDC, or even Bonnaroo’s rock.

No, this was a calm, eclectic gathering in the woods of the Midwest.

Curated by the folk of

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ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY

Chance the Rapper performs at Eaux Claires on Friday, June 16, 2017 in Wisconsin. The increasingly popular rap artist played several songs with other artists, inviting Justin Vernon of Bon Iver and Francis and the Lights to the stage to collaborate on their song Friends.

Vernon, it was more of an appreciation of music and art itself than a given spectacle taking center stage.

On Saturday, Ver non retur ned to a smaller stage without fanfare.

Never theless, the crowd found him just in time to hear him and Aaron Dessner of The National play never before heard music.

The new songs had a similar sound to Bon Iver’s most recent album, “22, A Million” — electronic folk.

His first song, “Better Not Fuck It Up,” featured a typically angsty Vernon, mostly repeating the same phrase over and over. After this, Vernon moved in-

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to “More Time,” in which he sings, “I was gonna give you more time, more time, but now I’m dying, I ain’t lying.” After Vernon’s chorus, Dessner moved into a rambling guitar solo, star ting of f light and rolling but getting progressively darker and more abstract until it was mere static.

The duo’s other new songs included “Over My Dead Body,” “Big Red Machine” and “I’m the Guilty One,” which, incorporating a flute into the predominantly guitar based music, was the lightest and most accessible of the bunch.

Feist’s captivating day

1. GUERILLA TOSS, Betty Dreams of Green Men 2. !!!, NRGQ 3. PHO, Papa Joe

two per formance was a wonder ful surprise.

Though dressed in a r uffled, bright pink ball gown, her music is actually what caught our attention.

Playing her new album, “Pleasure,” in its entirety, the distor ted emotion of “I Wish I Didn’t Miss You” along with the passionate sing-along “Lost Dreams” stayed with us; we found ourselves humming the tunes all night.

For those looking for something a little less alternative there was Danny Brown, followed logically

by Paul Simon. The pair’s ad d i ti o n to the l i n eu p created a wide enough

4. BIG THEIF, Shark Smile 5. BORN IDIOT, Underwater 6. HO99O9, Street Power 7. PANTHER RAY, Because You’re New

spread of genres to appease anyone, from Norther n Wisconsin grandparents to the youth of Milwaukee.

Wa l k i n g t o o u r c a r that night, we trekked back through the forest wher e white, blue and purple lights illuminated the leaves high above us.

W ith puddles of water and mulch trails leading the way, it didn’t feel like we were leaving a quaint music festival in the woods of W isconsin. It felt a little more stor ybook than that, and that’s probably what Vernon was going for.

Grade: B+

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Sports

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HOCKEY

Bell lands ‘dream job’ with Minnesota Bell, a former Gophers hockey player, took the job as assistant coach.

BY JACK WARRICK jwarrick@mndaily.com

After winning two consecutive Stanley Cup trophies, Scott Bell took an of fer to return to Minnesota.

Bell, an alumnus of the Gophers and a former scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins, was named Minnesota’s new assistant coach on June 12.

Penguins Director of Amateur Scouting Randy Sexton said he told Gophers head coach Don Lucia that Bell is a team player.

“Bell loves the Penguins, but there are two things he loves more than t h e Pe n g u i n s : n u m be r one, his family, and number two, the Golden Gophers,” Sexton said. “This guy would think nothing of driving five hours to a [United States Hockey League] game to get in the car after the game and drive home.”

Bell replaces Grant Potulny, who was named the head coach at Nor thern Michigan in April.

Bell worked as an amateur scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins for the past five years, helping the team win the Stanley Cup in 2016 and again this year. “[Bell] checked all the boxes for what I was looking for,” Lucia said in a statement. “He’s a relentless recr uiter, a successful coach, and he is well respected.”

Becoming a coach Before he worked with the Penguins, Bell was the head coach at Hamline University, a Division III

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New assistant hockey coach Scott Bell poses for a portrait in Mariucci arena on Tuesday, June 20.

school, for five seasons from 2005-11, taking them from a 4-18-3 record in his first year to a 17-7-5 record in his final season.

“At Hamline, I turned a program around that was dead last for 30 years,” Bell said. “Part of the reason I went to Hamline and took over Hamline was to show that I can coach.”

During that period, Hamline won the MIAC conference title twice, after finishing last and second-tolast in Bell’s first two years.

Bell star ted his coaching career with the FargoMoorhead Ice Sharks of the USHL after seven

years of playing in the minors himself.

As a player Bell was a two-time captain of the team he now coaches.

He played from 1990-95 with the Gophers, enjoying two Frozen Four runs.

Sexton said those who watched Bell play thought he wasn’t the most talented player on the ice; however, Bell still had success with the team.

“If you’re a two-time captain of the Gophers and you’re not that talented, and you go to two Frozen Fours in your five years there,

you’re doing something right,” Sexton said.

Bell tallied 81 points on 41 goals and 40 assists during his collegiate career.

“Bell loves the Penguins, but there are two things he loves more than the Penguins: number one, his family, and number two, the Golden Gophers.”

Returning to the Gophers

Minnesota went 23-12-3 overall last season, winning the Big Ten regular season conference title for the fourth season in a row.

For war d Casey Mittelstadt — projected to go sixth in this year’s NHL Draft by mynhldraft.com — will be joining the Gophers next year, along with the rest of the 2017-18 fresh-

RANDY SEXTON Pittsburgh Penguins, Director of amateur scouting

man class. Bell said the returning players are a strong group.

“They have some nice freshmen that are coming in,” Bell said. “I would say we should be a top-five, top team in the country.”

Bell cur rently lives in

Edina, Minnesota with h i s f a m i l y, c o n t i n u i n g his hockey career in his dream job.

“I feel ver y for tunate to go from the best in the NHL, in the world, and then jump into the best in all of NCAA hockey,” Bell said.

BASEBALL

Gilbreath chases majors with hometown Colorado Gilbreath was drafted by the Rockies in the seventh round of the MLB Draft.

BY KARIM NABHAN knabhan@mndaily.com

For Gophers pitcher and Colorado native Lucas Gilbreath — a lifelong dream became reality Tuesday.

The Colorado Rockies chose Gilbreath with the 206th selection in the seventh round of the MLB draft, four years after their selection of Gilbreath in the 36th round in 2013.

Gilbreath was the highest drafted Minnesota player since pitcher Tom Windle was taken in the second round in 2013.

Gilbreath hails from Westminister, Colorado, a suburb just twenty minutes outside Denver.

Colorado born Gilbreath grew up a Rockies fan, attending many games when he was little.

During his teenage years, he played for the Rockies Scout Team. That gave Gilbreath some exposure to the team at an early age, which led them to select him in the 36th round his senior year of high school.

“It was a dream come tr ue,” Gilbreath said. “I grew up going to all the games, and it was surreal that I was selected by [the Rockies] again.”

Gilbreath played recreation league ball before pitching in high school, with seasons lasting only 10 to 20 games. Ty Giordano, Gilbreath’s coach at Legacy High School in Broomsfield, Colorado, remembers early conversations with Gilbreath’s

parents when he saw immediate potential in him.

“He was a diamond in the rough,” Giordano said.

“He came with a loose arm, his mechanics were crazy, but I knew from the get-go and told his parents that he would be drafted professionally one day.”

Gilbreath was a fouryear varsity star ter, and led the state in strikeouts his junior and senior years before coming to the Gophers.

Learning with the Gophers

Gilbreath worked as a relief pitcher for all but one of his appearances for the Gophers before his junior year.

“I struggled a lot at first, and coach [John Anderson] kept giving me chances and eventually switching to a starter role worked out well,” Gilbreath said.

He first came to Minnesota to follow the guidance of the late Todd Oakes, a Gophers assistant coach who died last spring after battling leukemia. The Gophers selected a familiar face, Ty McDevitt, to fill Oakes’ spot. McDevitt was a pitcher under Oakes for five years.

“In terms of development, [Todd] Oakes was a big part of that,” Gilbreath said. “After he passed, coach Anderson and T y McDevitt really stepped up in terms of continuing my development and teaching me things that have helped me have success both on the mound and off.”

Gilbreath’s junior year

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Pitcher Lucas Gilbreath pitches at Siebert Field on April 17, 2016.

with Minnesota was his first year in a starting role since high school. He started 14 games and finished with a 5-2 record, amassing a 2.66 ERA, while striking out 92 batters. He finished 4-1 in conference play, behind a 1.76 ERA and was named first team All-Big Ten. “His success on the mound, and ability to impr ove his game has worked pr etty parallel with what he has done off the field,” McDevitt said.

“He has gained a lot of maturity and insight and perspective on spor ts and

the world and his role in all of that.”

Moving to the minors

Gilbreath will have his first stint with the Grand Junction Rockies, the rookie affiliate of the team.

Gilbreath joins fellow pitcher Brian Glowicki as the only Minnesota player to be drafted in the 2017 draft. Glowicki was selected in the 10th round with the 315th pick by the reigning World Series champion Chicago Cubs.

If Gilbreath chooses

“[Gilbreath] was a diamond in the rough.

He came with a loose arm, his mechanics were crazy, but I knew from the get-go and told his parents that he would be drafted professionally one day.”

T Y GIORDANO Coach, Legacy High School

to sign his major league contract, he will no longer compete for the Gophers, leaving one year on the table. He said he hopes to return to the University of Minnesota to finish school when time allows.

“Balancing school work and preparing for the majors is difficult,” Gilbreath said. “I’ll go back eventually, but for now, I’m going to chase my dreams and ride this baseball thing as long as I can.”

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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN

EDITORIALS

Why I hate the Apple Store Confronting oversimplification and adulthood: we all must do things we don’t want to do.

I entered my first Minnesota Apple Store two years after arriving at the University of Minnesota.

It was a final resort, not something I relished succumbing to in order to fix my iPhone’s cracked screen. And it was the same as any Apple Store I’d ever visited anywhere else. I don’t know what I expected — Apple is truly the McDonald’s of tech, but sleeker and with 75 percent more wait time. It’s the same wherever you go, and that surely lends comfort to twitching customers looking for touchscreen relief. The Apple Store is serene and untouchable. The Apple Store will give you all the answers and gladly dive into whatever hideous tech problem you have. I hate the Apple Store.

Even when the iPhone was first introduced, I had no interest in all that the iPhone entailed, even the fun social media elements — too complicated. It was too much and not something I wanted to deal with in scope. My two younger siblings, however, adored the Apple Store feverishly.

When spending weekends with our father, they would spot one of the cubeshaped stores and parlay his affable leni-

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ency into what seemed like hours inside its doors. Just a few moments to palm a device or tool around with gadgets thrilled them, sucking their eyes down to whatever rubber-chained product was first available. But I would languish dramatically on the sidelines, sighing with exasperation and tugging at my father’s sleeve as I begged to leave. I could not think of anything more boring. I just didn’t want to engage.

Years later, I sat with my mangled device, gazing off into the distance at the free outside world and resenting the necessity for this trip. All around me people were taking stock of their tech issues, asking involved questions and doing a dance of informational exchange. Having and then maintaining a piece of technology is not a task to be taken lightly. It means acting with care and attentiveness, and having the maturity to anticipate problems before they blow up.

Looking down at my navy-sleeved smart

phone, I thought about my own aversion to complications and digging below the surface. My own tendencies are for simplicity.

I remembered AP Government, when our teacher asked what “conservative” and “liberal” denoted, and I raised my hand to jump immediately to Republican and Democrat.

No deeper thought. I remembered arguments with siblings, often over who got to use Dad’s iPhone in the backseat of the car, and my avoidance of them at all costs. No involvement. It was a stunting of my own growth that had been relatively unchecked for too long.

I went through the whole Apple Store song and dance, funneled through their system of employees brandishing iPads.

I sat and talked with Sophie, admiring her calmness under fire and whatever shade of lip stain she had managed to hang onto until 6:35 p.m. I was taking matters into my own hands and growing up a tiny bit — in the most HBO “Girls” way possible — by choosing to face and embrace complications. And strolling out of the Apple Store to catch my bus, I felt all right about it. Besides, I still had to come back the next day to finish repairs.

Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com

DAILY DISCUSSION Response to “Teaching licenses method changed” We, the Education Minnesota Student Chapter at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, CEHD believe that the intentions of the new four-tiered system for licensure are positive, but the execution is insufficient.

The tier licensure implemented is a disaster not only for our students, but also for the people of Minnesota. Now, with this new licensure plan, the state can grant someone, who has potentially never been to college nor has any experience working with children whatsoever, a “Tier 1” teaching license, with potential for unlimited renewals in some of the most challenging positions.

This law is an insult to more than 55,000 K-12 teachers who earned their licenses by acquiring all the different skills needed to meet the needs of their students. It is also a betrayal of the trust every parent puts in the state of Minnesota when they drop their kids off at school in the morning. We think some realistic alternatives to fighting the teacher shortage could stem from providing more loan forgiveness opportunities, scholarships, or other financial support packages for full licensure candidates.

Another large incentive that could be implemented is maintaining salaries to meet a standard of living requirement that is tied to inflation, as right now many potentially stellar teaching candidates go into the private sector merely because of the pay differences. It is not about just getting anyone to be a teacher; it is about providing access for those who will be good teachers.

Minnesota is known and revered for its strong education system. As a society, we should continue to reach for higher ground not low hanging fruit.

Editor’s Note: This letter has been lightly edited for style. The statement was a letter jointly written by the student group.

U of M Student Chapter, Education Minnesota-Twin Cities College of Education and Human Development

2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 28,806 Total number of deaths: 7,159 Total number of mass shootings: 164 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org

The Minnesota Daily Editorial Board’s piece “Measles show health disparities” (June 14) states, “While it may be easy to blame anti-vaxxers for this outbreak, the infrastructural deficits in healthcare access cannot be ignored.”

It is true that there are real and significant health disparities in Minnesota. These disparities leave communities vulnerable to influence from outside groups. At the same time, we cannot minimize that Minnesota’s current measles outbreak is directly connected to the actions of anti-vaccine organizations. As stated in the editorial, the Somali American community had high rates of MMR vaccination before these groups targeted the community with misinformation. Similarly, this community continues to have high rates for other immunizations.

This is not a question of who to blame, but a recognition that this outbreak and declining immunization rates are the result of

Trump slogan isn’t offensive Censorship has remained a highly controversial topic within our nation and on our campus. Incidents during our last Paint the Bridge event led to conversations about what type of speech is and is not acceptable. The definition of free speech has been challenged, and the First Amendment continues to be brought up in defense of offensive speech.

The debate on free speech sprung up again when Wall Township High School in New Jersey edited pro-Trump messages out of their yearbook. According to the Washington Post, a junior named Grant Berardo wore a shir t with a Trump logo that included the line, “Make America Great Again.” In the school yearbook, his shirt appears plain instead.

While our current president has been an of fensive leader because of his attempted travel ban and plans to build a wall, editing a Trump logo out of the picture doesn’t seem to be justified. Berardo did not violate any of his school’s dress code r ules. If the student was wearing more offensive apparel, such as a swastika or confederate flag, editing out the imager y would be warranted. It’s important to consider that because Donald Trump is our president, removing his name is functionally equal to removing President Obama’s name from a t-shirt – which simply doesn’t make sense.

We need to be reasonable in our demands for what is of fensive and what is not. Not recognizing that he is our president, or censoring his name from apparel, simply distracts from the real issues that we need to focus on – like the things he is doing as President.

Police must display caution with reporters

Lea Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.

COLUMN

The tipping point There are many contentious issue within the fight for 15, including tip credits for staff.

Minneapolis appears poised to become the latest city to implement a minimum hourly wage of $15. City Council will likely vote on the minimum wage ordinance by the end of the summer, with the outcome looking relatively set.

Most members of the Minneapolis City Council support the wage hike with no tip credit, but this decision could be potentially harmful to local businesses, specifically restaurants and servers. A tip credit would be more beneficial for both ser vers and restaurant owners. Most servers currently make more than $15 an hour with tips, so it wouldn’t be an issue for most servers to meet the minimum wage requirement.

Passing a law that outlaws a tip credit will potentially force restaurants to cut staff and raise prices due to the increase in wages they have to pay. A tip credit would lessen the unfair disparity between the wages of ser vers and back of house staff, and continue to support tipping culture in

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response to “Measles show health disparities”

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an organized tactic of anti-vaccine organizations. They are not just targeting parents in the Somali American community — they are targeting all parents. There are vulnerable, unvaccinated children of all races and socioeconomic groups in Minnesota due to the work of these organizations.

Immunizations are uniquely accessible.

Along with receiving them at your regular doctor’s office, they are widely available through community clinics, local health departments, schools and other venues. Cost does not have to be a barrier because the Minnesota Vaccines for Children program provides vaccines to clinics throughout the state so families who do not have insurance, or whose insurance does not cover the cost of vaccines, can get low-cost immunizations. While there is always room for improvement, immunizations are a model for how we can increase access within the healthcare system.

Ultimately, our ability to respond to low immunization rates in the Somali American community will require changes in

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Minneapolis, resulting in better service.

Most importantly, there are more people kept employed. There are, certainly, unforeseen effects in raising the minimum wage; cities that have passed laws for a higher minimum wage are still watching to see how this change will affect the economies of their cities in the long run.

While it is important to take care of our citizens and do our best to ensure everyone is treated fairly, this also includes the owners of businesses — especially local and family-owned businesses that will be most jostled by the change. It’s our city’s responsibility to ensure the conversion goes over as smoothly as possible.

Ellen Ailts welcomes comments at eailts@mndaily.com.

how public health and healthcare collaborates with the community. Patients need longer visit times to ask questions, access to medical interpreters must be improved and we must increase understanding by healthcare professionals of how to work with other cultures. It’s critical that we build trust among public health, healthcare and the community. Much of this is already happening.

Since 2013, the Minnesota Department of Health has been working to increase our focus on health equity in all our programs.

We have hired Somali staff to do direct outreach with the community about immunizations to counteract the misinformation spread by anti-vaccine groups. This effort started before the outbreak and will continue after it is over as we work to increase immunization rates and reduce health disparities in the Somali American community and all communities in Minnesota.

Editor’s Note: This letter has been lightly edited for style.

Kris Ehresmann Director, Infectious Disease Minnesota Department of Health

Last weekend, thousands of people protested the failure of a jur y to charge Of ficer Jeronimo Yanez for shooting Philando Castile last July. Yanez had charges of manslaughter and public endanger ment for firing his firear m while Castile’s family was present in the car.

During the day of protests, protesters resor ted to blocking Interstate 94. This drew more police of ficers to the scene and led to the eventual arrest of many protesters. Covering the protests, the Minnesota Daily’s Campus Editor David Clarey was arrested, along with another journalist from the City Pages.

The police of ficers who arrested the protesters were in par t doing their job.

Interstate highways cannot be shut down for extended periods of time, as this becomes hazardous for ever yone. However, the impor tance of repor ting on these issues cannot be understated. It’s important for the voices of those protesting to be heard.

Part of the Minnesota Daily’s mission is to empower the voices of the students on campus and the greater Twin Cities area. This cannot be done on the sidelines; it occurs after actively engaging with the people who are protesting. Ar resting journalists also distracts from the per tinent reasons of protest.

We urge the police depar tments involved to not arrest journalists for doing their job. While police of ficers will continue to do their job in maintaining order, allowing journalists to conduct their coverage of an ongoing and highly sensitive issue is an important part of making our community function.

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HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (6/21): It’s all for love and family this year. Changes with family finances this summer lead to an income surge. A home renovation phase transitions into a year of fun and romance beginning this autumn.

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

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Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — You’re good at solving domestic problems over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Cancer. Go from theoretical to practical.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Travel and research flow well through tomorrow. Use cleverness and wit to advance your career, with Mercury in Cancer.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Bring home the bacon through tomorrow. Your communications and networking skills are especially hot, with Mercury in Cancer.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Manage financial accounts over the next two days. Expand your territory for several weeks, with Mercury in Cancer.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You’re more confident over this Summer Solstice.

You can make a bundle over three weeks, with Mercury in Cancer. Monitor your earnings.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Compromise comes easier today and tomorrow.

Track your budget closely, with Mercury in Cancer for three weeks. Go through numbers.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — Make private plans today and tomorrow. Over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Cancer, express your feelings.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Nurture your health today and tomorrow.

Partnership flowers over the next few weeks, with Mercury in Cancer.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Friends help out through tomorrow. Allow more time for contemplation over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Cancer. Make long-term plans.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Relax with family and friends through tomorrow.

Expand your health and vitality over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Cancer.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 —- Take charge at work through tomorrow. Confer with your team. Group communication flows easier for several weeks, with Mercury in Cancer.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Sweet words come easily for several weeks, with Mercury in Cancer. Intimate conversation flows.

Charm and express your affection.

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DR. DATE Dr. Date,

I’m out of ideas for meeting someone who’s right for me. It seems like when I go out on the weekend, I come across the same type of guy: someone who loves partying and just hooking up. When I’m going about my daily life, I’m too shy to approach anyone who seems like a good catch.

I’d just like to meet someone who shares my interests and carries a good conversation. Any ideas?

—Oh-So Single

Single And Ready To Mingle,

If you’re doing the same things and going to the same places every weekend, you’re going to meet the same kind of guy.

And if you’re looking for fleeting fun, then your current course of action is justified.

But to meet the “good catches,” you’ll have to push past your shyness.

Fortunately, the onus isn’t all on you — most guys could improve at chatting up prospective partners as well. It may help to remember that they’re probably just as shy as you, and they would love if you came over and said “hi.”

Think about where you can meet a guy who’s your type. If you’re a music

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aficionado, go to a concert. If you’re a bookworm, the bookstore and the library are woefully underrated places for meeting like-minded companions. The list goes on.

Also, stop looking for “Mr. Right.” The quest to find an ideal guy will only make you more flustered — you’ll meet him by doing the things you love.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m unsure how I feel about my best friend. We’ve known each other since elementary school, and it’s only been friendly, but lately our relationship has taken a new face.

A few days ago, she asked me to go to a party with her and act like we were together only to make another guy jealous. We held hands and flirted, all while drinking a little too much wine.

Next thing you know, we wake up naked together in my bed.

We brushed it off like nothing had happened, and we haven’t addressed the hookup yet. But I don’t think I’m the only one when I say we’re hot together. There’s definitely sexual vibes — I just don’t think

either of us knows what to do about them.

I don’t want to make things awkward or lose my best friend, so I think that’s why I’ve kept silent, but what if our relationship is getting cut short?

—Anonymous

Friends With Benefits,

I hate to break it to you, but you’re going to have to risk losing your best friend to gain something more with her. Though sleeping with friends isn’t generally condoned, if there’s mutual attraction and the possibility for a relationship, then why not?

By the sound of your situation, she seems like she wants to be more than friends, too. Her intentions were clear from the night’s get-go — she just needed a cover to let her true feelings show.

Ask her out. As tough as it is, you have to risk rejection. She could very well be one of the loves of your life, and you’ll never figure that out unless you put yourself out there. And since it sounds like things smoothed themselves over on their own, you’ll probably remain friends even if she’s not interested in dating.

—Dr. Date

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Pet away worry and stress all summer PAWS is open in response to student, dog and owner demand.

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O n We d n e s d a y, t h e University of Minnesota’s Pet Away Worry and Stress initiative opened over the summer for the first time.

Students, staff and community members were able to spend the afternoon with dogs, a cat, bunnies and Tilly the therapy chicken.

The project, also known as PAWS, typically only runs during the academic year, but expanded after students’ and the animal team’s calls for more.

“We had so many students say… ‘Why do you go away for the summer?’” said Tanya Bailey, animal assisted interactions program coordinator for PAWS. Research shows animalhuman interaction is more than fun. A University of Maine study found just 15 minutes with a therapy animal can help reduce anxiety and improve a student’s mood.

Maggie O’Haire, assistant professor of human animal interaction at Purdue University, said spending time with therapy animals is beneficial.

“The simple presence of an animal can make a dif ference to people’s behavior and wellbeing,” she said. “Petting an animal increases the frequency of smiling and laughing and socially interacting with

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The University of Minnesota PAWS program expanded its hours for the summer session. PAWS Program Assistant McKenna Adler, who studies Animal Science at the University, pets Andy the dog at Boynton Health Services on Thursday, June 15.

the people around you.”

Despite the benefits of hanging out with the therapy animals for students, many PAWS campus locations were getting overrun with too many people, Bailey said.

“They’re looking for a quality interaction where they can take a break and

they can give their brain a break and have an enjoyable experience versus something that they have to wait in line for,” she said.

As a response, PAWS will expand its ser vices in the fall. Bailey said they will make the recreation center a permanent PAWS

West Bank grapples with childhood education woes

location and the program will visit the St. Paul Student Center on Tuesdays.

At its first summer session, students said having PAWS around for the summer is helpful because they take classes and still deal with stress.

Ar thur Leow, a philosophy senior, said the

A $68,000 grant focuses on raising awareness amongst area parents.

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A Cedar Riverside neighborhood organization has tried to jumpstar t childhood education with a grant it received last year.

Since it received $68,000 grant from the Bush Foundation in June 2016, the Cedar Riverside Neighborhood Revitalization Program has made headway to raise awareness and identify priorities for early childhood education programs in the West Bank neighborhood.

“In a general sense the money has been used and is currently being used to conduct projects, publicize benefits and convene meetings with the parents,” said David Alderson, program development officer for CRNRP. W ith help from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Af fairs, the CRNRP is now a year into an 18-month pr oje c t t o i m p r o v e We s t Bank’s early childhood education oppor tunities and accessibility.

Mer rie Benasutti, associate dir ector of the Center for Integrative Leadership, along with

three University graduate students from the Humphrey school aided in the first phase of project: identifying the needs of the community.

The Humphrey students helped or ganize neighborhood forums and conversations on early childhood education for residents, Benasutti said.

If parents are aware of the benefits of early childhood education, demand for the ser vices increases, which in turn encourages more resources and space, Alderson said.

Chad Ostlund, a graduate student involved in the project, said the group calculated about 600 children under the age of five in the Cedar Riverside neighborhood who could benefit from early childhood education.

Benasutti, Ostlund and other graduate students, along with CRNRP, also found bar riers to early childhood education in the neighborhood.

Ostlund said Cedar Riverside lacks space for the education, with only four locations that can ser ve the programs. All four are equipped to handle a total of 100 children, he said.

Alderson said cost could also discourage parents in the neighborhood where many residents are immigrants and live below the poverty line.

Parents also str uggle

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“Where most of us come from, education does not begin until age five and early childhood education is never discussed.”

HUSSEIN AHMED Secretary of CRNRP

to communicate with coordinators and teachers due to language barriers, Ostlund said.

One of the most prevalent issues the Humphrey students found was a lack of knowledge about early childhood education and what ser vices are provided.

Hussein Ahmed, secretar y of CRNRP and a n i mm i gr a n t h im s el f , said, “Where most of us come from, education does not begin until age five and early childhood education is never discussed.”

Ahmed, who has fought for an early childhood education program in the neighborhood since 2002, said the Bush Foundation grant helps reach parents like never before.

In the final months of the project, CRNRP will continue to raise awareness about early childhood education and its benefits while addressing community concerns, Alderson said.

away. However, Seth Williams said his dog Andy might’ve been more excited than anyone else. “He was literally moping during the 3 weeks off.”

PAWS is set to run once a month during the summer on Wednesday’s from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Boynton Health.

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Kids enter the Brian Coyle community center on Thursday June 15.

summer availability was great, but he wishes it was more frequent.

“It’s like having a little community,” he said.

“Once a month of dogs is not enough.”

Many of the dog owners said they were thrilled because they get the chance to see students’ stress melt

reciprocity. The resident hike would have generated about a $10 million revenue increase for the University.

To maintain the revenue gains with the 2 percent hike, the approved budget cut $1 million in repair and restoration funding, $2 million in 2019 fiscal year funding, and $300,000 from academic programming funding.

The increased 12.5 percent nonresident hike will add $600,000 to University revenue.

Regent Steve Sviggum proposed a budget amendment, which later failed, to lower compensation for various University administrative positions.

The amendment would have reduced resident tuition by 1 percent, but was met with resistance from regents.

“Most of the cost is people,” Sviggum said at

the meeting. “I am going to of fer another option, it is not radical, it’s reasonable.”

Regent Richard Beeson opposed the amendment and said at the meeting the school should emphasize high value for students, not low cost.

“The University wouldn’t be the same if our predecessors hadn’t made these investments [with tuition],” he said at the meeting. “This amendment implies that we are inef ficient.”

Regent Patricia Simmons didn’t suppor t Sviggum’s amendment either.

It would have reduced the budget’s 2 percent employee salary raise to 1 percent.

“We already have retention battles going on,” Simmons said at the meeting.

Regent David McMillan suppor ted a smaller increase to resident tuition than what passed, but did not want to lower tuition.

“I oppose [a] tuition decrease because that would

“Most of the cost is people. I am going to offer another option, it is not radical, it’s reasonable.”

STEVE SVIGGUM Regent

decrease competitiveness,” he said at the meeting.

Another amendment proposed by Regent Michael Hsu would have frozen tuition for all University campuses, but failed in a vote.

When advocating for his amendment at the meeting, Hsu said the State Legislature preferred a tuition freeze.

While debate on the tuition por tion of the budget made up most of the meeting, the regents also approved a change to the board’s dif ferent committee functions and structure.

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software system, Swanson said. While the cameras themselves are often similar, the cor responding data networks can range greatly in storage, accessibility and user-friendliness.

Cur r ent funding for the tester cameras comes from a one-time allotment from the University budget, said Mike Ber thelsen, interim vice president of University Services.

If the depar tment decides to keep the cameras, they’ll need to apply for long term funding in 2018, Berthelsen said.

The University began discussing a possible transition to body cameras six months ago after seeing other police depar tments and college campuses use the technology.

“A growing percent of Twin Cities’ larger agencies

were looking at doing this, so we felt like it was time for us to answer, ‘well, should that be us too? Does that make sense for our campus?’” Berthelsen said.

Clark, who transferred to UMPD from the Minneapolis Police Depar tment two years ago, said although he saw the benefits of the body cameras at MPD, he hesitated to have University police follow suit.

Like MPD, University police have been eyeing body camera technology for years, Clark said. But the depar tment shied away from the cameras until new legislation clarified the confidentiality of any footage shot on body cameras.

Since new state statutes enacted in Aug. 2016 classify most police body camera recordings as nonpublic, he said UMPD finally feels comfor table using the technology.

“As you can expect, we had a lot of people who were not suspects, who

may be students, that we didn’t want inter nalized on video doing things that weren’t necessarily criminal, but didn’t paint them in the best light,” Clark said.

But Berthelsen warned that even although UMPD is ready to test the cameras, that doesn’t mean they are here to stay.

Par t of the testing phase is deter mining if the cameras are tr uly needed, Clark said. Body cameras may prove unnecessar y since UMPD has similar cameras on police cars and the Twin Cities campus already uses almost 2,500 stationar y security cameras.

If the depar tment decides to keep the cameras, however, Clark said he believes the transition to using them should be smooth. “ We h a d v o l u n t e e r s take [the cameras] right away and use them,” Clark said. “They don’t consider it that big of a deal. It’s a growing part of the profession.”