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‘THERE’S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT’
MN lawmakers look to make U student group fees optional The two bills, which would apply to all state schools, aims to cut college costs. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com
To help reign in the cost of college, Minnesota lawmakers would like to limit student service fees. Two proposals — which are opposed by administrators and student leaders — in the Minnesota Legislature would require the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State institutions to make mandatory student service fees optional or get any proposed increase approved by the student body in a vote. While the state can’t force the University to implement the referendum proposal, if the school ignored the state’s request it would withhold the amount of revenue the University generated because of any increase from its u See BILLS Page 10
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A group walks past fraternities on Fraternity Row on March 10.
The University of Minnesota greek life community holds two annual events aimed at sexual assault prevention. Still, some say more needs to be done. BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com
Editor’s note: This is the last installment of a three-part series on sexual assault and greek life at the University of Minnesota.
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ith the suspension of Delta Upsilon last month due to sexual assault allegations and alcohol and substance misuse, renewed attention has been levied on the greek life community’s response to sexual assault. While University of Minnesota fraternity leaders condemn acts of sexual violence, they say they’re not adequately prepared to tackle the issue when allegations arise on campus. “It’s a much bigger issue than what [the Interfraternity Council] is equipped to handle,” said IFC president Simon Beck, adding that he thinks sexual assaults in fraternities represent one “bad apple” rather than a culture. To raise awareness about sexual assault prevention, the University’s greek community — about 11 percent of the school’s enrollment — hosts two annual events: a mandatory new member training and a fundraiser called Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. While some members have raised issues with fraternity
culture — including those who donned their letters for a March 4 rally against sexual assault on fraternity row — some experts say dissent is uncommon in a community that frowns upon violating brotherly trust. Advocates, University officials and some greek life representatives agree more can be done to prevent sexual assault. Still, they say it’s up to fraternity members to implement lessons shared through sexual assault training to create positive change within the community.
Fraternities an outlet for drinking, sex First-year college students are often attracted to greek life because it’s perceived as a place to party and drink, said Nick Syrett, a historian at the University of Northern Colorado who authored a 2009 book, “The Company He Keeps,” on the histor y of fraternities. Fraternities, which were first founded in the early 1800s, have fostered a culture of drinking and hazing since their inception, Syrett said. As more men joined fraternities, hazing became an accepted tool for men to pledge their allegiance to their brothers. u See UPSILON Page 4
“It’s a much bigger issue than what [the Interfraternity Council] is equipped to handle.”
Despite Trump budget, U’s sea grant directors remain hopeful President Donald Trump’s budget would cut funding for U coastal research. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
A national research program initiated by a University of Minnesota dean in the 1960s would be eliminated if President Donald Trump’s budget proposal is passed by Congress this fall. The National Sea Grant College Program is a network of 33 universities that conduct coastal and Great Lakes research. Tr ump’s budget proposal, released last week, cuts the $73 million program, which would slash the University of Minnesota Sea Grant’s main source of funds. Despite the uncer tainty, Sea Grant directors across the countr y are optimistic about the program’s future. Sea Grant was the brainchild of University Dean of Technology Athelstan Spilhaus. He
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Blue Raiders upset Gophers at tourney Middle Tennessee State beat Minnesota 81-72 in the firstround game Thursday.
Makeup of U board ignites concerns over diversity The recent election resulted in decreased gender balance.
BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Before Thursday’s first-round game, no Gophers player on roster had ever played in the NCAA tournament. But the Gophers — a team that won 16 more games than it did last year — lear ned that experience matters in March, and Middle Tennessee State’s senior duo of JaCorey Williams and Reggie Upshaw showed why. Upshaw and Williams combined for 32 points as the Blue Raiders pulled off an 81-72 victor y over higher-seeded Minnesota Thursday at the Bradley Center. “They didn’t seem af fected by anything,” said head coach Richard Pitino. “None of it really felt a whole lot dif ferent… We just ran out of gas.” After trailing by 15, a 9-0 r un helped the Gophers come within
BOARD OF REGENTS
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Middle Tennessee redshirt senior forward JaCorey Williams looks to score on Thursday in Milwaukee. The Gophers played against Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders.
four points of the Blue Raiders with six minutes to go in the second half. Guard Amir Cof fey scored four points during the run and finished with 17 points and four assists. W illiams and Upshaw put the
game out of reach after Minnesota’s scoring stretch, scoring 13 points after the run to help secure the victory. u See BASKETBALL Page 6
Some have raised concer ns about a perceived lack of diversity and gender-balance on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents election last month. Concerns were raised after a regents election for four seats resulted in all white men being elected. The elected — Steve Sviggum, Kendall Powell and incumbents Darrin Rosha and David McMillan — resulted in a board of nine men and three women. The board has two non-white members. “Clearly it’s imbalanced,”
said Regent Linda Cohen. “I don’t think that was a wise choice by the legislature.”
Mismatched Priorities
Lawmakers and members of the Regent Candidate Advisor y Council (RCAC) — the body that recruits and screens regent candidates — say many factors and not just diversity are considered when selecting candidates. “The first thing we should always look at is, ‘who is the best fit for the job?,’” said Sen. Jason Isaacson, DFL-Shoreview. “If we’re in a position where we can elect a board that reflects the student body and the University community, then that’s crucial.” Rep. Bud Nor nes, R-Fergus Falls, chair of the u See DIVERSIT Y Page 5 VOLUME 117 ISSUE 45
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STATE REPORT POLICE: MAN FATALLY SHOT IN NORTH MINNEAPOLIS; NO ARRESTS MADE MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis police report no arrests in the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old man at a home on the city’s north side. Of ficers were called to the shooting late Friday. The victim was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where he died a short time later. The name of the victim has not been released yet. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Catherine Michal told the Star Tribune Sunday that no one has been arrested. Several young adults who were in the house at the time of the shooting were brought in for questioning. Authorities have not disclosed a possible motive for the killing.
WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHERS FIGHT OVER OWL BAITING IN MINNESOTA DULUTH — The issue of feeding owls has become hotly debated among the wildlife photography community in Minnesota. Pr ofessional wildlife photographer Keith Crowley tells Minnesota Public Radio News baiting has become an issue over the past decade as the popularity of wildlife photography has exploded due to the advent of high speed, digital technology. The issue sparked a proposed state law a couple years ago and led to increased confrontations between photographers, both in person and online. “You’ll have five people photographing the same owl, two will want to bait, and three won’t,” he said. “And there will be shouting matches. I watched someone grab someone else’s box full of mice and drive away with them, scr eaming obscenities. It’s a heated issue. People feel ver y strongly on both sides.” Some, such as photographer Michael Fur tman, say “baiting” is unethical because it doesn’t capture owls behaving naturally and can har m the species by habituating them to humans. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Tax hike, stagnant wages spark protests in Beirut, Lebanon BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — Demonstrators in downtown Beir ut pelted Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s car with water bottles on Sunday as protests against new taxes and a stagnant public wage scale jolted the city. Hariri got out of his armored convoy behind the police line at the demonstration facing the gover nment’s headquar ters but could get no closer as protesters began throwing bottles and harr ying him with cries of “Thieves!” With water bottles falling around him and his bodyguards shielding him with their ar ms, Hariri
a dozen tax rates to fund a salar y increase for teachers and civil ser vants. Parliament has not authorized a new budget since 2005. The demonstrations are the latest display of mounting discontent with Lebanon’s political elite. The politicians, many of whom led the militias that tore the countr y apar t in the 1975-1990 civil war, are widely seen as corrupt and out of touch. Demonstrators poured into the streets in 2015 to protest a collapse in the countr y’s waste management sector that left trash piling up across the capital district. Sunday’s demonstra-
tion was called by the Communist and Phalangist parties, and joined by civil activists campaigning against corruption. “We are going to topple any unjust gover nment,” vowed Naamat Badreddine, an activist with the group We Want Accountability. The parliament has twice extended its own term over disagreements on how to hold elections. Polls are scheduled to take place in May, but top politicians have yet to give the green light. Parliament’s original term expired in 2013. The countr y suf fers from daily power and water outages.
Oil tanker hijacked French Socialist and then freed by hopes for victory Somalian pirates BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — The captain of the crew of a Comoros-flagged oil tanker that was hijacked and then released by Somali pirates said he feels like he was “dead and born,” after the ship reached a port in northern Somalia. Nicholas Anthony said Sunday he is grateful for efforts by the semiautonomous Puntland state in northern Somalia to secure their release. He gave no details about their captivity or how their freedom was secured. The ship, which had a crew of eight Sri Lankans, docked at the por t of Bossaso, the region’s commercial hub, under heavy security by local naval forces who boarded the ship after pirates released it as a result of negotiations with local elders and regional authorities. The tanker Aris 13 was hijacked last week in the first such seizure of a large commercial vessel of f Somalia since 2012. International anti-piracy patrols on the crucial trade route had calmed such attacks, which once numbered in the hundreds. The ship was carr ying fuel from Djibouti to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, on March 13 when it was approached by armed men in two skiffs and the tanker issued a call for help. The pirates told authorities that they did not seize the ship for ransom but to protest of the illegal fishing in the area by international vessels that has threatened the ability of local fishermen to earn livelihoods. Somalis living on the Indian Ocean coastal, including some former pirates who quit as international patrols increased and became fisherman, have complained of growing harassment by illegal foreign trawlers.
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told TV cameras: “It’s true there is waste and corruption in the countr y, but we will fight it.” He then left the area on foot. Thousands of people came to the city center to protest a broad tax hike they say is unfairly targeting the working class. Demonstrators said the gover nment has squandered public funds through shady public-private contracts and should plug the budget deficit by addressing corruption instead. Parliament approved some tax hikes on Wednesday. The government is paralyzed over a budget proposal that would hike over
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presented the idea in the early 1960s. After the idea gained suppor t in Congress, President L yndon Johnson signed it into law in 1966. Sea Grant and other programs r un by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration “primarily benefit industr y and State and local stakeholders. These programs are a lower priority than core functions maintained in the Budget such as surveys, char ting and fisheries management,” according to the budget proposal. Several other pr esidents have tried to eliminate the program, said
Michigan Sea Grant Director Jim Diana. “It’s pretty hard to actually make that happen given the kind of suppor t we get from voters,” he said. State gover nments must give $1 for ever y $2 the federal gover nment contributes to Sea Grant, said director John Downing. Minnesota Sea Grant — which focuses on the state’s inland waters and Lake Superior — receives about $1 million in federal funds each year. “ We w o u l d n o t g e t much work done if we lose that. In fact, that is the hear t of our funding stream,” he said, adding that he’s not sure if the state would still contribute money. The Duluth-based
Minnesota Sea Grant staf f works on issues across the state, including the health of the Duluth Seaway Port, slowing the spread of invasive species in state waters and working with the tourism industr y, Downing said. “Our basic job overall is to find out what water science people need … and if we can’t find the science for them, then we build the science for them,” he said. “Then we bring it back to them and help them take that out to teachers and the public.” Despite the potential cuts, Downing said, the Minnesota Sea Grant is still encouraging applications for $750,000 in annual grants, which are awarded to researchers
U of M holds national conference for informed consent in research UMN tries to make progess in bioethics since the suicide of Dan Markingson. BY NEHA PANIGRAHY npanigrahy@mndaily.com
At a national conference in early March, the University of Minnesota reaffirmed its goals to bolster ethical recr uitment strategies, informed consent practices and research monitoring. The University has held a conference annually to dicuss challenges in human research, after Dan Markingson — a St. Paul man who was enrolled in a controversial drug study — committed suicide in 2004. This year, the conference focused on the future of informed consent as well as research on children, adoslecents and vulnerable adults. Michelle Biros, interim
depar tment head and research director of the Depar tment of Emegency Medicine, said the school wants to “assure that vulnerabilities and risk assessments are not underestimated by an investigator.” After showing signs of mental illness in 2003, Markingson was admitted to a psychiatric unit at Fair view Medical Center. His physician assigned him a dr ug as par t of a double-blind clinical study he was leading on antipsychotic medication. Over the next five months, Markingson’s mental health detoriated. Mar y Weiss, Markingson’s mother, repeatedly expressed concerns about her son’s par ticipation in the drug study. On May 8, 2004, Markingson died by suicide. After years of denying any ethical implications, the state’s Of fice of the Legislative Auditor
released an exter nal review in 2015 exposing problems in research ethics, which resulted in the the Human Research Protection Program. The conference also focused on Rober t Huber, who was taken to University of Minnesota Medical Center for schizophrenia symptoms and claimed he was coerced into participating in the dr ug trial. “Like Dan [Markingson], Huber was taken into a psychiatric unit due to psychosis. Like Dan, Huber was recruited into a study sponsored by a pharmecetuical company. Like Dan, Huber was recruited when he was involuntarily confined,” said Carl Elliott, a professor at the Center for Bioethics. “We need to under stand that the research ethical culture cannot be placed in the hands of a single body,” Biros said.
Tillerson lauds China-US contacts in meeting with leader Xi Jinping BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIJING — The United States is looking for ward to the first meeting between President Donald Tr ump and his Chinese counterpar t, Xi Jinping, Secretar y of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday, on the final day of a swing through Asia dominated by concer ns over Nor th Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. In talks with Xi in Beijing, Tillerson said Trump places a “ver y high value” on communications with the Chinese president. Tr ump looks for ward to “the oppor tunity of a visit in the future,” Tillerson said, in an apparent reference to unconfirmed repor ts of plans for the two leaders to meet in Florida next month. While few details of his talks have been released, T illerson appeared to strike a cordial tone during his meetings in Beijing, in
contrast to Trump’s tough talk on Chinese economic competition during his presidential campaign. Xi told T illerson that China considered his meetings Saturday with Foreign Minister Wang Yi and top diplomat Yang Jiechi to have been productive and constructive. “Both (Tr ump) and I believe that we need to make joint ef for ts to advance China-U.S. cooperation and we believe that we can make sure the relationship will move ahead in a constr uctive fashion in the new era,” Xi said. Tillerson’s Beijing visit followed his remarks in South Korea on Friday that pre-emptive militar y action against Nor th Korea might be necessar y if the threat from its weapons program reaches a level “that we believe requires action.” China, the Nor th’s biggest sour ce of diplomatic suppor t and
economic assistance, hasn’t responded directly to those comments, although Beijing has called repeatedly for all sides to take steps to reduce tensions. China has agreed reluctantly to U.N. Security Council resolutions sanctioning Nor th Korea, but is adamantly opposed to measures that might bring about a collapse of Nor th Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s regime. Beijing fears Kim’s fall would send waves of refugees into nor theaster n China and see South Kor ean and American forces taking up positions along its border. Beijing’s patience with Pyongyang appears to be growing thin, however. Last month, China potentially deprived Kim’s regime of a cr ucial source of foreign cur rency by banning impor ts of North Korean coal for the rest of the year.
Louisiana sheriff’s deputy shot and killed while on duty Saturday BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BATON ROUGE, La. — A sheriff’s deputy in Louisiana is dead after being shot near a movie theater in Baton Rouge, police said Sunday. East Baton Rouge Sherif f’s Of fice deputy Shawn T. Anderson was rushed to the hospital after being shot while on duty late Saturday, spokeswoman Casey Rayborn Hicks said in a news release. Anderson, 43, was conducting an investigation with another deputy at a strip mall near the AMC movie theater when the shooting occurred. “Our hear ts are broken as we grieve for one of our brothers,” Sheriff Sid
Gautreaux said. Louisiana State Police spokesman Br yan Lee told local media outlets that the deputies were not responding to a call for service. A suspect was shot and injured and taken to a hospital. The condition of the suspect was unavailable. Anderson began working at the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office in 1999. He was presented the Life Saving Award in 2010 for saving the life of a woman on Old Mississippi River bridge and recognized for ser ving more than sixty high-risk warrants in 2013 as part of a SWAT team with no injuries or shots fired. He also delivered a baby on the
side of the road last year. Baton Rouge MayorPresident Sharon Weston Broome and Police Chief Carl Dabadie asked for prayers for Anderson’s family. “I think we are a ver y praying community and I think that thoughts and prayers are needed here and we come together just like we always do and always have,” Dabadie added. “There’s no doubt we won’t here, also.” The New Orleans Advocate quoted Hicks as saying the Louisiana State Police would conduct the investigation. Authorities did not release the identity of the suspect.
and graduate students at colleges and universities statewide. “It would be a great pity if we end up with the money and don’t have people to award those grants to,” Downing said. Additionally, Sea Grant is encouraging people to ask their lawmakers to suppor t the program, he said. “I [don’t] want people to lose hear t, and we’re working ver y hard with Congress to find a way to fund these good things that have helped people. I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to offer the same level of research suppor t that we’ve done in the past,” Downing said. Since the president makes budget recommendations,
and Congress passes the final budget, Sea Grant officials are hoping to convince legislators to continue the program, said Breck Bowden, director of Lake Champlain Sea Grant in Vermont. The Lake Champlain program receives about $500,000 from the federal gover nment each year. W ithout those funds, it would have to shut down, Bowden said. “It’s worrisome, but we understand the process and are tr ying to move forward in a proactive sort of way,” he said. The Michigan Sea Grant program, which receives about $1.8 million in federal funding, would have to lay off 23 staff members. In addition, $500,000 in
grants and economic planning for coastal communities would be lost, Diana said. Program directors say the federal funding has a magnifier ef fect. In Minnesota, Sea Grant contributes about $10 million to the state economy ever y year while costing the federal gover nment $1 million, Downing said. Since the vast majority of federal Sea Grant funds go to states, they largely support research and local commerce rather than topdown federal directives, said James Eckman, director of California Sea Grant. “Why on ear th would you kill a program like that? It just makes no sense to me,” Eckman said.
University Medical School drops in national ranking U.S. News and World Report ranking list dropped the U’s med school nine spots. BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota Medical School’s research ranking continues to drop after declines in grades and MCAT scores. In the latest U.S. News and World Repor ts medical school research rankings, the University ranked 44 out of 86, down from 35th last year. Its rankings mirror slides in National Institutes of Health grants to the Medical School. In NIH grants — which t he University’s Board of Regents tracks — the program has fallen from
“Our interest in rankings is based on identifying ways the Medical School is succeeding, and areas where we can continue to improve. We have actionable plans in place . . .” BROOKS JACKSON Dean, UMN Medical School
28th in 2012 to 32nd in 2015. NIH funding increased slightly last year, Medical School Dean Brooks Jackson said in an emailed statement. Administrators, regents and lawmakers have said they want to see the Medical School’s ranking increase. To help increase its ratings, the University has prioritized hiring and retaining elite faculty members, among other initiatives. “Our interest in rankings is based on identifying
ways the Medical School is succeeding, and areas where we can continue to improve,” Jackson said i n t h e s t a t e m e n t . “ We have actionable plans in place to continue to increase our national prominence.” Still, in other areas of U.S. News and World Repor t’s repor t, the University’s ranking increased. In r ural medicine, the Medical School jumped from 5th to 3r d, while the school increased its primar y care ranking to 7th.
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A group of men stand outside of the Phi Kappa Psi house on fraternity row on March 10. At the house, sexual assault is addressed at least once a month by members during chapter. meetings.
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At sur face level, frater nities ser ve as a channel for men to meet women. Because of that, sex is often seen as a given in fraternity culture, Syrett said. “There’s often a great deal of pressure upon men in fraternities … to ‘score with women’ and that’s how you prove to your brothers that you’re really a man,” he said. In fraternity culture, a groupthink mentality of power and control can emerge, said University Aurora Center Director Katie Eichele. “There’s plenty of evidence that fraternity men at some schools have used alcohol in order to incapacitate young women, in order to have sex with them,” Syrett said. A 2015 study by United Educators — a higher education risk management and insurance company — found that out of 305 sexual misconduct allegations at 104 schools, 10 percent of the perpetrators were fraternity members. There’s also research pointing to heavier drinking within greek life than outside of it. According to the 2015 study, 78 percent of campus sexual assaults involved alcohol. Syrett and Eichele said alcohol is commonly used as a date rape drug. When sexual assault occurs, the tendency to sweep issues under the rug isn’t situational, according to Syrett, who said the first rule of a fraternity is to remain loyal to brothers — even if that entails secrecy. At the University’s Delta Upsilon chapter, former members Dawson Kimyon and Russell — who asked to be identiCOLLEGE SEXUAL fied by his first name only — said ASSAULT IN they saw their chapter president defend a brother twice accused of GREEK LIFE sexual assault. BY THE NUMBERS The accused member was WOMEN IN later found responsible for both SORORITIES ARE assaults by the University and was MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE RAPE expelled. THAN OTHER COLLEGE But training 18-to-21-year-olds WOMEN BY how to confront one another 74% about topics like sexual assault can be challenging — especially in a culture where complex powWOMEN WHO LIVE IN A SORORITY HOUSE ARE er dynamics are at play, experts OVER THREE TIMES MORE say. LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE Eichele said young people often RAPE THAN OTHER feel there’s a threat associated with COLLEGE WOMEN standing up to peers. FRATERNITY MEN ARE “We have to identify what holds THREE TIMES MORE people back from those conversaLIKELY TO COMMIT tions — what are they afraid of? SEXUAL ASSAULT THAN OTHER COLLEGE MEN What’s that risk?” Eichele said. SOURCE: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN JOURNAL, JOURNAL OF STUDIES ON ALCOHOL AND JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL VIOLENCE
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On a chapter-by-chapter basis, University of Minnesota fraternities — which self-police via sober monitors at parties, for example — sometimes utilize additional tools to prevent misconduct. If a chapter wants to continue training members after they’ve completed their new-member modules, they can do so on their own accord, but there are no requirements in place, said IFC president Simon Beck. He said he thinks the University would inform greek leaders when the school’s investigation finds a member responsible for sexual assault. While the University’s reporting process is confidential to maintain the privacy of involved parties, final results of the school’s disciplinary process — including offenses, sanctions and the name of perpetrators — are public record. James Ehrmann, program director for the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life , said if a greek member violates the student conduct code, the office would hope to receive details of the violation from the Office for Equal Opportunity and
Affirmative Action, which conducts the sexual misconduct investigations at the University. Both Beck and Ehrmann said they would deal with sexual assault on a case-bycase basis if informed by the University. So far, in both of their tenures, they haven’t been in contact with the University about sexual assault proceedings. If the University sanctions a student found responsible for sexual assault, it isn’t guaranteed that those sanctions would apply to the student’s greek membership, Ehrmann said. “We want to respect the right of each individual fraternity or sorority to have conMADDY FOX, DAILY trol over their membership decisions and to determine The Delta Upsilon chapter house on Sunday, Feb. 19. The chapter was suspended after iscriteria for membership in the sues surrounding sexual assault were reported to its international headquarters. organization,” he said. OFSL staff members are available to consult with see everyone as equals … we’ll greek leaders when a member is accused of sexual see a reduced number of vio- COLLEGE SEXUAL ASSAULT BY THE NUMBERS assault, but there is no exact process on how leaders lence,” she said. “And then we should react when presented with accusations, Beck have to be willing to kick out said. those who do engage in that “I can’t say we have one hard and fast rule with behavior.” this because every situation is different. We have to At Phi Kappa Psi, campus play it case-by-case to make sure we’re being effec- sexual assault is addressed tive in our response,” he said. at least once a month during 1 IN 4-5 WOMEN REPORT HAVING BEEN RAPED IN Currently, Beck said the greek life’s sexual as- chapter meetings, accordTHEIR LIFETIME sault taskforce can’t handle much more than its two ing to one of the fraternity’s annual events. members who requested ano“There’s always room for improvement with nymity. He said the chapter everything we do, but I think [Walk a Mile in Her recently used Delta Upsilon Shoes and new member training] are great steps, as an example of what can and that’s what we’re doing with the sexual assault happen when a chapter is 1 IN 3 UNIVERSITY OF prevention task force,” he said. scrutinized for its response to MINNESOTA FEMALE sexual assault and discussed STUDENTS REPORT BEING how to avoid similar situaSEXUALLY ASSUALTED IN tions. THEIR LIFETIME “But I think ultimately, some Some greek members have universities need to just bite the begun to foster discussion around sexual assault ¬— one bullet and ban the offending small group, Greeks Against fraternities from campus.” Sexual Violence, supports survivors. 1 IN 4 COLLEGE MEN HAVE NICK SYRETT Former fraternity memENGAGED IN SOME FORM Historian OF SEXUALLY COERCIVE bers, too, have their own ideas BEHAVIOR on how to eliminate sexual assault in greek life. Finding a fix Russell, the former Delta The Aurora Center trains new greek life members Upsilon member, said he on sexual assault and violence, bystander interven- thinks chapters need to do a tion and masculinity, but research shows that sexual better job of letting new memassault education is most effective if it’s delivered re- bers know that sexual assault peatedly, Eichele said. is an issue on campus. However, beyond serving as a preventative and reDawson Kimyon — who reactionary resource to greek life, Eichele said the Au- signed from DU after alerting rora Center can’t force members to buy into training. its international headquarters 1 IN 8 UNIVERSITY OF “That’s for them to decide,” she said. “You can of problems within the house MINNESOTA STUDENTS have the processes and the education in place and all — said chapters should create REPORT SEXUALLY ASSAULTING OR the education in the world, but knowledge alone does step-by-step plans on handling INFLICTING DOMESTIC not create change.” sexual assault allegations. VIOLENCE ON ANOTHER She said while there may be more attention And Cameron Gray, a forPERSON IN THEIR on sexual assault within greek life because it’s mer Alpha Delta Phi member, LIFETIME easier to research a defined community, that has advocated shutting down definition also makes targeted inter vention a the system altogether — a step greater possibility. several smaller, liberal arts uniIn the next year, the Greek Sexual Assault Pre- versities have already taken. OF PERPETRATING MEN vention Task Force hopes to designate one member “National [greek] organizaREPORT RAPING in every greek house as a sexual health advocate tions need to do a better job of INCAPACITATED WOMEN through the Aurora Center’s training program, said actually making the brothers IFC co-sexual assault prevention coordinator and Phi care about the no sexual as- SOURCE: JOURNAL OF INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR, JOURNAL OF STUDIES ON Gamma Delta sophomore Tyler Johnson. sault policies, so some of it is ALCOHOL AND 2015 BOYNTON The intensive 40-hour training would then estab- on them,” Syrett said. STUDENT HEALTH SURVEY lish an ongoing commitment with the center, Eichele “But I think ultimately, said. some universities need to just bite the bullet and ban For now, the Aurora Center is revising its train- the offending fraternities from campus,” he said. ing to include more discussion between participants, “What they tend to have done is suspend the chapwhich they hope to start this semester, she said. ter for a year, and in the end, it ends up being more “I truly believe that if we’re taught to respect and like a slap on the wrist.”
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Canadian wins $1M global prize for Inuit work BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Canadian school teacher who encourages hope and acts of kindness in an isolated cor ner of Quebec won a $1 million prize Sunday in what has become one of the most high-profile awards for teaching excellence. Maggie MacDonnell was awarded the annual Global Teacher Prize during a ceremony in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, beating out thousands of applicants from around the world. She has worked for the past six years in a remote Arctic village called Salluit teaching middle and high schoolers. According to her biography, Salluit is home to the second northernmost Inuit indigenous community in Quebec, with a population of just over 1,300, and can only be reached by air. Speaking to The Associated Press after her win, MacDonnell said she plans to use the prize money to continue helping the community in Salluit by establishing an environmental stewardship program to reconnect youth with many of their cultural traditions. She said she hopes the award brings attention to the indigenous communities of Canada and “ideally that they be treated with the dignity that they deser ve.” Her perseverance to continue teaching in the remote area, where many teachers leave their post midway through the year, made her a standout for the award. MacDonnell created a number of programs for boys and girls, including job mentorship and funds to assist
with healthy meals. Her approach focuses on encouraging “acts of kindness,” such as r unning a community kitchen and attending suicide prevention training. Dubai r uler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum was on hand to present the prize to MacDonnell. Her name was announced by French astronaut Thomas Pasquet in a video message from the Inter national Space Station. The prize was established three years ago to recognize one exceptional teacher a year who has made an outstanding contribution to the profession, employs innovative classroom practices and encourages others to join the teaching profession. MacDonnell was among many finalists flown to Dubai to attend the ceremony. The top ten finalists included teachers from Pakistan, the UK, Jamaica, Spain, Germany, China, Kenya, Australia and Brazil. Among her many efforts, MacDonnell also established a fitness center for youth and adults in the local community, where dr ug use and alcoholism rates are high due to the region’s harsh winters and isolation. She talked about the 10 suicides that took place during her time in the small village, including six young men between the ages of 18 and 25 in 2015 alone. “The memor y that continues to haunt me is when I see these Canadian teenagers, their ver y own classmates of the deceased, literally digging the grave,” she said. “I didn’t know until I came to Salluit that that was a Canadian reality.”
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Some say regent diversity is lacking after election Diversity u from Page 1
House higher education committee, previously told the Minnesota Daily he doesn’t factor race and gender into his decisions. “Those quotas to me are just something that I don’t worry about. I should maybe, but I don’t,” he said in a February interview. Other legislators emphasized a need for the board to mirror the demographics of the state. But troubles that range from the RCAC process to the legislative decision can hamper this. “The regents should really reflect the population of Minnesota,” said Sen. Greg Clausen, DFL-Apple Valley. “That’s something that was definitely lacking this time around.” Board Chair Dean Johnson said he agreed this election raised concerns over the vetting process, adding there may be a better way to screen candidates to allow for more diversity. Ardell Brede, chair of the RCAC, told the Minnesota Daily last month that the RCAC should improve its recruiting efforts. “We’ve got to make sure
they understand that door is open for them, the same as anybody else.” The higher education committees didn’t have many diverse candidates for warded by the RCAC to choose from, said Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, a member of the RCAC and the House Higher Education committee. Of the 12 finalists forwarded to the joint legislative committee, two were women and none were people of color. The RCAC always looks to recr uit diverse candidates, said Terri Bonoff, an RCAC member and former chair of the Senate higher education committee. But ultimately those most qualified are the ones who survive the vetting process. “It isn’t enough to be diverse,” she said. “You need people who have the experience and have the time.” Johnson said because of the election results, the board will work harder to be more conscious of diversity issues. “We can’t change what the Legislature has done, but we need to have a higher sensitivity and be more educated about issues of diversity at the University,” he said. “We’ll do the best we can.”
“As much as [the Student Investment regents] try not to, This year’s process also their backgrounds lacked student input, said Abeer Syedah, Minnesota influence the way Student Association presithey act and speak dent and RCAC member. She said the timeline of in committees, so the process, which mostly we need to have occur red during winter diverse perspective break and finals, made it dif ficult to hear from stufrom their dents. backgrounds.” Overall though, she said CALLIE LIVENGOOD Former student representative
only a few students seemed interested in the elections. “In general, students don’t always know what’s
going on with the regents process,” she said. T rish Paler mo, MSA president-elect, said students may not always realize that issues are regentrelated. “Most people don’t know what the board of regents is,” she said. “You never really have a student say, ‘please tell the [board] this.’” It’s up to student government leaders to raise awareness of the board, Palermo said. Callie Livengood, student representative to the board last school year, previously told the Minnesota Daily that the makeup of the board impacted decisions, like delays to implementing af firmative consent. “As much as [the regents] tr y not to, their backgrounds influence the way they act and speak in committees, so we need to have diverse perspective from their backgrounds,” she said in a Februar y interview.
Partisan Politics A letter signed by more than 30 student leaders to the joint legislative committee that for wards regents finalists to the full Legislature highly-ranked Sandra Krebsbach and Tammy Lee Stanoch. DFL politicians said they were vying for them, but a Republican majority overruled them. “In the end, the [Republican] majority was going to vote how they wanted to vote,” Pelowski said. Some regents agreed the process needs to become apolitical. “I think that the process should be divorced from politics, and it wasn’t,” Cohen said, “It should have been based more about
what’s going to be the most helpful to the University.” Still, not all Republicans were on the same page. Sen. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, said he’d have preferred to see more diversity added to the board to better reflect and ser ve state constituents. “You wind up with a ver y homogenous looking board, which I don’t think creates the level of intellectual discussion that the U seems to be wanting to be famous for,” he said.
A Slow Crawl to Balance
According to sur veys by the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges — a national organization made up of various university college boards — racial minorities make up less than a quar ter of higher education gover ning boards. Female representation on boards is about 32 percent, according to the 2016 sur vey. The University’s first female regent, Alice Warren, was appointed in 1922. Thir ty years later, in 1953, the first woman was appointed by the Legislature — Marjorie Howard. In 1971, Josie Johnson was picked by the Legislature as the first AfricanAmerican regent. The first Latina regent, Maureen Ramirez, was elected by the Legislature in 2007. Isaacson said a more diverse and balanced pool of applicants — and a subsequently more balanced board — could be more attainable if the Legislature gave more resources for recruiting. “I wonder how hard we tried to go and find those people,” he said. “I wonder if we tried hard enough.”
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Minnesota loses in first NCAA game
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“We made a little bit of a comeback and just didn’t get over the hump,” Coffey said. Guard Nate Mason, Minnesota’s leading scorer in the regular season, made just two field goals to finish with five points. Middle Tennessee’s Giddy Potts scored 15 points. He scored 19 against twoseeded Michigan State when the Blue Raiders won in a first-round upset last year. Potts also went 5-6 from the line. Middle Tennessee shot 7-13 from beyond the arc, while the Gophers shot 6-21 from 3-point territory. Guard Akeem Springs leads the team in 3-point field goals, but he sat out
“We made a little bit of a comeback and just didn’t get over the hump.” CHRIS DANG, DAILY
Sophomore forward Jordan Murphy looks to pass to junior guard Nate Mason on Thursday in Milwaukee at the Bradley Center.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Depth, fouls stop chances at comeback for Gophers Minnesota lost by 11 after bringing the game against MTSUwithin four. BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com
Minnesota’s crowd at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee suddenly had life late in the game against Middle Tennessee State. The Gophers shaved a late 17-point deficit to four in five minutes, and the Minnesota fan base was on its feet for the first time in a while. But just as the Gophers were coming to life, Reggie Upshaw hit a 3-pointer to spark a Blue Raiders run, spelling an early exit for the Gophers in an 81-72 loss in the first round of the NCAA tournament. “[Upshaw’s 3-pointer] really hurt us,” said Gophers head coach Richard Pitino. “Give them credit. We couldn’t stop them.” While the Gophers were the higher seed in the game, national pundits overwhelmingly predicted that Minnesota would be upset by the 12th-seeded Blue Raiders. The game appeared over for Minnesota with 11 minutes left. The Blue Raiders were up by 16 but began to lose their lead. Amir Cof fey made a 3-point shot for the Gophers and hit two free throw at-
tempts. After back-to-back field goals by Cof fey and Dupree McBrayer plus a 3-point play from Eric Curry, it was a four-point deficit for the first time since late in the first half. But that’s when Minnesota’s flaws leaked back into the game. In the second half, the Gophers’ leading scorer, Nate Mason, suffered a hip injury but still played a majority of the second half. Three key players for the Gophers — Reggie Lynch, Jordan Murphy and Curry — were in foul trouble, and there was nothing the Gophers could do to stop Middle Tennessee State from closing out the game. “We were in that comeback, we were excited tr ying to get over the hump,” Cof fey said. “[We were] trying to get it up and take the lead but just didn’t get there.” Upshaw — who finished the game with a game-high 19 points — scored seven straight points after Minnesota brought the game within four as he took advantage of an impeded Mason. He extended his team’s lead to eight with 4:30 remaining and later had three rebounds to help finish the Gophers off. The Blue Raiders guard said after the game that his team was able to easily score on Minnesota.
“I felt like this was the perfect time for me to step up [and] shoulder the offense and try to get everybody else going,” Upshaw said. Pitino admitted that depth was a significant problem for the team. The team was already low on depth after senior guard Akeem Springs suffered a torn Achilles in the Big Ten tournament. Pitino was forced to leave Mason in, even though he was injured and in the middle of one his worst offensive performances all season. Mason finished the game 2-10 on field goal attempts but played 38 of 40 minutes in Thursday’s loss. “We were not very deep late in the season and that caught up to us,” Pitino said. “When you can’t sub, [it’s] really, really hard because [Mason] needed a break.” Except for Michael Hurt, who played three minutes, every Gophers player finished with one or more foul. Lynch, Murhpy and Curry ended the game with four fouls each. After the game, Blue Raiders head coach Kermit Davis said getting Minnesota’s big men into foul trouble early was key. “Foul trouble affected us a lot,” Murphy said. “[It] may have made us a little bit less aggressive going down the stretch, so it really hurt us.”
AMIR COFFEY Guard
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2 44 41
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3-pointer, cutting Middle Tennessee’s lead to six at the half. McBrayer recovered from his first-half slump. After starting the game 1-5, the guard shot 4-7 from the field in the second to finish with 16 points. Guard Tyrik Dixon was the only freshman who played for the Blue Raiders. Dixon put the Blue Raiders up by 14 with 15:31 to go in the second half with a wide-open, straightaway 3-pointer. The guard finished with six points in the game. Minnesota returns ever y player next season except for Springs and guard Darin Haugh. “It’s a dif ferent time of year; teams are going to give you the best shot no matter what,” Murphy said. “I’ll take away that. Our guys will take away a whole lot from this experience.”
Minnesota falls to Clarkson in Semifinal of Frozen Four, 4-3
CHRIS DANG, DAILY
Senior forward Dani Cameranesi handles the puck on Friday in St. Charles, Missouri at the Family Arena. The Gophers lost 4-3 against Clarkson University Golden Knights.
Clarkson went to the championship with the win, and then won the title. BY EMILY POLGLAZE epolglaze@mndaily.com
In a battle of two golden teams — the Gophers and the Knights — Clarkson outshone Minnesota for the second time in four years. The Golden Knights thwarted the Gophers out of another national championship — what would’ve been their third consecutive — with a 4-3 back-and-forth victory Friday. Minnesota had won four national championships in the last five years prior to Friday. The only year the Gophers fell was in 2014 to the same Clarkson foe. “Do we want a couple [goals] back on some missed assignments, a missed backcheck or something like that? Yeah, I do. Would they want a goal or two back as well? Absolutely,” said head coach Brad Frost. “It’s just hockey … We kept getting the momentum back by tying it up, and if you take the lead it’s different, we were just never able to do that.”
RESULTS
FRIDAY
Sophomore forward Jordan Murphy looks to get around the Blue Raiders defense on Thursday in Milwaukee at the Bradley Center.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
WOMEN’S HOCKEY CHRIS DANG, DAILY
the game with an injury. “[Springs is] a good 3-point shooter,” said power for ward Jordan Murphy. “It’s going to af fect us in some way.” The Gophers started the game on a 7-0 run, holding Middle Tennessee to 0-5 from the field during that stretch. Middle Tennessee came back with a 7-0 run to tie the game early in the first half. Center Reggie L ynch picked up two fouls within nine seconds early in the first half. Lynch had another foul early in the second and sat much of the game. He finished with eight points in 24 minutes. The Blue Raiders outrebounded the Gophers 37-24. Not only did Upshaw score 19 points, he finished with a game-high nine rebounds. “They did a good job of blocking out,” Pitino said. “Give them credit. They were really blocking out well.” Gophers guard Dupree McBrayer didn’t get his first basket until there was 25 seconds left in the first half. McBrayer found a hole in the Blue Raiders’ defense and hit an uncontested
No. 2 Clarkson Minnesota
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3 2 1
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Each period was near identical to the one before it, and Clarkson got on the board first every time. Minnesota answered every Golden Knights tally, but a goal from Rhyen McGill with 1:31 remaining left the Gophers without enough time to mount a comeback. Clarkson immediately came out with energy while Minnesota struggled to wake up early in the game. Eventually, the Gophers found a groove and tied the game after the first 20 minutes with a goal from senior assistant captain Kate Schipper. Like clockwork, the Golden Knights came out and scored midway through the second period to take the lead. And again, the Gophers tied the game, this time from Sarah Potomak. “To be able to go into both intermissions tied was huge for us,” said junior Kelly Pannek. “Every intermission we wanted to get the next one.” Clarkson pulled ahead again in the third period, but then Sophie Skarzynski was the equalizing hero for Minnesota. But the Golden Knights went the extra mile before regulation ran out, and the Gophers couldn’t strike again. “They’re just a really fast team and they found a way to counter when we made mistakes,” said senior captain Lee Stecklein. “A few plays you’d definitely like back, but
that’s the game of hockey I guess.” Clarkson’s speed was a huge factor in the game, and Minnesota struggled for most of the tilt to keep up. The Golden Knights kept composure every time the Gophers answered, which showed in their last-minute goal, a rebound effort from McGill. Redshirt junior Sidney Peters helped keep the game within one with a big pad deflection in the third period and allowed her teammates to score yet another tying goal later on. She tallied 21 saves total. “We could’ve done a little better in front of her. We didn’t help her out too much,” Pannek said. “Any time a puck gets by her, she’s always the first one to say, ‘We’re gonna get one.’ Her positivity is huge.” Minnesota had a shot advantage in every period but the third and on the game, but a solid combination of quick Clarkson defense and goaltender Shea Tiley made it difficult for the Gophers to get any shots through. Minnesota was an underdog coming into the tournament as the only unseeded team, and its season was marred with injuries and adjustments. But it’s all part of a bigger story for the Gophers. “It’s hard when your season kind of comes down to one game,” Pannek said. “But we know that our season is so much more than this game.”
Monday, March 20, 2017
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Future looms bright for Gophers despite setbacks
Minnesota’s six seniors went 13317-11 during their Gophers careers. BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Lee Stecklein finished her senior season just short of a perfect career with four national championships. After a 4-3 national semifinal loss to Clarkson University on Friday, Stecklein will leave the Gophers as one of the most storied players in program history. “It’s been a great four years at Minnesota, regardless of how it ended,” Stecklein said. “I’m going to miss these girls, but it’s been the best four years.” Along with Stecklein, the Gophers lost five seniors earlier than they would have hoped after Friday’s loss, including a top defensive pairing and four forwards. Hope, however, is not all lost for Minnesota. The Gophers return the regular season NCAA scoring champion Kelly Pannek who will lead her team as a senior next year. “Any time you lose a senior class it’s really hard – I mean, they’re some of my best friends,” Pannek said. “Just to see how they love this team has been really fun to be a part of. We had two sophomores score goals tonight, [Sophie Skarzynski and Sarah Potomak], and we have some really talented freshmen.” In its of fensive corps, Minnesota also retur ns Caitlin Reilly, a grizzled
veteran who has a knack for finding the net, Sophie Skarzynski, a talented utility player and Alex Woken, a highly-touted recruit whose freshman year was cut short due to injury. Freshman forward Lindsey Agnew saw limited impact in her first year but will look to provide a larger contribution in her sophomore season. Finding a pairing to replace Stecklein and defensive partner Megan Wolfe will be no short order, but Minnesota has plenty of players ready to fill the holes left behind by their predecessors. Sydney Baldwin saw significant time on the Gophers back line this season. And skilled freshman Patti Marshall sealed Minnesota’s Frozen Four berth with the only goal in its quarterfinal matchup against UMD. Minnesota also returns starting goalie Sidney Peters who garnered a .917 save percentage this year. But, the biggest question mark comes from the international stage. Sarah Potomak had a breakout sophomore season and finished second on the team with 53 points. She would return as a clear difference-maker for Minnesota. However, Potomak’s status as a top Canadian forward could mean participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics and a redshirt year with the Gophers, which means she wouldn’t return until the 20182019 season. “Hopefully, Sarah’s doing some bigger things [next
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Big Ten loss doesn’t spoil NCAA outlook
BY THE NUMBERS
133-77-11
OVERALL CAREER RECORD
3
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR CAPTAIN LEE STECKLEIN
2
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR MINNESOTA’S FIVE OTHER SENIORS
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OLYMPIC SILVER MEDAL WON BY LEE STECKLEIN
177
GOALS
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ASSISTS
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year], but I would love to play with her again. She’s so fun to play with, so dynamic and so sneaky. I can’t say enough great things about her, and her future is so, so bright,” Pannek said. Despite the uncertainty and the depar tures, the Gophers look to build on a mostly solid foundation and get back en route to another national championship. “It’s going to be hard to lose those guys,” said head coach Brad Frost. “With a program like ours and other top teams, you’re losing great players every year, and it’s our job as coaches to bring some great ones in and develop the ones we have. We’ll be okay.”
CHRIS DANG, DAILY
Sophomore forward Loren Gabel handles the puck on Friday in St. Charles, Missouri. The Gophers lost 4-3 against Clarkson University Golden Knights.
CARTER JONES, DAILY
Goaltender Eric Schierhorn watches forward Leon Bristedt reach to block a pass against Wisconsin on Feb. 25 at Mariucci Arena.
The Gophers set a new record for NCAA Tournament bids Sunday at 37. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
Minnesota fell out of the Big Ten Tournament in its first game Friday, but the Gophers still finished the weekend on top. While the team didn’t win, the Gophers were selected as a one-seed for the NCAA Tournament Sunday and will play No. 10 seed Notre Dame in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday. The rollercoaster weekend for Minnesota started Friday when the team played the longest game in Big Ten Tournament histor y with Penn State. The Gophers looked poised to hold off the Nittany Lions offense in the second overtime period, but the lone penalty in extra minutes on Minnesota proved fatal. A turnover along the boards put the Nittany Lions defenseman Erik Autio open in front of the Minnesota net and he broke the 3-3 tie 93:33 into the conference game, sending Penn State to its first Big Ten Tournament title game. Minnesota’s key to the extended game was its goaltender — Eric Schierhorn. In one of the strongest per formances in his two years with the Gophers, the
sophomore goalie faced 63 shots and saved 59 of them, a career-high for saves in a game. “The goalies played [well],” head coach Don Lucia told the media Friday. “I was ver y happy [with] the way Eric played. [He’s] played well the second half of the season.” Facing a total of 20 shots in the two overtime periods and 43 in the first three frames, Schierhorn kept Minnesota in the game to prolong the Gopher’s hopes. Schierhorn has kept pace with his statistics from his freshman season and improved his save percentage to .908 and his goals against average to 2.60 this season. Minnesota was outshot 63-40 but managed to keep pace with a strong Penn State offense that was able to find its way through the Gophers’ defense. Minnesota led once in the game at the end of the first period, but Penn State took control from there and led 3-2 in the third period. One of Minnesota’s highest scorers, defenseman Jack Sadek, was able to break through and scored the equalizer, his third goal in three games. “It somehow popped out to me,” Sadek said to the media. “I just one-timed the puck. That’s what the coaches are kind of harping on us to do, the defensemen.” Penn State wasn’t involved in just one double overtime
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game during the Big Ten Tournament. The championship tilt between Wisconsin and Penn State also went to a second overtime period, but didn’t last as long as the semifinal game. Although Minnesota has won all four Big Ten regular season titles, it has only won one of the four tournaments. With Penn State’s victory and tournament title, the Gophers were confirmed as one of the four number-one seeds in the NCAA Tournament. Minnesota will enter the NCAA Tournament for its 37th time, a tournament record, which broke a tie that the team previously held with Michigan at 36. Minnesota had not played Notre Dame since last season, splitting the series that came in November of 2015. The Gophers are 1-0 against Notre Dame all-time in NCAA tournament games. “We haven’t played them this year, but we played them a little bit last year,” captain Justin Kloos said Sunday. “So we kind of know their style, they’re good of fensively, [they have] offensive defensemen [who] like to get up in the play.”
SOFTBALL
Minnesota begins conference play on new, four-game winning streak The team saw its first losses of the season over break but still went 7-2.
SOFTBALL RESULTS
March 10 NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
BY KYLE STEINBERG ksteinberg@mndaily.comw
Although its perfect record is no longer, the Gophers softball team isn’t worried. No. 8 Minnesota (25-2) suffered its first losses of the season over spring break and fell twice to No. 6 Washington in Seattle — part of the Gophers’ 3-2 start to break in the Husky Classic. “I don’t think anything’s really changed,” said head coach Jessica Allister. “We feel good about the [nonconference record] we’ve put together … You’re striving to win every game, but I don’t think we had any illusions that we were going to go the entire season and not lose a single game.” The Huskies scored a combined 12 runs over the two games, including nine in a five-inning, run-rule victory on March 12. Washington eliminated Minnesota in last year’s NCAA tournament, and the Gophers know they could face a similar opponent in this year’s postseason. “I think we did a lot of things on our par t that helped [Washington] win,” said infielder MaKenna Partain. “Just playing our game is the key to winning games for us.” The break schedule wasn’t all that bad for the
7-0 WIN
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3-2 LOSS
March 11 NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
14-6 WIN
March 12 NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS SOUTH DAKOTA
8-0 WIN
NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS NO. 6 WASHINGTON
9-0 LOSS
March 13 NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS OREGON STATE
6-0 WIN
Junior infielder Sydney Dwyer swings at a pitch at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on Apr. 23, 2015.
Gophers, however, and Partain was a key cog in a slew of high-powered offensive performances. The freshman holds the team lead in hitting with a .457 batting average and had five hits and five runs in Minnesota’s three victories in Seattle. “[MaKenna] has the ability to beat you with power and speed,” Allister said. “She’s been off to a great start.” Following the Husky Classic, the Gophers continued their West Coast
tour by cr uising to a 6-0 shutout-victor y over Oregon State to preface another matchup with a ranked team in No. 23 California. Senior pitcher Sara Groenewegen — who has been dominant all season for the Gophers — hit a major career milestone in the second inning when she struck out her 1,000th batter as a member of the Gophers. Groenewegen is just the third Minnesota pitcher to accomplish the feat — current Gophers pitching coach Piper Ritter and 2014 graduate Sara
Moulton are the other two. “Obviously it’s a really cool accomplishment, but that’s not what we’re in it for — we’re in it to be in Oklahoma [for the College World Series],” Groenewegen said. While Gr oenewegen shut out the Golden Bears over six innings, her teammates made sure she didn’t have to worr y too much thanks to an offensive explosion in the third that resulted in seven Gophers runs. After adding three runs in the top of the seventh,
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Tori Finucane and the Gophers shut California down in the bottom of the inning to seal a 10-0 victory over a top-25 opponent. “We talk about pitching, hitting and defense … against Cal, I thought we had all three,” said Allister. “That was a big win for us.” The Gophers concluded the spring break schedule with a doubleheader against Pacific that saw a combined score of 22-1, and they start Big Ten play with a trip to Nebraska slated for next weekend.
March 15 NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS NO. 23 CALIFORNIA
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March 17 NO. 8 MINNESOTA VS PACIFIC
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“All of the upperclassmen talk about how fun [the Big Ten is],” Partain said. “I’ve been looking forward to the Big Ten [schedule] since the beginning of the year.”
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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
Roadtrips don’t need to be a life lesson I canvassed the Midwest by car over spring break without any attempt to “find America.”
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y boyfriend and I planned a spring break road trip all semester, right down to the finite playlist of carefully chosen tunes. Our itinerar y: Des Moines, Iowa to Kansas City, Missouri to Dodge City, Kansas and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Setting out on our first day of the drive, we made fun of ourselves as “city slickers,” and I lambasted his dead-giveaway clear frame glasses. As a San Francisco-to-
I wanted to pass through towns with no preconceived notions coming in and no judgments going out. As a student on a weeklong vacation, I didn’t want to be a scavenger looking for intrigue at the expense of other’s lives.
KATE MCCARTHY columnist
Minneapolis transplant, I was afforded the opportunity to see parts of the country I’d never been exposed to before. I wanted to absorb every detail of the small towns visited without veering into condescension and elitism. It’s too easy to christen yourself a hero for traipsing through Kansas farm areas and solemnly deciding to see those people as equals — reinforcing your arrogant elitism in the process. I’ve always loved the 30 Rock episode where Liz Lemon is bent on engaging with the “real America” — rural areas, where she supposed that people were truly good. By the end of the episode, Jack Donaghy has shown her the truth: there is no real or better America. People are equally terrible everywhere. That’s just the race of humankind. We didn’t encounter anyone terrible. In Iowa, we ran out of gas (truly a moment of Tom and Daisy Buchanan carelessness),
but a farmer generously sold us some. We had pleasant conversation and then parted ways with smiles all around. In Missouri, two older musicians took me into their conversation at a table in the Blue Room Jazz Club. I found myself wanting to ask for opinions on the presidency and what it’s like to live in an area typically considered a “flyover state.” But I kept my mouth firmly shut when these queries bubble up because they are not exhibits to be ogled or poked at. A trip like this doesn’t have to be a forced learning experience. I wanted to pass through towns with no preconceived notions coming in and no judgments going out. As a student on a weeklong vacation, I didn’t want to be a scavenger looking for intrigue at the expense of other’s lives. There’s a way of engaging and observing without reinforcing an idea of “otherness” that is dangerous to our countr y right now: no elitism, but also no romanticizing about these areas and what they might have to “teach me” about folks. We’re all just cycling through. Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com.
GUEST EDITORIAL Don’t change compliance rules on ethanol Ethanol has long been under attack from the oil industr y and now oilman Carl Icahn is hoping his ties with the new Trump administration will enable a change in rules that would save oil refineries money while harming the ethanol industr y. The federal government sets mandator y minimum requirements for how much ethanol is blended into gasoline. Most gasoline contains 10 percent, but many motorists are using a higher blend. The government requires oil refineries to ensure and document that the required level of ethanol is being blended into fuel each year. Icahn and others have been working on a deal that would relieve refineries such as his company CVR Refining of that obligation and instead shift the obligation to fuel wholesalers. Ethics exper ts say the fact that Icahn is ser ving as the deal maker might expose him to conflict-of-interest laws. That’s because he’s proposing r ule changes that would benefit him financially while he is also ser ving as a “special adviser” to Trump. The ethanol industr y doesn’t need any unnecessar y disruptions. Ethanol refiners and the farmers who supply corn to them have done a good job of meeting demands for the cleaner- burning renewable fuel. But ethanol plants have faced some headwinds in recent years, and farmers have struggled amid low crop prices. Disr upting the ethanol r ule system would only slow the advance of renewable fuels. Americans suppor t renewable fuels, and having the oil refineries handle the obligation of blending ethanol has worked well. Yes, it costs money to ensure the ethanol fuel levels are being met. But oil refiners, who get plenty of taxpayer subsidies, have the exper tise and resources to handle the job. The T r ump administration should leave the system as it is. Editor’s Note: This editorial was originally published in the Mankato Free Press. CONTACT THE EDITOR Grace Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com
The reason I write is in regard to the recently published article, “In budget fight, University of Minnesota finds stiff competition with state schools.” In the article is a quote by Regent Dean Johnson stating that the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System received more funding per student in the last biennium than the University of Minnesota. This claim is incorrect. Over the last decade state fund appropriations to the Minnesota State System have been significantly lower when compared to the University of Minnesota. In fact, data presented in 2014 in The Statesman Newspaper at the University of Minnesota-Duluth showed that state universities and community colleges receive on average $2,000-$4,000 less per full time/ full year equivalent student. This is so, de-
EDITORIAL Expanding sex assault education is necessary
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uring Eric Kaler’s recent State of the University speech, the University of Minnesota president noted the prevalence of sexual assault on campus, which has been brought to light this school year especially after the Gophers football boycott last fall. One change to the culture and practices at the University regarding sexual assault — “enhanced training and additional education for students after their first year,” as Kaler put it — is a welcome move. This was one of five points of improvement focused on sexual assault awareness and resources that the president brought up. Each of these points — from creating better tools to collect data on campus sexual assault, to instituting mandatory sexual assault training for every University faculty and staff member — should be applauded. We think changing the paradigm of students’ sexual assault education — and specifically, to teach them of the grave reality of sexual assault on campuses, both nationwide and next door — is a step in the right direction. It also signals a vital shift in perspective on an issue so many members of our community face. So much of rape culture is rooted in the authority and power some members of our community have over others and privileges that can be based in gender, race, sexuality or financial resources. But a power structure that affects all of us on campus, no matter our identity, is the transfer of knowledge from lowerclassmen to upperclassmen at the University. An integral part of creating a safe, welcoming campus is to remind students of the increased responsibility that comes with growing older and becoming a leader on campus. Seniors ought to be good stewards of the influence they wield. Kaler reiterated the importance of this step during his most recent interview with the Minnesota Daily, saying, “We need to work effectively to provide continued training and opportunities for learning beyond the first year.” We should all take this moment in the wake of recent reports of sexual assault across our campus to ask ourselves what is our personal responsibility in preventing sexual assault on campus and how can we best provide support when misconduct does occur.
Helen Teague welcomes comments at hteague@mndaily.com.
COLUMN
President Trump is no joke The recently-elected president is a gift for late-night television ratings, but at what cost?
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arly last week, comedian Dave Chappelle told CBC News, “Trump’s kind of bad for comedy.” Because the president is on everyone’s minds, Chappelle said, many comedians are making the same jokes about him. Chappelle’s comments echo similar sentiments we’ve heard for months now. The day after the election, The Daily Beast asked, “Can Comedy Sur vive President Trump?” Not only has comedy survived — it’s a thriving business. Politically-minded comedians such as Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, Trevor Noah and John Oliver have all seen their ratings surge since Trump took office. Alec Baldwin — whose popular portrayal of Trump on “Saturday Night Live” is now featured most weeks on the show — announced he’s co-writing an entire book as Donald Trump. Although people may not have anything particularly new to say about Trump, their jokes are resonating with millions.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Re: University of Minnesota and state school budgets
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spite the glaring fact that the Minnesota State System educates a proportionally larger number of students. In addition, none of the Minnesota State institutions have endowments in the same order of magnitude as either the University of Minnesota (more than $3 billion) or the University of Minnesota Duluth ($154 million). These were seeded originally with the state’s portion of the Land Grant Acts and state school lands. By comparison, the largest endowment at a state institution is about $50 million. That means proportionally less scholarships, less research, less opportunities for those students. Whether by full time equivalence, student headcount or by credit hours, it is a fact that the Minnesota State System receives less in state funding (and funding in general) than the University of Minnesota system. This has been a trend for quite some time. Estimates by the Minnesota State Sys-
THE EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS DEPARTMENT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE NEWSROOM
CHANCE WELLNITZ columnist
Comedy Central president Kent Alterman told Bloomberg that in our country’s current state of unrest, “there is something therapeutic in comedy.” Comedy, like all art forms, can help us make sense of the world around us. But it can also make us complacent and complicit in things that are no laughing matter. I’m not surprised that people are capitalizing on the zeitgeist. That’s business as usual. My main concern is that by laughing at the same Trump jokes, we’ll soon find ourselves embedded even deeper within the echo chamber we were in before the election. We may think we’re holding Trump accountable with our laughter, but we’re letting ourselves off the hook. Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.
tem Office of Finance show in recent materials to the Board of Trustees that the State of Minnesota has underfunded the state colleges and universities and overfunded the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota when compared to the average in the Midwest Region and the United States. I ask that you provide more balanced reporting. The Minnesota State system and its students are not empowered in the same way that University of Minnesota students are. They do not have the resources that you do. It is a shame that there are voices out there that believe that the State System is somehow receiving more than its fair share when it hasn’t received an equitable share of state funding for at least two decades. Compounding this is the continued lack of cooperation between the systems. Andrew Andrusko Higher education advocate
An integral part of creating a safe, welcoming campus is to remind students of the increased responsibility that comes with growing older and becoming a leader on campus. Do you remember what you were required to learn about sexual assault when you were a freshman at this school? When you’re at a party, do you know the signs of abusive behavior? If one of your friends came to you and told you that someone you know had assaulted them, and they needed help, would you know how to help them? More likely than not, some of us wouldn’t know how to answer those questions — that’s why continued training is so important. We are glad that the University seems more intent on offering resources on sexual assault so that having the answers to those questions — and remembering them — will be easier in the coming years. But before these new programs are initiated, consider taking it upon yourself to learn more by going to training at The Aurora Center or exploring their resources online. 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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CROSSWORD Los Los Angeles Angeles Times Times Daily Daily Crossword Crossword Puzzle Puzzle FOR FOR RELEASE RELEASE MARCH MARCH 20, 10, 2017 2017
Edited Editedby by Rich Rich Norris Norris and and Joyce Joyce Lewis Lewis
HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (3/20): Partnerships grow this year. Discipline provides educational accomplishments. Changing directions with a team project this August inspires new levels of fun and romance.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written by Nancy Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — You’re coming into your own, with the Sun in your sign. Achieve personal objectives. You’re in your element this month.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Home and family take priority today and tomorrow. Partnerships grow stronger this month, with the Sun in Aries. Collaborate with someone you love.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 6 — Peaceful meditation and introspection provide great ideas and clarity of purpose this month under the Aries Sun.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Get your message out over the next two days. Your physical health and vitality grows under the Aries Sun. Energize your work and exercise this month.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Manage shared finances today and tomorrow. Get into a four-week social phase, with the Sun in Aries. Spend time with people who share your interests.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Today and tomorrow get profitable. You’re lucky in love and play this month, with the Sun in Aries. Someone finds your energy attractive.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Reach a new professional level this month, with the Sun in Aries. Collaborate with your partner today and tomorrow.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Follow a personal dream today and tomorrow. Focus on home improvement this month, with the Sun in Aries.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Begin a travel and expansion phase. Indulge your curiosity this month, with the Sun in Aries. Nurture your health today and tomorrow; slow to avoid accidents.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Concentrate on your studies and travels over the next month, with the Sun in Aries. Explore your curiosity. Make plans over the next two days.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Partnership grows with the Sun in Aries. It’s a good month for financial planning. Invest for long-term growth.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — It’s easier to make money, with the Sun in Aries. Make hay while the sun shines. Teamwork gets the job done today and tomorrow.
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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date, I recently hit a roadblock with my boyfriend, and I’m trying to decide whether or not it’s a deal breaker. It sounds kind of trivial, but once you hear my explanation maybe you’ll understand why I’m so upset. He told me yesterday that ”The Shining” is a great film. I’ll be honest with you here, when I heard that blasphemous, slanderous, vile slough of filth pour from his lips, I slapped him in the face. Really hard. There’s still a red mark there. I honestly didn’t mean to. It was just a reflex — an involuntary reaction. Listen to me, Doctor, and listen to me all of you reading this. “The Shining” is a wretched and horrid bastardization of one of Stephen King’s most holy crowning achievements. Stanley Kubrick took my favorite horror story, a timeless masterpiece, a magnum opus, and twisted it into
something that doesn’t even come close to resembling the beautiful divine creation Stephen King put down on paper. I was shocked. I was appalled. I nearly threw up. I don’t know what to do. Sincerely,
A Very Dull Boy Dear Dull Boy, OK, calm down. You need to understand that Stanley Kubrick bought the rights to “The Shining” and can work some creative liberties into his film version of the story. It’s called an adaptation for a reason. I know, “The Shining” was a callous and inexcusable disappointment compared to the book, and we’re all impatiently awaiting the day when they can remake it to fit the actual book and not
some horrid monstrosity of Stanley Kubrick’s imagination. But you have to realize that the movie is just based on the book. It’s not a shotfor-shot remake. Chill out, take your boyfriend on a vacation to Bangor, Maine and watch the new “Carrie”. That one’s actually good. Sincerely,
Dr. Date. Dear Dr. Date, My gerbil has diphtheria. Help! Sincerely,
My Gerbil has Diphtheria Dear Gerbil, First of all, gerbil diphtheria is very contagious. Dig a small, comfy hole for
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
your gerbil and place him in it. Cover it with some Styrofoam so he stays warm. Then: you need to get your hands on some diphtheria antitoxins and some really strong antibiotics. Administer these to the gerbil twice daily by sticking a straw through the Styrofoam and sliding the antitoxins and antibiotics down it. This will also give your gerbil a breathing hole. Like my grandpa always used to say, “The only way to cure a gerbil of diphtheria is to put it in a hole and give it medicine through a straw. Now stop shaking the ladder or I’m going to fall.” God rest his soul, such a tragic accident. If you follow those steps, your gerbil should be happy and healthy in a matter of days and back to his or her gerbilly self. Sincerely,
Dr. Date
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Lawmakers look to make U student fees optional associate director of the Office for Student Affairs, Groups like the Minnesota Student Association, the Council of Graduate Students and Professional Student Government also receive funding but are not included in the $432.18 ser vice fee. Funding requests were getting “unwieldy,” Brown Young said, with some approaching $300,000 — which made it hard to stay fair to each student group. She said the fee committee is working to find how much fees will cost next year but won’t know the final amount until the Board of Regents approves the school budget in June. “We’re really tr ying to keep the fees as flat as possible,” Brown Young said. “If it were to go up it would probably only go up like, a percent or two.”
Recent fee structure tweaks
The proposals follow a recent revamp of the University’s student ser vice fee process. The University limited how much funding groups c o u l d a s k f o r, B r o w n Young said. Limiting funding will help the University stem the influx of student group requests received in the last several years, Brown Young said. This year, over 130 student groups received funding — up from 84 in 2014, said Sara Car vell, student ser vice fee advisor and the
Emun Solomon contributed to this report.
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state appropriation the following year. The bills aim to cut costs for students who don’t use ser vices the fees fund, author of the bills, Rep. Drew Christensen, R-Savage, said at a House higher education committee hearing Tuesday. It’s unfair for students who struggle financially to pay for ser vices they can’t take advantage of, Christensen said. “This bill is tr ying to level the field,” Rep. Josh Heintzeman, R-Nisswa, said at the meeting. “I think this is one of the most interesting bills we’ve heard.” The bills come amid an increasing student ser vice fees at the University and higher numbers of groups requesting funds. In 2006, the fee per semester was $305.10. In 2016, the fee was $432.18. The proposals, which have no Senate companions, could be included in an omnibus bill this session. The bills faced pushback from Minnesota State and University students and administrators, who said making the fees optional would hurt students’ college experiences. The fees generate around $33 million for the school annually, University Vice Provost for Student Af fairs and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young said at the hearing. About 93 percent of the
“And to subject ever yone to the same legitimacy of student life I think is a bit of a reach.” Student advocates for the activity fees seem to contradict their desire for more affordable tuition, he said.
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fees support units such as Boynton Health, University Recreation and Wellness, Student Unions and Activities, University Student Legal Ser vices, the Aurora Center and the Student Conflict Resolution Center. Other student groups and student-run media organizations are funded by the rest, Brown said. Optional activity fees would hur t students and cause complications for administrators, she said in an inter view. “We would really have to create some sor t of mechanism to recognize fee-paying students and bar par ticipation fr om those students who don’t opt in to paying the fee.” At the meeting, Minnesota Student Association President Abeer Syedah said lawmakers were interfering in a process that falls under student jurisdiction. Only students pay for the fees, Syedah said, so regulator y power for the process should stay with student gover nment and student affairs. “I think it’s a little bit of an over reach … I get conce r ne d about wha t other things will then be brought to the Legislature that are in jurisdictions like ours,” she said. Opponents of the bills have conflicts of interest because their groups are funded by the fees, said Rep. Tony Albright, R-Prior Lake, a co-author of the bills. “If we want to talk about student life, that’s all well and good, but not ever y person’s idea of student life is the same,” he said.
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Meetup takes risky stance against Trump BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Meetup is taking a leap into the Trump resistance. The New York-based networking site will unveil plans in the coming days to partner with a labor group — under the guidance of a former Hillary Clinton aide — to coordinate protests among more than 120,000 activists already involved with anti-Trump Meetup groups. It’s a risky move for a tech company that has helped millions come together to share interests of all kinds, from hiking to languages to President Donald Trump himself. But it reflects an increasing willingness of some major technology firms to push back against the Republican president. Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman told The Associated Press that the new arrangement, to be known only as #Resist, gives the loosely organized protest movement the infrastructure needed to execute large responses to the new president’s policies. “It’s one thing for a CEO to say, ‘I’m going to stand up against a politician,’” Heiferman said. “It’s even further for the company itself to mobilize people.” For Heiferman and other tech leaders, Trump’s push to block immigration from several Muslim-majority countries marked a tipping point. “When a certain line is crossed,” he said, “we have a civic duty not to be quiet.” The White House did not respond to a request Friday for comment about Meetup’s plans. About 40 technology companies met privately this
month in New York City to brainstorm ways to push back against Trump policies on immigration, transgender protections, women’s health and arts funding, as well as more traditional technology issues like net neutrality and encryption. The meeting was designed to “get beyond handwringing and move toward real action,” said Michal Rosenn, general counsel for the Brooklyn-based company Kickstarter. Kickstarter and Meetup were also among 58 technology companies that signed a friend-of-the-court brief on Tuesday charging that the White House’s revised immigration plan would harm their employees and customers. Airbnb, Apple, Twitter and Yelp filed a court brief late last month to protest the Trump administration’s decision to rescind guidance that instructed schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms that match their gender identity. The car ser vice L yft recently pledged $1 million to the American Civil Liberties Union. Meetup, which employs 175 people and claims 30 million users worldwide, has gone further than most. Disturbed by Trump’s initial push for a travel ban, the firm held a company-wide “resist-a-thon” last month and unveiled more than 1,000 new “#resist” Meetup groups that didn’t have to pay the standard $15 monthly fee to advertise their events on the site. Currently, there are more than 1,000 Meetup groups devoted to the Tr ump resistance across the country.