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Marian Ahmed calms down her 6-year-old son, Anas, as 4-year-old Edna entertains herself, on Sunday, Nov. 6 at their home in Savage, Minnesota. Ahmed has four children, two boys and two girls. Both of her sons, Anas and Ayub have autism.

New efforts aim to address resource disparities for parents of Somali children with autism spectrum disorders.

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ix-year-old Anas Ahmed could hardly be contained as he bolted across his play-

room.

His mother, Marian Ahmed, called Anas over, taking his head between her hands and squeezing gently.

The pressure calms Anas from uncontrollable excitement often associated with severe autism — a disorder he was diagnosed with shortly after his first birthday.

Of Ahmed’s four children, both of her sons — Anas and his eight-year-old brother, Ayub — have autism spectrum disorders. While Ayub’s condition has improved with age, Anas continues to struggle with autism.

The family’s story is not unusual in Minneapolis’ Somali community, where many parents struggle to comprehend a disorder cloistered by cultural barriers.

“Within the East African community, people are not really talking about this,” said Ward 6 Minneapolis City Council Member Abdi Warsame.

A shortage of information on autism spectrum disorders has also spawned stigma within the Somali community. While many affected families struggle to find appropriate care for their children, University of Minnesota researchers are working to better understand the scope and cultural impact of the disorder on Minneapolis’ East African population.

Moving beyond stigma Story by Ryan Faircloth, Photos by Easton Green

Marian Ahmed shares a quiet moment with her son Anas.

Navigating tricky terrain

In Somalia, confusion leads some to believe that those affected by autism are crazy, Ahmed said.

“In our language, there’s no word [for autism],” she said.

Those worries have extended into Minnesota’s Somali community, where the disorder is highly stigmatized, said Asli Ashkir, senior RN consultant with the Minnesota Department of Health.

A University of Minnesota study showed that in 2010, one in 32 Somali children in Minneapolis had autism, compared to the city’s overall rate of one in 48.

For some, the disorder

is yet another concern in a community dealing with high poverty and unemployment rates.

“Personally, it’s ver y evident of the prevalence — without even looking at the study — by looking at our community and families. There is not one person that was not touched by autism,” said Mariam Egal, multicultural outreach and education coordinator for Minnesota Department of Human Services’ disability services division.

Initially, many in the community were skeptical about the findings of the University’s study, Warsame said.

Since autism is rarely diagnosed in Somalia, he said parents wondered if something in the U.S. caused the disorder such as food, environmental factors or vaccines.

“It’s a disorder or a human disease that is associated with the immigration to the West because it was something that was diagnosed when people immigrated here,” Warsame said.

Abdullahi Farah vaccinated both of his sons at a young age before they were diagnosed with severe autism.

“Both my kids, when they got that shot, they changed their behavior,” Farah said.

Mohmed Salad, 23, and Ibrahim Salad, 17, both live at home with Farah and his wife.

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“I remember I used to hide from my neighbors. My parents, my mom, my dad, I never told them anything .”

— Marian Ahmed, mother of two children with autism spectrum disorders

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Minnesota beats Northwestern, 29-12 QB Mitch Leidner threw his first touchdown in five games at the Gophers’ final home match-up.

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UMPD sees surge in fake ID cases Seventeen fake ID cases were reported in 2016, compared to four cases in the previous four years.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

While Northwestern had more yards than Minnesota in the second half, that was not enough for victory.

The Gophers defense forced two fumbles and a season-high seven sacks as Minnesota (8-3) earned the 29-12 victory in its final home game.

“They played hard,” said head coach Tracy Claeys. “They held them to two of 15 on third down and one of four on fourth down.

You do that, you are going to win some ballgames.”

Northwestern tried to initiate a comeback in the second half. The Wildcats had a 75-yard drive that ended with a Justin

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Sophomore linebacker Blake Cashman tackles Northwestern sophomore wide receiver Flynn Nagel at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday. The Gophers won 29-12.

While many underage students attempt to buy alcohol from liquor stores or bars using fake IDs every year, the University has seen a surge in the number of cases involving fake IDs. Since the end of July, the University of Minnesota Police Department has investigated 17 fake ID cases. In 2014, it reported three cases and one in 2012. There were no UMPD reports of fake ID cases in 2015 or 2013.

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is named Petition calls for Beck Interfraternity “sanctuary campus” Council president The petition is similar to dozens of others around the United States.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

A petition circulating around the University of Minnesota is calling for administrators to declare the school a “sanctuary campus.”

Dozens of similar petitions are dispersing thorugh college campuses nationwide, asking that school leaders protect undocumented students and community members from deportation.

The petition asks University President Eric Kaler and other officials to pledge their support of those who “may be increasingly vulnerable to changes in policies … and the violence targeting immigrants and refugees.”

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The Minnesota Daily estimated that more than 1,000 students, faculty members, alumni and staff had signed the petition as of Sunday afternoon.

Minnesota Student Association President Abeer Syedah drafted the petition and will send it to Kaler and other administrators on Wednesday, according to the document.

“What I explained to the Office of the President was [that] we as a student body and we as a Gopher community are not about to debate any community member’s right to stay or be here on this campus,” Syedah said.

The University’s Office of the General Counsel is looking into the legality of the petition’s requests, she said.

University of ficials didn’t comment on the petition’s language or specific requests, but said, “the

“What I explained to the Office of the President was [that] we as a student body and we as a Gopher community are not about to debate any community member’s rights to stay or be here on this campus .”

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University is closely following the many discussions that represent a variety of positions on our countr y’s cur rent and future immigration laws.”

Beck will serve as president of the Interfraternity Council this year.

The University of Minnesota Inter fraternity Council selected Simon Beck, a Phi Kappa Psi brother and finance, accounting and applied economics junior, as its new president Sunday night.

Beck, who previously ser ved as the Inter frater nity Council’s vice president of finance and as Phi Kappa Psi’s philanthropy chair, will replace outgoing president Mitchell Kelley.

The Council, which Beck will lead for the n e x t y e a r, o v e r s e e s 30 of the University’s fraternity chapters. Beck

said he hopes to expand membership through greater recr uitment and marketing efforts.

“The bigger we are, the more resources we have,” Beck said, adding that he thinks a larger membership base would incr ease philanthropic activity.

Beck said that before he joined Phi Kappa Psi, greek life was foreign to him.

Now, “I couldn’t imagine my life without it,” he said.

The council elects presidents through a process of nominations, speeches from candidates, a question-and-answer session with time to deliberate and a vote by all chapter presidents.

The council also elected two new executive officers Sunday.

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Trump slams ‘Hamilton’; Pence says he wasn’t offended

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NEW YORK — Pr esident-elect Donald T r ump, in the midst of choosing his Cabinet, took time out Sunday for a second day to criticize the cast of the Broadway musical “Hamilton” and demand an apology for a message an actor delivered from the stage to T r ump’s r unning mate about the need for diversity in America. But Vice President-elect Mike Pence said he wasn’t offended by the message.

Pence said on “Fox News Sunday” that he heard the boos and cheers when he walked into the Richard Rodgers Theatre with his nephew and daughter on Friday night to see the show. He said he told his daughter: “That’s what freedom sounds like.”

Tr ump had a dif ferent take on the message from cast member Brandon

V ictor Dixon, who had expressed his concer ns in a prepared speech after the cur tain call about the incoming Republican administration.

“We, sir, we are the diverse America who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us, our planet, our children, our parents, or defend us and uphold our inalienable rights,” said Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr, the nation’s third vice president, as his fellow actors joined hands. “We truly hope that this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us.”

Tr ump tweeted Saturday that Pence had been “harassed” by the cast. He called them “ver y r ude” and demanded they apologize. On Sunday, while awaiting a second day of meetings as he works to vet potential candidates for his administration, he

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repeated his order for an apology — and added a dig at the critically acclaimed show, which is sold out until September.

“The cast and producers of Hamilton, which I hear is highly overrated, should immediately apologize to Mike Pence for their terrible behavior,” he tweeted.

But Pence told Fox News that “Hamilton” was an “incr edible pr oduc tion” involving a ver y talented cast. On whether he thought an apology was necessar y, he said: “I’ll leave it to others whether that was the appropriate venue to say it.”

When prompted by T r ump for an apology, Dixon responded on Twitter that “conversation is not harassment sir” and added that he appreciated Pence stopping to listen.

Reaction to the debacle was mixed, with some calling Dixon’s speech “disrespectful” and threatening

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to boycott the show and others saying it was an impor tant message that needed to be delivered.

The musical is by LinManuel Miranda, who wrote the stor y, music and lyrics. It stresses the orphan, immigrant roots of first U.S. Treasur y Secretar y Alexander Hamilton and has a ter rifically varied score, ranging from pop ballads to gospel to sexy R&B. It has been cheered for reclaiming the nation’s founding stor y with a multicultural cast.

Miranda, in a tweet, said he was “proud” of Dixon and the “Hamilton” cast “for leading with love,” before reminding people that ever yone is welcome at the theater.

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last month. The cast also put on a special “Hamilton” show at a Clinton fundraiser last summer.

The person playing Alexander Hamilton that Pence saw was Javier Munoz, an openly gay actor.

Pence suppor ted numerous efforts to ban gay marriage as gover nor of Indiana and opposed unfettered federal funding for HIV and AIDS treatment.

“Hamilton” wasn’t the only show that T r ump took issue with over the weekend. He tweeted that “Saturday Night Live” is a “totally one-sided, biased show - nothing funny at all.” He was portrayed in the cold open on Satur day’s show as o ver whel m ed wi th hi s new duties as president — so much so that when told he would soon have to reveal his plans for defeating the Islamic State group, he had to type on his computer: “Google, what is ISIS?”

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Traditional student life challenging for vets Life challenges as a veteran on campus similar to other nontraditional students.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

The life of a non-traditional student comes with challenges, but for student veterans it can be especially hard to adapt.

Student veterans are often older, have families and have to deal with standing out in a classroom filled with younger students from much different backgrounds.

Derek Fronabarger, director of policy at Student Veterans of America — an organization that advocates for student veterans — said there are 1.1 million student veterans in the countr y. Of those, almost 50 percent are married, 46 percent have kids and 14 percent are single parents, Fronabarger said.

The most common issue he hears about from student veterans is the

dif ficulty switching environments — from a militar y team to an academic setting.

“It’s difficult to go from something so extreme to the other extreme,” he said.

Third-year University law student Tim Hodges previously ser ved in the U.S. Marine Corps. He is 34-years-old and has a wife and two young kids.

He said he doesn’t necesarilly feel like he fits in with the scores of 20-somethings. He prefers to stick with other veterans, who make up about 1.4 percent of the student body, according to Boynton Health’s 2015 College Student Health Survey.

Hodges said it is stressful to balance a job, his family life and law school.

“Being a father, a husband — it’s a big time balance there … you’re kind of wearing four dif ferent hats,” he said.

Even getting used to life outside the militar y was dif ficult for Hodges. He recalled yelling at a random student for walking

on the grass — something that’s unacceptable in the Marines.

Hodges lives with his family and another student veteran he was stationed with in South Caronlina.

His roommate, parks and recreation senior Parker Ball, attempted to go to a community college in Mississippi before joining the Marines. His then-girlfriend had been pregnant their senior year of high school, but they lost the baby and his life was spiraling, he said.

After two years he dropped out of school. The militar y was a way of finding some stability in his life, he said.

Ball was stationed in Bangkok for two years and moved to Minnesota in 2015 for school after his term of service was up.

He was 25 when he started at University and figured he would be the oldest student in most of his classes.

He had some trepidation about adjusting to college life.

“I hadn’t really had to do the studying and stuff,” he said. ”I was a little bit

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Former U.S. Marine and Parks and Recreation student Parker Ball poses for a photo outside the Armory on Sunday. Ball said the media’s portrayal of the military is very different than the real thing.

nervous about that.”

Ball said it was surprisingly easy to make friends and participate in classes.

But the age gap was still an issue, he said.

He invited his classmates out to a bar to hang

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Mary Alice Kopf prepares soup for a guest at her home in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Southeast Seniors aims to counter misinformation and create friendships.

BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com

While a college student and a senior citizen might seem like an unlikely duo, a local nonprofit is working to develop rappor t between the two demographics.

The group, Southeast Seniors, matches University of Minnesota students with seniors in area neighborhoods.

T h e p r o g r a m b egan as par t of a University ser vice lear ning class taught by a professor who lived in a nearby neighborhood, said L ydi a M c A n e r n e y, S o u t h east Seniors volunteer coordinator.

“I wanted to expand that oppor tunity for students to get to know people in the community,” McAnerney said.

O r i g i n a l l y, t h e p r o gram paired students with seniors in the Prospect Park, but this year the program expanded to include seniors in Southeast Como and Marcy-Holmes,

she said.

McAner ney said she noticed that older residents sometimes resent students who live in their neighbor hood, or vice versa, and the program lets them get to know each another on a more personal level, in turn working to discredit common myths about students and seniors.

“There are a lot of myths about seniors,” she said. “Our world is going to be full of seniors and older people, and we better make sure that ever ybody understands their needs.”

For mer histor y pr ofessor Ted Far mer got involved with Southeast Seniors last year. After retiring in 2010, he missed connecting with students, he said.

Far mer, who lives in Prospect Park, said he likes to show students the neighborhood and tell them about Minneapolis’ histor y.

This year, Far mer is paired with freshman Evan Boening, and said he sees a lot of similarities across generational lines.

He said they talk about cur rent events such as the recent presidential election and compare

today’s protests with civil rights and antiwar protests of earlier decades.

Undeclared first-year student Julia T ur nbow star ted visiting with Prospect Park resident Mar y Ellis at the star t of this school year. She said she likes having a guide for the area.

Turnbow said she visits Ellis once a week, and they tr y to get out and par ticipate in community events.

The program gave T u r n b ow s t a b i l i t y a n d means to learn about the of f-campus area, which was especially impor tant given the challenges of adapting to the state as a first year, out-of-state student.

Tur nbow said the pr ogram lets her have a friendship with an older person that she other wise wouldn’t have. She said having conser vative grandparents, she was surprised to meet a liberal senior when she joined the program.

“I think you get out of it what you put into it,” she said. “But this program kind of pr ovides a framework to build that relationship.”

from what theirs were at that age.

“You’re around a bunch of people that don’t understand what a long day is,” Hodges said. “This is like a vacation for me and [Ball].”

U researchers talk preliminary results of gentrification analysis Researchers hosted a discussion Friday about the analysis results.

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Julia Turnbow, left, and Mary Alice Kopf, right, converse over pizza and soup at Mary’s home in Minneapolis on Saturday.

out and “they would be like, ‘Well I’m 19,’” he said.

Hodges said he and Ball talk about what it’s like being a veteran and a college student and find it funny how different the average student’s problems are

More than one-third of Minneapolis’ low-income areas experienced gentrification since 2000, according to initial University research presented Friday.

University of Minnesota researchers held a discussion Friday on the ef fects neighborhood redevelopment can have on city residents.

The researchers also found that about one quarter of low-income areas in St. Paul — especially along the Metro Transit Green Line light rail — were gentrified.

At the discussion, hosted by the University’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, experts presented a preliminar y analysis of quantitative and qualitative data, which found evidence of gentrification in the Twin Cities from 2000 to 2014.

The study’s methods used a mixed approach by using interviews of city officials and neighborhood leaders alongside quantitative data.

Areas such as Downtown, Nor th Minneapolis and Nor theast were some Minneapolis neighbor hoods the study found to be gentrified.

“For a neighborhood to be considered gentrifiable at the beginning of the study period, that neighborhood had to be populated by a large share of lowincome households,” said Tony Damiano, researcher on the study.

Researchers considered

“For a neighborhood to be considered gentrifiable at the beginning of the study period, that neighborhood had to be populated by a large share of low-income households.”

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whether a neighborhood saw an influx of upper-class residents, evidence of displacement or bumps in investment to find if they had been gentrified, Damiano said.

The researchers also found housing in city neighborhoods has grown less affordable for the typical Minneapolis household as incomes for low and moderate income families were stagnant.

“Persons right at the median are now finding fewer neighborhoods to look at in terms of finding af fordable housing,” said Ed Goetz, CURA director and an author of the study.

Goetz is also a housing and local community development planning professor in the University’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Residents who saw the most dramatic decrease in af fordability were African American renters, who the results found were unable to af ford a typical apar tment in any city neighborhood comfortably.

“The city has disappeared for African Americans in terms of affordability over this time period,” Goetz said.

Audience member and Minneapolis Resident Nene Matey-Keke said there’s a clear link between an area’s economic development and gentrification.

Since of ficials aren’t attempting to help those negatively impacted by neighbor hood development, Matey-Keke said he didn’t really understand the point of conducting the analysis.

“It’s one thing to build a development, but it’s another thing to have people employed by that organization that’s building that development,” he said.

Brittany Lewis, a CURA research associate working on the study’s qualitative analysis, said she hopes the research shifts the narrative on how people think about gentrification, since many think it’s an inevitable outcome of economic development.

“I don’t think ever yone thinks it’s a problem,” she said. “That’s a problem, in my mind.”

Woods said if the gentrification continues, people will stay away from Minnesota because of its lack of diversity.

“You have a significant lack of growth, motivation or any kinds of economic gains for whole segments of the population,” he said.

The researchers will conduct inter views with residents in gentrified neighborhoods starting in December, Lewis said. The first draft of the gentrification report is expected to be released in July.

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Anas sits on the bus parked outside his house, chewing on his sensory toy on Monday, Nov. 14 outside their home in Savage, Minnesota. The toy helps with his sensory processing issue and prevents him from biting objects.

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Anas laughs as his mother Marian Ahmed prepares to put essential oils on him on Monday at their home in Savage, Minnesota. Marian puts essential oils on both Anas and Ayub.

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concerned about vaccinations.

A report from the Minnesota Department of Health found that 45 percent of Somali children in Minnesota received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in 2013, which was down from 92 percent in 2004.

Ashkir said MDH works to educate the community about autism and dispel fears about how children develop the disorder.

When parents ask about the link between the MMR vaccine and autism, she shows them various research studies that have disproved the association.

This training has helped to alleviate fears within the community.

“We have seen converts immediately in the training,” Ashkir said.

Despite outreach, some parents keep their children in the house and away from the judgment of others — hoping to stave off labels of mental health issues imposed on their children, Ashkir said.

“I remember I used to hide from my neighbors. My parents, my mom, my dad — I never told them anything,” Ahmed said. “I went through a lot of depression.”

It took a couple years to come to terms with her sons’ autism, she said. Similar situations have caused other parents to defer immediate treatment as they work to understand their child’s diagnosis, Ahmed said.

Ashkir, the MDH consultant, said many parents call her instead of their health care provider because they fear fur ther stigmatization.

To instill trust, Ashkir said nurses, family doctors and pediatricians are undergoing training to be more conscientious of cultural sen-

sitivities.

Minnesota DHS is conducting similar outreach in the Somali community, Egal said, which involves creating support groups for parents to share their experiences.

Autism’s growing national prevalence

Data collected over the last 16 years has shown a spike in cases of autism spectrum disorders nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Amy Hewitt, lead author of the University’s 2013 study, said there are many theories about the increase, though no one has pinpointed a specific reason.

“One theory is that there is a lot more effort around screening and prevention and getting the word out about autism and autism spectrum disorders,” she said. “And with that increased … attention, more kids are being screened, and more kids are getting service.”

Others, however, think the nationwide increase is due to an increased population, Hewitt said, which she also believes may contribute to autism in the Somali community.

Still, the verifiable science on the subject is limited.

“The only study that’s been done in the United States … specifically about Somali prevalence, is the one that we did,” Hewitt said.

A follow-up study, which Hewitt started this year, aims to confirm the diagnosis rate cited in the 2013 study, she said.

Par t of the analysis, Hewitt said, includes conducting family inter views and observations.

The new research is a small step toward determining the cause of the heightened prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the Somali community, she said, adding that it’s harder to get funding for a follow-up study

because of the small size of the population.

“We have to incrementally build an argument to get to the kind of resource that’s needed to do a big enough study that would look at potential causes,” Hewitt said.

Marian Ahmed collects Anas’s school supplies while the bus waits outside on Monday at their home in Savage, Minnesota.

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Ongoing efforts Community members and advocates don’t necessarily see further research as a solution to the growing problem.

Ahmed said she isn’t interested in a follow-up study since it won’t help children already dealing with the everyday struggles of autism.

“It’s just wasting of money,” she said.

Instead, Ahmed said she’d like to see funding go toward educating more parents who struggle to care for children with autism spectrum disorders.

Councilman Warsame agreed.

“Nobody’s really talking about it,” he said. “We’re not engaging our residents where they can get help, how they can get support.”

And while his office has worked to create awareness for the disorder, there wasn’t much attention from the city itself, he said.

As a result, Warsame said he pushed for city funding to help parents.. He succeeded, and $20,000 was placed on Minneapolis’ budget last year to promote autism awareness and help fund support groups.

“Within the city enterprise, it wasn’t a big deal,” he said. “This was the first time autism was brought up to the top.”

The Somali Par ents Autism Network (SPAN), which started in 2013 as a support group for parents struggling with their kids’ autism, received some of the funding for outreach, Ahmed said.

Since its inception, the group has quickly grown.

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organization,” Egal, the DHS outreach and education coordinator, said.

The funding helped the group distribute information and share food at mosques, allowing parents to share their experiences, Ahmed, also a founder and executive director of SPAN, said.

Warsame said the city also launched a program last month with the Minneapolis Fire Department to help track down missing children and vulnerable adults. The SafetyNet Tracking Systems program provides bracelets with unique digital ID Znum-

bers and frequencies that fire trucks can detect.

Farah said having a tool to track his sons’ whereabouts is advantageous since his kids sometimes tr y to run away. His son once left school and took the light rail to the Mall of America and was later found by police, Farah said.

Ahmed said she already ordered the bracelets for her children.

Right now, she said she has an alarm system and locks on every door to make sure her children can’t get out.

But other parents aren’t as lucky, she said, and don’t have the same safeguards.

Some parents alternate shifts watching their kids each night because they can’t lock their doors, Ahmed said.

“When you’re up every night, it’s hard,” Ahmed said.

“You have a short [temper].”

The wristband program is one effort that could aid parents of children with autism in the Somali community, and Warsame said he thinks it will ease parents’ worries about their children wandering off.

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Senior quarterback Mitch Leidner slides to take a knee at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday. The Gophers beat Northwestern 29-12.

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Jackson 4-yard touchdown run.

But Minnesota scored on its next drive when quarterback Mitch Leidner threw for a touchdown to wide receiver Drew Wolitarsky on a play-action pass.

It was Leidner’s first touchdown pass since the fourth game of the season.

“We practiced all week long that [Wolitarsky] was gonna come down, bluff that guy and then block them and then shoot vertical there,” Leidner said. “So he was able to do a great job to locate the ball and make a great catch.”

Running back Shannon Brooks led the team in rushing with 73 yards on the ground. He also had 33 receiving yards.

Running back Rodney Smith added 32 r ushing yards and touchdown.

“Both did a lot of really good things,” Leidner said.

“I think the most important thing is that those guys have each other to take breathers here and there and then they’re always coming in

fresh and ready to roll.”

Leidner also had a rushing touchdown, which helped Minnesota take a 2912 lead in the game.

Minnesota scored 12 unanswered points to open up the game.

Kicker Emmit Carpenter missed the extra point on Minnesota’s first drive but made up for it with three consecutive field goals.

Minnesota ear ned its seventh targeting penalty of the season when defensive back Duke McGhee hit wide receiver Austin Carr helmetto-helmet. The call was McGhee’s second targeting penalty of the season.

“It was a good call,” Claeys said. “I don’t disagree with the call at all. He knows better than that.”

Defensive tackle Steven Richardson shined with two sacks against the Wildcats.

Linebacker Blake Cashman also had two sacks in the game. Cashman amassed 10 tackles, which was a career high, and also forced his first-ever fumble.

Wide receiver Rashad Still accounted for several big plays over the course of the game.

The defense had seven sacks and two forced fumbles during the game.

SCORING SUMMARY SCORE BY QUARTER Northwestern Minnesota

1 0 6

2 0 6

3 6 3

4 6 14

TOTAL 12 29 AWAY HOME

1ST QUARTER MINN

TD

12:18

Smith, Rodney 5-yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick failed)

07:40 00:21

Carpenter, Emmit 19-yd field goal Carpenter, Emmit 42-yd field goal

06:28 02:17

Carpenter,Emmit 30-yd field goal Jackson, Justin 4-yd run (Jackson, Justin rush failed)

2ND QUARTER MINN MINN

FG FG FG TD

6

AWAY HOME 0 0

9 12

AWAY HOME

3RD QUARTER MINN NU

0

0 6

15 15

AWAY HOME

4TH QUARTER MINN

TD

06:46

Wolitarsky, Drew 9-yd pass from Leidner, Mitch (Carpenter,Emmit kick)

6

22

NU

TD

02:46

Nagel, Flynn 9-yd pass from Thorson, C. (Thorson, C. pass failed)

12

22

MINN

TD

02:31

Leidner, Mitch 12-yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) 12

29

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Still had a 62-yard reception in the first half. He also returned an onside kick to the Wildcats’ 15-yard line.

Leidner said the victory, which happened on Senior Day, was huge. “[Northwestern was a] really tough opponent,” he said. “[They’re a] really wellcoached football team. A lot of respect for [head coach Pat Fitzgerald] over there and their program.”

Minnesota earned its fifth Big Ten victory of the season

after starting off conference play with two losses.

Minnesota will play Wisconsin in a battle for Paul Bunyan’s Axe. The Badgers have not lost the rivalr y game since 2003.

Leidner said a victor y against Wisconsin would be a great way to top off the year.

“I know it’s really important to a lot of guys on this team,” he said. “We get another tough, physical football game like it was tonight.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Coffey’s 30 points lift Minnesota to 92-86 win The Gophers are now undefeated through four games this season.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

Amir Cof fey pr oved Friday why he was such a highly touted recruit.

The freshman guar d scored 30 points in 36 minutes to lead Minnesota (4-0) to a 92-86 victor y over St. John’s University (2-1) at Williams Arena. “[I’m] really happy for our guys,” said head coach Richar d Pitino. “That’s a good team … Those guards are really, really good. They really crashed the glass hard.”

Pitino said he doesn’t usually allow freshmen to talk

to the media after games, but he lifted the ban for Cof fey Friday night.

“When you play like that, you got to change that rule,” Pitino said.

Cof fey shot 9-14 from the field and went 11-12 from the free-throw line.

“I felt pretty good,” Coffey said. “Before the game, I had coaches telling me to ‘be aggressive and stay within the offense.’ Half of it really started on the defensive side, getting stops and rebounds.”

Minnesota went on an 8-0 r un in the first half, with Coffey accounting for six of the points, including a dunk in transition.

“We were down, what, like 11? So something needed to happen,” Coffey said. “It wasn’t just me. It was a team effort.”

Yet, Cof fey was not the

game’s leading scorer.

St. John’s guard Marc u s L o Ve t t s c o r e d 3 1 points in 38 minutes.

“Not to take away from LoVett, but LoVett had 31 and he shot 27 times,” Pitino said. “Amir only shot 14 shots.”

Minnesota came in plus-11 in rebounding but was out-rebounded by St. John’s 54-41.

The Red Storm led by 13 with 11:43 to go in the first half. “ We j u s t a d d r e s s e d the rebounding and the defense [after the r un],” Pitino said. “I think the rebounding was a problem.

We called a timeout and kind of calmed ourselves down a little bit.”

Gophers guard and Queens native Dupree McBrayer scored 18 points against St. John’s, his hometown team.

MEN’S BASKETBALL RESULTS

FRIDAY St. John’s Minnesota

1 31 41

2 55 51

FINAL 86 92

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

“You look at Dupree McBrayer [and] the way he’s evolved as a player, I’ve always thought he’d be a really good one, and he’s showing that right now,” Pitino said.

Center Reggie L ynch was the team’s leading rebounder with 11. He also amassed nine blocked shots.

“It’s big just knowing you have a secure big man down there,” said guard Nate Mason.

Power forward Jordan Murphy str ugu See BASKETBALL Page 6

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

Defensive lineman Steven Richardson made it clear he was especially motivated for Saturday’s game against Nor thwestern.

In a postgame interview, the Chicago native said he wasn’t recr uited

by Nor thwester n after head coach Pat Fitzgerald looked at his belowaverage height in high school and determined he couldn’t play for his team.

Richardson remembered that meeting on Saturday. He had two sacks and a forced fumble that helped Minnesota earn a 29-12 victor y over Nor thwestern.

“I saw [Fitzgerald] come into my high school coach’s of fice and … just look at me like I’m w ay t o o s ho r t t o p l ay the game,” Richar dson said. “It was really nice to play one of these types of games in front of him just because he doubted you.”

But it wasn’t just Richardson who was a force on defense.

Linebackers Jack L ynn and Blake Cashman combined for 19 tackles, 3.5 tackles for loss, two sacks and one forced fumble.

The defense totaled seven sacks Saturday — the most in a game this season. One more sack would’ve tied the Minnesota record. “ D e f e n s i v e l y, t h e r e is no question that they kept us in there, and they gave us a chance to win,” said head coach T racy Claeys.

The Gophers held the Wildcats scoreless in the first half, which was the second time Minnesota had done that this season.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, N o r t h wester n went 2-15 on third down conversions and 1-4 on four th down

conversions.

One critical stop came on four th-and-1 in the second quar ter when the Wildcats had the ball at Minnesota’s 16-yard line and trailed , trailing by nine.

L ynn burst thr ough Nor thwester n’s of fensive line and quickly got a hand on r unning back Justin Jackson. Jackson was swarmed by other Gophers defenders and lost three yards on the play.

“We game-planned for them really well,” L ynn said. “We ran it a lot in practice. It’s just more about r eacting at that point.”

Cashman continued to

“Defensively, there is no question that they kept us in there, and they gave us a chance to win.”

TRACY CLAEYS Head coach

be a pleasant surprise for the Gophers’ defense this season.

The sophomore linebacker has five sacks in his last three games despite having only one previous sack in his career.

He also led the team in tackles Saturday and forced a fumble. “[Cashman’s] a man possessed,” L ynn said.

“We kind of set some plays up for him to make, and he’s doing a great job at it.”

The Gophers also stopped both of Nor thwestern’s 2-point conversion attempts.

“Bei n g ab l e to s to p them and stop that kind of running back … it just defines who our defense is, and we’re not going to give up any points l i g h t l y, ” R i c h a r d s o n said.

Minnesota finished the day with seven sacks, 12 tackles for loss, two forced fumbles and seven pass break-ups.

The Wildcats’ Jackson was limited to 90 rushing yards on 22 attempts.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Minnesota splits home-and-home series The Gophers lost Friday’s game at Mankato 4-1 but won 1-0 Saturday.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

The Gophers were happy to return home Saturday after a tough Friday matchup in Mankato.

No. 7 Minnesota (5-3-2) dropped the first game 4-1 at No. 15 Minnesota StateMankato (8-5-1), but the Gophers answered back and shut out the Mavericks 1-0 at Mariucci Arena in the second game.

“Mankato is not an easy place to play,” said head coach Don Lucia. “I’m just glad we bounced back, and we won [Saturday].”

The Gophers went down to Mankato without having played a game in the previous two weeks, and despite the extra practice time, they couldn’t put together a victory.

Like other games this sea-

son, Minnesota fell behind early — this time by two goals after the first period. “[The coaches] weren’t happy … and rightfully so,” said goaltender Eric Schierhorn. “We didn’t play well, and we got kind of embarrassed in their barn and came out absolutely flat and were flat the whole game.”

Minnesota scored one goal in the second period from forward Tommy Novak but allowed two more goals to make the final score 4-1.

The Gophers were severely out-hit in Friday’s game, and the physicality of the game was heavily tilted in favor of the Mavericks.

Possession numbers also favored Minnesota State, with the Mavericks winning almost twice as many faceoffs as the Gophers did. Mankato won 37 to Minnesota’s 20.

The Gophers were also out-shot 37-26 on Friday. Given their possession numbers, they didn’t give themselves great opportunities to be on the offensive side of the puck and get more shots.

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

FRIDAY Minnesota State Minnesota

SATURDAY Minnesota State Minnesota

1 2 0

2 2 1

3 0 0

FINAL 4 1

1 0 0

2 0 1

3 0 0

FINAL 0 1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

On Saturday night, the Gophers’ fortunes changed.

Minnesota entered the night with new forward lines.

The only two players who were on the same line Friday and Saturday night were forwards Connor Reilly and Tyler Sheehy.

The Gophers were able to hold on to a 1-0 lead to win Saturday’s game at home.

Captain Justin Kloos scored the onlygoal in Saturday’s contest, his third of the season and first since Oct. 28.

The goal came early in the second period.

“I think it was good for the whole team,” Kloos said.

“Personally, I had quite a few shots in the first eight or nine

WRESTLING

Minnesota stages big comeback, defeats SDSU

CARTER JONES, DAILY

Gophers forward Justin Kloos winds up a shot against Minnesota State-Mankato on Saturday at Mariucci Arena.

games … It was good to see one go in.”

Schierhorn rebounded Saturday from Friday’s poor performance. After he faced 27 shots and allowed four goals in Mankato, he faced 23 shots without allowing a goal

at home.

The Gophers tur ned the tables on the Mavericks Saturday with a 38-23 shot advantage. They also won 33 faceoffs to Minnesota State’s 24.

“I just liked our effort way

better tonight,” Lucia said.

“We didn’t give ourselves a chance to win Friday night’s game, and that’s what I was disappointed in. The guys have done a good job bouncing back … We bent our knees. We battled harder.”

VOLLEYBALL

Gophers win pair of five-setters

The Gophers were down 17-3 in the match before they scored 15 points.

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

A 3-point win wasn’t going to cut it for Michael Kroells.

The No. 5 heavyweight wrestler walked onto the mat with his team facing a 17-12 deficit. The Gophers were down 17-3 earlier in the match but rattled off three-straight wins to bring the match against South Dakota State within reach.

The redshirt senior delivered for his team and defeated Alex Macki via a disqualification and gained three bonus points.

The result gave the No. 16 Gophers an 18-17 win over the No. 20 Jackrabbits in front of a packed crowd for the first match of the season at the Sports Pavilion Saturday.

“I was thinking, ‘just score as many points as I possibly could,’” Kroells said. “’Go out there, get one takedown, ride that guy out, make that guy exhausted and good things will happen.’”

Kroells dominated his entire matchup against Macki.

Macki had five warnings for stalling late in the dual, which caused the referee to walk over to the scoring table. “[Macki] was so concerned with not giving up the turn and not getting pinned that he completely shut down,” said interim head coach Brandon Eggum.

“It was exciting. Kroells was pumped up.”

Kroells and the arena waited in suspense before the referee walked back and raised Kroells’ arm in the air.

His teammates quickly left the bench and swarmed

MADDY FOX, DAILY

Heavyweight senior Michael Kroells takes on South Dakota State University’s Alex Macki in the wrestling team’s home opener at the Sports Pavilion on Friday, where the Gophers beat SDSU.

around Kroells to celebrate the comeback victory.

“I wasn’t 100 percent sure [I had won],” Kroells said.

“For some reason, I thought they had gotten rid of that rule. Someone mentioned five stallings, and it was a moment of tension. I didn’t know what was going to happen.”

The improbable victory wouldn’t have been possible without the aid of three earlier wins by No. 17 Nick Wanzek, Bobby Steveson and No. 2 Brett Pfarr.

The Gophers were down 17-3 after getting defeated at 125, 133, 149, 157 and 165, two of which were major decisions.

“We knew on paper that they were favored in the bottom half,” Eggum said. “It was tough at halftime going into the locker room. Guys were quiet. It was, basically, ‘You could … sit on your hands here or you could go out there and do something about it.’”

Wanzek had a close 3-2 win over No. 15 David Kocer at 174 to help spark a comeback.

Minnesota still needed three more wins after the upset by Wanzek and called on redshirt freshman Steveson at 184 to go against Martin

WRESTLING RESULTS

SATURDAY

FINAL

No. 20 South Dakota No. 16 Minnesota

17 18

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Mueller.

Steveson gained his first career dual win with an 8-3 decision over Mueller.

“It was something I thought about all day, all week,” Steveson said. “I wanted to get that first win out of the way. With how loud the crowd is, it certainly helps momentum.”

Pfarr, at 197, delivered a dominant 7-0 win over No. 5 Nate Rotert.

Kroells won his match and the Gophers had won the dual in their home opener.

The victory marked the first win for the Gophers since 1986 without former head coach J Robinson at the helm.

“We knew the upperweights were capable of [coming back],” Eggum said. “That’s a tough thing to do when momentum’s going the other way, but they stopped it and got it in our dir ection. That as an exciting finish.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Minnesota went to extra sets with both Michigan State and Michigan at home.

BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com

Basketball u from Page 5

gled to stay in the game due to foul trouble. Murphy had five fouls and played only 16 minutes. Ever y other member of the starting five played at least 30 minutes.

Ahmad Gilber t scored six points in the first half, including a 3-pointer moments before the buzzer.

“Ahmad Gilbert came in [and]hit some big shots when we needed him to,” Pitino said. “To find a way to scratch and claw at the end of the half when you’re in foul trouble, it’s extremely important.”

When Pitino entered the locker room after the game, he said he was unable to tell whether Coffey was happy about the win.

“I got a cooler of water dumped on my head,” Pitino said. “Everybody was kind of mauling me, so I don’t really know.”

DAILY FILE PHOTO

Gophers outside hitter Alexis Hart winds up a spike against Michigan on Sunday at the Sports Pavilion.

CHRIS DANG, DAILY

Freshman guard Amir Coffey attempts to score at Williams Arena on Friday. The Gophers would win 92-86 against St.

The Gophers played their first matches back at home over the weekend after a three-game road trip — and they certainly made things interesting.

No. 2 Minnesota won fiveset matches Friday and Sunday against No. 13 Michigan State and No. 18 Michigan in thrilling conditions.

Minnesota took the first two sets in each match, but dropped the next two to force a fifth both times.

“It’s life in the Big Ten,” said head coach Hugh McCutcheon. “It’s a game of inches. All the sets were closely contested, and that’s what happens when you play a good team.”

Minnesota (23-4, 15-3 Big Ten) faced one of the hardesthitting teams it has all year in Michigan State (23-7, 12-6 Big Ten) Friday. Earlier in the year, the Spartans beat the Gophers and dealt them their second Big Ten loss.

A more defensive Gophers lineup, which

included increased roles from Katie Schau and Alyssa Goehner, helped dig the Gophers out of sticky situations.

The team amassed 67 digs in total.

The hero of the game proved to be freshman Alexis Hart, who twice delivered kills when the Gophers faced Michigan State’s match point.

Hart led Minnesota with 20 kills and hit a staggering .419.

“One of the strengths of this team is that at different times it’s been different people [leading], but it’s always been someone, and tonight, obviously, it was Alexis,” McCutcheon said.

Minnesota found itself in a similar situation against Michigan (21-9, 10-8 Big Ten) Sunday after the Gophers won the first two sets and dropped the third and fourth.

With Minnesota trailing deep into the fourth set, several controversial calls got the Minnesota bench riled up and elicited a conversation between McCutcheon and the line judge.

Michigan ended up taking the set 25-23 to force a deciding fifth set.

Minnesota took control of the fifth set early and went on a 5-1 run with kills from senior outside hitter Sarah

Wilhite and junior middle blocker Molly Lohman.

Wilhite carried the team through the final set to a 1512 victory and a 3-2 match triumph.

Wilhite had 26 total kills, as well as 13 digs on the defensive side.

Sophomore setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson had seven kills to go along with 55 assists, a big offensive output for a setter.

“I was just trying to be confident in [my attack] and do anything I could to help my team win,” Seliger-Swenson said. “It was working well, so I just continued to do that.”

Junior libero Dalianliz Rosado was the backbone of the Gophers defense and tallied 24 digs — a team high.

Despite already facing two high-class opponents on this final homestand, the competition only grows from here.

Minnesota is set to play No. 1 Nebraska (26-1, 171 Big Ten) Wednesday and No. 3 Wisconsin (243, 16-2 Big Ten) Saturday to close out the regular season. Both matches are sold-out.

“If we play Gophers volleyball, and if we play good for a long period of time, I think we can get them,” Wilhite said.

Monday, November 21, 2016

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Student Senate liaison tackles campus issues

Study examines reasons for buying processed food

The Student Senate added an “at-large” position for ease of communication.

A lack of cooking skills often prompts parents to buy prepackaged foods.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

In an effort to increase efficiency, the University of Minnesota’s Student Senate reorganized its executive board this semester.

A new at-large representative position replaced one of the two Minnesota Student Association representatives on the Student Senate Consultative Committee.

The new representative, Madison Schwar tz, said her role is to maintain communication between dif ferent members of the senate.

“Scheduling dif ferent meetings … making sure ever yone is held accountable,” she said. “It’s just kind of that point person.”

Schwartz was elected at a Student Senate retreat in September.

She said she worked on the recent push to reduce campus parking prices and helped draft a statement from the University of Minnesota-Duluth that called for the school system to reduce pesticide usage.

Schwar tz said she

gauges interest in issues through surveys of senators and committee members.

“I have basically gone between ‘here is our survey, here is the feedback’ … to look at how this aligns with the entire senate,” she said.

The at-large position is essentially a liaison for dif ferent members of the senate, said Trish Palermo, chair of the Student Senate and Consultative Committee.

“It’s hard … we have a lot of diverse perspectives,” she said. “The issues they have on the Morris campus are much dif ferent than the issues they have on the Duluth campus.”

Vice chair of the Student Senate Fanda Yang said the position also helps maintain a connection with coordinate system campuses. “ We w a n t t o r e a l l y represent, ver y well, our system campus students through the ways of communicating with their student government,” he said.

Palermo said that the senate is also encouraging individual senators to meet with their respective colleges’ deans each semester to get a better sense of student, senate and campus needs.

BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com

Prepackaged, processed food is known to be less healthy than whole foods, but new University of Minnesota research shows people still buy it — and not just for convenience.

University School of Nursing researchers found that a lack of meal-planning and cooking skills increases parents’ odds of buying prepackaged, processed foods.

The study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior last month surveyed 160 parents in the Midwest to better understand their motives for buying prepackaged foods and to determine what could lead them to healthier options.

Parents cited time constraints as the most common reason for buying processed foods and nearly half reported they purchase those foods because their families like them. About a third said it’s because their kids are able to prepare prepackaged options.

School of Nursing assistant professor Melissa Horning — one of the lead researchers on the study

— said most previously published literature focuses on time as the biggest reason for reliance on convenience foods, but this study shows another side of the story.

“Targeting cooking abilities and meal-planning skills of parents might be a good step to actually counteract all of those reasons,” she said.

Eating prepackaged, processed foods could be linked to poor overall nutrition, Horning said, because these foods tend to be high in fat, sodium and calories.

“By eating [prepackaged foods], you are also potentially eating less of whole foods like fruits or vegetables or whole grains, and you’re also potentially increasing your overall caloric intake,” she said. “[That could] contribute to obesity in the long run.”

Additionally, Horning said not all readymade meals marketed as healthy options are actually good for you.

“You have to really pay attention to labels, and there’s going to be tradeoffs … to categorically say, ‘Oh, one brand is better’ is way too generalizing,” she said.

But food science and nutrition teaching assistant professor Renata Korczak said some of these foods, like Lean Cuisine, offer portion control and may be higher in protein and fiber, which make you feel fuller.

“I would still encourage consumers to pay attention to saturated fat and the sodium content of these frozen meals,” she said.

Horning said the results of this study could apply to other ages as well, including college students, who benefit from the convenience of processed foods.

Simple tasks like chopping vegetables ahead of time so they’re ready by mealtime can make it easier to resist the temptation of processed foods, Horning said, and frozen fruits and vegetables are another healthy option.

“Those other foods that are advertised as ‘done in five minutes’ … it’s really hard to compete,” she said.

Music freshman Katelyn Belden said convenience is important when she plans meals, but she avoids buying prepackaged foods because she knows they’re unhealthy.

Belden instead prefers making her own food with fresh produce.

For neuroscience junior Christina Garasky, convenience is a major appeal of premade meals. She eats frozen meals like Lean Cuisine a few times a week, she said.

“They’re quick and e a s y. W h e n y o u g e t home after a long day and you’re hungr y, you

REASONS FOR SERVING PREPACKAGED, PROCESSED FOODS YES NO I don’t have time to prepare other foods

57%

43%

My family really liked them

49%

51%

They are easy for my child to prepare

33%

67%

They are inexpensive

27%

73%

I don’t know what else to make

22% 78% They are the only thing my family will eat

89% 11% SOURCE: SCHOOL OF NURSING

don’t want to make something,” she said. “You just want to eat.”

UMPD combats rise in fake ID cases on University campus ID u from Page 1

University Student Legal Ser vice Director Mark Karon said he and UMPD Lieutenant Chuck Miner were at a meeting when he heard Miner discuss finding a batch of fake IDs in a USPS shipment.

“With the use of computers,” he said, “people are more readily able to obtain or make [fake IDs] that look legitimate.”

Karon said law enforcement officials have worked to combat fake IDs by using

machines that can more easily detect fakes.

Karon said using someone else’s ID is a misdemeanor punishable by 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, but using a fake ID is a gross misdemeanor, which could result in one year in jail and a $3,000 fine.

Nevertheless, first-time offenders, particularly students, often have to complete community service and a diversionary program through the Minneapolis City Attorney’s Office, Karon said.

Irv Hershkovitz, owner of Dinkytown Wine and Spirits,

said he hasn’t noticed an increase in students with fake IDs, but he does confiscate a lot of fake IDs during the first week of classes.

Hershkovitz said he often finds students using their older siblings’ IDs to buy alcohol, but has seen students use fake IDs from overseas.

Henneber r y said students accused of using fake IDs also go through the University’s Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity to discuss their case.

Hershkovitz said students are often able to avoid trouble because they quickly

become aware of how strict the local liquor stores and bars are.

“If you go out to Minnetonka, they’re not as familiar with fake IDs as we are,” he said.

Hershkovitz said his liquor store uses an electronic ID machine to scan for fakes.

Last year, his liquor store confiscated 600 fake IDs, which were turned over to the Minneapolis Police Department, he said.

Still, some students are unafraid of the consequences of using a fake ID. Emily, a 19-year-old University design major, said

she got a pair of fake IDs last year with a group of friends from the website IDGod. “I think it’s dumb that we can’t drink if we want to go out,” she said.

After getting her first fake ID taken away at Blarney Pub and Grill in Dinkytown, she said she uses her remaining ID carefully.

“I’m pretty cautious about where I would choose to use it or who I would use it with,” she said, adding that she only uses it once or twice a month.

Claire, a 19-yearold histor y major, said she uses her ID about once or twice a week

and doesn’t worr y about getting in trouble for it.

“If you do get in trouble, they kind of just take it and don’t really do anything with it,” she said. “My main concern isn’t as much getting in trouble with the law as it is just getting it taken and having to shell out another 20 bucks to get another one.”

Kevin Beckman contributed to this report.

Editors’ note: The Minnesota Daily used first names for students interviewed in this story to protect their identities.

At anti-Trump discussion, activist group promotes community protests The group Socialist Alternative MN led the political discussion Saturday.

BY LAYNA DARLING ldarling@mndaily.com

Socialist Alternative MN promised concerned Twin Cities residents that it will continue to lead protests and walkouts in the weeks leading up to President-elect Donald Tr ump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

The group’s activists spoke to more than 300 area residents at the Brian Coyle Center in Cedar-Riverside Saturday afternoon, expressing distress over Trump’s potential effect on the economy, health care, unionization efforts and the rights of minority groups and asked the audience to continue engaging in protest and discussion in response to the election result.

Socialist Alter native MN’s pledge for continued demonstrations follows a Nov. 10 Cedar-Riverside protest that shutdown a stretch of Interstate 94 near East Franklin Avenue and drew more than 1,000 community members.

Ryan Timlin, a Metro Transit bus driver and union advocate, said he feels Trump is against working class Americans.

“He is [an] expression of capitalism at its worst form,” Timlin said, adding that he feels unions contribute to democracy in the workplace.

Others, such as Nestor Garcia, a Mexican member of Socialist Alternative MN , said he feels Trump attacked his Latino identity and the identities of women, Muslims and the disabled.

“We need to stand up to this man who stands for sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia and racism …

LAYNA DARLING, DAILY

More than 300 Twin Cities residents gathered at the Brian Coyle center in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood to discuss building a resistance against Presidentelect Donald Trump on Saturday.

who will pass policies that align with his hatred,” he said.

Audience members said they’re worried that organizations in the Twin Cities that are resisting T r ump ar en’t working together, thereby weakening their efforts.

“We need a clearing house where all of these groups can come together,” one attendee

said.

Jane Franklin, an accounts specialist at the University of Minnesota, said she fears Trump’s proposed health care plan would strip many of their benefits, but thinks left-leaning democrats lobbying together could help preserve existing policies.

The event’s organizer,

Ginger Jentzen, assured the audience of further protests leading up to Trump’s inauguration.

To Black Lives Matter member Robin Wonsley, protests are a vetted tool for helping grant people of color equal rights.

“It is a tool that we are going to have to further sharpen and utilize in these upcom-

ing years under Trump’s administration,” she said.

Socialist Alternative MN will lead a student walkout in resistance to Trump and also call for a $15 per hour minimum wage, outside Coffman Union on Nov. 29. It will also lead a student walkout and citywide protest in Minneapolis on Jan. 20, the day of Trump’s inauguration.

“[Protesting] is a tool that we are going to have to further sharpen and utilize in these upcoming years.”

ROBIN WONSLEY Black Lives Matter member

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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN

This is why the left won’t just chill out The president is at the forefront of the country, and Donald Trump isn’t a role model.

I had the recent fortune of reading an opinion piece on CNN by Timothy Stanley, entitled, “Liberals, chill out about Trump victory” — and I have quite a few thoughts on it.

Mr. Stanley brings up some valid points.

Donald Trump will not be the only form of government America will have, but he will be the figurehead of our country.

When people think of the United States, their first thought is not, “Oh, Congress!” or “Wow, what an amazing Supreme Court!”

Our president is at the forefront of our countr y, and Donald Trump isn’t what I would consider a role model.

Having Trump as the figurehead for our country rightly freaks me out because I don’t want the rest of the world thinking I share the same opinions as him

KAYLEE ANDERSON columnist

In a countr y where consent is just beginning to be taught in schools, Trump has clearly voiced lewd, sexist comments on grabbing women. He is also someone who speaks with flagrant disregard to human decency, claiming women should be punished for having abortions and not to mention the time he mocked a disabled reporter on national news.

Having Trump as the figurehead for our country rightly freaks me out because I don’t want the rest of the world thinking I share the same opinions as him. More than anything this victory affirms the promotion of hatred and infringes on the rights of others.

In his ar ticle, Mr. Stanley goes on to say that a Trump presidency is nothing to mourn because “He is moderate on many areas of policy, such as gay rights and flexible on others, such as the economy.”

Sure, if you want to call holding a rainbow flag up at a rally or two being moderate,

go right ahead.

More than anything, what riled me is how Stanley concludes the article: “Next time the Democrats should go with their gut and nominate a real fighter.”

Interesting — is Hillar y Clinton not a “real fighter?” The woman who fought her way into ever y office she could, the one who faced blatant sexism ever y day and had to push through it, the one who strove to become the perfect role model for young women ever ywhere so that one day they could aspire to be president as well?

There’s no question that Hillary Clinton is a fighter. With the amount of adversity that she encountered to be considered as a democratic nominee, it’s really no question.

So go ahead, Mr. Stanley. Please tell me why liberals shouldn’t be freaking out over a Trump presidency. I would love to hear why the fear my LGBT friends have is so misguided. I would love to hear why Trump could possibly be an apt figurehead for this countr y. I would love to hear why having a competent woman for our president is a worse option than a narcissistic man who preaches hate — because honestly, I’m still not convinced.

Kaylee Anderson welcomes comments at kanderson@mndaily.com.

2016 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 50,767 Total number of deaths: 13,115 Total number of mass shootings: 345

Monday, November 21, 2016

EDITORIALS Pipeline cannot fall out of view After months of protest against the Dakota Access pipeline, the construction has come to a standstill by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. President Obama also recently made remarks about alternative routes actively being pursued.

Our vigilance for the construction of the pipeline should not stop here — the fight isn’t over. Already, prior to the standstill, construction failed to stop despite several warnings from the Army Corps. This shows the lack of willingness of the parent company — Energy Transfer Partners — to cooperate with authorities.

The record of the next presidential administration doesn’t help either. Presidentelect Donald Tr ump has many alleged investments in ETP. Furthermore, many of the concerns over the environmental harms are associated with climate change, which the newly-elected lead for Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency transition team, Myron Ebell, doesn’t believe in.

Even without the climate change arguments, issues with oil leaks simply cannot be overlooked. Pipeline spills are common: Last year, a significant spill occurred every three days. In the first eight months of this year, there have already been 80 pipeline leaks. These leaks can have catastrophic consequences on nearby wildlife and water supply.

The Dakota Access Pipeline epitomizes the unwillingness of corporations to respect the autonomy and the rights of American Indians. This is no longer simply an issue of economics — it’s a question of human rights. Now is not the time to forget the work that must be done.

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

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

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

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

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COLUMN

Stop the negative self-talk Keeping things in perspective protects us when life doesn’t match our outsized dreams.

A week ago, Sam Cooke’s “(What A) Wonderful World” came on while I was in a coffee shop, and Cooke’s courting strategy in the song took me off guard.

In two short minutes, he tells the object of his affection he doesn’t know much about history, biology, “a science book,” French, geometry, trigonometry or algebra.

He also doesn’t know what a slide rule is for, but here’s the thing: He knows that “one and one is two” and he loves you.

If you’re taking notes on ways to woo a potential mate, there’s one important thing Cooke leaves unspoken: “Oh, and I’m Sam f—ing Cooke.” And there’s only one Sam f— ing Cooke.

I know it’s a bitter pill to swallow, but the sooner we come to terms with this harsh reality, the better — that means you, too, Leon Bridges.

Keeping things in perspective protects us when life doesn’t match our outsized dreams.

However, consistently knocking ourselves

GUEST EDITORIAL

Trump must calm fears, renounce hate

There have been more than 400 instances of hate speech and harassment across the country since the day after the election.

President-elect Donald Trump should use his bully pulpit to condemn these incidents and begin living his promise to be president to all Americans.

The perpetrators of many of the incidents tracked and fact-checked by the Southern Poverty Law Center invoked the Trump presidency as a kind of troubling justification for this new form of intolerance that pushes our country backwards into an ugly era.

While there have been incidents reported that turned out to be false or misleading, the number of such cases was small compared to an overall number of real incidents.

In the Mankato area, there were reports of MSU students being the target of racial slurs and discriminatory remarks. Another

female student reported being thrown to the ground by a male student who put his knee on her back and told her to “get out of my country.” A gay couple holding hands on a bus were the target of mean-spirited talk about banning such displays of affection.

There have been incidents at grade schools where children have been bullied.

But in at least one case near a hospital, a woman wearing a Trump T-shirt was also assaulted.

Somali leaders in Mankato say there may not be a lot of police reports about harassment, but there is growing hostility against Somalis in the region. Somalis standing outside grocery stores and restaurants endure verbal assaults from passersby.

“Somehow people are using the election of Trump to justify their hate,” said Abdi Sabrie, a local Somali leader and member of the Mankato school board.

“It’s like a confirmation for them wanting a homogenous society.”

THE EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS DEPARTMENT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE NEWSROOM

CHANCE WELLNITZ columnist

down to protect us from what seems like an inevitable disappointment keeps us from reaching our fullest potentials.

I’m not saying that Cooke should’ve preceded his declaration of love by stating he’s handsome, great with women and one of the greatest artists of all time. After all, if he reached that level of lyrical braggadocio over 50 years ago, what would today’s artists sing about?

But even if Sam Cooke didn’t know much about any of the subjects he listed in “(What A) Wonderful World,” he still had much to offer. And even though none of us are Sam f— ing Cooke, we each have more to offer than we give ourselves credit for.

Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.

Even Trump supporters say the president-elect can do more to quell the incidents and the misplaced support. While Trump used rhetoric during the campaign that inferred a number of messages for accepting intolerance, he went on “60 Minutes” and told people to “Stop it.”

But that may not be enough. Some of these harassers may not be watching “60 Minutes.” Trump is a voracious user of Twitter. Some tweets of reconciliation would be appropriate here and now.

And we must be careful not to brand all Trump supporters as those who would promote this new intolerance. Many had voted for Barack Obama in the past. But Trump supporters too have a role in condemning the attacks against immigrants, Muslims and racial minorities.

Words are powerful. But words coming from the president of the United States can be even more powerful. It will cost Trump nothing to be more vocal on these issues. In fact, he would have a lot to gain.

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

In a few days, many of us will sit down with our extended families for the first time since the most contentious, polarizing and shocking election of our lifetimes. We will be in close proximity to those we love — and while we may be related by blood, a deep political gulf often runs between us.

Discussing politics can be hard, especially in families cleaved by the conservative-liberal divide. If you’re able to keep composure and willing to engage in productive conversation, perhaps this is the time to listen to your kin.

If we’ve realized anything in this election, it’s that our country is deeply divided, and many of us don’t understand the qualms, grievances and deep-seated fears of those opposite us on the political spectrum.

Conversation, not silence, is what we need. It’s imperative to our democracy, and maybe it will act as a panacea for post-election confusion.

For many Clinton voters, the outcome of Nov. 8 has produced shock, worry and despair. And it’s clear that Trump’s administration bodes ill for Clinton supporters and minorities of many races, gender identities, creeds and orientations.

But for those of us who identify as liberal and thought Trump was unconscionable, do we really know why some of our relatives voted for Trump?

Yes, it could be because they hold racist, misogynistic, queerphobic or sexist beliefs.

If that’s the case, we surely need conversation.

But perhaps they voted for Trump because they sought a candidate who was antiestablishment, or they felt like their economic livelihood had been slighted by a Democratic administration. Perhaps they were drawn to Trump’s unfiltered, albeit bigoted, provocations.

Whatever the reason, supporters of both Clinton and Trump ought to listen to each other. Conversation spurs empathy, and there’s never a limit to empathy.

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CROSSWORD Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 21, 18, 2016 Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (11/21): Take stock this year. Assess where you are and want to be. Invent an inspiring game, and plan your moves. Professional developments lead you in a new direction after spring, as new passion excites.

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 an 8 — Pay attention to your health and well-being today and tomorrow. For the next month, with the Sun in Sagittarius, it’s easier to explore.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Communication and networking gets results this next month under the Sagittarius Sun. Study, practice and write.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Relax and enjoy fun with friends and family over the next two days. Focus on managing resources this next month under Sagittarius Sun.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — It’s easier to make money this next month, with the Sun in Sagittarius. Stick to your budget. You can socialize without spending a fortune.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — Enjoy the comforts of your castle over the next two days.

Partnership thrives and strengthens under the Sagittarius Sun this next month.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — You have the advantage for the next month, with the Sun in your sign. Try a new style. Abandon a habit that’s been holding you back.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Communication flows today and tomorrow.

Strengthen your physical health and vitality to energize for higher demand for your services.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 5 — Begin a contemplative month under the Sagittarius Sun. Finish old business and projects to prepare for what’s next.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Money’s flowing in and out over the next two days.

Keep track. For the next month, with Sun in Sagittarius, you’re especially lucky in love.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Over the next four weeks, you’re especially effective on teams. Strategically coordinate your networks of friends for common goals.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Add personal touches to your home decor this next month, with the Sun in Sagittarius. Family inspires you. Have your space reflect your tastes.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Your career takes off this month, with the Sun in Sagittarius.

Smile for the camera, and keep producing the results that are gathering such attention.

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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,

I’m graduating this semester, and I am freaking out.

I’m not ready to be an adult. I have spent all of this time in college preparing for the real world, but I feel like I’m not ready yet.

My parents pay my bills, I hardly know how to cook and I am going to have tens of thousands of dollars in student debt when I graduate.

My statistics degree with a specialization in political polling seems awfully useless in the last few weeks.

Just the other day, I realized that I don’t know how to refinance my mortgage in order to buy an in-ground pool to please my hypothetical future husband so that our marriage doesn’t fall apart.

Am I ready for the real world?

—Still a Kid Dear Kid,

It sounds like you and your future

husband need some marriage counseling.

My best advice for your predicament?

Move to Australia, remove yourself from all human trappings and join a pack of marsupials to live a life free in the wild.

I have a friend who did this a few years ago.

I went to Aussieland to find him and after searching thousands of miles in the Tanami Desert, I found him hunched under a tree, naked and gnawing on a weevil.

He actually told me that he wanted to come back home because he missed his friends, family and old life, but I feel like he was downplaying how much fun he was having.

He did join a pack of echidnas that quickly disowned him because he didn’t lay eggs. I think that may have contributed to his discomfort.

Still, I doubt anyone has ever had a

bad time when running away from their issues and ignoring them. So I suggest that route.

—Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

Is root beer a vegetable?

It is made of roots, after all.

Also, is it alcoholic?

Since, you know, it has beer in its name.

—Seriously Confused Dude Dear Dude,

Luckily, we have science to figure out these questions because I was just as stumped as you are.

I contacted my friend at Harvard who conducts dietary studies.

He said, “If you contact me again, I’ll call the police. This is a violation of the restraining order I have against you.”

So that was a dead end.

Nevertheless, your question sparked

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such a grand curiosity within me that I tapped into our Dr. Date travel budget and headed to Bangor, Maine to see if I could figure out our answer.

As I was walking along the shore, I saw a man who told me he was dying after eating a watermelon seed. Poor soul.

I continued on my quest and found a hooded, wise-looking figure sat atop a horse. I asked him your question.

“What is root beer?”

He said that he wasn’t sure, but was also captivated by your inquiry.

We set off together on his horse and found ourselves in the plains of Nova Scotia to consult his master.

Turns out the guy is a freaking wizard, how cool is that?

His master was super dope and told us that root beer is not only a vegetable, but also a beer.

What a journey.

—Dr. Date

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Pop-up trend continues in Minneapolis The business model allows more flexibility than brickand-mortar shops.

BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com

The newest in a string of businesses shows pop-up shops can succeed beyond Dinkytown, where one shop popularized the idea for many students.

Rebel Donut Bar, a new pop-up doughnut shop in Northeast Minneapolis, follows a business model recently employed by University of Minnesota alumnus Bradley Taylor of Sssdudenutz in Dinkytown.

Vince Traver, co-founder of Rebel Donut Bar, said he and par tner, Kiah Gumeringer, started making doughnuts as a hobby for a few months before setting out to start a business.

Traver said after they star ted posting picture of the doughnuts on Instagram, he saw a demand and started to sell the treat at local events and farmers’ markets.

After discovering Inbound Brew Company at an Eat.Drink.Dish event in Uptown this year, Traver asked to collaborate in making a beer doughnut. The brewery has since become a regular spot for the popup doughnut shop.

Previously a mechanic for 10 years, Traver said he wasn’t confident at first, but said it has always been his dream to open a doughnut shop.

Gumeringer, who is an art director by trade, said she helps with the doughnut bar in her free time by making advertisements and constructing the business’ social media posts.

Traver said brick-andmortar shops are expensive in the city, and a pop-up model seemed like a more welcoming choice.

“This was kind of the only way to do it. This or

like, food trucks,” he said.

He pointed to Rise Bagel Company, which also star ted its business with pop-ups.

Kate Lloyd, co-founder of Rise, said she and her sister Jen started at farmers’ markets and eventually expanded to other locations such as the Wedge Co-op and Dogwood Coffee.

Lloyd said the pop-ups at Dogwood let the two companies share a customer base and promote each other.

“It’s kind of fun to bop around and have different experiences, and the bottom line is to be out there and to get our products to our customers,” Lloyd said.

She said the company will open a storefront early next year.

Traver and Gumeringer hope to eventually open a storefront in Northeast Minneapolis like Taylor’s Dinkytown location.

Taylor said the way he star ted Sssdude-nutz is unique and he said he didn’t anticipate the trend to grow in the city.

At the beginning, Taylor delivered doughnuts to customers on his own. But soon after, he realized it was too large a task for one person and turned to popups.

He said he got the idea from a T-shirt company he started when living in Los Angeles.

“Obviously, I didn’t have a storefront at that time. I was like a sophomore in high school,” he said.

Taylor said he sold his shirts wherever people let him. That inspired his popup shops in Dinkytown.

Although Taylor admits he didn’t invent the pop-up trend, he said it’s exciting to see others following a similar path.

“I’m not going to say that I started it,— definitely not,” he said. “But I think … the way I did it, especially with doughnuts … no one was doing [that].”

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Vince Traver, owner of Rebel Donut Bar, sells mini donuts to customers at Tin Whiskers Brewery in St. Paul on Saturday.

Traver serves a customer mini donuts at Tin Whiskers Brewery in St. Paul on Saturday.

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Johnson builds coalitions in Leg. and at the U The Daily talked to Dean Johnson on Board priorites and his time as chair.

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

When Dean Johnson ran for a seat on the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents, he was no stranger to elections. Johnson was elected twice to the Minnesota House of Representatives and eight times to the state Senate where he served as both majority and minority leader.

Still, Johnson said the election process for the Board of Regents was a difficult trial.

“It’s a grueling process, of applications, the [Regent Candidate Advisory Council] … House and Senate higher education committee and ultimately a vote,” he said.

“Two to three months of

your life are dedicated to walking the halls of the Capitol and talking with legislators.”

On the Board, Johnson said he wanted to bring differing viewpoints together — a skill he honed in the legislature.

“We’re a state of 5.2 million people and there [are] 5.2 million ideas about how state government ought to operate or function,” he said.

“It goes back to the principle of trying to find commonality and bringing people together.”

In the Senate, Johnson ser ved on numerous committees, including the Education Finance Committee and the Ethics and Campaign Reform Committee. He also provided guidance to younger legislators such as former state senator, Terri Bonoff.

As a freshman senator, Bonoff said Johnson was a mentor to her and helped her attain important roles in the

transportation and education committees — two areas Bonoff said were important to her. She said Johnson would listen to issues from both sides of the aisle and would help lawmakers come to an agreement.

“He was a consensus builder,” she said. “When emotions ran high, he had the ability to bring calm.”

Johnson said he learned the importance of inclusivity as a pastor at Calvary Lutheran church in Willmar, Minnesota and as a chaplain in the United States Army National Guard where he was awarded several commendations, including the Legion of Merit.

“The chaplaincy in the military is based on a very fundamental principle,” he said. “All men and women who wear the uniform of the United States military forces have the right to freely exercise their religious beliefs.”

While serving as deputy

chief of chaplains in the Guard’s Washington D.C. bureau, Johnson worked with guardsmen and soldiers from 180 different denominations of faith.

As chaplain, Johnson listened to soldiers and their families and officiated baptisms and weddings. He also presided over memorial services and funerals in Minnesota and at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

He was elected to the Board of Regents as an atlarge representative in 2007 and was elected as chair of the board last year. He said his priority is making sure everyone’s voice is heard.

“Ever yone’s opinion is worth listening to and tr ying to find some commonality of thought and direction forward,” he said. “Whether that’s teaching a 10th grade confirmation class or chairing the Board of Regents or being in the state senate or being in the military, it’s being respectful of people and their ideas and trying to bring some consensus moving forward.”

The Daily sat down with Johnson to discuss his priorities on the board and the tough issue of navigating the University’s relationship with the Minnesota Legislature.

Editor’s Note: “D” denotes Daily; “J” denotes Johnson.

D: What have been your priorities on the Board?

J: The University exists firstly for students and faculty. If we lose sight of that as regents or administration, I think we’ve lost our way.

Students, student experience, student academics, the cost of tuition, the cost of attendance, has been a high priority. We’ve been able to keep tuition at a low rate of yearly increase …

We have 29 million square feet of real estate.

We’re forever trying to figure out how to update and make sure that our facilities are in good shape and … usable.

We’re a forever changing culture and society … I think it’s a challenge and an

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

University of Minnesota Regent Dean Johnson poses for a portrait at the state Capitol on Feb. 13, 2013.

opportunity in a University setting — as regents and administration allow the students, faculty, and staff to have a place of diverse opinions but a respectful place …

The University’s agricultural emphasis is extremely important. We talk about the tenants of the land-grant institution, and agriculture is one of those tenants.

I think we do OK in agriculture promotion and working with the ag community ... I think going forward that we as regents will pay more attention to agriculture … and working with the farmers of this state.

D: Sometimes the U and the legislature butt heads. How has being on both sides of the issue

helped you navigate the relationship between the school and the state?

J: The University makes its case quite well in the budgetar y process, but we have a lot of competition in health and human ser vice, transportation, tax reform and K-12 education. The requests are enormous…

As a University, what we need to do is be more compelling in explaining why investment in the University of Minnesota, its students and programs, is a great economic value to this state … But all things being equal, a dollar spent in higher education at the University of Minnesota has great returns: In economics, in jobs, in entrepreneurial areas and that’s the challenge that we have.