November 7, 2016

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■■ University will fight grain elevator lawsuit

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■■ Scientists make renewable soap molecule

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The U researchers call it the “perfect soap molecule.” PG 3

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Person of interest identified in ‘ISIS’ bridge panel vandalism The Council on American-Islamic Relations is urging the incident to be investigated as a hate crime.

BY DAVID CLAREY, LAYNA DARLING AND RILYN EISCHEN dclarey@mndaily.com, ldarling@mndaily.com & reischen@mndaily.com

Religious and political communities at the University of Minnesota are offering support to the school’s Muslim students, condemning two incidents from last week as hate speech.

The Muslim Students Association’s Washington Avenue Bridge panel was spraypainted with the word “ISIS” late Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. In another

incident Tuesday, posters were distributed on campus alleging that Students for Justice in Palestine were linked to Hamas — a militant Palestinian group. The flyers also labeled the group as anti-Semitic.

The bridge panel vandalism was the second in the last month.

In a Thursday press release, Council on American-Islamic Relations-Minnesota (CAIR) urged local law enforcement to investigate the defacement as a hate crime.

CAIR-Minnesota Executive Director Jaylani Hussein said he alerted local FBI officials to the incident.

The University of Minnesota Police Department is investigating a person of interest in the vandalism caught on cameras at u See PANEL Page 8

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The University of Minnesota Police Department released an image of a person of interest in the Thursday defacing of the Muslim Students Association’s Washington Avenue Bridge mural.

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Afro Deli plans to close its West Bank location The restaurant says it will close Nov. 17 and reopen a new store in Stadium Village in January.

BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com

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Gophers running back Rodney Smith scores a touchdown in the second quarter of their game against Purdue at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Gophers rally to beat Purdue after being booed at halftime

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The Gophers defeated the Boilermakers 44-31 in Saturday’s game at TCF Bank Stadium. See page 5 for the Daily’s football coverage, or log on to mndaily.com/sports.

RESEARCH

Hyenas — an unexpected research partner With the help of an archeology class and hyenas, a Ph.D student is examining bone markings.

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Students call for more after-hour building access While MSA is hoping to expand building clearance, some admins are wary due to safety concerns.

BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com

BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota students and hyenas at the Milwaukee County Zoo are stripping meat from bones to replicate and study prehistoric behavior.

University anthropology graduate student Katrina Yezzi-Woodley cleans, processes and analyzes bone fragments broken by hyena teeth and human-made stone tools. She’s enlisted help from 14 undergraduate and graduate students in a zoo archeology course to classify markings on bones, which help archaeologists identify where hunter-gatherers once lived.

“Early humans took stone to get marrow [from bones],” Woodley said. “But we didn’t witness what happened back then.”

Woodley uses a 3-D model to determine

After six years of operation on Riverside Avenue, Afro Deli — a culinary staple on the West Bank — is closing its doors this month with plans to relocate.

The restaurant will close on Nov. 17 and move into Dair y Queen’s former storefront on Washington Avenue in Stadium Village.

“We’re making [our] home [in] the heart of the University — [bringing] the same spirit we had on West Bank,” said Abdirahman Kahin, the founder of Afro Deli.

Kahin said the move was partly due to a conflict with the African Development Center.

The dispute over a lease contract, dating back to 2013, resulted in a lawsuit this summer.

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Anthropology major Katrina Jacobsen tries to break a bone outside of Blegen Hall on Thursday. Ph.D student Katrina Yezzi-Woodley is studying the difference between elk and deer bones when broken by humans versus hyenas.

In response to requests for more study spaces, University of Minnesota student government leaders hope to increase students’ after-hours building access.

A 2014 project helped standardize University building clearance, but the Minnesota Student Association wants to work with school officials to remedy access concerns. The school said its current system is sufficient for students’ needs.

MSA Infrastructure Committee Director Erin Deal said students complained about a lack of study areas on campus, especially on the weekends.

People who need certain resources to complete their coursework — such as art, music and science students — struggle the most to get access to the spaces they need, Deal said.

“We are talking to students to figure u See ACCESS Page 8

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Afro Deli to close West Bank store, will reopen in Stadium Village Deli u from Page 1

After several announcements about the restaurant’s relocation, the decision was made of ficial on Saturday in a Facebook post.

Skylar Dorr, a cashier at Afro Deli, said he was saddened to hear the news.

The restaurant means a lot to local customers and to the Cedar-Riverside community overall, Dor r said.

Af r o D e li wa s go o d for business in the area, Ali Suleiman, one of the restaurant’s patrons, said Saturday night.

Kahin said that Afro Deli will be moving away from its retur ning customers, who give the deli nearly 75 percent of its business.

“They study there, they live there … [moving away], that’s the only sad par t,” Kahin said.

But Kahin said the East Bank also of fers new oppor tunities and a unique experience.

By positioning on Washington Avenue, he said he expects a lot of new customers.

Competition in the area will be tough, but the restaurant will be bringing something new and different to East Bank, Kahin said.

As always, Afro Deli will tr y and cultivate a strong student relationship like it does at the West Bank location, Kahin said. He also said that he expects Afro Deli to be open until mi night.

Kahin said once Dair y Q u een m o v e s o u t , h is crew will have to remodel the area to suit their needs and style, which might take some time, but he expects the new location to be open in Januar y.

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Syrian Kurds begin to campaign to oust Islamic State from Raqqa

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Kurdish-led Syrian forces began an offensive Sunday to liberate the Islamic State group’s de facto capital of Raqqa, clashing with the extremists north of the Syrian city and warning neighboring Turkey not to interfere in the operation.

The United States, France and Britain said they would provide air suppor t for the of fensive, which was announced at a news conference in Ein Issa, north of Raqqa, by a coalition of Kurds and Arabs known as the Syria Democratic Forces. But it lacked details on how the group

Russian and Syrian forces on one side and Turkish forces on another.

Still, the star t of the Raqqa of fensive, which aims initially at isolating and encircling the city, increases the pressure on the Islamic State group, making it harder for its fighters to move reinforcements between Syria and Iraq. The city, which has been under IS control since early 2014, is home to some of the group’s top leaders and is seen as the key to defeating the group militarily.

Islamic State for ces already are now under attack by U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on the eastern edges

of the city of Mosul, which the militant group seized two years ago when it captured territor y across Iraq and Syria for its self-proclaimed caliphate.

The Iraqi forces began their operation Oct. 17 and are tr ying to push deeper into the city, which is the militants’ last urban bastion in Iraq.

Iraq’s Hezbollah Brigades, one of the main Shiite militias taking par t in the gover nment-led push to drive IS from Mosul, said Wednesday its men had taken control of a highway linking Mosul and Raqqa, severing a key supply route between the two militant strongholds.

Protests in Hong Opposition member Kong over Beijing dies in Kosovo custody gov’t intervention

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HONG KONG — Thousands of people protested in Hong Kong on Sunday, demanding that China’s central government stay out of a political dispute in the southern Chinese city after Beijing indicated that it would intervene to deter pro-independence advocates. Police used pepper spray and batons to contain some of the demonstrators, arresting two.

The dispute centers on a provocative display of anti-China sentiment by two newly elected pro-independence Hong Kong lawmakers at their swearing-in ceremony last month.

China’s top legislative panel said that Beijing must inter vene to deter advocates of independence for Hong Kong, calling their actions a threat to national security.

The Standing Committee of China’s rubber-stamp legislature said in a statement that Beijing could not afford to do nothing in the face of challenges in Hong Kong to China’s authority, the official Xinhua News Agency reported late Saturday.

On Sunday, thousands of people marched in downtown Hong Kong to voice their opposition to China’s plan to step in, saying the move would undermine the city’s considerable autonomy and independent judiciary.

Lee Cheuk-yan, a former pro-democracy lawmaker who was among the protesters, said Hong Kong residents were concerned that Beijing was encroaching on their relative freedoms, such as freedom of speech and expression.

“We may not agree with the two (newly elected lawmakers), their language, but we have to protect their rights because they are elected members,” Lee said. “If (Beijing) can deprive them this time, they can deprive others because of other speeches or language or protest.”

After the protest march, several thousand people gathered in the evening to protest outside Beijing’s liaison of fice. Police used pepper spray and batons on demonstrators amid some scuffling.

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dominated by Kurds plans to oust the militants from the city, home to nearly 200,000 mostly Sunni Arabs and an estimated 5,000 IS fighters.

Unlike several successful military efforts to drive Islamic State militants out of cities in Iraq, the Raqqa offensive faces several political obstacles and is likely to be much more complex.

In Iraq, a U.S.-led coalition is working with the government in Baghdad, but Washington and its partners in Syria are relying on a hodgepodge of local Arab and Kurdish opposition groups, some of which are fierce rivals. The tensions are exacerbated by

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PRISTINA, Kosovo — An opposition party in Kosovo blamed the government on Sunday for the death of one of its members while in police custody as questions swirled about where and how the 26-year-old medical student died.

A police statement said Self-Determination Movement activist Astrit Dehari died Saturday under still unclear circumstances and an autopsy would be conducted to clarify what killed him.

The movement blamed the gover nment for Dehari’s death and expressed doubts about media reports suggesting he arrived dead at a hospital after allegedly swallowing a fatal dose of prescription medicine.

The opposition questioned dif fering accounts from police, prison officials and prosecutors on what time Dehari died and whether it happened at the jail where he was being held or at a hospital.

“The death of our supporter Astrit Dehari is a direct state responsibility because Astrit died while held in jail and because Astrit and the others ... are being terrorized with dir ty and undefined charges,” Self-Determination leader Visar Ymeri said at a news conference.

Prosecutors in Prizren, the city 84 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of the capital, Pristina, wher e Dehari died, said he was transpor ted to the hospital already dead, but said they are awaiting autopsy results to determine if the death was accidental, self-inflicted or a homicide.

Dehari’s family has asked to have an independent doctor of its choosing witness the autopsy.

“Institutional statements qualifying our son’s death as suspicious and also the contradictions in the statements of dif ferent institutions are too much of a concern for us,” his relatives said in a statement. “We insist that in no way the autopsy should be held without the presence of the doctors named from the family.”

The Justice Ministry said it would honor the family’s wish to have an outside expert observer on hand for the autopsy.

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Election engages students in classes Students express interest in class material that relates to their daily lives.

BY CHELSEA GORTMAKER cgortmaker@mndaily.com

While engaging students in class can be a challenge, some professors are using the divisive presidential election as a star ting block for conversation.

Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies professor Michelle Gar vey said she likes to incorporate cultural references that will kindle thought-provoking class discussions and apply relevant course topics to students’ lives.

“The election is no different than any other kind of popular culture event or news event that I would bring in to class,” she said.

“But it cer tainly has been an example that has dominated in the kind of [conversations] that we have.”

For GWSS junior Taylor Rober ts, the election has

created a palpable strain for some students and student groups, a stressor that can be felt in the classroom.

“Much of what we talk about in class can always be tied back to our current political climate,” she said.

“And the general tension this election has created for our campus can definitely be felt in class.”

During class discussions, some students say they find solidarity in knowing that their peers share the same anxieties as they do, which helps them cope with their apprehensions.

“You get to talk and play of f each other and understand that people are going through the same anxiety about this election as you are,” said Katrina Keys, a mor tuar y science sophomore who is taking a feminist theory class. “That can be really nice for tr ying to deal with that.”

GWSS junior Esther Callahan said women sometimes have dissenting

opinions of Hillar y Clinton in order to be taken seriously.

“They don’t want to feel like, ‘Oh I’m just voting [for her] because she’s a woman,’” she said.

Keys said that in classes where most opinions are typically left-leaning, some feel hesitant to express their beliefs.

“This is definitely more of an open space, but … people do lean one way,” she said. “There’s still definitely a minority in this room, and I don’t think they’r e as comfor table bringing it up because a lot of us have ver y liberal ideas.”

Gar vey said professors are aware of students’ anxieties and make a concerted ef for t to remind students of mental health resources available on campus. She added that students have come to her to talk about how the election rhetoric affects them.

“It’s healing to talk about it and let out our steam,” said Chicano

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Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies professor Michelle Garvey lectures during her feminist theory class on Thursday at the Bell Museum.

s t u d i es a n d G WS S ju nior Cecilia Rasgado. “I wouldn’t ever talk about these things in a math class, but especially in these classes there’s more of a brave space to talk about [it].”

Garvey, who is cancelling

class on Tuesday to give students a chance to vote, said she wants students to engage with ideas and theories in the classroom, but she also aims to galvanize her students into using their political power. “[It’s] a way of not only

expr essing … political identity, but also finding community,” she said. “I really want to stress to them how ver y impor tant the youth vote is and how underrepresented their views and perspectives are at the electoral level.”

U to fight lawsuit against grain elevators’ demolition A demolition lawsuit was filed by Friends of the Electric Steel Elevator Thursday.

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota will fight a lawsuit that would prevent it from demolishing the Electric Steel Elevators near TCF Bank Stadium.

A group of preservationists filed a lawsuit against the University of Minnesota last Thursday, a week after the University’s Board of Regents voted to demolish the 115-year old grain elevators on campus property to make room for the relocation of a recreational sports bubble.

Friends of the Electric Steel Elevator, LLC, is suing the University under a state

law that says that the Board of Regents must cooperate with the Minnesota Historical Society and preserve historic sites on campus.

“There are basically none of these [elevators] left,” said Erik Hansen, the group’s attorney. “It’s part of our history.”

Hansen said the city of Minneapolis put controls in place to prevent the structures from being demolished as the city weighed whether to consider the buildings a historic site, but the University argued it has autonomy from the state and is not necessarily governed by city code.

The group is arguing that, as a state entity, the University must cooperate with other state agencies like the Minnesota Historical Society — something Hansen said the school did not do.

“The U can put up a sports dome in a great many other places,” he said. “And they don’t have to tear down a piece of Minneapolis history to do it.”

The University’s General Counsel, Doug Peterson, said the school had to respond by Monday.

The regents’ 11-1 vote to demolish the buildings came after many community members voiced their opposition.

Eric Amel, secretary of the Prospect Park Association, said the University’s decision to demolish the buildings despite their historical impor tance to Minnesota raises concerns about the school’s autonomy from the state.

“They’re more powerful than the state, and that needs to be brought into balance,” Amel said. “Something’s got to change.”

Researchers create an effective and renewable soap molecule Researchers made a soap molecule that can clean better in mineral rich water.

BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com

Researchers at the University of Minnesota recently created a renewable soap molecule for laundry detergents, hand soaps and even future makeup products.

Scientists in the Dauenhauer Research Group created the molecule that works better in hard water before it was licensed by a local startup company, Sironix Renewables. Their findings will be published in the next issue of the American Chemical Society’s journal.

“What we’ve invented is what I’d call the perfect soap molecule,” said Paul Dauenhauer, University chemical engineering and material science associate professor and project co-author.

Dauenhauer said the team aimed for a soap that could remove chemicals from hair or hands, but also foams well.

Unlike soaps that come from petroleum bases, Dauenhauer’s molecule comes from renewable sources such as corn and soybeans.

The team collaborated with workers at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois to use X-ray scattering tools to see how soap particles dispersed in liquid.

Meanwhile, the University team tested the molecule in hard water after a

“The main selling point of this molecule is [that] it is extremely stable in hard water.”

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three-step process made it attractive to both water and oil, said Kristeen Joseph, a mechanical engineering Ph.D. student.

The soap molecule was added to pure, soft water before researchers added hard water impurities like calcium, Joseph said.

She said the team had to add around 50 times more impurities than usually found in hard water before the soap stopped working.

“The main selling point of this molecule is [that] it is extremely stable in hard water,” Joseph said.

Cur rent laundr y detergents have additives to keep hard water from interfering with the soap molecules that clean clothes.

But Joseph said the new molecule doesn’t need these additives, allowing for cheaper and more environmentally-friendly products.

Christoph Kr umm, president and co-founder of Sironix Renewables said this technology is special because it is a renewable molecule yet still works well.

“If you consider what’s available now, there’s a vast majority of soaps and cleaners made from oil,” Krumm said.

Soap molecules Oil Water SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PROFESSOR PAUL DAUENHAUER AND ABOUT EDUCATION

For green chemistr y, the research looks promising, said Paul Jackson, associate environmental studies professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Jackson said this molecule is uncommon given America’s histor y of building materials from petroleum-based chemicals.

“That was the material revelation of the past centur y and to [turn] that ship around is ver y, ver y challenging,” he said.

While the soap’s performance looks promising, Jackson said the team should work to evaluate its toxicity and ef fects when broken down on humans and nonhumans.

Researchers and Sironix Renewables hope to use the molecule in future products like detergents, makeup, shampoos and other soaps.

“If you consider what’s available now, there’s a vast majority of soaps and cleaners made from oil.”

CHRISTOPH KRUMM President of Sironix Renewables

The PPA sent a letter to regents in August asking them to reconsider their plans to demolish the structures.

“The complaint serves as an opportunity to put the regents, the city and the legislature on notice that University autonomy has gone off the rails,” Amel said.

The group also alleged that the elevator complex is a “natural resource” and cannot be demolished because of the Minnesota Environmental Rights Act .

The Electric Steel Elevators are the last of their kind in Minnesota and have historic significance, the lawsuit said, because they embody a historic time when Minneapolis was the milling capital of the world.

Robert Frame, a senior historian at Mead and Hunt, said the elevators are eligible to be included in the National

Register of Historic Places.

“It’s got multiple layers of significance,” Frame said.

“The steel elevator serves to illustrate the history of milling and agriculture in Minnesota and its importance to the growth … of both Minneapolis and the upper Midwest.”

Regent Chair Dean Johnson said that while he understands the historical importance of the elevators, the site is the most likely location of the recreational sports bubble, which will be displaced by the plan to build a new track and field facility.

“It’s the most logical place for it,” Johnson said. “And it’s the best place for students.”

Students expressed mixed opinions on the plans to demolish the structures.

Katie Morris, a biochemistr y senior who works for intramural spor ts at the U n i v e r s i t y, s a i d t h e

demolition of the elevators is necessary to make room for the recreational sports bubble, which will be displaced by a new track and field facility. “[The bubble] is the heart of the intramural facilities,” Morris said. “The grain elevator site is the most logical place to put it. There really aren’t any other options.”

Others, like senior commercial and interior design major Jonathan Butler-Knutson said demolishing the building would be unethical.

“Demolishing this site would be a huge waste of resources that would end up in a landfill,” he said. “I think a lot of historic buildings get looked at and people think ‘tear them down’ because they’re taking up space. But I’ve seen that buildings that you don’t think can be reused can [be reused].”

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Housing continues to concern the U With increasing enrollment, school officials scramble to find student housing.

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

Despite ramped-up effor ts at the University of Minnesota to provide housing on or near campus for students, lodging continues to be a big concern for the school.

Debate over how to house more students — especially second-year and transfer students — in University housing has persisted for more than a year. Regents and school of ficials have str uggled to agree on the best way to provide housing for an u n d e r g r a d u a t e p o p u l ation projected to grow by nearly 3,000 in the next five years.

“More and more students want to live on campus or as close to campus

as possible,” said board Chair Dean Johnson. “We simply don’t have the room.”

Regent Thomas Devine said the University would need to build a new dorm ever y three years in order to meet student demand.

“It’s har d to expand your incoming freshman class without having the beds available,” he said.

The University ranks at the bottom of the Big Ten in terms of housing availability, with beds for just over 20 percent of undergraduates. As the University transitioned to a residential student model, private developers swarmed the school’s borders with new apartment buildings.

“When we made the decision to transition from a commuter campus to a residential campus, we [didn’t build] the number of beds that we should have,” said Regent Michael Hsu. “We should do a better job of providing nonprofit housing …

instead of relying on the private developers.”

By 2021, University administrators said they hope to add 1,000 beds to accommodate 90 percent of first-year students, 25 percent of second-year students and 10 percent of transfer students.

To help meet that goal, Regents approved two leasing agreements this summer with the nearby Keeler and Radius at 15th apartment complexes.

Beginning in late August 2017 and continuing until the summer of 2022, the University will lease 164 beds in 44 furnished apar tments from Keeler Apar tments and 772 beds in 200 fur nished apar tments from the Radius.

“By having University housing for a second semester freshman or a sophomor e trans fer student, it’s a more comfor table situation,” Devine said. “It’s a more friendly way to get acclimated to the University

of Minnesota.”

The school will annually pay about $1.3 million to Keeler and about $6.5 million to the Radius, funded through student housing fees.

“Housing is an expensive item,” Johnson said.

“But we’re still tr ying to keep our prices lower than private developers.”

Additionally, Regents approved a $104.5 million renovation of Pioneer Hall in September to expand its bed capacity by 63 after more than a year of debate on the project.

However, some regents voted against the plan, saying such a significant amount of money would be better spent on building a new dorm and expanding bed capacity by much more.

“You could pick up another 500 beds for $70 million,” Devine said.

Others were concerned about the hall closing during the next two school years. The school will

make up for the lost beds by converting Roy Wilkins Hall, in addition to the offcampus apartment leases.

Regents say they want to emphasize on-campus living because it boosts GPAs and graduation rates and is much cheaper than private-sector buildings.

“We’re tr ying to hold down the cost of attendance, but landlords don’t care about the cost of attendance,” Devine said.

“When you star t looking at the cost of private sector housing, those numbers are getting close to what you’re paying for tuition at the University of Minnesota.”

With an increased focus on long-term housing strategies, r egents approved a 30-year plan for developing cer tain areas of the East Bank campus this summer — a plan that includes building new residence halls along the Mississippi River.

The plan includes

demolishing the Mayo Building to make room for the halls, as well as the demolition of the Centennial and Territorial dormitories for additional Academic Health Center buildings.

School administrators say a river fr ont housing neighborhood would achieve connectivity to the rest of campus for students. Still, some regents questioned aspects of the plan.

“I’m r eally not sur e we’ll tear down [Centennial and Territorial halls],” said Regent Richard Beeson. “It’s something we’re going to have to look at more.”

Johnson said the plan stresses the school’s housing and medical priorities, but he cautioned against moving for ward too quickly.

“It really takes some pr udent thinking and strategies,” Johnson said. “Once you make a decision, it’s dif ficult to turn back.”

U’s conversations on Islamophobia are insufficient University students struggle with antiIslamic agression in the community.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

Sidhra Musani star ted high school at a private Islamic school. Now, she said she is the only visible Muslim in her advanced classes.

Musani enrolled at the University of Minnesota and became president of the Muslim Students Association, but she said she still worries her classmates judge her for wearing a hijab.

“I had to think three times [about] ever ything I was going to say,” she said, “because

I knew that there is that pressure … whether you like or not, people are [going to] judge you for what you say, and they’re [going to] attribute it [to] your faith.”

With two recent incidents at the University of Minnesota that were widely condemened as Islamaphobic and others in the Twin Cities over the last year, some Muslim community members say they fear an increase in Islamaphobic incidents.

It’s unquestionable whether Islamophobia is an issue, said Shakeer Abdullah, assistant vice president of the University’s Of fice of Equity and Diversity.

The shooting of two Somali men last summer on the edge of campus and an

attack on a Somali woman in a Coon Rapids Applebees are just localized examples of a worldwide problem, he said.

Additionally, last week, someone vandalized the Muslim Students Association’s Washington Avenue Bridge panel with the word “ISIS,” in reference to the Islamic State ter rorist organization.

Flyers have also been distributed around campus that alleged that Students for Justice in Palestine is anti-semetic and linked to Hamas, a militant Palestinian group.

Minneapolis is home to a large Somali population, which adds a layer of mistrust between the Muslim community and other communities, Abdullah said.

At the University, overt

and violent displays of Islamophobia are not common but microagressions are a broader issue on campus, Abdullah said.

“Those are the kind of incidents … that Muslims have to deal with on a far too regular basis,” he said.

At an impromptu meeting between the Muslim Students Association and the Al-Madinah Cultural Center after last week’s bridge defacing, students described feeling like Muslim students are statistics for the University to advertise rather than actual members of the student body.

Ayantu Hassan, a sophomore at St. Paul College, works at the Tawakal Express in the Cedar-Riverside Neighborhood and said she hears about hate crimes in the Muslim community and it worries her — particularly as a female Muslim who wears a hijab.

“Sometimes, we’ll hear people walking by, [talking about Muslim people] … and you tr y to just ignore that kind of stuf f,” she said. “At the end of the day, I’m covered, so you can see I’m Muslim … [and] most of the people getting harmed are women. It’s kind of scar y.”

Faiz Jabir, vice president of the Muslim Students Association, said the issue of Islamophobia trickles from a national scale down to the University setting.

“There is a problem with Islamophobia within the campus area,” he said.

“This isn’t the only place it happens. It happens nationwide, state by state.”

Hate crimes in Minnesota have declined for most minority groups, but that is not the case for the Muslim community. A recent Star Tribune analysis highlighted a surge of Islamophobic hate crimes.

“I had to think three times [about] everything I was going to say... because I knew that there was that pressure ... whether you like or not, people are [going to] judge you for what you say and they’re [going to] attribute it [to] your faith.”

SIDHRA MUSANI President of the Muslim Students Association

There are groups that directly organize against Muslims, said Jaylani Hussein, executive director of the Council on AmericanIslamic Relations Minnesota (CAIR).

“It’s not just individuals that are not upset, but rather actual groups … whose mission is to organize against Muslims,” he said.

U tries to find solutions for Muslims on campus

The University has addressed Islamophobia on campus, but things move slowly, Abdullah, said.

“The reality is that students may not think we are responding in a satisfactor y way,” he said. “Students want to see change immediately, and I think as a large institution, change comes slowly.”

Abdullah pointed to groups like the Bias Response Team and the Office of Equal Oppor tunity and Af fir mative Action that tr y to resolve Islamophobic microagressions

on campus.

BR T data obtained by the Minnesota Daily showed that three out of the 25 incidents repor ted since Januar y involved hate speech against Muslims.

Musani said she doesn’t think the University does a good enough job directly addressing Islamophobia.

She said campus climate conversations are helpful, but aren’t solutions.

“Our job is to bring up those perspectives — we don’t necesarilly have the solutions to them, but we’re tr ying,” she said.

One of the first steps in addressing Islamophobia is getting people outside of the Muslim community to address it, Jaylani Hussein said.

“The best way to move away from this [type] of discrimination is when those who are challenging it are those who are least af fected by it,” he said.

“How do we get those [people] ... to be more visible against it, vocal against [it]?”

Educating people who don’t understand the Muslim community, creating dialogue and clarifying the global discussion around terrorism are all steps that need to be taken, Hussein said.

“If you look at the statistics, [you’re] more likely [to] be struck by lightning twice than be killed by a Muslim in a ter rorist attack,” he said.

Still, reaching the right audience is one of the more complex issues in addressing Islamophobia, he said.

“It can’t just be Muslims talking amongst themselves about what they can do, we need to engage and we need to make sure we’re bringing persectives form the greater community,” Musani said.

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Sports

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FOOTBALL

Gophers defeat Boilermakers 44-31

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

Running back Rodney Smith sat out for a brief period of Saturday’s game against Purdue with a twisted ankle.

But that didn’t stop him from having a career day.

Smith had 153 yards on the ground and three touchdowns — both career highs — to help Minnesota to a 44-31 victory on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium against Purdue. “[Smith’s] a hell of a player,” said head coach Tracy Claeys. “He’s going to make plays. He’s done it ever y week. He’s tough.”

Smith’s second touchdown run of the day was a go-ahead score.

The redshirt sophomore rushed in from seven yards to help the Gophers go ahead 30-28 in the third quarter after falling behind 28-23 at the end of the first half.

Quar terback David Blough was the biggest reason Purdue kept the game close.

Blough threw for 391 yards, four touchdown passes and one interception.

Blough’s four touchdown passes all came in the first half.

Wide receiver Deangelo Yancey had two catches in the first half — one for 38 yards and the other for 60 yards. Wide receiver Cameron Posey also had a reception for 89 yards, which is the longest touchdown Minnesota has given up all season.

Cornerback Jalen Myrick was covering Yancey on his 60-yar d touchdown reception.

“From my end personally, I just wanted to make plays,” Myrick said. “That’s what you got to do out there

when you’re on an island going against a good receiver, but I just didn’t make the plays out there until the second half.”

Leidner had his first 200-yard passing game since the fourth game of the season. He threw for 231 yards and added 74 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.

His only interception of the game came at a bad time.

The r edshir t senior dropped back to pass with 15 seconds to go in the first half. Leidner threw to a receiver that wasn’t looking, and the pass was intercepted and returned it to Minnesota’s 2-yard line.

“Obviously, [the play] didn’t get communicated cor rectly the way that I wanted it,” Claeys said.

“That’s my fault, completely.

That’s what I wanted to get done, and it just didn’t get communicated that way.”

Purdue scored a touchdown on the next play to go ahead 28-23.

The Gophers jogged off the field at the end of the first half to boos from the crowd.

Blough’s only interception was on the Boilermakers’ opening drive of the third quarter. Defensive back Duke McGhee made the pick after grabbing the ball out of the receiver’s hands.

“Momentum’s huge in every game,” said linebacker Blake Cashman. “For [McGhee] to get that interception there right in that first series for [us], it was huge for us to get momentum back.”

Purdue’s offense stalled in the second half. The Boilermakers scored three points in the final two quarters. They also turned the ball over three times in the second half.

Running back Jack

MEAGAN LYNCH, DAILY

Gophers running back Rodney Smith runs the ball while Purdue safety C.J. Parker attempts a tackle at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Wegher fumbled the ball on a key fourth-down play for Purdue. Cornerback Antoine Winfield Jr. recovered it with 2:34 left in the fourth quarter.

Smith put the game out of reach after the turnover, r unning in for a 14-yard touchdown to make it a 4431 game in the final minutes.

“I didn’t have to do much.

It was blocked well [and a] great play call,” Smith said. “[I] jetted away, jetted to the field and had a short edge.

All I had to do was beat the linebacker.”

The Gophers got help from the special teams unit to earn the comeback win.

Redshirt sophomore Emmit Carpenter hit three field goals on the day, including two from over 50 yards.

FOOTBALL

“Offensively, we continued to score points off turnovers and Emmit Carpenter … kicked the ball awful well,” Claeys said. “We were able to win and that’s the bottom line.”

Minnesota earns its fourth consecutive Big Ten victory with the win over Purdue.

The Gophers end the season with games against play No. 9 Nebraska, Northwestern, and No. 8 Wisconsin. Minnesota is tied for second in the Big Ten West.

“We knew it all along we were going to have tough opponents at end of the season,” Leidner said.

“We just got to keep continuing to prepare hard and really enjoy the process of what we’re about to go through.”

SCORING SUMMARY SCORE BY QUARTER Purdue Minnesota

1 14 10

2 14 13

3 0 7

4 3 14

TOTAL 31 44

1ST QUARTER

AWAY HOME

MINN MINN PUR

FG TD TD

12:50 10:51 8:55

PUR

TD

02:10

Carpenter,Emmit 52 yd field goal 0 Smith, Rodney 35 yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) 0 Herdman, Cole 20 yd pass from Blough, David 7 (Dellinger, J.D. kick) Posey, Cameron 89 yd pass from Blough, David 14 (Dellinger, J.D. kick)

MINN MINN PUR

FG TD TD

10:36 04:27 02:55

MINN PUR

FG TD

01:27 00:00

Carpenter,Emmit 53 yd field goal Leidner, Mitch 2 yd run (Carpenter,Emmit kick) Yancey, De 60 yd pass from Blough, David (Dellinger, J.D. kick) Carpenter,Emmit 28 yd field goal Hopkins, Brycen 2 yd pass from Blough, David (Dellinger, J.D. kick)

11:16

TD FG TD

13 20 20

21 28

23 23

Smith, Rodney 7 yd run (Carpenter,Emmit kick) 28

4TH QUARTER MINN PUR MINN

14 14 21

AWAY HOME

3RD QUARTER TD

10

AWAY HOME

2ND QUARTER

MINN

3 10 10

30

AWAY HOME 11:45 05:10 01:30

Leidner, Mitch 9 yd run (Carpenter,Emmit kick) 28 Dellinger, J.D. 34 yd field goal 31 Smith, Rodney 14 yd run (Carpenter,Emmit kick) 31

37 37 44

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers tie, win in rival series Minnesota hadn’t seen regular-season action with North Dakota since 2013.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

MEAGAN LYNCH, DAILY

Gophers quarterback Mitch Leidner tackles a Purdue player to prevent a touchdown at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday.

Minnesota capitalizes on second half turnovers The Gophers outscored Purdue 21-3 in the third and fourth quarters.

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

The end of the first half did not go the way Minnesota wanted it to.

The Gophers had the ball at their own 23-yard-line with 15 seconds left in the first half and a 23-21 lead.

Instead of running out the clock, quarterback Mitch Leidner threw an interception to cornerback Antonio Blackmon, who returned it to the 2-yard-line. The Boilermakers scored a touchdown on the next play to give them the lead at halftime.

The Gophers were met with boos from the crowd as they walked into the locker room.

“It’s definitely something frustrating at first, but once I got in the locker room, I could see the guys start rallying,” Leidner said. “We knew we were going to come back.

We weren’t going to let that instance define us as a team.”

The interception was later passed off as a

miscommunication between the coaches and the offense.

“I told the offense, ‘throw it deep,’” said head coach Tracy Claeys. “Let’s see if we can get behind them for a play and see what happens, and if we don’t, we’ll run the clock out. Obviously that didn’t get communicated correctly the way that I wanted it. That’s my fault completely.”

As a result, Minnesota faced a five-point deficit at halftime, and what looked to be an easy home win now appeared in jeopardy.

But the Gophers came out firing in the second half, outscoring Purdue 21-3 and winning 44-31. “[We] just told our kids that we have to have a next-play mentality coming out of the locker room at halftime,” Claeys said. “Defensively, we only gave up three points in the second half and about 150 yards, and so they did an awful good job of shutting them down.”

Purdue quarterback David Blough was the main problem in the first half for the Gophers.

The sophomore had completed 12= his 15 attempts and had 231 passing yards with four touchdowns.

But in the second half, Blough went 17-33 with

160 passing yards, no touchdowns and one interception.

“That was a big deal for us,” said cornerback Jalen Myrick.

“We had to come back … We were backed into a corner and you know we had to fight our way out of it as a defense..”

All three of Purdue’s turnovers came in the second half.

In addition to Blough’s interception, defensive lineman Steven Richardson and linebacker Nick Rallis both forced fumbles, one by Blough and one by running back Jack Wegher.

All of Minnesota’s second half came off of those turnovers.

The second half started with a bang for Minnesota when safety Duke McGhee intercepted Blough on the third play of the quarter.

McGhee ripped the ball from the receiver’s hands and set the Gophers up at Purdue’s 42-yard-line.

“I think [McGhee’s interception] was big,” Claeys said.

“We knew they had the ball coming out for the second half, and I’ll be honest … probably the worst thing that could happen was if they would have scored that first possession of the second half, and that really would have tested us.”

A highly-anticipated and turbulent rivalry series returned to Mariucci Arena for the first time since 2013 over the weekend, and it didn’t disappoint.

No. 13 Minnesota played to a 5-5 tie and a 2-0 shutout over the weekend to send the reigning national champion, the No. 3 North Dakota Fighting Hawks back to Grand Forks without a victory.

“It was [an] important weekend,” said head coach Don Lucia. “Starting with that road trip to win and tie [in New York], and to come back and win and tie again this weekend.”

On Friday, the Gophers were able to come back from four deficits they faced to ultimately tie the game at 5-5.

The hero of game one was forward Tommy Novak.

He scored two goals Friday, which included the game-tying goal with 1:37 remaining in regulation.

“It was obviously really fun playing in this rivalry and getting to play in such a historic game,” Novak said.

Novak had the first of the four game-tying goals for the Gophers to make the score 2-2 near the end of the first period.

The emotions on the first night of the return of the storied rivalry were high and could be seen in the heavy, physical play.

Minnesota and North Dakota combined for 13 penalties in the first period — 11 of which were results of physical altercations after the whistle.

Minnesota ended up dominating in the shots department Friday with a 37-

CHRIS DANG, DAILY

Gophers forward Tommy Novak sneaks the puck around North Dakota on Friday at Mariucci Arena. The Gophers tied 5-5 against the Fighting Hawks.

22 advantage.

Goaltender Eric Schierhorn allowed two goals on the first three shots he faced, but after North Dakota went up 2-0, the Gophers held the Fighting Hawks shot-less through the remainder of the period.

Schierhorn was much more composed Saturday night in front of 10,310 fans at Mariucci Arena.

The sophomore netminder recorded his fifth-career shutout and led Minnesota to a 2-0 victory.

“The history with Eric is when he’s had an off night in game one … he usually rebounds and plays really well,” Lucia said. “That’s kind of what he has done this year, so you’ve got to get him in the groove with that consistency and he’s a good goaltender, we certainly have a lot of confidence in him.”

To make matters better for Schierhorn, Gophers skaters blocked 25 North Dakota shots on top of the other 33 that the goalie already faced and denied.

Besides the two goals, Minnesota won the game by playing sound defense.

The game-winning goal came from forward Mike Szmatula halfway into the first period.

“I got the puck in the corner,” Szmatula said. “In

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

FRIDAY North Dakota Minnesota

SATURDAY North Dakota Minnesota

1 2 2

2 0 0

3 3 3

OT FINAL 0 5 0 5

1 0 1

2 0 1

3 0 0

FINAL 0 2

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

my head I was going to take it to the net and I shot it as hard as I could. [It] probably [was] not a very good angle shot, but I think I caught him [North Dakota goaltender Cam Johnson] off guard.”

The second goal — Lettieri’s second goal of the weekend — provided insurance for Minnesota.

The tension rose in Mariucci Arena with 40 seconds remaining in regulation, as North Dakota’s top scorer and Minnesota native Brock Boeser lined up for a penalty shot. Schierhorn denied the attempt.

“I felt confident,” Schierhorn said. “It was one of those games where I was in the zone, and I just tried to be aggressive, and it worked out.”

The Gophers finished the weekend with a boost in their non-conference record and morale. “[I’m] just really happy for our guys [for] the way they played this weekend,” Lucia said.

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Monday, November 7, 2016

SOCCER

Minnesota adds title with Big Ten tournament win The Gophers won a share of the regularseason conference title on Oct. 26.

BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com

Sophomore midfielder Emily Heslin scored her first goal of the season to give Minnesota a 2-1 win over Rutgers and the Big Ten Tournament title — the team’s second trophy this year.

With the title, Minnesota receives an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament.

No. 25 Rutgers (11-4-6, 4-2-5 Big Ten) scored in the 84th minute to tie the game at 1-1.

It looked like overtime would be needed, but No. 8 Minnesota (16-3-3, 7-1-3 Big Ten) had other plans.

About one minute after Rutgers scored, junior forward Sydney Squires played across from the right side.

Rutgers’ defense got a touch on it, but the ball rolled right outside the 18-yard box to Heslin.

Heslin curled the ball to the top right corner of the net to give Minnesota the lead late in the match.

“It felt so unbelievable,” Heslin said. “It was a team effort the entire game. For me to be the one to put it in the back of the net was amazing.”

Head coach Stefanie Golan said she knew Heslin would eventually get a goal this season.

“Emily Heslin does that all the time in training,” Golan said. “We’ve been waiting for it to come out in a game and it was a perfect time for that to happen.”

Minnesota has now won the regular season Big Ten title and the Big Ten championship. Their next goal is

CHRIS DANG, DAILY

Junior forward Julianna Gernes drives the ball up the field on Friday at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium. The Gophers won 1-0 in the semifinal round of the Big Ten Tournament.

to make it far into the NCAA tournament.

“I’m so proud of this team,” said senior midfielder Josee Stiever. “We talk about it in terms of seasons.

We won the first season, we won the second season, and now we are going to celebrate this, but we’re preparing for our third season.”

The Gophers will find out their seed, opponent and game location Monday at 3:30 p.m.

Golan said she would like to be at home in the NCAA tournament if possible.

“Our players have ear ned a lot of respect throughout the course of the year,” Golan said.

“We’re hoping that we get to be home for a couple weekends as opposed to just the opening weekend.”

In the first half, freshman defender Nikki Albrecht set up the first goal for Squires.

Albrecht played a through ball over the defense on the left side of the field to Squires. Squires was one-on-one with the goalie and rolled it past the

CROSS COUNTRY

Multiple runners have strong showing in last home meet last weekend

keeper to the bottom right corner to give Minnesota the lead going into halftime.

Putting more pressure on the opposition allowed Minnesota to take over the game in the first half and get the lead.

“It took us a little bit to settle in and get our pressure as organized as we needed it to be, Golan said.

“We’re winning the ball back very high up the field and then we’re being smart with the ball.”

In the semifinal on Friday, Minnesota beat Michigan 1-0

to advance to the final.

Stiever took a shot from the right side of goal. The rebound went to junior for ward Julianna Gernes right in front of goal, who tapped in the chance to give Minnesota the lead over Michigan (10-5-4, 6-32 Big Ten) in the eighth minute.

Gernes, who scored in three consecutive matches, has six goals this season.

“Since April has been out with injur y and even as she was coming back a little bit [Julianna] has

WOMEN’S SOCCER RESULTS

FRIDAY Michigan Minnesota

SATURDAY Rutgers Minnesota

1 0 1

2 0 0

FINAL 0 1

1 0 1

2 1 1

FINAL 1 2

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

stepped up and she has been scoring goals,” Golan said. “Ever ybody steps up. One of the strengths of our team is that there is not one go-to player.”

SWIM & DIVE

Women’s and men’s teams gain landslide victories againts UND

Minnesota ran in the Fall Finale and Rocky’s Run meets over the weekend.

BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com

Both cross country teams participated in regular-season capping meets over the weekend before entering the NCAA postseason.

The Gophers men’s team ran in the Fall Finale 8K race in Collegeville, Minnesota on Friday afternoon.

Freshman Hamza Ali was the lead runner for the Gophers. He came in first with a time of 25:31.

Ali’s victor y added to a successful streak for Minnesota at the meet. His first place marks completes a consecutive decade of individual victories among Minnesota runners in the Fall Finale.

Ali was followed by freshman Owen Hoeft in second (25:49), freshman Alec Basten in third (25:55) and freshman Nick Rink in fourth (26:05).

Redshirt junior Eric Colvin (26:21), freshman Alex Plasencia (26:31), freshman Jack Manderscheid (26:32) and freshman Hunter Staack (26:37) finished in sixth through ninth, respectively.

Although eight of the top nine finishers in the race were Gophers runners, seven of them ran unattached.

The women’s team hosted the 36th annual Rocky’s Run at Les Bolstad Course on Sunday morning.

Graduate student Carlin Schulz led the pack with a seventh-place time of 23:12.5, and was the first of 46 female participants to cross the finish line.

Schulz was followed by redshir t junior Tess Wasowicz in eighth (23:33.7), redshir t junior Danielle Anderson in ninth (23:37.5) and freshman Abby KohutJackson (23:43.8) in tenth.

MADDY FOX, DAILY

Sophomore Brian Poon swims in the men’s 200 Freestyle at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatics Center on Friday.

The men’s team won 15 of 16 events, while the women swept all 16 of them on Friday.

BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Graduate student Carli Schulz runs at Rocky’s Run, the final home meet of the season, on Sunday at Les Bolstad golf course. Schulz finished first on the women’s team. The Gophers will compete at the NCAA Midwest Regional in Iowa on Friday.

Rocky’s Run honors former Gopher runner Rochelle “Rocky” Racette who died in a car accident in 1981.

The 6K race is open to the public and all registration proceeds go toward a scholarship fund.

The women placed high to begin with but did even better across their group.

Since the race is open, male competitors led the way in the overall standings, but Gophers runners took five of the top six spots of all 24 female finishers.

Both teams will travel to Iowa City, Iowa next weekend to compete in the NCAA Midwest Regional meet.

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

FALL FINALE GOPHER INDIVIDUAL RUNS 1 Hamza Ali 2 Owen Hoeft 3 Alec Basten 4 Nick Rink

25:41 25:49 25:55 26:05

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

ROCKEY’S RUN GOPHER INDIVIDUAL RUNS 1 Carli Schulz 2 Tess Wasowisz 3 Danielle Anderson 5 Haley Rasmussen 6 Megan Flanagan

23:12.5 23:33.7 23:37.5 23:46.3 25:55.1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

The Minnesota swim and dive teams hosted Nor th Dakota Friday evening and did not hold back, winning all but the men’s 50-yard freestyle where UND took first and second places.

The meet kicked off with an exciting win for the women’s 200 medley relay team of Zoe Avestruz, Lindsey Horejsi, Danielle Nack and Allison Schumacher. The victory was followed by a second Gophers relay win for the men.

“Nor th Dakota … is a team we know well and we look for ward to this meet ever y year,” said head coach Kelly Kremer.

“They’re well-coached and their details are really good, so it was fun to watch the two teams compete.”

The men’s team beat North Dakota 199-96 with fantastic per formances in breaststroke and butterfly.

Sophomore Brian Poon was an impor tant asset to the team. He won his first 200 breaststroke of the year and posted a new

season best time of 2:02.81.

He also managed to take the 200 freestyle by a mere .31 seconds.

“I’m really happy with [my per formance],” Poon said. “My breast[stroke] was faster than what I went at [the] Big Ten’s.”

Senior Matt Bar nard and sophomore Alan LeBlang were first and second, respectively, on the boards in both the 1-meter and 3-meter events.

The women’s team led Nor th Dakota 203-90 and had strong showings in diving and freestyle.

Sophomore Avestr uz stole two wins Friday evening in the 100 backstroke (56.49) and the 100 freestyle (51.30) where she was followed by freshman teammate Horejsi (52.15).

“We had a number of areas where some student athletes who don’t always have an oppor tunity to shine really had an opportunity to shine today, so it was a great meet for us,” Kremer said.”

Freshman Sarah Bacon and senior Lexi Tenenbaum were competitive in both diving events.

SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS

MEN’S UND Minnesota

96 199

WOMEN’S UND Minnesota

90 203

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Bacon took first in the 1 meter (317.1), followed by Tenenbaum (312.08). Tenenbaum won the 3 meter (355.2) in front of Bacon (349.95).

“Since we’ve started, everyone is just following the process of just trying to get better meet to meet and really day to day, and it’s coming through,” Kremer said. “When your newcomers star t per forming this way, it’s a real confidence boost.”

The Gophers will host the Minnesota Invitational next weekend at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.

“We’ll talk about the things that we really have to improve on as we get ready for some championship-type meets,” Kremer said. “We’ll evaluate the meet and then just pick out the details that we can really improve on.”

Editorials & Opinions

Monday, November 7, 2016

COLUMN

U.S. prisons are in need of an overhaul A prisoner’s sentence does not automatically strip that person of basic human rights.

I

came across a recent article on CNN that shed light on issues prisoners face while incarcerated. Many of us already know that people serving time work as part of their rehabilitation efforts. What I was shocked to find, however, is that hardly any of these prisoners are fairly compensated for their time.

With the help of inmate advocacy groups, prisoners around the U.S. have been organizing strikes in opposition to their mistreatment. Through contraband cell phones and snail mail, strikes have spread from prison to prison, crossing state lines in many cases. Mainly through self-education, inmates have realized that the treatment they face is unacceptable, and they are now beginning to take a stand against the violation of their rights. Others have orchestrated hunger strikes, refusing to eat until prison officials can provide them with better food and health care.

KAYLEE ANDERSON columnist

This is an uprising unlike any we’ve seen in the prison system in a long time.

Even with inmate advocacy groups pushing for change, officials have refused to acknowledge the situation. Prison administrators insist that labor strikes never happened in their facilities and that the work their inmates are doing will prepare them for the real world — they don’t need to be paid to gain experience. Others insist that organized hunger strikes weren’t true hunger strikes because prisoners still ate food from outside sources. This outright denial is absurd, and it obscures the hard truth from the general public.

The retaliation from guards and administrators with regard to the strikes isn’t encouraging either. The majority react violently, taking fr ustrations out on

inmates in the form of beatings and forced solitar y confinement. More often than not, prisoners report that officials will acquiesce to their demands, promising to implement changes, but then go back on their word as soon as the inmates return to work.

We need to find a way to reform our prison system so that prisoners are given the rights they deser ve, and if they feel they are being mistreated, they should have the right to make their dissatisfaction known without fear of retaliation from guards and administrators.

People who are ser ving time for their crimes may not have all of their rights, but that doesn’t mean they should be forced to work without pay or be fed substandard food. Their sentence does not automatically strip them of basic human rights, and the prison system needs to find a better way for inmates and super visors to communicate.

Kaylee Anderson welcomes comments at kanderson@mndaily.com.

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Why do students go to college? To expand perspective, seek new experiences or pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge?

For many students, economic security is the primar y motivator in seeking higher education, including oppor tunity for future employment and increased pay.

The widely established fact by economists and other scholars is that on average, a college degree leads to higher lifetime earnings. However, this truism is not accurate for all degrees or programs. With such great variance in areas of study, major programs and academic institutions, there is also variance in students’ prospective job attainment or income earning.

How do students find out which degree will prepare them for the workforce or give them the best chance at a bigger paycheck? They don’t. This isn’t because students don’t want to. Unfortunately, there is no accurate or complete data on economic

EDITORIALS Campus is not safe for all

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his past week, two abhor rent incidents targeted the University of Minnesota’s Muslim community.

On Thursday, the spray-painted word “ISIS” was discovered on the Muslim Students Association’s Washington Avenue Bridge panel. A day earlier, the Horowitz Freedom Center distributed posters on campus alleging that a University group Students for Justice in Palestine is a front for Hamas.

These two events are distressing examples of the pernicious Islamophobia that exists within our campus community. We find great sorrow in these explicit messages of hate.

On Thursday, President Eric Kaler and Vice Provost for Student Af fairs Danita Brown-Young sent statements to the University community calling the events “hateful.”

“When our students are targeted and made to feel fearful, we as a community suffer,” Kaler said in the statement. “Repugnant actions like these must strengthen our resolve to ensure our campus is safe, welcoming, and respectful for all. We all must speak out against hate when we see it.”

It is time that we as a campus, individually and collectively, afford time for introspection. We must condemn hate speech and we must offer support to our peers who have been shaken or feel unsafe on campus.

L.C. Graber welcomes comments lgraber@mndaily.com.

COLUMN

Take a breath after the election This election has left many across the political spectrum feeling apathetic at best.

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f there’s one thing that ever ybody can agree on, it’s that this election season couldn’t end sooner.

Well, I’m happy to report that when you wake up on Wednesday, it’ll all be over. We did it. We made it through. But that isn’t to say we always showed the best side of ourselves during our journey here.

This election has left many people across the political spectrum feeling apathetic at best, hopeless at worst. In fact, our countr y’s collective despair has been the one thing holding us together, and yet, not a single one of us could muster an ounce of compassion for someone who begrudgingly supported a different candidate than the one we threw our reluctant support at.

I know what you’re thinking: “I don’t agree with ever ything [Candidate X] has done or said, but they’re a hell of a lot better than [Candidate Y] if I overlook everything I’d find irrevocably damning in

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any other circumstance. Oh, and anybody who thinks differently is a blistering idiot.”

Now let’s assume that you possess infinite knowledge and wisdom, and you know which U.S. presidential candidate, if elected, will bring peace to the entire universe.

Would you (a) call out those idiots for being the idiots they are or (b) politely make the better argument for your candidate, recognizing the former choice is only counterintuitive to the goal of universal harmony?

Of course, things will never be that simple, and not a single one of us knows what the future may bring. But that doesn’t mean we can’t strive to make this journey a little more pleasant for everybody.

Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Students should have the right to make informed decisions about college

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outcomes of dif ferent degrees. No one is able to gather the information necessar y to compare degree programs on an economic basis — the same concept that motivates students to attend college in the first place.

This mainly results from the federal student unit record ban, which prevents anyone from gathering key information.

It essentially forces students to make a blind gamble on which program will pay off.

Fur thermore, this risky endeavor comes at a time when higher education has never been more expensive. Tuition and fees have increased 28 percent since the Great Recession in 2008, and the average graduate leaves school with more than $30,000 of debt.

Students are investing so much into education, but many are not getting the education and experience needed to acquire better employment and pay. Only 60 percent of students feel prepared to apply their knowledge and skills in the real world. More damning is that only 23 percent of employers feel students are prepared. These outcomes — in spite of

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the direct expectation of college supposedly bettering one’s situation in life — are simply unacceptable.

Higher education is one of the only decisions where consumers expect so much financial commitment with so little information regarding outcome and future performance. That needs to change. If the student unit record ban is repealed, a system can be crafted that would anonymously track individual students’ economic outcomes on a national level. Prospective students could compare degree programs with workforce per formance, and policymakers and university administrators could effectively evaluate policies and programs to improve them throughout the United States.

Such a system is needed now more than ever. The financial risk associated with higher education has never been greater, and all students deserve the right to make accurate, informed decisions about their educations and futures.

Brown-Young echoed those statements, calling the Horowitz Center’s campaign “repulsive.”

“We must continue to find ways to discuss these issues, to find ways to come together to fight racism, hate and bias on our campus and in our communities,” she said in the statement.

We find reassurance and solace in our administrators’ response to these hateful actions. Their vocal stand against these actions sends a cr ucial message to our community.

We hope our campus can slowly find common ground and establish unity in the face of this most recent, hateful adversity.

Muslim students, students of color and LGBTQ students continue to face hate speech and hurdles on campus because of their identity and culture. We must recognize that this is unacceptable, and we must work to build a more unified campus — not only for ourselves but for posterity.

It is time that web as a campus, individually and collectively, af ford time for introspection. We must condemn hate speech and we must of fer suppor t to our peers who have been shaken or feel unsafe on campus. We must realize that bigotr y has no room on our campus — but that does not change the fact that it dwells among us ever y day.

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Monday, November 7, 2016

Politicians encourage students to vote National and state candidates talked with students outside Coffman Friday.

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

Four Minnesota politicians visited the University of Minnesota Friday to encourage students to vote in the Nov. 8 election.

Sen. Al Franken, Rep. Keith Ellison, , state Sen. Kari Dziedzic, DFL-Minneapolis and state representative hopeful Ilhan Omar, gathered together outside Cof fman Memorial Union to speak with students about this year’s election and issues important to students.

Dziedzic, Ellison and Omar are vying for votes as the three compete in the 2016 elections. Ellison is running for a sixth term in the U.S. House, representing Minnesota’s Fifth Congressional District. Dziedzic is competing in the state Senate race for District 60, and Omar hopes to claim victor y in District 60B’s state House race.

Franken, whose term expires in 2021, encouraged those in attendance to vote Democrat in national and local races.

“It was a really great event,” Franken said. “I hope it inspires some people to … vote.”

Franken said he sometimes worries about students

voting but that he was confident in the crowd he saw on campus today.

“It’s important to do these things,” he said.

Ellison, a 1990 graduate of the University’s law school, encouraged students to recognize the importance of their votes.

“Young people have a lot riding on this election,” Ellison said. “This election really has a big impact on anybody between 25 on down. The real question is, ‘can we mobilize that student vote?’”

Dziedzic, who is running against Legal Marijuana Now candidate Marty Super, said students should communicate with legislators about the relevance of the University to the state as a whole.

“I think U students need to get out and vote,” Dziedzic said. “You need to go … and tell legislators that the U is important to your education.”

Omar is running against Abdimalik Askar, a Republican television producer who suspended his campaign in August. She said she wants to emphasize college af fordability, the state’s opportunity gap and criminal justice reform.

“I’m excited to encourage students to not only cast their ballot but to get involved in the next four

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Ilhan Omar, candidate for Minnesota House District 60B, speaks to students on Friday outside of Coffman Union.

days,” Omar said. “We want to have a record turnout with young people this year to send a clear message that our voices count and our voices matter.”

Omar said she hopes this election will return majority control of the state House to the DFL. “We’ve been really working hard in making sure ever ybody in all of those

communities understand that this is a process for them,” she said. “If they want to see change in their districts, they must come out.”

Political science sophomore Apoor va Malar vannan said foreign policy, sustainability discussions and the handling of sexual assaults on campus are important issues for her in this election. She encouraged

students and other voters to be engaged in this election.

“We have probably one of the most superficial election cycles in recent history,” she said. “We are students at a very large public university.

We are getting an education, and that means we have the privilege and opportunity to use that education to construct that dialogue.”

Braxton Haake, president

of College Democrats, said Hillary Clinton’s campaign coordinated with the group to get student volunteers organized. He said he hopes the event will inspire students who might not vote otherwise. “ K i d s a r e ex ci ted , ” he said. “We’re hoping to reach some students who maybe are still unsure about voting.”

Person of interest ID’d in ‘ISIS’ bridge vandalism Panel u from Page 1

3:45 a.m. that night. UMPD released two images of a person of interest in the case on its Facebook page on Friday morning.

In a statement Thursd a y, t h e M u s l i m S t u dents Association blamed the spray-painting for “twist[ing] the image and mission of MSA.” “The vandalism that occurred and flyers posted fallaciously associated Muslims on campus with terrorism, something that should never be tolerated at an academic institution,” the statement read.

The Muslim Students Association, Al-Madinah Cultural Center and CAIR held an impromptu meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss the incident.

Muslim Students Association President Sidhra Musani said Muslim University students are distressed by the vandalism. “[I was] shocked, hur t … a lot of distress for ever yone, all the Muslims who saw it,” she said. “A lot of suppor t came through, which we appreciate.”

The group has since painted over the panel and will re-paint their design next week with the support of other cultural and religious organizations, Musani said.

Hussein said he’s concer ned for the safety of University Muslim students, calling the vandalism a well-known tactic for Islamophobes.

“By labeling the Muslim Students Association as ISIS is exactly what Islamophobes intend to do nationally and even locally,”

Hussein said.

Posters labeling SJP as “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish” have been distributed across 18 campuses nationwide by the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative, pro-Israel student advocacy group, founder David Horowitz said.

Horowitz said he does not know who was behind the vandalism. The center is asking the University to defund SJP. “You have a hate group, Students for Justice in Palestine, which conducts propaganda for a terrorist organization, Hamas, [and] receives money from Hamas,” Horowitz said.

The Muslim Students Association reported the vandalism to school officials. University President Eric Kaler and Vice Provost for Student Affairs and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young sent a

campus-wide email and issued statement Thursday, calling both incidents “abhorrent” and “hateful.”

In the statement, Kaler said the Of fice of Student Affairs and the University’s police met with students impacted by both incidents and will meet with the University’s student government to determine next steps.

“When our students are targeted and made to feel fear ful, we as a community suffer,” he said in the email. “Repugnant actions like these must strengthen our resolve to ensure our campus is safe, welcoming, and respectful for all. We all must speak out against hate when we see it.”

B r o w n - Yo u n g c o n demned the Horowitz Center’s campaign.

“This repulsive action weighs heavily on us,” she said in the statement. “We must continue to find ways to discuss these issues, to find ways to come together to fight racism, hate and bias on our campus and in our communities.”

Both Kaler and Brown Young told students to use the University’s mental health resources for help.

But school of ficials could be doing more than distributing resources, said Multifaith Student Council

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The Muslim Students Association panel on the Washington Avenue bridge was defaced with the phrase “ISIS.” The vandalism was discovered on Thursday.

President Hannah Bender.

“I’m hoping that this can be a unifying moment for everyone to come together and say that this is our campus and this kind of language is not welcome here,” she said.

The Muslim Students Association asked the University in its statement to take “tangible steps in being proactive about preventing such actions.”

Student Body President Abeer Syedah offered her suppor t in a tweet to her followers.

“Af firming my love in these increasingly hostile times to our entire student body, including those

af fected by recent acts.

Actions to come,” she said in the tweet.

The Muslim Students Association held its general meeting as planned Wednesday, where leaders said they plan to bring a list of recommendations to the University.

The vandalism comes after another Washington Avenue Bridge panel — a pro-Donald Trump mural with the words “Build the Wall” painted by the University’s College Republicans group — was defaced in October.

Nick Wicker contributed to this report.

MSA hopes to expand after-hour, weekend building clearance Access u from Page 1

out what buildings would be most beneficial to have extended hours,” she said, adding that the group is considering giving specific colleges more clearance.

But in 2014, the University completed a project to standardize and update building access policies, said University Ser vices Chief Financial Officer Brian Swanson.

Swanson said he’s not sure why an expansion of the current system would be necessary.

“What I don’t understand is … if the students can walk up to a building and tag [their U Card] and get in, what part of this isn’t giving them the access they need?”

Swanson said.

Prior to 2014, many buildings still required physical keys for after-hours access, he said.

The University added card readers to buildings, created general guidelines for public hours and estab-

lished a three-tier system for clearance that year, which was designed to benefit students and to keep campus secure, he said.

In the evenings, most buildings are accessible to those with active U Cards, but each building is eventually locked down for the night and no one can gain entrance until the morning, he said.

“If you’re there late at night, and you have a legitimate reason to be there, we think you also would want to know that the other people there … have a legitimate reason to be there for your safety,” he said.

Additionally, depar tments have the discretion to give students increased clearance, he said. For example, the College of Design may give its students U Card access each semester so they can work on projects during the evenings and weekends, he said.

Administration is open to discussing an expansion, Swanson said, but the project couldn’t be all-inclusive.

“It’s unlikely that any of the 60,000 people with active U Cards are going to be able to go into any building at any time of the day or night,” he said.

Despite the existing system, some students say they want more access to buildings outside normal hours.

Chemistr y junior Jack Gunderson likes to study in Northrop Auditorium during the week, but often resorts to studying in cafes on the weekends, where it can be hard to concentrate, he said.

He said if he could get access to other buildings on the weekends, he would do more of his work there.

Biology junior Katie Delany said she would likely use University buildings to study on Sundays.

There’s a study room in her apartment building, but it’s often crowded, she said.

Additionally, the libraries can be cramped and sometimes noisy.

“What’s nice about [University buildings] is you have classrooms, so I can be the only one there, and it’s easier to focus,” she said.

Monday, November 7, 2016

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HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (11/7): Reflect, review and recharge this year. Acknowledge ground taken toward fulfilling dreams and visions, and plan for what’s missing. Professional obstacles next spring lead to re-energized passion and romance.

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

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Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Watch your feet. Missteps could be costly. Avoid something that doesn’t smell right. Suspicions get confirmed. Choose what’s best for family.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Slow down and enjoy the view. Avoid mistakes by clarifying instructions. Take a break, and go play. Celebrate and have fun with people you love.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Your work is under scrutiny. Work with someone who sees your blind spot. Follow rules carefully. Research the fine print. You can gain the upper hand.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Pay attention to household matters. Clean, organize and beautify your space. Rediscover something of value you hid in a “safe place.”

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Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Take charge of a project. Communication unlocks doors that seemed permanently stuck.

Talk with your team.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — Changes necessitate budget revisions. In a conflict between love and money, collaborate with a partner to find solutions.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Get cooking, and customers flock to your kitchen.

Your past work speaks well for you. Use the grapevine to find connections.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Listen to your partner’s suggestions. They see something that you don’t. Get persuaded to a new view, and share what you’re learning.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Prepare to launch a personal project. Friends help you see farther. Share and invite them into your game.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Nurture your health with good food, exercise and rest.

There’s plenty of work, and it will go easier after recharging batteries. Trust your own good sense.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — You’ve been under pressure with deadlines. Don’t take on any new challenges yet. Decrease stress with rest, loving pets, peace and exercise.

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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,

On Saturday, my group of friends and I went out to Blarney.

We were all having a good time, having a few drinks and getting our dance on.

At one point, one of the guys in the group, let’s call him Chris, started dancing with a girl at the bar. It didn’t take too long for them to slip out of the bar and head home together.

One of the girls in our group, Katie, ended up getting really drunk — existential crisis drunk.

We got her home and were force feeding her water when all of her innermost secrets started spilling out.

Remember the Chris I mentioned e a r l i e r ? Ye a h , I g u e s s s h e h a s a huuuuge crush on him and was pretty upset about him going home with that rando.

After much consoling, we got her to bed, but she still doesn’t know what to do about the boy situation.

I don’t think that girl Chris went home with will be anything more than a one night stand, but she doesn’t know if she should pursue him anymore.

—Sitcom Situation Dear Sitcom,

It doesn’t sound like Katie has ever talked to Chris about her feelings before, especially if none of you knew about her infatuation.

If she is still interested in dating him, she should go after him.

He isn’t a mind reader, well I doubt it anyways, and probably didn’t know how she felt about him, so it isn’t fair for her to be upset at him.

Nevertheless, if it bothers her too much, then she may have to give up on him. The one-night stand isn’t going away and that might be a deal breaker for her.

She needs to sit down and examine her feelings for him and decide what is best for her.

—Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

I’ve been writing to you for months. I know that you are like, probably the most popular, most impressive and smartest advice columnist in the biz, but I’m running out of time for my question to be answered.

My boyfriend is planning to vote for Donald Trump.

Af ter all of the misogynist, racist and plain stupid stuff that Trump has said, I can’t believe my par tner of seven years would ever vote for him.

I’ve tried to talk him out of it, but I don’t think it’s going to work.

It hurts me to know that he would s u p p o r t s u c h a c a n d i d a te , a n d I feel like it is taking a toll on our relationship.

I feel like I might need to break up with him if he follows through and votes for him.

Am I being unreasonable?

—Presidential Problems

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

Dear Problems,

Studies have shown that 95 percent of all breakups occur during a presidential election year and the other 5 percent happen because Dave is a stupid, lying jerk. (Sorr y about that. Still working through some things myself.)

Voting for Trump may be a deal breaker for you, but I would urge you to do your best to make the relationship work.

Many couples stay together for years, even though they have polar opposite political viewpoints.

The world is a better place when we give people with opposing viewpoints an honest chance to tell their side.

We don’t have to agree with them. There is nothing wrong with that.

Maybe you will do this with your boyfriend, and it still won’t work out. That’s okay.

Give him a chance, though.

—Dr. Date

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Bone markings may show prehistoric behavior Bones u from Page 1

whether the breaks came from hyena bites or stone tools, said Martha Tappen, associate anthropology professor and instructor of the course.

“We’re tr ying to determine, without a doubt, who accumulated the bones,” she said.

During an annual paleolithic picnic in mid-October, students in the course made stone tools called flakes and used them to butcher a dead animal — typically deer or elk from local farms.

“It’s really a group activity … we tend to think of butchering as, you have a butcher and he does it somehow all on his own,” said anthropology student Jesse Ehrenreich.

Amber Jaeger, an anthropology junior, said she knew little about animal bones before taking the course.

“The next time I’m in the field I can have a better sense of bones,” Jaeger said. “And I think for someone who is not even an anthropologist, we’re learning about how animals work.”

Students also reconstructed other types of prehistoric human behavior at the picnic, like spear throwing and archery.

Meanwhile, two hyenas at the Milwaukee County Zoo chomp on bones like their ancestors did.

It only takes the hyenas 10 to 15 minutes to tear elk thigh bones apart, said Tim Wild, curator of large mammals at the zoo.

Unlike other mammals, hyenas are able to tear the bones apar t and digest

some of them, Wild said.

Hyenas are known as scavengers but “are also serious hunters in their own right,” Wild said. Hyenas typically hunt antelope and war thogs, but they occasionally target larger game, like zebras.

“When the hyenas get done with the bones, there are usually just small shards, five to six inches at the most,” he said.

“There’s not a whole lot left.”

Workers at the zoo salvage the fragments and save them for Woodley to pick up and process.

Students simmer the bones in a crockpot and use wooden tools to scrape of f remaining meat, Ehrenreich said. Adding this step can take more than 10 hours.

Woodley will use white light scanners to make 3-D images of the bones

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Ph.D. student Katrina Yezzi-Woodley pulls out a drawer of bones in Blegen Hall on Thursday.

at a newly opened laborator y in Heller Hall by January.

These machines cast light in multiple directions

onto the bone and let the user zoom in closely to examine small markings, Woodley said.

Her analysis would help

researchers like Tappen identify who the huntergatherers were and who scavenged bones found at archaeological sites.

University pushes for change in public records law Faculty want to limit public access to their unfinished research and data.

BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota push making its way towards the Minnesota State Legislature would modify the state’s public information transparency law.

The University of Minnesota’s Academic Freedom and Tenure committee is one step closer to school approval of its Draft Shield Amendment — an amendment to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act to protect University researchers

from having to hand over unpublished work that’s now considered public information.

This year, the committee made it a priority — for the first time — to push the proposal through the University Senate and all the way to the state Legislature next spring, said Teresa Kimberley, physical therapy associate professor and co-chair of AF&T. The amendment was approved by the committee in 2014.

The state’s open record law is meant to ensure the transparency of public institutions by allowing citizens to request information from these entities, including the University.

Kimberley and Karen

Miksch, AF&T’s former co-chair and an associate professor of organizational leadership, policy and development, presented the proposal to the University Senate Thursday, where faculty members asked questions about the proposal and briefly discussed what impacts the changes would have at the University and in the public.

The committee wants the University Senate to support its proposal and protect original research at public institutions like the University.

Now that the Faculty Senate has heard the proposal, the AF&T will work with the Office of the General Counsel to refine the language, Kimberley said. The

Senate will vote on the proposal in March.

If passed, University President Eric Kaler and University Relations will present the proposal during the legislative session, which convenes in January.

All research products and their drafts from public institutions are subject to the Minnesota DPA, said Don Gemberling, spokesman for the Minnesota Coalition on Government Information.

“I know in the past, there’s been some interest on some of the research done in the University,” he said.

It will be dif ficult to get the idea through the state Legislature because

language of such an amendment needs to be precise, he said.

“When it was clear the University was subject to the Data Practices Act, I figured this issue would come up,” he said.

The amendment r eceived strong support from University research committees, the University Senate and the Faculty Consultative Committee, Miksch said.

“This star ted when … there were different instances of people making records requests in other universities throughout the country in ways that many deemed inappropriate,” Kimberley said.

She said they’ve found that data requests can

sometimes be used to stall unfinished research.

“If people make a request prior to something being completed, you could, theoretically, have to turn over an [incomplete] dataset,” she said.

Other data include emails, research notes or protocols the researcher is developing, she said.

Another problem with public data requests occurs when a researcher has a par tnership with a private university or company that is not subject to public record laws. The researcher still must turn over any correspondences with that company, including details of a project that is incomplete, Kimberley said.