October 24, 2016

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STUDENT GROUP BRIDGES LGBT STUDENTS AND BUSINESS PG 5

■■ University broadens clean energy initiatives

“COMPASS” HAD ITS FIRST-EVER EVENT THURSDAY

■■ In wake of U halt, schools push for unions

A new solar subscription could save the school $800K. PG 4

About 80 percent of MCAD faculty voted for a union. PG 10

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6 restraining orders brought against Gophers football players Five of the players were barred from playing in the Homecoming game against Rutgers Saturday.

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

Kesha performs on Friday during the Homecoming concert at TCF Bank Stadium.

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A “Tik Tok” sing-a-long

Restraining orders filed against six Minnesota football players last week prevented them from playing at TCF Bank Stadium Saturday, according to Hennepin County Court records and media reports.

Five of the players — KiAnte Hardin, Ray Buford, Dior Johnson, Tamarion Johnson and Carlton Djam — were not allowed at Saturday’s football game against Rutgers, said Lee Hutton, the players’ attorney. The restraining orders were filed in Hennepin County Court.

A sixth player — Kiondre Thomas — was ser ved a restraining order Saturday u See ORDER Page 4

Kesha and Jidenna took to the stage Friday at TCF Bank Stadium as part of the University of Minnesota 2016 Homecoming festivities.

COPS/COURTS

No discipline for cops who killed Clark The officers involved in the Nov. 2015 shooting death of Jamar Clark will not face penalties.

BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com

Jidenna performs on Friday during the Homecoming concert at TCF Bank Stadium.

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The two police officers involved in the shooting death of Jamar Clark in November 2015 followed procedure and won’t be disciplined, the Minneapolis Police Department announced Friday.

MPD Chief Janee Harteau said the decision came after an exhaustive internal investigation surrounding the officers — Mark Ringgenberg and Dustin Schwarze — involved in the shooting death of Jamar Clark, according to a news release.

“I have concluded the use of deadly force in the line of duty was necessar y to protect an officer from apparent death or great bodily harm,” she said in the release. “We have concluded there were no u See DECISION Page 4

ADMINISTRATION

FOOTBALL

Gophers defeat Rutgers in Homecoming game President Kaler Despite poor defensive play, the Gophers secured a tight, 34-32 victory against Rutgers, Friday.

BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

The University president also discussed the school’s initiatives for low-income students.

What should’ve been an easy game for the Gophers against Rutgers Saturday came down to Emmit Carpenter in the last minute of the game.

The redshirt sophomore scored a lastminute 28-yard field goal, and Minnesota’s defense hung on for six seconds afterwards to win the Gophers’ homecoming game by a tight score of 34-32.

“Those kids battled back and made the plays we needed to make, and [Carpenter] missed the first field goal, but definitely made up for it on that last one,” said head coach Tracy Claeys. “So we’re thrilled to win, obviously, for homecoming weekend, and we’ll enjoy this one until midnight, and we’ll get started tomorrow.”

Senior Drew Wolitarsky gave Rutgers a chance and the Gophers a scare when he muffed a punt late in the fourth quarter. The ball was recovered by Rutgers senior Isaiah Johnson on the Gophers’ 23-yard line.

The turnover led to a Rutgers field goal and the Scarlet Knights’ first lead in the game. u See FOOTBALL Page 6

talks free speech, unionization push

BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com

The Minnesota Daily sat down with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler Friday for the semester’s second installment of “Kickin’ it With Kaler” to talk about free speech and faculty unionization, among other topics.

After a months-long search, the University has named Brian Burnett as its new senior vice president for finance and operations. Burnett’s position is a new one, created by melding the offices of vice president of finance and vice president for University ser vices. What were the reasons for restructuring these positions? … In having those four offices — HR, IT, facilities and finance — all report to a single CHRIS DANG, DAILY

Defensive back Brady Wieland runs the ball up the field on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.

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STATE REPORT MINNESOTA IMMIGRANTS WATCH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CLOSELY ST. PAUL — Many of Minnesota’s hundreds of thousands of immigrants are closely watching this year’s presidential election as the two major-party candidates have contrasting stances on immigration.

Republican candidate Donald Trump has called for mass depor tations of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and stricter r ules for handling refugees, while Democratic Hillar y Clinton wants to overhaul immigration laws to include a path to citizenship.

Latino businessman and Trump supporter Rick Aguilar from St. Paul said he believes Trump initially spoke too harshly and broadly about immigrants, but that he agrees with his border security concern.

“You know people are saying, ‘He’s going to build a wall.’ No, no, no,” Aguilar told MPR News. “He’s going to extend and make it more ef fective. Not build a wall. The wall is already there.”

St. Paul resident Jose Gonzalez, who was born in Mexico and became a U.S. citizen 30 years ago, said he agrees with Clinton and believes citizenship must be accessible and af fordable.

“If you don’t have a criminal record, you’ve been paying taxes for the past 20 years, you’ve been doing other things in the community, I think you should be able to put in an application for citizenship, even though maybe the way you got here wasn’t following the correct process,” Gonzalez said.

U.S. Census Bureau statistics show that foreignbor n residents make up just over 7 percent of Minnesota’s population, and data from the Pew Research Center shows the state has an estimated 95,000 undocumented immigrants.

John Keller, executive director of the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, said many of the state’s business, labor and faith groups have been working to help the state’s immigrants and to improve federal immigration policy.

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INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING

Palestinians arrest 4 attendees of West Bank settler celebration

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R A M A L L A H , We s t Bank — Four Palestinians have been detained for attending a Jewish holiday celebration in a West Bank settlement, according to Palestinian officials.

A senior Palestinian security official said Sunday that “any Palestinian cooperation with settlers is viewed as violating the law, as he cooperates with the enemy.”

He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to discuss the matter.

The Palestinians, along with the international community, object to Israeli settlements in the West Bank

laborers who have no choice but to work in settlements to support their families. He said officials are interrogating the men who attended last week’s celebration to see if they violated any laws.

The four Palestinians were arrested Thursday after attending a Sukkot celebration in Efrat, a settlement outside of Jerusalem. During the holiday, it is customary for Jewish hosts to invite guests for meals inside a tent-like structure meant to symbolize the dwellings that ancient Israelites used during 40 years in the desert after being released from slavery in Egypt.

Efrat Mayor Oded Revivi, who hosted the gathering,

called on the Palestinian Authority to release his guests.

“It is absurd that having cof fee with Jews is considered a crime by the Palestinian Authority,” he said. “Initiatives that seek to foster cooperation and peace between people should be encouraged, not silenced. It’s time the Palestinian Authority asks itself whether it would prefer to fan the flames of conflict instead of working to bring people together.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later lashed out at rights groups, often vocal in their criticism of Israel, for what he said was their reluctance to condemn the imprisonment of the Palestinians.

83 soldiers missing Abortion restrictions after Boko Haram prompt Polish protests terrorist attack

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Some 83 Nigerian soldiers are missing in action since Boko Haram Islamic extremists attacked a remote militar y base in the northeast, senior army officers said Sunday.

The soldiers were unable to fight back and fled because Boko Haram had superior fire power, the of ficers told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to give information to reporters.

Morale also was low among the troops because they were being rationed to one meal a day and their allowances were being pilfered by their commanders, the officers said.

Army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman reported last week that “some” soldiers were missing and 13 wounded when the insurgents on Oct. 17 attacked their base in Gashigar village, on the border with Niger. Usman has not responded to requests for the actual number.

Dozens of fleeing troops jumped into the Niger River and 22 were pulled from the water by soldiers from that neighboring countr y, of ficers said. Many soldiers are feared to have drowned, they said.

In a separate development, hunters killed seven Boko Haram fighters who were burning buildings and huts in northeastern Makwaa village, the hunters and villagers confirmed Sunday. “We engaged them in a fierce battle for close to three hours, we overpowered them, resulting in the killing of seven,” hunter Aisha Gombi said of Saturday night’s firefight. “One was caught alive with gun wounds and others escaped into the bush.”

President Muhammadu Buhari promised to better arm Nigeria’s militar y when he was elected in March 2015, blaming corruption for the deaths of thousands including soldiers in the 7-year-old Islamic insurgency that has killed more than 20,000 people.

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and east Jerusalem — areas captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek both territories as parts of a future independent state, a position that has wide international backing.

With nearly 600,000 Israelis now living in settlements on occupied lands, the Palestinians say their goal of establishing an independent state alongside Israel is rapidly vanishing.

While Palestinians see settlements as illegal, thousands of Palestinian laborers in the economically depressed West Bank continue to work in menial jobs in the Israeli communities.

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WARSAW, Poland — Polish women put black clothes back on and returned to the streets Sunday, launching another round of protests against efforts by the nation’s conservative leaders to tighten Poland’s already restrictive abortion law.

A large group gathered outside the parliament building in Warsaw, decrying the Catholic Church’s influence on political life and chanting “We have had enough!” Similar protests took place in other cities across the country.

The street protests are expected to have their culmination on Monday, when some women are also planning a strike, boycotting jobs and classes.

Similar protests took place three weeks ago against a proposal for a total ban on abortion. Lawmakers rejected that proposal after massive crowds of women dressed in black staged streets protests under their umbrellas in the rain.

The latest round of demonstrations, held under the slogan “We are not folding up our umbrellas,” was organized in response to a new proposal that would fall short of a total ban, but outlaw abortions in cases where fetuses are unviable or badly damaged.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the head of the ruling Law and Justice party, said recently he wants a new law that would ensure that women carry their fetuses to term even in cases of Down syndrome or when there is no chance of survival. The move would allow for baptisms and burials, Kaczynski said.

His socially conservative party won parliamentary and presidential elections last year with the support of Poland’s powerful Roman Catholic church, Catholic media outlets and religious voters. Many observers see the attempts to further restrict abortion as a way for the party to re-pay its debt to its religious base.

However, the proposals have proven too restrictive for many Poles, including some who voted for the party.

Abortion was legal and easily available under communism in Poland, but after communism’s fall in 1989 the country reembraced many of its Catholic traditions. The current law, passed in 1993, bans most abortions, with exceptions only made in cases of rape, if the mother’s life or health is at risk, or if the fetus is irreparably damaged.

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Business students launch LGBT group The group put on a panel discussion with local business professionals.

BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

Nationwide, students who identify as gender and sexuality minorities have banded together to bridge the gap between them and careers in business.

Students in the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management joined the conversation this semester and created Compass — a group that helps build connections in an effort to fill what some say is a glaring hole in LGBT student-business networking.

Carlson has already-established groups for other minorities, but missing among them was an organization that brings the LGBTQIA+ community together in the business school.

“It was just a possibility we were missing out on,” marketing sophomore and co-founder Ryan Poehler said. “There’s so many different organizations on campus for LGBT students … but nothing that connects you to the business, the professional side of things.”

Companies interested in hiring LGBT workers can reach out to students through the group, which is something other organizations, such asmulticultural student groups, are already doing, he said.

Students will also get advice from the group on how to navigate business settings with a queer identity.

“Those are questions that I think no one really knew the answer to, and that’s where Compass is tr ying to fill the gaps,” Poehler said.

University senior business ethics lecturer Rand Park said Compass fits into an established network of student groups connecting businesses and alumni.

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Compass co-founder Nick Alm introduces the speaking panel on Thursday at the Carlson Atrium. Compass is the first LGTBQ+ group formed at Carlson and held a “Coming Out” event to discuss LGBT topics in the professional field.

“It’s not lIke we don’t have [LGBT] students,” Park said. “It’s a spot where the puzzle piece always should have been there.”

He said Carlson isn’t a hostile environment for LGBT students, but there was a pervasive silence that he hopes Compass will remedy.

Poehler said Compass hopes to build relationships with similar groups across the nation that are already established in schools such as Harvard University.

“It’s gonna be better for us to ser ve our stakeholders,” Park said.

“There’s self-interest as well. I see it as a ver y positive thing.”

Last week, Compass held its first-ever event, a

coming out celebration that featured local executives in the LGBT community. The panel included companies such as Target and Clockwork, a Minnesota-based design company. The panel answered questions about their experience in business and how identity played into that.

Finance junior and Compass of ficer Brooke Eshleman said the event was their first opportunity to establish relationships with local businesses and LGBT students.

“It is such a personal journey, and this is finally something where you are connecting with people who have had similar journeys,” Poelher said.

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Marcus Waterbury speaks on his experience of coming out at Compass’s event on Thursday.

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MCAD votes to unionize faculty, leaving U behind Augsburg College faculty could also vote to unionize in November.

BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

Though three Twin Cities academic institutions simultaneously started fights for faculty unionization in the spring, this week the University of Minnesota fell behind the pack.

After a push started last spring, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design voted to unionize faculty on Tuesday, according to a news release. Earlier in the week, Augsburg College faculty filed for a union election and requested a mail ballot in November.

Both schools are nearing the terminus of their unionization efforts.

About 80 percent of MCAD faculty voted to create a union and join the Ser vice Employees International Union. Before the school negotiates union contracts, the National Labor Relations Board has to verify the vote, a process that could take several weeks, said Daniel Dean, adjunct faculty in the media arts department at MCAD. The school started discussing the idea of a faculty union in the spring and began organizing soon after, Dean said.

“This is, I think, timely and inspired in part by successes around the countr y at other art schools, in particular,” he said.

At MCAD, Dean said 43 adjunct faculty members voted in favor of unionization, and 20 were in opposition. For full-time faculty, 16 voted in favor and 13 were in opposition

to the move.

The adjunct and full-time faculty split into two bargaining units with two different contracts, Dean said.

Faculty job security, governance and the ability to further plan out what classes they will teach are some of the stipulations outlined in the contracts.

“That provides more preparation time, which results in better quality classes, which results in better education for students,” Dean said.

Dean said he thinks the negotiation phase will take less than a year to complete before contracts are set and enforced.

Jessica Ennis, an adjunct physics instr uctor at Augsburg College, said Hamline University and the University of Minnesota inspired them to push for unionization.

Like MCAD, the

conversation began in the spring, Ennis said.

“Most of the increases we’ve gotten here in terms of pay and recognition over the past couple years have been due to unionization ef for ts in the area,” she said, adding several of their pay raises wouldn’t have happened without union pressure at other schools.

Ennis said that adjunct faculty members at Augsburg are some of the lowest paid in the area, and the potential union would fight to raise their compensation.

She said she doesn’t want to see colleges and universities across the c ou n tr y u si ng a d ju nc t faculty to teach a majority of their undergraduate courses.

“This is the first step … [to] pay adjuncts for what they are worth,” she said.

No discipline for officer in Jamar Clark shooting Decision u from Page 1

violations of MPD policy.”

T wo inter nal af fairs investigators examined Clark’s shooting and found that the techniques the of ficers used when they confronted and took down Clark were justified.

Har teau’s decision follows other investigations that have found no wrongdoing with the of ficers’ actions.

In March, Hennepin County Attor ney Mike Freeman declined to press charges against the two of ficers, and in June, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Ringgenberg and Schwarze would not face federal civil rights charges.

Police shot Clark last November in a confrontation. Clark’s death sparked numerous protests over the incident and generated discussion about excessive use of force by police and police treatment of minorities.

In the statement, Har teau said she will meet with community leaders to discuss her decision.

“I want to first acknowledge the devastating loss that left the Clark family without a son and brother. I did not want to talk publicly about this case until I met with the family,” she said in the statement. “It is also important for me to recognize that this incident has had a profound impact on our city’s residents, communities, civic leaders and our police officers.”

Six restraining orders brought Migrants prepare to leave French camp against Gophers football players

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mor ning and also was not allowed at TCF Bank Stadium, the Pioneer Press and Star Tribune reported.

Hutton said Friday the five players would appear in cour t T uesday morning. Thomas will be joining them in cour t, according to the Pioneer Press.

The alleged victim who filed the r estraining orders, a woman who par ticipates in game day operations at TCF Bank Stadium, is the same victim from a Sept. 2 incident involving four of the players that led to three-game suspensions.

Djam and Thomas ar e the only players ser ved that weren’t suspended by head coach Tracy Claeys.

Police investigated the incident, which didn’t lead to any arrests or charges against the four players originally suspended. Claeys reinstated the four play-

ers the day after the Hennepin County Attor ney’s Of fice declined to press charges.

“This is a malicious misuse of taxpayer funds,” Hutton said Friday.

“My clients have already been investigated and cleared.”

Claeys said Sunday the players would be active for the game at Illinois on Oct. 29.

Claeys has other wise declined to comment on the situation.

One statement posted on T witter Friday, Ray B u f o r d ’ s f a t h e r, o f the same name, said the alleged victim has changed her stor y multiple times.

“This person is being allowed to continue to change her stor y and flat out lie to continue to harass, and defame my so n and h is te ammates,” Buford’s father w r o t e . “ We n o w l o o k for ward to Tuesday’s hearing to expose ever y detail … so all can see this person for who she really is.”

Hardin has star ted all three games he

“This person is being allowed to continue to change her story and flat out lie to continue to harass, and defame my son and his teammates...

We now look foward to Tuesday’s hearing to expose every detail ... so all can see this person for who she really is..”

RAY BUFORD Father of Gophers player

has been available for t h i s y e a r. B u f o r d has played in two games.

Tamarion Johnson, Dior Johnson and Thomas haven’t played yet this season. Djam saw his only playing time with the Gophers on Sept. 10, where he had seven car ries for 33 yards.

CALAIS, France — Migrants prayed, plotted and played soccer together Sunday, a day before France starts clearing them by the thousands from a makeshift refugee camp that is doomed for destruction.

But the scene that would pass for normal on another day at the slum-like camp in the northern port town of Calais nicknamed the “jungle” was anything but routine.

On Monday, 60 buses are set to transport 3,000 migrants to reception centers scattered around France. By week’s end, the camp is to be emptied and destroyed.

“Tomorrow the jungle is finished. You know it, right?”

Enrika Kareivaite, a volunteer with aid group Care4Calais, told a group of migrants.

Police and volunteers will be on hand, she said, “and we will ask you to leave with us together, OK?” After nightfall, groups of migrants used portable toilets to set huge bonfires on a sandy no-man’s land on the camp’s edge that authorities carved out earlier this year to push camp inhabitants away from a road leading to port and ferries to England.

Scores of riot police were

keeping watch, and some occasionally charged the groups igniting the flames.

The evacuation of at least 6,486 migrants — aid groups have estimated 8,300 — has been in the works for two months and is expected to take a week. It is unfolding as a complex ballet of lines, interviews, and bus rides to the unknown.

The people at the camp, who will be allowed to pick two regions of a country they don’t know as their intended destination, were just learning the details Sunday.

“The objective has been reached. We have more than 7,000 places. We have a place for everyone,” Calais’ Social Cohesion Director Serge Szarzynski said Sunday.

But most migrants encountered were unaware of how the operation was to proceed and unsure where their next landing place would be. Aid groups and official organizations still were putting out word that the camp’s days were numbered.

Some people staying at the camp said they fear ending up in unwelcoming villages with few economic opportunities instead of cities, a real possibility.

“And there are rumors here that they are taking them to warehouses,” said

Tariq Shinnari, a 26-year old Iraqi who has applied for asylum in France.

Shinnari said camp residents who want to end up in the United Kingdom are more worried than those who hope to remain in France.

Calais lies on the French side of the English Channel, and migrants who have tried to board ferries and trucks making the crossing have repeatedly been turned back.

French authorities expect migrants and refugees bound for relocation centers in France to seek asylum in the country.

“Yes, we will live starting tomorrow something exceptional,” Fabienne Buccio, the highest state official in the Pas-de-Calais region, said.

The camp that sprang up 18 months ago in the sand dunes near the Calais port is home to a population that fled wars and other crises, from Syria and Afghanistan to Eritrea and Ethiopia.

The heart of the chaotic camp has been a church built by Ethiopians. With two crosses that dominate the landscape and a carefully decorated interior, it offered a wellspring of hope for the faithful, including those who attended a special ser vice on Sunday.

Civil rights hero from ’60s backs Trump

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HIGH POINT, N.C. — Clarence Henderson was hailed as a hero nearly 60 years ago when as a young black man he participated in a sit-in at a segregated North Carolina lunch counter.

In 2016, he is again taking a risky stand: he is supporting Donald Trump.

And he isn’t shy about it.

Last month he gave the invocation at a Trump rally here, smiling as he shook the Republican candidate’s hand.

“Donald Trump is certainly not a politician, and politicians are a dime a dozen, but leaders are priceless,” Henderson said in an interview.

Trump is deeply unpopular in the black community.

He has called on black voters to vote for him because “what the hell do you have to lose?”

His support among blacks is less than the margin of error in some polls.

Henderson, 74, has been criticized for his stance, with many taking to Twitter to accuse him of abandoning the principles he fought so hard for more than half a century ago.

Henderson shrugged off the criticism, saying he isn’t paying any attention to it.

And he has gotten some support from one of his fellow activists. Jabreel Khazan was one of the first four protesters to sit down at the Woolworth’s lunch counter.

And though he supports Hillary Clinton, he said he had no problem with Henderson’s choice.

“God bless him and all of those who have a

second opinion,” said Khazan, whose name was Ezell Blair at the time of the protest. “We should not be a one-minded people.”

Henderson attended North Carolina A&T State University, when, as an 18-year-old, he joined the original four lunch counter protesters on the second day of their protest. He could no longer live under the official segregation known as Jim Crow, he said.

“I did it because it was the right thing to do,” he said.

Angr y whites jeered at them, and he wondered if he and his fellow protesters would be brought out in handcuffs or on stretchers.

They were arrested, but their actions inspired similar protests throughout the south that led to the desegregation of lunch counters and other nonviolent protests against racist policies.

For a civil rights hero, he later ended up on a more unconventional political path that he credits to his father, a lifelong Republican.

“My dad, with a thirdgrade education, said to me, ‘Well, son, you don’t know what the Democratic party has done as far as blacks are concerned,’” Henderson said.

He discovered the Democrats had created and enforced Jim Crow and the Republican Party was behind the constitutional amendments that abolished slavery, granted equal protection to freed slaves and gave blacks the right to vote.

He cast his first vote for a Republican presidential candidate for George W. Bush.

Henderson, who ran a financial ser vices business for more than 25 years before retiring a decade ago, said he respected Bush’s business background.

He continued voting for Republicans, even when Barack Obama stood poised to become the first black president.

“I never thought I would see a black person become the president of the United States,” Henderson said. “His ideologies were dif ferent from mine. After looking at his past history, I didn’t see him as a viable candidate.”

This year, Trump was not Henderson’s first choice for the GOP nomination. He supported Sen. Ted Cruz.

But now that Trump has the nomination, Henderson said he respects his business experience, even as he acknowledges the candidate’s off-the-cuff speaking style can be a problem.

“He has proved to be a leader in the business field.

Has he done ever ything right? No, certainly not. But I think that he has more at stake than Hillary does,” he said.

In his invocation at the Trump rally last month, Henderson nodded to his past.

“I stand befor e you as one that knows what America’s all about - the good, the bad and the ugly.

I would not live in any other countr y except America that put Jim Crow on trial and found him guilty of trying to separate the races.

So I stand before you to say that we are unified,” he said.

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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN

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New sick note policy is ill Students who skip class will likely skip no matter what obstacles are in their way.

Writing conventions help us understand our own biases Depsite popular conventions, writers have permission to conjure unlikeable characters.

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CHANCE WELLNITZ columnist

Great news, scammers! The University will review its sick note policy, and if Boynton Health gets their way, students will no longer need notes for one-time illnesses, like a cold or the flu. You know what this means: Soon you’ll never need to attend a single class ever again.

That’s right. Close out of the “How to Fake Symptoms of Being Sick” article in your browser and quit practicing your cough because the nurses at Boynton will no longer need your performance. Hell, by now you’re practically the Daniel Day-Lewis of faking food poisoning, but soon you’ll be fighting real nausea after your seven consecutive beer and cotton candy-fueled outings at Halloween fairs.

Finally, you’ll get the college experience promised to you by the straight-to-DVD- college comedy movies your gross friend rented in the 8th grade.

r ecently had the opportunity to attend Nerdcon: Stories, a convention hosted by Hank and John Green of the Youtube channel The Vlogbrothers.

Over the course of two days, I attended panels, open-mics and guest showcases — all of which explored how writers convey stories to our audiences.

I learned the most during a discussion regarding the representation of women in fiction. An all-female panel discussed the importance of writing about strong female characters and the biases they had growing up because of sexist literature. I took notes while they spoke, and when it came time for questions, my hand shot up.

“When you were first starting to write, did you ever write female characters that were too strong? Like, one of the first stories I ever wrote ended up being about an abusive relationship because my lead lady was so strong that she ended up mistreating other characters. I was just wondering if any of you has ever had issues with that.” Before I could sit back down to let them discuss, poet Rachel Kann leaned into the microphone and gave me an answer I didn’t expect.

“Let the women in your stories be assholes,” she said.

I had to stop and think for a moment.

The problem I had been having with my writing wasn’t so much that my lead characters were too strong but that my characters weren’t reacting properly to their mistreatment of others. It was something I had never really thought about, especially

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with the education I had about constructing identities of powerful women in writing. I had permission to conjure unlikeable characters.

Even after the panel was over, other audience members came up to me to talk about my question, saying they had had similar problems and how they worked around them. The best part was that I felt accepted by the panelists and attendees. They understood where I was coming from and that sometimes authors feel the need to write likable female characters in order to write a successful stor y — something that is simply untrue.

Without Nerdcon I never would have made the small but important revelation regarding my own writing and how I represent women in my stories. But if Hank Green’s predictions are correct, there probably won’t be another Nerdcon: Stories. The convention simply didn’t make enough money this time around, so it’s slated for demolition. I can only hope that by some miracle they’re able to continue it for one more year to make room for further learning opportunities. After all, I’m sure I’m not the only one with a revelation in the making.

Kaylee Anderson welcomes comments at kanderson@mndaily.com.

Finally, you’ll get the college experience promised to you by the straightto-DVD college comedy movies your gross friend rented in the 8th grade. Or if you’re in greek life, more weekdays will look like typical Saturdays because that is the only conceivable outcome of the administration easing up on its sick note policy.

The one thing keeping our campus’ harmony from crumbling into academic anarchy is the shameful walk to Boynton Health Ser vice when a student is tempted to skip class. But a new sick note policy might be just a slight adjustment in the administrative balancing act which gover ns our school — one that acknowledges students who skip class likely will skip regardless of the obstacles of ficials put in their way.

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

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Is it too much to ask that we all be honest with one another? Ar ticle after ar ticle of well-educated, intelligent students and faculty expressing “concer n” over the supposed “racism” and “xenophobia” the College Republicans endorsed on their mural — why don’t we call it for what it is?

It is patently absurd to suggest that the words “Build the Wall” are racist or xenophobic in any measure. We are all good enough readers to know this.

Let’s drop the pretense.

The reason anyone wants to restrict the CRs’ speech is because they disagree, politically.

Protesters of the mural are loathe t o a d m i t i t , h o w e v e r. I n a n o f f i c i a l statement, the La Raza Student Cultural Center hid behind the ridiculous claim that “a long histor y of colonization and white supremacy” motivates statements like “Build the Wall.” Putting aside the fact that Latin American countries like Venezuela and Colombia guar d their bor ders mor e heavily than the United States, is it at all possible that what the CRs meant to say by “build the wall” was “build the wall?” There is no evidence to suggest that the CRs meant anything racist by the mural. Asser ting that the statement is inherently white supremacist is not only false and dishonest, it’s libelous.

Ever y anti-mural argument also contains some reference to the hur t feelings of students who went through t h e h a r r o w i n g o r d eal of lo oking at

In this election cycle, cast your vote for Hillary

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f ter the third and final presidential debate, Hillar y Clinton’s intellectual domination over Donald T r ump has been made pr ofoundly evident. Her knowledge and nuance in policy — both domestic and abroad — and the capacity to make pragmatic solutions to resolve conflicts prove that in any circumstance, she would be a strong, capable and wise choice for the presidency. This year, given her crassly daft opponent, she is our only option.

Fr om our perspective as cur r ent undergraduate students, her specific and achievable plan for education reform isn’t just admirable. It’s a necessar y par t of any platform we would be comfor table suppor ting. Her advocacy for empowering teacher unions, student loan reform and expanding financial support for schools shows her clear interest in closing the education gap across the countr y. The increase in funds would have an impact on education, as research shows that increasing funding allows for the expansion of student resources. It’s not surprising, then, that she was endorsed by the National Education Association, the largest teacher union in the countr y. When it comes to health care policy, Hillar y is committed to standing by the Af fordable Care Act, which was passed under President Barack Obama’s stewardship. Her plan, which has since been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, stands to ensure that nearly 20 million more Americans have access to af fordable health care. She also advocates for the creation of a public option. This is in stark contrast with Tr ump’s platform, which aims for a complete repeal of the Af fordable Care Act. He also hasn’t specified an alter native, meaning millions of people will no longer have access to healthcare.

This year, given her crassly daft apponent, she is our only option.

Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com

College is for ideas, not censorship

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the mural. Numerous columns in the Minnesota Daily lament that a few minority students felt “unsafe” on campus after such an experience. I haven’t read one that mentioned the feelings of College Republicans, who have been under fire incalculably more than anyone else. If anyone ought to feel unsafe, it is them. But again, all of this is a red her ring from campus leftists who want only to shut up opinions they disagree with.

The purpose of going to university is to hear and lear n fr om other people’s ideas, and by lear ning them to create and share our own. This is only possible when we are uninhibited from doing so. Fur thermore, it is only possible when we are willing to do so.

Chemistr y professor Lee Penn noted in the Daily that a student who spoke at the rally said she no longer feels like she belongs at the University of Minnesota. Well, I am inclined to agree. As much as I love — love dearly — my left-wing friends on campus, the tr uth has to be said: If ideas upset you, you don’t belong at a university.

If wor ds upset you, you don’t belong at a university.

Let’s hear each other without censorship, and express our opinions honestly. If we can’t do this, we have failed as an academy.

Daniel Takata Univeristy of Minnesota ‘17

Editor’s Note: this letter has been edited for style and clarity.

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Hillar y’s economic strategy and proposed tax code is substantially more progressive than Trump’s and allows funding for the many policy suggestions she of fers. This has led many independent analyses of her economic plan to conclude that in the long-term, it will yield strong economic growth and an increase of 3.2 million jobs during her first term alone.

While Hillar y Clinton and Donald T r ump have both avoided speaking about the urgency of environmental reform, Hillar y has a comprehensive plan to har ness the power of renewable energy and monitor and cap carbon emissions.

We’ve discussed the most impor tant policy issues, and now we’d like to address any remaining Trump suppor ters, directly: At this point in the election season, you’ve probably made up your mind. But it isn’t as if it’s against the law to throw away your “Make America Great Again” hat or take the Tr ump/Pence bumper sticker off of your car.

You may have been able to rationalize your suppor t for Tr ump as something that did not also constitute your consent to his bigotr y, sexism, xenophobia and shameful authoritarian gestures, but that cannot be the case any longer.

It is time for you to take one of the last lifeboats available of f of this Trumpbrand Titanic. It’s time you join the chor us of fellow Americans who recognize that this man is an existential threat — not only to our current way of life — but also to a future, enriched by diversity and empathy.

Wake up from your wicked slumber and cast your vote for Hillar y Clinton on Nov. 8. Other wise, you will have unquestionably marked yourself as a bigot just like your man himself. And we promise we will not forget.

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Minnesota edges by Rutgers 34-32 Football

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The Gophers drove down the field in a 13-play, 59-yard drive after wards, which ended with Carpenter’s game-winning field goal. “[That] was my first [game-winner] to date,” Carpenter said. “It’s an exciting experience, and one that I’ll definitely not be forgetting anytime soon.”

The Scarlet Knights, who were down 21-10 at the half, came within one point of the Gophers in the third quar ter. Redshir t senior Mitch Leidner threw an interception to Rutgers freshman Damon Hayes on a play where two receivers collided.

Hayes returned the interception 55 yards for the score.

Leidner finished with 156 passing yards — his lowest total since the Sept. 1 game against Oregon State. The redshir t senior was cleared to play after missing the Oct. 15 game against Mar yland with a concussion.

“Anytime you are sidelined with something, you want to get back at all

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costs, but [a] concussion [is] … a little bit unique because it’s not r eally something you can just play through,” Leidner said. “It was challenging for me because I felt like, through most of my career, I’ve been able to stay in games and play through dif ferent injuries like that.”

Rutgers senior David Bonagura missed an extra point in the third quarter that would’ve tied the game 24-24.

The momentum shifted Minnesota’s way when

redshir t sophomore Rodney Smith ran a kickof f back for a 94-yard touchdown, his second of the game.

Smith was also the Gophers’ leading rusher with 111 yards.

“I’m always the type of guy to tr y to provide a spark for anybody that needs it with a big play,” Smith said. “Whether that’s on special teams or offense or making a catch, it’s definitely in the back of my mind.”

Sophomor e Shannon Brooks was close to Smith

FOOTBALL

Carpenter delivers with game-winning field goal The kicker made two of his three field goal attempts Saturday.

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

Emmit Carpenter probably never thought that his first game-winning field goal would come Saturday.

An early 18-point lead had vanished, and Minnesota was looking to avoid one of its biggest upsets in recent memory.

Rutgers was up 32-31, and Carpenter was called upon for a 28-yard field goal with 10 seconds left in the game.

The Scarlet Knights used a timeout, but Carpenter didn’t mind. His kick went straight through the goal posts to avoid the upset and give the Gophers the two-point victory.

“That was my first [game-winning field goal] to date,” Carpenter said.

“It’s an exciting experience and one that I’ll definitely not be forgetting anytime soon.”

Carpenter’s first nine field goal attempts of the season had all gone in. Minnesota’s new kicker was off to a hot start. But at Maryland on Oct. 15, Carpenter missed a 36-yard attempt and his problems lingered into Saturday’s game.

His first field goal attempt in the game against Rutgers in the second quarter was from 34 yards out, but missed and he was suddenly one for his past three.

“I was a little bit too deep on my plant foot in the kick, so I just pushed the ball to the right a bit,” Carpenter said. “But we go out ever y day and go to work and try to fix everything.”

Minnesota still had an 11-point lead at that moment, but the game spiraled out of control for the Gophers after that.

Suddenly, with four minutes left in the game, Minnesota was down one point and had the ball at its own 31-yard line.

Quar terback Mitch Leidner engineered a drive that brought the Gophers to Rutgers’ 10-yard line with 10 seconds left.

“I asked [the] guys, ‘I need everything out of you here,’ Leidner said. “It all star ts if you can get that first, first down and we were able to do that and keep moving the ball.”

Carpenter said he wasn’t watching the final drive on the sidelines, knowing he might be called upon to win the game.

“At the end of the game there, I was over at my net doing a few kicks making sure I was dialed in and ready to go,” Carpenter said.

The Gophers hadn’t won the game yet.

Carpenter had hit two field goals since his earlier miss, but this one was different.

Rutgers burned its final timeout, and now it was time for Carpenter to make his kick.

“I went out there with the expectation that they were going to use that last timeout,” Carpenter said. “I … took the time to just kind of gather myself and relax a little bit more. Just kind of think through the situation, think through what I needed to do to make the kick.”

The kick was good. Minnesota won the game, and Carpenter was tackled by his teammates. “[Carpenter] missed the first field goal, but definitely made up for it on that last one, so we’re thrilled to win obviously for homecoming weekend,” said head coach Tracy Claeys.

The game-winning field goal was the first of Carpenter’s career, high school included.

Carpenter’s earlier str uggles weren’t going through his head at the time of his game-winning kick, he said. Kickers need a short memory.

“I knew that my name would be called again at some point in the game.

I just had to respond for that,” Carpenter said.

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Gophers kicker Emmit Carpenter kicks the ball on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.

Running back Rodney Smith is tackled on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.

in yards on the ground.

Brooks had 87 yards rushing and scored the first touchdown of the game when he leaped into the en d z on e f or a 1-ya r d score.

Brooks and Smith put up decent numbers, but the Gophers’ r un game str uggled in shor tyardage situations. Minnesota went 6-14 on third downs and 0-2 on four th downs.

“The [defensive line] was moving around on us,”

Claeys said. “All of a sudden, they moved the front over real late, and the ball is snapped, and now you’re supposed to block somebody completely different, so we’ve got to look at our cadence.”

Rutgers scored more than seven points against a Big Ten team for the first time this season against Minnesota Saturday.

While the Scarlet Knights put up 32 points, they str uggled to keep the ball. Redshir t junior

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Giovanni Rescigno made his debut star t at quarterback and had thr ee turnovers, with two interceptions and a fumble. He also had three touchdown passes and 246 total yards.

“We didn’t handle that lead for whatever r eason,” Claeys said. “I think our kids had respect and worked awfully hard. …

The way we come out of the gates, I did think we prepared well. [We’ve] got to sustain that throughout without a doubt.”

MEN’S HOCKEY

St. Cloud sweeps the Gophers with two comeback victories

MADDY FOX, DAILY

Gophers forward Leon Bristedt assists forward Taylor Cammarata with his first period goal against St. Cloud State at Mariucci Arena on Friday.

Minnesota was defeated 6-5 in overtime Friday and 3-2 Saturday.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

For the second night in a r ow, the Gophers gave up a lead to St. Cloud State, leading to a series sweep by the Huskies.

Minnesota had the chance to avenge a blown lead from Friday’s loss as the team led through one period on Saturday. But the series finale at St. Cloud took a familiar tur n, and by the end of the game, the Gophers had lost by one goal.

“I liked a lot of our game,” said head coach Don Lucia. “I didn’t like the end of our game.”

No. 7 Minnesota (2-2-0) may have scored 7 goals over the weekend, but it wasn’t enough to outmatch the late-game work put in by No. 14 St. Cloud State (2-2-0).

The Huskies overcame a 5-2 deficit on Friday to win 6-5 in over time and erased a 2-0 Minnesota lead Saturday for a 3-2 victor y.

“We quit playing,” said senior captain Justin Kloos on Friday. “We didn’t finish the game.”

The Gophers looked poised to win their home

opener with a seemingly comfor table thr ee-goal lead early in the third period, but St. Cloud State managed to come back and tie the game with 1:13 left to send the two teams to overtime.

St. Cloud State had 18 shots in the first two periods combined and fired of f 18 in the third period alone.

“All of the sudden we got on our heels,” Lucia s a i d F r i d a y. “ We g a v e them too much room. We had some breakdowns, and it’s going to cost you, and it did tonight.”

The team faced a similar struggle when it hit the road for the second half of the home-and-home series.

The Gophers got out to an early lead thanks to sophomore forward Jack Ramsey, who scored the first goal of his collegiate career in the first period Saturday night.

Ramsey’s line added to the lead when senior forward Taylor Cammarata scored his first goal of the season late in the first period to put Minnesota up 2-0.

“It feels good,” Cammarata said. “[It’s] nice to get that first goal, so it helped me have a pretty good game.”

The Huskies quickly tied the game in the second period and another

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

FRIDAY St. Cloud Minnesota

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goal in the third period gave St. Cloud the victor y and series sweep.

St. Cloud State f o r w a r d s J a k e Wa h l i n and Mikey Eyssimont were the heroes for the Huskies over the weekend. Both scored gamewinning goals in the two games.

The Gophers finished the weekend with a disadvantage in shots. The Huskies grabbed Friday’s lead and victor y when they outshot the Gophers in the third period and did the same with Saturday’s victor y in the second and third.

The Gophers are now on a 1-9 streak against instate opponents over the last two seasons.

Lucia said that the endings of games for Minnesota are a focal point that the team missed over the weekend.

“I think it’s a step back when you lose two games,” Lucia said Saturday. “You’ve got to win third periods. That’s the big takeaway.”

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers’ blown leads show old wrinkles Minnesota is 1-9 against in-state opponents over the last two seasons.

BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

It was looking like a pr omising star t to the weekend — and season — for the Gophers against St. Cloud State.

No. 7 Minnesota was up 5-2 in the third period Friday and 2-0 at the end of the first period Saturday.

But instead of star ting the season with four wins in four games, the Gophers blew both leads against the No. 14 Huskies and now sit at .500 this season.

“Obviously it’s not a good feeling, but it’s still early in the season,” said senior for ward Taylor Cammarata. “We let some chances get away this weekend, so not ver y happy about that.”

Friday’s collapse began when St. Cloud State scored three goals over an 8:24 span and tied the game with 1:13 left in the final regulation period.

Jake Wahlin scored his second goal of the season to give the Huskies the win in overtime.

“We quit playing,” said Gophers senior captain Justin Kloos after Friday’s game. “It was within our grasp.”

On Saturday in St. Cloud, the Gophers were up 2-0 at the end of the first period.

The Huskies scored two goals in 53 seconds and later won the game in the third

MADDY FOX, DAILY

Gophers forward Brent Gates Jr. battles for the puck against St. Cloud State at Mariucci Arena on Friday.

period.

“It was a hard-fought game,” said Gophers head coach Don Lucia. “We played a pretty good game from start to finish, but [it was] really choppy at times.”

Last season Minnesota lost multiple times despite leading or tying in the third period. This pattern was continued in the Gophers’ two recent losses.

One of those games last

season was against Minnesota State-Mankato on Nov. 14. The Gophers were up 2-0 in the third period, but lost in overtime 3-2 after two late goals in regulation.

“What happens before is irrelevant to what happens today,” Lucia said Friday. “It’s early in the season … I don’t know if our guys’ thought process was, ‘when it’s 5-2 let’s try to get more’ as

opposed to, ‘let’s try to play the game the right way.’”

Another problem from last year that reemerged Friday and Saturday was Minnesota’s weak performance against in-state teams.

Last season the Gophers went 1-7 against in-state teams. The year before that, they went 4-6.

Minnesota has lost seven consecutive games against in-state teams.

Their schedule doesn’t get easier from here. The Gophers play eight more games until the end of November, seven of which come against ranked opponents.

“Last couple years we’ve had games slip away like this. Obviously it’s not fun for us,” Cammarata said Satur day. “Nothing we can do now. Just have to keep working.”

“It was a hardfought game ...

We played a pretty good game from start to finish, but [it was] really choppy at times.”

DON LUCIA Gophers head coach

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Minnesota hosted open Twilight Run at home over the weekend

Soccer looks to Big Ten title after weekend draw

Molly Eastman was the top finisher for the Gophers during the weekend.

Minnesota could claim its first top Big Ten finish since 2008 this week.

BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com

The Minnesota women’s cross country team hosted the ninth annual Jack’s Twilight Run on Friday evening.

T wenty-one Gophers runners posted career-best 6K times in the meet, with redshirt sophomore Molly Eastman finishing first of the Minnesota representatives.

“We’ve been tapering, so I feel like that has a lot to do with [people getting PR’s],” Eastman said. “We backed off on mileage since it’s towards the end of the season, and it was just a really nice day to run.”

The Minnesota team was led by redshir t sophomor e Molly Eastman (21:32.6), followed by redshirt sophomore Courtney Alama (21:38.5) and graduate student Carlin Schulz (21:54.0).

The meet was open to the public, so Eastman finished first of all Gophers runners, but also first in front of two other women competing in the race.

“It felt good, and I was definitely excited,” Eastman said. “I pushed myself, and I did get a PR, but knowing I can actually run that fast is kind of cool.”

Although Jack’s Run took place at Les Bolstad Course, the route for the 6K race was different, and in Eastman’s opinion, a bit easier than the Roy Griak course earlier in the season.

“It’s a lot flatter,” Eastman said. “There aren’t as many hills too, so I think that’s another reason why we saw PR’s too.”

The run honors former

BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Redshirt sophomore Courtney Alama runs in the Jack Johnson Women’s Gold Race at the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept.

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University of Minnesota e q u i p m e n t m a n a g e r, Jack Johnson, who worked for the university for over 30 years before he died of cancer in Februar y 2006.

Jack’s Run features Minnesota as its only collegiate team and opens is open to the public with free registration. The Gophers ran with a total of 41 runners.

Joe Moore of the Twin Cities Track Club came in first for the whole race with a time of 17:59.1.

Eastman said this run also played a part in deciding which runners will take the finals spots on the Big Ten team. The final two added

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JACK’S TWILIGHT RUN TOP GOPHER RUNNERS 10 Molly Eastman 11 Courtney Alama 12 Carlin Schulz 13 Megan Flanagan 16 Tess Wasowitz

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to the team were Eastman and Alama.

Both the Minnesota men’s and women’s cross country teams will host the Big Ten Championships on Sunday, Oct. 30 at Les Bolstad Course.

“It felt good and I was definitely excited ... I pushed myself and I did get a PR, but knowing I can actually run that fast is kind of cool.”

MOLLY EASTMAN Redshirt sophomore

Despite a double over time session, Minnesota and Nor thwestern settled for a 0-0 draw on Saturday.

Goalies played a big role for both teams in Saturday’s draw.

Nor thwester n junior goalie Lauren Clem and Hobbs each made two saves to keep their sides even in the first half of regular time.

Hobbs recor ded her 31st career shutout. She continues to add to her program record.

“We definitely count on [Hobbs] and all of the defenders,” said senior for ward Simone Kolander.

“Our defense and [Hobbs] have been doing a really good job about handling those few chances that other teams get.”

Both goalies had four saves at the end of the night. Clem leads the Big Ten with 13 shutouts this season.

“They were super organized,” Hobbs said. “They were more organized than the teams that we played so far. Our defenders handled it very well.”

Neither side found a way to break through and take advantage of opportunities to score.

Minnesota (12-3-3, 6-1-3 Big Ten) took 16 shots versus Nor thwestern’s (13-13, 6-1-3) 11.

“They had a lot of people behind the ball,” Kolander said. “It was tough tonight. Their defense played really well. It was tough to get a lot of shots off.”

Captains Josee Stiever and Kolander were the only Minnesota players to get shots on goal.

The Gophers committed 13 fouls in the match.

Nor thwestern only fouled six times.

CHRIS DANG, DAILY

Forward Simone Kolander looks to shoot on Oct. 9 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

Kolander said they were aggressive to put pressure on the opposition to win the ball back and get more opportunities to break the tie.

Still, even with two overtimes, the match finished in a scoreless draw.

Getting at least the one point was impor tant for Minnesota to get the chance to play for the Big Ten Title.

“Over time is a tricky beast,” said associate head coach Kr ystle Seidel.

“There’s a more conservative approach in overtime for sure, especially when we knew [Saturday] that if we drew we get to play for the Big Ten Championship on Wednesday.”

After the draw, No. 16 Penn State, No. 23 Northwestern and No. 13 Minnesota are tied for first in the conference going into the last game of the regular season.

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“This program hasn’t won a [regular-season] title since 2008,” said Minnesota senior goalie Tarah Hobbs. “I think everybody is pretty excited.”

Penn State was alone in first place until they lost to Michigan State over the weekend. The Gophers are in a good place since they no longer need to rely on other results to help them, Seidel said.

“We got into a point where we had to have some results go our way and that happened this weekend,” she said. “Knowing that if we can take care of our business and get the win on Wednesday that we get the championship, that’s huge.”

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Monday, October 24, 2016

Candidate for governor owes millions in taxes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HINDMAN, Ky. — Jim Justice, a coal billionaire running for West Virginia governor, owes millions in back taxes to some of Appalachia’s most impoverished counties, including one in Kentucky that is struggling to pay the debt on a new rec center and has turned the lights off in its parks and reduced hot meals for senior citizens.

Many of these counties have been devastated by the collapse of the coal industr y over the past few years, and their financial struggles are not all Justice’s fault. But county officials say things would be a lot easier if he paid up.

“It’s just absurd that a billionaire wouldn’t pay his taxes,” fellow Democrat Zach Weinberg, the top elected official in Kentucky’s Knott County, said as he thumbed through a folder of Justice’s debts.

Justice, who is leading in the polls, makes no apologies for the debt owed by some of his coal companies, saying he is doing ever ything he can to keep his businesses r unning and workers employed while other companies go under.

One of the biggest chunks of money owed is in Knott County, where Justice has unpaid taxes of $2.3 million dating to tax year 2014. That’s a substantial hole, given the county government’s $10 million budget and its separate $23 million school budget.

Justice has other unpaid tax bills scattered across the hills and hollows of easter n Kentucky: $1.2 million in Pike County, $500,000 in Floyd County, $228,300 in Magoffin County and $167,600 in Harlan County, according to county officials.

He also has millions in West Virginia state tax liens against his companies. Because of privacy laws, the state won’t say whether he is paying them back.

The Associated Press has reported previously on Justice’s debts to coal suppliers and contractors, and a recent National Public Radio report compiled a list of Justice company debts, including back taxes and mine safety fines totaling $15 million.

At the same time, Justice — the richest man in West Virginia, with a fortune estimated at $1.56 billion by Forbes magazine

and a profusion of coal and agricultural interests — has spent almost $2.6 million of his own money on his campaign.

His opponent, Republican Bill Cole, has made an issue of Justice’s bills, saying the businessman is putting counties at risk. “They don’t need the money in a year or two years from now,” Cole said during a recent debate. “They need it right now.”

In his defense, Justice cites the downturn in the coal industr y and the complexity of the 102 businesses he is juggling. He doesn’t have “barrels of money” sitting around, he said, and his companies have paid over $70 million in taxes annually over the last four years.

Justice has cast his effor ts to keep his mines open in heroic terms.

“I didn’t declare bankruptcy, did I?” he said when asked about his unpaid debts at the debate. “You saw ever y great coal company in the world belly up.

They stif fed ever ybody. I just kept digging. It’s tough.

It’s really tough at times.

But we didn’t give up.”

He added: “If we would have given up, what would have happened? Those good people, men and women that were working, they would have gone home, they wouldn’t have had their jobs. And I won’t feel bad for a second for trying to keep those people in their jobs.”

Justice’s campaign has also emphasized his ability to pull off unthinkable economic development projects, pointing to his purchase and turnaround of the once-broke Greenbrier resor t, a longtime playground in West Virginia for members of Congress and foreign dignitaries.

As recently as five years ago, Knott County had about 1,000 miners producing nearly 5 million tons of coal a year and could count on $8 million to $9 million a year in mining-related taxes. In those heady times, the county built a 66,000-square-foot spor ts and activity center on top of a former mine.

Now, the county doesn’t have a single working mine, unemployment is around 10 percent — or more than twice the national average — the mining tax revenue is down to just a few hundred thousand dollars a year, and the county still owes $6 million on the sportsplex.

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person, will enable … [the] of fices to work more ef fectively together around a lot of the business processes that ar e the backbone of the operations of the institution. Brian has just the per fect background to do that. He’s essentially doing that job at the University of Missouri system. …

What are your hopes for Bur nett as he assumes his role?

I really want us to be as operationally ef ficient as we can be. For example, when we are designing a new building or renovating a building … there’s a lot of cross talk between facilities and design folks, the finance people who are figuring out how to pay for it, the real estate of fice if there’s acquisition involved, Of fice of Inf o r m a t i o n Te c h n o l o g y because you’r e tr ying to figure out how to make that building come a l i v e el ec t r on i c a l l y … you’ve got all of those pieces, and right now they’r e in dif fer ent kinds of buckets.

Now we’ll have one o r g a n i z a t i o n . We c a n bring the people in those various of fices all to the same level and we can work together more ef fectively and more efficiently. It’s easier being all on one team instead of being par t of one of four teams.

The Learning Abroad Center and CIEE are giving away 200 free passpor ts to students, prioritizing students who demonstrate financial need. Aside from this and ef forts to keep tuition low, what are some other direct initiatives the University is working on to help low-income students? … We e x p a n d e d the Promise Program to benefit students who come from families making $120,000 or less. That’s an increase from $100,000. With that program, those students were protected from the tuition increase that we passed in June.

We’ve got a President’s Emerging Scholars program that helps students from low-income families come to the U. There’s a summer time preparation activity, some additional financial aid … these are activities aimed to make the University accessible. …

Some students have expressed fr ustration towards the number of classes being taught by teaching assistants or graduate students instead of professors, particularly in the economics department. Why do you think this problem might exist?

The situation in economics is that their enrollments have g r ow n pr et t y d ra ma t ically, and their number of tenure and tenure-track faculty has not changed ver y much at all. So that creates an increased

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teaching burden that is met by the use of TAs in that depar tment. I know the College of Liberal Arts has sur veyed that situation, but I don’t think they’ve released their findings on that subject. …

Does the University have plans to remedy the problem once those findings come out?

Those kind of resource allocations are made at the college level, so that need would compete in the College of Liberal Arts with a variety of other needs for faculty, so it’s the dean’s job to make those decisions.

How do issues repor ted to the [Bias Response Team] play into discussions of freedom of expression on campus?

That’s a challenging question both on this campus and around the countr y. We r eally are in a ver y good conversation, I think, and sometimes a painful conversation around the balance of fr eedom of speech, which is absolutely guaranteed by the United States Constitution, with speech that some may find hur tful … we as a community need to have those discussions so that people understand the consequences of the things that they say, that they write and begin to have a more full understanding of what this institution needs to be open to people of all backgrounds and all beliefs.

Speaking of freedom of speech, the first in a series of conversations led by you on campus climate ended abr uptly earlier this month when protesters — including MSA President Abeer Syedah — criticized your response to the “Build the Wall” panel. Demonstrators accused the University of protecting hate speech as free speech.

How can the University find a balance between the protection of free speech and the pr otection of people from harmful speech?

The solution to speech that some find harmful is more speech on the other side of that issue. The campus conversation was a step for ward. I listened to people who had feelings of hur t that translated in some cases, I think, into anger. We tr y to continue

that dialogue and have people listen in respectful ways to points of view and tr y to find common ground.

Recently, conversations have risen over whether undocumented students living in Minnesota should be paying resident or nonresident tuition. What is your stance on this?

I think our current policy is that in-state tuition rates and private scholarships are available to eligible students, including undocumented students.

I continue to believe that the road to a better life for any individual is paved b y e d u c a t i o n . We w i l l continue to make those instate rates available for all eligible students.

At their last meeting, some regents expressed concer ns over the utility of [Higher Education Asset Preser vation and Renovation] for funding capital projects. Regent Laura Brod said the University needs to star t looking for new ways to fund some of its projects besides HEAPR, calling it a “one-way par tnership that isn’t working.” Why isn’t HEAPR working the way Regents want it to, and what other solutions might there be?

HEAPR is the vehicle in the state bonding program to deliver funds for maintenance of higher education and state buildings. We don’t r eceive enough money from the state on a recur ring [basis]. … Ther e’s an enormous backlog of infrastr ucture across the state. … The alternatives to that are not ver y m a n y. … I n t h e l a s t biennium, we made a request to the state to put recurring money into our operating budget for r epair and r enovation. Politically, that did not get ver y much traction. … We’re going to be back in that conversation with this legislature. It’s not a formal part of our budget request, but we’re going to see if we can lay the groundwork to advance that operating investment rather than relying on bonding.

Last week, the University announced it would challenge a Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Ser vices decision to the

Minnesota Court of Appeals to include faculty positions like teaching specialists and lecturers in a union vote.

The r uling was par t of the University’s longr unning legal battle with union organizers, and the school has said that the bureau misread state law. Will the University take fur ther legal action if the appeal fails?

Depending on the outcome of the appeal, we will weigh our options, which may include fur ther legal steps. …

Have you been in contact with leaders from other universities who have unionized faculty? If so, what have you learned from them?

I was at the University of Delaware for 18 years, which has a unionized faculty. And I have talked with leaders of other unionized institutions. It does constrain elements of flexibility, and we would prefer to deal with our faculty as individuals rather than as a group represented by a third party.

Last week, the University’s Board of Regents voted to demolish the 115-year-old electric steel elevators near TCF Bank Stadium. Are you anticipating pushback from the community following the decision?

Yes. In fact, a group called the Friends of the Electric Steel Elevators …

I don’t know if they’ve filed a lawsuit, I do know that there was some talk that they would attempt to get a restraining order to prevent us from taking those down. I do expect that will mature in the course of time. Again, the Regents’ decision … I believe is exactly the right thing to do.

I believe they’re a hazard, and I don’t want to own a steel elevator that somebody dies in.

Halloween is just a r o u n d t h e c o r n e r.

What are you going to dress up as?

That is a secret. You have to come to my house on Sunday afternoon when we have an open house … and you’ll be able to see.

It’s I think quite entertaining, and people will get a chuckle out of it.

Do we get any hints?

Man, I don’t know … the hint is, we’re proud to be parents.

Cubs fans turn attention to World Series

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — With a mix of euphoria, relief and disbelief, long-suffering Chicago Cubs fans are shaking off superstitions and setting their sights on the team’s first World Series in 71 years.

Loyal fans as far south as San Antonio, Texas, and as far west as Washington state restructured their worldviews to include the seductive possibility that they won’t be disappointed again.

“For me, personally I had tears in my eyes. I’ve seen them come close,” said Chicago native Jimmy Tingas, 47, who owns Wrigleyville Grill in San Antonio where he caters to homesick

former Chicagoans still craving hot dogs and Italian beef.

“We have one more task to do. I’m confident they’re going to do it.”

F i rs t l a d y Mi c h el l e Obama joined the chorus Sunday morning, congratulating her hometown Cubs a day after the team defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chicago’s Wrigley Field in Game 6 of the NL Championship Series.

The Chicago native tweeted: “Way to go Cubs!!” She then recalled her father, saying: “My Dad is the reason I’m a true Cubs fans. He’d be so proud!”

Lifelong fan Marilyn Hnatusko wiped away tears after the win Saturday night,

recalling other longtime Cubs fans.

“I thought of all my relatives who didn’t see this, my dear Uncle John, and now I can’t quite believe it happened,” she said.

Scattered across the world, Cubs fans make up their own diaspora. Blizzard-hardened folk, their befuddling loyalty encompasses decades of frustration, disillusionment and too many sigh-filled pangs for “next year.” Many never lived in Chicago, but grew up elsewhere in the nation’s hear tland, listening to games on WGN’s powerful AM signal, which could be heard hundreds of miles, especially at night.

They’re often pressed to explain their loyalty. Stephen Kropp, 46, of Mercer Island, Washington, grew up in Chicago and stays true to his Cubs. He and a buddy plan to attend World Series Game 2 in Cleveland dressed as the Blues Brothers.

“It’s a huge emotional investment,” Kropp said Sunday. “It’s dumping all these emotions into something that never gives you anything back. Hanging out at Wrigley, having a beer and knowing you’ll never get to the promised land.

These fans have more credibility (than other teams’) to say they’re the best fans in baseball.”

Monday, October 24, 2016

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Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Focus on financial planning over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Scorpio. Talk about family funds.

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Listen and compromise. Stay in close contact.

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Reinvent and share your vision.

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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,

I am asking a question for a friend who is a frequent Dr. Date reader (like so many of us) and needs some advice for a situation he’s in.

A few years ago, my buddy began seeing a girl. Fast forward one month, and we get the news that a little human is on the way.

They decided to try to make the relationship work for the little one, but eventually it fizzled.

My friend is a good guy, though he is a bit aloof and doesn’t always make the best of decisions, obviously.

The mother can be a very harsh person and doesn’t always treat my friend the best.

Fast forward to the present. The two of them split time between their daughter.

Last weekend, the two started to rekindle their relationship, even though it has already failed a few times in the past.

Do you think that it is better to have the “nuclear”-type family for their daughter? Or should they keep on parenting separately?

—Family Matters

Dear Family,

First off, thank you for the high praise.

You should like my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine and other assorted social media accounts.

I measure my self-worth in others’ adoration, so it would mean a lot to me.

On to the question of the nuclear family.

Do not, I repeat, do not let your friend’s kid go near the “nuclear family.”

Do you realize the immense amount of energy released when an atom is ripped apart?

We literally make bombs with that stuff.

It’s scary.

Unless the little girl ends up getting some rad super powers, like invisibility, from the nuclear radiation, what is the benefit?

Besides, my grandmother always used to tell me, “For every one Bruce Banner, there are 687.45 horribly deformed people.”

Dan Claes, a superhero researcher from the University of Nebraska, told PBS that

acquiring superpowers from radiation is “unlikely in the real world.”

Nevertheless, it’s hard to know whether your friend should get back together with his baby mama.

There are obviously advantages to having two parents raise a child, but a toxic home environment also isn’t a good option.

Talking to a therapist or some other type of professional sounds like the ideal route to me.

But what do I know? I’m just a doctor.

—Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

Is it true that if you eat a watermelon seed, a whole new melon will grow in your stomach?

—Guy who just ate a watermelon seed Dear guy,

Yes. Not only is it possible, it is probable that it will happen.

My advice.

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

1. Hop in your car.

2. Drive to the nearest gas station.

3. Fill up your car with gas because this is going to involve a cross-country road trip.

4. Buy snacks because you might get hungry (I advise against watermelon).

5. Drive to Bangor, Maine.

6. Find Stephen King.

7. Have him autograph every book in the Dark Tower series.

8. Drive to Las Cruces, New Mexico.

9. Find the Native Plant Society of New Mexico’s headquarters and pick 14 golfball sized thistles.

10. Throw the thistles away.

11. Thank the Native Plant Society for their time.

12. Drive back to Bangor, Maine.

By this time, the watermelon will have grown to such a size that it will rupture your stomach and start to destroy all of your organs.

Enjoy Bangor, Maine. It’s a beautiful place to die. The people are so friendly.

—Dr. Date

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University broadens clean energy efforts The Board of Regents recently purchased a community solar garden by contract.

BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com

As solar energy surges in popularity, the University is capitalizing on investing opportunities in clean energy.

The Board of Regents approved the purchase of a 25-year subscription to a community solar garden at its last meeting. The acquisition will save the University up to $800,000 over the length of the contract.

The purchase is part of the University’s overall push for clean energy.

Community solar gardens are shared facilities that provide clean energy for people who can’t buy their own solar panels, said University Sustainability Director Shane Stennes.

While the University won’t receive energy from the gardens directly, it will get bill credits for the amount of energy that it helps create, said Melissa Pawlisch, clean energy resource team’s director for University regional sustainable development partnerships and extension.

It’s a way for the University to promote clean energy while also saving money, she said.

University Regent Thomas Devine said the Board of Regents has been moving to address campus energy priorities over the last few years.

Par t of these ef for ts, he said, included the construction of a natural-gas powered plant that will provide both heat and

electricity on campus.

“That will reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by 10 to 12 percent when it goes online later on this winter,” Stennes said.

He said the plant will help propel the University toward its goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

University officials are also assessing campus buildings to see how they can be more energy ef ficient, Devine said.

He said this includes replacing or reinsulating windows and changing old street lights to LED fixtures on 4th Street SE spanning from TCF Bank Stadium to Dinkytown.

“Where we can replace old, and put in new that’s energy-ef ficient, that’s part of what we’re doing,” Devine said.

Many of the replacements are happening in

University research labs, Stennes said, adding that the facilities are energy-intensive to run.

“Research facilities on campus are about 25 percent of our square footage, but they are 50 percent of our energy consumption,” he said.

The University will also release a request for proposal at the end of the month for a two-megawatt solar installation which would likely be built on the West Bank or St. Paul campus, Stennes said.

To pay for these projects, the University is tr ying to use existing resources so it won’t incur additional costs, he said.

The community solar garden is paid for by from the school’s regular utilities budget, Stennes said.

The University would have built the on-site solar ar ray, however, allowed

another developer to own it. “ Wo r k i n g w i t h a third-party developer, we’re hopeful that we can build solar and then buy the power from them,” Stennes said.

Beth Mer cer-Taylor, Institute on the Environment coordinator, said she thinks the University could also obtain a bio-digester — which conver ts animal waste into energy.

She said other campus faculty members have expressed interest, adding that it’s a common machine in other countries.

Never theless, the University does have a bit of catching up to do to reach its goals, Mercer-Taylor said.

“We might be a bit of f track of wher e we promised to go on reaching carbon neutrality by 2050, but we’re making significant steps to get there,” she said.

UNIVERSITY’S CLEAN ENERGY EFFORTS 10-12%

of greenhouse gas emissions will be cut when the power plant is implemented.

Campus buildings will be upgraded with more energy-efficient fixtures.

Campus street lights will be replaced with LED lights.

The University is looking to build a solar array on West Bank or St. Paul campus.

50%

of greenhouse gas emissions could be cut by 2020.

SOURCE: MNDAILY REPORTING

Tour bus hits truck, killing 13, injuring 31 in California

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.

— A tour bus slammed into the back of a semi-truck on a Southern California highway early Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring at least 31 others, some critically, authorities said.

The passenger bus was going much faster than the truck, but it’s not yet clear if it was speeding on Interstate 10 just north of the desert resort town of Palm Springs, California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Jim Abele told reporters.

“The speed of the bus was so significant that the trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus,” he said at a news conference. “You can see it was a substantial impact.”

Abele said it was not known if alcohol, drugs or fatigue played a role in the crash about 100 miles east of Los Angeles. The USA Holiday tour bus was returning to Los Angeles after a visit to the Red Earth Casino in Thermal, about 25 miles southeast of Palm Springs.

The bus driver was killed, and the truck driver received minor injuries.

Passengers told officials that most people were asleep when the crash occurred at 5:17 a.m. Abele said he didn’t believe the 1996 bus had seat belts and likely didn’t have a black box outfitted in newer vehicles.

The bus was inspected in 2014, 2015 and this year and didn’t have any mechanical issues, Abele said. Federal

Motor Carrier Safety Administration records show it had no crashes in the two years before Oct. 22 and had a satisfactory safety rating.

The front of the bus had cr umpled into the semitruck’s trailer and debris was scattered across the key route through Southern California. Firefighters used ladders to climb into the bus’ windows to remove bodies and tow trucks lifted the trailer to make it easier to reach the bus, whose front end was demolished.

Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs received 14 patients: five in critical condition, three in serious condition and six with minor injuries, hospital marketing director Rich Ramhoff said.

“The speed of the bus was so significant that the trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus ... it was a substantial impact.”

JIM ABELE Calif. Highway Patrol Border Division Chief

Eleven people with minor injuries were sent to Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, spokesperson Lee Rice said. JFK Memorial Medical Center in Indio received five patients, all with minor injuries, chief

development officer Linda Evans said.

CHP Officer Stephanie Hamilton earlier told the Deser t Sun newspaper in Palm Springs that the driver was one of the owners of USA Holiday, based near Los Angeles. The company has one vehicle and one driver, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

A phone message left for the company was not immediately retur ned. A Facebook message from USA Holiday said it did not have much information about the crash.

The company says on social media that is has more than 25 years of experience in traveling to casinos in Southern California.

It posts about trips leaving the Los Angeles area to casinos around the Coachella Valley and Las Vegas.

The CHP says all westbound lanes of the highway were closed and traffic was being diverted.

The National T ranspor tation Safety Board is sending a team to California to investigate the crash, boar d spokesman Eric Weiss said.

It comes two years after a FedEx truck veered across an interstate median nor th of Sacramento and slammed into a bus full of high school students, killing 10 people. In August, a bus in central California hit a highway sign post that tore through the vehicle and left four people dead.