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DINKYTOWN
Apartment plan would close Mesa, Chatime CPM Companies hopes to build a new, 16-story student-housing complex in Dinkytown.
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Running the parlor with a steady hand Nikki Time, owner of MPLS Tattoo Shop, has become known for her watercolor tattoo technique. A&E sat down with her to discuss stylized tattoos, entrepreneurship and the ideal customer. To read, see page 8.
BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com
Minneapolis developer CPM Companies unvieled a proposal for a 16 floor student housing complex in Dinkytown Tuesday night. The plans, shown to a Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association committee meeting for feedback before the project moves for ward, was met with skepticism from meeting attendees. While the historic and non-historic facades of Mesa Pizza and Chatime Bubble Tea Cafe would remain intact, the rest of their building would be demolished, said Daniel Oberpriller, principal at CPM Properties. “You just ate up Dinkytown with this” said James Sander, husband of Kafe 421’s owner. Mesa Pizza Manager Nathan Coles recalled when Doran Companies attempted, and later backed off, to buy out the same block to build a new apartment building. He said he anticipated CPM would face similar difficulties. “If CPM wants to go down that road… we’ll just see what happens,” he said. u See PROPOSAL Page 6
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Shop owner and tattoo artist Nikki Time poses for a portrait at MPLS Tattoo Shop on Sept. 30 in Minneapolis. Time specializes in watercolor styled tattoos.
STUDENT ISSUES
Funds will let students join pipline protesters American Indian students will protest the Dakota Access Pipeline at Sacred Stone Camp. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
Students from the University of Minnesota are gearing up to join the ongoing opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline construction later this month. American Indian Studies students will receive financial help from their depar tment to make the trek to Nor th Dakota, and other students have found ways to support the movement on their own. Second-year doctoral candidate John Little is par t of the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe and he and other students went to Sacred Stone Camp, the main site where protesters have congregated, about a month ago. “That was the first time I’d been [to Standing Rock] in about a year,” he said. “It was really great to be a part of that for even a few days.” But it’s dif ficult for students to find time to make the 470-mile drive to North Dakota during the semester, he said. “A lot of the indigenous voices speaking on this are not really there as much as they’d like to be,” Little said. He said he and his friends have found ways to support the cause from afar now that the school year has star ted — such u See PIPELINE Page 6
LAW SCHOOL
HIGHER ED
Report: U linked to ‘risky’ financing THE PRICE OF SWAPS BY THE NUMBERS
58% OF SCHOOLS HAVE OR HAD AN INTEREST RATE SWAP ON THEIR BOOKS, ACCORDING TO A FORBES STUDY OF U.S. COLLEGES.
$2.7 billion IN SWAP COSTS INCURRED BY 19 SCHOOLS STUDIED BY THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE.
$50 million PAID BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN SWAP PAYMENTS TO CHASE BANK.
$3.5 million EACH YEAR IS SPENT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN SWAPS.
SOURCE: “THE FINANCIALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION,” THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE
The University is among a group of schools that have lost $2.7B in investment rate swaps. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
Many higher education institutions — including the University of Minnesota — have turned to risky financial deals and increased tuition and fees to compensate for decreased state funding, a recently released report has found. According to a Roosevelt Institute study, 19 public institutions, including the University, have lost $2.7 billion in “risky financial deals”. The report, released by the left-leaning think tank last month, said the University lost money through investment rate swaps and made up for those losses by charging more in student fees. u See FINANCE Page 12
Refocusing the Law School Garry Jenkins, the Law School’s new dean has emphasized job placement, curriculum, outreach. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
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Law School Dean Garry Jenkins poses for a portrait in Walter F. Mondale Hall on Monday.
Amid declining enrollment and budget deficits at the University of Minnesota’s Law School, the new dean wants to shift the narrative. Since taking over leadership at the law school in July, Garr y Jenkins has pushed aside stories about mending declining enrollment to focus on curriculum and job placement instead. Applications to the University’s law school dropped by nearly 50 percent between 2010 and 2015, and first-year enrollments fell by over 30 percent, leading to a loss of tuition revenue for the school. The decrease in Minnesota law students
mirrors a nationwide trend of declining applications since a record-high number of students were enrolled in law schools in 2010. “We recognize that there’s a cer tain number of attorneys that the legal market needs,” Jenkins said. “We’re not necessarily trying to get enrollment back to where it was in the past. We’re going to right-size.” He added that many other law schools have had to adjust their enrollment strategies to meet the current supply of applicants. Last year, Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law merged to be able to offer more enrollment options. “That often happens when institutions are facing unforeseen situations with respect to annual budget challenges,” Jenkins said. u See JENKINS Page 9
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