September 14, 2017

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HOUSING

POLICY

Student gov. lobbies for affordability

Possible Title IX shifts would affect campus

Students and campus area residential groups are trying to curb costly apartments.

The federal rules impact how schools across the U.S. handle sexual misconduct.

BY MAX CHAO & ARIANNA VALENZUELA-ZAZUETA mchao@mndaily.com & avalenzuala@mndaily.com

A residential project proposed for the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood could fill an entire city block, but residents and students aren’t sold on the project’s scale and price tag. Doran Companies and CSM Corporation are pitching several structures for a block along University Avenue SE near the General Mills site. Plans for the proposal will be presented to the city in October. The multifamily housing project calls u See TOWER Page 3

BY JONATHAN DU jdu@mndaily.com

IMAGE COURTESY OF DORAN COMPANIES

Doran Companies and CSM Corporation will present plans for a 25-story apartment tower in Marcy Holmes at a Heritage Preservation Commission meeting in October.

CAMPUS

U debuts P.J. Fleck ice cream

Some University of Minnesota advocates say they are worried that a potential change to Title IX, the federal law governing how universities handle sexual assault, could be harmful to victim-sur vivors. Last week, U.S. Education Secretar y Betsy DeVos announced that federal guidance for university sexual assault investigations will undergo a public notice and comment period, driven by concerns about false accusations. The University will continue to follow current guidelines unless formal changes are announced, officials say. “As advocates, we are concerned about the direction and narrative around all of the false accusations. We know that the data doesn’t actually support it,” said University Aurora Center Director Katie Eichele. In her speech at George Mason University, DeVos said she consulted with victimsur vivors, administrators and university students falsely accused of sexual misconduct prior to opening up comment on potential new guidelines. No federal regulations have been changed. “One rape is too many. One assault is one too many. One aggressive act of harassment is one too many. One person denied due process is too many,” DeVos said. u See TITLE IX Page 3

WEST BANK

‘Public benefit center’ promises more jobs in Cedar Riverside The area is known for its high unemployment rate, which is around 18 percent. BY KELLY BUSCHE kbusche@mndaily.com

EASTON GREEN, DAILY

Pilot plant coordinator Ray Miller stands in front machinery used to make ice cream sold on the St.Paul campus on Wednesday, Sept. 6.

The University’s Dairy and Meat Shop launched its “Row the Boat” flavor this month. BY CHRISTOPHER LEMKE clemke@mndaily.com

Shoppers at the University of Minnesota’s meat and dairy store can now find a new product amid shelves of University-made cheese and meat: a P.J. Fleck-inspired ice cream flavor. A long-time University ice cream developer created the frozen confection, released last week, in a St. Paul campus lab that aims to educate students about food science. Called “Row the Boat,” the flavor is based on Gophers head football coach Fleck’s favorite treats, and combines fudge-coffee swirls and peanut butter-filled football candies in vanilla ice cream. Making ice cream is a trial-and-error

process, said Ray Miller, who developed the flavor and has made ice cream at the University for over 30 years. “The main thing is getting the ingredients in and just playing around with them a little bit,” Miller, the University’s food processing facility coordinator, said. “There’s unlimited potential with what you can try. You just have to kind of know what you’re doing before you try it if you want it to turn out right.” Each week, the Dair y and Meat Salesroom on the St. Paul campus stocks up to 15 types of both ice cream and cheese as well as a variety of meats, some of which come from University students’ and scientists’ research. Beginning in the 1950s, graduate students in the Meat Science Lab who made foods like ice creams or cheeses for class labs often ended up with leftovers, so they star ted selling them to the public, said Jodi Nelson, the senior lab ser vices

coor dinator at the Pilot Plant, the University’s food processing facility. Today, a portion of the profit from the Dairy and Meat Salesroom — which sees between 200 and 300 customers each week — goes to the Pilot Plant, and the rest goes to other University departments, she said. The shop also aims to limit food waste from food science classes, said Meat Lab Supervisor Tristan McNamara. He said about 70 percent of the proteins in the store come from classes where students evaluate the meats’ properties. The rest of the meats in the shop are extras from research, he said, such as animal studies or company-sponsored research on specimens like pig hearts. For store customer and University assistant professor Amy Smith, the salesroom’s products stand out for their quality and variety. “I’m an agriculturalist,” she said. “So I like knowing where my meat comes from.”

A new Cedar-Riverside employment organization seeks to slash unemployment rates in the community. Pioneer Staffing and Training, which will launch next week, will be the first employment center in Minneapolis that is a public benefit corporation — a for-profit business also focused on societal impact. Around 18 percent of Cedar-Riverside residents are unemployed, while the statewide unemployment rate sits close to 4 percent. Mohamud Noor, the company’s founder, said he chose the public benefit corporation model to assist the community. The organization aims to cut Cedar-Riverside unemployment rates by bridging cultural and language barriers that often exist between employers and applicants. “We can serve a huge number of community members who are seeking employment,” Noor said. Noor created Pioneer Staffing and Training because he sees a “huge gap in skills and … cultural awareness.” For a fee, job-seekers will submit a set of application documents. The corporation will choose where each applicant works u See JOBS Page 3

ART

At Weisman, live acts bring a worthy start to school semester The WAM-O-RAMA event brought art, pizza and music to students on campus Friday. BY KATE DRAKULIC kdrakulic@mndaily.com

Nothing brings broke college kids together like free art, music and pizza, and the Weisman Art Museum hit these marks Friday. Considered the Weisman’s kick of f to the school year, WAM-O-RAMA is an event curated by a collaboration of student groups, including the WAM Collective, Student Unions and Activities and Whole Music Club. It has been running for more than 20 years. “It’s nice to combine art and music in one space, and the Weisman is an awesome venue for that,” said Lexi Herman, a B.F.A. student and education assistant at the Weisman, who has been part of the WAM Collective for four years. “We want the Weisman to be considered part of people’s school experience.”

Consider it, they did — anxious from waiting in line, students flooded through the Weisman doors Friday at 6:30 p.m. sharp. Whether it was the screen printed Bohemian Press t-shir ts, the allnight line-up including DJ T iiiiiiiiiip (Tiiiiiiiiiip / tip w/ 10 i’s), Dwynell Roland, headliner Early Eyes or the free Mesa Pizza that brought them, we may never know. The museum vibrated with energy and DJ Tiiiiiiiiiip’s playlist. Students relaxed in the coloring corner and doodled in hand-drawn books designed by artists from WAM Collective. They stood in long lines for free Bohemian Press screenprinted t-shir ts, scarfed down hot slices of pizza and were extremely careful to keep a safe distance from the “BucketO-Condoms,” that the Student Health Awareness Disease Association (SHADE) tried to hand out. DJ Tiiiiiiiiiip kept the energy alive, but it wasn’t until Dwynell Roland’s set began that people broke out of their small cliques and crowded the stage. u See WAM Page 4

COURTNEY DEUTZ, DAILY

Local rap artist, Dwynell Roland, performs during WAM-O-Rama on Friday Sept. 8 at the Weisman Art Museum.

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