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Particle accelerator given to University MSU set to smash atoms JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer

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Four million volts of smashing found its way to Minnesota State University, Mankato on August 4.

Physics professor Andrew Roberts was instrumental in obtaining a particle accelerator; otherwise known as the atom smasher, from Duke University.

The accelerator is valued at $1 million and is being donated from Duke’s Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory, and Duke is replacing the accelerator with a newer model. MSU already owns a small particle accelerator, but it can only produce a half million volts, which has only allowed for basic training for students.

“They are hard to get your hands on,” Roberts said.

“Typically, the large national facilities, if they update their facilities, they like to keep the other—accelerator—in operation somewhere rather than throwing it away.”

The larger particle accelerator will give students on campus the opportunity to work on larger projects so they can experience what it would be like to work in a large national laboratory.

The larger accelerator will allow student’s to be able to view an atom’s internal parts

and examine what holds them together. Roberts claimed that the atom smasher will produce radioactive material, and can be used in different academic studies.

“This one is 10 times more energetic than the other one, so it can produce more exciting things,” chair of MSU’s physiques department Youwen Xu said.

The atom smasher immediately puts MSU as one of the top nuclear science training schools in the United States.

There aren’t many nuclear training centers in the U.S. and MSU is the only one in Minnesota.

“These accelerators, there’s many large ones all over the world, but students don’t go to work on them, they go to use them,” said Xu. The students have some work ahead of themselves because the atom smasher is in pieces and has been in storage for more than five years. To get the machine in operating condition it will take close to one year.

“The undergrads will lend a hand putting the accelerator back together, getting some rare experience in the process,” said Xu. The particle accelerator will be placed in the MSU’s Center

of Renewable Energy until they can build a full radioactive shielding in a new space.

“Builds on our success inY developing a new and uniqueS facility for training students across the many departments, particularly undergraduates, in applied nuclear techniques,” said Roberts 30,000 particle accelerators are in operation around the world. The largest accelerator in the world is housed at the CERN international physics laboratory.

A particle accelerator sends protons or electrons at almost the speed of light through a 16-mile loop until they collide with an atom, which some scientists believe is the same as the big bang, according to particle physics magazine Symmetry.

Particle accelerators are important and provide multiple benefits. They can be used to target tumors more effectively than x-rays without hurting the surrounding organs. They can also be used to create a more effective and cleaner power by producing less radioactive waste, according to physics.org.

A particle accelerator was used to create a subatomic particle that give mass to other particles, which is known as the Higg’s Boson.

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‘Cornerstone’ to be released soon

MSU’s new database repository, ‘Cornerstone,’ is on the way

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer Library services at Minnesota State University, Mankato is launching a new digital repository called ‘Cornerstone: A Collection of Scholarly and Creative Works.’

Cornerstone showcases the intellectual output of MSU’s faculty, staff, and students and preserves them digitally so that they are to be easily searched and used.

From the new digital storage system to the huge database, diverse types of documents can now be accessed simply online, such as faculty and staff research, exemplary student research papers and projects, conference posters and presentations, as well as published articles, white papers and more.

Cornerstone covers not only faculty’s work and other works, but also presents other documents from publications and students. This new database storage system is innovative.

“Cornerstone will help spotlight outstanding intellectual work by the university’s faculty, staff and students that may not have been readily accessible previously,” Minnesota State Mankato Dean of Library Services, Joan Roca said.

“It is very exciting for the library to make Cornerstone available to the campus. By showcasing the excellent research and scholarship by faculty, staff, and students, Cornerstone is providing a global solution and placing our library and university at the forefront of technology tools to advance knowledge,”

Roca continued.

Minnesota State Mankato Digital Initiative Librarian, Heidi Southworth also commented on this new system, which is expected to be one of the MSU’s big assets.

According to Southworth, Cornerstone is capable of including all works with different types of formats such as audio files, video, datasets and more.

“Minnesota State Mankato is one of a growing number of universities in Minnesota and nationally that have established an institutional repository of intellectual work,” said Southworth.

Cornerstone is now available online so that people can search for documents.

Documents can be browsed with three categories: collection, disciplines, and authors.

It is anticipated

that this system would give faculties, students, and librarians much higher accessibility to documents than the previous database repository system.

Moreover, Cornerstone visualized the browsing system online so that works in 268 disciplines and can be explored at once. Specifically, there are 199 works and 75 disciplines in Social and Behavior Sciences, 119 works and 65 disciplines in Arts and Humanities, 60 works and 25 disciplines in Medicine and Health Sciences, 109 works and 18 disciplines in Education, 30 works and 23 discipline in Life Sciences, 33 works and 26 discipline in Physical Sciences and Mathematics, 13 works and 17 disciplines in Engineering, 7 works and 7 disciplines in Business, and 3 works and 3

disciplines in Law, and can be explored readily in the circular database.

Brower on the Cornerstone website can also find the research and scholarship information. If the browser search based on college, department, or campus unit, they can get information of honors program, photograph collection at MSU, and even other capstone projects as well as these and dissertations from the all departments of university. The theses, dissertation, and other capstone projects are arranged from the recent documents.

Meanwhile, journals and conference proceedings can be found more specifically at the journal of undergraduate research website.

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Mankato gathers to support MSU student Candle light vigil held on campus for Giovanni Quiroz

JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer A candle lighting was held for a Minnesota State University student, who is in a coma, on Friday.

The candle lighting was held at the outdoor track on MSU’s campus to pray for Giovanni Quiroz. Around 50 people came to show their support for Quiroz.

Police are unsure what happened to Quiroz, but he was found in a parking garage with a broken hip, pelvis, eye socket and he also had brain swelling.

“Things can change in a second. It’s hard to stay positive but at the same time I don’t want to think negatively about it; by continuously praying,” said Tabby Temperley.

The candle lighting was set up at the last minute by Kayla Mcfadden. When she found out Quiroz was in critical condition she took to the phone and called MSU. MSU’s staff acted quickly and efficiently to ensure the event would take place.

Quiroz was in Milwaukee visiting a friend when he was separated from the group.

Friends of Quiroz believe his cell phone was stolen because he texted his friends from a

Photo of victim Giovanni Quiroz, who suffered several severe injuries, with a friend.

different phone claiming he lost his phone. When Quiroz’s friends texted the phone someone replied that he had just bought the phone off of someone on the street. Quiroz was found in the parking garage 10 minutes after he texted his friends.

“I was in shock when I found out and it still doesn’t seem real,” said Mcfadden.

Quiroz is in the intensive care unit at Froedtert hospital and has been taken off of sedation.

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“I didn’t think it could be that severe, until I got to the hospital and that’s when reality set in,” said Temperley.

Quiroz has shown good progress since his accident.

He is moving more frequently and isn’t completely dependent on the ventilator. Doctors are getting ready to bring Quiroz into surgery to repair his hip.

Events of what happened are

still being investigated. Quiroz’s friends have taken to Facebook to show love and support for him.

Lucas Torres has set up a Caring Bridge web page to keep people informed on Quiroz’s progress.

The page has received more than 1500 visits. Friends and family are working on setting up a fundraiser for Quiroz.

“Gio is a really loving guy and always has a smile on his face. He is fun to be around and can always make you laugh,” said Temperley.

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Quiroz use to be on the club soccer team and expressed interest in returning. HeO sustained a knee injury last year and was going through rehab in order to get back on the pitch.

Quiroz is 23 years old and has a birthday coming up on Aug. 31. He grew up in North Mankato and went to Mankato West High School. Quiroz was getting ready to graduate in the fall at MSU with an exercise science degree.

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MSU Library program receives esteemed honors

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Our school’s flag, swaying in the wind.

ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer After a long process and lots of hard work, MSU’s School Library and Information Studies Program has earned “National Recognition” from both the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and from the American Library

Association (ALA).

“The benefits are mainly for the student,” said Dr. Deborah Jesseman, coordinator to the School Library and Information Studies program. “It should build our base of incoming students both nationally and internationally, and also help with the exposure and prestige

of our graduates.”

It took Jesseman two years of work to be nationally recognized, including putting together detailed information of past graduates from the department, state exams, syllabuses and rubrics. After the first year, she was given a review of her progress and was

able to make revisions and “get the little pieces fixed.” It all paid off on August 1, when word was received of the school’s honor.

“I also talked to other programs around the country that had already been nationally recognized. They were all very helpful,” said Jesseman.

“It was very exciting when I finally found out we were being recoginized.”

Jesseman admitted she later found out this wasn’t the first attempt at accreditation towards the program, which gave her even more pride in the accomplishment.

“I recently received an email from a former library professor at MSU. They had tried on two different occasions in the late 80s and early 90s to gain accreditation for the program only to come up short,” said Jesseman.

According to AASL.org, the official site of the American Library Association, there are only 38 universities in the United States that have and accredited program focused on Library Sciences. Besides MSU, the only other program in Minnesota with the same recognition is St. Catherine’s University in St. Paul. This means that MSU will be on the short list members of ALA recommend to up and coming students.

There are no guaranteed number of schools that will be accredited each year, and

the standards needed to reach make it a very select company of programs. Now that the program has reached national recognition, Jesseman expects the program to grow.

“We have about 40 students currently in our graduate program,” said Jesseman. “It’s a strong enrollment, and there is definitely room to grow. This recognition should help out our program immensely.”

Graduates of ALA nationally recognized programs are often given first preference towards jobs. This means MSU students should have an easier time getting hired after school.

Contrary to popular belief, the demand of librarians in school now days has greatly risen. Many students who are seeking teaching licenses also choose to get certification as a librarian.

“A lot of schools are asking teachers to fill library positions,” said Jesseman. “Our program allows those students to earn their requirements in two years.”

Jesseman sees and is informed on the need for librarians all the time.

“About once a week I get a message on my desk for librarian openings in Minnesota alone. In fact I received nine inquiries towards openings in just St. Paul by itself.”

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The national debate over immigration does not have to be clouded by vitriolic diatribes. It should be a way of embracing each other’s heritage and accepting people for who they are.

The immigration debate has been a point of public contention for a while and there seems to be no solution in sight. Both sides of the political factions are at loggerheads as to what should be done. But nothing tangible has been formulated to address the issue.

President Obama and the Democratic Party proposed the ‘Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals,’ which will allow undocumented children, also known as “the dreamers,” a clear path to citizenship. The Republicans on the other side are all opposed to it without a comprehensive solution to the problem.

The dreamers came to this nation illegally with their parents and have been accustomed to our way life. The only life they know is the American way, so to say that they should just pick up and leave is unrealistic and inhumane. Why can’t we consider amnesty as an option for those who are law abiding and willing to pay the fines?

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not deportation. No one vacates their home nation without a valid reason.

This nation was built by immigrants and unless someone is a native-American, they should examine their conscious before rebuking the so called “illegal aliens.” We all have a heritage and to say that a certain group does not belong is

hypocrisy.

We need to come up with a solution rather than spew hatred against the undocumented workers and their families. Not a day goes by that I don’t hear the conservatives touting the preservation of family structure yet they don’t have a solution to keep these families intact.

There are numerous reasons

why people emigrate to the United States. There are push and pull factors. Some of the push factors such as war, poverty and insecurity drive these people out of their homes to seek a sanctuary in the United States.

On the other hand, being the only superpower, our economy is much better than many nations,

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ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is making headlines all across the world The ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’ is more than a trending fad

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer

The ice bucket challenge is getting more and more popular among celebrities and becoming an important social issue. This challenge is spreading rapidly even among the general public all around the world. On the internet, the videos of people dumping a bucket of ice water on themselves are being updated every day in unbelievable numbers. Apparently, the Ice Bucket Challenge is more than just a funny thing to do on a weekend.

The Ice Bucket Challenge is an activity pouring a bucket of ice water on someone’s head.

This is also called ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which is an abbreviation of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, mostly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.

This disease damages the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, completely paralyzing the patient’s entire body. To promote the seriousness and awareness of this disease and appeal for donations, the Ice Bucket Challenge was started. The reason for using the freezing ice water for this activity is that the temporary feeling of paralyzed muscles when dumped by the ice water is similar to the symptom of the Lou Gehrig’s disease.

The rule of this challenge is to nominate three people after participating in the activity.

The nominated people have choices whether participating in the challenge by pouring the ice water on their heads within 24 hours or avoiding the punishment by donating $100.

So far, a lot of celebrities, politicians, and athletes such as Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Justin Bieber, David Beckham, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ben Affleck, etc. took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge.

“The thing we are most excited about, before this challenge, most people did not know what ALS was, now we are reaching so many people,” Lynn Aaronson, the executive director of the Massachusetts chapter of the ALS Assn., said. “Celebrity or non-celebrity, I got so many heartwarming messages through this challenge.”

Our MSU students also have taken on the challenge around the campus. “I took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge in the campus. I hope my challenge could help people suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease,” said Hee Son, one of many MSU students, majoring in biology.

It seems obvious that the Ice Bucket Challenge has a lot of positive effects by bringing social awareness of ALS and

A Maverick student participating in the trending ‘Ice Bucket Challenge.’

this challenge is making more and more people take part in.

However, there are also criticisms on this challenge because a lot of people are apt to have fun without knowing anything about the purpose of this challenge. In fact, on the many of videos, people are busy just screaming by being poured the bucket of ice and nominating their friends just for fun. Some people challenging this social event might not even know what ALS means and how the Ice Bucket Challenge originated.

According to Will Oremus, Slate’s senior technology writer, this challenge has many problems.

“As for ‘raising awareness,’ few of the videos I have seen contain any substantive information about the disease, why the money is needed, or how it will be used,” Oremus said.

“More than anything else, the ice bucket videos feel like an exercise in raising awareness of one’s own zaniness, altruism, and/or attractiveness in a wet T-shirt.”

Even though the criticism on the Ice Bucket Challenge is also severe, there is no doubt that this is a huge social trend, affecting a huge number of people around the world.

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International students and the true effect of culture shock ERSIN TOGMEN Staff Writer Leaving home and traveling to study in a new country can be a stressful experience, even though it may be something you have planned and prepared for. Many people are surprised when they experience the impact of culture shock, and it can be helpful to realize your experience is actually quite normal.

Listening and speaking in a new language is tiring. In class, some international students have trouble understanding the lecture and reading materials.

People speak quickly and you may feel embarrassed to ask them to repeat what they said.

If English is not your first language, you may find you miss your home language.

Social behaviors may confuse, surprise or offend you. For example you may find people appear cold, distant or always in a hurry. Or you may be surprised to see couples holding hands and kissing in public. You may find the relationships between men and women more formal or less formal than you are used to, as well as differences in same sex social contact and relationships.

One of my friends said, “When I first arrived in the US at the age of sixteen to go to college for one year and live with a host family I was completely over the moon with everything, and I mean everything! When the plane finally touched down in Chicago I was so excited and exhilarated that I was finally in US, something we had been planning for many months.”

Here is another friend who shared his experience; when I asked him what was the most unforgettable part of his culture shock, he said, “Understanding a new culture can be a trying experience. Patience and perseverance are more valuable than verbal or intellectual abilities. A few faithful Christian friends can make all the difference. I am grateful for the friends who stuck with me and showed me that they cared about me. Through their patient friendship, I began to lose my misconceptions of America. And they saw that their stereotyped image of India with its tigers, jungles, and grass huts was inaccurate.

Many were surprised to know that college kids in India wear blue jeans and T-shirts and watch American movies. When these friends invited me to their homes, they destroyed my image of the ‘cold American.’

Some were brave enough to try spicy Indian curries my

sister cooked. I was glad my older sister Puii was with me, especially since she loves to cook and I love to sample her dishes. And of course, they wanted to know what kind of American foods I liked the most. I was used to cakes and cookies but not pizza. So I tried it out, and concluded that I preferred deep dish pizza to thin-and-crispy pizza. I was also introduced to a variety of other foods ranging from Swedish lutefisk to McDonald’s Big Macs.”

An international student named Jose Argudo from Ecuador talked about food and rules. “When I came to US the first shock I had was that there were so many rules to be followed; for example, driving.

In Ecuador we don’t follow as many rules! At first I thought that was a bit boring, but now I feel like it is the right thing to do. I also find the people very kind. It makes me feel more secure. I don’t mind leaving my things unattended in the library! The difference in the kind of food I could get was actually a big shock because it was hard to find less processed and more natural food; most of it had been already processed and packaged. In Ecuador fresh food is much more accessible.”

Before leaving for the US, international students likely receive plenty of advice about moving to another country and

dealing with culture shock the experience of adjusting to a new place when you arrive for the first time.

However, the people at home advising you are less likely to know about reverse culture shock, the feelings you may experience when you return home after an extended time away. As the end of the fall semester rapidly approaches, some international students will soon return home for the winter break. For many, this will be the first time returning

to their home country since moving to college.

Everyday has been a learning experience peppered with jokes and references that go right over my head 80 percent of the time, but getting past that it has been wonderful to meet people who are as interested in learning about my culture as I am in learning about theirs. With kind people around me it was less of a cultural shock and more of a bumpy transition.

IMMIGRATION “We need to come up with a solution rather than spew hatred against the undocumented workers and their families.”

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therefore the influx of people to our borders for economic stability is not surprising.

We have witnessed how the young dreamers, most of whom are Latinos, have been treated in public whenever they try to confront legislators against these reforms. They have been met with ridicule from people whom, if I am not mistaken, come from generations of immigrants. Is this whole thing about race? I am sure there are immigrants from nations other than south and Central America, but you don’t hear anyone ranting over that.

When you witness what is

unfolding south of the border with the unaccompanied children crossing over to the United States, it is heartbreaking. We are known to protect women and children, but the backlash against these kids have been unfathomable.

It is a catastrophe and a clear solution is required rather than leaving it all to the unruly vigilantes to chant away the children. When did we become a society without compassion for other humanity?

For these children to take the trip up north bracing all the risks involved, that should give us a reason enough to

ask ourselves why? What if the circumstances were reversed, wouldn’t we want our children to be treated right. Where is the empathy for these children? So far thousands have crossed the border and that itself should be a reason to rethink our strategy.

It is a humanitarian crisis not a political platform.

Let us not turn the immigration issue an us versus them tag of war. A solution rather than empty rhetoric will do us all good. I think this should be a bipartisan issue to resolve this crisis once and for all.

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A summer adventure: one student’s exciting three months

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ERSIN TOGMEN Staff Writer

Summer vacation is probably the happiest period in a student’s life. In plains this lasts for about two months.

These vacations generally commence from the second week of May every year.

The purpose of the summer vacation is multi fold. One is relaxation. Students get fatigued after the end of the annual examination.

They need rest to recoup health and vitality. The second purpose is to tide over the unbearable heat of the summer months. The third purpose is to provide a chance to a student to make up his deficiency in any particular subject. It also gives an opportunity to them to visit new places.

Travelling is an experience and has with it educative value.

Last summer I planned my programme in such

a manner as to obtain maximum benefit. I took permission of my father to visit Dubai along with my friend. Both of us got berths reserved in the Jumeirah Beach in advance to avoid fr ustration.

Reaching beach we got into a bus for Creek. We hired a shaker for our stay there. The climate was very bracing.

We felt as if we were in heaven. We relaxed there fully.

After this exhausting journey, I decided to take a very long road trip to great capitol city of Miami, Florida. This road trip was one that won’t be forgotten for it was an experience unlike any other. A journey of great spontaneous time, as well as utter defeat and torment. It all began one very early morning, and I was looking for something very interesting to do to pass the time of our long three month vacation away from school. And so Miami was my destination.

I headed out the next morning filled up my car and made my way to interstate 20 then interstate 49 and finally interstate 10.

Interstate 20 was a very

boring and dull road for I have traveled along it very often, but interstate 49 was quite interesting for it involved very deadly weather. But nothing could compare to interstate 10, one of the most deadly roads in America, deathly storms, terrible traffic, and a lot of police.

My first stop on my long voyage was in the great city of New Orleans, The Big Easy, this was a city in which this great nation almost lost, but luckily it is still here and it’s here to stay. New Orleans is a very colorful city with its great versatile of food and very chill atmosphere with the aroma of Cajun cooking.

As jazz music played throughout the streets you know you could have a good time. In the morning I headed out for my next stop Tampa, Florida.

On interstate 10 just outside of Jackson, Florida was the strongest thunderstorms I have ever seen, so powerful they made the ones in Texas seem like a little sprinkle.

It was so bad that I had to pull over and wait for it to pass over, but it never

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After all of this unforgettable things, I kind of came back to my career. I had an amazing internship experience in a great company. Maybe that one was beginning of my actual professional life. Good companies take care to obscure the relative seniority of different employees in a way that allows the very senior and very junior to collaborate

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Obama examines actions toward immigration acts An unsaid deadline for the end of summer looms over Congress

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is crafting a blameit-on-Congress legal justification to back up President Barack Obama's impending executive actions on immigration.

Facing an expected onslaught of opposition, the administration plans to argue that Congress failed to provide enough resources to fully enforce U.S. laws, thereby ceding wide latitude to White House to prioritize deportations of the 11.5 million people who are in the country illegally, administration officials and legal experts said. But Republicans, too, are exploring their legal options for stopping Obama from what they've deemed egregious presidential overreaching.

A self-imposed, end-of-summer deadline to act on immigration is rapidly approaching.

While Obama has yet to receive the formal recommendations he's requested from Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, administration officials said the president is intimately familiar with the universe of options and won't spend much time deliberating once Johnson delivers his recommendations.

After resisting calls to act alone in hopes Congress would pass a comprehensive immigration fix, Obama in June bowed to immigration activists and said that "if Congress will not do their job, at least we can do ours." The most sweeping, controversial step under consideration involves halting deportation for millions, a major expansion of a 2012 Obama program that deferred prosecutions for those brought here illegally as children.

Roughly half a million have benefited from that program, known as Deferred Action for

Childhood Arrivals or DACA. But while prosecutors are routinely expected to use their discretion on a case-by-case basis, such blanket exempting of entire categories of people has never been done on the scale of what Obama is considering — potentially involving many millions of people if he extends relief to parents of DACA children, close relatives of U.S. citizens or immigrants with clean criminal records.

"The question is how broadly can the president extend the categories and still stay on the side of spectrum of ensuring the laws are faithfully executed?" said Cristina Rodriguez, who left the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel in 2013 to teach at Yale Law School.

Other options under consideration, such as changes to how green cards are distributed and counted, might be less controversial because of the support they enjoy from the business community and other influential groups. But Derrick Morgan, a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney and a scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said Obama will still face staunch opposition as long as he attempts an end run around Congress.

Obama's goal had been to announce his decision around Labor Day, before leaving on a trip next week to Estonia and Wales. But a host of national security crises have pushed the announcement back, likely until after Obama returns, said the officials, who weren't authorized to comment by name and demanded anonymity.

Obama's actions will almost surely be challenged in court.

"Any potential executive ac-

tion the president takes will be rooted in a solid legal foundation," White House spokesman Shawn Turner said.

What's more, Obama may have undermined his case because he has insisted time and again that he's the president, not the king, and "can't just make the laws up by myself." In a 2012 interview with Telemundo, Obama defended his decision to defer deportations for children but said he couldn't go any bigger.

"If we start broadening that, then essentially I would be ignoring the law in a way that I think would be very difficult to defend legally. So that's not an option," he said then.

Republicans are already hinting that they'll consider legal action to thwart what they've denounced as a violation of the separation of powers. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, in a conference call this month with GOP House members, accused Obama of "threatening to rewrite our immigration laws unilaterally."

"If the president fails to faithfully execute the laws of our country, we will hold him accountable," Boehner said, according to an individual who participated in the call.

The House already has passed legislation to block Obama from expanding DACA and, through its power of the purse, could attempt to cut off the funds that would be needed to implement the expansion. House Republicans could also consider widening or amending their existing lawsuit against Obama over his health care law, a case that both parties have suggested could be a prelude to impeachment proceedings.

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New voting features in MN should make voting process slicker for college students

JAMES HOUTSMA Editor in Chief Moving can be tough for the average college student and not just in the sense that you have to lift stuff. Changing addresses means choosing which house you consider to be home.

This is especially important when it comes to voting because your preference on which place you call home determines which ballot you vote on.

With the general election approaching this November, Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie and his office are beefing up efforts to get college students to “decide where you reside.” And with a few new options in the registration process this year, that goal may be more hassle-free than before.

First, remember that voters are only allowed to vote from one registered address and attempting to fill out a ballot in a district for which you are not registered can be decidedly problematic.

“It’s important our college students register to vote using the correct address to ensure they receive the correct ballot,” says Ritchie. “And as they will be our next generation of leaders and policy makers, it’s critical for them to be informed and civically engaged.”

But for those worrying about the frustration that comes with registering, know that things

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City of St. Anthony facing lawsuit City in hot water due to alleged rejection of Islamic State

. f a d ST. ANTHONY, Minn. (AP) r— The U.S. government is su,ing the city of St. Anthony for ealleged religious discrimination nfor rejecting a proposed Islamic ncenter in 2012, U.S. Attorney sAndrew Luger said Wednesday. t The complaint, filed in U.S. sDistrict Court in Minneapolis,

alleges that the St. Anthony Vil,lage City Council treated the rgroup’s application for a coneditional use permit at the St. yAnthony Business Center on eless-than-equal terms as other, enon-religious permits to assem-

ble. o “Freedom of religion and the yright to assembly peaceably are senshrined for all Americans in ,the Bill of Rights,” Luger said in oa news release. “The people of hAbu Huraira have a right to aslsembly peaceably — they have ea right to practice their religion, nand it’s our job to enforce that eright.”

The lawsuit contends the nMinneapolis suburb violated the aReligious Land Use and Institu.tionalized Persons Act of 2000, eand that denying the permit made it difficult for the group’s omembers to practice their faith. .The suit seeks a court order re, n r

quiring St. Anthony to allow the Abu Huraira Islamic Center to maintain a worship space in the basement of the St. Anthony Business Center.

In a statement Wednesday, the city said there was no discrimination.

“The City of St. Anthony Village welcomes all religious faiths into our community. The conditional use permit was denied based on the appropriate need to restrict assembly and religious uses within the very limited amount of industrial area within the city,” the statement said.

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said it welcomed the lawsuit.

“We applaud this decision in support of religious freedom and hope for a speedy resolution to the case so that the local Muslim community may have access to the facilities required to meet its needs,” CAIR-MN civil rights attorney Ellen Longfellow said in a statement.

The lawsuit follows a recent notice of intent to sue sent by the U.S. Department of Justice alleging religious discrimination,

the Star Tribune reported.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis tried to reach an out-of-court agreement with the parties during a two-year investigation, a spokeswoman told the newspaper.

St. Anthony’s City Council voted 4-1 in 2012 to reject the proposed Abu Huraira Islamic Center, saying a religious and cultural center wasn’t compatible with the site’s light-industrial zoning. The council’s decision went against the city planning commission’s recommendation to approve the 15,000-squarefoot center in the former Medtronic Inc. headquarters.

More than 150 people attended the meeting. Some spoke out against the Islamic center.

Jim Roth, the only council member to vote in favor of the center, said he was “embarrassed” and “stunned” by some of the remarks that were made.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations’ chapter in Minnesota asked the federal government to investigate.

Two months later, the group that proposed the Islamic center purchased the old Medtronic building for $1.9 million.

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Immigrants may be able to apply for asylum

Domestic violence victims can be provided asylum to escape danger WASHINGTON (AP) — A government immigration board has determined for the first time that domestic violence victims may be able to qualify for asylum in the United States. The ruling comes in the case of a Guatemalan woman who crossed into the U.S. illegally in 2005 after fleeing her husband.

She said she called local police in Guatemala to report the abuse but was repeatedly told that the authorities would not interfere in her marriage. She argued that the abuse and the lack of police response should make her eligible for asylum.

In the first-of-its kind ruling Tuesday, the Justice Department’s Board of Immigration Appeals agreed, at least in part.

In the nine-page decision, the appeals board concluded that the unidentified immigrant met at least one criterion for asylum: as a married Guatemalan woman who couldn’t leave her relationship, she was part of a particular social group.

The Homeland Security Department, which prosecutes deportation cases, did not contest the immigrant’s argument. The appeals board sent the case back to an immigration judge.

The board sent the case back to an immigration judge for a final ruling.

The ruling by the board that decides appeals from federal im-

migration courts is significant because it means that the government now recognizes domestic violence victims as a potentially protected class of people seeking refuge in the United States.

The decision establishes a broad and firm foothold for an untold number of women whose asylum claims have been routinely denied in the past.

But proving all the elements of any asylum case can still be difficult. Those seeking protection have to prove they will be persecuted in their home country because of their race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. They also have to prove that their home government is either involved in the persecution or unable or unwilling to stop it.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the ruling will impact thousands of pending asylum cases and thousands more that could be filed now that the government has recognized domestic violence victims as a potential class of persecuted people.

More than 62,000 people traveling as families, most of them women and young children from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been apprehended at the Mexican border since Oct. 1. They all face deportation.

Even though ultimately winning asylum in the U.S. is a long

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shot for most immigrants, just having a pending asylum case in immigration court can be something of a victory for immigrants fearful of being sent home. Those who can convince a federal asylum officer that their case should be heard by a judge are allowed to stay in the country and legally work while their case is decided. Because of a backlog of about 375,000 pending deportation cases, that process can take several years.

Tuesday’s ruling does not automatically mean the woman and her children will be granted asylum, though her lawyer told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he believes she will ulti-

mately win.

“We are going to win, (but) it’s going to be a long time,” said Roy Petty, an Arkansas immigration lawyer who represented her in the case. He said the court backlog could delay a final decision for years longer.

Guatemala ranked third in the world for the murder of women, according to statistics cited by the Center for Strategic and International Studies last year.

In a 2012 report on violence against women, the Pan American Health Organization said that from 2008 to 2009 more than one-quarter of Guatemalan women said they had at some point suffered physical or sexual

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Gay marriage dispute in St. Paul

r Young gay couple presses charges against lodge that turned them away

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The owners of a lodge in central Minnesota have agreed to pick up the tab for the wedding and reception of a same-sex couple they initially turned away.

Cole Frey and Adam Block have settled their discrimination complaint filed with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights against the owners of Rice Creek Hunting and Recreation, Inc., which operates a lodge used for weddings in Little Falls.

Frey, 20, said he and Block, 18, complained to the Department of Human Rights after the venue’s owners rejected their business because they were gay. Rice Creek employees initially told the couple the date for their wedding and reception was open, but then changed their minds.

“Because they don’t condone same sex marriage and they weren’t ready for that yet,” Frey said he was told by Rice Creek on the phone.

The Department of Human Rights investigated and determined there was probable cause of discrimination by the lodge owners due to sexual orientation.

“This is the first public accommodation case for the department related to same-sex marriage, and it serves as a reminder that businesses may not deny services based on a person’s sexual orientation just as they can’t deny services on the basis of race or gender,” Commissioner Kevin Lindsey said.

The department helped negotiate a settlement in which Rice Creek agreed to pay for the couple’s wedding and reception at another location as well as accommodations for out-of-town guests. Frey said the tab comes to around $8,500.

The gay marriage law passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 2013 provides specific exemptions for religious entities from taking part in same-sex union, but it doesn’t exempt individuals, businesses and nonprofits from non-discrimination laws based on religious beliefs regarding same-sex marriage.

The attorney for the lodge owners, Paul Rogosheske, says they realized they made a mistake in refusing to accommodate the couple.

“We did everything we could to remedy it,” Rogosheske said.

“We wish them the best.”

The Minnesota Family Council, which opposes samesex marriage, said the government shouldn’t force family businesses to participate in ceremonies that violate their beliefs.

“The Minnesota Human Rights Department’s treatment of Minnesota families is deplorable. They are choosing to enforce the same-sex ‘marriage’ law in an unconstitutional manner, targeting Minnesota business owners and, to top it all off, claiming victory for settling with a hunting preserve owner who should have never had to face a human rights case against him,” Council

CEO John Helmberger said in a statement.

Block said he was shocked and confused when they were turned away at Rice Creek, but

said there will be a learning curve as the gay marriage law maturates.

“We need to keep it in mind that it’s the law, Block said.

The couple poses outside of the State building after settling their dispute.

He and Frey will be married Aug. 29 at Camp Ripley in Little Falls.

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One student’s recollection of welcome week JAZMINE WILLIS Staff Writer

Welcome Week is the pride and joy of staring the school year right. You get to move into you new place, tour the campus, have lots of fun and most of all; you get to meet new people.

I actually loved move in day because I got to move into my new residence hall, Crawford.

I got a chance to meet my new roommate Shantasia. I then was able to move onto the new student barbeque, which was totally fun. I was able to meet a lot of new people that I found from my hall and floor and maybe some other new people; it was exciting. I ended my day by going to the Maverick Bullpen in the Centennial Student Union, which was amazing.

On Friday, I was able to

check out events happening in the CSU like Mavericks Abroad, which gives you information about how you study abroad.

I was also able to go to the Career Development Center to look for jobs or go to Choose A Palooza and other great events happening throughout the day.

Saturday, I got the chance to finally see the movie, A Million Ways to Die in the West, which in case no one has seen yet is a hilarious movie with great and funny Seth McFarlane. I then went to see hypnotist, Doug Thompson in Bresna Arena at 9pm and he was great. He was able to get everyone relaxed for the beginning school year, which ended the next day with the New Student Rally, lead by Ryan Penneau, who was able to pump us all back up to get excited about the new school year.

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Web trails and ape worlds Sci-fi, supertrains among Houtsma’s film favorites of summer JAMES HOUTSMA Editor in Chief 5. The Amazing SpiderMan 2 / Guardians of the Galaxy "What?! How dare you even put these two in range of each other, much less tie them. Hack!"

Oh sorry, just having imaginary, displaced fanboy screeches in my head again.

Yes, this is a pairing you won't likely find on any similar lists, as the general consensus seems to be that everything about Guardians of the Galaxy needs to be

worshiped while, conversely, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 deserves nothing less than to be crapped upon.

All that is sort of weird to me because, by and large, both movies have more similarities than differences. They're both colorful, jaunty, visual effects-filled comic book adaptations; they both rely on a good bit of humor; both have villains that don't live up to their potential; you'll likely roll your eyes at some point during both; and both have a signifi-

cant use of music throughout.

In fact, the only real place the two films diverge the most is in each one's respective shortcomings. Spider-Man, while definitely having some good ideas, is a studio hatchet job that never becomes one coherent story. On the opposite end,Guardians is stitched together well but can thank its willingness to stick to formula for that.

But whether messy or tame, each film lives up to its promise of summer blockbuster fun and is a blast in its own respective way.

4. Edge of Tomorrow Not only is Edge of Tomorrow a bunch of fun, it's a wholly surprising bunch of fun. Like finding $10 in a pile of leaves.

Seriously, my interest in this one went from low beforehand to very high after.

The joy in watching Edge

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of Tomorrow is in seeing Tom Cruise adjust his decisions each time the day resets to either better or more disastrous results.

And hey, Tom Cruise is pretty fun to watch too, as he goes from milquetoast figurehead to badass warrior. It's action-y, funny(-y),

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Sony’s weekend woes PlayStation suffers hacking, threats MATTHEW EBERLINE Staff Writer Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) was unavailable for several hours this weekend, after hackers launched an attack that took the service offline. Lizard Squad, the hacker collective claiming responsibility for the attack, used a distributed denialof-service (DDoS) method to overwhelm the PSN servers, interrupting connections to gamers across the globe. The group took down the servers of other gaming services as well, including World of Warcraft, League of Legends, and Xbox Live, among others. No personal information was compromised during these attacks.

In a bizarre twist, Lizard Squad also issued a bomb threat on Sunday against the American Airlines flight carrying Sony Online Entertainment President

John Smedley. The flight was diverted from its normal route and searched for explosives, though none were found. The FBI has since begun an investigation of the matter.

In other news, a series of images and videos surfaced across the web, showcasing what appear to be a number of unannounced characters from the roster of Nintendo’s newest Super Smash Bros. game. Potentially leaked characters include Dr. Mario, Dark Pit, Alph (from Pikmin 3), Shulk (from Xenoblade Chronicles), Bowser Jr., Ness (from Earthbound), the Dog from Duck Hunt, Mr. Game & Watch, R.O.B., and Wario.

New DLC content was also confirmed for Nintendo’s popular racer, Mario Kart 8. The new content will launch as two separate packs and each will include three new characters, four new

cars, and eight new tracks.

The first pack is slated for release in November at $7.99, and includes Link, Cat Peach, and Tanooki Mario as its three characters, and the Blue Falcon from the F-Zero franchise as one of the new vehicles. The second pack will arrive in May 2015, also at $7.99, and will include Isabelle from Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Dry Bowser, and Animal Crossing’s Villager. Players who purchase both bundles – together or separately – will receive immediate access to eight new colors for Yoshi and Shy Guy.

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FAVORITES “You’ll likely roll your eyes at some point during

both; and both have a significant use of music throughout.”

continued from 21 and pretty dern clever(-y).

The ending could have used a little bit of work but by that point the film has gotten way too much mileage out of the premise to care all that much.

It's a shame this one didn't catch on with audiences the way it really should have, actually not sucking and all, but home video has a talent for giving new life to under-appreciated films.

Color me impressed.

3. X-Men: Days of Future Past X-Men: Days of Future Past, like its signature letter, is a bit of a crossroads. Old meets new.

Established story meets artistic interpretation. Somber meets humor. Story momentum meets character introspection.

Thankfully, DOFP is one of those movies that can pull this blend off in a very focused way.

It has many memorable mo-

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ments but none of them seem to demand more focus than they're worth. Not to mention it's kind of a blast to see this cast interact, most of all McAvoy and Fassbender again.

My personal hope is that, for the sequel, director Bryan Singer (or whoever picks up director's duties for next time) brings more of a tangible visual style to X-Men: Apocalypse, more in line with what Matthew Vaughn did with First Class. But if that story is as good as this films is, then they will at least still have their priorities straight.

2. Snowpiercer When Hollywood fails, look elsewhere. What's remarkable about Snowpiercer is that, as a foreign film, it actually manages to beat Hollywood at its own game.

There's no shortage of sci-fi action thrillers out there. There

Little house, big book Manuscript reveals a grittier side of prairie life PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Laura Ingalls Wilder penned one of the most beloved children's series of the 20th century, but her forthcoming autobiography will show devoted "Little House on the Prairie" fans a more realistic, grittier view of frontier living.

"Pioneer Girl: The Annotated Autobiography" — Wilder's unedited draft that was written for an adult audience and eventually served as the foundation for the popular series — is slated to be released by the South Dakota State Historical Society Press nationwide this fall. The not-safe-for-children tales include stark scenes of domestic abuse, love triangles gone awry and a man who lit

himself on fire while drunk off whiskey.

Wilder and her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, herself a well-known author, tried and failed to get an edited version of the autobiography published throughout the early 1930s. The original rough draft has been preserved at the Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum in Mansfield, Missouri, for decades but hadn't been published.

The children's series never presented a romanticized version of life on the prairie — in "Little House in the Big Woods," Laura and her sister Mary gleefully help dissect the family pig before bouncing its inflated bladder back and forth

in the yard. But the series also left out or fictionalized scenes that Wilder deemed unsuitable for kids, including much of the time the family spent in Burr Oak, Iowa, and Walnut Grove, Minnesota, according to Pamela Smith Hill, a Wilder biographer and the lead editor on the autobiography.

"So you can read 'Pioneer Girl' as nonfiction rather than fiction and get a better feeling of how the historical Ingalls family really lived, what their relationships were and how they experienced the American West," she said.

Wilder details a scene from her childhood in Burr

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are, however, not that many that can pull off a film as thoughtful, gritty and memorable as this one. Anyone inclined to think a bit during their gunfights should find reward in Snowpiercer as the pointed commentary keeps things perpetually interesting.

And lookey here, you don't even have to leave the house to watch the film. It's still available to rent on most on-demand services (good luck finding one of the, like, seven theaters it's still playing at).

1. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes There were many good sci-fi films out this summer and a re-

freshing amount of movies that didn't treat the audience like w complete idiots. This film is the t F best in both categories.

It's hard to talk about Dawn of the Planet of the Apes outside the L context of squeeing about every b little thing in it. But this is my c a favorites list so I'm allowed!

Where to start? The stunning motion capture performances by e the hero and villain? The four or a five times where Planet of the h Apes iconography seemed on the S verge of bursting through? Gary Oldman's archetype-defying i character? Maybe the emotional i intensity that starts right away t t and just does. not. let. up.?

If all that sounds good, it's c because it is. It so, positively, is.

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Tribute or threat?

Indian censors block Gandhi film

NEW DELHI (AP) — India has blocked the release of a film on the assassination of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, saying it glorifies her killers and could trigger violent protests, officials said Friday.

India's film certification board said the film glorified the Sikh bodyguards who killed Gandhi to avenge her suppression of an insurgency that culminated in an army assault on the Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine.

"Kaum De Heere," or "Diamonds of the Community," was scheduled to be released in theaters across northern India on Friday.

Certification board chief Leela Samson said panel members saw the film and decided it could not be released as it posed a threat to public order.

India's Home Ministry had expressed concern about a clearance earlier given to the film and had asked the panel to review it, Samson said.

The ministry had received intelligence reports that the film, in the Punjabi language, could trigger feelings of enmity between India's Hindu and Sikh communities, she said.

"We saw the film and decided

it could not be released as it was, due to fears that it would lead to disruption of public order," she said.

"The film is double trouble. It glorifies Indira Gandhi's assassins who took the law into their own hands and it glorifies the hanging of the two men," Sam-

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The film is based on the lives of three Sikh men, including two bodyguards who shot and killed Gandhi against the backdrop of an insurgency that gripped the northern state of Punjab through

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Who does heroes better?

Comparing comic icons at the box office is an ever-changing challenge.

JAMES HOUTSMA Editor in Chief DC/Warner Bros.

The white flag has been thrown. After months of both Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice and the untitled Captain America threequel sitting tight on the same May 6, 2016 release date, the World's Finest have yielded.

DC's flagship film will now release six weeks earlier on March 25.

Before we all assume Marvel was the only one to show a little muscle-flexing here, the announcement did come with a big second half: Warner Bros. has slated nine movies based on DC properties following Bats vs Supes, one as soon as that August.

Titles for these announced films are expected to be revealed within the next month.

While everyone on Twitter seemed to jump all this as strictly a victory for Marvel, this is really a win for everyone. What part of "we get Batman vs Superman six weeks early" is a bad thing? By the time March rolls around we're already dying for an event movie, as the earnings on films like

Captain America: The Winter Soldier -- an early April release -- have shown. With any hope, this could be the beginning of studios bucking the traditional summer flustercluck model and releasing big movies regardless of month.

Marvel Studios Marvel Studios is doing pretty good now. Scratch that; Marvel Studios has never been better. Having just released Guardians of the Galaxy, perhaps their trickiest property yet, the studio has come into another smash hit in what will likely be the top domestic earner of the summer.

Meanwhile, spring was also pretty great for them, as Captain America: The Winter Soldier (on blu-ray soon) did gangbusters. The Avengers sequel is on the horizon for next summer and the studio just showed enough muscle to win the game of chicken with DC and keep Cap 3 on the summer opener date.

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Or how about the fact that Guardians of the Galaxy cowriter Nicole Perlman, the first credited female writer on a Marvel film, is getting continually discredited in interviews by Guardians director and general POS James Gunn? Classy stuff here.

And all you guys and gals wondering when the studio will finally take the big leap and make a female-starring superhero flick? Don't worry because Marvel head guru Kevin Feige "won't be swayed" into doing that.

Look, I like what Marvel's doing, mostly, but there's an awful lot of worship going on that is simply not justified when looking at how blatantly skeevy they can be. I mean, there has to be a point where... oh look, S.H.I.E.L.D. characters may appear in Ant-Man

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Sony/Spider-Man And yet, it could always be worse.

Back at this year’s Comic-Con it was announced that The Amazing SpiderMan 3 is getting pushed to an undetermined 2018 date, while Drew Goddard's villain team-up, The Sinister Six, will be out November 11, 2016.

Naturally, this shakeup didn't inspire a lot of confi-

dence in the idea that Sony knows what it's doing, especially among the crowd that naively thinks the movie rights to Spider-Man can and will go back to Marvel within the next five years.

Since then, Sony has beat Marvel to the punch by announcing a female-led Spider-Man spinoff flick coming in 2017. No further details were announced, but special features on the Amazing Spi-

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the late 1970s and early 1980s when Sikh militants demanded a separate Sikh nation.

Gandhi ordered the June 1984 army operation to flush out hundreds of heavily armed Sikh separatists barricaded inside the Golden Temple. The attack outraged Sikhs and led to a catastrophic breakdown in communal relations.

Later that year, Gandhi was assassinated and the country was swept by a wave of anti-Sikh rioting which resulted in the

deaths of more than 2,000 Sikhs.

Officials said the recent arrest of India's chief film censor on accusations that he solicited bribes to speed the clearance of films drew attention to the clearance given to "Kaum De Heere."

Certification board CEO Rakesh Kumar was arrested Tuesday after a sting operation in which two of his associates sought 70,000 rupees, or about $1,050, on Kumar's behalf to speed up the censor's clearance for a film.

During questioning, Kumar revealed that he had accepted a bribe of 100,000 rupees ($1,666) from the makers of "Kaum De Heere" to approve its censor certification.

The film's producer Pardeep Bansal and its director Ravinder Ravi have denied the charges.

Meanwhile, leaders of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the main opposition Congress Party. have called for the banning of the film, saying it would offend people's religious

and community feelings.

Bansal said the film was based on historic events and that he would soon seek a review of the film board's decision.

"It is a balanced film. Some people are unnecessarily trying to create a controversy," Bansal told reporters.

Samson said the film had not been banned and could be reviewed after suitable changes to the script and cuts were made.

"The film's producers can always file an appeal to the film

certification appellate tribunal and seek redress," she said.

Punjabi is widely spoken in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. It's the 10th most popular language globally with about 130 million speakers.

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Oak, in which a neighbor of the Ingalls' pours kerosene throughout his bedroom, sets it on fire and proceeds to drunkenly drag his wife around by her hair before Wilder's father — Pa in the children's books — intervenes.

Scenes like that make Wilder's memoir sound like it's filled with scandal and mature themes, "which isn't exactly true either," according to Amy Lauters, an associate professor of mass media at Minnesota State Universi-

ty-Mankato.

"It's just that that first version was blunt, it was honest.

It was full of the everyday sorts of things that we don't care to think about when we think about history," said Lauters, who has read the original manuscript and also is writing a book on Rose Wilder Lane. "And it's certainly not the fantasized version we saw on 'Little House on the Prairie' the television show."

Wilder's story will likely do well in South Dakota,

since the author moved to De Smet in the late 1870s with her family, eventually meeting her future husband there.

For fans, the autobiography is chance to see from where Wilder drew her inspiration, said Sandra Hume, a Wilder aficionado who published an internationally distributed newsletter for 10 years and now helps manage Laurapalooza, a conference dedicated to all things Wilder.

"I am very excited to see people have access to this,

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The autobiography preserves Wilder's original rough draft — misspellings, idiosyncrasies and all — but adds extensive annotations.

"Little House" lovers can learn about the three girls that Wilder combined to create the Nellie Olson character, or how extensive

the damage was in Minnesota during the grasshopper plague of the 1870s, which forced Pa in "On the Banks of Plum Creek" to set out in search of work.

"In some ways, I came to think of the annotations in 'Pioneer Girl' as almost an encyclopedia about Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and work," Hill said.

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ful lot of worship going on that is simply not justified when looking at how blatantly sketchy they can be.”

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der-Man 2 blu-ray seem to confirm that Felicity Jones' character in the film is Felicia Hardy/Black Cat, seemingly putting her as the top contender to headline the project.

First, yay for Sony in being the first out of the gate to do the female-led superhero thing. Clearly, they sensed the could get some leeway on Marvel in this area and went for it. Not to mention there's kind of a growing demand for it.

But at this point, it's hard to imagine that this will amount to anything more than bragging rights.

You can only muster so much enthusiasm for a Black Cat movie when Sony hasn't made a truly great film starring SpiderMan for almost a decade.

And this is coming from the guy who liked The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

All is not well in Spidey-land as the franchise's toxic producer Avi Arad seems to be more preoccupied with churning out as many Spider-Man related films as possible to keep the rights away from Marvel rather than put the work in to make something amazing. For

that, he would have to keep his nose out of the director and screenwriter's business and let them make a coherent movie -- something he clearly will not do. Producer/ studio interference is this franchise's biggest enemy right now.

In other news, the proposed Venom film is reportedly now going by the title Venom/Carnage. Might be reading into this a bit much, but I think Carnage might show up in this movie. The symbiotic spinoff, headed

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Seriously, they're doing good for now, plain and simple.

X-Men: Days of Future Past was a smash hit -- the biggest earner in the franchise so far. X-Men has never been more primed for big time franchise possibilities, with or without Bryan

Singer (still no word on whether Fox has officially asked him back for X-Men: Apocalypse. Those underage sexual abuse allegations have been dropped, but still leave an understandably bad taste.)

On the other end of the coin, Fox's Fantastic Four reboot, for now going by The Fantastic Four, recently finished shooting in Louisiana. As of yet, almost nothing has been revealed about

the project, aside from the origin being reportedly different.

The film had no presence at this year's Comic Con, but a photo was recently released showing what could be our first look at Ben Grimm/The Thing, played by Jamie Bell.

The Josh Trank helmed reboot is set to open June 19, 2015, with its sequel already scheduled for the ever-popular 2017.

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Exibit: Will & Grace New Smithsonian addition honors LGBT television.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of photographs, papers and historical objects documenting the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are being added to the Smithsonian Institution's collection Tuesday, including items from the popular TV show "Will and Grace."

Show creators David Kohan and Max Mutchnick along with NBC are donating objects to the National Museum of American History. The collection includes original scripts, casting ideas, political memorabilia surrounding the show and the series finale. The network agreed to donate props, including a pill bottle and flask, a sign from "Grace Adler Interior Design" and Will Truman's framed college diploma.

Kohan told The Associated Press that the Smithsonian's interest in the show featuring gay

principal characters was a validation they never dreamed about when the sitcom began airing in 1998. "Will and Grace" ran through May 2006 depicting four friends both gay and straight, eventually ending with the main characters coupled off with children.

"These particular guests that were invited into people's living rooms happened to be your gay friends," Kohan said. "I don't think people really had the opportunity to have that before, and it served to, I think, make people recognize that your close friends were gay."

"The fact that it's in the American history (museum), maybe we were a part of something that was bigger than we ever imagined," Kohan said.

The donation is part of larger effort to document gay and lesbian history, an area that has not been well understood at the museum. Curators are collecting materials from LGBT political, sports and cultural history objects from Arizona to Maryland.

Some items being donated include the diplomatic passports of Ambassador David Huebner, the first openly gay U.S. ambassador confirmed by the Senate, and his husband; materials from a gay community center in Baltimore; and photography collections from Patsy Lynch and Silvia Ros documenting gay rights activism.

From sports history, the museum will receive a tennis racket from former professional player Renee Richards who won a landmark New York Supreme Court decision for transgender rights after she was denied entry to the U.S. Open in 1975.

"There have always been gender non-conforming people in the U.S., and we've made contributions and lived life since the beginning of the country," said Curator Katherine Ott who focuses on sexuality and gender.

"It's not talked about and analyzed and understood in the critical ways in which it should be.

So for us to build the collection means we can more fully document the history of this country."

"Will and Grace" used comedy to familiarize a mainstream audience with gay culture, said Curator Dwight Blocker Bowers.

It was daring and broke ground

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Thielen looks to find new horns From wearing Mavericks horns in college to now competing for Vikings horns, receiver Adam Thielen is making a good case for a spot on an NFL roster.

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JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer Former Minnesota State University, Mankato studentathlete is impressing Minnesota Vikings coaches.

Receiver Adam Thielen has been a big stand out in training camp. Head coach Mike Zimmer claimed that Thielen was the guy that improved the most from organized team activities camp. Thielen has been consistent through preseason even though he didn’t catch a pass during the Kansas City game.

However, he returned a punt for 75 yards. During preseason he has had five receptions for 69 yards.

“He’s one of those kind of guys, the more things you can do, the better chance you have of staying. That’s kind of how he’s been all this training camp,” Zimmer said.

Even Vikings general manager Rick Spielman gave praise to Thielen as someone who improved from last year. He was on the Vikings practice squad last year.

“I know he’ll make the team.

I don’t care what anybody else says, he’s a part of this team,” Cordarrelle Patterson said. “Talent like that, you cannot hide. I have defensive guys, you know, veterans, who’re saying Adam should have been a part of this team last year, and I feel that, too.”

Thielen has been impressing on special teams and at receiver.

Zimmer likes players that can play more than one position.

Thielen’s chances of making the team are looking good due to a few great punt returns and clutch receptions in preseason.

“Every day I set a goal for myself and I want to achieve that and then get better everyday” Thielen said.

Thielen has made it through the first team cuts and ESPN football has predicted Thielen will make the 53-man roster.

Roster decisions will be difficult to make for coaches.

“It’d mean the world to me.

It’s been my goal since I was a little boy,” Thielen said.

The Vikings are already stacked at the wide receiver position with Patterson, Greg Jennings, Jarius Wright and Jerome Simpson locked in to make the team. To get the roster to 53 men the Vikings have to make room for one more receiver, but could make an exception for six. Rodney Smith seems to be giving Thielen a run at the last receiver spot. Smith has been impressing more towards the end of camp. He had a great game in the Vikings win against the Arizona Cardinals. Smith caught four passes for 55 yards and a touchdown in the last minute of the game to secure the win. Both Zimmer and Spielman have expressed reluctance when

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asked about the final roster.

Smith has the prototypical body of a great receiver, listed at six-foot-five and weighing 200 pounds. He was also on the practice squad last year before being called up to special teams after five weeks.

In college, Thielen left MSU in 2012 as the second-leading receiver in history. In his senior campaign at MSU, Thielen had 1,176 yards receiving with eight touchdown catches. He had 192 receptions and 134 scoring points during his college career and was appointed First Team All-NSIC South Division selec-

tion his last year.

He paid money to go through a regional NFL combine, leading to the Vikings inviting him to try out at the rookie minicamp, and he was signed. During last year’s training camp he did well enough to earn himself a spot on the practice squad.

Thielen is 24 years old and got engaged during his rookie season. He grew up in Detroit Lakes, Minn. and earned a bachelor’s of science in sports management from MSU. “To be able to represent my whole family and it’s pretty special,” Thielen said.

Fantasy Football: Tommy Wiita’s on the clock TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer Football season has arrived ladies and gentlemen, and that means fantasy football is back. Is this the year you can take home the trophy in your league? I’m here to help you as a guide in what to look for this year. Quarterback first pick? Do you take a running back or wide receiver?

The 2014 season is yours for the taking, and a little help is always

appreciated.

We’ll start with my history.

I’ve been playing in multiple leagues for about five years now, and I am yet to win a championship. I have reached the final game more than a handful of times, but the injury bug always seems to haunt me. There’s not a lot you can do with that kind of issue, but I am hoping this year it can all turn around for me.

THE TOP RANKINGS ESPN, CBS and other net-

works have created a ranking system for their players, and I have my own kind of list as well.

There seems to be a lot of disagreement with what position someone should draft first, and it all comes down to quarterback, running back and wide receiver.

My theory is wherever there is a lot of depth, that’s where you should look last. It will be available to you later in the draft, and you want to get the players where there’s only so much talent to

offer. Every year I have played (besides one) I have gone with a quarterback with my first pick, because that is where the points are coming from most of the time (depending on your point system in your league). This year however, there is a lot of depth in each of those three positions.

The league is turning into more of a pass first league however, so you may want to consider that.

The following are my top 5 rankings, in order.

1. ADRIAN PETERSON, RB, VIKINGS Peterson had an off year as the Vikings did as well. He still finished 27th overall in total points for the 2013 season, but that would maybe be acceptable if it was someone like Wide Receiver Demaryius Thomas of Denver (Same total). The former MVP is looking for a bounce back year

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2014 MSU Volleyball Preview After having a really young team in 2013, the Maverick volleyball team found it’s nucleus of players to not only build around for this season but for season to come.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer

The Minnesota State University, Mankato volleyball

2013 Record 13-15 (8-12 NSIC) Head Coach Dennis Amundson Assistant Coaches Lori Rittenhouse-Wollmuth Bre Payton Key Departure Briel Hendricksen Key Returners Jenna McNallan Ellie Van De Steeg Chandra Honebrink Tiana Runck Krista Hassing

team ended last season with a 13-15 record finishing 8th in the NSIC, but is geared up and ready to go for the 2014 season. Dennis Amundson is entering his 10th season as Head Coach for the Mavericks, and is looking for his team to improve thoroughly throughout the year. “Our goal every year to improve and get better.” Amundson said. With a young team on his hands for another year, improvement will be the key contributor come playoff time.

With a young team returning, the Mavericks will be looking at Junior Setter Ellie Van De Steeg to facilitate the offensive. “Our entire offense is ran through Ellie, she will be a key contributor this season.” Amundson said.

Last season Ellie did it all for the Mavericks; an All-NSIC team pick in 2012 and an All-NSIC second team pick in 2013, Ellie led the team with a 10.76 assist per set average, 23 service aces, 181 digs, along with 59 kills herself during the 2013 campaign.

Van De Seeg will be setting to top returning hitters Krista Hassing, and Chandra Honebrink. Hassing returns to run the middle for the Mavericks this season, Hassing was third on the team last year putting up 157 kills (1.94 per set) along with a solid defensive game putting up 7 solo blocks and 44 as-

MSU Reporter Archives Chandra Honebrink (middle) led the Mavericks with 306 kills and a 3.26 kill per set average.

sisted blocks. Hassing teamed with Honebrink hope to be a killing duo for the Mavericks.

Honebrink, an outside hitter, is coming off an impressive season where she had 304 kills (3.23 per set) in 26 matches played. Honebrink also tallied 177 digs and 32 total blocks.

The Mavericks open the season in Golden, Colorado where

they will play four matches starting September 5th including against Dominican from San Rafael, CA and a match against Bentley from Waltham, Massachusetts. “Playing in Colorado is great for our team, It will give us information on how are team stacks up, where can improve. It gives us our window into how your team is doing and where the

team is headed.” The Mavericks then open at home for the Maverick Invitational against Upper Iowa on September 12th – 13th.

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Was Cleveland best trade option for K-Love?

Most Timberwolves wanted Kevin Love gone, and the team followed through, but did they take the best trade they were offered? Sports writer Denzell Castro-Oats doesn’t think so.

DENZELL CASTROOATS Staff Writer

It’s no new news that Kevin Love has been traded away from Minnesota. Growing weary in season after season without a playoff appearance, the All-Star forward said before the 20142015 season that he wants out of Minnesota. As anyone could imagine, countless proposals came shortly after with teams including the Celtics, Lakers, and Warriors negotiating to obtain Love.

But the team that would ultimately come out on top with Love would be the Cleveland Cavaliers. Now with their prodigal son, Lebron returning home making the need to build around him a priority and Love’s dwindling passion to play for the Wolves became surreal. His departure was inevitable. In the big trade involving three teams Minnesota gained the popular first round pick Andrew Wiggins, and -then first round pick Anthony Bennett as well as Thaddeus .Young from the 76ers. Minnesota lost Luc Richard Mbah a l

for small forward Chase Budinger, guard Luc Mhab A Moute, and Love. I only see two actual assets in this deal and those being in Jeff Green and Jarred Sullinger. Jeff Green would be replacing the expendable Luc Mbah A Moute. Green’s athleticism would be a great addition to Minnesota’s front court and he would be very sound on the offensive side as he averaged 16.9 points per game last year. And the addition of Jared Sullinger would be a great one to say the least. Sullinger averaged 13.3 points last season off the bench.

His double doubling games almost resembled those of Love.

He showed spurts of athleticism through the 2013-2014 season and that’s what the Wolves will need. Acquiring what Boston has to offer would be nice, but not ideal.

Kevin Love is pretty picky, and should be, about just signing with any team. In all? Probably not the best deal on our side or in Love’s interest.

Another proposal worth dwelling on would be Houston’s.

Houston offered center Omer Asik, small forward Chandler Parsons, and power forward Ter-

basket and seems pretty sound when handling the ball. But I do in fact see Chandler Parsons a highlight in this, “would be” deal. Chandler’s ability to score is very respected in the league.

He was 50 percent from the field and shot a 40 percent 3-ball before the break last year. He would be an immediate contributor. In all, this trade warranted more attention than it got. And the Wolves could’ve benefitted.

But it was the Golden State Warriors offer that I thought was going to be the final deal, offer-

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the plus side to him is that he has what it takes to do it all on both sides of the ball.

And we come to David Lee, the emerging double-double machine. He has proven he can score and gain rebounds on both ends. He may not be as agile and, “swifty”, as our old friend Love but this 3-man package of forwards would not only deepen the Wolves back court but give Kevin Martin and Ricky Rubio outlets.

In all? This deal should’ve been made. I believe it was a “Golden”

Ticket.

But one has to believe all these possibilities were visited time and time again. Finding the right tools to fill the empty hole left by Love is tough, but mutually, it was finding a team that K-Love found suitable for himself. And going into this season he will be with the Cavs who now have gone from a rebuilding project, to a title contending team in one trade.

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Moute, Alexey Shved, and of course K-Love.

At first glance, gaining the explosive forward in Andrew Wiggins seemed like a good bandaid to cover the wound of losing Kevin Love, but at what cost?

Did Minnesota get the best deal they could’ve? Let’s briefly look at other scenarios.

Boston’s offer included center Joel Anthony, forward Brandon Bass, forward Jeff Green, And center/forward Jarred Sullinger

rence Jones and not to mention a first round draft pick for K-Love only. Even though there isn’t a need for Omer Asik, he would be great for the Wolve’s back court as he’s emerging as a great defensive presence and rebounder, but lacks offensive production.

Jones and Parsons on the other hand would be considered a doubled edged sword on the court for the Wolves. Jones was a standout forward for the Rockets and knows his way around the

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ing three of their premier forwards in Harrison Barnes, Draymond Green and David Lee. Harrison Barnes has been a steadily improving forward for the Warriors since his coming from the Tar Heels. He has all the tools to be dominate, it could be said that a new system would do him justice.

As for Draymond Green, his production is hard to gauge, but

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2014 NFL regular season is approaching quickly and the question us Minnesota fans are asking is, “Where do the Vikings stand?”

It’s a fair question as the Vikings have some question marks on the field, though the rest of the division is similar. The NFC North seems to be fairly wide open with the Chicago Bears, Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers all finishing with nearly

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DEREK LAMBERT Staff Writer The 2014 NFL regular season is approaching quickly and the question us Minnesota fans are asking is, “Where do the Vikings stand?”

It’s a fair question as the Vikings have some question marks on the field, though the rest of the division is similar. The NFC North seems to be fairly wide open with the Chicago Bears,

Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers all finishing with nearly identical records in 2013, though the Packers were the only one of the three to make the playoffs.

Minnesota was in the cellar of the NFC North with a 5-10-1 record and a scary 0-7-1 on the road. It wasn’t a great season for any of the NFC North teams, so what can we expect this season?

Though appearing to be a wide-open division, the Packers look to be the favorite. As

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three-time defending division champions, Green Bay will look to defend their crown after an 8-7-1 season and have plenty of weapons to accomplish it. Despite being a pass-first team, the absence of Aaron Rodgers last season saw the emergence of a rookie superstar in the backfield. Running back Eddie Lacy topped 1,100 yards last season on his way to becoming Offensive Rookie of the Year.

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wide-open division, the Packers look to be the favorite. As three-time defending division champions, Green Bay will look to defend their crown after an 8-7-1 season and have plenty of weapons to accomplish it. Despite being a pass-first team, the absence of Aaron Rodgers last season saw the emergence of a rookie superstar in the backfield. Running back Eddie Lacy topped 1,100 yards last season on his way to becoming Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Aaron Rodgers returns healthy, which believe it or not could actually make Green Bay a Super Bowl threat. Rodgers has Lacy behind him to go along with Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb at receiver for a potent offense. The Packers defense is going to be shaken up a bit which could also mean trouble for opposing teams.

The move of Julius Peppers from defensive end to linebacker is interesting and could be a huge help for the Pack. 2014 firstround pick Ha Ha Clinton-Dix should be an impact player in his rookie season at safety, also aiding a stingy defense.

The biggest challenge for the Pack may be Chicago. An 8-8 re-

cord is nothing to brag about, but the Bears finished second in the league in points scored, and that was with starting quarterback Jay Cutler injured. The problem for the Bears was they had the worst run defense in the NFL last season, though the additions of Jared Allen from the Vikings and Kyle Fuller from this year’s draft could certainly help.

Expect the Bears to have one of the best offenses in the league again this season, as Jay Cutler is healthy and all of his weapons are back too. With one of the best running backs in the league behind him in Matt Forte, the running game is taken care of. But down field Cutler has a dynamic duo in Pro Bowl receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery. If their players stay healthy, I think at worst the Bears are a wild card team but certainly have a chance at dethroning Green Bay as divisional champions.

A possible dark horse flying under the radar is Detroit. They have the tools to be an elite offensive power in the division, though quarterback Matt Stafford can’t find his niche. Stafford’s play can look brilliant at times, but he also can look like a lost rookie. Finding consistency

Web Photo Calvin Johsnon, aka Megatron, is just one of the many options Detroit Lion’s quarterback Matthew Stafford will have this season.

will be the key to Stafford’s success. Behind Stafford is running back Reggie Bush, who seemed to find his place in Detroit last season. And you can’t forget about the receivers. Calvin Johnson has proven himself as one of the best receivers in the game, and now has Golden Tate to take some of the load off his back.

The Lions finished pretty much middle of the pack in the NFL in both offensive and defensive statistics in 2013, so they could just as easily fall down the ladder as they could climb it. If their offense can find some consistency, they could be in the hunt for the NFC North.

Minnesota is the team most people are probably counting out, but they could find themselves in the mix. Last season’s quar-

terback situation was a disaster that has finally been figured out.

Veteran Matt Cassel will take the snaps to begin the season, which seems like the best option.

Although rookie quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has looked great in preseason, Cassel has the experience and though is not an elite quarterback, has enough talent to get the job done.

The best running back in football today, and one of the greats of all time, belongs to the Vikings. Adrian Peterson can be expected to have another incredible season, but at a certain point Minnesota needs to stop relying on him for all their offense.

With Cassel behind center and an emerging star at receiver in Cordarrelle Patterson to go along with veteran Greg Jennings, the

Vikings should see improvements.

Their defense is the question mark, where they were the worst in the NFL last season. Jared Allen is gone to Chicago, but 2014 first-round pick Anthony Barr as looked capable in preseason.

Harrison Smith being healthy is also huge for the Vikings’ defense.

The NFC North will likely see Detroit and Minnesota try and battle their way into the discussion for the top two spots in the division, but Chicago and Green Bay appear on paper to be too strong and it may be a twohorse race for the crown. With only a week until the start of the regular season, get ready for a wild ride in the NFL this season.

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With a majority of the young Maverick squad returning, their youth will have to step up and gain the experience needed to compete in the NSIC, which the Mavericks were ranked 8th in the Preseason Poll. Although they are young, The Mavericks are ready to win now. “We are expecting to make some noise this year in the NSIC” said the Mavericks Outside hitter Tiana Runck.

“After a rebuilding season last year, our team is ready to go and definitely hungry for victory and revenge.”

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The march to October is through September Every team wants to play in October, but there is still work to be done in September.

DEREK LAMBERT Staff Writer With approximately 30 games left in the regular season, divisions are starting to spread out and we are starting to get a glimpse of who will contend for postseason play. However, four of the six division leaders have less than eight games separating them. In other words, this should get intense. Who will win all the divisions?

The first half of the baseball season has given us plenty to be excited about as we have some new blood mixed in with perennial powers building the playoff landscape. Will the Tigers run away with the AL Central? Do the Brewers have enough to hang on in the tough NL Central? Can the Giants regroup? What happened to the Oakland A’s?

The Nationals and Braves start out with a fresh slate and the second half begins a new season as both are tied for the division lead. The Nationals were supposed to be right where they are,

while the Braves have surprised somewhat. The big upside here for the Nationals has been their MLB-leading 3.08 team ERA, and the possibility that one of the game’s brightest stars, Bryce Harper, will give them some offensive production.

After missing all of May and June, Harper has hit just .135 in July. The good news is that he did hit his second homer of the season on the weekend prior to the All-Star break. The bad news is that he’s pressing too much and has struck out 16 times in 37 July at bats. The fact that the Nats have done all this without his contributions is pretty remarkable.

Cincinnati has received good starting pitching, but hasn’t been able to rely on Joey Votto or Brandon Phillips for their normal offensive support. Over in Pittsburgh, they’ve been scrapping away to make up for a terrible first two months and are playing their preferred brand of ball right now. Meanwhile, Milwaukee has cooled considerably

after a hot start, as the previously strong starting rotation has failed them of late. The Cardinals are still the class of the division, but taking a shot with Pittsburgh to win it at 11-to-2 odds wouldn’t be a bad choice amid all the issues the other three teams have.

The Dodgers have that look of running away like they did at the end of June last season, and while they still haven’t received the type of hitting expected out of Hanley Ramirez, Matt Kemp or Adrian Gonzalez, Yasiel Puig keeps doing his thing. Not to mention, the added element of Dee Gordon, along with unlikely contributions from the likes of Scott Van Slyke and Justin Turner has helped keep the Dodgers offense afloat. But we all know the real reason for their rise to the top after San Francisco looked as though they would run away with the division.

After a spring that featured key free agent signings, a couple mega contracts and way too many mentions of Tommy John, it is time to get on with the real

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The Nationals, Cardinals and Dodgers look like strong favorites in the National League, but thanks partly to all the injuries the American League looks no easier to solve than a Rubik’s Cube.

After much calculation and deliberation, I’ll take the Dodgers over the Royals in a World Series matchup of teams that haven’t won it.

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5. JIMMY GRAHAM, TE, SAINTS Honestly you could go either way with Johnson or Graham here. Both have quarterbacks that can get them the ball and both are unbelievable athletes. Jimmy has been on the rise for a few years now, as he looks like the second coming of Tony Gonzalez. He led all tight ends last year in total points scored, and it doesn’t look like that will change this year as well. There may be more double coverages on him this year, but that shouldn’t make a difference and shouldn’t be a permanent move for defenses as Brees can check down better than most in the league. That coverage should sag after a while.

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and it will all depend on if Matt Cassel and the rookie Teddy Bridgewater can make a better impact on the passing game to loosen up the lanes for Peterson.

An experienced offensive line will help matters as well.

2. PEYTON MANNING, QB, BRONCOS The 2013 MVP did not show any long lasting effects from his neck injury in 2012, as the 38-year-old quarterback was the best overall player in fantasy. Is more of the same expected in 2014? Manning lost a key receiver in Eric Decker to free agency, but he still has weapons like Demaryius Thomas, Wes Welker, Emmanuel Sanders, Julius Thomas and Monte Ball out of the backfield. The offensive line will keep Manning safe

in the pocket, as last year they were first in pass blocking in the league.

3. J A M A A L CHARLES, RB, CHIEFS The Kansas City Chiefs finally have a superstar at running back since the Priest Holmes/ Larry Johnson days. He was the top scorer amongst running backs last year and only third overall behind Drew Brees and the MVP Peyton Manning.

Charles can not only be an elusive ball carrier, but Andy Reid incorporating him into the passing game makes fantasy owners have a bigger smile on their faces. As long as Charles remains healthy, he could even be a number overall pick in some leagues.

To expect the same result out of the Chiefs this year however may

be a little tougher, as the running back will face defenses such as the 49ers, Seahawks, Steelers, Broncos and Cardinals.

4. CALVIN JOHNSON, WR, LIONS Megatron is the best wide receiver in the game, as he continued to show in 2013. As long as Matthew Stafford can stay healthy and get Johnson the ball, there is no reason to fret for the Detroit sensation. Last year between wide receivers, he finished in total points only behind Josh Gordon. Gordon is suspended for the entire year this year, and Johnson certainly shouldn’t be passed up on the boards. There are a lot of options at wideout, but don’t nap on this man as he could be a first overall pick in some leagues.

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