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Gameday Fanfest Mayor Brady: Boomtown and Jonny B’s “I am an alcoholic” host tailgating party

Mankato mayor will not resign following arrest, will continue bid for re-election Editorial / page 2

Live music, food, drinks and football—Mankato is doing it up right this year.

The AmericInn, Boomtown and Johnny B’s have collaborated for the first Maverick Gameday Fanfest prior to the first Minnesota State football game from 4-5:45 p.m. and after from 8:30-10 p.m. today.

The event will be in a sectioned off part of the parking lot in front of the two businesses.

It will include a covered stage.

Hot 96.7 will be there before the game and the band IVPlay will perform after.

Brats, hot dogs and hamburgers will be available.

This is an all ages event.

People age 21 and over may purchase alcohol inside with a wristband and bring it out to the event area in a plastic cup.

The MSU football game begins at 6 p.m.

wale agboola• msu reporter Mankato Mayor John Brady admitted to struggling with alcoholism intermittently over the past 18 years during a press conference Tuesday at the Calvin Johnson Law Office. It was the first time he addressed the public since his arrest and following trip to China.

Man chooses homelessness, travels for full experience Choosing a ‘life with no roof’ to understand

HEATHER MOELLER

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For most homeless, their situation is not by choice. For one Mankato man, it is.

Sean Donner, 26, has been living in his car for more than a month. Sean said that he got the idea of traveling the country homeless a year and a half ago.

As the lease on his apartment ran out, Sean decided that he wanted to see what it’s like to live with the homeless in different cities across the country. Sean said he plans to write and take pictures of his experience. He has started writing about his experiences in his blog, Life With No Roof.

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Seattle [for example],” Sean said.

His plan is to spend two weeks in each city he visits.

His first stop after leaving Mankato is Rapid City. Then he plans to journey to Salt Lake City, Seattle and then to every major city on the West Coast. Sean said that he thinks his experiment will last through the winter, if not longer. He said he wants to leave himself open to settling down, getting a job and a home if he finds a place that he likes.

“There’s a plan and at the same time there’s not,” Sean said.

He said he hopes that by writing about his experience, he can bring more help to the

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wale agboola• msu reporter Sean Donner plans to travel west and stop in major cities to live as a homeless man for two-week periods. He plans to write and photograph his journey to share his experiences and bring awareness about the homeless.

INSIDE: Football is back, but will they win? (7) Rounders goes Gaga (9) Mein Bowl fulfills students’ desire for Asian cuisine (Page 3)

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‘Bowl’ brings variety to CSU

New dining option offers Asian cuisine

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MSU dental clinic struggles for patients Graduating becomes difficult GRACE WEBB

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wale agboola• msu reporter Mein Bowl makes its sushi fresh every day and offers students a variety of rice, lo mein and side items.

HEATHER MOELLER

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The new school year brings a new dining option to Minnesota State’s campus.

Mein Bowl, located in the basement of the Centennial Student Union, opened last week. Mein Bowl offers authentic Asian dishes plus sushi made fresh daily.

According to Philip Novak, marketing manager for University Dining Services,

the choice of Mein Bowl came from requests by MSU students and faculty. Novak said Dining Services has subcontracted with the Asian Food Concepts company to bring Mein Bowl to campus.

“By doing that, we knew the product would be authentic and we’d also be able to offer sushi,” Novak said.

Sushi on campus was a specific request by international students, according to Novak.

Novak said Dining Services

first thought about bringing an Asian dining option to campus last spring semester. Dining Services brought the idea before the CSU Board, made up of students and Director of CSU and Student Activities Laurie Woodward. Once the idea was accepted by the board, Mein Bowl was established in the CSU over the summer.

Novak said Mein Bowl’s menu is set up to offer variety to

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The senior and junior dental hygiene students at Minnesota State have a problem — no one seems to want to use their services. This is a concern for students because they each need to see a minimum number of patients before they are eligible for graduation.

“Our appointment books are very, very blank,” senior dental student Heather Tryggestad said.

The dental hygiene students are required to have four clinics a week and see about 30 patients per semester. These patients can’t all just be call-in appointments; students have a list of specific dental problems that they need to work with, such as whitening, x-rays, screening and fillings. To add to this problem, many people who make appointments cancel abruptly, leaving the students with a threehour open space. It is up to the student to then find someone to fill the time.

“I might fail if I don’t have a patient [come to an appointment],” said dental hygiene student Amy Wodicka.

Tryggestad said that patients have gotten so sparse that the students have taken to trolling the Centennial Student Union and asking random people to come get their teeth checked out. The students are desperate for any patients but especially those who have a problem on the student’s dental list. Megan Siervert said last year, a student needed a patient with a specific problem so badly, she paid for someone in Iowa to drive over and visit the clinic.

Tryggestad and Siervert said that the biggest reason they have trouble finding patients is that people don’t realize the campus dental clinic is there.

“It’s not just for students,” Siervert said, “[it’s for] all of the community.”

The dental clinic is located in the basement of Morris Hall and is open Monday through

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DENTIST Clinic is has discounted prices, students work MEIN BOWL Dining Service’s has received much positive feedback for class hours not pay continued from 3

continued from 3 Thursday from 2-5 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. While it is a student-run clinic, Tryggestad said there is no need for patients to feel uneasy about the level of care and professionalism they will receive, because trained faculty observe the entire process. Students will work with patients, and faculty will then examine the result before the student proceeds. The faculty members need to give the patient a thumbs-up before students are finally allowed to discharge them. The students operate the clinic in accordance to all private practice laws, such as confidentiality laws.

In addition, dentists from the community will come and practice sometimes. “[We have] the same quality of care [and] the same professionalism…as a private practice,” Tryggestad said, “but at a student facility.”

Another misconception is that the students practicing there are earning money from it. In reality, the clinic is funded by dental hygiene students, who often have to pay up to $1,500 extra at the beginning of the semester to pay for instruments and other necessities. The students aren’t being paid to work but only earning vital class hours.

Other reasons people hesitate to go to the clinic include fears

about prices and embarrassment about the condition of their teeth. The dental hygiene students are adamant, however, that these fears are groundless. Dental hygiene student Gabrielle Sullivan said that the student clinic offers extremely discounted prices when compared to private practices. She gave the example that fillings can cost $400 per tooth at a private practice, but the students at the campus clinic will do fillings for about $50. The clinic also takes insurance and medical assistance.

She also wants to assure potential patients that there will

be no lecturing.

“We’re not here to judge,” Sullivan said. “We’re just here to help you.”

Tryggestad said that patients are critical not only for the students’ success in their major, but for the success of the clinic.

“If we can’t find these patients, the dental hygiene clinic won’t work out,” she said.

“We can’t even express how thrilled we are when patients come,” Siervert said. “I can’t thank them enough. [When we have patients], we’re the happiest people in the world.”

To schedule an appointment at the clinic, call 507-389-2147.

students and faculty. It offers three entrées—all prepared fresh daily—two varieties of rice (fried and steamed white rice), lo mein and a variety of side items. The sushi Mein Bowl offers is made fresh, in-house every day. Novak said that the sushi offered would be based on what’s most popular, but the cooks at Mein Bowl are constantly trying new items for students and faculty to try.

Novak said Dining Services has done some different things trying to bring awareness of this new offering to the campus community. It put up banners advertising Mein Bowl and Novak said that a coupon for Mein Bowl can also be found in the CSU coupon book, House of Serendipity.

Novak said he is always open to feedback and suggestions from Dining Services’s customers—the students and faculty on campus.

“Mein Bowl is here [today] because of feedback,” Novak

said.

Novak said Dining Services has received a lot of positive feedback about Mein Bowl already. According to Novak, much of the feedback is excitement specifically about having sushi on campus.

Freshman Eric Babuska has only eaten at Mein Bowl once since it opened but said so far it’s been good.

“I didn’t have to cook it myself,” Babuska said.

Students Panoulia Vang, Pang Moua and Benjamin Khatt all had positive things to say about Mein Bowl as well.

Vang said she liked Mein Bowl because it was something new besides tacos and burgers on campus. Moua said now there’s a diversity to the campus food court. Khatt said he would recommend Mein Bowl to his friends.

“Ninety-five percent satisfaction guaranteed [and] the five percent is because you spend money,” Khatt said.

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EDITORIAL — No more Us vs. Them, town and gown must come together One thing I will not stand for is hypocrisy. Being adamantly for or against something and then doing the complete opposite is one of the most disgraceful things you could do in my book.

That’s why I was steaming, as you should be by now, when Mankato Mayor John Brady, while essentially acting as the president of Mankato, was involved in an alcoholrelated arrest resulting in charges of fourth-degree DWI, having an open container of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident and failing to yield to emergency vehicles the same week he felt it was necessary to bolster our city’s patrol of MSU student communities during Welcome Week with a $13,000 federal grant provided by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

At his press conference Tuesday, Brady addressed the public for the first time regarding his arrest, saying, among other things, that he regretted the situation he put himself in and looked to continue working as mayor, hoping the city would give him its forgiveness. When asked what he would say to the

15,000+ MSU students who saw him involved in an alcohol related arrest the same week that extra law enforcement was brought to the MSU community to target alcohol-related incidents, Brady said: “Certainly I view that as an embarrassment on my part, but I also feel that this is an opportunity for them to realize that if this kind of addiction is not checked and left to its own force, they could be sharing my experience years down the road.”

As a person, yes, we should forgive him because we all do stupid things. But should we forgive him as our mayor? Hell no. The strict alcohol regulation that he enforces, by proxy, makes us students to pay way too much at the bars and have fewer at-home get-togethers in fear of rental strikes. Then he gets arrested for driving with a blood-alcohol-content at a frighteningly criminal level and thinks he can not only continue to be mayor, but also continue his bid for re-election?

As someone more attuned to the ways of legal matters than myself once said: that dog won’t hunt.

When it comes to the perception of alcohol, or more

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Of the 105 drinking citations handed out during Welcome Week, only 36 were MSU students”

specifically alcohol abuse, over the past few years, it seems as if the concept of personal responsibility has been absent.

If a student gets into trouble, it’s every student’s fault as well as the bar they attended that night. If the mayor is afraid to fly to China by himself and gets wasted to the point of three times the legal limit, it’s his addiction’s fault. No people, it’s your own fault. If you’re going to blame it on anything, it’s your faults’ fault, and you are your faults, so it is still your fault.

And though we can legally be defined as such, we are not juveniles, no matter what the name of the agency is that gave the money to allow more enforcement on our campus.

We are adults — ones who can be very immature at times and lack the responsibility of most, but adults capable of making complex and personal decisions regarding our own well being

nonetheless. It once again comes down to personal responsibility.

I myself drank underage during my Welcome Week in 2006, and I did so knowing the risk of citation — though I didn’t get one. And apparently I’m not the only one capable of inconspicuous and safe drinking either.

According to Mary Dowd, director of student conduct at MSU, of the 105 drinking citations handed out from Aug. 19-22, only 36 were MSU students. So if some of our underage brethren at MSU decide to do the same in a manner that doesn’t endanger their own lives or the lives of others, is that such a dirty, rotten, no-good, scoundrel thing to do? It’s most students’ first days away from the safety and security of their hometowns and not knowing many people in their new town can be a daunting realization.

If consuming a safe amount of alcohol is what it takes to loosen up at a gathering and make it easier to meet potential future husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, best friends, colleagues, etc., where’s the harm in that?

Mankato Magazine editor Joe Spear said in his September editorial that the city depends on Minnesota State University, and I agree with that. I also believe we mean more to the city than the city does to us.

From the money to the national championships to the youthful exuberance we bring, it’s certain that we are an integral part of Mankato. It’s time we stop establishing sides. We are all part of the same community. We are all on the same team here.

NATE BRENNAN

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Qualms with Quam, a response to a letter to the editor from Tuesday In his recent letter to the editor, Brandon Quam makes clear his initial point that students will be integral in deciding November election results, but is decidedly less clear in his assertions about taxation, the current administration, and the state of politics in general. In response, I have to contend with his faulty arguments: Regarding taxes, in a state facing a budget deficit greater than $3 billion, with a two-term

governor whose “no new taxes” pledge and unconstitutional unilateral budget unallotments have shattered our infrastructure, eliminated tens of thousands of government jobs, especially those in medical and educational fields, it’s extremely arguable whether or not taxes are an answer to the problem or not.

Regarding the President’s status as “a celebrity,” clearly Mr. Quam has ignored current events over the last year, as the

American people have seen the largest public stimulus effort in history, the most sweeping health reforms in history, measures to withdraw from Iraq and to bolster and then withdraw from Afghanistan, historic speeches and relations throughout the Middle East, a pledge to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the wildly successful “Cash For Clunkers” program, and countless other reforms, laws, and historically significant events

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I would love to speak to his assertion regarding the removal of liberties, though without a single cited example and no idea to what he is referring, I simply can’t.

Mr. Quam clearly wants what we all want: A fair, positive electoral process in which

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staff writer It is starting to finally cool down after a month of scorching weather, just in time for football season. There will be plenty of optimism tonight as college football teams across the country kick off their seasons.

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It will be the defense, though, that has especially high expectations. In football, everything

starts at the line of scrimmage.

And on defense, the Mavericks have two of the best manning the trenches.

Senior defensive ends Bryan Schmid and Don Thomas are two of the best defensive ends in the NSIC conference.

Schmid, a First-Team All-NSIC selection and Thomas, an NSIC Honorable Mention selection last season, will both be counted on to continue that success into this season.

“We’re just trying to continue to do what we did last year,” said Thomas.

Both players bring veteran leadership to the team and make a habit of making jobs easier for their fellow teammates. Neither is exceptionally large for their position, but they make up for it by knowing their roles and being in the right position.

“They bring a lot of stability,” said Hoffner. “They’re kind of like bookshelf ends, they keep everything confined and contained — that’s a major part of their role. They’ve got great leadership on top of being great

players. We the tone for the always look for conference.” great things out On a defense vs. Northern Michigan of those guys.” that is full of 6 p.m. Today The defense playmakers, guys Blakeslee Stadium will have their like Schmid and hands full against Thomas play an imNorthern Michigan. The Wildportant role. They help relieve cat’s have talent at a lot of posipressure for senior linebackers Dan Fehlberg and Matt Mctions and but a certain quarterback stands out the most. Carter Quiston, who are two of the best Kopach is a three-year starter tacklers on the team. at NMU and Hoffner considers Both Schmid and Thomas are him one of the best quarterbacks a packaged deal who feed off the team will face all season. each other.

“We believe we can use our Thomas transferred to MSU experiences and leadership to from Western Washington after our advantage,” Schmid said. the 2008 season. Originally a It will be a good first chaldefensive tackle, the coaches lenge for a defense that is eager liked the idea of what he could to set the tone early on. The do on the opposite side of Mavericks used a great start last Schmid.

It turned out they were right season to propel them through to make the move. Thomas the conference schedule and flourished in his new role and a are eager to get off to that same lot of this is due to what he was start. able to take away from Schmid.

“I think we have all the “For me, I just learn off of people we need to have a good defense,” Thomas said. “We’re him,” said Thomas. focusing on getting as much Schmid has been happy to three-and-outs as possible. It help in any way he can. Like the builds confidence and also sets rest of the seniors on this team,

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the two defensive ends know this is their last shot. Schmid was here when MSU was struggling to get to a .500 record three years ago.

The last two years have seen MSU develop into one of the toughest D-2 schools in the country. Ranked No. 21 heading into this season, the Mavericks are no longer a secret to anyone.

“If we go far, it will be because of whether or not we have the ability to overcome adversity game in and game out,” Schmid said.

However, they are still trying to get over the hump of advancing past the first round. Most players would say last year is behind them but there is a sense that the pride of the older players is telling them they have some business to finish.

“We’ve made it to the playoffs, but now we want to go further,” said Thomas.

The first chapter toward that goal will begin tonight.

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The thought of the Mavericks losing fire power offensively might be exactly that: a thought. Although the Mavericks lost quarterback Ryan Fick and receivers Vinny Flury and Chris Nowlin to graduation, MSU has plenty of players ready to step in. Quarterback Steve Pachan played in 11 games last year and threw for 19 touchdowns.

Receivers Omaar Balton and Adam Thielen return along with running back Jake Aberg. His 1,201 yards last season was tied for the thirdhighest single-season total in school history.

The question will be at offensive line, where the Mavericks lost current Viking Adrian Battles and former All-American Andy Schoonover.

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SPECIAL TEAMS Losing return man Kelvin Rodgers will be a big hit to this special teams unit. Rodgers was a gamechanger and as dangerous as they come returning punts and kicks. Punter Gerard DeWet averaged 40 yards per punt last season and sophomore kicker Sam Brockshus is one of the best in the NSIC. DEWET

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DEFENSE This defense has the potential to be one of the best in the nation. On the defensive line the Mavericks have defensive ends Don Thomas and Bryan Schmid. The loss of nose tackle Junior Aumavae will be something the Mavericks will need to address. The linebackers are led by Matt McQuiston and Dan Fehlberg. Both were starters last year and might be the best one-two punch in the NSIC. The defensive backfield gelled together nicely last season. Bryce Kinnery and Troy Jonnes will be at the corner position, but safety Jesse Hamilton (seven interceptions last season), will be the ball hawk. Expect senior transfer Simon Cholometes to make an impact immediately in the defensive backfield.

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OUTLOOK: With all the losses from last year, one would expect the Mavericks to fall off.

Instead of rebuilding, the Mavericks have seemed to just reload. The question mark will be on the offensive line and whether or the Mavericks leadership can return to where it was last season. PREDICTION: FIRST IN NSIC SOUTH, SECOND OVERALL.

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The time has finally come for the Minnesota State women’s soccer team to kickstart its season as they travel to Michigan for a pair of nonconference showdowns this weekend.

“We’ve been looking forward to this weekend for a long time,” said senior defender Emily Petrovich.

The Mavericks will open the 2010 campaign against Ferris State, a team from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

The Bulldogs were picked to finish fifth in the conference in a preseason poll, but are by no means a pushover opponent. They are returning nine starters from last season’s squad and six of their seven top scorers.

They also have a new head coach at the helm, Matt Kellogg, who will be anxious to win his first game as the Bulldogs’ coach.

“The schedule gets really steep really fast,” said head coach Peter McGahey.

After a challenge on Friday, the road figures to get even bumpier on Sunday, when the Mavericks square off with defending NCAA Division II champions Grand Valley State.

The Lakers went unblemished last season, posting an impressive 22-0-4 record en route to the National Championship. They are also the five-time defending GLIAC champions and are projected to sit atop the conference again this season.

Although the Mavericks know they have their work cut out for them, facing a team

on the road who is so stress of bus travel and heavily favored should the time zone change,” lessen the pressure on said McGahey. “Howthe players’ shoulders. ever, the girls do get tre“We are just going mendous support from the to come out and play,” faculty that allows them said senior Jessie Auto not stress out so much MCGAHEY das. “We have nothing about their classes.” to lose.”

The Mavericks are The first games of a season loaded with talent and no matcan create some anxiety for ter what happens this weekend, players, but the Mavericks the squad will use these games appear loose and ready for to get ready for NSIC play, anything this weekend. where they are picked to finish “I still get nervous,” said second overall.

Audas. “It is always exciting “If we go out and play our no matter how many times hardest we’ll be fine,” said Auyou’ve been through it. I think das. “It’ll be great experience we prepared hard in practice for us either way.” so that we will be ready this weekend.”

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With big hair, big costumes and even bigger egos, Monday’s Lady Gaga look-alike contest at Rounders in downtown Mankato did not disappoint. Ten contestants got their Gaga on and tried their best to become the pop sensation in order to win tickets to her Tuesday show at

the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Every Gaga look-alike brought something original to the table.

Everything from sequined bras and Gaga-labeled underwear to sunglasses made completely out of cigarettes and giant cone breasts were employed to win the tickets.

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Gaga. Big-heeled boots were also a mainstay at the contest, especially with the male Gaga look-alikes.

In the end though, it was simplicity that won out: fishnets and cardboard were all preschool teacher Mattye Kopishke needed to win the event.

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Mattye Kopischke is a preschool teacher and Minnesota State alum. She is such a Lady Gaga fan that she bought the underwear that Gaga wore on the VMA’s on eBay. Her friends said she has a Gaga blanket and her room is littered with Gaga memorabilia. “$6 of shopping won me my dream,” Kopischke said, referencing the cost of her costume.

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Brad Wakefield, a public relations major at MSU, rocked a full duct tape outfit, from a skin-tight dress to 7-inch duct tape heels. And upon receiving only the runner-up award, he shouted to the crowd, “If anyone wants to come outside, I’m going to go light my tits on fire in disgust.”

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Trisha Sieberg is a Minnesota State alum who graduated with an interior design degree. “I’m a freak bitch!” Sieberg said when asked why she should win the tickets. Sieberg kept it simple with a red top and black underwear with fishnets. Sieberg’s mother works at MSU: “I’m sure I’m making her real proud,” she said.

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There’s something different about the River Hills Mall, and the answer is not a new haircut.

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provides the latest trends at affordable prices.

Mankato Ragstock assistant manager Leah Mortensen described the store as “a little family company.” Founded in 1971 out of Minneapolis, the chain now contains more than 14 locations throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.

“We have a little bit of everything,” Mortensen said. “We’ve had a good response from college kids because our clothes

are cheap, but we also get senior citizens coming in – they grew up shopping at Ragstock.”

A closer location solves a past problem.

“The closest store was in Northfield, so if you wanted to go, you used to have to drive to the cities,” Mortensen said.

Minnesota State freshman and graphic design major Sonja Pearson from Hudson, Minn.,

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RAGSTOCK “We’re known for our kimonos, holiday sweaters, Japanese baseball jerseys and bajas.” continued from 9

was thrilled to hear of the local that comes to mind while brows- Mortensen does clarify that store opening. ing is “organized thrifting.” Evthey are not a Plato’s Closet and “There’s a few Ragstocks erything is set up in a distinctly do not take used clothing (they in the Twin Cities area I’ve sectioned way that makes it easy have buyers for that). She also shopped at,” Pearson said, “but to find what you’re looking for. shared that their biggest sellers I’ve already gotten some stuff This is quite a contrast to the so far have been from their wide from the one here!” other thrift stores in Mankato selections of used cowboy boots, Price is flyaway caralso no londigans and ger an issue. sunglasses.

The most exAnd spepensive item cial to this in the store time of year, is a jacket for Ragstock of$34. New fers equally clothes run affordable anywhere costumes. from $13.99 “By Labor to $24.99, Day our enwhile retire front end cycled items will be all start at $2, Halloween,” including Mortensen some retro said. “We’re ‘80s wind starting to suits for get in more 20 bucks a shipments pop. Special abby holst• msu reporter weekly.” deals include Ragstock, an alternative clothing chain that got its start in Minneapolis, Newly recently opened a new location in the River Hills Mall. graphic tees packaged — buy-onecostumes are get-one-free an in-store — and layering tanks — two where organization is essenoption, but if you’re looking for $8. tially nonexistent and items are to step out of the generic box, “We’re known for our kimojumbled, scattered and, at times, choose to build your own with nos, holiday sweaters, Japanese frightening. their retro prom dresses, gorilla baseball jerseys and bajas,” “I think it’s a really good suits, hospital scrubs, etc. (ApMortensen said. thing for this town,” said MSU propriately, there is an abunLooking for quirky, unique junior and psychology major dance of Lady Gaga material.) pieces? On a mission to find Grace Cimino.

Look out for giant chicken that wonderfully ugly grandpa Not only will the store attract and banana suits around campus sweater to wear to festive parhipsters and frustrated thriftthis fall handing out Ragstock ties? This is the place to go. ers in Mankato, but it will also promos. After all, a coupon Although Ragstock may bring in business from neighbor- could make the difference sport an untraditional exterior, it ing towns, she said. between one and two pairs of houses a perfectly conventional It’s challenging to fit Ragmukluks. skeleton. The first description stock into one category, but

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