October 5, 2010

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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Promoting big changes Let the Write Students for Sustainability helps One In out Greater Mankato community

Frederick goes for mayorship with write-in campaign

Reporter: So why did you decide to put your name back in as a mayoral candidate through this write-in campaign?

wale agboola• msu reporter Members volunteer on campus and in the community to conserve, protect and renew the environment.

BOB RINGER

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Move over Ralph Nader, there’s a new player in the green game — Minnesota State’s own Students for Sustainability.

Students for Sustainability is a student organization that emphasizes the importance of

the environment and the way people interact with it. The club has existed in several different forms since its inception in 2005. Its current incarnation was created more than two years ago by former MSU student Thomas Pothen and a group of like-minded students eager to make MSU and the Mankato community

more sustainable.

“Sustainable means a lot of different things,” said Danielle Alinea, a club member. “It’s everything from protecting and conserving our environment to using renewable resources and promoting ideas like free trade.”

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Chris Frederick: There are a lot of things going on within the city and I think I hear from a lot of different people, given everything’s that happened, that people are looking for another choice. People are looking for another candidate and I’ve gotten more vocal support, both financially and through word of mouth, than I ever received when I was just a name on a ballot. And I really still believe in everything I was running on before, but you know, given everything’s that happened I think Mankato really needs a leader that is going to step up and take a proactive approach and represent the community in a positive manner by working towards the issue of bringing people together and working on including everybody in decision making.

R: You said you have been receiving more support since the primary, could you elaborate?

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CF: People that I’ve never even met before have come up to me telling me, “I wrote your name in because I did an absentee ballot.” People that were supporting either Eric or John. I know its going to be an uphill battle and I know the odds are stacked against it, but if nothing else, at least I’m going to raise the issue and keep the conversation going about making sure people are included in the decision-making process and that we showcase Mankato for what it really is — a great place to live and learn.

Starting off strong

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Homecoming Week full of spirit-filled activity GRACE WEBB

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It’s time to break out the purple and gold and tank up on school spirit. Homecoming week is here, and there are tons of fun things planned to get students into the mood. The Minnesota State Homecoming Week starter event, a Block Party/Bonfire, already came and went Monday night, but there are still plenty of fantastic events to attend.

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Adventurous students might enjoy today’s Spirit Search, which goes on from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Teams will go on a photo scavenger hunt around campus. The more creative the photos, the better, but only one camera per team is allowed.

Every time the team finds an item on the scavenger hunt list, it will receive points. The points will go toward the overall Homecoming Competition score.

On Wednesday, there will be

an eating contest in the MSU Mall from noon to 1 p.m. The food is spaghetti and students can’t use their hands while they eat. Be sure to bring old clothes and a big appetite. Besides the eating contest, there will be a dodgeball tournament from 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Myers Field House.

For students who are more artistic than athletic, there will be a canned food sculpture contest Thursday in the main

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wale agboola• msu reporter

Students filled the Mall Monday when the first Homecoming activities began. For more information and photos about the events see pages 3 and 4.

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Groups ‘sleep out’ to help youth in need ALEXI ROSKOM

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Inspirational Mankato community members put themselves in the shoes of homeless youth for the night by participating in a “Sleep Out” to raise money this past weekend.

This event was organized by members of the Circle of Hope, which consists of two active congregations, Christ the King Church and Bethlehem Church.

These groups of people care about the homeless and meet once a month to work toward helping youth in need of support.

The youth director, Peter Bierer of St. John the Baptist Church, developed the idea of the “Sleep Out” and local youth became the key components of the event.

Community members involved in the fundraiser gave up their Saturday evening to sleep in decorated boxes outside the McDonalds on Madison Avenue.

The cost to sleep in a box was $5 and included access to activities of the night, which consisted of a contest of the best decorated box, games and prizes, stories around fire barrels and bonding to support a reality that is facing close friends.

Lutheran Social Services there is limited space but great works with at-risk, run away and resources for helping individuals homeless youth on a daily basis and families. A counseling office, and has limited resources to therapy office, guardianship office change the lives of those in need.

Sleep out / page 8 The goal of LSS is to raise enough money create a drop-in center for youth. The dropin center would be a place where young adults could receive help to find jobs and affordable housing and provide a safe, warm, welcoming environment for those seeking help.

“Create a building that is more visible, a place for youth to come, and they will come,” said Amber Statz, senior youth coordinator for LSS. LSS houses submitted photo its office in Participants decorated boxes and slept in them outthe lower level side of McDonalds on Madison Ave. to raise money of Bethlehem for a drop-in center for youth.

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Block party draws a crowd

Students play games, dance MEGAN KADLEC

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As far away as Gage towers, students could hear speakers blaring the latest popular music, while a slight breeze carried the smell of burning firewood into their senses.

IMPACT hosted its annual Block Party and Bonfire on Monday night as party of the Homecoming festivities. Held behind Blakeslee Stadium, the bonfire was a way for

students to get pumped about the activities occurring throughout the week.

Security guards stood at the entrance, searching bags and welcoming guests.

Students leisurely played frisbee, ladder ball and soccer as other lawn game favorites were spread around the field.

Other students stood around, talking with groups friends.

Students swarmed the signin tables, waiting to place their

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dan moen • msu reporter A DJ provided the perfect atmosphere for students to relax and dance.

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The first round of Homecoming activities Monday got students pumped up for the rest of the week A long line of students tiedyed shirts in front of the fountain.

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A new, legal high

Communicating better with children

K2 incense has some similar effects Play therapy helps kids learn to smoking marijuana JENNY POLLOCK

ANNE LEMERE

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Incense or not, it is still being marketed as the new “legal high.”

K2, or Spice as it is known overseas, is a smokable herb mixture that has been sprayed with chemicals. It was originally a research material for studying the effects of tetrahydrocannabino, Michael McGinnis, of Addiction Recovery in Mankato said.

McGinnis said that K2 is legal because it does not contain THC, which is the chemical found in marijuana, even though if smoked it has some similar effects. K2 is not meant to be smoked and never was intended to be smoked, but McGinnis said it is “like a genie once out of the bottle.”

A male senior at Minnesota State who is a frequent marijuana smoker, said that he has only smoked K2 on two occasions. Both times it came from a friend. He said that he tried it thinking it would have similar effects to THC, but he said it was far from it. He said after smoking it there was a long delay until he felt the high.

McGinnis said there is one difference between K2 and marijuana.

“THC’s withdrawal is slow.

It’s not dramatic,” he said. On the other hand, one German male who had smoked K2 put himself in the hospital because he was having common conditions of a withdrawal, like vomiting, shakes, anxiety, and dehydration, said McGinnis.

Purchasing K2 is fairly easy.

People can buy it at almost any smoke or head shop, like Smokes 4 Less in Mankato, although many of these places do not sell it as a smokable

substance, instead as incense.

McGinnis did not agree with shops selling the substance in that way and said it is irresponsible of them to do so.

He said that K2 sellers are taking no responsibility and the sticker for no human consumption does not change what it is. He also mentioned the price difference between K2 and familiar stick incense form.

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The graduate play therapy program at Minnesota State held it’s 6th annual conference Sept. 24.

The conference was titled Post Traumatic Parenting: Play-based Treatment Children and their Families.

“Play therapy is a form of counseling that treats the development of children. It gives kids a way to communicate,” said Barb Skodje-Mack who works at Mankato Psychological Clinic.

At the conference, participants learned how to develop a treatment plan using play therapy to help traumatized children and their caretakers. The also learned how to observe, code and teach parenting skills.

The program is based off the post traumatic parent model, developed by Janine S. Shelby, the keynote speaker. She is a professor at University of California Los Angeles and the former president of the Association for Play Therapy Foundation.

“I typically go (to the conference) every year,” Mack

said. “They do a great job applying skills and getting interactive speakers.”

There were more than 75 registered participants in the conference from all over the Midwest area.

MSU is one of the few schools in the Midwest that offers this kind of programming for play therapy education. In 2002 MSU offered the first play therapy course for graduate students in the upper Midwest.

By attending the conference, participants can get continuing education or graduate credit.

According to the Association for Play Therapy, play therapy uses techniques to better help people communicate, especially children.

The date is already set for next year’s conference, which will be September 23, 2011.

“It takes year round planning,” said John Seymour, an MSU professor in the department of counseling and student personnel.

“In addition to the conference, the university partners with play therapy providers in the area,” Seymour said.

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EDITORIAL: This Crisis Must Stop Now Raymond Chase, 19, Johnson and Wales University Tyler Clementi, 18, Rutgers University Justin Aaberg, 15, Anoka, Minnesota Billy Lucas, 15, Greensburg, Indiana Seth Walsh, 13, Tehachapi, California Asher Brown, 13, Cypress, Texas

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Do the names of these six teenagers make you angry? What about where they are from? No, huh?

These names, just sitting there alone and naked atop the page, seem fairly innocuous enough, right?

Hell, you could’ve been friends with these names at various points in your life. You may have towelcracked them in the locker room before you two headed merrily toward your pre-algebra class, talking all the way about how you can’t wait to get home and watch “Boy Meets World.” And then when school was over, you’d stand outside, waiting for the bus with these names and one of them would trip over their shoe and you’d say “good one, fag.” Then you’d all laugh at how funny it was that you called him a “fag,” right?

Well that’s not how it works, because these are not simply six names. They are six human beings — or at least they were. And they will never laugh again, no matter how funny you think using “fag” as an atrocious adjective is, because these six young men committed suicide after incessant bullying by their peers for being gay — five of which occurred within the last month.

Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, was outed publicly on the Internet by his roommate. After finding out Clementi was gay, his roommate, Dharun Ravi, 18, used a spycam to secretly live-stream Clementi making out with another young man in their dorm. After finding bigoted and bragging comments regarding the incident on his roommate’s Twitter account, Clementi drove his car to the New Jersey shore, walked to a spot on the George Washington Bridge and jumped to his death into the Hudson River.

Ravi, as well as his accomplice, Molly Wei, 18, now face up to five years in prison for invasion of privacy. While he may not have pushed Clementi off that bridge, or tied the nooses around the necks that led to the deaths of Raymond Chase, Seth Walsh, Billy Lucas, Justin Aaberg, or pulled the trigger that killed Asher Brown, he may as well have.

I was teased plenty growing up, called “gay,” “fag,” “homo,” “queer,” and whatever else clever little shitheads can come up with. That I am not gay and have a strong support system from my family may be the only reasons you’re able to read my words in front of you today.

But these innocent children, persecuted for simply existing, were not so fortunate. And since my experience cannot compare to theirs in the slightest, I will leave you with testimonials from some people who can.

Ellen DeGeneres on the 9/30/10 edition of her television program: Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you. My heart is breaking for their families, for their friends and for our society that continues to let this happen.

These kids needed us, and we have an obligation to change this. There are messages everywhere that validate this kind of bullying and taunting, and we have to make it stop. We can’t let intolerance and ignorance take another kid’s life. And I want anyone out there who feels different and alone to know that I know how you feel. And there is help out there, you can find support in your community. If you need someone to talk to, or you want to get involved, there are some really great organizations listed on our website. Things will get easier, people’s minds will change. And you should be alive to see it.

Harvey Milk’s famous “Hope Speech” (1978): And the young gay people in the Altoona, Pennsylvanias and the Richmond, Minnesotas who are coming out and hear Anita Bryant on television and her story. The only thing they have to look forward to is hope. And you have to give them hope. Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to come to if the pressures at home are too great. Hope that all will be all right.

Without hope, not only gays, but the blacks, the seniors, the handicapped, the us’es, the us’es will give up. And if you help elect to the central committee and other offices, more gay people, that gives a green light to all who feel disenfranchised, a green light to move forward. It means hope to a nation that has given up, because if a gay person makes it, the doors are open to everyone.

Gawker’s Brian Moylan from his article “What’s It Like To Be a Gay Teen”: Imagine your worst high school memory and multiply it by ten and that is how bad it is for many gay teenagers every day. The ones that have it the worst are those that are bullied repeatedly by their peers until they become suicidal, drop out of school, or are robbed of their education because they can’t focus on learning the Pythagorean theorem or the amendments to the Constitution because they’re thinking about how they’re going to physically survive the day. In many cases, parents, teachers, principals and other grown-ups don’t care about about the gay student’s problems and condone the bullying behavior, either explicitly or with their own inaction.

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The 21st Year

When Coffee Changed JACOB BOHROD

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I met a friend at the Coffee Hag downtown a few days ago.

It was my first time going to the sunny, low-key little nook in years. As I looked at the chalky menu board, the faces I didn’t recognize, the art on the walls, I thought about the time that passed since the last time I was there.

I was looking forward to my eighteenth birthday. Not in the sense that I was excited for it, but literally — it was about to happen, whether I liked it or not. One of my closest friends worked at the Hag, filling odd, erratic hours, like 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday nights. Sometimes I, and maybe one other person, would visit him, make the time pass faster and mooch.

This went on for maybe a year, probably less. It felt like the longest time. It felt like I had been going to the Coffee Hag to visit my friend at work for a decade. It was such a fact of life — the Hag, my friends, being 18 — that it was ludicrous to question how we got there, or what was next.

Then things changed, and there was a new set of facts.

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are away now, working and growing up and the rest.

I used to drink coffee leisurely. Drinking coffee at the Coffee Hag was something to do in Mankato when you’re 18.

There’s a deciding point, though, almost like a first step or a first job, where one stops drinking coffee for leisure.

Of course it still tastes good, and I enjoy it, and when I drink it it may be a relaxing experience, but there came a point when coffee became a mark of adulthood. When I stopped thinking solely about pleasure, about immediate pleasure, and started thinking about what next, and how, and why.

And I’m not talking about the future in the job-house-family sense. I’m not talking about the script we all read when asked what’s next. I’m saying, when you’re 18, it’s impossible to predict the day when you relate coffee to early mornings, to late nights, to money, to work, or maybe even to new friends, or even the same friends, but new.

Thinking about these changes, I tracked my progress, as a person, on all levels, throughout the years and graphed it out: The X axis represents my

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age, with the Y being a rating of my quality as a person. The rating is determined by various factors, including kindness, use of intelligence, social standing, creativity, morality, and general likability, to name a few. There is no maximum, so 10 is not the highest level of quality one can achieve, but obviously the higher the rating the better.

The ideal graph would be a constant curve upwards. This would mean you have bettered yourself in some way every year without losing anything in return (or gaining something unwanted). For example: One year you start standing up to bullies, you remain loyal and loving to your significant other(s), you start to give to charity and you quit your job because you were put in a morally compromising situation.

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what you were like the year before). But say you also grew more pretentious, glummer and perhaps hypocritical. This would knock you down maybe six-tenths of a percent. So you’re still up on the previous year, but not by much.

Examining myself, we can see my first 11 years went quite well. I improved steadily over the years and, after stagnation between ages 8 and 10, reached an impressive level around fifth grade. I was physically in the best shape of my life, I was well liked by a majority and I had an active and fun-loving social life (fifth grade was the best).

Later, it takes a dip in the

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high school years, and finally a hard fall in year 18. (Nineteen and 20 were, especially the latter, irregularly beneficial years). And now, three years later, I’ve ran back to where I was.

The year before I drank coffee and only saw coffee.

At 18 I saw that graph, I saw change, at the bottom of the mug.

And now, another landmark has me looking at the bottom of that mug. I don’t have the friends I had. I don’t live the life I did.

I’m not the person I was.

We’re not the people we were.

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HOMECOMING Multiple events take place Saturday

before and after the football game

level of the Centennial Student Union from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Teams will be responsible for collecting as much canned food as they can and making creative sculptures out of the cans.

Judges will score the sculptures.

That night, there will be a Lip Sync Competition in the CSU Ballroom from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Lip Sync teams have been practicing for the past few weeks to show off some snazzy performances which will be scored by a panel of judges. During this time, the Homecoming King and Queen will be announced and crowned.

Friday and Saturday are when the main events take place. The annual Pep Rally/ Concert will be held on Friday and feature bands Red Umbrella and Heath McNease. This year, the rally has something new: the Yell Like Hell contest.

Teams can go up on stage with a 30-second chant about Homecoming. Whoever yells the loudest and has the best chant wins.

Before Saturday’s football game, there will be the President’s Free Pancake Breakfast from 9 a.m. to 11

a.m. at Blakeslee Stadium. The Homecoming parade will follow the pancake breakfast at 11:30 a.m. Every year, registered student organizations have a chance to create a float or walk in the parade. Student organization IMPACT will be collecting canned foods for the ECHO Food Shelf. The canned food drive goes with this year’s Homecoming theme: “Stomper Conquers the World; One Cause At A Time.”

The football game kicks off at 1 p.m. at Blakeslee Stadium against St. Cloud State University. Afterwards, there will be a comedy show at 8 p.m. in the Myers Field House.

This year’s show features The Second City, the legendary Chicago based group that specializes in sketch comedy and improvisation and has been performing for more than 50 years. After the show, students can attend the Homecoming Party in the CSU, which will have free bowling and billiards, pizza and popcorn, karaoke and prizes such as the PS3 Rock Band and a $150 Barnes and Nobles gift card.

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continued from 1 on the IMPACT team when I say how excited I am for this year’s homecoming,” said IMPACT Vice President of Public Relations Kevin Winsew.

Winsew said IMPACT has been preparing for this year’s Homecoming since last semester. He also said he and his fellow IMPACT members are especially excited for this year’s world-conscious theme, which focuses on the growing rate of poverty and food insecurity. IMPACT will be using Homecoming as an opportunity to raise awareness and support, partnering with Campus Kitchen for food drives both during the week and in the parade.

“With so many great events planned, I am really excited for the week, especially for the concert and comedy show, which are always student and community favorites,” Winsew said. “I really encourage all students, but especially freshmen, to get into the festive spirit and come out for the fun.”

Students can find the full Homecoming schedule at www. mnsu.edu/homecoming.

SLEEP OUT LSS seeking community support to help people get through difficult periods and out of dangerous situations continued from 3 and adoption and birth parent enough money was raised create office can be found there. The a new location, the limits would mission to change people’s lives be endless with recreational has its limits when funding falls activities, guest speakers from short. the local business community, a LSS is funded through a street safe environment, post secondary outreach grant. The grant is line workshops in collaboration itemized and all money was with MSU, and a place to teach previously allocated to specific independent living skills are just department uses, allowing no some the things that would be able room for innovative changes to happen with a new space,” Statz like creating a drop-in center for said. youth. Fundraising is the only Living in a box for one night to way to create a safe hangout for create awareness and fundraise for youth who may not be able to go those that need support is one way home or need a place to get away to lend a helping hand. from a dangerous environment.

LSS would like the community’s support to help empower and influence the quality of someone’s life and help anyone going through a difficult period in their life.

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SUSTAINABILITY “It’s really important to be conscious of your actions. Every little thing adds up and things are starting to get real,” Skluzacek said.

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Students for Sustainability consists of 15 to 20 active members. However, as many as 200 people, including non-student Mankato area residents, are involved in a lesser capacity, according to Students for Sustainability President Chelsea Skluzacek.

With the help of its devoted members, Students for Sustainability has worked to help MSU go green. Last year the group successfully petitioned the university and worked with campus dining services to ensure all food and drink containers as well as the flatware used in the Centennial Student Union are now biodegradable.

The club was instrumental in coordinating “trayless days” at campus dining halls. By eliminating the use of meal trays three times a day, the university was able to significantly reduce the amount of water wasted on washing hundreds, if not thousands, of plastic trays, said group member Dave Meyers.

Students for Sustainability has tried to spread its ecofriendly attitude beyond the border of the MSU campus.

Club members regularly volunteer at local thrift shops to ensure that clothes and other goods are not wasted and go to people who need them. The group is also

active in the Adopt a Highway program. It adopted a section of U.S. Highway 169 and is committed to keeping its designated space free of litter Though Students for Sustainability’s main focus is the environment and living sustainably, the group also works with a number of different organizations to promote social change.

The club has worked with the Mankato Area Activist Collective in the past, a group which recently set up camp in front of Armstrong Hall to protest a number of different issues, including rising tuition costs and sexism.

The club also participates in the Food Not Bombs movement. Food Not Bombs is a nation-wide activist movement intended to protest war, corporate greed and the destruction of the environment by serving free vegan and vegetarian meals, according to foodnotbombs.net.

Students for Sustainability’s Food Not Bombs events take place each Wednesday between 4 and 6 p.m. at Washington Park.

Though the club has accomplished much in the past two years, Students for Sustainability still hopes to do even more for the environment in the future. Its goals include bringing a food cooperative

similar to the St. Peter Food Co-op, which sells organic, fair-trade food, creating a community garden on campus and the founding of an annual Sustainability Day at MSU to educate students about ways to live a more sustainable life, according to Skluzacek.

The club meets Tuesdays at 9 p.m. at the Wine Café in downtown Mankato and Wednesdays at noon in CSU 238. Students for Sustainability also holds bimonthly community dinners every other Thursday at 9 p.m.

Community dinners are held at a member’s residence. These dinners are often organized with charity in mind. In the past, dinners have been organized as clothing and food drives, with donations going to charity, according to Alinea.

Though members of Students of Sustainability are proud of the things they have done to promote sustainable living, they recognize that if major societal changes do not take place, the planet may be in deep trouble.

“The environment is in crisis right now with things like peak oil use, pollution and climate change,” said Skluzacek. “It’s really important to be conscious of your actions. Every little thing adds up and things are starting to get real.”

Marketing is everything, which is why the packaging is colorful and fun. McGinnis said that he has heard people saying that its smells sweet like Kool-Aid or Pop Rocks.

A female junior at MSU, who has never smoked before, said that she tried K2 and it had a fruity taste and aroma.

She said that it was called “Pineapple Express,” which is also a common marijuana blend.

K2 can also be bought online, which is how the female junior’s friend got it.

McGinnis said that buying online is not good because it

has no structure. People do not know what they are actually getting or from whom, which runs the risk of it being laced with other drugs according to McGinnis.

McGinnis said that he does not think that K2 should be illegal since it doesn’t show any affects, unless feeling “giggly” counts as an affect, which is how the female junior described it. He said more research should be done on it because right now it is an “income drug,” which means it’s a quick way to make money before it disappears.

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R: What do you think really separates you from the two candidates, John Brady and Eric Anderson?

CF: I come in with experience, or at least a background, of bringing different people to the table as far as decision-making.

I think I have more experience in a lot of regards than perhaps maybe the other two in the fact that as a part of my role as both a student and now as trustee, I make sure I hear from different perspectives before decisions are being made. There’s one thing that I also bring a completely different perspective in is that I am a young home owner in the community and recent student and recent graduate and graduate student and work while living and work around houses in Mankato. I can tie a lot of different facets together and know who to reach out to.

R: What do you feel are big issues facing Mankato and what platforms are you taking?

CF: The two biggest ones are business development and community relationship development. If you go knocking on doors as I have been, you start seeing a lot of houses that are vacant and you see that there is really an issue going on with the faculty of high vacancy homes and people losing jobs and you know rather than wait on the federal or state levels to help, it’s time we as a community start getting some business leaders and getting banks around the table to start

seeing how we can work this issue locally to encourage more business development and growth.

And through that, kind of bring different demographics of people to understand their issues and how do we solve more of these large things together.

R: If you were elected, what do you think some changes students could see within a couple years?

CF: They would be a part of the conversation.

R: Is there anything more specific?

CF: Ever since I came to the community, MSU has had its own community, but it’s important to understand that it’s a part of a larger community and I think there is a huge disconnect between those two that often gets overlooked. We start to point fingers and I think recently we’ve seen some great editorials and seen some great comments in newspapers about that very fact. Me being a young adult in the community I see that, I understand that. What are some tangibles students are going to see day one? They’re going be heard along with everybody else in the city. There will no longer be a segregation or separation. We’re all in this together.

R: What do you feel about more

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personal responsibility, I mean, we saw with Brady and some students who have either lost their lives or get arrested for alcohol in the last few years and the bars have received the brunt of the blame. Where do you see that debate going?

CF: Personally, everything needs to come back to personal accountability. People need to start understanding that they are responsible for their actions. I think we’ve somehow gotten too far way from that. I think we need to start bringing back more accountability, more personal responsibility and that’s going to partially come with education.

We need to educate to make sure people are more aware of how this decision leads to this outcome. You do something wrong, you know it was you, I don’t know how you or anyone can say it was someone else’s fault.

R: Would you agree that at this time in the way Mankato is, the only way that students are really going to be heard is at the polls?

CF: Yeah, absolutely, no question about it. Students need to show up if they really, truly want to be apart of the community and have their voices heard. They need to show up to the polls for themselves.

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names on the list of attendees for their competition teams. After signing in, students were given free glow sticks, and directed to the different activities occurring at the event.

“I’m having fun. Meeting up with my friends was good. It’s a nice break from all the tests and homework,” said student Jonathan Tang.

Other students ignored the games and their friends, and immediately went to stand in the deathly long line for the free pizza from Toppers.

“My favorite part of the night was the free pizza,” said Amanda Nelson.

As more people filed into the field, the area in front of the DJ became crowded with students eager to dance their worries away to the blinding strobe lights entrancing the crowds.

Dance competitions emerged and students showed off their favorite moves, including one student who passionately free styled to Beyonce’s “Single Ladies.”

“The event is going pretty well. For some reason, we didn’t have a bonfire last year. There was lots of planning and hard work that went into the event and we think it [went well],” said Karlos Posas, president of IMPACT.

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal jury in Utah on Monday convicted an Illinois man of bombing a downtown Salt Lake City library in 2006.

Thomas Zajac, 57, of Downers Grove, Ill., was found guilty of six felony charges that prosecutors said are almost guaranteed to keep him locked up for the rest of his life.

Sentencing was set for Dec. 16.

The most serious charge — using a destructive device in a crime of violence — calls for a minimum of 30 years in prison.

Prosecutors said Zajac was angry about his son’s 2004 drunken-driving arrest by Salt Lake City police.

Defense lawyers told the jury that Zajac’s son, Adam Zajac, had a better motive for the bombing than his father.

But the father angrily rejected that theory after the jury returned its verdict.

“I’m sorry for my attorney accusing my son. It was a malicious lie,” Thomas Zajac said with the jury still sitting in court.

“My son had nothing to do with it.”

With that outburst, his defense lawyers, Edwin S. Wall and Deirdre Gorman, got U.S.

District Judge Clark Waddoups’s permission to promptly quit the case.

While the elder Zajac defended his son in court, he didn’t say who planted the pipe bomb. The Sept.

15, 2006, explosion sent shrapnel flying for more than 15 feet, blew out a window and forced 400 people to flee.

“The fact that nobody was injured was fortunate,” prosecutor Rich McKelvie said Monday. “His attempt was to embarrass police by showing they could not protect this community.”

Thomas Zajac’s fingerprints were on bomb parts and letters taunting police, banking records show he traveled to Utah at the same time, and he was captured entering and moving around inside the library by surveillance video, McKelvie said.

The tapes didn’t show the bombing, however.

Thomas Zajac’s son was nowhere near Utah when he bomb went off, and no other evidence suggested the son played a role, McKelvie said.

Wall and Gorman refused comment on Thomas Zajac’s outburst in court or why they blamed the son for the bombing.

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The court will look at provocative anti-gay protests at military funerals and a California law banning the sale of violent video games to children. These cases worry free speech advocates, who fear the court could limit First Amendment freedoms. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees such basic rights as freedom of speech, religion and assembly.

The funeral protest lawsuit, over signs praising American war deaths, “is one of those cases that tests our commitment to the First Amendment,” said Steven Shapiro, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Another case involves a different aspect of the First Amendment, the government’s relationship to religion. The justices will decide whether Arizona’s income tax credit scholarship program, in essence, directs state money to religious schools in violation of the constitutional separation of church and state.

Under Chief Justice John Roberts, marking his fifth anniversary on the court, and with the replacement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor by Justice Samuel Alito, the court has been more sympathetic to arguments that blur the line between government and religion, as long as one religion is not favored over another.

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Like so much else at the Supreme Court, the justices sit according to seniority, other than the chief justice at the center of the bench. The retirement of John Paul Stevens, who had served longer than the others, means Roberts now will be flanked by Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy.

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America’s sexual behavior surveyed Most comprehensive data since 1994, teens more safe-sex conscious

NEW YORK (AP) — The male-female orgasm gap.

The sex lives of 14-year-olds.

An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers.

That’s just a tiny sampling of the data being unveiled Monday in what the researchers say is the largest, most comprehensive national survey of Americans’ sexual behavior since 1994.

Filling 130 pages of a special issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the study offers detailed findings on how often Americans have sex, with whom, and how they respond. In all, 5,865 people, ranging in age from 14 to 94, participated in the survey.

The lead researchers, from Indiana University’s Center for Sexual Health Promotion, said the study fills a void that has grown since the last comparable endeavor — the National Health and Social Life Survey — was published 16 years ago. Major changes since then include the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, the types of sex education available to young people, the advent of same-sex marriage, and the emergence of the Internet as a tool for social interaction.

Dr. Dennis Fortenberry, a pediatrics professor who was lead author of the study’s section about teen sex, said the overall findings of such a huge survey should provide reassurance to

Americans who are curious about how their sex lives compare with others.

“Unless, like al-Qaida, you feel there’s something abnormal about the American people, what these data say is, ‘This is normal — everything in there is normal.’”

The researchers said they were struck by the variety of ways in which the subjects engaged in sex — 41 different combinations of sexual acts were tallied, encompassing vaginal and anal intercourse, oral sex, and partnered masturbation.

Men are more likely to experience orgasm when vaginal intercourse is involved, while women are more likely to reach orgasm when they engage in variety of acts, including oral sex, said researcher Debra Herbenick, lead author of the section about women’s sex lives.

She noted there was a gap in perceptions — 85 percent of the men said their latest sexual partner had an orgasm, while only 64 percent of the women reported having an orgasm in their most recent sexual event.

One-third of women experienced genital pain during their most recent sex, compared to 5 percent of men, said Herbenick, citing this as an area warranting further study.

The study, which began taking shape in 2007, was funded by Church & Dwight Co., the manufacturer of Trojan condoms. Questions about condom usage figured

prominently in the study, but the researchers — during a teleconference — insisted the integrity of their findings was not affected by the corporate tie.

Among the findings was a high rate of condom usage among 14- to 17-year-olds. Of the surveyed boys who had sexual intercourse, 79 percent reported using a condom on the most recent occasion, compared to 25 percent for all the men in the survey.

However, the sample for that particular question involved only 57 teens in the 14-to-17 age range. That’s far smaller than the thousands involved in latest federal Youth Risk Behavior Survey last year which calculated condom use among sexually active high school students at 61 percent Fortenberry nonetheless found the new findings encouraging.

“There’s been a major shift among young people in the role condoms have in their sexual lives,” he said. “Condoms have become normative.”

Another intriguing finding — rates of condom usage among black and Hispanic men were significantly higher than for whites. The researchers said this suggested that HIVAIDS awareness programs were now making headway in those communities, which have relatively high rates of the disease.

The lowest condom usage rates were for men over 50 —

and the researchers said this was worrisome.

Although men in that age group are more likely to be married than males in their teens and 20s, other surveys have shown 50s-and-over to be far more open to multiple sexual partners than in the past, raising the risk for disease.

Other notable findings: —While about 7 percent of adult women and 8 percent of men identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual, the proportion of individuals who have had samegender sex at some point in their lives is higher. For example, 15 percent of the men aged 50-59 said they had received oral sex from another man at some point.

—Among adolescent boys, only about 2 percent of the 14-year-olds — but 40 percent

of the 17-year-olds — said they had engaged in sexual intercourse in the past year.

The survey was conducted from March through May of 2009, with the assistance of Knowledge Networks, among a nationally representative sample of adolescents and adults. Once people were selected to participate, they were interviewed online; participants without Internet access were provided it for free.

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Vatican opposes, no sex between husband and wife STOCKHOLM (AP) — Robert Edwards of Britain won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for developing in vitro fertilization, a breakthrough that has helped millions of infertile couples have children but also ignited an enduring controversy with religious groups.

Edwards, an 85-year-old professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge, started working on IVF as early as the 1950s. He developed the technique — in which eggs are removed from a woman, fertilized outside her body and then implanted into the womb — together with British gynecologist surgeon Patrick Steptoe, who died in 1988.

On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown in Britain became the first baby born through the groundbreaking procedure, marking a revolution in fertility treatment.

Since then, some 4 million people have been born using the technique, the Nobel medicine prize committee said — a rate that is up to about 300,000 babies worldwide a year, according to the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology.

Today, the probability that an infertile couple will take home a baby after a cycle of IVF is 1 in 5, about the same odds that healthy couples have of conceiving naturally.

“His achievements have made it possible to treat infertility, a medical condition afflicting a large proportion of humanity,

including more than 10 percent of all couples worldwide,” the committee in Stockholm said in its citation. “Today, Robert Edwards’ vision is a reality and brings joy to infertile people all over the world.”

Despite facing resistance from Britain’s medical establishment, Steptoe and Edwards spent years developing IVF from early beginning experiments into a practical course of medicine. In 1980, they founded the world’s first IVF clinic, at Bourn Hall in Cambridge, England.

Prize committee secretary Goran Hansson said Edwards was not in good health Monday when the committee tried to reach him. Bourn Hall said Edwards was too ill to give interviews.

“I spoke to his wife and she was delighted and she was sure he would be delighted too,” Hansson told reporters in Stockholm after announcing the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award.

Brown, now 32, gave birth to her first child in 2007, a boy named Cameron who she said was conceived naturally.

“Louise’s birth signified so much,” Edwards said at Brown’s 25th birthday celebration in 2003. “We had to fight a lot of opposition but we had concepts that we thought would work and they worked.”

Brown paid tribute Monday to the man who gave her life.

“It’s fantastic news, me and mum are so glad that one of the

pioneers of IVF has been given the recognition he deserves.

We hold Bob in great affection and are delighted to send our personal congratulations,” Brown, a postal worker living in Bristol, England, said in a statement released by Bourn Hall.

The work by Edwards and Steptoe stirred a “lively ethical debate,” the Nobel citation said, with the Vatican, other religious leaders and some scientists demanding the project be stopped. The British Medical Research Council in 1971 declined funding for Steptoe and Edwards, but the two found a private donation that allowed them to continue their research.

The Vatican is opposed to IVF because it involves separating conception from the “conjugal act” — sexual intercourse between a husband and wife — and often results in the destruction of eggs that are taken from a woman but not used.

There was no immediate comment from the Vatican’s top bioethics officials Monday to word of the Nobel.

It was not immediately clear why it took the Nobel committee so long to honor Edwards. Nobel rules were amended in 1974 to prohibit posthumous prizes, which ruled out a shared award with Steptoe. However, Hansson said Edwards “deserves a Nobel Prize on his own” because he made the fundamental discoveries that made IVF therapy possible.

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Street performer has lofty goals NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s most famous cowboy has been seized by naked ambition.

Robert Burck, known far and wide as the Naked Cowboy, intends to announce on Wednesday that he plans to enter the 2012 presidential race.

Burck is a tourist attraction known for strumming his guitar in Times Square while wearing only white underwear, boots and a cowboy hat.

It’s not his first time around the political block.

Burck had barely entered the mayoral race when he dropped out in 2009, complaining about the amount of red tape involved.

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St. Clair allowed to flush

ST. CLAIR, Minn. (AP) — Residents of St. Clair can flush the toilet again, as well as take showers, do laundry or run the dishwasher.

Officials of the southcentral Minnesota town say full sewer functions are once again available to residents.

The city had ordered residents to use the shower or sink minimally — and not to flush the toilet — until the city could get the sewage treatment plant back on line.

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Comment on Jon Stewart gets CNN anchor fired Said he is bigoted toward “everybody else that’s not like him”

NEW YORK (AP) — CNN fired news anchor Rick Sanchez on Friday, a day after he called Jon Stewart a bigot in a radio show interview where he also questioned whether Jews should be considered a minority.

Sanchez, who was born in Cuba and had worked at CNN since 2004, was host of the twohour “Rick’s List” on CNN’s afternoon lineup. He did a prime-time version of that show in recent months, but that ended this week because the time slot is being filled by a new show featuring former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and columnist Kathleen Parker.

Stewart had frequently poked fun of Sanchez on Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” most recently for saying on the air that his show had received a tweet from House Republican leader John Boehner. Stewart called it a case of “send a twit a tweet.”

“He’s upset that someone of my ilk is almost at his level,” Sanchez said during a satellite radio interview with Pete Dominick. Details of the interview were posted on the Mediaite website Friday and quickly became a topic of conversation in the media world.

Sanchez said that Stewart is bigoted toward “everybody else that’s not like him.” He said Stewart “can’t relate to what I grew up with,” saying his family had been poor and he had seen prejudice directed at his father.

Sanchez dismisses it when Dominick points out that Stewart, who is Jewish, is also a minority.

“I’m telling you that everyone who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart, and a lot of people who run all the other networks are a lot like Stewart, and to imply that somehow they, the people in this country who are Jewish, are an oppressed minority?” Sanchez said, adding a sarcastic “yeah.”

“I can’t see someone not getting a job these days because they’re Jewish,” he said.

CNN issued a statement late Friday that said Sanchez “is no longer with the company.” In it, the network also thanked Sanchez “for his years of service” and wished him well.

Sanchez did not immediately return an e-mail or call to his mobile phone seeking comment, though it was unclear whether the CNN-issued phone or e-mail address were still active.

Stewart had no comment on Sanchez’s statements, a Comedy Central spokesman said.

Three times in the past few months Stewart had used a Sanchez clip for the mocking “moment of Zen” feature on “The Daily Show,” including once where Sanchez mispronounced the world “annals” in a story

about Vice President Joe Biden.

He also made fun of Sanchez questioning a reporter who was stationed in a California gay bar for a report on the court case there involving gay marriage and hadn’t found anyone at the bar who opposed the idea.

Sanchez spent much of his career as a reporter and anchor in Miami, where he won an Emmy Award in 1983 for a story on why he left Cuba. He has also worked at MSNBC and CNBC. During the interview with

Dominick, Sanchez told about a CNN executive whom he would not name telling him that he saw Sanchez not as an anchor but a reporter like ABC’s John Quinones. He implied that this was a subtle form of bias.

Later in the interview Sanchez, indicated that “bigot” may be too strong a word to describe Stewart, saying he was “prejudicial” instead.

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He can make and break careers,” Sanchez said.

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They’re not just for rock stars and athletes.

There have been times in my life when I have longed for ink meeting my unmarked skin, but the age-old questions of — Will I get a job? Will my parents disown me? What will it look like in 50 years when I’m old and wrinkly? — have hung over my head and prevented my fleeing to the tat parlor thus far.

We hear stories of drunken nights resulting in new tattoos, such as senior corrections major Corey Hoffman’s tale of 2:30 in the morning meets the everclose proximity of The Wine Café and Cactus Tattoo downtown.

“I woke up the next morning with a really bad hangover, and my ankle hurt,” Hoffman recalled.

So besides alcohol, what is it that drives those young at heart to make such drastic changes to their bodies? Making a statement? The freedom of self-expression? Thought-out meaning and design, or just good ol’ spontaneity? Whatever your liking, this permanent “trend” has been going on for years with no sign of slowing.

Cactus Tattoo store manager Tracy Trahan says TV shows such as “Inked,” “Miami Ink”

wale agboola• msu reporter Top, left to right: senior urban studies major Josh Wiggins, senior political science major Josh Robertson, Brittany Manio with “God helping, nothing should be feared” in Latin. Bottom: senior dental hygiene major Stephanie McCabe.

and “L.A. Ink” may have something to do with the momentum.

“In the last three or four years we’ve seen an increase in business,” Trahan said. “Tattoos have become more mainstream.”

Tattoos are sending a message these days, literally. Calligraphy and custom font tattoos are all the rage.

“The majority of people who come in get lettering,” Trahan said. She also noted that Kanji

(Chinese and Japanese symbols), crosses and tribal art still remain popular. Lettering across the chest and feet are some other noted trends.

Advances in electric needle machines, pigmenting and imagery have provided artists with improved range of detail and possibilities. A local who has mastered such detail with awards to prove it as one of the top female artists in the United States is Megan Hoogland of

Home Sweet Home Tattoo.

Hoogland, a former employee of Cactus, began her out-of-home tattooing business in April in downtown Mankato.

She also shares her art at Levictus Tattoo in Minneapolis on Saturdays and travels across the country on her convention cycle.

“People come from all over for my work,” Hoogland said. She is located on 4th Street and can be reached at meganhoogland@gmail.com

From front: Jordan Ashbacher: sophomore music industry major with “Carpe Diem” on forearm and “Wings to the Mind” – a Plato quote about music — on chest.

Andrea Biber: junior art education major with Latin script for “She flies with her own wings” (from Oregon’s motto) on back.

Grace Cimino: junior psychology major. “I sometimes worry if (my tattoos) will be accepted, but I don’t regret it.”

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With such technological advancements in tattoo application, tattoo removal is also making improvements. However, it hasn’t yet reached perfection: it’s still painful, expensive and leaves scarring.

What does this all mean for body art in today’s workplace? Sure it’s nice to be a chic celebrity admired for your ink so much it’s replicated, but it’s different for us down here in the real world. Most employers have some sort of dress code or appearance policy where concealed tattoos aren’t an issue, because banning tattoos altogether would be neither possible nor appropriate.

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Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Department of Theatre and Dance opened its Mainstage season Thursday with a production of “Chicago.”

The year: 1920. The city: Chicago. The crime: murder. Roxie Hart, played by junior Laura Otremba, has just shot her faithless lover, Fred Casely, and convinces her husband, Amos, senior Stephen Mark Crisp, to take the blame. That is until Amos discovers the truth and Roxie is sent to death row.

Though the cast consisted of jaw dropping dancers, the acting may not have been put on the forefront of concern for the production. It’s definitely not to say that the acting was terrible; it just seemed as though it could have been a bit more rehearsed at parts.

Two characters in particular broke through the barrier of mediocrity: Billy Flynn and Amos Hart. Whenever the two male leads took their place on stage together, their conversations were full of intense, raw emotion.

What performers lacked in dialogue, they made up for with jazzy, soulful and passionate ballads. Crisp provided an awe-inspiring and sensa-

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It is on death row that Roxie meets Velma Kelly, the current murderer-of-the-week, played by senior Megan Volkman-Wilson. Roxie and Velma compete for the spotlight, headlines and Billy Flynn, a lawyer with exclusively female clientele, played by senior Aaron Alan.

Ultimately the two “Merry Murderesses” join forces to fight for their dream of fame, fortune and of course, acquittal.

The show features everything in excess, except for clothing, that is.

Scantily clad women dance across the stark stage in a whirlwind of black leotards, tights and glitter.

Director Paul Finocchiaro kept by-the-books, using the original style of dance as a major influence for the artistic direction of the production. Created by Bob Fosse, this dance style includes turned-in feet, hunched shoulders and isolated body parts. Though unusual, the style was paramount in providing an authentic production of the critically acclaimed musical.

tional version of “Mister Cellophane,” while Alan performed a showstopper with “We Both Reached for the Gun.” As soon as Matron Mama Morton, played by Lindsay Odegaard, started singing “When You’re Good to Mama,” the audience stopped, breathless, at the senior transfer student’s powerful ballad.

A show dedicated to the idea of murder as a form of entertainment, “Chicago” is a surprisingly comedic musical. The production, full of funny one-liners and hilarious gestures, kept the audience laughing along with the cast on Roxie Hart’s journey to acquittal.

This production is a must-see for any student who either finds enjoyment in theatre or simply needs something to do this weekend. However, students considering attending should be wary of the intense light glaring off a disco ball used in one of the dance numbers. Though fun, it may leave the audience with momentary blindness.

Do not disregard this as an exaggeration when I start by saying that Friday night’s Local Natives First Ave performance was the most amazing concert experience of my life.

Sharing songs with the crowded club like individually wrapped presents, the Local Natives kept its audience screaming in surprise and delight like children at Christmas time. Recordings off its album “Gorilla Manor,” released in February of this year, doesn’t do this California band’s focused and mesmerizing harmonies justice.

These so-called natives have a way of creating magical and far-out sounds from real-life human instruments. “Camera Talk” featured doo-wop keyboard vibrations and lead single “Airplanes” was famously accented with drummer Matt Frazier’s random bursts of clatter. Toe-tapping to carefree and upbeat “World News” was probably my favorite. A close second was when things slowed down with “Who Knows, Who Cares.”

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The Love Language followed with pop rock ballads at upbeat waltz tempos led by electric guitarist Stuart McLamb and the boys, aside from cute, short-shorts-clad keyboardist Missy Thangs, respectfully. They provided some fun in the midst of headliner anticipation.

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Taylor Rice sported a thick, black beacon of a moustache so heavenly across his lip that I had to tell him afterward at the merch table. Bassist Andy Hamm looked far too chill to be on stage in his flat billed cap holding up the end of the lineup.

What made the show so impressive to me was the addition of the outstanding openers.

Contrary to the disappointment of Matt and Kim’s comrades last week, I completely forgot the show started an hour late when The Union Line hit its first few beats.

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In “Fair Game,” director Doug Liman (“The Bourne Identity”) chronicles the beginning days of the Iraq War, following CIA agent Valerie Plame (you may have heard of her) and husband Joe Wilson as they become mixed up in a game of he-said-she-said with the Bush White House.

Based on Plame’s and Wilson’s books “The Politics of Truth” and “Fair Game” respectively, with a screenplay

by Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, the film splices an intense political drama with a figurative staring match between a married couple. The nation plunges into

war as Plame (the vivacious Naomi Watts) and Wilson (Sean Penn, weathered and crinklefaced and spitting fire) test each other’s commitment — to the truth and to their marriage.

Liman uses exceptionally fast, punchy pacing to depict the domino-effect that led to the war we currently fight, and the ways in which even the CIA was caught dumbfounded in its dust.

The competing edges of this heavy sword — a tried relationship and a conspiracy-wrought White House — both tie the story down and give it wings, achieving a balance where our sense of character and sense of scope gel into something powerful and meaningful.

internet photo Naomi Watts gives a strong performance as outted CIA operative Valerie Plame. The film nicely interjects the story of a tried marriage in the scheme of much larger concerns.

Made with a measly $700, the ultra-indie “Channel News” represented Minnesota during the Twin Cities Film Fest. Shot on location in Apple Valley and featuring local music only, the film capitalizes on its underdog status with unexplainable charm and a simple, cute sensibility.

Beau (writer/director/producer Jacob Kindberg) is an out-of-work adult with an associate’s degree who moves in with his estranged sister, played by Kindberg’s actual sister, at his

parent’s house in suburban Minnesota. Undetermined to find “just another job,” he discovers videos the siblings made when they were young and hatches a plan to continue where they left off.

While “Channel News” showcases a keen eye for beauty and artful composition on Kindberg’s part, a lacking script and noticeably amateur acting weigh what should be a sweet, funny short feature down.

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‘Night Catches Us’ ‘Waiting for ‘Superman’’ After 10 years of work yet only 18 days of shooting, Tany Hamilton’s “Night Catches Us” hit the Twin Cities Film Fest with force.

Returning to 1976 Philadelphia, the home of racially charged aggression between the city’s black youth and a shoot-first police squad, Marcus Washington (Anthony Mackie) walks with a target on his back. Reacquainting himself with the community he left behind, the ex-Black Panther is caught between the radicalism and disillusionment of his past and his newly adopted, calculating philosophy.

Mackie (“The Hurt Locker”) is stoic and piercing, a presence in every scene. He infuses Hamilton’s minimalist script with impact and

resonance, the anchor in weighty shouting matches and the debonair wit in lighter scenes.

Kerry Washington (“Ray”) keeps pace as Marcus’ only ally in the politically crumbling metropolis, a woman at the center of the black community whose outward confidence is more a show of her backward-looking uncertainty.

With “Night Catches Us,” Hamilton shows her strength as a director, not only in the technical sense, but as one with drive, determination and a multi-dimensional feel for filmmaking. About culture, community, authority, identity and pain, the disquieting film deserves a hard look from today’s equally polarized society.

internet photo Director Tanya Hamilton based the extremism of the Black Panthers on the headstrong, reactionary highschoolers she grew up with.

Like his Oscar-winning “An Inconvenient Truth,” Davis Guggenheim’s latest documentary does less to solve the problem than simply address it. Targeting one of many failing columns of America’s infrastructure, specifically k-12 education, “Waiting for ‘Superman’” doesn’t offer an exact, step-by-step process to re-educate our nation — a non-knowingness, or virtual shrug, openly offered throughout the film — but instead wishes to incite the debate that will bring about that solution Guggenheim seeks.

Addressing the abysmal national education statistics through the lens of some of the most troubled districts and schools in the nation, the film is a calculated and smart use of the medium as a jumping off point to social change.

And while the film does lack completion without the conversation it looks to spark, its emotional culmination of a handful of students crossing their fingers for the chance to enter exclusive charter/ prep schools gives it a complementing narrative structure.

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Das Racist is not joking. Or are they? While the Brooklyn-based duo may primarily spit rhymes with a tongue in their cheeks, that doesn’t mean you’re going to find their newest mixtape, “Sit Down, Man,” in the comedy section of your favorite record store anytime soon.

But they are funny. The group became known because of a song about a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, but, while funny, it was more of a statement on the very existence of a combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

Das Racist, a slang way of pronouncing “that’s racist,” is comprised of San Franciscan Victor Vazquez and Queens native Himanshu Suri, who met at Wesleyan University when Vazquez was Suri’s resident advisor. In the vein of Childish Gambino (“Community’s” Donald Glover), Das Racist can and has been constrained by its comedy.

But the group is aware of this possible pigeonholing, confronting it in the songs “Rapping 2 U” and “hahahaha jk?” While a reference to “The Office’s” biggest curmudgeon (“I’m on the block like street meat/call me Dwight Schrute/the way that I eat beats”) is clever and

slightly whimsical in its wit, the group stakes its claim as hip-hop social commentators throughout, even getting chattily confrontational: “I scrap happily/smack a little scrappy-like dude for free/not for a fee/a Rockfort tee/or maybe just a cup of tea/had enough of me?/I’m just beginning!/Finna be a minute ‘fore the fat lady singing.’”

On the Diplo-produced “You Can Sell Anything,” they turn their aim toward consumerism, bringing to life one of their own incensed strolls through New York City’s streets.

The group continues its aural attack on “Commercial,” where Suri mumbles “money” 34 times in 15 seconds, establishing a structure even Gertrude Stein would have to tip her hat to. This dense repetition pops up again in “Fashion Party”:

“I’m at the fashion party/I’m wearing fashion clothes/I’m putting fashionable powders up inside my nose.”

Diplo isn’t the only one lending a hand either, with Das Racist only credited as being involved in the production of three of the mixtape’s 20 songs. While Diplo and El-P may be the nominal ones, the collection of relatively unknown beat-makers hold their own.

Samples from Jay-Z and The Doors give the group a boost as well, even anchoring essential album opener and race-concerned “All Tan Everything.”

Of course, it’s okay to find the humor in it all. But the strong possibility of “Sit Down, Man” ending up as one of the best hip-hop albums of the year might mean Das Racist will be getting the last laugh.

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“Your timing has to be very accurate. I’ve done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference,” Yeoh said.

Woo, whose Lion Rock Productions made “Reign of Assassins,” said Yeoh’s action prowess has not waned.

The veteran actress performed 90 percent of her own moves and stunts, he said.

“Her kung fu moves are still so clean, so powerful. She still has great rhythm. She still looks great,” Woo told The Associated Press. “Michelle Yeoh is the same.”

Director Su Chao-pin said he was impressed by Yeoh’s routine of waking up three hours before 7 a.m. shoots for stretching and running.

“Her level of fitness is the product of tremendous self-discipline,” Su told the AP. Woo said he was also struck by Yeoh’s ability to tackle the emotional journey of her character, who’s determined to forge a new life as an unknown fabric seller with her new husband (South Korea’s Jung Woo-sung), only to be tracked down by accomplices from her past. Her husband, a courier, also harbors a secret identity.

“It’s completely different from her previous characters where she is an action star or plays someone who is a strong fighter. In this movie, not only does she fight well, she acts well too. She shows her real emotion,” the “Mission: Impossible II” director said.

Perhaps due to Yeoh’s growing international profile, Woo said “Reign of Assassins” has drawn more interest from distributors in Europe and North America than “Red Cliff,” his recent historical epic that marked his return to Chinese film.

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The 48-year-old former Bond girl plays a retired assassin haunted by her past life in the kung fu thriller “Reign of Assassins,” which opens in Asia on Thursday. Producer John Woo crafted the role in the $14 million picture for his longtime friend when both Hong Kong transplants were developing their Hollywood careers in Los Angeles.

Yeoh has focused on her career in the West since the global success of “Crouching Tiger,” appearing in a range of works including “Memoirs of a Geisha,” the third installment of “The Mummy” franchise and Oscar winner Danny Boyle’s sci-fi thriller “Sunshine.” Many of these parts were dramatic roles.

The extended absence might have some fans wondering if the ballerinaturned-action star has lost her touch for the more physical screen performances she is known for in Asia.

A former Miss Malaysia, Yeoh parlayed her beauty pageant credentials into a full-fledged acting career in Hong Kong in the 1980s and 1990s, where she earned a reputation as a gritty daredevil who could hold her own against — and even outshine — the likes of Jackie Chan and Jet Li in complicated kung fu and stunt sequences. Hollywood came beckoning in 1997 with a costarring role alongside Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies.”

Yeoh told a news conference in Hong Kong recently that she, too, had initial doubts about the role, noting it required challenging swordplay that drew her close to her fellow actors.

“I was a little worried initially. I had not shot a kung fu movie since ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.’ I put that skill set aside for a long time,” she said.

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Neal said his client would have a difficult time serving his prison sentence because he takes an antidepressant that isn’t approved by the federal Bureau of Prisons. The drug also restricts what kind of food he could eat, Neal said.

Fischer had no sympathy for McTiernan, saying he has led a privileged life and sarcastically pointing out the worse thing that has happened in his life is getting a scholarship to Exeter prep school.

Fischer, who presided over the wiretapping case that ensnared more than a dozen people, continued her verbal assault on McTiernan, adding that a prison sentence will no longer give him the ability to eat “aged cheeses, cured meats or red wine.”

As for the medicine he needs to take, Fischer replied, “He won’t be the only depressed man in prison.”

Yippee-kay-yay: ‘Die Hard’ director gets one year in prison in wiretapping case LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Die Hard” director John McTiernan was sentenced to one year in prison Monday for lying about his association with a private investigator to illegally wiretap a movie producer.

In a stinging rebuke of the 59-year-old McTiernan, U.S. District Judge Dale Fischer said he should receive a harsher sentence than the year recommended by prosecutors because he didn’t accept responsibility for his actions.

“The defendant doesn’t think the law applies to him,” Fischer said.

McTiernan, wearing a black suit with a blue shirt, had his hands in his pockets while the judge issued her sentence. He declined comment outside of court.

McTiernan pleaded guilty in July to two counts of making false statements to the FBI. He also pleaded guilty to one count of perjury for lying to a federal judge while trying to withdraw a guilty plea.

Fischer also ordered McTiernan to pay a $100,000 fine and serve three years probation. He will remain free on bond pending an appeal. His attorneys said the conditional

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Scoring frenzy for Mavericks over weekend

After scoring just six goals in its previous eight games, the MSU offense erupted as it scored 11 goals in two wins LEE HANDEL

staff writer

Coming off an uninspiring road trip, the Minnesota State women’s soccer team took all of its frustration out on Southwest Minnesota State University in a 9-0 blowout Thursday at The Pitch. The squad then had to depart for Grand Forks, where the Mavericks continued to ride the momentum to a 2-1 victory over the North Dakota Fighting Sioux and a perfect weekend.

The Mavericks could not get anything going offensively in the Dakotas two weekends ago, but found the formula for success in a big way at home against the Mustangs. On a beautiful fall day in Mankato, the Mavericks more than doubled their entire season’s worth of scoring output, scoring the most goals in a game since 2003 in drubbing SMSU 9-0. This explosion came after only posting six goals in their first eight games.

Thursday could not have gone more perfectly for the Mavericks, as the offense stampeded through the Mustangs’ back line of defenders early and often en route to nine goals. Everything seemed to be clicking for the Mavericks, who had spent a lot of time earlier in the week working on making the perfect pass in hopes of setting up more scoring opportunities.

“Everyone was on the same page and playing off of each other,” said senior forward

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Laura Leber. “I was most impressed at how we kept giving it to them all the way through the end of the game.”

The Mavericks broke through early on offense when sophomore Nicole Dooher got behind the Mustang defense for her third goal of the season on a great pass from Leber.

Still searching for her first goal of the season, Leber got the perfect opportunity when the Mavericks received a penalty kick at the 27-minute mark of the first half. After booming the ball into the back of the net to double the Mavericks lead, it seemed as if the offensive monkey was officially off of Leber and the Mavericks’ backs.

“I just needed to get that first goal in,” Leber said.

“Hopefully other goals will start to trickle in more frequently from here on out.”

The Mavericks’ onslaught was just beginning, as senior Jessie Audas and freshman Ashley Sykora each netted their second goals of the year to give the Mavericks a commanding 4-0 halftime lead.

Leber helped maintain the offensive intensity in the second half, notching her second goal of the game for a 5-0 lead. This goal moved Leber into third place all-time for goals as a

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Senior Laura Leber scored two goals in the Mavericks 9-0 win over Southwest Minnesota State.

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place in individual standings.

Other Mavericks to place were junior Julian Ramirez, sophomore Kyle Thul and freshmen Bennett Black and Tyler Gross.

The MSU men’s golf team is in first place at the NSIC tournament after the first 36 holes.

The Mavericks combined to shoot a Kyle Bahe 294 Sunday and holds Men’s cross country a one-stroke lead over The MSU men’s St. Cloud State. cross country team placed third MSU shot a total of 599, in the South Dakota State Claswith rounds of 305 and 294. sic Saturday.

Senior Kyle Bahe led the The Mavericks scored 93 way shooting a two-round total points during the meet and of 145. He also sits in third

finished behind South Dakota State and Nebraska Kearney.

MSU was led by sophomore David Barmasai, who finished with a time of 25:39.3 and in ninth place among 106 athletes.

Other Mavericks to compete were James Bastyr (12th), Thomas Becker (19th), Nicholas Emmans (20th) Jacob Ball, Adam Noll and Dan Kromer.

Women’s cross country The MSU women’s cross country team took fifth place at the South Dakota State Classic.

The Mavericks scored 140 points, which was behind the University of Minnesota, Minnesota-Duluth, North Dakota and South Dakota State.

MSU was led by freshman Sarah Bowler, who finished with a time of 19:09. 8 which was good for 22nd.

Other Mavericks to compete were Laura Hughes, Alyssa Wojack, Kelsey Magnuson and Jackie Beckett.

MSU athletics MSU will induct six individuals into the school’s Ath-

letics Hall of Fame on Friday.

The inductees will be Gene Bygd, Pat Dunn, Josh Nelsen, Heide Ulwelling, Phil Rhoade and Jim Scaffer.

The 1979 and 1980 MSU baseball teams will also be inducted as a team.

The Jim Shaffer Award will be presented to JoAnn Curtis and Laura Stevens and the MSU Athletics Philanthropic Award recipients are Paul and Jennipher Mattson.

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Football

Warriors pound Mavericks — MSU now 3-2 After a fast start to the game, the warriors gave the mavericks their second loss in a row PAT DELANEY

staff writer After losing for the second straight week, one has to wonder what is wrong with the Minnesota State football team. The Mavericks failed to compete with Winona State Saturday, losing 43-21.

“There’s a lot of season left to be played,” said head coach Todd Hoffner. “We have all the big heavy hitters left on our schedule.”

With games against Augustana, St. Cloud State and Wayne State still remaining on the schedule, the Mavericks will have their hands full getting themselves back atop the NSIC. With the loss to the Warriors, the Mavericks dropped to 0-2 in the NSIC South Division.

What has stood out the most in the two losses have been the struggles of the defense, which has allowed an alarming 71 points in their last two games, compared to just 23 in the first three games.

Through five games last season, the Mavericks offense averaged nearly 35 points-pergame, but this year they are averaging only 23 points-pergame. With less points being put on the board, the MSU defense has been under more pressure to keep opposing offenses off the board.

During the two losses, the Mavericks are minus-2 in the turnover battle, throwing two interceptions and fumbling once. The defense has not had the same success creating turn-

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overs as they did a year ago when they forced a conferencehigh 33.

The Mavericks were plus-14 in turnover margin last season, but are no where near that through five games this season.

While the struggles of the defense have been most evident in the two losses, the offense is still struggling to show consistency.

The MSU offense drove down to the Warriors two-yardline, but fumbled, deflating any chance of getting on the board early. The Warriors would then proceed to jump to a 20-0 lead, highlighted by two touchdowns more than 80 yards.

Meanwhile, the MSU offense remained on the sidelines watching the Warriors pile on the points, making a comeback look less and less possible.

“We dug ourselves a hole early,” said Hoffner. “We did a good job of fighting back. It’s now time to begin focusing on St. Cloud State next week.”

While the MSU running game has been impressive over the last three games, the passing game still remains a mystery. The Maverick quarterbacks are completing less than 60 percent of their passes and have thrown five interceptions.

Outside of sophomore receivers Cody Rose and Adam Thielen, the Mavericks are getting very little production from the receivers. The Mavericks

dan moen • msu reporter Senior linebacker Dan Fehlberg (42) and the Mavericks have been solid defensively, until they allowed 43 points to Winona State on Saturday.

will need to get more players involved in the passing game if they are going to be productive.

Senior quarterback Steve Pachan returned to his starting role Saturday for the first time since the Mavericks opening game Sept. 2. He was efficient, completing 12 passes on 20 attempts, as well as throwing two touchdowns.

He was also sacked three times. It has been a learning

process for much of the Mavericks offensive linemen this season and while they have looked much better run-blocking, their pass-blocking still needs to improve.

After two straight losses, it is easy to point fingers at one area that stands out, but Saturday’s loss at Winona State proved that improvement is needed on both sides of the ball, as well as on special teams.

“It takes all 11 guys on the field,” said junior running back Taylor Brookins.

While no one on the Mavericks is pushing the panic button yet, a sense of urgency has to be felt throughout the team.

More so than in any other sport, losses in DII football can bury a team’s post-season’s chances early. The Mavericks need to turn it around this week when they return home against St. Cloud State.

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Volleyball

Missing chances and opportunities to win

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The Mavericks had a chance to climb the NSIC standings over the weekend, but the woes continued for msu FOOTBALL needed to win.

TIGE HUTHCESON

staff writer As the saying goes: That’s why they play the game.

The Mavericks began the weekend with a sweep of Minnesota-Crookston (0-7, 0-15), crushing the Golden Eagles in three sets by scores of 25-8, 2513, and 25-17. Led by 11 digs from both Alli Rice and Chelsea Fogarty, the Mavericks suffocated the Golden Eagles’ offense and held on for three easy wins.

Megan Ysker emerged as an allaround threat for the Mavericks on Friday, putting up team-bests in both kills (eight) and blocks (five).

Saturday, however, was a different story. While Minnesota State was favored to beat MSUMoorhead (3-4, 7-8), the Dragons came into Bresnan Arena and shocked the Mavericks with an unexpected 3-2 road win.

“We didn’t play well in the big moments. We need someone to come out and play the big moments well,” said MSU head coach Dennis Aumundson.

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over time. Every team works through that and we just haven’t found it yet.”

After getting after it on defense in the first set, the Mavericks were unable to put the Dragons away. Behind seven blocks from Laura Tverdik and 19 digs from Katy Ness, Moorhead’s defense was able to slow down the Mavericks on offense and won three of the final four sets, including a back-and-forth 16-14 fifth set.

“We came out with a lot of energy but we should have finished with a little more. I think everyone put in a good effort but we could’ve put more in” said freshman setter Kelli Elhardt, who provided a nice boost for MSU’s defense, recording nine digs in just three sets.

MSU really made it difficult to win with poor serving, putting up a nauseating 13 service errors, including four in game five, handing MSU Moorhead four of the 16 points they

“It was just a lack of confidence at the line. It’s different every day. It was just a bad day I guess” said Elhardt.

“That was a problem. It’s hard to win with serving but it’s easy to lose with serving. If you look, we beat them in every stat except [service errors],” Amundson said. “If we would’ve had half of those serves back, it might have been a different match. Again, that’s composure in the big moments” said Amundson.

Looking ahead, the Mavericks will need to rebound quickly and prepare for their next challenge, the 16-0 Wayne State Wildcats. Wayne State is ranked No. 2 in Division II behind Minnesota Duluth, but is sure to leap into first place after knocking off Duluth on Friday.

“We need to come out in practice and try to get more consistent,” Ysker said. “Monday we’re going to come in and work twice as hard, and by Friday we’ll be ready to roll.”

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The Evil Empire: We meet again

Why does everyone hate the Yankees? Ratke goes through a few of his favorites reasons to hate the pinstripes. makes me look cool!!!”

Kyle ratke

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article prematurely previewing the Minnesota Twins playing the New York Yankees in the American League Divisional Series.

For better or worse, we are playing the Yankees in the opening five-game series. For better because we have a better chance of beating them in five than seven, but for worse because they are still the effin’ Yankees.

Just like how you hated the guy in high school who seemed to be able to do everything well, from sports to getting ladies.

The only difference is that the kid from high school now lives in a trailer with three kids and has a GED. The Yankees on the other hand seem to keep getting better.

If you are a baseball fan and you like the Yankees, you are either from New York or you have no soul. No soul at all my friends.

While sitting up late last night, I thought of why I hated the Yankees so much. Is it because they are so good? Yes. Am I jealous? Absolutely.

Do I want to be Jeter for a day? Yes. Seriously, take my loan money now.

Are any of those good reasons? No. Here are some better ones:

5. “I wear their hat because it

NOOOOOOO!!!!

I am guilty of this also, but why does everyone think it’s cool to wear Yankees apparel?

Would you wear your high school rival’s letter jacket because it looks cooler than yours?

No, of course you wouldn’t.

When did it become cool to wear Yankees hats? Does it raise your street cred?

I don’t know anything about street cred, so I have not clue.

I wore the Yankees hat because I went through a year in which I thought I was a cross between Snoop Dogg and Vanilla Ice. I wore my hat crooked and pierced my ears. My parents weren’t concerned or anything…

Reason no. 483 why I am still single.

I will start wearing Packers slippers when Michael and Toby from The Office start getting along. What? They started to last episode? Uh oh...

4. Alex Rodriguez Yeah. I said it. A good reason to hate the Yankees is because of Alex Rodriguez.

Fact: Nothing made me happier when Selena Roberts from Sports Illustrated broke the story on A-Rod using steroids during his Texas years. Nobody was surprised, but anytime you can watch a guy of A-Rod’s stature crumble in front of your eyes, it feels good.

But roids or no roids, the guy is good.

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NBA

Timberwolves drop Lakers in London

LONDON (AP) — Michael Beasley scored 21 points in his Timberwolves debut and Minnesota beat the Los Angeles Lakers 111-92 Monday in their preseason opener in London.

Kobe Bryant only put in a brief appearance for defending NBA champion Los Angeles, going scoreless in a little more than six minutes of playing time. That wasn’t enough to satisfy the crowd at the soldout O2 Arena, which chanted “Kobe, Kobe, Kobe” during the second half. Bryant, who is still recovering from knee surgery in the offseason, answered with polite laughs on the bench, but the pleas had little effect on coach Phil Jackson.

Instead, it was Beasley and fellow newcomers Martell Webster and Anthony Tolliver that put on a show, helping the Timberwolves use a 32-13 third-quarter run to break open the game. Webster led all scorers with 24 points and Tolliver added 10.

Lamar Odom led the Lakers with 17 points, including 13 in a tight first half as the Lakers took a 56-55 lead into the break.

But Beasley, the forward who joined from Miami after

the Heat acquired LeBron James and Chris Bosh, made sure there would be little drama in the second half.

He drained a long jumper on Minnesota’s first possession and then added a 3-pointer, before driving the length of the court for a three-point play.

He finished 8 of 10 from the floor in a little more than 18 minutes, and was rested for the entire fourth quarter.

Jackson had said before the game that Bryant would start but wasn’t likely to play more than eight minutes. He came off after the first time-out, having produced little on the floor.

He went 0 for 3 from the field, including two missed 3-pointers.

He did take part in the first highlight of the night, however, stealing a pass from Beasley and feeding Odom on the fastbreak, and Odom finished with a one-handed dunk to make it 2-0.

Los Angeles was clearly the main attraction for the British crowd, with yellow Lakers jerseys vastly outnumbering the Minnesota shirts. However, the fans got to see little of the quality that earned Los Angeles back-to-back titles.

Ron Artest and Pau Gasol were largely anonymous, while Derek Fisher played just 15 minutes. Artest finished with three points, Gasol had seven and Fisher added 12. Center Andrew Bynum missed the game following knee surgery.

When Jackson took off Gasol — the last remaining starter — with 5 minutes left, the decision was met by boos.

While both teams gave their bench players plenty of minutes, there were a few more highlight-reel moments that did awe the crowd.

Starting Minnesota point guard Luke Ridnour — another newcomer for the rebuilding Timberwolves — led a fast break in the third quarter and put the ball up off the backboard for trailing rookie Wesley Johnson to slam home and make 69-58. Pau Gasol was largely anonymous, but drove past Minnesota center Nikola Pekovic in the fourth quarter for a one-handed reverse jam.

Odom brought some laughs when Beasley fell down in front of him as he de drove the ball up the court. Odom had to leap over the forward and continued to run with an exaggerated high-stepping stride as he

web photoe Martell Webster (8, shown last year as a Blazer) scored 24 points coming off the bench in Monday’s game against the Lakers

drove toward the basket, before passing behind his back to Derek Fisher. The guard’s shot was blocked into the stands by Darko Milicic.

The NBA’s annual European preseason tour continues

with Minnesota playing the New York Knicks in Paris on Wednesday and the Lakers taking on Barcelona in Spain on Thursday in a homecoming for Gasol.

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Nothing has hurt me more than when A-Rod started becoming clutch during last year’s postseason. I wanted to think the Yankees were getting what they deserved during all those years A-Rod choked for buying players. Damn you A-Rod for showing up in October!

Which reminds me…

3. Mo Money, Mo Problems That was a clever title, I know. Thanks Notorious B.I.G. (Also known for his Yankees gear. Coincidence? I think not.)

But the title isn’t true. The Yankees spend more money year in and year out and nothing seems to go wrong (minus 2008).

Mo Money = Mo Wins What are the Yankees teaching our kids?

They are teaching kids to buy more and get a really hot wife.

And guess what? If you get sick of your stuff and your wife, grab the neighbors! And then get away with it! Mark Teixeira, A.J. Burnett, Nick Swisher, Curtis Granderson... Not hot wives, but you get the idea.

Is this what you want your kids learning? To steal, cheat and buy success?

Well, sorry to be the barer of bad news, but it seems to work…

2. STOP BEING SO PERFECT Why don’t I like A-Rod? Because he seems perfect. He has money, had a smokin’ hot wife (before he started with Madonna. Dumbest cheat ever. “Hey good looking young wife, sorry.

I found a 52-year-old crazy lady who named her sons Lourdes and Rocco. This is a great idea, right?”).

I loved the Red Sox because it seemed like I could go take a shot of Jag with Johnny Damon.

Go streaking with Jason Varitek.

Sports Or even go to the Haze with David Ortiz as my wingman.

What am I supposed to do with the Yankees? Go have an Apple Martini (very tasty by the way) with Jeter?

Go tan with A-Rod? Go do whatever it is Jorge Posada does?

No. If there were such a thing as too professional, that’s what the Yankees would be. It’s the guy who still wears a suit on casual Friday. IT’S CASUAL FRIDAY!!! DRESS CASUALLY! 1. We meet again.

The Minnesota Twins are 2-9 against the Yankees in postseason play.

Manager Ron Gardenhire is 18-54 against the Yankees during his tenure. (Wait while I go give myself false hope.)

We have upgraded from Luis Rivas at second to Orlando Hudson throughout those years, along with a few other changes.

But still… the Twins have had trouble against the Yankees.

Is it the big time atmosphere?

Maybe.

Are we intimidated by them?

Probably.

Am I making up these excuses because I refuse to admit they are better than us? Never…

There are many reasons to hate a team like the Yankees.

There are also many reasons to hate word counts, which is why I need to wrap this up shortly.

Starting Wednesday, the rivalry will be reunited. Or the lopsided rivalry at least.

Will the Twins beat the Yankees? I don’t know. I have asked 14 questions throughout this article. There is a lot I don’t know.

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After assisting on two earlier goals, it was freshman Courtney Vallarelli’s turn to score, giving the Mavericks the 6-0 lead. Fellow freshman Tori Meinhardt followed with her first career goal as a Maverick to make it 7-0. The Mavericks kept the foot on the gas pedal in the final minutes, as sophomore forward Brittany Henry put the exclamation point on the 9-0 victory with her second and third goals of the season.

Everyone contributed to this Maverick masterpiece, as 22 players saw time on the field and kept the ball in Mustang territory nearly the entire contest. Nine freshmen helped put their stamp on the shutout, especially goalkeeper Brittany Cygan, who earned her first career victory in net as a Maverick in the rout.

“It was great to get the whole team involved and get some of the younger players involved,” said Henry. “It was fun to go out and score a bunch of goals. Once we got the first one, the rest just kept coming and coming.”

After defeating UND 2-1 on Sunday in the team’s final non-conference game, the Mavericks (5-4-1, 3-1-1 NSIC) appear to have figured things out offensively heading into October.

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Maverick Hockey beats Canadian Team 1-0 on late, shorthanded, unassissted goal

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MLB

Morneau done for season MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For the second straight year, the Minnesota Twins will play the postseason without Justin Morneau.

The 2006 AL MVP hasn’t played since July 7 because of post-concussion symptoms stemming from an inadvertent knee to the head during a slide into second base at Toronto.

Morneau has begun to improve and hasn’t had any recent setbacks, but general manager Bill Smith said Monday the team doesn’t want to rush back its four-time All-Star first baseman.

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“To get him ready to play at the highest level he would have to be up and ready in two weeks, and that’s just unrealistic,” Smith said. “It’s one thing to go out and take batting practice and groundballs, but he hasn’t done any sliding, he hasn’t taken any relays and he hasn’t done some of the quickreaction plays that go on in a game.”

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