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Board reps fight GPA conditions

BOARD OF REGENTS

Mac Miller tapped for Spring Jam

STUDENT LIFE

Gophers headed to PhillyMEN’S HOCKEY

PATTY GROVER, DAILYThe Gophers men’s hockey team beat St. Cloud State 4-0 Sunday evening at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. Minnesota advanced to the Frozen Four for the second time in three years.

TRACKINGMILLIONS

Biology society and environment sophomore Matthew Cohen, left, and fisheries and wildlife junior Dan Dewey study at the Veterans Transition Center in Johnston Hall on March 7. Both are veterans and go to the VTC to study and hang out with other student veterans.

A nontraditional educational path makes veteran students difficult to track.

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A slight majority of student veterans have

earned post-secondary degreesU niversity of Minnesota

student Zac Bair enlist-ed in the U.S. Army to help pay for college. Af-ter three deployments in Afghanistan with the

75th Ranger Regiment and his “fair share” of combat, Bair was honorably discharged. Soon after, he enrolled at the University.

The Post-9/11 GI Bill completely cov-ered his tuition and provided a $1,000 yearly stipend for books and an allow-ance for living costs. Without GI ben-efits, Bair said, he would likely be either working low-end jobs, living with his family, homeless or back in the military.

“It’s been a huge load off my shoul-ders,” he said, as he sets his sights on becoming a high school biology teacher.

Bair is among 1 million students aided in their academic ventures by the 2008 GI Bill, according to the U.S. Depar tment of Veterans Af fairs. The U.S. has spent more than $30 billion since 2009 in financial aid for veterans pursuing college degrees. But when it comes to finding out whether those

students graduate, answers can be hard to find.

At the University, data compiled at the request of the Minnesota Daily showed the four-year graduation rate for student veterans has fallen, while the retention rate has jumped — sug-gesting that many are simply taking longer to graduate.

This falls in line with national num-bers released last week, of fering the most comprehensive look so far at vet-erans’ academic success. The Million Records Project, released by Student Veterans of America, shows about half of student veterans are graduating with degrees, and many are taking longer than the traditional four years to fin-ish school — on average, veterans take about six years to complete a bache-lor’s degree.

“Veterans don’t have a linear path to a degree,” said Dr. Chris Cate, vice president of research for Student Veter-ans of America.

Student veterans may have jobs, families or military obligations, in ad-dition to the challenges that come from having spent time on the battlefield. Any of these can interrupt or elongate their educational journeys, making it dif ficult to track their progress. This

means that, as a group of students who often need the most suppor t — and whose education is publicly funded — they can sometimes fall through the cracks.

Words by Jeff HargartenPhotos by Chelsea Gortmaker

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BY MEGHAN [email protected]

The University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents has made it a little tougher to be-come one of its student representatives — but students leaders say in doing so, the board is overstepping its role.

Under policy revisions passed Friday by the board, only full-time students with a GPA of 2.5 or higher can be selected as representatives. While regents say it’s a fair expectation, some students oppose the measure, saying it weakens their voice in the selection process.

“The larger concern for me is the Board of Regents dictating who students can se-lect for students,” said Matt Forstie, chair-man of the Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition. “[The policy changes] really in-fringe on the decision-making rights that the students have.”

The Minnesota Student Association and Graduate and Professional Student

The Board of Regents will now require student representatives to hold a GPA of 2.5 or higher.

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BY ANNE [email protected]

This year’s Spring Jam headliner will be Mac Miller, with Earl Sweatshirt, Mod Sun and the Spring Jam Battle of the Bands win-ner as supporting acts at Mariucci Arena on April 26.

Student Unions and Activities predicted that this year’s festival will be the biggest Spring Jam to date. Cost for the performers will total about $190,000, paid for mostly by sponsorships and ticket sales. That’s nearly triple what the University has spent in past years for fewer artists.

The main concert will be a ticketed event to help pay for a higher-profile art-ist, but some students say the lineup isn’t worth the cost.

Student tickets are $20 for general seat-ing and $25 for floor seating. Tickets are available to the public for $35 in general seating and $45 for floor tickets.

SUA’s Program Board marketing

Earl Sweatshirt and local rapper Mod Sun fill out the bill for Saturday’s headlining show.

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BY MEGAN [email protected]

As far as celebrations go, the Gophers’ after winning the NCAA West Regional wasn’t the most exuberant.

Minnesota players skated leisurely to huddle around goaltender Adam Wilcox. Gloves, helmets and sticks weren’t shed until the memorabilia hats appeared after the handshakes.

That, paired with the fact that Wilcox, freshman forward Justin Kloos and head coach Don Lucia barely cracked a smile in the postgame press conference, makes it clear how the Gophers treated this game — as business.

A trip to the Frozen Four has been ex-pected of this team for much of this season. The real celebration can wait another two

weeks — though Lucia did admit “going to the Frozen Four, it never gets old.”

Minnesota thrashed Robert Morris 7-3 on Saturday before beating St. Cloud State 4-0 on Sunday at the Xcel Energy Center.

Minnesota will face North Dakota on April 10 in Philadelphia. Union and Boston College round out the group competing for the national championship.

While fans were already giving a stand-ing ovation with eight minutes left on the clock and some even left early to beat the traf fic, the Gophers’ per formance this weekend was hardly worth missing.

“I thought it was the two best games since I’ve been here in two years,” Wilcox said.

The Gophers struck first about 11 min-utes into the first period with a goal by Kloos, who took over his team’s top-scoring honors. Kloos was joined in the scoring col-umn about four minutes into the second pe-riod by junior forward Seth Ambroz.

Minnesota advanced to the Frozen Four with a 4-0 win over St. Cloud State.

SWIMMING & DIVING

Minnesota finishes 22nd at NCAA meetDerek Toomey tied his career-best time in the 50-yard freestyle at the NCAAs.u See PAGE 12

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers fire Borton, move in new directionPam Borton went 236-152 in 12 years as the coach of the women’s team.u See PAGE 11

CAMPUS & METRO

Science students back bonding requestStudents from all five U campuses visited the capital to push for funding.u See PAGE 18

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SPrINg JAM

No objects from search have yet been linked to Flight 370

Lisa Persson, DaiLyDessa joins the audience of students during the performance of her last song at her concert at Coffman Union on Satur-day night. This concert preceded the announcement of the long-awaited Spring Jam lineup.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PER TH, Australia — Despite what Australia called an “intensifying search effort,” an interna-tional hunt Sunday by air-craft and ships in the south-ern Indian Ocean found no debris linked to the Malay-sian jet that vanished more than three weeks ago.

Several dozen angr y Chinese relatives of Flight 370 passengers demanded “evidence, truth, dignity” from Malaysian authori-ties, expressing their frus-trations at a hotel near Kua-la Lumpur as the mystery drags on.

Nine aircraft and eight ships searching the waters off western Australia found only “fishing equipment and other flotsam” not con-

nected to the Malaysia Air-lines plane, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority said. The Boeing 777 dis-appeared March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people aboard.

But at least four orange objects that were more than 2 meters (6 feet) in size were seen by the crew of an Australian P3 Orion search plane, said the pilot, Flight Lt. Russell Adams, after returning to base.

“I must stress that we can’t confirm the origin of these objects,” he said, adding that images of the items have yet to be veri-fied, and a GPS buoy was dropped and ships must still investigate.

Adams said it was “the

most visibi l i ty we had of any objects in the wa-ter and gave us the most promising leads.”

The planes and ships are scouring a search zone that was redefined Friday based on satellite data from the Boeing 777, but they have found no debris associated with the flight, said Australian Navy Com-modore Peter Leavy. The zone lies in a shipping lane where sea trash is com-mon, complicating the ef-fort.

Australian Prime Min-ister Tony Abbott insisted the “intensifying search ef for t” was positive be-cause objects “have been recovered from the ocean” in the zone after a week-long search in another ar-ea saw items from planes

that ships never managed to find.

The planes taking part in Sunday’s search included three Australian P3 Orions, a Japanese P3, a Chinese Il-76, a Korean Orion, a U.S. Poseidon, and two Malaysian C-130s.

Eight ships were on the scene, an area roughly the size of Poland or New Mex-ico, about 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) west of Aus-tralia. The vessels include the Australian navy supply ship HMAS Success, which was designated to carry any wreckage found.

Abbott said a former Australian defense chief, Air Chief Marshal Angus Hous-ton, will head a new center in Perth for search and recov-ery operations, coordinating the international effort.

Kerry, Russian counterpart meet on Ukraine crisis

Egyptians to elect new president in May


PARIS — Russia on Sunday set out demands for a diplo-matic resolution to the crisis in Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic should be unified in a federation allowing wide autonomy to its various regions as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lav-rov met in Paris in another bid to calm tensions.

After a brief call on French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Kerry sat down with Lavrov at the residence of the Russian ambassador to France to go over Moscow’s re-sponse to a U.S. plan to de-escalate the situation as Russian troops continue to mass along the Ukrainian border.

The men said nothing of substance as they shook hands, although after Kerry ended the photo op by thanking assem-bled journalists, Lavrov cryptically added, in English, “Good luck, and good night.”

Appearing on Russian television ahead of his talks with Kerry, Lavrov rejected suspicions that the deployment of tens of thousands of Russian troops near Ukraine is a sign Moscow plans to invade the country following its annexation of the strategic Crimean peninsula.

“We have absolutely no intention of, or interest in, cross-ing Ukraine’s borders,” Lavrov said.

Russia says the troops near the border are there for mili-tary exercises and that they have no plans to invade, but U.S. and European officials say the numbers and locations of the troops suggest something more than exercises.

And, despite the Russian assurances, U.S., European and Ukrainian officials are deeply concerned about the buildup, which they fear could be a prelude to an invasion or intimida-tion to compel Kiev to accept Moscow’s demands.

In his interview, Lavrov made clear that Moscow believes a federation is the only way to guarantee Ukraine’s stability and neutrality.

“We can’t see any other way to ensure the stable devel-opment of Ukraine but to sign a federal agreement,” Lavrov said, adding that he understood the United States was open to the idea.


CAIRO — Egypt’s presidential election will be held in late May, the electoral commission announced on Sun-day, finally setting dates for the crucial vote widely ex-pected to be won by the country’s former military chief who ousted an elected president last year.

The commission set the first round of voting for May 26 and 27, with results expected by June 5. If a second round is necessary it will be held by mid-month with re-sults announced no later than June 26, the commission said.

The country’s powerful former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who led the overthrow of Islamist Presi-dent Mohammed Morsi last summer, has announced his bid for of fice and is widely expected to win. His victory would restore a tradition of presidents from militar y backgrounds that Egypt had for all but one year since 1952, when of ficers over threw the monarchy and be-came the dominant force in politics.

A mostly conscript force that fought four wars with Israel, the army has a strong support base among the population, many of whom see it as a pillar of the coun-try’s identity.

Morsi was removed from office on July 3, amid mas-sive protests demanding his resignation and accusing him of monopolizing power and mismanagement in the face of myriad economic and social problems. The military, led by el-Sissi, stepped in to remove Morsi and backed a political road map that promised presidential and parliamentary elections.

But the countr y’s division only grew with Morsi’s ouster. His backers, largely Islamists and sympathizers, have held near daily protests demanding his reinstate-ment, describing the military overthrow of Morsi as a coup. Youth groups who initially backed Morsi’s ouster have increasingly grown critical of the military’s han-dling of the post-Morsi days, denouncing a heavy crack-down on Islamists and dissent. Several thousands have been detained and killed in political violence since Mor-si’s ouster.

But with a widely divided opposition, el-Sissi has gar-nered wide support among a public wary of turmoil.

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U on track to meet Leg. requirements

BY ROY [email protected]

The University of Min-nesota is proving that it can strengthen its performance when more state dollars are on the line.

Following criticism of administrative bloat last legislative session, the state Legislature established per-formance metrics in order for the institution to receive its full operational budget funding in the next budget cycle. On Friday, senators reviewed progress reports stating the University is on track to meet the require-ments.

“I was quite pleased, and I felt as though [the Univer-sity] took our request last session to heart,” said Sen. Terri Bonof f, DFL-Min-netonka.

Higher education com-mittees agreed on targets last year in hopes of increas-ing transparency between the University and state. The five measures included increasing graduation rates of low-income students; in-creasing science, technol-ogy, engineering and math-ematics degrees; and lower-ing administrative costs by $15 million.

The state will withhold 5

percent of next year’s oper-ating budget if the Univer-sity doesn’t meet the goal. The findings presented to the Legislature are based on audits of the University’s administrative structure and spending, which began last spring.

The stakes are higher than before — before last year, only 1 percent of the following year’s budget was connected to state-request-ed performance metrics.

University Chief Finan-cial Officer Richard Pfutzen-reuter said the University is ahead of schedule to meet all of the measures, even though the institution is only required to hit three of the five. He said the University is planning to exceed por-tions of the state’s request, noting that it will cut more administrative spending than legislators asked.

Other expectations in-clude increasing graduation rates of undergraduates and Pell Grant recipients system-wide by 1 percent, which Pfutzenreuter said the University is also set to surpass.

The University is re-quired to repor t a more finalized version of its prog-ress before the legislative session ends.

Beyond metrics, more improvements

K a t h y B r o w n , v i c e president for the Office of Human Resources, pre-

sented updated findings — from the University-hired consulting firms Sibson Consult ing and Huron Consulting Group — ana-lyzing the leadership and operational structures of faculty and staff.

One of Huron’s rec-ommendations is using a more ef ficient job classifi-cation system. Brown said the system redesign is going well and will finish next year.

“In 2014, a lot of chang-es have happened in the workplace, and our job c lass i f icat ions haven’ t necessarily kept up with

those,” Brown said at Friday’s hearing.

The upgrade will make the job application pro-cess much faster and us-er-friendly, she said, and data on faculty and staf f appointments will be more accessible.

Another improvement, the Enterprise Systems Upgrade Program, will up-date the University’s tech-nology platform. Brown told legislators Friday that changing the program could save OHR more than $560,000 annually, with additional savings University-wide.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILYSen. Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka, hears a presentation on performance metrics from University of Minnesota adminis-trators Friday at the state Capitol.

The U must meet certain metrics to get its full operating budget next year.

PERFORMANCE METRICS PROGRESS

SOURCE: SENATE HIGHER EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE HEARING

DECREASE SYSTEM-WIDE ADMINISTRATION COSTSTARGET VALUE: $15 MILLION PROGRESS TO DATE: UNDERWAY

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BY ALLISON [email protected]

The Affordable Care Act’s March 31 midnight dead-line will mark the end of na-tional and state health care exchanges’ push to recruit more uninsured people — es-pecially young, healthy ones.

MNsure, Minnesota’s online health care exchange, finished its “March to Enroll” month with a week dedicated to enrolling young people, in response to the Affordable Care Act’s requirements.

From libraries to local breweries, MNsure repre-sentatives sat in on more than 100 events throughout the state, ready to answer young people’s questions about their health care options.

“This is a group that’s tra-ditionally really underinsured and financially very vulner-able,” said MNsure Spokes-man John Schadl. “People in their 20s are starting out their careers, and they don’t have much money. An accident could pile on top of $30,000 to $80,000 in student loans, and that could hurt your career.”

According to MNsure, two-thirds of all bankrupt-cies are the result of medical costs.

Of MNsure’s approxi-mately 152,000 enrollees, 21 percent are between ages 19 and 34 — and that’s not enough, Schadl said.

That age group, known as the “young invincibles,” is valuable because it’s statisti-cally the healthiest, he said.

In order for insurance costs to go down for everyone, healthy people have to enter the market so there’s more money to go around.

But this group is often uninsured. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young adults ages 19 to 25 represent 30 percent of the nation’s un-insured — higher than any other age group.

In Minnesota, U.S. Census data showed the uninsured rate of 18- to 24-year-olds dropped from 20 to 13 per-cent in the past two years.

If someone doesn’t al-ready have or apply for insur-ance by midnight, they will have to pay $95 or 1 percent of their income above $10,150 — whichever is higher.

“It’s the law now,” Schadl said. “Much like you have to have car insurance, you’re going to be required to have health insurance.”

University of Minnesota College Republicans Trea-surer Matthew Stetler said he thinks health insurance is important, but he doesn’t

think it should be required for everyone.

“It really should just be up to the individual people,” he said. “I think the individual mandate is ridiculous. Wheth-er or not it’s good or bad, it should be up to whoever to do what they want to do.”

Economics freshman Ken Cowles is covered under his father’s insurance plan and has never been uninsured.

When he turns 26 and can’t be on his father’s plan anymore, he said, the military will insure him once he grad-uates through the Reserve Officers Training Corps.

“No matter what, no mat-ter how physically in shape you are and however healthy you eat, stuff can happen,” Cowles said.

The University offers its own health insurance, the Student Health Benefit Plan, to students taking six or more credits of a degree pro-gram. In 1975, the University started mandating that all stu-dents have a health insurance plan in order to enroll, and it began requiring proof in

spring 2012.“Over the years, it has

been part of our mission to ensure that students have ac-cess to health care because that is essential to their aca-demic success,” said Univer-sity Student Health Benefits Director Sue Jackson.

The most common rea-sons students drop out of school are medical and finan-cial, she said.

The plan offers no out-of-pocket costs, covers 98 percent of providers in Min-nesota and has international providers for students study-ing abroad.

But the plan is only avail-able to students, and it is not one of the options on the MNsure exchange website.

When choosing a health care option, Jackson said, there are three things that students should consider: low deductibles or out-of-pocket costs for medical procedures, a wide network of available providers and a low monthly premium.

The Affordable Care Act has changed some things for young people, Schadl said. For example, they’re now eli-gible both for more tax cred-its and Medicaid.

If people don’t yet have a health insurance plan and aren’t eligible to be enrolled under the University’s plan, Schadl said to go to the MNsure website and fill out an enrollment attempt form. As long as applicants fill out the form by midnight on March 31, he said, they won’t be fined.

The next opportunity to enroll is Nov. 15.

“We’ll be doing aggressive marketing like this again all over the state,” Schadl said.

MNsure goes out to target youth


ST. PAUL — Of ficials with Minnesota’s health insurance exchange said its website and call cen-ter were functioning well Sunday as the deadline looms for open enroll -ment.

“I’m tickled pink. I have a big smile on my face. Things are going well,” MNsure spokeswoman Jenni Bowring-McDonough said.

Minnesotans have until 11:59 p.m. Monday to enroll for health insurance cover-age or face federal tax pen-alties under the federal Af-fordable Care Act.

The call center wait time from the first ring and a se-ries of prompts until a real person answered was under eight minutes when The Associated Press placed a test call just before 2 p.m. Sunday. That’s about the same wait that MNsure of-

ficials repor ted for most of last week as people who hadn’t signed up previously started rushing to beat the deadline.

MNsure hasn’t issued a tally yet of how many of the 400,000 previously un-insured Minnesotans have enrolled. The exchange didn’t plan to issue updated figures Sunday, Bowring-McDonough said. But as of Friday, more than 152,000 Minnesotans had either en-rolled in private insurance plans or qualified for gov-ernment-subsidized public plans.

MNsure will grant re-prieves for people who make a good-faith effort to enroll but can’t complete the process before the deadline.

The exchange has more than 50 sign-up events scheduled across the state Monday, capping a month of more than 1,000 enroll-ment events statewide.

MNsure website, call center succeed in enrollment hopes

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILYMNsure navigators help people with questions about enrollment and available health insurance plans Thursday at Sweeney’s Saloon.

Many young people still haven’t joined the health insurance marketplace.History repeats itself

with clash between police and upset Arizona fansBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TUCSON, Ariz. — Re-peating a scene from 13 years ago, several hundred Arizona fans and Tucson po-lice clashed in the streets late Saturday following the Uni-versity of Arizona basketball team’s loss to Wisconsin in the NCAA tournament.

Authorities said 15 peo-ple were arrested after fans hurled beer bottles and fire-crackers at officers, who then used pepper spray to disperse the crowd. No officers were hurt, but three people who were arrested had minor in-juries in the unrest that lasted more than an hour, police said. Meanwhile, of ficials at the University of Arizona vowed to punish any students who participated in the fracas.

The clash began after crowds leaving bars and res-taurants near campus filled University Boulevard after the game, Tucson police Sgt. Pete Dugan said. He said of-ficers fired pepper spray, pep-per canisters and pepper balls to try to get people to leave the business-lined thorough-fare. Earlier Saturday, Arizona lost 64-63 to Wisconsin in the West Region final in Ana-heim, Calif.

“We’ve been training for this event for several months now,” Dugan said. “It got a

little rowdy and it got a little violent, but no businesses suf-fered any damage.”

The melee resembled what happened in 2001, when police arrested 17 people after Arizona lost to Duke in the championship game. But in that clash, a student lost an eye after he was struck by a beanbag filled with lead bird-shot fired by Tucson police and around 22 businesses suffered some damage.

In a statement, Dean of Students Kendal Washington White called Saturday’s dis-turbance “disappointing” and said it was not reflective of the culture of the University of Arizona or Tucson.

“Our basketball team had a great season, and they exhibited exceptional class at every turn,” White said. “They do not deserve the bad actions of these oth-ers.”

White said all students who are found to have vio-lated the school’s code of conduct “will be held ac-countable.”

Police brought in cruis-ers and a unit of officers with batons, helmets and face masks to block the street when people started toss-ing beer bottles, cans and firecrackers, hitting police vehicles and endangering officers.


BY ETHAN [email protected]

Some Univers i ty o f Minnesota area neighbor-hoods may soon have the power to stop undesirable development.

Community members discussed the merits of adopting conservation dis-tricts in the Marcy-Holmes and Prospect Park neigh-borhoods at a forum held at the Carlson School of Management on Friday.

Ward 2 Counci lman Cam Gordon, who rep-resents Prospect Park, recently proposed an or-dinance that would allow Minneapolis residents to create the districts, which have protections similar to the historic registr y and would prevent develop-ment inconsistent with the community’s visual char-acter.

The proposed or di -nance, which came out of Prospect Park residents’ frustration about develop-ment in the area, is a way to make sure that devel-opment is “context sensi-tive,” said Minneapolis city planner and historian John Smoley, who is lead-

ing the effort to hear com-munity input on the issue.

“Members of the public have sought greater input in ensuring that develop-ment is sensitive,” he said.

There were attempts to preserve parts of Pros-pect Park before much of the recent development around campus began.

Neighbor hood res i -dents wanted to include it in the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, but Gordon said “it wasn’t a good fit.”

“Minneapolis has most recently been focusing on preser vation of historic architecture,” said Dick Poppele, former president of the Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association and current member of the University District Alliance.

College of Design assis-tant professor Greg Dono-frio, a member of the Cen-ter for Urban and Regional Af fairs who spoke at the forum, said conser vation districts are like the light version of historic desig-nation — though they can be stronger than that defi-nition would make them seem.

“Conservation districts often require a high level of community involve-ment,” Donofrio said at the forum. “This could be a bad thing, but encour-aging public involvement can’t hurt.”

The way the current proposal is written, resi-dents would have to iden-tify areas they want to pre-serve and detail why they want to preser ve them, Smoley said. These areas would have to be at least one block-face large with two or more main build-ings, or be centered at an intersection and include all corner lots.

Smoley emphasized that the conservation districts would mainly preserve the “visual character” of the ar-ea. They could also define how tall buildings can be or what the landscape should look like.

One-third of proper ty owners would have to agree to conser vat ion proposals before the city would look into creating a conservation district, and two-thirds would have to agree on the guidelines def in ing the distr ic t ’s power.

D u r i n g t h e f o r u m , Donofrio detailed his re-search on conser vation districts, mentioning other cities in Minnesota and around the countr y that have implemented similar designations.

Some cities, like Sa-vannah, Ga., require even paint color to be approved by district guidelines.

Minnesota towns, in-cluding Red Wing and Stillwater, have had con-ser vat ion distr icts for years. Gordon said he drew inspirat ion from these cities when drafting the proposal.

“I think we’ll see mixed results from the conserva-tion districts,” he said.

Smoley and Gordon are cur rent ly working with a 20-member advi-sor y board made up of community members and historians to recommend changes to the ordinance before committees and the full City Council vote on it.

Gordon said he hopes to have the ordinance proposal passed and the first conservation districts in the works by June or July, though he said that’s optimistic.

Prospect Park residents discuss conservation

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILYGreg Donofrio, assistant professor and director of heritage conservation and preservation, presents information about conser-vation districts at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Housing Forum at the Carlson School of Management on Friday.

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Members of the Univer-sity of Minnesota community are voicing disapproval of for-mer U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s campus visit next month, citing her involvement in the George W. Bush administration’s war-time policies.

Students for a Democratic Society requested the Uni-versity Faculty Senate vote Thursday on a resolution ask-ing the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to cancel Rice’s invitation.

“If the University is try-ing to represent itself as a global institution and really have its presence on a global scale, you have to think about how other governments and countries are going to view us,” SDS member Nick Theis said, noting Rice’s role in ap-proving torture during her time as secretary of state.

The ticketed event at Northrop Memorial Audito-rium on April 17 is free and open to the public. Rice’s lec-ture is a part of Humphrey’s Distinguished Carlson Lec-ture Series, an annual event that aims to spark conversa-tion by bringing “provocative” speakers to the University, said Tammy Lee Stanoch, vice president of Corporate Communications for Carlson Companies.

“Controversy is in the eye of the beholder,” Stanoch said. “There are some people that would think that other speak-ers are controversial because they don’t align with their own particular political views.”

T h e C a r l s o n F a m-ily Foundation will cover the $150,000 cost for Rice’s visit, which Stanoch said is not an unusually high price tag for this type of speaker.

Humphrey spokesman Kent Love-Ramirez said Rice will talk about overcom-ing adversity as an African-American woman who faced discrimination growing up in the southern U.S. The topic is consistent with the school’s yearlong series “Keeping Faith with a Legacy of Justice: The 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

“We firmly believe in [students’] right to protest and welcome it as an exten-sion of the public discus-sion,” he said.

College Republicans Co-Chair Adam Motzko said he thinks the Univer-sity should welcome guests with all viewpoints and po-litical affiliations.

“Just because some people might disagree with some of the things [Rice] said or has said in the past, that doesn’t mean she should be disqualified from speaking at the University,” he said.

Motzko said the opposi-tion to Rice’s visit isn’t as widespread as it appears, and many students are excited about the event.

“We should allow people from different backgrounds, different religions, different political ideologies — [invite all of them] to campus, and we shouldn’t restrict their speech on our campus,” he said.

While acknowledging that the University will likely not cancel Rice’s visit, Theis said it’s still important that his and other opponents’ messages are heard.

“It’s more of a symbolic way to generate support and bring people out to this pro-test,” Theis said, “because we really need to be having a dis-cussion about what it means to bring someone like this here.”

Condoleezza Rice’s U visit sparks protest

coordinator, Ashley Her-ink, said students’ most common response when surveyed about a ticketed Spring Jam was that they would pay $20 or $25 to see a headlining artist.

Other concer ts — all free for students — include Gloriana, the Mowgli’s and Finish Ticket, which will play sets on Thursday of the weeklong festival. Minneap-olis-based Poliça will play at noon Friday, with Leagues set to take the stage in front of Coffman Union at 9 p.m. Friday.

The Wake is sponsoring Leagues’ show and is paying SUA for the band to come, said The Wake sound and vi-sion editor Sara Glesne.

Art senior Sarah Mor-gan said she’s pleased with this year’s lineup and will likely pay for the headliner.

“[The performers are] way better than last year,” she said. “I’m excited; I would pay.”

However, vocal music education sophomore Iris Kolodji said she’s excited for Poliça and some of the other free shows but doubts she’ll pay for the headliner.

“I think the free con-cer ts will be good,” she said. “I’d probably pay for the tickets if [my friend’s band] wins battle of the bands, but otherwise, no.”

Mac Miller was one of several artists SUA student of ficials considered when crafting the Spring Jam lineup, said assistant direc-tor of student activities Erik Dussault.

“They’re working from a large list of possible art-ists all year long,” he said. “The dif ficulty with both our homecoming show and Spring Jam show is that we only have one date.”

Miller began recording solo in 2009, but he didn’t gain much momentum un-til the following year with the release of the K.I.D.S. mixtape. His album “Blue Slide Park” was the first independently distributed debut album to top the Billboard 200 in 16 years. Miller’s sophomore effort, “Watching Movies with the Sound Off,” has been well received critically and commercially.

Miller has toured solo three times, once with fellow Pittsburgher Wiz Khalifa.

Earl Sweatshir t ini -tially found fame with Los Angeles-based hip-hop collective Odd Future. He released his debut al-bum “Doris” last year af-

ter a two-year hiatus from music.

Mod Sun is a self-pro-claimed “Hippy Hop” rap-per from Bloomington, Minn. He’s gained national attention for his druggy pop-rap, joining one leg of the Vans Warped Tour this summer.

Mac Miller tapped for Spring Jam concert

A city ordinance would let neighborhoods decide which development to recommend.

Students and faculty are asking the U to revoke her April 17 speaking invitation.

LISA PERSSON, DAILYStudents react Saturday at Coffman Union after hearing the announcement that Mac Miller will headline Spring Jam.

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California museum to display animal mummiesBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA ANA, Calif. — We love our dogs and cats, but the ancient Egyptians REALLY loved their dogs and cats — not to mention their snakes, crocodiles and birds.

Animals held such a prominent place in ancient Egyptian society that tens of millions were mummi-fied, some going into the pharaohs’ tombs to rest eternally in the company of their kings. Others had their own special cemeter-ies, where they were bur-ied in coffins as elaborate-ly carved as those of royal family members.

Dozens of the best sur-viving specimens have taken up residence at Or-ange County’s Bowers Mu-seum as the centerpiece of “Soulful Creatures: Ani-mal Mummies in Ancient Egypt.”

There’s a dog so well detailed that even its flop-py ears are prominent. An ancient cat has been laid to rest with its little paws drawn across its body, creating an image eerily reminiscent of a human’s funeral pose.

“ I t jus t shows how closely Egyptians thought of animals on some basic level as being very similar to human beings,” said Ed-ward Bleiberg, the exhibi-tion’s curator. “The Egyp-tians believed that animals had souls.”

But soulful or not, most people — other than a king or queen — couldn’t af ford to keep a dog or cat around just for companion-ship in ancient times, Blei-berg said.

Thus the hunting dog seen waiting patiently un-der a chair during a dinner table scene etched onto an ancient tablet in the exhi-bition would likely have been shown the door if it hadn’t contributed to mak-ing that meal possible.

Most animals had an even greater job. They were charged with the re-

sponsibility of using their souls in death to car r y messages to the gods they had represented on Ear th during their lives. The dog, for example, was the sacred votive or mes-senger of the god Anubis, who is depicted in ancient Egyptian art as a man with the head of a dog.

The Ibis communicat-ed directly with the god Thoth, who had the body of a man and head of a bird and who, it seems, was es-pecially good at resolving human disagreements.

“There’s a letter includ-ed with one of the animal mummies that suggests there’s this man who is having a terrible problem at work,” Bleiberg noted. “He has this rivalr y with a co-worker, he’s cer tain that the co-worker is bad-mouthing him to the boss and making h im look bad and he requests that Thoth make him stop.”

Another le t ter sent with an animal mummy in-cluded a plea to heal a sick relative.

In all, the exhibition contains more than 100 items, including drawings and sculptures, as well as the mummified remains of dogs, cats, birds, snakes and crocodiles. Many are wrapped in intricately pat-terned linens, and some have been placed in sar-cophaguses carved to re-semble how the animal looked in life.

To give museum visi-tors a better look at what’s underneath the wrappings, the mummies have been CT scanned and the scans used to create three-dimensional images.

Preparing animal mum-mies was detailed and ex-pensive work. So much so that Bleiberg says an expert at the craft earned twice that of a farmer.

Animal mummifying was such big business that Ptol-emaic III, who ruled Egypt more than 2,000 years ago, passed several decrees reg-ulating the industry.

SPRING JAM TICKET PRICES

SOURCE: STUDENT UNIONS AND ACTIVITIES

STUDENT GENERAL SEATING $20

STUDENT FLOOR $25

PUBLIC GENERAL SEATING $35

PUBLIC FLOOR $45

SPRING JAM LINEUP

SOURCE: STUDENT UNIONS AND ACTIVITIES

NOON POLIÇA5–7:30 P.M. BATTLE OF THE BANDS9 P.M. THE LEAGUES

NOON GLORIANA7 P.M. (DOORS AT 6 P.M.) THE MOWGLI’S

7:30 P.M. (DOORS AT 6:30 P.M.)MAC MILLER WITH MODSUN, EARL SWEATSHIRT, AND BATTLE OF THE BANDS WINNER

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SPRING JAM HONORARIUMS: PAST AND PRESENT

SOURCE: STUDENT UNIONS AND ACTIVITIES DATA

2010 $71,282ARTISTS: Gym Class Heroes and Cloud Cult

2011 $55,589ARTISTS: OK GO, Trampled By Turtles, P.O.S., Solid Gold, and Caroline Smith and the Goodnight Sleeps

2012 $65,669ARTISTS: New Boyz, The Head and the Heart, The Cataracs, Jesse James and Prof

2013 $64,500ARTISTS: Mat Kearney, Theophilus London, Greg Bates, Kayla Con, Pert’ Near Sandstone and Chastity Brown

2014 $190,000ARTISTS: Mac Miller, Mod Sun, Earl Sweatshirt, Leagues, Gloriana, the Mowgli’s, Finish Ticket and Poliça


HOLLY PETERSON, DAILYThe Board of Regents discusses the strategic plan for the University and the institution’s role in solving global agricultural and natural resources sustainability challenges Friday afternoon at the McNamara Alumni Center.

Student reps fight new GPA conditions

Assembly join each spring to choose four student rep-resentatives from the Twin Cities campus to serve the following academic year. One student is selected from each of the Universi-ty’s four other campuses by their student governments.

The student representa-tives offer opinions to the board but don’t vote on of-ficial measures.

At the Friday board meeting, regents briefly discussed the policy before

unanimously approving it. Those who spoke said the GPA requirements are nec-essar y because students who seek these positions should already be profi-cient in their studies. They said the change shouldn’t nega t i v e ly a f f ec t the process.

“This additional service, while important, is second-ary to the academic prog-ress of their making, and we think it’s a reasonable threshold to meet,” said Board Chair Richard Bee-son.

Previously, there was no GPA requirement for stu-

dent representatives. The board originally proposed a 3.0 GPA requirement in February but later lowered it after voiced opposition.

Despite the compro-mise, student representa-tives to the board said they wish they would have had a more open dialogue with the board before it voted to tighten the regulations, adding that they would have preferred talking with the regents directly rather than going through the board’s office.

“I feel like it passed pretty quickly and there was very little discussion,”

said Joelle Stangler, MSA’s ranking representative to the board.

She said while setting ac-ademic standards isn’t bad, it narrows the application pool and could potentially disqualify capable students.

“It puts us in a very awk-ward position because we know that that person’s the best, and then there’s this arbitrar y standard being put in place,” she said.

Joseph Daniewicz, vice chair of student representa-tives to the board, said the GPA requirement is “trou-bling” and creates a nega-tive stigma for students

who fall below the mark.“I’m incredibly disap-

pointed that it passed,” he said.

The new policy change also eliminated the alter-native student representa-tive position — someone who serves as a substitute when representatives are absent — a move also con-tentious with the student associations.

But students didn’t op-pose all of the changes. The expectations for the representatives, like requir-ing attendance and clarify-ing how much time the job requires, are clearer in the

new policy and will help ap-plicants be more aware of what they’re signing up for, said Meghan Mason, chair of student representatives to the board.

The regents’ main mo-tive for passing the policy changes was to set clearer expectations, Regent Abdul Omari said.

Beeson said having stu-dents’ fresh perspective on the University is an impor-tant part of the governance structure.

“Having somebody con-nected at different parts of the life cycle is really good,” he said.

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Plot foiled at Vatican bankApple, Samsung go to court againBY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The fiercest rivalry in the world of smartphones is heading back to court this week in the heart of the Silicon Val-ley, with Apple and Samsung accusing each other, once again, of ripping off designs and features.

The trial will mark the lat-est round in a long-running series of lawsuits between the two tech giants that un-derscore a much larger con-cern about what is allowed to be patented.

“There’s a widespread suspicion that lots of the kinds of software patents at issue are written in ways that cover more ground than what Apple or any other tech firm actually in-vented,” Notre Dame law professor Mark McKenna said. “Overly broad patents allow companies to block competition.”

The latest Apple-Sam-sung case will be tried less than two years after a feder-al jury found Samsung was infringing on Apple patents. Samsung was ordered to pay about $900 million but is appealing and has been

allowed to continue sell-ing products using the technology.

Now, jur y selection is scheduled to begin Monday in another round of litiga-tion, with Apple Inc. accus-ing Samsung of infringing on five patents on newer devices, including Galaxy smartphones and tablets. In a counterclaim, Samsung says Apple stole two of its ideas to use on iPhones and iPads.

“Apple revolutionized the market in personal comput-ing devices,” Apple attor-neys wrote in court filings. “Samsung, in contrast, has systematically copied Ap-ple’s innovative technology and products, features and designs, and has deluged markets with infringing de-vices.”

Samsung countered that it has broken technological barriers with its own ultra-slim, lightweight phones.

“Samsung has been a pioneer in the mobile de-vice business sector since the inception of the mobile device industry,” Samsung attorneys wrote. “Apple has copied many of Samsung’s innovations in its Apple

iPhone, iPod, and iPad products.”

In the upcoming case, Apple claims Samsung stole a tap-from-search technol-ogy that allows someone searching for a telephone number or address on the web to tap on the results to call the number or put the address into a map. In addi-tion, Apple says Samsung copied “Slide to Unlock,” which allows users to swipe the face of their smartphone to use it.

Samsung countered that Apple is stealing a wireless technology system that speeds up sending and re-ceiving data.

The most attention grab-bing claim in the case is Apple’s demand that Sam-sung pay a $40 royalty for each Samsung device run-ning software allegedly conceived by Apple, more than five times more than the amount sought in the previous trial and well above other precedents between smartphone companies. If Apple prevails, the costs to Samsung could reach $2 bil-lion. Apple’s costs, if it lost, are expected to be about $6 million.


ROME — Two men tot-ing a briefcase stuffed with false bond certificates pur-portedly worth trillions of euros (dollars) tried to bluff their way into the exclusive Vatican bank in a foiled fraud plot, Italian police said Sun-day.

Financial Guard police Lt. Col. Davide Cardia said the would-be swindlers, who were wearing business suits, tried to convince Swiss Guards at a Vatican City gate earlier this month that “cardi-nals were expecting them.”

Cardia told The Associ-ated Press in a phone in-terview that the suspects, a

middle-aged Dutchman and a U.S. citizen, were detained by Vatican authorities after rapid checks by Vatican of-ficials showed they had no such appointment nor con-nections with the Institute for Religious Works, the formal name of the bank, which is behind the tiny city-state’s walls and isn’t open to the public.

The Vatican has been scrambling to upgrade pro-cedures and standards at the bank since a 2010 money-laundering probe.

Cardia said the fake docu-ments purported to be bond certificates for non-Italian companies. “The sum — worth some 3 trillion euros

(more than $4 trillion dol-lars) — is impressive, even though it’s only symbolic because we’re talking about false” certificates, said Car-dia, in charge of the financial police’s operations in Rome and surrounding area.

Investigators suspect the men might have planned to use the fake bonds as securi-ty to open a hefty line of cred-it through the Vatican bank.

The Vatican asked Italian authorities to help in the in-vestigation.

Italian police searched the men’s room at a hotel near the Vatican and seized stamps and seals used to create the false documents, Cardia said.

TRACKING DIFFICULTIESAs the first Post-9/11 GI Bill beneficia-

ries start to graduate, lawmakers, media outlets, student advocacy groups and oth-ers are calling for results on whether the money is serving its purpose by helping student veterans earn college degrees.

Within the Million Records Project study sample, 51.7 percent of student veterans earned a college degree or cer-tificate. This number is higher than previ-ously reported by various media outlets but lower than recent estimates of nearly 70 percent.

Passed in 2008, the Post-9/11 GI Bill ex-panded educational benefits for military veterans serving after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The bill allows the fed-eral government to pay tuition and fees, a monthly housing allowance and book stipends. The Montgomery GI Bill and the Minnesota GI Bill also provide support to active duty members and Minnesota veter-ans, respectively. In Minnesota, there are about 18,800 veteran students across 181 schools, according to News21 research, and more than $244.5 million awarded in GI Bill funds.

The Million Records study examined veterans using government education benefits, including a million Montgomery GI Bill and Post-9/11 GI Bill beneficiaries. After excluding those still in school, the study found after sifting through 788,915 records that about 15 percent of beneficia-ries got associate’s degrees, about 24 per-cent attained bachelor’s and about 8 per-

cent got master’s.But elsewhere, information available

about veteran students is less consistent.The University does not currently have

a comprehensive tracking system in place for veteran graduation and retention rates, but Jennifer Peterson, assistant director of University Veterans Services, said the office is actively looking to better grasp the data.

The Minnesota Daily requested infor-mation from all Big Ten schools, most of which didn’t start tracking veterans as a population until the past few years, while others had very little data readily available and had to compile it.

Other Big Ten schools that shared the most detailed data were the University of Illi-nois, Penn State University, the University of Iowa and Purdue University, and most paint-ed a general picture of veteran success.

Tracking veteran students presents a number of challenges for universities, and there is no uniform method. The Universi-ty of Minnesota’s pool includes those who self-identify and those receiving GI Bill ben-efits, so some may not be counted at all.

Most veterans are in categories often overlooked by university research and policies: those of nontraditional age, those going to school part time and those with mixed enrollment.

Additionally, GI Bill benefits have a 36-month limit. Because the VA uses finan-cial awards for tracking purposes, Cate said, student veterans whose benefits run out before they graduate are counted as not finishing at all.

“There’s a difference between falling off the grid and quitting academia,” Cate said.

Bair said while the GI Bill’s time limit helps keep him focused on graduating within four years, it may be a downside to a majority of his friends who have changed majors during their college careers.

“There’s not really wiggle room,” he said.

Tours of duty interrupt or halt academic careers, too. Many re-servists were called up to serve in Middle Eastern wars between 2004 and 2009, Cate said, and they could have lost all their

credits. Since 2007, at least 45 active-duty University students interrupted their edu-cation to serve military tours of duty, ac-cording to One Stop, though the numbers only represent those who reported their departure to advisers and received a tu-ition refund.

Tracking how many veterans actually drop out can also be difficult.

“The problem is when people drop out, they do it very quietly and just disappear,” said Andrew Friedrichs, treasurer of the Student Veterans Association. “They don’t go around telling everyone.”

Nationally, there has been a push for more comprehensive and uniform tracking and transparency regarding educational services for veterans. In 2012, Congress passed the Improving Transparency of Education Opportunities for Veterans Act, requiring colleges to share more informa-tion about how they serve veterans, mostly in an effort to combat misleading, targeted marketing by for-profit colleges. Recently, proposed legislation that would require the VA to track veteran graduation rates died in a House committee.

“Inconsistent methods of collecting such information has led to confusion about the completion rates of student veterans in higher education,” the Million Records Project report said, “and without

strong, empirical data, the uncertainty will persist.”

HELPING VETS GRADUATE ON TIME

At the University of Minnesota, fewer veterans are dropping out than in previous years but are taking longer than four years to graduate.

Among student veterans, the four-year graduation rate in recent years fell from 48 percent to 36.2 percent, while the reten-tion rate jumped from 22 percent to 42.6 percent. The six-year veteran graduation rate at the University is 72 percent, close to the 75.7 rate among the general student population and in line with the Million Re-cords Project findings. The four-year grad-uation rate among the general University population is 59.1 percent.

While the University’s data does show declines, a single year’s drop does not necessarily describe a trend, according to One Stop and the Office of Institutional Re-search, and the combined graduation and retention rates suggest that student veter-ans are sticking around.

Priority registration is a big issue for the Student Veterans Association on cam-pus, said Zach Benson, the group’s presi-dent, because veterans need to graduate

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Chelsea Gortmaker, DailyStudent veterans gather at the Veterans Transition Center in Johnston Hall to eat pizza together on March 7. Student veterans say they have trouble relating to younger students in their classes, and the Student Veterans Association keeps the space to allow students to study, hang out and connect over having similar life experiences.

on time but cannot always get the classes they need. He has tried working with One Stop on this and other issues but said Uni-versity employees don’t listen because he’s a student worker.

“A lot of vets get the short end of the stick,” he said. “If athletes get priority, why not those who served our country?”

A 2013 Pat Tillman Foundation study said veterans wanted priority registration for classes, greater collaboration between student veteran groups and administra-tion, more employment opportunities for graduating veterans and a separate orien-tation for new veteran students.

Only 37 percent of colleges with mili-tary services assist veteran students with transitioning into school, according to the Tillman report, while 47 percent provide training for faculty and staff to better ad-dress veteran concerns. Only 28 percent of those institutions have programs to help veteran and military students reignite their academic careers after absences.

The University was among the first big colleges to launch a veteran services de-partment — which was nationally recog-nized in 2012 — and many other schools have since followed suit.

University Veterans Services’ main fo-cus is helping veterans understand their GI Bill benefits and to “streamline the process as much as possible,” Peterson said.

But it also works to help veterans in a number of other ways. The University has a 10-member Veterans Advisory Committee, offers orientation specially geared toward new veteran students and holds a student veterans appreciation day each year. The University’s Career Services also offers job search resources and advice for veterans. One Stop is examining a number of new ini-tiatives geared toward veterans, including an introductory class for veterans to kick off their college careers.

Dusten Retcher, an officer with the Stu-dent Veterans Association, said the Uni-versity overall is good for veterans, but “there’s always room for improvement.”

A USA Today ranking of the top colleg-

es and universities for veterans included a number of Big Ten schools, with Penn State topping the list and Iowa, Indiana and Ne-braska falling in the top 15. The University of Minnesota didn’t make the list.

TACKLING VETERAN CHALLENGES

Getting a college degree is important for many veterans to reintegrate into civil-ian life.

There are about 2.3 million post-9/11 vet-erans in the workforce nationwide, with an unemployment rate of 9 percent, according to November 2013 data from the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee. In Minnesota, the post-9/11 veteran unemployment rate is 8.8 percent with about 30,000 former ser-vice members in the labor force.

But there are a number of barriers be-tween veterans and a degree — barriers not usually faced by their younger class-mates. Those challenges include family

responsibilities, rusty academic skills and lingering battlefield wounds like brain injuries and post-traumatic stress. Some combat veterans also dislike being in large crowds, a common obstacle on college campuses.

About 21 percent of those who entered the University in 2009 dropped out over the next four years — an estimated rate similar to the general student population and a decrease from a 30 percent dropout rate two years before. But it’s still an issue on the radar of campus veteran advocates.

“A huge issue is those coming back from active duty are dropping out [early in their college careers],” Friedrichs said. “It is one of our largest concerns.”

One Stop reports that 913 students on the Twin Cities campus self-identify as veterans or accept GI bill benefits and estimates that between 650 and 750 of those are using GI bill benefits. So, on a campus of nearly 50,000 stu-dents, veterans comprise a small population, and not all of them have GI Bill benefits or support systems helping them forward.

“University culture is frustrating for some,” said Allen Roberts, the University of Iowa’s military and veterans education specialist, who works to keep veterans engaged and active in campus life while trying to “channel their inner civilian.” He said some veterans may find vocational programs better for them. But about 80 percent of student veterans are enrolled in public institutions, the Million Records Project study said, while about 11 percent are at private nonprofit schools and anoth-er 10 percent attend proprietary schools.

Having some previous college experi-

ence can make the transition easier. Brad-ley Hanson, a senior journalism student, spent a year and a half at the University before entering the military to help pay for school. Upon returning from more than two years at a Marine Corps base in Japan, he said he found the transition relatively simple and has used few of the veteran re-sources on campus.

But for Bair, the academics and social aspects were more difficult to tackle. Aca-demics is a “perishable skill,” he said, and he took his first semester easier to get into the swing of it.

“But it just comes down to hard work,” he said, “which isn’t a big deal compared to military stuff.”

The Student Veterans Association on campus offers a place to engage and aims to help veterans navigate the challenges of civilian life at college. The association also helps out financially, offering emergency loans for veteran students experiencing financial difficulties. Originally centered in Wesbrook Hall before it was torn down, the group runs its Veterans Transition Cen-ter in the basement of Johnston Hall as a place where members can stop by, eat, socialize, kick back on a couch or study and watch movies, while also offering free printing and other services.

“Most of the services we offer are geared towards creating a social support network of peers for returning veterans that they can not only relate to but feel a sense of belonging,” said Friedrichs, who served with the U.S. Navy from 2005 to 2011 in Sasebo, Japan.

“There’s pizza on Fridays,” he said.As students who are often older than

their classmates, veterans can also feel alienated from their peers.

“With the age gap, you can’t relate to the other students,” Retcher said. “It’s an alternate universe.”

Benson said the age and experience gap can make school a lonely exercise for veterans, who before entering school may get frustrated, bored, “do dumb stuff” or otherwise not have a plan for tackling col-lege life. Now a senior human resources development major, he spent eight years in the U.S. Army, five of those overseas stationed in Germany, Korea and else-where. He said joining the student group has helped him and others find camara-derie in civilian life where many don’t un-derstand their experiences.

“You don’t know what I’ve been through,” he said.

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Fall 2001 Compiled veterans focus group information.

Summer 2007Established University Veterans Services.

Fall 2007 Developed veteran orientation program.

November 2007 Annual student veteran appreciation day starts on campus.

2010 Veteran Certification coordinator wins award.

June 2011 Conducted focus groups with student veterans to gather feedback about campus involvement.

2012 University of Minnesota recognized by Pat Tillman Foundation for its service to veteran students, active military and their families.

U OF M VETERAN INITIATIVES TIMELINE

STUDENT VETERAN HEADCOUNTS

VETERAN STUDENTS

TOTAL STUDENTS

BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY 102/3,509

MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY 232/14,590

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-FLINT 250/6,959

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 259/5,453

COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY 397/8,517

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 400/47,146

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY 419/7,590

UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA 453/26,234

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY 482/52,567

PURDUE UNIVERSITY 517/31,988

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY 560/39,867

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 600/33,952

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND 603/37,631

MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY 650/17,187

GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 722/10,406

UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA 994/30,665

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MILWAUKEE 1,006/24,270

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 1,149/48,308

EASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY 1,217/13,902

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY 1,348/22,500

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA 1,750/47,000

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY 1,816/58,404

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY 1,841/64,425

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY 2,111/6,312

GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY 2,172/20,782

INDIANA UNIVERSITY 2,223/110,436

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 2,582/44,453

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY 3,223/83,086

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 515/24,593

TOTAL ONE-YEAR RETENTION RATE

89.5%90.7%88.5%

VETERAN ONE-YEAR

RETENTION RATE

87.2%86.1%82.0%

TOTAL FOUR-YEAR

GRADUATION RATE

59.1%58.6%54.6%

VETERAN FOUR-YEAR

GRADUATION RATE

36.2%

48.8%48.0%

2007 2008 2009

UNIVERSITY RETENTION AND GRADUATION RATES

29.0%TWO YEARS

13.6%THREE YEARS

10.0%FOUR YEARS

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YEARS

ASSOCIATE DEGREE 69% COMPLETED WITHIN SIX YEARS

40.0%FOUR YEARS

10.5%FIVE

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8.9%SIX

YEARS

7.7%SEVEN YEARS

7.1%EIGHT YEARS

BACHELOR’S DEGREE 74.2% COMPLETED WITHIN EIGHT YEARS

VETERAN TIME TO COMPLETION


Chelsea Gortmaker, DailyMicrobiology junior Surene Henderson, left, and history junior Nick Jensen hang out and talk at the Veterans Transition Center in Johnston Hall on March 7. Both are veterans and have been going to the VTC to study and visit with other student veterans since 2011.

SOURCES: STUDENT VETERANS OF AMERICA, MILLION RECORDS PROJECT, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION, INDIVIDUAL UNIVERSITIES, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY 2012, UNIVERSITY VETERANS SERVICES INFOGRAPHICS AND LAYOUT BY AMBER BILLINGS

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T ransparency is more than giv-ing lip service to the idea of open government. Record re-

quests actually have to be attended to in an efficient, fair manner.

According to a recent analysis of Freedom of Information Act re-quests by The Associated Press, that’s just not happening at the fed-eral government level, despite the Obama administration’s pledge to be the most open government in history.

The AP says that five years after Obama directed agencies to less frequently invoke a “de-liberative process” exception to withhold materials describing de-cision-making behind the scenes, the government did it anyway — a record 81,752 times.

Under the act, anyone who seeks information through the law is generally supposed to get it unless disclosure would hur t national security, violate personal privacy or expose business secrets or confidential decision-making in certain areas.

The AP repor t points out re-peatedly that those requests are often met with resistance or take much too long to be processed. Last year, the government denied 6,689 out of 7,818 requests for so-called expedited processing, which moves an urgent request for newsworthy records to the front of the line for a speedy answer, or about 86 percent. It denied only 53 percent of such requests in 2008.

Journalists aren’t the only peo-ple who should be whining about records being withheld. What the media can’t get, the public can’t get either.

As a result, you might not find out that the defense industry buys $5,000 toilets or that your con-gressman took an unusual number of working trips to Hawaii during a brutally harsh winter.

And, isn’t it ironic that a news service unveiled the information-access problem by getting infor-mation about the lack of access to it?

The free flow of information is one of the attractions of a strong democracy. If that information is getting plugged up in the bureau-cratic pipeline, major plumbing needs to be done sooner than later.

This editorial appeared in the Mankato Free Press on March 24.

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VIDEO GAMES

Sony’s PS4 has a savior in new tech

I t has been more than three months since the release of the Sony Play-

Station 4 and the Microsoft Xbox One, which joined the Nintendo Wii U in the eighth generation of video game consoles. This generation is facing a startling decline in sales compared to previous consoles, but Sony has hope in new technology on the horizon.

As a staunch supporter of the PS4, I grew concerned when PlayStation developer Sony first announced the release of the console more than a year ago. In a Minneso-ta Daily column at the time, I warned Sony that its new con-sole needs to have flair or else face a similar fate as Sega, a video game company that downgraded to the third-par-ty development of games due to the Sega Saturn’s failure.

Unfor tunately, a recent analysis from leading tech-nology website TechCrunch

shows that my fears may be coming true. TechCrunch compared the sales statistics of eighth-generation consoles to that of their predecessors after a few months on the market. Video game systems such as the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and the Wii were making between double and quadruple the sales of their latest counterparts.

The author of the article, TechCrunch writer Natasha Lomas, considers a few of the causal explanations to this phenomenon.

One hypothesis is that, since 2006 and the approxi-mate star t of the seventh-generation console era, a large portion of gamers have either ditched the consoles in place of smartphones (the

casual gamers) or customized PCs (the hardcore gamers). Casual gamers are unwill-ing to justify spending $500 on a new console when they can fulfill their gaming needs with “Flappy Bird,” and hard-core gamers can build PCs at more affordable rates than purchasing a new console. What’s worse, if one invests a little bit more into their home computer than buying a PS4 or Xbox One, they can eas-ily game with much better specs and speeds than eighth- generation consoles.

Lomas also posits that the relatively miniscule number of games in the market is also contributing to the lackluster sales of consoles. Indeed, de-spite the fact that I would love to purchase the slick PS4, if there are not many games to play for the system, then what is the point? I would much rather spend money on PS3 games that I have yet to play than to drop several hundred dollars on a new console with fewer available games.

Thankfully, there appears to be some hope.

Earlier this month, Sony unveiled “Project Morpheus,”

a prototype of a user-friendly, game-enhancing set of virtual reality (VR) goggles.

As I explained in my previ-ous column, Sony’s past three consoles had elements to them that made them stand out, such as the PS2’s ability to play DVDs and PS1 games (backward compatibility). Be-forehand, there was not really anything that made the PS4 shine, apart from the general technical and hardware up-dates. However, if they were to place the VR device in the market, it would give all kinds of gamers a reason to actu-ally purchase the new video game system. Even better, the refreshing gaming ex-perience would likely amaze casual gamers, and hardcore gamers would play the PS4 alongside their PC games due to the unique features of the PS4.

If Sony ever expects to climb out of its rut, it must finish the VR prototype and offer virtual reality gaming on the PS4.

Ronald Dixonwelcomes comments at

[email protected].

Virtual reality adaptability may be the only way to increase PS4 sales.

RONALD DIXONcolumnist

A response to “A pledge against greek hazing”

After reading the col-umn, “A pledge against greek hazing,” in the March 24 edition of the Minnesota Daily, I was stirred to respond with a personal perspective com-ing from a University of Minnesota greek member.

Unfor tunately, hazing is a problem around the countr y for some greek organizations, and I am not attempting to argue other wise. However, it is not only greek organiza-tions where hazing is a tradition. I have been a student at the University for three years, and while I have never heard of haz-ing occurring in one of the greek chapters here, I have heard of countless other organizations that haze their members. I believe this piece targets fraternities and sororities that may have a history of hazing on a national level but have had no incidents here on our campus.

By gathering national information, the column is unclear about what is tr ue specifically at the University of Minnesota. I can say with all honesty, although I admit I may be biased, that the greek or-ganizations at the Univer-sity are genuinely some of the best in the country. We live up to our values as we take a strong stand against hazing and other negative

stereotypes that the media attempts to associate us with.

My own chapter, for example, has such strict anti-hazing policies that we are not even allowed to be quizzed on the history of our organization, so as not to put girls in uncom-fortable situations.

A s I n t e r f r a t e r n i t y Council fraternities and Panhellenic Council so-rorities, our organizations all have immensely strict national r ules that our headquarters demand we follow in regard to social events, chapter program-ming and hazing. This keeps us in check and al-lows us to focus on the tr ue impor tance of the benefits we can receive from our organizations, as opposed to the “barbaric behavior” outlined in the column. This cannot be said about almost any oth-er student organization.

Looking on to the ar-gument tha t s tudents join greek organizations in order to “fit in with a crowd,” we belong to a school of about 50,000 stu-dents. Who, at one point in their college life, has not felt a desire to find a place where they be-long? Any person joining any organization on cam-pus will join for the same reason: They’ve found a place where they can fit in. Greek organizations are not so dif ferent from others. We are all brought together by shared values

and ideals. There is not one day of my time being greek that I have not been pushed to become a better version of myself — not through hazing tactics, but through constant en-couragement, a network of peers who inspire me to be the best I can be and a set of values that have become deeply ingrained into the deepest core of my being.

I live ever y day of my life tr ying to better my-self, my individual chapter and the greek commu-nity as a whole. If I didn’t have something bigger in my life to succeed for, I couldn’t imagine where I would be today. There is not an organization in the world that comes without flaws — fraternities and sororities included. How-ever, before students buy into the hazing r umors that sweep the media of our nation, they should first look to the living ex-amples that greeks set ev-ery day.

As a greek, I am not defined by the inaccu-rate accusations of wide-spread hazing around the country. As a greek, I am defined by the values I live by daily, the inspira-tional leaders I have met through my organiza -tion and the lifelong les-sons that my sorority has taught me.

Talia SavillePresident,

University Panhellenic Council

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Stangler, Reichl are best for MSA leadershipStangler and running mate Reichl would bring enthusiasm and experience to MSA leadership.

B eginning Wednesday, University of Min-nesota students will once again have the oppor tunity to elect two students for

president and vice president of the Minnesota Student Association.

This year, the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board endorses Joelle Stangler and her run-ning mate John Reichl as president and vice president for the next academic year.

Stangler’s ambition is the driving factor behind her campaign. As a sophomore, she is MSA’s intern coordinator and a representative to the Board of Regents. Reichl, a junior, would also bring multiple leadership experiences to the vice president position as a Board of Re-gents representative and president of the Hon-ors Student Association.

The two have a long-reaching platform cov-ering sexual assault awareness, transportation and a generally more responsive MSA, among other issues. While Stangler is ambitious, the two also told the editorial board about numer-ous tangible goals, including working with the Aurora Center to promote Sexual Assault Awareness Month, tackling MSA turnover problems and voicing student concerns about bus routes on and around campus.

The other presidential candidate, Abdis-amed Awed, is not without his own merits and, in an interview with the editorial board, rightly voiced concern over MSA’s biggest challenge: outreach and accessibility. While MSA’s prom-ising polling initiative — a major component of Stangler’s platform — is one way of reach-ing out to University undergraduate students, MSA must work to improve its approachability.

Please visit vote.umn.edu to vote for MSA candidates this Wednesday through Friday.

A stronger DBA would help the area A tightly run Dinkytown Business Association would benefit the area.

P rolific area developer Kelly Doran ap-peared at March’s Dinkytown Business Association meeting to question the

group’s legitimacy after its small-area plan de-layed his controversial hotel project.

He has a point. The association’s own mem-bers admit they haven’t collected dues or held formal elections in years. That said, the city has an interest in more thoughtfully planning Dinkytown and settling questions about its his-toric status, and that won’t change even if the technicality pushes the DBA out of those talks.

Doran’s protestations are a distraction, but they’re a much-needed reminder that the DPA needs to tighten up. The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association’s interests seem to lie primarily on the other side of the interstate, and Dinkytown is adding hundreds of students each year through new development. The DBA has become the de facto neighborhood organi-zation representing them.

Doran and developers like him bring stu-dents to Dinkytown through new student hous-ing, and the area needs an organization to ad-vocate for those who live and work there. The DBA has done a decent job of this so far, but it needs to get its administrative affairs in order.

A strong, elected leader running a tight ship will help smooth out developers’ relation-ships with the DBA and will benefit businesses and students alike.

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T he concept of social media is hardly original. Often, when we discuss social media, we do so in a way that refers to

contemporary variations of media, chiefly Facebook or Twitter. However, such discus-sions would be stilted if we didn’t consider so-cial media to be more than simply Facebook or Twitter. As long as there has been media, there’s been social media.

It’s a natural function of humanity: to share discoveries and creations with others. We need others’ validation on the work of living. That’s why we see both mundane and pro-found messages on social media. Do I really care what you had for breakfast? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean you should stop sharing that part of your life. What is mun-dane to one person is profound to another.

It’s the question of mundaneness that

seems to plague older generations as they approach contemporary social media. For the second year, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Minnesota has asked me to teach a class. The course, “Social Media: Practice and Critique,” is for return-ing adult and retired students. Last year, the students’ ages ranged from the mid-50s to 80.

Despite their unfamiliarity with contempo-rary social media, most of my OLLI students are highly intelligent, successful profes-sionals (or were) and are interested in how to use certain social media. However, they also question why they should even bother to learn about social media. It’s the last bit that is particularly relevant, because it brings a type of critical eye to social media engagement that younger generations don’t always bring. These students likely have more social media experience than current undergraduates.

Returning adult and retired students have been communicating over the phone, through email, in letters and collaborating for decades. Generally, they know how to socialize over various media. While they may struggle with contemporary iterations of social media, they understand the base structures. In many ways, they are bet-ter equipped to understand the changes in media because they’ve seen its evolution; they’ve lived it.

Social media has become more complicat-ed and more massive, and it’s these aspects that cause such cognitive dissonance among some generations.

According to the Pew Research Center, about 73 percent of adults online use a so-

cial networking site. Moreover, 45 percent of adults online age 65 or older use Facebook. To many of my students, these figures are shocking. My response to their shock is nor-mally adulation. Eventually, every adult on-line will use a contemporary social network-ing site; it’s inevitable.

My students may be the best people to help shepherd younger generations into so-cial media use. As I mentioned before, the students approach their studies with a certain amount of diligence that many younger stu-dents don’t discover until they’ve experienced more of life. This is a tremendous asset, and it would be ridiculous to not recognize it. This is especially true at a university where there is no dedicated general social media course for undergraduate students.

The assumption is that 18-year-old stu-dents don’t need their own course. They’ve grown up with the prevalent social media of today. It’s true that I’ve found my undergrad-uate students to be savvy — almost zealous — social media users. However, they often approach their use with such tenacity that they overlook issues of privacy, security and design. They don’t approach their use with the acute nature of one who has lived through various instances of shaming, love, loss, bullying, job hunting and other lifelong issues.

This, of course, isn’t always the case; however, many students should have a guide when learning and relearning how to interact with diverse and complicated social media. Despite the idea that technology should al-ways be user-friendly and accessible, that’s

simply not always true. Sometimes, trans-generational students need a helping hand or even just an ear to listen to their gripes.

Users join social media sites for various reasons. The most notable motivation among many of my OLLI students is that they want to see their family. Grandparents want to see pictures of grandchildren. I often get ques-tions like “How can I set up a photo feed?” or “How can I set my Facebook so just family members see me?” from my students. The key point here is that no matter the genera-tion, students are students. They yearn to un-derstand, to find acceptance and to connect with other humans.

Media theorist Marshall McLuhan once wrote: “Today we’re beginning to realize that the new media aren’t just mechanical gim-micks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of ex-pression.” It’s not enough anymore that stu-dents use social media: They must use social media critically.

While it’s possible to learn such critical-ness from instructors, students can also learn it from older generations who have experi-enced change before. Social media will not only serve as a source for connection, but as a source for generational harmony.

One generation has zeal, and other generations have attentiveness. Imagine what our world would be if we got them together.

Trent M. Kayswelcomes comments at

[email protected].

We should embrace older generations’ social media use.

Young social media users could learn from previous generationsTECHNOLOGY

T he famed Hibbing, Minn., singer-songwriter Bob Dylan famously sang, “The times they are a-chan-

gin’.” Appropriately, Dylan’s old stomp-ing grounds in Dinkytown are seemingly changing as fast as the melting snow.

In one light, Dinkytown is still the quaint, nostalgic, history-driven commer-cial node. Its founders built the activity district around a former streetcar line, which is home to well-known, decades-old establishments like Al’s Breakfast and the Varsity Theater, as well as events such as the 1970 Red Barn protest and the 2003 hockey riots. It’s a unique place where many current and former students hold memories dear.

On another hand, Dinkytown is smack-dab in the middle of a citywide growth spurt. A cultural shift to live in more ur-ban areas is fueling the desire to drive less and live around campus, which has burst near Dinkytown’s business node. Since 2010, Dinkytown and the surround-ing neighborhoods have seen hundreds of new apar tment units rapidly pop up, many with a notorious “luxury” quality.

The boom in apartments leads to a rise in population. Thousands of additional students in the area also mean new cus-tomers for the surrounding businesses in the commercial node. Although the old park-and-shop model might not ap-ply as much as it had before, Dinkytown is about to embark into a dif ferent, more local economic structure.

To meet the future population demand, as well as achieve new urbanist goals, the two major projects currently under construction in Dinkytown’s commercial node — the Venue at Dinkytown and The Marshall — include several thousand square feet of retail space on the street-facing ground floor. In their current de-sign, the two apartment complexes will contain 50,500 square feet. For reference, this is about the size of a Rainbow Foods grocery store. Hopefully, the businesses that venture into the new Dinkytown frontier will thrive and quickly establish themselves in the rooted nostalgia the area contains.

In order to succeed, however, busi-nesses and entrepreneurs need to look at what is already there and what current retail market trends illustrate. Dinkytown has evolved from a neighborhood-catered node with hardware and drug stores to a more college-oriented district with a plethora of restaurants and bars. New businesses in the two apar tment com-plexes will likely continue to reflect that

trend to feed students’ demands (pun intended).

TargetExpress is the only shop that will open this summer so far, which means eight spots are open. If I had a bot-tomless supply of financing and control over the retail slots’ future, here is what I would open for business.

Bowling alley barIn addition to the Dinkytown nighttime

hotspots in the Librar y Bar and Grill, Blarney Pub and Grill, the Kitty Cat Klub and Burrito Loco, another bar with bowl-ing lanes could be a nice addition next to TargetExpress in The Marshall. Although the traditional bowling model may be de-clining in popularity, alleys with a bar-like aura have grown in recent years. Town Hall Lanes, a 10-lane bar in south Minne-apolis, opened last year to much acclaim. Its founders designed Town Hall Brew-ery on the West Bank with 20 beer taps, which has been financially successful and has done wonders in creating a unique community hotspot. Even though Goldy’s Gameroom in Cof fman Union has the bowling monopoly, something like Town Hall Lanes in Dinkytown would likely do very well and would help bridge a student community.

Bring back clothiersIn the distant past, Dinkytown con-

tained several clothing retailers. Nowa-days, clothing-based stores have fared poorly in the area. Recent clothiers Pacif-ic and Maine and Peppermint Park closed within about a year of opening, and for-mer staple Mindstate Distribution closed in Januar y 2013. That leaves Goldy’s Locker Room and Underground Printing as the only clothing stores left in the once retail-dominated district.

With the incoming population, cloth-ing demand should once again increase. Forever 21, a clothing retailer popular with younger women, would thrive in the college-dominated area. Other cheap, pseudo-counterculture clothing retail-ers like Ragstock would likely appeal to thrifty students. Regardless of the brand, any clothing retailer would add a service that residents need in Dinkytown, and it would hopefully find long-term success.

Music and pizza strike backWhen constr uction began on the

Venue at Dinkytown, longtime business-es House of Hanson, The Podium and Duffy’s Dinkytown Pizza closed. In order to mitigate the void where these busi-nesses once were, I would add a music-re-lated shop and another pizza station. The owner of Duffy’s has said that they would like to return in the new building, and a music-filled shop, like a smaller version of the Electric Fetus, would cater to artsy students as well. Both businesses would be in small retail slots and could capital-ize on the hundreds of new residents in the area.

In addition to these options, another cof fee shop or fast casual restaurant would succeed in the neighborhood. All new businesses, including TargetEx-press, will add unique and interesting services to an area about to witness a bit of rebirth in business.

Chris Iversonwelcomes comments at [email protected].

In this quasi-market study, I explore what would be best suited to occupy the retail space in the new Dinkytown buildings.

What does Dinkytown need in its retail vacancy?

DINKYTOWN

T he 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education laid the foundation for racial desegregation of

schools across America, declaring separate institutions to be inherently unequal. Sixty years later, a new report has declared New York’s public schools to be the most segre-gated in America.

Brown v. Board of Education targeted Southern schools, where the degree of racial segregation surpassed that of their Northern counterparts. This policy, however, sidelined segregation in Northern schools until several decades later.

Minneapolis took its first steps toward racial integration in 1967, when the state’s board of education initiated a voluntary transfer program among urban schools. Four years later, the Minnesota govern-ment declared Minneapolis’s failure to meet the state’s desegregation goals — including a 30 percent ceiling on minority students — and ordered it to draft a deseg-regation plan.

Despite a long history of desegregation efforts, the Twin Cities metro area remains stricken with inequality. More than half of mi-nority students in the metro attend “high-pov-erty” schools in which more than 40 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. The same is true for only 10 percent of the metro’s white students.

Disturbingly, the trend extends to the suburbs. Roughly 30 percent of elementary schools in the metro area have a student body whose majority is nonwhite and poor. Of that 30 percent, 90 percent experience “very high poverty,” in which 75 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches.

Critics of segregation in the Twin Cities often point to open enrollment as a leading contributor to inequality.

The open-enrollment program allows parents to send their children to whichever school is best suited to their academic needs. In theory, it’s a color-blind program that helps increase competition among schools seeking to maintain and attract the metro’s best stu-dents.

In reality, open enrollment is increasing racial segregation in Twin Cities schools. In the 2009-10 school year, more than 35,000 stu-dents attended school in a district where they did not live. The majority of these students were Caucasian. Education officials deemed the exodus “white flight.”

Open enrollment’s racial effect may be a result of economic class as well. Low-income families lack the resources necessary to send their children to distant schools. Con-sequently, open enrollment disproportion-ally affects urban districts such as Minne-apolis, St. Paul and St. Cloud, whose student bodies are generally poorer than those of the suburbs.

Unfortunately, the loss of students results in the loss of state aid as well. Due to open en-rollment, about 400 Minneapolis students at-tend school in St. Anthony. With their depar-ture, Minneapolis loses — and St. Anthony gains — approximately $3.6 million in state aid every year.

Eden Prairie’s boundariesIn 2011, of ficials in the Eden Prairie

school district finalized a plan to redraw the boundaries that determine which of the city’s students attend certain schools. Formerly, substantial income inequality troubled Eden Prairie’s education system. The most upset-ting aspect of the district was the 33 percent gap in the number of students who used free or reduced-price lunches between two of its elementary schools. Many of these students were members of the city’s populous Somali community who lived around one particular school.

By redrawing school boundaries, Eden Prairie aimed to reduce the income and ra-cial gap. Although the plan eventually passed, it was met with substantial backlash. After a tempestuous period in which detractors called for her resignation, the district’s super-intendent ultimately quit.

Nevertheless, Eden Prairie’s desegrega-tion plan was at least somewhat successful. Within a year, the number of students who qualified for free or reduced-price lunches at Forest Hills Elementary School dropped from 50 to 34 percent, a direct result of the in-flux of students from other regions of the city.

Compared to Eden Prairie, Minneapolis is larger, its median household income is lower and it’s more racially diverse. Without some adjustment, what worked in one city might not work in another.

Nevertheless, the benefits to desegre-gation transcend mere political or ethical concerns. Research from the desegregation period following Brown v. Board of Educa-tion suggests that black students and other minority students who attend a desegregated school experience higher graduation rates and eventually enjoy a higher average in-come than their counterparts in segregated schools. They are also less likely to be in pris-on by the age of 30.

These results manifested, however, only when schools adjusted their resources to in-crease average per-pupil spending.

The open-enrollment program, despite its good intentions, is contributing to seg-regation in Twin Cities public schools and draining resources from districts that most need them. Perhaps it is time to re-examine the current approach to open enrollment and consider something more like Eden Prairie’s desegregation policy. However, the state’s metro areas should adjust the approach to meet the realities of a larger and more urban environment.

Brian Reinkenwelcomes comments at [email protected].

Segregation in Twin Cities public schools is the result of class as much as race.

Segregation 60 years later

EDUCATION

CHRIS IVERSONcolumnist

BRIAN REINKENcolumnist

TRENT M. KAYScolumnist



Sports

Gophers advance to Frozen FourMEN’S HOCKEY

PATTY GROVER, DAILYMinnesota forward Justin Kloos handles the puck against St. Cloud State on Sunday evening at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota head coach Pam Borton, right, checks on guard Rachel Banham, who was injured March 23 in a WNIT game against Southern Methodist at Williams Arena. Borton was fired Friday.

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A half-empty Xcel Energy Center watched top-seed-

ed Minnesota tangle with St. Cloud State with a trip to the Frozen Four on the line.

Those who stayed home didn’t miss much.

This Sunday’s game was more one-sided than a chubby kid on a teeter-totter.

Minnesota dominated the game from the drop of the puck en route to a 4-0 win. As the final horn sounded, players mobbed goaltender Adam Wilcox in celebration.

The Gophers will re-turn to the Frozen Four for the second time in three years. Yes, a trip to the Frozen Four is a big victory for the program, but it’s not enough any-more.

Maybe at other schools going to the Frozen Four is enough.

Maybe at other schools titles from decades past are still revered.

But this is Minnesota. And success in Minne-sota, especially in hockey, is measured a little differ-ently.

Former Gophers cap-tain Taylor Matson, who helped lead Minnesota to its last Frozen Four in 2012, said it best a couple of years ago: You come to Minnesota to hang ban-ners.

The Gophers haven’t hung a national champi-onship banner since 2003. They are the premier institution in the State of Hockey and haven’t won a title in more than 10 years. That could all change in Philadelphia in a couple of weeks.

This year’s group is rife with talent, and it appears to have all the makings of a national champion.

They boast an elite freshman class, coupled with strong veteran lead-ership.

They trot out Wilcox, the best netminder in the country.

They boast a well-bal-anced offense, with every line more than capable of scoring that key goal. They’re stingy defensive-ly, too.

Now it’s up to Minne-sota to do what it hasn’t the last two seasons: cash in on its potential.

Minnesota has done that early in the NCAA tournament, easily beat-ing Robert Morris and St. Cloud State, but it’ll only get harder for the Gophers moving forward.

Minnesota will square off with archrival North Dakota in the Frozen Four. The longtime foes didn’t play this year be-cause of the WCHA dis-banding.

North Dakota is fa-mous for starting slow, putting together a great second half of the season and peaking at tourna-ment time. That looks to be happening yet again.

But this time the Go-phers appear to be peak-ing, too.

After the game, Wilcox said the Gophers played two of their most complete games this weekend.

“Six complete periods of just giving it to the other team,” he said.

In two weeks, they’ll need six more.

Ya feel me?

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at [email protected] or on Twitter.

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But Kloos didn’t relinquish the scoring crown so easily. After a SportsCenter-worthy tic-tac-toe play with linemates freshman Taylor Camma-rata and senior Nate Condon, Kloos buried the puck into the net for his second goal about six minutes later.

Minnesota was pulling away at that point, but junior forward Kyle Rau added to the haul on the power play

about eight minutes into the final period.

Kloos, Condon, sopho-more defensemen Brady Skjei and Mike Reilly, and Wilcox made the regional team, with Kloos garnering MVP honors.

On Saturday, the Gophers committed two penalties early in the game to give Robert Morris a 5-on-3 advantage.

Minnesota overcame the potentially dangerous start by scoring three goals in the last four minutes of the first pe-riod from Condon, freshman

defenseman Michael Brodz-inski and Kloos.

The game seemed well in hand when Rau scored about eight minutes into the second period, but Robert Morris was far from giving up.

The Colonials tallied two goals from Cody Wydo and Zac Lynch before the final period.

In the third, the Gophers left no doubt, as freshman for-ward Hudson Fasching posi-tioned the Gophers for the win with a power-play goal about 14 minutes into the third period.

Robert Morris stole anoth-

er point back with a goal by David Friedmann before Min-nesota put the game away.

Rau said he wasn’t sur-prised by Robert Morris’ un-willingness to roll over.

“At this time of the year, no one is going to give up be-cause it’s their season on the line,” he said. “We need to take that into account … be-cause we know that no one is just going to fold over for us.”

Condon added his second goal of the game, and Reilly tallied the final blow.

This is Minnesota’s first

trip to the Frozen Four since 2012, when it lost to Boston College 6-1 in the semifinals.

Gophers fire Borton, move in new directionWOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JACK [email protected]

Pam Borton has been fired as head coach for the Gophers women’s basket-ball team, the University an-nounced Friday.

“We have extremely high expectations for our women’s basketball program,” athlet-ics director Norwood Teague said at a press conference Friday. “Our goal is to be the best women’s basketball pro-gram both in the Big Ten and at a national level.”

Those high expectations pushed Borton, who hasn’t led the Gophers to the NCAA tournament since 2009, out of a job.

Borton has been at Minne-sota since 2002 and took the Gophers to their only Final Four appearance in program history in 2004. Her record was 236-152 in 12 seasons with the program.

The University has to pay Borton $335,000 to buy out her contract.

Teague met with Borton Friday to inform her of the decision.

“I am grateful for my 12 seasons at the University of Minnesota,” Borton said in a release. “This is a great state and University, and I have en-joyed becoming a part of this community.”

Teague will conduct a na-tional search, from which he expects a significant amount of interest, and said he has a “pool” of coaches to choose from.

“This program has suc-ceeded in the past,” he said. “We’ve proven we can win. There are so many intangi-bles that make this a terrific job that raise those expecta-tions.”

Kelly Roysland, an assis-tant coach and one of Bor-ton’s former players with the Gophers, has been named interim coach. Teague said he didn’t want to single out any candidates and wouldn’t say whether Roysland will be considered for head coach.

Teague said he won’t rule out candidates without head coaching experience, like Roysland and possible candidate Lindsay Whalen — another of Borton’s former players. It’s unclear if Wha-len, who signed a three-year contract extension with the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx in September, would be inter-ested in the job.

Teague noted that prior experience with the Gophers could impact his decision.

“It helps. That always helps whenever you’re re-cruiting a coach,” he said. “I like when they do have that, but it’s by no means a deal-breaker.”

Teague said he hopes to finish the coaching search as soon as possible and is look-ing for three major traits in a good candidate: leadership, an ability to recruit locally and nationally, and communica-tion skills.

Teague said he met with current players on the team Friday afternoon to break the news.

“They have relationships there, and there’s hurt when that happens,” he said.

Wagner won’t waverTeague said he also

called Carlie Wagner, the program’s top committed recruit, before addressing the media. ESPN ranked Wagner 54th in this year’s recruiting class.

“[We] had a great conver-sation and will keep commu-nicating with her, definitely,” he said. “You have to do that; you want to make them feel at ease with what’s going on.”

Wagner’s mother, Jane Wagner, told the Minnesota Daily that Teague called Carlie

a “top priority.” She also said Carlie is upset and loves Bor ton “like a second mom.”

Still, all signs point to Carlie Wagner wearing a Gophers uniform in the near future. Jane Wagner said even after hearing the news, her daughter went shopping for maroon and gold apparel.

“She’s a Minnesota girl, and as far as I know, that’s the way it’s going to stay,” Jane Wagner said. “I think we’re

good. … She’s just sad and needs to process.”

Borton was abroadA team spokesperson con-

firmed that Borton was recent-ly out of the country and on the recruiting trail before being fired, suggesting she was still engaged as head coach.

Borton had success with international players, bring-ing in Amanda Zahui B. from Sweden. She set the Big Ten and Minnesota single-season rebounding records in the

Gophers’ 70-62 loss to South Dakota State in the WNIT on Thursday night.

But even with a stand-out at center, coupled with the Big Ten’s leading scorer in Rachel Banham, Bor-ton couldn’t get back to the NCAA tournament.

“You want to get in the NCAA tournament,” Teague said. “We look forward to finding a candidate that will build a consistent and con-tinued successful program here.”

Pam Borton went 236-152 in 12 years as the coach of the women’s team.

PAM BORTON BY THE NUMBERS

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

236-152RECORD OVER 12 YEARS AS GOPHERS COACH

6NCAA TOURNAMENT APPEARANCES

$335,000BUYOUT

Minnesota ends season with a lossBY JACK [email protected]

The Gophers women’s basketball team (22-13) saw its season end Thurs-day night with a 70-62 loss at South Dakota State.

Minnesota’s star fresh-man center, Amanda Za-hui B., set the Big Ten’s single-season rebound-ing record in the game, finishing with 394 boards this season. Zahui B. led the team with 26 points and 11 rebounds. Rachel Banham racked up 25 points of her own while playing through a mid-foot sprain.

Those ef for ts were wasted, though, as the rest of the team combined to score only 11 points, highlighting a season-long trend — the stars need more help from the role players on the squad.

A potentially dynamic third scorer will be join-ing Banham and Zahui B. next year in form of high-ly touted recruit Carlie Wagner.

A new coach will also be coming to Minnesota after the University an-nounced the firing of head coach Pam Borton on Friday afternoon.

PlayerStropClarinBoeverPaluchWaytashekStevensYoungHeiserOberCornemann

Total

Min2315263132171516241

200

FGM-A2-42-61-8

7-163-71-42-73-62-70-0

23-65

Ast1066120110

18

PF2301120310

13

Pts545

17935

1480

70

FTM-A0-00-02-22-40-00-00-06-74-60-0

14-19

RebO-T3-41-33-52-51-80-10-10-24-90-0

19-45

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE

PlayerHirtZahui B.BanhamNogaBaileyRicheHedstrom

Total

Min26333840261918

200

FGM-A1-2

11-148-221-100-02-60-2

23-56

Ast0066100

13

PF0343511

17

Pts2

26253150

62

FTM-A0-14-43-40-01-21-10-0

9-12

RebO-T0-5

2-111-21-30-10-42-6

8-35

MINNESOTA

24 38 — 62 23 47 — 70

MinnesotaSouth Dakota State

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE 70, MINNESOTA 62

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS


FINAL04

St. Cloud StateMinnesota

101

202

301

FINAL37

Robert MorrisMinnesota

103

221

313

SATURDAY

SUNDAY


Minnesota finishes 22nd at NCAA meet

Mannon takes home his first title on pommel horse

SWIMMING & DIVING

MEN’S GYMNASTICS

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota’s Derek Toomey swims in the men’s 100-yard breaststroke during the Minnesota Challenge on Feb. 9, 2013, at the University Aquatic Center.

BY DAVID [email protected]

Minnesota’s men’s swim-ming and diving team pro-duced some of its best per-formances of the year at the NCAA meet over the week-end, but it regressed from last year’s 18th-place finish and placed 22nd overall.

“They swam and dove great,” head coach Kelly Kremer said. “We really got some ver y tough breaks at almost every turn. And

at the end of the day, the scoreboard doesn’t reflect what a great job these men did.”

Minnesota boasted sev-en swimmers in total who garnered All-America hon-ors, but it wasn’t enough.

Gophers seniors Derek Toomey and Kyler Van Swol were two of those All-Americans. They capped their careers with two of the best performances of their careers.

Toomey tied his career-best time in the 50-yard freestyle at 19.05 seconds. Van Swol’s time in the 200-yard butter fly prelim broke the school record in the event.

But aside from those

performances, bad breaks seemed to follow the team.

“It seemed like at every turn, things didn’t go our way at critical moments,” Kremer said. “We found a way to really make life dif-ficult for ourselves.”

The Gophers qualified for the final or consolation final in five events but failed to capitalize on those oppor-tunities.

“We definitely swam bet-ter in prelims than we did in the finals,” Kremer said. “We didn’t make the most of those opportunities.”

Gophers junior C.J. Smith said he wasn’t happy after finishing 16th in the 1,650-yard freestyle and 46th in the 500-yard freestyle.

“I don’t think the best swimmers in the nation settle in any races,” he said. “I’m certainly eager to im-prove this summer.”

This weekend, the best swimmers came f rom warmer climates.

California blew away the competition with 468.5 points, Texas followed with 417.5 points and Florida took third with 387 points.

“It’s tough to keep guys not bummed out when you watch some teams actually dominate a meet like that,” Smith said.

Perhaps no one was more bummed than fresh-man diver Matt Barnard, who injured his leg while diving on the 3-meter

springboard. That injur y kept him out of the platform competition.

“He was disappointed, but he has such a posi-t ive att i tude,” Kremer said. “That’s why I know he’ll get right back on the horse and he’ll be fine. He’ll come back better than ever.”

Barnard was one of six freshmen who made the trip to Austin, Texas, to compete on college swim-ming’s biggest stage. Smith said that’s one positive that can be taken away from an other wise unsatisfactor y competition.

“We had six freshmen this year, and I think that’s the biggest positive,” he

said. “We had those guys step up and swim fast, and that just shows the capabil-ity that they have and the direction this program is headed in.”

Derek Toomey tied his career-best time in the 50-yard free at the NCAAs.

BY DAVID [email protected]

When the Gophers missed their first routine Friday night, perhaps it was a sign the Big Ten meet wouldn’t go in their favor.

Minnesota struggled to establish any semblance of momentum until the sec-ond par t of the competi-tion, and by then, the hole was too deep.

The Gophers placed a disappointing fifth at the Big Ten championships, their worst finish of the season.

“It was a bit of a strug-gle,” head coach Mike Burns said. “That outcome wasn’t exactly what we were hoping for.”

Minnesota stumbled out of the star ting blocks on high bar, posting a score of 68.95 after aver-aging 70.513 this season. After posting similar sub-par marks on floor, senior Zach Chase said the team needed a spark.

“It really brings out the leadership that we need to play a role in,” he said.

Chase and the seven other seniors provided that spark, and the team rallied down the stretch.

“In spite of the fact we star ted out ver y rough,” Burns said, “we did battle back, and we never gave up. … I was proud of that.”

Though the team didn’t finish as high as expected in the team standings, Minnesota still qualified four competitors in five of the individual event finals a day later.

“I told them when we lined up before we started warm-ups that today was about redemption,” Burns said. “I said, ‘We didn’t do what we came here to do last night, so it’s up to you four guys to go out here and represent the Go-phers.’

“I guess they took that to heart.”

Gophers junior Ellis Mannon definitely did. Mannon per formed sec-ond to last on the pommel horse Saturday night and said he was a little ner-vous before his routine.

“It’s a tough environ-ment in the finals,” Man-non said. “I was just trying to concentrate on doing my set the best I could.”

Mannon was in good position after none of the six gymnasts that per-formed before him posted a score higher than 14.7.

He took the apparatus and posted a 15.325 to move into first place.

Still, he had to sit and watch as Penn State ’s Craig Her nandez went last. Hernandez fell shy of Mannon’s score, and Man-non captured the first Big Ten title of his career.

“That was probably the best routine I’d ever do-ne,” Mannon said. “I guess

it came at a good time.”Mannon r epr esents

Burns’ first Big Ten cham-pion since Chase won on vault as a freshman.

“It’s just great when you’re walking through the arena after your gym-nast wins the title and ev-er yone’s patting you on the back,” Burns said. “It makes you realize all the hard work pays off.”

Chase took third on vault in the final Big Ten meet of his career.

“It was great,” Chase said. “I spent my freshman and sophomore year on the podium, and to come back after surger y last April … was a pretty awe-some feeling.”

Minnesota sophomore Jack Metcalf took fifth on still rings after producing

some of his best scores of the season.

And jun ior cap ta in Steve Jaciuk took fifth and seventh on paral -lel bars and high bar, respectively.

Burns said even though the squad didn’t finish as high as it wanted in the team standings, he was happy to return with some hardware.

Minnesota stumbled out of the gates and never recovered en route to fifth place.

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota’s gymnast Ellis Mannon performs his parallel bars routine March 2, 2013, at the Sports Pavilion.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS

RESULTS


TEAMSMichiganOhio StatePenn StateIllinoisMinnesotaNebraskaIowa

MINNESOTA LEADERSFloorPommel horseStill ringsVault Parallel barsHigh barAll-around

INDIVIDUAL EVENT FINALSAll-aroundPommel horseVaultStill rings Parallel barsHigh bar

SCORE448.200441.050438.000435.350429.150428.150425.600

SCOREChase, 14.900Mannon, 15.000Metcalf, 15.200Chase, 15.250Jaciuk, 15.350Jaciuk, 14.700Mannon, 85.700

SCOREMannon, 6thMannon, 1stChase, 3rdMetcalf, 5thJaciuk, 5thJaciuk, 7th

SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS


TEAM STANDINGS: 22ND

TOP-16 FINISHES

50-yard freestyle100-yard freestyle400-yard IM1,650-yard freestyle200-yard butterfly200-yard freestyle relay

PLACE4th16th15th16th

15th13th

Toomey

MalySmith

Van SwolTeam

EVENT


BY BETSY [email protected]

The good news for the Gophers baseball team is that it was able to play all three of its games against Michigan State over the weekend. The bad news is what happened in two of those three games.

Minnesota won the first game of the series but fol-lowed up with a Sunday doubleheader in which it was outscored 20-0.

The Gophers lost 15-0 in the first game, then 5-0 in the second game, which ended af-ter eight innings due to Michi-gan State’s travel schedule.

The eight-inning game wasn’t predetermined, but head coach John Anderson said the teams couldn’t start another inning after 4:45 p.m.

“The way we were playing, the last inning wouldn’t have mattered,” he added.

The Gophers started the weekend strong, winning the first game 4-2 thanks in large part to a quality start from se-nior Alec Crawford.

Crawford endured a cou-ple of rough outings in the first month of the season, but recently, he’s given the team three consecutive quality starts.

“[I] try not to change too much, trust my stuff [and] know that I’m capable of get-ting the job done,” Crawford said.

Crawford was a bright spot this past weekend for the

Gophers, especially consider-ing the results Sunday.

Minnesota sophomore pitcher Jordan Jess started Sunday’s first game and had trouble with his command right away.

“He has a mechanical flaw, in my opinion … and it’s af-fected his command,” Ander-son said.

Jess loaded the bases on walks in the first inning but escaped without giving up any runs. The Spartans scored a run in the third but broke through in the fourth.

Jess again loaded the bases before he was removed from the game.

Still, all three of the run-ners eventually scored, in ad-dition to two others, before the inning was over. Minne-sota gave up 16 walks and hit three batters in the first game alone.

In the second game, the Gophers also hit three batters.

“I can’t remember the last time we walked that ma-ny people and hit that many people in one day,” Ander-son said. “What do you attri-bute it to? I wish I knew.”

In addition to Jess’ four runs, Tyler Hanson gave up two, Matt Fiedler gave up seven and Lance Thonvold gave up two.

Minnesota junior Mark Tatera said the team tried to come back with a tougher mentality for the second game.

“It kind of seemed like we gave up in the middle of the first game,” he said, add-ing that he thought the team started with good energy in the second game.

Gophers junior Ben Mey-

er started the second game and gave up five runs in 5.2 innings pitched. The Spar-tans hit two home runs in the game, but Anderson said he thought Meyer pitched com-petitively and gave the team a chance.

“We didn’t pitch good, didn’t play good, didn’t have competitive at-bats,” Ander-son said. “[We] didn’t really do anything today that was good enough to win in this league,

and so we paid the price.”Tatera said he hopes this

weekend gives the team more energy going into the rest of Big Ten play.

“It was kind of an eye-opener,” Tatera said. “We had been playing well and kind of got our butts kicked.”

Before the Gophers re-turn to Big Ten play, they will have a midweek game Tues-day with North Dakota State — weather permitting.

Gophers lose two of three to SpartansBASEBALL

BASEBALL RESULTS


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Michigan St. 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 6 1

Minnesota 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 X 4 8 0

Michigan St. 0 0 1 5 0 2 6 1 0 15 13 0

Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2

Michigan St. 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 - 5 7 1

Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 1

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILYTop: Minnesota second baseman Connor Schaefbauer bats against Michigan State on Saturday at Siebert Field. Above: Minnesota’s Alec Crawford pitches against Michigan State on Saturday at Siebert Field.

STEPHEN OFFERMAN, DAILYMinnesota’s Sara Groenewegen pitches against Illinois on Saturday afternoon at St. Thomas University.

Minnesota played in its first home series of the season over the weekend.

LeMay, Groenewegen pace squadSOFTBALL

BY JARED [email protected]

No. 15 Minnesota swept Illinois over the weekend, improving its overall record to an unprecedented 27-4. The Gophers also moved to 5-1 in Big Ten play with the trio of wins.

Minnesota’s bats stayed hot all weekend, and the team posted 23 runs in the three-game series.

Gophers sophomore catcher Taylor LeMay pow-ered the team at the plate, launching two home runs to move her season total to a team-high eight blasts.

Sti l l , she said she’s more excited about the team’s hot start.

“It was a great series,” she said. “It’s awesome to be 5-1 in Big Ten play.”

W h i l e t h e o f f e n s e paced the team, the Go-phers’ pitchers weren’t to be outdone. That group

tossed 18 shutout innings and struck out 27 batters in the series.

Al l -Big Ten p i tcher senior Sara Moulton’s two wins in the series im-proved her record to 18-3. And her 15-strikeout week-end moved her career tally to 1,111 — just 11 shy of the program record.

Minnesota freshman Sara Groenewegen also picked up a win for the Go-phers, striking out 10 batters en route to a complete-game shutout and her seventh win of the year. She is now 7-0 in the pitcher’s circle, and her numbers in the bat-ter’s box have been equally impressive.

G r o e n e w e g e n w e n t 3-for-7 at the plate this weekend, smacking a home run in each game to move her season total to seven, just one behind Le-May for the team lead.

M i n n e s o t a j u n i o r inf ielder Kait lyn Rich-ardson said Groenewe-g e n ’ s a n d L e M a y ’ s contr ibut ions in their f irst season have been immeasurable.

“They came in and weren’t t imid, weren’t scared,” she said. “They’ve just done their job, and that’s what it’s going to take for us to be a World Series team.”

So far, the formula is working.

Minnesota’s 27-4 overall record leads the Big Ten, and its five conference wins are second only to Michigan.

Gophers head coach Jes-sica Allister said the great start is a step toward accom-plishing the team’s ultimate goal.

“The girls are very fo-cused on the main goal, which is winning a Big Ten championship,” she said.

“[They are] doing a great job so far, and everybody’s very excited about it.”

This was the Gophers’ first home series of the year after they spent the first six weeks of the season on the road.

Still, it wasn’t exactly a home game.

The Gophers moved the series to the University of St. Thomas because of poor con-ditions at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium’s natural-grass field.

Minnesota is sched-uled for another home se-ries — weather permitting — next weekend against Wisconsin.

LeMay said she’s excited

for the opportunity to take on a rival, something she hasn’t had the opportunity to do since transferring to Minne-sota a year ago.

“I haven’t been around to have the feel for a re-

ally big rivalr y game,” LeMay said. “So I’m super excited to be able to play in that environment next weekend.

“I know we’re all pumped for that series.”

The Gophers swept Illinois to improve their record to 27-4 on the season.

SOFTBALL RESULTS


1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E

Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 7 0

Minnesota 5 0 0 0 2 1 X 8 9 2

Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 0 4 1

Minnesota 0 0 0 1 0 0 X 8 4 1

Illinois 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0

Minnesota 0 1 0 0 3 3 X 7 8 2


WOMEN’S GOLF RESULTS

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

*out of 17 teams

LagunaPeronninThitiratanakornLaorrTheinthongQuinn

TOTAL216222225226228230

RD1727274757776

RD2717677767871

RD3737474757383

GOLFER

1 Nebraska2 Kent State3 Missouri4 Gonzaga5 Minnesota

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MEN’S TENNIS RESULTS


6-4, 3-6, 1-0 (8)6-2, 6-46-3, 6-4 7-5, 6-16-1, 6-06-2, 7-5

8-58-38-7

SinglesToledoWeberHamburgFromentRamirezFrueh

DoublesHamburg/FromentToledo/FruehRamirez/Sydow

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PURDUE 6, MINNESOTA 1

WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS


6-2, 6-26-0, 6-25-7, 7-5, 6-1 6-1, 6-26-1, 6-16-2, 6-3

8-58-38-3

SinglesBrichacovaPintusavaMoziaCourterLambertOtero

DoublesBrichacova/MoziaPintusava/CourterLambert/Otero

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PURDUE 4, MINNESOTA 3

6-4, 6-16-2, 4-6, 6-36-2, 4-6, 7-56-1, 6-47-5, 6-35-7, 7-6 (8),1-0 (7)

8-48-48-1

SinglesBrichacovaPintusavaMoziaCourterLambertVujic

DoublesBrichacova/MoziaPintusava/CourterLambert/Vujic

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LWL

MINNESOTA 5, INDIANA 2

Gophers split a pair

Laguna leads team to fifth

MEN’S TENNIS

WOMEN’S GOLF

LISA PERSSON, DAILY FILE PHOTOMinnesota’s Jessika Mozia returns the ball to Purdue on Friday at the Baseline Tennis Center. The Gophers lost 4-3.

BY JACE [email protected]

The Gophers women’s ten-nis team entered the weekend hoping for a sweep over two ranked Big Ten opponents.

Minnesota didn’t accom-plish its goal, but players and coaches weren’t necessarily disappointed with a split.

The Gophers salvaged the split with a 5-2 victory over No. 35 Indiana on Sunday morning after falling 4-3 to No. 46 Purdue on Friday night.

Minnesota head coach Chuck Merzbacher said he talked to his team about re-sponding after the Purdue loss — a match the team could have won.

“There was only one way to go, which is to respond with a finish like we had today,” he said. “We wanted to respond this way, and we got it done.”

The No. 63 Gophers (14-4, 4-1) appeared to be headed toward a defeat Sunday after losing the doubles point,

but two quick victories at No. 1 and No. 4 singles by Tereza Brichacova and Julia Courter, respectively, flipped the script.

Brichacova, who’d lost her first three Big Ten matches, won two over the weekend. She said she’s started to fo-cus on every point during her matches, and the results are starting to show.

“I’m really happy about those two matches,” Brichaco-va said. “I was trying to get my confidence back, and these matches helped a lot.”

The Gophers’ success wasn’t limited to the top of the order, though. Courter and junior Aria Lambert won both their matches at No. 4 and No. 5 singles, respectively, this

weekend.“The bottom of the lineup

is really holding it up,” Merz-bacher said. “We have a lot of great players, and we have to take advantage of it.”

Merzbacher has talked about his team being “Gopher Tough” all season — a senti-ment that was embodied dur-

ing Sunday’s performance.“It means a lot,” he said. “If

we’re going to be that tough when we need to be tough against a very good team … we can play with anyone.”

Weber wins one for men

Ruben Weber was the last man standing for the Gophers (9-8, 3-2) on Sunday afternoon in Indiana.

No. 50 Minnesota, which lost an ugly 6-1 match against No. 41 Purdue on Friday, was locked at 3-3 against No. 65 Indiana with just We-ber’s match left.

“I knew it was going to be really intense,” Weber said. “We had guys [from both teams] yelling back and forth. It was crazy. I loved it.”

With the attention cen-

tered on Weber’s court, the sophomore built a 6-5 lead in the second set after he had al-ready taken the first set.

But Weber couldn’t close. He had his serve broken and then lost the tiebreaker, send-ing the match to a decisive final set.

In the third set, he fell behind 3-1.

“I got really tight,” Weber said, “so my mindset changed a little bit in a negative way.”

Weber managed to regain his composure and won five of the next six games down the stretch to seal his match and give the Gophers the win.

His teammates rushed onto his court after the win.

“It felt amazing,” Weber said. “We really needed that win.”

BY NATE [email protected]

Minnesota junior captain Carmen Laguna rebounded from a lackluster perfor-mance two weeks ago with a fourth-place finish at the Mountain View Collegiate Invitational in Tucson, Ariz. Her four th-place finish paced the Gophers women’s golf team to a fifth-place finish.

Minnesota finished with an aggregate team score of 23-over par over the course of the 54-hole tournament. It fin-ished just 13 strokes behind first-place Nebraska.

Laguna led the team with an even-par 216 about two weeks after shooting a 20-over par 236 at the BYU Entrada Classic.

“Carmen got back into her own mental game and focus-ing on herself,” head coach Michele Redman said. “She just did a really good job get-ting back to Carmen on the golf course and just trusting herself.”

Laguna was Minnesota’s top player during the fall sea-son, averaging 74 strokes per round. She has averaged 73.8 strokes per round this spring, despite the above-average scores at the BYU tournament.

“Before playing this tour-nament, I didn’t feel confident about myself,” Laguna said. “And now I feel like I’m get-ting back that confidence.”

Gophers freshman Emie Peronnin was the team’s

second-leading scorer this past weekend, shooting a 6-over par 222 to tie for 23rd. She was followed by junior Sarinee Thitiratanakorn, who was third on the team with a 9-over 225.

M i n n e s o t a j u n i o r Anna Laorr tied for 35th at 10-over par, senior Banchalee Theinthong tied for 48th at 12-over par and redshirt junior Taylor Quinn rounded out the line-up with a 14-over par.

The Gophers shot a 5-over par 293 in the first round Fri-day morning and a 12-over par 300 that afternoon. They finished with a 6-over par 294 on Saturday afternoon.

Redman said the team hit the ball well but struggled with putting. She said she isn’t too concerned, though, given that the team’s scores have improved over the course of the spring season.

Eliason injures ankleMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JACE [email protected]

Elliott Eliason gingerly strolled through the Bierman Field Athletic Building on Sat-urday afternoon with his left foot in a walking boot.

Eliason turned his left ankle in practice Thursday when he came down on it awkwardly, head coach Rich-ard Pitino said.

Eliason wasn’t practicing as of Saturday, but Pitino said he doesn’t think the injury is as bad as the ankle sprain junior guard Andre Hollins sustained in the middle of the season, which caused him to miss two games.

“We’ve just got to be leery of it and watch it,” Pitino said. “We’ve got to get him healthy.”

Eliason’s presence will be a necessity for the Gophers in

the National Invitation Tour-nament semifinals Tuesday against Florida State — the third-tallest team in the nation, according to KenPom.com

“If he can’t play full min-utes, can he give us 10 [to] 15 minutes?” Pitino said. “That’s huge for us, because we need a backup center. We can’t have Mo [Walker] play 40 minutes.”

Walker isn’t a bad option to turn to for heavy minutes if Eliason can’t give it a full go. Walker has turned into an of-fensive force for the Gophers down low of late. He delivered a 12-point effort in Minne-sota’s victory over Southern Mississippi.

Pitino said Walker — the backup center for most of the season — is likely to get the starting nod Tuesday with Eliason unable to practice.

15Monday, March 31, 2014

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BACKTALKhoroscopes

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

© 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

3/31/2014

sudoku

Thursday’s solution

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 6 — You’re thinking about romance and beauty. Imagine the possibilities. Let a family member handle a problem at home. Delegate a task you hate.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 5 — Take short term, local actions, without force. Paying dues leads to more income. Make a list of what you need.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 5 — Make love, not war. Be careful with sharp instruments. Argue privately, if you must. Your attentions linger close to home.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 5 — Change your work habits. A new trick doesn’t work, and it could cause a breakdown. Postpone chores, and put in the correction.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 5 — Don’t save in a sieve. Study the situation. There’s another possible problem here. Be prepared for physical labor with discipline.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Don’t rush into anything. You’re building your family fortune, and things don’t go as planned. New problems develop. Avoid reckless spending.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Unexpected situations arise, and actions seem to deviate from the itinerary. Revise agreements. Sell more to old clients.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Take care of your mind, body and spirit. Pursue peace and privacy with inexpensive pleasures, like tea under a tree or fragrant bath crystals.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Play to see who can have the most fun while managing urgencies. Delegate what you can. Pamper yourself.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — Proceed with caution, one step at a time. Don’t get stopped by old fears, but don’t rush, either. Get something for your home.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 5 — Consider the consequences before diving into action. Wait for more data. Think it over, and figure the costs.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Take small, persistent actions close to home. Little profits add up, and cash flow arises through community connections.

17Monday, March 31, 2014

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE MARCH 31, 2014

ACROSS1 Insect stage6 Sink down in the

middle9 Heavy haulers

14 Not quitespherical

15 Single16 Mild-mannered

reporter Kent17 Tennis court official19 Overzealous type20 Point after deuce21 More narcissistic23 Asian New Year24 Harbor long-term

resentment27 Portuguese

explorer Vasco30 Open court

hearing, in law31 News org.32 Construction

zone cones36 Earth-orbiting

Gagarin39 Birds that

symbolize peace41 Right, vis-à-vis

left: Abbr.42 Early PC interface43 Glasses, in ads44 More than mono46 Workout facility47 Water, in Juárez49 Amazingly

enough51 Creamy

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URL57 Type of vegetable

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4 Capital of Austria5 Wd. modifying a

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League of TheirOwn”

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10 Right-angle bend11 Political

commentatorwith an Internet“Report”

12 Discount rackabbr.

13 Glide on ice18 Sunlamp danger,

briefly22 Narcissists have

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baseballs26 Sometimes-illegal

turns, for short27 Fizzling

firecrackers28 Each29 Push gently33 Valet’s purview34 Not shut,

poetically

35 “All ThingsConsidered” airer

37 Rogers and Clark38 Beliefs40 WWII vet, say42 Synthesizer

pioneer44 Room in una casa45 Conclude by48 Stomach ailments50 Lentil or pea51 Aqua __:

aftershave brand

52 Firefighter Red53 South American

range54 Pays, as the bill55 Radii-paralleling

bones59 Skunk’s

defense60 Fairy tale fiend61 Eye on the sly63 Hawaii’s

Mauna __65 Terrible

Saturday’s Puzzle Solved

By Ed Sessa 3/31/14

(c)2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 3/31/14

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at [email protected].

crossword

dr. dateDr. Date,

I have been good friends with this guy for four years. We met in a class, and he liked me, but I dated other guys who were not as innocent as he was.

I had a boyfriend for almost two years, and he provided the shoulder I could cry on and a person to vent to. At some point, we were having an emotion-al affair, and my boyfriend, at the time, forced me not to talk to him.

After a while, I approached him but then got friend-zoned.

He now has had a girlfriend for a while, and I was his go-to person. I gave him advice about the pill, ways to plea-sure her, reasons to break up with her, Plan B, etc.

Whenever we talk to each other, he only asks me if I have been dating other guys, not about my life.

Is it me, or is this odd?—Platonic Love

The Used,It sounds like he’s bitter about some-

thing. Asking about your dating life is one thing, but when it’s the only topic of recent conversations, it sounds like there’s something lurking beneath the surface.

You already know what it is. He likes you. He’s always liked you. He’s resent-ful that you dated a bunch of other dudes while stringing him along and us-ing him to fulfill your emotional needs. Now he’s doing the same thing to you.

We all need to feel powerful some-times. I’m sure he’s still bitter about your past relationship dynamics and now that he’s in a position to give you the same treatment, he’s all over it.

And it doesn’t feel good, does it? He’s doing exactly what you did to him — he’s using you. If you two want to remain friends, you need to lay it all out. Ideally, he would approach you with his woes instead of silently retaliating, but that’s not usually how things work. If you want change, you need to make it happen.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,I was in a yearlong long-distance re-

lationship (I’m here, she’s in Illinois) that ended last fall when she broke my heart and told me she didn’t think she wanted

to stay in a relationship anymore.Now, several months later, I sent her

a simple Facebook message just check-ing up on her and seeing how she’s been. She has been doing all right, but things have been “tough” for her lately. We had a brief chat online, and I ended the conversation by asking her if I could text her sometime soon, to which she said, “Yes.”

Now, here’s my predicament: I am still entirely in love with this girl, and I miss her something terrible, despite the 400-mile buffer. I’ve dated a handful of new girls since our breakup, but those flings dissolved quickly and felt minimal in comparison to what I once had, even though it was the taboo long-distance. The bottom line is that I want her back in my life more than anything, even if it means going the extra mile(s).

Therefore, I seek your trusty advice: Should I delight in my petty optimism and play with the idea that maybe, just maybe, she misses me and still loves me also? Although I know it’s a very risky idea, part of me wants to build contact in hopes that I can win back the woman I still love. However, the experienced side of me is screaming the opposite: Do not text her — protect yourself! (The latter is clearly the safer option, yet it eliminates any chance of us getting back together.)

Give me the goods!—I Can’t Let Her Go ... Yet

Proclaimer In Training,Dammit, now I have the Proclaimers

stuck in my head. Would you walk 500 miles for this girl? A thousand miles? It sounds like you would. Probably not a good idea, though.

Listen, if she already broke the rela-tionship off last time you were dating, what makes you think she won’t do it again? I tend to believe that it’s impos-sible to stay in a committed relation-ship after a breakup, but I’m sure some people make it work. That being said, you have the added obstacle of special distance.

Make this easy on yourself. Don’t text her. Put the Band-Aid back on the wound, and move on with your life un-til the right lady comes along. It’ll hap-pen.

—Dr. Date

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15 Movie: pref.16 Palm thatch17 Meat pastes18 Director

Preminger19 Consider20 Start of Mae

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perception28 In a tawdry

manner32 Little nails34 __ Moines, IA35 Hook's right-

hand man36 Ely or Howard37 Part 3 of quote41 Mil. captive42 Como __

Usted?44 100 square

meters45 Amherst sch.47 Make like new49 Principle51 Tornado53 Outer edges56 Part 4 of quote59 End of quote61 Kind of frost62 Narrow

secluded valley63 Vedas reader64 Scots Gaelic65 Legendary loch66 Open sore67 New Jersey

team68 Food on the

hoof69 Flash of light

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or tape7 Church

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August31 Poisonous

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50 Pause fillers52 The ones here54 Euripides play55 __ und Drang56 Subsequently57 Had on58 Tobacco kiln60 Hoodlum62 Econ. meas.

DAILY CROSSWORD

HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO: [email protected]

Hey Networkia, guess everybody’s working onpapers or something, since y’all are unusuallyreticent today. We could’ve printed this e-mailwe got yesterday about how much we suck, butwe figured that everyone knows how much wesuck already. Say, did you ever notice how theexact same people who complain about a coupleof dollars in taxes to pay for bus service foreverybody are also the people who want tocharge you 125 clams every year to pay for anew stadium that the majority of people on cam-pus will never see the inside of? It’s like the psy-chopaths who want to ban abortion AND con-doms. Or the lunatics who want to end welfareAND send all the jobs to India or China. Nutcas-es like the Secretary of the Treasury of the Unit-ed States. We tell ya’ Networkia, somebodyoughta write a book about people — they’re pe-culiar.

From TitleIXEnforcerI, like GoldenGopherHockeyFan, also had a tearcome to my eye with the realization that therewould be no three-peat. Net: Isn’t “three-peat” aweird word? Sounds like something that old Irishpeople would have sitting next to the fireplace intheir cottage. Being a supporter of the beloved Ti-tle IX, I was shocked when there was no riot forthe Women’s Hockey National Championship. Imean come on, what ever happened to equality inmen’s and women’s sports? If you’re going tohave a riot for a men’s national hockey champi-onship, then you have to have one for a women’snational hockey championship. Net: You got thatright! MOC: Riot, you’ll like it! There are only twothings that can be done to bring justice to this hor-rible situation. First the NCAA is going to have tocome in and sanction the men’s hockey team. I

mean if you get a few years probation and a postseason ban for having some overweight tutor do-ing homework for the basketball team, then a vio-lation of Title IX as blatant as this surely deservesas harsh a punishment if not more. Net: To en-sure that the men’s hockey team lives up to theirtradition of greatness, Network has devised ascheme for “negative reinforcement.” Every yearthat men’s hockey does not win the champi-onship, they will be subject to the following pun-ishment: The entire team (including the sportsGoldy associated with hockey games) will beforced to wear green felt beanies with a pink “L”for “loser” whenever they are on campus. Stu-dents who see a men’s hockey player will be al-lowed to throw geology books at them and tauntthem mercilessly until they cry. Finally, the en-tire team will be forced to strip down to frilly,satin panties and run through Dinkytown singingthe rouser while being paddled by the women’srowing team on the last day of classes. The sec-ond thing that will need to be done to bring justiceto this situation is that the Women’s hockey teamis going to need to sue the entire student body fornot rioting after they won their first NCAA champi-onship. They can just get the money from studentfees next year. We pay for so much needless crapanyway what’s another 50 bucks a person? Net:Heck, why not make it a hundred or even twohundred? The victorious women’s team couldget gleaming titanium-alloy helmets, with laser-etched logos highlighted in 18-carat gold. Also,they could get some of those gigantic Humveelimousines to drive them to games. Then, theycould have a triumphal arch constructed to looklike gigantic pair of hockey sticks (sorta likewhat Saddam Hussein had in Baghdad, but moretastefully done).

BACKTALK

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

FOR RELEASE MARCH 28, 2014

ACROSS1 Dominion6 Food on a stick

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14 Templo Mayorbuilder

15 Home to somemollusks

16 Plus17 Guys with plenty

of time for childcare?

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peaks33 “Stat!”34 Pop star John35 Sched. producer36 Tie together38 Island R&B

derivative39 “Dragonwyck”

author Seton40 Resolution

targets41 Like Barney with

his pal?45 “Twisted” actress

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source49 The lot50 Banff Upper Hot

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57 Feel rotten58 End of __59 Remove60 Gnarly relative61 Greek salad

features62 Lets

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founder Cornell

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6 Citizen of LittleSalem,Colorado

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10 11-Downsupporters

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to run28 Baker’s creations

29 Pointed out30 Milk sources for

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__39 Dye compound42 “Holy moly!”43 Greening up44 Willing cohort?

47 Way out there48 Musical

highlight49 Cries of

discovery50 Sibelius’ “The __

of Tuonela”51 Unwanted visitor52 Some pints54 Fishing aid55 Musical syllable56 Profitable rock

Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

By Paul Hunsberger 3/28/14

(c)2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 3/28/14


Students from all five University campuses flocked to the Capitol on Thursday to push for state funding.

BY BLAIR [email protected]

More than a 150 stu-dents from the University of Minnesota campuses flooded the state Capitol on Thursday to advocate for the school’s 2014 capital request.

Many of the students were in the sciences, there to support the University’s requests for money to build and renovate science buildings and laboratories, including a $56.7 million renovation of the Tate Labo-ratory of Physics.

“We need to have the fa-cilities to complement the students and the faculty that utilize those facilities,” biolo-gy freshman Mitchell Fuller said.

Students met with more than 50 legislators to share how the proposed projects could affect their future edu-cations if they receive state funding.

“[Legislators] need to understand that you need to learn and do your re-search in 21st-century facili-ties,” University President Eric Kaler said in a speech Thursday at Coffman Union.

Students filled a room at the Capitol to listen to legislators talk about the capital request projects and the continuation of a tuition freeze for undergraduate students.

Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, wore a red sweater — the same one he wore at the 2013 Support the U Day — to “symbol-ize historic cuts to higher education over the last eight years.”

Pelowski told students in a speech Thursday that he wants to continue the tuition freeze for resident under-graduates and pursue other means of lowering tuition.

“This is the last time I’m wearing a red sweater,” he said.

Gov. Mark Dayton’s

bonding proposal recom-mended that the University receive just over half of its $232 million bonding re-quest, but Pelowski said he hopes that the final bonding bill provides greater funding for outstate campuses.

Some state leaders ex-pressed concerns earlier this session that the Univer-sity’s Duluth campus may not receive its fair share of funding, which has led some, including Pelowski, to ask the University to re-evaluate where it appropri-ates money.

Pelowski said it will be important for students to en-courage lawmakers to vote for full funding of the Uni-versity’s request.

“We need nine Republi-can votes,” he said. “If we don’t get nine Republican votes, there is no bonding bill, there is no repair [and] there are no new buildings.”

Many students showed their support for the capital request projects that will fund research lab improve-ments.

Beau Miller, a senior studying biochemistry and genetics, cell biology and development, attended Sup-port the U Day to vouch for the University’s bonding requests to build and reno-vate labs.

He said improving lab conditions will hopefully bring more students to the College of Biological Sci-ences and increase under-graduate student research.

Outstate campuses have their say

Some students from the University of Minnesota-Duluth campus said Higher Education Asset Preser-vation and Replacement funding will be especially important to their campus this year.

“Walking through the halls every day in certain buildings, you can definitely tell ... we’re in need of [ren-

ovations],” said Hannah Keil, the Duluth campus’s student representative to the Board of Regents.

The University request-ed $100 million in HEAPR funds, which would reno-vate campuses system-wide, but both the governor and the House recommend-ed only $40 million.

Rep. Thomas Huntley, DFL-Duluth, used to be a professor at the Duluth campus and said lab renova-tions for that institution are vital.

“We have two buildings there that haven’t been touched in 50-plus years,” he said. “[They] need

some upgrading.”Eric Gandrud, a German

and international relations senior at the University’s Morris campus, said that although Morris made a smaller request, he hopes legislators will allocate some money to renovate the campus’s buildings.

“Mor r is is hor r ib ly handicapped-inaccessible,” he said.

Crookston s tudents also suppor ted the $10 million request to remodel the campus’s Wellness Center, which was recom-mended full funding by the governor and the House.

“I’m happy that the Uni-

versity had put [the Well-ness Center] on its list,” Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Plummer, told students in a small-group meeting Thursday.

M a n y s t u d e n t s a t -tended the Support the U Day to advocate for both the University’s capital re-quest and the importance

of investing in higher edu-cation.

“It’s important for our leaders to invest in our fu-tures so that we will have the ability to bring the skills and knowledge that we learned to ever y cor-ner of the state,” said Kim-berly Newton, Duluth’s student body president.

Science students back bonding request

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILYStudents talk to Minnesota State Sen. Kari Dziedzic, DFL-Minneapolis, about the University’s bonding bill at Support the U Day on Thursday at the state Capitol.

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILYCrookston Student Association President Alexmai Addo speaks to Minnesota State Sen. LeRoy Stumpf, DFL-Plummer, about the University’s bonding bill at Support the U Day on Thursday at the Capitol.

“We need to have the facilities to complement the students and the faculty that utilize those facilities.”MITCHELL FULLER Biology freshman

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