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Cafe chronicles
From the characteristics of
the Wagon Wheel, to the char-acters, there’s a way of life that is comfortable at the café.
The Wagon Wheel Project by Dave Engen, photographed by John Cross, was funded by the Minnesota Legacy Grant and will be released Decem-ber 1. It will be available at the Wagon Wheel Cafe, the Campus Bookstore, Barnes and Noble’s hilltop location and at multiple locations in downtown Mankato.
Engen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato, while Cross is a se-nior photographer at the Free Press and a faculty member in the Department of Mass Media at MSU.
The book is a collaboration between Engen and Cross’s work detailing the remarkable history of the Wagon Wheel Café. A portion of the stories also appeared in the Free Press as part of a once-month-ly segment from October 2010 through March 2012.
With many stories present-ed by 50 different people and 50 different lives, it is the kind of book that people can enjoy with or without a connection to the café.
The Wagon Wheel is dif-ferent than any other chain restaurant. There’s 70 years of history in that restaurant, from the Bullshipper’s Coffee Group to being a place where conversation is always wel-come.
“The Wagon Wheel is kind of like its own community,” Engen said. “We photographed and interviewed regulars and
workers in their home, then at the Wagon Wheel.”
The heart of the bookdis-cusses the Wagon Wheel Cafe as being a “third place.” A “third place,” according to sociologist Ray Oldenburg, is a location between home and work, where people from a wide variety of backgrounds gather and build community.
“I thought a place like the Wagon Wheel was worth try-ing to capture,” Engen said. “We captured this one gather-ing place at this one gathering time.”
Engen, with his passion for local history and a strong interest in the cafe, was no doubt the right man to put the Wagon Wheel’s history, and its present, to paper.
“People coming together, people forming community, small invisible ways that hap-pen in places,” Engen said.
Engen was inspired to complete this project after the Oxford Project, which took place in a town of 700 people.
Just like the Oxford Project, Engen feels that it is important to document moments that will take on even more mean-ing as time goes by.
“I hope the book becomes one big story about a place,” Engen said.
Throughout the project En-gen says that he remembered certain moments in particular.
“How enjoyable and power-ful it is to just listen to people share their lives,” Engen said. “A lot of the stories really impacted me with my own life also, it was very gratifying to do and see.”
As people walk in and out of the small café that has been Mankato’s oldest continually operating restaurant, it is a restaurant that so many people know and love.
“People need to be present in a place, they’re present in the Wagon Wheel and in our fast-paced life, those moments don’t happen so much,” Engen said.
MSU professor brings stories of the historic Wagon Wheel Cafe to
light in his new book
web photoThe Wagon Wheel is one of Mankato’s oldest establishments, and con-tinues to a popular destination for local residents.
MOLLY HORNERstaff writer
In the wake of Veteran’s Day, the campus of Minne-sota State, Mankato played host to one of Minnesota’s most storied veterans, John Kriesel.
Kriesel served in the Min-nesota Army National Guard from 1998-2008, and is
unfortunately best known for barely surviving an explosion in Iraq that claimed the lives of two of his best friends, along with both of his legs.
At the state level, Kriesel’s story has been well told. Af-ter driving over a 200-pound explosive, Kriesel died on the operating table three
Kriesel comes to MSU with story of hope and optimism
As election results poured in former
politician John Kriesel kept the focus squarely
on veterans.
ADAM KRIESELstaff writer
web photoAfter multiple surgeries and a new set of legs, John Krisel put his talents to work in politics, but now the veteran is dedicating himself to a more important goal; his family.
Kriesel/ page 3
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Midwest support of Obama may not be a sign of things to come
Auto bailout helped Obama carry Ohio, other midwestern states, but it “firewall” is by no means certain
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — No matter how long the nation’s unemployment rate hovered around 8 percent, the Northeast and the West Coast were never in doubt for Barack Obama. No mat-ter how far it might have fallen before Election Day, Mitt Romney was always sure to win the South and rural Great Plains.
Nothing was so certain in the Midwest.
Iowa and the states along the shores of the Great Lakes from Minnesota to Ohio put Obama in the White House in 2008. Two years later, with voters in a foul mood as the Great Recession lingered, the GOP went five-for-five in races for the U.S. Senate, took over governor’s mansions in four states and state legisla-tures in five.
Yet on Tuesday, Obama beat Mitt Romney by again winning every state in the region save one. Wisconsin voters who elected a tea party Republican to the Sen-ate in 2010 picked a liberal Democrat to join him, while voters in Minnesota pushed Republicans in the state-house from power and gave Democrats complete control of state government for the first time in two decades.
That back-and-forth hard-ly makes for the so-called “Midwest Firewall” that Democrats can supposedly count on to deliver in every election. Instead, Tuesday’s results reaffirmed the future of the Midwest as a political
battleground where voters willing to look past party will decide the outcome of elections.
“Voters in this state are independent,” said Wiscon-sin Gov. Scott Walker, a GOP hero who won election and fought off a recall be-tween Obama’s comfortable wins in 2008 and 2012 in his state.
“They listen race by race to what the candidates have to offer,” Walker said. “And they’re not going to be swung one way or the other, but rather by what they think is important by that given race.”
So if you’re looking for clues about what will be important to voters in the Midwest in two years or four, folks on both sides of the aisle will tell you — per-haps not all that surprisingly — to start and stop with the economy.
“Maybe the auto bailout was part of the shift, and maybe Romney’s failures as a candidate,” said poll-ster Paul Maslin, an adviser to Democratic Sen.-elect Tammy Baldwin in Wis-consin. “But the biggest determinant is the lack of economic security, causing a constant reassessment of the two political parties.”
Unlike the Northeast and South, where the political culture is deeply rooted in the region’s history and is apt to change at a glacial pace, feelings about party are less engrained in the Midwest. That’s a product
of the high concentration of working-class white vot-ers, whom polls show to be deeply focused on the economy and open to per-suasion based on economic conditions.
That was evident Tuesday, when Romney’s opposition to the federal bailout of the auto industry — defined by an essay he wrote for The New York Times that the newspaper headlined, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” — echoed loudly in Ohio, where car making and the related parts supply chain are keys to the state’s manu-facturing economy.
It kept Romney from ever seriously competing for Michigan, a state where his father served both as an auto company executive and for six years as governor. Obama pounced on Rom-ney’s opposition to the bail-out in Wisconsin and Iowa, two states less reliant on the auto industry but where manufacturing is a key part of the states’ economies.
According to exit polls, Obama did much better against Romney among working-class white voters in these states than he did nationally. Where Romney had a 26-point lead among these voters nationally, Obama was within 14 points in Ohio, 8 points in Wiscon-sin and eked out a 2-point advantage in Iowa.
That Obama benefited from economic arguments doesn’t sit well with Repub-licans who used high unem-
ployment and rising deficits as an exceptionally effective political hammer in 2010, among them Iowa Gov. Ter-ry Branstad, who replaced a Democratic governor as part of a class of pro-business, fiscal-hawk Republicans that included Walker, Rick Sny-der in Michigan and John Kasich in Ohio.
“Obama got the credit for what we Republican gover-nors have accomplished,” Branstad said. “We’re the ones who have made the tough decisions, and our states are coming back.”
So what happens when those Republican governors are up for re-election in two years?
There’s a clue in how Wisconsin voters treated Walker, who survived a bitter recall spurred by his efforts to strip collective bargaining rights from state workers as part of his plan to balance the state budget. He has focused tightly on job creation ever since, and the GOP kept control of the Wisconsin statehouse on Tuesday.
There’s another in the dance that Kasich performed when campaigning for Rom-ney in Ohio, balancing criti-cism of Obama’s steward-ship of the nation’s economy while touting the stronger recovery taking place in his
state.“Just thinking about 2014,
the economy’s going to be better. So is the outlook for the state,” said Matt Cox, a Republican strategist in Ohio. “Suddenly, it’s going to be tough for Democrats.”
There’s also warnings in Tuesday’s results for candi-dates in the Midwest who stray from the economic argument — especially for Republicans.
In Iowa, voters also re-tained a state Supreme Court justice despite a campaign by gay-marriage opponents upset with his role in a 2009 decision that legalized it.
In Minnesota, Republi-can lawmakers misread the public by trying to ban gay marriage and impose new voter restrictions through ballot measures. Both failed as voters also returned Democrats to power in the statehouse.
“There are three groups that Republicans are fail-ing with: young people, women and minorities,” said Charlie Weaver, a former chief of staff to ex-GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty. “Those two amendments managed to offend all three of those groups. If Republicans can’t figure out a way to appeal to those three groups, they’re going to become irrelevant.”
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separate times while under-going 35 different surgeries. Following rigorous physical therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Wash-ington D.C., relearning how to walk, Kriesel eventually returned home to Minnesota and breathed fresh life into Minnesota politics, claiming Minnesota State House Seat 57A.
When it came time for reelection in 2012, Kriesel said no thanks. After being away from his wife and two sons for the better part of two years, it was time to be a family man.
Kriesel’s speech was not focused on any sort of politics. Just one night earlier, Kriesel was a fea-tured guest on KARE 11’s election coverage, providing viewers with knowledgeable political insight deep into the night. Two and a half hours of sleep later, he was sitting on a stage in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom regaling audiences with his account of the night that changed his life forever.
For any normal person, balancing politics with fam-ily and the challenge to per-form everyday tasks would be overwhelmingly difficult, but Kriesel does it with a smile on his face.
Take his greeting to the audience for example, “Boy, tough night for Republicans,” the Republican said with a laugh. The election talk stopped there, however, and the audience was treated to a
truly inspiring story. Most of the people in at-
tendance were already aware of Kriesel’s story. What caught everyone off guard was the tone in which the firsthand account was told. There was no regret or bit-terness in his voice. Instead Kriesel sat on stage and cracked enough jokes to keep the audience from feeling sorry for him.
He was not there for pity; he has already unwillingly received enough. The mes-sage was clear: bad things happen to everyone, it is how you respond that defines who you are.
When doctors told him he would never walk again, Kri-esel worked so hard to prove them wrong that the nurses locked his prosthetic legs in a closet so he wouldn’t try to rehab by himself in the middle of the night.
When talking about the moments right after the blast, Kriesel knew things were bad.
“I’ve been a Minnesota Vikings fan my whole life, so I’m used to expecting the worst,” he said with a genu-ine smile.
It was the moments like those in the speech that showed everyone in atten-dance just how much of a true hero John Kriesel is.
He is not a veteran who is constantly looking for recognition and sympathy for his heroic acts, and he is not a politician who is only con-cerned about being reelected.
Instead, he can look back on his tragic experience and manage to conjure a positive message.
It is now his goal to use his story to inspire others. Looking at his mangled legs while lying in the middle of an Iraqi desert gave him a new perspective on life.
You only get one life to live, make it great. It is for that reason that Kriesel decided to listen to his two sons when they told him not to run for reelection.
Take time to slow down and consider what is most important in your life. For Kriesel, it is his family that is most important to him.
“My kids have taught me more than I’ve taught them,” Kriesel said. “They won’t let me slow down, they’re my heroes.”
So, during a time of the year when all veterans are to be recognized and ap-preciated, Staff Sergeant John Kriesel is certainly no exception. He voluntarily laid his life on the line for his country, and after losing two friends and both legs, still has no regrets.
Although Kriesel’s story is certainly unique, there are many other veterans who made the same sacrifice. During this time of military appreciation, Kriesel’s story reminds students not forget the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice so we can live free.
KRIESEL “My kids have taught me more than I’ve taught them,” Kriesel said. “They won’t let me slow down, they’re my heroes.” continued from 1
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just the economy, stupid. It’s the demographics — the changing face of America.
America is rapidly get-ting more diverse, and, more gradually, so is its electorate.
Nonwhites made up 28 percent of the electorate this year, compared with 20 percent in 2000. Much of that growth is coming from Hispanics.
The trend has worked to the advantage of President Barack Obama two elec-tions in a row now and is not lost on Republicans poring over the details of Tuesday’s results.
Obama captured a com-manding 80 percent of the growing ranks of nonwhite voters in 2012, just as he did in 2008. Republican Mitt Romney won 59 percent of non-Hispanic whites.
Romney couldn’t win even though he dominated among white men and outperformed 2008 nominee John McCain with that group. It’s an ever-shrinking slice of the elec-torate and of America writ large.
White men made up 34 percent of the electorate this year, down from 46 percent in 1972.
“The new electorate is a lagging indicator of the next America,” says Paul Taylor of the Pew Research Center. “We are midpassage in a century-long journey from
the middle of the last cen-tury, when we were nearly a 90 percent white nation, to the middle of this coming century, when we will be a majority minority nation.”
Another trend that will be shaping the future elector-ate is the stronger inf luence of single women. They vote differently from men and from women who are mar-ried. Fifty-four percent of single women call themselves Democrats; 36 percent of married women do.
With women marrying later and divorcing more, single women made up 23 percent of voters in the 2012 election, compared with 19 percent in 2000.
The changing electorate has huge implications for public policy and politics.
Sure, the election’s biggest issue, the economy, affects everyone. But the voters deciding who should tackle it were quite different from the makeup of the 1992 “It’s the economy, stupid” race that elected Democrat Bill Clinton as president.
Look no further than the battleground states of Campaign 2012 for political ramifications f lowing from the country’s changing demo-graphics.
New Western states have emerged as the Hispanic population there grows. In
Electorate/ page 6
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“What is your favorite Mavericksporting event?”
Compiled byLela Magxaka
DEvONE ROgERS
“Football”
vIRgINIA DAvIS
“Hockey.”
ALYSSA RAwAY
“Hockey.”
NIcK guNDERSON
“Hockey.”
JOHN HARPER
“Hockey.”
Last weekend the recently energized Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team, riding a wave of early season enthusiasm following an upset of the then no. 2 ranked Minnesota Gophers, took on the no. 3 ranked Denver University Pioneers in an intense dis-play of hard-nosed, back-and-forth hockey.
It was a rare matchup,
bringing one of the nation’s best to Mankato in what ultimately proved to be an incredibly entertaining series.
Goals were scored, hearts were broken, and although the Mavericks walked away defeated, they held their own, battling to a pair of one-goal differentials with one of college hockey’s pe-rennial powers.
The Mavericks might not be expecting a shutout with the league’s top-ranked de-
fense and second-rated scor-ing defense in town, but do you know what they should expect?
A sell-out.Sitting in the lower level
of the Xcel Energy Center last March, sandwiched be-tween fans of both the Gold-en Gophers and the North Dakota Fighting [redacted], the discussion inevitably turned towards Mankato and the team’s ability to continu-ally upset their Minneapo-lis-based brethren.
After listening to both sets of fans begrudge the high entry fee at their re-spective schools I proceeded to drop what rapidly be-came the evening’s biggest bombshell, short of the final score.
“We get in for free,” I said matter-of-factly, imme-diately drawing cartoonish expressions of shock that seemed to ripple outwards through the section like a maroon and green wave.
While it’s true that the Gophers and the [redacted] are two of college hockey’s premiere programs, Wiscon-sin’s “Mad House” draws the NCAA’s largest attendance figures, while St. Cloud fell short of a full house by, on average, just a few hundred seats last season in the ail-ing National Hockey Center.
And while students might complain about the some-times cramped confines of the Verizon Wireless Civic Center, those fans who complain the loudest likely haven’t enjoyed a game in the National Hockey Center, where a knee in the back and cramping calves are sometimes the least of your worries.
The Verizon Wireless Civic Center (not to be confused with the Wash-ington’ Capitols’ currently padlocked Verizon Wire-
less Center), is just a stones throw from Mankato’s downtown bar scene where, let’s be honest, a healthy number of MSU’s upper-classmen are headed follow-ing the game anyway.
So, to be clear, we have free hockey tickets, a healthy bar scene on the same block and a Division I men’s hockey team, yet attendance levels regularly clock in under 3,000?
In the words of Chris Berman’s incomprehensively hip Monday Night Football crew, “c’mon man!”
The Minnesota series was a perfect example of what a motivated Mavericks squad can accomplish in their own building, upsetting one of the original college hockey juggernauts in spectacular fashion.
Freshman forward Dylan Margonari potted a goal that had more than a few pundits scratching their heads in the Mavericks’ home opener against east-coast underdog Renssalear, yet few were around to cheer him on.
With its lightning fast action and regular bouts of excitement college hockey is the perfect venue for a beer with friends, while watching a group of athletically gifted college students zip around the rink at high speeds.
C’mon man!Why I’m watching college hockey, and why you should be too.
david bassey• msu reporterThe Minnesota State University men’s hockey team is full of talent and potential, but they could use a more focused home crowd every once in a while.
RYAN LuNDnews editor
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The Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Busi-ness will be adding a mas-ter of accounting degree program to their already highly regarded depart-ment.
The master of account-ing program will be offered beginning with the Fall, 2013 semester, and will allow students to earn both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting in just f ive years. While ob-taining a master’s degree in accounting students will also gain the 150-credit hours required to sit for the certif ied public accountant exam(CPA).
The job field for ac-counting is thriving and MNSU’s accounting de-partment is responding to this by offering the master of accounting program. This program will al-low students to reach the crucial 150 credits to take the CPA while also better preparing students for the CPA exam and a job after college.
“We encourage all of our grads to look at it and the reason why is it’s kind of like the ticket to the profes-sion,” said Brown. “The purpose of the CPA is re-
ally the persona of qualif i-cation.”
One reason for the ad-dition of the new program is because the undergradu-ate degree in accounting is already 120 credits, and leaves students 30 credits short of the required 150 credits to take the CPA. This degree allows students to get to the 150 credit mark while also earning a master’s degree in ac-counting said Dr. William Brown, chair of accounting and business law at Min-nesota State University, Minnesota.
“A four year degree is not sufficient to sit for the CPA exam anymore and that’s been set up that way for many years, so a stu-dent has several choices,” Brown said.
In the past students majoring in accounting who planed on reaching the 150-credits to sit for the CPA would usually minor or double major in another area of study. The issue then, became the relevance of those extra degrees; they rarely resonated with potential employers.
“To pay for things that have little value ultimately doesn’t seem like a good deal for the student or for us, because we want to have a good program, ulti-
mately,” Brown said.The new program is also
a great value for students majoring in accounting.
The program is accred-ited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the same body that accredits St Thomas and the University of Minnesota for the same program. Both of these schools are not only much more expensive but are also much more diff icult to earn admission too.
“The alternative pro-grams in the metro to what we are offering are pretty expensive,” Brown said “They are very diff icult to get in.”
The new program will also include courses of-fered at MSU’s Edina cam-pus, and would be ideal for not only any student f inish-ing their major in account-ing, but also for nontradi-tional students who might have a job in the f ield and want to boost their career prospects.
“We think we are going to take our student to a greater level of qualif ica-tion and we think that they will advance their careers more affectively then what we did in the past,” Brown said.
Accounting to add master’s program
beginning Fall 2013
william cahyadi• msu reporterMSU’s accounting program, located in Morris Hall, will add a Master’s program to its already impressive roster of classes, in an attempt ot better prepare students for jobs in the field.
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It is, by all accounts, a good time, and it might be a better one with a healthier crowd to cheer them on.
It’s unfortunate then that the Mavericks likely won’t host another sellout until January, when Wisconsin comes to town.
This years’ team is loaded with overlooked talent, and havsplayed competitive hockey early in the season against some of the league’s best.
They deserve a certain level of support from their fans, through thick, think and everything in between. MSU students are being treated to free Division I athletics, along with the chance to watch some of the league’s best face-off on a weekly business.
It’s just too bad that few decide to take advantage and give their team a hometown one.
ATTENDENCE“The Minnesota series was aperfect example of what amotivatedMaverick squad can accomplish in their ownbuilding.” continued from 4
Nevada, for example, white voters made up 80 percent of the electorate in 2000; now they’re at 64 percent. The share of Hispanics in the state electorate has grown to 19 percent; Obama won 70 percent of their votes.
Obama won most of the battlegrounds with a message that was more in sync than Romney’s with minorities, women and younger voters, and by carefully targeting his grassroots mobilizing efforts to reach those groups.
In North Carolina, where Romney narrowly defeated Obama, 42 percent of black voters said they had been contacted on behalf of Obama, compared with just 26 percent of whites, exit polls showed. Obama got just 31 percent of the state’s white vote, but managed to keep it competitive by claiming 96 percent of black voters and 68 percent of Hispanics.
Young voters in the state, two-thirds of whom backed Obama, also were more often the target of Obama’s campaign than Romney’s: 35 percent said they were con-tacted by Obama, 11 percent by Romney. Among senior citizens, two-thirds of whom voted Republican, 33 percent
were contacted by Obama, 34 percent by Romney.
Howard University sociol-ogist Roderick Harrison, for-mer chief of racial statistics at the Census Bureau, said Obama’s campaign strate-gists proved themselves to be “excellent demographers.”
“They have put together a coalition of populations that will eventually become the majority or are march-ing toward majority status in the population, and popula-tions without whom it will be very difficult to win national elections and some statewide elections, particularly in states with large black and Hispanic populations,” Har-rison said.
One way to see the trend is to look at the diversity of young voters. Among voters under 30 years old this year, only 58 percent are white. Among senior voters, 87 per-cent are white.
Brookings Institution de-mographer William H. Frey says policymakers and politi-cians need to prepare for a
growing “cultural generation gap.”
Just as Republicans need to do a better job of attract-ing Hispanics, says Frey, Democrats need to do more to reach out to whites.
The face of Congress is changing more slowly than the electorate or the popula-tion, but changing it is.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California was happy to highlight the news that for the first time in history, more than half the members of her caucus next year will be women, black, Hispanic or Asian. She said it “ref lects the great diversity and strength of our nation.”
All sides know the demo-graphic trends are sure to become more pronounced in the future.
In the past year, minority babies outnumbered white newborns for the first time in U.S. history. By midcentury, Hispanics, blacks, Asians and multiracial people combined will become the majority of the U.S.
Since 2000, the Hispanic and Asian populations have grown by more than 40 per-cent, fueled by increased im-migration of younger people as well as more births.
Currently, Hispanics are the largest minority group and make up 17 percent of the U.S. population, compared with 12 percent for blacks and 5 percent for Asians. To-gether minorities now make up more than 36 percent of the population.
Hispanics will make up roughly 30 percent of the U.S. by midcentury, while the African-American share is expected to remain un-changed at 12 percent. Asian-Americans will grow to roughly 8 percent of the U.S.
“The minorities will vote,” said demographer Frey. “The question is will their vote be split more across the two par-ties than it was this time?”
For both Republicans and Democrats, he said, the 2012 election is a wake-up call that will echo through the decades.
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shannon rathmanner • msu reporterJunior quarterback Jon Wolf ran for 87 yards and a touchdown and threw for another as MSU defeated the Peacocks 70-7 to finish the regular season undefeated.
Mavs’ drop two one-goal games to Pioneers Despite a great performance from friday night from sophomore forward Jean-Paul
Lafontaine, MSU was swept by WCHA-foe Denver in a tight, thrilling weekend.
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The band was loud and the building was rocking, but while the action came fast and furious, the results sent a bois-terous crowd at the Verizon Wireless Civic Center home empty-handed once again.
A pair of late surges brought the Mavericks close, but it wasn’t close enough as the Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team dropped a pair of one-goal contests to the visiting Denver University Pioneers.
A string of MSU penal-ties brought Denver’s league-leading attack to life early on Friday, as the no. 2 ranked Pioneers stormed out to a 3-0 lead after two periods, chasing senior netminder Phil Cook from the net en route to a 4-3 victory over the struggling
Mavericks.The Mavericks much ma-
ligned special teams units were tested early, as sophomore Zach Palmquist was sent to the box for checking from behind 59 seconds into the game, sparking a series of DU special teams opportunities in the first period.
Sophomore Chase Grant was called for high-sticking just five minutes later, before freshman Bryce Gervais suf-fered the same fate at 9:01, this time for hooking.
The Mavericks’ penalty killers stayed strong despite the increased workload, but the penalties would eventually begin to take their toll.
After Denver captain Paul Phillips was called for interfer-
ence to make it four-on-four, teammate Nolan Zajac convert-ed from the slot, flipping the puck past Cook for a 1-0 lead.
DU sophomore Joey Laleg-gia made it a two-goal dif-ferential to open the second period, beating Cook with a seemingly harmless wrister from above the hash marks to open a stretch of dominant play for the Pioneers.
Senior Shawn Ostrow sent Cook to the locker room just two minutes later, redirect-ing a shot from the point past the senior netminder for a 3-0 Denver lead, bringing freshman goaltender Stephon Williams into the game for the first time.
The two teams would trade special teams chances once
again in the second period, re-cording a combined eight pen-alties, before MSU sophomore Jean-Paul Lafontaine found his scoring touch at 15:43 of the period, coming up with the puck after a goal-mouth scramble in front of goaltender Sam Brittain for an unassisted tally.
Energized by Lafontaine’s goal, the Mavericks continued their resurgence at 16:57, when MSU senior Eriah Hayes’ drive trickled past Brittain, bringing his team within one to close out the period.
MSU continued it’s third period dominance Friday night, shelling Brittain during a powerplay opportunity early in the period, but it wouldn’t be enough to solve the fourth round draft pick.
Denver’s Daniel Doremus stalled the Maver-
icks’ third period momentum at 13:54 of the period, set-ting up in front of the net and picking Williams cleanly high on his glove side to give the Pioneers a 4-2 lead with just seven minutes remaining.
MSU would make a late push with less than two minutes remaining, pulling Williams for an extra attacker, as sophomore Matt Leitner worked the puck behind the net, before throwing it out front for Lafontaine, who one-timed it past Brittain to cut the deficit to one and bring the crowd to its feet.
However Lafontaine would hear his name called for the wrong reasons less than thirty seconds later, after a check-ing from behind call sent the Oxford, Mich. native to the
It was a historic Saturday at Blakeslee Stadium where the Minnesota State Univer-sity, Mankato football team finished their regular season with an 11-0 record for the first time in school history after the team defeated Up-per Iowa University 70-7.
This vic-tory marks the team’s first NSIC South Divi-sion crown and first time win-ning the conference outright, and to do it in a blowout fashion made it even more special.
“I feel really blessed and honored to be a part of this team and the opportunities we got. I’m glad we really capitalized and went out on a high note,” junior defen-sive end Chris Schaudt said.
The Mavericks started hot right out of the gate as they scored a touchdown in their first seven possessions.
Even with having a 35 point edge, the Mavericks didn’t slow down and that’s what acting head coach Aaron Keen believed was an issue on the team. However, he was happy to see the team keep playing at a high level all four quarters.
“I thought our guys did an outstanding job main-taining that focus and inten-sity and execution through the process and holding that big lead,” Keen said.
As the team tied the school record for points scored in a game with 70, junior kicker Sam Brock-shus broke the all-time scor-ing record with 244 points. Brockshus ended up kicking ten PAT field goals in the contest.
The now no. 5 Mavericks came out and showed the NSIC that they have the best running attack in the con-ference with 492 yards to prove that. Sophomore quar-terback Mitch Brozovich led the way with 91 yards and two touchdowns on six
carries. Right behind him was junior quarter-back Jon Wolf with 87 yards on eight carries.
Along with his 40 receiving yards, senior receiver Adam Thielen took a punt back 70 yards to score his first punt return touchdown
this season. He had some close calls this sea-son, but he pulled it off during his last regular season game as a Maverick, which was pretty special.
“Those guys have been blocking for me all year, just haven’t been able to get one,” Thielen
said. “That’s a credit to those guys. I didn’t even do much.”
The Peacocks came in to this contest ranked first in passing offense, averaging 300 yards a game and third in total offense with 445 yards per game, but those numbers didn’t mean any-
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showers early and left the Mav-ericks short-handed for the rest of the game.
The team’s 11 penalties were the most suffered by any team in the WCHA on Friday night, a fact not lost on head coach Mike Hastings.
“We’re a much better team when we play five on five hockey,” he said. “I think we show that when we play five on-five-hockey.”
Hastings words clearly reso-nated with his young squad, who logged just two minor penalties the following night, but it wouldn’t be enough to
overcome the Pioneers’ league-leading offense.
Assistant captain Chris Knowlton put the Pioneers on the board early on Saturday, stuffing home a pass from fel-low “A” recipient Nick Shore to the left of Stephon Williams just one minute into the game.
The Mavericks struggled to match DU’s speedy forwards early, before a roughing pen-alty sent Denver junior David Makowski to the box at 5:49 of the period.
The Pioneers’ would weather the powerplay how-ever, converting once again just
shannon rathmanner • msu reporterSophomore Jean-Paul Lafontaine contributed two goals and two assists on the weekend but MSU could not survive the Pioneers in their 4-3 and 3-2 losses.
MSU Hockey continued from 7a few minutes later.
Sophomore right wing Daniel Doremus stole the puck in front of the net, pivoting and ripping a wrist shot over Wil-liams’ blocker for a 2-0 Denver lead.
The teams would trade penalties following the goal, before a cross-checking call on DU sophomore Ty Loney gave the Mavericks their second powerplay opportunity of the night, and this time they wouldn’t miss.
Lafontaine, playing on the top line once again, worked the puck down low following a pass from sophomore center Matt Leitner, before feed-ing it out front to Hayes, who one-timed the chance over the blocker of sophomore goalten-der Juho Olkinuora to cut the Pioneers’ lead to one.
MSU carried its newfound momentum into the second period, as the two teams com-bined for a trio of penalties in a back-and-forth middle frame, highlighted by an early break-away save by Williams.
The Mavericks, however,
would save the offense for the third period, outshooting the Pioneers’ high-flying attack 10-8 in the final 20 minutes.
Ty Loney’s third penalty of the game just 55 seconds into the period sent the Mavericks’ powerplay to work once again, and it wouldn’t take the unit long to level the score.
Freshman Teddy Blueger worked the puck out to the blueline for Junior Josh Nel-son, who blasted a point shot through traffic, beating Olkin-uora to even the score at 2-2.
Loney’s fourth penalty of the night gave the Mavericks’ a late powerplay chance, while a holding call to Chase Grant left MSU shorthanded a few min-utes later, but, as Hastings had emphasized the night before, it was even-strength play that would decide the game.
The puck found its way to the waiting stick of Chris Knowlton near the hash marks, who, after being spun around and dropped to his knees, fired the puck between Williams’ legs to put Denver on top with less than four minutes to play.
The Pioneers, scrambling to hold the lead with less than 45 seconds to play and an empty Maverick net, brought the crowd to its feet after being caught with six skaters on the ice, giving MSU a six on four advantage to end the game.
However Denver’s brutally efficient defense, led by Joey Laleggia, a fifth round pick of the Edmonton Oilers, held once again, downing the Mavericks 3-2 to complete the sweep.
“At the end of the day to-night [is] not acceptable,” Hast-ings said following the loss. “We want to achieve more, we expect to achieve more.”
Eriah Hayes, who logged one of the Mavericks’ two tal-lies Saturday, was reflective as well.
“That’s [kind of] our theme so far; close but not enough,” Hayes said.
The Mavericks will get another chance to right the ship next weekend, as the team trav-els to Madison, Wisc. to take on the unranked University of Wisconsin Badgers.
thing to the Mavericks defense. At the end of the day, the Peacocks only moved the ball 78 yards on the ground and
could only move 155 yards through the air.
On Sunday, the team
found out their first game in the NCAA Division II football tournament will be played in the second round on Nov. 24 at home against either Northwest Missouri State or Harding, depending on the victor of the two.
Since the Mavericks earned the top spot in the Super Region 3, the team is awarded a bye and home field advantage throughout
the Super Region, which to Coach Keen will be benefi-cial to his squad.
“This bye week will al-low us one more week to be-come an even better football team,” Keen said.
But he feels some of his players are pretty anxious to play and are ready to work.
“I’ve already had players come in to my office asking to start working,” Keen said.
MSU Football continued from 7
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Last Friday, Minneapo-lis hip-hop artist Prof played a show at Buster’s Sports Bar and Grill. Prof has performed with some of Minnesota’s best-known musicians: Atmo-sphere, Doomtree, P.O.S. and Brother Ali; he’s also played with Yelawolf and Tech N9ne. He says his favorite artists to collaborate with are Slug from Atmosphere and P.O.S.
Prof is signed with Stop-house Music Group, a Minne-apolis-based rap label that was formed in 2008. Stophouse also represents DJ Fundo and 84 Caprice. In one interview, he said his real name is Prof and his government name is Carlos Eduardo Paco Rodrigo Martinez, but it’s actually Jake Anderson.
Prof’s music is, to describe it simply, party music. Accord-ing to the Stophouse website, his goal is to ensure that the listener bobs their head and shakes their ass. For a scrawny white guy, he achieves this goal pretty well. To college
students, the music is quite enjoyable: the lyrics are often extremely inappropriate and offensive to some.
His personal experiences influence his music. He grew up in the Powderhorn Park neighborhood in Minne-apolis. According to the 2000 census, 42 percent of the population is white, 22 percent is black and 22 percent is Hispanic. The estimated Powderhorn Park crime index is 25 percent higher than the Minneapolis average, and 142 percent higher than the Minnesota average. The violent crime rate is 831 percent higher than the Minne-sota average. He was the youngest kid on the block, and had a hard time with that.
Many of Prof’s songs talk about his father. In the song “Myself,” he describes how his father died in a house fire that he set himself. Many of his other songs are based off his love of whiskey (preferably Jameson) and women. In one
interview, when asked what he does when he isn’t tour-ing, he says he likes playing basketball and dancing with 13-year-olds.
Prof listened to music like Van Morrison when he was a child. When he started listening to rap he was drawn
towards Goodie Mob, Cee-lo, Tupac, Notorious B.I.G., Dr. Dre and Eminem. He believes the best part of being an “un-derground” artist is that he can say whatever he wants, and he definitely does.
Prof is currently on the first leg of his KVP tour. It’s named after his latest release,
Kaiser Von Powderhorn 3. The cover of KVP3 is a sure sign of entertainment: it features Prof wearing a neck brace and sitting in a throne, surrounded by three pregnant women in bikinis.
There were many Min-nesota State University,
Mankato students who were excited for Prof. There were many more that were disappointed because the show was 21+ and they were under-age. When a nationally known artist comes to Mankato, people get excited. Add in the fact that it was only $12 and was at a bar, people get even more excited.
Prof’s live shows are seriously amazing. It’s the kind of high-energy music and performance that would fit perfectly at a huge house party. He was energetic and passion-ate; it felt like he really wanted to put on a good show. Some-times, artists seem to half-ass performances, especially small ones. That vibe was felt with
Prof and it was refreshing. People were dancing, jump-
ing, drinking and having an overall great time. I overheard someone saying, “I’m so wet” and I’m not sure if it was be-cause of the amount of sweaty people in the bar or because of how much she loved Prof. I also overheard someone say that Prof gave the best live performances she’d ever seen.
What I enjoyed most, though, was how pumped up the audience was. Some lyrics were inappropriate and vulgar, and everyone loved it. It made me proud of MSU students. The sick beats and interest-ing lyrics brought the audi-ence together and everyone joined in to help Prof throw a memorable show. Until then, I had hardly listened to him. After Busters, I can hardly get enough.
If you haven’t checked out Prof’s music and like other Minnesota artists like Rhyme-sayers, Doomtree and Atmo-sphere, go online and listen to him. He’s great over the speak-ers, but he’s even better live.
Minneapolis Rapper Rips Up MankatoThe eccentric South Minneapolis rapper Prof performed at Busters Bar & Grill Friday
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James Bond’s diverse film history of 50 years has most certainly had its ups and downs. The most recent prime example in memory is the divide between how fresh and great Casino Roy-al, Daniel Craig’s first outing as 007, was and how it was followed up by the mediocre and disap-pointing Quantum of Solace. The question now is if Skyfall, the
23rd James Bond film, has what it takes to put things back on the right track. Not to understate, but yes. Holy mother of god, yes.
After a botched mission in Is-tanbul to retrieve a hard drive full of NATO agent identities leaves agent 007 presumed dead, James Bond uses the opportunity to retire to a corner of the earth. But when MI6 head M is targeted by a ghost from her past with a ven-detta and a whole lot of terroristic
skills, Bond springs back into ac-tion to set things right, despite his now rusty skills and M’s apparent disregard of his safety.
Describing what makes Skyfall so great is both easy and tedious because the answer basically boils down to every-thing. The movie is an all-around plethora of victory in story, char-acter and movie making magic. If anything is to be praised about Skyfall, it’s that it expands the Bond franchise story and gives insight and depth to its characters while making it accessible for newcomers and tying it in nicely while the world of the previous movies with many fun references.
Another way to read into that praise that would be no less true is that Skyfall is one of the more introspective Bond films in the series. Actions scenes don’t crop up out of nowhere every five minutes. Instead we’re treated to some of the more sharp and clever banter between characters which is entirely as interesting as
the punching and shooting.But when the punching and
shooting does kick in, it’s a happy day for all. A pursuit through Istanbul, a fight composed of all silhouettes, and a booby-trapped home invasion sequence are all highlights worthy of action-lovers’ glee.
It doesn’t hurt that Roger Deakins, one of the most talented cinematographers ever, filmed everything as an absolute work of art on the eyes. Skyfall is one of the movies this year you’ll want to cash in your IMAX coupon for.
Similarly in technical achieve-ments, Thomas Newman’s score pushes both action and dialogue scenes along nicely, while Adele’s theme song fits right at home in an awesome opening credits sequence.
Director Sam Mendes is able to get a great deal out of the performers, both new and old. Daniel Craig has officially made the role his own here and locks
in his cool, suave demeanor. The two Bond girls, Naomie Harris and Berenice Marlohe, both bring something with Marlohe being the more traditional and seductive of the two and Harris providing more of a cat and mouse chase for our protagonist. Judi Dench as M finally gets some time in the spotlight to showcase the pres-ence she naturally brings. Javier Bardem’s eccentric villain Silva is the one who steals a lot of the scenes in the second half.
The only possible thing that may cause frustration for some viewers is the more subdued nature of the film, especially in comparison to some previ-ous Bond movies. But for this reviewer and most likely others, Skyfall was seen as engaging and nothing but fun. Is it the best Bond movie of the series? There’s a strong possibility as well as the possibility of it being one of the best movies of the year. Needless to say, check it out.
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After the critical and rat-ings phenomenon of Lost in 2004, network programming has tried vigorously to dupli-cate that runaway train with very little success. Science fiction series such as Heroes, Flash Forward, The Event, and Surface have all come and gone with barely fulfilling their full episode order before being axed due to low ratings. Despite all these attempts at tackling serialized science fic-tion drama on network televi-sion, the networks continued to try, and repeatedly failed.
For the 2012 fall season, NBC released Revolution, brain child of Eric Kripke (Su-pernatural) and mega-name J.J. Abrams (Lost, Star Trek), and seven episodes in, the se-
ries has already surpassed all those that came before because of one very important reason.
It’s about people. What all the imitators failed
to realize was that whatever mystery or high concept they conceived, it wasn’t the heart of the show, the characters were. Love the series or hate it, Lost never lost focus on characters, even at the expense of refusing to answer linger-ing questions. Revolution is all about characters, but, to its credit, the writers seem eager to give viewers all the answers, too, at a beautifully deliberately steady pace.
The premise of Revolution is simple: what would happen to the world if all electric-ity suddenly ceased to work? Not a novel idea in the world of science fiction, but it’s all about the approach. Set fifteen
years after The Blackout, cit-ies have crumbled, guns have been replaced with bow & arrows and swords, a militia has been formed, families torn apart – it’s an apocalypse just as much as a new beginning.
The series centers on the Matheson family: the father with secrets, an uncle with a dark and bloody past, a brother kidnapped, and a sister hell-bent on finding him. It’s a quest show, where all the major players have a goal in mind: survive in this dystopian world, and fight against the militia, led by the unnervingly violent Monroe (David Lyons).
With Kripke behind the scenes, the emphasis on family is less than surprising, but it works marvelously here. Miles (Billy Burke) is the uncle who has more personal issues to deal with than Bruce Ban-ner, and delivers some truly extraordinary sword-fighting scenes in the opening epi-sodes.
Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) is a teenager trying to find her place in the world, and more importantly, forming into a freedom fighter, anxious to retaliate against the militia for the crimes it’s committed against her family. And her brother Danny (Graham Rog-ers), an innocent slowly turn-ing venomous in the clutches of the militia as he’s beat down repeatedly.
Nearly every player in the series has some connection to the origins of The Blackout and the fallout, which leads to highly interesting storytelling possibilities.
Revolution is a success, plainly speaking. The char-acters are constantly being developed, pushed to new dramatic heights thanks to a world that little adheres to the rules of a civilized community faced with dark and difficult choices.
The mystery of The Black-out and the background of these characters are slowly revealed through flashbacks, not too quick or too slow as to exhaust itself of mate-rial too quickly. Most impor-tantly, Revolution is a series that seems to have a plan, so there’s little doubt that, for those cautious following another mystery show after be-ing letdown by the Lost finale, this show can and will answer viewer questions.
Burke, who was the only beacon of decency in the Twilight movies, is absolutely marvelous as Miles Matheson, the sword-wielding man with a past who would rather kill, then ask questions later. Spiridakos shines as Charlie as her character begins to follow a darker path, although her wide-eyed wonder and pleads to Miles to spare a life of a bad guy can grow slightly annoy-ing after time.
Breaking Bad’s legendary villain actor Giancarlo Esposi-to plays the emotional oppo-site of Gus – he’s still the bad guy you love to hate, but this time, instead of the reserved demeanor he held in the AMC series, here, he’s a ticking time bomb of anger and violence, making Espositio’s perfor-mance all the more riveting.
If there’s one complaint that can be lodged towards Revolu-tion, is that at this early point in the series, it follows plots that have been done and re-done and re-done again far too often. Charlie forced into infil-trating a gang leader’s fortress to kill him under the guise of a companion, or the gang (Char-lie, Miles and friends Aaron and Nora) coming across a whole town of orphaned chil-dren where they vow to save them in some capacity.
But where there are clichés, there are also magnificent epi-sodes, such as a down-to-the-wire train attack, or rebels vs. militia melee (guest starring Lost’s Mark Pellegrino) in a broken town. The series moves along with the pace of confi-dence, but it’s still very much finding its footing.
Revolution offers enor-mously interesting character dynamics with the Matheson family and all the skeletons in their closet, and a lawless world quickly being absorbed by the power hungry Monroe and his militia, making it one of the most riveting freshman shows on television. More than any show before it, hop on the Revolution bandwagon and give it a chance.
Revolution airs Mondays at 9 p.m. on FOX.
Weekly TV Line: RevolutionPromising freshman NBC program shows potential
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