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Med students no longer to practice on live sheep Some students feel practicing on sheep provided a more realistic experience.

Using live animals to train students in emergency medical rotations, a long-standing practice at the University of Minnesota Medical School, is being phased out this semester as simulators replace the animals.

The use of live sheep by third-year students practicing emergency procedures came under fire from organizations like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. In a June 8 letter to the University, the committee questioned the necessity of using live animals.

The committee said Minnesota was the last accredited medical school in the United States to use live animals to practice these procedures.

The use of live sheep violates the Animal Welfare Act because there are valid alternatives to using the animals, said Dr. John Pippin, senior medical research adviser for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

The committee presented the University with a list of

simulated alternatives for 13 procedures commonly practiced on sheep.

The school had “markedly curtailed the use of live animals for medical student education in emergency medicine,” Dr. Joseph Clinton, head of the University’s depar tment of emergency medicine, said in an Aug. 27 letter to the committee.

“Real medicine doesn’t work in exact calculations.” susan pleasants third-year med school student

The students “are being taught using simulation models including some of those you cited,” Clinton said in the letter.

However, some students do not think these alternatives are as useful as live animals.

“With the sheep lab, you physically give it to them and it af fects something alive,” Susan Pleasants, a third-year medical student, said.

Pleasants’ rotation at the u See animals Page 12 Only seven other schools nationwide still use live animals.

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by JESSIE VAN BERKEL jvanberkel@mndaily.com

september 8, 2009

Gophers squeeze by Orange

An Eric Ellestad field goal helped

the Gophers win in overtime. u See Page 21

Dissecting

$ 162 million

BY BRIANA BIERSCHBACH bbierschbach@mndaily.com

State Fiscal Stabilization Stimulus Funds Total: $89.3 million over two years

Through the stimulus package, the University received almost $90 million from the state and $72 million from the f e d e r a l gove r n m e n t t o support its mission to become a top research institution. Hundreds of millions more still hang in the balance.

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$39 million for job protection

$50 million for tuition mitigation

amela Webb has job security.

Since the Febr uar y passing of the American Recover y and Reinvestment Act, commonly known

as the stimulus package, Webb and the rest of the Sponsored

Research Stimulus Awards

by College as of Aug. 31 Total: $72,958,946

Projects Administration at the University of Minnesota have seen their workload double.

Academic Affairs & Prov

Academic Affairs &$50,000 Provost:  $50,000

Academic Health Units:

Webb and SPA, which she oversees, are in charge of helping researchers apply, retrieve and report research grants from

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federal institutions like the

We were doing marathon proposal sessions, submitting proposals from six in the morning until 10 at night and spending weekends on campus.

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National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. With millions of extra stimulus dollars flowing into research funding pools, University faculty members

have inundated SPA with proposals to get their share of recovery funds.

The University currently has 856 proposals pending, totaling almost $669 million in stimulus research funds submitted to various institutions under the wing of the federal government.

And that’s just in stimulus grants.

Academic Health Center Shared Center Shared Units:  $1,606,255 $1,606,255

College of Biological Sci College of Biological Sciences: $1,925,394  $1,925,394

School of Dentistry: $75,758 School of Dentistry:

 $75,758

College of Education & Human Development: College of Education & Human Development: $575,538

 $575,538

College of Food, Agricult Scienc

College of Food, Agriculture & Natural Resource Natural Resource Sciences:  $1,104,101 $1,104,101

These funds are in addition to the nearly $700 million in research funds the University applies for annually.

agriculture

“It was day after day after day, at one point,” Webb said. “We were doing marathon proposal

Institute of Technology: Institute of Technology:  $45,399,734$45,399,734

sessions, submitting proposals from six in the morning until 10 at night and spending weekends on campus.”

College of Liberal Arts: College of Liberal Arts:  $513,870 $513,870 Medical School:

Medical School:  $17,216,852$17,216,852 marija majerle, Daily

Dave Bedford, head of apple breeding at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s Apple House, bites into an apple Wednesday. The University of Minnesota apple breeding program has developed the SweeTango, an apple that could rival the success of Honeycrisp.

University’s new SweeTango apple breed hits market

BY Luke Feuerherm lfeuerherm@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota apple breeding program has developed what it believes is the next great apple.

The SweeTango apple made its commercial debut on Monday and should cause quite a stir within the apple market.

For more than 100 years the apple breeding program at the University has been at the forefront of apple research. The University is home to one of only three apple breeding programs in the

countr y. The primar y focus of the program is the cross breeding of dif ferent apple varieties in hopes of developing a new, better apple.

Apple breeding, a long and tedious process, begins by combining the genes of two dif ferent apple species in hopes of r etaining the beneficial properties of both in a new plant.

Once the two varieties are cr ossed, the apples ar e tested on 20 characteristics u See apple Page 11 The apple will soon be available in boutique grocery stores.

College of Pharmacy: College of Pharmacy:  $185,791 $185,791 Matt Mead, Daily

The University has received more than $72 million in

School of Public Health: School  $1,273,576

of Public Health: $1,273,576

approved extra research stimulus dollars to date to fund 101 different proposals.

Within each of these grants lies what University Senior Vice President and Provost Tom Sullivan call a “transforming potential” — poising University researchers for breakthroughs in cancer research, pulmonary disease and a chance to better understand the matter that makes up the universe. u See Stimulus Page 15

UM Duluth:  $1,864,121

UM Duluth: $1,864,121

College of Veterinary College of Veterinary Medicine:  $672,615 $672,615

Office of the Vice Office of the Vice President for Research:  $495,341 President for Research:

$495,341

student aid

New GI Bill helps vets in school University Veteran Services expects increase in applications for veteran student aid.

BY Amy Durmaskin adurmaskin@mndaily.com

Each year student veterans apply for educational aid, and each year some struggle to stretch their finances to cover all the expenses an

average student incurs.

But the new Chapter 33 Post9/11 GI Bill, which went into effect Aug. 1, means student veterans who served on active duty after Sept. 11, 2001 will not have to stretch their finances quite as far.

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“It’s possible to live off the old GI Bill, but it’s tough,” student veteran and global studies sophomore Dan Ochs said. “It didn’t take into account all the other student costs.

It’s making it possible for me to be a student and be a student full time.” u See Veteran Page 8 Veteran tuition deadlines are postponed until the end of the semester. volume 111 issue 1

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campus & Metro

regents set to approve three labor deals

The deals with local employees would cover about 3,000 jobs. Page 5

welcome week relaxes schedule in second week

Not all first-years felt the orientation was as relaxed as was intended. Page 5

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Volleyball squad dominates at home

The Gophers won three matches en route to winning the Diet Coke Classic. Page 21 editorials & u opinions

Criminal behavior

did off-duty Minneapolis cops break the laws they’re charged to enforce? Page 24

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This day in history 1974 President Gerald Ford pardons his disgraced predecessor Richard Nixon for any crimes he may have committed or participated in while in office. Ford later defended this action before the House Judiciary Committee. historychannel.com/tdih

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Public warned after 2 backyard Mpls robberies

Video: Apple expert Dave Bedford talks about his quest for the perfect apple

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police are warning neighbors in south Minneapolis after robbers targeted people attending two late-night backyard gatherings.

Authorities say people were gathered in a backyard on Chicago Avenue South early Saturday when two suspects — one carrying a handgun — entered the yard and demanded everyone hand over their valuables. The suspects fled after taking money and wallets.

Early Sunday, two suspects entered a backyard on 10th Avenue South and demanded that people turn over their valuables. During a confrontation, one of the suspects shot a man in the abdomen. The victim was taken to HCMC, where he’s in stable condition. The suspects ran away.

The suspects are two males 14-20 years old wearing hooded sweat shirts with the hoods up and bandanas over their faces.

Stricken Philippine ferry capsizes, killing 9; more than 30 passengers still missing MANILA, Philippines — Passengers leapt into the dark sea and parents dropped children into life rafts from a stricken ferry carrying nearly 1,000 people after it capsized in the middle of the night in the southern Philippines.

Nine people died and more than 30 were missing Sunday though rescue efforts saved about 900 terrified victims on the Superferry 9 after turned on its side 9 miles (15 kilometers) off Zamboanga del Norte province.

The vessel’s violent rotation roused frightened passengers from their sleep and sent many jumping in the darkness into the water, coast guard chief Admiral Wilfredo Tamayo said.

Many aboard panicked as the huge ferry listed, said passenger Reymark Belgira. He said he saw parents tossing children to people on life rafts below, but he could not immediately jump himself.

“I held on to the ferr y for hours until day break. I couldn’t jump into the water in the dark,” Belgira said.

Pixar creators of ‘Nemo,’ ‘WALL-E’ and ‘Up’ win lifetime achievement award at Venice Film Fest VENICE, Italy (AP) — The Venice Film Festival’s red carpet was festooned with balloons on Sunday to mark the lifetime achievement award for director and producer John Lasseter and his crew of Pixar directors.

They were rewarded for their work creating a new generation of childhood memories populated with Nemo, Woody and Sulley. It is the first time in festival history that the award honors not just one filmmaker but an entire studio.

Pixar, founded in 1986 and based in northern California, pioneered digital computer animation and has made 10 feature films to date, four of which have won Oscars since the animation category was introduced in 2001.

“We really set out to deeply entertain an audience, not just children but adults as well,” Lasseter told reporters Sunday.

Lasseter said he was “tremendously honored” that the festival chose to give the award to the team of five Pixar directors, including Brad Bird (“Ratatouille” and “The Incredibles”), Pete Docter (“Up” and “Monsters Inc.”), Andrew Stanton (“Finding Nemo” and “WALL-E”), and Lee Unkrich (“Toy Story 3”). Lasseter directed the first two “Toy Story” movies and “Cars.”

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Illegal trash dumping spurs research A local project aims to find ways to reuse mass move-out garbage.

BY Lolla Mohammed Nur lmohammed@mndaily.com

Heaps of trash illegally dumped onto sidewalks and front lawns could be seen in the Southeast Como neighborhood as residence turnover rates reached their highest numbers last week. Items included food, furniture, paint cans and electronics.

The Southeast Como Improvement Association (SECIA) launched its Solid Waste Reduction and Reuse Project last week to find out why garbage is accumulating and how to facilitate its reuse. SECIA was awarded the 2009 Environmental Assistance Grant — a total of $25,000 in funds over a two year period — by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to fund its community-wide

recycling program. Grants are awar ded each year for projects that focus on pollution prevention, recycling, envir onmental education and sustainable development.

Southeast Como environmental coordinator Justin Eibenholzl said the grant was competitive and only five out of 59 local organizations won the award.

Preliminary steps of the project include sur veys, outreach to University of Minnesota tenants and encouraging Como residents to repor t illegal dumping. An organized system to store, reuse or recycle items will be established.

Eibenholzl said reusable items may be donated to charities. Educating the neighborhood about how to recycle is another top priority, which he said

should also be a priority for the University.

As well as being a fire hazard and a threat to the environment, Eibenholzl said the garbage is aesthetically displeasing. He also said trash dumping has been increasing in the past four years.

Although garbage collectors come weekly, Eibenholzl said extra trash does not get picked up quickly and there are delays.

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency spokesman Walker Smith said the garbage can be dangerous because heavy metals from electronics can get washed into storm sewers, polluting rivers and lakes.

Heavy metals can also degrade air quality.

“It’s too bad because in Minneapolis, the [trash] should be picked up by garbage services,” Smith said.

Minneapolis Solid Waste and Recycling Ser vices Coordinator Angela Brenny said the city has an accelerated cleanup program in

the University area during mass move-out periods.

The city does not know the whereabouts of extra garbage unless a resident reports it, she said.

Brenny also said notifications are sent to property owners and residents about a fine if garbage is found by a resident’s house after pickup time. She said she thinks the city is doing enough and that landlords need to make tenants aware of pickup times.

New 17th Avenue resident Emily Petersen said she thinks the garbage is “ridiculous.” Her roommates were fined $200 because of trash she said a neighbor left on their front lawn. Trash can also attract raccoons which she said are a nuisance.

Senior Bess Rubin lives on Talmadge Avenue and said the worst polluters are dump tr ucks because trash flies out of them as they pass by. She

Jason Kopp, Daily

SECIA recently received a grant from the MN Pollution Control Agency to do research on illegal garbage dumping in the Como neighborhood. The garbage includes unwanted furniture and electronics as mass move-outs take place at the end of the summer.

also cleaned her fr ont lawn for garbage that was not hers.

Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association director Melissa Bean said illegal garbage dumping is not a problem in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood because “the city

takes care of it.”

Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association President Dick Poppele said his neighborhood doesn’t share Como’s problem because residents in the area are mostly long-term or graduate students.

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Regents set to approve three labor deals

Welcome Week relaxes schedule in second year

The deals with local employees would cover about 3,000 jobs.

Not all first-years felt the orientation was as relaxed as was intended.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The University of Minnesota Board of Regents are set to approve three contracts with locals from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union this week.

The deals cover about 3,000 clerical, health care and technical employees at the University’s campuses in the Twin Cities, Duluth,

Crookston and Mor ris.

Union members ratified the agreements July 23.

The deals call for the employees to receive no raises the first year and 2-percent raises the second year. Their health insurance premiums also won’t go up.

The contracts have already been accepted in principle by University administrators, so the regents’ approval is largely procedural.

The regents’ regular monthly meeting is scheduled for Thursday and Friday in Minneapolis.

BY Katherine Lymn klymn@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota Orientation and FirstYear Programs (OFYP) office kicked off the second annual Welcome Week on Sept. 2, with changes aimed at making the program more relaxed and less stressful for incoming first-years.

Many attendees, however, still saw the week as more grueling than relaxing.

“It feels like a job, almost,” first-year Jake Malm said. “I think they want to make us the per fect student.”

OFYP Director Beth Lingren Clark said the most common complaint seen in last year’s Welcome Week student evaluations was that students felt too rushed.

“One of the things they told us [was] that they needed a little bit more time to get settled in their residence halls and take care of business,” Lingren Clark said.

Kinesiology sophomore Alex Antonen attended last year’s Welcome Week and said that although he didn’t think the week was too fastpaced, he and his peers felt it did entail too much time in the classroom.

“They kept us busy, but

that’s kind of what you have to do,” he said. “It was kind of boring, [with] all the seminars we had to go to and whatnot.”

In response to these complaints, New Student Convocation was moved from Wednesday night — movein day — to Thursday morning, Lingren Clark said.

The first-years’ small group meetings were moved from after Convocation to Wednesday night to provide a relaxed setting to get acquainted with the schedule and policies for the next week, she said.

Jennifer Porter, associate director of Welcome Week, said student Welcome Week leaders also had more flexibility this year and aren’t “scheduled every half hour to be someplace,” like last year’s program.

“It’s designed to be a little bit more of a relaxed schedule,” Lingren Clark said, adding that the overarching goal of the program’s many components is to ease anxiety on the students’ first day of classes by preparing them beforehand.

“We’re really just trying to teach them ever ything before classes start,” Lingren Clark said, “so that when classes star t, that’s the only thing they’re focused on,” First-year student Lucie Biros acknowledged that the activities are wor thwhile but said they were

BRE M c GEE, Daily

University of Minnesota first-year students participate in cheers led by the University Spirit Squad at the TCF Bank Stadium on Thursday.

packed into too short a time span.

Welcome Week activities included a speech from motivational speaker Jermaine Davis, a Target shopping run for last-minute dorm necessities and College Day, which focused on each student’s specific college and its resources.

Thursday night’s Pride & Spirit event was perhaps the most popular of the program.

The event, held in TCF Bank Stadium, served as a pep rally for first-years, with Goldy Gopher dancing, head spor ts coaches speaking and groups like the Minnesota Marching Band and the Spirit Squad performing.

Although the assembly went smoothly for the energetic first-years, it also highlighted the dismay of new students who were not permitted to take part.

Architecture junior Matt Greeninger, who transferred into the University this fall, watched the hour-long spirit event with fellow junior and transfer student Tom Enget through the gates at the front of the stadium.

OFYP did not grant transfer students tickets to the event. New transfers chose from either a complete day on campus or a partial day on campus with an online component for their orientation.

“We were hoping we could get in here,” Greeninger said, adding he felt transfer students should have been offered more orientation in general.

Enget, a history student, said that although he was lucky enough to transfer with a friend, many transfer students, just like first-years, do not know people at college when they first arrive.

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Veteran u from Page 1

Under the previous Montgomer y GI Bill, veterans applying for educational financial aid could pay $1,200 into an Army College Fund while in the service. The fund then paid the veteran a flat monthly stipend of $1,200 for the duration of the veteran’s education.

The monthly stipend was expected to cover tuition, books and living expenses, with no regard to differing tuition prices, inflation or the amount of active duty the recipient served.

The new GI Bill provides full tuition up to the highest instate tuition cost, up to $1,000 for books and a living stipend based on rates within the

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 school’s zip code. The benefits are scaled by the amount of ser vice the veteran has served, with a minimum of 90 consecutive days of active duty needed to fully qualify.

Provisions from the bill last three to four years and do not require veterans to pay into the Army College Fund.

Officials at University Veterans Services, which helps veterans navigate student life, said they are seeing more students motivated by the change in benefits enter their office for guidance this fall.

While there were approximately 633 student veterans University-wide who used UVS’ resources last year, Mar y Koskan, director of One Stop Student Services, said she anticipates at least a 25 percent increase in traffic due to the new GI Bill.

Carin Anderson, senior

veterans coordinator for UVS, speculated that some students may have waited to apply for aid in hopes that this bill would make college a more affordable reality.

Officials at UVS hoped to ease the “stress and panic” of securing financial aid by holding two meetings dealing with the bill and hosting numerous new student veteran orientations in late August and early September.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is experiencing a backlog from the unexpected rise in aid demand. As a result, Anderson said she expects some students will experience a delay in receiving their aid.

Students can expedite payment receipts by turning in paperwork as early as possible, Anderson said.

To relieve some of the

Veteran Student Aid and Estimated Expenses Per Month GI Bill appropriated funds (per month)

Tuition

Montgomery Chapter 33 Post-9/11

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financial pressure on veterans awaiting aid, the University of Minnesota has postponed veteran tuition deadlines until the end of the semester.

Broadcast journalism senior Chris Holbrook, a U.S. Air Force veteran and intern for UVS, said he has noticed a sharp influx of applications

for veteran education aid, but he thinks there are even more veterans who qualify for assistance but have yet to apply.

“If there are veterans on campus out there who think they might be at all eligible that haven’t used their aid, they should definitely come in and see us,” he said.

As one of many University veterans who will benefit from the Chapter 33 Post-9/11 GI Bill, Ochs said he is looking forward to getting the full college experience.

“This is my last chance [for college]. I have an opportunity to make something happen,” he said. “It’s go time.”

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One dead in prisoner van crash HATTIESBURG, Miss.

(AP) — A private security guard driving a prisoner van was killed and several others were injured, three critically, when the van carrying three guards and nine inmates drove off an interstate highway embankment and flipped on its roof Sunday, police said.

The van’s driver, a

50-year-old security of ficer for a private prisoner transport agency, was pronounced dead by coroner’s officials at the site of the single-vehicle crash off Interstate 59 in the Hattiesburg area, police said.

Authorities said the van was carrying prisoners from Texas and Louisiana to different detention centers

located along the U.S. East coast. All 12 occupants had to be cut from the wreckage of the white van, which lay crumpled with its windows shattered.

One guard and two prisoners remained in critical condition, Hattiesburg Police Depar tment spokesman Synar us Green said late Sunday.

Green issued a statement saying another guard and six other prisoners remained hospitalized with various injuries. Another prisoner was treated and released Sunday and was being held at a regional jail in Forrest County.

The conditions of the injured were not immediately released by authorities late Sunday.

Green also said authorities were not releasing further information about the driver or the company of the private transport agency that he worked for until relatives have been notified.

Other occupants also were not identified.

Police said they were called shortly before 7 a.m. to an area off Interstate 59

North in the Hattiesburg.

Green said the van had driven off the right shoulder of the road into the embankment and then flipped over on its roof. He said ambulances took the injured to hospitals after they were extricated from the wreckage and detectives were dispatched to open an investigation.

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One dead in prisoner van crash HATTIESBURG, Miss.

(AP) — A private security guard driving a prisoner van was killed and several others were injured, three critically, when the van carrying three guards and nine inmates drove off an interstate highway embankment and flipped on its roof Sunday, police said.

The van’s driver, a

50-year-old security of ficer for a private prisoner transport agency, was pronounced dead by coroner’s officials at the site of the single-vehicle crash off Interstate 59 in the Hattiesburg area, police said.

Authorities said the van was carrying prisoners from Texas and Louisiana to different detention centers

located along the U.S. East coast. All 12 occupants had to be cut from the wreckage of the white van, which lay crumpled with its windows shattered.

One guard and two prisoners remained in critical condition, Hattiesburg Police Depar tment spokesman Synar us Green said late Sunday.

Green issued a statement saying another guard and six other prisoners remained hospitalized with various injuries. Another prisoner was treated and released Sunday and was being held at a regional jail in Forrest County.

The conditions of the injured were not immediately released by authorities late Sunday.

Green also said authorities were not releasing further information about the driver or the company of the private transport agency that he worked for until relatives have been notified.

Other occupants also were not identified.

Police said they were called shortly before 7 a.m. to an area off Interstate 59

North in the Hattiesburg.

Green said the van had driven off the right shoulder of the road into the embankment and then flipped over on its roof. He said ambulances took the injured to hospitals after they were extricated from the wreckage and detectives were dispatched to open an investigation.

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University Medical Center’s emergency room is the first not to practice on sheep.

Students in the Hennepin County Medical Center rotation are the only group this semester who will work with live sheep, she said.

The practice will be phased out for all groups after Dec. 31.

Pr eviously, students spent one day with the sheep, practicing procedures like incubation, inserting chest tubes, needle placement and tracheotomies — a procedure in

Tuesday, September 8, 2009 which an air tube is inserted into the sheep’s windpipe.

The sheep were euthanized after the students finished working with it.

In the simulation lab, holes for these procedures are pre-cut, and when students administer doses of drugs the heart speeds up or slows down accordingly, Pleasants said.

Working with simulators is theoretical because “real medicine doesn’t work in exact calculations,” Pleasants said.

Brenda Olson, a fourthyear medical student who par ticipated in the sheep lab last year, said the experience was “ver y realistic,” and although sheep

and humans may seem dif ferent, they are “pretty close, and the veins are the same.”

Dealing with something breathing and moving is different, Olson said. She said the students were more motivated and “worked really hard to keep that sheep alive for four hours.”

“If we let the sheep die no one else would get this opportunity,” she said, referring to other students who worked with the same sheep later that day.

Although students had the choice to opt out of the exercise, Olson said few did, and everyone she talked to was grateful for the experience.

She said the group became close to the sheep; “We named it Blue Eyes … we all thanked the sheep when we were done.”

While the animals were an “ideal model,” simulators are improving and are the “pathway of the future,” Clinton said.

He said the removal of sheep from the curriculum was a “budgetar y decision more than anything else.”

He said he did not consider the decision “absolutely forever” and the school will reevaluate the decision after this semester.

Although the University Medical School is alone among the 159 accredited U.S. medical schools in its

use of live animals in emergency medicine, seven other schools use live animals elsewhere in their curriculum as of Sept. 1, 2009, according to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

A common practice is using pigs in pathophysiology courses, which occurs at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine.

The University of Minnesota also used pigs in pathophysiology and surger y courses, practices which first prompted the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to contact the University in April 2007, Pippin said.

Simulators have since

replaced pigs in both courses.

After Dec. 31, no live animals will be used in the Medical School curriculum, although the University will continue using them for research purposes.

Pippin congratulated the University for responding to the committee and removing the sheep from the curriculum. “We think they went about it exactly right,” he said.

Being the only program in the countr y to use live animals to teach emergency medicine, Pippin said the school has to ask, “Are we right and ever yone else is wrong … or should we look at this anew?”

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‘Transforming potential’

The stimulus package increased 2009 funding for the National Science Foundation by $3 billion and $8.2 billion for the National Institutes of Health. These dollars are being rapidly infused into universities across the countr y for research projects and infrastructure.

“The first challenge was getting reliable information out to the community when the stimulus bill was passed,” Tim Mulcahy, vice president for research at the University, said. “There was a lot of information being disseminated from many sources, some was outdated and it was changing all the time.”

In order to establish a consistent, authoritative source of information for University faculty and staff, Mulcahy and his office created a research stimulus Web site — an endeavor he calls a “tremendous” success.

Now award notices and funds are flowing in at a rate that’s faster than Mulcahy expected, and as deadlines pass he anticipates the pace will quicken.

Of the more than $72 million coming to the University in research grants, the largest portion — $40 million — helped fund a new physics research facility in northern Minnesota that will eventually house a 15,000 ton neutrino detector.

The $40 million, allocated to the Institute of Technology, is misleading as to how many stimulus grants the school received, Institute of Technology associate dean Mostafa Kaveh said.

Smaller grants have, for the most part, gone to the University Medical School, which currently has more than $17 million for 43 stimulus-backed research grants.

Funded projects range from research in neural circuitr y and pulmonar y disease to diagnosing prostate cancer.

But some of the Medical School’s largest proposals still awaiting approval are for infrastr ucture, Mark Paller, executive vice dean of the Medical School, said.

The Medical School

submitted about five large grants in the $10 million range for improvements to laboratories and, in some cases, to constr uct new ones, including a new animal imaging facility in Jackson Hall, Paller said.

Stimulating challenges

While researchers are grateful to have extra funds flowing in, many admit there are better ways to put the dollars to use.

“The problem with the stimulus in terms of dollars is how much does it buy you?” Susan Marino, an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacology who received a stimulus grant, said.

Marino, whose grant came from a special stimulus-funded Summer Student Supplement, used her funds to employ two high school students, one undergraduate and a recent graduate to help analyze the effects of drugs on cognition.

While Marino is grateful for the funds, she said the stimulus grants have been relatively small and are being stretched thin across the nation’s universities.

Greg Metzger, an associate professor in the Medical School and Department of Radiology, agrees.

Metzger received a stimulus grant to suppor t three students in his lab for the next two summers. The grant, totaling $50,000, allows the students to aid an already-running research project working to diagnose prostate cancer using MRI technology.

MRI technology has the ability to detect the aggressiveness of prostate cancer better than current tests and aid in the staging — and ultimately the treating — of the disease, Metzger said.

“In general, $50,000 stretched over two years is relatively small,” he said.

Metzger said he also thinks that the two-year research window the stimulus grant requires is not realistic for most projects, which usually span four to five years.

“Most projects are longer term and hard to accelerate,” he said, adding that a better application of stimulus funds would have been to fund certain projects longer than two years.

Jennifer Zick, a neuroscience senior, began working

under a stimulus grant in mid-July. Zick’s grant allowed her to aid a study analyzing the difference between the brains of healthy animals and those with neurodegenerative diseases.

But because she started so late in the summer, Zick said she spent more time assisting in lab work than participating.

“Six months to a year is more feasible for an undergraduate to be prepped enough to r eally help with the research,” Justin Barnes, a graduate student overseeing Zick, said, adding that he feared the undergraduates were being “misused” with summer job stimulus grants.

Barnes also feels sudden availability of stimulus dollars for research adds to a “funding obsession” that already exists in academia.

“Most researchers applied for stimulus grants because they need more money, but I think some did just because it was there,” Barnes said. “It’s great to get more money, but if you don’t have a good way to use it then what is it worth?”

Many challenges with the stimulus outside of the education sphere fall in the realm of allocation. To date, only $85 billion of the spending portion of the stimulus package has gone out the door, leaving $496 billion still sitting in the hands of the federal gover nment, according to ProPublica, a nonprofit news source.

But getting its allowance has been the least troublesome aspect of the stimulus package for the University.

As soon as the University is notified of stimulus awards, they write out checks that are later reimbursed by the federal government.

The University is already putting its share of the stimulus to use, but has yet to send out a reimbursement bill to the federal government, University Chief Financial Of ficer Richard Pfutzenreuter said. The money spent in the meantime is University money.

“We have to spend our own money and then we get federal money back in, and I’m not going to let too many days go by,” he said, adding that he expects to send out the first bill in mid September.

Star ting Oct. 10, the University owes the government detailed repor ts on

how stimulus dollars are being spent.

While all research grants from the federal government must be repor ted, the stimulus grants require increased repor ting from annual to quarterly and include more than 100 new data elements that aren’t required for non-stimulus grants, Webb said.

“We are still unsure of some of the repor ting requirements for these funds even though we are six weeks out from the first repor ting deadline,” Webb said.

One new data element is the number of jobs created not only at the University directly but through subcontractors the University hires.

In order to brief faculty on the intensity of the reporting requirements for stimulus grants, the University is holding informational meetings that Webb hopes will prepare them for the workload over the next two years.

Generating jobs Despite a campus-wide hiring freeze, the stimulus has increased the number of employees on campus, fulfilling one of the main goals of the recover y package.

“That’s the single most common reason for permission to hire someone,” Paller said. “Someone received a grant that requires them to hire people.”

Kola Okuyemi, director of the Health Disparities Research Program at the University, received more than $360,000 to give 10 high school and college students a chance to explore careers in the health field and get paid while doing it.

Students received a $3,200 stipend for eight weeks.

“We are talking about jobs, here,” Okuyemi said.

“These students could be working at McDonalds or Burger King over the summer or not even at all, but with these funds they are getting paid to get a head start in a health career.”

The stimulus funds the University gar nered through research proposals are only half of the stimulus picture. Research dollars come on top of $89.3 million in state fiscal stabilization funds the University received in May as part of the stimulus package.

More than half of the funds — $50 million —

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The Big Ten Stimulus Picture: How other schools are spending stimulus dollars 1. University of Wisconsin While the school did not see any funds funnel through the campus via the state, UW is aggressively pursuing stimulus research grants. So far, the school has 126 stimulus-backed research awards totaling $38.8 million.

2. University of Iowa The University of Iowa has taken in more than $20 million in research funds to use over the next two years. They also received $35.5 million in state fiscal stabilization funds.

3. Ohio State University Ohio State has yet to tally up its totals for research stimulus grants and was not allocated any state fiscal stabilization dollars.

4. Michigan State University While Michigan State waits to hear if state officials will allocate any funds to the university, they have been chasing research stimulus dollars. To date, they have received almost $20 million in research grants.

5. Purdue University Purdue University received $20 million from the Department of Energy to study and design improved ways of converting biomass into energy.

6. Pennsylvania State University The school is waiting for the state to approve a final budget, which university officials hope will include $20 million in stimulus funds.

7. University of Michigan University of Michigan researchers have earned $61.1 million in stimulus grants to date for nearly 160 grants.

went to holding the in-state tuition rate increase to 3 percent, reduced from the full 7.5 percent.

The other $39 million was dedicated to preser ving jobs.

In June, University President Bob Bruininks presented his 2010 budget facing $95 million in cuts. His budget proposed to shed more than 1,200 jobs on campus, or 5.5 percent of the University’s workforce.

However, stimulus dollars created 56 temporar y, two-year jobs on campus and saved 230 others, “bridging the gap” between budget troubles and better times, Sullivan said.

Maintaining momentum

The final picture of the

stimulus and the University is still unclear. Nearly 1,000 University proposals still sit with the federal government, waiting to be reviewed.

And on the horizon is the disappearance of these extra dollars — something University of ficials fear will take away building momentum.

“Resear ch pr ograms don’t just star t and stop; they build, and to have students funded for a year or two and then not have the opportunity anymore puts a chasm in that progress,” Webb said. “We have to look far enough out to how to continue the benefits of the research that is being funded in the next two years.”

Mulcahy is also concer ned about how the stimulus-backed jobs are going to be suppor ted after the stimulus package runs out.

“In the foreseeable future, it’s going to be about how we maintain the momentum that the stimulus has provided,” Mulcahy said. “Not only for research, but how do we support the people who were suppor ted by the stimulus?”

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Former drug dealer sells hot dogs MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) — Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they’re lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs.

The one-time “dr ug kingpin,” as the newspapers called him in the late 1980s, this summer became an owner of a hot dog stand called Johnny’s WeeNee Wagon.

It’s a few Chicago suburbs and a world away from where he ran the drug empire that made him $25,000 a week — enough to buy a house, fast cars and a necklace that spelled “Spoiled Brat” in diamonds to drape around his Playboy bunny girlfriend.

In a bright red building that looks like a barn with a man-sized statue of a hot dog wearing an American

flag out front, he sells hot dogs, gyros, burgers, and now for the first time since the place opened in 1955, french fries.

“I’m doing the right thing now,” said the 43-yearold Cappas, who was released in 2004 after serving 15 years in prison.

That doesn’t mean Cappas is shying away from his past.

He obviously enjoys telling stories about what life was like before he was ar rested. Like the time he made headlines when, knowing federal agents were looking to arrest him, he and a local television reporter took a spin on Lake Michigan on a friend’s speedboat (“The feds had already seized mine,” he said.) before he turned himself in.

Nor did he keep it a

secret that for his grand opening last weekend — an event that included a magician and a tiger he says belonged to former boxing champ Mike Tyson — he’d asked two friends who were Chicago police officers before they were convicted of selling cocaine to judge his auto show.

But Cappas knows that his reign as a drug kingpin includes more than funny stories about his lavish lifestyle. He’s linked to the deaths of two 19-year-old sons of Chicago police officers, both of whom killed themselves with their fathers’ service revolvers after, authorities said at the time, at least one of them bought drugs from one of Cappas’ accomplices.

And he knows that for all the “toys” he had, there was a time members of his

family wanted nothing to do with him.

“I was banished from my (family) house,” he said, his father, Louis Cappas, nodding in agreement.

Then he was banished from society, with a judge who sentenced him to 45 years in prison, angrily telling him that he had “lost his soul.”

“I am what I am,” he said simply. “I’m never going to live that down.”

That helps explain why he said it is important to let people know he is no longer the same young man he was when he was sentenced to prison — something he says he deser ved. And that he wants to make amends.

“I do not want kids to follow in my same footpaths ...” he said. “I’m paying some penance for what I did in the past.”

That means his plan is not just to own a successful hot dog stand in a community, but to play a role in that community. He talks about plans to sponsor Little League teams and build a baseball diamond, as well as continue talking to at-risk kids, as he’s done for the last few years.

He said a big part of his message is that it’s possible to turn your life around, to come out of prison and make an honest living.

“This is my way of giving back,” said Cappas, who also plans to publish a book about his life.

It all has impressed Scott Ladany, the owner of Red Hot Chicago, Inc. to sell Cappas his hot dogs.

“I did hesitate but ... it’s a gut feeling that he deser ved a second chance in life,” Ladany said.

Ladany said that what

Cappas did after he got to prison — earned a college degree and studied and taught cooking classes — helped convince him that Cappas had changed.

So far, Cappas sees no signs that his past has cost him any customers. In fact, on one recent day, customers — many of whom said they knew all about Cappas’ drug dealing past — were in a line that stretched out the door. Some said his past was par tly why they were there.

“It’s great to see somebody whose life is turned around and is tr ying to do something good,” said Mar y Beth Johnson, a 47-year-old Orland Park resident, who grew up nearby and came to the stand regularly when she was a little girl. “It’s great to see this in our neighborhood.”

Small plane crashes into Okla. park, 5 dead OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A small aircraft plummeted into an Oklahoma park and burst into flames on Saturday after hitting a guide wire from a communications tower, killing all five people on board, investigators said.

The six-passenger plane was on its way to Dallas when it crashed amid heavy fog near a baseball field in Tulsa, said Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. George Brown.

“The wings came off. The engine came off,” Brown said.

“When it hit, it rolled. It did catch fire. It rolled at least a couple of times, ejecting the occupants.”

Brown said the victims, who all died at the scene, were pilot Dr. Stephen Lester, 48; his wife Dana, 48; daughters Laura, 16, and Christina, 13; and Dr. Ken Veteto, 50. All were from Tulsa. No one on

the ground was injured.

Lester’s uncle, Mike Lester, said the couple had two other children who weren’t on board the plane. He said family and friends were distraught.

“It’s really difficult,” Lester, his voice shaking, said during a phone interview.

The Piper PA-32 took off for Dallas Love Field from Jones Riverside Airport in Tulsa at 10:37 a.m. It crashed about 30 minutes later into Chandler Park, a recreation area with athletic fields and picnic facilities.

The tower in the park was between 150 feet and 200 feet tall, Brown said.

“Because of weather conditions, there was a low cloud ceiling that obscured the communications tower,” he said.

“It’s apparent that the pilot did not see this tower.”

Jeremy Richards said he was at the park for a motorcycle rally when he heard the crash. Richards said it sounded like the crack of a whip.

“I never heard that noise before,” Richards told the T ulsa World. “I tur ned around to look and I see something flying through the air. I realized later that it was a body.”

He and a friend, Mike Walker, were only about 100 yards away and ran to the plane, the front of which was engulfed in flames, he said.

“Nobody was able to be saved. Nothing could be done,” Richards said. “It’s just insane. It’s not something that was expected at all. I don’t know how to explain it.”

FAA records indicate the aircraft was manufactured in 1976 and registered to

Stephen Lester of Tulsa.

Lester, an anesthesiologist, was a devoted father who was involved in all aspects of his children’s lives, his uncle said.

“They took family vacations several times a year,” Mike Lester said.

The doctor was heavily involved in his church

and recently returned from a mission trip to Africa. He purchased the aircraft to deliver seminars on pain medication to other doctors across the country, Mike Lester said.

He said the family was traveling to Dallas to watch the University of Oklahoma kick off its football season against BYU at Cowboys

Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

“They were both avid OU fans,” he said.

Veteto specialized in internal medicine at the Warren Clinic in Tulsa, according to the clinic’s Web site. A listing for his home phone number couldn’t be found Saturday, and his clinic’s office was closed for the weekend.

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4 dead in La. murder-suicide

HOLDEN, La. (AP) — A man shot his estranged wife, son and 2-year-old grandson to death and seriously wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law at their r ural Louisiana home, then killed himself as police tried to pull over his car 20 minutes later, authorities said.

The pregnant woman later gave bir th, about three months early, her father said.

The shootings late Saturday appeared to stem from an ongoing dispute between 50-year-old Dennis Carter Sr. and his wife, Donna Car ter, who had a restraining order against him, Livingston Parish Sherif f ’s Of fice Chief of Operations Perr y Rushing said Sunday.

The father of the pregnant woman, Amber Car ter, said the suspect had a histor y of abusing his estranged wife and recently tried to attack her with a machete.

“This had been going on for quite some time,” Paul Williamson said. “It was one of those domestic violence things that just gets worse and worse.”

Another 16-month-old

boy was in the house during the shootings but was not hurt. The child was related to the Carters but Rushing was not sure how.

Authorities were called around 10:30 p.m. Saturday to the home in Holden, about 30 miles east of Baton Rouge.

Donna Carter, 49, and Dennis Carter Jr., 26, were dead inside. Dennis Carter Jr.’s wife, Amber Car ter, was badly hurt and their son, Masson Carter, 2, was found dead outside.

Williamson said Carter Jr. had previously fought with his father to protect his mother.

Rushing said it appeared Amber Car ter, who was about six months pregnant, and Masson Carter managed to escape from a second-floor window but it was not clear if the gunman shot them inside or followed them outside and shot them there.

Rushing said deputies spotted Dennis Carter Sr. about 20 minutes after the shootings driving on a highway. When they tried to pull him over, he shot and killed himself.

“It’s ver y unusual to have this many victims,” Rushing said. “This is an anomaly by any stretch of

the imagination.”

All the Carters lived at the house in Holden except Dennis Carter Sr., who used to live there but had recently been residing in nearby Hammond. Williamson said Carter Jr. and wife Amber had been planning to move out of the house where the shootings occurred.

Williamson said the senior Carter was a semi-employed mechanic.

He said his pregnant daughter had bullet wounds to the kidney and liver and spinal damage caused by her leap from a second-story window.

After the shootings, she gave birth to a healthy baby boy named Aubrey, Williamson said. He said she was taken initially to a Baton Rouge hospital and later was transferred to a hospital in New Orleans.

Rushing said that state police ballistics exper ts were conducting tests on a gun found in the senior Carter’s car.

Williamson said he didn’t expect to ever learn fully how the killing spree transpired.

“We won’t ever know what happened inside that house,” he said.

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Shock and caw: Pesky starlings still overwhelm SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The next time the sky darkens with a flock of noisy unwelcome starlings, blame Shakespeare — or, better yet, a few of his strangest fans.

Had the Bard not mentioned the starling in the third scene of “Henr y IV,” arguably the most hated bird in Nor th America might never have arrived.

In the early 1890s, about 100 European starlings were released in New York City’s Central Park by a group dedicated to bringing to America every bird ever mentioned by Shakespeare.

Today, it’s more like Hitchcock.

Some 200 million shiny black European starlings crowd North America, from the cool climes of Alaska to the balmy reaches of Mexico’s Baja peninsula. The enormous flocks endanger air travel, mob cattle operations, chase off native songbirds, roost on city blocks, leaving behind corrosive, foul-smelling droppings and hundreds of millions of dollars of damage each year.

And getting rid of them is near impossible.

Last year U.S. government agents poisoned, shot and trapped 1.7 million starlings, more than any other nuisance species, according to new figures, only to see them roaring back again.

“It’s sort of like bailing the ocean with a thimble,” said Richard Dolbeer, a retired Wildlife Ser vices researcher in Sandusky, Ohio who spent years tr ying to figure out ways to keep starlings — which he calls “flying bullets” — and other birds from causing problems at airports. Federal aviation of ficials say they have caused $4 million in damage since 1990.

After the starlings’ introduction, they quickly expanded west, taking advantage of vast tracts of forested land opening up to agriculture and human development, Dolbeer said.

By the 1950s, starlings had reached Califor nia and nearly all parts in between.

Today, it’s one of the most common birds in the U.S.

Their prodigious presence is no myster y. Starlings breed like crazy, eat almost anything, are highly mobile and operate in overwhelming numbers.

They’re also expert at nesting in protected nooks and making an intimidating statement as they swirl in vast clouds called “murmurations.”

“They’re great survivors and quite the biological machine,” said Greg Butcher, director of bird conser vation at the National Audubon Society.

They’re also responsible for the most deadly bird strikes in aviation: a 1960 civilian crash in Boston that killed 62 and a 1996 military cargo plane crash that killed 34 in the Netherlands. Since then, there have been close calls, including a Boeing 747 that ran into a flock in Rome last fall. No one was killed but the badly damaged plane had a rough landing.

Those kinds of scenarios are why wildlife biologist Mike Smith has been tweaking a series of traps used at Salt Lake City International Airport, where there have been 19 repor ted starling strikes since 1990. The traps use dog food to attract a starling or two. Hundreds more soon follow, driven by their innate desire to flock with each other. He once caught 800 in a single day.

The most popular lethal tactic is a poison called DRC-1339, which is often sprinkled on french fries, a favorite starlings snack.

Within a day or two, starlings keel over from organ failure.

No other state poisoned more starlings last year than Washington. Starlings there caused $9 million in damages to agricultural operations over five years.

Nationwide, starlings cause $800 million in damage to agricultural operations each year, according to a Cornell University estimate.

At one feed lot, some 200,000 starlings gathered each day, lining fence tops, wires, water troughs and even perching on top of cows. They’ve learned to

steal the most nutritious morsels from the cattle troughs and pose an everpresent threat of moving disease from one ranch to another, said Roger Woodr uf f, director of Wildlife Services in Washington.

Nearly 650,000 starlings were poisoned last year in the state, an all-time record, he said.

When killing’s not an option, agents often turn to harassment campaigns.

In downtown Indianapolis, flocks as large as 40,000 show up around dusk in the winter to hang out, find food and keep warm. They quickly wear out their welcome with their noise and their mess. Crews are deployed nearly every night to scare them off with lasers, pyrotechnic explosions and noise devices with names like “screamers” and “bangers.”

Like other urban areas, they’ve had some success shooing them out of downtown and onto undeveloped land, said Judy Loven, director of Wildlife Ser vices in Indiana, but it’s likely going to be an ongoing battle.

“They’re pretty much wise to our ways and pass that information along,” said Jeff Homan, a wildlife researcher in Bismarck, N.D., who’s part of a team focusing on starlings and blackbirds.

It’s unlikely those who engineered the starlings’ release in Central Park — including its leader, New York dr ug manufacturer named Eugene Schieffelin — could have fully imagined the consequences of their experiment, said author Kim Todd, who wrote about the introduction in her 2001 book “Tinkering With Eden: A Natural Histor y of Exotic Species in America.”

“It’s sad but true that we often only see a creature’s beauty when it is out-ofreach or rare,” Todd said in an e-mail. “I can’t imagine that Schieffelin, who appreciated starlings on the page and in small groups, would have the same affection for them in their enormous, pesky flocks.”

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Fashionista:

p the P

fashionista is in

BY KARA NESVIG knesvig@mndaily.com

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K, so it might sort of suck that school is already upon us — summer came and went in a flurry of blasé weather that rarely reached 85 degrees. But I don’t really mind; I’ve been more than ready to get back into the Tuesday pages for your weekly Fashionista fix. Miss me?

The influx of fake Chanel rhinestone earrings and lace-trim tank tops seems to prove a point: Absence doesn’t make the University of Minnesota girls’ hearts fonder but only reverts them back to their yucky old wardrobes.

As you can see, I’ve changed my look a little, and I’m hoping to change up the column, too. As always, I want

I'm baaaaaack!

Same Fashionista, but new year, new look

letters, suggestions and comments; if you’ve got something to say, please don’t hesitate to a) e-mail me, or b) find me at the bar and give me a piece of your mind. (P. S. I love meeting Fashionista readers at Blarney and The Library.)

I’m hoping to do more video segments, podcasts and even a few shoots (look for one in the coming weeks with University models, local boutique offerings and the work of the exceptionally talented photog Mr. Jules Ameel) to keep the pages of the Daily as chic as possible.

So, on that note, maybe it’s time for a little refresher course. A whole new crop of first-years have moved on into the Superblock, and upon moving my little brother into his new home in Pioneer, I noticed a surprising amount of not-hideous ensembles on the new kids in town.

For every leggings-and-miniskirt combo there was a cute, off-the-shoulder top and shorts. Way to represent, babies. But there are always, always repeat offenders of bad taste. Here, in convenient list form, are the top three things that give my Fashionista self migraines: 1. Fake designer anything, but especially fake Chanel. The sunglasses, the earrings and the Rue Cambon totes — I can tell a real from a faux, and ladies, 97 percent of you might have been swindled.

2. Coach bags. Coach bags are ugly. If you’re going to drop money on a bag, you should not spend it on some tacky, logo-emblazoned purse more appropriate for a junior high girl. Buy something tasteful and leather, maybe Marc by Marc Jacobs or Foley & Corinna.

3. Carelessness. To all of you, males and females alike, it’s really not that hard to get dressed in the morning. If you spend an hour on your hair and makeup,

couldn’t you take five minutes to shimmy into some cute jeans instead of sweats and Uggs?

Make it a goal for yourself, especially if 2009-2010 is your last year within the confines of the University, to take the steps to figure out what you’re going to look like as a full-fledged adult. The working world is fast approaching, unless you’re planning to pull a Van Wilder and stay in college for eight years — not that I’d blame you with this job market. (That’s another topic for an upcoming Fashionista: how to stretch your clothing budget — something I’ve had more than a few issues with. Hello, new Nordstrom card!)

MNFashion Week is fast approaching, so look to my column for information on all the happenings. I strongly advise you all to check out local twin models Coco and Breezy’s Gemela Amor (Twin Love) sunglasses trunk show/going away party (they’re moving to New York) at VS Social Standard at 9 p.m on Wednesday. Be sure to pick up a pair of their shades (running from $40-$50) before they accomplish bigger and better things on the East Coast, because I have a feeling their designs are going to be huge.

Also going to be huge is local boy Ra’mon-Lawrence Coleman, who I inter viewed this summer about his time on “Project Runway,” airing on Lifetime right now.

He’s showing during New York Fashion Week, and even though I’m not able to go and see the show, you can bet I’ll be looking rabidly on Style.com for the collection. A bunch of fashionable local folks like Vita.mn/Eclecticoiffeur’s Jahna Peloquin and Fox 9’s Robyne Robinson will be there to represent the Cities, and what better supporters could we want in our place?

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Sports stadium

Fans watch game on big board

BY MIKE MULLEN mmullen@mndaily.com

On Saturday, TCF Bank Stadium had almost all the elements of a major college football game. With a marching band, cheerleaders and fans, the only thing missing was a football game.

The stadium opened to allow students to watch Minnesota’s away game at Syracuse free of charge. Students could also take a tour and walk through the home locker room and one end zone. Roughly 2,000 students took advantage of the open arena, where gates opened at 10:30 a.m. and several hundred were still in attendance to see Eric Ellestad’s game-winning field goal.

The event helped serve as a final tuneup for stadium and event staff.

“We didn’t make any money today; in fact, we probably spent more than we brought in,” Jason LaFrenz, director of marketing and ticketing, said. “A lot of today was just getting people excited for next Saturday.”

Essentially, Saturday’s event was a miniature game day. A single bank of seats was available behind the east end zone and only one merchandise stand and one concession stand was opened.

Fans watched the game on the stadium’s video board, which, at 48 feet tall and 108 feet wide, is the third-largest screen in college football.

A group of elevated speakers pipedin the audio feed from the ESPN2 commentators and a small display underneath the screen showed the closed captioning.

Though the stadium had been opened on several occasions, including an August 22 scrimmage that drew more than 15,000 fans, many students were seeing the stadium for the first time.

Though there have been scheduled events for alumni during past away games, LaFrenz said Saturday’s outing, an idea generated by the Office for Student Affairs, was the first such event held for students in at least five years.

Brothers Tim and K.C. Graner, who grew up attending Gophers games at the Metrodome, are enthusiastic supporters of the events. Tim, a junior who woke up early to bike to the stadium from St. Paul, described the stadium as “amazing.”

K.C., a senior, wished days like Saturday were a regular occurrence.

“If they did ever y away game on the big screen, I’d come even if it was minus 10 degrees,” K.C. Graner said.

LaFrenz said that this was the only time during this season the stadium would host fans for an away game, though he was pleased with Saturday’s turnout. He said a repeat might be held for next season’s first away game.

football

Gophers squeeze by Orange

A game-winning Eric Ellestad field goal in overtime helped the Gophers begin 1-0.

BY Marco LaNave mlanave@mndaily.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – The outlook was bleak for the Gophers football team in the fourth quarter against Syracuse on Saturday.

Trailing 20-17 at the Carrier Dome, Minnesota was four minutes and 45 seconds from losing to a team that tied for last in the Big East a year ago and was in its first game under a new head coach.

The Gophers had scored just three points since the first four minutes of the game, and junior quarterback Adam Weber had looked ineffective.

The Gophers had driven to the Syracuse 30-yard line each of the previous two possessions, but the drives resulted in a lost fumble and a missed field goal.

A penalty had pushed Minnesota to its own 12-yard line — the worst starting field position of the game.

As if none of that had occurred to the team, the Gophers put together their longest drive of the game, moving 79 yards in 14 plays.

Junior kicker Eric Ellestad tied the game on a 26-yard field goal with 57 seconds remaining.

Weber, who had completed just 11 of his first 30 passes, found his receivers on 7 of 11 attempts in the drive.

“That two-minute drive allowed us to just keep on going, get up to the line, call a play and go,” Weber said. “That’s the style of offense, that’s the tempo of offense that we want to have.”

The Gophers defense had held the Orange scoreless in the second half, so they had no problem playing defense first in overtime.

“I thought that they felt really confident about their ability at that particular point to stop Syracuse,” third-year head coach Tim Brewster said.

After four running plays put Syracuse at the Minnesota 5-yard line, Orange quarterback Greg Paulus escaped pressure by running to his left. Rather than throwing the ball away to set up a short field goal, Paulus threw a pass that was intercepted by senior linebacker Nate Triplett for his first career pick.

“As soon as he threw it I got a good break on it, and [I was] right where I was supposed to be,” said Triplett, who also had a career-

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Minnesota senior wide receiver Eric Decker tries to run past the Syracuse defense Saturday. Decker finished the game with nine catches for 183 yards, including a six-reception, 126-yard fourth quarter performance.

high nine tackles in just his second career start.

Needing only a field goal to win, the Gophers moved 8 yards in three plays to set up a 35-yard attempt for Ellestad. His kick silenced the crowd of 48,617 at the Carrier Dome and gave the Gophers a 23-20 victory — their first under Brewster after trailing at halftime.

“The thing that I’m most excited about is that we found a way to win the football game,” Brewster said. “I think there’s tremendous chemistry on our team; there’s a belief that we can make it happen.”

But the first three-and-a-half minutes of the game did not suggest a nail-biter.

On the first play from scrimmage, the shotgun snap sailed past Paulus and Gophers senior defensive end Cedric McKinley pounced on the ball at the Syracuse 16-yard line.

Minnesota gladly accepted the gift.

On the ensuing drive, sophomore running back Duane Bennett took his first carry in nearly a year around the right end for a 16-yard touchdown just 19 seconds into the game.

After a 65-yard kickoff return

by Syracuse, the Gophers defense held the Orange to a 23-yard field goal.

On the next kickof f, Gophers sophomore Troy Stoudermire had a 54-yard return of his own to put the Gophers at

A Gopher defender tackles Orange running back Antwon Bailey in Saturday’s game. Minnesota’s defense held Syracuse scoreless in the second half and helped the Gophers beat the Orange 23-20.

the Orange 43-yard line.

One minute and 13 seconds later, Stoudermire finished what he started with his first career touchdown reception. He caught a 7-yard pass from Weber to extend the lead to 14-3 with 11:48 remaining in the first quarter.

The Syracuse offense arrived later in the quarter with a six-play 63-yard drive. A pump fake by Paulus left senior wide receiver Mike Williams open for a 29-yard touchdown catch with 32 seconds to go in the first quarter.

Paulus, a graduate student at Syracuse who was a Duke basketball point guard during the last four years, looked comfortable leading the Orange offense.

He completed seven of his final eight passes in the first half and completed all four attempts in a 67-yard drive that ended with a 1-yard touchdown run by senior running back Delone Carter. It gave the Orange a 20- 14 lead 1:39 before the half.

Meanwhile, the Syracuse defense shut down Minnesota. Weber threw his only interception early in the second quarter, and he was stopped short on a fourthdown quarterback sneak on the next drive.

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volleyball

soccer

Gophers win Diet Coke Classic at home

Two defensive shutouts leave Minnesota 1-0-1 over the weekend

BY keith beise kbeise@mndaily.com

After starting the season with four games on the road, the No. 13 Minnesota volleyball team finally had the chance to show the home crowd what they can do when they hosted the Diet Coke Classic at the Sports Pavilion this weekend.

The Gophers gave the Minnesota crowd plenty of reasons to cheer on the way to a tournament victory.

Minnesota started the tournament by defeating Auburn on Friday night in straight sets, 25-11, 25-17 and 25-6.

The Gophers then cruised past George Washington on Saturday morning, winning again in straight sets, this time by scores of 25-17, 25-19 and 25-16.

This set up a showdown Saturday night against undefeated No. 12 Iowa State. The Gophers came back from large deficits in the first two sets to win 27-25 in both. The Cyclones fought off a pair of match points to come back and win the third set 28-26.

The Gophers grabbed an early lead in the fourth set and refused to let up, completing the upset with a 25-13 win.

Junior Brook Dieter, who had 45 kills and 29 digs combined, was named the tournament MVP. Dieter said she was excited to be back home and was confident that the team could beat Iowa State.

Junior Lauren Gibbemeyer, with 28 kills, and senior Christine Tan, who had 40 digs were named to the AllTournament Team.

Senior transfer Taylor Carico also played well for the Gophers, accounting for 87 total assists in her first home appearance since transferring from USC. Fellow senior transfer, Megan Wilson, also continues to provide leadership for the Gophers. Her 30 total digs may not be a huge number, but she was often making big plays when

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The Gophers tied Tennessee 0-0 Friday and beat NDSU 4-0 Sunday.

BY BRITTANY STOROZ bstoroz@mndaily.com

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Gophers libero Hailey Cowles (center) waits to see if two George Washington blockers stop a Minnesota kill attempt. The Gophers played their first home matches of the year and won the Diet Coke Classic with three weekend wins.

the team needed one.

Freshman Tabitha Love continues to come into her own on the Minnesota front court. She had 29 kills in the tournament, including 18 against Iowa State.

The Gophers set the pace early in the tournament by taking a quick 3-0 lead in the first set against Auburn.

After cruising by Auburn on Friday, Minnesota squared off against George Washington on Saturday morning. Dieter had eight kills in the first set to help set the tone for the Gophers who made quick work of the Colonials.

Minnesota knew it was going to face much tougher competition against Iowa State in the championship match.

For the returning Gophers, the memory of knocking the Cyclones out in the second round of the 2008 NCAA tournament was still imminent.

The first set started with the Gophers taking a quick 3-1 lead, only to lose nine of the next 10 points. Kills by Carico, Love and Filho brought Minnesota to within 14-17. The Gophers

came out of a team timeout trailing 2116, but won six of eight points to bring the score to 22-23. Minnesota fought off a set point with a Love block, making it 25-25, and then created a set point of their own with a Dieter kill.

Without missing a beat, the Gophers capped off the comeback with a Wilson kill, winning 27-25.

Minnesota and Iowa State bounced back and forth early in second set. Blocks

by Gibbemeyer and Carico tied the score at 13. Then the Cyclones began to pull away, scoring eight of nine points to take a 21-14 lead, but Iowa State committed errors on four of the next five plays and blocks by Wilson and Dieter brought the Gophers to within two at 22-20.

After a kill by Gibbemeyer and another Cyclone error, the score was tied at 24. Minnesota failed to capitalize on the first set point, but Love would make sure Iowa State had no more chances as she finished off the set with a block and a u See volleyball Page 22

University of Minnesota women’s soccer improved its record this weekend to 3-1-1 after defeating North Dakota State (2-2-1) and fighting to a draw with Tennessee (2-2-1) at home.

The Gophers met up with NDSU on Sunday having defeated the Bison 3-0 on the road last year. Minnesota earned another shutout this Sunday, winning 4-0.

This marks the team’s fourth win against NDSU, giving them a perfect 4-0 record against the team.

The Gophers got off to a rocky start as the squad tried out a new formation and went scoreless for the first 40 minutes.

“It was just unnatural for us in the beginning,” head coach Mikki Denney Wright said. “We thought this might be a good game to look at something different.”

Switching back to a comfortable formation remedied the confusion and sparked goals before half time.

With just 2:05 left in the first half, senior Sara Clancy scored the first goal of the

game after making a penalty kick that went outside the reach of Bison goalkeeper Kalani Bertsch.

Less than a minute later, Minnesota struck again when junior Molly Rouse made an unassisted goal that bumped the Gophers lead to 2-0.

“The formation that we’re playing now is really positionoriented, and the players that we have now are more powerful with possession, which helps us out a lot,” Rouse said.

Before ending the first half, junior Angie Olson gave Bertsch yet another scare when she threatened to score, but the shot bounced off the top of the net.

Olson came back in the second half to to assist a goal for Rouse, bringing the Gophers lead to 3-0.

“We’re just tr ying to figure out our par tners and figure out our duos,” Wright said. “We just need some duos up top to make the combination play.”

Freshman Marissa Price assisted junior Katie Bethke, who scored the last goal of the game — her third of the season — bringing the final score to 4-0.

Shutting down the offense

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

cross country

Men, women ready to begin season Exhibitions provide a chance to evaluate talent for the regular season.

BY Max sanders msanders@mndaily.com

The kickoff to the 2009 cross countr y season began Saturday, and both the men’s and women’s programs are looking to continue their success from last year, as both teams finished 2008 with top-15 finishes at the NCAA championships.

The women’s 11th place finish put them in elite company as one of only three programs to finish in the top 12 in four consecutive seasons — Illinois and Stanford being the others.

Couple that success at

the championship with a second consecutive Big Ten Title, and the bar is set high for the 2009 women’s team.

“Obviously, for our team, I’d love to see us win one more Big Ten championship and have our best finish at nationals,” senior Heather Dorniden said. “Our team looks really strong this year.”

Leading the way for the Gophers will be fellow senior Megan Duwell, an All-American in 2008. Duwell had a foot injury that kept her sidelined for the end of last season.

At Saturday’s intrasquad meet she said her foot was completely healed, and the results agreed. Her time of 17:41.63 in the 5-kilometer race was good for first among her teammates.

Duwell knows being a

captain and a senior brings a responsibility to provide direction and stability to a team that boasts over 40 runners.

“It’s impor tant to lead verbally, through encouraging words. Just keeping the morale up and the spirits high,” she said. “They look up to us, so it’s important to do the right things at the right times and just set good examples.”

Saturday’s intrasquad meet provided the first chance for head coach Gary Wilson, entering his 25th year at the helm of the Minnesota program, to evaluate the younger runners on his team. Having a team of mostly seniors, Wilson counts on these early meets to evaluate the younger runners.

“We’re going to be a senior laden team, but we also have

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by Tennessee last Friday, but the Gophers’ relentless defense brought the game into double overtime before ending in a 0-0 tie.

The box score reflected how both teams kept up with each other and played a similar game. The offense on both teams paralleled on paper, both recording 19 shots and three shots on goal.

While Minnesota finished the game with 10 fouls to Tennessee’s eight, the Lady Vols had to cope with two redcards in the second half.

The first went to freshman Ali Hall after she was tripped up with Rouse, bringing Tennessee down to 10 players.

Just minutes later, Lady

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Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Cat Parkhill stands in the net Sunday during the Gophers 4-0 victory over NDSU. The game was Parkhill’s second shutout of the weekend.

Vols head coach Angela Kelly received the second redcard and was forced to leave the field for the last 50 minutes of the game.

Despite the disadvantages for Tennessee, Minnesota was unable to make a move after seeing several

chances to score.

One prime opportunity for the Gophers to break the defensive deadlock came when Bethke side-stepped Lady Vols goalkeeper Molly Baird and had a shot at the open net. Bethke’s kick went wide and just narrowly

to prepare for next year, when those kids are gone,” Wilson said. “There’s a lot of kids that have made tremendous improvement.”

One of the reasons Wilson cites for the programs success is the large team.

Having so many r unners and tough intersquad competition keeps everyone on their toes.

“Nobody can ever feel comfortable with their spot, you have to run to earn a spot,” Wilson said. “That last kid on the team pushes the next to last all the way up the line, and that’s what I think makes us very strong.”

While trophies such as the “Smelly Fish,” — a fake fish mounted on a plaque — are awar ded to the team that finishes last, the

missed the net.

“Goal scoring is a streaky thing in soccer,” Wright said. “Our kids are dissappointed they didn’t finish those opportunities, but they’re glad they’re creating them.”

Despite a stronger offensive threat in the second half, the defenses blocked 29 total shots in regulation, with both goalkeepers recording three saves. With these saves, Gophers goalkeeper Cat Parkhill earned her third shut out of the season.

“A lot of that has to do with my defense,” Parkhill said. “They’re not allowing any shots or giving them a clear look, so that makes my job a lot easier.”

Minnesota travels to Wisconsin next weekend to meet up with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sept. 11 and Marquette University on Sept. 13.

intrasquad meet is seen by Wilson and the team as an exhibition — a warm-up to prepare for the Griak Invitational and pre-NCAA meet.

“It’s kind of like those exhibition games that Tubby [Smith] has,” Wilson said.

“Find out what you got, see what you need to work on and have a game plan to progress forward.”

The next competition for the Gopher women will be the Oz Memorial Run, taking place Friday, Sept. 11.

Men begin season at St. Olaf Opener

The men’s cross country team also began its season Saturday with the St. Olaf Opener. Like Wilson, head coach Steve Plasencia treats the early meets as a chance to evaluate talent on

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kill as the Gophers once again won 27-25.

The third set was nothing new as Minnesota trailed again, this time by a score of 16-10. The Gophers then scored four straight points on kills by Dieter and Love and a pair of blocks

by Gibbemeyer. Minnesota was once again able to come back and retake the lead at 19-18.

Kills by Dieter and Tan gave the Gophers match point at 24-23, but the Cyclones simply would not go away quietly. They scored three points in a row, handing the Gophers their first home set defeat with a score of 28-26.

The Gophers didn’t need to mount a comeback in the fourth set. They grabbed an

the roster.

“The beginning of the season is a good time to test out your guys and see how your depth is,” Plasencia said.

The key to the men’s season will undoubtedly rest in the hands of junior All-American Hassan Mead. Last year’s co-team MVP will be counted on to help guide the younger runners, especially after the loss of fellow All-American and co-team MVP Chris Rombough, who graduated last year.

While Mead did not run at the opener, Plasencia said he does expect him to compete in the Griak Invitational.

The men will join the women at the Oz Memorial this Friday, and both programs will compete at the Griak Invitational on Sept. 26.

early lead and kept it. Minnesota scored five straight points to take a 10-5 lead.

A Wilson kill set up match point at 24-13 and the upset was finalized with a Love block, giving Minnesota the 25-13 win.

Gophers head coach Mike Hebert described the match with the Cyclones as a war and said two “miraculous” comebacks helped the Gophers take the battle.

“It’s not that often that two teams want to win as bad these two did,” Hebert said about the matchup between Minnesota and Iowa State. “It was my feeling that if we played competitively and pushed hard that at some point, with our court and our crowd, that Iowa State would wear down.”

Next weekend, the Gophers travel to St. Petersburg, Fla. to play in the Tampa Twice Tournament.

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football

Ellestad helps Gophers escape

BY Marco LaNave mlanave@mndaily.com

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Eric Ellestad found action early and pressure late.

In his first game as the Gophers kicker, the junior added two extra points to Gophers touchdowns within three minutes and 12 seconds of kicking off the season opener against Syracuse at the Carrier Dome.

Three hours later, his kick would determine whether the Gophers started on a high note or went home 0-1.

After standing on the sideline during the Gophers fourth-quarter drive, Ellestad, who had made a 26-yard field goal in his first career attempt in the third quarter, came in to try another one from the same distance with 1:01 remaining in regulation.

Earlier in the fourth quarter, his first attempt at the game-tying field goal — from 47 yards away — had been tipped at the line of scrimmage and fallen well short of the goal posts.

Ellestad converted his second chance to tie the game at 20-20 with 57 seconds left.

Then on Minnesota’s first overtime possession, he was entrusted with the Gophers

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“We were just kind of wondering, ‘What are we doing wrong here?’” senior wide receiver Eric Decker said.

In the second half, however, the Gophers offense slowly made progress, mustering a field goal midway through the third quarter.

“I think we got some of the juice back, and we got that momentum in the second half, and that’s all we needed,” Decker said.

Decker exploded in the fourth quarter, catching 6 passes for 126 yards. He finished with 9 receptions for 183 yards, the second-highest total of his career. “[Decker] obviously

fate once again, with a chance to end the game on a 35-yard attempt.

“I’ve dreamt about it since I was a little kid, but I never thought of it happening in my first official game,” Ellestad said.

After Minnesota used a timeout, Syracuse also called one to ice Ellestad.

But a little extra thinking time was not enough to lead his game winning kick astray.

After kicking the Gophers to a 23-20 win, Ellestad said he felt more pressure when attempting the game winner than the game tier.

“It was my first time ever kicking in a big time situation,” he said. “I’m just glad it happened.”

Ellestad, who made 18 of 26 field goal attempts in his career at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School in Plymouth, Minn., surpassed that conversion rate with a threefor-four performance on Saturday, although it doesn’t get much better than making the game-tying and winning field goals.

“As a young guy who’s never played before in this environment, for him to do what he did, really, it’s special,” head coach Tim Brewster said.

With Saturday under his

belt, Ellestad comes home a hero after week one.

played well, made some big plays and he did what we need for him to do,” Brewster said.

The Orange defense didn’t break, though.

The Gophers second-half defense kept them in the game. After adjusting to Syracuse’s running back direct snap and screen pass plays, the Gophers allowed just three first downs in the second half and kept all six Orange drives under 20 yards.

“We think we have the advantage all the time as a defense if we just do everything we’re supposed to do,” Triplett said.

The Gophers appeared to have recovered a fumble in Orange territor y with just more than eight minutes remaining, but a review

overturned the play and extended the Syracuse drive.

The Minnesota defense ultimately forced a punt with less than five minutes remaining, but Stoudermire ran with the ball after signaling for a fair catch. The delay of game penalty cost the Gophers 5 yards, but the Minnesota offense didn’t appear worried.

“Going into that last drive, I don’t think we felt any pressure,” Weber said.

“We just knew that [if we] just keep on moving the ball and just do our job we’ll be able to put ourselves in a good position.”

After forcing over time with a field goal, the Gophers found themselves in that good position and returned to Minnesota 1-0.

Running game a work in progress

After Saturday’s game, Brewster said his team has plenty of work to do, including the continual development of the running game.

Although the Gophers amassed 112 rushing yards (their highest total since a 2720 win at Illinois on Oct. 11, 2008), they managed to average only 3.5 yards per carry.

Sophomores Duane Bennett and DeLeon Eskridge were the primar y running backs, although only Bennett carried the ball in the final three drives of regulation.

Bennett finished with 16 carries for 78 yards and a touchdown, while Eskridge finished with eight carries for 29 yards.

“I thought that we made a much better effort to run the football,” Brewster said. “I thought the backs ran hard.

We had some good runs, we had some negative runs, but I really feel like the running game is going to be a positive thing for us as we move forward.”

Records watch Junior quarterback Adam

Weber threw a 7-yard touchdown pass to sophomore Troy Stoudermire in the first quarter for his 40th career passing touchdown. He tied Cor y Sauter (1994-97) for third place on the Gophers alltime passing touchdowns list.

Bryan Cupito (2003-06) and Asad Abdul-Khaliq (2000-03) hold the record with 55 touchdown passes each.

Weber also moved into third place in career passing attempts by tossing the ball 42 times on Saturday. He surpassed Marquel Fleetwood (1989-92, 876 attempts), and raised his career total to 901.

Weber needs just eight completions to set the Gophers career mark.

With 183 receiving yards, senior wide receiver Eric Decker moved past Ernie Wheelwright (2004-2007, 2,434 yards) into third place on the all-time receiving list.

Decker now has 2,544 career receiving yards.

Decker also tied Ron Johnson (1998-2001) for third place in career 100-yard receiving games with his eighth on Saturday.

With another 100-yard performance, Decker will move into a tie for second place with Ryan Thelwell (199496) who had nine.

Scoring Summary First Quarter

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Duane Bennett 16- Yd Run. (Eric Ellestad Kick) Ryan Lichtenstein 23 Yds Troy Stoudermire Jr. 7-Yd Pass From Adam Weber. (Eric Ellestad Kick) Mike Williams 29-Yd Pass From Greg Paulus. (Ryan Lichtenstein Kick)

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07:26

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Ryan Lichtenstein 42 Yds Delone Carter 1-Yd Run. (Ryan Lichtenstein Kick)

Third Quarter FG

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Eric Ellestad 26 Yds

Fourth Quarter FG

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Eric Ellestad 26 Yds

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Player of the Game The Gophers Defense – The heroics of Adam Weber, Eric Decker, Eric Ellestad and others would have been meaningless if the Minnesota defense hadn't shut down Syracuse in the second half. The defense stumbled into the locker room, giving up three scores in the last four Orange possessions of the first half. But after halftime, the defense came out with an improved game plan. In the second half, Syracuse had six possessions, gained 57 total yards and had just one non-penalty first down. Starting linebackers Lee Campbell (13 tackles), Simoni Lawrence (11) and Nate Triplett (9) all had career highs in tackles.

Play of the Game Green Keeps Minnesota Moving – The late field goals, second-half defensive stands and the entire fourth-quarter drive were crucial to the win, but the drive was sustained by three big catches for first downs by sophomore wide receiver Brandon Green.

Until the final drive, Green didn’t have a reception, but on third-and-four at the Minnesota 18-yard line, Weber found him on a slant route for a 10-yard gain. He found Green again on third-and-four from the 34-yard line to pick up another first down. Green later caught an 11-yard pass from Weber second-and-10 and picked up the final first down Minnesota would need at the Syracuse 15-yard line.

Numbers of the Game 1 for 10 and 10 for 6 – The Gophers converted just one of 10 third-down attempts through three quarters. In the fourth quarter, they converted four of six third downs, including the first two third downs in the eventual game-tying drive.

Lucky Twist of the Game Gophers benefit from their own penalty – With a 7-3 lead and third-and-goal at the Syracuse 2-yard line, Weber’s pass to Decker was swatted away by Orange cornerback Kevyn Scott. But the play was dead because of a false start penalty on the Gophers. Still third-and-goal, the ball was moved to the 7-yard line. Weber hit Troy Stoudermire for a touchdown on the next play.

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Criminal behavior Did off-duty Minneapolis cops break the laws they’re charged to enforce?

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he University of Minnesota community should be alarmed if what KMSP Fox 9 recently reported about off-duty Minneapolis police officers going on a drunken foray in Northeast Minneapolis, a neighborhood on the outskirts of campus, is accurate.

The station reported on Aug. 31 that after a softball game against Minneapolis firefighters in Northeast Park, Minneapolis police officers got kicked out of 22nd Avenue Station, a strip club, because the bouncer deemed them too intoxicated to enter. According to Fox 9, officers tried to intimidate the bouncer by flashing their badges - one officer even urinated on the building, which was caught on surveillance camera. The officers reportedly then went to Mayslack’s Bar, where they allegedly intimidated patrons and assaulted a man outside the bar. Witnesses told the station they heard a gunshot. In interviews with The Minnesota Daily, employees of both bars declined to comment about the incidents.

When asked about the accuracy of the Fox 9 report, Minneapolis police Sgt. Jesse Garcia said in an interview that he could not comment about it because the Minneapolis Police Department’s internal affairs unit was investigating the incident. Garcia added that the softball team “calling themselves Minneapolis Police” was not sponsored or funded by the MPD or by the city of Minneapolis. Then, when asked whether the internal affairs unit would investigate an incident involving people who were not Minneapolis police officers, Garcia said, “Clearly, it’s some police officers.”

As members of the University community, we call on Minneapolis police Chief Tim Dolan to publicly address the incident in Northeast Minneapolis. We want to know whether the same officers who arrest University students for public urination, assault and disorderly conduct are guilty of those very crimes. Citizens should not have to walk Minneapolis streets in trepidation of the same officers responsible for their protection.

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Letters to the editor The smelly jock state

Pardon me if I am less than ecstatic about the new football season and the new stadium. As I have said many times in The Minnesota Daily and elsewhere, the values of our society are skewed beyond belief when we waste millions of dollars of taxpayer money as well as private funds on frivolous, meaningless, even counterproductive activities such as professional and intercollegiate sports.

University of Minnesota President Bob Bruininks, his rubber-stamp Board of Regents, the Athletics Depar tment and its stooges in the statehouse and the Minnesota Legislature have yet to make a connection between big-time spor ts and education. Likewise, professional sports moguls lie through their teeth when they describe their ventures as anything but completely self-ser ving, providing no societal value whatsoever.

What do you want to bet that Vikings owner Zygi Wilf will extort a new publicly-funded stadium from our elected public representatives in the next session of the Legislature, just as Carl Pohlad did several years ago?

Minnesota was once known as the “Brainpower State.” Now, we’re the “Smelly Jock State,” and the shabby politics and inappropriate budgeting of public funds stink to high heaven.

Willard B. Shapira University alumnus

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I am Ashref. If you read The Minnesota Daily in the past few weeks you would have read about me: I was the subject of the article “Tunisian visitor shares philosophies, views of the U.S.” I was more than happy when the ar ticle was first published. I felt pride and happiness to see my ideas shared with the students and people of Minnesota, a place that I love. I was proud because I felt that I am telling the truth, that I am helping my people express themselves and making their voices reach the United States. I was proud because I was expressing the ideas that a lot of my compatriots are afraid to say. When I went back to my country, many students and others considered me to be brave, daring and strong.

However, I was surprised, even shocked when I read the second article published about me. In the article “No longer written in stone” Mrs. Miller said that I regretted what I had said. I contacted Katherine Lymn, the writer of the first article, and she told me that the State Department told them that I made up my mind and changed my opinion. So I write this to explain to all Minnesotans that I did not regret any word I said. I write this to explain to all Tunisians that I did not deceive them and that my ideas are still the same.

This is what happened exactly: The Department of State talked to me about the article and asked if I

would face trouble with the Tunisian government when I returned home. I said “perhaps,” so they suggested removing my name from the article. To this, I responded, “If you think that my article represents a threat to the program in my country and that the government may cancel it because of me, you’d better remove my name.” This was my reply exactly. I never said that I regretted anything. The whole matter is that I did not want to be selfish. I did not want to be the force preventing other Tunisian students from coming to the United States and having the same experience I had.

I did not regret anything, and I do not care about what will happen because I know I am right. This, at least, is what I have learned during my stay in Minnesota and what I have learned from the great Rep. Keith Ellison when I met him. In spite of the misunderstanding, I want to thank those responsible in the Department of State for caring and for their good intention to protect me. I want also to thank the talented journalist Katherine Lymn for her help, and I want to apologize for the troubles I created for her.

Thank you, Minnesota, for the few weeks of freedom that I’ve had, and thanks to all the Minnesotans for their hospitality. I hope to be back one day, but not before my country becomes a better place.

Ashref University exchange student

n a city like Austin — where football games, greek life and the downtown scene are inseparably tied to drunken revelr y — driving while intoxicated is not an uncommon occurrence. Police have tried to combat it by implementing a “no refusal” policy during times when drunk driving is expected to increase. During “no refusal,” DWI suspects who refuse a breathalyzer test can instead be forced to take a blood test as long as police have a warrant.

But a new law that went into effect last week mutates the policy into a civil-liberties disaster. It allows police to draw blood with no warrant if the suspect is allegedly drunk driving, refuses a breath test, has a history of offenses or if a serious injury or child passenger is involved.

Warrantless and mandatory blood tests create a dangerous precedent that expands police power. Instead of fixing the cumbersome process by which police obtain warrants, lawmakers decided to throw out the process altogether and eschew an important protection against police abuse. This law grants police absolute discretion to make decisions reserved for judges, whose role is to prevent police from capriciously exercising power.

While curbing dr unken driving is a wor thy goal, the new law is constitutionally dubious. Texas civil rights lawyers are expected to argue that it violates the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination, as well as the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. Lawmakers should not circumvent the protection of warrants, even if it’s simpler than reorganizing the system within which warrants are granted.

Instead of diver ting resources to train police phlebotomists, officials should devote resources to rework the warrant system. This would allow police to secure warrants in a timely manner, while still protecting the rights of motorists.

This column was originally published in the Daily Texan at the University of Texas. Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

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We have made changes to greatly improve not only the overall look of the site but also to improve its functionality and usability. Going to mndaily.com, readers will first notice the change in the header. The new header boasts a different skyline and a dif ferent background. We suggest that you check mndaily.com at random inter vals during the day, especially during different weather conditions. There are more than six different designs that will change based on the time and weather.

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Today’s Birthday (9/8): This year is about saving money and paying off all your debt. Don’t think that’s possible? Make it a priority and you’ll be amazed.

Spend less.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — You’re onto new ways to make money and also gain security. Use your natural enthusiasm and follow through on an old dream.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — You’re slow today but steady. Set up your accounts so you won’t have to look at them for a while.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — You’re very decisive now and that’s good. Make decisions and choices you can live with for a while.

Declarations made now will last.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Be careful what you pass along. Some of the information is from a definite point of view. Just be aware what that is and you’re fine.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Something’s coming due; better check your “in” box. You can use the extra money this will generate.

Don’t spend it yet. Be patient.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Finally the work starts to slow down and you can think of other things — like the money you’ll make off this latest endeavor.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — Your friends have something to tell you. This could make you agitated. Remember, it isn’t what anyone’s done before; it’s what they do now that counts.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — If you start a new business now there will be confusion but you’ll get past it. Go ahead and make your move.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7— The boss wants to give you a raise but only if you’ll play by the rules. Don’t even ask if you’ve been tardy a lot lately.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Keep pushing against an invisible barrier and you’ll get past. There’s solid ground up ahead.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — If you’re unsure talk to your spiritual advisor. Sometimes it’s good to get an outside perspective.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Make provisions for a rainy day. You may feel like it’ll never rain but it will. Be prepared.

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First day back to school, and excitement abounds. Smell that? Is it the sweet, sweet scent of incoming first-year girlies for the frat boys, or the soiled jock straps of an already nearly shamed Gophers football squad? Only you can tell for sure.

From NetWorkedOver

Hey, Net. You know, it is strange that you no longer use the plural form to refer to yourself. Net: You know, it is strange that you actually care enough to write in about it.

You used to be so cool and refer to yourself as “we” and “us,” thus insinuating that you were better then us (which you were). Net: And with spelling like that, it never was too hard. But alas, nowadays you have shriveled into a former shell of yourself, and instead of swiftly batting away insults you have decided to participate in simple mudslinging. Net, come back to making fun of sophomores and accurately predicting Gopher football losses.

Net: Sophomores smell. Gophers suck.

Go away. Thank you. Net: NUTT OFF.

From The RailSplitter

Mr. Work (or should I say, Mr. Genius?), Net: Flattery will not save you from the savagery. I must admit, the bullheaded arrogance of your last letter made me a little upset at first. Net: We live to serve. But then it hit me: The bullheaded and arrogant make up the majority of the population of this country. Net: Obama did receive 53 percent of the vote, you’re right. If I am to lead as president to those with opposing views of my own, I must have people on my side that understand them. Eureka! Net: RIIIICOLA! I will employ those on my political cabinet that have the opposite opinion of my own — an

entire political Team of Rivals! Net: Coming this fall from director Christopher Nolan: “Team of Rivals,” starring Christian Bale and The RailSplitter — and therefore all of my political decisions will first go through immense scrutiny and will be ultimately shaped into something tailored for a diverse nation.

Your back on the team, Net. Net: And with spelling like that, you’re back in first grade.

And I owe you my greatest gratitude. Net: And four easy installments of $19.95.

From A Comatose Patient

Net, I love you. It’s been too long since I last read ya. Net: That’s probably because of the restraining order. I was on campus last week and picked up some em en dee Net: Ah, my pal Em En Dee, the head chef at Village Wok. and noticed so much whiteness in your section! My heart weeps for you. But don’t worry, the year will start soon, and you’ll be inundated with all sorts of letters from Carlson students, crazy massmessage senders (who was that guy last year you blocked?) Net: We do not bother remembering the names of every poor heathen we smite and letters from first-years that go something along the lines of “I was a sweet lil’ gal from farm city but my v-card is now in the possession of any one of nine guys, and I’m pretty sure my vajayjay contracted something that won’t be good for the baby in nine months ...” Net: We live to serve.

Anyway, potential things you can rip me on: a) Highlight of my summer will probably bebeating Pokémon. (Go, Kadabra, Go!) Net: Go die. b) Am digging the new Shakira song.

Net: Kill yourself. c) Actually, my summer is too bland for me to even come up with things for you to insult. Net: NUTT OFF.

ACROSS 1 Big bird’s grabber 6 Croquet venue 10 Winery container 14 Essential acid, familiarly 15 Working hard 16 Galway Bay’s __ Islands 17 Make an appearance 20 Bolsheviks’ bane 21 Ins. plans 22 Auto dealer’s agreement, at times 23 Andy Taylor’s boy 25 Cloak-anddagger org.

26 Do nothing 33 Movie trailer, e.g.

34 Bartender’s rocks 35 Takes home 37 Amorous sound 38 Fortified Portuguese wine 42 Draw 43 Throw in a chip 45 Nintendo game console 46 Yankees’ home 48 Dancing instruction from KC and the Sunshine Band 52 “Groovy!”

53 Seaside city 54 More than sufficiently 57 Greeley’s direction for young men 59 Linc’s “Mod Squad” do 63 Death row reprieve 66 Enjoying a lot 67 Act the accomplice 68 Doomed Genesis city 69 YMCA part: Abbr.

70 Lessons learned early 71 Eat away at DOWN 1 Diplomacy 2 “Famous” cookie guy 3 South American capital 4 Like a studio apartment 5 Doze off

6 Marshals, usually 7 12 for Mg or 20 for Ca, e.g.

8 Mental faculties 9 Extreme degree 10 Peninsula bordering Massachusetts Bay 11 Diva’s piece 12 Bloomingdale’s rival 13 Genuflection joint 18 West Virginia border river 19 Lamb’s pen name 24 __ Penh, Cambodia 25 “If I Could Turn Back Time” singer 26 Pet welfare org.

27 Presses 28 Place for a crown or cap 29 Old MacDonald refrain 30 Biol. or geol.

31 Artoo’s “surname” 32 Be frugal 36 Erotic 39 Filled with wonder

Welcome back, Dateopia! Yes, it’s fall, and that means the start of a new semester and plenty of new opportunities to meet new people, embarrass yourself, fall in love or even just make a little whoopie. I’ll break down who I am and what I do for all you newcomers. The name’s Dr. Date, but I have been known to go by Dateman, and I will be your love connoisseur here. Whenever you have a relationship problem, come to me. Think of me as James Bond meets Carrie Bradshaw meets therapist. Well, maybe not, but I have been around the block a few times and probably have given advice about far crazier problems than the ones you’re having trouble with. So, Dateopia, buckle up!

There’s a new stadium and plenty of chances to make mistakes to write in about.

Dr. Date,

9/9/09

By Donna S. Levin

I have a problem with a potential mother-in-law. She is very jealous of me and controlling of her only son.

This started 10 months ago. My father had just passed away and it was the night of the wake. My potential mother-in-law took the time to take my boyfriend aside and tell him that I was very controlling and basically not a good match for him. She then guilted him into spending the night with his mom and dad instead of me.

My boyfriend rationalized it by saying that I needed to be with my mother, who was a nervous wreck, but I know he was very upset with his parents. He did not talk to them for a month afterward. This is an extremely long time for him. His mother typically calls at least twice a week. She needs to know what he is doing basically all of the time.

One time she even knew that he lost his cell phone before I did! Yet, whenever I am around her, she is always very polite to me. I feel that because my boyfriend did not dump me when she wanted him to, she is pretending to like me while secretly scheming against me. For example, she usually came to my family’s lake cabin over the summer, but now she says she is not attending because my niece, Sarah, is too much for her.

She then commented that she didn’t want to force my boyfriend to choose between us but that she hoped to see him over the summer.

I know she does not have the best relationship with her husband, as they fight quite a lot. I feel that she is very jealous of me because I have such a gentleman for a boyfriend.

She has stated several times before that she “looks up” to my boyfriend, yet she tends to treat him like a child. Her recent thing is that I am going to distract my boyfriend from his dreams. She has told my mother that she means no offense to me but that her only concern is her son. I’ve told my boyfriend I feel this way about his mother, and he is very sad about this.At times he can even become defensive. He says he feels that I don’t trust his judgment because I think that his mother

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influences him. This is a very tricky situation, and I feel I need to put up with Wacko Mom because I love her son. I know he is strong enough to defy his mom, as he has done so already by dating me. I don’t feel that my boyfriend is a “mama’s boy,” but his mother is psycho. Any advice?

—Hating What I’m Dealing With

Hating,

People can’t choose their families, and sometimes you end up with a crazy family member. Parents should not be “looking up” to their children.

They can be proud of their offspring, but you seem to have enough faith in your boyfriend to realize that his mother won’t turn him against you.

Keep talking to your boyfriend about your feelings and maybe even try to set up a Pow Wow with his mother.

Tell her you care deeply about her son and you want her on board with your relationship. Hopefully she’ll start to come around.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’d been dating my ex for close to six years when my parents finally gave me an ultimatum: either him or them.

They’ve never shown an interest in my love life, but apparently moving in together alerted them to the fact that he and I are serious. The only reason they object is because we are culturally and racially different. I suspect you know where this is going.

Due to the overwhelming pressure of my parents, I broke up with him.

They’re 5,000 miles away, and I will be going home in a year. There’s no future with him, but is it wrong of me to want to be with him a little longer?

I know it’s unfair to everyone for me to want this, but I just miss him so much. What can I do?

—Stranded

Stranded,

W h a t ’s w i t h t h e ov e r b e a r i n g parents, Dateopia? Don’t they know that once you go to college you’re no longer their tax shelter? It’s not wrong of you to want more of this relationship; it’s wrong of your parents to want none of it. Yes, it’s important to respect your parents and their wishes, but this is your life. I mean, haven’t you watched any after-school specials? They’d be all over this letter like a hobo on a ham sandwich.

You say there isn’t a future; is that because of the distance once you go home or because of your parents’ objections? It might mean losing your parent’s support for a while, but don’t let them run your life for you. You’ll always end up unhappy because it won’t be your life.

—Dr. Date

Well Dateopia, that’s it for today.

Hopefully I’ve kept you awake during your first class. As a final warning, watch out for Network, first-years.

It’s an evil, evil creation with tentacles that feasts on misery and failed dreams. Seriously, watch out, ladies. And guys, too even. You're not safe from its grasp.

Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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Admins give Welcome Week face-lift

Emmer’s hazy rhetoric Gophers win opener, 24-17

sports

Time is running out for

The Gophers ran the ball relentlessly and

monitor new student’s behavior patterns.

candidate Tom Emmer to unveil his budget plan.

controlled the clock in a season-opening win against Middle Tennessee State on Thursday.

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light rail

U set to drop lawsuit over Central Corridor issues The year-old lawsuit will be dropped if a resolution is approved by the Regents.

BY AnDre Eggert aeggert@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota is set to drop its lawsuit against the Metropolitan Council over the Central Corridor, pending the approval of a resolution

by the Board of Regents on Wednesday.

The resolution addresses the issues the University raised against the Met Council regarding vibration and electromagnetic inter ference interrupting research.

Regents Chairman Clyde Allen said the board has not fully examined the resolution yet, but it appears to meet the conditions the University wanted to see.

“We’re delighted that the process of negotiation to reach an agreement has been concluded,” Allen said. “We look for ward to … getting back to other work.”

The resolution has University President Bob Bruininks’ recommendation and is expected to pass.

“The University and the Met Council have been working together to achieve mutual goals to improve the transportation u See Light Rail Page 6A The Central Corridor light-rail line is scheduled to open in 2014.

Underage and under the influence The University area accounts for more minor consumption reports than anywhere else in the city. The administration and police have vowed to fight the trend.

Student assembly moves to fix fees A committee reviewing the process of applying for group funding submitted initial recommendations.

BY cali owings cowings@mndaily.com

A committee responsible for improving the process through which student groups apply for funding submitted a list of their recommendations to the University of Minnesota’s Office for Student Affairs last week.

Last year, student groups had issues with late applications, appeals, reserves and staff compensation when requesting money out of student services fees.

“There will always be issues that come up ... but that doesn’t mean the process is broken.”

Amelious Whyte Chief of staff in the Office for Student Affairs

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Minneapolis police plan to cite more people for social host ordnance violations this fall.

Only five such citations have been fully resolved by the city attorney’s office through the end of July.

Community advisers heard loud screams and laughter coming from Territorial Hall room N471 on April 16.

Nineteen-year-old Amanda Elfering and more than a dozen of her friends were squeezed inside, drinking and shouting as they played a card game called “Tourettes.”

The CAs knocked on the door. When it opened, they found the partiers, bottles of liquor and a 17-year-old juvenile.

The CAs called the police.

By midnight, a group of of ficers had administered breathalyzers and checked everyone’s ID. The juvenile, who hadn’t been drinking,

was allowed to leave.

The 14 who remained were cited for underage consumption. They became statistics, a small group out of at least 4,000 given minors in Minneapolis since 2004.

Following years of steady numbers, reports of underage consumption citations in

Minneapolis peaked at 721 in 2007, but fell across the city in subsequent years.

The University of Minnesota has defied this downward trend.

 see Underage, Page 10A

In May, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jerr y Rinehart asked student government leaders to explore these areas when recommending changes to the current application process. They created the Student Services Fees Review Committee, made up of representatives of different student groups. The committee submitted an initial copy of their recommendations to the Office for Student Affairs on Aug. 30.

Concerned groups and students will have the opportunity to provide feedback to the committee during public forums on Sept. 13 and 15 at 7 p.m.

The committee will submit a final copy of its recommendations to the Office for Student Affairs in October.

Members of the review committee declined to comment until after they have submitted the final report.

Paul Freeman, a University graduate student who ser ved as chairman of the Student Services Fees Committee last year, is glad to see the process u See fees Page 5A The review committee suggested adding a check point and appeals process.

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Mo-peds face campus restrictions

By JENNIFER BISSELL jbissell@mndaily.com

Employees from Minneapolis Jimmy John’s sandwich shops formed a labor union Thursday to fight for better working conditions, and this week their cause is going national.

Minneapolis franchise owners have not recognized the union. Its demands include a pay increase, consistent scheduling, sick days, “no-nonsense” workers’ compensation for job-related injuries, an end to sexual harassment and “basic fair-

ness on the job,” according to the union.

The Minneapolis franchise pays many workers $7.25 an hour, federal minimum wage. The workers want more. The Jimmy John’s Workers Union will host a National Week of Action, picketing and leafleting in 32 of 39 states with Jimmy John’s restaurants.

If the group files for election with the National Labor Relations Board and wins, the u See Strike Page 14A The strike follows owners’ plans to open four new shops.

BY AnDre Eggert aeggert@mndaily.com

ERIN WESTOVER, Daily

A mo-ped is parked in front of the Bierman athletic complex early Friday morning. Mo-ped parking areas are being increased all over campus to help free up bike racks.

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Mo-ped drivers at the University of Minnesota will face new rules and enforcement this year as part of a change in how they can park and ride on campus.

The new rules, which took effect Aug. 30, do not allow mo-ped drivers to park at bicycle racks and require all mo-peds to get a permit from the University.

The reason for the change is an increase in the number of mo-peds on campus, said Jacqueline Br udlos, a spokeswoman for University Parking and Transpor tation Services.

“Mo-peds have just boomed on campus,” Br udlos said. “The biggest reason for the change is to free up room for bicycles to park in bike racks.” u See Mo-peds Page 6A Parking citations will cost around the same price as a parking ticket — $45.

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This day in history 1936 Early rock n’ roll artist Buddy Holly is born in Lubbock, Texas. Buddy Holly went on to perform a number of classic songs in his short, 18-month career. He died in a plane crash in 1959 at the age of 23. historychannel.com/tdih

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Congo boat safety questioned

38 dead in Guatemala mudslides

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Two boat capsizes in one weekend on Congo’s vast rivers have left 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead in unrelated incidents that were both characterized by heavily loaded boats operated with few safety measures, officials said Sunday.

Early Saturday, a boat on a river in nor thwest Equateur Province hit a rock and capsized, provincial spokeswoman Ebale Engumba said Sunday. She said more than 70 people are believed dead among 100 estimated passengers. She said officials are investigating why the boat was traveling through the darkness without a light.

Another boat tipping in Kasai Occidental Province left 200 people feared dead after the boat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, a survivor said Sunday. Another survivor confirmed the account and said local fishermen refused to help drowning passengers who jumped off the crowded boat.

The incident in southern Congo would be the deadliest boat accident in the Central African nation this year, and among the worst in Africa this year.

The boats that traverse Congo’s rivers are often in poor repair and filled beyond capacity. The industry is not wellregulated and boat operators are known to fill boats to dangerous levels.

NAHUALA, Guatemala (AP) — Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers tr ying to save people already buried under a wall of mud.

In the village of Nahuala, about 200 rescue workers searched through mud and rocks for bodies Sunday after two slides in the same spot killed at least 20 along a highway leading nor thwest of the capital toward Mexico. Another slide closer to Guatemala City killed at least 12.

Suagustino Pascual Tuy, a Nahuala police of ficer, said he and several others r ushed to the highway with picks and shovels after hearing radio repor ts of the fallen ear th, which had buried two pickup trucks and a bus at kilometer 171 of the Inter-American highway.

Pascual Tuy said the crowds were able to rescue several people alive including his nephew, who was driving one of the pickups.

“He is in critical condition, but thank God we were able to get him out alive,” he said.

US forces help battle attackers in Baghdad

BAGHDAD (AP) — Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq’s ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.

It was the first exchange of fire involving U.S. troops in Baghdad since the Aug. 31 deadline for formally ending the combat mission, and it showed that American troops remaining in the country are still being drawn into the fighting.

The attack also made plain the kind of lapses in security that have left Iraqis wary of the U.S. drawdown and distrustful of the ability of Iraqi forces now taking up ultimate responsibility for protecting the country.

Sunday’s hour-long assault was the second in as many weeks on the facility, the headquarters for the Iraqi Army’s 11th Division, pointing to the failure of Iraqi forces to plug even the most obvious holes in their security.

Two of the four attackers even managed to fight their way inside the compound and were only killed after running out of ammunition and detonating explosives belts they were wearing.

Strains test ties of Chile miner families above

SAN JOSE MINE, Chile (AP) — While a fire warms their campsite, the icy feeling between Cristina Nunez Macias and her mother-in-law is as palpable as the cold Atacama desert.

Both women are here to suppor t the same man, 34-year-old Claudio Yanez, one of the 33 trapped miners in Northern Chile. But they barely acknowledge each other, thanks to wounds created many years ago, and have been fighting over who should get Yanez’s salar y and donations that have come from all over Chile.

“We have barely spoken in six years,” said Macias.

“And now she thinks the donations and help should go to her? No way.”

The miners themselves passed the one-month mark underground on Sunday — apparently longer than any other trapped miners have ever had to endure — and they still face more weeks or months before rescue. The strain also has shaken the fault lines in their families above. Some squabble over who should get the miners’ August wage, who should share in the donated food.

The local government has been forced to institute several measures: The miners were asked to send up a note designating who could get their $1,600 (800,000 peso) salar y for August. There are separate bank accounts for each miner, which no family member can touch.

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being reviewed.

“I feel like a lot of the problems boil down to misunderstanding,” Freeman said, adding that better communication and understanding of the rules would help the fees process run more smoothly.

The administration isn’t ready to throw the fees application process out the window.

“There will always be issues that come up during the process,” Amelious Whyte, chief of staff in the Office for Student Affairs, said. “But that doesn’t mean the process is broken.”

Late applications To address the issue of late applications, the com-

mittee proposed an optional checkpoint system to divide the fees application into parts.

Groups that elect to skip the checkpoint process and still do not make the application deadline would be at risk of being denied funding by the Student Services Fees Committee.

If the review committee’s suggestions are implemented, groups that submit a late application would be allowed to appeal to a separate committee.

The report stated that a minority of committee members felt that with the checkpoint process in place, there was “no viable excuse” for late applications and that an appeals process would not be necessary.

Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Ryan Kennedy said he thought the proposed checkpoint system would make the fees application process easier for student groups. Last year GAPSA submitted a late application and was denied funding by the Student Services Fees Committee.

GAPSA was one of three groups awarded partial funding when Rinehar t made changes to the committee’s

recommendations. The group was awarded half of their operating budget of $376,000.

This year a GAPSA committee will begin working on their fees application early.

By using reserve funds, the group will be able to function for another year without graduate and professional students feeling the strain of the group’s tightened budget, Kennedy said.

While in favor of the recommended checkpoint system, he expressed concern for groups who do not follow the checkpoints but still submit their applications on time.

“Meeting [application checkpoints] should not correlate to a more favorable fees decision,” he said.

Built-in flexibility The review committee also outlined an appeals process so student groups can bring their grievances regarding the amount of funding received or late applications to an appeals committee. The appeals committee would then have the ability to change the final recommendation or uphold the Student Services Fees Committee’s decision.

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Freeman said he hopes Rinehar t will not have to intervene next year.

“We want to retain control of this process,” he said.

Groups would still be allowed to put up to 10 percent of their budget into a reserve fund for emergencies, but groups requiring more than 10 percent would have to justify their decision during the application process.

The committee, however, suggests eliminating the rule which stated a group could not put more than 30 percent of their budget toward staff compensation. Instead, any group wishing to fund staff would have to prove their case to the Student Services Fees Committee.

Whyte said he agrees with the committees’ reasoning regarding staff and reserves because different groups have different needs. The changes would add flexibility.

“Some folks may have a desire to have rules that are ironclad and that will cover ever ything,” Whyte said. “It’s too complicated to have one rule that will cover everybody.”

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said mo-ped drivers will receive warnings for parking at bike racks through Oct. 1, when full enforcement will begin. Then a citation will cost around the same price as a parking ticket — $45.

There were few expenses for the changes, Brudlos said. Only one of the moped parking spots needed to be repaved, while the rest were simply repurposed.

The total cost for the project was less than $20,000, she said.

Many of the mo-ped parking spots are near the edges of campus, far ther away from classrooms than most bicycle racks.

“The challenge really is when you get into the center of campus you’re having a lot of buildings, a lot of footprints and it really is a challenge to find a space for mo-ped parking area,” Brudlos said.

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The new per mit program would require ever yone who wants to park at the newly designated mo-ped parking spots to sign agreements acknowledging Minnesota mo-ped statutes as well as University regulations, Buhta said.

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a work in progress,” Brudlos said.

Katie Leinenkugel, a student who uses her mo-ped to get to campus, said she was unaware of most of the new rules.

“I’ve seen the new racks and signs. Other than that, I don’t know much about it,” Leinenkugel said.

Most mo-ped riders use them to get to campus, so it makes sense that most of the parking spots are toward the edges of campus, away from where all the people are walking, she said, but added that the new mo-ped permit rules might be arduous.

“There are some mopeders that get a little annoying at times, so I can see why they want to do it, but it seems like sort of a hassle,” Leinenkugel said.

Leinenkugel said that her mo-ped driving will definitely change with the new rules and edge-of-campus parking spots.

“I suppose I’ll be doing a lot more walking,” she said.

put federal funding on hold.

The project faces two other lawsuits from Minnesota Public Radio and a

neighborhood group. However, federal authorities have been most concerned with the University’s lawsuit.

“This was the one [lawsuit] that, at least the signals we always got from the FTA (Federal Transit Administration), they were most concer ned about,” said Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, who is close to the project.

The agr eement also requests state funding for relocation of sensitive research equipment and facilities, Hausman said.

Previous estimates of the requested funds were in the range of $12 million to $20 million, and the state and the University would split the cost, she said.

The lawsuits facing the Central Corridor show longstanding flaws in the planning process, Hausman said, and there was a concern that project changes would threaten federal funding.

Some work for the Central Cor ridor began this year. However, major constr uction is expected in 2011 with the closing of Washington Avenue as it is changed into a pedestrianfriendly transit mall.

The line is scheduled to open in 2014.

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Admins give Welcome Week face-lift Changes to Welcome Week will monitor new student’s behavior patterns.

BY Laura Sievert lsievert@mndaily.com

Some 5,000 first-year University of Minnesota students swiped their U Cards to enter Welcome Week events last week, leaving an electronic record administrators hope will show which events were most motivational.

Dispensing with the paper event tickets used at Welcome Week 2009, administrators are hoping to learn which events will correlate with success in school.

The Orientation and First-Year Programs department and the Office of Academic Affairs and Provost will oversee the tracking.

Welcome Week consists of five days, each with a different purpose. The main event is Convocation, which took place the morning of Sept. 2, dubbed “College Day.” The main goal of Welcome Week, according to Beth Lingren Clark, director of Orientation and FirstYear Programs, is to establish a Class of 2014 identity and to instill a sense of responsibility in the community at the University.

For this reason, first years spend time meeting staff and faculty members during the week along with upperclassmen and classmates.

“They are creating suppor t networks for a

successful experience both academically and personally,” Lingren Clark said.

She credited the success of this year’s Welcome Week to the 430 Welcome Week leaders, compared with 382 leaders in 2009. These sophomores, juniors and seniors each put in about 120 hours of work for this event.

“Welcome Week could not have been more welcoming.” bETHANY sTEIN University first year

Sophomore Welcome Week leader Dan Laschansky didn’t view the week with the same positive outlook, calling it “disorganized and hectic,” though it was an improvement over his experience as a first-year student during Welcome Week in 2009, he said.

Another change to the Welcome Week program offered students more free time with fewer scheduled activities, according to twotime Welcome Week leader, Sarah Lindholm. Yet, first years Bethany Stein and Brittany Madden said it still wasn’t enough.

“It was too structured,” they said. “We needed more

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Hien Truong, a member of the Breakdancing student group, dances for a crowd of freshmen Saturday at Mariucci Arena during Welcome Week. The Breakdancing group is one of many that performed on Welcome Week’s Involvement and Engagement Day.

social time to get to know people.”

Welcome Week was intended to give new students

the chance to get to know the people who would be living around them, Lindholm said. “Ever yone made at

least a handful of friends.”

While Welcome Week is still in its trial stage, many students felt a positive

connection with the program.

“Welcome Week could not have been more welcoming,” Stein said.

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Wolf pack eradication set to expand Gray wolves rebounded under the Endangered Species Act. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Nor ther n Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent cour t actions that restored the animal’s endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota.

Various proposals would gas pups in their dens, surgically sterilize adult wolves and allow “conser vation” or “research” hunts to drive down the predators’ numbers.

Once poisoned to nearextermination in the lower 48 states, wolves made a remarkable comeback over the last two decades under protection of the Endangered Species Act. But as packs continue to multiply their taste for livestock and big game herds coveted by hunters has stoked a rising backlash.

Wildlife officials say that

without public wolf hunting, they need greater latitude to eliminate problem packs.

Montana and Idaho held inaugural hunts last year but an August court ruling scuttled their plans for 2010.

“As the wolf populations increase, the depredations increase and the number of wolf removals will increase. It’s ver y logical,” said Mark Collinge, Idaho director for Wildlife Services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture branch that removes problem wolves, typically by shooting them from aircraft.

“You just have to accept that part of having wolves is having to kill wolves,” he said.

But wildlife advocates and animal rights groups contend the response to depredating wolves has become too heavy-handed.

They say a string of court decisions in their favor underscores that the species remains at risk.

“The draconian lengths they are poised to take really are a throwback, to when the same agency was gassing wolf pups in their dens almost a centur y ago and setting

poisoned baits and trapping them,” said Michael Robinson with the Center for Biological Diversity.

At least 1,700 wolves now roam Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. There are more than 4,000 in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. New populations are taking hold in Oregon and Washington, and wolves have been sighted in Colorado, Utah and New England.

Some of the most remote wilderness habitats are becoming saturated with the animals. As a result, packs are pushing into agricultural

and residential areas where domestic animals offer an easy meal.

One of the more extreme proposals — bur ying wolf pups in their dens and then poisoning them with carbon monoxide gas — would be used only infrequently, in cases where the rest of the pack had been killed for preying on livestock, officials said.

More established practices, including shooting wolves from the air and ground, would be expanded.

In Montana and Idaho, officials hope to revive hunting seasons by rebranding them as “conser vation hunts” or “research hunts.”

Also, Montana Democrat U.S. Senator Max Baucus wants ranchers to have more freedom to shoot wolves harassing livestock.

A novel, non-lethal approach to wolf control is being considered in Idaho, according to a Department of Agriculture proposal. After being surgically sterilized, pairs of wolves would be radio-collared and released — “to maintain and defend their territory against other wolf packs that might be more likely to prey on livestock.”

Killing marauding wolves is nothing new in some parts of their range: In the Nor thern Rockies, more than 1,400 have been killed by wildlife agents and ranchers since the first 66 wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho in the mid-1990s.

But Wisconsin and Michigan in the past avoided wolf killings, instead relocating plundering animals or taking defensive measures such as fencing in livestock.

Under applications pending with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the states want new authority to remove up to 10 percent of their wolves annually, equal to about 110 wolves a year.

Government statistics back up critics’ claims that wolves account for a small proportion of livestock losses caused by predators. They kill fewer sheep and cattle than coyotes, bears, mountain lions or even dogs.

Yet where packs get onto ranchlands, the results can be brutal for both wolves and livestock. That was illustrated in a string of recent cattle killings and reprisals outside the small town of Ennis, Mont.

Since late July, at least six ranches near Ennis have suffered cattle killings by a wolf group known as the Horse Creek pack, which lives at the base of the Gravelly mountains.

Within two weeks of the first calf being killed, wolf specialists with Wildlife Services killed two adult members of the Horse Creek pack in hopes of deterring the others.

One was shot on July 29 and the second on Aug. 6 — just a day after U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in Missoula, Mont. ordered the region’s wolves back onto the endangered species list.

After the attacks continued and several more calves died, state officials on Aug. 12 ordered the entire pack removed. Another calf was found dead on Aug. 13, and two on Aug. 17.

Two more Horse Creek wolves were shot.

On Aug. 18, three more calves tur ned up dead, bringing the total dead livestock to at least a dozen.

The remaining four members of the pack remained at large late last week. But there was little doubt they would be killed, said Carolyn Sime, Montana’s lead wolf biologist “When we authorize it, we’re confident they’re going to get it done,” she said.

Rancher Jerry Dickinson said the Horse Creek pack killed at least three calves worth a combined $2,400 on the Granger ranch, which he manages.

Their carcasses were found on the Beaverhead National Forest, where the calves had been grazing.

Others have disappeared without a trace.

“If they take that pack out, we’ve bought ourselves maybe two or three years until another pack establishes itself,” Dickinson said. “Eventually another bunch of wolves will move in there and we’ll get the same problem all over.”

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With more funding from the school — including $100,000 to combat drinking after football moved back on campus — reports of underage consumption violations from University police and a neighboring Minneapolis precinct shot up 33 percent in 2009.

Repor ts from University police and the Second Precinct, which includes the Southeast Como, Marcy-Holmes and University neighborhoods, accounted for more than half the city’s total minors last year.

If this fall follows 2009’s trends, reports around the University are set to top those numbers.

In fact, the numbers could explode as a result of increased police enforcement the rest of the year.

While the University has policies in place to dissuade minors from drinking, officials concede that neither enforcement nor education is likely to curb underage consumption. Officials predict even February’s social host ordinance is unlikely to yield a reduction in drinking.

Social Host violations

The Minneapolis City Council unanimously passed the social host ordinance in Februar y despite opposition from students, including the Minnesota Student Association.

The ordinance makes it possible to slap a misdemeanor — which carries a penalty of up to 90 days in jail and a $1,000 fine — on the host of a par ty

where minors possess or consume alcohol.

Through July, only five social host cases have been completely resolved by the Minneapolis City Attorney’s office, Attorney Jodi Furness said. Police say that number is likely to rise this fall.

The goal of the ordinance is to protect students and young people, Councilman Cam Gordon, Ward 2, said. The worst incidents involving alcohol often occur at house parties.

Ticketing is up to an officer’s discretion, and while judgment is important, Inspector Bryan Schafer, commander of the Second Precinct, said he has instructed officers to ramp up the number of social host violations given out this school year.

“Our goal is to up the arrests and increase those numbers,” Schafer said.

The increased penalty could act as a deter rent against loud house parties, allowing much-needed police resources to be spread throughout the area.

“For the second precinct, it is and continues to be a resource issue,” Schafer said.

The ordinance could also lead to decreases in serious crime, which are more likely to happen at par ty houses, Schafer said.

Southeast Como Improvement Association neighborhood director James DeSota said he doesn’t expect the ordinance to impact drinking rates in the neighborhoods.

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“Fall is a more indicative time to see if something is working or not,” University police Lt. Erik Swanson said. “This is the time where we’re going to have more problems.”

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become about drinking,” Swanson said.

At times, officers follow the Enhanced Police Coverage enforcement model, more commonly known as the “party patrol.”

During EPC, there are about twice as many squads patrolling the area, actively seeking underage drinking, partying and noise violations.

The University’s $100,000 appr opriation in 2009 funded EPC last school year and into this

fall, Swanson said. The City Council is set to approve another $60,000 appropriation from the school this fall.

The University put up the money last year to combat an increase in partying expected with the opening of TCF Bank Stadium. But police say the stadium played a surprisingly small role in drinking around campus.

Swanson pointed to Halloween, which last year fell on a Saturday and coincided with a Gophers home victor y. Partying numbers

didn’t dif fer much from Halloween 2008, he said.

But minor consumption numbers did.

There were 16 minor consumption reports citywide on Halloween night 2008, including seven from University police. In 2009, the number of repor ts by University police doubled.

Par ty patrols were out this past weekend, but citation numbers weren’t available as of press time.

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Drinking habits that emerge in the dorms commonly follow students when they move out into the neighborhoods surrounding the University.

The University, tr ying to be “good neighbors to the communities around here,” continues to track students’ drinking habits after they’ve moved out, Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jerry Rinehart said.

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violations of the Student Conduct Code and determines if sanctions should be applied.

Typical repercussions include probation and counseling.

If students have a history of violations in the dorms, they’re under a more powerful microscope once they move out.

Last academic year, the office reviewed 242 reports for misuse of drugs and alcohol. It found 155 had violated the code of conduct mostly because they had a previous history in the residence halls, Rinehart said.

When police are on party patrol, they commonly drive around looking for violations, respond to dispatches and target problem proper ties — those with lists of complaints on file from Minneapolis — and areas where minors are commonly given. One area Swanson identified — 15th Avenue Southeast — accounted for 195 citations since 2004.

Certain units from Minneapolis police’s Special Operations Division will also bolster the ranks of officers from the Second Precinct, which typically has about 12 squad cars patrolling at one time, Schafer said. They’re commonly brought on to focus on underage drinking and violent crime.

But even that’s not enough to catch every minor.

“If we could put 20 or 30 cops out there to do nothing

but confront kids walking down the street or walking up and confronting house parties, that would significantly curb underage consumption,” Schafer said.

In 2006, minor consumption citations jumped 55 percent in the Second Precinct over the previous year, likely related to a state grant temporarily paying for more officers, Schafer said.

However, that sor t of patchy coverage year-to-year can be detrimental, he said.

Inconsistency often leads students to believe they won’t get caught drinking underage.

The needs of dif ferent demographics in the University’s neighborhoods also cause trouble for police. “‘Oh, the kids are coming back, that means parties and drinking,’“ Schafer said.

“That’s the connection [longterm residents make].”

Police attention and resources are often caught in a tug of war between the University’s interest in keeping students safe from violent crime and long-term residents’ cries to get rid of unruly parties.

While Schafer noted the importance of making the neighborhoods livable, he said police give priority to higher-level crimes instead of alcohol or nuisance violations.

But alcohol can cause students to perpetrate or become victims of more serious crimes.

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“By cracking down on over-ser vice and ser ving underage people, I think you would reduce the number of rapes, I think you would reduce the number of accidents, you’d reduce the number of assaults, you’d reduce the number of DWIs,” Schafer said. “I mean we have one common denominator: It’s alcohol.”

Residence Hall Policy

The University’s 10 Minneapolis residence halls and apar tment buildings are home to more than 10 percent of the city’s underage drinking reports. The superblock — Centennial, Frontier, Pioneer and Territorial halls — accounts for 70 percent of those reports.

Alcohol is permitted in campus apar tment buildings and in Centennial Hall, but only if all roommates, drinkers and guests are at least 21. Each semester, community advisers provide required alcohol awareness programming to residents.

But officials know drinking will happen, so when it does, the University’s goal isn’t punitive, said Katie Eichele, Housing and Residential Life judicial affairs coordinator. Instead, the focus is on teaching students how to drink safely, without condoning it.

When a community adviser discovers underage drinking, police often aren’t

alerted. Rather, a report is filed with Housing and Residential Life and students generally meet with professional staff to discuss the case.

The meetings are used to determine if a violation occurred, and if so, how the student can be best helped.

In 2008, according to the most recent data available, 1,188 reports of alcohol or drug violations across campus were referred to Housing and Residential Life, though not all were for minor consumption.

But for some, the problem of underage drinking on college campuses is too entrenched to be easily solved — it’s a matter of getting people to party smarter, no matter what the age.

The University invests heavily in programming meant to be alternatives to drinking, such as the Gophers After Dark events at Coffman Union.

It’s dif ficult to identify how much University funding is going to curb drinking, Rinehar t said, because there are so many different internal sources.

A University committee organized at the behest of President Bob Bruininks will begin meeting this October to determine how to best reduce alcohol abuse on college campuses. Rinehart, who cochairs the committee, said it could culminate in a statewide summit on the issue.

More than 39 percent of 18-year-old college students in Minnesota drink according to a 2009 Boynton Health Service Health Survey. That number increased to 60.5 percent by age 20. Even with all the resources at their disposal, police recognize they aren’t able to catch ever y one of those drinkers.

Following her minor citation in April, Elfering was instructed to write a paper about the incident and she and her friends met with the residence hall director Brett Chin.

Elfering said Chin “knew that drinking was going on … and he just wanted to promote a safer way to do it.”

Despite all the ef for ts, drinkers tend to find ways around the system.

When the police left Territorial Hall in April, the community advisers told everyone but the residents of the room to leave.

“Then this girl popped out from one of my roommates’ bedcovers and said, ‘Oh god, I’ve been in here for 45 minutes,’ ” Elfring said. “She had been hiding the entire time in the room. It was really funny.

She didn’t get in trouble.”

Police time and resources aside, it’s those kinds of tricks that allow minors to keep drinking, Schafer said.

“We know that if we go to the front door of a house that somebody’s going to come out the back.”

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Trout Unl. stream project to improve Minn. habitats A $300,000 grant helps Trout Unlimited improve about 19 acres of trout habitat.

PICKWICK, Minn. (AP) — Br uce Harem looked on as crews took trees from a pile the size of a two-stor y building and fed them through a giant wood chipper into a semi trailer.

Mor ning rain tur ned parts of his cow pasture into a muddy, rutted work site, but the 65-year-old retired teacher didn’t seem to mind.

The stream flowing off in the distance was his main concern.

“I think it’s a good thing to do for the land,” he said.

Workers cleared trees from a 66-foot stretch of Pickwick Creek as part of Trout Unlimited’s plan to improve 19.1-acres of trout habitat, one of the first “fuel for habitat” stream r estorations in the state.

The group relies on a $300,000 grant from the Lessar d-Sams Outdoor Heritage Fund to pay for the work.

Instead of burning the harvested trees — which is standard practice — wood chips will be taken to woodburning energy plants like the one on French Island, said Jeff Hastings, a regional project manager for Trout Unlimited’s national branch.

“Now we’re coordinating these larger efforts,” he

said. “It really makes sense to do it.”

The restoration follows two years of planning and coordinating with the Minnesota Department of Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Trout Unlimited brought in McGhie & Betts, a Rochester-Minn. based contractor, to manage the permitting process.

“Our streams are great …What they’re lacking is the habitat — the overhead cover.”

Jeff hastings Trout Unlimited regional project manager

About 90 percent of the har vested trees are box elder, said Luke Lunde, a wetland specialist for McGhie & Betts. Workers were careful to mark lessinvasive trees, like willow, basswood and cottonwood, with red ribbons.

When the trees are cleared, workers will reshape the steep banks to make them

more gradual — further reducing the likelihood that sediment will fall into the water.

“Our streams are great,” Hastings said. “They got the food, they got the temperature.What they’re lacking is the habitat — the overhead cover.”

Wood planks installed under water will offer trout a place to hide. V-shaped stone structures will create deep pools and add similar protection from natural predators.

The trout population is projected to grow from less than 500 fish per mile to as much as 2,000 fish per mile within three years.

Fish will spread out and could be harder to find at first, Hastings said. Eventually, though, clear banks and lots of trout will probably bring in more fishermen.

Harem sold an easement to the DNR more than 30 years ago so any angler could march down the stretch of creek that cuts through his property. The land has been in his family for five generations, but the possibility of extra foot traffic doesn’t bother him at all.

“We haven’t had any trouble with trout fishermen,” he said. “Of course, I’m one, myself.”

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government will then force Jimmy John’s to recognize and negotiate with the union, according to David Boehnke, an employee of Jimmy John’s.

The Jimmy John’s Workers Union is the first fast food union in the histor y of the nation, according to representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a labor union affiliated with the group.

The owners of the Minneapolis franchise, Rob and Mike Mulligan of Miklin Enterprises Inc., were unavailable for comment but told the group they “offer competitive wages and take issue with the union,” according to Davis Ritsema an employee at a Minneapolis Jimmy John’s location.

Union members have said they will continue to protest until the Mulligans agree to meet to discuss the employees’ demands.

The Jimmy John’s Workers Union estimated on its website that Miklin, Inc. made at least $2.3 million in profit from its nine stores last year and plans to open four new stores at an estimated cost of more than $1.2 million.

“If Mike and Rob Mulligan have the money to open four new stores, they have the money to pay us more than minimum wage,” Jake Foucault, an employee of a Minneapolis Jimmy John’s location, said in a union press release.

One of the new locations will be in Stadium Village on Oak Street, in a building that has been vacant for the past year.

Since the union went public on Thursday with a rally outside the Block E location, the group has organized three protests in Minneapolis.

The Thursday rally, with at least 80 picketers, was followed by a “solidarity bike ride” on Saturday, when 30 employees biked to six locations to congratulate members on becoming a union. That ride ended with a picket of 45 people in front of the Uptown store.

The group participated in a Labor Day rally on

Simon Guerra, Daily photos

Davis Ritsema mounts his bike during a protest Saturday in Minneapolis. Employees from a Minneapolis Jimmy John’s franchise formed a nationwide union to fight for better working conditions.

“I do agree that some things could be better, but there’s pay cuts all over [the nation], and they need to understand that.”

Samantha Alarcon assistant manager, Uptown Jimmy John’s

Monday at the University of Minnesota to promote their cause on campus.

Not ever yone is on board, however.

Samantha Alarcon, an assistant manager at the Uptown Jimmy John’s, said she doesn’t agree with the protests.

“I do agree that some things could be better, but there’s pay cuts all over [the

A group of Jimmy John’s protesters ride Saturday across the 10th Avenue Bridge.

nation], and they need to understand that,” she said.

Emily Przybylski, an employee of a Minneapolis

Jimmy John’s and student at the University, said the majority of the franchise’s workers support the cause

and estimated that 25 percent of the workers are students at the University, who could use an increase in pay.

“I’d be able to not have to work so many hours while going to school and still be able to pay for my tuition and bills,” Przybylski said. “It would take a lot of stress out of my pack of worries.”

Przybylski said the group had chosen to affiliate with IWW because of their success with Starbucks employees in a similar situation.

A cco r d i n g to Davi d Boehnke, an employee at a Minneapolis Jimmy John’s, Starbucks employees were given a dollar raise in New York and Chicago when their union went public and have been able to prevent unfair disciplinary practices for organizing.

“But this is much stronger than that,” he said. “We have way more power. There are way more of us, and we have every store in the franchise working with us.”

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Café fosters youth entrepreneurship The Coyle Community Café keeps youth off the streets and offers job training.

BY IBRAHIM HIRSI ihirsi@mndaily.com

For college dr opout Khalid Dakane, the Coyle Community Café gives him the money, job experience and training that he wasn’t getting on the streets.

Dakane, 20, is one of three graduates of an entrepreneurship training program. He now works at a coffee shop that opened in the Brian Coyle Center last month.

Since he dropped out of Minneapolis Community and Technical College last year, Dakane said he used to spend most of his time on the streets.

“Instead of being on the streets, I can be here, working and getting paid,” he said.

The youth-r un Coyle Community Café aims to

keep at-risk Cedar-Riverside youth off the streets.

The café gives confidence to 11 college and high school employees who had difficulties finding jobs in the city, said Abdirahman Mukhtar, University of Minnesota alumnus and Youth Program Manager at the Coyle Center.

Most of the employees completed the six-week entrepreneurship training program provided by the African Development Center, a local organization that seeks to make the CedarRiverside neighborhood more economically stable.

Business Development Director Hussein Farah said the program was the first time the development center of fered such training for youth.

“I was impressed by their level of energy and

Chelsey rosetter, Daily

MTS High School senior Maylenna Acevedo works as a manager of the youth-run Triple C Café Friday at the Brian Coyle Community Center.

commitment,” Farah said.

“It was amazing how they kept coming back for more and tr ying to apply the

lessons for their business plans.”

Things have not been the same for Dakane, a

proud employee, since he found the job.

After becoming a par ttime employee, Dakane

said he is spending most of his time at the Coyle Center instead of on the streets with nothing to do.

The training inspired him to go back to school to pursue a business degree.

“I’d like to be a businessman and open my own halal grocery store in the future,” he said.

With violence on the rise in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood in recent years, some blame fathers for not being good role models for their children.

Abdirashid Abukar, a n elementar y education major and Somali Student Association academic af fair coordinator at the University, said fathers are to blame for the risky behaviors of many Somali youth in Minneapolis.

It is common in the Cedar-Riverside community for fathers to be inactive in household activities, Abukar said.

Youth program workers also emphasized that fathers don’t contribute to their children’s discipline as much as mothers do.

“It’s mostly the mother that we deal with and share the children’s stories,” Mukhtar said. “We don’t see fathers asking us about their children.”

Mukhtar hopes the Coyle Community Café will attract fathers who wouldn’t otherwise be active in their children’s lives.

“What is better than fathers spending their days ar ound the same ar ea where their children hang out?” Mukhtar asked.

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Candidates woo state fairgoers

JASON KOPP, DAILY

The major candidates for governor debate at the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday, Democrat Mark Dayton, left, Republican Tom Emmer, center, and IP candidate Tom Horner, right.

The gubernatorial candidates took time to speak with individual voters.

BY JAMES NORD jnord@mndaily.com

Nestled among the Space Needle and an endless amount of food on a stick, the three main gubernatorial candidates’ booths at the Minnesota State Fair bustled with activity.

The candidates shook hands, met with voters and prepared for the traditional post-Labor Day campaign surge. The fair, which ended Monday, drew more than 1.2 million people — a big opportunity for Minnesotans to interact personally with the candidates.

Republican nominee Tom Emmer and Independence Party nominee Tom Horner attended the 12-day event almost every day, their campaigns said. Mark Dayton, the DFL-nominee, said he went at least five times.

“I have sympathy for all candidates of all parties at the State Fair,” Horner’s press secretar y Matt Lewis said, mar veling at the amount of time the candidates spent campaigning there.

Horner may have stood to gain the most from the fair, which offered him facetime, forums and media attention other wise unavailable to him.

The fair is an important forum to reach a lot of people, Horner said. “Not ever ybody goes to the website.”

But sometimes Horner had to defend his point of view, and he often spent time wrestling over policy with interested voters.

More than one passerby asked about his plans to extend the state sales tax to clothing.

Loren Turner, a Clearwater County resident, questioned Hor ner’s tax plan, which is less progressive than he liked.

Dayton, the only candidate to house his booth under his par ty’s roof,

benefitted from the heavy and diverse traf fic moving through the DFL tent, Deputy Campaign Manager Katharine T inucci said.

Plus, she said, it’s a good way to show party unity.

As Dayton walked the campaign trail to the tent, he shook hands and greeted fairgoers along the way, stopping for a moment to grab an ice cream cone.

Does Dayton like the fair?

“Yeah,” he said, with a smile and a mouthful of ice cream.

As he passed a supporter dragging two toddlers in a red plastic Radio Flyer wagon, the man had one request about the gloomy day.

“Could you turn up the heat a little bit?” he asked Dayton, smiling and waving.

Emmer’s booth, a red and blue cabin-like structure with a porch jutting out onto the bustling street, was manned by staffers wearing “Tom Emmer for Governor” hockey jerseys.

They chatted personably with a group of close-knit supporters.

“I knew Jacquie [Emmer’s wife] before Tommy ever did,” one of the staffers said to Dick Borrell, who previously held Emmer’s seat in the House of Representatives.

“I’m a supporter of Tom Emmer,” Borrell joked after ward, motioning to his hockey jersey, “I don’t know if you can tell that or not.”

Borrell said he chose Emmer because state spending is out of control.

Borrell likened the current state of government to parents increasing a child’s allowance until the family can no longer pay for groceries.

Minnesota Public Radio hosted a debate Friday between the three candidates, with discussion ranging from stalwarts like the state’s budget deficit, taxes and education to fresher topics like anti-bullying legislation in schools.

“We came just for the debate. That’s why we came to the fair,” Borrell said, “and of course, there’s always the food.”

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to reflect the boisterous atmosphere of the fair itself. The audience yelled and cheered, sometimes drowning out a candidate’s response.

When the candidates were asked if they could work well with the other side, Emmer’s positive answer elicited sarcastic laughs, and Dayton got booed for assigning some blame for the economic recession to former President George W. Bush.

Often, the candidates ignored the rules and spoke over each other or out of turn.

Horner and Dayton berated Emmer on multiple occasions for having not yet released a specific budget proposal, and he fired back at his opponents for relying on government and taxes to solve the state’s problems.

When asked about shutting down higher education institutions in greater Minnesota Dayton opposed doing so, citing the economic benefits higher education brings to communities. Emmer and Horner supported streamlining and reform.

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‘Gopher kids’ aid genetic research The study aimed to better understand how DNA contributes to normal development.

BY NOAH JOHNSON njohnson@mndaily.com

This year, the Minnesota State Fair provided some young fairgoers with more than fried food on sticks and fresh air.

Dr. Logan Spector, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, led a team of researchers to develop a better understanding of the relationship between people’s genetics and their physical characteristics, and which genes contribute to normal childhood development.

“It’s important for us to measure kids’ development so we can fill some of the gaps in what we know about genetics,” Crystal Blommer, one of the researchers, said. Blommer works at the University’s Masonic Cancer Center.

Participating families spent half an hour as University staf f and student volunteers took measurements of their children’s weight, height, waist circumference and blood pressure. In addition, the researchers asked for samples of children’s blood, saliva and fingernails, but these were optional.

“We know no one comes to the fair to have their fingers pricked,” Spector said.

The measurements collected by researchers were enough to make the other samples less necessary.

The ef for t, organized by the University’s Department of Pediatrics and known as the Gopher Kids Study, began on the opening day of the fair, Aug. 26, and lasted until Sept. 1. Researchers will return to the fair the next two years.

During their time at this year’s fair, researchers hoped to examine at least 500 children, a number they reached sooner than expected.

According to Spector, the team had examined more than 500 children by Aug. 28, just two days after the study began.

Jason Kopp, Daily

Arden Lillemoe, right, one of the many children who visit the Minnesota State Fair, rides a car-carousel Saturday. The Pediatrics Department conducts research on children at the Fair to better understand DNA characteristics.

“After that, we just kept going,” he said.

Walter Hunziker, a School of Public Health student, was one of the assistant researchers who examined children as Spector discussed details of the study with parents.

According to Hunziker, the study required participating children to be ages one to 11, and to reside in Minnesota or Pierce and St. Croix counties in Wisconsin.

As motivation to participate in the study, children whose parents allowed them to be examined received a backpack and 10 free ride tickets, as well as admission tickets

“It’s important for us to measure kids’ development so we can fill some of the gaps in what we know about genetics.” cRYSTAL bLOMMER University researcher

for themselves and one parent for the 2011 and 2012 State Fairs.

This encouraged families to return to the fair the next two years and have their children

re-examined to provide supplemental information on their development, Spector said.

Before testing began each day, Spector and the other researchers took the stage outside the University of Minnesota building to explain the nature of their research to potential participants. They used a “mock family” scenario to teach the function of alleles, which constitute the DNA sequence of a person’s genes. In addition, Spector explained the motivation for the study.

“The Human Genome Project mapped our species’ genes in the 20th century, but not their

purpose. That’s our goal,” he said.

Now that the study at the fair has ended, Spector and his team have set their sights on research at a higher level. Spector said that because of the good return the study received at the fair this year, he hopes to take the study to the National Institutes of Health.

Spector has been interested in DNA and its ramifications from an early age.

“When I was a kid, I wanted to be a professional basketball player,” he said. “Once I realized I was too short to get into the NBA, I became fascinated with genetics.”

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Pawlenty’s flawed sex-ed Youth shouldn’t have to learn basic medical facts the hard way.

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epublican Gov. Tim Pawlenty has turned down a condition-free $850,000 federal grant to educate Minnesota teenagers about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, as well as the benefits of delaying sexual activity.

His spokesman said the grant was rejected because Pawlenty “is striving to find ways to stop” the new federal health care legislation that funds the grant.

Governor Pawlenty’s dislike of the new heath care law cannot be his only reason for turning down the grant. As he rejected the sex education grant, he approved a grant for abstinence-only education that requires $379,000 in matching state funds in order to receive $500,000 in funding from the same federal health bill.

Pawlenty’s real point of contention must not be the funding source but what students will — or will not — be taught.

After the state of Minnesota employed abstinenceonly programs until 2007, trends show that Minnesota teenagers need to be taught more, not less, in school. Teenage STD rates are rising. Minority youth especially have above average rates of teen pregnancy and STDs. A report issued this month by the American Academy of Pediatrics confirms that teenagers turn to television and other media as information sources if all they hear at school is wait until marriage. The same investigation found the constant unrealistic portrayal of sex in the media. Over 70 percent of teenage shows contain sexual content, and less than 10 percent of them were judged to show responsible content that mentions the use of contraception, the risks of STDs and other dangers of sex.

Pawlenty should treat Minnesota students as the young adults they are and let them learn the facts of life in the classroom, not the school of hard knocks.

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Letters to the editor Domestic violence a reality for University

Last month, death once again became a stark reality in the University of Minnesota community. On Tuesday, Aug. 10, two former students died as a result of domestic violence.

Within the United States, one out of every four women will experience violence by an intimate partner during her lifetime. In this particular case, it was two graduates from our University who were slain, a woman, 25, who graduated in 2009 and her husband who had received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota in 2001.

Women who are between the ages 16 and 24 are most likely to be victimized by an intimate partner. Domestic violence involves people in what should be loving relationships. It affects all who have been humiliated by violent acts or threatened by hateful words. This tragic event is an important reminder that intimate-partner violence is a significant public health issue and that ending gender violence needs to be a top priority.

It should also be a reminder to all of us to be aware of what we observe around us. Each of us needs to determine how we can be committed to acting as an ally and reinforce the importance of being respectful to all of our peers and colleagues.

It is an act of compassion to reach out and offer support and resources to those who we come in contact with who may be experiencing violence and abuse in their lives.

As a caring community, we want to honor the victims of this senseless crime, and we extend our deepest condolences to the victims’ family members and friends.

Jerry Rinehart Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jamie Tiedemann Director Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education

Nick Coleman burns finger on nuclear issue

In an Aug. 29 column published in the Star Tribune (“Let’s not get all aglow about nuclear power”), would-be nuclear engineer, Nick Coleman thinks nuclear power is a glowing “pig in a poke.”

He refers to its “safety and security problem” and the costly plans of in San Antonio, Texas to add two new reactors to the two now operating in San Antonio’s South Texas Project. He doesn’t know that the project’s two existing reactors achieved a significant safety milestone recently, going 10 million labor hours without a significant injury or accident. They also produce power at a total operating cost, including fuel, of roughly two cents/kilowatt hour.

Columnist Coleman refers to “a host of unsolved problems” without naming any except for a vague reference to nuclear spent fuel waste.

The French store the spent fuel from 58 operating reactors in the floor of a single large room at La Hague by reprocessing the spent fuel.

Ninety-five percent of it can be recycled into new fuel.

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he second tenant of The Minnesota Daily’s mission of providing a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas for the University of Minnesota community happens on this page, and we hope you take advantage of it.

The nation’s state-funded universities — especially, we think, this one — are becoming more and more devoid of fresh ideas. One of the more basic issues, for instance, is that of access to the University. A decade ago, the annual cost for an undergraduate on this campus was about $4,400. This year, it’s just over $11,000.

The administration will tell you, and has told us, that the quality of a University of Minnesota education has risen with its cost. We have beg to differ. At the same time the administration has made that argument, it’s built a football stadium. It’s pushed professors to commercialize ideas and de-emphasized important liberal arts studies. It’s spent more money on central administrators while cutting TAs from departments, thus your ability to truly understand the subjects you’ve come here to study.

At least the University’s mission is sound. Part of that mission states that the University “is dedicated to the advancement of learning and the search for truth; to the sharing of this knowledge through education for a diverse community.” The Daily’s readers are vital to helping us hold the University to its’ word. So don’t be afraid to submit a letter or guest column. If you think this page is not carrying out its stated mission, write to us, so that we can let the rest of our readers can know about it.

It was 52 years ago on Aug. 3 that the nuclear powered submarine, USS Nautilus, passed directly under the North Pole. Two days later, the Nautilus emerged, completing a four day 1,830-mile voyage under the Arctic ice cap. The Nautilus relied solely on power from its nuclear reactor which propelled the big sub at a steady 20 knots.

Coleman refers to Minnesota’s nuclear power plants at Monticello and Prairie Island as reaching “the outer limits of their originally expected 40 year life spans.” Actually both will operate for at least 60 years, as Monticello has recently been granted a 20 year life extension, one of 56 granted so far by the Nuclear Regulator y Commission.

Prairie Island should soon receive the same. Coleman refers to “old dangers” without refuting the fact that Occupational Health and Safety Administration studies identify the nuclear power industry as our safest industrial activity. Cutbacks at the Tribune appear to have left the paper short of editors competent to review technical columns.

It’s time for the Minnesota Legislature to join the world nuclear renaissance and lift our state’s ban on new nuclear power plants. Like the postman, neither snow nor rain nor heat nor other vagaries of weather stays those plants from the swift reliable completion of their obligations.

Rolf Westgard College of Continuing Education Geological Society of America American Nuclear Society

By now, I’m sure everyone knows about the controversy surrounding the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero, but how many people know about the “International Burn a Koran Day” that will take place Sept. 11? It is within our First Amendment rights to express when, how and what we believe. However, it’s mind boggling to see that the bigotry of yesteryear still plagues our society and our views.

From Japanese prison camps during the 40’s, to Jim Crow laws of the 60’s, to the Quran burning that will take place in just a few days, we can see that America is still as narrow minded as it was when our grandparents were children.

If a group of Muslims were to publicly plan to burn Bibles, it would be blasphemy and surely a sign of underground terrorism. The media would be spending hours covering the story. But this little church in Gainesville, Fla., is getting nothing short of a pat on the back and open support. They haven’t received any angry media coverage in defense of Islamic communities, nor have they received any backlash from other Christian organizations.

Instead, they have received more than 7,000 fans on Facebook and a book preaching the evils of Islam.

It’s ridiculous that we have heard next to nothing about this Quran burning. Last year, the nation was in an uproar over the University of Texas in San Antonio’s campaign where one could exchange religious texts for porn.

The media won’t eat up Quran burning because bashing Islam has become socially acceptable. According to an Aug. 10 CBS poll, 45 percent of Americans said they have an “unfavorable” view toward Muslims. And according to an Aug. 19 TIME poll, 62 percent of Americans said they don’t personally know someone who is Muslim.

It’s easy to target someone and something we don’t know a thing about. In fact, Muslims make up less than 2 percent of our population. We are afraid of something we are completely oblivious to.

This column was originally printed in the Oklahoma Daily at the University of Oklahoma.

Key to Afghanistan is Pakistan

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a t ching President Barack Obama’s speech last Tuesday night, I could not help but wonder how long until the president, whoever it may be at the time, will declare the end of combat operations in Afghanistan. Public support for the war has diminished and, with plans to begin a drawdown of troops in July 2011, this speech may be nearer than we think. However, does anyone really think the situation on the ground will be rosy enough to begin withdrawing in 10 months?

President Obama laid out three main objectives for the war in Afghanistan in December 2009: deny al Qaida a safe haven, stop Taliban momentum to decrease risk of an overthrow of the Afghan government and strengthen Afghanistan’s government and security forces. The good news is al-Qaida has been denied a safe haven in Afghanistan. The bad news is al-Qaida now has a safe haven to the east in Pakistan. Progress toward the other two objectives hinge on factors outside Afghanistan’s borders.

“Ninety percent of the Taliban shadow governors are in Pakistan,” said Lotfullah Najafizada, an Afghan journalist based in Kabul who is touring the U.S. with the World Press Institute’s Fellows Program, run by the St. Paul-based journalism

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nonprofit. The Taliban uses a network of shadow governments that often time have more authority than the legitimate government across Afghanistan. Shadow governors report to a Taliban leadership council known as the Quetta Shura, based in the Pakistani city of Quetta near the Afghan border.

“The Taliban are financed by money that goes into Pakistan, then to the Quetta Shura, which distributes it to senior commanders in Afghanistan,” said Najafizada.

The foreign financiers are mostly from Arab countries as well as across South Asia who sympathize with the Taliban’s militant Islamist ideals. It also should be noted the Taliban make immense profits from the cultivation and trade of opium. It is not only foreign money that is flowing out of Pakistan though.

“The fact that the ISI funds the Taliban is as clear as the sun is in the sky,” Najafizada said. The ISI, Inter-Services Intelligence, is Pakistan’s top intelligence agency. The ISI helped create the Taliban in the early 1990s and has used them as an

unofficial state militia to serve Pakistani interests in Afghanistan. The ISI-Taliban ties are also recounted in the documents leaked by Wikileaks a little over a month ago. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has made the war on terror a top priority, aiding in the killing and capturing of suspected terrorists and conducting operations against militants within its borders.

The official line is that ISI and ISAF, the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, are partners. ISI’s actions speak for themselves though.

“I’ve had senior ISAF intelligence officials tell me that 50 percent of ISAF requests are rejected by ISI,” said Najafizada. “Those who fight for the Taliban fight for money, not Jihad. It’s about money.”

Stop the money, stop the Taliban. If only it were so easy.

The latest troop increases are near completion and General Petraeus has said the U.S. has the resources needed to complete the objectives laid out by Obama. It is crucial the U.S. hold Pakistan accountable for the belligerent ISI and enact an effective policy aimed at destroying the Taliban orders and cash flow coming out of Pakistan. I would most like the situation to improve enough to begin bringing our troops home next year, but without addressing the issues across the border the war will only drag on and our sacrifices made, as Najafizada put it, will be “multiplied by zero.”

Ian J Byrne is a columnist. Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

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Emmer’s hazy rhetoric Time is running out for candidate Tom Emmer to unveil his budget plan.

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ebate is an integral part of the political process in America. Whether chivalrous or irascible, it serves as a venue for exchanging and vetting competing ideas.

On the campaign trail, public debates allow each candidate’s ideas to be heard and weighed against one another by potential voters, assuming they can intelligibly sift through the barrage of talking points and made-to-order retorts to find nuggets of “straight talk.”

Thanks in part to an early primary, Minnesotans have already been treated to an unusually high number of gubernatorial debates, as DFLer Mark Dayton , Republican Tom Emmer , and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner , clamor to succeed outgoing Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty as Minnesota’s next majordomo.

However, not all the three major party candidates have been entirely forthcoming when it comes to how they will tackle the biggest issue our next governor will have to address: how to solve a $6 billion budget deficit.

Both Dayton and Horner have released their plans, exposing themselves to the criticism that accompanies tough decision making.

Dayton’s solution favors raising revenue

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by imposing higher tax rates for individuals earning more than $130,000 per year and on couples earning more than $150,000.

According to Dayton’s plan, restoring “tax fairness” would generate $4 billion for the state. He has also proposed nearly $572 million in spending cuts, which include reducing the amount spent on private contracting and renegotiating leases on state office buildings.

Horner’s budget plan, which calls for $2.45 billion in cuts and $2.15 billion in additional revenue, is more temperate than Dayton’s.

Horner would broaden the sales tax to include clothing, while reducing spending on county aid programs and impose a state hiring freeze beginning Jan. 1, 2011.

But Emmer, an outspoken state representative from Delano, Minn., has been uncharacteristically reticent when it comes to budget

specifics. Much like Pawlenty, Emmer has said that he will not raise taxes and has indicated that he will slash his way toward a balanced budget, but has not divulged where he will make his cuts.

Emmer has taken his political lumps in recent debates for not putting forth a budget plan.

At Friday’s debate at the Minnesota State Fair, the budget was the first item on the menu, and Dayton wasted little time in going on the offensive. “These are unpopular realities that one of us is going to inherit,” Dayton said. “I think with 60 days left in this campaign, it’s important that you give the people of Minnesota the facts about how you’re going to eliminate that deficit.”

“We will be offering a plan,” Emmer responded, “but our plan is going to work for all of Minnesotans, not just for a few. It’s going to work for everybody.”

Sounds wonderful, Mr. Emmer. But would you mind explaining how it’s going to work exactly?

We know where Emmer stands ideologically, as he routinely espouses the familiar theme of smaller government popular in conservative crowds. Yet it remains unclear how he would reduce the size of government.

And the devil is in the details.

Would he cut K-12 education funding, which comprises 37 percent of state spending , likely resulting in teacher layoffs and increased class sizes? Would he pare spending on higher education, driving up already high

tuition costs? Or perhaps he would reduce local government aid, causing property taxes to soar.

Until we see his budget proposal, we have little idea what an Emmer-run Minnesota would look like.

A recent poll conducted by Minnesota Public Radio News and the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs found that 81 percent of voters have already selected their preferred candidate. Emmer and Dayton were shown to be neck and neck at 34 percent each.

For the 19 percent who remain undecided, Emmer’s budget ambiguity should be especially vexing.

It is this demographic of voters who will tip the scale one way or the other, and they deserve to have all the information necessary to make an educated decision.

Emmer’s camp was initially planning on releasing their budget details in October, opening it up for scrutiny for only a few weeks before voters head to the polls. But as calls for Emmer to reveal his plan have mounted, he is expected to release a portion of it sometime this week.

Once the details of Emmer’s budget plan are unfurled, then meaningful and substantive debate will hopefully take the place of pointed rhetoric and frivolous statements aimed at riling up an already disgruntled constituency.

Michael Rietmulder is a columnist.

Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

International Aid

We are failing Pakistan The response to Pakistan’s flood crisis pales in omparison to that of Haiti’s earthquake.

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magine land the size of Florida being submerged under water for a month, Scotland’s entire population of 5 million being made homeless, and 3.5 million children being threatened with malnutrition as a result.

Imagine millions having to evacuate their homes with literally nothing but the clothes on their backs, only to die from dehydration in make-shift tents.

Then imagine the death and destruction caused by the 2005 Indian Ocean Tsunami.

The effects of the floods in Pakistan are projected to be worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake combined.

Adding insult (and more) to the injury has been the frustratingly sluggish international relief response. Why has it taken Americans and the international community more than three weeks to fully comprehend the magnitude of the humanitarian crisis in Pakistan?

You would think that with such a devastating disaster, and in such a volatile region, governments would be tripping over each other to provide aid to the sixth most populous country in the world.

Since Pakistan’s annual monsoon torrents started hitting the country more than four weeks ago, floods have been cancerously spreading throughout the southwest of the country, displacing more people with each day and submerging 20 percent of Pakistan under water.

I think United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon put it best when he lamented, “I

will never forget the destruction and suffering I have witnessed. In the past I have witnessed many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this. For two years, we’ve got to look after them, feed them, for two years, to bring them back to where they were. And they will still not be where they were.”

The statistics are at once sobering and mindboggling. Twenty million people have been somehow affected — with almost half of those being children. Cruelly, the floods have left most without fresh drinking water.

More than 70,000 children are at serious risk of death, according to the U.N., and hospitals have been overflowing with patients infected with typhoid, dysentery and cholera.

The economic impacts are unimaginable for a country that was already suffering from severe economic woes, political instability and debt.

It is embarrassing that only two thirds of the $460 million in emergency funding appealed for by the U.N. has been met. These are just pledges, which are nonbinding.

Pledges do not buy people clean water and sanitary shelters. Also, let’s not forget that only a fraction of the $5.3 billion pledged to Haiti has been sent. It’s more than likely that it’ll stay that way.

I remember when the Haiti earthquake hit, it seemed like everyone was talking about it.

Top celebrities organized the Hope for Haiti concert and telethon just 10 days after the quake, a feat we have yet to see be undertaken for Pakistan.

Even cell phone providers jumped on the “save Haiti” bandwagon by launching a campaign with the American Red Cross to allow us to text aid to the country. The campaign raised $32 million within days.

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A similar cell phone campaign was launched by the Red Cross for Pakistan, but as of late August, only 0.03 percent of what was raised for Haiti has been generated — not even a comparison.

We are failing Pakistan. Our reluctance to donate demonstrates that all it takes for the wealthy, privileged one percent of the world to become desensitized is a single earthquake.

Do we really think we’ve done enough to help those afflicted by hunger and disease? The worst is yet to come in Pakistan, as the monsoons are not over and winter is right around the corner.

Perhaps donor governments will excuse their frugality as a mere result of the financial crisis. But if that were the case, why were governments extraordinarily generous to Haiti when economies were still reeling from the crisis?

I can’t help but come to the conclusion that there is a general perception among most governments and even Americans that Pakistan may not deserve as much assistance as other countries because of the threat of terrorism in the region. After all, we are at war with the

region, and the Obama administration has not failed to consistently drop drones in civilian areas of the Pakistan border. It’s mighty contradictory for the United States to be pledging financial support to the same region that it, just two weeks ago, dropped a drone over, killing 20 people.

The so-called war on terror and the fear of lurking terrorists and “insurgents” is clouding our better judgment. Ironically, even the campaign to donate to Pakistan has been framed in terms of U.S. interests in the region. In its first editorial on the floods, The New York Times stated the disaster “is a strategic threat … to American efforts to suppress Al Qaeda and other extremists,” and that we “must not blow this one” by allowing extremists to take advantage of the crisis to “win new adherents to their nihilistic cause.”

Meanwhile, the AFP reported that Anne Patterson, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, said at a conference that the $150 million pledged by the United States “will provide opportunities for American business as we try to build back better.”

We are forgetting that it’s not about the war on terror or corporate interests, but about human beings, 16,000 of which have already died in the worst flooding Pakistan has experienced in the region’s histor y since 1929. The Pakistani people are waiting for the international community to get its act together. If we cannot at least reach — if not surpass, like we did for Haiti — the U.N.’s target aid amount, I doubt it would be an exaggeration to say the international community would have failed Pakistan.

Lolla Mohammed Nur is a columnist.

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A dispatch from Planet Beck Searching for honor in a gluttonous marriage between religion and capitalism, presided by Pastor Beck.

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lenn Beck is where American politics is heading in the 21st century.

In the weeks leading up to his “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, Beck claimed that the rally would not be political. And in a manner of speaking, it wasn’t. No policies were proposed, no party endorsed. Attendees were strongly encouraged not to bring signs. Naturally, Sarah Palin was on hand, but as an “Army mom,” not as the presumed one-day candidate for something-or-other.

But in its ver y insistence on its own apolitical-ness, Beck’s event was political in a way only achievable by a right-wing xenophobe who holds a rally on the same date and at the same location as Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In the rally’s most cringe-inducing moment, a clip from King’s 1963 speech was played on reflecting pool jumbotrons, to raucous applause. My first instinct was to join in, but I hesitated and thought better of it.

King played by Beck is no longer King, and the transformation is nothing if not political. MLK is drained of his original revolutionary power, becoming a symbol of the viewer’s own racial tolerance — and the louder you clap, so Beck’s logic goes, the more tolerant you are. The clip was part of

a politi-shtick that saturated the rally, taking the hyper-slick, mediated scheme of both political parties to its logical conclusion. Beck cut the fat and tossed the meat.

If anything is to be gained, however accidentally, from Restoring Honor, it is a realization of the extent to which the fat, so to speak, is always there. Maybe a carnal repositor y like Restoring Honor will act like a shtick magnet, attracting highsounding rhetoric the world over to its great ball of fake. Maybe not. Either way, I found myself hoping not for less absurdity, but more. And I was scarcely disappointed.

The rally’s most ardent shtick-ness was its PC posturing, which left me unsure as to whether Beck’s intention was to deliberately mock the left or up its ante. The breadth and combination was astounding: Native American pastor, indeterminably-Hispanic baseball player, King, Jr. relative, various black vocalists.

Equally schlocky was the emphasis on the framers of the Constitution. Beck’s entire worldview distorts both historical context and, occasionally, all evidence of the founding fathers’ intentions.

Thomas Jefferson is famous for inventing the separation of church and state, opposing orthodox Christianity and writing a version of the Bible without miracles. Thus becomes the face of Beck’s award for “Faith” (that that face is rendered in a take on Shepard Fairey’s infamous two-tone posters of Barack Obama is itself worthy of a much longer consideration). The award is introduced by Chief Negiel Bigpond, whose

speech contains both the day’s most nonironically stirring rhetoric (“The word ‘honor’ is like a sweet stone …”) and some of its scariest (“We [Native Americans] must leave our reservations … we must be covenant warriors in Christ.”) The award is given to African American pastor C.L. Jackson, who somehow manages to betray King and Jefferson in one fell swoop, praising “the ministry of Dr. Glenn Beck.”

Indeed, Beck is more evangelist than pundit, and the one area in which he gives prescriptive, comically specific commands, is religion. He offers a sort of prayer kama sutra, advising not only when (night) and where (one’s bedroom), but also what position (on one’s knees — minister?) and who can watch (“don’t just pray on your knees, but pray on your knees with the door open … so your kids can see their mom or dad humbled …”). On the subject of tithing, Beck is a flat-rater, in favor of church donations of 10 percent across the board (presumably before everlasting deductions).

Judging by the Christ-centric evocations and misappropriations onstage at “Restoring Honor,” one would think that Beck’s audience, the fabled “Real America,” is composed of unthinking religious zealots.

It isn’t. Most people I spoke with were profoundly decent, expressing reasonable concerns about bloated government spending and personal responsibility (Not that there wasn’t the occasional crazy: I was called, in addition to “a ver y nice young man,” a jobless fool, an Ivy Leaguer with no American history, a Jew, an Obama drone and a

reader of Stalin).

That Beck commodifies these real concerns and packages them with a dose of demagoguer y represents the best reason to dislike this man. The rally’s attendees were neither active participants in Beck’s ravings, nor were they really his victims.

But there was an important divide. The difference between the Mall and the stage was the difference between life (at least a certain, perfectly-acceptable kind of life) and the vapid, super-flashy symbol of it, and the distance was, to an outside observer, somehow painful.

Yet there is a silver lining. An unassailable ideology was expressed somewhere in the nether reaches of the “Restoring Honor” merchandising, but not the reaches you’d think. A 19-year old named Aaron was selling pins at the rally including those emblazoned with images of MLK, Palin and Obama the Socialist. When asked how his own political views lined up with Beck, Aaron, who had been on the Mall since 7:00 a.m. and seemed to be essentially self-employed, responded, “I’m just here for business.” I thanked Aaron and walked away, amazed by this chipper but steely-eyed testament to personal ingenuity. I then heard Aaron continue his sales pitch: “Reagan pins for $10, ever ything else for five.” That, reader, is capitalism in action.

This column was originally published by the Cornell Daily Sun at Cornell University.

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Sports football

Gophers win opener, 24-17 The Gophers ran the ball relentlessly and controlled the clock in a season-opening win against Middle Tennessee State Thursday.

Photo courtesy The Associated press

Gophers junior Duane Bennett led the way in the rushing game, finishing with 187 yards on 30 carries, the biggest game for a Gophers rusher since 2005.

football

Big Ten reveals football divisions

BY ANDREW BAKER abaker@mndaily.com

The Big Ten announced Wednesday how its new 12-team, two-division setup will look, and although Minnesota and Wisconsin will be in different divisions, they will still play each other every year.

The new look, which af fects only football, will begin with the 2011-12 season when Nebraska formally joins the conference. The two divisions, for now known as the X and O Divisions, will look like this: u O Division: Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern and Minnesota u X Division: Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana and Illinois Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said that although the new divisional setup will split longtime rivals Ohio State and Michigan into different divisions, and do the same to Minnesota and Wisconsin, interdivision crossover games will be played each year to keep those rivalries intact. “[Minnesota and Wisconsin have] the longest rivalry in the history of college football,” Delany said. “It will be maintained.”

Seven out of the nine weeks in the 2011-12 Big Ten season will include a rivalry and/or trophy game, while nine out of 12 conference trophy games will be guaranteed annually.

Minnesota Athletic Director Joel Maturi said that, for the most part, the division alignment and the 2011-12 schedule are favorable for the Gophers, noting that the team will open that season playing for the Little Brown Jug trophy at Michigan and that they will play rival Wisconsin every year.

“I think all Gopher fans are going to be extremely happy with the setup of the divisions and certainly with the schedule we face in 2011 and 2012,” Maturi said.

Maturi said he’s “not ecstatic” that Minnesota will play both Iowa and Wisconsin at home in 2011-12 — usually one game is home and one is away each year — and that some fans may be disappointed that neither of those games will be played at the end of the season.

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BY JOHN HAGEMAN jhageman@mndaily.com

When junior r unning back Duane Bennett ran for 32 yards on the first play from scrimmage Thursday, he already set a milestone for the Minnesota football team: It was longer than any run the Gophers had last season.

The Gophers opened the season with a 24-17 win over Middle Tennessee State on Thursday night in Mur freesboro, Tenn., behind a strong running game and three goal-line touchdown runs by senior fullback Jon Hoese , including the game winner with 3:09 left.

Bennett led the way with a career-high 187 yards on 30 carries, the most yards for a Gophers rusher since Amir Pinnix’s 206 yards against Michigan State in 2005.

In all, Minnesota ran the ball 67 times for 281 yards, including freshman Donnell Kirkwoo d’s 50 yards on 11 carries and junior DeLeon Eskridge’ s 12 carries for 40 yards . That’s a good sign for a Minnesota team that finished last in the Big Ten in rushing each of the past two years , and is a sign of new cooffensive coordinator Jeff Horton’ s commitment to running the ball more effectively.

“We knew when we came into the game we were going to run the ball; we had great blocking up front,” Bennett said. “It’s not a smooth game, things started to teeter a little bit, but we stuck with it.”

The Gophers dominated the time of possession battle, control-

ling the ball for more than 75 percent of the game while the Blue Raiders, playing without suspended star quarterback Dwight Dash er, didn’t have a drive lasting longer than one minute, 57 seconds.

The Gophers took a quick lead with an 11-play, 79-yard opening drive that featured only one pass and nine straight runs, culminating with a Hoese touchdown run. Another Hoese dive into the endzone extended the lead to 14-0 early in the second quarter.

The Gophers’ defense kept the Blue Raiders in check for the first quarter and a half, allowing just 42 yards on 14 plays on their first four drives . Sophomore Mike Rallis intercepted Logan Kilgore’s pass on the Blue Raiders’ second drive of the game.

“I’m ver y proud of our defense,” Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster said. “[Middle Tennessee State] is an explosive football team, regardless of whether Dasher was in there or not.”

But Middle Tennessee State’s of fense woke up with two quick touchdowns in the last seven minutes of the half to tie the game, and they took the lead early in the third quarter with a 31-yard field goal.

The entire Minnesota defense came into Thursday’s game with just 17 combined career star ts, with 14 coming from senior cornerback Ryan Collado alone. Returning starter Kyle Theret is serving a suspension, and Kim Royston is

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Cross country

Both teams run in the Oz Memorial Run this weekend at Les Bolstad golf course in Falcon Heights.

u scores analysis

Bennet emerges as go-to rusher

The junior rusher could be the star running back the Gophers have lacked the past few seasons. Page 3B

volleyball takes two of three

The No. 8 Gophers won the Diet Coke Classic despite being upset

by No. 22 Northern Iowa on Saturday. Page 2B

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Duane Bennett’s rushing total against Middle Tennessee State, the highest of any Gophers back since Amir Pinnix in 2005.

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Gophers win Minnesota Gold Classic The Gophers have now won five straight after a defeat of No. 14 San Diego on Sunday.

BY AUSTIN CUMBLAD acumblad@mndaily.com

A season ago, the Minnesota women’s soccer team was left outside the NCAA tournament looking in, its resume not quite polished enough to earn a berth a year after it made a run to the Sweet Sixteen. Six games into this season, the Gophers are already talking about making their way back there.

It seems to be pr oper motivation.

Minnesota beat the University of California at Santa Barbara 2-0 Friday and No. 14 San Diego 2-1 on Sunday to win the Minnesota Gold Classic in its first weekend of the year at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

The Gophers have rattled of f five straight wins after a season-opening loss to then 4th ranked Notre Dame, and have scored at least two goals in each, including a 7-0 drubbing of Belmont last Tuesday.

“This is the best I’ve seen us in attack in a long time,” seventh year head coach Mikki Denney Wright said Sunday

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after her team netted two impressive goals against the Toreros.

In the 53rd minute, senior midfielder Molly Rouse corraled a cross near the end line and found a waiting Shari Eckstrom at the top of the box.

Eckstrom slid a one-touch shot under San Diego goalkeeper Cour tney Parsons for her team-leading fourth goal of the season.

“Beating a ranked team at home will do wonders for us when it comes time for seeding in the NCAA.” Molly Rouse Senior midfielder

Less than 20 minutes later, Rouse received a free kick from fellow senior Katie Bethke at the far post and sent a cracking header into the back of the net. The cushion proved criti-

cal when the Toreros’ Brittany Held, already a hero thanks to an overtime winner against Marquette, glanced a shot off newly appointed center back Tamara Strahota . It looped over Minnesota keeper Cat Parkhill and into the net.

It was the defense’s only blemish in an otherwise stingy weekend, this despite UC-Santa Barbara’s attempt on Friday to isolate Strahota, who dropped back last week from forward to fill in for injured senior and threeyear starter Jennie Clark. Strahota went through a one-day crash course to learn the Gophers’ unorthodox back line, a flat threeplayer formation that emphasizes one-on-one defending. As Denney Wright put it, “you make a mistake you’re done. You don’t have any cover.”

But Strahota was up to the task, and apart from one lapse kept the Gauchos’ speedy striker Alissa Sanchez away from the net. The lone time that Sanchez slipped behind the defense – in the middle of the first half with the score still knotted 0-0 – Parkhill made a sprawl-

Michigan head coach Rich Rodriguez inched off the hot seat as his team beat Connecticut 3010 with help from quarterback Denard Robinson’s 383 total yards.

purdue falls to notre dame

The Boilermakers lost 2312 on the road to Notre Dame in Brian Kelly’s first game coaching the Fighting Irish.

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thursday Minnesota 24

MTSU 17

soccer Friday

Minnesota 2 UCSB 0

sunday

Minnesota 2 San Diego 1

volleyball Friday

Minnesota 3 Baylor 1

saturday Minnesota 2

Northern Iowa 3 sunday

Minnesota 3 Dayton 0

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saturday 1. BYU 20

2. Minnesota 41

3. San Bern. 84

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saturday Intrasquad meet

1. Stephanie Price 2. Nikki Swenson 3. Missa Varpness

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Redshirt freshman Steph Brandt handles the ball against No. 14 San Diego on Sunday. Brandt scored her first career goal in the 87th minute, a top-corner shot from 20 yards out.

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No. 8 Gophers take two of three

BY LINDSAY GUENTZEL lguentzel@mndaily.com

The Gophers volleyball team took a perfect record into the Diet Coke Classic this weekend, but didn’t leave with one.

After sweeping Denver, Stony Brook and Marquette in the Golden Gopher Invite last weekend, the eighthranked Gophers won two out of three games at the Spor ts Pavilion, beating Baylor and Dayton while losing to No. 22 Northern Iowa.

The Gophers improved to 4-0 Friday with a fourset win over Baylor, 25-16, 25-19, 20-25, 25-22.

Their per fect record didn’t last long as the Gophers got off to a slow start against No. 22 Nor thern Iowa on Saturday, with the Panthers taking the first set in a dominating 25-16 victory.

Minnesota took the next two sets, but the Panthers took the fourth, 25-23, despite back-to-back kills by sophomore Tabitha Love and freshman Ashley Wittman, as well as a ser vice ace from junior Stephanie Nucci.

“We didn’t really execute the game plan as well as we wanted to,” senior Lauren Gibbemeyer said.

During the fifth set, the Gophers took an 8-4 lead on an attack error by Nor ther n Iowa’s Bre Payton.

However, the Panthers rallied to take the next five of six points to tie the match at nine.

The Panthers pushed the game to match point, where the Gophers were able to hold them until Amy Braun released a kill that finally gave Northern Iowa the five-set victory.

Despite the loss, many of the Gophers put up impressive numbers, including Love, Wittman and junior Jessica Granquist.

All had car eer-high games: Love with 23 kills, Wittman with 21 digs, and Granquist with 33 digs.

Gibbemeyer also had 13 kills and eight blocks for the Gophers.

“Offensively, we’re very power ful and ver y strong there,” Gibbemeyer said.

“Jess Granquist came out and did a great job defensively so we have that going for us as well. But, I would definitely say our of fense really came out to play this weekend.”

After losing to Northern Iowa, the Gophers finished off their Saturday by sweeping No. 20 Dayton in three sets — 25-20, 25-13, 25-13.

With just seven hours

Gophers sophomore outside hitter Tabitha Love (left) and senior middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer celebrate after scoring against Dayton on Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

mark van cleave, daily photos

Freshman Ashley Wittman, the 2009 Gatorade High School Player of the Year out of Shakopee, serves against Dayton Saturday evening. Wittman finished with 16 kills and eight digs in the game.

between the two matches, head coach Mike Heber t said he was impressed at how fast the Gophers recovered, something many teams struggle with.

“Despite the loss, I think what it teaches the team is that you need to be able to play in a variety of different circumstances,” he said.

“Right now, I’m just real happy with how they performed.”

While Minnesota, Northern Iowa and Dayton all ended the tournament 2-1, Minnesota was considered the winner because it won the most sets — 10 to 8 to 6, respectively.

Gibbemeyer said the home tour nament was a good chance for the Gophers to see what their team has.

“It was really cool how we came together and just

Diet Coke Classic Sports Pavilion

Date

Opponent

Score

Sept. 3 Sept. 4 Sept. 4

Baylor Northern Iowa Dayton

3-1 (W) 2-8 (L) 3-0 (W) source: gophersports.com

let that bad match kind of roll off our backs,” Gibbemeyer said. “We just needed to focus on the game plan.”

Three Gophers — Gibbemeyer, Granquist and Love — were named to the All-Tournament Team and Gibbemeyer also earned Most Outstanding Player for her performance.

Minnesota wasn’t the only top-10 team upset this weekend, as No. 5 Illinois swept No. 2 Texas in a three

game series.

After two successful tournaments at home, the Gophers head to Nor th Carolina for the Duke Invitational next weekend, where they’ll play Nor th Carolina Central, Delaware and Duke, all of whom are unranked.

“I think we’re ready to hit the road and see what else is out there,” Gibbemeyer said.

With a returning group

fresh off a NCAA Final Four berth and a freshman class featuring the Gatorade High School Player of the Year in Shakopee’s Ashley Wittman, Love said she’s excited for the season and expects the Gophers to be strong contenders in the Big Ten. “We are all tr ying to model championship behaviors all the time,” Love said.

“We have that one goal of being national champions.”

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football

Notebook: A go-to rusher emerges

BY JOSH KATZENSTEIN jkatzenstein@mndaily.com

It took until his junior season, but Duane Bennett finally looks like the star running back the Gophers have lacked the past few seasons.

He was the definition of a work horse Thursday, running 30 times for 187 yards in a 24-17 win at Middle Tennessee State.

He ran inside, he ran outside.

He ran with power and finesse and showed why he’s the starter.

“He’s been impressive all fall camp, and I think we’ve all been waiting for him to kind of go back out there and be that r unning back that he wants to be,” quarterback Adam Weber said. “He seemed like a whole new back compared to last year.”

Bennett was the star ter last

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still recovering from a broken leg suf fered during spring practices.

The defense showed some of its youth in the second and third quarters but also showed some promise.

When Blue Raiders running back Phillip Tanner made linebacker Gar y Tinsley miss a tackle in the open field, sophomore linebacker Keanon Cooper chased him down from behind and made the tackle, preventing

season as well, but was coming off an injury and split carries with Kevin Whaley and DeLeon Eskridge. Bennett finished the year with just 98 carries for 395 yards.

As a true freshman in 2007, Bennett appeared to be the running back of the future, amassing 106 yards in a game against Michigan and 442 yards for the season.

But in the second game of 2008, Bennett tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee, ending his hopeful sophomore campaign.

He was given a redshirt for the missed season, giving him an extra year of eligibility.

Now in 2010, Bennett looks ready to take control and be the alpha dog in the backfield.

The first offensive play Thursday was a handoff to Bennett, who

the score.

Gophers senior kicker Eric Ellesta d chipped in a field goal to tie the game early in the four th, after the Gophers drove from their own one-yard line but couldn’t conver t on three chances inside the 10. Ellestad missed his first two attempts of the game, a 39-yard and a 40-yard tr y in the second quarter.

The Gophers marched down the field once more with a 15-play, 77-yard drive late in the fourth that ended with Hoese’s third touch-

ran for 32 yards. Two plays later he ran for 25 yards. In total he had five carries go for double-digit gains.

“It’s a great feeling to know that we’re getting back to the style of play that we’ve been tr ying to achieve,” Bennett said after Thursday’s game.

The game plan will likely change week to week, but Bennett and the rest of the running backs must be thrilled that the Gophers ran 67 times and threw just 17.

Most of the other carries were split by junior DeLeon Eskridge (11 for 38 yards) and impressive freshman Donnell Kirkwood (12 for 50 yards).

night, but the inexperience rarely showed.

The Blue Raiders averaged 32 points per game in 2009 , but the Gophers held them to just 17 points Thursday.

Safeties Kyle Theret and Kim Royston are the only two starters back from last year, but Theret was suspended for the game and Royston is still recovering from a broken left leg.

The young secondary gave up a few long passes, and the linebackers struggled to make a few tackles, but it was an encouraging first game for the inexperienced squad.

No experience, no problem for defense

Gophers in the pros

The Gophers had zero returning starters on defense Thursday

down run. On the ensuing kickof f, Hoese recovered a Blue Raiders fumble and closed out the game.

Brewster said the game ball would go to Hoese — both for his on-field performance and for just being in attendance. Hoese’s father Ter r y suf fered a stroke just six days prior to the game, causing the senior captain to consider not making the trip at all.

His teammates were glad he did.

“He has a tremendous hear t and love for this game and for this team,”

NFL teams had to make their final roster cuts Saturday, and 10 Gophers found their names on

of fensive guard Chris Bunders said. “We’ll take him anytime we can get him, and I’m really happy that he played.”

Sophomore secondstring quar terback MarQueis Gray was targeted several times at wide receiver Thursday, catching one pass for 22 yards on a slant route in the middle of the field. Brewster has remained adamant that Gray will remain the backup quarterback, but continues to prove he isn’t shy about using his athleticism at other positions.

The passing game opened somewhat for senior quarterback Adam Weber thanks to the strong ground attack, and the fourth-year starter showed some poise by not turning the ball over, something he did 15 times

53-man rosters across the league, including three rookies.

Wide receiver Eric Decker made the Broncos, but as a thirdround draft pick, he didn’t have to worry too much.

Elsewhere, undrafted free agents Garrett Brown and Traye Simmons did enough to stay with the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers, respectively.

Nine former Gophers were on the wrong end of the cuts, although cor ner nback Marcus Sherels and receiver Logan Payne made the Minnesota Vikings’ eight-man practice squad.

All three of the Gophers linebackers from last year—Simoni Lawrence, Nate Triplett and Lee Campbell — were cut by different teams, and the Seattle Seahawks cut tight end Nick Tow-Arnett.

Team Stat Comparison 1st Downs Total Yards Passing Comp-Att Rushing Rushing Attempts Yards Per Rush Penalties Turnovers Possession

Minnesota

Mid Tennessee

27 431 150 10-17 281 67 4.2 4-29 0 45:34

12 318 172 13-18 146 22 6.6 4-27 2 14:26 source: espn

last season. He completed 10 passes for 150 yards on 17 attempts.

But Weber’s role was mainly to manage the game while the r unning backs and lineman took over, which Bunders said the team hopes to take into the

rest of the season.

“It’s always good to open with a win, and I think the of fensive line knows now that we need to keep taking over the game,” Bunders said. “And as long as we run the ball successfully, we’ll have a strong year.”

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Five reasons Thursday’s win was encouraging

BY JOSH KATZENSTEIN jkatzenstein@mndaily.com

1. Winning on the road In Tim Brewster’s first three seasons, the Gophers won just five games on the road, compared to nine at home.

The home-field advantage might be lacking (25,908 attending) in Murfreesboro, Tenn., but it’s always tough for a young team to come from behind on the road.

2. Pounding the rock Thursday’s game looked more like the Glen Mason-era Gophers, as co-offensive coordinators Thomas Hammock and Jeff Horton committed to running the ball — to the tune of 67 rushing attempts for 281 yards.

3. Weber’s new threat Junior tight end Eric Lair is a near clone of Nick TowArnett , last year’s starter who made 37 catches for 505 yards and three touchdowns . They’re both 6-foot-3, similarly built and have good hands. Lair had two receptions for 40 yards on Thursday and likely will be a security blanket for quarterback Adam Weber this season.

4. Time of possession The number that stood out most from Thursday’s win was the time of possession battle, which the Gophers won three-to-one (45:34 to 14:26). Middle Tennessee State’s longest drive of the game lasted just 2 minutes, 16 seconds. Even though the Blue Raiders scored quickly three times, Minnesota’s win came from controlling the clock and keeping the ball in the offense’s hands.

5. Playing with passion The team played for fullback Jon Hoese’s father, Terry, who is recovering from a recent stroke. Hoese, who wasn’t even sure if he’d make the trip, scored three goalline touchdowns after deciding to play., Brewster was right to call the game “inspiring football.”

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ing save and allowed Minnesota to clear its lines. It was one of only two shots UC-Santa Barbara managed to put on target.

Meanwhile, the Gophers were creating chances but often missing the net altogether. It wasn’t until

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want, but I do think that it’s a fair and equitable process,” Maturi said.

Each team will play eight conference games, four home and four away, with no more than two consecutive at home or on the road. Teams will also have one protected inter-division crossover game to be played every year and two rotated crossover games.

In other words, each team will play five intra-division games and three games against the opposing division each year.

The winners of each division will square off in the inaugural Big Ten Football Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for the right to play in either the Rose Bowl Game or the BCS National Championship Game.

The protected inter-division crossover games will be: u Ohio State-Michigan u Wisconsin-Minnesota u Penn State-Nebraska u Illinois-Northwestern u Indiana-Michigan State u Purdue-Iowa The Ohio State-Michigan game will be played at the end of the season, as it has since 1935, Delany

Tuesday, September 7, 2010 the opening minutes of the second half and a fortuitous bounce that sophomore forward Allie Phillips put home the game winner. An attempted clearance was headed onto her foot, and it lofted over Gauchos’ keeper Makenna Henry, who could do nothing but watch it dip under the crossbar.

Redshirt freshman Steph Brandt added insurance in the 87th minute

with her first career goal, a shot that whistled into the top corner from 20 yards out.

Already players are thinking about the implications of each early season win, especially when one is against a top-25 opponent.

“Beating a ranked team at home will do wonders for us when it comes time for seeding in the NCAA,” Rouse said.

MInnesota Gold Classic

Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium, St. Paul, Minn.

Date

Opponent

Score

Sept. 3 Sept. 5

UC-Santa Barbara San Diego

2-0 (W) 2-1 (W)

source: gophersports.com

Big Ten divisions Division X: Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana and Illinois Division O: Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern and Minnesota source: BigTen.org

said. This presents the possibility of those two teams playing twice in a row, should they meet in the conference championship game.

Michigan athletic director David Brandon said he’d have no problem playing Ohio State twice in one year, and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith’s take was simple.

“If it happens, it happens,” he said.

With the addition of Nebraska, there will be one more team in the conference playing the same number of conference games (eight) each year. That means Big Ten teams will play their cross-division rivals less often than they do now.

Delany said that to address the problem, the conference’s athletic directors and presidents are strongly considering adding a ninth game to the conference

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(Left to right) Penn State head coach Joe Peterno, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne at the Big Ten Media Days conference in Chicago in August.

schedule sometime in the future.

“We don’t want to play each other less, we want to play each other more,” Delany said.

Delany said the three main factors in determining the division alignment were competitive equal-

ity, rivalries and geography.

“We think that [the divisional alignment] does a pretty good job of not only maintaining great old matchups, but also of creating some wonderful new matchups,” Delany said.

Delany said the conference will continue to be called the “Big Ten,” despite its growth to 12 teams, and that the division names “X” and “O” will ser ve as placeholders until official names are decided.

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cross country

Men take second in Utah, women run intrasquad The men’s cross country team opened its season Saturday in Provo, Utah.

BY DEREK WETMORE dwetmore@mndaily.com

The men’s cross country team opened its season Saturday in Provo, Utah without two of its top competitors, Hassan Mead and Ben Blankenship.

They were outpaced by Brigham Young University by 21 points, but Minnesota finished comfortably ahead of the San Bernardino Valley College in the three-team meet.

Senior Mike Torchia was the top finisher for the Gophers, taking fourth overall and third among collegians.

Torchia was the leader of a team noticeably lacking Blankenship and Mead.

Mead is still recovering from an injured Achilles tendon, but having him sit was merely precautionar y. In early season meets, sometimes the team would opt to sit an elite runner like Mead anyway.

Blankenship is a slightly different stor y. He ran for USA Track this summer, and head coach Steve Plasencia said he wanted to allow Blankenship more time to recover before competing in a long distance race.

“They beat us on depth,” Plasencia said. “They definitely had better depth than we did.”

Behind Torchia was Pieter Gagnon, sixth place, Sean Olson (13), Andrew Larson (14) and Erik Truedson (15).

Torchia and Gagnon are likely to make the top seven, but the final placements have not been decided. Plasencia said that the decisions will start at the top and hopefully be made in the coming weeks.

He added that he “would like to be 95 percent certain

by Griak [Invitational] as to what we’re doing [with our roster].”

There is no hard-and-fast deadline as to when a final roster needs to be decided, but often times a team won’t

waste a year of eligibility on a runner if they don’t get to utilize a full season. Plasencia said that the latest he has ever gone before adding someone to the lineup is the conference championships. “ We h a v e a c o u p l e more question marks this year than in other years,” Plasencia said.

“It starts at the top. We are not writing this season off, we want to run well.”

If Mead is going to be 100 percent, he will likely compete this season, but if not, the top seven will need to be shifted.

“I’m one of those guys that doesn’t want to make a decision until I have to,” Plasencia said.

“This week and next week are about seeing what we have. Then we’ll assess it, and then we’ll try to come at Griak [on Sept. 25 ] with a full lineup.”

jules ameel, daily

The Gophers women’s track team runs during its annual intrasquad meet at Les Bolstad golf course in Falcon Heights.

Sophomore Stephanie Price won the race, finishing the 5-kilometer course in 18 minutes, 25.1 seconds.

Top-10 finishers at women’s intrasquad meet Les Bolstad Course, Falcon Heights, Minn.

Name

time

Stephanie Price Nikki Swenson Missa Varpness Ashlie Decker Katie Dyson Claire Rindo Kayla Wagner Kelly Wilson Laura Docherty Katie Moraczewski

18:25.1 19:08.7 19:11.6 19:12.5 19:13.6 19:17.5 19:20.9 19:32.4 19:43.8 19:52.3 source: gophersports.com

The Gophers will host the Oz Memorial next Friday at The University of Minnesota -Les Bolstad Golf Course. It’s the final tune-up prior to the Roy Griak Invitational.

“We definitely need to improve, but I’m hoping those other two guys will be back in the lineup,” Plasencia said.

Women host intrasquad race

The women did not travel this weekend, and instead “hosted” an intrasquad scrimmage at Les Bolstad. Head coach Gar y W ilson split the group into two teams — maroon vs. gold — and the two groups competed for the

Gophers men at 2010 BYU Autumn Classic Provo, Utah

Player

Place

Mike Torchia Pieter Gagnon Sean Olson Andrew Larson Erik Truedson

4th 6th 10th 14th 15th

Time 20:32.7 20:37.8 21:02.4 21:03.7 21:07.3

score 3 5 10 11 12

source: Minnesota athletics department

infamous “Charley the fish” trophy.

The trophy actually goes to the losing team, and it has been a r unning joke since Wilson’s 26-year tenure at Minnesota began.

Of ficial results don’t mean much, but anyone watching the teams r un the 5-kilometer course came away with two impressions.

First, the team will rely heavily on some veteran leadership this year. Junior Steph Price came in first place in the meet,

and senior Nikki Swenson finished second. In the midst of a youth movement, the team will leave heavily on those two.

Look no further than third place to realize that this team is getting young in a hurry.

Redshir t freshman Missa Varpress and true freshman Ashlie Decker finished third and fourth, respectively.

“In high school, Missa was more of an 800-meter runner,” assistant coach Sarah Hesser said, “but with a year of getting the bugs out, I think she’s ready to rock and roll.”

With runners like Megan Duwell, Heather Dorniden and Gabe Anderson graduating in recent years, the women’s team will rely on numerous true and redshirt freshmen.

Of the team’s 49 members, 21 are either freshman or redshirt freshman, something that could be a boon to the program in years to come.

“It was kind of by design,” Wilson said. “We redshirted that whole class last year so we made sure we had a group coming up.”

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 6 — Sharing with others requires you to make special effort.

Pay attention to the results as you go to ensure the most glorious outcome.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Throw your emotions into your work. You want to integrate sensitivity into the process. Softly pedal your leadership to accommodate.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — An open-ended work project allows for a high degree of creativity from all concerned. Record every idea to make decisions later.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — You want everything to be perfect, and everyone to be happy. Someone will make effort for this to occur. Is that person you?

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — To boost general morale, allow a partner to pay for the fun. Join their party, and stick to your own limits or pay a price later.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Make your best impression at work through meticulous preparation of materials and careful selection of attire.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 5 — You feel extra passionate about your talents now. You want to produce something of value, and you need help from a partner to do it.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — You discover that your career could go in two very different directions. One is mostly about the money. Compassion lies at the heart.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — The key to success today lies in the hands of a female.

She knows how to use everyone’s talents to the best advantage.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Two lovebirds contact you with unusual ideas for a gathering. Can you take time off? If so, you’ll have great fun. If not, send regrets and a gift.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Your emotions are all tied up with ethereal success.

Your partner has given you an idea. You see the logic of applying physical effort.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Although you wish you could remain dreaming in bed, work beckons. Get into practical details to focus your energy. Then plow ahead.

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OVERHEARD around campus

“Let’s get drunk and grope each other!”

—Girl to her friends at Dinkytown McDonalds

Guy: “I’m in Carlson, I’m kind of a douche.”

Girl: “I’ve noticed.”

—Location Unknown

“She’ll grow a penis. Just wait for it.”

—Coffman Union

Guy: “Do you have a moment to help stop animal cruelty?”

Girl: “No, sorry! We’re kind of in a hurry … but I did stop to help a caterpillar on the way here!”

—McNamara Plaza

Girl 1: “So I saw my first uncircumcised penis this weekend.”

Girl 2: “What!?”

Girl 1: “Yeah, and my first sex change.”

Guy 1: “You really should take COMM 3402 and work on your Interpersonal Communication skills.”

Guy 2: “Dude, sometimes you just have to put [expletive] in their place.”

Guy 1: “Yeah, and that’s part of the curriculum!”

—Location Unknown

Guy 1: “So yeah, I’m actually growing out my hair so I’ll look like Anakin Skywalker from Star Wars ...”

Guy 2: “Yeah, you probably shouldn’t tell people that.”

—Walter Library

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“One week and back to black out drunk and bad decisions!”

—After math final

Professor: “If this isn’t on the test do you still want to know?”

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“We much prefer ‘__’” 40 Check for flaws 41 Give __ up: assist 42 Cry at a faith healing 45 Supreme Court nominee Kagan 46 Abolitionist Lucretia 47 1949 Gatsby portrayer 50 “Too serious!” said the pigeons.

“Why don’t we go with ‘__’?”

54 Sanctioned 55 But in the end, the sheep had their way, and they all watched “__” 60 Jar head 61 “Bye!” 62 Say “Hi!” to 63 L’École __ Roches: French private school 64 Support pieces 65 Produce some cliff notes?

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12 Channel for little kids 13 Laughs at a joke 18 Perrier, e.g.

21 Nevertheless 22 Trivia buff’s fodder 23 “Here comes trouble!”

24 Anatomical knot 25 Plant with colorful flower clusters 28 Gender-biased, briefly 29 Sulk 30 Violas’ sect.

32 More 33 Informal turndown

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42 “Turn up the heat!”

43 Lunchbox snack 44 Like bitter rivals 45 Verve 47 “The Zoo Story” playwright

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Dateopia, Welcome back to campus, young lovers. I’m the resident love doctor, here to help you with all your relationship needs, guide you through your flirtatious adventures and mend those broken hearts.

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Dear Dr. Date, One of my best friends is too good for the guy she is dating. I know I have to tell her how I feel about it; yes there is some jealousy involved. Any tips on how to say it?

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If you do tell her what you feel, you run the risk of coming off as jealous, which is pretty likely, especially if you plan to make a move after the breakup.

As a friend, even a jealous one, you should be there for her, especially when their relationship inevitably crumbles – which it will – and she needs some friendly support. As she gets over this lout, you’ll slowly go from being there for her, to just being there. Who knows what you’ll be in line for then?

Dear Dr. Date, If you make plans with a best friend a few days in advance, and she runs some errands and completely forgets about hanging out, what are you supposed to think?

Cheers, — Hanging by a moment

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But all this is conjecture. If it bothered you so much that you decided to write the good doctor for advice, it’s probably important enough that you should talk to her about it.

If her tardiness proves interminable, then maybe you should wait for an upcoming birthday and make sure she has an unmissable meeting with Emily Post.

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23054

Copy Ref/Instructions

$425.00 $125.60

Student Unions & 6 X 8 Activities SUA Student Unions & 2 X 12 Activities SUA Parking and 3X8 Transportation Deborah E. Powell 3 X 5 Center for Women's Health Student Unions & 3 X 9 Activities SUA OnCampus 3 X 10 Advertising Reboot Store 3X5 St. Mary's Greek Orthodox Church Midwest Mountaineering Princeton Review

Inch

- Denotes items with a price override

Spot Color

$325.00

Printed: 1/27/11 3:24 PM

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The Minnesota Daily Runsheet

Criteria: date = 9/8/09 and pubRef = The Minnesota Daily and hold = true Display Ads Ad No.

Cust No.

Cust Name

Size/Feature

PG

Rep

23056

LR3969

Legend's

2X7

14.0 first issue back

$174.58

0

16

me

23060

Ernst and Young

6 X 10

60.0 1st Issue Back

23066

NA1207002 LR0037

$1,034.10

6

17

RCE

Skyway Lounge

2X2

4.0 back to school and fall

$53.94

1

15

me

23067

AL0552

23068

LR0535

Minnesota Film Arts 1 X 2 (Oak Street) AEG Management 3 X 10 TWN, LLC Choice Musting

2.0 Back to school issue

$29.00

1

11

CRS

30.0 Back to school quarter

$435.00

0

18

MRD

23072

AL2921

Edina Storage

2X5

Choice Back Page 10.0 Back to school

$0.00 $145.00

0

16

CRS

23075

LR0076

Jefferson Lines

3 X 10

30.0 Jefferson Lines 1st issue

$371.50

1

4

CRS

Full Color 3 X 10

30.0 Soup for U

$200.00 $302.40

0

17

jmf

3 X 10

30.0 The informant

$0.00

0

23

rcs

$247.50

0

n/a

AC

15.0 WANTED STUDENT

$142.80

0

9

jmf

Full Color 3X5

15.0 First Issue Back

$200.00 $217.50

0

19

ALS

3 X 10

30.0 9

$0.00

0

n/a

rcs

23078

US0187

Hillel

23088

LR0492

23118

LR4468

23119

UR0028

Marketing Communications Dept- The Minnesota Daily TGI Friday's Roseville Intercollegiate Athletics

23123

LR4530

Hub Bike Co-op

23185

LR0492

Marketing Communications Dept- The Minnesota Daily

Total All Ads: Total House Ads:

74 0

- Denotes items with a price override

1X1 3X5

Inch

Copy Ref/Instructions

1.0 !!!DAILY CARD!(not and

1,934.0 0.0

H/M

Cost

$25,869.53 N/A

Re Date

T/S

REV

RTA

CPN

PRF

Printed: 1/27/11 3:24 PM

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The Minnesota Daily Runsheet

Criteria: date = 9/8/09 and pubRef = The Minnesota Daily and hold = true Classified Display Ads Ad No.

Cust No.

Cust Name

Size/Feature

23136

LR0244

Silver

2.0 Biological Sciences

$170.00

0

n/a

MJN

23137

LR0244

Silver

2.0 Boyton Health Services

$170.00

0

n/a

MJN

23138

LR0244

Bronze

1.0 4st Ramp

$127.50

0

n/a

MJN

23025

LR0119

Cryogenic Laboratories Cryogenic Laboratories Cryogenic Laboratories ACR homes

$222.50

0

25

MRD

$127.50 $1,221.50

0

26

MRD

22650

15.0 Back to School

Spot Color CD 7 X 10

Spot Color Blue 70.0 FIRE 1/2 page ad first fall

22948

AL0107

23082

LR0913

Cardinal Properties 3 X 5

23037

LR0595

Dominium Management Services, Inc. University Village

22830

LR0104 LR0085

Grand Marc

Copy Ref/Instructions

3X5

Foundation for Individualized Full Color CD Rights in Education (FIRE) Prism Research 5X7

22871

LR4500

Inch

4.62 X 10 Full Color 7 X 10 Full Color CD 7 X 10

10 0

- Denotes items with a price override

Cost

Re Date

T/S

REV

RTA

CPN

PRF Cl/Pg Rep

$200.00

35.0 Prism Back to School

$610.75

0

26

MRD

15.0 Back to School

$261.75

1

25

MJN

46.199 Back to School 997 Full Color

$730.29

0

25

MJN

$200.00

70.0 Back-to-School

$1,279.35

1

27

MJN

70.0 Grand Marc back to

$200.00 $1,137.20

0

27

MRD

Full Color CD Total All Ads: Total House Ads:

H/M

Full Color 326.2 0.0

$0.00 $6,658.34 N/A