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Man found dead in U fraternity A 20-year-old UMN student was found dead by St. Paul police Wednesday morning.

BY JORDAN WILLAUER jwillauer@mndaily.com

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University of Minnesota Art Professor Sean Connaughty removes trash from Lake Hiawatha and repurposes it to create works of art. One work is seen on Saturday, Sept. 8, in Minneapolis.

STUDENT LIFE

Sean Connaughty has taken 5,600 pounds of trash out of Lake Hiawatha since 2015.

Student parents fight for more lactation spaces

BY SUNNY LIM slim@mndaily.com

Over the last three years, one University of Minnesota professor has focused his time outside class to clean a local lake — removing thousands of pounds of trash from Lake Hiawatha.

University art professor Sean Connaughty began picking up trash from the shore of Lake Hiawatha in fall 2015. With help from his community members, Connaughty has successfully removed approximately 5,600 pounds of trash from the urban lake.

Connaughty said he hopes his work will inspire others to protect the environment and discourage people from littering. He also wants the City of Minneapolis to recognize his efforts and take action.

After walking his dog near the lake often, Connaughty said the lake and its wildlife started to grow on him.

Parents argue there are still not enough resources available to nursing mothers on campus.

BY THERESA MUELLER tmueller@mndaily.com SYD STRATMAN, DAILY

Ward 6 City Council member Abdi Warsame said individuals in crisis require more resources outside the capabilities of officers. “[Individuals] will get arrested and then be released because they can’t be kept in jail,” Warsame said. “Then they’ll go back to the same place. If you give them the help … I think then you are able to address the problem.”

The pilot program currently operates in the 3rd and 5th Precincts in South Minneapolis. Out of 326 co-responder calls, zero arrests were necessary and

The Lactation Advocacy Committee is working to provide adequate resources for nursing parents at the University of Minnesota after some parents said the number of lactation spaces is inadequate.

A new lactation space was added in Andersen Library in August. There are currently 35 lactation spaces on campus where parents can breast pump or breastfeed.

Many parents say the number of spaces across the University doesn’t meet the needs of the University due to how spaced out they are and the high demand for them.

“Providing adequate time and place for breastfeeding parents is fundamental to a campus that is committed to equity,” said Sara Benning, co-chair of the LAC. The lactation spaces vary, with some offering seating, refrigerators and breast pumps. Despite the increased number of these spaces, LAC members continue to look for ways to improve conditions for breastfeeding parents on campus.

Without adequate lactation spaces or time, parents have resorted to breast pumping in conference rooms, cars, bathrooms and even dropping out of classes.

“There are so many parents out there that need a space, that need to know it’s going to be okay and you don’t need to drop out of school,” said Katie Robertson, a masters

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A work of art created by Sean Connaughty, made from trash out of Lake Hiawatha, is seen on Saturday, Sept. 8, in Minneapolis.

“I became very attached to the lake and noticed the biodiversity here, and really appreciated it as a place to find solitude,” Connaughty said. “But as I began to get closer to the lake, I began to notice the trash problem.”

The community initially thought the trash in the lake was coming from the nearby creek. At first, Connaughty believed the creek theory, but he soon u See TRASH Page 2

POLICE

MPD initiative could bring mental health experts to Cedar-Riverside Mental health specialists would be paired with officers in West Bank, Cedar-Riverside area.

BY J.D. DUGGAN jduggan@mndaily.com

A pilot program matching mental health professionals with police officers could broaden and find permanence after a successful year-long run.

The proposed 2019 Minneapolis budget could expand the mental health Co-Responder Program pilot to the 1st Precinct, which includes downtown and

A 20-year-old University of Minnesota student was found dead by police at a University fraternity house Wednesday morning.

The St. Paul Police Department responded to a call at the fraternity Alpha Gamma Rho near the University’s St. Paul campus at 5 a.m. Wednesday, according to police. Police have found no indication of foul play or hazing in relation the death, said SPPD spokesperson Steve Linders.

Linders said SPPD has brought in people who were in the fraternity house at the time of death for questioning.

“We are saddened to learn of the death of one of our students,” said Maggie Towle, interim vice president for student affairs and dean of students at the University in an email statement.

The Pioneer Press reported the student was a University sophomore and a member of Alpha Gamma Rho.

Cedar-Riverside, while permanently continuing it in two South Minneapolis precincts. The program has mental health professionals respond to crisis calls along with officers.

“The goal is to provide the help and mental health services that these individuals need,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. “The results speak for themselves.”

The expansion to the 1st Precinct, which Frey said receives the highest number of calls for emotionally distressed persons, would start with a oneyear pilot and may be the next step in a city-wide program.

SPORTS

Rollercoaster journey takes sophomore to Gophers volleyball stardom Sophomore Regan Pittman went from hating volleyball to becoming a key starter.

BY DAVID MULLEN dmullen@mndaily.com

Regan Pittman, a rising star on the Gophers’ volleyball team, “hated” volleyball while growing up in Spring Hill, Kansas.

But as time went on, she discovered she had a talent for the game. This, she said, played a huge factor in her decision to continue playing.

“I learned I was really good and could hit the ball hard, so I just wanted to keep hitting the ball hard,” Pittman said.

Another factor was understanding her appreciation for team sports, rather than individual sports, such as track and field, Pittman said.

“I learned to love team sports in high school,” Pittman said. “If things aren’t going right then you all have to work together to change it.”

After discovering a love for team sports

and a talent in volleyball, Pittman decided to continue her academics and volleyball career at the University of Minnesota.

Pittman shared that it was just the right fit.

“When I came here, I just felt so comfortable and it felt right,” Pittman said. Along with the comfort the University gave her, it also had a lot of qualities Pittman loved. “It’s also a really good school, really great coaches and a great athletic program.”

An added bonus of coming to the University was its proximity to her brother, Austin, who, Pittman said, lives in Mankato.

“Knowing that my brother is not that far away was nice,” Pittman said. “If I needed to get away for a day, there was always an option.”

Pittman joined the Gophers for the 20162017 season but was redshirted. She first saw the court in 2017, playing 33 out of 34 matches last season.

During her redshirt freshman season, Pittman played in all but one set. She said getting playing time helped her grow.

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Redshirt sophomore Regan Pittman celebrates with her team during the game on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2017.

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Research center opens at UMN The center, which opened on Sept. 4, is used to support clinical researchers.

BY LEW BLANK lblank@mndaily.com

In an effort to help them through difficult procedures in the clinical research process, a new center supporting researchers opened at the University of Minnesota last week.

The Clinical Research Support Center, located in Diehl Hall, was initiated by the University’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute. With seven conference rooms, four partners and 20 expert groups providing advice, the CRSC was created to

expedite the complicated process of taking a study from the page to publication.

“Clinical researchers themselves have described the [clinical research] process as quote unquote ‘spaghetti,’” said Brook Matthiesen, communications manager of CTSI. “All four partners are coming together in this new center and working collaboratively with a teambased approach that helps ‘de-spaghetti,’ if you will, the process.”

The development of clinical research publications typically entails a slew of requirements and regulations, including trial design, statistics, institutional review board submissions, budgets and material transfers.

“In the clinical research

world, there’s a lot of different regulations and approvals and steps that need to happen, and the environment changes a lot,” said Lisa Johnson, who helps manage the CRSC. “The FDA, NIH, [and] different funders keep having new rules or guidance or needs.”

In the past, researchers would use long email chains to contact experts who would help them solve problems in the clinical research process, which was inefficient for investigators.

Now that the CRSC can place resources for investigators in one facility, the new center can serve as a one-stop shop for answering clinical research questions.

“The idea was to make it easy for the investigators

... and have a co-localization of experts in all the different components that would be necessary to efficiently move forward toward clinical studies or clinical trials,” said Bruce Blazar, the director of CTSI. “[The CRSC has] allowed the people there to organize a SWAT team-like approach to bring the experts in the various areas together.”

When investigators enter the CRSC in need of assistance, they will be greeted by a receptionist, who connects them with a clinical research specialist in one of the seven conference rooms.

After discussing the researcher’s needs, the specialist will introduce them to a representative from one of the CRSC’s 20 expert groups, who will provide expertise to

address their concerns.

This gathering of resources in a single physical location is key to reducing the amount of unnecessary time that researchers spend on procedural tasks, Johnson said. “[The CRSC is] trying to maximize the investigator’s time and minimize the number of emails or times going back for clarification,” she said.

Overall, this simplification of the clinical research process will help keep investigators more focused on their research, something that Blazar said he believes will be a source of encouragement.

“You want to make this easy for the investigators and the staff. Otherwise they’ll be discouraged,” Blazar said.

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became suspicious.

Testing a theory, Connaughty wrote his address on a ball, dropped it in a storm drain gutter in front of his house and waited. After it rained, he found the ball in the lake next to the storm sewer, demonstrating that the trash from the streets goes into the lake.

The storm drains — not the nearby creek — were the culprit.

“I shared that information with the community, and I found, like myself, many people in the community had no idea that the trash from our streets, and the litter and pollution from our streets, is going directly into the lake, and there’s nothing in the way of filtration or protection to stop it,” Connaughty said.

Throughout the project, community members have realized they n e e d t o w o rk t o g e t h e r in order to meet a common goal: to have a clean, unpolluted lake.

“I am a friend, supporter and local resident invested in seeing a better outcome for this small ecosystem, Lake Hiawatha,” said Penny Fuller, a community

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University of Minnesota Art Professor Sean Connaughty removes trash from Lake Hiawatha on Saturday, Sept. 8, in Minneapolis.

Connaughty has removed 5,600 lbs. of trash over the years.

member.

As a multimedia artist, Connaughty said he wants to communicate the community’s goal with artwork made of the trash he has collected.

“I’m working on creating a proposal for a public art project with a group

of other people,” said Connaughty. “I want to get community input and create a public art project that is integrated into the infrastructure that will be created in the mitigation system to treat the storm water.”

Kyle Samejima, a local

resident and project team member, said the goal of the project is to show people the amount of trash being pulled out — confronting the problem of pollution.

“We need to heal our relationship with the planet, and facing the problem

by looking at the trash as a start,” said Samejima.

“It’s critical that we all, whether we litter or not, understand the impact of our consumption, whether it’s tossing a coffee cup from Starbucks, a plastic bottle of water or a potato chip bag.”

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Student government adds representatives The new seats will bridge the distance between the gaps in representation.

BY MICHELLE GRIFFITH mgriffith@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s Professional Student Government is adding two congressional seats this year to expand representation for professional programs.

PSG, the student-led government body that represents all professional programs on the University’s Twin Cities campus, passed a resolution last legislative session to expand

its congress. One seat will represent students who are enrolled in two professional programs, and the other will represent 20 programs that were previously not represented.

The process to find the two representatives has not yet been determined.

“My goal is to create more of a structural change that would be a little bit more responsive to students … We’re hoping to give every student a voice,” said PSG President Alanna Pawlowski.

PSG oversees 10 councils, which each represent various professional programs. Two students from each council sit on PSG’s

congress. Professional programs not represented by a council don’t have direct representation. The new at-large seat will represent all professional programs without a council.

“I think it’s important for an organization, in general, to have a better understanding of differences and diversity in the programs that they are representing,” said Lizbeth Finestack, director of the University’s speechlanguage-hearing sciences graduate program, which is not directly represented in PSG. The speech-languagehearing sciences master’s program consists of around

Storm’s uncertain trail instills fear; 10 million in crosshairs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Hurricane Florence put a corridor of more than 10 million people in the crosshairs Wednesday as the monster storm closed in on the Carolinas, uncertainty over its projected path spreading worry across a widening swath of the Southeast.

Faced with new forecasts that showed a more southerly threat, Georgia’s governor joined his counterparts in Virginia and North and South Carolina in declaring a state of emergency, and some residents who had thought they were safely out of range boarded up their homes.

The National Hurricane Center’s best guess was that Florence would blow ashore as early as Friday afternoon around the North CarolinaSouth Carolina line, then push its rainy way westward with a potential for catastrophic inland flooding.

Florence’s nighttime winds were down to 115 mph (185 kph) from a high of 140 mph (225 kph), and the Category 4 storm fell to a Category 3, with a further slow weakening expected as the storm nears the coast.

But authorities warned it will still be an extremely dangerous hurricane.

“Do you want to get hit with a train or do you want to get hit with a cement truck?” said Jeff Byard, an administrator with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Tropical storm-force winds extended 195 miles (315 kilometers) from Florence’s center, and hurricane-force winds reached out 70 miles (110 kilometers).

The National Weather Service said 5.25 million people live in areas under hurricane warnings or watches, and 4.9 million live in places covered by tropical storm warnings or watches.

As of 8 p.m., the storm was centered 335 miles (540 kilometers) southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina, moving northwest at 16 mph (26 kph). The hurricane center said Florence will approach the coast Friday and linger for a while before rolling ashore.

As of Tuesday, more than 1.7 million people in the Carolinas and Virginia were warned to clear out. Airlines had canceled nearly 1,000 flights and counting. Home Depot and Lowe’s activated emergency response centers to get generators, trash bags and bottled water to stores before and after the storm.

The two hardware chains said they sent in a total of around 1,100 trucks.

Duke Energy, the nation’s No. 2 power company, said Florence could knock out electricity to threequarters of its 4 million customers in the Carolinas, and outages could last for weeks. Workers are being brought in from the Midwest and Florida to help in the storm’s aftermath, it said.

Boarding up his home

in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Chris Pennington watched the forecasts and tried to decide when to leave.

“In 12 or 18 hours, they may be saying different things all over again,” he said.

Computer models of exactly what the storm might do varied, adding to the uncertainty. In contrast to the hurricane center’s official projection, a highly regarded European model had the storm turning southward off the North Carolina coast and coming ashore near the Georgia-South Carolina line.

The shift in the projected track spread concern to areas that once thought they were relatively safe.

In South Carolina, close to the Georgia line, Beaufort County emergency chief Neil Baxley told residents they need to prepare again for the worst just in case.

“We’ve had our lessons.

Now it might be time for the exam,” he said.

In Virginia, where about 245,000 residents were ordered to evacuate low-lying areas, officials urged people to remain away from home despite forecast changes showing Florence’s path largely missing the state.

Forecasters worried the storm’s damage will be all the worse if it lingers on the coast. The trend is “exceptionally bad news,” said University of Miami hurricane researcher Brian McNoldy, since it “smears a landfall out over hundreds of miles of coastline, most notably the storm surge.”

60 students, and Finestack said some in the program don’t realize they have a government representing them.

“I had no idea we had a governing council or anything,” said audiology graduate ambassador Alana Lerman. “I didn’t realize there was one specifically for professional students …

I just feel like people in our program don’t know anything about [PSG].”

After the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly split into professional and graduate governances in 2015, the University’s Provost Office determined the status of the graduate programs.

Programs that were more researched-focused were categorized as gradu a t e , w h i l e p ro g r a m s with students seeking professional or practice -based employment were deemed professional programs.

Since GAPSA’s split, the definition of what constitutes a graduate or professional program has slightly altered, Pawlowski said.

As more programs are classified as professional, students are finding that their programs are not represented by one of PSG’s 10 councils.

The master’s program in Human Resources and In-

dustrial Relations program was classified as professional this academic year.

Because the HRIR program is a new professional program, it has not felt underrepresented — although with time it might have, said Director of the Master’s Program in HRIR Stacey Doepner-Hove.

Having one seat represent 20 programs may not be adequate, so DoepnerHove said she hopes PSG will continue to evaluate its programs’ needs.

“I think [PSG] is really heading in a good path and they’re looking at how to be sustainable,” she said.

“In the long run it’s really the most important thing.”

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student in the Carlson School of Management and a parent. “It’s already a rough period in your life.”

In 2009, the Student Parent Help Center and the Women’s Center created the LAC to help provide sanitary lactation spaces for faculty, staff and student parents at the University.

The Women’s Center continues to advocate for breastfeeding parents and the LAC applies for funding through the Gender Equity Grant.

“We saw this as an issue that connected with the mission of our office, in terms of gender equity and how ... we help educate folks on campus,” said Anitra Cottledge, director of the Women’s Center.

Student Parent Experiences If a department or building does not have a space, parents are forced to go elsewhere to find a place to breast pump.

“Without adequate places and time for breastfeeding, individuals are choosing between breastfeeding and fully engaging in an academic and professional life at the [University],” said Sarah Keene, co-chair of LAC. After conducting a variety of student parent focus groups, Mikaela Robertson, a health promotion associate for the Boynton Health Center, said many students are in supportive situations but still face challenges.

After returning to the University in the fall of 2017 with a 3-monthold son, Chelsea Ward, a fifth-year senior, said she received criticism from

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students and a professor for her choice to breast pump on campus.

Ward said she received more push back for breast pumping on campus than she did breast feeding her son at the University and had to work her class schedule around breast pumping.

Need for improvement Despite the various centers around campus, members of LAC explain there is a lack of university policy that advocate for breastfeeding parents.

“The Lactation Advocacy Committee believes students would fare better if the University had a set policy that defines the lactation accommodations and that the University will provide space and break

time,” Robertson said.

A policy would help recruit and retain University faculty members that are parents and have additional responsibilities outside their work, Cottledge said.

The LAC provides resources for the location of spaces on their website and allows people to apply to register a lactation space, but some parents and LAC members acknowledge this is not enough.

“It’s not institutionalized,” Robertson said.

“There is no campus-wide plan to build out a complete network of lactation spaces. There is no central contact where students can get help setting up a lactation space in their building.”

University’s librarians take on Wikipedia edits The librarians are helping U faculty edit pages in their areas of expertise.

BY JORDAN WILLAUER jwillauer@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota librarians are helping edit, add and update Wikipedia pages.

Kristen Mastel, a University librarian at Magrath Library, has been helping University faculty enhance Wikipedia pages in their areas of expertise. Mastel has been working with Extension, a University outreach group that disseminates University research across the state and beyond.

Mastel and Extension gathered in late August for a pilot session to edit and add to Wikipedia pages. Following the editing session, members of Extension said they anticipate more work will be done in the coming months as they lay out a plan for future Wikipedia editing.

“We were trying to get some of [Extension’s] educational materials out there by

enhancing Wikipedia pages,” Mastel said, whose job during the event was to provide technical support and training on how to edit and archive information. “[Mastel] asked us to think about our context areas,” said Ellie McCann, an Extension educator in family resiliency. McCann said she found that there was very little information on the Wikipedia page about co-parenting and knew that it would be a place where she could add content.

“To really think about our content expertise and to be able to put it in a new place online that’s accessible, way beyond our Extension website, is really exciting,” said McCann.

Extension faculty are planning how to continue doing work to the website.

During the pilot editing session, the group noticed that little information was available on financial recovery during disaster recovery and wanted to add information to the page.

The editing session was not the first time University librarians have worked

“We were trying to get some of [Extension’s] educational materials out there by enhancing Wikipedia pages.”

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with Wikipedia.

Art + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon was a daylong event that served as an opportunity to give people a space and opportunity to tell their own stories on Wikipedia, said Wanda Marsolek, a University librarian.

The goal of the edit-athon was to improve Wikipedia coverage of cis and transgender women, art and feminism.

“I know it’s mentioned over and over that you can’t write a paper using Wikipedia, but that’s not to say you can’t go learn about the topic on Wikipedia and look at Wikipedia’s references listed and go from there,” Marsolek said.

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BOOKS

BY SAMIR FERDOWSKI

Listen this:

“In Fina We Trust”

Like Odd Future’s classier missing link, NYC-born-andraised rapper Awkwafina goes off on this album. Released in June, this album has not received the recognition it deserves. Coming from her comedic acting roots, ‘Fina masterfully spits with one-ofa-kind voice — and comedy.

With tracks like “Pockiez” and “Ghost,” you can laugh while you trap out with this fall banger. Her name sound familiar? Awkwafina also stars in the new hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” which isn’t a bad flick to hit up, either.

Watch this:

“Adventure Time Series Finale”

Alas, the sad day has come upon us. The heroic duo that took you on perilous journeys in-between your eighth grade homework has retired. Jake the Dog and Finn the Human hang up their swords once and for all as Ooo’s fate is determined in “Come Along with Me” — the series finale. Aired last Monday, it’s a must peep (or a re-peep) for all adventurers out there.

Be this:

Open-minded

It’s a new year in a crazy age.

Getting excited about new experiences that may come from the wackiest of situations usually turns into a good time — or a good story, at least. There’s no need to be negative about classes or that person that seems kind of weird who sits next to you. Try some crazy food, listen to a new band, explore a new area. Keep life exciting!

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BY SAMIR FEDOWSKI

Friday

Star Wars on a hill

A picnic blanket, you will need for this movie night. Hyland Hills continues their “Movies on the Hill” series this Friday with “Star Wars: The Last Jedi.” No need to race around for snacks or lawn games — Hyland has you covered with a classic selection of each.

Fitting for the show, this will be their last outdoor movie event of the year. May the force be with you and enjoy the show!

Where Hyland Hills, 8800 Chalet Rd., Bloomington Ave., Minneapolis Hours 5 P.M., movie starts at dusk Cost $9 Hours 9 P.M. Cost Free

Review: Dessa’s ‘My Own Devices’ bubbles with heartache, sparks with wonder The rapper’s debut essay collection will be released Sept. 18.

BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com

The inside flap of the debut essay collection by musician, writer and University of Minnesota philosophy alumna Dessa states she “defies category.” “My Own Devices” reflects this defiance. It begins with a narrative overview, which is followed by a glossary of rap definitions and character descriptions. We hear a story before we know how to define it.

The book, which is set to release on Sept. 18, offers a tour of Dessa’s personal histories. It makes stops at “The Fool That Bets Against Me,” in which she attempts to insure her heart, the muscle behind her portfolio of sad songs.

Another essay, “Going Empty,” chronicles her “Sound the Bells” music

Saturday

Prairie Burn Music Festival

It’s the time of year when outdoor music is coming to an end. Head on over to this outdoors expo on the St. Croix to get one of your last fixes — and let out all of your granola needs.

Brother Ali will close the night out, with Now, Now, PaviElle and more coming before him.

Hosted by the YMCA and REI, rock climbing walls, hayrides and archery will be going on all day as well. Get outside and explore!

Where YMCA Camp St. Croix, 532 County Rd. F, Hudson, Wisconsin Hours 12 P.M. Cost $35

Sunday

The Frights at 7th Street Entry

Nothing gets you ready for the week like some good California punk music. Last here two years ago, this semi-elusive band will be headlining the show in the classic Minneapolis venue.

Grinding rifts and shredding vocals will get you stoked for the week ahead as the band shows off their new project, “Hypochondriac.” Finish your homework and get ready to mosh.

Where 7th Street Entry, 701 1st Ave. N., Minneapolis Hours 7 P.M. Cost $17 advance, $20 door, 18+

video shoot off the coast in Mexico. She soars to New Orleans, New York City, Seattle and beyond. (Twin Cities readers will recognize many familiar landmarks, from a downtown Minneapolis park to West Bank’s Hard Times Cafe.)

As disparate as the notes in Dessa’s essay collection seem on the surface, a narrative of heartache sews these moments together. She fixates on a years-long relationship with a person she refers to as “X” (another member of Doomtree — it’s not hard to guess who) whom she describes as a broad-shouldered lover of gas station beverages, amongst other attributes.

But “My Own Devices” is a memoir of Dessa carving her own path. She’s intensely analytical of her own life, passionate about both philosophy and behavioral science. The collection walks a line between art and science; she writes of calculating numbers in tour vans and

contacting neuroscientists to zap the memory of Xinduced heartache from her brain.

If you’ve listened to Dessa’s music, you can imagine how rich with imagery and packed with wit her writing is. Her sensory details are particularly lush — she describes the feeling of a heavy necklace by saying “maybe gravity in New Orleans pulled harder on beautiful things.” In “A Ringing in the Ears,” she stops at an anechoic chamber in Minneapolis — in one of the quietest spaces in the world, she digs in to the particular qualities of silence, from her creaking joints to the sound of her heartbeat.

The lines I underlined (or annotated, or drew hearts next to) range from descriptions of airplanes to reflections on the nature of love.

I learned about everything from gliding aircrafts and farming to behavioral science and philosophy from “My Own Devices.”

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Ultimately, I devoured most of the book in a single afternoon. I will probably return to it later, to linger on the lines I underlined but didn’t fully digest.

“My Own Devices” is more than just a collection of essays — it’s an invitation to consider another

perspective. Maybe we won’t want to insure our own hearts or map the trails of our exes in our brains. But Dessa’s words are an articulation of the universal — the discoveries, the achievements and the heartaches, of course.

Grade: A

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A&E explores: A fall semester guide to nearby Minnesota State Parks Leave the classroom behind and explore these parks — all within an hour from campus.

BY SAMIR FERDOWSKI sferdowski@mndaily.com

Only in Minnesota will you find a place to make a candle holder … out of ice.

Or maybe making snowshoes and using them to explore glacial potholes is more your speed?

Whatever trail you choose, Minnesota State P a rk s h a v e f o r g e d a jam-packed schedule of fall outdoor adventures that are all within one hour of campus. Take a break from the classrooms, pack your boots and get out to these four commute-friendly state parks.

For t Snelling State Park Located 20 minutes down the Mississippi River, Fort Snelling is u See PARKS Page 6 JANE BORSTAD, DAILY

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In real life and in virtual reality, The Better World Museum works to live up to its name

TONY SAUNDERS, DAILY Above: Founder Paige Dansinger draws on “Tilt Brush,” a program on the Oculus Rift in the virtual reality studio on Tuesday, Sept. 11.

Right: Paige Dansinger, founding director of Better World Museum in Minneapolis, poses for a portrait inside of Asia Ward’s piece, “Cocoon.” on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The work is made entirely out of plastic used to cover boats.

BY LIV MARTIN lmartin@mndaily.com

Surely, if you live in the Twin Cities, you’re familiar with the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center and the Weisman Art Museum.

But have you heard of the Better World Museum?

Located in the City Center building, this gallery space is the brainchild of artist Paige Dansinger.

Dansinger has long been a member of the Twin Cities arts community. Forever harboring a love for new technology, she’s now dedicated herself to creating virtual reality art. Dansinger can often be found in the museum drawing in VR with an Oculus headset that comes with headphones and controls for each hand.

Though it had been in the works since 2014, the Better World Museum officially launched this spring.

“It really started thr-

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the perfect destination for an afternoon outing.

Take a hammock down to the banks of the river and get some R&R with your crew after a long week of trudging around campus and chasing campus connectors. Sitting right below Historic Fort Snelling, the wilderness-oasis will be hosting formalized activities throughout the semester: geocaching, animal tracking and fall color walks.

Afton State Park 35 minutes from campus lie the hills of Afton.

This heavily hilled, wooded area hosts superb ski and snowboard slopes in the winter. But for these autumn days, Afton is the place to be for anyone looking to do some forest bathing. Located smackdab on the St. Croix, the park even has a campground for those really looking to reconnect with the simple things in life and not drive four hours to do it.

Visit the museum and you too can experience VR technology as a way to make the world a better place. ough me working in museums and having a love for technology and wanting to use it as a rainbow bridge to make a better community,” Dansinger said.

Connecting with the community Community outreach is one of the Better World Museum’s top priorities.

The museum hosts events regularly, from VR yoga and participatory murals to karaoke and live DJs. The museum’s latest community-focused endeavor is called “Garden One.” Dansinger describes it as an indoor edible garden, hoping it will be a resource that sparks community building and educates people about edible plants.

“The idea is that anyone in the community may participate in growing, eating, harvesting and sharing,” Dansinger said.

Of course, there is also a VR component. The spherical garden, crafted

Interstate State Park By far the most rustic of these fuel-conscious expeditions, Interstate will take around an hour to reach, driving along the St. Croix River. Roosted on a basalt cliff perch overlooking the Wisconsin Interstate State Park, which is obviously inferior, the campground and canoe/kayak rental combo gives Interstate everything a weathered city slicker would need to decompress.

Hiking atop the cliffs illuminated with the red hue of fall will inspire adventure in anyone. Dig through other activities that the park and all others will put on this fall on their website.

Brown’s Creek Trail Not so much a park, but rather a state trail, Brown’s Creek is a six-mile long promenade an hour from campus made to get you moving. Hike, bike or ride a horse; yes, literally, through this broadleaf jungle. The creek, overflowing with trout and other wildlife, is on one side, and the National Scenic Riverway is over the other shoulder. Lace up and check out some events exclusive to this unique spot.

from wood, has been recreated in a VR parallel universe using Dansinger’s favorite VR-compatible app “Tilt Brush.”

Spotlighting emer ging artists Besides the technological aspect, championing young artists has been part of the museum’s mission since the beginning.

This is one reason Dansinger was so excited to have Frankie Bingxin Yu’s art featured in the museum. Yu, 24, graduated from the University of Minnesota this past summer with degrees in art, psychology and design.

The artist’s contribution to the Better World Museum is four unique chairs. You’d know them if you’ve seen any pictures of the gallery — they’re a main photo op.

Yu discovered her love for furniture design through a course at the University. The chairs’ streamlined, circular de-

signs are a focal point from the moment you enter the museum.

Inspiration for the chairs came from a discussion Yu had with her partner about how we define comfort. That brought her to the concept of the rocking chair. Her pieces are reminiscent of the one her partner described feeling comforted by at her grandma’s house as a child, but reimagined.

“When you are doing the repetitive, rocking motion, it brings you back to the memory of your parents or grandparents giving you comfort,” Yu said.

A museum with a mission Other installations in the museum include a giant plastic cocoon created

by Minnesota-based artist Asia Ward, “Boxels,” a three-foot-tall 3D object made from cardboard boxes by artist Andrew Krahn and participatory murals of local lakes Bde Maka

Ska and Harriet.

“Whatever it is, we just want it to be about making a better world. We only show art about diversity, inclusion, empathy, climate justice and wellness,” Dansinger said.

Their work also spans beyond the walls of the Better World Museum.

Dansinger often collaborates with Hattie Ball, the museum’s director of VR. Ball is a self-taught VR artist who first dabbled with the gaming software Unity 3D. As the overseer of all things VR at the Better World Museum, it’s her job to create VR-compatible apps, organize museum events related to virtual technology and teach people how to use VR. And teaching newcomers how to navigate the technology might just be the most rewarding part of her job.

“When [people] first experience it, it’s that ‘wow’ reaction. Their faces come alive,” Ball said.

The museum’s first big VR project was a partnership with the Domestic Abuse Project. Dansinger and Ball designed a drawing software for iPads and had a group of abuse victims collaborate to create an “empathy experience” – a safe space in VR that was filled with purple flowers. The museum then held an exhibit showcasing the work.

“We like to use this space not to collect art but to create relationships and trust … to create a safe space in the community,” Dansinger said. Like the many other museums anchored here, her hope is that the Better World Museum will become an invaluable piece of the Minneapolis community.

What: The Better World Museum Where: 40 S. 7th St. #210, Minneapolis When: Tuesday through Friday, 11a.m. to 6 p.m.

Price: Free

Apple shows off its most expensive iPhone yet

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple unveiled three new iPhones on Wednesday, including its biggest and most expensive model yet, as the company seeks to widen the product’s appeal amid slowing sales.

CEO Tim Cook showed off the iPhone XS Max, which has a bigger screen than the one on last year’s dramatically designed model , the iPhone X. It’ll cost about $1,100, topping the iPhone X, which at $1,000 seemed jaw-dropping at the time. An updated iPhone X, now called the XS, stays at $1,000.

As with the iPhone X, both new phones have screens that run from edge to edge, an effort to maximize the display without making the phone too awkward to hold. The screen needs no backlight, so black would appear as truly black rather than simply dark. The Max model looks to be about the size of the iPhone 8 Plus, though the screen size is much larger.

The iPhone XS Max,

which will be available on Sept. 21 — with orders open the week before — represents Apple’s attempt to feed consumers’ appetite for increasingly larger screens as they rely on smartphones to watch and record video and to take photos wherever they are.

By making more expensive iPhones, Apple has been able to boost its profits despite waning demand as people upgrade phones less frequently. IPhones fetched an average price of $724 during the April-June period, a nearly 20 percent increase from a year earlier.

Apple also showed off a cheaper iPhone, called the iPhone XR. It has a traditional, lower-quality screen and an aluminum body; it’s physically smaller than the iPhone 8 Plus but has a bigger screen. It’ll cost roughly $750 and come out on Oct. 26.

All three new models join the iPhone X in getting rid of the home button to make room for more screen.

They will have facial-recognition technology to unlock the device.

Although it didn’t sell quite as analysts anticipated, the iPhone X still emerged as the most popular in Apple’s line-up, according to Cook. That emboldened the company to aim an even more expensive device at the affluent households that tend to gravitate to its products, especially in the U.S. and Europe.

For everyone else, many of whom are still using iPhones they purchased several years ago, there’s the XR. “I am going to go out on a limb and say the XR is going to become Apple’s top-selling iPhone,” said analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights.

“It is a smart strategy to keep more people in the Apple ecosystem and get even more people to come into it.”

The next major update to the iOS will be released next Tuesday, followed a week later by a Mac software update.

Both will be free to install.

Apple also announced updates that push its Apple Watch further into medical device territory. It has a larger screen and a built-in heart sensor that the compa-

ny said can detect irregular heart rates and perform an electrocardiogram. The latter feature has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the company said.

Ben Wood of CCS Insight said getting U.S. regulatory clearance for that is a milestone that underscores the company’s leadership in health and fitness. Typically, smartwatches are marketed as consumer devices, not medical ones needing clearance.

These features will be available to U.S. customers later this year, but Apple did not say when it would make it to the rest of the world.

In addition, Apple said the Series 4 Apple Watch will also be able to detect when someone falls — and can tell the difference between a trip and a fall. If it detects a fall and the user doesn’t respond in a minute, it’ll automatically call for help. This feature may be especially attractive to older people or those with elderly parents worried about falling when no one is around to help.

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Pittman said. “It allows you to expand your range of hitting or getting better at blocking.”

So far this season, Pittman averaged 11.6 points and 3.85 blocks through seven matches.

She was also named MVP of the Diet Coke Classic tournament held at Maturi Pavillion from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1.

Head coach Hugh McCutcheon says her level in play has changed drastically.

“I think there’s been a big shift in her performance from a year ago,” McCutcheon said. “She’s becoming a huge force at that net, and that’s what we’ve hoped for all along.”

Pittman credits the culture of the Gophers program for this progress, as

well as understanding her role on the team.

“I’m just being good, being a good volleyball player, but I couldn’t have done it without every one of my teammates,” Pittman said.

“It’s also the culture to want to fight and win, and that’s what we do.”

Sophomore opposite hitter Stephanie Samedy said Pittman brings a unique aspect to the Gophers’ culture.

“The energy that she brings to the team is a big bonus,” Samedy said. “It really adds to our culture and knowing she has our back and we have her, just having that chemistry is pretty awesome.”

Although the end of the year is far away, Pittman said she only has one goal.

“My personal goal is to win a national championship. Stats are important as in winning a point, but we want it, we want to win,” Pittman said.

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Redshirt sophomore Regan Pittman eyes the ball during the game on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2017.

SOCCER

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Three new freshmen give the Gophers soccer more offensive options Forwards Buisman, Gray and Ward have each scored a goal this season.

BY ERIK NELSON enelson2@mndaily.com

At the end of last season, Minnesota lost forwards Sydney Squires and Julianna Gernes, its two top scorers in 2017, as they both graduated. To replace Squires and Gernes, head coach Stefanie Golan has used three freshman forwards in all seven matches this season: McKenna Buisman, Megan Gray and Patricia Ward.

Buisman, Gray and Ward scored in Minnesota’s first three wins of the season. Ward scored the only goal in Minnesota’s 1-0 win against Utah on Aug. 17,

Buisman scored the matchwinning goal in a 2-1 win over Utah State on Aug. 19 and Gray scored the golden goal in double overtime in the Gophers’ 2-1 win over Ole Miss on Aug. 24. In addition to her match-winning goal on Aug. 17, Ward has one assist this season.

Gray said these performances prove Minnesota has depth at the forward position.

“We can switch positions and combine together,” Gray said. “Knowing that we were able to do this as freshmen is exciting.”

Gray has started in four matches, while Ward has started in three. Buisman has played in all seven matches as a substitute.

Golan said that having more offensive options allows her to mix up the starting lineup depending on

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“We can switch positions and combine together.

Knowing that we were able to do this as freshmen is exciting.”

MEGAN GRAY Gophers soccer freshman

the opponent and whether a player is trending in the right direction.

“There’s a lot of different combinations that can go out there,” Golan said. “It’s nice that we have so many playing up to the level that these guys are.”

Buisman, Gray and Ward have played forward alongside starters April Bockin and Makenzie Langdok.

Ward said much of the preparation of going onto the field as a substitute comes the moment when a player knows she is coming into the game.

“You have a fresh set of legs to give someone else a break, which means you should be working hard,” Ward said. “You mentally prepare yourself and then go out and you go at it. You give all you can because there are people who have been on the field longer than you.”

Each of these freshmen come from different states: Ward is from Newport News, Virginia; Gray is from Ankeny, Iowa; and Buisman is from Mankato, Minnesota.

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Sophomore Megan Hasz holds the lead during the Oz Memorial on Friday, Sept.

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The power duo in cross country The special bond of two cross country sisters strengthens through running.

BY BABATUNDE JINADU bjinadu@mndaily.com

While most siblings have a close bond, few have a relationship as close and as successful as Minnesota’s own Megan and Bethany Hasz.

The Hasz sisters, who are twins, seemingly do everything together, including winning championships on the cross-country course.

“We’ve always been close, we do most things together and I want her to succeed just as much as I want myself to succeed,” Megan said.

“Whatever that means, either if its in running or just in life, because she’s my best friend and when you love someone you want them to do well.”

Graduates of Alexandria Area High School, these sisters were a frightening coalition during their time in the Minnesota State High School League. Between 2011 and 2015, the Hasz sisters alternated high honors at the Minnesota State Cross Country State Championship every year.

In 2011, Megan finished third overall and Bethany finished fourth overall. Then in 2012, Bethany finished third overall while Megan finished sixth overall.

The duo’s success continued over the next three years from 2013 through 2015. First Bethany won and Megan took second place, then Megan won and Bethany took second and, finally, in 2015 Bethany won and Megan took second place.

“It’s exciting to see her do well, especially when I don’t have a good day,” Megan said.

“When she’s a teammate, you just want the team to do well.”

The competitiveness between these sisters has always been incredibly close.

When asked about it, Megan had to pause for a moment to retrace the results over the years. It is very uncommon for a runner to qualify for the state meet for five straight years, much less to place in the top five each of those years. The story of twin sisters doing that is not only uncommon, but practically unheard of.

In terms of collegiate goals, the Hasz twins are realistic, which head coach Sarah Hopkins said is important for the team’s success.

“We don’t want to overset our goals and we don’t want to undercut our goals,” said Hopkins.

In high school, the twins were recruited by the Michigan State University and the University of Oregon.

However, the sisters took their lone official visit to Minnesota before committing to staying close to home to continue their academic and athletic careers. Both majoring in kinesiology, they are currently entering their junior years of competition for the Gophers in 2018.

The pattern of trading roles on top has followed them to the collegiate courses, and in the start to the 2018 season at the Intrasquad Meet on Aug. 31. Megan Hasz finished first in a time of 18:32.2 with Bethany Hasz one second behind her as the runner-up in a time of 18:33.2.

“For the team, I want everyone to continue working and closing gaps. While individually, I want to set the 6k program record, be in the topthree at the Big Ten [championships] meet and hopefully be an all-American. ... I will always want to win, but I will always be incredibly happy for [Bethany] even if I do want to win.”

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The men’s lacrosse team pushes for D-I eligibility with the goal of going to the MCLA Championships.

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Ely Harel and Clay Diedrich, club lacrosse players at the University of Minnesota, run sprints after practice ended on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. The team is hoping to become an accredited University sport.

Club lacrosse team sets sights on championship, Division-I realization

BY PAUL HODOWANIC phodowanic@mndaily.com

While most students are sound asleep at 6 a.m., head coach Rich Limpert and his club lacrosse team are hard at work.

His players are already on the practice field, running sprints and going through drills. They have a dream to be more than just a club team, and they intend to make it a reality. For the last six years, Limpert has coached with the hopes his team will be the next club

team to make the jump to Division-I. “I truly believe we are ready,” Limpert said. “But it really comes down to money.”

The team currently practices at the Students Recreational Sports Field, which is meant for intramural sports and other club teams.

The field would need a few changes to accommodate the team at a D-I level such as more availability for their winter schedule and seating.

Title IX requirements for an equal number of men’s

and women’s athletic scholarships could make it hard to secure scholarships for the team’s athletes as well.

However, Limpert doesn’t see this as a problem.

“Theoretically, it could be great,” Limpert said.

“Men’s and women’s could both become D-I together.”

Limpert sees funding, Title IX regulations and a lack of infrastructure as the central issues that are hindering the team’s advancement, and he knows other club sports like men’s soccer are just waiting to pounce on

the opportunity as well. “[The University has] bigger fish to fry than to worry about us,” Limpert said.

Men’s soccer also already has a potential stadium where the women’s team currently play, Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

“It could easily be said that we are late to the game.

[Lacrosse] is the fastest growing sport in the country, and a lot of other Big Ten teams have it: Penn State, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, Ohio State to name

a few. We’re late, we need to have a D-I team by this point,” sophomore defender William Watkins said.

Many of the players share this sentiment, and they believe the best way to get the University to act quickly is to show out on the field.

“We haven’t been to the national tournament, and we haven’t beaten a couple big teams that we need to beat, so once we start winning those big games is when we will get recognition” junior midfielder Lucas

Martin said.

The team believes recognition should come this year, as they have a national championship on their minds.

“Expectations are [that] we go to the national tournament,” Martin said.

Coach Limpert attributes the championship mentality to the change in the culture of the program.

“I expect big things from this team, and hopefully we will be at the MCLA Championships come the second week of May.”

GOLF

Senior preps for veteran role in upcoming golf season Jones is ready to “get things rolling” by offering aid to the newer players.

BY NICK JUNGHEIM njungheim@mndaily.com

The men’s golf team has much cause for optimism this season; just ask Peter Jones. The senior has reason to believe his final go-around with Minnesota may just be the best yet.

“We have a lot of good players coming in and it seems like it’s going to be a pretty promising year,” Jones said. “Being a senior it’s always exciting because you’ve kind of done everything before, you kind of know how everything goes, so I’m just excited to cherish it.”

On a squad loaded with young talent, Jones plays an important role as the seasoned veteran. As he said, what the Gophers lack in experience, they make up for in potential. Because of that, Jones’ wisdom is invaluable. Using what he learned when he was in the shoes of his young teammates, Jones has matured over his college career.

When asked what he’s worked on improving, he pointed to course management.

“You always see a lot of the freshman making maybe bolder or maybe more aggressive decisions on the course,” Jones said. “It might cost them, it might help them a couple times. But it usually ends up costing them most of the time and I can definitely

GOLF

RESULTS MEN’S TEAM 1 Oklahoma 2 Texas 3 Iowa 4 Arkansas T-5 Minnesota T-5 Purdue

GOLFER Long Johnson Longbella Rasinski Flanagan

WOMEN’S TEAM 1 San Jose State 2 Virginia Tech 3 Louisville 4 East Carolina 5 Kentucky 14 Minnesota

GOLFER Kellar Wu Lillie Free Heggerston

RD1 284 291 288 288 290 282

RD2 285 278 286 291 291 294

RD3 278 281 277 280 283 288

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RD1 71 71 71 77 78

RD2 72 73 75 71 75

RD3 71 70 70 72 72

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RD1 282 283 292 288 294 308

RD2 287 290 290 282 286 294

RD3 291 299 291 304 300 306

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RD3 73 76 79 78 89

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say that used to be me.”

Associate head coach Justin Smith has seen Jones’ maturity process better than anyone. He said the positive example Jones sets for the younger guys makes his job much easier.

“He’s going to provide some incredible leadership on and off the golf course,” Smith said of the senior. “[Smith’s] game is very simple. He’s someone that I can certainly relate well to with his golf game. Because of that he can take his game to any course and play great on it.”

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Senior Peter Jones plays during the Gopher Invitational on Sunday, Sept. 9, at Windsong Farm Golf Club in Maple Plain.

Simplicity truly is at the root of Jones’ game, according to Smith. It’s one of the things he said Jones could impart to the younger golfers on the team as a leader this season.

“Pete’s really that calming force,” Smith said. “At the end of the day, it’s still golf, and that’s kind of where his simple mindset and things that he’s really good at with his strengths can help some of the younger guys. He’s going to be a great leader for us ...

that we as coaches can really lean on.”

Jones’ career progression shows the steady improvement Smith hopes to see from the current underclassmen.

In his freshman season, he posted a stroke average of 77.42 in four tournaments. As a sophomore, he improved that mark to 74.88. Last year as a junior, he posted an average of 73.94 in eight appearances.

Perhaps equally impressive are Jones’ accomplish-

ments off the course, according to his coach.

“Pete last year was a 4.0 student, just an incredible performance he’s had in the classroom,” Smith said. “He’s right up there with anyone in the [athletic] department. He’s involved with the Student Athlete Advisory Committee. He’s really taken a huge role in our department in general to be a great leader and make the experience of all student athletes as best as it can.”

Jones always makes sure to look out for his teammates.

As a busy student athlete, Jones has learned to appreciate what little downtime he has during the season.

“I really enjoy [cooking],” Jones said. “Taking a night and making a meal for the guys, or having team dinners is something I’ve always liked to do and always tried to do since I’ve been here. We cherish the time we have to relax because we’re so busy as student athletes.”

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CBS to replace outdated conservatory The construction of the new building in St. Paul begins on October 12.

BY NIKKI PEDERSON npeterson@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s College of Biological Sciences is preparing for a new and improved conservatory and greenhouse.

The new building will cost roughly $6 million and will be located in the middle of the Plant Growth Facilities on the St. Paul campus. The groundbreaking is planned for Oct. 12, and the building will be open to the public next summer.

With over 1,200 species of plants, the conservatory includes the most diverse collection of plants in the upper Midwest, and services the needs of classes, researchers and the surrounding community by making those plants available to the public and researchers.

“It’s ... one of the only places in the region where people can experience plants from all over the world,” said Lisa Aston Philander, the curator of the conservatory.

While CBS received $4.4

million from the state, they are still raising the remaining $2.1 million needed to fully fund the project. The proposed facility would include 6,700 square feet of glass space for growing plants and a small area for offices and labs.

Built in the early 1970s, the current CBS Conservatory is “old, battered and structurally deficient,” said Peter Tiffin, head of the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. A new facility is needed for reducing maintenance and to provide a better opportunity for visitors to appreciate the collection, he said.

But it’s for more than just aesthetic reasons that a new building is needed — glass windows in the greenhouse are frequently breaking because of the building’s age.

“Having glass break all the time is not just a safety concern,” Tiffin said.

“Plants can die.”

The conservatory houses rare and endangered plants, some of which are extinct in the wild, Koebler said. And since the heating and cooling system is old, maintaining the temperatures of the delicate plants is extremely difficult and takes a lot of energy, said Angie Koebler, a

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The College of Biological Sciences Conservatory as seen on Monday, Sept. 10 in St. Paul. Construction for a new conservatory begins in October.

conservatory coordinator.

The internal structure of the new conservatory will also differ from the current building, with one-third of the building dedicated to a continuous

CLA to celebrate 150th anniversary this fall The college will be promoting the value of a liberal arts education.

BY SUNNY LIM slim@mndaily.com

In conjunction with its 150th anniversary, the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts is looking to reaffirm its campus image.

Starting in September, CLA began hosting campus events commemorating the anniversary, which will continue throughout the year. CLA administrators are hoping to reaffirm their students’ position within the University as part of a recent push to promote the value of a liberal arts education.

“In a sense, it almost is uncovering and communicating in a much better way the advantages that come from a liberal arts education,” said CLA Dean John Coleman.

In the past, Coleman said the department was subpar

in communicating with students about what a liberal arts degree can be.

“We just weren’t ... doing an effective enough job of translating those stories, those life paths, into inspiring models and guidelines for students today,” said Coleman.

But in the past four years, the school has been more active in promoting the value of the liberal arts.

The college is trying to accomplish this in part by showcasing past accomplishments of its faculty and students, Coleman said. One event includes a collection of portraits featuring various students, faculty and alumni from the school.

Through the events, Coleman hopes to bring people together from the CLA programs across campus.

“We don’t have the advantage of having one building where everybody will meet, mingle and talk,” he said.

Although the college is trying to communicate better with its students, some feel CLA students are unac-

knowledged on campus.

“I have felt under-appreciated because there are some people who look down on liberal arts, and that’s not only in the States,” said freshman Seoyeon Bae. CLA freshman Elise Toussaint said she believes the college’s efforts could help people be more confident in their enrollment in the school.

“I think a lot of people look at CLA and view it [as] possibly inferior to the other colleges, or [as] the college you’re put into when you don’t get placed in another college, but that’s not the case,” Toussaint said.

While the college is focusing on reaffirming its students, many see no difference between being in CLA and being in any other college at the University.

“Just because people are in CLA does not mean that they won’t get as good of a job as those in other colleges,” said freshman Bryce Huber. “It’s not the degree that makes the person, it’s what the person makes out of their degree.”

Marcy-Holmes project surveys students on Dinkytown’s future The project seeks student feedback on what they want in Dinkytown.

BY IMANI CRUZEN icruzen@mndaily.com

Some University of Minnesota students in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood received an emailed survey Wednesday as part of an effort to learn what residents want to see in Dinkytown in the future.

The project, called A Road Map for the Future of Greater Dinkytown, is a collaboration between the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, Preserve Historic Dinkytown, the University of Minnesota and others. With the help of several outside consultants and a grant from the Good Neighbor Fund, the project hopes to collect feedback about what students want out of the area.

The survey will include questions about the types of businesses that would interest residents, what drew them to Dinkytown versus other neighborhoods and what community activities and organizations residents would like to see.

There has been talk

about the future of Dinkytown for several years, but the grant will allow for a sustained conversation, said Chris Lautenschlager, executive director of MHNA. “Does there need to be a bigger diversity of businesses or is it okay as it is?”

Lautenschlager said. “But the reality is that you have a lot of fast food, fast-casual businesses there. Is it sustainable? Perhaps, but we’re just trying to bring in experts that will talk about how this can continue to grow or how it can be stable.”

The Good Neighbor Fund was created by the University in 2007, and funds projects ranging from crime prevention to improvement of public spaces in local neighborhoods. The GNF contributed $8,650 to the program with the rest of the $20,000 coming from the MHNA and outside contributions.

After the survey is completed, a workshop will be held on Oct. 20 to work on the creation of a road map for the area’s future, said Dave Feehan, a consultant with Civitas Consultants LLC working on the project. The survey’s impact on Dinky-

town will depend on the feedback it receives.

“The first thing with a n y s u c c e s s f u l p ro j e c t is to establish ... the vision. What is it that we see this area being in five years or ten years?” Feehan said. “And the second thing that’s important is we would be grossly negligent if we didn’t realize that we are sitting on the doorstep, in fact the front door, of the University of Minnesota and that a large percentage of people who live in Marcy-Holmes are either students or faculty or staff.”

The workshop will be made up largely of students, who will be involved in every step of the project, Feehan said.

Grant Simons, a Minnesota Student Association representative to the MHNA, said the survey is expected to be out for at least month and echoed Feehan’s emphasis on student involvement in the project.

“The result will be a strong sense of common ownership and commitment to civic action to sustain a vibrant, livable, economically active community,” said Haila Maze, a former city planner working on the project, in an email sent with the survey.

visitors experience where the public can walk through among the plants and the remaining two-thirds purposed for the research collection, Koebler said. The conservatory will be split

into four different biomes, which is two fewer than the current building has.

While there won’t be as many biomes, the new building will make up for it in the quality of care for

the plants, Philander said.

“We feel we can maintain a larger collection with better environmental controls that the new facility will provide us,” she said.

Program could provide mental health resources to 1st Precinct Mental health u from Page 1

245 individuals were able to remain in their homes or were transported to the hospital for further care, Frey said. The budget proposal estimates 450 individuals will be able to remain in their home annually after expanding the program.

The program provides necessary care while freeing officer resources, officials say. The mental health professionals conduct immediate assessments and have in-depth knowledge of available resources.

The current co-responder units in the 3rd and 5th precincts each comprise of two mental health professionals and two officers who ride to calls for emotionally distressed persons. The teams dress in civilian

clothing and drive unmarked vehicles to avoid intimidating persons in crisis.

Programs similar to the Minneapolis pilot, such as the one in Duluth, show a decrease in incidences requiring force or incarceration of individuals, according to a 2016 study by the Minneapolis Police Conduct Oversight Commission.

Sgt. Chris Brown of the Minneapolis Police Department’s 5th Precinct said this is a service which can benefit underserved groups and communities.

The Mayor’s budget recommendations include $206,000 in ongoing funding, with another $74,000 as a one-time cost to expand the program and continue it permanently. An additional $30,000 was recommended for an unmarked vehicle and $6,000 in ongoing fleet costs. The budget is currently open

“I believe that the services they’re providing … you can’t really put a price on being able to help somebody in their crisis.”

CHRIS BROWN MPD 5th Precinct Sergeant

to community input and will seek approval from City Council in December.

“I believe that the services they’re providing … you can’t really put a price on being able to help somebody in their crisis,” said Brown. “The underserved I think are the people that benefit … the greatest from this and their families and the community that they live in.”

MPD responds to Sept. 4 shooting UMPD and MPD also responded to attempted assault and theft reports.

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The Minneapolis Police Department and University of Minnesota Police Department have responded to reports of a shooting, thefts and attempted assault in the past week.

A shooting on the 400 block of 8th Avenue Southeast on Sept. 4 was reported to MPD around 4:00 a.m.

The incident occurred around 1:00 a.m. earlier that morning. Two victims sustained minor injuries and three people reported damaged vehicles. Bullet casings were recovered from the scene. The incident is still under investigation by MPD. MPD officers responded to reports of theft at the St.

Anthony Village Apartments in Marcy-Holmes on Sept. 4 after tenants reported a man allegedly stealing from unlocked cars. When officers arrived at around 5:00 a.m., police found another suspect pounding on a car door with a rock, according to a police report.

Officers arrested both men, charging one with damaging property and attempted bike theft. The other was charged with tampering with a car, attempted bike theft and felony possession of burglary tools.

An officer responded to the 600 block of Cedar Avenue South near the University’s West Bank campus at around 6:30 p.m. Monday after a female was allegedly threatened by a male suspect. The male suspect allegedly walked toward her, threatening to strike her. When the suspect moved as if to hit her, the victim kicked the suspect and he left. The victim was

not injured.

At around 6:00 a.m. Monday, a MPD officer responded to a theft from a parked car in the 400 block of 2nd Street Southeast. The car’s front passenger side window was smashed and a backpack was missing. The incident occurred around 1:00 a.m. that morning.

An off-duty officer working at Raising Cane’s in Dinkytown on Friday received reports from business managers that one employee stole about $70 of property from another employee on Sept. 5. Surveillance footage will be reviewed by MPD and the incident is under further investigation.

In the last week, the UMPD reported 49 liquor law violations in Superblock, Middlebrook and Comstock residence halls.

Most of the violations occurred on Aug. 30 and 31.

The University officers also responded to 13 thefts, including eight stolen bikes.

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We need to ensure a livable wage for workers at the University of Minnesota Based on employment history, contracting and unionization are key to prosperous working.

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recent New York Times article took a fascinating look at an interesting Harvard employee, Martha Bonilla. She came into the country illegally, hiding under a pile of baJONATHAN ABABIY nanas in a truck. Now, columnist Ms. Bonilla lives comfortably in a $350,000 home in a middle class neighborhood of Boston, with another home rented out to family. She takes vacations in Florida and pays $1700 a month for her daughter’s college education.

She is not a University administrator. A Google search reveals no LinkedIn profile with a laundry list of accomplishments, multiple graduate degrees nor shared articles about streamlining to create synergy in the higher education organizational policy. Nor does she teach, either, so she has no instructor page detailing years of highly paid research into the business equivalent of underwater basket weaving.

That’s because Bonilla has a food service job making sandwiches for executives taking extension courses at Harvard Business School. She makes more than $25 an hour, and with a part time job cooking at a dorm, she sometimes takes home more

than $1,500 a week. The Times article duly noted that that’s more than the average salary of someone with a master’s degree.

The reason why? Since 2001, Harvard has experimented with letting workers from outside contractors receive the same pay and benefits they would get as direct Harvard employees. Unions, newly emboldened by the loss of college leverage that the threat of outside contracting carried, then bargained for better deals.

It’s really the opposite of what’s occured in the American economy, as a whole, and at our University.

Unions have continued their precipitous drop since the 1980s, with union membership now stalled at about half of what it was in 1983, even though union members make more than employees outside the shop, public or private. Unlike at Harvard, workers across the country have seen their power in the workplace sharply decline and with that, lower wages and less benefits.

Outsourcing, particularly at colleges and universities, has played a particularly strong role in preventing workers from making any significant gains. Jobs outsourced to outside contractors suck.

There is constant worker turnover because workers soon realize the jobs are locked to dead-end positions with low wages and no benefits. Outsourcing pays well for the outsourcer because, as numerous studies have shown, once jobs are outsourced they pay less in wages and skimp on the benefits that unions often fought hard for.

As unions continuing losing power and

outsourcing grows in America, the University of Minnesota has become a staging ground in this fight and shown, disappointedly, that it is not up to, or anywhere near, Harvard’s task.

The University recently paid $500,000 successfully fighting unionization efforts by lecturers and has long outsourced its security and dining hall services — industries in which outsourcing has the strongest negative wage effects — to outside contractors.

The University does not have the small, country-sized endowment that Harvard uses to pay its workers handsomely, but it does have enough to not shortchange its workers and ensure living wages. It can spark the creation of the new middle class for Minneapolis and Minnesota. But, it seems to not take these steps.

As Sociologist Matthew Desmond recently wrote in a separate Times article, “if we respect hard work, then we should reward it.” The University’s mission has lofty goals about serving the public and the citizens of Minnesota, but what better place to start helping then with its own employees? They are key to our learning environment, just as much as our professors and administrators — and certainly our athletic department. We should treat them as such.

Jonathan Ababiy welcomes comments at jababiy@mndaily.com.

A new threat to security comes in on baby monitors In an age where it is nearly impossible to live off the grid, securing devices is critical.

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Ellen Schneider badly missed the mark with her opinion piece on recent allegations against a Carlson School of Management Doctor of Business Administration student. In fact, the piece shows a lack of understanding for what federal law, the criminal justice system and University policies require in any instance of alleged sexual misconduct – so much so that it several times calls on the University to take actions that would be illegal, or at minimum would be a violation of University policy.

First, contrary to her claims, the University has publicly acknowledged that the accused individual is a University student, that leaders are aware of the accusations and have a high level of concern about them and that the University is responding appropriately to them. Beyond such an acknowledgement, the University is required by federal law to protect the privacy of all parties involved. Further, all of us, including Ms. Schneider, should appreciate the privacy interests of all involved in such circumstances, including those of victims.

While Ms. Schneider demands the University “confirm whether or not Liu is guilty,” in any matter involving sexual

Further, all of us, including Ms. Schneider, should appreciate the privacy interests of all involved in such circumstances, including those of victims. misconduct, we must allow the court system or our own process to complete their work before passing judgment or drawing any conclusions. The University also has strong programs and services in place to assist any student dealing with sexual misconduct. Despite her accusations to the contrary, University leaders have rolled out an aggressive systemwide initiative to prevent sexual misconduct that involves: New policies approved by the Board of Regents.

New training that every employee of the University of Minnesota is required to complete, on top of student trainings that were already in place.

An “It Ends Here” public information campaign that launched Sept. 10 on the Twin Cities campus. This effort, created and coordinated with student associations, is designed to address the scourge that sexual misconduct is.

Make no mistake, there is no place for sexual misconduct at the University of Minnesota. We do not tolerate it and will not accept it. This administration will be relentless in pursuing any and all allegations that disrupt the success of our faculty, our staff and our students. We must (and will) work within the confines of state and federal law, but we will not be complacent in protecting all who work or study at this great institution.

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o s t s tudents in their young, fun-oriented lives are not focused on having children. But bringing kids into the picture might help put a security issue into perspective.

Most people UMA VENKATA don’t pay much attencolumnist tion to security warnings, even though they’re pushed and prodded to take extra steps to secure accounts and networks. For example, Google offers two-factor verification (2FA). But according to the United Kingdom’s online tech publication The Register, more than 90 percent of users don’t take advantage of 2FA. Incidentally, many major institutions, including the University of Minnesota, do not allow 2FA on their G Suite.

Google is not the only firm to offer it. Apple, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram are examples of widely used media with 2FA — it’s a simple, time-effective way to secure every account that otherwise is, suffice it to say, easy to hack. Wi-Fi networks run along a similar principle; a Wi-Fi network with the factory-setting password is easy to hack because those passwords are published. Effectively, a Wi-Fi network with its factory password has no password.

Yet convincing internet users to take these quick, easy security steps is an uphill battle. I understand; security threats are just vague things that happen to other people until they happen to you. But one thing might give the final, convincing push: hacked baby monitors.

Hacking a video baby monitor is more than just stealing footage of a baby, as sick as that is. A hacker could go on to gain access to the Wi-Fi network and fish sensitive information from connected computers’ hard drives. We probably won’t truly understand this until we’re parents, but the fact that hackers have broken into baby monitors to steal audio and video, and even to speak through the devices, is horrifying on more levels than one.

Maybe the hackable outcome of internetconnected, AV-capable devices will frighten internet users on a visceral level, enough to convince them to finally take the necessary security steps. But, as NPR reported, a mom whose video monitor was hacked had already taken all the necessary precautions.

Baby monitors are generally behind the game in security, but that shouldn’t give all other devices a false sense of protection.

I’m young and still a child myself, so thankfully I came across this lesson long before it could apply to me. If and when I have children, I’ll kick it old school like the dresser I found in Dinkytown: leave the door open, and if there’s a weird noise, run in to try to keep everything from falling apart. But for now, I’m securing all my accounts — except my University email. Who knows, maybe the University can catch up too.

UMN honors legal and moral obligations for student privacy

Matt Kramer is the University of Minnesota’s Vice President of University Relations.

Robert McGrady welcomes comments at rmcgrady@mndaily.com.

EDITORIAL

We must combat homelessness Food and housing insecurity in Minneapolis is alarmingly high, especially for students.

We hear it all the time: “You should be volunteering to help out your local homeless population.” We hear it in our classes, in our places of worship and in our workplace. We are given multiple opportunities to help, whether it be working at a local food drive, helping a local shelter or donating money to a national GoFundMe campaign. However, more needs to be done to combat homelessness.

Kate McClure’s GoFundMe campaign, which GoFundMe listed as an unforgettable example of “Strangers Helping Strangers” this year, made national headlines when McClure raised $400,000 for Johnny Bobbitt, a man who spent his last $20 to fill her gas tank.

However, instead of McClure donating all of the funds to Bobbitt, like she had originally stated she intended to do, the funds were used on radical purchases benefitting the McClure’s. Now, Bobbitt’s pro bono lawyer claims the funds have disappeared. Bobbitt’s GoFundMe is not a lone case.

In December 2017, a GoFundMe for Keaton Jones, whose story of severe bullying touched hearts, had raised over $50,000. It later became an issue when someone pretending to be Jones’ mother tried to accept the money.

It’s too often that we see individuals take advantage of heart-tugging stories on fundraising platforms such as GoFundMe. And while these forums can provide quick solutions in individual situations, they do not hold long-term solutions to substantial issues, such as homelessness.

The homeless population in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties falls below that of other major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York City, San Francisco and Philadelphia.

Yet, while homelessness may be less prevalent in Minneapolis than other urban areas, the

City has recently seen an uptick in the number of homeless residents.

In South Minneapolis, the number of people residing in the growing homeless encampment has risen to over 120 people, and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey aims to eliminate the encampment by the end of September. Frey has also promised a “full-throated effort” from the City and social service agencies to combat the housing issues. The City is also working on long-term solutions for expanding affordable housing.

Another substantial homelessness issue lies within our own community, as homelessness among college students is prevalent and on the rise. Temple University released a 2018 study showing that more one-third of college students lack stable housing and food security.

By breaking down the numbers, we see that 36 percent reported being food insecure and an additional 36 percent reported being housing insecure. Nine percent reported being homeless.

While the K-12 education system has federal programs for students in need of resources, such as free or reduced lunch programs, there is a lack of similar programs for post-secondary students. Minnesota has taken an initial step in combating student homelessness by introducing the Housing for Homeless Students Act, introduced in Feb. 2017. However, the bill seems to have gotten lost in the bureaucratic shuffle.

Pressure needs to be put on our representatives to ensure this bill is enacted in our state and universities need to focus on combating this overlooked issue and take action. People need to recognize that if nothing happens to combat homelessness, then we’re not doing anything important.

To get involved, we recommend students volunteering with a multitude of student groups, including Food Justice UMN, Feed Minneapolis, Food Recovery Network and Hearts2Help.

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HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (9/13): Communication profits this year.

Share your affection and kindness steadily. Study to unveil a mystery. Summer glory for your crew comes before physical obstacles alert you to stop and smell the roses. Follow your heart this winter. Express your creativity and passion.

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

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Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Align on financial decisions with family. An elder shows you something new. Creativity flows naturally. A dream may seem impossible or distant.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Financial harmony is achievable. Listen to a female’s advice. An older person is impressed. Make sure you know what’s required and provide it.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — You’re on the same page. Collaboration flowers and grows. Focus on practical possibilities rather than distractions or fantasies. Learn by doing.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Get help building a personal dream. Polish your presentation with a new style or outfit. Your work is getting attention. Step into the spotlight.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — All that practice is paying off. You’re building health and strength for the long road. Discover gold from the past. Show up, and surge ahead.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Private reflection produces satisfying results.

Meditate on what’s passed and what’s ahead.

Consider other views without rendering judgment.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Discover a work of beauty from the past. Romance kindles through poetry, music and art. Consider new possibilities with someone attractive.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Deepen connections with a community project.

Contribute for the common good and your spirit gets fed. Simple, easy engagement satisfies.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Add beautiful touches to your home. Create a peaceful sanctuary for family recharging. Imagine and speculate about color, style and lighting.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — A professional challenge provides a satisfying solution. Get support to cross the finish line. A dream seems within reach. Find a friend.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Communicate and connect. Write, report and post with wit and perception. Creativity and determination combine in marvelous ways.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Learn through direct experience. Bring a vision into practical reality. Self-discipline enables creativity. Study and discover a valuable solution.

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SUDOKU

DR. DATE Dr. Date,

My boyfriend and I are having problems and they’re a flat-out dealbreaker. We have a class together in the engineering building where flatearthers camp out, holding signs and yelling at physics students. First, my boyfriend laughed and kept walking.

Then, he stopped and tried to reason with them. By our third walk to class, I saw him nodding along! When I asked him about it, he said he was just trying to open his mind to other ideas, but I’m worried next time he’ll be holding a sign saying, “It’s Sea Level, Not Sea Curve!” What do I do?

—At Wit’s End At Wit’s End,

While keeping an open mind is normally a good idea, I’d say that your boyfriend needs to be a little more level-headed. Tell him that if he wants to take you on an all-expense-paid trip to the end of the Earth, then you’ll be willing to listen. But until then, go in the back entrance of the building and email him articles. Don’t worry, I’m sure he’ll come around.

mal to put “Vitamin C powder” in their boyfriend’s water, or buy a big block of sharp knives for their apartment? If she starts cooking dinner for the two of us, I might call 9-1-1. Am I overreacting, or am I a future Dateline case?

—Very Much Alive At Wit’s End,

If I were you, I’d take the knife out from under my pillow and relax. She’s probably just trying to make your new place homey, not keeping you healthy with Emergen-C until the poison in your steak kicks in. Cut down on the shows and podcasts for a while, watch some rom-coms, and if anything happens, I’ll call in an anonymous tip to the cops.

Enjoy your meal!

—Dr. Date

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

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—Dr. Date Dr. Date,

I’ve become obsessed with truecrime shows: “Forensic Files,” “Unsolved Mysteries,” “Making a Murderer,” the works. Considering I’m trying to get into law school, I didn’t think that it was a bad thing until last week, when my girlfriend and I moved in together.

After months of listening to stories full of death at their partner’s hand, I’m worried she might be trying to kill me.

I may be just paranoid, but is it nor-

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