April 16, 2014

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Some are pushing for a bill to make certain donations tax deductible.

Dan Olinger drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning.

Sara Groenewegen is 11-0 and has eight home runs in her first year on campus.

Greek housing bill flails in Congress

Gophers win midweek game against NDSU

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Pitcher Groenewegen impresses in Year 1

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Minnesota quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski leads practice April 5 at the Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex.

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building a quarterback Jim Zebrowski has developed great running quarterbacks in the past.

Mitch Leidner could be the next. - story by jack satzinger, photo by chelsea gortmaker

im Zebrowski was always better at baseball than football, but he’s made a living molding young quarterbacks.

He currently ser ves as the Gophers’ quarterbacks coach, schooling the most important position in football — a position that’s been a turnstile for Minnesota since Jerry Kill and his staff came to Minneapolis in 2011.

Zebrowski has worked with ever y signal caller since then, and for the first time, he’s found one who possesses nearly every trait he looks for in the position.

In the past, MarQueis Gray and Max Shortell — holdovers from Tim Brewster’s stint as head coach — struggled to make an impact in Kill’s first two seasons with the Gophers.

Philip Nelson — touted as the quarterback of the future — replaced Gray and Shortell midway through the

2012 campaign. Nelson entered 2013 as the No. 1 quarterback but shared much of his time under center with Mitch Leidner. A bit wary of losing his star ting spot and becoming a backup, Nelson transferred to Rutgers in January.

Now the quarterback position is in the hands of Leidner, an under-recruited downhill runner from Lakeville, Minn. He didn’t come to the Gophers with the pomp and circumstance that Nelson did, but he looks the part of a Zebrowski signal caller.

Zebrowski has taken under-recruited quarterbacks and turned them into all-conference performers in the past — and Leidner could be next.

“You’ve got to love football as a quar terback. You can’t like it,” Zebrowski said. “You’ve got to be done with practice and be excited about watching film.”

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just because i wasn’t a great player doesn’t mean i can’t produce great quarterbacks. - Jim Zebrowski

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Course evals could go public A University Senate vote may publicize course evaluations but not instructor reviews.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota students may get access to their peers’ course evaluations when registering for classes next year.

Some faculty members, administrators and students have pushed for years to make teacher and course evaluations more accessible. The course assessments, at least, could finally be made public when the University Faculty and Student senates vote on the issue in May. “I think it’s good for faculty, and I think it’s really good for students,” Faculty Senate Consultative Committee Chair Will Durfee said.

For now, there are no plans to make instructor evaluations more accessible.

At the end of each semester, students fill out a Student Rating of Teaching form for each course, giving them the chance to tell their instructors what they liked and didn’t like about the class. u See EVALUATIONS Page 14

LEGISLATURE

In tight race, Somalis turn out for Noor Mohamud Noor may be Rep. Phyllis Kahn’s toughest challenger in 42 years.

BY JESSICA LEE AND ROY AKER jlee@mndaily.com, raker@mndaily.com

The surge in political activism from Somali-Americans in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood is putting pressure on longstanding Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, to prove that she deserves another term in the state Legislature.

Somali-born Mohamud Noor, a fellow DFLer, is challenging the 22-term legislator for the seat representing the West Bank, the University of Minnesota and other east Minneapolis neighborhoods.

Because of deadlock in early stages of the election process, the outcome of the race won’t be decided for months. Until then, the longstanding incumbent and newcomer will vie for support.

The highly contested battle is highlighting how voters identify with candidates, either culturally or politically.

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Active body, nimble brain University researchers found that an active lifestyle can keep the mind healthy in old age.

BY ALLISON KRONBERG akronberg@mndaily.com

Nearly half of the nation’s nursing home occupants are living with Alzheimer’s or other degenerative brain diseases — something young people may be able to avoid.

Researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health found in a study released earlier this month that maintaining an active lifestyle as a youth may help preser ve memor y and other brain functions.

For about 30 years, the study has followed the activity levels and cognitive ability of more than 2,500 people, starting when they were between the ages of 18 and 30. Now, researchers are about to check in with participants for the ninth time.

Participants who could run longer on a treadmill when they were young were more likely to be able to answer memor y questions and other brainteasers correctly 20 years later.

“The hope is to carr y this through old age, which will give a glimpse of how youth affects old age,” study author and professor David Jacobs said.

Cardiovascular activities like running, bicycling and swimming are especially central to brain health, the study found. While the processes behind thinking aren’t well understood, Jacobs said, it’s known that the brain requires lots of oxygen to function optimally, and cardio workouts help the body deliver and preserve more oxygen.

Biomedical engineering sophomore Paul Borowick said he enjoys playing sports or lifting weights, but he admits that it’s sometimes hard to get motivated to do more intense weekly workouts. u See BRAIN Page 4

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Sophomore Loralee Onstad runs on the track at the University recreation center Tuesday.

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Defense gets its turn after rigid interrogations in Pistorius trial

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PRETORIA, South Africa — For five days, Oscar Pistorius endured a withering cross-examination at his murder trial from a prosecutor who pounced on apparent inconsistencies in his testimony. Yet, legal analysts said Tuesday, expert witnesses who will testify for the defense could undermine the prosecution’s efforts to prove Pistorius killed girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on purpose after an argument.

The demeanor of the Olympian, often fumbling for answers and occasionally breaking into sobs, contrasted with that of prosecutor Gerrie Nel, who called Pistorius a liar and unleashed volleys of barbed questions.

Social media buzzed that Pistorius is in deep trouble — a South African talk show host

wryly observed that the double-amputee runner had not “covered himself with glory” when his cross-examination ended Tuesday — but experts said the trial has a long way to go.

“Until the defense presents the rest of their case, you can’t really evaluate the significance of any potential concessions that he may have made,” said Kelly Phelps, a senior lecturer in the public law department at the University of Cape Town.

The trial, which began March 3 and is expected to hear testimony until mid-May, reached a key stage last week when Pistorius took the stand to testify about the circumstances of Steenkamp’s killing in his home before dawn on Feb. 14, 2013. The Paralympic champion, 27, says he shot the 29-year-old model through a closed toilet door

after mistaking her for an intruder, but Nel catalogued what he said were conflicts in Pistorius’ story that prove he made it up.

The prosecution provided a “very clear narrative for the first time” of what it says happened on the night of Steenkamp’s death, Phelps said.

The judge, she said, must decide whether Pistorius’ inconsistencies were a result of his clumsily trying to polish a story that is true in its fundamentals, or instead revealed an “elaborate cover-up plot” after he murdered his lover.

Phelps said the prosecution accused Pistorius of changing his account mostly on “smaller details” but that he had stuck to the “core parts of his story.”

Some commentators have speculated that Pistorius could face a lesser homicide charge that still carries long

prison time in the event of a conviction.

Still, during cross-examination, Pistorius gave a sometimes muddled account of the shooting. He said he feared for his life but also didn’t intentionally shoot at anyone, prompting Nel to query if his defense was self-defense or “involuntary action.”

Inconsistencies in the athlete’s testimony include his statement that Steenkamp did not scream when he shot her but later saying his ears were ringing with the first of four gunshots and he would not have heard screams. A vital part of the prosecution’s case is the testimony of neighbors who said they heard a woman’s terrified screams on the night that Steenkamp died; the defense says they actually heard Pistorius screaming in a high-pitched voice.

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Robot sub returns to water after 1st try is cut short

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PERTH, Australia — A robotic submarine looking for the lost Malaysian jet continued its second seabed search on Wednesday as up to 14 planes were to take to the skies for some of the final sweeps of the Indian Ocean for floating debris from the ill-fated airliner.

The U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 submarine began its second 20-hour underwater mission on Tuesday after cutting short its first because the ocean waters where it was sent were too deep, officials said.

The unmanned sub is programmed to hover 30 meters (100 feet) above the seabed, but it started searching atop a patch that was deeper than the sub’s maximum operating depth of 4,500 meters (15,000 feet), the search coordination center and the U.S. Navy said.

A built-in safety feature returned the Bluefin to the surface and it was not damaged, they said.

The data collected by the sub was later analyzed and no sign of the missing plane was found, the U.S. Navy said.

Crews shifted the search zone away from the deepest water before sending the Bluefin back for Tuesday’s mission, the U.S. Navy said.

The search coordination center said 11 military planes and three civilian planes would search a 55,000-square-kilometer (21,000-square-mile) expanse of ocean on Wednesday centered 2,000 kilometers (1,300 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth. Eleven ships would also join the search.

Isolated showers were forecast in the search area with sea swells up to 2 meters (6 feet, 7 inches) and visibility of five kilometers (3 miles), the center said.

With no wreckage from the Boeing 777 yet found, authorities said this week that the days of the surface search were numbered as the hunt for the remains of Flight 370 moved under the waves.

Search authorities had known the primary search area for Flight 370 was near the limit of the Bluefin’s dive capabilities.

Deeper-diving submersibles have been evaluated, but none is yet available to help.

Islamic uprising causes new violence in Nigeria

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LAGOS, Nigeria — Suspected Muslim extremists kidnapped about 100 girls Tuesday from a school in nor theastern Nigeria, less than a day after militants bombed a bus station and killed 75 people in the capital — a surge of violence that raised new doubts about the militar y’s ability to contain an Islamic uprising.

With an 11-month-old state of emergency in three nor theastern states failing to bring relief, the attacks are increasing calls for President Goodluck Jonathan to rethink his strategy in confronting the biggest threat to the security of Africa’s most populous nation.

The attacks by the Boko Haram terrorist network have killed more than 1,500 people in this year alone, compared with an estimated 3,600 dead between 2010 and 2014.

In the latest attack, gunmen killed a soldier and a police of ficer guarding a school in Chibok on the edge of the Sambisa Forest and abducted the teenage girls after midnight, according to authorities.

Some of the girls escaped by jumping of f the open truck as it was moving slowly along a road, according to an of ficial who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.

Islamic extremists have been abducting girls to use as cooks and sex slaves.

All schools in Borno state were closed three weeks ago because of stepped-up attacks that have killed hundreds of students in the past year. But the young women — aged between 16 and 18 — were recalled to take their final exams, a local government official said.

Boko Haram, whose name means “Wester n education is forbidden,” has targeted schools, mosques, churches, villages and agricultural centers in assaults that are increasingly indiscriminate. The insurgents have also made daring raids on militar y barracks and bases.

The repor t of the abductions came as of ficials were still dealing with the aftermath of Monday’s bombing at the Abuja bus station that killed 75 and wounded 141, just miles from Nigeria’s seat of government. The attack also was blamed on Boko Haram.

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In tight race, Somalis turn out for Noor makeup is surfacing more than ever.

“Noor is more descriptively representative, but Phyllis Kahn may be more ef fective in representing the interests and the substantive needs of the district,” said Humphrey School of Public Af fairs professor Lar r y Jacobs.

Often, voters elect leaders who share their background and cultural experiences, he said.

Nearly a quarter of the district’s residents are Somali, and Noor supporters are making a loud mark on the campaign trail.

Events like Februar y’s chaotic precinct neighborhood caucus, which ended in fights, exemplify the new gush of political energy from the Somali community. At the second precinct caucus, which was rescheduled when the first was canceled, Noor received most of the support, allowing him to send more delegates from the area to last month’s DFL convention.

“Nobody else can engage [Somalis] other than somebody who can speak to them directly,” Noor said.

Because neither candidate won 60 percent support at the party’s convention, they left without an endorsement — a rare occasion in the election process.

Noor, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota, works at ground level in Cedar-Riverside and ser ves as a neighborhood leader.

Besides being interested in a candidate who mirrors their cultural identity, Jacobs said, people sometimes support representatives based on the candidates’ knowledge of the area’s needs and interests.

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ENDORSEMENTS KAHN • Gov. Mark Dayton • 5th Congressional District U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison • Minneapolis City Council member, Ward 6, Abdi Warsame • State Sen. Kari Dziedzic, DFLMinneapolis • Hennepin County Commissioner, District 4, Peter McLaughlin • Former Hennepin County Attorney Tom Johnson • Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner, District 1, Liz Wielinski • Minneapolis Park Board Commissioner at Large John Erwin • Minneapolis School Board member Rebecca Gagnon • Rabbi Michael Adam Latz • Minnesota House DFL Caucus

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Minneapolis School Board member Mohamud Noor at the Christensen Center at Augsburg College on Tuesday.

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der her belt, Kahn led the Minnesota Clean Indoor Air Act into law and has ser ved as an advocate for gender equality. She now chairs the House’s Legacy Committee.

Among other plans this session, she hopes to pass legislation to renovate and expand the Brian Coyle Center, which houses community organizations on the West Bank.

“I haven’t stopped being a leader, particularly on progressive issues in the Legislature,” Kahn said.

In addition to her successful track record, Kahn has garnered praise from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, said Larr y Pogemiller, a former state senator and current director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.

Pogemiller, a longtime friend of Kahn, said she

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MINNEAPOLIS — Authorities were searching Tuesday for a self-professed minister accused of sexually abusing at least two girls in a “Maidens Group” at his religious fellowship in rural Minnesota, where he told one victim she would remain a virgin because he was a “man of God,” according to a criminal complaint.

Victor Arden Barnard is facing 59 counts of criminal sexual conduct related to two young women who said they were abused for nearly a decade at his secluded River Road Fellowship. The 52-year-old was last known to be in the Spokane, Wash., area where the fellowship resettled soon after the investigation began in Minnesota, Pine County Chief Deputy Steven Blackwell said Tuesday.

Washington state’s fugitive task force and the U.S. Depar tment of Homeland Security also are searching for him. People associated with the group in Washing-

ton have been uncooperative, Blackwell said.

According to the criminal complaint, the two woman were among about 10 girls and young women who lived apart from their families in a camp Barnard set up near Finlayson, about 90 miles nor th of Minneapolis. One woman alleged Barnard sexually abused her from the ages of 13 to 22, while the other said it occurred when she was 12 to 20.

Barnard kept the Maidens isolated and used “religious coercion and intimidation” to maintain his control, Blackwell said Tuesday, adding: “It’s certainly cult-like behavior.”

Investigators believe Barnard abused other girls but have been unable to get others to come for ward, Blackwell said. Most of the criminal counts against him carr y maximum sentences of 30 years in prison.

The River Road Fellowship settled in a “ver y secluded” area of Pine County about 16 or 17 years

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MINNEAPOLIS — A self-described militia commander from Minnesota who was charged with stealing identification information from members of his former Army unit at Fort Bragg in North Carolina has pleaded guilty to identity theft.

Prosecutors say Keith Michael Novak, of Maplewood, planned to use the stolen information to make fake IDs for members of his militia, the 44th Spatha Libertas. He entered his guilty plea Monday on the single count in federal cour t in

Minneapolis as part of a plea agreement, according to court papers. Judge Patrick Schiltz ordered that he remain in custody. A sentencing date has not been set.

Novak was an active duty soldier and intelligence analyst with the 82nd Airborne Division at For t Bragg from 2009 to 2012 and served in Iraq in 2010, according to cour t documents. He later joined the Minnesota National Guard and ser ved as a human intelligence analyst.

According to an FBI affidavit and pretrial testimony from an FBI agent, Novak met undercover FBI employ-

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knows how to move the district forward.

“She’s a valuable ally and a difficult opponent,” he said.

Explaining the Somali surge

It often takes time for immigrant communities to feel comfortable enough to start getting involved in political processes.

Jamal Abdulahi, chair of Minnesota’s DFL Somali American Caucus, said the longer people live in an

ago and had fewer than 50 members, Blackwell said.

“They were pretty selfsufficient. They processed their own meat, they grew their own crops. As much as they could they kept themselves separated from regular society,” he said.

In 2000, Barnard set up what he called the “Shepher d’s Camp” on land where girls and young women between the ages of 12 and 24 lived as part of his “Maidens Group,” the criminal complaint alleges. Barnard would give sermons about giving themselves to God and remaining unmarried, spending time with them individually and in groups, teaching that he represented “Christ in the flesh.”

One of the alleged victims contacted the sheriff’s office in January 2012. She said her family joined the fellowship when she was 11, and Barnard began having sex with her when she was 13, telling her it was normal “because it was in God’s word,” the complaint said.

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Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, speaks with representatives of the Minnesota Association of Community Health Centers in her St. Paul office March 13, 2012.

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ees posing as members of a Utah-based militia at a National Guard training camp in Utah in January 2013. The investigation began after he allegedly talked about blowing up a National Security Agency facility. He later shared information with the undercover employees in return for money on 92 members of his former unit, the agent testified. Novak also was accused of stealing flak jackets from the 82nd Airborne.

Novak was arrested in December and was denied bail. He allegedly threatened violence, though his attorney said his statements were nothing more than bluster.

area, the deeper their roots become. Over time, they’ll naturally ask for more influence and political power.

In Cedar-Riverside, more than 65 percent of foreign-born residents are of African descent. But because the neighborhood sits in the middle of Minneapolis — a progressive and DFL stronghold — new immigrants find a unique sense of comfort in voicing their political preferences, Abdulahi said.

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“Noor is more descriptively representative, but Phyllis Kahn may be more effective in representing the interests and the substantive needs of the district.”

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largest Somali community in the U.S. In 2010, there were nearly 50,000 Somalis living in Minnesota, with 18,000 living in Minneapolis.

Abdulahi said both Noor and Kahn would fit the contested role well. But the question of who best mirrors constituents depends on how accurately that

person meets community needs.

For some in the Somali community, he said, Noor may offer a clearer reflection — which is why CedarRiverside is showing such a strong presence in the election.

“They want to see one of their own elected,” Abdulahi said.

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Greek housing bill flails in Congress

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REP. PETE SESSIONS CO-SPONSORS: 69

REP. JIM GERLACH CO-SPONSORS: 168

REP. SHELLEY BERKLEY CO-SPONSORS: 236

REP. STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES CO-SPONSORS: 209

REP. PAUL RYAN CO-SPONSORS: 150

COLLEGIATE HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE ACT HISTORY REP. PAUL RYAN CO-SPONSORS: 92

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

For over a decade, Congress has mulled over but never passed a bill providing financial incentive for donations to certain types of university housing, including fraternity and sorority houses.

N o w, s t u d e n t s a n d alumni from the University of Minnesota and across the countr y are preparing for a trip to Washington, D.C., later this month to lobby for the measure, called the Collegiate Housing Infrastr uctur e Act, which would amend Internal Revenue Ser vice code so donations to not-forprofit housing would be tax-deductible.

The bill could par ticularly impact greek organizations nationwide, and at the University because of the ongoing need for housing renovations. The Minnesota Student Association passed a resolution Tuesday suppor ting the measure, and MSA President Mike Schmit, who is a member of Beta Theta Pi, said the student government’s suppor t may hold some weight when students and alumni go to lobby in Washington.

“Ideally, it’ll help them in their cause,” he said, citing the high number of students MSA represents.

Computer science senior Greg Dr yke brought the bill to MSA’s attention.

The Delta Chi member is one of about 40 students from around the countr y who is planning to lobby for the bill.

Students and alumni have traveled to the nation’s capital annually to garner enough co-sponsors for the

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bill to pass.

But even when the bill gained 236 co-sponsors in 2009, it didn’t get past the House Committee on Ways and Means, where it’s been referred and fizzled out each time it’s been introduced. Only 69 cosponsors have signed onto the measure’s most recent introduction.

Dr yke said the housing

bill hasn’t passed because it’s often attached to other measures that lawmakers vote down.

A spokesperson for a Republican congressman close to the bill said that the bill’s chances of passing this time are unclear, but it will need strong suppor t from lawmakers.

A key issue with the bill is the money attached to it,

Dr yke said. Because the bill would make donations more appealing, they would increase in number — as would federal tax breaks.

These tax breaks would ultimately total $148 million over the next decade, according to a House committee report that also estimated that the national greek community needs more than $1 billion in housing improvements.

At the University, it’s estimated that $13 million to $20 million is needed to ensure greek housing is safe, code compliant and up to other modern housing standards, according to the Greek Community Strategic Task Force Report.

Director of the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life Matt Levine said in a March interview that the estimate is modest considering the scope of renovations that campus houses need.

Though all sororities were required to install fire suppression systems

in their houses, Dr yke said, only a few fraternities have made the pricey renovation.

The new University sorority chapter Chi Omega is looking to purchase a house or build one from the ground up. Lorna Fox, a chapter alumna and Chi Omega’s local housing corporation president, said the federal bill would likely encourage vital donations to make that type of move a reality.

Much of the chapter’s funding comes from the estates of alumnae who have passed on, Fox said, and if the act were to pass, it would likely also encourage alumnae to donate before they pass away.

“We’re ver y lucky that people are still pretty generous and do donate money to us,” she said. “But there isn’t any tax benefit for them and … a lot of people make their donations based on some of those decisions.”

Study: Activity in youth could keep brain nimble STUDENT PHYSICAL ACTIVITY LEVELS 7.3% ZERO ACTIVITY 41.0% HIGH ACTIVITY

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“W ith weight lifting, whatever pain you feel is over quickly. But on a run, it’s 20, 30 minutes of consistent fatigue, which is a lot of times more draining than regular exercise,” he said. “I feel like I have to not go on a run for a solid month or two before I feel guilty enough to go on a run.”

University Recreation and Wellness fitness director Greg Stephenson said living an active lifestyle isn’t a “one size fits all” approach. Social spor ts, for example, may motivate some, while music motivates others, he said.

High-intensity activities can be performed anywhere, Stephenson said.

Someone could sprint for short bursts during a jog, do several push-ups at a fast pace or increase the resistance of an elliptical while maintaining their speed — anything to increase their hear t rate until they’re breathing heavy and breaking a sweat.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that adults engage in 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of vigorous physical activity each week.

Jacobs said the study is most important for young people who have ver y low or no activity on a regular basis.

“The ‘use it or lose it’ principle applies to ever yone; fitness is harder to recover the older one gets,” he said.

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“Students simply need to move.

That’s as good of a start as any.”

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of University students reported zero to low activity level in 2013, according to the Boynton Student Health Survey.

Getting involved with family, school and community activities is a great way to ease into more physical activity, Jacobs said.

If a student wants to get more active, Stephenson said, they should review their daily routine to see if they can fill gaps with activity or modify a behavior to include exercise. Walking with a roommate, taking the stairs or participating in

activities at the recreation center are all great ways to increase physical activity, he said.

“Students simply need to move,” Stephenson said.

“That’s as good of a start as any.”

Borowick said he works out because it helps him relax and take his mind off school. He didn’t work out much his freshman year, but he committed to a routine this year.

“I’m no doctor,” he said, “but I think getting your blood flowing helps with a lot of things.”

Solemn tributes mark Boston Marathon bombing anniversary

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — Sur vivors, first responders and relatives of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the anniversar y Tuesday with tributes that combined sorrow over the loss of innocent victims with pride over the city’s resilience in the face of a terror attack.

“This day will always be hard, but this place will always be strong,” former Mayor Thomas Menino told an invitation-only audience of about 2,500 people at the Hynes Convention Center, not far from the finish line where three people died and more than 260 others were injured a year ago.

Vice President Joe Biden, who attended the ceremony, said the courage shown by survivors and those who lost loved ones is an inspiration for other Americans dealing with loss and tragedy.

“You have become the face of America’s resolve,” he said.

Biden also praised the 36,000 runners who plan to run the marathon next week, saying they will send a message to terrorists.

“America will never, ever, ever stand down,” he said, to loud applause. He added, “We own the finish line.”

In Washington, President Barack Obama was obser ving the anniversar y with a private moment of silence at the White House.

“Today, we recognize the incredible courage and leadership of so many Bostonians in the wake of unspeakable tragedy,” Obama said in a statement.

“And we of fer our deepest gratitude to the courageous firefighters, police of ficers, medical professionals, runners and spectators who, in an instant, displayed the spirit Boston was built on — perseverance,

freedom and love.”

Obama said this year’s race, scheduled for April 21, will “show the world the meaning of Boston Strong as a city chooses to run again.”

Authorities say two ethnic Chechen brothers who lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the Dagestan region of Russia planned and orchestrated the attack with two bombs in backpacks near the marathon finish line on April 15, 2013.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died following a shootout with police days after the bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges and is awaiting a trial in which he faces a possible death sentence. Prosecutors say the brothers also killed MIT police Officer Sean Collier days after the bombings in an attempt to steal his gun.

Prosecutors have said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a hand-scrawled confession condemning U.S. actions in Muslim countries on the inside wall of a boat in which he was found hiding following the police shootout.

At the tribute, several sur vivors of the bombing alluded to their injuries but focused on the strength they’ve drawn from fellow survivors, first responders, doctors, nurses and strangers who have offered them support.

“We should never have met this way, but we are so grateful for each other,” said Patrick Downes, a newlywed who was injured along with his wife. Each lost a left leg below the knee in the bombings.

Downes described Boston Strong, the slogan coined after the attack, as a movement that symbolizes the city’s determination to recover. He called the people who died “our guardian angels.”

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Marcy-Holmes locks in new plan The neighborhood is finalizing its master plan and seeking feedback.

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The 2014 update to the master plan incorporates the in-progress Dinkytown small area plan. MarcyHolmes Neighbor hood Association members discussed at a meeting Tuesday night how the plan can manage the current neighborhood’s divide on how to develop the area.

Master Plan steering co mmit tee le ad er B ob Stableski said the neighborhood’s character spots — from the river front to industr y and residential areas — are each facing different problems.

“This isn’t a homogeneous neighborhood,” he said. “The value of the plan is that we can look at these things on a neighborhoodwide basis and also break them down into the five different character areas.”

The neighborhood has come up with six themes that come into play throughout the plan: “Be one neighborhood,” “live here now,” “make the streets ours,” “make change contribute,” “love the river front” and “welcome the tension of complexity and contradiction.”

Proposed projects include improving riverfront connections, encouraging investment along Fifth Street Southeast to create more livable streets, increasing the frequency of transit on University Avenue Southeast and Fourth Street Southeast, and expanding the Dinkytown commercial ar ea while pr eser ving its historic qualities.

The update also proposes improving areas between campus and the Stone Arch Bridge. MHNA President Cordelia Pierson said the neighborhood is looking forward to partnering with the University to do that. “[The idea has] been on the books for about 20 years,” she said. “It’s just needed some focus and prioritizing,

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so we’re hoping to bring that to life.”

The city approved the neighborhood’s first master plan in 2003, which came from hearing what residents liked or disliked about the neighborhood, what aspects they wanted to preser ve, what goals they wanted to achieve and what they wanted to avoid. Since then, the neighborhood has amended the plan several times, but it will fully update the plan every decade.

Pierson said she was “very happy” about the public input the MHNA has received during the planning process and is proud of the diversity of participants.

“Many of the people who participated and provided input on the Dinkytown planning part had not traditionally

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been involved in neighborhood and land-use planning,” she said. “We think we did a good job reaching people and hearing from people who aren’t the traditional show-upat-evening-meetings people.”

The MHNA has also received student input from its Minnesota Student Association board representative Clay Wagar, who said he appreciated the level of student feedback sought.

“Cordelia did make a lot of effort to engage students,” he said. “My concerns were listened to and met enthusiastically by the rest of the board.”

Minneapolis city planner Haila Maze, who has been working on the project, said the next step for the plan is publishing the update on the city’s

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website and beginning the 45-day review period during which the city welcomes public comments. The City Council will then approve it, likely by the summer.

Maze said the city will respond comment by

comment and encourages public feedback.

“People care a lot about the Dinkytown, MarcyHolmes area,” she said.

“We need to suppor t the area so it’s sustainable and livable.”

Chilean president vows to relocate Valparaiso victims

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VALPARAISO, Chile — President Michelle Bachelet vowed Tuesday to reconstruct this once-beautiful port city according to a master plan that would prevent many of the 11,000 victims of devastating wildfires from rebuilding on hills that cannot be protected from disasters.

The fires that star ted Saturday and leaped from hilltop to densely populated hilltop have been contained but not extinguished. Ever y stiff wind threatens to lift burning embers, putting more neighborhoods at risk. The fires already have consumed as many as 3,000 homes and killed 15 people while injuring hundreds more.

“We think this is a tremendous tragedy, but ... it is also a tremendous opportunity to do things right,” Bachelet said in an inter-

view with El Diario de Cooperativa. “What we’re looking at in terms of reconstruction is how to rebuild in a more orderly manner, better and more worthy” of Valparaiso’s status as a World Heritage City.

UNESCO granted the city that honor in large part because of its unique architecture, laid out on narrow, cur ving streets that climb hills so steep that many people commute by climbing stairways or riding cable cars. Brightly painted, improvised wooden houses hug forested hills and ravines, which form a natural amphitheater around Chile’s second-largest port.

While the city is often blanketed by fog from the Pacific Ocean, it has been plagued throughout history by wildfires that can spread quickly when the wind blows out to sea. Indigenous Changos who lived there before the Spanish conquest

called the area “Alimapu,” which means “land destroyed by fire,” said Orion Aramayo, an urban planning expert at Valparaiso’s Catholic University.

While fire victims include middle-class families, thousands more lived in primitive conditions, sharing str uctures built on tiny ledges of land car ved into the hills. Many of these homes were built illegally, lacking water and sewer connections, with improper foundations on dangerous slopes and no way for emergency vehicles to reach them in a crisis.

With so many houses reduced to rubble and nearly 4.5 square miles (1,145 hectares) of the compact city’s forests turned to ash, Chileans were debating Tuesday about whether bulldozers might help solve longstanding problems.

Urban planners called for safer structures, wider

streets and better infrastr ucture. Some cultural representatives expressed concerns that new construction could endanger the city’s rich character. And thousands of fire victims returned to their home sites on the hills, squatting amid charred rubble on denuded slopes that could turn to landslides in the next rain.

Many experts blame the Chilean state for decades of uncontrolled growth.

“The government is responsible for having allowed homes to be built in dangerous areas, and somehow it has to show these people that they’re in a place where their lives are at risk,” said architecture professor Jonas Figueroa at the University of Santiago.

Valparaiso Mayor Jorge Castro bemoaned the city’s disorderly development Sunday, saying that “we are too vulnerable as a city: We have been the

builders and architects of our own dangers.” By Monday, he was acknowledging that many people would rebuild in the same vulnerable spots.

Bachelet, however, appeared firm in Tuesday’s interview.

“Protecting the people comes first. And second, relocating them,” she said, suggesting that the state will expropriate land if it has to.

“Honestly, I believe we have to do something more. It’s not enough to reinstall houses or support families. We have to do something more substantive.”

Just 34 days after taking of fice a second time, Bachelet is confronting twin disasters. Two earthquakes in nor thern Chile left 2,635 homes uninhabitable, and 5,000 more with lesser damage. She said the reconstr uction will likely occupy her entire four-year term.

Hamas prime minister praises deadly West Bank shooting

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — The prime minister of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Tuesday praised a shooting that killed an Israeli and wounded his wife and son as they drove through the West Bank the previous evening en route to a Seder, the traditional Passover meal that starts the weeklong Jewish holiday.

Speaking in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh said the attack outside the city of Hebron “brought back life to the path of resistance” against

Israel and warned of more attacks in the territor y. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest incident to threaten peace talks with the Palestinians.

Hamas and Israel are bitter enemies. They have engaged in several rounds of fighting since the militant Islamic group seized power in Gaza in 2007 after ousting forces loyal to the Palestinian Fatah party, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, in fierce street battles. The two Palestinian groups have not reconciled despite several attempts and Hamas now

rules Gaza while Abbas governs part of the West Bank.

“We tell the enemy and anyone who thinks he is able to tame the West Bank ... the West Bank will be the future point of our struggle with the enemy,” Haniyeh said.

Israeli media said the wounded woman was told in hospital that her 40-year-old husband, a police officer, was killed. It said their wounded son is nine years old.

Israel’s public security minister, Yitzhak Aharonovitch, visited the wounded at a Jerusalem hospital and called the incident “a tragedy.”

The attack almost certainly complicates U.S. attempts to salvage the troubled IsraeliPalestinian peace talks. The Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in the 1967 Mideast war from Jordan and Egypt.

Two decades of IsraeliPalestinian negotiations have failed to settle the conflict, and the latest U.S. mediation attempt, launched last year

by Secretary of State John Kerr y, also seems on the verge of collapse.

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to see a deal, or at least the outlines of one, by the end of April. But the two sides remain locked in a dispute over the terms of extending talks, without having made any apparent progress on issues such as borders and security arrangements.

The Palestinians have been demanding Israel release a promised batch of prisoners, many of whom were involved in similar attacks as the one on Passover. A nationalistic par ty in Netanyahu’s coalition has threatened to quit it if prisoners are freed.

Ukraine bares teeth against proRussians

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

KRAMATORSK, Ukraine — In the first Ukrainian militar y action against a pro-Russian uprising in the east, government forces repelled an attack Tuesday by about 30 gunmen at an airpor t, beginning what the president called an “anti-terrorist operation” to try to restore authority over the restive region.

The central government has so far been unable to rein in the insurgents, who it says are being stirred up by paid operatives from Russia and have seized numer ous gover nment facilities in at least nine eastern cities to press their demands for broader autonomy and closer ties with Russia. Complicating the political landscape, many local security forces have switched to their side.

The clashes T uesday came at Kramatorsk airport, just south of the city of Slovyansk, which has come under the increasing control of the pro-Russian gunmen who seized it last weekend.

The precise sequence of events was mired in confusion amid contradictory official claims.

The commander of the Ukrainian operation, Gen. Vasyl Krutov, speaking outside Kramatorsk airpor t, said his men managed to thwart an attack by fighters in green militar y uniforms without insignia who tried to storm the facility in the late afternoon. An Associated Press repor ter and camera crew heard rounds of gunfire at the time.

Cellphones to have anti-theft updates

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — A trade group for wireless providers said Tuesday that that nation’s biggest mobile device manufacturers and carriers will soon put antitheft tools on the gadgets to try to deter rampant smartphone theft.

CTIA-The Wireless Association announced that under a “Smartphone Anti-Theft Voluntar y Commitment,” the companies including Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co., Verizon Wireless, AT&T Inc., U.S. Cellular Corp., Sprint Corp. and T-Mobile US Inc. have agreed to provide a free preloaded or downloadable anti-theft tool on smartphones sold in the U.S. after July 2015.

Owners’ options will include remotely removing a smar tphone’s data and preventing reactivation if a phone is stolen or lost, the association said.

It appears the wireless industr y has somewhat reversed course as law enforcement and elected of ficials in the U.S. demand that manufacturers implement a “kill switch” to combat surging smar tphone theft across the countr y. Industr y of ficials have previously said putting a permanent kill switch on phones has serious risks, including the potential that hackers could activate it. “ We a p p r e c i a t e t h e commitment made by these companies to protect wireless users in the event their smar tphones are lost or stolen,” CTIA CEO Steve Largent said in a written statement.

“This flexibility provides consumers with access to the best features and apps that fit their unique needs while protecting their smar tphones and the valuable information they contain. At the same time, it’s impor tant dif ferent technologies are available so that a ‘trap door’ isn’t created that could be exploited by hackers and criminals.”

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ECONOMICS

Tax Day costs us more than we think Minn. leads on minimum wage again Y Our country’s tax code is far too complicated. esterday marked the 101st year in which Americans repor ted their taxable income to the federal government. While many student readers likely have simple and easy tax forms, if any, older workers are likely well-acquainted with the nuisance of filing taxes.

In 2007, the average taxpayer spent 18 hours and $258 to simply comply with the tax code, according to the IRS Office of Research.

The federal income tax has changed quite a bit since it was signed into law in 1913.

In its first year, less than 1 percent of Americans paid any tax at all, and those who did paid an average of 1 percent of their incomes. Since then,

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the tax rates and brackets have changed nearly 40 times.

From its initial rate of 7 percent in 1913 to its peak of 94 percent in the wake of World War II debts to the current 39.6 percent, the top tax rate has been all over the map. The lower brackets have followed similar patterns.

Congress has made nearly 5,000 changes to the tax code since 2001. That’s more than one per day. Despite all those changes, the tax code has not had any major reform since the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which sought to simplify the system, eliminate loopholes, gain lost revenue and lower tax rates. The tax code has a tendency to perpetually in-

crease in complexity because of Congress’s incentive to slip in special new loopholes for their campaign donors at any chance they get.

Commerce Clearing House, a tax services provider, has produced a book to explain the tax code ever since it was first created. CCH published its first version of the book in 1913, which was 400 pages long. Its latest version is 25 volumes and more than 73,000 pages.

Nearly 4 million words of the book are the tax code alone.

Given that a law student reads roughly 10,000 pages in a year of law school, it would take approximately seven years to study CCH’s guide to the income tax in its entirety.

At least we know there are two industries for which the government creates a lot of jobs: tax accountants and tax lawyers.

In 2007, the average taxpayer spent 18 hours and $258 to simply comply with the tax code, according to the IRS Office of Research. That’s a big cost to pile on top of our existing tax bills. That’s why a majority of individuals resort to hiring tax profession-

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 122,688- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,418 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

als to help them. All in all, the complexity of our tax system results in a $168 billion cost of compliance each year.

That $168 billion, or about $535 per person, is a government-created drag on the economy. It’s money spent that doesn’t improve our standard of living, and it is the direct result of terrible tax laws.

If the tax code were simpler, we could put those resources to productive use, grow the economy and have more to spend on things that do improve our lives, like health care and education.

Most, if not all, of the successes of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 have eroded away. The tax code is more complicated than ever, and the cost of compliance is sky high. Not only do we need a major overhaul to simplify the tax code and eliminate hundreds or thousands of loopholes, but we need a way to prevent it from growing complicated again.

Now we can enjoy the 364 days until the next Tax Day.

Derek Olson welcomes comments at dolson@mndaily.com.

DIVERSITY

Late-night TV hosts lack diversity CBS missed an opportunity to change the playing field of late-night television.

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Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What those riots were really about There’s been a lot of handwringing and head-shaking over the two riots last week.

“Oh, I’m just so ashamed of my fellow University students! How could they stoop to such lows? This is just a sign of the privilege this generation takes for granted!”

Cut the crap. The overdramatic reaction to these incidents has vilified the students and blown out of proportion what were not even true riots.

But something really needs to be said that has not been yet said about the “riots.” They had almost nothing to do with those hockey games.

Maybe a few fans’ blood was honestly boiling Thursday and Saturday in a way that could find no expression other than through destruction. But the reason the riots happened was that the University basically gave us permission to riot.

Someone who I think should bear a lot of blame for the riots is President Eric Kaler. Before the riots, he sent out an email waving tired old phrases like “zero tolerance,” but the real takeaway from those emails was this: University police, Minneapolis police and other law enforcement from across the metro area will be present and prepared to keep the peace and to arrest suspects. In other words: “Hey kids, cause some ruckus Saturday night, and we’ll provide free entertainment!”

His email, combined with the massive police presence, hyped up the riots to the point of inevitability. The riots, then, were based around students testing the boundaries of the “disruptive conduct” of the Student Conduct Code. What will the police do if we do this?

How far can we push this without getting arrested?

This may sound immature and foolish to many, and to be fair, many rioters were drunk.

But there’s more going on in why the riot happened than people are willing to admit.

First, the dirty secret of all violence and rebellion is that it’s fun. For a few hours, we had no rules and could do whatever the hell we wanted. But as college students, having a riot has a fair degree of romanticism to it. Our generation was raised by the Vietnam generation — we’ve grown up seeing idolized images of noble students being victimized by cops. A lot of college students fantasize about getting their skulls beaten in because they stood up to tyrannical police.

Which leads me to another point: People would not have been as excited to riot if there had not been armored vehicles, police tanks, cops with riot gear, a SWAT team, a bike cop unit, mounted cavalr y and helicopters, all for maybe a couple hundred unarmed students. Such an obscene display of power is just begging for a spectacle. It only fueled the semi-noble sense of “us versus the police state.”

No, we weren’t rioting for a noble cause. We were drunken kids who used a hockey game as an excuse to disturb the peace. We didn’t riot over student debt or any number of real problems with this country. What good would that do? If the police demonstrated nothing else, it was that if we ever cause a real riot, we wouldn’t stand a fraction of a chance.

We knew that Saturday was an opportunity to break rules and vent anger over those real problems without major, violent consequences.

Despite Thursday and Saturday’s evidence to the contrary, we are not stupid. We took a good look at the situation surrounding those two games

and concluded: “Well, if the riots will happen anyway, we may as well embrace it.”

David Lein University student

Lead study cries wolf The April 10 Minnesota Daily article “U researchers: Hunting with lead poses food risks” cited a recent policy brief released by the executive director of the Raptor Center and the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, which included a recommendation to the Minnesota state Legislature to ban all ammunition made from lead. However, millions of Americans have been safely consuming game taken by traditional ammunition for over a century. The Iowa Department of Public Health has conducted extensive lead blood-level testing since 1992, including 500,000 youths under age 6 and 25,000 adults. They have never had a case of a hunter having elevated lead levels caused by consuming game har vested with traditional ammunition.

The authors of this policy brief are crying wolf. If lead ammunition is a public health risk, why has there not been a single case of lead poisoning documented in hunters? I hope people recognize this policy brief for what it is — politically motivated science to bully and infringe upon the rights of lawabiding citizens and hurt the proud tradition of hunting in Minnesota. By advocating for the purchase of the more expensive alternative ammunition, the end goal is to simply dissuade hunters from doing what they love.

Matt Boelke University student

h e n CBS announced that comedian Stephen Colbert would inherit the “Late Show” from David Letterman less than a week after Letterman announced his retirement, pubLUIS RUUSKA lic reaction was columnist mixed but mostly positive.

Many thought CBS might replace Letterman with a woman like Tina Fey or a person of color like Arsenio Hall, who has a track record as a successful late-night talk show host.

After all, late-night television has always been an all-white boys club, and Colbert’s appointment does nothing to change this regardless of his talent level, which is high but not necessarily unique.

Additionally, late-night talk show hosts are often generational, with their stints spanning over several decades.

Letterman and former rival Jay Leno have been in the late-night TV industry for more than two decades.

When Letterman retires in 2015, he will have spent a record 31 years as a late-night host.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are all between the ages of 39 and 49, so if history repeats itself, we can expect all of them to stay in the late-night scene for a couple of decades.

But does this mean the next opportunity for Americans to see a woman or a person of color at the helm of a late-night talk show will be around 2035, or even later? Maybe not.

Although Craig Ferguson’s “Late Late Show” on CBS was once relatively successful, his ratings have been stale lately, and his contract expires in 2015. It’s likely that CBS will replace him with a new host.

Hopefully, CBS will take this opportunity to introduce diversity into late-night TV, because diversity in entertainment isn’t just about what’s fair; it’s about making entertainment better.

When Oprah Winfrey and Ellen DeGeneres began their daytime talk shows, many expressed doubts because of their race and sexual orientation, respectively. Today they are successful daytime talk show mainstays.

So why should the case for a latenight talk show host be any different?

Diversity pays off, and late-night television is in need of it now — not in two decades.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

The minimum wage bill will provide just compensation for the state’s low-income workers.

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ntil recently, Minnesota was one of only four states in the nation with a state minimum wage lower than the federal rate. Minnesota’s wage was particularly low when considering neighboring states; North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa raised their minimum wage after the federal government’s rate increased to $7.25, but Minnesota’s stood still.

That changed this week when Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill that will raise the minimum wage at large businesses to $9.50 an hour by 2016.

The Legislature rightly took a cautious approach to implementation: The law raises the minimum wage incrementally. Allowing smaller employers to pay a lower minimum wage also makes sense. The law defines large employers as businesses with gross sales over $500,000. The legislation requires smaller businesses that take in fewer sales to pay a $7.75 minimum wage in 2016.

Starting in 2018, all minimum wages will increase annually, depending on inflation. The bill caps the increases at 2.5 percent. Indexing the minimum wage to inflation will allow employers to compensate workers fairly without having to wait for action from the Legislature. However, it’s important that lawmakers closely monitor the yearly increase and suspend the raise during periods of economic hardship.

It’s also important that those who are willing and able to work receive proper compensation, and we are grateful to have a Legislature and governor that agree.

On Monday, Oklahoma Gov. Mar y Fallin signed a bill prohibiting cities from establishing mandatory minimum wage laws. We hope other states look to Minnesota, not Oklahoma, on this issue.

The minimum wage bill was long overdue, but we support the Legislature’s efforts to allow Minnesota to lead again on minimum wage.

Students should consider renters insurance Landlords of aging properties should help students decide if renters insurance is necessary.

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housands of students at the University of Minnesota, once they’ve left the halls of the Superblock or other freshman dorms, look for places to live off campus.

The Dinkytown and Southeast Como neighborhoods are dense with college students. Some houses and apartments in these areas are quite old, such as the house next to Burrito Loco, which has stood in Dinkytown since 1887.

Given the problems this year in Southeast Como due to potentially toxic levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a chemical General Mills used in the mid-1900s, it’s time for the student communities in these neighborhoods to push landlords to provide greater living protections.

Earlier this month, a fire damaged two houses near campus, destroying the contents of one house entirely. The scenario brings up the concept of renters insurance, which college students should strongly consider, despite the additional cost and the perceived improbability of disaster.

Landlords should also play a greater role in helping tenants determine whether renters insurance is necessary at a particular property and whether those tenants can afford it. Most importantly, landlords need to be honest and upfront about the condition of the property they are renting out.

There are three types of renter protection: personal possessions, liability and additional living expenses. The average cost of a policy is $184 a year, but the rate will vary according to the size and location of the property and what the policy will cover.

Landlords should work with students and other renters to help assess the cost of a policy and develop a recommendation based on the tenant and the property profiles.

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Chelsea Gortmaker, Daily Minnesota quarterbacks coach Jim Zebrowski talks about his job April 5 at his office in the Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex. Zebrowski has worked with Jerry Kill’s coaching staff since 2009. He has experience developing under-recruited quarterbacks into all-conference performers, and Mitch Leidner is now his main focus.

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quarterback from page 1 Road to Minnesota Shortly after Kill was introduced as head coach at Southern Illinois University in 2001, Zebrowski whipped out his phone to make a call. A former graduate assistant for the Salukis, Zebrowski left a message with the athletics department telling Kill he hoped he’d bring the program success.

Kill called him back the next day.

“He didn’t know me,” Zebrowski said, wide-eyed. “He goes, ‘Jimmy. It’s coach Kill. I’d love to talk ball with you sometime.’”

A few months later, they did. Zebrowski was the offensive coordinator at Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and he drove about 176 miles to meet with Kill.

Kill and assistant coach Brian Anderson made the trip worthwhile, sitting down with Zebrowski to diagram offensive plays for more than nine hours.

“We talked back and forth. I think we helped each other,” Kill said. “He’s a football junkie, and so am I.” In 2003, Zebrowski was offered the head coaching job at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis. Zebrowski called Kill, asking whether he should take the position. Kill endorsed the change of scenery, and Zebrowski took the job. To date, it’s the only time in his 23-year career that he’s been a head coach.

He also consulted Kill four years later when newly named Wisconsin-Whitewater head coach Lance Leipold tapped him for offensive coordinator.

Zebrowski wasn’t Leipold’s first choice, but he was near the top of his wish list.

“If he wasn’t [plan] 1A, he was quickly 1B,” Leipold said.

The Warhawks won the Division III national championship in Zebrowski’s first season at Whitewater. Their opponent in the title game was the University of Mount Union — Zebrowski’s alma mater.

After he defeated Mount Union again in 2009 to win his second title, Zebrowski’s phone rang once more.

It was Kill. He was looking for another offensive assistant to replace Rutgersbound P.J. Fleck, and Zebrowski soon

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joined Northern Illinois as the quarterbacks coach.

A year later, he and the rest of Kill’s staff uprooted to Minnesota.

“It just all kind of hit,” Zebrowski said. “I was not going to pass up the opportunity to work with [Kill] and these guys.”

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It’s not hard for Zebrowski to remember the skills a quarterback needs in order to be great.

They’re written down in a 420-page book that occupies the middle of his desk. It’s called “Eyes Up” and was written by NFLcoach-turned-quarterback-trainer Terry Shea.

“There’s no question that one of the themes that comes out of the book is a quarterback needs to have a real passion for his skill development,” Shea said.

“We talked back and forth. I think we helped each other. He’s a football junkie, and so am I.” - head coach jerry kill

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’00–’03 “If you know Coach Z, you’re going to have fun.

He’s a trip, he’s crazy ... he talks about 100 miles per hour.” -Poteete

Sherard Poteete

Southern Illinois University

Career: Poteete passed for a combined 4,246 yards in 1999 and 2000. His 203 completions for 2,777 passing yards in 1999 are both single season program records.

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Career: inducted into millikin’s hall of fame in 2007 after setting program records in career passing yards (6,639) and touchdowns (63).

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Career: after playing quarterback for zebrowski at lakeland in 2006, maiuri joined the gophers as a graduate assistant in 2013.

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Missouri State offensive coordinator who Zebrowski coached at Southern Illinois, described functional intelligence as keeping things simple.

“He tried to make it easy,” Poteete said of Zebrowski. “He tried to make it simple.”

Zebrowski said Poteete looked like a fullback when he ran with the ball, using his legs to get out of trouble when the defense blitzed or an offensive lineman missed an assignment.

Still, mistakes can’t always be avoided, so Zebrowski stresses the “next-play mentality” — looking forward instead of dwelling on the past.

“I think the good thing about him [is] he’s going to get on you so you know what you’re doing wrong, but he’s going to pick you up afterwards,” said Ryan Maiuri, Zebrowski’s quarterback at Lakeland.

Maiuri followed Zebrowski to Minnesota to learn more about coaching and is now a graduate assistant with the Gophers.

Maiuri said he wasn’t a gifted athlete — but neither was Zebrowski.

“I think me not having all the game experiences a lot of other people had in college makes me want to see the kids I coach have those opportunities,” Zebrowski said.

“It puts a little chip on my shoulder. Just because I wasn’t a great player doesn’t mean I can’t produce great quarterbacks. That’s what drives me sometimes.”

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’07–’09 “i knew that once i decided i wanted to be a coach i had to get back to where [zebrowski] was going to be. he’s like my dad” -maiuri

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Zebrowski has a systematic passion for developing those skills. His office sits feet from the Gophers’ practice field but looks more like an analyst’s workplace than a jock’s. A plethora of nonfiction football books line shelves adjacent to a television he uses to pore over film late at night.

In his career, analyzing the game from all levels has led him to unorthodox ideas.

Leipold said Zebrowski has a knack for being innovative on offense. Jeff Donovan, one of Zebrowski’s quarterbacks at Whitewater, couldn’t agree more.

“This is the truth,” Donovan said. “He is the best offensive mind that I’ve ever gotten the pleasure to play for.”

Zebrowski prefers quarterbacks who can pass accurately over those with great arm strength. Donovan had both, but he also had something even more important — something Zebrowski looks for in each signal caller he recruits.

“He just had whatever that ‘it’ is,” Zebrowski said. “You knew he could make it right.”

That’s the foundation of Zebrowski’s quarterback philosophy: an innate ability to make something out of nothing on the gridiron. It takes both physical and mental toughness, which Zebrowski calls “functional intelligence.”

“It’s not easy when you’re out there.

You’re seeing 9,000 different coverages, blitzes coming all over the place,” Zebrowski said. “There’s 50-some, 60-some, 70,000 people, and you’ve got to motion, shift, move people and read coverage and then make the right decision.”

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’03–’06 “He was a 5’8” or 5’9” kid that scrambled and ran around. he just made plays” -zebrowski

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’10 “he is a wealth of knowledge. he is the best football mind x’s and o’s on the offensive side of the ball that i’ve ever had the pleasure of playing for.” -donovan

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“he’s a mentor; he’s a coach obviously. but we’re very, very close. we keep in close contact, and he’s one of those guys that his friendship to me has been invaluable.” -harnish

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Career: Harnish passed for 8,944 career yards and was the country’s top rushing quarterback in 2011 with 1,379 yards.

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a big reason he doesn’t look at recruits’ rankings.

Just because Division I schools aren’t going after a player doesn’t mean that player can’t succeed at a high level, he said.

A couple of Zebrowski’s former players are proof of that.

Chandler Harnish’s only scholarship offer came from Northern Illinois. The two-star recruit earned playing time right away as a freshman in 2008 but was short of stellar. He didn’t start the first game of his junior season due to a knee injury, and it looked like his football career was being put to bed.

Then Zebrowski woke him up.

“I said, ‘Chandler, you can’t worry about getting hurt anymore, man. You’ve just got to go play. This is your last shot,’” Zebrowski said. “ ‘Run around. Don’t go out of bounds. Make plays.’”

Make plays he did, all while embracing another phrase Zebrowski stresses: “Enjoy the moment.”

Harnish was finally able to let go and have fun, running past the rest of the Mid-American Conference and leading Northern Illinois to a pivotal win over Minnesota in 2010.

The Gophers fired Brewster three weeks after the loss to Northern Illinois, paving the way for Zebrowski to jump to a power conference after just one year with the Huskies.

After Kill’s staff left Northern Illinois for Minnesota, Harnish took what Zebrowski taught him and had a record senior season. He compiled 1,379 rushing yards — more than any quarterback in the country — to go along with MAC MVP honors.

“It kind of all came together at the right time. Jimmy came into my life at the right time,” said Harnish, now a reserve quarterback for the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. “He taught me exactly what I needed to do, and he did it in a way that I respect.”

A year later, Jordan Lynch replaced Harnish as the Huskies’ starting quarterback and didn’t disappoint.

Lynch was a freshman during Zebrowski’s year at Northern Illinois. He had a lot to learn but had the right guy to teach him.

“I feel like he played a key factor in just helping my fundamentals and mechanics,” Lynch said.

Like Harnish, Lynch only had one Division I offer, but he made it count.

Lynch started as a junior and powered Northern Illinois to its first BCS game in conference history. He finished third in the Heisman Trophy during his senior season after rushing for a Football Bowl Subdivision quarterback record of 1,920 yards.

Across the sport as a whole, running quarterbacks — and the dual threat they present — are on the rise.

“The more you can do, the better. Russell Wilson won the Super Bowl, and he’s the master of improvising,” said Lynch,

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who is now preparing for the 2014 NFL Draft.

Leidner’s turn

A day after Minnesota lost to Syracuse in December’s Texas Bowl, Leidner went to work.

Three weeks later, fellow quarterback Nelson announced he was leaving the Gophers football program, opening the door for Leidner to take the reins as the starter.

Nelson went to Phoenix to train with Shea before opting to transfer to Rutgers.

Shea called the Gophers’ run-heavy offense the “driving issue” behind Nelson’s transfer but said Leidner’s emergence made Nelson fearful of losing the starting spot.

“He felt like he was always more suited to be the starting quarterback in the competition [than Leidner],” Shea said.

Leidner and Nelson shared the quarterback position in 2013, but neither ever gained real momentum.

That shouldn’t be the case next year with Nelson out of the picture and all eyes on Leidner.

“Kids love him because he plays so hard [and] is an A-plus in the weight room. He’s everything you want,” Zebrowski said.

That includes leadership — a quality Leidner’s pass catchers rave about.

“Mitch has just taken over, given us good leadership,” wide receiver Donovahn Jones said.

“We trust him,” fellow receiver Drew Wolitarsky added.

Being seen as a leader has put Leidner’s confidence at an all-time high. He doesn’t have to worry about being “diplomatic,” offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said.

Leidner was anything but politically correct in spring practice. A few weeks ago, the 6-foot-4-inch quarterback challenged defensive linemen after the whistle blew.

“That’s why they follow him,” Kill said.

“He’s a tough sucker.”

Leidner is one of the more passionate players in recent memory. Zebrowski and Limegrover said he treats everything like a game situation, and they often try to reel him in.

“Practices can sometimes be tough for me because I always want to beat the defense and I want to do so well,” Leidner said.

Leidner’s competitive makeup has Zebrowski feeling nostalgic. It’s eerily similar to another successful quarterback Zebrowski mentored: Lynch.

“That kid will do anything,” Zebrowski

’11– ’12 “[zebrowski] went out there, and he coached his ass off. hardcore balls to the wall for the whole two hours we were out there” -lynch

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Career: Became a finalist for the Heisman Trophy, placing third in the final tally after compiling the best rushing season by a quarterback in FBS history with 1,920 yards.

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field in order to reach Harnish and Lynch’s level. He’s already finished reading “Eyes Up” and is a regular in the film room.

“He’ll watch film tonight, I guarantee you,” Zebrowski said after Minnesota’s April 5 spring practice. “He’ll call me or text me and say, ‘I could have made that throw.’”

After setting Lynch and Harnish up for success, Zebrowski left them for Minnesota.

He plans on seeing Leidner’s career through — but if the phone rings, he’ll answer.

“If the right opportunity came up, I’d look into it, but I don’t go looking,” Zebrowski said. “You don’t see college coaching staffs like this.”

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’11 –’12 Career: set the gophers’ record for quarterback rushing yards in a single season with 966 in 2011. gray spent much of his 2012 senior season struggling to overcome ankle and knee injuries. he is now a tight end for the nfl’s cleveland browns.

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said of Leidner. “Jordan [Lynch] is probably faster, but what they both have is that tough-guy mentality.”

Leidner knows Lynch and Harnish and models his game after theirs. He probably won’t be able to match their rushing records, but he flashed his running ability in limited time last season with 407 yards and seven touchdowns.

More playing time next season should mean more rushing yards for Leidner, but the Gophers are planning on increasing passing attempts in 2014 — in part to keep their No. 1 quarterback healthy.

Zebrowski said injuries stunted Gray’s quarterback development with the Gophers. And Nelson was hampered by a right hamstring injury sustained while rushing.

Leidner is trying to learn from his former teammates’ setbacks.

“In my case, being smarter with the football and knowing when to not take the big hit and when to can definitely help me out,” Leidner said.

He’s also learning to be smarter off the

’13–present “sometimes you don’t really know when you’re going to get in. i don’t have to ever look back now.” -leidner

Career: passed for 2,179 yards and 17 touchdowns in two seasons of play. nelson suffered a hamstring injury in his sophomore season that opened the door for mitch leidner to challenge for the starting job.

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Career so far: Leidner impressed Gophers fans with his ability to run in his first year on the field in 2013 with 407 rushing yards and seven rushing touchdowns.

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Minnesota’s Tony Skjefte bats against North Dakota State on Tuesday at Siebert Field.

Dan Olinger drove in two runs with a pinch-hit single in the seventh inning.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Gophers senior Dan Olinger saw only one pitch during Tuesday’s game.

But that pitch made all the difference in Minnesota’s 5-3 victory over North Dakota State.

Olinger hit a pinch-hit, two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning of Tuesday’s game.

“Jake Bergren on second base had the pitch,” Olinger

said. “He had the signs, so he called it and told me what was coming, and I was just trying to hit a fastball and … drive in some runs.”

Olinger said it wasn’t as tough as it may seem coming off the bench in a bases loaded, two-out situation.

“As long as you’re in the game while you’re on the bench and you’re staying focused,” Olinger said, “you can get yourself amped up enough for that one at-bat.”

Gophers head coach John Anderson said earlier in the game, he called his team together in the dugout.

“I told them I was tired of watching them go up to home plate and take fastballs in the strike zone,” Anderson

said. “We make it so much harder than it is.”

Anderson said that he thought the team had better at-bats after that.

“We started swinging at the fastball instead of being at two-strike counts all the time,” Anderson said.

Olinger’s hit, which came with two outs in the inning, gave the Gophers a 5-1 lead, which proved insurmountable.

Minnesota had scored earlier in the inning when catcher Austin Athmann took a bases-loaded walk.

Athmann, who is returning from an injury, was the designated hitter in one of the team’s games against Michigan two weekends ago,

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Minnesota’s Brian Glowicki pitches against North Dakota State on Tuesday at Siebert Field.

but Tuesday’s game was his first behind the plate since March 9. Athmann went 3-for-3, driving in one run and scoring another.

“I’ve been on the bench for quite a while,” he said, “but I’ve just kind of been studying the pitchers, and I just worked on my hitting as much as I could in practice, and it obviously paid off.”

The Gophers’ five runs were enough for the pitching staff, which gave up three runs, two earned, Tuesday.

That number could have been higher if not for Minnesota’s defense, which gunned down two potential runs at home plate in the third and seventh innings.

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an early lead in the first inning after freshman starting pitcher Brian Glowicki surrendered an unearned run. But Glowicki, who was making his first-career start for Minnesota, shut down North Dakota State during the rest of his outing.

Glowicki gave up four hits and the one unearned run in his four-inning no decision.

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Minnesota’s Sara Groenewegen pitches against Illinois on March 29 at St. Thomas University.

Groenewegen said pitching is her top priority.

“I love hitting,” she said, “but pitching is where it’s at.”

Groenewegen is a power pitcher and a power hitter.

She smacks home runs and strikes out batters with rising fastballs they simply can’t keep up with.

Gophers first-year catcher Taylor LeMay said that makes her fun to catch for.

“She throws hard and hits her spots all over the zone,” LeMay said. “It’s a ton of fun to catch for somebody who strikes out so many batters.”

In short, Groenewegen is a strikeout pitcher and a home-run hitter. She ranks fourth nationally in strikeouts per seven innings pitched with 11.4, and her eight home runs are good for fifth in the Big Ten. “She’s always pumping her fist, yelling and getting excited,” LeMay said, “and

that gets all of us pumped up.”

Canadian sensation Before she excited her teammates with fist pumps and Gophers fans with strikeouts, the girl nicknamed FES — short for “foreign exchange student” — by her teammates was exciting the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team with her skills.

Groenewegen helped lead Team Canada to a fifth-place finish at the International Softball Federation Junior Women’s World Championships last year.

She went on to start a game with the Canadian Senior Women’s National Team and picked up a win in her first appearance.

Still, even with the success in her native country, Groenewegen always knew she wanted to play college ball in the United States.

“I know sports here are

more competitive than they are back home,” she said, “especially at the NCAA level.”

She laughed when asked why she picked Minnesota.

“I didn’t even know what Minnesota was before I got recruited,” she said, her cheeks changing to match her maroon jersey. “I felt like the coaching staff here sold the program to me, and I knew I wanted to play for them.”

As for moving nearly 2,000 miles to play ball, Allister said it goes back to the same fearlessness that has enabled Groenewegen to find success so far from home.

Groenewegen said her mentality on the field has made all the difference this season.

“It’s easy to be intimidated as a freshman,” she said, “but I just have to have the mentality that I can be successful against anybody I want to be.”

derson had made midweek starts for Minnesota. “[Glowicki has] been kind of our insurance and backup guy, and we haven’t gotten him out there,” John Anderson said. “Brian needs to pitch. He’s been shortchanged a little bit.”

The Gophers will return to Big Ten play this weekend with a series in Iowa against the Hawkeyes.

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The 4.5-year-old stadium is in the process of having its turf removed.

BY JARED CHRISTENSEN jchristensen@mndaily.com

This season has been a dream come true for pitcher Sara Groenewegen.

The British Columbia native has produced absurd numbers, with a perfect 11-0 record in the pitcher’s circle and eight home runs in the batter’s box this year.

She’s been named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week, she struck out 126 batters in 77.1 innings of work and she has taken a no-hitter deep into a game on one occasion.

And she’s done all that as a true freshman — one who turned 19 less than a week ago.

“I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again — age is just a number,” Groenewegen said.

It may be just a number to her, but to everyone else, it’s something that makes the rest of her numbers that much more impressive.

Gophers head coach Jessica Allister credits the freshman’s fearlessness for her smooth transition into Big Ten softball.

“I’ve never seen her intimidated by a situation,” Allister said. “She’s tough as nails, and she wants the ball in her hand.”

Her fearlessness allowed her to take down three ranked teams this year and pitch a no-hitter for Team Canada in a junior national competition last year. Her competitive nature fuels her drive to improve both as a pitcher and as a hitter.

Most pitchers rely on designated hitters in the batter’s box, but Groenewegen is different. She swings for herself and takes cuts as the cleanup hitter.

In that spot, she has crushed eight home runs — good for second on the team — and driven in 29 runs.

Still, as much as she loves hitting for herself,

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TCF Bank Stadium looked like a construction site Tuesday as workers donning hard hats ripped up chunks of turf.

This process began Monday and marked the first step in a multimillion-dollar upgrade to prepare the stadium for hosting Minnesota Vikings games this fall.

Mortenson Construction will install a “hydronic heated field” in June that will “ensure a safe playing surface for the Vikings’ late games in 2014 and 2015,” according to a team release. Additions will also include more storage space, heating, concession upgrades and about 2,000 temporary bleacher seats, the release said.

Those added features are part of an approximately $6.6 million renovation the Vikings are undertaking as they prepare to move into the stadium for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

The University of Minnesota’s TCF Bank Stadium Twitter account tweeted Monday that the crew will be finished excavating the tur f by Friday. The crew appeared to have about half of it removed Tuesday morning.

The University’s Board of Regents approved the stadium upgrades in February.

Per the University’s May 2013 agreement with the Vikings, the team will pay the University $300,000 per game and $125,000 in cash and in-kind donations to a “good neighbor” fund.

The Minnesota Spor ts Facilities Authority is currently building a $975 million multi-purpose stadium, which the Vikings plan to move into before the start of the 2016 season. The $975 million budget includes the cost of the renovations to TCF Bank Stadium.

The Vikings are paying for $477 million to build the new stadium, with state and city dollars covering the remaining $498 million.

The Vikings will play two preseason games at TCF Bank Stadium in August.

The Gophers will play their first home game Aug. 28.

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Two construction workers remove the turf at TCF Bank Stadium on Tuesday morning in preparation for hosting the Minnesota Vikings this fall.

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Today’s Birthday (4/16): Use this creative year to strengthen networks and infrastructure for fruitful collaboration. Yesterday’s lunar eclipse in Libra influences partnerships for expanded freedom, liberty and justice.

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 — Favor rational logic over emotions today. Postpone a financial discussion. Talk about practicalities and action.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Today could get profitable or expensive (or both).

Don’t touch savings. Try a different approach.

Believe in someone who believes in you.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Dream up a way to improve earnings. It’s a good time to ask for money ... express your passion.

Start with your inner circle and then move out.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Discover something new about yourself today.

Record any dream you remember. Indulge fantasies and speculation.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Team projects go well and dreams are within reach.

Money changes hands. Practice your game, increasing strength and endurance.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Check for changes and study the situation before setting team goals. Copy the itinerary to everyone involved.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — Change takes place just as you imagined. Try not to get flustered. Money for a lovely household item is available.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — Talk doesn’t go far today. Benefits are more spiritual than material. Enjoy parties for a good cause. Get involved in a community project.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Imagine a dream come true, especially with a home project. Research your objective. Friends can be persuaded to help out.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Consider a new opportunity. There may be a test involved. Keep your eye on the ball.

Practice makes perfect.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Travel beckons, but take care. No need to rush things. Calm a partner’s anxiety. Don’t spend before the check clears.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Study, research and do the homework. Check each story from multiple views and catalog differences of opinion.

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

from the archive

Friday, April 16, 2004

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BACKTALK

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FOR RELEASE APRIL 16, 2014

DAILY CROSSWORD

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

Well Networkia, by the time you read this we will know who won the campus elections. Our concession/victory speech is as follows: The real loser is the students. As usual.

From Kamakazi_Ewok

Alas thee net I write to the masses once more. My concern is Thine dimwitted fool of a crack head named, bombs_over_Bigheads. It seems that he feels that bashing the characters of Gindorf and Edstrom will make a difference in the scheme of things. But he doesn’t realize that he is a fool and i want to protect me from those damn squirrels, so why can i have pepper spray and mace. And i want the mig jets that bombs_over_Bigheads was talking about, cause if he has one he should give it to me cause it would be cool. I’d be all like cool and bomb some squirrels, and i could eradicate the raccoon population while I am at it. Net: Actually, raccoons thrive on danger. You’d merely be aiding natural selection and helping to develop a race of super-raccoons who would soon take over from the squirrels. Any who, did you see the show of Will/Bader? Its sad that in this world money is spent in such ways to win a worthless position as MSA pres and vice pres. These people do it for the little tidbit they can put on a job application, not to mention the 5,000$$ or so each of them gets. Net: It seems to us that any money spent on MSA hacks would be better spent on an open-bar event for Network contributors. People who e-mail Network have a much greater impact on campus life than MSA. Which will lead me into my next pt. lets eradicate MSA and put in place a true democracy where everyone votes online for issues. We dont need some bootlicking poly-sci majors to dictate where student fees should be sent. Net: But we do need them to keep our boots shiny. But going back to Will/badHEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:

er, Isn’t it funny that they spend that much money and they are going to loose? I think so. SO in my final conclusion i say this, we don’t need a late night bus, UDS should be replaced by Wendy’s, and MSA should be replaced by the A-Team. Like an Ewok fried by a laser blast, I am done. Net: If MSA were replaced by the A-Team, we could finally have some relief from these constant tuition hikes. The A-Team could retrofit a Campus Circulator van into a secret armored car with machine guns and drive it into Morrill Hall and shoot lots of stuff. That would be cool.

From Pick_the_Tulips

Responding to the recent weather, I have observed the increase in heat. As a result men feel the need to show off their bulging biceps. However, this often is followed by the increase in male tank tops ... you know, those muscle shirts with the really really ridiculously huge arm holes. Unfortunately this reveals a globular mass of armpit hair and deodorant particles. Net: Would that that were all that it revealed. Those armholes are a veritable window into hell! Beware! Beware! Muscle shirts are the first step down the slippery slope toward damnation! Now I can’t speak for the whole female population, but it is not appealing. University of Minnesota male students should start a new trend in hygiene. Shave you armpits!! Trust me, the girls will come flocking to your freshly shaven underarms lightly scented with that wickedly sexy Axe deodorant. No longer will you boys be afraid to raise your arms in class to reveal those danky armpits because now they are fresher than UDS’s salad bar spinach greens.

Net: That is to say: not so fresh. I look forward to waving at all the beautiful boys lacking their underarm hair. Until later ... I bid thee Network Adieu.

Net: We only respond to “salud!”

NETWORK@MNDAILY.COM

Minnesota Daily Volume 105, Issue 132 April 16, 2004

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By Gareth Bain

dr. date Dr. Date,

There’s this girl I’ve known since freshman year (we’re seniors now).

There’s always been some chemistry between us, but nothing ever happened because we both always had a significant other. I have a girlfriend now, but she is single.

The other night, we were hanging out at a party and both got pretty drunk, and then I walked her home. I went inside for a minute to use her bathroom but ended up staying for two hours talking to her. At one point, we were sitting on the couch and she laid her head on my shoulder, and I leaned over and kissed her hair.

When I left, we hugged for a long time and she kissed my neck. It all felt really good and natural.

But my question is this: Did I cheat on my girlfriend? And even if I didn’t, this can’t be a good sign for my relationship, right? What should I do?

—Anonymous

Toeing The Line,

I think the fact that you’re asking this question means you feel a little guilty about what happened with your “friend.”

Although nothing seriously physical took place, this could definitely be classified as emotional cheating.

Take some time to think about your current situation. Are you going to forever regret not getting together with your college crush? Or are you head over heels with your current beau? You have to pick one. Don’t try to juggle both — it’ll backfire, and you’ll be left alone.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I started dating this guy and recently discovered that he likes to watch porn during sex. At first it was kind of sexy, but now I’m feeling a little offended. Am I not enough? There’s literally nothing I can do to distract him.

—Real Girl

Not A Porn Star,

Watching porn to get in the mood or for some background noise is totally normal. Is he so distracted by porn that he’s not even paying attention to you during sex? If he’s ignoring you and your needs, you need to dump him immediately.

If having porn on makes you uncomfortable, talk to him about it. I’m sure he’ll realize that having a real girl in his bed is much better than watching a girl on a screen.

—Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Course evaluations could go public Evaluation u from Page 1

Under the current policy, professors have the option of making the evaluations public. But Dur fee said this process hasn’t been effective because few professors — only about 10 percent — opt to release the evaluations.

Under the senate proposal, instructor information would stay private, but course evaluations would automatically go public and instructors would have to choose to make them private again.

English literature freshman Nicholas Ohren said evaluation transparency is impor tant for students so they can be fully informed on what they’re signing up for.

“It’s going to be a huge resource of a lot better information on courses,” he said.

The senates will also consider modifying some questions included on the forms, like the one that asks students what they could do to be a better learner.

Even with increased access to course evaluations and different questions added to the forms, some students say the policy could be better.

Student senate V ice Chair Ben Baglio said he was disappointed that the proposal didn’t include

“It’s going to be a huge resource of a lot better information on courses.”

NICK OHREN English literature freshman

access to teacher evaluations, which kept it from being fully transparent.

“That was the part I was most frustrated about,” he said. “I think students want more.”

Ohren said teacher evaluations weren’t included in the proposal because University attorneys said they’re considered private under state law since they have the potential to affect tenure and promotion decisions — a common wor r y for faculty when it comes to evaluation accessibility.

“That’s kind of where the conflict of interest comes in,” said chemistr y professor Christopher Cramer. “It’s a dif ficult problem.”

Still, Baglio said he and other students will push for access to teacher evaluations if the current proposal passes next month.

“Eventually, that will be expected,” Baglio said.

Cramer said he also worries that some courses could lose enrollment with the new policy simply because less popular subjects would likely receive lower ratings.

Though the changes

could have some disadvantages for faculty, Ohren said the benefits for the students outweigh them.

The University’s releasing evaluations would be better for faculty and depar tments than students seeking the information elsewhere, like on websites such as Rate My Professors, Ohren said.

Third-party teacher evaluation websites have long been a source for students to give their uncensored opinions about a teacher or a class. But these websites don’t always help students find classes best-suited for them, Ohren said, because they’re often unreliable and biased.

University-posted evaluations would also be simpler to find, he said.

Under the proposal, course evaluations would either be available on the online course guide or on a separate One Stop page where students could access them anytime.

“As the demand for information and accessible information online gets bigger, there’s going to be more things like that expected of the institution,” Baglio said.

NY judge: Jurors can hear imam praise 9/11

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — An Egyptian Islamic preacher’s statements that “everybody was happy” when the World Trade Center was hit by airplanes can be heard by a jur y sitting just blocks from the site of the Sept.

11 attacks, a judge ruled Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a written decision narrowing the evidence that can be presented against Mustafa Kamel Mustafa two days before opening statements were scheduled to start in the cleric’s trial on charges he conspired to suppor t al-Qaida.

Forrest rejected the introduction of several statements that she found cumulative or insuf ficiently relevant to the charges. But she allowed the majority of the government’s proposed videos, audios and written statements.

Mustafa has pleaded not guilty. He is accused of tr ying to set up a terrorist training camp in 1999 in Oregon and by arranging for others to attend an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan. He also is accused of ensuring there was satellite phone ser vice for hostagetakers who abducted two American tourists and 14 others in Yemen in 1998.

Four hostages died.

Forrest rejected defense claims that statements he made in an undated interview with a British television ser vice were unduly prejudicial, including his assertion that he approves of using airplanes to kill, saying: “Everybody was happy when the planes hit the World Trade Center.”

The judge said he was also quoted as saying: “Anybody who tell (sic) you he was not happy, they are hypocrites, for the Muslim Nation.”

She said he then justified targeting the World Trade Center because of the evils of globalization and “making other countries poor.”

Forrest said his statement “fundamentally justifies fighting and terrorist acts in the name of furthering a political agenda” and is “plainly relevant” to his motive to engage in acts with which he is charged.