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Police, students dispute facts of Friday incident Somali Student Association says police presence was “violent and dehumanizing.”

BY KELLY BUSCHE AND MADELINE DENINGER kbusche@mndaily.com, mdeninger@mndaily.com

After police were called to a Friday night event hosted by the Somali Student Association at Northrop auditorium, the two groups are disputing the facts of the event.

University officials say police officers were called to a disruption at SSA’s Somali Night, while SSA members say police presence was unwarranted.

MPD spokesperson John Elder said MPD, who were called in to assist UMPD, made two arrests for misdemeanor obstruction.

According to a statement from SSA, police officers “physically assaulted” SSA board members and used “excessive force” to remove attendees.

“During the event, a fight broke out between attendees in the lobby and UMPD were called to resolve the situation, but the event was able to continue,” University spokesperson Lacey Nygard said.

UMPD’s account “does not make sense,” SSA’s statement read. The SSA said “two, three-minute fights” broke out after the event, and at least six police cars were located near Northrop’s entrance approximately 12 minutes after the event ended.

According to the statement from SSA, police were called to Northrop before any disruptions occurred. u See ARRESTS Page 2

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Officers arrest a person outside Northrop on Friday, April 20. The Minneapolis Police Department and University of Minnesota Police Department responded to a disturbance at Northrop following the Somali Student Association’s Somali Night 2018 event.

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Review: Lil Yachty can’t take the heat The weekend’s festivities were worth the cost despite a forgettable headlining show.

BY MARAYA KING mking@mndaily.com

Spring Jam’s festivities Saturday provided campus a mix of entertainment and respite at a critical point in this year’s winterweary semester.

From Instagram-worthy backdrops to beanbag lounge areas to the mosh pit for Lil Yachty, it was not your typical spring evening in Minnesota.

For starters, most of the snow had melted off, sandals were broken out, overalls were donned and even the sun made a guest appearance. Combine that with tinted Gatorade bottles, camouflaged flasks and the looming pressure of finals — this was a much-needed weekend.

Dreams We’ve Had kicked off the evening after their Battle of the Bands win on Friday night. The indie-pop band, which was arguably better than any of the other opening acts, played to a small but loyal crowd early in the night. The band has been together for over two years, and it certainly showed in their free-spirited confidence onstage.

Following Dreams We’ve Had came Remo Drive, a stark contrast with their angst-ridden lyrics. The Minnesota-native band knew just how to get the crowd on their feet — by shouting their problems into u See SPRING JAM Page 5

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Lil Yachty performs at Spring Jam on Saturday in Stadium Village.

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University supplemental budget funding left out of omnibus bills State higher ed committees did not fund the University’s spending requests in new bills.

BY MADELINE DENINGER mdeninger@mndaily.com

The Minnesota House and Senate higher education committees passed their omnibus spending bills last week, which did not include funding for the University of Minnesota’s supplemental budget request.

The University asked lawmakers for a $10 million annual investment in its

supplemental budget request, which school officials said would freeze tuition for undergraduate resident students in the next academic year. After House and Senate Republicans released their budget targets earlier this month, both higher education committees had to decide how additional allocations should be spent.

The House Ways and Means committee passed a higher education budget target of an additional $5 million for the next fiscal year. The omnibus bill currently allots that funding to a cybersecurity program update for Metropolitan State University.

“I wouldn’t say [cybersecurity] was

the priority, but when you have a number that small, you have to work with what you have,” said Rep. Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls, chair of the House higher education committee.

Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, introduced an amendment at the House higher education committee’s omnibus bill hearing on Wednesday that would divide the $5 million between the University and Minnesota State systems for tuition relief. The amendment failed on a roll call vote.

While the amendment was an attempt to u See BUDGET Page 3

RESEARCH

Research shows higher grades in groups with more women UMN researchers found class groups with more women saw better GPAs and evaluations.

BY WESLEY HORTENBACH whortenbach@mndaily.com

Studying with women can improve grades in class, according to University of Minnesota researchers.

In a study published earlier this month, course grades and peer and self-evaluations improved as students worked with more women in groups. The study points to the importance of considering group composition in the classroom, particularly in active learning spaces.

In fall 2016, three introductory biology classes at the University intentionally assigned their 391 students who self-identified as male or female to tables of all women, 75 percent women, half women, 25 percent women and no women.

As the number of women at a table increased, so did the grades of both men and u See GENDER Page 3

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Students give presentations in BIOL 3211 - Physiology of Humans and Other Animals in an active learning classroom in Bruininks Hall on Thursday.

Gophers finish 2nd at NCAA championships Minnesota’s second-place finish was its best at the tournament since 1990.

BY ERIK NELSON enelson2@mndaily.com

The white board inside Cooke Hall Gymnasium has Minnesota’s goals for the season written on it.

Since their fifth-place finish at the Big Ten championships, the Gophers made one of those goals to finish among the top three at the NCAA championships.

Minnesota accomplished that by finishing second at the NCAA championships in Chicago, the best finish by the Gophers since 1990. Minnesota had 11 All-American recognitions, the most in program history.

Junior Justin Karstadt said finishing second place at nationals was one of the happiest moments of his life.

“It wasn’t even on my sights going into the meet,” Karstadt said. “We were all hoping to get onto the podium, which is the top four.”

Freshman Shane Wiskus finished second in the all-around, receiving a score of 83.064. He earned All-American accolades on rings and high bar.

Karstadt earned All-American recognition on pommel horse and parallel bars. Six other Gophers received All-American honors: Luke Aldrich, Tristan Duran, Shaun Herzog, Vitali Kan, Yaroslav Pochinka and Jalon Stephens.

“I knew we had a strong team,” Karstadt said. “Our senior class has 10 guys. That’s half the team, and half of the team being seniors with veteran experience and the ability to deal with the pressure. I knew we had the makings of a great team.”

Oklahoma won the national u See GYMNASTICS Page 4

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UMPD officers present at Northrop couldn’t stop a fight between a group of approximately “30 to 40 youth,” according to a statement from UMPD Chief Matt Clark. The escalating assaults — people were assaulted and one robbery occurred — caused them to seek additional assistance from nearby officers, the statement read.

The continuing fights

“spilled” into campus areas surrounding Northrop, according to Clark’s statement. “Chemical irritant” and “minimal force” were used by police to end the “violence” and separate the groups.

According to SSA’s statement, police rushed the building as attendees mingled after the event, and removed attendees from the building in a “confusing, violent and dehumanizing” manner. They then formed barricades with bicycles as attendees left, which

blocked re-entry.

“Had the attendees been treated the same as any audience Northrop hosts instead of as cattle and allowed to exit the venue at a normal pace, a night of celebration wouldn’t have ended in brutality,” the statement read.

Police maced attendees, closed nearby parking garage access and pushed attendees to the ground with bicycles and batons, SSA’s statement read.

“Children were so negatively affected by the mace

that they ended up vomiting,” the statement read.

A “small” number of UMPD officers were present at Northrop, which was University protocol for large events, a statement from Clark read.

Around 20 police cars were present at the scene.

“It appeared that the police were called to the scene in advance of any disruptions,” SSA’s statement read.

Somali Night is an annual celebration of Somali culture and marks the end of

the student organization’s Somali Culture Week initiatives. This year’s event marked SSA’s 20th year on campus. Over 150 people said they were attending, according to the event’s Facebook page.

“It’s unfortunate that a small group of attendees negatively impacted a normally positive cultural event,” Clark’s statement read.

Car ter Blochwitz and Ellen Schmidt contributed to this report.

Some take ADHD meds despite side effects Around 6 percent of University students report having ADHD.

BY MICHELLE GRIFFITH mgriffith@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota nutrition freshman Lexi Brand has been taking Focalin to manage her attention deficit hyperactivity disorder for eight years.

However, the medication that helps her focus comes with trade-offs – she also experiences side effects including periods of zero appetite and headaches.

Brand isn’t alone. Nearly 6 percent of University students have ADHD, according to a 2015 College Student Health Survey report, and many of them use medication to manage their symptoms. As the number of people who are

prescribed drugs like Ritalin, Concerta and Adderall increases nationally, experts say doctors should diagnose ADHD carefully to avoid overmedicating or misdiagnosing patients.

Common ADHD diagnosis methods include questionnaires, computer simulations to test attention span and planning and concentration exercises, said Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, pediatric neuropsychologist and Division Director of the Pediatric Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience division.

People with ADHD have a “brain wiring difference,” Semrud-Clikeman said.

“What we know from the neuroimaging and all the research that’s been done is that the brain is just set up differently.”

ADHD medication is an important tool for many with the disorder, but sometimes doctors mistake the

symptoms of other disorders like PTSD and depression for ADHD, leading to misdiagnosis and the incorrect prescription of ADHD medication, said psychologist David Nathan.

Once diagnosed, patients often choose what kind of treatment to pursue, which could explain why providers are prescribing more medication, especially among women, Nelson said.

The pills are an easy solution that appeals to many patients, he said.

However, medications can have adverse side effects – such as lack of appetite, insomnia, headaches and stomach pain – that discourage patients from taking them.

Some patients opt to switch medications. A few years ago, Brand stopped taking the Adderall she was prescribed because she experienced weight loss and

excruciating headaches and started taking Focalin.

“My mom saw the symptoms I had and decided to get me on another medication,” Brand said.

Others, like environmental science freshman Abby Hornberger, decide to stop taking ADHD medication altogether.

“I was always angry at my friends and I was never hungry. I never wanted to do anything with my friends, like even sitting down and watching a movie,” Hornberger said, adding she never felt like herself.

Rather than endure negative side effects, Hornberger said she learned to manage symptoms on her own.

The medication can add social strain for those who take it legally. Hornberger said friends who knew she had ADHD pestered her for the medication she

wasn’t using.

While 0.5 percent of University students said they had used an ADHD medication in the last year, 7 percent of students reported using someone else’s ADHD medication, according to the CSHS report.

Many people learn to live with their ADHD symptoms and find the disorder is manageable, SemrudClikeman said, but medication remains a helpful tool for many.

Since starting Adderall in the fall, freshman Joe Dobos said he can concentrate on school and complete his work on time. He has also lost 100 pounds.

“The best thing is that I can read chapter books now.

I was never able to sit down and concentrate,” Dobos said, adding that he bought three books from Barnes & Noble when he realized he could finally read them.

U works on diagnosing developmental disorder fragile X Brain differences in fragile X patients are identifiable as early as age one.

BY ELLA JOHNSON ejohnson2@mndaily.com

When Minnesota resident Dayna Klein’s twins were about three years old, she knew something wasn’t quite right.

The toddlers weren’t speaking, and some of their developmental skills lagged behind their peers’. Teachers and specialists suggested the twins had autism or an intellectual disability, or that

nothing was amiss. Finally, a doctor diagnosed them with fragile X, a rare developmental disorder similar to autism.

Fragile X is uncommon and difficult to diagnose, resulting in delayed diagnosis for many patients, like Klein’s twins. Research from the University of Minnesota published this month could help doctors identify the disorder based on neurological signs, allowing for earlier diagnosis and intervention.

Fragile X is caused by a gene mutation that turns off a protein critical in regulation of brain development.

The behavioral symptoms

doctors use to diagnose the disorder include anxiety and aggression as well as social, intellectual and motor impairments.

While newborns can be diagnosed with fragile X, the average age of diagnosis is 3-4 years old. Many doctors aren’t aware of the rare disease, and when children present the symptoms, experts frequently test several other possibilities before considering fragile X. The University study found that significant differences in brain development – specifically, white matter – are identifiable in children with fragile X as young as

one year old. The study is the first to pinpoint differences at such an early age, said Dr. Jason Wolff, and provides evidence for the importance and potential efficacy of interventions with infants.

While there are no drug treatments for fragile X, behavioral treatments have proven to be effective and could be adapted for infants, Wolff said. With earlier diagnosis, those behavioral interventions could begin sooner and enhance patients’ quality of life.

Wolff said that while implementing regular screening for infants could help children receive treatment

sooner, raising awareness among doctors and the public could improve outcomes for kids with fragile X. Dayna said earlier diagnosis would benefit both children and families.

“Had I not met [the doctor who diagnosed the twins], it would [have] been so frustrating. … An earlier diagnosis on parents and the child would be beneficial,” she said.

Going forward, Wolff and his team will continue to work with fragile X patients, as well as a group of patients with autism, to better understand the changes in brain development associated with the two disorders.

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UMN funding left out of omnibus bills

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aid the University’s tuition relief efforts, the budget target is too low for it to have a significant impact, Pelowski said.

“Unfortunately, when you’re looking at the University and [Minnesota] State, $5 million doesn’t go very far,” Pelowski said. “For instance it doesn’t freeze

tuition, and it doesn’t stop increases in student debt.”

The University’s request would help offset between $12 million and $15 million in budget cuts over the next year, said University Senior Vice President for Finance and Operations Brian Burnett at the House hearing.

Burnett said it would also prevent undergraduate resident tuition from increasing by $200 to $250 next

academic year.

“We were disappointed the House did not include resources for tuition relief in [its] higher education supplemental bill. Without this investment, it puts additional pressure on our budget,” he said.

The Senate’s budget targets do not allow for any surplus funding toward higher education.

Sen. Jason Isaacson, DFL-Shoreview, proposed

an amendment at a Senate higher education committee hearing last week that would fund the University’s full request. The amendment failed on roll call.

Sen. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, who voted against the amendment, said the funding is not within the state’s budget.

“I think we highly value the U. And just because we don’t support plus or minus $10 million [doesn’t mean] we

don’t see it as a leader of the state, and it isn’t like we don’t give them any money and they’re without resources,” Abeler said at the hearing.

Isaacson said the state could fund the $10 million if higher education was a priority.

“If you support the U, you would vote for things that support the U,” he said. “You can’t support the U and then vote for a budget that limits the funding they need.”

The Senate and House omnibus bills did include $1 million each in grant money to go toward loan forgiveness programs and a loan counseling program for Minnesota students, among other things.

The House bills also included policies that would require the University to report sexual harassment and assault data to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.

Study: sitting with women in class may improve GPA Gender u from Page 1

women. The all-women group saw the most improvement compared to the others.

Researchers identified this as an added benefit of the inclusion of women in STEM fields and showed an empirical incentive to encourage their participation in science, said Sehoya Cotner, a professor who

taught one of the courses.

Cotner attributes this correlation to cultural factors and believes women and men may have seen improvement for different reasons.

“Because of various dynamics between men and women, such as manipulating the conversation, talking louder or mansplaining, women might have more of an opportunity to flourish when around other women,” Cotner said.

Researchers say college-

aged students may be susceptible to conform to traditional gender roles in social learning environments.

“There might be increased pressure on men to fill those roles when women are around, like taking a leadership positions or articulating thoughts to the group, which are actually traits we want to promote and were induced in a male minority group,” said Cissy Ballen, an author of the study.

After the course was

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Students give presentations in BIOL 3211 - Physiology of Humans and Other Animals in an active learning classroom in Bruininks Hall on Thursday, April 19.

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Proportion of women at each table SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA

completed, researchers examined participation and perceptions quantitatively through the students’ peer and self-evaluations.

“We found that, overall, men rated themselves and their peers higher than women rated themselves and their peers,” Ballen said.

The study also found that groups with more women had higher self and peerevaluation scores.

The researchers hope their findings influence how

professors structure their classrooms in hopes of raising the female retention rate, especially in STEM fields. “[This study shows] that fairly subtle differences in teaching practices and classroom set-up can significantly influence student performance,” said Valery Forbes, dean of the College of Biological Sciences.

For example, instead of distributing women randomly around a female-minority classroom, seating them

together could give them a greater chance of success, Cotner said.

“As educators, we want all of our students to perform to the best of their ability, so we need to be aware of any unintentional barriers to performance that we may be creating in our classrooms,” Forbes said.

The researchers are now working on a new study analyzing the gender dynamics of various participation elements in lab classrooms.

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Gophers fulfill goal by finishing second GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Oklahoma Minnesota Illinois Stanford Nebraska Penn State

SCORE 414.858 411.923 411.689 408.725 403.589 401.991

MINNESOTA LEADERS Floor Aldrich, 14.166 Pommel Horse Karstadt, 14.066 Rings Wiskus, 13.866 Vault Pochinka, 14.766 Parallel Bars Karstadt, 14.466 High Bar Stephens, 13.866 All-around Wiskus, 83.064

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championship for a fourth consecutive year, scoring 414.858. Minnesota finished second with a score of 411.923.

When Minnesota learned that it finished runner-up in the nation, its gymnasts screamed loudly and embraced each other.

“When we found out, we were all shocked,” Duran said. “When I got done and I saw everyone cheering, I was confused. I was like, ‘Did we do something good?’

Then I look up and I see second place. I was in tears. I was surprised.”

On floor, Aldrich finished seventh, receiving a score of 14.166 and earned his first All-American recognition.

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Freshman gymnast Shane Wiskus speaks to media during the press conference in Cooke Hall on Sunday.

Karstadt finished fifth on pommel horse with a score of 14.066. Wiskus was an AllAmerican on rings, finishing fourth with a score of 13.866.

“We knew what our personnel was going to be, coming into the beginning of the season,” head coach Mike

Burns said. “We had some great freshmen coming in and we had a strong group of seniors. So many of these guys took advantage of the opportunities that were given to them.”

Pochinka tied for fourth place on vault, receiving a

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score of 14.766. Karstadt tied for third on parallel bars with a score of 14.466.

Wiskus finished seventh on high bar with a score of 13.866. Stephens finished fourth, earning a score of 13.966.

Wiskus said he was

speechless the entire meet.

“Everything fell into place,” Wiskus said. “We hit all of our routines. Looking up at the scoreboard after, it was surreal. It feels incredible.”

There is a banner in Cooke Hall that had all of

Minnesota’s NCAA runnerup awards on it until this season’s performance — 1941, 1949 and 1990. Now, another year will have to be added.

“I’ve been doing this for 35-plus years,” Burns said.

“Second place is pretty darn good.”

BASEBALL

Gophers win series versus Iowa with games at two different fields

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Infielder Allie Arneson swings at bat at the Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on Saturday. The Gophers defeated Nebraska 6-0.

Minnesota sweeps Big Ten foe 2nd straight week The Gophers outscored Nebraska 21-2 in their series over the weekend.

BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota pitcher Sydney Smith is welltraveled with trips abroad and across the country.

Smith just recorded her third victory with the Gophers in the series finale Sunday over Iowa, clinching a sweep for the weekend. For Smith, it was a long journey to find herself pitching for Minnesota.

“Once I came on a visit to Minnesota, I realized that [it’s] the best place for me,” Smith said.

From going 54-1 on varsity at Maple Grove Senior High School to pitching at Louisiana State University, Smith is back in her home state, in what she said is a good fit for her.

“I think I just kind of outgrew my position at LSU and was ... looking for something to challenge myself at a different university,” Smith said.

Smith left LSU after her sophomore year and was able to play immediately at the University this season as a junior.

“I think she’s adjusted really well,” sophomore pitcher Amber Fiser said. “Being able to come back last weekend, she just absolutely killed

it. We needed that a lot and I know that she needed the confidence in herself.”

Moving different places is familiar territory for Smith.

Before she took the more than 1,200-mile trek down to Baton Rouge, Louisiana for her two years at LSU, she and her family made an even bigger move.

They moved to Brazil when she was in the first grade after her dad landed a job there.

“My dad wanted to try a new experience and see how far he could go in [his] work,” Smith said. “Just having that experience ... and being able to say I’ve been in a different country and lived there and enjoyed it, not many people can say that — that shaped me into who I [am].”

Initially, Smith said the experience was different. She experienced a culture shock because she was so far from home, but the international school she attended taught in English while also teaching Brazil’s official language, Portuguese.

She came home after four years abroad, and then played softball for several years in the Twin Cities. After this, Smith moved to LSU and experienced the similar feeling of being in a place that wasn’t the same as home. Now, the junior is back in Minnesota and is thinking about her future beyond the softball field.

Smith is majoring in business and marketing education and has ideas for postcollege life.

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FRIDAY Nebraska Minnesota

SATURDAY Nebraska Minnesota

SUNDAY Nebraska Minnesota

FINAL 1 10 FINAL 0 6 FINAL 1 5

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“I could see myself two places, either coaching ... or probably somewhere in business consulting,” Smith said. “[Business consulting is] what I got brought into with my dad. He owns his own consulting company. It’s really cool to see how he could go in and change businesses and make them better than [what] they were.”

Smith acknowledged the similarities between both coaching and consulting.

She said they revolve around sharing experiences to help others improve.

Besides her on-the-field performance, head coach Jamie Trachsel said she sees Smith helping her teammates every day.

“Usually you’re hoping your upperclassmen can always contribute and help your younger players,” Trachsel said. “I think the difference is that she has a different way of doing it, she’s very nonthreatening ... a lot of them will gravitate towards her.”

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Catcher Eli Wilson makes his way to third base during the game against St. John’s University on Saturday, March 31 at U.S. Bank Stadium.

Gophers won two in a row at Target Field and lost one at Siebert Field.

BY JACK WARRICK jwarrick@mndaily.com

The last time Minnesota faced Iowa, it was the last game of the season in the 2017 Big Ten tournament.

The Hawkeyes knocked the Gophers out of the conference tournament and ruined their chances of making it into the NCAA tournament.

The Gophers overcame that memory and took the series over the Hawkeyes (2313, 7-6 Big Ten) this time.

Minnesota (25-11, 9-2 Big Ten) won twice at Target Field before faltering in the first game of the season at its home stadium, Siebert Field.

On the first day, the Gophers won 4-3, then they won 3-0 and on Sunday they couldn’t get the sweep, losing 5-3.

“That was last year, we don’t look to be motivated by what happened last year,” head coach John Anderson said. “It’s more about this year and this year’s team, and our job is to go out there and play the game at a high level.”

After a quiet first three innings on Sunday, the Hawkeyes started getting hits. The Gophers made mistakes, allowing the Hawkeyes to get out to a 3-0 lead by the top of the fifth.

Left fielder Ben Mezzenga dropped a fly ball, allowing the first run in at the top of the fourth. Pitcher Sam

Thoresen had a balk that set up two more runs on sacrifice ground balls from Iowa in the fifth inning.

Alex Boxwell had a sacrifice fly for a run in the fifth inning. Mezzenga hit a double for an RBI in the eighth inning. Wilson hit a sacrifice fly to make it 5-3 in the eighth.

The Hawkeyes took the victory 5-3 on eight hits, as the Gophers did not take advantage of their usually productive offense to send base runners home.

“Overall, I felt like we still found ways to compete and we found a way to win two games even when we weren’t swinging it really well,” infielder Micah Coffey said.

“We’ll get back to the drawing board, take a look at the film and make adjustments moving forward.”

Minnesota clinches series in second game Saturday’s game at Target Field saw Patrick Fredrickson take the mound for the Gophers. He pitched 7 2/3 innings, allowing six hits and zero runs in that span.

On the offensive side, catcher Eli Wilson accounted for all runs scored. Wilson had three RBIs off a single in the third inning and a sacrifice fly in the fifth inning to seal the series-winning victory.

“We got so many guys in our lineup that can hit that there’s almost always a guy on base when I’m up,” Wilson said. “I think my job is to just try to get those runs in however we can.”

Gophers open series at Target Field

On Friday’s series opener at Target Field, The Gophers played catch up with Iowa for much of the game. The team eventually took the lead in the seventh inning when infielder Luke Pettersen hit a double that scored outfielder Jordan Kozicky.

They would keep the 4-3 lead, and freshman closer Max Meyer earned his ninth save.

“Talent, composure, poise, understands himself, knows how to make adjustments on his own,” Anderson said about Meyer. “That’s why he’s got nine saves. What can you say?

I’m glad he’s on our team.”

Outfielder Toby Hanson returned to the lineup for the first time in three weeks.

The usual outfielder only played designated hitter, as he wasn’t healthy enough to take the field.

Hanson batted in the most runs for Minnesota last year.

“It’s really good to get back out there,” Hanson said. “It was only three weeks, but that three weeks felt like a pretty long time when you’re not out there [and] able to play with your teammates.”

Hanson said though he was back at the plate, his wrist injury was not at 100 percent yet.

“I think the big thing is just kind of keeping it loose throughout the game. ... It still gets stiff, but it’s definitely getting better and better each day.”

The Gophers will continue play on Wednesday at home against South Dakota State.

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Lil Yachty performs at Spring Jam on Saturday in Minneapolis.

Review: Spring Jam 2018 didn’t disappoint The weekend’s offerings were not too shabby for $25.

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a mic with accompanying guitar riffs.

Ella Mai, a name not many knew beforehand, played a lively set. Between her British accent, navy bomber jacket and smooth vocals, she was a crowd favorite. If you didn’t know her name before, you do now.

Cashmere Cat’s set was … nontraditional. He moved from endless buildups and the occasional bass drops to slow melodies that were reminiscent of childhood lullabies. Albeit an impressive set, it seemed misplaced for a college party.

Then came Lil Yachty.

His set list was ideal with hits like “Broccoli,” “iSpy” and the anthem we all came to hear — “Minnesota.”

What should have been a slam-dunk for Yachty, however, received mixed reviews from the crowd.

Knowing all too well that after hearing “Minnesota” the crowd would disperse, Yachty saved it for the end.

Once the beat started for “Minnesota,” beers went flying, the crowd started jumping, and then he stopped it.

Then he started it again.

Then he stopped it. This process repeated multiple times, to everyone’s discomfort.

With long winded buildups and short-lived choruses,

Yachty’s performance seemed amateur at best.

Aside from the headliner, all the attractions last weekend were a home run with surprisingly short lines.

The Ferris wheel at sunset was as romantic as it was Insta-worthy, complete with shrieks in the background from passengers of the 1001 Nachts ride.

Surprisingly enough, the free food lasted throughout the night, a miracle by any stretch of the imagination.

Co-sponsored by CocaCola, there were free refreshments in every corner of parking lot 37 and an abundance of free Spring Jam swag from other sponsors.

Whether it was a glowing

bracelet from Xfinity, a neon fanny pack from housing communities or an unnecessary keychain — it was impossible to leave without them. They’re free, so why not?

The most underrated aspects of the event by far were the lounge areas.

Whether you wanted to stretch out on beanbags and watch the entertainment from afar, or hit up the hammock stations and sway to the beats, there was something for everyone.

Overall, this year’s Spring Jam was well received. Your student services fees went to good use.

Grade: B-

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The crowd waits for Lil Yachty at Spring Jam on Saturday in Minneapolis.

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Street style: The best dressed at The Tower release party What she wore: Adidas shoes, House of Vintage Portland dress, Loft earrings, vintage Hudson’s Bay jacket

The Tower’s annual release party was held at the Weisman Museum of Art on Thursday.

Honestly, we’re mad about this dress and jacket, the two pieces we want more than anything that will never be ours because Dornfeld is an amazing shopper. Can you imagine how glorious the moment was when she found this jacket at an estate sale? And the dress is all one piece. Maybe we should eliminate the idea of a “pop” of color; going all out seems best.

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ast Thursday, the University of Minnesota’s art and literary magazine, The Tower, held its annual release party at the Weisman Museum of Art. Full of poems, short fiction pieces, photography and art of all media, the magazine drew only the most chic to the galleries.

As one attendee put it, “Every girl on campus with bangs was there.”

With the event taking place on an uncharacteristically sunny day and starting just before sunset, bare legs and open-toed shoes shyly made their first appearances of the season.

Luckily, this didn’t stop the array of fabulous jackets from staking their claim as the event’s most coveted piece. Summery shoes and warm shoulders?

A perfect pair. Like art and literature. And magazines.

The Tower is beautiful, I don’t want to try to overshadow it. But here are some of the outfits that made the night even better: Katherine Spaeth Retail marketing sophomore

Cavy Brennan Biochemistry sophomore at the University of St. Thomas What he wore: Tommy Hilfiger shirt, Topman jacket, Winter Park gift store tee, vintage pants, New Balance shoes

From left, Katherine Spaeth, Cavy Brennan, Celeste Dornfeld and Rosalie Uggla.

at the University of Minnesota What she wore: Buffalo Exchange top and jacket, Zara pants, Harley Davidson shoes Can you tell Spaeth is a retail marketing major?

Can you tell she works at Buffalo Exchange? You bet you can — she exudes

style. And taste! Pairing an oh-so-summery cropped white peasant top with vertical stripes (“Beetlejuice” pants!), Spaeth’s take on the Canadian Tuxedo was made even better by her blue-tinged hair. Coachella WHO? Rosalie Uggla Anthropology and Gender, Women and

Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota What she wore: Free People shoes, Realisation Par dress, Wilfred Free sweater, Sezane bag One of The Tower’s poets, everything about Uggla was elegance to a T. So of course she mentioned embracing imperfection and classic garments when

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asked about her outfit inspiration. Mixing patterns, snakeskin and stars were perfectly broken up by these classic time-honored pieces. A leather bag, silky hair, perfect lip gloss, red nails. She’s a gallery gal; there’s nothing else to it.

Celeste Dornfeld University of Portland psychology graduate

Supporting his girlfriend’s freshly published art, Brennan thought about going with just a button-up.

Luckily, he threw on a jacket — because “art gallery!”

Pairing his look (simple pieces tied together elegantly with a trench) with the season’s best accessory — a copy of the The Tower— Brennan could’ve been anyone. A poet himself, a gallery owner, a scholar. But he’s the boyfriend of a fabulous artist — maybe the luckiest role of all.

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Calorie count menus are important The FDA is offering consumers a way to be more conscientious, and we should take notice.

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ood establishments have until May 7 to comply with U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements to provide calorie information for consumers, ELLEN AILTS an Obama-era policy columnist that’s experienced almost a decade of delays. In February, the House passed legislation amending requirements that food establishments provide calorie counts. One change includes allowing businesses to provide calories per serving instead of disclosing the total number of calories per dish. The legislation also allows food establishments, whose customers largely eat off-premises, to only post calorie information online.

The amendments were made to assuage the controversy of the requirements proposed for the restaurant business. For one thing, food establishments have to pay to analyze the nutritional content of their food in a lab setting, as well as create new menu boards with calorie information. Another reason is that restaurants don’t want to give up the secret behind why their food tastes so good. (Hint: lots of fat and salt.)

But restaurants should be subject to this law; it’s an important step toward making us all more aware about what we’re putting into our bodies. We’ve reached a point where more people are increasingly conscientious about the foods they eat, especially among younger generations. For those people, this requirement is great news.

It’s also good news for people who don’t spend time counting calories. While this new requirement will be a helpful tool for some, a study conducted by Carnegie Mellon showed that most people still choose the food they like, regardless of calorie count. However, another study showed that restaurants with calories displayed on their menus were actually encouraged to offer lower-calorie food. Ideally this new requirement would make consumers more thoughtful about the choices they make, but it will at least improve our options.

If this change inspires us to seriously consider the way we nourish ourselves, especially when dining out, it will be a near-revolutionary cultural transformation. Since more than half of the money Americans spend on food goes to restaurants and take-out meals, most of our food choices occur outside the home. Consumers often underestimate calories, and as Tuft University researchers found, the average dish at nonchain restaurants across the country has an average of 1,200 calories. Our cultural tendency to dine out is undeniably linked with our obesity epidemic.

If this change inspites us to seriously consider the way we nourish ourselves, especially when dining out, it will be a near-revolutionary cultural transformation.

No longer do we have to make blind decisions in restaurants, and nor should we.

Increasing the transparency of restaurant dining can only help us in our attempts toward deliberate consumption. While the change won’t convert everyone into a health-conscious nutrition guru, our culture certainly needs an overhaul in terms of the way we think about food. In thinking about this issue, it’s important to recognize that the data help illuminate the real-life effects of calorie labeling. But if the result of this change yields mere consideration on behalf of both consumers and restaurants, then this slight adjustment is an important step in the right direction.

Ellen Ailts welcomes comments at eailts@mndaily.com.

Response to ‘SJP event on Palestine histor y unhelpful and misleading’

This letter has been lightly edited for clarity and style.

Russ Waletski was a speaker at a April 2 Students for Justice in Palestine event.

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n Thursday, April 19, a viral video showed two black men being arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks. The video showed the men making little to no disturbance before the police were called, and then put in handcuffs and escorted out of the restaurant. It led to public outrage, as many viewed the arrest as an act of racial profiling. Starbucks, a multinational chain with over 5,000 stores in the U.S., decided to combat the negative reviews by closing their stores for one afternoon in May and implementing racial bias training for all employees.

While some show support for Starbucks and the steps they are taking toward equal treatment of all customers, others view the decision as insufficient.

With the intention of training against racial bias to stop future incidents, Starbucks closing their doors for one afternoon is a step in the right direction. It is important for the company to recognize that the incident could happen again. We acknowledge the positive actions taken by Starbucks, especially since the decision will cost the company millions in sales on the afternoon of May 29.

Black individuals have been consistently targeted and criminalized while doing nothing wrong. Although Starbucks is taking time to address the issue, this period of time isn’t long enough to make a change.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I am writing in response to the letter published on April 12 “SJP event on Palestine history unhelpful and misleading.”

I delivered the lecture at this SJP event.

Maya Strohm and Shay Burke (the students) in their letter to the editor accused me of “cherry-picking quotes [from the Torah] to disparage the values of Judaism,” and said that “our campus should refuse to accept this bigotry toward the Jewish community” and “the student group (SJP) plans events led by biased, misinformed individuals who spew anti-Semitic rhetoric.” In short, they committed “criminal defamation” by publicly labeling me a bigot and an anti-Semite.

I stated: “The Torah is the greatest gift that humanity had been given up to that point because it made know the existence of the one and only God to a dark, ignorant world, who is the creator and sustainer of all.” I went on to say: “The Torah taught humanity how to treat humanity with humanity,” and that “the Hebrews (not Jews, as anyone can become a Jew or stop being a Jew) where chosen as a vehicle to deliver this message to all humanity.” I also stated: “A Jew is no better than anyone else and no one else is better than a Jew, we are all created in the image of God.” I also quoted the Torah and 50 Bible scholars proving that the Bible was edited by men, and I stated that “the hallmark of Judaism is social justice” and quoted the Talmud (Shabbat 31a) to support my statement.

Lastly, I spoke highly of the Jewish sage Hillel and The Beit (Academy) Hillel. The students stated that I said: “Jews introduced terror to Palestine, not Christians and Muslims.”

The following were introduced to Palestine Jewish leadership. The final solution for the ethnic cleansing of all Christians and Muslims in Palestine was composed of “The Village Files,” begun by 1938, and “Plan Dalet,” finalized in 1947.

The Village Files were a vast collection of every minute detail of every village, town and city in Palestine. Half of Palestine’s Christians and Muslims were ethnically cleansed and half (531) of the towns and villages were completely destroyed.

Zionism’s antithetical view of Judaism is exemplified by insulting the Jewish tradition of preparing for Passover. The ethnic cleaning operations were horrifically titled: “Tihur” (“Cleansing the Leaven”) as in cleansing a Jewish home of all traces of wheat before the High Holy Passover.

This cleansing included summary execution of thousands of Christian and Muslim males between 10 and 50 years old.

Zionist leadership (David Ben Gurion first and foremost) and soldiers introduced and committed crimes against humanity in Palestine just short of what the Nazis did — only minus the crematoriums.

I challenge any theologian, lay person, professor of any religion, atheist or agnostic to a public presentation and discussion organized by U of MN Hillel and Students for Justice in Palestine. As UMN divestiture will be decided, a public airing of both sides is warranted.

Starbucks’ racial bias training is not enough

Robert McGrady welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.

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The school discipline problem Public schools are suspending students with disabilities and minorities disproportionately.

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inneapolis Public Schools has a school discipline problem.

Black students made up 40 percent of all students across the district in the 2010-11 and JONATHAN ABABIY 2011-12 school columnist years, but were subject to an astonishing 74 percent of recorded disciplinary incidents.

These numbers are only part of a broader national crisis. However, they also illustrate that something special is happening: black students were given 78 percent of all out-ofschool suspensions in Minneapolis. Though black students are 16 percent of all public school students in America, they are suspended from school 32-42 percent of the time.

Diagnosing this problem, the Obama Administration’s Education Department released a memo in early 2014, guiding school districts with discipline policies that disproportionately affected students with disabilities and minorities to reexamine them. Later, the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights ordered a compliance review of MPS’ discipline policies, alleging that students of color were being treated differently.

The resulting investigation brought out some revealing stories. When a black second-grader poked another student with a pencil, he was suspended for one day, but when another white second-grader threw a rock, hitting a student and breaking the teacher’s glasses, he was not suspended and was allowed to work off the cost of the sunglasses. The investigator’s probe showed that there was a pattern of black students receiving punishments more often and for longer than their white counterparts.

The Education Department and MPS

settled in late 2014, creating an agreement that MPS would take specific actions to create more fair and equitable discipline policies and practices.

Although there are no data specific to Minneapolis yet, research shows that high suspension rates depress academic achievement. One study from Indiana University found that policies with high levels of student removal from the classroom hurt student learning. For many offenses it is better for students to remain in class than to miss valuable class time. Other research shows high levels of suspension create alienating school environments that generate “student apathy, anxiety, and disconnection,” where students believe they are treated unfairly.

Academic research on school discipline shows that other, less punitive methods of punishment work better at keeping order and promoting academic achievement.

One promising new discipline policy that has become popular since the Obama memo is restorative justice. The policy is an alternative framework, which emphasizes participation and discussion between offender and victim, while always focusing on keeping the offender accountable so kids can understand their offenses. A University of Minnesota trial carried out in MPS schools found that the introduction of a restorative justice program led to stronger attendance and less behavioral incidents.

However, despite restorative justices and the Obama memo’s successes, the new Betsy DeVos led Education Department has put the Obama memo under review. They see the memo as weak on offenders, even though it allows school districts to suspend and expel students when necessary.

The revocation of the Obama memo would be unwise. It would undo the progress our schools have made toward creating policies that don’t disproportionately affect black students. The students in our schools deserve better.

Jonathan Ababiy welcomes comments at jababiy@mndaily.com.

While the business will lose profits for attempting to solve racial biases inhouse, they could do more to combat racist actions made by their employees.

An issue some activists have with Starbucks’ plan is that the company designed it to combat “implicit bias,” but the incident could be considered clear “explicit bias” against the two young men. Implicit bias is usually bias that one exhibits subconsciously. It interferes with hiring employees, favoring white applicants above minorities. Explicit bias is not so subtle, meaning it manifests as the active preference of one race over another. An employee calling the police on two men of color who create no disturbance, although it may be implicitly based, displays explicit bias. One training session cannot eradicate implicit or explicit bias, but Starbucks is not likely to spend another significant portion of company time, money and effort against racism displayed by their employees.

We question how genuine Starbucks’ efforts are and if the response to this incident is simply a strategic move by their public relations team. This incident happened to go viral, giving Starbucks a bad reputation, and the actions carried out by the Starbucks CEO may not have happened if the targeted men hadn’t been filmed. Restaurant racism is not a new concept. Black individuals have been consistently targeted and criminalized while doing nothing wrong. Although Starbucks is taking time to address the issue, this period of time isn’t long enough to make a change. It is important to recognize that one afternoon of training is a band-aid solution to a larger problem. By constantly monitoring ourselves and others, we may hope to better limit and hopefully extinguish incidents like the one in Philadelphia.

More needs to be done to combat racism. And businesses, locally and nationally, need to do a better job of confronting the problem before it occurs.

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HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (4/23): Deepen a romantic partnership this year. Strategize to align for long-term growth. Get nostalgic and retrospective. Nurture seeds long ago planted for summer harvest.

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Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — The game may not go as desired. The opposition holds out, and it could get tense. Friends help you advance. Get farther faster with expert support.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Reinforce team strategies and plans before taking action.

Listen to a variety of perspectives before making important decisions.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Make home repairs and upgrades. Fix something you’ve been putting up with. Take care of foundational issues.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Clean up, and lend a helping hand to a professional colleague. Finish an old project to clear space for the next assignment.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — The temptation is strong to overcommit. Schedule and plan meetings and conversations carefully.

Make powerful requests.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Resist impulsive escapades, especially when you have studies to complete. Avoid distractions and interruptions.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Take quick action to save money. Avoid financial arguments or misunderstandings by keeping a low profile.

Conserve resources while producing profits.

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Don’t spend frivolously. Pass on being a party animal.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — A personal matter requires finesse and diplomacy. Don’t try to force the issue. Confer with family, and listen to another perspective. Nurture yourself.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Collaborate with a partner to get farther. Avoid drama, antagonizing anyone or stepping on sensibilities. Pay back what you owe.

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Review, reflect and revise plans. Shift perspective for a wider view. Consider intuition and emotion.

Take a creative tack.

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present UMN seeking to increase Students at symposium for rural access to clinical trials IPID research The U’s Masonic Cancer Center will lead a network of rural hospitals.

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Presentations were on diversity, conservation and sustainability.

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BY AMIE STAGER astager@mndaily.com

Rural Minnesotan cancer patients will have easier access to clinical cancer trials through a University of Minnesota partnership starting this summer, researchers say.

The University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center and a network of 18 rural hospitals aims to offer clinical trials to patients outside the Twin Cities and Rochester, where most trials are conducted. Rural hospitals often don’t have the money to fund research. This project can give hope to cancer patients who have exhausted other options.

One of the biggest barriers to clinical trial success is an insufficient number of participants, so increasing patient access may improve success rates, said Marie Rahne, the network’s manager.

MCC Director Dr. Douglas Yee said the network will advance cancer treatment outside Minnesota as well. Increasing the number of clinical trials could help researchers find better ways to treat patients.

“As a practicing physician, almost everything I do today was not available to me when I started my career, and that’s really because … new drugs and therapies … [have] become available, and that really has been done [by] the research institution,” said Yee. Yee said participating in trials helps patients better understand the limits of medical knowledge, meaning they can participate more effectively in decisions about their care.

The first trial will test the hypothesis that ginger reduces the presence of gut bacteria known to be

Presentations covering new research on sustainability, conservation methods and diversity — among other topics — were given Friday afternoon at a first-of-its-kind symposium at the University of Minnesota.

The Interdisciplinary Perspectives on International Development and the Humphrey Equity and Inclusion Council, co-hosted the first Research Symposium on International Development and Equity and Inclusion on April 20.

President of the Minnesota-based McKnight Foundation Kate Wolford was the keynote speaker, and multiple research presentations were given by University students and faculty throughout the four-hour event.

Julia Fair, IPID’s president, said they created the event after the organization noticed how much of the research has close ties with international development work and equity and inclusion.

Though IPID has hosted research presentation events before, they were less formal, Fair said. By inviting a highprofile speaker and creating a symposium, she said the event became a formal experience, acting as a stepping stone before researchers present their final products to clients.

“It’s a way to showcase the capstone projects that a lot of Humphrey students are doing,” Fair said.

One student research presentation was about Project Conservation, a nonprofit organization formed by University graduate students Samantha Helle and Emily Erhart.

The two master’s students met in 2014 in Nepal during

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The MCC hopes to start with trials like this in rural hospitals, since they have simple protocols and low patient risks, then scale up to more complicated trials as the partners gain more experience in the research process.

Many of the planned trials will test preventative interventions that may reduce cancer risk, like methods to quit smoking.

In addition to facilitating the choice of trials, the MCC will distribute funding to partner hospitals for personnel and technology necessary to complete the trials.

A lack of clinical trial opportunities is one main challenge rural hospitals face, said Dr. Bret Friday, who practices in Duluth and

Virginia, Minnesota.

“If … your goal is really to provide the best care … at some points you feel like you can’t always do that,” Friday said.

While rural health care providers work to offer increasingly comprehensive care to patients, Friday said limited resources mean they will never be able to provide every service patients need, especially complicated ones like bone marrow transplants.

“It’s really … figuring out what you can do at a very high level and focusing on those things, and this program, I think, will … add one more thing that we can do at these clinics that we couldn’t do before to try to keep patients closer to home,” he said.

“As a practicing physician, almost everything I do today was not available to me when I started my career, and that’s really because … new drugs and therapies … [have] become available, and that really has been done [by] the research institution.”

DOUGLAS YEE MCC director

“There’s this misconception of tigers living alone in untouched, remote jungles, and that’s not the reality of tiger conservation today.”

SAMANTHA HELLE Project Conservation cofounder

a five-month field-intensive study abroad program, where they worked on independent projects.

The students researched tiger-human conflict in Nepal’s communities and the perceptions of tigers in areas highly impacted by tiger conservation.

“There’s this misconception of tigers living alone in untouched, remote jungles, and that’s not the reality of tiger conservation today,” Helle said.

Erhart and Helle presented about the dynamic of communities in Nepal and the forests they share with due to conservation efforts.

“We spent five months working in the field and were pretty jaded about continuing to do research without any action,” Helle said. “We wanted to try and give back what they gave to us,” Erhart added.

Additionally, the McKnight Foundation recently drafted a new statement on diversity, equity and inclusion, said Isaac Giron, programming chair for IPID, and wanted to present the new vision and how it relates to research.

“We thought, wow, it’d be great to have the president share the logic and motivation and inspiration behind that new statement, and relating that to our work in achieving social equality, both here in the U.S. and abroad,” Giron said.

Program encourages residents to address property violations The program is a partnership to get residents to clean up their property.

BY TIFFANY BUI tbui@mndaily.com

The melting snow means University neighborhood resident s will have the opportunity to see what needs cleaning around their homes.

The Minneapolis Department of Regulatory Services hopes the “All Together Now!” program will encourage property owners to address city code violations on their property’s exterior — also called nuisance violations. The initiative will send mailings informing residents of their violations, as well as offer them discounts to local hardware stores for those who bring in the flyer. Inspectors will be in select neighborhoods to check for these violations later this spring.

Common nuisance violations include: tall grass and weeds, inoperable vehicles stored on residential property, vegetation hanging over sidewalks and litter, brush and branches scattered across yards.

The Marcy-Holmes and Southeast Como neighborhoods were among those chosen for the initiative this year. Officials share about the “All Together Now!” initiative Tuesday with the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, who are participating for the first time this year.

N e i g h b o rh o o d s a r e inspected and kept in the program until there is a clear reduction in amount of violations, said Mike Rumppe, director of housing inspection services for Minneapolis.

Rumppe said neighborhoods selected for the program tend to have higher volumes of rental units, a dense population of people and a high number of nuisance orders in the past.

“It doesn’t mean that the people are bad, or unkempt ... It’s just hard to have more people in a smaller area and keep that appearance that we like to have in the city,” said Rumppe.

Regulatory services will send notices to both the property owner and the occupants when a nuisance violation is determined.

If there is a noncompliance, the department can issue a citation starting at $250. A city contractor will then clean up the property, and the owner will be charged for the services. “[Inspectors] do these types of things year round.

The key is we’re giving people notice [and] they get a chance to resolve it before we get there,” said Rumppe.

Residents have noticed lack of upkeep in University neighborhoods.

“I’m hoping that it has a significant impact on the neighborhood … we do get a lot of livability concerns about issues like this,” said Chris Lautenschlager, executive director of the Marcy-Holmes

“It doesn’t mean that the people are bad, or unkempt ... It’s just hard to have more people in a smaller area and keep that appearance that we like to have in the city.”

MIKE RUMPPE Minneapolis director of housing inspection services

Neighborhood Association.

Neighborhood association leadership also noted trash accumulation is generally higher when renters are moving in and out.

“Up at the Talmage Crossing Garden … there are routinely mattresses … people dump them on public property and that’s extremely frustrating,” said Karl Smith, president of Southeast Como Improvement Association. The city has removed trash on public property in Southeast Como before.

The initiative offers discounts for residents with violation or inspection notices to purchase tools at local businesses.

Many people have not utilized the discount in the past, said Pat Clough, owner of Oaks TW Hardware located on Como Avenue.

“It’s not a great amount that comes in, but some [use the discount],” Clough said.