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The quest to become an intern Many majors require an internship, but what is the most efficient way to attract employers and find the best fit?

AVERY CROPP

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In the 2007-2008 Minnesota State Mankato undergraduate bulletin, 54 majors had an internship required for completion of their undergraduate diploma. That amounts to a high number of MSU students looking for an internship in their areas of study.

Students’ experiences are as varied as their desired fields. Some are just beginning the search, others have done multiple internships, some have just been hired and some have done internships and been hired full-time after they completed them.

“Start looking early,” Kristy Bendickson, a clinical lab science major, said. “Even though you think you have a lot of time, you don’t have as much as you think.”

She will start her internship in the fall at the Hennepin County Medical Center. According to Bendickson, her program is affiliated with seven or eight different hospital locations that have internships.

Nikki Potts, a journalism major at MSU, has been searching for internships by typing in publishing or magazine internships on Google.

It narrowed down her

options, but many internships seem to be in New York or California, and she would prefer to stay local to save some money.

Pam Stegman, a group manager of finance development at Target Corporation and former recruiter, said careerbuilder.com and monster.com are good places to start looking. She suggested students send mass e-mails to family and friends with a couple of paragraphs stating what they are looking for and asking for assistance in finding

internships. She said to make sure to put the addresses in the BCC line of the e-mail to protect their e-mail addresses.

She also said students could set up informational interviews with people who have jobs students are interested in, and possibly even setting up a job shadow.

“The idea is to get them pregnant with the idea of you,” Stegman said. “It’s all about who you know.”

MSU student Shaina Sieh agrees with Stegman.

“If you think there’s somewhere you’d like to do [an internship], just ask,” Sieh said. “Even if they’ve never offered any internships before, I think a lot of places

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New year means new weight loss plan Students overcome obstacles to keep resolutions on track

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The coming of a new year leaves many evaluating their lifestyles and seeking change.

For some, the goal is to manage money more efficiently, quit smoking, help others or, one of the most common, lose weight and exercise.

Many people in American society deal with obesity, and a New Year’s resolution of losing weight can help fight against this issue. One major obstacle people encounter when making this resolution is they are not being reasonable. It is important to pick something that fits an individual’s lifestyle. Many people do not pace themselves and burn out quickly, said Peter McGahey, head women’s soccer coach at Minnesota State Mankato. He VOICES.....................................4 STUDY BREAK..........................5 WORLD & NATION....................6 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT.....11 SPORTS..................................15

said it is important to let the body adapt.

“View exercises as a reward, not something you have to do,” said Jen Myers, MSU fitness coordinator.

If more people look at the positive effects of working out, such as better sleeping and studying habits, then more will be eager to be more productive.

“A 20-minute run and an additional two minutes next time at a slow progressive increase is much better way for people to stick with [a workout],” McGahey sad.

It is beneficial to begin at a moderate intensity level with cardio, Myers added.

Going to the gym with friends is beneficial, said Holly Recht, a MSU junior.

“It is easier to make

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For college students, scraping up enough money to pay for tuition, living expenses, books and other necessities can cause major migraines. Tuition at Minnesota State Mankato costs about $3,000 per semester with a projected 12% increase in the next two years. Dorms can cost $3,000 per semester (or more, for comfy Julia Sears suites). Meal plans, student fees, books and other supplies can quickly tack on another $2,000.

Simple math will paint a bleak picture: $64,000 for four years at MSU. So how do students save up enough to afford their education?

MSU students have many options when it comes to coming up with funds. One way many MSU students afford tuition is through student loans. There are thousands of student loans available: state,

federal, private, banking, credit union. Different loans offer different amounts of money, interest rates and payment schedules.

MSU student Daniel Bonnell said he is paying for his college expenses almost entirely through loans. He recommends state or federal loans instead of private loans.

“I think student loans are easy enough to understand as long as you’re willing to read the fine print,” Bonnell said. “If you must use loans, avoid private loans with variable rates at all cost. Shop around for the best deal on interest rates.”

Another way some MSU students pay for college is through scholarships. MSU alone has hundreds of different scholarships, ranging from major-specific merit-based scholarships to scholarships for children of alumni or community service leaders.

Students can also branch out from MSU and find many state, federal and private scholarships.

MSU sophomore Rachel Tenney does a little bit of everything, paying for college through scholarships, grants, loans and money she and her family has saved up.

“I would recommend using loans because otherwise it is very hard to pay for all of the tuition costs by yourself,” she said. “[But] sometimes loan money doesn’t always arrive to the school for payment when you need it most. I have had a few friends that had loan money just arrive in time to pay for this last fall semester.”

Many MSU students also work through college to earn some funds.

There are on-campus jobs through the university, such as working at the cafeteria or in the library, or there are many opportunities off-

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If students need some help writing their resumés, practicing for interviews or getting the resources to make that first call to employers, Deenna Latus, assistant director of MSU’s Career Development Center, said checking out the CDC’s website can be a real help.

“We have a section on mavjobs.com that is reserved for students and alumni of MSU,” Latus said. “It sometimes makes that coldcall seem less intimidating because you have the alma mater in common.”

Mavjobs also has a resource that shows students what companies have had MSU students as interns.

This allows students to make more connections, do research about the company and ultimately start with a great first impression.

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EXERCISE Students should pick an exercise they enjoy to make keeping a routine easier

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continued from 2 campus, such as fast-food joints like McDonald’s or retail stores like Target. While these jobs can be very helpful when it comes to paying bills, it is also important for students to have time to focus on their schoolwork. Sometimes, working isn’t the best option in the long run.

Bonnell said he didn’t keep his job at a hardware store because he saw it would hurt him in the long run.

“I realized that because I was taking fewer credits per semester, I would spend more money on tuition, room and board in the long run than I would make in the short term,” he said. “On top of that, you only go to college once, so I wanted to enjoy the experience without being burdened by a part-time job. I have my whole life ahead of me to work.”

MSU students have many different options when it comes to paying for college costs. The important thing is to find the option that works best for them.

myself go when someone is going with,” she said.

MSU offers 20 free group fitness classes a week, Myers said, and there is a schedule both on the MSU website and outside the Otto Recreation Center. There are also personal trainers offered for $10 per hour session, available to anyone from beginning exercisers to advanced.

McGahey recommended that people do what they enjoy because it is another reason to stick with the new routine. In McGahey’s human performance classes, he gives the option of choosing different levels of intensity. This empowers his students to push themselves at their own pace, better ensuring progress. There is a variety of equipment available on campus for students so, if someone does not prefer running, there are other options for cardio, such as biking or elliptical. McGahey also has his students keep a journal of their daily exercise, and Myers also recommends this strategy because it allows

people to go back and see how much they did and what did and did not work for them.

Stretching after exercise when the muscles are warm is essential, Myers said, especially stretching the legs, arms and back. If people are familiar with yoga positions, they are advised to use them since many students carry stress and tension in their backs.

The most efficient way to work the abdominal muscles is through sit-ups and crunches, Myers said, because they run up and down.

“Abdominal work is better performed after lifts such as squats, because you use your abdominal muscles to stabilize your core to prevent back injuries,” said Robert Pettitt, a department of human performance associate professor. “Better to tire those muscles at the end of your workout.”

During a workout, it is also important to drink lots of water, McGahey said.

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90-minute workouts or longer,” Myers said, but water is usually works best.

“Drinking a glass of water prior to each meal is beneficial and drinking lower or zerocalorie beverages,” Pettitt said.

Some students don’t realize the amount of calories they consume per day and how it affects weight loss. It is an in-and-out method with exercise, and it is important to realize how many calories are being burned compared to the amount taken in, Myers said.

Pettitt said 3,500 calories are equivalent to about one pound of weight gained or lost.

Myers suggested the website fitday.com for those interested in counting their calorie consumption and daily activity.

It does not need to be about setting a New Year’s resolution, she said, because people can start any time of the year. But she said it is better to start today instead of tomorrow.

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Ah, sanity; once expected from our government has now become just another fading ideology, lost among the colonial-like rabble-rousing.

Where once leadership staples such as intelligence, selflessness and aiding those in need was hoped and prayed for from our leaders, it is now considered elitist, even the highest of evil equating to “treason” or “communism.”

But it wasn’t always this heated.

According to the New York Times, when John McCain was a presidential candidate in 2008,

a woman approached him at a town hall meeting right here in Minnesota without provocation, felt it was her duty to state that Mr. Obama was a closeted Arab.

“No, ma’am, he’s not,” Mr. McCain quickly replied, taking back the microphone. “He’s a decent family man, citizen, that I just happen to have disagreements with.”

So how did our political rhetoric get so amplified? Who became in charge of news and “news” networks so that joke newscasters like Stewart and Colbert have to be the ones to tell us to tone it down and work

together? And why, oh why, did it all lead to that horrific tragedy in Arizona this past weekend?

How? Who? Why? Easy; it’s us. We’re the problem.

We can’t read the specifics of issues, we can’t check into a candidates actual policies, we don’t care if they’re qualified.

We can’t put the remote down, all we need to know to vote is in the commercial and whatever our parents told us when we were 8-years-old.

Are they for or against abortion? Do they believe in God? Do they believe in my God? Do they mean they want to take away

my right to defend my family because they’re against semiautomatic weapons?

And instead of rising above it, candidates prey upon it, because they know we’re too stupid to know what they’re doing or too lazy to vote. It’s the greatest trick of all that rich white men (and Sarah Palin) can get we peasants to do their bidding for them.

So maybe, just maybe, we can start pressing mute on our TVs and our mouths, shut out the rhetoric and remember that there are other ways to process information and make decisions.

There’s still hope for us yet.

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“I was completely shocked when I heard about it. How someone could do that is something I can’t understand.”

Looking for better resolution

2010 has come to an end and here we are in 2011.

What’s going to happen? Will we survive? Will I ever grow facial hair?

I don’t have the answers to these questions, but there are certain things that I do know about 2011.

1. It started off the 20th straight year in which I did not have a New Year’s Kiss …. I am 20. Insert awkward sad laugh here.

2. I will write 2010 on every single one of my checks in the date box until sometime in March.

3. For the next two weeks people will be talking my ear off about their New Year’s resolution and why they are going to go through with it this year.

“Kyle, I am going to do it this year!!! This is the year! I can feel it. No more cigarettes for me!”

Two days later Sammy the Smoker will be huffin’ down heaters like the Marlboro man.

New Year’s resolutions are why now until Spring Break, Otto will be packed with all sorts of people looking to get back in shape. Which is great, but sadly it will likely end at the end of March when Spring Break is over and they have nobody to impress anymore.

We hear about people all the time trying to stop smoking, stop drinking or trying to lose weight.

Does it happen? No, not really,

(whoa, cheesiness.) but at least they try.

But when’s the last time The way I see it, if someone you’ve heard a guy say, “for my really cared that much about New Year’s Resolution imma quitting a horrible habit, it going to stop being such a dick wouldn’t take a “New Year’s to girls, bro. I guess they look Resolution” to get rid of it. Am I for more than guys with big right? muscles.”

If you smoke three packs Never! Instead he’ll say that he a day and it feels like your wants to lift some more weights, getting punched in the head by a hoping one day he’ll be able to young and fit Sly Stallone when fit in his new you’re not on Affliction T he nicotine, you got from Uncle probably won’t Tido. be quitting When’s anytime soon. the last time If you’re we’ve heard at the Haze a woman say, seven days “Hey, this year a week and I think I might you can’t tell stop sleeping the difference around with all between of my friends’ rubbing boyfriends. alcohol and Kyle Ratke Like, I think that Karkov anymore, Sports Editor would be a super the odds aren’t cool idea, like.” with you.

(Apparently that was a “Okay, Kyle. Since you’re the 14-year-old girl talking. Not sure smart and good-looking expert, where that came from.) what do you suggest I do for my Instead she’ll suggest that she resolution?” needs to drop five pounds off of Ha, I am flattered imaginary her 110-pound frame. That makes reader, thanks for the question. perfect sense.

What to do for a resolution?

We need to start looking at the That’s a good question. Maybe big picture. Sure, we probably all I have never given anything up have a drinking problem of some because I am too stubborn to sort, smoke too many cigarettes realize I have a problem with when we drink and maybe could something significant (probable). lose a few pounds – but when it Maybe the resolution isn’t comes down to it, these things on the outside, but on the inside

won’t affect the person we become(hopefully), but the other things affect who we will become after this crazy ride is over with.

IF you don’t fix it now, you won’t fix it ever (I saw this on an STD sign once in high school.

I’ve never understood it. I’ll just use it here.)

If you’re a dick to girls now and think it’s “all good”, have fun in 20 years after your fourth divorce. Ask Charlie Sheen how that worked out.

If you’re all right with opening your legs to every other guy on campus, that’s your call. Write back in 25 years when you have more STDs than Shawn Kemp plus the Kardashians.

For all of us, myself included, we have other and more important things to fix than the obvious. My New Year’s Resolution could include being more appreciative to my family members, giving 110 percent at everything I do or finally get a hair cut (I look like I am currently homeless.)

This was meant to be an antiserious article, and I am not really sure why it went semi-serious or why I referenced Shawn Kemp.

I guess I was just getting all sentimental on you cats. Maybe even take some of it sink in.

But hell, what do I know. My New Year’s Resolution is to find someone to kiss by midnight of next New Year’s. Let the battle begin!

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Suspect in Arizona shooting appears in court to face attempted assassination charge PHOENIX (AP) — The nation got its first look on Monday at the 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner, head shaved, a cut above the right temple and his hands cuffed, scanned a packed courtroom and sat down.

His attorney, who defended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, whispered to him.

The judge asked Loughner if he understood that he could get life in prison — or the death penalty — for killing federal Judge John Roll, one of the six who died in the shooting rampage at Giffords’ meeting with constituents on Saturday in Tucson.

“Yes,” he said, standing at a lecturn in his beige prison jumpsuit. A U.S. marshal stood guard nearby.

The judge ordered Loughner held without bail.

Congresswoman still in critical condition; 2 discharged from hospital after Arizona shooting TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Doctors treating Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said Monday the congresswoman was responding to verbal commands by raising two fingers of her left hand and even managed to give a thumbs-up.

Giffords, 40, is in critical condition in the intensive care unit of Tucson’s University Medical Center after she was shot through the head Saturday during a meet-and-greet with voters outside a supermarket. Two patients were discharged Sunday night. Eight others, including Giffords, remained hospitalized.

Recent CAT scans showed no further swelling in the brain, but doctors were guarded.

“We’re not out of the woods yet,” said her neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Lemole. “That swelling can sometimes take three days or five days to maximize. But every day that goes by and we don’t see an increase, we’re slightly more optimistic.”

After Saturday’s operation to temporarily remove half of her skull, doctors over the past two days had Giffords removed from her sedation and then asked basic commands such as: “Show me two fingers.” ___

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Acclaimed South Korean film director Park Chan-wook is wielding a new cinematic tool: the iPhone.

Park, director of the internationally known “Old Boy,” ‘’Lady Vengeance” and “Thirst,” said Monday that his new fantasy-horror film “Paranmanjang” was shot entirely on Apple Inc.’s iconic smartphone.

“The new technology creates strange effects because it is new and because it is a medium the audience is used to,” Park told reporters Monday.

“Paranmanjang,” which means a “life full of ups and downs” in Korean, is about a man transcending his current and former lives. He catches a woman while fishing in a river in the middle of the night. They both end up entangled in the line and he thinks she is dead.

Suddenly, though, she wakes up, strangles him and he passes out. When the woman awakens him, she is wearing his clothing and he hers. She cries and calls him “father.”

The movie, made on a budget

of 150 million won ($133,000), was shot using the iPhone 4 and is slated to open in South Korean theaters on Jan. 27. Park made the 30-minute film with his younger brother Park Chankyong, also a director.

Park Chan-wook’s “Old Boy,” a blood-soaked thriller about a man out for revenge after years of inexplicable imprisonment, took second place at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. His vampire romance “Thirst” shared the third-place award at Cannes in 2009.

Park Chan-kyong said that a wide variety of angles and edits were possible because numerous cameras could be used.

“There are some good points of making a movie with the iPhone as there are many people around the world who like to play and have fun with them,” Park Chan-wook said. Compared to other movie cameras, the iPhone was good “because it is light and small and because anyone can use it,” he said.

He said the directors attached lenses to their phones and nothing was particularly different from shooting a regular movie.

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Day before shooting, congresswoman shot in Ariz. urged moderation in e-mail to Ky. official LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The day before she was wounded in a shooting that killed six people, Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords sent an e-mail to a friend in Kentucky discussing how to “tone our rhetoric and partisanship down.”

In the message, obtained by The Associated Press, the Democratic congresswoman on Friday congratulated Republican Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson on a new position awaiting him at Harvard University.

She wrote him: “After you get settled, I would love to talk about what we can do to promote centrism and moderation. I am one of only 12 Dems left in a GOP district (the only woman) and think that we need to figure out how to tone our rhetoric and partisanship down.”

Giffords and Grayson met several years ago at a conference aimed at encouraging cooperation among Republicans and Democrats, and the two have kept in touch since, Grayson said Monday.

“We both care about trying to improve the discourse in politics,” Grayson said in a phone interview.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The company that operates the trans-Alaska pipeline was working Monday on building a bypass line so the flow of North Slope oil can be restarted despite a leak.

The pipeline, which transports crude from the nation’s largest oil field to the Valdez tanker terminal, was shut down Saturday after the leak was discovered in an underground pipe near a pump station.

Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., which operates the 800-mile pipeline from Prudhoe Bay, had welders working around the clock on the bypass line to circumvent the leak and restore the flow of oil.

Meanwhile, oil production on the North Slope was cut by 95 percent.

The trans-Alaska pipeline normally carries 620,000 barrels of crude oil daily worth more than $50 million. The pipeline is owned by BP PLC and four other companies.

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Monday.

“We are really focused on getting the pipeline restarted,” said Katie Pesznecker, a spokeswoman for a joint information center of Alyeska, federal and state officials set up in Fairbanks. “It is critical that we get it moving again as soon as possible.”

Shutdowns in winter are concerning because of the potential for ice buildup in the line that can damage machinery during a restart.

Pesznecker said workers were placing temperature sensors on the pipeline and oil was being circulated at various pump stations to keep it warm and moving.

Alyeska engineers were designing a 170-foot-long, 24-inch-diameter bypass pipe to get oil to the main line. It wasn’t known when the pipeline might be restarted. As of noon Monday, the shutdown had lasted more than 50 hours.

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Saturday morning by a crew that found oil in the basement of Pump Station 1. The pump station is the last stop before oil is sent into the main line and to the marine terminal in Valdez for West Coast delivery.

Vacuum trucks over the weekend sucked up between 378 and 420 gallons of oil from the pump station basement.

Tom DeRuyter, the on-scene coordinator for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, said Monday there was still a small amount of oil trickling into the building.

The leak occurred in a particularly complex area of piping. The suspect pipe is one of several encased in concrete.

It isn’t known whether oil has been released into the ground.

The most recent lengthy shutdown was last May after a storage tank overflowed at one of the pump stations. That shutdown lasted for 79 hours and 40 minutes, and there were no problems restarting the line.

Alaska’s oil fields account for about 13 percent of domestic production.

Downpour ravages Australia More than 200,000 people affected

BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — At least eight people were killed and 72 left missing after the latest downpour to hit Australia’s flood-wracked Queensland state sent raging torrents rushing through several towns, washing away cars and houses, officials said Tuesday.

Emergency services officers plucked more than 40 people from houses isolated by the torrent that hit the Lockyer Valley with little warning on Monday, but thunderstorms and more driving rain were keeping helicopters from reaching an unknown number of other people still in danger on Tuesday morning.

Queensland state Premier Anna Bligh said there were “grave concerns” for at least 11 of the missing.

“This has been a night of extraordinary events,” Bligh told reporters Tuesday. “We’ve seen acts of extreme bravery and courage from our emergency workers. We know they’re out on the front line desperately trying to begin their search and rescue efforts, and we know we have people stranded and people lost.”

Queensland has been in the grip of its worst flooding for more than two weeks, after tropical downpours across a vast area of the state covered an area the size of France and Germany combined. Entire towns have been swamped, more than 200,000 people affected, and coal and farming industries virtually shut down. Monday’s deaths took the death toll since late November to at least 18.

Until Monday, the flood crisis had been unfolding slowly as swollen rivers burst their banks and inundated towns as they moved downstream toward the ocean.

But Monday’s flash flooding struck without warning in Toowoomba, a city of some 90,000 people nestled in mountains 2,300 feet (700 meters) above sea level. Bligh said an intense deluge fell over a concentrated area, sending a 26-foot (eight-meter), fastmoving torrent crashing through Toowoomba and smaller towns further down the valley.

On Tuesday, the water was still pushing its way downstream, flooding river systems as

it moved toward the coast.

Hundreds were being evacuated from communities in the water’s predicted path and residents in low-lying regions of the state capital of Brisbane — Australia’s third-largest city — were urged to sandbag their homes.

“We have a grim and desperate situation,” Bligh said.

Rescue workers were battling more bad weather Tuesday.

Heavy rain and thunderstorms were forecast for the region for most of the day, which could lead to more flash flooding, the Bureau of Meteorology warned.

Deputy Police Commissioner Ian Stewart said rescue efforts were concentrated on towns downstream of Toowoomba, including hardest-hit Murphy’s Creek and Grantham, where about 30 people sought shelter in a school isolated by the floodwaters.

News video from late Monday showed houses submerged to the roof line in raging muddy waters, with people clambering on top.

A man, woman and child sat on the roof of their car as waters churned around them with just inches (centimeters) to spare.

Body count up to 31 in only four days

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — The body of a murdered man was found Monday on the main highway to Acapulco, bringing to 31 the number of people killed in the Pacific resort city over four days.

The unidentified man was shot several times in the head and found under a pedestrian bridge with his shirt pulled over his face, said Fernando Monreal Leyva, director of the investigative police for Guerrero state, where Acapulco is located.

Leyva said federal, state and local police planned to meet Monday with the military to consider ways to beef up security in Acapulco, where 14 decapitated men and two police officers were among the unusually high body count since Friday evening.

Most of the killings occurred in just a few hours from Friday night to Saturday in non-tourist areas of the city. But the officers were shot to death in front of tourists on Avenida Costero Miguel Aleman, the hotel-lined

thoroughfare that runs along the bay.

Drug violence has increased in southern Guerrero state as factions of the Beltran Leyva cartel began fighting for territory after leader Arturo Beltran Leyva was killed by Mexican marines in December 2009.

Messages left with the 14 decapitated men said they were killed by “El Chapo’s People,” a reference to the Sinaloa cartel headed by Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. Leyva would not say whether the notes indicated Sinaloa had joined the fight.

The decapitations were the largest single group found in Mexico in recent years. In 2008, a group of 12 decapitated bodies were piled outside the Yucatan state capital of Merida. The same year, nine headless men were discovered in Guerrero’s capital, Chilpancingo.

Among the other Acapulco victims, six people were shot and stuffed into a taxi, their hands and feet bound.

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Myanmar Computer tracking system lures on road to more to meth democracy Higher risk mean buyers able to make more profit

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar’s new parliament will hold its first session in 22 years on Jan. 31, state radio said Monday, an event the country’s military rulers hail as one of the final steps in its self-styled “roadmap to democracy.”

The new legislature dominated by pro-military lawmakers was elected in polls last year decried as unfair by the opposition parties, including that of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was recently freed from house arrest.

The country’s 1,154 lawmakers will meet in a massive new building in the remote capital of Naypyitaw, the brief announcement said. It will be the first parliamentary session since a 1988 meeting in the old capital of Rangoon, which the junta renamed Yangon a year later.

The ruling junta’s militarybacked party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, garnered nearly 80 percent of seats in the twohouse Union Parliament in Nov. 7 polls, the country’s first in two decades. The country’s 14 regional parliaments will convene the same day in their respective areas, the announcement said.

“We have waited 20 years to be able to make our demands through the parliament,” said Thein Nyunt, a member of the opposition National Democratic Force. “Now that the parliament is going to be convened, I hope I will be able to work for the betterment of the people and the country from within the system.”

The opposition party, formed by a faction of Suu Kyi’s party after it was disbanded for boycotting the polls, holds a mere 12 seats total in the national parliment.

Government opponents and outside observers have called the elections unfair and undemocratic, saying the results were manipulated to allow the military-backed party to win.

The election results assure that the military, which has ruled Myanmar since 1962, will continue to wield decisive power.

Under the constitution, the parliament elects the country’s president and vicepresident.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — At the height of the methamphetamine epidemic, several states turned to a new weapon to disrupt the drug trade: electronic systems that could track sales of the cold medicine used to make meth.

Tracking sales by computer allowed pharmacies to check instantly whether a buyer had already purchased the legal limit of pseudoephedrine — a step that was supposed to make it harder to obtain raw ingredients for meth.

But an Associated Press analysis of federal data reveals that the practice has not only failed to curb the meth trade, which is growing again after a brief decline. It also created a vast and highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-thecounter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup.

In just a few years, the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people into the methamphetamine

underworld.

“It’s almost like a subcriminal culture,” said Gary Boggs, an agent at the Drug Enforcement Administration.

“You’ll see them with a GPS unit set up in a van with a list of every single pharmacy or retail outlet. They’ll spend the entire week going store to store and buy to the limit.”

Inside their vehicles, the so-called “pill brokers” punch out blister packs into a bucket and even clip coupons, Boggs said. web photo In some cases, the pill buyers Pill brokers can purchase a box for less than $10 and sell it for up to $50. are not interested in meth.

They may be homeless people the black market price of the Since tracking laws were recruited off the street or even product becomes so much more enacted beginning in 2006, college kids seeking weekend profitable,” said Jason Grellner, the number of meth busts beer money, authorities say. a detective in hard-hit Franklin nationwide has started climbing But because of booming County, Mo., about 40 miles again.

Some experts say the demand created in large part by west of St. Louis. black market for cold pills the tracking systems, they can “Where else can you make contributed to that spike.

Other buy a box of pills for $7 to $8 a 750 percent profit in 45 factors are at play, too, such as and sell it for $40 or $50. meth trafficking by Mexican minutes?” asked Grellner, The tracking systems former president of the Missouri cartels and new methods for “invite more people into the Narcotics Officers Association. making small amounts of meth. criminal activity because

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BEST ALBUMS

To our readers,

As you may or may not have read in the last issue before break, A&E editor Jake Bohrod has high-tailed it. Through rigorous psychological and physical testing, the staff of The Reporter chose myself, Brian Rosemeyer, and an equally talented co-editor, Megan Kadlec, as the new A&E looker-overers. We hope to provide for you top-notch art and entertainment-themed stories, reviews and news. Mr. Bohrod was a great editor, and take confidence in the fact that he taught us everything he knew. We’ll make up the rest as we go.

-Brian & Megan

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Trampled by Turtles - ‘Palomino’

In 2010, Minnesota’s favorite bluegrass band, Trampled by Turtles, reached a new highwater mark. They have been seen all over the state, and right here in Mankato, foot stomping on stages with an eclectic energy that sneers at technological advancement. The group now consists of five band members, all of which play traditional acoustic instruments. Trampled opened new doors for themselves when they released “Palomino” on March 13, 2010. The fifth studio album from the band showcases personal growth as well as musical expansion.

Each of the twelve tracks delivers soulful lyric and performance matched with undeniable musical virtuosity. A listener gets the feel that the individuals have come fully into their instruments. From blazingly fast songs to delicate ballads, the musicianship is consistently superb. -B.R.

Mumford & Sons ‘Sigh No More’

The Black Keys ‘Brothers’ The Black Keys debuted in 2002 with their aggressively simple LP “The Big Come Up.” The duo of Dan Auerbach (guitar, vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums, glasses) created a sound that got kids dancing to Junior Kimbrough guitar riffs and singing along to Howlin’ Wolf lyrics. Following this sound through four similar releases, the artists felt the need to expand. In 2008, the band released “Attack & Release.” The album rounded the aesthetics of the two-man duo, showing fans what a Black Keys record with full composition sounded like. The album was met with hesitation and some animosity, being that some songs lacked the soulful luster that drew audiences originally. Instead of running back to the shelter and success of their debut sound, the group released “Brothers” on May 18, 2010. The sixth installation of Black Keys LPs delivers a new sonic environment for which the band can play. The tracks are raw and muddy, yet musically sound. The album has the feel of a second introduction to this new decade’s edition of the Black Keys. -B.R.

Kanye West ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’

The debut of Mumford and Sons has been astounding.

The former backing band for Laura Marling released “Sigh No More” in the US on Feb. 16, 2010 to wide acclaim.

The debut album has been dominating commercial and independent charts in many countries since its release.

“Sigh No More” has gone 2x platinum in Australia, gold in the US, and 3x Platinum in the UK. The songs within are plainly and simply great listening. The band combines traditional pop styling with traditional folk instruments.

The tracks on the album feel sincere and the composition well thought out. Each of the singles contain hooks that cut so deep, one feels compelled to ask for more. It is refreshing to see a band with the approach of Mumford and Sons reach such great commercial success.

The bar has been set high for this band, and it is doubtful it will be able to keep up with the praise, but keep your ears tuned.

-B.R.

Award show ruiner? Sure. SNL adversary? Possibly. Gay fish? Yo. Kanye West is many things — enigmatic, egotistic, eccentric and a whole mess of other adjectives that start with “e,” I’m sure. Despite what your feelings toward the man, you have to respect the music.

“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is the Kanye West recipe fully-realized — the swagger from his school series mashed together with the auto-tuned emotion from the divisive “808s and Heartbreak” and a sprinkle of his usual impressive supporting cast poured on top of a showcase of soulful samples, horns, strings, synths, screams and one very melancholy piano.

Whatever you call him — genius, narcissist, conflicted, douche bag — you can’t deny the near-perfection of West’s brand of hip-hop. I think Taylor Swift will get over it by writing some crappy song about Jake Gyllenhaal, but you’re doing yourself a disservice if you’re not playing this album on repeat. The man’s behind the music, but the man isn’t the music.

At least he didn’t kill someone like Phil Spector, or isn’t like Michael Jackson who… let’s not get into that. -N.B.

Big Boi - ‘Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty’ Never carrying the glitz and glamour of his artistic Outkast counterpart, I never thought Antwan Andre “Big Boi” Patton would be able to carry an album on his own, or at least one that matched the quality of productions he shared with Andre 3000. When the group did their split LPs in 2003, “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below,” the other Andre had some standouts on his half, but did little to change the assertion that he could make it solo. Sure, there was that hot track where P. Diddy’s fake butler/umbrella holder defied gravity in the music video, but Big Boi seemed relegated to be remembered as a talented rapper who spat great lines over great tracks with Outkast and the Dungeon Family.

Then, in 2010, he introduced the world to his alter ego, “Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty,” and everything changed. Big Boi stays his hard street hustler narrative, but his odd, eclectic musical taste (he recently said he wanted to collaborate with Kate Bush because she was his all-time favorite artist since middle school) and takes his flow to new scenery, toppling and accentuating beats stacked on top of beats, resulting in some summer hits that became much-needed breaks from the sameness normally reserved for the Hot 100. -N.B.

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LCD Soundsystem - ‘This is Happening’

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Childish Gambino - ‘Culdesac’ Many may recognize the visage of Donald Glover, the man behind Childish Gambino. After all, he is one of the most enjoyable characters on arguably the funniest network program on television as Troy Barnes in the Dan Harmon creation “Community.” He’s also been featured in his own half-hour stand-up comedy special on Comedy Central. Before those ventures, he was a writer on another popular NBC comedy “30 Rock.” But Glover doesn’t want to be just this or that, he just creates.

And as Childish Gambino, he creates a hip-hop masterpiece that has been and will continue to be underappreciated due in complete part to his successes in other professional avenues.

Almost exhaustingly, Glover recognizes and addresses this: “If I wasn’t working with Tina (Fey) on pitches, I would probably flood the market and go Katrina, you bitches.”

The album is beautifully-produced, sharp and original throughout. Similarly to Das Racist, along with his noted profession, his crude tongue-in-cheek wit can pigeonhole his output as joke-rap, but just because lines like “I’m on top of turd mountain, king shit bitches, can’t nobody top that, ‘Teen Witch’ bitches,” are cleverly funny, he challenges themes of race, self-doubt, ambition and, rather forcefully, hip-hop norms: “I’m not at the top, but ya’ll niggas know I’m comin’ fast, rap will change after me, all of this will come to pass, rappers start to use real instruments and shit, niggas start to copy me, dumb it down and make it rich, I am not a novelty, just the first to do it different, I have always been this good, you were just laughing too hard to listen.” -N.B.

Tobacco - ‘Maniac Meat’

Vampire Weekend - ‘Contra’

Being a product of the Hype Express taking off from Blog Station has its advantages. Artists Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes N’ Tapes, Wale and countless others have seen their debuts popularity skyrocket thanks to a strong rating from a Pitchfork review which, in turn, unleashes a flood of e-praise and album sales. Then the second album drops and the band has absolutely no shot to reach the magical bar set for them (see: MGMT).

Indie darling Vampire Weekend’s second release tread these dangerous waters. Was it going to live up to the self-titled? Were they still going to be a bunch of Ivy leaguers talking about scarves, yogurt and campus problems?

The band fretted not, however, and focused on expanding their narrative, but not straying too far from what makes them so great — hyper pop with African-influenced rhythm and melody a la Paul Simon. From bouncy, shouting single “Cousins” to the calm clap of “Taxi Cab,” the LP, a supposed contrast to the Clash’s “Sandinista!” (1980), is as beautiful and catchy as its certifiedGold predecessor. -N.B.

The Dead Weather - ‘Sea of Cowards’

James Murphy’s third album under his LCD Soundsystem moniker uses much of the same imagery of drowsy, drunken stumbling around through adulthood found in his first two releases, but with the notion that this may be the final LCD album, Murphy and his cohorts seem ready to stop complaining about the drudgery of their turnstile partying and actually move on.

While the LP certainly stays true to what’s expected of his label’s output, Murphy leaves the party early, holes himself up in Rick Rubin’s famed Mansion and takes the time to slow everything down to incredible results.

Album opener, “Dance Yrself Clean,” an eight-minute epic reels the listener in with its slow-building melody complemented by Murphy’s hangover-riddled sing-speak into blow-you-away dirty synth beat more than three minutes in. A paired down version the song could be heard seemingly on repeat on MPR’s The Current following the release of “This Is Happening,” but you can bet Mark Wheat and company wishes the constraints of radio programming hadn’t forced them to cut it short. -N.B.

What comes out when you take the legend of Jack White, the needlepoint guitar of Dean Fertita, the downright sexy vocal styling of Alison Mosshart, the bassist from the Raconteurs, and put them into a studio? This is the recipe for The Dead Weather. The first release of White’s side project showed us that he could do just about anything, musically speaking. The combination of these four artists blends into a sound unlike any other band in today’s scene. The release of their second studio album, “Sea Of Cowards,” sounds like it should be disc 2 of their debut, but no one is complaining. The music is eerie, hard-nosed, and never sunny. The album was released May 11, 2010. It’s tough to foresee many further releases from the supergroup, but they have left their footprints in the

Ever heard of Black Moth Super Rainbow? No? Ever heard of front man Tobacco? No? Ever heard of Beck? Ok. Tobacco released his second solo effort on May 25, 2010, entitled “Maniac Meat.” The artist fronts Black Moth Super Rainbow and is allergic to digital electronics. Instead, Tobacco creates his own brand of electronic-based music with analog gear. Through this use Tobacco is able to create unique sounds that mesh with traditional instruments perfectly. The artist calls on his good friend Beck to collaborate, and the result is smooth ear candy. The vocoder Tobacco uses to sing gives a spacey dynamic to the chunky guitar, drum and bass rhythm section, and the synth melodies laid throughout sew the whole mess together. Bonus points for danceability. -B.R. Honorable Mention: Das Racist - ‘Sit Down, Man’ Surfer Blood - ‘Astro Coast’ Cee Lo Green - ‘The Lady Killer’ Sleigh Bells - ‘Treats’ Titus Andronicus - ‘The Monitor’

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Black Swan leaves audiences breathless Natalie Portman shines in the ballet psycho thriller

MEGAN KADLEC

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Classical music and ballet have been paired with blood, lies and sex in Darren Aronofsky’s latest film. Premiering in movie theatres across the country Dec. 12, “Black Swan” is an entrancing psycho thriller dedicated to examining the corruption of the human mind.

Natalie Portman stars as a hardworking ballerina thrust into the limelight when she receives the role of a lifetime. Cast as the lead in Swan Lake, Portman’s character, Nina Sayers, perfectly embodies the delicate White Swan. However, as she becomes more like the evil and seductive Black Swan, Nina faces a dangerous erosion of her psyche experiencing symptoms ranging from visions to the infliction of physical wounds on those around her.

As Nina experiments with her darker side, she must cope with both her overbearing mother and the young, talented dancer, played by Mila Kunis, who is threatening her role in Swan Lake.

While the main focus of the film is Nina’s descent into insanity, the dancing is perfection. The Hollywood rumor mill is claiming that Portman was trained in ballet for the

movie. If true, her performance is full of precision and technique that rivals that of established ballerinas.

The soundtrack for the film is above average, using modern twist on ballet classics. The music chosen ultimately evokes

Swan” an edge over other Hollywood films by portraying an overly-graphic lesbian relationship.

As any great artist does, Aronofsky walks a thin line between insanity and brilliance with this dark and creepy film.

Some say the film tries

making audience members question their personal reality.

In addition to the emotional turmoil Aronofsky creates in both the characters and the audience, the cinematography is simply stunning. Dark shadows and dim lighting

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Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) rehearses for her role as the Black Swan with her onscreen director (Vincent Cassel).

a sense of emotion in the viewer, a simple tool many directors and producers overlook.

However good the film may be, it may be awkward to see with family members. The highly sexualized and lesbian relationship between Portman and Kunis gives “Black

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too hard to be artsy and intellectual. However, Aronofsky does exactly what he wishes to do; fill the viewer with emotions that cannot be explained,

add to the overall eerie nature of the plot.

The director casts the introverted and understated yet hard-working ballerina into the lime-

light. Audiences not only grow frustrated with Nina’s inability to stand up for herself, but learn to feel pity for the character.

In the opening of the film, it feels as though the plot is barely crawling, but as the story develops, it becomes increasingly quicker until it reaches an alarmingly fast pace.

At the climax, Aronofsky forces a series of disturbing images at viewers, leaving them breathless and confused by the film’s bizarre finale.

Portman’s performance in the film might possibly be the best of her career.

Even if audience members didn’t particularly enjoy the film, most will walk away with a heightened sense of respect for the critically-acclaimed actress.

This wildly inappropriate and rather creepy psycho thriller has audiences glued to the screen as Natalie Portman loses her mind.

Viewers will fall in love with this film regardless of if they are fans of Natalie Portman, ballet, classical music or even blood.

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What have you missed over break?

The men’s hockey team got back on track, while the women’s team hasn’t won since mid-November. The men’s basketball team proved itself as one of the best in the NSIC, while Pam Gohl and the women’s team have hit a hot spot, winning three straight.

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Adversity? Not an issue for these Mavericks KYLE RATKE

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The Minnesota State Mankato men’s basketball team has already lost one player to injury and two have been kicked off the team for breaking the team conduct policy. Sounds like they’re struggling, right?

Not exactly.

Despite the loss of forwards Andre Gilbert and A.J. Wilson (team policy) and losing guard Anthony Brant for the year due to a leg injury, the Mavericks are currently atop the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with an 8-1 conference record

and are ranked No. 12 in the nation with an 11-2 overall record.

“With those guys being kicked off the team, it’s given us a chance to put our egos aside and just play for the team,” said senior wing Jefferson Mason. “As far as the injury to Anthony, it’s part of the game. Guys are going to get banged up, but we have a deep team. We have a lot of guys that are ready to play big minutes.”

The Mavericks have started off hot in years past, but feelings about the team are a little different this season. With

Mason leading the way (19 points and seven rebounds per game), the Mavericks might not be blowing out teams like they were a season ago, but that might be for the better.

“We were so talented last season, we were just bulldozing through teams,” Mason said. “We are still talented and athletic, but a lot of wins are coming from better defense and doing what the coaches have wanted us to do.”

Mason may have a point.

Despite having solid records and talented teams, the Mavericks haven’t reached their goal of the Elite Eight. Mason

hopes this year will be different.

Since December 10, the Mavericks have taken down Concordia, Upper Iowa, MSUMoorhead, Minnesota-Crookston and Southwest Minnesota State.

A single loss came against St. Cloud State, the former regional champions, 83-85 on the road. The Mavericks will get another shot at the Huskies on February 11 at the Taylor Center.

Besides Mason, the Mavericks have gotten steady scoring from point guard Marcus Hill (15.9 ppg) and senior guard

Cameron Hodges (11 ppg).

Redshirt freshman Connor O’Brien has been a surprise averaging 7.8 ppg, while junior Stephen Kirschbaum has been clutch at the free-throw line, shooting a perfect 22-for-22.

Right now the Mavericks are sticking to fundamental basketball, hoping it will help them during the final stretch.

“Last year, if you look, a few of the games we lost came down to the last shot,” Mason said. “Hopefully this year, when it comes down to it, we can win those.”

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The learning curve: MSU goes through ups and downs over break DREW CLAUSSEN

staff writer

While most students were at home enjoying their time off from school, the Minnesota State Mankato wrestling team was hard at work finishing out their non-conference schedule.

The Mavericks first competed in the St. Cloud State Huskie Open on Dec. 11.

The open was the team’s best showing of the young season with seven wrestlers placing. Aaron Norgren had a strong performance, winning the 184-pound weight division with a 3-0 record. Robby Fisher had a fourth place finish with a 3-2 record. Jesse Westphal also captured a fourth place finish, which was the first time he had placed in a tournament this year.

David Demo and Brendan Eichmann earned fifth place finishes with Demo going 3-2 on the day and Eichmann finishing 4-2. Derek Hahn placed sixth in the 157-pound weight class, which was also the first time he has placed in a tournament this year. “(Norgren) is a good athlete,” Said Head Coach James Makovsky. “This year his focus is more defined, he’s got the right mind set.”

The team then moved onto the Reno Tournament of Champions in Reno, Nev. on Dec. 19. The Mavericks failed to place any wrestlers in this particular tournament. After his win in the SCSU open, Norgren filed a 1-2 record in Reno. Tel Todd would fire off back-to-back wins after starting his day out with a loss, but

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would later be forced to exit the tournament with a medical forfeit.

Demo, Eichmann and Andy Forstner all recorded 2-2 records in the tournament. This wrapped up the open part of the teams schedule in which they saw a variety of competition.

“I think our schedule helps us a lot,” Todd said. “We see a lot of Division I competition with our schedule, maybe even a majority.”

The Mavericks would then switch it up and compete in the two-day NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals in Cedar Falls, Iowa. The Mavericks would end up finishing seventh in the tournament, beating Findlay, Central Missouri and San Francisco State.

Norgren put together another strong performance going 5-0 on the weekend. Forstner went 4-1.

“All of our competitions are tests, we graded well in some areas and not so well in others,” Makovsky said. “But the most important thing was that there was quality competition.”

The Mavericks will look to use what they learned about themselves during the non-conference part of their schedule to try to put together a strong conference showing.

“We are at our best when we fight hard and show our conditioning by pushing the pace of the match,” Todd said.

The Mavericks return to action and open conference play this weekend at home taking on Mary Friday and Northern State Saturday.

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Getting into a groove TIGE HUTCHESON

staff writer With no class to attend, no homework to do and no distractions, the Minnesota State Mankato women’s basketball team used winter break to turn some things around while the rest of us were relaxing.

Due in part to nasty scheduling to start conference play, the Mavericks stumbled into break bruised and frustrated, with a 1-3 record after their first four conference games.

“We started with the preseason ranked one, two and three schools in the league,” said women’s basketball coach Pam Gohl.

Perhaps the rough start was exactly the wake-up call the Mavericks needed.

Going back to the drawing board, the Mavericks switched their focus from putting up points to playing good defense and hitting the boards. Gohl installed a new system on defense which she believes has really helped.

“Our players have embraced the new defensive system that we put in this year and between that and our man defense, we’ve been able to keep teams from getting into a good offensive rhythm,” said Gohl said.

Statistically, MSU sits on top of the league in perimeter defense and third in overall defense, harassing opponents and causing them to shoot a leaguelow .265 average from behind the arc.

Looking at the results, it’s hard to argue with all of the

sport pix • msu athletics Ali Wilkinson (11) leads the team with 11 points per game and is shooting 49 percent from the field.

change. MSU soared into spring semester on a three-game winning streak and an improved 5-4 conference record.

And even though Gohl’s squad wasn’t focused on improving team offense, improved post play and rebounding have allowed the Mavericks to turn up the tempo and do what they love best — run.

“Our rebounding has improved a lot and our posts have really picked it up,” said starting guard Jennie Noreen.

One of the biggest surprises of break has been freshman guard Alli Hoefer, who filled the hole left after Lauren Barber’s injury.

“When Barber got hurt, Alli stepped up and filled Barber’s shoes really well. She was a little scared to be aggressive at the beginning of the season, but

she’s not scared anymore,” said Noreen, who capped off winter break with a 31-point explosion in MSU’s victory over Southwest Minnesota State.

“Mentally, I got on myself in the first half of the season and I think that’s where most of the frustration came from and why I didn’t score,” Noreen said. “And finally, during warm-ups on Saturday, I realized my head was clear and my shots started going in. For the first time in a long time my head was clear.”

While only time will tell if all of the improvements are here to stay, looking back, maybe all the Mavericks really needed was, in the words of Jennie Noreen, some time to clear their minds.

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Men’s hockey

MSU exits break hot, winning four straight PAT DELANEY

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A lot has changed for the Minnesota State Mankato men’s hockey team since winter break.

When break began, the Mavericks were a dismal 5-7-4 and had only won two WCHA games.

They were coming off two consecutive conference sweeps and were welcoming in a hot University of Minnesota team.

However, the Mavericks did not lie down against one of their biggest rivals. Instead, they put together one of their most impressive efforts of the season.

Playing at home for the first time in more than a month, the Mavericks rose from the dead

and defeated the Gophers 3-2.

“When you got the crowd behind you, it gives you a little extra juice,” said head coach Troy Jutting. “Especially when you’re killing, it’s a definite advantage for us.”

The Mavericks would give their home crowd reason to celebrate a second consecutive night when they would again defeat Minnesota 2-1, wrapping up their first conference sweep of the season. Suddenly the Mavericks were relevant again.

The Mavericks are now 8-2 in their last 10 games, which includes winning the Shillelagh (Illinios) tournament. The Mavericks defeated No. 12 Notre

Dame in the opening game of the tournament before dominating Brown in the championship, winning 7-3.

One of the biggest differences in the Mavericks play has been their ability to score, an area they were struggling with throughout the first two months of the season. The Mavericks are now scoring 3.05 goalsper-game after averaging less than three goals for most of the season.

Perhaps the biggest reason for the improved offense is the play of junior forward Michael Dorr. After a slow start, Dorr has established himself as a constant scoring threat. Jutting said early

in the year that the Mavericks needed Dorr to score for them to be successful and Dorr has done just that.

A former Gopher, Dorr got his offense going by scoring against his former team.

“I think he had a little anger in him there,” said junior forward Adam Mueller. “He was pretty happy [after]. We had a good laugh about it.”

Dorr has eight points in his last eight games and his continued ability to find the back of the net will be a huge factor going forward as the Mavericks get back into WCHA play this weekend.

The Mavericks are still at the

bottom of the WCHA, but with seven WCHA series remaining, there is still time to jump up in the standings. The Mavericks will need momentum to carry over to this weekend when they have a rematch against Denver.

Denver handed MSU their most lopsided defeat of the season, winning 6-1 early in November. The Mavericks are a different team than the last time they met the Pioneers, but will need to consistently defeat WCHA opponents if they want to find themselves in the top half of the conference at the end of the season.

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NEW YEAR — SAME OLD RESULTS LEE HANDEL

staff writer After going nearly a month without playing a meaningful hockey game, the Minnesota State Mankato women’s hockey team journeyed north to Ridder Arena to play the sixth-ranked Golden Gophers of Minnesota last weekend.

The Mavericks entered Friday’s contest hoping the New Year would bring new hope to a team that really began to struggle early in December and found itself in the bottom half of the WCHA standings. MSU limped into winter break 5-8-1 in the WCHA after falling 2-1 in overtime and losing a shootout to Bemidji State to close out its 2010 schedule.

Playing the Gophers in Minneapolis was probably not what the doctor would have ordered, as the Mavericks dropped a pair of home

contests to the U earlier this season and went 0-4 at Ridder Arena last year. This trend continued on Friday as the Mavericks looked like a team trying not to lose the game from the outset instead of playing a winning brand of hockey.

Minnesota controlled play early and kept junior goaltender Alli Altmann busy early in the first period, finally breaking through 12 minutes in for the 1-0 lead. The Gophers doubled the lead 36 seconds into the second period on a Sarah Erickson goal. Later in the second, Amanda Kessel all but put the game away with a score to make it 3-0.

The Gophers would add another goal late in the third and win 4-0, but the Mavericks appeared defeated long before the final horn. The Mavericks only mustered 18 shots compared to Minnesota’s 39 and

went 0-5 on the power play.

Altmann saved 35 shots, which was impressive considering how much the puck was on her end of the ice.

“Everything we did well in practice and talked about going in, we didn’t do,” said head coach Eric Means.

The gameplan for Saturday was to do the opposite of Friday, and the Mavericks looked much more confident from the drop of the puck. The two squads raced back and forth in the first period, but the Gophers were able to net two goals to go up 2-0.

After going 95 minutes without a goal dating back to early December, the Maver-

icks cut the deficit in half 2-1 when a Moira O’Connor shot deflected off a Gopher defender’s skate and past goaltender Noora Raty. The goal was O’Connor’s fifth of the season and was assisted by sophomore Lauren Smith.

“We talked to the girls Saturday morning and they came out and competed a lot harder,” Means said. “Once we started doing things correctly, we got more chances.”

Even with MSU’s renewed energy, the Gophers offense continued to roll, scoring two more goals before the end of the second period. The Mavericks kept battling and had some great chances in the third

period. This included a Nina Tikkinen breakaway, a Tracy McCann shot ricocheting off the top post of the goal, and an O’Connor missed penalty shot.

However, sophomore sensation Noora Raty was unstoppable in net, quelling every Maverick threat in the 5-1 Minnesota win.

“She is definitely one of the top goaltenders I have ever played against,” said McCann.

“She seems to always know exactly where she needs to be to make the save.”

The Mavericks (6-13-3, 5-10-1 WCHA) play host to Ohio State this weekend.

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