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A Promise from Knoxville Students interested to see if new promise will succeed.

AMANDA HINDE Staff Writer On Jan. 9, in a teaser for his State of the Union Address on Jan. 20, President Obama announced a proposal to make the first two years of community college free to any American.

Obama told the crowd in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday that he wants a college education to be “as free and universal as high school is today.” As a strug-

gling college student myself, this sounds like a breath of fresh air; but I’m still waiting for the resounding “but…” Making the first two years of community college free to anyone willing to “work hard” is a step in the right direction, but what about the rest of us? MSU has a lower cost compared to other Minnesota colleges, but it’s still on average $5000 more than the average cost of a two year community college.

The White House did give a number of $60 billion on how much this proposal would cost over 10 years. Those of you with a head for economics are probably asking where all of this money is going to be coming from; Obama informed the Pellissippi State Community College crowd that three-fourths of the cost would be taken care of by the federal government and the state governments picking up the rest of the tab. While there was nothing said of where this 60 billion dollars is in the already emaciated government working body, I’m hoping that it won’t be cutting anything too

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$3800 in tuition costs.

The proposal was christened “America’s College Promise” after an already instated promise in Tennessee called the “Tennessee Promise” which was ratified just last year. As stated on the official website of the Tennessee Promise, it “is both a scholarship and mentoring program…the scholarship will cover tuition and fees not covered by the Pell grant…each participant will receive from

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Communicating in the modern world MSU to host technology conference this Thursday.

BROOKE EMMONS Staff Writer Minnesota State Mankato will be home to the second annual “Teaching and Learning with TelePresence” this coming Thursday, Jan. 8.

TelePresence is the virtual reality technology that allows a person to feel as though they are present in a situation in which they are not. They give the appearance and or have the effect of being present through telerobotics.

The applications for TelePresence in the modern world are numerous. From personal

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to business, technologies using TelePresence are growing.

At the conference, attendees will be connecting via TelePresence systems from their home institutions to other TelePresence endpoints from participating institutions.

Through these connecting conferences, the attendees will further their knowledge in how TelePresence as well as many other high-quality videoconferencing devices can help create a better teaching and business environment.

These devices can be used as tools to expand the opportunities to teach and learn, some-

thing many people at MSU are extremely interested in.

“High-quality video-conferencing allows us to teach at a distance in ways that many of us understand intuitively,” said Jude Higdon, interim associate vice president for information technology at Minnesota State Mankato.

“We can see our students, follow their expressions, gauge their engagement levels and respond to their confusion points as if they were sitting in a chair across from us.”

In addition, one of the goals of the conference is to inspire faculty and administrators to use

some TelePresence technologies in their classrooms and build partnerships that can lead to the benefit of their students.

“It’s an entirely new model for teaching and learning at a

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The Hearth Lounge is popular with MSU students who are looking to curl up in front of a fire, listen to some piano music, or wait for the bus; but now the CSU has created another opportunity for this space—recognizing student leadership for their contributions to the school.

Following a survey last year, the CSU recognized a need for student acknowledgment, and have created a nominationbased system for selecting students for the board. Nominations for students are based on leadership of a student within

the community, students who have brought experience into the school community, and students who have grown within their programs.

Eight students are currently featured on the wall below the glass balcony of Hearth, and are visible through the glass walls of the CSU entrance: Micah DeLong, AEP Facilitator for Leadership Development; Mariah Haffield, MSSA Student Body President; Bassam Al-Mohamadi, Lead Student Scheduler; Johne Vang, CSU Building Manager; Sarah Galaszewski, IMPACT Leadership Team;

Kassie Hanson, CSU Marketing Team; Andrei Aghenii, CSU Student Web Master; Cody Kutil, Student Activities Office Assistant; Lenny Koupal, Communication Coordinator, says that this is a unique way to recognize the student leadership for all they do for the community, and the ways they have invested their experience and passion into MSU. Nominations are being sought continually; please submit your nominations to Lenny Koupal at csu.mnsu.edu or lenny.koupal@mnsu.edu.

a mentor who will assist the student.” Everyone who participates in the Tennessee Promise needs to complete eight hours of community service per term and keep a 2.0 GPA. Maya Barnes, a junior in the Automotive Engineering program had a similar viewpoint on this proposal.

“Why is it just for community college? I understand that some people go to community college to get general education credits for cheaper, but why is it only at community colleges?” After being informed of how much this will cost the U.S. to offer this proposal she stated: “That’s a lot of money, but I feel like there are some areas within the government to use that money so that we can use it for other things to do with higher education.”

Ruby Nelsen, a sophomore Art History major had an entirely different idea of the subject. “Hey, dude, it should be all or nothing,” when informed that it was only the first two years of community college and not their entire college education paid for. “I think we should be more like Germany in our education system. The taxes there are a little bit higher but that is because college is for free to those who want to go on to higher education.”

I’m hoping that this proposal is at least the start of eventually making college cost less--or maybe even free? But call me a pessimistic optimist; I’m not holding my breath because I look stupid with a purple face.

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“Today, Paris is the capital of the world.”

Millions gather in Parisian square in sign of unity, rememberance, and rebuilding.

RAE FRAME News Editor Following the attack on French newspaper Charlie Hebdo, an estimated 3.7 million people took to the street in an unprecedented statement of unity that included world leaders of Britain, Germany, Spain, Palestine and Israel. These famous faces not only participated in this event, but also lead the march arm-in-arm down

the streets. While the majority of people congregated in the streets of Paris, there were other crowds that assembled across France and the rest of the world.

President Francois Hollande gave an address before the enormous crowd near Place de Republique, saying, “Today, Paris is the capital of the world.”

His speech, along with hashtags #JeSuisCharlie, #JeSuisAhmed and #NousSommesCharlie have been spreading across the world by those who honor and support the people who died during the attacks of last week.

Images of the march show a passionate, yet peaceful crowd as they gathered in the square. Many individuals carried written signs, paper mache pencils (a symbol that has come to http://i.guim.co.uk/ represent freedom of expression), or French

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the most effective practices for how to teach in this new mode. This conference will help us begin to build that understanding for the future.” Said Higdon.

Over 80 administrators, faculty, and staff are said to be attending the upcoming conference. While taking part in the conference they will hear from a large variety of speakers and panelists from different institutions throughout the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

Multiple organizations and companies are sponsoring the event including Academic Affairs and Information Technology Services and Minnesota State Mankato and well as Cisco Systems.

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Winter welcome week Students take advantage of winter activities as the new semester begins

RAE FRAME News Editor Students returning to Mankato after a long break may not want to resume the daily grind of homework and class schedules, but Monday’s skating rink

event and sled dog visit brought a winter surprise that extended the winter break an extra day.

Students were offered a chance to take a sled dog ride outside Julia Sears, and interact with some cuddly and hard working animal athletes.

Photos by Trevor Cokley

An opportunity to ride with a traditional sled team is not as common as it used to be—but is still incredibly fun.

The MSU Outdoor Skating Rink will be open from Jan. 12-19, with public skating hours on Jan. 12 and 19 from 5-8.p.m.

Music, lighting, and a warming house will be provided by the school. Entrance and a complimentary ice skate rental are available with a MavCard on a first come, first serve basis.

The skating rink is open to the public during additional

daylight hours, but has been reserved by MSU groups for educational and academic events.

The rink is co-sponsored by the Minnesota State Mankato Office of Residential Life and the IMPACT Programming Board.

For more information, please contact Bill Tourville, Assistant Director of Campus Programs, by phone at 507.389.6076 or by email at william.tourville@ mnsu.edu.

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For better or for worse Amid negitive temperatures, a student talks about this year’s positive changes.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer It’s been exact one year since I came to Minnesota and a lot of things have happened for the year and these made myself change a lot as a result.

When I came back to Minnesota a few days ago after enjoying my winter break in a less cold place, the cruel coldness reminded me of my last year when I had just arrived and made me look back how much I have changed.

As I have experienced new cultures and met new people, I found myself thinking differently and having new points of view in my life compared to the past.

First of all, my English ability has improved a lot as I mostly speak English in my daily life.

I could not only communicate

with people, but also understand their minds. Knowledge is power, and so is developing new language skills.

However, the thing about myself that has changed the most is my attitude toward people with different cultural backgrounds. In fact, a minority of people who immigrated to Korea from different countries used to be isolated because it was difficult to get their differences accepted. When I lived in Korea, it was difficult to interact with so many people with various experience and national diversity; I couldn’t understand people who had very different opinions and perspectives.

In this sense, I believe I made a great choice to move to the United States. America is a melting pot and a truly international society. Everyone is so different, especially because a lot of international students live in Mankato. I learned that all people deserve to be accepted no matter how different they

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On the contrary, I have also changed in negatively in some aspects: I came to be more judgmental, especially when I feel I am discriminated. Even when it is not the issue of discrimination, I found myself connecting what happened to me to the racial or ethnical discriminatory issues.

I have also changed physically. I gained a lot of weight in America during this whole year. In my opinion, American foods are so greasy and salty compared to Korean foods, which are very balanced in nutrition and people can eat these foods for a reasonable

price. Healthy foods with fruits and vegetables in America are way more expensive than instant foods such as pizza and hamburgers. I ate a lot of instant foods to cut back, so now I seriously need to lose some pounds and try to be healthier.

These are the changes that happened to me for the last year in America. Although not all changes are positive, I cherish the experiences that brought the changes. I have one more year till I graduate and I might change a lot again in the coming year. Whether I change in a positive or negative way, I will be able to learn lessons in my life. Weather in Minnesota is constantly freezing but I keep changing, living here.

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Fighting identity theft

Minneapolis man reaches new heights

Proposals take aim at identity theft, calling for changes to current security measures.

At 20,320ft, Lonnie Dupre is at America’s summit

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday proposed strengthening laws against identity theft by requiring notification when consumer information is hacked and protecting students’ private data.

Obama also called for more free access to all consumer credit rating services. While customers can get annual credit reports free once a year, FICO credit scores typically cost money to obtain, although some banks have been offering them free to customers.

Obama applauded those companies for offering the service and called on more to do so. He said a credit score “is like an early warning system telling you that you’ve been hit by fraud so you can deal with it fast.”

Obama said identity theft is a growing problem that costs billions of dollars and can “turn your life upside down.” He said the age of technology and digital innovation has created enormous vulnerabilities for the U.S. and cited the recent hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment as an example.

“This is a direct threat to the economic security of American families and we’ve got to stop it,” Obama said in a speech at the Federal Trade Commission.

“If we’re going to be connected, we need to be protected.”

Just as Obama finished speaking, the Twitter and YouTube accounts for U.S. Central Command were taken over by hackers who claimed to be working on behalf of Islamic State militants.

Obama, previewing a push he plans to make in the State of the Union address next week, wants Congress to pass legislation called the Personal Data Notification and Protection Act, which would require companies to inform customers within 30 days if their data has been

hacked.

Recent hackings at retailers including Target, Home Depot and Neiman Marcus have exposed the lack of uniform practices for alerting customers in the event of a breach. The White House has blamed last month’s hacking at Sony Pictures Entertainment on North Korea and responded with new sanctions against the isolated nation.

Obama says every state currently has its own policy on when companies must notify consumers of a breach and that there should be a single standard across the country and baseline protections across industries.

The legislation would also make it a crime to sell customers’ identities overseas.

He also wants to prevent companies from selling student data to third parties and from using information collected in school to engage in targeted advertising. The Student Digital Privacy Act would prohibit companies from selling student data to third parties, a move spurred by the increased use of technology in schools that can scoop up personal information.

“Data collected on students in the classroom should only be used for educational purposes — to teach our children, not to market to our children,” Obama said.

A White House official said the proposed bill is based on a California statute pushed by Common Sense Media, a group that promotes privacy. The organization said the proliferation of online platforms, mobile applications, cloud computing and other technology allows businesses to collect sensitive data about students including contact information, academic records, and even what students eat for lunch or whether they ride the bus to school.

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Banks often have to deal with unexpected expenses when a retailer is hit with a data breach, having to reissue millions of credit and debit cards to customers, often for free.

Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has said the company is spending upward of $250 million a year on data security and expects that cost to increase. The Independent Community Bankers of America, the trade group for small, often regional banks, said its members issued 4 million new debit cards as a result of the Target breach last year, at a cost of $40 million.

With that in mind, industry lobbyists said banks are generally in favor of some sort of universal notification law when it comes to data breaches. The industry has also been pushing to get merchants to be required to use the same data security standards as banks.

“We’re very pleased and see this as a meaningful first step,” said Viveca Ware, an expert on data security with the ICBA. The Center for Democracy & Technology also said it supports Obama’s moves to protect the data, while pointing out that his administration still uses electronic surveillance for national security purposes.

“Even with these proposed reforms, we must not forget about government surveillance reform,” said Nuala O’Connor, the group’s president. “Without the end to the mass surveillance practices of the U.S. government, any privacy reform is woefully incomplete.”

It’s unclear whether the new Republican-led Congress will take up Obama’s legislative proposals.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota adventurer has succeeded in becoming the first solo climber to reach the summit of Alaska's Mount McKinley in the month of January, his support team said Monday, citing a GPS tracking device.

Lonnie Dupre, of Grand Marais, reached the 20,320foot summit of North America's tallest peak at 2:08 p.m.

Alaska time Sunday, said project coordinator Stevie Plummer.

Dupre sent a text message saying "All OK, Doing Well," through a SPOT GPS messenger device that showed it was sent from the same coordinates as McKinley's summit.

Plummer then posted on the expedition website and on Dupre's Facebook page a map generated by the SPOT system, which she said is "extremely accurate," showing he had made it. She also said he sent a similar SPOT message about 3½ hours later showing he had successfully descended to his high camp at 17,200 feet.

"He spent 10 minutes on the summit, took some photos, then he realized exactly how high up he was and decided to head back down. I guess reality struck at that moment," Plummer said while en route to Alaska to meet up with Dupre.

Plummer spoke with Dupre on Monday, shortly after the climber re-established satellite phone contact for the first time in nearly a week.

This was Dupre's fourth attempt at a solo summit in

January of Mount McKinley, also known as Mount Denali.

The mountain's notoriously treacherous winter weather forced him to turn back in 2013, 2012 and 2011.

Plummer said Dupre told her he left his camp at 17,200 feet for the final climb at 4 a.m. Sunday. She said the winds started whipping up, so he completed his descent back to camp in about 3½ hours instead of the normal nine.

Plummer had expected Dupre to rest Monday, but she said he called her from 14,200 feet while making his way to his camp for the night some 3,000 feet below, she said.

The mountain is in Denali National Park. Climbers are required to register with the National Park Service, which lets park officials keep an accurate list of summit attempts and successes, said park spokeswoman Maureen Gualtieri. Their list shows 16 people have summited McKinley in winter, but nobody solo in January, and six deaths have resulted from those attempts.

Gualtieri said Dupre would be added after he checks in with park officials at a ranger station. She said the park doesn't require proof, but that Dupre's GPS device appeared to be working properly and that she was confident they'll recognize his feat once he comes off the mountain.

Weather permitting, Dupre's support team expects to pick him up sometime this weekend.

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Minnesota in the Round Dayton starts second term, while lawmaker embraces electric car.

Dayton celebrates at low-key inaugural ball ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has celebrated the start of his second term at a low-key inaugural ball.

Dayton was dressed casually in jeans and a shirt with sleeves rolled up at Saturday night’s ball at the newly renovated Union Depot in downtown St. Paul.

The Star Tribune (http://strib. mn/1C4uthK) reports Dayton thanked his supporters before introducing new Lt. Gov. Tina

with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Officer Scott Patrick during a traffic stop July 30 in West St. Paul. Fitch also faces three counts of attempted murder and a gun felony for allegedly shooting at other officers during his arrest in St. Paul following a manhunt.

Jury selection begins Monday in St. Cloud, where the trial was moved. Opening statements are scheduled Jan. 20, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.

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Several hundred gathered to celebrate the Dayton victory.

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State Auditor Rebecca Otto, new Secretary of State Steve Simon and a handful of legislators and cabinet members attended.

Suspect in Minnesota police killing goes on trial ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A man charged with killing a Mendota Heights police officer last summer and trying to kill other officers in a shootout that day goes on trial Monday in St. Cloud.

Brian Fitch Sr., 40, is charged

head, leg and abdomen after pulling over a green Pontiac Grand Am prosecutors say was driven by Fitch, a man with a criminal history and active warrants.

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Funeral set for ex-Minnesota North Star standout JP Parise EDINA, Minn. (AP) — A funeral will be held Friday for former Minnesota North Stars standout J.P. Parise.

Parise, the father of Minnesota Wild star Zach Parise, died Wednesday at his Prior Lake home after battling lung cancer.

He was 73.

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Visitation at the church starts at 1 p.m., with services to follow at 3 p.m.

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(AP) — State Rep. Pat Garofalo sings the praises of the nation’s fracking revolution while he wipes down his electric car.

Let that sink in for a bit.

Nearly every day for the next five months, Garofalo will drive his jet black Tesla Model S from his home in Farmington to the Capitol. After parking his electric car — in a lot full of Democrats’ less-stylish hybrids — he’ll rail against energy subsidies for solar power and call for more pipelines to carry crude from North Dakota’s oilfields across Minnesota.

Now chairman of a commit-

tee handling energy issues after Republicans won back the state House in the fall, Garofalo is also working out how to make electric cars easier and more attractive to buy. He’s mum on details, but hinted at tapping into money tied into the state’s solar energy subsidies.

He insists oil drilling, clean energy and electric cars aren’t, and shouldn’t be, mutually exclusive. But he does recognize the oddity of a Republican driving a sleek electric sports car and not, say, a pickup truck.

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Hacking volley continues U.S. denies responsibility for North Korean outages amid controversial film release.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government was not responsible for crippling North Korea’s Internet infrastructure after President Barack Obama blamed the country for hacking Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., two senior U.S. officials told The Associated Press, as Congress announced Friday it will examine North Korea’s cyberthreats starting next week.

In a new interview, the movie studio’s chief executive, Michael Lynton, compared the sensational hacking against Sony Pictures to burning down the company. He revealed that the studio’s network was still down more than six weeks later and was expected to remain that way for weeks longer.

“They came in the house, stole everything, then burned down the house,” Lynton told the AP. “They destroyed servers, computers, wiped them clean of all the data and took all the data.”

The Obama administration has steadfastly blamed North Korea for hacking Sony but has been deliberately coy about whether it retaliated and caused North Korea’s outage, which affected all the nation’s Internet connections starting the weekend of Dec. 20. The two officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to openly discuss the issue, acknowledged to the AP that it was not a U.S. operation.

In a twist, North Korea has denied it hacked Sony but publicly blamed the U.S. government for causing its Internet outages.

It was not immediately clear even within the administration whether rogue hackers or other governments disrupted North Korea’s networks. North Korea’s service was sporadic starting Saturday, Dec. 20, then collapsed entirely for nearly 10 hours two days later in what has remained an enduring whodunit.

Within the U.S. government, contingents have debated privately whether to acknowledge that the U.S. played no role in North Korea’s disruptions or remain silent to avoid detailed conversations about U.S. capabilities and policy on offensive cyberoperations, which are considered highly classified.

The disclosure denying U.S. involvement was intended to convey how seriously the administration considers offensive cyberattacks, intended to be used only in the most serious cases and consistent with the State Department’s admonitions for foreign governments to always preserve access to the Internet for all citizens, one of the officials said.

Lynton, the studio’s chief executive, told the AP that he never knew whether the U.S. government electronically attacked North Korea as retaliation for the break-in at his company.

In a wide-ranging interview,

Lynton described the scramble inside Sony in the days after Thanksgiving. Hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace left a grim message on computers and damaged hard-drives, as sensitive company files leaked onto the Internet.

“We are the canary in the coal mine, that’s for sure,” Lynton said. “There’s no playbook for this, so you are in essence trying to look at the situation as it unfolds and make decisions.”

The new Republican-majority Congress said Friday it will convene a hearing Tuesday about North Korea’s cyberthreats with testimony from senior officials at the departments of State, Treasury and Homeland Security. The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said the hearing will examine the Obama administration’s efforts to curtail North Korea hacking.

The U.S. government hinted earlier this year, on Jan. 2, that it wasn’t involved in the North Korea outages, but its intended message was too understated to be recognized as an outright denial. When the White House announced new economic sanctions against North Korea for what it called a “destructive and coercive cyberattack” against Sony, Obama spokesman Josh Earnest described the sanctions as “the first aspect of our response.” In other words, the government was saying its

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As late as Thursday, Obama’s homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco, declined to say whether the U.S. was behind the North Korea outages. At a cybersecurity conference in New York, Monaco would not answer a question from the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, whether the administration was responsible and agreed it could be helpful to be ambiguous about the consequences of hacking American targets.

“I’m not going to comment, and I never would, on operational capabilities,” she said.

At the time of the North Korea outages, the White House and State Department declined

to say whether the U.S. was h responsible. North Korea’s four principal connections to the Internet began having serious problems just hours after Obama blamed North Korea for hacking into Sony and promised to retaliate. The hacking disclosed confidential company emails and business files and included threats of terror attacks against U.S. movie theaters until Sony agreed to cancel the Christmas release of its film “The Interview.” Sony eventually decided to release the profane comedy that pokes fun at North Korea leader Kim Jong Un and depicts an assassination plot against him, offering it online for $6 and in a relatively small number of theaters.

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Faulty priorities result in missed opportunity White House admits it should have participated in Paris march

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a rare public admission of error, the White House said Monday the U.S. should have sent a highlevel official to an anti-terror march in Paris that was attended by more than 40 world leaders.

The Obama administration was represented Sunday by the U.S. ambassador to France, though Attorney General Eric Holder was in Paris for security / meetings.

“It’s fair to say we should have sent someone with a higher

profile,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. Secretary of State John Kerry was on a long-planned trip to India on Sunday but now will visit France later this week.

The White House appeared to have been caught off guard by both the display of international unity at the Paris march and the criticism of its decision to be represented only by Ambassador Jane Hartley. Monday’s admission of error seemed aimed at blunting criticism that the decision was tone deaf or disrespectful of the long U.S. alliance with France, a country set on edge by three days of terror that resulted in 17 deaths.

While some of the sharpest criticism of the failure to send a high-level official came from Republicans, some officials within the administration were also wikipedia.org frustrated with the deci-

sion to send only the ambassador. The move also underscored the degree to which President Barack Obama’s team has sometimes struggled with the optics of his being commander in chief.

“Part of this job is the theater of it,” Obama said last summer amid criticism that he had gone golfing just minutes after speaking about the beheading of an American journalist in Syria.

“It’s not something that comes naturally to me. But it matters.

And I’m mindful of that.”

Earnest suggested the elaborate security apparatus required for presidential travel prohibited Obama, as well as Vice President Joe Biden, from traveling to Paris on relatively short notice.

“There’s no doubt that had the president or vice president, on this very short time frame, gone to participate in this event that took place outdoors with more than a million people in attendance, that it would have significantly impacted the ability of those who attended the march to participate in the way they did yesterday,” Earnest said.

Planning for presidential travel overseas often begins months in advance, and security personnel typically arrive days

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ahead of Obama. However, trips are occasionally pulled together more quickly, including last year when Obama traveled to South Africa for a memorial service following the death of Nelson Mandela. Vice presidents can also typically travel with a lighter security footprint.

Dozens of world leaders did attend the march in Paris Sunday, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Earnest said the march was a “remarkable display of unity” in the face of the attacks that set France on edge.

The White House wouldn’t say why Holder, who was in Paris for security discussions, did not attend the march. The Justice Department said only that Holder “had to return to Washington Sunday afternoon.”

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Mavericks fall one game short The Maverick football team went a perfect 14-0 before falling in the national title game.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer The Minnesota State, Mankato Football took the field for the final time over the Winter Break in the Division II National Championship game in Kansas City, Kansas at Sporting Park. It proved to be the defensive battle we all imagined it to be, but the Mavericks were unable to find the end zone, losing to Colorado State University- Pueblo 13-0.

The Mavericks finished their historic season 14-1, a school record for wins in a season.

“Give credit to CSU-Pueblo, they did a great job” said head coach Todd Hoffner.

The Mavericks were unable to get anything going on offensive all day, a lot of that credit goes to the CSU-P defense.

“I thought CSU-Pueblo did a good job of mixing up their coverage, when we wanted to throw deep they were playing deep, and when we wanted to throw short, they moved their corners down, we have to tip our hats to their defensive coordinator, he called an excellent game.”

“We have to find ways to move the ball down the field for our guys to score a touchdown.”

Early in the first quarter the Mavericks were able to get momentum when Junior Justin Otto was able to grab the games only turnover with an interception.

The Mavericks were unable to get anything going after the pick, as the swarming defense of CSUP was able to contain the Mavericks all afternoon.

The Mavericks found some success midway through the second quarter, as they were able to drive to the CSU-P 11-yard line.

The ThunderWovles were able to hold their own and force MSU to attempt a 27-yard field goal.

CSU-P blocked the Maverick field goal attempt and returned it all the way to the Maverick 37yard line. The ThunderWolves were able to put points on the board first, as Greg O’Donnell knocked in a 27-yard field goal to give the ThunderWolves a 3-0 lead with 7:21 to play in the second quarter.

On their following drive the ThunderWovles continued their success as they were able to put together a 69-yard drive, QB Chris Bonner capped off the drive with an 18-yard touchdown

pass to Paul Browning to give CSU-P a 10-0 lead going into the half.

CSU-P put the only points on the board in the second half when O’Donnell knocked in his second field goal of the day, connecting on a 24-yard attempt in the third quarter.

The Mavericks were able to get into ThunderWovles territory twice in the fourth quarter, but they were unable to finish any of the drives off with points, coming away with a 13-0 loss.

The Mavericks were able to muster up 265 total yards in the defensive struggle; the ThunderWolves were able to gain 327 total yards. MSU was held to 105 total rushing yards, their lowest of any game this season. CSUPueblo gained 136 rushing yards in the contest.

Ricky Lloyd led the Mavericks offensively, the Sophomore Quarterback went 15/21 for 99 yards, and Lloyd also ran the rock

Web Photo The Mavericks’ Justin Otto going up for a ball against a CSU-P player.

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for a team leading 67 yards.

“One of the best defenses we have seen,” said Lloyd. “We just couldn’t get on a roll, we couldn’t get a drive sustained, and when you can’t get a sustained drive you have trouble scoring points.”

Junior Connor Thomas was held to 25 rushing yard on 10 carries, a 2.5 yard per carry average, well below his season average of 5.8. Thomas was able to catch Senior Andy Pfeiffer in career rushing yards with 3,231 yards; Pfeiffer finished his career with 3,227 rushing yards.

“This was a tremendous experience,” said Hoffner. “We didn’t come in satisfied. We came in to compete, we came in to win, we wanted to win, we were pre-

pared to win but today wasn’t our day against CSU-Pueblo.

They played better than us to-

day.”

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The season was successful for the Mavericks, as they put together the most wins in a single season in school history. They may have fell short of their ultimate goal of a National Championship, but that does not take away from what this team accomplished this season.

The Mavericks were able to pitch three shutouts this season, including the Season Opener at Blakeslee Stadium where a record number of MSU fans watched the Mavericks pound their way to a 31-0 victory over St. Cloud State. The Mavericks also showed they could win close games as they were able to close out a very talented Sioux Fall team 27-14.

In the Playoffs the Mavericks opened up with a 27-21 overtime thriller at home over Pittsburg State. They then

advanced to win their next two playoff games in blowout fashion, knocking off Minnesota Duluth 44-17 and Concord in the Semi-finals 47-13. The Mavericks were unable to finish out the dream of a National Championship, coming up just short with a 13-0 loss to a very good defensive team in Colorado State University – Pueblo.

It was the first title appearance for the Mavericks, and a long awaited one for MSU fans who have been watching them stroll through the regular season undefeated on a regular basis in recent history.

While the loss seems disappointing for MSU and Maverick fans, the season was definitely one for the Minnesota State University, Mankato record books.

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College hockey has a new no. 1 As other top teams fall, the Mavericks remain consistent and slide to the top spot in the country.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor

The Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team had a good first half of the season heading into the New Year.

Arguably their best start to a season in the program’s division I history.

The Mavericks went into last weekend’s series at Lake Superior State ranked no. 4 in the nation, after previously being ranked no. 2 back in December, the highest ranking program’s history. That was until this week.

At 16-4-1 and 5-0-1 in their last six games, MSU was rewarded for their hard work this season, and were billed the top team in all of college hockey.

This is a special Maverick team that has an opportunity to reach a fairly impressive milestone for the third consecutive season.

During the 2012-2013 season, Mike Hastings’ first season as head coach, the Mavs set a program record for wins in a season during the division I era with 24. Last season, in just his second season behind the bench, Hastings’ broke his own record when his team won 26 games en route to their second consecutive NCAA tournament appearance.

With fourteen games remaining on the schedule for the Mavericks, not including the WCHA playoffs and NCAA tournament, the Mavs are certainly capable of reaching the 27 win mark, or possibly higher.

So let’s take a look at how MSU got to this point and what remains, Going 13-2-1 in WCHA play over the first half of the season, MSU sits atop the conference standings, with a comfortable lead

over second place Michigan Tech, who has two games in hand. Last season, a tie against Tech in the last game of the season cost the Mavericks a share of the MacNaughton Cup as the WCHA regular season champions. If they can keep on the track they’re on now, the Mavs could come away with their first MacNaughton Cup in school history.

Aside from being ranked the no. 1 team in the country, MSU is also the top ranked team in the NCAA pairwise rankings, the rankings that determine the seeding of teams for the NCAA Tournament.

So how have the Mavericks been so good this season? Simply put, depth.

While senior forward Matt Leitner is on pace to lead the team in scoring for a fourth consecutive season, MSU is getting scoring from nearly every player on the roster. Leitner’s 18 assists this season lead the WCHA, while junior Bryce Gervais’ 13 goals are the most in the conference. Up front, the Mavs have been getting scoring from all four lines on any given night, which makes them tough to contain for opponents.

On the back end, defensemen Casey Nelson and Zach Palmquist are among the top scoring defenders in the country. Nelson, who saw limited playing time as a freshman, has now stepped into a much larger role and has posted five goals and 18 points in 21 games this season.

Palmquist has 17 points of his own and often sees large minutes on the power play.

Perhaps the biggest surprise for this Maverick team is the play of their starting goaltender. Not surprising because he isn’t

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capable, but surprising considering the way things went last season.

Junior goaltender Stephon Williams won WCHA Goaltender of the Year honors in 2013 to go along with the WCHA Rookie of the Year. As a sophomore last season, Williams not only lost the starting job to freshman Cole Huggins, but Huggins would go on to win the awards Williams won the season before.

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Men’s hoops remain in conference title hunt

Men’s track and field off to a good start DENZELL OATS Staff Writer

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer

The Minnesota State, Mankato Men’s basketball team had a solid winter break, seeing the Mavericks go 5-2 over the span with wins over Upper Iowa, Winona State, St. Cloud State, Minnesota Duluth and Wayne State.

MSU dropped two close games over the break, including a 75-73 loss to Concordia - St. Paul and an overtime loss to 12th ranked Augustana 98-88, both games were on the road.

The Mavericks currently sit at 12-3 (7-2) placing them 3rd in the NSIC standings, and ranked 16th nationally by the NABC Coaches poll. The two teams that the Mavericks are chasing in the conference standings are both nationally ranked as well.

Augustana 15-1 (9-1) is currently ranked 12th in the polls, while MSUMoorhead 18-1 (9-1) is tied with Augstana for the conference lead, is ranked 13th in the polls. The Mavericks match up with the Dragons on January 31st in Moorhead.

Senior Assem Marei is currently leading the Mavericks and the conference in scoring, pacing the Mavericks with 19.7 pts/ game. Marie is also taking the lead rebounding, grabbing 8.5 boards a game, placing him second in the conference. Marei had a monster game against St. Cloud State where he dropped 32 points on 12 of 17 shooting. He also grabbed a career high 15 rebounds in the Maverick victory. Marei has really came on as of late, scoring over 20 points in four of his last give games, with the lone 19 point outing against Minnesota Duluth being the only game below

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20. Marei has also been a force defensively, blocking 1.7 shots a game, which is good enough to lead the conference.

Senior Zach Monaghan is second on the team with 13.4 pts/game along with a team and conference high 8.7 assist/game. Monaghan had himself a day against Augustana, scoring 21 points and tallying a season high 15 assist.

Freshman guard T.J Lake has been deadly from beyond the arc this season for the Mavericks.

Shooting a tremendous 56 percent, he has connected on 32 of his 62 3-points attempts. His 56 percent is tied for the lead in the NSIC. Lake has been especially deadly as of late, shooting an incredible 85 percent in the past three game. Lake connected on 5 of 6 from three, scoring 15 points against Augustana, 3 of 4 against Wayne State, scoring 11 points. 3 of 3 against Minnesota Duluth,

scoring 13 points.

Senior Connor Miller has found his niche in the MSU offense, scoring the ball in all sorts of ways, leading the team in Free Throw percentage with 92 percent. His 92 free throw percentage is also good for second in the conference. Miller has connected on 37 of his possible 40 foul shots. He as also seen some success beyond the arc, landing 44 percent of his three point shots.

The Mavericks are on the road this weekend as they travel to Bemidji on Friday to take on the Beavers, tip off is set for 8 p.m. The team then travels Crookston on Saturday to take on the Golden Eagles of Minnesota Crookston.

Tip off is set for 6 p.m.

The Minnesota State men’s track team saw some great success at the MSU Alumni Open this past weekend after four months of training.

Junior Kyran Stewart took a first place finish in the 60 meter dash with a time of 6.87. He currently sits seventh in the nation in the event. He then would go on to take a second place finish in the 200m dash behind fellow teammate Emmanuel Matadi who turned in a time of 21.30.

Matadi currently sits number one in the nation in the event followed

by Stewart’s time of 21.43.

Senior Zach Gearman turned in a first place finish in the 400 meter dash with a time of 50.35.

Followed behind him was freshman Javontee Brice who ran a 51.07.

In the 1000-meters, two freshman led the Mavericks as Brendan Gessner took a fourth place finish with a time of 2:40.97.

Right behind Gess-

ner came new incoming freshman Michael Hoff.

Another newcomer, Austin Pasch finished third in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:00.77.

In the jumps, Ben Ojika saw a great performance in high jump. With a personal best at 6’8.75’’, Ojika took a second place finish in the event also with provisional qualifying honors.

Sophomore Frankie Veldman finished third at 6’6.75’’.

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Freshman Geno Bullard also reached the provisional qualifying standard in long jump.

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Bullard took a first place finish.

Coming in third was sophomore Michael Sandle jumping 22’8.5’’. Sandle would then go on to dominate in the triple jump leaping a mark of 50’5.25’’ which is currently the top mark so far this season across Division II.

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Senior Khalil Jor’dan would come in second with a distance of 47’2.25’’ earning him provisional qualifying honors.

The day finished up in throws with sophomore Bryan Caffin placing sixth in the shot put with a mark of 46’10.75 and third in the weight throw with a toss of 50’5.25’’.

“As a staff, we are excited at the progress being made this early in the season,” Head coach Jim Dilling says. “Our goal is to get individuals qualified for the national meet and eight members of indoor roster have already done so, so I’m confident we are headed in the right direction.”

The 34 man team consists of a great mash up of talent from both returners and newcomers. Team captains Sandle, Matadi, and senior Anthony Gustafson are prideful of the dynamic of the team.

“I think the balance of experience across the team works in our favor,” Gustafson says. “We have a lot of young talent on the team that are gaining a lot from what the upperclassmen have to offer.”

The Mavericks have also proven to be very dominant within the Northern Sun Conference.

With the exception of 2011, the men’s track team has won both the indoor and outdoor NSIC championships since 2009.

“We are always keeping our focus at remaining at the top within the conference,” says Coach Dilling.

“We are pushing for our 4th straight NSIC indoor title at the end of February and our expectations are nothing less” But team goals go beyond conference for the group of men.

“We have extremely high hopes for this team beyond even the conference meet,” Dilling continues. “We are just as focused on bettering the 4th place finish we had at the NCAA DII National Championships last season.”

And the Mavericks seem to have all the weapons they need to do just that.

The Mavericks will compete next at the Holiday Inn invitational this weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska. Next home action will be January 23rd for the MSU Open & Multi Meet.

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Williams has gone 1221 this season with an impressive 1.89 goals against average and a .917 save percentage with two shutouts.

Williams has gotten his fair share of help, though.

The Mavericks have the top offense in the country, averaging 3.86 goals per game. The fact that their scoring is dispersed throughout their deep roster makes this even more

impressive.

Moving forward, the Mavericks have a tough schedule to round out the regular season. Coming up is a pair of weekend series’ against last season’s MacNaughton Cup winner Ferris State sandwiched around the North Star College Cup in St. Paul, where MSU will face off against the University of Minnesota, and then either Bemidji State or Minneso-

ta-Duluth.

This weekend MSU heads to Big Rapids, Mich. for their first series against the Ferris State University Bulldogs. FSU was ranked as high as no.

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Maverick women get in the win column After a slow start, the MSU women’s hockey team are on the board.

TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer

To put it bluntly, the Minnesota State University-Mankato Hockey team has gone through a treacherous journey this season.

They are currently 2-17-1 on the season, and are winless at home (0-7).

The team has barely averaged over a goal per game, averaging 1.2, and their opponents have averaged almost four goals a game with 3.85.

The list of tumultuous statistics continues, but there is hope for optimism. The season is still not over, as the Mavericks have rolled off a couple victories during the winter break.

On January 7th, the Mavericks had their best game of the season, as they stayed in control throughout the game to clinch their first victory of the season, a 4-1 road win over Lindenwood University.

MSU took the lead early in the first, and continued

to pour it on while playing terrific defense and getting great goaltending

by Junior Erin Krichver, who notched 26 saves.

Two nights later, the Mavs continued their success, as this one was a come-frombehind victory 3-2 against Lindenwood.

At this point in the season, most teams would fall down after being down 2-0 in the second period with a record of 1-16-1 at the time. MSU kept fighting, and that game they answered with 3 goals that were uncontested, as the Lions of Lindenwood could not answer back.

There is certainly a notice of optimism there, as this team will keep fighting down to the wire.

After back-to-back wins, there is reason to believe the Mavericks could turn their season around and finish on a strong note, though it doesn’t get easier from here.

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challenges. They still have to face off against no. 2 Minnesota, no. 7 Minnesota-Duluth, no. 3 Wisconsin, no. 10 Ohio State, and a couple match-ups with St. Cloud State. With that being said, no one ever said anything was going to be a cakewalk.

The Mavericks have had an increase in goals over their past ten games, previous to their first ten games.

There is a 70 percent spike in goals, which means the offensive production is certainly coming alive as of late. Nicole Schammel and Hannah Davidson both lead the team in goals scored, with four each.

They are also more threatening in the offensive zone than earlier in the season due to taking more shots, as they have averaged about eight more shots on goal per game against opponents the second half of the season.

The Mavericks next scheduled game is set for this Friday in Minneapolis against the no. 2 ranked

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Golden Gophers of Minnesota. So far this season, MSU has been outscored by the Golden Gophers 1-9. They also have been out shot 32-109 in the two game series back in November, but it is best to keep the past in its own time. As long as the Mavericks can keep up the offensive attack and control their side of the ice

on defense, they can stay competing against the best of them. It would be wise for the club to come up with some big wins here on the home stretch.

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2014: The Gathering Wizards of the Coast announce changes, new sets for the coming year.

TEREASA HATTEN Staff Writer Magic: The Gathering had a very successful year in 2014, with four set releases and a new “Duel Deck,” which is a special release that includes two 60card decks designed specifically to be played against each other.

Each of the new sets warranted their own release events, which

players eagerly flocked to all across the country. Here’s a review of what happened in Magic in 2014 and what to expect from Wizards of the Coast this year.

The first release of 2014 was Born of the Gods (BNG) on Feb. 7; this was the second set in the Theros block (Theros having been released in 2013). BNG brought one new Planeswalker,

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Kiora, and also continued the mechanic of “enchantment” creatures that was introduced with the Theros set, but took it one step further with “Legendary enchantment” creatures (also referred to as gods). Another new addition was that of “scry” lands–multicolor lands that enter tapped but allow the player to look at the top card of their library.

The second release of the year occurred March 14 and wasn’t a set, but another in the Duel Decks series – specifically the Duel Decks created around Planeswalkers Jace, Architect of Thought and Vraska the Unseen.

Journey into Nyx (JOU) was released May 2 and was the final installment of the Theros block and with 165 cards, which provided a simple, but fair end.

Like BNG, JOU only gave players one new Planeswalker, Ajani, Mentor of Heroes which was a long awaited arrival.

JOU brought another five gods as well as two new abilities called Constellation and Strive.

Strive abilities allow players to

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cast with more mana in order to target several cards whereas Constellation abilities will only ever effect one card.

The fourth release was the M15 core set on July 18. The majority of the 269 cards printed for the set were “re-prints” from previous MtG core sets.

Some of the noteworthy cards include six Planeswalkers, five of which were completely new; also six avatar creatures – one

to represent each color within the game, as well as the ‘colorless’ mana; and above all, the most popular cards from M15 were the Slivers.

The final release of 2014 was the introduction of a new block, which also caused a rotation in the Standard mode of play.

Khans of Tarkir (KTK) was released Sep. 26 with a total of 269 cards with the basic idea

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Assassins take the stage A story told from the viewpoint of the villains.

LORIEN MEGIL Staff Writer Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Theatre and Dance is opening 2015 with a bang with ten performances of Stephen Sondheim’s award-winning musical, Assassins, which will run from Jan. 29-Feb. 8.

This show with book by John Weidman and music and lyrics

by Stephen Sondheim (whose musical Into the Woods was recently released as a feature film) originally opened Off-Broadway in 1990 and was revived on Broadway in 2004. This is the “revusical’s” Minnesota State Mankato debut.

This historical American

musical examines nine individuals throughout American history who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, the President of the United States, and refuses to shy away from the dark side of the American experience.

The characters featured include easily recognizable individuals such as John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald as well as lesser-known people such as Leon Czolgosz, Guiseppe Zangara, and Sara Jane Moore.

Assassins is directed by Department Chair Dr. Paul J. Hustoles, with musical direction by Music major Jesse Beulke. The cast includes Leigh Jacobson,

a senior BFA Musical Theatre candidate who played “Belle” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, as Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme; Erin Horst as Sarah Jane Moore - Horst is a first-year MFA Musical Theatre candidate who appeared last year in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Our Town; Matthew Stairs, a transfer BFA Musical Theatre candidate who recently played “Gaston” in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, as John Wilkes Booth; and Jordan Oxborough as Lee Harvey Oswald - Oxborough is a senior BFA Musical Theatre candidate who has performed in Spring Awakening, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Next to Normal.

Assassins will be in the

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Pirate Bay docked for good?

The internet pirates still not plundering after server raid.

CHELSEY DIVELY A&E Editor The Pirate Bay was one of the worlds most frequented sites for torrent downloads, and for past eleven years they have struggled with issues of copyright infringement which landed its founders Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm and Carl Lundström in jail. Despite the setbacks the Pirate Bay proved itself to be the flagship of torrent sites for its resilience against raids and amount of content available.

Every time the Swedish government or other countries tried to block the site Pirate Bay would change its domain. However, on Dec. 9, the Swedish government did more than just block the domain, they raided the servers in Stockholm and completely brought down the website.

Shortly after Pirate Bay began counting how many days

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disappointment of co-founder Peter Sunde.

Sunde is upset with how the site has been run over the past few years with the Viagra ads, overtly sexual ads, and the lack of updates made on the site. He no longer supports the company

also thought that since users need to have separate software to reassemble and use the torrents. Plus the file is distributed across however many people are seeding the file.

Pirate Bay fans will have to wait until Feb. 1 to see if the

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with performances at 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 29-31 and 4-7 and 2 p.m.

Feb. 1, 7, and 8. Tickets for this unique show are available for $22, $19 discounted (for people over 65, 16 and under, or groups of 15 or more), or $15 for current Minnesota State students; and can be purchased online at MSUTheatre.com or, beginning on Jan. 19, in person from 4-6 p.m. Monday-Friday

at the Theatre & Dance Box Office in the lobby of the Earley Center for Performing Arts. For more information call 507-389-6661.

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it had been down but as of late Dec. it began to count down to Feb. 1. People currently cannot torrent from the site, but it does display the Jolly Rodger, a small icon of the pirate bay logo moving across the screen to a tiny island, and the code at the bottom was recently decoded and found to be a link to a YouTube video of Arnold Schwarzenegger saying “I’ll be back.” This led to much joy for the fans of Pirate Bay, and the

he founded and instead hopes that the site will remain down.

He is also displeased with fans’ assumptions that the site would remain up indefinitely.

The Pirate Bay uses a system of file sharing which led to the misconception that they were raid proof. After the raid eight years ago the site switched to using a network spread out across countries, which split the traffic load and therefore didn’t rely on a single server. They

site does indeed make a comeback but all the countdown and video link strongly hint at its return. In the meantime other torrent sites are trying to accumulate as many marooned users as they can.

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Golden Globes: winners and losers Boyhood trumps ceremony; traditional televesion channels falter.

JAMES HOUTSMA Editor in Chief The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards was business as usual: glitz, gags and gauging the awards horserace.

George Clooney was quick to note in his acceptance speech for the Cecile B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award that everyone in

be an awards heavyweight, what with releasing at the front end of the awards season and being a near-perfect movie.

Alas, buzz towards Fincher’s mystery thriller has majorly died down in recent months.

The film did not receive a nomination for Best Drama, and walked away with no wins for the three nominations it did receive (Best Actress – Drama,

surprise when announced last month, the fact that it won the award only makes its rise back to prominence all the more impressive.

LOSER: BEST SCORE In the hierarchy of nominees for Best Score at this year’s Golden Globes, Interstellar > Gone Girl > Birdman > The Imitation Game > The Theory of Everything. Guess which one won? Just saying.

WINNER: THE AFFAIR Every awards cycle has its surprise contenders that sneak in and shake things up. Showtime’s new series The Affair was this year’s mover and shaker.

Star Ruth Wilson nabbed Best Actress in a TV Drama and the series brought home Best TV Drama. The Affair may not have been on many peoples’ radar before but it certainly is now.

LOSER: TRUE DETECTIVE/GAME OF THRONES HBO fan favorites True Detective and Game of Thrones went in with a lot of people cheering only to leave empty handed. True Detective was beat out in the Best TV Miniseries category by FX’s Fargo, while

GOT lost the Best TV Drama to the aforementioned Affair.

Twitter blew up in upset. It was awkward.

WINNER: PRINCE Prince wasn’t nominated for anything at this year’s Globes but he did show up to present the award for Best Song (ultimately going to Common and John Legend for their song “Glory,” from Selma.) The mere presence of Prince is, in itself, a win.

LOSER: THE LEGO MOVIE Honestly, The LEGO Movie

Best Director, Best Score). Reactions at the ceremony when the film was name-dropped were noticeably tepid, as well.

When it comes to the upcoming Oscar nominations, Gone Girl’s recent loss in favor could mean the film will simply be lucky to get invited to the party.

WINNER: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL The Grand Budapest Hotel is the anti-Gone Girl. Despite being a very good film, many in the industry were anticipating GBH to largely be forgotten due to its release date much earlier in the year. The marketing people at Fox Searchlight apparently had other plans, as Wes Anderson’s whimsical comedy has made a roaring resurgence.

Not only was the film’s nomination for Best Motion Picture – Comedy, Musical a major

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the room had “caught the brass ring.” That may be true in many senses, but, regardless, there were certainly winners and losers of the night – some more apparent than others.

WINNER: BOYHOOD Hindsight is 20/20, especially when looking at the success of Boyhood. While there were many strong contenders for the Best Motion Picture – Drama trophy this year, it seems set in stone that Richard Linklater’s 12-year passion project would come out on top. In the company of Selma, The Imitation Game and The Theory of Everything, that’s high praise. Thanks to this win, the naturalistic indie gem is now locked in as the frontrunner for nabbing the Best Picture Oscar next month.

LOSER: GONE GIRL How the mighty have fallen.

Gone Girl was once poised to

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should have had this one in the bag. Respect to How to Train Your Dragon 2 for its respective success, but everything about The LEGO Movie – from its impressive box office numbers to the overwhelmingly positive reactions from critics and audiences – said that it would be the winner. HTTYD2’s win at the Globes throws that certainty into chaos.

WINNER: ACTING FRONTRUNNERS Falling in line with recent years, the perceived frontrun-

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New Years Eve parties atop Skyway The Dubstep New Years celebrations are ones to remember.

JENNA VAGEL Staff Writer New Years Eve is a time to reflect, restart, and party of course! Celebrating the New Year is encouraged all around the world, with traditions big and small. Some people enjoy a night at home, or go all out

artist Datsik rang in the New Year.

Skyway hosted a number of other artists on New Years Eve, including Terravita, Mayhem and Fox Stevenson to name a few. Datsik played second to last, ringing in the New Year with a countdown that blew everyone away. The stage had a huge set up, with a two-story

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and make it the first big party of the New Year. Electronic dance music (EDM) shows are notorious for being a wild time, like the show at Skyway Theater in Minneapolis, where dubstep

DJ booth that produced psychedelic images. Skyway’s light system is massive, with every color laser and an intense strobe system. It has all the fixings that would make even the quietest

kid into a raver. Datsik utilized the system well in his set and produced a show that was nothing less than incredible.

Datsik, or Troy K. Beetles, has been around the music scene since 2008. He got his start producing hip-hop and collaborating with his buddy, Excision, who is another big name in EDM. Datsik’s style is considered dirty or hard with long builds and huge bass releases (if you think of dubstep, think of Datsik). He’s got a way of getting so into the music that

it gives off a party vibe that radiates throughout the entire venue. He makes his audience feel every ounce of bass that he’s producing and it makes fans go crazy.

Dubstep is comprised of remixes and original mixes; it sounds like a swirl of percussion, bass, and hard beats.

Dubstep is a huge genre of music and is popular all across the world with a show going on somewhere in the world every second of the day. Wintertime means show season, and DJs are

playing indoor venues and touring until festival season starts again this summer. Datsik starts his Ninja Nation tour on Jan. 22 in Boston Massachusetts with special guests such as ETC! ETC!, Kennedy Jones, Trolley Snatcha, and Truth on select dates.

Datsik will play the Midwest scene next in Iowa City, Iowa on Feb. 24.

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MAGIC “Each of the GLOBES “Prince wasn’t nominated for

new sets warranted their own release events, which players eagerly flocked to all across the country. ”

anything at this year’s Globes but he did show up to present the award for Best Song (ultimately going to Common and John Legend for their song “Glory,” from Selma.) The mere presence of Prince is, in itself, a win.”

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that there are five tri-color clans that follow their Khan (the Legendary creatures in the set) and worship one aspect of the extinct dragons; the clans are: The Abzan Houses, The Jeskai Way, The Sultai Brood, The Mardu Horde, and the Temur Frontier. Also new in the set are two Planeswalkers – Sorin and Sarkhan.

The two new abilities in this block are Raid and Morph; cards with Raid are engineered to be cast in the second main phase because the ability only takes effect if the player used their combat phase. Morph is useful early in the game when a player is low on mana because it allows players to cast a card face down for less than the full converted mana cost, and can be flipped at any time after that for three mana.

There are also some new land types. One of them allows players to tap it for one of the three colors of their clan, one is a sacrifice land where the player also loses one life, and the final has the option of two colors to tap for – it enters tapped but the player gains one life.

The release of KTK prom-

ised many exciting new things for Magic, including a major change! Beginning this year, no more core sets will be printed and there will only be two sets per block rather than three. The idea behind the change in the set number is to simplify the rotation periods for Standard.

2015 will see the completion of the Khans of Tarkir block – Fate Reforged will be released Jan. 23 with a total of 185 cards and Dragons of Tarkir on March 27 with 264 cards in the mix. October will bring the release of a thus far unannounced “Blood” set which will begin the new Magic paradigm.

The complete mechanics of the change are a bit too complicated to explain in this short article, but an in-depth discussion of it can be found at http:// magic.wizards.com/en/articles/ archive/mm/metamorphosis I have a feeling 2015 will be yet another fantastic year for Magic: the Gathering.

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ners going into the Globes all left keeping their titles as favorites intact. Eddie Redmayne won Best Actor in a Drama for his role as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Every-

Comedy/Musical. Meanwhile, J.K. Simmons remains the clear choice in all Supporting Actor races after winning the evening’s prize for his intense performance in Whiplash. Last

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landscape. This year’s Globes saw almost no representation from these channels. Instead, this year’s TV representation is a clear argument for a changing television landscape. Premiere channels like HBO and Showtime continue to reign but online outlets like Netflix and Amazon made a huge splash with wins for shows like Transparent and House of Cards.

And in addition to the frequently-lauded FX got its moment in the sun, this year saw The CW rise above just being a channel consisting of pretty people and garner nominations for their new show Jane the Virgin.

It’s an interesting time for TV, indeed.

WINNERS: AMY POEHLER AND TINA FEY For the final time, comedy duo Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were on hosting duties and absolutely killed it. Between ribbing celebs like Joaquin Phoenix and George Clooney and demolishing North Korea for their role in the recent Sony hack and Billy Cosby, the hosts did not hold back and the result was hilarity. Whoever the HFPA selects to host the Globes next has big shoes to fill.

thing , while Michael Keaton’s comeback role as a washed up superhero actor in Birdman earned him the award for Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical.

Julianne Moore’s role as a teacher suffering from early onset Alzheimer’s in Still Alice saw that she took home the Best Actress in a Drama award, and Amy Adams’ performance as silenced painter Margaret Keane in Big Eyes got her the trophy for Best Actress in a

but not least, Patricia Arquette’s role as a struggling single mother in Boyhood brought her the Best Supporting Actress award. Simmons and Arquette are likely set for repeat victories while Redmayne and Keaton might just have to battle it out down the road.

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