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Can I kiss you, MSU? Mike Domirtz brings consent and healthy relationships into the limelight with a fun-filled show.

BROOKE EMMONS Staff Writer A new program focusing on the important topic of healthy dating will be presenting on campus this coming Tuesday, called, “Can I Kiss You?”.

Mike Domirtz is leading the discussion and presentation. An expert on the subject, Domirtz is a nationally renowned and highly respected healthy dating researcher as well as teacher.

Domirtz is the founder of “The Date Safe Project”. He had

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personal experience with the subject, which inspired him to start the project in order to help others.

His goals are to help dramatically improve society’s approach to healthy dating, create a better understanding of how consent is obtained, reveal how to be a part of effective bystander intervention in situations where drugs and alcohol are present and also teach others who know victims of sexual assault how to properly support them.

Early on, Domirtz realized that sexual assault effects are large amount of people as well as the victim. As his life was changed, his view on how sexual assault was handled on his college campus also morphed. Domirtz saw the largest problem in the cases, failure

to obtain consent.

Most of the students at his college did not even realize that their form of dating practices was also a form of disrespect; the average student never received permission before initiating an intimate act with the other person.

Another thing he noticed was that no one knows what to say to a rape victim or their loved ones because the skills needed to console a person who had been in a sexual assault situation are never taught. Also, many people

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have not had a personal experience with it so to them, talking about sexual assault was wrong.

Only a year after Domirtz had his personal experience with sexual assault, he began

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Recovery of Flight 8501 continues Search-and-rescue teams working to bring closure to families of disaster victims.

AMANDA HINDE Staff Writer

Following a three-week search effort, the fuselage for AirAsia Flight 8501 that was en route to Singapore from Surabaya, Indonesia when it disappeared has been recovered.

The first signs of the flight were found on the third day of searching, but the recovery of the plane’s tail of the plane was instrumental in finding the fuselage and also supplied one of the plane’s two “black boxes.”

Black boxes contain information on flights and even recordings of the pilot’s communication between air traffic control and between both pilots, therefore finding the black box provides a very detailed look into the last few minutes and seconds before

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the crash.

Search efforts lead by the military and search-and-rescue agency of Indonesia were detained due to bad weather and turbulent seas. Equipment used in the search included

planes and ships conducting visual, sonar and radar surveillance. A team of naval divers was also called in to lend help in recovering the crewmembers and passengers that were found.

Photos of the fuselage were put

on Facebook from the defense minister of Indonesia, Ng Eng Hen; the images show mangled pieces of plane in grainy detail due to the still-torrential storm.

Information from the black box is critical for investigators

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because the pilots of Flight 8501 had contacted air traffic control before the crash asking to ascend to a higher elevation to avoid a big storm up ahead—a regular occurrence for flights in that area. Control replied that they would have to wait for the air traffic to lessen in that area of elevation. When air traffic control tried to contact the plane again, there was no answer and the plane disappeared from radar soon afterwards without mention of problems, concerns, and without sending a distress signal. Officials assume the plane crashed due to some unforeseen problem or the storm.

Unlike the recent Malaysia Airlines flight 370, which disappeared with all 239 passengers and crew, 48 crewmembers and

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Ebola research advances Two long-awaited vaccines deemed safe to begin human testing.

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LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West Africa.

After an expert meeting this week, WHO said there is now enough information to conclude that the two most advanced Ebola vaccines — one made by

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GlaxoSmithKline and the other licensed by Merck and NewLink — have “an acceptable safety profile.”

In a press briefing on Friday, Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, who heads WHO’s Ebola vaccine efforts, said “the cupboard (for Ebola vaccines) is filling up rapidly.”

She said further trials in healthy people in West Africa, including health workers, are scheduled to start soon. Kieny added several other vaccines were being developed in the U.S., Russia and elsewhere.

Despite the temporary suspension of a trial of the vaccine made by NewLink and Merck in December, Kieny said there was no sign of significant side effects. That trial was put on hold while experts investigated reports of joint pain in a number of participants. It was an unexpected side effect but Kieny said it was not worrying enough to stop the vaccine’s development.

No such side effects have been reported with the other vaccine.

The next phase of trials will likely take about six months and manufacturers will ramp up their production at the same time, meaning millions of doses could be available later this year. It’s unclear if that will be quick enough to help slow the epidemic, which appears to be on the decline. So far, Ebola is believed to have sickened more than 20,000 people and killed about 8,000, mostly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Officials estimate the death rate to be about 71 percent.

“We will have to take stock when we have the vaccines,” said Helen Rees of the University of Witwatersrand, who chaired the WHO meeting.

She said experts would have to consider at that point whether it’s useful to vaccinate entire populations or focus only on high-risk groups.

Dr. Peter Piot, the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus, said he was concerned there might be too few cases to prove the vac-

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working towards eliminating assault as well as helping the victims. He knew he had the power to make a difference: to start, he approached a few of the experts who traveled the country to speak about sexual assault, who were impressed with his passion towards making a difference. They offered him guidance and information in learning the laws and myths of sexual assault, but Domirtz noticed something: all the college students who had gone to the seminars reported them back as boring or depressing.

He found that if people were laughing, they were more likely to listen to the powerful things he had to say, so Domirtz started a oneperson show, using humor to open the minds of his audience.

After getting the attention with his “Can I Kiss You” presentation in 2002, Domirtz has been traveling the country presenting to many audiences such as schools, organizations, parent groups, and the US Military.

The Minnesota State Mankato’s Violence Awareness and Response Program as well as Residence Hall Association, Residential Life, Student Affairs, The Civility Campaign, Office of Affirmative Action and University Security have invited Domirtz to speak here at MSU. To see his presentation go to the Centennial Student Union Ballroom this coming Tuesday, Jan. 20, from 7-9pm.

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Ten more protesters charged in MOA incident Pre-Christmas protest continues into 2015 BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

(AP) — Prosecutors have charged an additional 10 people who participated in a massive demonstration over contentious policing tactics at the Mall of America just before Christmas, Bloomington authorities said Wednesday.

The latest charges are in addition to 25 demonstrators who were arrested and charged with trespassing at the rally that took over the mall’s rotunda for several hours on Dec. 20, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the Star Tribune reported.

The demonstration was against recent grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of unarmed black men.

In a statement, the group Black Lives Matter Minneapolis said it was “saddened” by the decision to “to misdirect public resources to protect corporate profits instead of supporting justice” for African-Americans.

Bloomington City Attorney Sandra Johnson cited a 1999 Minnesota Supreme Court decision that ruled the mall is

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private property where constitutional free speech protections don’t apply.

At the time, Johnson said that her office also would seek charges against protest organizers. The 10 people on Wednesday were charged with offenses ranging from unlawful assembly and public nuisance to trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to Bloomington police deputy chief Rick Hart.

Hart said in a news release that the Mall of America, to

“ensure the safety and experience of its guests,” has a longstanding policy that forbids protests.

“This policy has been consistently enforced. The Black Lives Matter group was informed that it did not have permission to gather and demonstrate in Mall of America. An alternative location was provided, and rally organizers declined to re-locate the demonstration,” Hart said.

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cines worked. Still, he said every option should be pursued to stop the world’s biggestever outbreak of Ebola.

“With Ebola, you need to find every last case and stop all transmission,” he said. “It may be that we won’t be able to do that without a vaccine,” Piot said.

GAVI, a private-public vaccine alliance, has pledged to spend $300 million on WHO-recommended Ebola vaccines, which it estimates could translate into 12 million doses.

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Gender inclusion a goal for St. Paul schools Minnesota district working to create a better environment for all students.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The St. Paul school district is seeking to establish a new policy to protect transgender students.

The proposal was outlined Tuesday night by the district’s strategic planning and policy administrator. A group of school board members plans to work on the “gender inclusion” policy with students, parents and staff in the coming months.

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Some of the main provisions call for students to be identified by their preferred names and gender pronouns, and participate in programs and activities that align with their gender identity.

The Minnesota State

High School League adopted a similar policy in December allowing transgender athletes to play on sports teams that agree with their gender identity.

The Avalon School in St. Paul and the Blake School in Hopkins recently decided to open gender-neutral bathrooms for students.

passengers from Flight 8501 were found 10 miles from the plane’s last known coordinates. Bodies of the deceased are being taken to Surabaya, East Java where families are waiting for them to be identified. The defense ministers hopes that recovery of the fuselage the black boxes will help to recover the remaining passengers and crewmembers and bring closure to the families of those who were lost in the disaster.

There have been hundreds of fatal commercial airline incidents in the past decade, causing many to question the

quality of air travel and policies that ensure the safety of those who travel. However experts do not attribute recent events to a decrease in airline safety; according to an article published by the New York Times in 2013, commercial air travel safety has continually improved since 1945, citing M.I.T. statistics professor Arnold Barnett and stating: “In other words, flying has become so reliable that a traveler could fly every day for an average of 123,000 years before being in a fatal crash.”

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For love or employment?

Should you choose your major based on passion or professional promise?

LUKE LARSON Staff Writer As a college student, you will, if you have not already, have to decide upon a major.

You’ve already spent some time discerning what it is you might like to study, and chances are you’ve had the internal argument between “doing what you love” and “practicality”. One part of yourself says “Follow your passion! Do something remarkable with your life!”

But the other part says “You’ve got to make money somehow!

Be practical about your decision!” I’m here to lend a little reinforcement to the first part, because I truly believe that, if you’re smart and committed, the best choice you can make is to study what you are most passionate about.

This discussion comes up frequently between me and my friend from back home in Saint Paul, as we are both very interested in geography and linguistics. I followed my love for learning about the world and made the natural choice of becoming a geography major, but he decided to major in engineering. He argues that engineering, unlike “useless” majors like geography, offers better employment opportunities and is more beneficial to society.

In other words, engineering is

more “practical” and thus more worthwhile. He makes a very appealing argument and I see where he’s coming from: you’re dropping a lot of money on tuition so the last thing you’d want to do would be to waste your time here on something that’s neither going to get you a job nor make any contribution to the world around you.

I think he’s looking at it the wrong way, though, and here’s why.

Take a moment and think about what you want out of a career. Is money the end goal?

Are you willing to give up your passion for something “practical” which offers more money?

Which career is really going to make you happier: the one that makes you look forward to going to your job each day to work on something that genuinely interests you, or the “practical” one that earns you more money but turns every workday into drudgery? It boils down to the

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question of your ultimate objective: salary or satisfaction?

That’s not to say that it’s a dichotomy of either doing what you love or making money. Do what you love and the rest will sort itself out because being truly committed to something will reveal opportunities along the way. By pursuing the thing that most interests you, you will have a greater drive to achieve and to overcome obstacles. That being said, some majors simply do offer more easily-accessible employment opportunities: the accounting major will have an easier job search after graduating than the creative writing major and I don’t deny that. But that’s not to say that the outlook

for the creative writing major is hopeless, it just means that it will require more commitment and creativity, qualities that will arise naturally out of the pursuit of one’s passion.

But, as my friend would object, what can a music major, or a linguistics major, or a philosophy major possibly have to offer society? The engineer, the doctor, and the banker offer real, tangible services to humanity. These fields of work are clearly more practical, are they not? My response is this: what is practicality, really? If the only things we knew how to do were construct the buildings we

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“My uncle is special needs and I want to help those kids live a normal life through education.”

“Business has always interested me and I want to travel and help other places be successful.”

AUSTIN LINDQUIST, FINANCE “I’m good with numbers and I wanted something that would look good on a resume and would allow me to make decent money.”

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Textbooks: Help or Hindrance?

What would help lower the cost of college textbooks?

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer Although a new semester is always exciting, there is one thing not eeryone will be happy about: the textbooks. Textbooks are so expensive and it is always stressful to buy ones at the start of every new semester.

When I had just come to

was too expensive for students, but I had to purchase it anyway because that was the required textbook. However, the professor in the class who required the textbook barely used it for the whole semester and I could not help thinking that purchasing of the textbook was completely not worth it. What is worse, when I tried to sell it back at the end

it back either because the book was not clipped but published as just papers so that students can use a binder. Not only did staff in the bookstore mention that type of textbook could not be sold, the bookstore only had that type of book.

“I have to pay over $200 to buy all the textbooks for this semester,” said Ali Abbas,

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America last spring semester, I had to buy two textbooks for my classes; I could never imagine how expensive they were before I went to the Barnes & Noble bookstore because textbooks are normally less than $50 in Korea no matter how expensive they are.

The first textbook I bought for the semester was a very thin and soft-covered book that I paid over $100 for. I thought it

of the semester, I was rejected because new edition of the book would be coming out and used for the next semester, even though the book was published in the past two years.

The other textbook I bought for another $100 was luckily very useful for my class because professor used the book during the class and I also used it outside class for taking quizzes.

However, I was not able to sell

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mathematics major at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

When I heard his worried voice, I couldn’t just laugh because I knew it would be same for me as well.

“This book is a used book and it costs over $100,” said Anna Kang, biomedical science major. For her, the price of her textbooks would be even outrageous because the textbooks

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inhabit and produce the medicine and food that sustain us, what would life be like?

It would not be life, it would be mere survival. Knowledge of culture, philosophy, and the arts adds the spice to life and it is precisely what the “impractical” majors provide.

Both the practical and the impractical are necessary to civilization. Let those who love the practical pursue the practical, and let those who love the so-called impractical pursue that. By doing what you love you are contributing your greatest potential to society. You will do what you love with more endeavor and effectiveness than you would do anything else. Any person’s career search, I want to add, should be more than a drive for self-satisfaction.

Ideally, your job should be

a means of contributing to others. My friend and I are in agreement on this. My argument is, however, that you will contribute to others to your full potential by finding how your talents and interests intersect with opportunities to make a positive difference.

Perhaps your passion is very practical. If business, or pharmacy, or dentistry deeply interests you, then by all means, pursue that!

Maybe you don’t know what your passion is or maybe you simply don’t have one, and in that case, it probably would be best to select your major based on what is going to give you the best employment opportunities. My message is this: don’t be afraid to study what most interests you just because it doesn’t seem practical enough.

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she needs to buy for her major are normally hardcovered one and they cost a lot more than textbooks I normally purchase for my major.

Textbooks are supposed to be a resource where students can get help for their academics. However, in reality, not only are students worried about the price of textbooks every beginning of new semester, but also sometimes textbooks are not helpful at all for classes even though they are required.

Even though students can purchase their textbooks cheaper online, the delivery takes a long time and many professors want to begin using them as soon as news semester starts. Therefore, I believe school has to provide more options to students. For example, if school can promote the chances among students to sell their books to each other rather than to bookstores, it would be an excellent opportunity that a lot of students can participate in.

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“Siri, how many people live in America?”

In a tech-savvy world, Bureau weighs the advantages of a digital census.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The days of the census taker with clipboard in hand may be numbered. The Census Bureau plans to test digital tools in preparation for the 2020 census, a change that could save millions of dollars.

People may be asked to fill out their census forms on the Internet instead of sending them through the mail. Census takers may use smartphones instead of paper to complete their counts.

The once-a-decade count is used to draw congressional maps and helps determine how the government spends $400 billion on infrastructure, programs and services each year.

Despite outreach and advertising campaigns, the share of occupied homes that returned a form was 74 percent in 2010, unchanged from 2000 and 1990. The majority of the money the bureau spends during a census goes to getting everyone else to fill out their forms, Census Director John H. Thompson said.

In the Savannah, Georgia, area and in Maricopa

County, Arizona, census workers this year will be asking people to respond on the Internet instead of filling out the traditional forms with such questions as age, race and homeownership. During follow-up visits for those who don’t answer, census workers will forgo using paper and instead input answers directly into their smartphones for instantaneous collection and analysis.

In addition, in Savannah and nearby South Carolina, census officials will test an Internet response system that will only require a person to input a home address to answer questions, instead of using a government-generated identification number.

“All you need to have is an address where you live,” Thompson said. “If we do that, it opens up all kinds of new ways to promote the census in targeted ways.

If we contact someone at a sporting event and they have a smartphone, we can get them to respond right then and there.”

The Census Bureau plans to discuss its upcoming tests in a webcast on Friday.

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Americans are ready for an Internet-driven census, officials said. During 2014 tests in in Washington, D.C., and nearby Montgomery County, Maryland, 55 percent of the families who were asked to fill out their census tests on the Internet responded without major prodding, an “exceptional response,” Thompson said. Census workers used iPhones to collect information in follow-up visits.

Census workers will use Android phones during the test this year, Thompson said.

“Everything will be on those smartphones. No paper,” he said.

For government officials,

going digital means they can do real-time analysis on areas to figure out which households have not responded, and be able to use their workers on the ground more efficiently, he said.

“You now can electronically control the flow of information all the way, from when you get people to self-respond, hopefully by the Internet, to when you give it to the interviewers to when you get it back from the interviewers,” he said.

The Census Bureau will also test using electronic records from other government agencies to help fill in gaps in responses, Thompson said.

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California tightens farming regulations on pesticides Laws reduce current use by 75 percent.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California farmers now must abide by the nation’s strictest rules for a widely used pesticide in a change designed to protect farmworkers and people who live and work near agricultural fields but is likely to raise prices on produce.

The restrictions announced Wednesday target chloropicrin, a pesticide injected into the ground before planting crops such as strawberries, tomatoes and almond orchards. In recent years, the chemical has caused hundreds of people to suffer from irritated eyes, coughing fits and headaches, state officials said.

The new regulations surpass standards required by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Brian Leahy, director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, said Tuesday that the higher standard is needed in California, the nation’s leading agricultural producer and most populated state, where farms are often next to people. Costs are sure to rise for farmers, who will pass it along to consumers, but Leahy said it is worth it.

“It is burdensome,” Leahy said. “But if we’re going to use these tools, we’ve got to ensure that they’re used as safely as possible.”

Under the new regulation, farmers are limited to applying the pesticide on up to 40 acres in one day, a reduction of 75 percent. It also expands the distance between fields and

human activity — in some cases to double the distance. Farmers who use upgraded tarps to cover their fields while applying the pesticide can follow less stringent regulations, said officials.

Farmers use Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press about 5 million pounds of the use chloropicrin once every 20 pesticide a year, most heavily to 30 years when they plant a in the Central Valley counties new orchard or vineyard, but of San Joaquin and Fresno and California’s strawberry growalong the coast in Monterey, ers, who use it each season, may Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and be hit hardest.

Ventura counties.

California produces 88 The state has been talking percent of the nation’s strawwith growers for more than a berry crop, supporting a $2.3 year about the new standards billion industry, said Carolyn and will immediately begin O’Donnell, a spokeswoman for implementing them, with full the California Strawberry Comcompliance required by 2016. mission.

The state documented 787 It will cost the state’s strawpeople as suffering from exberry growers an estimated $20 posure to the pesticide drifting million to buy upgraded tarps through the air between 2002 to cover their crops and comply and 2011, according to the most with the standards, she said. recent records. In 2013, 19 “Farmers and their families people picking raspberries in live near their farms and work Monterey County were sickin their fields and care deeply ened, and in 2012, 15 people in about protecting the safety of their homes and two firefighters their workers, neighbors and near a Ventura County strawcommunities,” O’Donnell said. berry field reported irritated eyes, officials said.

California farmers fear that tighter restrictions will increase the costs of their fruits and vegetables, potentially driving the market out of state or the country. Almond and grape growers

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Dayton appoints manager for MN.IT Services Goals to set to “improve Minnesotan’s acces to information.”

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has appointed a longtime information technology manager to head Minnesota’s IT services, his office announced Wednesday.

Tom Baden will lead MN.IT Services, the state information technology outfit that services more than 70 state boards, commissions and agencies. It also works with some other state entities and educational institutions.

Dayton said in a prepared statement that Baden’s 32 years in state service make him a good fit for the job.

“Under Commissioner Baden’s leadership, I am confident MN.IT Services will continue to improve

Minnesotans’ access to information, and to the valuable services provided by state government,” the governor said.

Baden previously worked in IT management positions at the state Department of Human Services, Department of Employment and Economic Development and the office that became MN.IT. The previous MN.IT commissioner, Carolyn Parnell, announced her departure last month. Dayton appointed her four years ago.

MN.IT had a hand in the troubled rollout of MNsure, the state’s health exchange.

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Fast as a speeding bullet (train) Though spendy, public transportation system may combat global warming.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — California broke ground Tuesday on its $68 billion highspeed rail system, promising to combat global warming while whisking travelers between Los Angeles and San Francisco in less than three hours.

The bullet train project, the first in the nation to get underway, faces challenges from Republican cost-cutters in Congress and Central Valley farmers suing to keep the rails off their fields. Others doubt the state can deliver the sleek system as designed, and worry it will become an expensive failure.

But Gov. Jerry Brown said high-speed rail is essential to meeting his latest goal: Encouraging the nation’s most populous state to get half its power from renewable energy by 2030.

“It’s not that expensive. We can afford it. In fact, we cannot NOT afford it,” Brown said before signing a symbolic section of rail. “All these projects are a little touch and go. You’ll have these critics say ‘why spend all this money?’”

“On the other hand I like trains, I like clean air,” Brown said. “And I like to enjoy the comfort of trains. I like to get up and walk around and shake hands. You can’t do that in your little car as you look in your rear view mirror.”

One of the biggest public works endeavors in the country, California’s high-speed rail is a signature project for Brown’s

political legacy, and supporters say it promises to boost the state’s economy with thousands of jobs, including many in the Central Valley, which has been hard-hit by recession and drought.

Zooming through the Central Valley at 200 mph, the trains could unite northern and southern California like never before.

The high speed train tickets will be similar to the cost of air travel, promoters say, and deliver people to downtown stations, saving more time and money. Fares are projected to run from $81 to $89 one way between San Francisco and Los Angeles.

By comparison, riding Amtrak between east San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles now takes 11 to 19 hours, and costs $59 to $138 each way. That rivals the expense of an airline flight, which takes about an hour and 15 minutes.

By car, the journey takes at least 6 1/2 hours in the best traffic, and the price varies widely depending on the type of car, gasoline prices and highway tolls.

Gina McCarthy, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said the all-electric trains, running on renewable energy, will take cars off highways and provide an effective alternative to flying on jet fuel, which pumps far more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere.

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About a dozen protesters shouted “show me the money” during the groundbreaking, which was held in an industrial section of downtown Fresno, where the city’s bullet train station will be located near old rail lines that still ship produce and other cargo. The system will initially share existing rails with freight trains, but eventually travel at higher speeds on dedicated rails, California HighSpeed Rail Authority chairman Dan Richard said.

The authority needs to speed up the eminent domain process, since only 100 of the 500 land parcels needed for the rails and stations have been purchased.

But Richard said “voters are going to get exactly what they asked for.”

Californians approved a nearly $10 billion bond for the train in 2008, and in 2012 the Obama administration dedicated $3.3 billion in stimulus funds. Part of the greenhouse gas fees to be collected under the state’s cap-and-trade program also will go to the train.

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investments and development around the stations to offset the costs.

The initial work is on a 142mile stretch north and south of Fresno. By 2029, planners hope to complete 520 miles of rails linking the San Francisco’s downtown Transbay Terminal to Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.

“Are we capable of making similar serious investments for future generations? The answer is not only yes we can, but yes we will,” said U.S. Rep. Jim Costa, a Central Valley Democrat.

Rep. Jeff Denham, a Central Valley Republican, has vowed to block funding, since

he doubts the trains will be as fast or carry as many riders as promised. “It’s hard to celebrate breaking ground on what is likely to become abandoned pieces of track,” he said Monday.

But project managers say 632 people are already designing and planning a system that will produce 20,000 jobs a year now that construction has begun.

Fresno’s Republican Mayor Ashley Swearengin backs it, saying it will create jobs in the short term and eventually connect the Central Valley to the rest of the state’s economy.

“We’re stuck right in the middle, and it’s difficult to get in and out,” she said. “It fills a deficit for Central California.”

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Fake bar, real scientific results Replica watering hole seeks to help those struggling with alcohol abuse.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s no skunky bar odor amid the beer taps. Instead of booze, colored water fills the bottles. The real alcohol is locked away but still close enough for the extra temptation of smell — and to test the safety of a new drug designed to help heavy drinkers say “when” sooner than usual.

The replica of a fully stocked bar inside the hospital at the National Institutes of Health is an important part of the experiment. Researchers believe that sitting in the dimly lit bar-laboratory should cue the volunteers’ brains to crave a drink, and help determine if the pill they’re testing counters that urge.

“The goal is to create almost a real-world environment, but to control it very strictly,” said lead researcher Dr. Lorenzo Leggio, who is testing how a hormone named ghrelin that sparks people’s appetite for food also affects their desire for alcohol, and if blocking it helps.

Amid all the yearly resolutions to quit, alcohol use disorders affect about 17 million Americans, and only a small fraction receives treatment.

There’s no one-size-fits-all therapy, and the NIH is spurring a hunt for new medications that target the brain’s addiction cycle in different ways — and to find out which options work best in which drinkers.

“Alcoholics come in many forms,” explained Dr. George

Koob, director of NIH’s National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which has published new online guides, at www.niaaa.nih.gov, explaining who’s at risk and what can help.

What’s the limit? NIAAA says “low-risk” drinking means no more than four drinks in any single day and no more than 14 in a week for men, and no more than three drinks a day and seven a week for women.

Genes play a role in who’s vulnerable to crossing the line into alcohol abuse. So do environmental factors, such as getting used to drinking a certain amount, not to mention how your own brain’s circuitry adapts.

Treatment can range from inpatient rehab and 12-step programs to behavioral therapy and the few medications available today. Koob, who specializes in the neurobiology of alcohol, says it usually takes a combination and ultimately, “you have to change your life.”

Yet a recent review for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimated that less than a third of people who need treatment get it, and of those, less than 10 percent receive medications.

Three drugs are approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat alcohol abuse. One, naltrexone, blocks alcohol’s feel-good sensation by targeting receptors in the brain’s reward system — if people harbor a particular gene. The anti-crav-

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Recent research suggests a handful of drugs used for other disorders also show promise: —Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute found the epilepsy drug gabapentin reduced relapses in drinkers who’d recently quit, and improved cravings, mood and sleep by targeting an emotionrelated brain chemical.

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—University of Pennsylvania researchers found the epilepsy drug topiramate helped heavy drinkers cut back, if they have a particular gene variation mostly found in people of European descent.

Back in NIH’s bar lab, one of about a dozen versions around the country, the focus is on ghrelin, the hormone produced in the stomach that controls appetite via receptors in the brain. It turns out there’s overlap between receptors that fuel

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overeating and alcohol craving in the brain’s reward system, explained NIAAA’s Leggio.

In a study published this fall, his team gave 45 heavy-drinking volunteers different doses of ghrelin, and their urge to drink rose along with the extra hormone.

Now Leggio is testing whether blocking ghrelin’s action also blocks those cravings, using an experimental Pfizer drug originally developed for diabetes but never sold. The main goal of this first-step study

is to ensure mixing alcohol with the drug is safe. But researchers also measure cravings as volunteers, hooked to a blood pressure monitor in the tiny bar-lab, smell a favorite drink. Initial safety results are expected this spring.

“Our hope is that down the line, we might be able to do a simple blood test that tells if you will be a naltrexone person, an acamprosate person, a ghrelin person,” Koob said.

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2015 game preview Sneak a peek at what this year’s most anticipated releases.

MATTHEW EBERLINE Staff Writer 2015 is finally here and it may be one of the biggest years yet for video games. With the new year comes a vast and varied lineup of new games, in-

cluding many of which were delayed from their original release dates in 2014. Let’s take a look at some of the most anticipated titles coming this spring.

Dead Rising developer, Techland, is set to kick-off the new year with their latest zom-

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Set during a zombie apocalypse, Dying Light is a first-person open-world horror game with a focus on survival through scavenging, crafting, and melee based combat. The game features a full day and night cycle and a dynamic weather system, allowing for a variety of weather conditions such as rain, fog, and wind, among others. The changing weather patterns will offer enough of a challenge to keep players on their toes, as will the zombies’ ability to sprint and jump after the sun sets. Dying Light is set to release on Jan.27 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows.

This February will bring a handful of new games, starting with Turtle Rock Studios’ highly-anticipated first-person shooter, Evolve. Evolve is similar to Turtle Rock’s previous Left 4 Dead series by being an asymmetrical multiplayer game that pits a four-man team

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The Great Russian Nutcracker visits Minnesota TEREASA HATTEN Staff Writer On Dec. 5, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker came to Rochester’s Mayo Civic Center Auditorium for the evening; this was only one stop on the iconic group of performers’ annual tour of the U.S. and they certainly met expectations.

The performance consists of two acts, divided with a brief intermission, all performed to Tchaikovsky’s full score. It begins with Uncle Drosselmeyer preparing his life-sized gifts for Masha and Fritz. The party begins and everyone is entertained by Drosselmeyer’s Kissy, Harlequin, and Moor dolls.

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After the festivities end, Masha approaches her uncle about not receiving a gift and he presents her with a gorgeous Nutcracker doll, but brother Fritz is jealous and breaks him.

Masha then falls asleep and Drosselmeyer repairs her

broken Nutcracker. When the clock strikes midnight, Masha hears the scuttling of mice and is overcome by the Mouse King.

Her Nutcracker doll comes to life to defend her and a battle ensues. When Masha throws her shoe at the Mouse King, the

Nutcracker takes his chance and defeats him. Her doll is then transformed into a handsome Nutcracker prince! They travel to the Snow Forrest where they are escorted to the land of Peace and Harmony.

Act II opens with the Dove of

Peace, portrayed by two dancers each with a 10 foot wing extended from their arm. Masha and her prince are entertained with several different cultural dances – Spanish, Chinese, Arabian, Russian, and French.

Their final gift is that of the Waltz of the Flowers; Masha and her prince are so thankful that they dance a Grand Pas de Deux of their own. The night is over and Masha awakens with her Nutcracker doll by her side.

While the music was integral to the performance of the dancers, the sets were important for the image of the show – the sets were the images that the attendees took home. The sets were kept simple and were only

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From the stage to the screen How to supplement your musical cravings with cinema.

LORIEN MEGILL Staff Writer On Christmas Day 2014, the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-Award winning musical Into the Woods opened in movie theaters. If the film version of this fairytale set to music left you wanting more, here are five movie adaptations of musicals that are well worth watching.

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hopeful, bright music (plus a few additional songs), and nothing beats the trio of Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, and Tim Curry as the devious Miss Hannigan, Lily, and Rooster.

Les Misérables In 2012 the much publicized film version of this Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg musical (based on the novel by Victor Hugo) was released. The film features a number of Broadway and West End veterans such as Hugh

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of the musical by Meredith Wilson, stars the charismatic Robert Preston (who originated the role on Broadway) and Shirley Jones (who later went on to play the matriarch on the TV show The Partridge Family). The film also features a very young Ron Howard. This movie provides an entertaining look of a smalltown at the beginning of the twentieth century, and is full of catchy songs with fast-moving and clever lyrics.

Annie Little Orphan Annie is again gracing the big screen this year with Quvenzhané Wallis playing Annie, but the first time Annie was made into a film was in 1982 when Aileen Quinn played the title role. The original film does not adhere strictly to the plot laid out in the 1977 Broadway musical, but the movie contains most of the same

Jackman, Aaron Tveit, and Samantha Barks. Les Misérables is similar to Into the Woods because there is a minimal amount of spoken dialogue with almost everything being sung.

This film is unique in that the singing was done live during the filming, rather than recorded in a studio beforehand. Anne Hathaway’s Oscar-winning performance as Fantine is almost reason enough on its own to watch this movie.

West Side Story If the lyrics of Into the Woods were what appealed to you, the 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story is a movie you should watch. Stephen Sondheim, who wrote Into the Woods, wrote the libretto for this Romeo and Juliet inspired musical (Leonard Bernstein composed the music), and the film adaptation preserves the

now-familiar music and the style of dancing, as the director of the film, Jerome Robbins, was the original choreographer of the Broadway show.

Chicago Directed and choreographed

by Rob Marshall (who also directed Into the Woods), this 2002 film stars Catherine ZetaJones and Renée Zellweger as the dynamic and criminal duo, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart.

The movie has an overall darker feel than many other movie mu-

sicals, and is coupled with some highly imaginative musical numbers, which leads to a fairly riveting experience. Hollywood seems to have agreed, as the film garnered six Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Zeta-Jones.

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Mockingjay Part 1: review To make money or a good movie?

Part 1 one hit series lands in one of those camps.

SHAWN CLOSE Staff Writer The book that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is based on is not long enough to support two movies. Mockingjay, the third and final book in the Hunger Games series (the

this year, and while splitting Mockingjay into two parts is a great way to make a ton of money, it’s not a great way to make a good movie.

Mockingjay Part 1 follows Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in her continued struggle against the Capital and their malevolent leader, Presi-

a technical standpoint; while some people wonder if they could have gotten a little more out of their $125 million budget, it does have the smooth polish that can only come from copious amounts of money. It’s well edited and well scored, with high quality, source-faithful costume and set design. The

For now, fans will have to wait to be disappointed by the ending (unless they read the books like I did, in which case they’ve already been disappointed for four years).

If you’re a fan of the series then you probably already saw this movie (sorry on the late review) and if you’re not (and if you haven’t seen the first two movies) then you probably weren’t planning on

seeing it no matter how good it was. That being said, I really can’t recommend The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as a stand-alone movie, it’s all in the name Part 1; not a whole but a part. Since this is half a movie I might as well give it half a score.

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The problem with Part 1 is that nothing happens; while that is a (slight) exaggeration, I found myself doing a mental inventory of what happens in Part 1, as in serious, plot relevant events, and I can count them on my fingers. The whole movie has the unshakable feeling of a setup for Part 2, which it is, but it would be nice if it at least tried to stand on its own. Its just one big teaser, and two years down the road when people gather for their Hunger Games marathons it will be fine, but right now it’s like being told the setup to a joke and having to wait a year for the punch line.

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BALLET continued from 13 altered a few times during the show; the Christmas tree from the opening was nearly 10 feet tall and was beautifully hand-painted.

The performers were wonderful, they all did very well and it was clear which dancers had been with the company the longest, but no one was outshined in their performance. The differences in competencies with ballet was also very refreshing to see. Another surprising aspect of the show was the incorporation of a local young dance company, who did quite well even juxtaposed with the more intensely trained dancers of the Russian company— there were about 50 dancers total within the performance.

Even though the dancers were evenly portrayed, there were two obvious “stars” of the show: Masha and the Nutcracker Prince. The dancer portraying the role of Masha was clearly very adept in the practice of ballet – this could be seen in her perfectly executed fouettes and seemingly effortless pirouettes. The dancer portraying the Nutcracker Prince was also well practiced in his craft, visible in his grand leaps and well executed turns. The on-stage chemistry between the pair

was also beyond satisfactory, which shined during their Grand Pa de Deux.

“Pa de deux” is a French term literally meaning “step of two” and within ballet refers to the movements of a pair of dancers, usually male and female. The aptly titled “Grand Pa de Deux” of the Great Russian Nutcracker was a spectacle to behold.

The performers executed it perfectly and very successfully used the entire stage.

Without a doubt, the pa de deux was my favorite moment of the entire show.

When asked about their thoughts on the show, one attendee said, “Fantastic! The flexibility and versatility of the dancers was incredible.

I also enjoyed the different country representations.” Another remarked on the company, saying, “I thought it was wonderful that they included local youth dancers.”

To sum up the night, the performance had its highs and lows and some moments shined while others were dull in comparison, but the overall experience was very positive and I believe everyone left the auditorium satisfied.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Health officials are reporting seven more cases of measles in an outbreak tied to visits to Disney theme parks in California last month.

The new cases confirmed Monday by the California Department of Public Health brings the total to 26 people in four states.

Officials say 22 of the cases are in California and two are in Utah, with one apiece in Colorado and Washington.

Most of the patients visited Disneyland or Disney California Adventure between Dec. 15 and Dec. 20, but some may have contracted the illness from others who visited.

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Kirby and the Rainbow Curse will release on Feb.13 for the Nintendo Wii U. Ready at Dawn’s highlyanticipated The Order: 1886 is also due for release this February. Set in an alternate history London during the year 1886, The Order casts players in the shoes (or boots) of a member of an ancient order of knights tasked with protecting the world from all manner of supernatural beasts. The Order: 1886 will release on Feb.20 for the PlayStation 4.

Players looking for a challenge won’t have far to look when Battlefield: Hardline and Bloodborne releases in March. While retaining the core elements of the Battlefield style of gameplay, EA DICE seeks to change things up a bit with its newest iteration, Battlefield: Hardline, which pits players in a copsand-robbers type of scenario instead of the more traditional modern battleground setting.

Players looking for a different kind of challenge might enjoy From Software’s newest title, Bloodborne, an action roleplaying game similar to the

studio’s earlier Demon’s Souls and Dark Souls series. Unlike it’s predecessors, Demon’s Souls or Dark Souls, Bloodborne plays at a faster pace and requires a more offensive approach to the game’s combat, which often sets the player against dense hordes of enemies. Expect Battlefield: Hardline to ship on March 17 for PlayStation 3 and 4, Xbox One and 360, and Microsoft Windows, while Bloodborne will ship on March 24 exclusively for the PlayStation 4.

While the handful of games mentioned above will be enough to sate any gamer’s appetite for a few months, expect plenty more on the way this spring including Mortal Kombat X in April and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in May. With the number of games set to release this spring, as well as the daunting list of titles to be released over the summer and autumn months, 2015 looks to be a great year for video games and should provide the catalog of titles this console generation sorely needs right now.

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Last year’s champions meet again Last season Ferris State won the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA regular season champions while MSU won the Broadmoor Trophy as the WCHA Final Five playoff champions.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor Last season, the Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team was picked as the preseason favorite to win the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular season title.

They seemed like the obvious pick as they were the only team in the newly structured WCHA to have made the NCAA Tournament the previous season.

Heading into the season, it seemed to be MSU, then everyone else. That wasn’t the case, though.

The Ferris State University Bulldogs were possibly the biggest surprise in college hockey last season. FSU cruised through the first half of the 2013-2014 season, going 17-3-3 into midJanuary, including an impressive 12-0-2 in WCHA play to that point. The Bulldogs ranked as the no. 2 team in the country and were among the chatter as a possible NCAA title contender, but then a rivalry was formed.

“After all the games we played against them last season, it’s safe to say we will have a rivalry that will last a long time.” said senior captain Brett Stern.

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FSU came to Mankato last January for perhaps their biggest test of the season. Running away with the WCHA regular season title, the Bulldogs were put into shock by the Mavericks.

The Mavericks, who were not ranked at the time, dismantled FSU in a 6-2 Friday night victory. It could have been viewed as a fluke or an off night for the Bulldogs, but MSU followed it up with a 4-3 victory the next

night for a series sweep which put them in the race for the conference title.

Though Ferris State would go on to win the MacNaughton Cup as the WCHA regular season champions, finishing one point ahead of MSU, it was the Mavericks who would have the last laugh.

These teams would meet once more during the season, with the stakes a bit higher.

The third and final meeting between these rivals was in Grand Rapids, Mich. at the WCHA Final Five tournament, where the Mavericks prevailed 4-1, giving them their first conference tournament championship, their second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance, and a 3-0 record over the Bulldogs for the season.

Both teams would lose in the NCAA Tournament, falling short of the Frozen Four, but this weekend they meet again, this time the roles are reversed.

The Bulldogs were expected to be just as good this winter, and were even ranked as high as no. 4 in the country early on this year. But FSU has had a tough time getting back to where they were last season, and have compiled an 11-11-1 record so far this season, including 8-6 in WCHA play.

Though FSU doesn’t seem to be the same team as they were a year ago when these two teams met, they cannot be overlooked.

The Bulldogs carry one of the best goaltenders in the country, despite his record indicating otherwise.

Senior goaltender C.J. Motte was a First-Team All-WCHA pick last season, and has posted an impressive .928 save percentage on the year to go along with a 1.97 goals against average. If the Bulldogs have any chance of taking down the Mavs, it starts with Motte, who has started all 23 games for FSU this season.

On the other side, MSU comes into this weekend after being named the no. 1 team in the country on Monday, the highest ranking in program history. It’s deja vu of sorts, but this time it’s the Bulldogs who want to prove themselves.

The Mavericks have gotten off to their most consistent start

Trevor Cokley • MSU Reporter Bryce Gervais leads the Mavericks with 13 goals on the year

in recent history, going 16-4-1 so far this season. MSU has notable wins over no. 5 MinnesotaDuluth, no. 8 Nebraska-Omaha,

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and no. 11 Michigan Tech, who were the no. 1 team in the country with a 12-0 record before

the Mavs handed them a series sweep.

While the Mavs have been ranked among the top ten in the nation for much of the season, there is perhaps a bit more pressure now to remain at the top.

They do have the tools to do so, however.

“We have to realize what got us to being no. 1 in the country and stick with our plan,” said Stern. “Now that we’ve made it to no. 1 we set the bar for ourselves a little higher and need to work that much more day in and day out to stay in that spot.”

Starting from the back end, Stephon Williams has been lights out in goal. Boasting a 122-1 record, Williams has managed a stingy 1.8 goals against average paired with a .917 save percentage, returning to his former glory of two seasons ago when he was named both

WCHA Rookie of the Year and WCHA Goaltender of the Year.

Up front, the Mavericks have been getting offense everywhere. That’s not an exaggeration, either.

The MSU roster has nine players who have recorded ten or more points on the season, three of whom have already eclipsed the 20-point barrier. Senior Matt Leitner leads the way with 23 points on the season, and his 18 assists are the most in the WCHA. Behind him, junior forward Bryce Gervais has a WCHA best 13 goals on the year and 20 points to boot.

These two aren’t the only Mavs finding the back of the net, though. MSU also has nine players who have scored five or more goals, and have had four

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Men’s hoops looks to rebound after loss After falling to Augustana in an overtime thriller, the Mavericks look to pick up a couple of road wins this weekend.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s basketball team will finish off a four game road-trip this weekend in Bemidji and Crookston. Tip-off is set for 8 p.m. and 6 p.m.

The Mavericks will open the weekend in Bemidji, where they will be looking to rebound off a loss to now 9th ranked Augustana. The Mavericks fell 98-89 in an overtime thriller. Senior Assem Marei led the way with 28 points and eight rebounds.

Senior Zach Monaghan also had a solid outing, going for 21 points and dishing out a season high 15 assists.

The Mavericks will have to sharpen up their defensive play, as Augustana knocked down 55 percent of their shots. In MSU’s game against Wayne State, the Mavericks also allowed the Wildcats to shoot 50 percent.

The Beavers are the seventh

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best shooting team in the conference, shooting 47 percent from the field. Individually, BSU is led by Senior guard Brock Lutes. Lutes averages an impressive 17.3 points per game to go along with an average of three assists per game, which also leads the Beavers.

Shutting down Lutes will be a good spot for the Mavericks to start, as he seems to be the go-to man, also leading the Beavers in shots attempted and points scored. Lutes is the reigning scoring champion of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, he averaged 22.2 points per game a year ago. Ben Best has averaged 10 points per game of his own for the Beavers this season, but has been limited to nine games.

As a team, Bemidji holds a 7-7 record, including 3-7 in league play which has them in 14th place in the NSIC standings. The Beavers are currently riding a three game losing streak. In their last game, the

Beavers fell to St. Cloud State 80-55 in a game where the Huskies dominated play. DJ Anderson led the Beavers with 13 points. Shane White and Kaylor Zimmerman did the dirty work for the Beavers grabbing six rebounds each, respectively.

Bemidji State has a swarming team defense, as they average 7.7 steals per game, second in the conference. The Beavers have also forced teams to commit a staggering 183 turnovers. Taking care of the basketball will be a key for the Mavericks traveling up to Bemidji.

In their only meeting last year, Monaghan and Marei both recorded double-doubles in a 79-74 Maverick victory on the road. Monaghan posted 15 points and 11 assist, while Marei dropped 22 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for the Mavericks.

Brock Lutes kept the Beavers in the game, as he filled the box score with 32 points, four assist and three rebounds.

On Saturday, the Mavericks travel to Crookston to take on the Golden Eagles. UMC currently holds a 6-8 (4-6) record, putting them 13th in the conference. UMC is also riding a three game losing streak.

In their last outing, UMC fell 71-47 against Minnesota Duluth.

Junior Tyler West led the way for the Golden Eagles posting 11 points and grabbing eight rebounds. West also led tied the team lead with two assist. UMC shot 33.7 percent from the field in the loss, including going 8-21 from beyond the arc.

In the 2013-14 season, the Mavericks took on UMC twice,

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Connor Miller (20) has averaged 11.7 points per game for the Mavericks this season. shooting for 20 points while also grabbing 11 rebounds for the Golden Eagles.

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winning both games in blowout fashion, 82-55; the Mavericks then drew UMC in the first round of the NSIC Tournament, defeating the Golden Eagles 76-50. Marei recorded a double-double in the first round game going for 15 points and 12 rebounds. West was a hassle for the Mavericks in the game as well, connecting on 7 of 14

season he is averaging 12.6 points per game, closely followed by West, who is averaging 11.4 a game. West also leads the team with almost eight rebounds a game. As a team, the Golden Eagles average 62.2 points per game and are shooting 39 percent from the field.

Look for the Mavericks to bounce back with a solid weekend of basketball, keeping their NSIC title hopes alive. MSU fell five spots in the national rankings to number 21 after going 1-1 over last weekend. The Mavericks currently hold a 12-3 (7-2) record, placing them third in the conference.

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Maverick women playing some of their best ball A deep lineup has the MSU women’s basketball team playing well heading into a weekend road trip.

Thiesse and her Mavericks.

The team has done well getting the ball in the paint and creating close shot opportunities while getting players open on the outside. Team defense has been steady thus far, and hopefully the Mavs can continue the intensity they’ve brought to the table heading into the final stretch of the season.

The Mavericks play their next game Friday the 16th against the Bemidji State University Beavers in Bemidji.

Bemidji State enters with a 5-10 overall record and 2-8 in conference play. This game could be an opportunity to get the road wins going. The Beavers have struggled rebounding the ball this season, as they have a -2.7 margin and their assist to turnover ratio is an almost even stat of 0.9.

Redshirt freshman center Sierra Senske leads the team in scoring and rebounding, with

14.4 points and 5.9 boards a game. She also is shooting 56 percent from the field, which is second in the NSIC conference.

MSU will look to contain Senske, and let their high-powered offense take care of the rest.

Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. Friday night in Bemidji as the Mavericks look to keep rolling through an already successful season thus far.

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Trevor Cokley • MSU Reporter Coach Emilee Thiesse giving her team instructions during a timeout.

TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer So far this season, the Minnesota State University, Mankato women’s basketball team has looked like a solid group that could continue to make some noise throughout the season.

They possess a record of 104, and 7-2 in conference play.

They are also undefeated at home, with a 6-0 record. MSU plays a well-rounded game, and are averaging 72.1 points per game. Their defense has also been steady, averaging to hold opponents to under 70 points a game.

They achieved a great comefrom-behind win in their last game against the Vikings of Augustana, in a 74-71 victory.

After trailing in the first half, they played some of their best basketball of the season in the second half, scoring 45 points while holding off the Vikings offense.

The Mavericks shot 45 percent from the field in the contest, while their defense forced

Augustana to shoot only a dismal 37 percent from the floor.

The Mavs also shot 50 percent from the floor from three point range, while the Vikings only shot 12 percent. Better shooting won the game, and that is a major strength for Minnesota State this year.

Senior forward Lexie Ulfers leads this Maverick squad, averaging 12.7 points per game, 7.6 rebounds per game, and two blocks per game. She has been a force in the paint all season long, and she has been a great leader on an experienced team.

Senior guard Aubrey Davis has been pouring it on from the 3-point line, shooting at a 44.7 percent clip. She also leads the team in assists per game, averaging 4.1, and steals per game with 1.9.

Senior guard Ashley Olson is the best free-throw shooter on the squad, as she is hitting an incredible 90 percent from the stripe. As a whole, the Mavericks are shooting a very respectable 73.6 percent from the free

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This team has great depth, led by an experienced starting squad that could carry them deep into the postseason.

Looking towards the rest of the season, the Mavericks have 13 games remaining, six of which are on the road and seven games left at home, where they have been perfect so far.

The Mavs will have to figure out how to win on the road, as they are currently 3-4 away from Bresnan Arena. The biggest problem seems to be getting the ball to the bucket on the road, as the team is averaging nearly eight points less per game while on the road. The biggest item to work on for the Mavericks is controlling the ball and not making preventable turnovers.

The team has the turned the ball over more often than force turnovers this season, which has resulted in narrow victories and sometimes losses. If they can shave that statistic down a bit, there should be even better things to come for coach Emilee

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The MSU women’s hockey team collected their first two victories last week, but a series against the University of Minnesota this weekend leaves them no time to celebrate before looking ahead to their next opponent.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor Last weekend, the Minnesota State University, Mankato women’s hockey team picked up their first two victories on the season. They were the last winless team in NCAA Division I women’s hockey.

Not the way they wanted to have the first half of their season go, but now that they’re in the win column, perhaps they can finish out strong.

Before a three-game series with Lindenwood University, the Mavericks were 0-16-1. It’s not like MSU was getting blown out all season, either. In more than a handful of the losses the Mavericks have suffered this season they were within striking distance of stealing a victory.

MSU just couldn’t find a way to get the needed offense to get over the hump and win games earlier this season. Until last weekend, that is.

The Mavericks managed back-to-back victories, taking down Lindenwood 4-1 and 3-2 to finally put themselves in the win column. They did lose the third game of the series, but that was hardly the focus.

The weekend series at Lindenwood brought the Mavs to 2-17-1 on the year. While getting those long awaited wins is definitely celibration-worthy, MSU’s schedule doesn’t allow for them to enjoy their victories for too long before preparing for one of their toughest annual opponents.

The University of Minnesota Gophers boast one of the nation’s best programs in Division I women’s hockey.

Since the inception of women’s hockey to the NCAA ranks, the Gophers have won four NCAA titles, second most to Minnesota-Duluth. Their titles include a pair back-toback championship seasons from 2004-2005 and 2012-2013.

Last season, Minnesota was the NCAA runner-up.

The Mavs will certainly have their hands full this weekend when they go up against no. 2 Minnesota.

At 19-1-3, the Gophers are second in the nation behind undefeated Boston College.

The biggest issue at hand for MSU going up against Minnesota will be slowing down the Gophers’ high-powered offense.

Minnesota has the second best offense in the country, averaging an incredible 4.61 goals per game with some of the top players in the country. On the national scoring charts, Gopher forwards Hannah Brandt and Dani Cameranesi rank second and fourth, respectively.

Brandt’s 21 goals are tied for a national best, while Cameranesi’s 16 tallies include five game-winning goals and five power play goals.

Playing defensively and containing Minnesota’s top players could be the key to success for

Trevor Cokley • MSU Reporter Senior Kathleen Rogan, an alternate captain, is one of the veteran leaders of this young Maverick squad.

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MEN’S HOCKEY “After all the games we played against them last season, it’s safe to say we will have a rivalry that will last a long time.” said senior captain Brett Stern. continued from 19 different players score their first career hat-tricks this season by scoring three goals in a single game. Their depth is definitely their greatest asset.

“We have more than four lines of forwards and three sets of defense that I feel comfortable playing with in any game.” said Stern.

Not only does MSU claim the top spot in the NCAA rankings, they claim the top spot in offensive production in the country, averaging 3.86 goals per game.

With Motte being the bright spot on this Bulldog squad, it seems the Maverick offense may be too

much for FSU this weekend.

“This weekend will be a battle,” Stern said. “Going into someone else’s barn and playing is tough, and going against a rival is even more tough.”

The puck drops at 7:07 p.m.

Friday and Saturday night in this two game series at the Robert L. Ewigleben Ice Arena in Big Rapids, Mich. with four meaningful points on the line. These two teams will meet again in two weeks when FSU makes their return to Mankato for a two-game series.

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Web Photo MSU celebrating their WCHA Final Five playoff championship last season, where they defeated FSU 4-1 to win the Broadmoor Trophy.

MSU this weekend, but they’ll also need to find some offense of their own to come away with a victory or two.

The Mavericks average only 1.25 goals per game, while on average they allow 3.85. Minnesota on the other hand only allows a stingy 1.04 goals per game.

With an 0-13-1 record in league play, the Mavericks are looking for any points they can get this weekend.

The puck drops at 7:07 p.m.

Friday and Saturday night.

Friday night’s contest will be at Ridder Arena at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, while Satuday night’s game will be a home game for MSU, played at All Seasons Arena in Mankato.

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