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Minnesota State University, Mankato

Snow not a problem for Master of social work program city and university

Storms have not affected removal plans

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GRACE WEBB

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wale agboola• msu reporter Crews have been working around the clock this winter to keep paths clear for students and faculty on campus.

ELENA SHUFELT

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Even with the large volume of snow that has already accumulated this winter, the city of Mankato and Minnesota State Mankato haven’t had problems moving it out of the way for drivers and pedestrians.

Director of Public Works Mark Knoff said his department, which is in charge of snow removal for the city, still continues to follow its standard snow removal policy.

“Obviously it’s a significant impact on our budget — the amount of snow we’ve had to remove,” Knoff said.

He added that financing for snow removal comes from the general fund, which can come from many areas including government aid and taxes. “It also requires us to go back and do some widening of streets just given the sheer volume of snow,” he said.

He said they have had to haul out more snow from the downtown area than in past years. Snow is moved to various allocated locations

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throughout the city, but Knoff said this year hauling hasn’t been a big issue.

Though each storm is different because of time, type of snow and amount, Knoff said the department assesses each storm and decides what is best for the city based on that information. This is why, for example, sometimes salt is put down before a storm and other times after.

Knoff said Mankato has 23 routes it needs to plow during or after each snowfall.

Separate equipment is generally used to clear trails and sidewalks about an hour after nearby streets have been plowed so snow isn’t just moved back and forth into open areas.

Main roads are cleared before residential streets and alleys to help with traffic, Knoff said.

Monks Ave, Parkway Ave and Stadium Rd are the three hills in Mankato generally closed after heavy snowfall, and others are only closed if something happens such as debris falling into the road.

Knoff said public works and public safety determined those roads needed to be closed after looking at the number of accidents on them and the residential streets that have access to them.

“We ended up spending a lot of time in the past almost constantly having a truck go up and down those hills just to keep them open, and it just wasn’t cost effective to do that,” Knoff said.

At MSU, Physical Plant Director Mike Lexvold said if a storm is during the day, MSU uses its general staff, but it does have the ability to call people in if a storm comes overnight. Brooms are usually running throughout the day to keep paths clear for students around campus, he said, but a separate crew comes in from 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. to help remove snow from a storm.

Crews try not to pile snow in parking lots to avoid taking up space for students. However, Lexvold said the green lot next to the Performing Arts Center often

Minnesota State Mankato now offers the first accredited master of social work program in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.

The MSU Department of Social Work has been working since 2001 to create such a program. It began by collecting data from alumni, social workers and social worker administrations on whether the university should offer a master’s degree.

“We found out there was definitely a need,” said Nancy Fitzsimons, director of the MSU Department of Social

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Jihan Ali is one of the graduates of the new master’s program. She said it was good to hear the program had become accredited.

“I was very excited because it was two years of my education, so it was good to know that… my degree wouldn’t go to waste,” Ali said.

Ali said southern Minnesota needs more social workers and that this newly accredited program will open doors to university students.

“Other than MSU, the closest school that has a social work program that’s accredited is the U of M,” Ali

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City meets university New committee means Mankato will hear students

AVERY CROPP

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The Minnesota State Student Association is finally making its dream of making closer ties with the city of Mankato a reality.

Mankato City Councilman Mark Frost, who is in charge of the university area of Mankato, had nothing but praise for the leadership and partnership of MSSA President Tom Williams and Vice President Brett Anderson with the city council over the past year.

“Over the past year, thanks to Brett and Tom, we’ve learned that students want the city to be involved with the campus,” said Frost. “Because of this, we have been talking to Tom and Brett about trying to get a town-and-gown kind of relationship going between campus and the city.”

Williams has said in the past that college students and cities have been combative with each other because cities in the past have labeled students as a problem. Some students even believe that the city is out to get them. As Williams said, a stool with only two legs doesn’t

work, and this very reason is why MSSA has pushed to develop a better working relationship with the city of Mankato.

“I’ve come to realize over my time on the council that the college and its students are vital to the community.” Frost said. “[Students] are important.

Everything that you guys do, whether it gets better or worse, will affect the country in the long run.”

The new City and University Affairs Advisory Committee will begin to meet monthly once schedules are worked out between MSSA and the city council. The students involved in this committee would not be able to vote on the issues, but the voice of the students would be heard at city level.

An example Frost gave in the meeting of how this student voice could have made an impact on the city was the drink special ordinance that was implemented in 2007. The ordinance prohibited all-youcan-drink specials and all other drink deals past 11 p.m.

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Traffic and students were directed to avoid road work at the intersection of Maywood and Ellis Ave.

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Habitat for Humanity changes lives one house at a time Purchased 13 lots, construction continues on “Habitat Park”

AVERY CROPP

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For the past 20 years, Habitat for Humanity of South Central Minnesota has had a presence in the Mankato community. It has built homes in Mankato, St. Peter, Le Sueur, Watonwan counties and the surrounding areas. As of this year, the total number of houses that have been built for families in the South Central Minnesota area stands at 86.

The past few years have been marked with many accomplishments for Habitat in the Mankato area.

In 2007, ReStore was built on Bassett Drive. It takes taxdeductible donations of things such as cabinets, sinks, paint, mirrors, toilets and furniture to name a few and sells the

items back to the community at a reduced price. All revenue benefits Habitat, allowing it to centralize its offices, make more money and set up a presence in the community. In addition, the revenue generated

by ReStore has enabled one new home to be built every year. With the help of students who need service learning hours required by the MSU Anthropology program, and many other volunteers, ReStore has managed to divert 300 tons of items from landfills since it opened.

Habitat has forged very close relationships with all of the colleges in the area. At MSU, it has an active presence on campus with the recognized student organizations. Habitat for Humanity-MNSU Chapter,

Circle-K and the Greeks help with fundraising events such as Sigma Nu’s Trike-athon. A working relationship exists with the construction management and anthropology programs on campus, and Habitat is employing office interns from MSU as well.

“We always look for ways to work with MSU,” ReStore manager Fred Snyder said. “We love to harness the students’ energy.”

Past projects Habitat has done with MSU include staffing ReStore, helping on deconstruction sites, a hometweet-home fundraiser, the dumpster diversion at the end of the year and building houses in the area.

“Campus students have been great,” Executive Director Julie Schmillen said. “We had one Greek organization donate the prize money they received from a dodgeball tournament to us. The constrution management program has been a big help, and the campus chapter is wonderful.”

Habitat for Humanity’s goal is to eliminate substandard housing and homelessness internationally. In order for families to qualify for a Habitat house, they must meet

certain criteria: overcrowding and safety of the family are top priority; there are income guidelines; and they must do at least 200 sweat equity hours either working on other houses or, in the case of this branch, volunteering at ReStore. They also pay a reduced mortgage.

Resource Development Manager Nicole Griensewic said not only is the stability of a decent affordable home important for their families, it also helps the children who are living in Habitat houses gain a better education and life for themselves.

Snyder agreed that good housing is essential.

“It’s easy to think that substandard housing is

elsewhere,” Snyder said, “but it’s in your own backyard. It’s your neighbors.”

Habitat is headed toward fixing the housing problem with the purchase of 13 lots in the Mankato area last year that will become Habitat Park. Four of the lots have been filled and the second round of houses will be finished in the spring.

Most families are moving from a mobile home area in St. Peter. Griensewic said getting large groups to the build site has been a challenge because of the lack of site leaders.

Construction management interns from MSU and elsewhere will help supervise.

“We change people’s lives every day,” Snyder said.

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Minnesota: A Love/Hate Relationship

10 Reasons Why I Love Or Hate This Fair State I LOVE...

1. The Accents Say it with me now, “WAAAH-SEEEE-KAAHH.” You guys are just so gosh darn cute, dontchaknow?

2. The Music Scene One day, before I moved here from where I was raised in Southern Illinois, I went into my local record store and asked the too-cool, punky clerk behind the counter to recommend some independent hip-hop. She handed me Atmosphere’s “Seven’s Troubles”… and it blew me away.

I thought I was so cool for the next two years as I got all my friends in the know about this underground guys from some place called Minnesota making crazy-good beats you won’t hear on the radio and rapping about the Midwest — regular people working regular jobs, doing regular drinking, regular screwing and getting their regular hearts broken.

But then I moved here and everybody already knew about ‘em. And many were also down with old favorites like Prince, The Replacements and Hüsker Dü, or new ones like The Hold Steady and Tapes N’ Tapes, or introduced me to new ones like Trampled By Turtles, Low and Doomtree.

After living here for almost five years now, I’ve fallen in love with the abundance of music in the Minneapolis music scene, and am really excited by how well Mankato is following suit.

3. Strength Through Struggle While the cold is an awful thing that I hope Al Gore kills as soon as possible (that’s what “An Inconvenient Truth” was about, right?), it does have its

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benefits. Since we all suffer the same horridness, we unite through our struggle — sparking conversations about that one time when it was -34 degrees with windchill and they wouldn’t cancel school. It’s truly where the “Minnesota Nice” comes from.

But beyond that struggle, is an appreciation for the times when it isn’t cold. Throughout late spring, summer and fall, trails, lakes, camping grounds are filled with active Minnesotans who, like a bear preparing for winter, soak it all in before it’s too late.

4. The Job Market According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Minnesota ranks 12th-best in unemployment rates and a lot of that has to do with the state quietly hosting some of the biggest companies in the nation, including Best Buy, Supervalu, Target, Cargill, Hormel, General Mills, Xcel Energy, 3M and everything our own billionaire MSU alum Glen Taylor owns.

5. The Food A land settled (read: taken) by the French and early Americans, still inhabited by many Native Americans, heavily populated

by Germans and the Nordic, and immigrated to by Africans and Asians, Minnesota is a literal melting pot when it comes to food. As a result, Minnesotans love their food and the Great Minnesota Get-Together is a perfect example of that.

But it isn’t just fair food that waters Minnesotan’s mouths when lurking through the metro area for food. Minneapolis, as well as the smaller metro areas, carries an inordinate (and inviting) amount of international and organic restaurants, groceries, delis and bakeries. Not many places can boast tofu scrambled

eggs for breakfast, deep fried cheddar-bacon mashed potatoes on a stick for lunch and African Yebeg Alicha for dinner.

I Hate...

1. The Weather The worst part about the long, grueling Minnesota winter isn’t the cold. Okay, it is the cold. But more specifically, what the cold prevents. I can’t count how many times I’ve not done something or gone somewhere because I knew what the frozen tundra we call outside between late November to early March had in store for me.

2. Michele Bachmann Seriously St. Cloud, you elected this? You elected this woman who bridges the crazy, unintelligible buzzword gap between Sarah Palin and Ann Coulter? I mean, did you see her Tea Party Express HD Channel I Can’t Stop Not Looking At The Camera Because My Flash Cards Aren’t In Front Of It “response” to the State of the Union Tuesday night? Plus, she looks like that crazy runaway bride.

3. Sports Homerism This isn’t an exclusivelyMinnesotan thing to nitpick at, but no matter how much you pretend you’re any different than fans of any of those Northeast teams, you’re not. You’re just as obnoxious as any group of fans from any city. You’re the same fans who bought Favre jerseys after wishing him dead for 17 years.

“But we’re a small market!,” you shout from your purple and gold-painted face. No, you’re not. I don’t care if you haven’t won a championship in any sport since ’91, that doesn’t give you the right to play the victim. You

had the richest owner in baseball, but continually used the “small market” excuse for moves like trading Johan Santana. You think St. Louis (which is smaller than the Minnesota market) is going to let Pujols go? Don’t count on it.

But while we’re on the subject of absurd sports claims…

4. Hockey A short while after 9/11, I walked into a J.C. Penny and they were selling all these $12 tee shirts that they wanted people to buy with images of eagles and patriotic slogans to prove they love America (there is no other way apparently). One of these shirts had a picture of a bag of golf clubs with the words “AMERICA” underneath.

I don’t know which marketing firm believed a Scottish-invented sport to embody America, but that’s what I think of every time I hear someone call Minnesota the “State of Hockey.” You like hockey? Fine. You think the Mighty Ducks films are the greatest ever made? That’s a little rough, but okay, you’re nostalgic, I can dig it. But you claim a Canadian-made sport for your state because it’s cold here and a lot of people play it? Sorry, I ain’t gonna buy into it.

5. Anti-Vice Laws If there’s state place smoking should be allowed inside, it’s Minnesota. And no selling alcohol after 10 p.m. or at all on Sundays? I didn’t know I moved here that I was traveling back in time to the era of “The Crucible.” While we’re at it, we may as well abolish meat on Fridays, sex before marriage and the Minnesota Lottery entirely. I mean, why not? It’s not like these things stimulate the economy or anything.

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gets snow piled in it until it can be moved to the lawn in front of the building.

Depending on the type of storm, Lexvold said snow from around the dorms is usually removed first and on the rest of campus crews generally start from the middle and work their way out. This means areas around the Centennial Student Union and Memorial Library should be cleared first. The Taylor Center will be a focus sometimes, he said, if there is an athletic event.

Emily Madden and Megan Paradis both live in Gage and said that many times the sidewalks can be slippery for a few days after a storm. Madden thought the problem could be resolved by spreading more sand or salt.

But neither was too bothered by the amount of snow this year.

“It’s just more of a burden to walk around the snow [piles],” Paradis said.

This year, the university hasn’t done any hauling, which can be more costly.

In past years, it has had to hire out help from Southern Minnesota Construction to move snow.

Lexvold said the warm stretch in the first week of January helped them out a great deal.

“It melted a lot so we didn’t have to haul [snow]— yet,” he said. “It’s kind of an ongoing battle.”

said. “[For] a lot of people that live in southern Minnesota, the drive would be too difficult. Now people have an opportunity to go to a social work program that’s accredited that’s not too far away.”

The department started creating the program in 2005. In 2006, both MnSCU and the Council on Social Work Education, which grants accreditation for all undergraduate and graduate social work programs in the U.S, approved the program.

The first students enrolled in the new master’s program in 2007. At that time, it was a risky move, because the program was not yet accredited. While the program was in the process of becoming accredited, students who graduated from it were given temporary licenses from the Minnesota Board of Social Work. They would only receive permanent licenses if the program became accredited.

“There is some element of risk for students when they go to some program that is in the process of becoming accredited,” Fitzsimons said.

Fitzsimons said an

accredited master’s degree is critical to students who want upper-level social work degrees, because all states require social workers with master’s degrees to have graduated from an accredited program.

“It [was] essential for our graduates that we become accredited,” Fitzimons said.

“Otherwise, it really limits what they can do.”

While it was a risky move for students to enroll in the new program, they had some reassurance from the Council on Social Work Education that the program was on the right track.

The council, which monitors university social work programs, breaks up potential programs into two phases: precandidacy and candidacy. Precandidacy is when a university starts the process of becoming accredited by drafting a program, and candidacy is when the university really starts working to create that program. Students are not allowed to enroll in a master’s degree program until the council moves the university out of pre-candidacy and into

the candidacy phase.

Then, students are necessary to the process, because the council needs to monitor the courses they take and evaluate graduates to see if they were properly educated.

MSU’s master of social work program was in candidacy for two years.

During this time, the Council on Social Work Education would make yearly on-site visits to check on the program’s process and make suggestions.

Fitzsimons said MSU never had any major problems fulfilling the council’s standards. She said there were a few curriculum details that needed to be clarified, such as how the program would prepare its students to deal with rural communities, and they had to work out where to find space and resources.

“We really moved through this process very smoothly,” she said. “We worked very closely with our dean to make sure we had adequate resources for a year-long program.”

Part of the problem with resources is that the social

work master’s program runs from four to six consecutive semesters, which means it would be in session over the summer. In fact, classes graduate in July. But all the members of the social work department agreed to work over summer, as did the administration.

The program was officially accredited in November 2010. The 2009 and 2010 classes graduated before the accreditation. The 56 students in these two classes have since traded in their temporary licenses for permanent ones.

Fitzsimons said having an accredited master of social work degree is a great thing for MSU and the surrounding community. “[Our program] enhances the reputation of this school for quality education,” she said.

“The success that we’ve had is sort of a feather in the cap for the university.”

“It’s good to have people stay in Southern Minnesota that have clinical licenses because people here… that live in these areas need professionals with these licenses,” Ali said.

MSSA Frost discussed many student-based issues in the community continued from 2 else, may have affected you financially,” Frost said. “That may not have passed if we had had this committee.”

Frost touched on many issues that he felt the students would want a voice in, including rental property

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Egypt arrests 19 al-Qaida suspects

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have arrested 19 Arabs suspected of having links to al-Qaida en route to Iraq, the interior minister said Tuesday.

In an interview published in Egypt’s leading Al-Ahram daily, Habib el-Adly said the suspects are originally from Tunisia and Libya and were using Egypt as a transit point on their way to Iraq to join al-Qaida groups there.

He said security forces also confiscated weapons, ammunition and documents related to al-Qaida. He did not say exactly when or where the arrests took place.

But El-Adly said the suspects were taken into custody before Jan. 1, and stressed the men have no connection with the New Year’s Day suicide bombing of

a Christian Coptic church in the port city of Alexandria that killed 21 people. Egypt has blamed that attack on the al-Qaida-inspired Palestinian Army of Islam, which is based in the neighboring Gaza Strip.

The minister also denied the presence in Egypt of “any terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida or other groups.” But he said there have been attempts to mobilize elements trained outside Egypt or recruit people on the Internet.

“We are sure that there are dozens of people loyal to al-Qaida in Gaza and some of them already have been involved in previous terrorist attempts in Egypt,” he said, blaming a 2009 blast at a Cairo mosque that killed a French tourist on the Palestinian Army of Islam.

Man fired over Packer tie

OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) — A car salesman in suburban Chicago who was fired for refusing to remove a Green Bay Packers tie says he won’t be coming back even though his former boss has relented.

John Stone wore the tie to work at Webb Chevrolet in Oak Lawn Monday, the day after the Packers beat the Chicago Bears to advance to the Super Bowl.

Stone says he wore the tie to

honor his late grandmother, who was a big Green Bay fan.

But his boss, Jerry Roberts, says the dealership has done promotions involving the Bears.

He was afraid the tie could alienate the team’s fans and make it harder to sell cars.

Roberts now says Stone can come back, but Stone says he won’t. He’s also been offered a job at another dealership.

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MN college financial aid not at risk for budget cuts Flood and tornado relief safe as well ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Popular programs including college financial aid and flood and tornado relief wouldn’t be at risk of budget cuts before July under a Senate version of a $1 billion deficit-reduction bill that advanced Wednesday.

The bill’s author, Sen. Claire Robling, R-Jordan, changed the legislation so that Gov. Mark Dayton’s administration would be required to reduce state agency budgets by $125 million, instead of $200 million.

Her amendment put items including prison repairs, National Guard tuition reimbursement, emergency grants for veterans and job training programs off limits for short-term cutting. Public schools and higher education systems were already protected.

“There were some things that we really didn’t want them to have to go in and cut,” Robling told the Senate Finance Committee, which she heads.

She added: “We are asking, with five months remaining in the fiscal cycle, for them to find $125 million, and we think it’s possible.”

A companion House bill that would still require $200 million in immediate cuts is slated for a floor vote this week. The cuts would come by targeting unspent and unobligated funds before the state’s fiscal year ends in June.

The GOP bills don’t say what they would cut. But The Associated Press got information Tuesday from six

state agencies with nearly $70 million in unspent money set aside for programs including disaster aid to communities ravaged by floods and tornadoes last year, emergency grants for veterans and financial aid for college students, including National Guard members, already starting their spring semesters.

Democrats said it was unclear which programs would be cut under the bill.

“I’m very concerned about randomly throwing cuts out there,” said Sen. Barb Goodwin, DFL-Columbia Heights.

Figures from Minnesota Management and Budget show that slightly less than $195 million in unspent and unencumbered funds remained in the state’s general fund as of last week. Funds are considered encumbered when a state agency obligates the money for a specific purpose in the state accounting system.

The proposal is the majority Republicans’ first major attempt to whittle down a $6.2 billion budget shortfall projected for the next two years.

Dayton has said he doesn’t want to erase the deficit in “piecemeal” fashion.

State agencies including the departments of Veterans Affairs, Employment and Economic Development, and Corrections confirmed they have unspent funds. Amounts include $2.7 million for the State Soldiers Assistance Program, $10 million in flood disaster assistance grants for businesses and $11.6 million for prison utilities, repairs and supplies such as toilet paper and inmate clothing.

The Minnesota National Guard has not yet spent almost $2.4 million for tuition reimbursement and another $900,000 for the “Beyond the Yellow Ribbon” reintegration program, Lt. Col. Kevin Olson said.

Also unspent: $12 million for flood and tornado disaster aid to local governments.

That money will cover the state’s portion of disaster grants, with the Federal Emergency Management Agency paying three-quarters of the cost, said Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Kris Eide. Hundreds of local governments have applied for cash to repair roads, bridges, buildings, parks and utilities.

The Minnesota Office of Higher Education had yet to spend about $27 million for student grants as of Tuesday.

Spokeswoman Barb Schlaefer said the state doesn’t pay the awards until colleges and universities draw the money.

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Columbian explosion Facebook to share “liked” kills 5, traps 16 brands on friends’ pages BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An explosion at coal mine killed at least five workers in northern Colombia on Wednesday and trapped 16 more, the local mayor said.

The explosion occurred in the same mine where another blast killed 32 workers in 2007.

Sardinata Mayor Yamile Rangel Calderon told The Associated Press that at least five workers were killed and five others injured. Speaking by telephone from the site of the accident, she said the injured men reported that 16 others were still trapped.

Rescue workers had been unable to enter the mine due to a collapse, she said.

The Colombian Red Cross earlier had reported 32 were trapped at the La Preciosa mine in Sardinata, some 250 miles (400 kilometers) northeast of the capital of Bogota.

“The initial report from

my people there says that the cause was methane gas,” Red Cross rescue chief Carlos Ivan Marquez told The Associated Press.

Norte de Santander provincial Gov. William Villamizar told RCN radio that the explosion occurred about 6:30 a.m. (1130 GMT) during a change of shift for the workers.

An explosion of that kind “is like a kind of cannon shot and creates a flame within the mine and obviously has tragic consequences,” he said. The governor estimated that 32 people were trapped and said that it is usually difficult to find survivors after such accidents.

The mine is legal, according to Edgar Fabian Morales, national safety coordinator for the Colombian Institute of Geology and Mining, but he said he had no details on the incident.

Users can’t control new feature

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook users who check in to a store or click the “like” button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends’ pages as a “Sponsored Story” paid for by advertisers.

Currently there is no way for users to decline this feature.

Facebook says this lets advertisers promote word-ofmouth recommendations that people already made on the site.

They play up things people do on the site that might get lost in the mass of links, photos, status updates and other content users share on the world’s largest social network.

The new, promoted posts would keep the same privacy setting that the original posting had. So if you limit your check-ins to a specific group of friends, only

these same friends would see the “Sponsored Story” version later.

The promoted content will appear on the right side of users’ home pages, not in their main news feed. That’s where regular ads, friend requests and other content are located.

Involving users in advertisements without their consent has been a thorny issue for Facebook. Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said in this case the company is making money off a person’s name or likeness without their consent. He calls it “subtle and misleading” and says users should object.

Twitter already offers advertisers something similar, called “promoted tweets.” These are Twitter posts paid for by

advertisers to show up in search results and on top of popular topic lists on the site. But while Twitter’s ads are written by the companies that pay for them, Facebook’s sponsored stories are created by users.

Both represent an effort to make advertisements more akin to what people are already experiencing on the site instead of putting up virtual billboards that users might ignore or find tacky.

U.S. shortage of lethal injection drug worsens Germany opposes death penalty, will not sell its supply combination for lethal injections in 35 states, but across Europe it is used as an anesthetic.

As U.S. states started facing shortages in the fall, they began searching abroad for sources of the drug, but one of them dried up in November when the British government banned exports of sodium thiopental for use in executions.

Germany, Italy and Britain banned capital punishment after World War II. In 2008, the EU issued a declaration against the death penalty and has lobbied for its abolition worldwide.

Frank Ulrich Montgomery, vice president of the German Medical Association, told The Associated Press the nation’s doctors are throwing their support behind a call by the Health Ministry for German drug companies and distributors to reject U.S. requests for the drug.

“We are calling on the

German pharmaceutical industry to send a clear signal that it recognizes its ethical responsibility and refrain from selling any drugs to the United States that could be used in carrying out the death penalty,” Montgomery said.

“This is not about money, but ethical principles,” he added.

The three companies producing or distributing sodium thiopental in Germany — Nycomed GmbH, Inresa GmbH and Rotexmedica GmbH — all told the AP they currently had no agreements to export it to the U.S. and would refuse to sell the drug to the U.S. if asked.

Inresa’s managing director, Bruno Wassmer, said it is important that the drug be produced for hospitals to use in surgeries, but that his firm would not allow it to be used for executions.

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Planned executions in the U.S. states of Arizona, California, Kentucky, Ohio and Oklahoma are currently facing delays or disruptions, due to the shortage.

Rotexmedica’s sales director, Andreas Wendt, said the company currently doesn’t ship the drug to the U.S., has

not received any such export requests, and would decline them if the anesthetic were to be used in lethal injections.

Over the weekend, Germany’s Health Ministry said Minister Philipp Roesler wrote a letter to the nation’s pharmaceutical companies urging them to ignore any possible U.S. requests for deliveries of the drug.

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The German Medical Association, the country’s association of Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies and officials from the three companies producing or distributing sodium thiopental in Germany said they oppose selling it to the U.S. for fear it could be used in executions.

Several U.S. states currently face supply shortages after the sole American producer ceased production of the drug due to objections by authorities in Italy, where the company had been making it lately.

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Not your average ‘injuries’ Sure, they have to deal with the everyday injuries all athletes do, but wrestlers have a whole other world of things to deal with KYLE RATKE | sports editor

Ligament injuries, sprained ankles, broken bones and pulled muscles.

These are injuries that are common in most sports from football to tennis.

Every athlete has to deal with these at some point.

But how about cauliflower ear, swollen knees and skin infections such as ring worm, herpes simplex, impetigo or even a staph infection?

Not exactly your everyday ‘injuries’ someone hears about on SportsCenter.

In January of 2007, there was an outbreak of herpes simplex in Minnesota, which suspended all high school wrestling for two weeks. This could have been caused from one school not cleaning their mats properly and having wrestlers spread them among them-

selves.

This is something other sports don’t have to deal with. Imagine basketball teams having to stop practices and games due to the spread of sprained ankles.

“It’s probably the most contactoriented sport,” said Minnesota State Mankato senior wrestler Ben Becker.

“We also have the least amount of equipment and uniforms. Our skin is exposed, which gives it more of a chance for infection or injury.”

Becker’s head coach, Jim Makovsky, believes each sport has it’s own injuries, but for wrestlers like himself, these are injuries that are expected in such a physical sport.

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In the 2010-11 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference men’s basketball preseason coaches’ poll, the Winona State Warriors were voted to finish first, while the defending champs, Minnesota State Mankato, were chosen to take third.

Well, so much for that.

The tables have turned since the meaningless poll and the first place Mavericks (15-2, 11-2 NSIC) currently hold a twogame lead over the Warriors, (13-4, 9-4 NSIC) who are set to visit Mankato for a showdown at 8 p.m. Friday night.

The two teams, who already have a heated rivalry, faced off earlier this season and the Mavericks came away with an 80-74 victory on Dec. 18.

With only nine games remaining on the team’s schedule, head coach Matt Margenthaler realizes his team is pushing through a tough part of the season, but recognizes this game as more of a must-win for Winona, rather than MSU.

The Mavericks have never lost to the Peacocks in their history (9-0) and beat them earlier this Winona State When: 8 p.m. Friday season, 87-72.

The Mavericks are hopeful to Where: Taylor Center-Mankato be rejoined by senior guard Cam Hodges, who missed last Satur“We just need to take the day’s game, along with practice whole season, with nine games earlier this week, with an injury to left, and take it one game at a his right big toe. time,” Margenthaler said.

Margenthaler expects Hodges This time around, the Maverto practice Thursday and be ready icks will be on their home-court, to play this weekend. a place where they are 9-0 this The Mavericks are currently season. ranked No. 12 in the nation and MSU students are also pushNo. 2 in the NCAA Central Reing for a “white-out” against the gional Rankings.

Warriors, in attempt to pack the If the Mavericks can surpass seats.

Fort Lewis (14-3) in the region “It’s nice to see [fan support],” by the end of the season, they will Margenthaler said. “We have one host the regional rounds of the of the best teams in DII and we NCAA Tournament. want to have as many fans as we Margenthaler is hoping these possibly can.” home games will help.

The Mavericks will have their “I think it’s something we eyes set on Warrior junior guard always talk about,” Margenthaler Anthony Tucker, who leads the said of performing well at home.

Warriors with 17.5 points per “Understand that if you are going game. to win a conference championship Margenthaler has a 7-8 overall you have to win at home. We have record against the Warriors, but is four home games left and five on 5-2 at home. the road. It’s very important to On Saturday, the Mavericks us.” will play the Upper Iowa Peacocks (6-11, 5-8 NSIC) at 6 p.m.

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MSU hopes to repeat home performance After two wins last weekend at home, the Mavericks look to continue the streak and make themselves a force in the NSIC

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Things are beginning to take shape in Division II women’s basketball.

Minnesota State University Mankato’s stunning victory over Minnesota-Duluth last weekend has propelled them back into the conversation of possible regional postseason seeds, tying them with Minnesota-Duluth for sixth-place in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with a 7-6 conference record.

In the coming weeks, with a month left in regular season play, the NSIC’s 14 team field will be whittled down to just the top teams as the postseason picture becomes more clear. But for the Mavericks (7-6, 10-7), who host Winona State and Upper Iowa this weekend, a sense of urgency is already starting to sink in.

Friday night’s game against the Winona State Warriors (8-5, 12-5) is especially important, since Winona is one of the five teams in front of the Mavericks for playoff

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“It’s going to be a great matchup,” said MSU head coach Pam Gohl. “I felt like last time we held our own against them for the majority of the game. They’re right ahead of us in conference standings, so this is going to be a very important game and we’re looking forward to it.”

The Warriors are led by forwards Michelle McDonald (16.0 points and 7.7 rebounds per game) and Natalie Gigler (13.2 points per game), and lead the Northern Sun with a league-high .472 field goal percentage. But after dismantling Minnesota Duluth’s offense last Saturday and holding the Bulldogs to only 29 total

points, Gohl is confident in the Mavericks’ defense.

“I’ve been very happy with their defensive effort lately and hopefully we can keep up the pressure,” Gohl said.

Depending on what happens Friday, Saturday’s game is also very important to MSU’s postseason chances as Upper Iowa brings the NSIC’s worst record (1-12, 1-16) to Mankato. But even though record-wise it may appear to be an easy win, Upper Iowa could be a trap game for the Mavericks if they don’t come ready to play.

“Upper Iowa is a muchimproved team. They’ve been playing harder and better this year than they did all of last year.

They only have one conference win, but they’ve had a lot of very close games,” Gohl said. “There are nine games left and a lot left to be determined. We’re just trying to focus on winning our games at home and trying to put a better effort together on the road. We’re just looking to bring positive

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RECAP: The Minnesota State Mankato women’s hockey team will have its hands full this weekend when it travels to Grand Forks to play the seventh-ranked North Dakota Fighting Sioux. The Sioux are currently sitting in third place in the WCHA standings and have gone an impressive 8-0-1 in their last nine games. They are coming off a trip to St. Cloud in which they dominated the Huskies, winning both games by scores of 5-0. UND has 38 points in conference play, trailing second-place Minnesota by only three points. The Mavericks are reeling, having been swept in their past three series. They have also gone 0-122 in their last 14 games and haven’t won a game since November. MSU was in Bemidji last weekend, losing to the Beavers by scores of 2-0 and 3-1. The Mavericks find themselves second-to-last in the WCHA with 16 points.

HISTORY: The Mavericks know what it feels like to beat the Sioux, going a solid 19-7-5 against UND all-time. They also hung with the Sioux earlier this season in Mankato, splitting a series. The Mavericks took the first game 4-2, before losing the second 5-1. In the victory, freshman forward Kathleen Rogan recorded her first career hat trick with fellow freshman Tracy McCann recording the other goal. Freshman Nicole Germaine continued the steady production from the rookies, notching the team’s only score in the loss. Since that series in late October, the two squads have gone in completely opposite directions.

MSU NOTES: The formula for success is pretty simple for the Mavericks: Score three or more goals and you will probably win. MSU is 6-0-0 in games in which they have tallied three or more goals and 0-17-3 in games in which they have not.

Rogan recorded the team’s only goal last weekend, giving her a team-leading 11 goals and 19 points on the season.

Sophomore Lauren Smith leads the squad with nine assists and 72 shots and may very well be the team’s best overall player. Smith posts a plus/minus of +6 when she is on the ice, which is quite astonishing considering the Mavericks’ struggles this season. Sophomore Alli Altmann continues to get the majority of the starts in net and has kept the Mavericks in many games with her 2.76 goals against average and .902 save percentage.

UND NOTES: The Sioux’s revitalization this season is largely due to the program’s acquisition of the Lamoureux twins — sophomore forwards Jocelyne and Monique. The sisters are two of the top players in the WCHA and lead the Sioux offensively with (22-16—38) and (16-22—38) respectively. Junior forward Alyssa Wiebe (10-13—23) is also having a good year for the much-improved Sioux. Junior goaltender Stephanie Ney, the reigning WCHA Defensive Player of the Week, is also having a great year in net for UND. Her 1.70 goals against average and .935 save percentage are good for a 10-2-2 record in net.

PREDICTION: The Sioux will give you quality opportunities to score, but make up for their deficiencies on defense with their star-power on their top line. The Mavericks need to reach three goals or more if they want to steal a game or two in North Dakota.

reporter archive The Mavericks hope to see more of Lauren Barber, who has played just two combined minutes over the last two games.

energy to the floor.”

Gohl says she doesn’t see either game as a must-win, but at this point in the season, there’s not enough time left to correct mistakes. If the Mavericks want to

keep their dreams of the postseason alive, wins against Winona State and Upper Iowa could end up going a long way.

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Mavericks back at home for NSIC action

Two top-10 teams match-up on Thursday in what could decide who will end up atop the NSIC at the end of the 2010-11 season

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Top-ten opponents are set to collide this weekend as the Minnesota State Mankato wrestling team gears up for two important Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference duels.

The No. 7 Mavericks will face off against No. 10 Upper Iowa at Taylor Center Thursday and No. 2 Augustana in Sioux Falls on Friday.

“This week obviously we should be extremely motivated,” said head coach Jim Makovsky. “We got the four schools in our conference that are undefeated in the league all facing each other, and we face two of them.”

After a close conference win last week, the team knows that every match is important and has the potential to turn the duel.

“Every point matters whether you are winning or losing, one point can be the difference between a major decision or tech fall,” said junior Pat Mahan. “Bonus points usually determine the winner in close duals.”

Upper Iowa (3-2, 2-0 NSIC) was idle last weekend after opening up their NSIC schedule with wins over Mary and Northern State. The Peacock’s have five nationally

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“Bottom line is there’s 10 individual battles out there,” Makovsky said. “Ultimately, the team score is the war.”

Makvosky knows that even though his team is undefeated in conference play, they are far from the level that he would like to see them at.

“We haven’t had all ten guys rolling in the same direction at the same time yet,” Makovsky said. “So, we have a lot of room to improve.”

Friday the Mavericks head west to take on Augustana (91, 3-0 NSIC). The 157-pound matchup between first-ranked

Marcus Edginton for the Vikings and fourth-ranked Tel Todd for the Mavericks should be a closely contested match that could turn the duel. Todd has earned the most victories for the Mavericks this season with a 19-8 record.

The Vikings also feature Ty Copsey who picked up two wins last weekend and has three wins by fall on the year.

This will be the second time the Mavericks and Vikings face off this year as the two met at the National Duels earlier this year with Augustana

prevailing 31-6. “[Augustana] was fired up, they haven’t beat us a lot — since I’ve been here they’ve beat us three times,” Makovsky said. “So, I know I’m motivated, I would think that if our guys are competitors that they will be extremely motivated and go down there and try to improve our performance and get a ‘W’.”

Makovsky hopes that a solid week of practice combined with some of the younger wrestlers having more experience will help turn the tables

this time around. He would also like to clean up some of the problems he noticed during last week’s win over Minnesota State Moorhead.

“I’d like to get a lot better on bottom,” Makovsky said.

“Our bottom position right now is a weakness and if you don’t believe in yourself on the bottom, that affects you on the feet. You’re not going to take as many risks because you don’t want to get down there.”

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Wrestling “Being a physical sport, there’s going to be more serious injuries.” continued from 11 “Being a physical sport, there’s going to be more serious injuries,” Makovsky said of some of the physical injuries in the sport of wrestling. “I know every sport has different things, basketball has ankles and wrestling has knees [along with other things]. I love my sport ...

I’ve been doing it since I was five and everything is worth it.”

Although physical injuries are high in wrestling, from elementary school to the college level, skin diseases have been a huge concern.

While most athletes bathe themselves (hopefully), wrestlers have an added incentive besides simply to smell good.

Most skin infections appear when athletes do not take showers both before and after practices. Wrestling with a smelly guy is one thing, wrestling with a smelly one with ringworm is something entirely different.

Wearing clean clothes to every practice and sanitizing mats with antiseptic solution after each practice is just as important.

“It goes to safety and health issues,” Makovsky said. “It’s important to [clean] no matter what. It’s just like in seventh grade, making sure the kids are showering ... We have a protocol of that, the janitors here document when they clean the mat and guys check on a daily basis and try to protect themselves, their teammates and their opponents.”

It seems as if MSU has done a fantastic job of reducing chances of any infections and they are hopeful other schools have the same system.

“It’s important to keep everyone clean,” Becker said.

“That way, no one has to miss any competition from injury or infection. No one wants that.”

As for cauliflower ear, that’s on the back burner for most wrestlers.

Makovsky admits he has what they call cauliflower and it maybe noticeable to others, but it’s something that doesn’t cross his mind.

His wrestlers have the same mentality.

“Not at all,” Becker replied to being asked if he worried about cauliflower ear. “Some people like it, some people don’t, there’s no issue.”

There doesn’t seem to be much of an issue with common wrestling troubles either with MSU, and they hope to keep it that way.

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The Mavericks are coming off a series sweep at Wisconsin last weekend. The Mavericks are 0-3-1 in their last four games.

The Huskies swept Bemidji State last weekend on the road and have won their last six games.

MSU is 59-44-9 against SCSU and is 13-9-3 in their last 25 games. SCSU is MSU’s longest and most-played opponent in the team’s history.

After going 8-3-1 in their previous 12 games, the Mavericks hit a road block last weekend getting swept by the Badgers.

The Mavericks are winless in their last six WCHA games and because of that have the second fewest conference wins in the WCHA with four.

The Mavericks had trouble finding the back of the net last weekend and will need to find their scoring touch again if they are going to climb back up in the standings. Senior defenseman Kurt Davis has led the team in points all season with 19. Junior forwards Michael Dorr and Justin Jokinen lead the team with eight goals. Freshman forward Chase Grant has come on lately and is now tied for second on the team with 17 points. Junior goaltender Austin Lee earned his first WCHA start in the series finale last weekend and allowed two goals on 31 shots. Sophomore Phil Cook has established himself as the No. 1 goalie on this team but it’s likely both goalies could see time this weekend with the recent struggles.

Two of the most intriguing series of the season for the Minnesota State Mankato men’s hockey team is when they play Minnesota and Wisconsin.

As two of the WCHA’s powerhouse teams, there is a sort of David and Goliath sense when the Mavericks play these types of opponents.

Since joining the WCHA in 1999, the Mavericks are 8-27-4 against Minnesota and 13-16-3 against Wisconsin. While those numbers are not fantastic, MSU has had better results over the last four years going 6-6-1 against Minnesota, including a sweep this season.

However, it appears these conference series could be coming to an end with the news that Penn State will soon have a Division I hockey program of its own, starting in the 2012-13 season.

Penn State has been interested in adding a college hockey team to their already storied sports history for years, but didn’t have the money to support both a men’s and women’s team. This changed when Penn State alum and oil tycoon Terry Pegula donated $88 million to build a new arena.

The money donated was the largest gift the university has ever received and the 5,000-6,000seat arena should be completed before the 2014 season begins.

Penn State is now the sixth Big Ten team to have a college hockey program.

Besides Minnesota and Wisconsin in the WCHA, there

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is Ohio State, Michigan and Michigan State — who all play in the CCHA. With a sixth member joining, there is now the required amount of teams needed to form their own conference.

There has been a lot of talk of a Big Ten conference being formed in college hockey since the Big Ten network was launched Aug. 2007. The network’s success has boosted the conference’s revenue, especially with the football and basketball teams. The conference’s third-highest revenue sport is hockey.

In an interview with the Minnesota Daily, Wisconsin head coach Mike Eaves said, “My understanding is that the gentleman giving the money is only giving the money if there’s a Big Ten league coming together.”

Minnesota head coach Don Lucia agreed with Eaves in an interview with the Duluth Tribune.

While it seems likely that a Big Ten hockey conference is going to form, it likely, won’t officially happen until 2014 when Penn State can move into its new arena.

But what does this all mean for the WCHA? There is no question that Minnesota and Wisconsin are the two faces of the WCHA, but that doesn’t mean the conference will not continue to strive.

The WCHA added NebraskaOmaha and Bemidji State this season, making it a 12-team conference. If Minnesota and Wisconsin do leave, it will move back to a 10-team conference, which it had been since MSU joined.

Teams like MSU, Alaska-Anchorage and Michigan Tech could

see a benefit from Minnesota and Wisconsin leaving the WCHA. Since MSU joined the WCHA, they have finished in the top-five three times. UAA has twice and Michigan Tech has not one time since the 1999-00 season.

In that same period, Minnesota and Wisconsin combined to finish in the top-five 15 times. This is important because finishing in the top half of the WCHA guarantees the team a home playoff series which highly increases the chances of making the NCAA tournament.

MSU would have a much greater chance of at least getting a chance to compete for a NCAA tournament bid. Losing two of the most-storied teams in the WCHA does bring up the question, how much does it hurt the WCHA’s credibility?

Eaves believes the WCHA will still strive even with a Big Ten conference, because of the fact that only six teams would be in the conference. Eaves said Big Ten teams would have to continue to have a relationship with the teams from their former conferences.

The WCHA would still have some of the most prominent hockey teams in the country in North Dakota, Denver, Minnesota-Duluth and Colorado College. Adding a Big Ten conference would just add another very competitive conference, which in the long run could help college hockey.

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staff writer We are fast approaching the winter/spring television season once again. This section of the television year is primarily focused on either testing out new shows (such as NBC’s highly promoted yet increasingly awful looking “The Cape”) or continuing on with seasons of a relatively new series (like Showtimes’ female lead “Nurse Jackie” and “United States of Tara”). But of course to make room for a show or to move a show, there needs to be a “shakeup” of that stations lineup. Here at The Reporter we’ve decided to take a look back at some of the most famous shows to get lost in the “shakeup” and have a premature end to what should have been a magnificent run.

Where have all the good shows gone?

Arrested Development

Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, “Arrested Development” ran on FOX for only three seasons.

After his father was sent to prison for fraud and light treason, Michael Bluth (Jason Bateman) struggles to keep his dysfunctional family together.

“Arrested Development” had an incredibly unique style to its show. Its humor came from not only the ridiculousness of the plot line, but from the reflective nature it had on the show itself and its continual word play. Although critic’s gave high praise to “Arrested Development,” low ratings caused FOX to cancel the show after its third season. A movie has been considered for some time, but nothing official has been announced.

Firefly

Another FOX show that never got the chance to live up to its potential was “Firefly.” Created

by Joss Whedon (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel”), “Firefly” was set in the year 2517 and followed a ship called “Serenity” and its nine crew members. Unfortunately, from the beginning of the show’s shooting, FOX had trouble with Whedon’s ideas of creating a futuristic blend of a space opera and a western (apparently having created two hit shows doesn’t get you a free creative pass). With lackluster ratings, FOX canceled the show after just 11 episodes.

Whedon’s concept didn’t die there though, as Whedon would write and direct a movie called “Serenity,” which followed and continued the story of “Firefly.”

Chapelle’s Show

Not all shows on our list end because of executives being afraid of low ratings.

“Chappelle’s Show” was a sketch comedy show that starred comedian Dave Chappelle on Comedy Central. The show, which first aired in 2003, was an immediate success that propelled Chappelle into instant stardom.

From Tron Carter pleading the “fif,” to showing us the “real” Wayne Brady, and of course having Rick James tell us that “Cocaine’s a hell of a drug,” Chappelle created some of the most memorable characters and ingenious sketches of the early 2000s. Unfortunately success got to be too much for, Chappelle and, during production of the third season, he left the show.

Freaks and Geeks

James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini and Judd Apatow – with that kind of talent involved, there is no way a network could let a show like that fail, right?

Well, we are talking about NBC here. “Freaks and Geeks” followed a brother and sister (John Francis Daley and Linda Carellini) as they both attend high school in the early ’80s. “Freaks and Geeks” had all the potential tools to be a huge success: a cast full of up-and-coming talented actors, an extremely talented and smart executive producer and a fresh take on the teen dramedy genre. But unfortunately, executives don’t keep shows on because of their potential, and when the audiences didn’t tune in, NBC cut the cord on “Freaks and Geeks” after only one season.

Family Guy

Lastly, there is one other show that needs to be mentioned in our list. It’s from a network that has already appeared twice before, giving evidence to that fact that maybe someone should look take a look at who is running things over there. The show of course is “Family Guy.” FOX canceled “Family Guy” twice...

TWICE! And now it is by far the biggest show they have. It’s a powerhouse, and it has kept FOX a viable front runner on Sunday nights. Without it, their “animation domination” would be nothing but “The Simpsons”.

It just goes to show that given the right time slot and the right amount of effort, a show with potential can truly become a success.

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Talk about a hair piece

Althea Murphy-Price brings “hair-tastic” pieces to Conkling Gallery ABBY HOLST

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You could call her an artist, or a devotee to detail and originality.

Althea Murphy-Price surprised audiences on campus with her current exhibit “Silk n’ Slack.”

Like the entirety of her past works, each piece of art is made from synthetic hair.

Murphy-Price lectured on her past and recent endeavors Monday night in Ostrander Auditorium.

Murphy-Price explained her experiences and use of the medium (hair).

“My love for creating comes from the love of process and material,” Murphy-Price said. “I like to make things.”

She attempts to hide the nature of the material in a playfully obvious way making you wonder, “Is that really what I think it is?”

Most of the pieces in the gallery were prints, revealing the artist’s appreciation for texture and printmaking.

Murphy-Price said that the ability to take and reveal it in a different way through the confident nature of printmaking allows her to “see the world differently.”

After studying in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Italy and Indiana, she’s had her work displayed from Minnesota to Miami and Cincinnati. For Murphy-Price, the freezing Minnesota weather was daunting, but it didn’t stop her.

“I was a little nervous to get here,” Murphy-Price said. “I packed triple the amount I usually do, so I’m kind of hot up here.”

Her inspiration and influences stem mainly from her childhood.

“My hair, growing up, was a great sense of pride,” Murphy-Price said. “It allowed me to assimilate while still feeling unique.”

Murphy-Price discusses social culture greatly in her work with influences centered around the history of Western beauty ideas and ’20s-style ads marketing fake hair and “colored skin made lighter.” The fake hair industry today, mainly targeted at African-American women, is a multi-billion dollar industry and what she calls her “art supply store.”

Some of her past works included text printed over the hair, sending messages like, “I wear a veil because the truth is too much to detangle” and “I love my

hair, but I don’t think it loves me.” Another work targets lye-based hair straightening products with the word “lie” printed in a repetitive pattern.

A more playful take was her 2005 exhibit of handmade extravagant “hats” constructed of hair and felt. Bizarre, curious and fantastic, Murphy-Price works with her materials like a hairdresser would.

“Fake hair gives different opportunities to become a new you,” Murphy-Price said. “My work is fun.”

Another one of her exhibits featured prints made entirely from balls of hair, something undesired.

Possibly the most shocking part of her work was the description of MurphyPrice’s 2006 “hair rugs,” where she sifted shredded hair into a thin layer of intricate floral patterns and designs, directly on the floor.

To further her dedication to tediousness, MurphyPrice once hand clipped intricate patterns into the grass in a 2000 square area around trees. She also took leaves from a bush and replaced them with hand-cast glass replicas. The extreme detail and loveliness of this landscape art is hard to describe in words.

Althea Murphy-Price is an artist who takes unexpected materials and beautifies the world. The exhibit is only here until tomorrow, Jan. 28th, so don’t miss it by a hair.

• internet photos Above, a conceptual project entitled, “Dowry”. Below, Murphy-Price did a series where she weaved rugs out of synthetic hair.

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