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Sundance film heads to Ostrander Dear White People brings social issues to the silver screen with comedy and award-winning cast.

NICOLE SCHMIDT Staff Writer Grab your popcorn! This Wednesday, January 28, Stomper’s Cinema is showing the 2014 drama/comedy Dear White People, written and directed by Justin Simien. The film will be shown at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium, located across the hall from the Barnes and Noble Bookstore. As with all movies shown through the school, admission is free with your MavCard, and only $1 without it—quite affordable, even by college student standards!

Dear White People is a newer film that features the daily lives and struggles of black students in the fictitious Ivy League college Winchester University that is predominantly white; in fact, there are only four black students in the entire university.

The title Dear White People is derived from the title of the campus radio show that Sam

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White (Tessa Thompson) broadcasts to her fellow classmates, calling out white peers for their perceived racist actions.

In the film, Sam is not your average student because she is continually struggling with her

cultural identity because she is neither black nor white, but mixed race. Elected as head of house of Armstrong/Parker, the all-black residence hall on campus, Sam causes quite the stir. Not only does she win the

position, but also beats her exboyfriend and Dean’s son Troy Fairbanks (Brandon P Bell) to get the coveted position.

The film continues to show how the lives of the other three black individuals at Winchester

interrelate, each person interacts with the community, media and campus environment as they encounter today’s social issues and explore their identities throughout the film.

Not only is this film interesting and intellectually stimulating by amateur standards, it has drawn attention in a professional standing: Dear White People was the winner of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival’s Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent. Director Justin Simien also received a spot on Variety’s annual “10 Directors to Watch.”

Although Winchester University and all its stories are fictitious, what is real are the relevant controversies and issues faced at universities nation-wide regarding race every day. Dear White People puts racial politics and unhealed racial issues as the driving factor, causing its viewers to stop and consider what is being said, and gets you

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IMPACT, Sodexo host cooking workshop Event aimed at helping college students to eat smart and save.

PRATAKSHYA BHANDARI Staff Writer IMPACT is collaborating with Sodexo to bring a unique event to MSU: Healthy Eating on a Budget is a live cooking demo put together for students who are interested in learn-

ing how to cook healthy food with the options and equipment available to them.

Sodexo Executive Chef Jamie Waterbury will be cooking low calorie meals and providing free samples on January 27 from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the CSU Hearth Lounge. Apart from the cooking demo, there

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will be prizes, food samples, recipe cards and a live Q&A session.

The event is first of its kind on campus and is an effort from IMPACT to provide engaging and relatable events for college

students.

“I wanted to improve my eating habits, and by organizing this event, I can reach out to students who relate,” said Nicholas Luecken, speakers chair for IMPACT.

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Chef Waterbury is a Mankato resident with an impressive portfolio who has attended Le Cordon Bleu in Minneapolis and spent some time working in San Francisco. He is well

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thinking “what does it mean to be black?”

Nathalie Calvano, sophomore at MNSU, weighed in on the topic of addressing racial issues.

“I think race is still relevant and should be discussed.

Honestly, there are a lot of stereotypes out there about

different races and by not acknowledging them we allow them to keep being used.”

So this Wednesday, take a two-hour break from your laborious homework, grab a friend and some popcorn, and head over to Ostrander for Dear White People (unless you’d rather study).

traveled and has cooked for the president of the United States and as well as celebrities like Charlie Sheen. He came back to Mankato to be closer to his family and friends and has worked with Mystic Lake, Number 4 American Bar and Kitchen and Neighbors Italian Bistro.

Waterbury has a passion for working with seasonal ingredients and sustainable seafood.

He has been working at Sodexo for three and a half years and enjoys the experience.

“It is definitely exciting. The days are never really same. You don’t get into a routine and there is something new every day,” he

said. “There is always something going on.”

Waterbury will be demonstrating how to cook full meals, including a snack that requires no cooking. He will also be showing how to put together a seven day meal plan that is under 2000 calories.

“I think it is going to go well.

I am optimistic,” he said.

A healthy, low calorie diet is hard to follow and it is easy to go over 2000 calories because of the choices that are available to students, according to Waterbury. The purpose of the event is to show students that they can eat healthy food at a dorm

instead of ordering pizza.

“Since I live in a dorm, it is hard for me to cook and eat healthy. I am excited that they are focusing on students like me,” said Natalie Garten, a freshmen who lives in McElroy.

“I hope I can learn a few recipes that I can make in my dorm.”

The event is free for all students. It will be broadcast on Mavtube for students who won’t be able to attend or want to access the recipes later.

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MSU Photo Moment: Can I Kiss You?

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St. Paul zoo’s new baby orangutan needs a name!

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Yohanes Ashenafi, MSU Reporter Mike Domirtz, founder of the Date Safe Project, presented last week at Ostrander on healthy dating practices.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — St. Paul’s Como Zoo is asking the public’s help in naming its newest orangutan.

The female Sumatran orangutan was born Jan. 7 via C-section. She went to the University of Minnesota Veterinary Medical Center for a short time and is now reunited with her mother.

Zoo staff members have picked three potential names for the little girl and they are asking the public to weigh in.

The potential names are:

Aanjay (On-jay), which means unconquerable; Cinta (Chintah), which means love; and Kemala (Key-mala), which means “magic stone.”

The zoo is asking the public to vote by making donations for their favorite name.

Donations can be made on the zoo’s website or in person.

The winning name will be announced in mid-February.

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Minnesotans ponder Sunday off sale laws Opinions in state differ on whether to end Prohibition-era legislation.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Advocates for allowing Minnesota residents to buy booze on Sundays are back at it.

A bipartisan pair of lawmakers renewed their loud but long-unsuccessful campaign Thursday to undo the state’s ban on Sunday liquor sales. It’s a perennial issue at the Legislature, where proponents haven’t been able to overcome the liquor store lobby’s efforts to retain Minnesota’s “blue law.” Nearly every vote to repeal has failed by lopsided margins.

Rep. Jenifer Loon, an Eden Prairie Republican leading the charge in the House, insisted their efforts — small and large — are gaining momentum. She said she and other advocates will keep pounding their head against the wall until they break through “or get tired of beating our heads, I guess.”

MAKING THE CHANGE Minnesota is one of just 12 states that ban liquor stores from opening Sundays, a holdover from Prohibition.

In years past, Loon and Sen. Roger Reinert, DFL-Duluth, have offered up proposals to change everything from allowing taprooms to sell growlers on Sundays up to repealing the ban.

This year, Loon and Reinert are going for the full-scale repeal.

Other lawmakers have offered up their own takes this year, such as a pilot plan that would legalize Sunday sales for

five years in just three counties: St. Louis, Winona and Dakota counties.

WHAT’S DIFFERENT? Loon and Reinert said advocates’ increased mobilization of liquor store owners who support repealing the ban will eventually pay off.

“It’s just a matter of time,” Loon said. “With every year that passes, there is more pressure.”

Loon said new House Speaker Kurt Daudt’s support of legalizing Sunday sales — after voting against it in the past — will give their push a boost. So, too, will Gov. Mark Dayton’s promise to sign a bill if it makes it to his desk.

A vote to repeal the ban in the Senate last year failed 42-22.

Loon said there’s no certainty her bill will even get a committee hearing in the House.

The state’s liquor lobby and stores opposed to Sunday sales have increased their efforts too, hiring extra lobbyists and a public relations team.

“I think they’re worried,” Loon said.

ARGUMENTS AGAINST Mark Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk down as a powerful “no” vote.

Bakk, a Cook Democrat, said he’s never heard from any liquor stores in his massive northeastern Minnesota district who want to open on Sundays. He said he fears the change would only

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Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press In this Dec. 19, 2014 file photo, Justin Riess, assistant manager at Coborn’s Liquor in St. Cloud, Minn., stocks the shelves between customers. Legalizing Sunday liquor sales in Minnesota is a perennial issue in the Legislature but proponents of undoing the state’s old blue law say their increased efforts are gaining momentum.

hurt smaller shops and city-run stores.

That’s a familiar argument from the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association and other groups, who say opening on Sunday would only raise costs without increasing revenues.

Bakk said stores in his district would feel forced to stay open to compete with the big-box stores in larger cities.

Despite his own opposition, Bakk said he can’t prevent a vote on the issue this year in some form in the Senate.

ARGUMENTS FOR Loon and Reinert brought a handful of supportive liquor store owners to St. Paul on Thursday to make their case that stores should be able to choose when to be open.

Reinert said the ban hits stores particularly hard in his hometown of Duluth and other border cities, where thirsty customers can cross the border into Wisconsin.

Tamra Kramer, who owns Vom Fass at the Mall of America, said she thinks Sunday sales

would net her store $50,000 to $100,000 more each year.

“It should be an easy issue.

We’re keeping our beer cold for the customer on Sunday.

We’re paying rent,” said Nick O’Connell, who runs a West St.

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City of Minneapolis rejects sky high building proposal Developers must downsize plans for downtown buildings.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — City of Minneapolis planners rejected a proposal for an 80-story downtown tower that would have been Minnesota’s tallest building.

Duval Development proposed the giant tower for the site of a parking lot on Nicollet Mall.

The Star Tribune reports in a letter to the company, city planners questioned the experience of owner Alex Duval, the company’s operating performance and its ability to raise money.

They also expressed uncertainty over the chosen housing developer and raised questions about the firm’s study of the local real

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estate market.

Duval says he knew planners wanted more information from his company and requested a meeting with them to provide it, but the city wouldn’t meet again.

Three other developers are still under consideration. They proposed buildings ranging from 30 to 36 stories.

Minnesota marijuana moratorium Bloomington joins the growing list of midwest cities considering regulations.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

(AP) — Bloomington is the latest Minnesota city to consider a moratorium on medical marijuana production and sales facilities.

The City Council votes Monday on the one-year moratorium. Bloomington planning manager Glen Markegard says the moratorium would give the city time to develop a better understanding of how to regulate such facilities.

Markegard tells Minnesota Public Radio medical marijuana

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Several Duluth and Richfield.

Minnesota cities already have moratoriums in place, including

Economic growth continues Federal deficit may reach lowest point in Obama administration.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Solid economic growth will help the federal budget deficit shrink this year to its lowest level since President Barack Obama took office, according to congressional estimates released Monday.

The Congressional Budget Office says the deficit will be $468 billion for the budget year that ends in September.

That’s slightly less than last year’s $483 billion deficit.

As a share of the economy, CBO says this year’s deficit will be slightly below the historical average of the past 50 years.

In a report released Monday, CBO projects solid economic growth for the next few years. The official scorekeeper of Congress also expects unemployment to drop slightly.

“In CBO’s estimation, increases in consumer spending, business investment and residential investment will drive the economic expansion

this year and over the next few years,” the report said.

CBO also cited wage increases, rising wealth and the recent decline in oil prices.

For future years however, CBO issued a warning: Beyond 2018, deficits will start rising again as more baby boomers retire enroll in Social Security and Medicare. By 2025, annual budget deficits could once again top $1 trillion, unless Congress acts.

Obama inherited an economy in recession when he took office. The deficit topped $1 trillion for each of his first four years in office, including a record $1.4 trillion in 2009.

CBO projects that the economy will grow at an annual rate of 3 percent in both 2015 and 2016. In later years, however, CBO projects slower economic growth as more baby boomers retire and the labor force grows more slowly than it did in the 1980s and

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SHESTON STEELE Staff Writer In July of 2010, the public was presented with the memoir of a child who had been in a terrible car accident. The story, emphasis on story, describes the images young Alex Malarkey claimed to have experienced while in a coma caused by his accident in 2004. With the help of his father, Kevin Malarkey, Alex produced a very popular book titled The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven six months before the more well-known title turned into the film Heaven is for Real.

The tale starts right at the accident itself with the claim that Alex witnessed an angel carry his father to safety. The boy continued to recollect his outof-body experience, describing how his body was taken in an emergency helicopter from the scene and soon after how he was lifted to heaven by an angel.

After awaking in the hospital, Alex excitedly told his family about what he saw. Along with two hundred and some pages worth of false claims, Alex also woke up with a severe spinal cord injury, severe neck injuries, and brain trauma. Left paralyzed at age 10 in 2009, Alex underwent a procedure to allow him to breathe without a ventilator. Alex still has his limitations, but as of 2009 he

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was able to walk on treadmill with the assistance of a supporting frame and helpers.

Alex’s best seller was taken out of print by the choice of Tyndale House Publishing following young Malarkey’s statement which he posted on a public blog, The Pulpit and Pen. Alex posted his thoughts midJanuary stating, “I did not die.

I did not go to Heaven.” Some were taken aback by his words, while others were waiting for this since the book’s publishing.

Alex’s post continues, explaining that he had lied in order to get attention, I am assuming because being a quadriplegic with your mother at your beck and call just was not enough. It is also revealed that Alex, at the time of his incident and publishing of the book, had not read the Bible, along with four out of

five adult Americans (according to Christianity Today). Tyndale Publishing also made comments about Alex’s mother, Beth Malarkey, believing the book was inaccurate and harbored negative feelings about it being published. Mrs. Malarkey had posted on her personal blog that she was puzzled as to why the book was, for the most part, not being questioned. The answer to that probably lies in the fact that the book supported many images and ideas about Heaven that are already accepted in most Christian faiths. Alex also had reservations about the book’s publishing; sadly, Tyndale House Publishing’s contract was only with Kevin Malarkey, who fully stood behind his son’s account.

However, if Alex Malarkey deserves credit for anything,

besides his remarkable storytelling abilities, it is that he came forward and on a public blog no less. Alex admitted his mistakes and was honest with his audience about his intentions, which is more than a large amount of adults are willing to do. Conversely, Alex’s honesty may have been brought about by the lack of compensation he received from the published book and its related products.

According to his mother, Alex received no compensation and the majority of his much-needed medical care has also gone unfunded.

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“Do you think parents exploit their children for fame?”

DENNIS DURST, MASS MEDIA “Yes, not intentionally to hurt them but so that they have success.

Maybe bragging rights too.”

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“Some intentionally do it whereas others do not realize.”

“It’s all about what can be gained.”

“It really depends.”

“No, why would a parent do that to their child? It’s just wrong.”

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The hidden victims of terrorism Amid recent violence, religious groups are often blamed for the actions of those who misrepresent them.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer Although terrorism is a modern term for violent acts by terrorists groups, it has been happening more frequently (or is at least more publicized) since the September 11 attacks on the United States in 2001.

The deadly terror attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda destroyed buildings in New York City and Washington D.C. metropolitan areas in the U.S., killing almost three thousand people and causing serious damage in property of these cities.

Another kind of tragedy happened in Nigeria in 2014 when Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group, abducted nearly 300 girls in a secondary school in northeast Nigeria on April

14. In Jan. 10 and 11, the Islamic extremist group attacked a market that is considered a shopping hub in northern Nigeria, using three out of the 300 kidnapped Nigerian girls as suicide bombers, killing more than 20 people and wounding many more.

From Jan. 7 to Jan. 9, 16 people were killed including a police officer on the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris, which escalated into some Paris anti-Muslim acts and protests spreading throughout the Europe.

Japan is also outraged by these terrorist groups because Islamic State militants captured two Japanese hostages and murdered one of them brutally.

The goal of these terrorist groups is to create their own state based on strict Islamic law, but are these terrorist groups so called Islamic extremists really committing terror attacks around the world for religious

nbcnews.com Boko Haram has been responsible for kidnapping hundreds of young girls in Nigeria.

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Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press A participant of the march in Paris that was organized in response to the Charlie Hedbo shooting.

purpose? Many terrorists groups try to overtake government and it does not seem they are doing something horrible for their religion and what they believe in.

“Terror has been used more recently and widely than the past,” said Abdalla Battah, international relations professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

“There are extremists in all kinds of religions all over the place. Besides Muslims, Buddhists have extremists too. But those Islamic extremists are committing violence at large scale and I think it does not necessarily connect to Muslim, the religion itself. They are just invisible and ambiguous group committing crimes. So we should be more focused on this rather than accusing Muslim people,” he said.

In fact, most Muslim governments have denounced the

terrorist attacks. These brutal terrorists groups are not related to Muslim, but they are justifying what they are doing, using the name of religion.

“I speak for every good Muslim when I say terrorism is frightful, extreme and irrational,” said Faical Rayani, computer information technology major at MSU. “Islam is a humanitarian religion that seeks to preserve the dignity of all things good and nowhere in the religion does it say to murder the innocent.”

“Terrorists bring us a bad image as Muslims and more importantly make the world a worst place for everyone to live in. People are going to kill regardless of religious label and I think it would be beneficial if we attacked the bad people as opposed to attacking the invalid pretense they kill under which is religion,” he said.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A complaint has been filed against the University of Minnesota that alleges gender discrimination in intercollegiate athletics.

The university says in a statement that a complaint was filed with the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights.

The university says a letter indicates the civil rights office is conducting “a broad full-scale review of our program in virtually all relevant areas.”

School officials did not elaborate on specific allegations in the complaint.

Officials say the university had proactively retained a gender equity consultant to review athletics department practices, and many coaches, staff and student athletes were interviewed last summer. That review was recommended by the University Senate’s Advisory Committee on Athletics Subcommittee on Gender Equity.

The review is ongoing and results are expected to be made public this spring.

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Disgraced former television producer dies at NYC headquarters Dismissal from the station may have lead to man’s decision to end his life.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former employee of a Fox television station in Texas shot himself to death outside the company’s New York headquarters Monday, shortly after handing out fliers saying the company had ended his career, police said.

Philip Perea, 41, shot himself in the chest at around 9 am.

Monday outside the building near Radio City Music Hall that houses Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal. Perea left a suicide note, authorities said, and a weapon was recovered at the scene. No other injuries were reported.

He was pronounced dead

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the station FOX7-KTBC for 10 months, according to a statement from Jack Abernethy, CEO of Fox Television Stations, to employees.

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shortly afterward at a hospital. Perea was employed as a producer at a Fox News station in Austin until June, according to Fox officials. He worked at

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“We are deeply saddened by this tragedy,” he wrote.

A spokeswoman for Fox stations had no further comment. Fox is part of the media conglomerate News Corp., con-

trolled by Rupert Murdoch.

Perea posted a series of YouTube videos online after his firing, and in one he said he was fired May 19 for “dubious reasons.” The series was called “The American Workplace Bully,” and it chronicles what Perea said was a management coverup of bad decisions.

“2014 was the worst year of my life,” he said in last video, which was made with audio he said was taken from meetings with his bosses before he was fired. “It’s time for Fox News to have the worst year of its existence.”

He also posted several Twitter messages on the subject.

“Congratulations FOX, this is all the money I have left to my name, $104,” he wrote last Thursday.

The medical examiner will determine the official cause of death.

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1990s.

CBO projects the unemployment rate will gradually decrease to 5.3 percent in 2017. It is now 5.6 percent.

The budget agency also revised its estimates for government spending on health care under Obama’s health care law. Compared to estimates made last April, CBO says the government will spend $101 billion less over the next decade on Medicaid and subsidies to help people by health insurance through state-based exchanges.

CBO projects that the number of people who get

health insurance through the exchanges will double in this year, to an average of 12 million people over the course of the year. Last year, the average was 6 million.

Also, the number of residents without health insurance is projected to drop from 42 million last year to 36 million this year.

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY SABBATICAL HIGHLIGHTS: DR. DANAE QUIRK DORR

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During Dr. Quirk Dorr’s sabbatical year, she had the exciting opportunity to work at University of Minnesota’s Center for Drug Design and to learn how the flipped learning model is used around the country. She took a sabbatical to update her lab and bench skills as a scientist, as well as to enhance her work practices with students in the research lab and classroom.

While at the Center for Drug Design, she made a compound which could aid in further research of Hepatitis C. She then partook in various conversations focusing on the flipped classroom model and has been further developing and sharing best practices for implementation. With the experiences gained during sabbatical, she has been contributing to the flipped model certification program at our University. Dr. Quirk Dorr’s sabbatical will certainly yield great dividends for her teaching.

In addition to her time spent at University of Minnesota, Dr. Quirk Dorr was also able to present in Michigan, Arizona, Ohio, Florida, Texas, Missouri, Oregon, Tennessee, and California – an eventful 168 days!

See a more detailed rendition of her sabbatical adventures on our News & Events Page, entitled: “Secrets of Sabbatical” (http://www.mnsu.edu/news/read/?id=1392756232&paper=cset).

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Schindler’s director warns of further persecution 70 years after liberation, survivors meet to remember millions lost.

KRAKOW, Poland (AP) — Film director Steven Spielberg told a group of Holocaust survivors on Monday that Jews are again facing the “perennial demons of intolerance” from anti-Semites who are provoking hate crimes and trying to strip survivors of their identity.

His warning came in a speech to dozens of Auschwitz survivors the evening before official commemorations marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet army’s liberation of the death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

About 300 survivors willgather with leaders from around the world Tuesday to remember

States is sending a delegation led by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who is an Orthodox Jew. Lew’s family left Poland before World War II. Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of the 1993 Holocaust film “Schindler’s List,” was introduced by an 81-year-old survivor, Paula Lebovics, who praised him as “a man who has given us a voice in history.”

In a short speech, Spielberg spoke of how his own Jewish identity evolved, first as a boy learning to read numbers from the numbers tattooed on the arms of survivors, and as an adult when he filmed “Schindler’s List” in Krakow.

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the 1.1 million people killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau and the millions of others killed in the Holocaust. Leaders expected include the presidents of Germany and Austria, while the United

But he warned of “antiSemites, radical extremists, and religious fanatics” who are again provoking hate crimes — a warning that comes after radical Islamists massacred Jews

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Photos Courtesy of the Associated Press Marcel Tuchman, 93, a survivor of Auschwitz and still a practicing physician, visits the former death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 26, 2014.

at a kosher supermarket earlier this month in Paris.

Spielberg also noted that there are now Facebook pages that identify Jews and their geographic locations with the intention to attack them, and a growing effort to banish Jews from Europe.

“These people ... want to all over again strip you of your past, of your story and of your identity,” he told them. He stressed the importance of countering that hatred with education and preserving Auschwitz and other historical sites.

Earlier in the day some of the survivors traveled an hour and a half by bus from Krakow to Oswiecim, the town where the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is located. There they

prayed for their murdered loved ones amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out in a pained voice: “I don’t want to come here anymore!”

Rose Schindler, 85, who was one of 12 survivors from a family of more than 300 people, returned once 20 years ago but said she wanted a final visit to mourn her parents and four siblings who were killed in the Holocaust. She was separated from them upon arrival in Auschwitz with no time to say goodbye and survived because she was selected to do slave labor.

“I have no graves for my mother and sisters and brother, my father. So this somehow is a way to say goodbye,” Schindler

said.

Together, several of the survivors said kaddish, or the Jewish prayer for the dead, next to the infamous “Arbeit Macht Frei” sign that hangs above the entrance to the camp. That translates into “work makes you free,” a cynical statement given that the Nazis killed most of their prisoners.

Marcel Tuchman, a 93-yearold survivor of Auschwitz and three other Nazi camps, reflected on the unspeakable suffering of the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and others who were tortured and executed at Auschwitz, many in gas chambers.

“The overwhelming statistics

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are not the stories to be told,” Tuchman said. “The stories could only be told by the victims. Unfortunately their voices were silenced by gas and the crematoria, so we are here, the survivors, to speak for them and honor the memory of their suffering.”

Mordechai Ronen, an 82-year-old survivor from Hungary who now lives in Canada, made the trip very reluctantly and said he wasn’t sure he had the strength to handle it emotionally. After the survivors prayed in Hebrew he cried out, “I don’t want to come here anymore!”

The concentration camp was liberated by the Soviet army

on Jan. 27, 1945, in the last months of the war. The Soviet advance from the east forced the Nazis to retreat from occupied eastern Europe to Germany and they took many of their prisoners to kill along the way. However, they left several thousand behind, among them children and prisoners close to death.

The World Jewish Congress and the USC Shoah Foundation helped bring the survivors to Auschwitz for the anniversary. Inspired by making “Schindler’s List,” Spielberg founded the Shoah Foundation, which has collected video testimony from more than 53,000 Holocaust survivors.

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Eagan teen fatally wounded while playing with father’s gun Game of “Cops and Robbers” resulted in boy’s injuries.

EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — A 15-year-old boy unintentionally fatally shot his 13-year-old brother while playing “cops and robbers” after the boys discovered their father’s hidden gun at a Minnesota home, police said Monday.

Police and paramedics responded to an Eagan home Sunday morning after the 15-year-old reported his brother was unresponsive and bleeding.

The 15-year-old told dispatchers his brother had fallen and stabbed himself while running with a knife. But when police arrived, the older boy told officers he had accidentally shot his brother.

Police said they do not anticipate any arrests in the case.

The boys were home alone with their 11-year-old sister when they found an unloaded 9 mm pistol belonging to their

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father. A magazine with cartridges for the gun was nearby, police said.

At some point, the firearm was loaded, then thought to be unloaded while the boys chased each other as they played “cops and robbers,” investigators said.

Police said the 15-year-old fired one round that struck his brother in the chest. The 13-year-old died at the scene.

The 11-year-old sister did not

witness the shooting and was not hurt, police said.

While police said the shooting “appears to be a horrible accident,” the results of their investigation will be presented to the Dakota County Attorney’s Office for review.

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At Sunday’s pageant in Miami, Vega, a 22-year-old student of business administration from Barranquilla, Colombia, said she would wear the crown with “pride and excitement” as she heard the news that fans in Colombia had taken to the streets to celebrate.

Although she was far from home, Vega said she still felt the support from local Latinos.

“It felt like home. I felt like I was in Colombia with my people. I felt that support in every moment of the pageant,” she said, wearing a sparkling silver gown with vertical stripes at a news conference after the competition.

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“From the minute she walked in the building, people said, ‘She’s a star,’” Trump said.

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in the running to host next year’s pageant but noted China was also a strong candidate.

Vega’s win keeps the title in the hands of another Latina — reigning Miss Universe Gabriela Isler is from Venezuela. Beauty pageants are big business in Latin America, where girls are groomed for the contests from a young age and where Vega said women find “a lot of pride” in representing their country.

Crowd favorite Miss Venezuela Migbelis Lynette Castellanos was cut after the top ten. She had tremendous support and pressure locally and back home. The Miami suburb of Doral, which was host to the women during their stay, is also known as “Doralzuela” for its many Venezuelan residents.

Pageants and performance run in Vega’s family. Her grandmother, Elvira Castillo, was Miss Atlántico 1953 (Colombia) and her grandfather is legendary tenor Gastón Vega.

But the contests leading up to Miss Universe were a first for Vega, who is one of eight children. She also said they would be her last, as she is eager to return to her business studies, saying: “It gives me independence. I want to have my own company.”

After Sanchez, the 24-yearold Miss USA from Las Vegas, Nevada, the second runnerup was Miss Ukraine Diana Harkusha. Miss Jamaica Kaci Fennell and Miss Netherlands Yasmin Verheijen were also among the top five, emerging from the field of 88 contestants.

Fennell stood out with her short, spiky haircut and feisty personality.

“I don’t have long tresses like everyone else. I’m just representing myself, and that’s what beauty pageants are all about,” said Fennell, who wore a long, red beaded evening gown. “You don’t have to look a certain way ... and I feel like I represent that.”

As Miss Universe, Vega will receive an undisclosed salary, a luxury apartment in New York, a wardrobe and oodles of beauty products, and a oneyear scholarship from the New York Film Academy.

“It will be a dream come true to represent the woman of today,” Vega said earlier in the week. “A woman that not only cares about being beautiful and being glamorous, but also cares about being a professional, intelligent, hard-working person.”

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A championship for the underdogs in St. Paul Bemidji State University entered last weekend as the only unranked team, but came away as the North Star College Cup champions.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor As was expected, the North Star College Cup provided plenty of excitement over the past weekend. Four of Minnesota’s five Division I hockey programs met up at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Friday for the opportunity to square off against in-state rivals and the chance to come away with some bragging rights.

The first semifinal match up was between no. 7 Minnesota-Duluth and Bemidji State University. These two teams were once conference foes in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, but the Bulldogs from UMD jumped ship for the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, where they are in their second season of play. BSU, the only team in the tournament not ranked among the top 20 in the country, was looking for the chance to pull an upset and get back on track during the second half of the season. The Beavers did just that.

In the afternoon game Friday, the Beavers came out strong in the first period, pressuring the Bulldogs and pinning them in their own zone. Past the midpoint of the period, senior captain Matt Prapavessis got the Beavers on the board with a seeing-eye wrist shot that found its way past the Bulldog goaltender for a power play goal.

In the second period, Leo Fitzgerald, one-third of the Fiztgerald triplets on the BSU roster, finished off a two-on-one rush to put the Beavers up 2-0 over the Bulldogs heading into the third period. From there, the Beavers held on and kept pressing to finish out this one.

Two third period goals from Sam Windle and Kyle Bauman extended the lead to 4-0, while freshman goaltender Michael Bitzer posted a 28 save shutout, keeping the UMD offense at bay for the upset over the heavily favorited Bulldogs.

The nightcap featured the top ranked Mavericks of MSU against the 17th ranked Minnesota Gophers. This highly anticipated match up included the no. 1 Mavericks looking to

keep their top billing and move on to the championship, while Minnesota looked to get out of the recent funk they’ve been in and climb back up the rankings.

“Going up against Minnesota is always huge,” said Maverick forward Bryce Gervais. “We have guys on our team that know a lot of their players so they’re always big games.”

The first half of this game was a high-paced, back and forth contest that seemingly could have gone either way.

The Gophers struck first late in the first period when senior Seth Ambroz collected a loose rebound out in front of MSU goaltender Stephon Williams and backhanded a shot into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead.

The lead wouldn’t last long, however, as the Mavericks tallied one of their own with just 34 ticks left on the clock in the first period.

Bryce Gervais knotted things up with his team-leading 14th goal of the season on a highlight reel play where senior forward Matt Leiter gave Gervais a spinaround pass behind the back to which Gervais redirected past Gopher goaltender Adam Wilcox.

Tied to start the second period, the Mavericks went up early on another goal by Gervais.

His 15th of the season and second of the game, Gervais took a pass from Leitner in the slot and ripped a shot into the top corner of the net for a 2-1 lead followed by an emotionfilled celebration. Minnesota would come right back, though,

Bryce Gervais Gervais’ two goals on Friday brought him to a team-leading 15 on the season.

Trevor Cokley • MSU Reporter Bemidji State shutout Minnesota-Duluth on Friday to propel them into Saturday night’s championship.

as Michael Brodzinski buried a shot from the point during a delayed penalty to knot the game at two apiece.

From there, the Mavericks seemed destined to win this one.

Freshman forward C.J. Franklin found himself all alone on a breakaway halfway through the second period when he chipped a shot past Wilcox to give his Mavericks a 3-2 lead before Jon Jutzi collected a rebound off the end boards that seemed to fool Wilcox.

On a Brad McClure shot that went wide of the net, the puck bounced out to the front of the net, where Jutzi jammed it in for a 4-2 lead heading into the third period.

The third period would go scoreless, but wouldn’t go without any excitement.

Late in the third period, the Gophers pulled Wilcox in favor of an extra attacker while on the power play, putting them at a six-on-four advantage. During this time, Maverick defenseman Casey Nelson was injured during the play but the referees could not stop play until MSU regained control of the puck.

Instead, Williams pushed the net off of its moorings to get a whistle. The play resulted in a penalty, but Gopher coach Don Lucia chose a different option.

With the delay of game penalty to Williams, the Gophers would be able to go up on a sixon-three man advantage, or keep the six-on-four advantage and take a penalty shot. Lucia chose the latter.

Ambroz would take a penalty shot with 1:13 remaining in the

game in hope of bringing his team within one, but Williams shut the door and the Mavericks would keep Minnesota off the board for the remainder of the game, defeating their biggest in-state rival 4-2.

“We had a lot of fans in the building this past weekend, it was awesome to see,” said Gervais. “When the MSU chant got going with a few minutes left in Friday night’s game, over half of the team said they had goose bumps on the bench. It was a pretty cool experience.”

In the third place game on Saturday afternoon between Minnesota and UMD, both teams looked to rebound after Friday night’s losses, and UMD

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MSU women swim to third-place finish DENZELL OATS Staff Writer The Minnesota State women’s swimming and diving team took a third place finish this weekend totaling 813 points at the UW-Stevens Point Invite.

After an eventful first day of completion on Friday, MSU sat in second place trailing UWStevens Point, who had gathered 426 points throughout the day.

Freshman Taylor Bass and sophomore Carley LeDoux led the Mavericks turning in a first place finish for each of them.

Bass added her after winning the 200-yard IM with a time of 2:14.64. While in the 200-yard breaststroke sophomore LeDoux turned in the fastest time at 2:31.56.

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Senior Emily Green took another first place to add to the

Maverick charge in the 100-yard backstroke. She came in with a time of 59.03. Freshman Cecilia Hake finished right behind Green in second place with a time of 1:00.80 in the 100-yard backstroke as well.

The Mavericks would go on to claim the second place spot in the 200-yard freestyle relay event. The quartet of sophomore Nicole Bean, freshman Kylie Gaeth, Green and Hake turned in a time of 1:39.81.

MSU also took third place in the 400-yard medley relay event as the team of Hake, LeDoux, Gaeth and Green finished with a time of 4:11.47.

Sophomore Megan George finished up the day for the Mavericks adding her efforts on the diving side. George turned in a fourth place finish in the three meter diving event scoring a personal best of 385.55. She then took a sixth place finish in the one meter dive with a score of 362.75.

Carrying on to day two, the last day of competition, the Mavericks took a first place finish in two events.

In the 200-yard backstroke event, Bass took another first place finish with a time of 2:11.61. Freshman Chelsea Calhoon followed close behind Bass in a second place finish with a time of 2:12.91.Going to the 200-yard relay event the Mav-

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It was a pretty cool experience.” continued from 11 prevailed.

Tied 1-1 late in the third period, Bulldog senior captain Adam Krause tallied his second goal of the game with just 2:11 remaining in the game to seal a 2-1 victory and a third place finish for UMD. The Saturday evening game between BSU and Minnesota State had a little higher stakes.

BSU was looking for a second upset in as many nights, this time over the nation’s top team and the chance to take home the coveted wooden cup presented to the tournament’s champion.

The Beavers would control the play for much of this game, getting out to a 3-0 lead late in the second period before MSU’s Jutzi would score his second goal in as many nights with just 45 second remaining in the period to give his Mavericks some hope.

Hope is all it was, though, as the Mavericks couldn’t generate the needed offense in the third period, and Bitzer would end his night with a 26 save win on his way to tournament MVP honors.

“Bemidji is a good hockey team and plays a very good defensive game,” said Gervais.

“They had a good weekend and got rewarded for it at the end.”

So what does this weekend mean for the teams that took the ice at the Xcel?

While these were nonconference games that hold no value to each team’s respective conference standings, they do

hold some weight in the big picture of the NCAA Tournament.

For Minnesota, this weekend set them back even more than they already had been falling recently. Recently on the bubble of making the NCAA Tournament, with the two losses suffered this past weekend the Gophers have fallen to 20th in the NCAA pairwise rankings, outside the top 16 which make the tournament.

The Gophers also fell out of the top 20 national rankings for the first time since April 2011.

With a weekend split, UMD’s fate changed little to none. The Bulldogs kept their no. 7 rank-

Jon Jutzi Jutzi tallied two goals and an assist over the weekend, totalling five points in six games since his return to the team this semester.

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Though the Mavericks, much like the Bulldogs, don’t want to coast through the rest of their season, they are in a very good spot at this time of the year to make the postseason. The loss to BSU moved the Mavs back to the no. 3 ranking in the country.

The biggest benefactor of this year’s NSCC was Bemidji State. BSU came in unranked and first defeated the 7th ranked Bulldogs before taking down the no. 1 Mavericks. While the Beavers only improved to 9-12-3 on the season, it certainly helps their confidence knowing they can skate with anyone when they’re playing their best hockey.

Though the weekend success didn’t propel the Beavers into the national rankings, they did receive votes in the ranking poll, so progress has been made for this program that had been on the rise lately.

Next year’s NSCC will welcome the return of St. Cloud State University, who sat out this season while BSU rotated into the tournament.

Minnesota-Duluth will be the team not participating in next year’s tournament. As hockey fans around the state anticipate this weekend a year from now, they hope it can provide the same level of excitement that this year’s tournament did.

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Mavericks continue to win at home A high-powered offense has the Minnesota State men’s basketball team continuing to rack up victories in Bresnan Arena.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato basketball team continued their dominance at home with wins over two NSIC opponents. The Mavericks opened the weekend against Southwest Minnesota State University, winning 95-78. MSU finished off the weekend sweep by taking over in the second half in a 76-62 victory over Sioux Falls.

“One of our goals is to win every home game,” said head coach Matt Margenthaler. “It has put us in a good spot in February when we play a majority of our conference games at home.”

MSU got an early lead and never looked back in the weekend opener against SMSU. The Mavericks led by as many as 14 points in the first half, while shooting 53 percent from the field in the half. The Mustangs were able to chip away at the Maverick lead late in the first half, cutting the lead down to six at the break. Senior Connor Miller paced the Mavericks with 13 first half points.

In the second half, the Mavericks were able to keep the Mustangs from rallying, as SMSU twice cut the MSU lead down to four. Senior Zach Romashko connected on three 3-point shots in the second half, and was able to push the Mavericks to a double-digit lead.

The Mavericks were able to hold off any late-game pushes from the Mustangs on their way to a 95-78 win.

Miller paced the Maverick offense, going for 24 points while pulling down six rebounds. Senior Zach Monaghan posted another double-double with 18 points and 12 assist. Romashko finished with 18 points for MSU. The Mavericks shot 54 percent from the field, including going 13 of 24 from beyond the arch. The Mustangs were led by Joey Bartlett’s 21 points, and has a team the Mustangs shot 47 percent from the field and 29 percent from beyond the arch.

Coach Margenthaler thought the team has played okay defensively.

“I thought we did a really good job up to Christmas time, but this second semester so far we haven’t defended the way we need too.”

There is no question that this team is talented offensively, but bringing up their defensive game could hemp them reach

another level.

“Offensively we are a gifted and talented team, and once that defensive comes along with it we are that much better.”

Marenthaler said.

The Mavericks were in for a different battle Saturday night, as it was a defensive grind in the first half. The Mavericks leaned heavily on the veteran leadership of Monaghan and Senior Assem Marei.

Early in the first half, the Mavericks were trailing by as much as eight, but Monaghan and Marei were able to chip away at the deficit and grab the lead by one on a Mike Busack three-pointer. The lead wouldn’t last long, though, as the Cougars were able to grab four points in the last minute to take a two-point lead into halftime, 29-27.

Monaghan led the Mavericks with 13 first-half points while dishing out two assist. As a team, the Mavericks struggled from the field, shooting 34 percent from the field. The Mustangs landed on 46 percent of their shots from the field to help them to their two point advantage.

The defensive grind didn’t last long in the second half, as the Mavericks were able to outscore the Cougars by 16 in the second half, led by Marei.

The Senior connected on 8 of 11 shots in the second half for 19 points. Marei finished the game with 25 points and nine rebounds.

There were many lead changes early in the second half, then the Mavericks took off on a 16-5 run to open the game into a 12-point lead with 4:43 left on the clock. The Mavericks were able to keep the Cougars in check to finish off the game with a 76-62 win.

Marei paced MSU with 25 points and nine rebounds, while Monaghan finished the game with 21 points and eight assists. Romashko finished with 12 points for the Mavericks as well.

As a team, the Mavericks shot 45 percent from the field including going 9 of 26 from the beyond the three point line.

The Cougars finished shooting 46 percent from the field and connected on 6 of 18 from beyond the arch.

Mack Johnson led the Cougars, scoring 23 points and grabbing four rebounds. Charles Ward scored 19 points, going 4 of 8 from three in the contest.

Overall Margenthaler thought the team played aver-

Trevor Cokley • MSU Reporter The home court of Bresnan Arena has treated the Mavericks well this season.

age.

“Friday night I thought we were really good offensively and played 30 minutes of good basketball,” said Margenthaler.

“Saturday I thought we came out a little sluggish, but we played really well the second half. We go back to the basics of what we do to be successful on both ends of the floor. The guys did that and they saw good success.”

With the pair of victories the 20th ranked Mavericks move to 16-3 (11-2) including staying undefeated at home with an 8-0 record. The Mavericks hit the road for two upcoming games.

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NBA shaping up for an exciting second-half finish TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer If someone were to say the Atlanta Hawks were to be the best team in the Eastern Conference when the NBA season began, that probably would have been blasphemous to say. The Hawks have won 16 straight games and continue to surge. Then there’s the Golden State Warriors, who are on pace towards the best in NBA history, as they are 36-6 nearing the break. That may have been more of a believable statement to say preseason.

Would you be surprised to know Warriors point guard Steph Curry got almost 50,000 more All-Star votes than superstar LeBron James? The game is changing this year, as there are many other items of importance to point out so far this season.

When it comes to the biggest surprises, the Atlanta Hawks are obviously in this category. They are the current leaders of the Eastern Conference with a 37-8 record, and their style of play has been a mirror image to how Coach Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs have played.

It makes sense considering head coach Mike Budenholzer was Popovich’s assistant coach from 1996-2013.

Steph Curry Curry is a potential MVP this season.

The Hawks play a team oriented offense, while playing as a top five defense on the other end. Al Horford and Paul Milsap make a strong case for best big men duo in the NBA. Jeff Teague and Kyle Korver maintain a fantastic front court, as Teague has taken over leadership duties while Korver has been deadly from the three point line, shooting at a .536 rate this season. They are a defensive minded team, and Budenholzer should most certainly be considered for coach of the year at this point.

Getting into talks of this season’s MVP, it’s not the usual suspects. James Harden of the

Web Photo Minnesota’s Andrew Wiggins is making a case for Rookie of the Year.

Houston Rockets looks to be the front runner at the moment, as the former Arizona State Sun Devil is leading the league in points per game at 27.6 and has his Rockets sitting near the top of a tough Western Conference.

The Rockets sit in 4th place with a 31-14 record.

Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors has been mentioned as an all-around stud this season, as his play as been increasingly unbelieveable. The Warriors are the best team in the NBA, and Curry can take some of the credit for that. He is averaging 24.2 points per game, along with 9.2 assists and 3.9 rebounds. Curry is also shooting 54 percent from the floor, 45 percent from downtown and 92 percent from the charity stripe.

Harden made it clear with being outspoken this offseason, as he considered himself “one of the best players in the league.”

Both players are playing at an unbelievable level of play, and it will be exciting to see how the MVP race turns out at the end of the season.

Some possible future MVP’s are making their case for NBA Rookie of the Year this season.

If Jabari Parker of the Milwaukee Bucks was still healthy on the court, this would be a two-man race with him and the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Andrew Wiggins.

Right now, Wiggins is fully dominating in the Rookie of the Year race. He is leading all rookies in scoring this season and is developing his game more and more for all of us to witness.

Nerlens Noel of the Philadelphia 76ers is another rookie up for the award, as he ranks first in blocks, steals and rebounding among all rookies. Wiggins holds the torch for being able to succeed on both sides of the ball, but Noel’s defensive presence has turned some heads.

Another guy to mention is the Chicago Bulls’ Nikola Mirotic.

His minutes have increased because of injuries to the roster, giving him some learning experience getting up to the speed of

the professional game. He has been on a downward slope the past ten games, but this season has been solid for the 23 year old out of Spain. He is averaging just under 40 percent from the field and is still trying to gain some experience along the way.

Unless someone challenges with unbelievable numbers in the second half of the season, this should be an easy win for Wolves rookie Andrew Wiggins.

The biggest thing to note moving forward is that the Cleveland Cavaliers will play better basketball. They have done well recently, winning six in a row. They may not be the best team in the NBA, but they are going to be a star-studded team to watch out for in the playoffs. You cannot expect a team with LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love to sit around .500 all season. This squad needed to establish some team chemistry. Now that it is coming together, they are a team to watch out for.

The Western Conference is tough, and I mean tough. Every team to make it into the playoffs right now is at least 6 games over .500, with one team with a winning record that would not make it. Golden State, Memphis, Portland, Houston, the Los Angeles Clippers, and the Dallas Mavericks are all in the top six rankings. The defending champs San Antonio Spurs are currently the seventh seed at 2917. Compare that to the Eastern conference, and the East would only have five teams out of eight making the playoffs with a winning record.

According to deadspin.com and analyst Ed Kupfer, the Dallas Mavericks, Washington Wizards, Toronto Raptors and Chicago Bulls have more rest days than their opponents this season. That could play a vital role heading into the playoffs fresher than other teams.

SWIM & DIVE continued from 12 ericks saw a strong finish. The relay team of Hake, LeDoux, Bass, and Green turned in a time of 1:51.77 yielding another first place finish of the day for the Mavericks.

LeDoux would also place third in the 100-yard breaststroke event with a time of 1:09.97, while freshman Kylie Gaeth took fourth place in the 100-yard butterfly event with a time of 1:01.88.

The MSU 400-yard freestyle relay team of Green, Bass, Calhoon and junior Samantha Rasmussen took third place with a time of 3:44.14.The Mavericks took a third place finish after bother days of competition scoring 813 points. Northern Michigan claimed first place honors with 841 points. Host team UWStevens Point followed close behind in second with 839.5 points.

The Mavericks look back on the

weekend as a successful as they close in on the conference meet almost a month out.

“This is one of last meets of the season before competing in the NSIC championship meet,” Says senior captain Tessa Cady.

“We have one meet in between now and then that’s coming up this weekend so we’re mainly just focusing on fine tuning and mentally preparing for the competition in Cleveland, Mississippi.”

The Mavericks swimming and diving team are in a new conference this season and look to make their debut in the NSIC a successful one. They will look to the talents of Bass and Green and their strong relays to contribute to the team’s success.

The Mavericks return home to take on MSU Moorhead on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m.

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The first gaming convention of the year kicks off in San Antonio.

MATTHEW EBERLINE Staff Writer The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) held 2015’s first gaming convention this weekend,

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with the world’s first annual PAX South event held in San Antonio, Texas. Beginning on Friday with a keynote by famed videogame journalist and critic, Geoff Keighley, the event

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played host to numerous conferences and interview panels, with topics ranging from “Breaking in to the Game Industry,” to “Six Secrets for Startup Success in the Indie Golden Age,” and “The Gamer Parenting Strategy Guide.” Other panels and events included a discussion on multiplayer gaming, as well as numerous videogame tournaments and autograph sessions with different personalities from within or around the industry.

The event also showcased a variety of developers and upcoming games from both the triple-A and the independent sectors. Particular titles from the show floor include State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition for the Xbox One, Ronin (a 2D, side-scrolling, ninja platformer), Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (a 2D action

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game and sequel to the original 2012 hit), the Homeworld Remastered Collection, the latest expansion for Guild Wars 2 (called Guild Wars 2: Heart

of Thorns), and Dreadnought, a space combat simulator featuring epic space battles fought between massive player-controlled

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Peter Mulvey to Perform at MSU Soulful show part of the Performance Series for students.

LORIEN MEGILL Staff Writer Acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey

has toured far and wide over the last 20 years, and on Thursday, Feb. 5 at 7:30 p.m. he will be in Mankato playing in the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall of the

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Earley Center for Performing Arts. Mulvey has gained skill as a writer and musician by integrating himself in musical environments. He has immersed himself in Tin Pan Alley styles, jazz, modern acoustic, poetry, narrative, and Americana stylings. He has toured as a headliner, and shared the stage with such talents as Emmylou Harris, Richard Thompson, Ani di Franco, Indigo Girls, and Greg Brown, and has amassed a following that stretches from Alaska to Europe.

Mulvey has received rave reviews, with the Irish Times calling him “a joy to see” and “a phenomenal performer with huge energy, a quick-fire, quirky take on life, and an extraordinary guitar style.”

The Washington Post praises “the subtle power of his husky,

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hushed baritone voice,” and calls it “sophisticated and intimate.” After time spent in both Dublin and Boston, Mulvey is now based in Milwaukee,

Wisconsin. Mulvey has released over a dozen albums including The Good Stuff, a collection of songs by other artists including

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Hidden musical venue What’s Up Lounge delivers good vibes.

JENNA VAGLE Staff Writer The What’s Up Lounge on North Riverfront Drive in Mankato is a treasure. The venue is located on the second floor of the Oleander Saloon, fits about 150 people, and has hosted nationally recognized bands such as Motion City Soundtrack, Hawthorne Heights and Wookiefoot. What’s Up books mainly alternative bands, but it is known to have anything from metal to jam. Mankato has a hidden music scene not known to many, and the What’s Up Lounge is notorious for showcasing these underground artists. Granite Rose, Arms For Elephants and Party After Paradise are three bands that took the stage Friday night at the local venue.

Granite Rose is based out of Eau Claire, Wisconsin with a unique sound that can be described as twangy yet sexy. The lead singer, Nick Anderson, said they typically do original tracks, but sneak in some covers here and there including “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet. This track stood out because Anderson was so engaged with the audience and with his band mates that it was fantastic to watch.

Even the drummer, Trevor Peck, was having the time of his life pounding his heart out on the snares. It was hard not to want to dance during their set. They have a way of projecting their vibes onto the crowd. In their three and a half years of being together Granite Rose has toured mainly in Wisconsin, but have dabbled in the Minnesota scene.

Anderson said their biggest accomplishment was touring with Saving Abel. The band is working on their third album and will continue doing what they do best. Check out Granite Rose’s first studio album Recover on their website graniteroseband. com and head over to Facebook to like their page.

Arms For Elephants is a local Christian rock band that aspires to inspire. One of the lead vocalists, Matt Evans, said the name means “protection for the defenseless.” He went on to describe the meaning behind it.

“The word “arms” refers to

protection, as in weapon/firearm. The “elephants” is a metaphor for the vulnerable, or defenseless. Yes, I know elephants are very big and strong, so how could they be vulnerable or defenseless? Yet, even with their huge size, they’re extremely vulnerable to poaching.”

The bands main focus is to inspire, spreading truth of forgiveness and identity. This really proved to be true when they belted out their first song. Fletch Archerd, the other lead vocalist and guitarist, accompanied Evans along with Derek Greenfield on the drums and Tom Schreiner on the bass guitar. They sounded like a skater punk band. Evans was very emotional in the lyrics he sang. He submersed himself into the songs and really connected his emotions with the lyrics. Arms for Elephants is touring with Sleep Signals starting Feb. 21 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. They will play shows mostly in Iowa, but will return March 8 at Midtown Tavern right here in Mankato. Go to armsforelephants.bandcamp.com to listen to their latest music.

The last act of the night was Party After Paradise (PAP), an up and coming alternative music band, rocked the stage from the moment they got their cords plugged in. Lead singer, Ben Westphal, has been playing music ever since he can remember.

“I have always had this “music” living inside my head, vividly coming to life in full ‘musical color.’ Often times, a melody would suddenly appear in my mind and within minutes, I would have a full song written (the same way it occurs today).

I taught myself how to play the piano and guitar growing up because I wanted to be able to release the music I heard inside of my head.”

PAP played their first show in Austin, Minnesota back in 2013 and since then they’ve played venues such as The Garage in Burnsville, Minnesota, and the What’s Up Lounge last August and November.

“I wish we could play there more often, truth be told, and in the future we are trying to headline a bigger show there as well.

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pares well against bars and clubs we have performed at thus far,” said Westphal.

While they performed covers such as “Somebody Told Me” by the Killers, PAP performed original tracks that were intriguing and unique. It was fascinating to listen and watch them run around the stage, using every bit of space to get the crowd going.

Westphal said, “We are all at least fairly well-trained musicians and artists by this point in our lives and we enjoy listening to music as much as we enjoy playing it, so we always consider how others might perceive our musicianship, lyrical message, cleverness and creativity of the music and lyrics, etc. when they listen to our music.”

The band is a mix of pop, punk and EDM. Westphal said he is really into those genres, so they typically tend to show when writes his music “releases” but all the band members’ styles are put into the song once it’s being produced. Shaq Cassell is on the Keyboard, Jake Kral beats the drums and Jon Bartels strums it out on Bass. The band has worked with producers such as Rob Coates who has worked with the Hot Action Cop and Ed Ackerson who has worked with Motion City Soundtrack and Sing It Loud.

PAP is breaking into the Minneapolis music scene with shows booked this spring. Minneapolis is known for being ranked in the Top Ten music scenes in the nation.

“The competition is insanely high and a band has to not only have talent, but showmanship, catchy music, and charisma to succeed,” Westphal mentioned.

Their next show is Feb. 22 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin along with Granite Rose. Go to www. reverbnation.com/partyafterparadise to hear their demos, Follow them on Facebook at ht t ps://w w w.facebook.com / PartyAfterParadise and look for their singles on iTunes, Spotify and Amazon music once their 3-4 track EP is released which Westphal said should hopefully be soon.

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Glorified violence or benevolent portrayal?

WASHINGTON—The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee says critics of U.S. foreign policy are disparaging the movie, American Sniper and denigrating the memory of Chris Kyle, the U.S. serviceman depicted in the film.

portrayal of service members, their wartime experiences, the burdens they often bear upon returning home and untold sacrifices of their families.

To critics like Michael Moore, a documentary maker, the film glorifies violence.

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In a statement Monday, Sen. John McCain congratulated director Clint Eastwood and the cast and crew of the movie for honoring the life of Kyle whom he calls an American hero.

The Arizona Republican says the film offers a compassionate

Moore, a staunch opponent of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, tweeted about the movie: “Snipers aren’t heroes, and invaders are worse.”

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LOS ANGELES — A major measles outbreak traced to Disneyland has brought criticism down on the small but vocal movement among parents to opt out of vaccinations for their ,children. e In a rash of cases that public nhealth officials are rushing to -contain, at least 70 people in six states and Mexico have fallen ,ill since mid-December, most mof them from California. The vast majority of those who got sick had not gotten the measlesmumps-rubella, or MMR, vaccine.

While still a scourge in many corners of the world, measles has been all but eradicated in the U.S. since 2000 because of vaccinations. But the virus has made a comeback in recent years, in part because of people obtaining personal belief exemptions from rules that say children must get their shots to enroll in school.

Others have delayed getting their children vaccinated because they still believe nowdiscredited research linking the fmeasles vaccine to autism. , “Some people are just increds

ibly selfish” by skipping shots, said Dr. James Cherry, a pediatric disease expert at the University of California, Los Angeles.

As cases mount, several newspapers have criticized the anti-vaccine movement.

Measles “is a disease that has been beaten by modern medicine. That makes it all the more frustrating that anti-science stubbornness has proven, in the case of the Disneyland-related measles, that when it comes to contagious diseases, it’s a small world after all,” the Los Angeles Times said in an editorial last week.

Barbara Loe Fisher, director of the National Vaccine Information Center, a Virginia-based nonprofit that favors letting parents decide whether to vaccinate, said, “I don’t think it’s wise or responsible to blame” unvaccinated people for the Disney outbreak. She noted that a small number of those stricken had been fully vaccinated.

Health authorities believe the outbreak was triggered by a measles-stricken visitor to one of the Disney parks who brought

the virus from abroad last month.

As one of the world’s biggest tourist destinations, Disney was a perfect spot for the virus to spread, with large numbers of babies too young to be vaccinated and lots of visitors from countries that do not require measles shots.

The disease has since spread beyond Disneyland.

The infected ranged from 7 months to 70 years old, including five Disneyland workers.

“It’s tragic to see measles making a resurgence,” said Deanne Thompson, a spokeswoman for the Orange County Health Care Agency.

“When our immunity falls, it creates a problem for the whole community.”

While all states require certain vaccinations for schoolchildren, parents in certain states such as California can opt out if they sign a personal belief waiver.

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At Huntington Beach High School in Orange County, two dozen unvaccinated students were ordered home until the three-week incubation period is up.

More than 30 babies in Northern California’s Alameda County have been placed in home isolation after possible exposure.

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Tourists flocking to Hollywood bugging locals.

LOS ANGELES — Like pilgrims flocking to a holy shrine, they come from all over the world to pay homage, not to a deity but to something similar — the people they see on TV and in the movies.

They are the seekers of the Hollywood Sign, that symbol of the Land of the Rich and Famous. And just like those on pilgrimages to St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome or the Acropolis in Greece, they press to get as close as they can to the immortality of fame that it represents.

Unlike visitors to other sites, however, Hollywood Sign seekers can’t just take a bus or join a tour group. Arriving at the sign that towers magnificently over Los Angeles’ skyline requires traipsing through a densely populated hillside neighborhood of 20,000 people, one dotted by multimillion-dollar homes located on steep, narrow, almost impassable canyon roads.

“There will probably be 10,000 of them here this weekend,” said Guy Pohlman in a voice echoing a mixture of foreboding and disgust as he stood in front of his home just a few doors down from a once-secret back way to the closest hiking trail to the sign atop a mountain peak in LA’s sprawling Griffith Park.

“I’ve seen people stand on my wall to get a picture,” Pohlman said. “I’ve seen them stand on my neighbor’s garage. I’ve seen them stop in the middle of the street and stand on their cars.

They block our emergency vehicles. They block our mail delivery.”

Sometimes they get stuck at the top of Pohlman’s narrow street and struggle to turn around without bashing into a neighbor’s wall. Sometimes a resident comes out of a house to

scream at them to go away.

But still they come.

“It’s as if you want to touch the feet of the statues of the saints,” pop-culture historian Leo Braudy said of what drives them. “There’s a kind of desire to get something of that aura for yourself.”

You can’t quite touch the Hollywood sign, thanks to a protective fence, a bank of security cameras and the threat of arrest.

But you can get close enough for a great photo, one of those poses where you pretend to be holding the sign aloft like Atlas carrying the world on his shoulders.

Its a fine souvenir to send home to let the folks know you’ve been to the land where the movie stars live. And the easiest way to do that is to drive right through one of their neighborhoods. It’s a place called Hollywoodland that the sign, ironically enough, was erected in 1923 to promote when the homes were built.

The people moved in, the sign was abandoned, and like a cheap movie set, it began to fall apart.

By the time the city got around to declaring it a landmark in 1973, it was falling down.

Eventually, a deep-pocketed coalition forked over the money to fix it, and in 1978, the nonprofit Hollywood Sign Trust was created to protect it.

In the years that followed, it became a Hollywood starlet of sorts, painted, face-lifted and beautiful — but unapproachable.

It was just too difficult to find a canyon route to the sign.

That changed when smartphones became popular, and residents say the neighborhood hasn’t been the same since.

“Now you have Sally or Suri or whatever her name is and she tells you just how to get there,” City Councilman Tom LaBonge, who represents the area, said

of the directions-giving iPhone voice.

Even worse, said Vincent Jeffords, who lives down the street from Pohlman, “If you Google ‘Hollywood sign and hiking trails’ on your smartphone, it will send you right here.”

Indeed, doing so will even give you one website listing Pohlman’s address — perhaps posted by the guy who stood on his wall — as the best place to take a picture.

The city recently responded by restricting weekend parking to locals and putting up an electronic pedestrian gate to the trail’s better known entrance.

Now, people coming to see the sign on weekends must at least walk really far.

LaBonge would like to see further parking restrictions and perhaps a shuttle service from the park.

For his part, Pohlman says, he doesn’t mind people walking through his neighborhood so long as they stay off his wall and don’t trash his neighbors’ property. He’s come to accept that his home has become sort of a bivouac point.

Seemingly to prove his point, two young women suddenly emerge at his carport — sweaty, out of breath and asking for water.

Zeta Kearney, a wedding planner from the Spanish island of Ibiza, and her friend Elyse Smith, an oil trader from London, have just taken selfies at the sign, one of which will be on Kearney’s Facebook page.

“It was great,” Kearney says.

“We had so much fun we’re coming back tomorrow.”

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Adult film industry to require protection Nevada officials look to enforce safe sex.

LAS VEGAS — Adult film production migrated from California to Nevada after voters in Los Angeles County approved a law requiring condom use on set.

Now, a condom use requirement could follow.

Nevada health officials said Friday that they’re considering strict brothel-style regulations for a booming adult film industry following the announcement last month that two male performers tested positive for HIV following a video shoot in the state.

“The potential exists to require condoms and other barrier options in all sexual contact,” state Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman Mary Woods said in a statement.

The idea that porn stars might have to wear protection in productions filmed in Nevada generated a buzz among some of the 25,000 attendees collecting autographs from porn stars posing in fishnet stockings and bustiers at this week’s Adult Video News Expo at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

“I prefer no condoms,” said Rob Tatka, a 29-year-old tourist from Chicago who collected a bag full of posters of his favorite stars to take home. “Porn is about fantasy,” he said, “and honestly, no man wants to use one in real life.”

Condoms can cause friction, irritation or even infection during scenes that take hours to film before being edited, said Keiran Lee, a veteran male performer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.

Lee, 31, said he sometimes shoots 22 scenes a month. “I have the option to use them, but I don’t,” he said.

Woods, in the health department statement, said it could take up to two years to collect data and public comment about the Nevada proposals, and she called it too early to know the outcome of the process.

But for conference attendees enjoying a city synonymous with sin — and a state home to the only legalized prostitution in the nation — the idea of putting condoms on actors and categorizing adult entertainment production with brothels drew criticism.

Porn actors aren’t prostitutes, said Diane Duke, chief executive of the Free Speech Coalition, an industry trade group that administers strict HIV testing and a database showing pass-fail results. Duke said the database lists 6,000 porn performers since 2011.

“In a brothel, you’re talking about people coming in from outside,” she said. “We have performers on a closed set who go through a testing protocol.”

Duke said that since 2004, there have been no documented cases of HIV transmission during scenes between professional actors in the FSC database.

The two men involved in last year’s case weren’t in the FSC database, Duke said. Authorities have said it appeared likely one infected the other during an unprotected gay sex scene. Details haven’t been made public.

Actress Ariana Marie, 21, said she trusts the results. She said she’s been in scenes with and without condoms, and called it distracting to have her partner stop to take one off at the end.

“We get tested every 14 days,” Marie said. “I trust my performer.”

Prostitution is legal in rural Nevada counties but not in Las Vegas and Reno. Nevada health officials say a strict testing regimen prevents transmission of sexually transmitted diseases and has never resulted in a documented case of HIV transmission in a brothel.

If porn production is regulated under the same rules, condom use would be required for all sex acts, including oral sex. Adult film performers, like Nevada’s licensed prostitutes, would be required to undergo weekly testing for the sexually transmitted diseases chlamydia and gonorrhea, and monthly testing for

HIV and syphilis.

Nevada currently has no rules specifically covering pornography production. And no permit is needed to film on private property, a home or in a hotel room, according to the state film office.

That made Nevada attractive to West Coast adult film producers worried about losing fans like Tatka following the adoption in Los Angeles of strict rules requiring condom use in adult film sex scenes filmed there.

After voters in Los Angeles County approved the condom requirement in 2012, the number of permits for adult films in Los Angeles dropped dramatically, from 485 in 2012 to 40 in 2013.

Meanwhile, the number of general permits for all film productions in Clark County, including Las Vegas, jumped more than 50 percent, from 226 in 2012 to 343 in 2013.

Nevada Film Office analyst Kim Spurgeon in Las Vegas said officials don’t tally the number of adult film productions by category. There were 400 film production permits issued in Clark County in 2014, she said.

Problems were inevitable, said Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angelesbased nonprofit that serves California and Nevada.

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“We’re not against porn,” Weinstein said in a telephone interview. “We want it to be safer.

We think porn sends the wrong message to young people that the only kind of sex that’s hot is unsafe sex.”

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