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Kobe Bryant gone, but his legacy lives on MSU coach, players talk about the Lakers legend’s passing and its impact MANSOOR AHMAD WEB EDITOR NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter were among nine people who died when the helicopter they were traveling on crashed Sunday morning in Calabasas, a city north of Los Angeles.

Bryant, who spent his entire career playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, was considered to be one of his generation’s greatest players, earning five NBA championships in 20 seasons, along with numerous other accolades.

Bryant retired from the NBA in 2016 and was invested in various other ventures since his retirement.

Despite initially disputed reports, authorities later confirmed that on board the helicopter with Bryant was his 13-year-old daughter Gianna.

The news spread across various social media platforms and local stations rapidly early Sunday afternoon.

Los Angeles Lakers forward Kobe Bryant waves to the fans after his introduction before a game against the Utah Jazz, in Salt Lake City. Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020.

(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Twitter and Instagram accounts started posting tributes in the memory of the late basketball legend, many still in shock over the news.

Minnesota State University men’s basketball head coach, Matt Margenthaler, said he was in disbelief when he first heard the news. “It’s

like the whole country came to a standstill,” said Margenthaler.

Margenthaler emphasized Bryant’s competitiveness,

both on and off the court, describing it as a trait all coaches would want their players to have.

Margenthaler, who is in his 19th year of coaching at MSU, said he got to see Bryant play, describing him as “one of a kind.”

After the news spread, some of Margenthaler’s players reached out to him and expressed their sorrow.

Freshman guard Noah Hart was doing homework when he saw a Twitter notification about the incident on his phone. “I turned on ESPN immediately and sat there, and didn’t do anything for the rest of the day,” said Hart.

“It’s like time froze.”

Hart and his family took a trip to Los Angeles when he was 8-years-old. During the trip, Hart attended a Lakers game where he and his brother got to be ball boys for the Lakers. “We were

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U.S. Representative speaks on caregiver wage increase KIERAN KUEHN STAFF WRITER Representative Jack Considine and I sat down for a cup of cocoa and a scone to discuss a bill he is championing in the Minnesota House of Representatives Wednesday, Jan. 22. This bill functions to increase wages for caregivers across Greater Minnesota and looks to give back to the community these caregivers service by providing more accessible, better quality, and more economically stable caregivers. Here is a transcript of the interview.

What is your role in the House?

“First and foremost, I represent the people of 19B.

That’s about 90% of Mankato, Mankato Township, and the people of Eagle Lake. My title is state representative, but I do have a second title which is chair, and I chair the legislative committee on correctional reform. I am also on the judiciary committee. I’m on the public safety committee and I’m also on the capital investment, also known as bonding, committee.”

What does this bill aim to do?

This is a wage increase for caregivers of “the developmentally disabled, the mentally ill, the physically disabled, as well as the elderly.

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MNSU brings together nursing community

Dr. Colleen Royle, an associate professor at the College of Nursing, takes her leave from Minnesota State University, Mankato during the nursing career fair held in Centennial Student Union Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Prasad Pol/MSU Reporter)

Guest speaker Brett Anderson speaks during the nursing career fair held in the Centennial Student Union Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Prasad Pol/MSU Reporter)

Members of the Student Nursing Association present themselves during the nursing career fair held in Centennial Student Union Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Prasad Pol/MSU Reporter)

Democrats’ competing impulses: Should they fight or unite?

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A Democratic presidential race that started as a struggle between the activist left and the moderates has become something far less ideological and more emotional as the first nominating contest has come into view: Should they fight or unite?

A year into the campaign, Elizabeth Warren’s claim that “I’m fighting back” and the “revolution” mantra of Bernie Sanders’ campaign have only grown louder for the confrontational approach to beating President Donald Trump and to the challenges that await the next president.

On the other side of the divide, in calls for consensus on what would likely be a traumatic post-Trump transition, Joe Biden says the next president must foremost “be a healer,” while Pete Buttigieg talks increasingly of an America “worn out from fighting.”

Both are powerful competing political impulses that illustrate the choice before Democratic voters in Iowa.

There is no clear trend to show whether fight or unite is winning.

“I know how bad Trump is. I want to know what we

can do together,” said Des Moines County Democratic Party Chairman Tom Courtney, who has not endorsed a candidate.

On the other side of the debate, Lonnie Tyler, a meat cutter from Waterloo, walked away from a rally for Sanders headlined by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with an air of defiance. “I think they’re going to have to bend to his will if he becomes the nominee,” he said.

Audiences across Iowa have been wrestling with the themes of consensus versus confrontation, neither of which are mutually exclusive but which have come to define the top candidates as they approach the stretch run to the Feb. 3 caucuses, which set the tone for the nominating contests to come.

Warren has owned the language of a more combative argument throughout the campaign and leaned into it hard.

“The danger is real,” the Massachusetts senator told an audience in Muscatine in eastern Iowa, referring to economic and social threats to the poor, women, minorities and children.

“We have to decide whether to give into the fear or whether to fight back,” Warren said. “Me, I’m fighting back. That’s why I’m in this. I’m fighting back. I’m fighting back because we are at our best as a nation when we fight back. When we see big problems and we take them on and we fight back.”

Buttigieg has become Warren’s rhetorical opposite, especially as he rose sharply in the Iowa polls last fall.

Having attacked the idea that “fighting is the point” at a gathering of thousands of Iowa Democrats in November, the 38-year-old former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, typically only mentions Trump by name once in his standard speech, when he asks his audience to imagine the day after Trump leaves office.

When the on-cue burst of cheers subsides, he speaks of an America in the ashes of an impeachment, a divisive election and, as he did in Fort Dodge on Saturday, “in need of being brought together, in need of healing and common purpose.”

Biden, a veteran of decades of congressional bat-

tles who served as Barack Obama’s right-hand man, strikes a balanced tone.

In Ames last week, he said, “One of the things a president has to do is you have to be a fighter and a competitor,

but a president also needs to be a healer. You have to heal the country.” He repeated that theme on Sunday in Marshalltown, saying, “We can’t go on with this endless political war.”

This week’s Ask the University question was: “What is the Common Bell? Will it be implemented into MSU’s class scheduling? If so, how?”

The question was answered by Matt Cecil, Interim Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs: “Common bell scheduling simply creates a standard grid of class start and end times for courses offered at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The goals of common bell scheduling include helping students avoid class time conflicts in creating their schedules, maximizing the utilization of our classroom

spaces and more evenly distributing class offerings throughout the week.

Common bell scheduling begins with courses offered in the Fall 2020 semester. Faculty and staff are already working on the common bell fall schedule that will go live for registration in a few weeks.”

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Auschwitz survivors warn of rising anti-Semitism 75 years on OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp prayed and wept as they marked the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning Monday to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and hatred in the world.

“We have with us the last living survivors, the last among those who saw the Holocaust with their own eyes,” Polish President Andrzej Duda told those at the commemoration, which included the German president as well as Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders.

“The magnitude of the crime perpetrated in this place is terrifying, but we must not look away from it and we must never forget it,” Duda said.

About 200 camp survivors attended, many of them elderly Jews and non-Jews who traveled from Israel, the United States, Australia, Peru, Russia, Slovenia and elsewhere. Many lost parents and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi death camps during World War II, but were joined by children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

They gathered under an enormous, heated tent straddling the train tracks that had transported people to Birkenau, the part of the vast complex where most of the murdered Jews were killed in gas chambers and then cremated. Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet army on Jan. 27, 1945.

Ronald Lauder, the president of the World Jewish Congress, brought the crowd to tears with the story of a survivor who was separated from his family: The man watched his young daughter, in a red coat, walk to her death, turning into a small red dot in the distance before disappearing forever.

After the end of the war, when “the world finally saw pictures of gas chambers, nobody in their right mind wanted to be associated with the Nazis,” he recalled. “But now I see something I never thought I would see in my lifetime, the open and brazen spread of anti-Jewish hatred.”

“Do not be silent! Do not be complacent! Do not let this ever happen again — to any people!” Lauder said.

Marian Turski, a 93-yearold Polish Jewish survivor,

said he did not expect to make it to the next commemoration and wanted to transmit a message to his grandchildren’s generation: That the destruction of the Jews began with small steps that were tolerated. What began with banning Jews from sitting on benches in Berlin evolved in incremental steps to ghettos and death camps.

And that such horrors could happen anywhere, even in the United States.

“Auschwitz did not descend from the sky,” he said, crediting those words to Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen, among those present. Calling for people to not be indifferent, he said: “Because if you are indifferent, you will not even notice it when upon your own heads, and upon the heads of your descendants, another Auschwitz descends from the sky.”

As a Jewish survivor recited Hebrew prayers for the dead, the crowd bowed their heads or wiped away tears.

Clergymen of other faiths also prayed.

Then, with the famous gate and barbed wire illuminated in the dark and cold evening, guests marched in a procession to place candles at a memorial to the victims set amid the remains of the gas chambers.

Most of the 1.1 million people murdered by the Nazi German forces at the camp were Jews, but other Poles, Russians and Roma were imprisoned and killed there.

World leaders gathered in Jerusalem last week to mark the anniversary in what many saw as a competing observance. Among them were Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, French President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prince Charles.

Politics intruded on that event, with Duda boycotting it in protest after Putin claimed that Poland played a role in triggering World War II. Duda had wanted a chance to speak before or after Putin to defend his nation’s record in face of those false accusations, but he was not given a speaking slot in Jerusalem.

Those claims comes as many Eastern European countries in recent years have been mythologizing their own people’s behavior during the war and suppressing knowledge of wrongdoing, something Poland’s government also has been criticized for.

Duda said Monday at a news conference that he felt that in Jerusalem, “Polish participation in the epic fight against the Nazis was ignored.”

At the commemoration, he did not mention Russia by name. Yet he stressed how Poland was invaded and occupied, losing 6 million of its citizens in the war, half of them Jews. He recalled how Poland fought the Germans on several fronts, warned the world in vain about the genocide of the Jews, and for decades has been a responsible custodian of Auschwitz and other sites of the German atrocities.

“Distorting the history of World War II, denying the crimes of genocide and negating the Holocaust as well as an instrumental use of the Auschwitz for whatever purposes is tantamount to desecration of the memory of the victims,” Duda said. “Truth about the Holocaust must not die.”

Among others attending the observances at Auschwitz, which is located in the part of southern Poland that was occupied by Germany during the war, were German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. The U.S. was represented by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

Organizers of the event in Poland, the Auschwitz-Birkenau state memorial museum and the World Jewish Congress, have sought to keep the spotlight on survivors.

On the eve of the commemorations, survivors, many leaning on their children and grandchildren for support, walked through the camp where they had been brought in on cattle cars and suffered hunger and illness and came close to death.

They said they were there to remember, to share their histories with others and to make a gesture of defiance toward those who had sought their destruction.

“I have no graves to go to and I know my parents were murdered here and burned.

So this is how I pay homage to them,” said Yvonne Engelman, a 92-year-old Australian who was joined by three more generations now scattered around the globe.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda walks along with survivors through the gates of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp to attend the 75th anniversary of its liberation in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

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China counts 106 virus deaths as US, others move to evacuate BEIJING (AP) — Deaths from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 in China on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at center of the outbreak.

The total includes the first death in Beijing, the Chinese capital, and 24 more fatalities in Hubei province, where the first illnesses from the newly identified coronavirus occurred in December.

Asian stock markets tumbled for a second day, dragged down by worries about the virus’s global economic impact.

The U.S. Consulate in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where authorities cut off most access Jan. 22 in an effort to contain the disease, was preparing to fly its diplomats and some other Americans out of the city. Japan, France, Mongolia and other governments also planned evacuations.

China’s increasingly drastic containment efforts began with the suspension of plane, train and bus links to Wuhan, a city of 11 million people.

That lockdown has expanded to 17 cities with more than 50 million people in the most far-reaching disease-control measures ever imposed.

China extended the Lunar New Year holiday by three days to Sunday to reduce the risk of infection by keeping offices and factories nationwide closed and the public at home. The government of Shanghai, a global business center and home to 25 million people, extended the holiday in that city by an additional week to Feb. 9.

U.S. health officials expanded their recommendation for people to avoid non-essential travel to any part of China, rather than just Wuhan and other areas most affected by the outbreak.

Mongolia closed its vast border with China after North Korea did so earlier. Hong Kong and Malaysia are barring visitors from Hubei. Chinese travel agencies were ordered to cancel group tours nationwide.

There were 1,771 new cases confirmed in China on Monday, raising the national total to 4,515, according to the National Health Commission. It said 976 people were

Students wear masks to avoid the contact of coronavirus at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020. China on Tuesday reported 25 more deaths from a new viral disease, as the U.S. government prepared to fly Americans out of the city at the center of the outbreak. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

in serious condition.

Also Tuesday, the Education Ministry canceled English-proficiency and other tests for students to apply to foreign universities. The ministry said the new semester for public schools and universities following Lunar New Year was postponed until further notice.

Chinese financial markets were closed for the holiday, but stock indexes in Tokyo, Seoul and Sydney all declined.

Beijing’s official response has “vastly improved” since the 2002-03 SARS outbreak, which also originated in China, but “fears of a global contagion are not put to

bed,” said Vishnu Varathan at Mizuho Bank in Singapore.

Airlines, resorts and other companies that rely on travel and tourism suffered steep losses. Prices of gold and bonds rose as traders moved money into safe haven holdings.

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‘I’m being raped’: Weinstein accuser details alleged assault NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein accuser Mimi Haleyi testified Monday that weeks after arriving in New York to work for one of his shows, she found herself fighting in vain as the once-revered showbiz honcho pushed her onto a bed and sexually assaulted her, undeterred by her kicks and pleas of, “no, please don’t do this, I don’t want it.”

Haleyi was the first to testify of the two women whose allegations led to Weinstein’s New York City criminal case.

Sobbing at times, she described how the film producer turned a friendly meeting at his Manhattan apartment in July 2006 into a terrifying ordeal that had her contemplating escape plans as he forcibly performed oral sex on her.

“I was kicking, I was pushing, I was trying to get away from his grip,” the former “Project Runway” production assistant testified. “He held me down and kept pushing me down to the bed. Every time I tried to get up he pushed me down.”

Haleyi, now 42, told jurors she thought, “I’m being raped,” and wondered “If I scream rape, will someone

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Continued from page 1 The people that allow these folks to live productive lives in the community.”

What does this bill seek to achieve all in all?

“A minimum wage for all these folks of $15 an hour.

Currently in Greater Minnesota, their average is between $11 and $12, some are being paid as low as $10.”

How does this bill directly affect college age students?

“Well, in Mankato, I would say the majority of caregivers are college students trying to pick up some extra money.”

How does this bill directly affect the population who uses the caretakers you’re looking to pay?

“It mainly affects the disability community and their ability to live outside institutions. I think I can best illustrate that with a story of a 17-year-old lady with multiple sclerosis (MS) that recently wrote to me and she’s in a nursing home because that’s the only place she can find the care she needs. She gets to make two decisions a week about what she eats.

Otherwise her life is completely out of her control. I

Pie for Pi — All Greek students listed below earned a 3.14 GPA or higher during the Fall 2019 Semester.

Alpha Chi Omega Jenna Anderson Alexis Ashton* Brynn Berg* Morgan Biesterfeld Cassandra Borwege Erica Cronk* Laura Daly* Alissa Donlan* Kayla Dorshak* Isla Ekstam Cortiney Galuska Lissette Garza* Jianna Gellhaus* Alexandra Gromacki Jenna Hayworth* Hayley Hillman* Michelle Jecha* Sarah McClain* Jenna Nevonen* Sydney Oetken Erin Olson Alyssa Parson Mika Pedro* Ellen Plahuta* Jordan Quam* Sophia Reeves* Skylar Samples* Celeste Schildgen Camryn Schiro* Madison Stone* Grace Ulrich* Isabelle Ulrich* Sophia Venner Lindsay Wagner* Tessa Williams* Molly Winter Angelah Wood* Alyssa Zenz*

Alpha Sigma Alpha Erin Born* Sarah Gunderson Ashley Maier* Taylor McNulty Courtney Myers Nellie Welsh* Eryn Zuiker* Gamma Phi Beta Chaise Benjamin Elizabeth Braaten* Mikayla Brooking Addie Erickson* Alyssa Etzler Kjerstin Haeny* Olivia Hagen* Brooklyn Hermanson Evelyn Hoge Hanna Jack Stefanie Jensen* Averee Johnson Lauren Kaufman* Kipperly Keesling* Megan Kelly Alexa Lacher* Ryann Lake* Chelsea Landis* Lyndsey Marquardt Molly Nhean Nicole Oberding Renae Raustadt* Emily Rogers* Emma Rosen Alexis Rost Ellie Rundquist* Josephine Sandford* Leah Schiefert* Jordan Schindler Emily Schumacher* Myles Schwartz* Abby Severson Ashleigh Sullivan*

think that should be an embarrassment in the state of Minnesota.”

Do you have any final parting words of wisdom for students at Minnesota State University, Mankato?

“Study hard, smile at your teachers, get involved, vote. We saw some tragic results in the 2016 election because people didn’t vote, and our democracy works better when everybody votes, so please get out and vote.”

hear me?” She said she told Weinstein she was menstruating in an attempt to deter him, but that didn’t stop him.

“I checked out and decided to endure it,” she said.

“That was the safest thing I could do.”

Yet just two weeks later, Haleyi said, she was accepting an invitation to Weinstein’s hotel room, where he pulled her into bed for sex.

Haleyi said she “just felt like an idiot” for letting Weinstein convince her to meet again, but thought seeing him could help her regain power as she tried to make sense of the alleged assault. Haleyi said she didn’t want to be intimate with Weinstein, but said she didn’t think Weinstein forced her to have sex.

Weinstein lawyer Damon Cheronis zeroed in on Haleyi’s continued interactions with Weinstein, scrutinizing her emails and calendar entries marked “HW” during cross-examination. He noted that she kept exchanging warm messages with him, pitched him on a TV show and made several trips on his dime, including jetting off to Los Angeles the day after the alleged assault and flying to London about a month later.

congratulate these Greek Community members on their academic achievements during the Fall 2019 semester.

When they couldn’t connect before she left London, she sent Weinstein’s assistant an email lamenting: “totally bummed to have missed you guys.”

Explaining the fraught dynamics, Haleyi said she no longer feared Weinstein after “he basically had taken what he wanted” in the hotel room encounter and “wasn’t pursuing me in that manner” any longer.

In what seemed designed to be an aha moment, Cheronis asked Haleyi if the reason she kept in touch with Weinstein was “because he never sexually assaulted you.”

Haleyi pulled up the microphone, smiled exasperatedly and said: “No.” In all, six accusers are expected to testify, but because of the statute of limitations and other legal technicalities, Weinstein is charged in only two incidents.

They are the alleged rape of an aspiring actress in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013 and the alleged sexual assault of Haleyi. Under New York law applicable at the time, Weinstein is not being charged with rape in connection with Haleyi’s accusations.

Dean’s List Recognition — Greek students listed below with Dean’s list for the Fall 2019.

Sara Swan* Shelby Swenson* Isabella Taylor Michaela Thole Emilee Thomas* Ashton Towne* Natalie Turkowski* Taryn Van Heel Abby Wenz Katherine Wilcox* Madeline Youngstrand* Kappa Alpha Psi Bill Busuri Lambda Chi Alpha Griffin Ahrendt* Brandon Alden Samuel Graves* Brian Kelly* Hunter Koesters Jesse Kontz Elijah Mason Kyle Mickelsen Nathaniel Musial Mark Pettinger Samuel Pfingsten* Brent Prodahl* Jarrett Rogers Christopher Ross Matthew Schmuck* Logan Welch Dylan West* Caden Wiles Phi Delta Theta Andrew Bravo* Weston Bring* Tyler Guggisberg Devin Harding* Clinton Herrick Greysen Higbe-Harrah* Samuel Hovick

Sigma Nu Alexandros Bakritges* Will Bucheger Brandon Ching* Carson Davis* Tyler Johnson Rick Kruse* Jesse Lease Janusz Lukasik* Jack Lutz* Brytan Matzke Ryan McCormick* Jacob Meyer* Samual Miller* Steven Miller* Phi Kappa Psi Tyler Nadeau* Drew Brown* Nicholas Pitts Joseph Casey Thomas Radziej* Jayanth Jayavardhanan* Jake Rauenhorst Hunter Kelsey* Carl Gunnar Sunden Maxwell Mahoney Timothy Weller* Matthew McDavid Reece Podgorski* Sigma Sigma Sigma Zachary Wickman Laine Aeilts* Catherine Allmann Sigma Chi Kaitlyn Bannwarth William Camden* Lauren Bizjak* Jack Dufresne* Alison Bloom* Ryan Eustice Jadin Brue* Henry Gibney Jazmin Brue* Austin Johannes Sara Buttolph Nicholas Lucke* Ariana Caddell* Vandy Manyeh* Samantha Delain* Max McDonald* Kiersten Hanisch* James O'Reilly Ellie Hansen* Samuel Schruin* Jessica Hansen Nicholas Schulze Kayla Haugen Tyler Shafer Joniesha Hayes Jack Wheeler DeNae Henning* LaRen Holtman* Samantha Kary* Morgan Kingsley Lexie Kromminga* Kole Kleinschmidt* Tylar Larson Nicholas Lehman* Tyler Lorbeski* Preston Lyon* Devon Nash Roman Newinski Seth Nilsen Patrick Norris* Benjamin Perry Blake Pieschke* Jack Ritacco Steven Senden* Spencer Thein*

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Summer school isn’t as bad as some make it out to be

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HELLEN AKINYI STAFF WRITER Summer classes. Most college students wouldn’t want to be enrolled in any class during the summer unless their programs require them to or the class they need is only offered during summer.

So, coming from a country where we don’t have what we call “summer”, I am having a hard time wrapping my head around the idea of not being in school for three months.

I grew up on the coast where it is summer all year round. We don’t stop going to school for such a long time.

It’s only a month’s break or so during the year because we have trimesters instead. While my friends were making summer plans back home, I was thinking of taking summer classes.

Yes, summer classes. I honestly think it’s quite smart to take some classes just to either get ahead in your classes or to retake the classes you didn’t do quite well.

Because let’s be honest, being a full-time college student is difficult, and having to balance all your classes and making sure you are doing well in all of is really hard.

You might fall back in a class or so which is okay.

You can also decide to take the class that you think is the hardest, and not taking it with any other class might actually give you more time to work

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on it and do well in it without feeling suffocated.

That also means probably

ting yourself enrolled in the school, do research just to see if the credits will be trans-

“You can also decide to take the class that you think is the hardest, and not taking it with any other class might actually give you more time to work on it...” paying more for the classes depending how many credits you’re taking. Before get-

ferable if you take them at a community college, and that your school accepts the col-

lege of your choice.

In my opinion, summer is a time to relax and have fun.

I mean, after an entire academic year, you deserve that, but also being productive before a new academic year can be a really great way to spend your summer.

Get a job to make the extra buck, enroll in a few classes, but not to the point where your mental health is in shambles again.

Also spend some time with your friends, it is worth it.

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“On Instagram”

“I learned it through a friend of mine.”

KATIE GODDARD, STUDENT AFFAIRS GRADUATE “From my roommate.”

NATHAN WRIGHT, SOCIAL STUDIES “Through the internet.”

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Upcoming election giving off case of deja vu

MICHAEL MCSHANE NEWS EDITOR Something that appeared completely out of nowhere has now invaded multiple countries and has thrown the international community into a panic. However, past disease outbreaks have numbed some people’s reactions.

The Wuhan Coronavirus Outbreak, which originated in Mainland China, has grown quickly and has caught the attention of the World Health Organization and caused China to place restrictions on transportation.

There are now reports of people infected with the Coronavirus and many airports, including the Chicago O’Hare Airport, now screening for the virus. As of right now this is a virus spreading and there are many in the general public who are underestimating or are simply unaware of the severity of the situation.

I have seen many people stating that since they lived through Zika, Ebola and the West Nile viruses, they will live through this without any concern. I would support having a different outlook no matter where the virus originates.

Coronavirus has only been around for around a month and it already has recorded cases in 18 countries and jumped from 45 cases to 2,744 reported cases within a 10-day period.

This column isn’t meant to scare anyone nor is that my intent. What I want people to come away from this is to be as informed as possible about the Coronavirus and to take the proper steps in making sure they are as protected as possible.

There were reports that Minnesota was one of the U.S. states where someone had contacted the virus, but tests have come back negative in those cases.

Don’t think that just because those cases are negative that all the other cases in the U.S. are as well. This is an epidemic and it deservices the seriousness that it deserves and needs.

The Coronavirus is not Ebola or Zika, it is its own virus with its own dangers. Make extra sure you are protected wherever you go.

Many Americans will go to the polls to vote for who they wish to see be president Nov. 6.

This will be my second presidential election and I have mixed feelings about the whole affair. It has been close to four years since the 2016 election and this upcoming election seems to be just as chaotic.

During the 2016 election, I paid attention to the debates on both sides and did research on my own time so when the day arrived, I knew who I was voting for.

Before I knew it, election day came. I was registered and walked to the booth before submitting my vote.

I remember feeling complete shock for the Democrats and those who also felt that Donald Trump had no chance at beating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

According to the Guardian, Canada’s main immigration website crashed before Trump even won the election because the percentage of him winning was increasing.

After Trump’s shocking electoral win, three years have passed, and Trump has not given himself a lot of good publicity during his first term.

All of this came to a peak on Dec. 18, 2019 when Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of congress.

During his first three years, those who either supported Clinton or those who generally disliked the controversial businessman turned politician continued to disparage him for his blunders both on Twitter and in front of the world stage.

In 2018 Trump was at the center of mockery in a meeting with the United Stations.

Fast forward a year and a half later, and the Prime Minister of Canada is laughing at Donald Trump.

Both sides of the political spectrum can all agree that the presidency of the United States of America is one of the most difficult jobs in the world.

Only Trump and those close to him know how a man who has never worked a day in the political world until he was thrust into the presidency handles it.

Now that the 2020 election is quickly approaching with November right around

ic nomination or a third party.

Some will practice the right not to vote altogether.

Try not to be influenced by the media as they shine the spotlight on whomever they favor. Instead vote based off your heart because your

heart will never fail you.

The new decade will be defined by the American public’s choice this November and just like four years ago, the rest of the world will be watching.

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Continued from page 1 there extremely early, so you know Kobe was the first one out,” said Hart. “We got to see him work out and see his work ethic. It was truly inspiring.”

Hart also drew inspiration from Bryant as he recovered from his recent knee injury.

NBA teams playing Sunday afternoon held a moment of silence before the start of the games. Some teams also paid their respects by taking 24-second shot clock and 8-second violations in memory of Bryant.

“It was a beautiful thing they did with the shot clock vio-

lations, and I’m sure there’ll be more of those this week,” said Margenthaler.

Juwan McCloud, who played for the Mavericks during the 2018-19 season, was planning a trip to Los Angeles with his friends when he found out about Bryant’s death. McCloud stressed on Bryant’s competitiveness and how everyone could learn from it.

“Just perfecting your craft and really taking it seriously, and it being a lifestyle,” said McCloud. “How can you not take that as inspiration?”

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Alumni RONALD SOLBERG 1961-62 Reading the recent piece about Madison Diemert, the current editor of The Reporter, brought back so many wonderful memories I had while working on the paper as editor, 1961-62. Two memories, in particular, re-

turn to me. The first, while working on the paper, I met my future wife Norma Dick who was a writer for the paper. I managed to assign her to as many stories as I could to help “build our relationship.” In fact, I joined with her on a very special story on campus when, in the fall of 1961, NASA was announcing their establishment of their Houston Spaceflight Center.

However, another important

event occurred that fall when the University celebrated the 15th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations with a week of observances.

Their honored guest was Eleanor Roosevelt whom I had the privilege of interviewing for The Reporter. Needless to say, The Reporter introduced me to two of the most wonderful ladies.

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Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar and Tulsi Gabbard are the women representing the Democratic party for the upcoming election.

Warren has the strongest representation of all three and could be nominated if she can prove to voters of her electability.

Currently, former Vice President Joe Biden is fighting a bitter fight for the lead in the primary against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Each candidate has their policies for both domestic and foreign issues and many have similar stances about certain issues.

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Mavericks men and women’s hockey split series

Men’s team hosted Bemidji State while women’s traveled up North MEL STRAMM STAFF WRITER Both the Mavericks hockey teams split their series against the Bemidji State Beavers last weekend.

The Mavericks men’s team hosted BSU and generated the fifth largest crowd in MSU men’s hockey history but ended their eight-game winning streak Saturday, Jan. 25, with a 4-2 loss.

MSU was looking strong on the ice in the opening match Friday.

After the first BSU goal of the series slid past MSU goalie Dryden McKay, Maverick defenseman Andy Carroll went for the tie and scored his first goal of the season 10 minutes into the second period.

Shooting straight from the high slot, freshman Nathan Smith then made it a Mavericks lead at the end of the period.

Going into the third, it was junior Dallas Gerads who extended that lead to 3-1 at

the 5:10 minute mark.

Bemidji answered with a goal of their own and despite taking out goalie Zach Driscoll with three minutes left in the game, they were unable to score any further, with their last shot getting blocked by junior Jack McNeely.

McKay was able to make 18 saves and Gerad’s goal was the seventh game-winning tally of his career.

The Mavericks struggled on Saturday, but still put up a fight against the Beavers.

MSU was unable to score until the third period, while Bemidji managed to get three pucks past McKay. Trailing 3-0 with four minutes left in the third, Gerards scored an extra attacker goal after McKay was pulled out of the goal.

Just two minutes later, senior winger Charlie Gerard shot at the BSU net to cut the Beavers lead short 3-2.

Despite the effort, MSU was ultimately unable to go for the tie and force the

Minnesota State forward Parker Toumie (6) shoots the puck against Bemidji State at the Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Kjerstin Hall/MSU Reporter)

game into overtime after the Beavers took advantage of the empty net to extend their lead 4-2.

The Mavericks outshot the Beavers by a 50-18 margin but ended up taking their fourth loss of the season

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Men’s basketball splits series, defeats Augustana at home ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR The Minnesota State Mavericks men’s basketball team split their home series, losing to the Wayne State Wildcats and defeating the Augustana Vikings.

On Jan. 24, the Wildcats ended the Mavericks three-game winning streak, winning by a final score of 73-71. MSU dug themselves in a whole in the first half, as Wayne State took a 12-point lead at 10:18 in the first half.

But, with a strong end of the first half, Minnesota State was able to cut the deficit by one-point after a layup from senior Kevin Krieger with 36 seconds remaining in the half.

The second half was a back-and-forth battle, with the largest lead for either team being just three points.

Throughout the second half, both MSU and WSC found themselves tied seven times.

Freshman Ryland Holt ended the game with a teamhigh 17 points and added

four rebounds to go along with that. Senior Cameron Kirksey was able to give MSU the lead early in the second half, on top of his 15 points and seven rebound effort.

Minnesota State was unable to gage much 3-point success in the second half, going 2-for-8, after they were able to go 8-of-21 in the first.

At the end of the contest, the team shot 44.1% from the field and 34.5% from distance.

After suffering a tough loss to the Wildcats, the men’s basketball team was able to bounce back and defeat the Vikings, 89-77.

Minnesota State controlled most of the game, as the Vikings only leads of the game happened in the first few minutes of the game. After sophomore Kelby Kramer’s dunk, MSU never looked back and wound up going on 15-0 run and led the game 28-13.

The biggest difference in the game was the Mavericks ability to shoot the ball from deep. In the first half,

Minnesota State guard Jamal Nixon (1) dribbles up the floor against Wayne State at the Taylor Center Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

they shot 9-of-18 and in the second they went 4-for-10.

MSU’s ability to knock down 3’s was what allowed them to jump out to a quick lead

early in the game.

Redshirt freshman Corvon Seales nailed a buzzer-beater 3 to end the first half, as Minnesota State entered

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Women’s basketball undefeated at home against Wildcats & Vikings JENNA PETERSON STAFF WRITER The Minnesota State Mavericks women’s basketball team was able to take advantage of playing on their home court, with wins against the Wayne State Wildcats and Augustana Vikings, bringing a wave of cheers from fans.

The Mavericks opened the weekend of games on Friday, Jan. 24, when they took on Wayne State and Minnesota State made sure to start off on a strong foot. In the first quarter, the Mavericks defense was putting on full court pressure to ensure they didn’t get an opportunity at the basket. Senior Taylor Drost helped the team offensively with a six-point quarter, making the score 1911 heading into the second quarter.

To begin the second quarter, the Wildcats were able to cut the Mavericks lead to six, but that didn’t slow them down. MSU responded with a 13-2 run with junior Tayla Stuttley scoring five of the 13 points.

The Mavericks continued their offense with ended the first half with a lead of 47-27.

By halftime, Minnesota State had three players in double digits, freshman Joey Batt, Stuttley, and sophomore Kristi Fett all with 10 points.

The Wildcats started the third quarter on an 8-0 run, cutting the Mavericks lead to 12 and with this, the Mavericks responded with a 63-48 lead at the end of the third quarter. The Mavericks continued their momentum into the fourth quarter going on a 4-0 run to continue their lead to 19. After some fighting back, the Wildcats cut the Maverick lead to nine, but this was as close as the Wildcats would get for the remainder of the game.

Fett ended the game with a double-double, as she scored 15 points and brought in 12 rebounds, while sophomore Maddy Olson added 13 points, four rebounds, and four assists.

Batt had 12 points off the bench and junior Rachel Shumski scored 10 points and had five rebounds.

As a team, the Mavericks tallied 14 steals and forced 21 Wildcat turnovers.

Head coach Emilee Thiesse explained that the team went into Friday night’s game with a main focus on defending the ball and not worrying about what happened on the possession before, but instead focusing on the play

Minnesota State guard Joey Batt (1) drives to the basket against Augustana at the Taylor Center Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

that’s about to happen. She also said the girls allowed Wayne State too many free throws and that resulted in free points, which is one thing the team struggled with, but came back with a stronger and more determined defense for not only this game, but Saturday’s game as well.

The Mavericks took their attitude from Friday’s game into Saturday for their game against the Vikings and once again started the game strongly.

MSU began the first quarter with a 7-0 run after senior Kirstin Klitzke opened the game with a layup. Augustana answered back by going on a 10-0 run and built a 10-7 lead with 5:16 left in the first quarter. The two teams traded baskets for the remainder of the quarter, as the Vikings took the lead going into the second quarter 22-18.

The defense for both the Mavericks and the Vikings tightened up in the second quarter, and because of this, MSU was able to hold Augustana to only eight points after giving up 22 points in the first quarter. On offense, the Mavericks were consistent and put up 15 points as they carried a 33-30 lead into the halftime.

Mankato went 4-for-18 in the first half for 3-point shooting, while Augustana went 3-of-11, shooting 27.3% from downtown. Both teams

shot 34.3% from the field by halftime, but it was the Mavericks ability to bring out four fouls and go to the line nine times.

Klitzke led the Mavericks with seven points by halftime, shooting 3-for-5 from the field and 1-of-2 from distance, while Stuttley had six points and junior Brooke Tonsfeldt scored five.

The Mavericks were able to stay in control going into the third quarter and entered the fourth with a score of 46-43. The fourth quarter was a tight-knit game, with both teams trading baskets. Augustana took their first lead of the half with six minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Stuttley helped the Mavericks gain a 59-58 lead after a pair of free throws with 1:44 remaining. An Augustana steal eventually led to the Vikings going up 60-59 with 1:14 remaining in the game.

MSU received the ball out of the timeout trailing 60-59 with 20 seconds left in the game. A layup form Batt would then give the Mavericks the 61-60 lead to win the game.

Klitzke ended the game with 12 points and was the team’s leading scorer and shot 4-for-8 from the field, while Batt finished with 11 points and two rebounds and was essential to the team’s win. Shumski ended with nine points and a team-high of 10 rebounds.

The Mavericks will be back

Minnesota State guard Maddy Olson (10) dribbles the ball against Augustana at the Taylor Center Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020 in Mankato, Minn. (Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

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Mavericks swim and dive wins MSU Moorhead quad dual ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR The Minnesota State Mavericks swim and dive team had a successful weekend at the MSU Moorhead quad duals, finishing 3-0 and claiming seven individual event first place finishes.

The Mavericks defeated University of Mary (190-97), Southwest Minnesota State (217-68) and MSU Moorhead (190-105). MSU has seen a lot of success in dual competitions this season, boasting a record of 10-1 heading into the NSIC Championship meet.

The relay team of sophomores Grace Gavronski Kayla Rinderknecht, junior Emelia Selky and senior Maggie Knier finished first in the 200 freestyle relay, posting a time of 1:40.94.

Sophomore Katie Streiff

finished first in the 50 butterfly with a time of 26.24, as well as the 100 butterfly with a time of 59.53. Sophomore Anja Enervold claimed a first place finish of her own, posting a time of 28.09 in the 50 backstroke.

Sophomore Emily Goodman secured another first place finish for the Mavericks in the 50 breaststroke with a time of 31.18, and freshman Addison Henkaline won the 200 IM in 2:14.80.

Senior Jaycie Klein claimed first in the 1-meter diving event after posting a score of 226.65 points. Freshman Ayla Taylor placed third in the 3-meter diving event, with a score of 192.25 points.

The Mavericks swim team will have a few weeks off from competition before returning to action on Feb. 12-15, for the NSIC Championship in Bismark, North Dakota.

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Diamondbacks acquire OF Starling Marte from Pirates PITTSBURGH (AP) — When the Arizona Diamondbacks landed ace Madison Bumgarner in free agency last month, the three-time World Series winner made a surprising offer, one that came with a very urgent catch.

Bumgarner told the Diamondbacks they could defer some of the money on his five-year deal if they promised to spend the up-front savings on making the club better in 2020.

Arizona followed through Monday, acquiring two-time Gold Glove outfielder Starling Marte from the Pittsburgh Pirates.

“He fits a lot of what we’re trying to do,” Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen.

Including free up Ketel Marte — no relation to Starling Marte — to move to second base on a semi-permanent basis. Ketel Marte split time between the center

field and second last year while making the All-Star team for the first time and finishing fourth in NL MVP balloting. Hazen said he likes the chemistry Ketel Marte developed with shortstop Nick Ahmed, and Starling Marte’s arrival should let that relationship flourish.

“We feel like he’s a Gold Glove second baseman,” Hazen said.

An honor Starling Marte won twice during his eight years with the Pirates. His arrival in the majors in 2012 served as one of the final building blocks that pushed the team to three straight playoff berths from 201315. His go-ahead home run in the ninth inning against the Chicago Cubs on Sept.

23, 2013 pushed Pittsburgh to the postseason for the first time in more than two decades, and his blend of speed, athleticism and one of the strongest outfield arms in

the game made him a natural fit at spacious PNC Park.

Though the Pirates have fallen well off the pace in the NL Central over the last four years, Marte has been one of the few bright spots.

The 31-year-old hit .295 in 2019, setting career highs with 23 home runs and 82 RBIs. It wasn’t nearly enough, however, to help Pittsburgh avoid finishing dead last in the division, a plummet that led to a massive leadership overhaul.

New Pirates general manager Ben Cherington reached out to Hazen — the two previously worked together in Boston — shortly after taking over last October. Talks broke off over the holidays but picked back up this month, with Arizona receiving Marte as well as $1.5 million from the Pirates due on Sept. 15.

In return, the Diamondbacks sent shortstop Liover Peguero and pitcher Brendan

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Continued from page 9 The women’s team won its first game on Jan. 24, defeating the Beavers in the 3-on-3 overtime period, but then took a loss the next day.

The beavers left MSU trailing early, getting the first score of the day on the board at the 1:44 minute mark.

Senior captain Emily Antony then scored on a power play right at the end of the

last period, forcing the game into overtime.

The overtime period went scoreless, which lead to the fifth 3-on-3 period for MSU this season.

Freshman Kelsey King then scored the goal that would allow for the Mavericks to earn the extra conference point and win the match.

Goaltender Abigail Levy stopped 30 of the 31 shots made by BSU.

On Saturday, Sophomore Claire Butorac put MSU on the board first with the only maverick goal of the day.

The Beavers were able to score in the following period and then twice in the last, finishing the match with a 3-1 win for BSU. This week the men’s team will be on the road, as they take on Alaska. The women will host Lindenwood here in Mankato.

Malone — both 19-year-old prospects — to Pittsburgh.

“It was painful giving up the players we did ultimately give up,” Hazen said. “We just felt like we have a duty to both the present and the future and we felt like we were going to have to give something good up in order to get a good major league player.”

The Diamondbacks selected Malone with the 33rd overall pick in the draft last season and signed him for a bonus of $2,202,200. The hard-throwing right-hander was considered one of the top prospects in the Arizona system. Malone went 1-2 with a 4.50 ERA in seven appearances in Class A. Peguero signed in August 2017 for $475,000 and hit

.326 (74 for 227) with 11 doubles, five triples, five home runs and 38 RBIs in 60 games in the low minors last season.

Both players figure to rank among the Pirates’ top 10 prospects.

Cherington shot down the notion the Pirates are rebuilding, saying “that’s not how we are thinking about it.”

Marte became expendable due in part to Bryan Reynolds’ outstanding rookie season in 2019 and the expected return of Gregory Polanco, who was limited to 42 games last season due to a lingering left shoulder issue.

Still, Pittsburgh will head to spring training without making any significant additions to a group that went 25-48 in the second half last year.

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Continued from page 9 halftime with a comfortable 45-31 lead.

The team held the lead throughout the second half, but Augustana was able to make things interesting and cut the lead by as much as six points. MSU had six players in double figures, those being Seales, Kirksey, senior Carter Asche, Krieger, Kramer and freshman Landon Wolfe.

Seales ended the game with a team-high 19 points

and added three rebounds and assists to go along with it. After a slow start, Kirksey finished the game with an efficient 16 points, shooting 5-of-8 from the field.

Kramer was a rebound shy of a double-double but was able to add 10 points in 27 minutes of play.

MSU will head on the road to take on MSU Moorhead and Northern State this Friday and Saturday.

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Lakers’ next game postponed after Kobe Bryant’s death LOS ANGELES (AP) — The NBA has postponed the Los Angeles Lakers’ next game against the Clippers on Tuesday night after the deaths of retired superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in a helicopter crash.

The league announced the decision in a statement Monday, saying it “was made out of respect for the Lakers organization.”

The Lakers learned about the crash while flying home from an East Coast road trip Sunday. LeBron James and several other players appeared to be visibly affected by the news when they got off the plane.

James made his first public comments Monday night in an Instagram post including several photos of himself with Bryant. The four-time NBA MVP and 16-time AllStar said he was “heartbroken and devastated,” and had been crying repeatedly while trying to write about Bryant.

James, who joined the Lakers last season, said the two spoke by phone Sunday morning after James passed Bryant for third place on the NBA’s career scoring list Saturday night.

“Didn’t think for one bit in a million years that would be the last conversation we’d have,” James wrote. “I promise you I’ll continue your legacy man! You mean so much to us all here especially (hashtag) LakerNation and it’s my responsibility to put this (team) on my back and keep it going!! Please give me the strength from the heavens above and watch over me!”

The Lakers made grief counselors available to employees Monday after the loss of Bryant, who spent his entire 20-year NBA career with the 16-time NBA champion franchise.

Lakers owner Jeanie Buss was quite close to Bryant, and Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka was Bryant’s agent during his playing career.

“The Los Angeles Lakers would like to thank all of you for the tremendous outpouring of support and condolences,” the Lakers organization said in a statement after the postponement was announced. “This is a very difficult time for all of us.”

Dwight Howard is the only current Lakers player who played with Bryant for the franchise for one season back

Fans mourn the loss of Kobe Bryant with makeshift memorials in front of La Live across from Staples Center, home of the Los Angeles Lakers in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan, 26, 2020.

Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP)

in 2012-13, but the players all knew him. James and Bryant teamed up on the U.S. Olympic teams in 2008 and 2012, and Anthony Davis played a backup role on that 2012 London Olympics team.

Bryant had attended a handful of Lakers games in recent years with his 13-yearold daughter, Gianna, who also died in the crash in Calabasas, California.

The NBA says the game between the Los Angeles rivals will be rescheduled later.

The next game on the Lakers’ schedule is Friday night at home against Portland.

The Lakers lead the Western Conference standings and have the NBA’s second-best record at 36-10.

After trading for Davis and teaming him with James in the offseason, the Lakers

are all but certain to end their franchise-record playoff drought at six seasons.

Bryant won five championships and reached seven NBA Finals during his two decades with the Lakers. He retired as the franchise’s career leader in points, games played and numerous other statistical categories.

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Rex Orange County makes debut performance for Pony tour JENNA PETERSON STAFF WRITER This past Sunday evening the Palace Theater in St. Paul hosted Rex Orange County for the first time with The Pony Tour. Alex O’Connor, mostly known as his stage name Rex Orange County, is a British artist who released his first album, Bcos U Will Never B Free, in 2016 and has continued to release two more albums since then, Apricot Princess (2017) and Pony (2019).

Two of my friends and I left Sunday afternoon for the concert and stood outside the venue for two hours to ensure that we got as close to the stage as possible, and the long wait in the cold weather was worth it.

Alex started the show with

a song off the new album, “10/10”, which talks about the personal struggles he has went through and although he isn’t the best version of himself right now, he’s working on it one day at a time. He then continued with “Laser Lights” and “Face to Face”, both on the Pony album, to hype fans up. Even though the new album had been out for a few months, Alex made sure to play songs off of Apricot Princess, including “Never Enough”, “Happiness”, and “4 Seasons”. Going into the night, there were a few songs I expected to hear from both Apricot Princess and Pony, and I was lucky enough to have all of those songs played. Some of my favorite songs that were played were, “Television/ So Far So Good”, “Sunflower”, “Never Had the Balls”, “Best Friend”, “Always”, and

“Loving is Easy”, all from Pony and Apricot Princess.

All of these songs made the crowd energetic and ready to party, which is exactly what happened. The only song off of Bcos U Will Never B Free that Alex played was, “Corduroy Dreams”, which I was surprised was added to the set list.

Even though this show was general admission and I fully expected to have no personal space, some people still lacked the decency to give me and other people some space. I did have a few people pushing onto me and leaning on me, but after a few songs I was able to move slightly away and enjoy the show even more. The next time Rex Orange County is in the cities, I will be right back in the pit.

Photo courtesy of Rex Orange County’s Facebook Page

January kicks the new decade of music off right KOLBY SPOMER A&E EDITOR This past month’s music releases have started the new year (and decade) off extremely strong. Genres from hip-hop to metal to indie pop all have Album of the Year contenders, something that hasn’t happened in January for as long as I can remember. One or two good albums, yeah that’ll happen.

But to have 5 great albums?

That’s unprecedented.

“Circles” Mac Miller’s death shook the musical world to its core.

The rapper seemed like he was finally turning a corner and becoming all he could become when he overdosed, a fact that makes his newest and first posthumous album hit all the harder. On Circles, the world gets to see what Miller was thinking about and how he was feeling in his final days. Focusing on his life, Miller talks about disappointing loved ones, learning to accept life’s unavoidable brother death, and moving forward as a person. In fact,

Photo courtesy of Mac Miller’s Facebook

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a lot of the lyrics make it seem as though, in some way, Miller knew his time was coming. “I’m always wonderin’ if it’ll feel like summer/I know maybe I’m too late, maybe I’ll make it there some other time/...There’s a whole lot more for me waiting/... then I’ll finally discover/.. that it ain’t so bad.” Jon Brion did his best to fill in the production where he could, succeeding for the most part. This album is great all around, and if you’re ever worrying about death, you should put this on. Mac will

remind you that it ain’t so bad. Stand out tracks include “Good News”, “Once a Day”, and “I Can See”.

“I Disagree” Poppy, YouTube sensation turned pop star turned metal artist, dropped her debut album with Sumerian Records “I Disagree”. Most listeners would think to avoid this record, assuming that a soft pop voice and nu metal production would mix like whiskey and milk. Most people would be wrong.

Somehow Poppy has made an amazing metal record

Photo courtesy of Okay Kaya’s Facebook

and an amazing pop record, all in one glorious package.

Poppy sings (and yells) about rebellion, self-discovery, and independence. For anyone following her, this shouldn’t come as a shock. Poppy had an ugly falling out with longtime creative partner Titanic Sinclair, and after staying relatively quiet about the situation she finally shares her thoughts, at least a little.

Thankfully for her, it looks like she’s getting the last laugh.

The weird, quiet, uncomfortable last laugh. “Stand out

Photo courtesy of Poppy’s Facebook

tracks include “I Disagree”, “Fill the Crown”, and “don’t Go Outside”.

“Modus Vivendi” New Jersey rapper 070 Shake released her debut album “Modus Vivendi”, and exceeded her lofty expectations. An overnight success thanks to a feature on Kanye West’s unbelievably beautiful song “Ghost Town”, Shake

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Billie Eilish, a voice of the youth, tops the Grammy Awards NEW YORK (AP) — Singer Billie Eilish, who gave voice to young people struggling with depression on a do-ityourself album she made at home with her older brother, is atop the music world.

The 18-year-old made history at the Grammy Awards Sunday. Not only did she become the youngest person to win one of Grammy’s top awards — record, song and album of the year, and best new artist — Eilish is the first artist to sweep all four since Christopher Cross in 1981.

Her triumph came on a night made somber by the death of former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant.

It also ended a tumultuous week for the Recording Academy that included its ousted CEO accusing the Grammys nominations process of being rigged, and Diddy calling out the organization for not giving enough respect to R&B and hip-hop.

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Billie Eilish poses in the press room with the awards for best album and best pop vocal album for “We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”, best song and record for “Bad Guy” and best new artist at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Grammy inclusion An estimated 18.7 million people watched the show, which ran late and packed three of its top awards into the final 15 minutes. That’s down from the 19.9 million who watched in 2019 and the 19.8 million viewers in 2018, the Nielsen company said on Monday.

Eilish’s “When We all Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” also won best pop vocal album. Her brother Finneas

O’Connell also won awards for engineering and producing the album.

Youtube video thumbnail “The music I listened to when I was growing up, maybe 7, 8, 9 or 10, 13, that was the most important music to me forever,” Finneas said backstage after the ceremony. “Anytime a person that age comes up to either one of us and says (it is their favorite), I know how much that means to them. That’s

why it means so much to me.

I hope they’re celebrating.

This is all because of them.”

He said that they never thought that an album that addresses depression, suicidal thoughts and climate change would be up for a Grammy.

Eilish noted that they made the album in a bedroom of the Los Angeles-area home where they grew up in.

“It’s like anything is possible,” she said.

In accepting her awards, Eilish noted that she had grown up listening to many of the artists at the ceremony in Los Angeles’ Staples Center. She also said she thought Ariana Grande deserved album of the year, an onstage moment that recalled Adele saying the same thing about Beyoncé the same year Adele triumphed.

The success of a young, white girl came on a night the Recording Academy seemingly went out of its way to highlight diversity.

Lizzo offered a powerhouse opening performance, and there were tributes to Prince and the late rapper Nipsey Hussle. Tyler, the Creator offered an incendiary version of “Earfquake” with Boyz II Men. Lil Nas X sang his omnipresent “Old Town Road.”

H.E.R. sang, as did host Alicia Keys and Gary Clark Jr. with the Roots.

Tyler, the Creator said later that the rap album Grammy was a backhanded compli-

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While he’s grateful to be acknowledged, “it also sucks whenever we, I mean guys that look like me, do anything that’s genre bending, they always put it in an urban rapper category,” he said. “I don’t like that urban word.

It’s just a politically correct way to say the N-word to me.”

Earlier in the show, Keys sat at a piano to sing a rewrite of Lewis Capaldi’s song, “Someone You Loved” that name-checked many of the nominated artists but also included a few pointed lines about respect.

“I’m gonna be honest with y’all,” she said. “It’s been a helluva week.”

Keys also had the delicate task of addressing the shock of Bryant’s death in a helicopter crash, while onstage at the same arena where the former Laker won championships.

She sang “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” with Boyz II Men. References to Bryant abounded — a Lakers jersey held up by Run-DMC during their performance of “Walk This Way” with Aerosmith, and adorning a couch on a set where Lil Nas X began “Old Town Road.”

“We’re all feeling crazy sadness right now,” said Keys, who received praise online for how she handled it.

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Continued from page 13 was seen as one of the most promising new artists in her genre. Releasing her debut two and a half years after the feature was a big mistake that resulted in her underperforming on the charts. Despite this, hopefully the album blows up because it is good. Like good good. Using the calm, misty production to her advantage, she creates an amazing atmosphere very few can artists could replicate. If you’ve been looking for a new artist in hip-hop to follow, make it Shake.

You won’t regret it. Stand out tracks include “Pines”, “Microdosing”, and “Guilty Conscience” “Watch This Liquid Pour Itself” Okay Kaya is far and away the smallest artist featured in this article, garnering 300,00 thousand monthly listeners on Spotify, less than half the next lowest artist (Poppy). Kaya seems like your typical indie girl on first listen, sounding more than a reasonable amount like genre star Mitski. If you keep listening, however,

you’ll find something a little different. Mixing humor with serious themes like mental illness sets her apart from the increasingly overcrowded pack. “You can peel an orange however you want/ In the psych ward! (Psych ward!)”. Much of the album reads similar to these lyrics, and if that interests you, I suggest giving her a chance.

Stand out tracks include “Ascend and try again” and “Psych Ward”

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“Manic” Halsey is a polarizing figure. Some hate her for what she says publicly and how she carries herself, while others praise her for the same exact things. Thanks to this and an ugly breakup with rapper G-eazy, fans were eager to see what she’d spill in her new album. Little tea was spilled however. The album comes across as a calm, calculated response from a person who has stepped

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