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‘WORDS CAN MOVE AND SHAKE ME’ Andy Hanson plans a program that puts ‘sticks and stones’ myth to rest NICOLE SMITH
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Sticks and stones may break bones, but Andy Hanson isn’t combating inanimate objects from playground chants. He’s making a case for the power of words. Hanson knows how much they can hurt and he wants to give Minnesota State students the opportunity to overcome any damage they have caused. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can move and shake me,” begins his promotional video for the aptly named program he is in the early stages of planning. After consoling a friend wale agboola • msu reporter who was called “fat” by
Andy Hanson knows how much words can hurt and created the ‘Sticks and Stones’ program to promoste positivity.
someone who initially said it as a joke, he realized how much words can bring a person down, regardless of the context they may come from. “We all go through it,” said Hanson, the art education student at MSU. “People have all this potential that really isn’t being used because others are holding them back in the most absurd way.” Name-calling is one of the many ways people are held back by the words of others and it is something that Jessica Flatequal sees students cope with regularly as the director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Center on campus. “For every gay student who
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Permission to speak
Minnesota State staff reacts to Obama’s decision to repeal ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ ADAM PULCHINSKI
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In his State of the Union address to Congress in January, President Barack Obama set forth many initiatives he wanted to accomplish in the coming months and years. One of those initiatives was to repeal the “don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy in the United States military. The policy, which was later amended to include “don’t pursue,” was a law adopted in 1993 regarding homosexual persons serving in the military. Simply stated, it means that a gay man or woman may be discharged from the armed services for Editorial...................................4 Variety......................................9 Sports....................................12 Classifieds.............................15 .................................................
“homosexual conduct.” At the time the law was adopted, it was seen as a compromise between those who wanted to continue with a ban of homosexuals in the military and President Bill Clinton, who wanted to repeal an outright ban. Since the State of the Union, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he was going to create a highlevel commission to answer practical questions if the ban was to be repealed and to develop a plan for safely incorporating openly gay military personnel into the ranks of the nation’s armed forces. Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen recently spoke to the Senate Armed Services
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Whatever the decision is, the Army will follow the law as it always has.”
— Lt. Col. Joel Stephenson, MSU ROTC
Committee. “Speaking for myself and myself only, it is my personal belief that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do,” said Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to the committee.
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Students danced the night away at CLASA’s annual masquerade Saturday
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At the local level, little has been heard beyond what is in staff writer the national news. Lt. Col. Joel Stephenson, The dance at Minnesota who runs the Army ROTC at State on Saturday night wasn’t Minnesota State, said that it a typical dance. is a matter of “wait and see For some of the attendees, what happens.” the Masquerade Ball, hosted “Whatever the decision is, by the Chicano-Latin the Army will follow the law American Student Association as it always has,” Stephenson and the Vietnamese Student said. “The President is the Association, was the first commander-in-chief and is masquerade they’ve attended. ultimately the boss.” The consensus was; it just Though Congress is the sounded like fun. body that would need to The ball drew a variety amend the law to make the of attendees, including some change, President Obama non-MSU students. MSU and the administration have student Kate Effertz said she wilfrido sandoval sampieri • submitted photo vowed to push hard for it. Students Pang Moua, Yeng Moua, Luz Pimental Avila, Rachel Fameree and heard about the dance from Stephenson said, pointing out Corettta Moua take a break from dancing to pose for a picture. her Community Advisor and he could not say whether a thought it’d be a fun thing of the stated 8 p.m. Once it got “Because I move my wheelchair change would be good or bad, to do with her friend Andy like anyone else moves their feet,” that society in general is more Halvorsen, who was visiting for the started, the music played by DJs familiar and knowledgeable Alejandro Chaeon and Pim de Bennett said. weekend. Jong had attendees up and dancing. Bennett also said she’s been to of differences in sexual Biochemistry majors Lyndee orientation. many dances during her time at Heidecker and Jessica German also Whether it was in groups, pairs or Director of the Lesbian MSU, but she’s never attended a attended the masquerade because it solo, a variety of styles showed up Gay Bisexual Transgender on the dance floor. masquerade. sounded like fun. They, and nonCenter on the Minnesota Dance styles ranged from According to CLASA President student guest Brandon Vesel, had State, Jessica Flatequal, rhythmic bobbing to a throbbing Juan Munoz, Saturday’s ball was never been to one before. the second time CLASA’s hosted a “She was telling me, ‘oh they’re beat to swing dancing. One attendee even showed off his ability masquerade ball on campus. The having a masquerade,’ and I got to perform a smooth kick and split. previous year, it was hosted by excited,” said Vesel. MSU student Amanda Bennett CLASA, VSA and Mavericks After Masks were required to attend had a dancing style all her own. Dark. Munoz said the planning and were sold outside the ballroom. Sitting in an electronic wheelchair, for something like the Masquerade However, some attendees, like she rolled back and forth in time Ball could be done in as little Effertz and Halvorsen, brought to the music and spun around. as two weeks, but he doesn’t their own. Bennett said she loves to attend recommend it. The ball, which followed the dances and doesn’t feel that she “If you don’t want to hurry, [it Vietnamese New Year celebration, can’t dance. takes] a month,” Munoz said. got to a late start, 9 p.m. instead HEATHER MOELLER
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said something similar to Stephenson. “It feels like the general public and folks in the military have turned their attitudes,” Flatequal said. “We feel fairly confident it will be overturned.” Flatequal said that the LGBT community has been disappointed from the beginning with the law, though she also said that as a compromise it was a step in the right direction. She feels the time for “don’t ask don’t tell” is well over and that it is dangerous, unfair, and lacks integrity. Flatequal pointed out that past attempts to repeal the law had not been very promising. While top brass in the military are making preparations for a possible change, the current House bill is short of the necessary votes to pass. The Senate has yet to introduce a bill of its own.
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It is time to get rid of the ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
It’s a shame people need to hide who they are when all they are is everything they have. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy began in the early ’90s, during a time when homosexuality was just beginning to gain acceptance but still considered taboo. The policy “prohibits any homosexual or bisexual person from disclosing his or her sexual orientation or from speaking about any homosexual relationships, including marriages or other familial attributes, while serving in the armed forces. ” The reason given for the policy was because gays in the military “create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.” Up until now “don’t ask, don’t
tell” has simply been accepted as a component of the military, widely questioned by the public but not by the government. Instead of spending time questioning why it hasn’t been an issue, we need to take a look at the ways in which it condones and promotes discrimination. Sexual preference of an individual is neither here nor there in terms of their work ethic or capabilities in the military or any other job or service for that matter. It wouldn’t be considered acceptable to discriminate based on sex, or ethnicity or religion, so why should discrimination on the basis of sexual preference be allowed? If straight service people are allowed to talk about their lives, including their families and loved ones, it is wrong to keep anyone who doesn’t fit into the
confines of heterosexuality from doing the same. Frankly, it is surprising how long the policy has been accepted without much talk of the need for its removal. “Don’t ask, don’t tell” encourages people to keep a lid on who they are and the consequences of doing so are dangerous and come without adequate or justified reasoning. It’s implementation has kicked many qualified officers out of the army, including gifted Arabic and Farsi translators that could be a great benefit to the armed forces. A repeal of the policy would give the army a more open and welcoming atmosphere. It would give the American troops the freedom to be who they are, part of the same freedom they dedicate their lives to and fight so hard to sustain.
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Accepting an award on behalf of all Professor Dan Sachau wins national award for psychology grad program BLAINE TAYLOR MARTIN
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In major professional sports, the MVP award is usually reserved for an outstanding player on a winning team. In the case of Professor Dan Sachau, the MVP award is the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Distinguished Teaching Contribution Award, and his winning team is the faculty and students of Minnesota State’s industrial and organizational psychology program. Sachau will receive the award at the SIOP national
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his and the department’s continued success. “We are the top IOP program in the nation and we get students from all around the world. These students would be successful anywhere,” Sachau said. Sachau is the director of MSU’s IOP program, a two year master’s course which admits only a dozen or so students each year. Over his 20 years at MSU, Sachau has introduced a variety of innovative teaching programs including the Consulting Challenge and the Organizational Effectiveness Research Group (OERG).
He’s a really good story teller, he has a way of just making things simple.”
— Masakatsu Ono, MSU student conference in April, but he’s not sure he deserves it. “I’m not even sure this award should go to just one person,” said Sachau. “The reason I’ve been successful is that I have wonderful colleagues.” In addition to his colleagues, Sachau gives credit to the students for
The Consulting Challenge is a regional case competition for graduate students. Ameriprise Financial, 3M, Medtronic, Best Buy, Cargill and Target have each hosted the competition. OERG is a consulting practice staffed by MSU students and faculty. The OERG serves local and national clients including the
blaine taylor martin • msu reporter Graduate assistant Mike Tayloe, Dan Sachau and Masakatsu Ono pose together. Sachau will receieve the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology Distinguished Contribution award in April.
United States Air Force and the U.S. Marshals Service. The IOP program also does consulting overseas. Sachau has taken students to Belgium, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam and South Africa. In three weeks, he and two students will travel to Germany to consult a client. The IOP program is not just all about business, they also know how to have a good time. “Our program is big into karaoke,” said Mike Taylor, Sachau’s graduate assistant. “We’ve had him (Sachau) up
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as good a teacher as he is someday.” No matter what career path his students choose to follow, Sachau is always supportive and helpful. “Whatever industry we want to go into, he tries to hook us up with alumni who are in that field,” Taylor said. When Dan Sachau receives his award in April, he’ll be doing so on behalf of all the students and faculty of the IOP program who are each, in his mind, MVPs.
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WORDS ‘I think that oftentimes words are just as harmful or even more harmful than actions be-
cause they penetrate past our bodies and into our minds, where they can linger and cause more harm.’ continued from 1 had ‘faggot’ written on their dry erase board outside their dorm room, they know the necessity for awareness like this,” she said. “Some people may be skeptical because they think ‘sticks and stones,’ this is something you teach first graders, not to call people names. But if you really look at the world we live in, clearly we didn’t all get the message in grade school.” The event may not take place until Eliminate Hate Week in April, but Hanson is already recruiting students willing to give their testimonials on the impact of words in their life. In the next month, Hanson hopes to hear from a range of students and plans to tape their stories and splice them into a video for the event. In addition, Hanson has planned an activity that will give event program attendees a chance to participate. Each person will get a stone and a piece of paper to scribble something hurtful
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that has been said to them and they will be able to read it aloud before tearing it up and tossing the stone into a kiddie pool to symbolize letting go of the pain words can create. Gender and women’s studies junior Kari Jansen believes in the potential of a project like this. “I think that oftentimes words are just as harmful or even more harmful than actions because they penetrate pasts our bodies and into our minds, where they can linger and cause more harm,” she said. Jansen said words feed into personal insecurities, whether real or imagined, by making a mockery of beliefs or appearances and by “attacking us at the core of who we really are.” The LGBT Center has been spearheading Eliminate Hate Week for nearly a decade, but Flatequal is happy to see students like Hanson step up to get involved. “The week focuses on
hate and some students want to talk about hate speech, hate talk or hate violence,” she said. Although his event doesn’t target violence, Flatequal said the use of hate speech cultivates a culture that allows more violence to take place. “Hate violence, however tragic, is built by all kind of other hateful things, like telling mean or racist jokes … the language we use like ‘that’s gay’ or ‘this is retarded,’ all contributes to that.” A community advisor in Julia A. Sears dorms, Hanson has planned many programs in the past, but at a much smaller scale. The campus community may also know him as the “free hugs guy,” because every Sept. 10 he celebrates International Free Hugs Day by lending his open arms to anyone in need of a little affection in the Centennial Student Union mall area. In the fall, his commitment to
the cause left him sunburned, but the 150 hugs he gave out made it worth his while. “I just love helping others, so if there is a way to offer them an outlet, I will,” Hanson said. Hanson is collaborating with Impact on the April 7
event and plans to get the LGBT Center and Counseling Center involved. To volunteer for the “Sticks and Stones” campaign, contact him at andrew.hanson@mnsu.edu.
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Reason for limited-release films not coming to Davina and the Vagabonds Mankato comes down to dollars and sense bring jazz to new generation NATE BRENNAN
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Those looking for a taste of New Orleans this Mardi Gras won’t have to make the trek to Louisiana after all. Tonight in the Performance Arts Center’s Elias J. Halling Recital Hall, Twin Cities quintet Davina and the Vagabonds will bring their throwback New Orleans jazz sound to Minnesota State. The band, led by Davina Sowers, brings a Fitzgeraldian juke-joint flair into a melting pot of carnival sound, New Orleans pre-World War II jazz and blues, and ‘60s funk and soul. Much like Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings have done in its own brand of revivalist funk, Davina and the Vagabonds’ approach to the jazz genre has been tailored to a newer generation. “We’re dirtier than jazz,” said Sowers. “We’re definitely not square; we don’t do jazz standards.”
And it’s apparent when listening to Davina and the Vagabonds that this is not your grandfather’s jazz band. “I’m playing a different generation of music, but I’m playing it as my generation,” Sowers said. “Times are different, so the music is definitely edgier and our symbolism is much different than that of the ’20s-’40s.” Sowers, a classical trained pianist who has been performing since the age of five, sings as if she were the offspring of Ray Charles and Koko Taylor, evoking a deep-rooted upbringing and appreciation for the music she is playing. Raised on the Victrola and old jazz records by a folk singer mother and an adopted father who was born in the Floridian dog pits in 1902, Sowers expressed that what she does musically is simply a result of who she is.
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web photo with illustration Audiences blame the movie theaters, movie theaters blame the distributors, distributors blame the audiences — it’s a never-ending circle of blame as to why limited-release films don’t go nationwide. JACOB BOHROD
staff writer With Oscar fever in full swing, it’s hard to choose favorites from what are supposed to be the past year’s best films. Looking over the nominees, in fact, it’s clear the Mankatoan will have a particularly difficult time choosing. Of the 10 films nominated for Best Picture, only six of them came to Mankato theaters. The front-runners for two of the four acting awards didn’t enjoy any face-time in our city, nor did some of the other highly talked about films of 2009 grace our movie houses. To movie fans, how we get the movies we do and how we are kept ignorant of the ones we don’t is a widely unanswered frustration. At the root of the issue is a battle between taste and money, where some argue Mankato is subject to the films its citizenry want to see, and others say it is a matter of what the industry wants us to see. “The real issue is how the
films get marketed,” said Donald Larrson, an English professor at Minnesota State who specializes in film. He suggests smaller markets are many times pigeonholed, and film distributors sometimes lose the pulse of cities such as Mankato and go unaware to their willingness to try new things. “I’ve always believed that the movie and theater industry underestimate the ability of such little-known films to build an audience, if given a chance,” Larsson said. “Mankato’s two first-run theater chains have their decisions made by corporate marketers far removed from our location. They may know data, but they don’t know Mankato.” However, making and distributing movies is a business like any other, and making money equals good business. And in order for that business to be as successful as possible, it must decide which areas will be most prosperous for each film. “If we pull in a feature that doesn’t generally do well in
this area, we could lose a lot of money,” said Rodelle Mehlhoff, a manager at Carmike Stadium Cinema 6. In deciding to pull “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” a film that received a national release the day before Thanksgiving Day and lasted around seven days in town, Mehlhoff said the distributer saw more potential for gross at a different theater than in Mankato. Taste, then, becomes the major factor deciding which films come here and which don’t, not necessarily how well marketed or mainstream they are. “It depends on the feature,” Mehlhoff said. “If it’s a religious-type film, it seems to do fairly well in this area.” Laura Golding, a manager at Cinemark Movies 8, said Mankatoans enjoy a variety of films, and do not judge them by their wide or limited status. Where “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” did poorly,
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photo by Jeff Peabody, courtesy of davinaandthevagabonds.com Davina and the Vagabonds aim to bring a taste of New Orleans-style jazz to the Halling Recital Hall tonight as part of the Performance Series.
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continued from 9 “Paranormal Activity” was a hit, she said. However, Golding suggests a correlation between how well-known a picture is and how successful it is at the local box office. That is, limitedrelease films have just as much potential as their wide-release counterparts, as long as people know that they’re here. “I think if we got more limited releases — especially if we were able to advertise to let people know we were getting them — they [would] have the potential to do pretty well,” she said. Therefore, taste is a relative term, because, as Larsson explains, taste can change with a film’s corresponding exposure to the people. “What appeals to me may not appeal to you, but just as we can learn how to taste and enjoy unfamiliar foods, we can do that with movies too,” he said. Manohla Dargis shares a similar opinion. In a Dec. 20 New York Times article, Dargis blamed the film industry for offering nationwide access to the “flashier, noisier, dumber” pictures while limiting critically-acclaimed art house films and foreign features to metropolises only. “‘Angels and Demons’... opened on some 3,500 screens domestically and ate up more than 10,000 internationally,”
Dargis said. “The French film ‘Summer Hours,’ meanwhile, the best-reviewed release in The Times that weekend, opened on two screens.” With this in mind, it seems the industry cares little to open up the market for foreign and widely unknown films, even to growing cities like Mankato, which is frequented by nearly 15,000 college students at MSU alone, and serves as a weigh station for the entirety of southern Minnesota. With a median age of 26.8, Mankato citizens are almost nine years younger than the rest of the nation, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. At 88.1 percent, our percentage of high school graduates is nearly 8 percentage points higher than the nation’s as well. A young, well-educated population seems custom-built for artistically flamboyant, limited-release films. Is it really possible such a large business as the film industry would simply not care to pick a market as ripe as ours? The short answer: yes. Larsson explains that the industry would rather continue to offer the films we see trailers for on television than put in the effort to support little-known and foreign films. “Downbeat themes such as poverty and child abuse in ‘Precious’ and war in Iraq in
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‘The Hurt Locker’ need time to convince theater owners that they won’t actually keep audiences away,” he said. And keeping audiences away is exactly what Carlos Posas says they do. According to Posas, the Stomper’s Cinema Chair for Impact, movies that didn’t see wide release or are aimed at a niche audience tend to do poorly at the campus screenings in Ostrander Auditorium. “As all-inclusive as we can be: that’s what we try to do,” Posas said, acknowledging the organization’s attempts to not alienate prospective student and community attendees. “We’re trying to get as many people to come to the movies [as possible].” For Posas, risking attendance numbers for the sake of what some would call the integrity of the medium is not something Impact is prepared to do. He maintains, however, that their exists an untapped market for challenging and critically favored, but popularly unexperienced, films in the area, and that with a larger budget he would certainly champion all films. “Our main problem is the budget,” said Posas. “If I could get an exorbitant amount of money to show [independent and foreign] movies, I would gladly do it.”
continued from 9 “I think I’m doing [jazz music] more out of necessity than want,” Sowers said. “I love music; I’m doing musically what I am.” And what she is musically has appealed to a lot of other music-makers in the area. Following a trend that’s recently become popular in hip-hop, artists from Minneapolis’ Institute of Production & Recording as well as Doomtree collective mainstay Desdemona have called on Sowers to aid in creating jazz samples and loops for their hip-hop tracks. “To collaborate with all different types of music is wonderful,” Sowers said. “I really enjoy collaborating and experiencing someone else’s creativity. [Doomtree] is huge right now and it’s kind of amazing how it’s really sprouted up, no pun intended. Sometimes musicians are limited, but they are saying it how it is.” Dubbed the “hardest working blues woman in frigid Minnesota” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sowers has hit the ground running since moving to the Twin Cities from Key West, Fla., cultivating a group of professional musicians which
perform nearly every day of the year and sold the most CDs during the 2006-2008 Duluth Bayfront Blues Festivals. Through this experience, including sharing the stage with Buddy Guy, Little Feat and The Blues Brothers, Davina hopes to set an example for the music majors who may be attending her show. “I’m really hoping I can show people they can do what they want to do and achieve a good sound,” Sowers said. Davina and the Vagabonds will hit the stage tonight at 7:30 p.m. General admission is $15; tickets for children, K-12 students and MSU students with a valid MavCard are $10. The show is set to be a display of very talented and professional musicians doing what they do best. “We’re very high energy. You can expect to hear exactly what you hear on our tracks online (at www. davinaandthevagabonds.com) — very tight, very dynamic and fun arrangements,” Sowers said. “I love Mankato, even the old heads are pretty cool — pretty hip, pretty liberal – you guys really know how to have good time.”
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staff writer After 11 years and 45 games against the University of Wisconsin, the Minnesota State women’s hockey team can finally say it beat the Badgers. The Mavericks defeated the Badgers 5-3 in Madison on Friday afternoon, earning the program’s first victory ever over the mighty Badgers. The tenth-ranked Badgers had grown accustomed to gaining at least a point whenever they played the Mavericks, and a home setback at the Kohl Center seemed unlikely with the team fighting for home ice in the WCHA playoffs. However, the Mavericks were able to score early and hold on to the historic victory thanks to a career-high 48 saves by sophomore goaltender Alli Altmann. “We got outstanding goaltending, took advantage of the few opportunities we got and scored some nice goals,” said head coach Eric Means. The Badgers were on the attack for most of the game, as demonstrated by the team’s 51 shots on goal compared to the Mavericks’ 18.
“They played very well and it showed in the shot differential,” Means said. “Alli Altmann was simply outstanding in net and we were able to capitalize and score when the opportunity presented itself.” The Maverick offense was sharp from the start on Friday, scoring three goals on the team’s first five shots on goal. Senior captain Kala Buganski got the onslaught started when she redirected a shot from sophomore blueliner Jenna Peterson for her fourth goal of the season. The assist was Peterson’s first of the season. Buganski would put the Mavericks up 2-0 with her second goal of the game on a nice pass from fellow senior forward Ashley Young. The offensive explosion continued later in the first period on the power play when sophomore dan moen • msu reporter Kala Buganski (7) scored two goals in the MSU 5-3 win over Wisconsin. forward Moira O’Connor put her fifth goal of the season past Badger goalie Becca Ruegsegger. Zrust would put the game away Means said. “It also gets the monThe goal would chase Ruegsegger for good with her second goal of key off the back of the girls who from the game with nearly half of the game and third of the season. are returning next year.” the opening period remaining. The 5-3 triumph was special Despite dropping the second “Getting three goals on our accomplishment. game of the series to the Badfirst fiveshots really set the pace,” “It meant a lot to get that first gers 6-0, the Mavericks (6-19-5, Altmann said. win, especially for the girls who 4-17-5-3 WCHA) hope Friday’s After the Badgers answered are graduating and get to leave historic win builds momentum early in the third period, Lauren with a win over Wisconsin,” moving forward.
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staff writer MADISON, Wis. – Even though the Minnesota State hockey team took nine penalties and totaled half the shots Wisconsin took through the first 35 minutes of Friday’s WCHA game at the Kohl Center, the Mavericks had managed to hold their own. Phil Cook had stopped 31 shots up to that point and Mike Louwerse put MSU on the board with his fifth goal of the season. The Mavericks were four minutes away from taking a lead into the third period at No. 3 Wisconsin. “It almost worked to my advantage,” Cook said. “I got the butterflies out. It got me in the zone.” But all of that positive energy was sucked out in a
good and set the tone for the matter of four seconds. The weekend. Mavericks never recovered “We got out of our game and lost 4-3 Friday and 8-4 plan and played their game,” Saturday. Cook said. “ We did what Zach Harrison was called they wanted us to do and they for interference and Kurt didn’t let down after Davis went off for (Louwerse’s) goal.” roughing on the same Davies assisted on play at 15:35 giving another power play the Badgers a two-man goal before the period advantage. ended and Wisconsin “It was one of went up 4-1 with a those calls that doesn’t shorthanded goal by happen that often,” Andy Bendickson Harrison said. “It can Zach Harrison midway through the really hurt a hockey third period. team and I know I was The Mavericks involved in it.” made it interesting with a Rylan Galiardi won the pair of late goals to bring ensuing faceoff but Ben Street them within striking distance. stole the puck away from Ben Youds and centered to Michael Harrison scored a goal assisted by Davis with four Davies who put the puck past minutes remaining and Kael Cook on a second attempt at Mouillierat beat Badgers 15:39. goalie Scott Gudmandson on Davies wasn’t done. He scored 21 seconds later to a penalty shot with a minute score another power play to go. goal to put the Badgers up for Cook finished the night
with 40 saves but would probably rather forget about Saturday’s game. The freshman was pulled in the second period after he allowed six goals on 12 shots. Eli Zuck gave MSU a 1-0 lead Saturday with a goal 53 seconds into the game but like Friday, MSU’s lead didn’t last long. Andy Bombach scored 45 seconds later and led 3-1 after the first period. MSU’s Jared Stewart scored to make it 4-2 in the second but Wisconsin doubled its lead before the second intermission. Tyler Pitlick and Davis scored third period goals for the Mavericks. MSU falls to 12-16-3 and 6-15-1 in the WCHA while digging itself a deeper hole in ninth place. The Mavericks host Alaska-Anchorage — Friday and Saturday — for their first home games since Jan. 15-16.
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sports editor The Minnesota State men’s basketball team planned on clinching the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference on Saturday night against St. Cloud State. The Huskies had other plans. After the Mavericks defeated Concordia-St. Paul 93-79 on Friday night, MSU was taken down 92-84 by the Huskies. “We didn’t get what we set out to do,” said MSU head coach Matt Margenthaler. “On Saturday, for some reason, we weren’t as focused on the defensive end. Those things hurt us.” The dagger that did the Mavericks in was St. Cloud State center Matt Schneck, who finished with 34 points and 18 rebounds. MSU’s Travis Nelson did his best to even out the statline from the center position with 24 points and 4 rebounds from the center position, but it wasn’t enough. Jefferson Mason also had 28 points and 13 rebounds. Cameron Hodges and Jermain Davis were the only other Mavericks to score more than four points, scoring 13 and 11 points respectively. Davis scored a season-high 22 points in Friday night’s game as Mason had 20 points and 12 rebounds. Fortunately for the Mavericks, they still hold a one game lead over the Huskies for firstplace in the conference and the No. 1 team in the region (Mesa State) also lost over the weekend. “The guys were pretty upset with the loss,” Margenthaler said. “It was a tough environment in St.Cloud but it was a great learning experience. We still control our own desitny. These next 10 days will be very important for a lot of teams.” The Mavericks will clinch the NSIC by either winning out, or with a win and a St. Cloud State loss. MSU has just one game this weekend, as they face Southwest at 8 p.m. on Saturday night. Southwest is eighth in the conference with a 8-9 record.
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staff writer The Minnesota State wrestling team needed a boost of confidence after losing three of their last four meets. The Mavericks could not afford a loss a the hands to Northern State. The Mavericks responded well and dominated the Wolves, winning by a team score of 32-9. “Beating Northern State gives us confidence moving forward,” said senior Brady Wilson. “Getting a win really sets up what is going to be a huge meet with St. Cloud.” Wilson is usually the last wrestler to compete during a meet, but the heavyweight slot went first this time and his teammates watched early on what it takes to be a No. 1 ranked wrestler. Wilson won a major decision by a score of 11-2, earning his 24th win of the season. The early win propelled the Mavericks forward as they went on to win three straight matches. Junior Andy Forstner usually normally wresles at the 125-pound weight class but moved up to 133-pounds against Northern State. The move did not hinder the All-American at all as he went on to win a major decision, 16-7. The Mavericks also got an impressive victory by senior Travis
Elg who was able to get a fall in just over a minute at the 149 pound division. An All-American last year, Elg has had some struggles early this season, but will use this victory to help get back to his form from a year ago. “Travis is working hard to fix any problems he may have,” said head coach Jim Makovsky. “We are going to need him when we get to the end of the season.” The Mavericks only have two meets left before the postseason and the team’s top goal right now will be getting all ten guys on their varsity roster qualified for regionals. MSU will also have an opportunity to jump up in the standings by beating St. Cloud State on Friday. The Huskies sit in third place in the conference, but the Mavericks will have an opportunity to take over that spot. MSU will have the advantage of competing at home after spending the last two weeks on the road. The Mavericks have only lost once at home this season. While the Mavericks will not be able to defend their NSIC conference title, a lot of individual goals can still be accomplished. “Right now we want to look at everyone’s individual goals,” Wilson said. “We have a lot of guys ranked in the top four and we want to get all 10 guys to nationals like we did last year.”
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staff writer The Minnesota State women’s basketball team has lost two games by a combined three points to St. Cloud State this season. With time — and opportunities — to secure a spot in the conference tournament running out, those three points are looking more and more important. MSU’s latest loss to the Huskies — a team 4-13 in conference play — came Saturday and leaves the Mavericks on the outside looking in as the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament approaches. “It’s frustrating they beat us,” MSU coach Pam Gohl said. “We had a lead in the second half and just didn’t execute against them.” The Mavericks’ 69-67 loss to the Huskies followed a 72-59 loss to Concordia University Friday, and left MSU (13-11, 8-9) sitting ninth in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference with three games remaining. Only the top eight teams advance to the conference tournament, which begins March 2. MSU’s next game is against Southwest Minnesota State, one of two teams a game ahead of the Mavericks in the NSIC standings. “The positive we take out of the weekend is that we know we are still alive in the playoff hunt
and we have lots to play for,” Gohl said. “The game on Saturday [against Southwest Minnesota State] is a critical game.” While the Mavericks defeated the Golden Bears at home earlier this season, Concordia avoided a second upset despite 13 points each from Liz Trauger and Tiffany Moe and 11 points from Lauren Barber. Sophomore Laura Weber led MSU with 17 points against St. Cloud State, which defeated the Mavericks 63-62 on Jan. 16. The Mavericks avoided the big early deficit they had to overcome the first time they faced the Huskies, taking a 31-26 halftime lead Saturday. At one point in the second half, in fact, MSU led by as many as 10 points. But this time it was St. Cloud State that erased a deficit, completing the comeback by taking a three-point lead with less than two minutes remaining. “We had some uncharacteristic mistakes,” Gohl said. “They made some plays … and we didn’t.” Weber recorded her second career double-double in the loss, grabbing 12 rebounds. Moe added 16 points while Barber scored 11. The Mavericks play at Southwest Minnesota State at 6 p.m. Saturday. Their remaining two games are against Augustana on Feb. 24 and at Mary on Feb. 27.
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