February 19, 2019

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19, 2019

For the Culture: black-owned businesses are showcased Business expo followed by fashion show presents black clothing and beauty brands

JEREMIAH AYODELE PHOTO EDITOR On Saturday, Feb. 16, the student RSO, Black Student Union (BSU), hosted an event – “FOR THE CULTURE,” which was held in the CSU Ballroom. The purpose of the event was to promote blackowned businesses.

The event kicked-off at 6:30 p.m. with an expo of start-up black-owned businesses, featuring Rocky Klothing, Kendoll Designz, Naps Butter, HWMR, Lord SZN, Bella Couture and Jafra.

Rocky Klothing, Kendoll Designz, and Lord SZN are all black-owned clothing brands. Rocky Klothing was founded by Tyrin Robinson.

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Their mission “is to influence a generation through Rocky Klothing into believing there is a world outside of violence and hatred.” They are a street-style brand of clothing.

Kendoll Designz focuses on creating comfortable clothing through recreating customer’s

already owned clothing. They “add their own flair with bold tie-dye, distorted and distressed looks, and burn effects.” Their designs are meant to be outside of the box and unique.

Lord SZN is owned by the rapper of the same

name. Lord SZN specializes in street-wear including sweatshirts and t-shirts. Their sizes include adults to small children.

Naps Butter, and Jafra specialize in beauty and cosmetic aspects of fashion.

Naps Butter is an all-natural

shea butter product for both hair and skin, including lip balm and sugar scrubs.

HWMR was born out of a barbershop in North Minneapolis, owned by Houston White. HWMR also distributes a clothing company called Black Excellence.

The event continued with a feast of deep-fried wings, corn bread, mac and cheese and lemonades to quench the attendee’s thirst served at 7:30 p.m.

A four-man panel of business owners came on stage to talk about their brands and how they started, and also to answer questions from the audience concerning how to chase dreams and be persistently hardworking, along with believing in themselves.

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Scholarships still available through the end of February

MICHAEL MCSHANE STAFF WRITER Financial stress has been the elephant in the room for college students across the country in the 21 Century.

Students in need of extra cash for the year can find comfort in what has become a staple of college life – scholarships.

Dating all the way back to its founding, Minnesota State University, Mankato has awarded scholarships to its students for decades with hundreds given every year.

Students who receive a scholarship can see a monetary prize between 200 dollars to over 1000 dollars. A

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single student is able to apply and be awarded multiple scholarships if they cover the requirements.

The Legenhausen Scholarship, named after Mankato natives Judy and

Steve Legenhausen, pays for four years of tuition for students. It is the first Distinguished Scholar Award in MNSU history.

Scholarships have been around since the 1800s

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with new scholarships being created by alumni wishing to give back to their alma mater. All students are able to benefit from scholarships and can find which scholarships they are eligible for on the

scholarship finder on the MNSU website.

Vice President of Student Affairs, David Jones, advocates that all students apply for scholarships when they are available as they can both assist students for the current semester and for the future as well.

“Scholarships are important for two different reasons. One, clearly the financial assistance helps for students, they can continue to work toward their degree by helping compliment the dollars they put in so it helps fit that gap, whatever it might be, towards tuition, housing, whatever it might be,” Jones said.

He continued, “The other

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MSU Reporter receives multiple awards

The Reporter recently received awards in several categories at the 2019 Better Newspaper Contest (BNC) and the Associated Collegiate Press (ACP) Best of Show Awards.

The BNC, which is part of the Minnesota Newspaper Association award ceremony was held on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis. The Reporter competed with other colleges and universities in the state.

Among them: • Government/public affairs reporting: Katie Leibel, third place for good reporting on a smear campaign against student government candidate.

• Feature Photo Story: Alissa Thiegles, third place for a free henna photo at World’s Got Talent in 2017.

• Website: First place.

On Feb. 17 at the 2019 Best of the Midwest convention in Minneapolis, the Reporter competed amongst newspapers from colleges across the Midwest.

The awards that came are as follows: • Sports story: Gage Cureton, eighth place for a feature story on the boxer, Gizewa “Papi G” Pierre.

• News photo: Mansoor Ahmad, first place for a show-stopping photo from the Mavericks football game against the Texans.

Also, fourth place for an attention-grabbing photo from Latino Night 2018.

• Publication website: Fourth place.

• General Excellence: First place, for four-year newspapers published more than once a week.

JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency over immigration, seeking to build the wall that his campaign centered on.

The declaration has come with much opposition from the Democrats and from many Republicans as well.

Constitutionalists of all stripes see such actions as harbingers of tyranny.

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Lez talk: Do rainbows make you gay?

MARIA LY STAFF WRITER I am casually sitting in class, my LGBT center lanyard hanging loosely out of my jacket pocket. I am walking through the halls, the rainbow lanyard swaying side to side against my thigh. I am at a friend’s apartment, the rainbow lanyard secure in my pocket, and my friend’s rainbow lanyard loose around her neck.

A guy grabs my lanyard looks me in the eye and bluntly asks, “Why do you have this? Are you gay?”

I shrug it off and say to the guy in my class, the guy in the hall, and the guy in my friend’s apartment, “Why do you care?”

My friend answers, “No, I just like the colors.”

In a world of stereotyping and gender norms, rainbows have become a “gay thing.”

It’s the gay pride flag symbol.

When LGBT youth come out, they may celebrate with rainbows, we have rainbows puked all over everything we own from clothes to pins to even hair.

It has become such

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a symbol for the LGBT community that it’s the first thing that comes to minds when asked about rainbows.

Jenna Peterson a student at Minnesota State University,

Rainbows have such a strong association with being LGBT, that you’re immediately labeled as gay if you own something rainbow, such as the infamous rainbow lanyard.

“In a world of stereotyping and gender norms, rainbows have become a “gay thing.””

Mankato, states, “I think about the pride flag.”

Another student, Shank Mogili says, “Do you want me to say it out loud? Ummm… it’s gay?”

It’s gotten to the point where it has become a stereotype of LGBT individuals. People can no longer wear a rainbow without being asked about their sexuality.

Madison Diemert, the news editor at the MSU Reporter and an ally of the LGBT community, stated, “I used to have the LGBT Center rainbow lanyard until it ripped in half, but when I used to have it, my dad would always say when he saw it, ‘What are you, a lesbian or something?’ Like he would take the key off the lanyard to move my car and everything.

It’s just a lanyard!”

As a young gay person in the closet, I froze at the prospect of someone asking me about my rainbow accessories.

Today, I proudly wear my rainbow lanyard hanging down my side, even when my cousin asks as he yanks the lanyard out of my pocket, “Are you gay?”

Letter to the editor: what socialism is and isn’t To The Editor: It is about time that the American people were educated and informed about what true “Socialism” is and is not.

The fact is that in true Socialism,”the means of production” are owned by all of the people. In other words, in true Socialism all of the workplaces and businesses are owned, controlled, and run by all of the people for the good and well-being of all of the people. They are not privately owned by individuals and groups.

In true Socialism, we would not be totally equal in terms of how much we get paid for our work, but we would be much, much more equal than we are now. There would not be any billionaires or people who have hundreds of millions and tens of millions of dollars in total wealth,

most of which they inherited and did not earn by their own labors. We would share what we have.

Those such as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who call themselves “Democratic Socialists” are actually liberal/progressive Democrats who believe that our federal government should spend more on social programs that help the poor, the near-poor, the lowermiddle-class, the middleclass, and even the uppermiddle-class because they also have financial struggles and problems especially when it comes to medical and health care expenses.

They don’t advocate replacing our capitalist economic system with true Socialism. They support our capitalist economic system but they want a capitalist economic system that has more federal government spending to help all of the

people just as our traditional allies do.

Sincerely, Stewart B. Epstein 2266 Westside Drive Rochester, New York 14624 585-594-0610 phenom51@mail.com P.S. I am a retired college

IF YOU SEE THIS MAN, PLEASE THANK HIM FOR HIS SERVICE! This MSU student is not only involved in campus, but is also giving back to the community as a volunteer fire-fighter in his spare time.

professor of Sociology and Social Work.

I taught at West Virginia University, Slippery Rock University, SUNY-Brockport, and Towson University.

I have recently announced my candidacy for the US Congress in 2020.

I will be running against incumbent Congressman Chris Collins here in western New York.

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Continued from page 2 On the one hand, I think we ought to remember that checks and balances do exist. The courts could very well push back against the president, but whether they will do so is up for debate.

The problem with these kinds of declarations is the power that they give to the executive. The American presidency already boasts powers that would make an Assyrian king blush, and there exist over one hundred extra powers granted by this declaration.

My primary reason for worrying isn’t that the country will be turned into a military dictatorship overnight.

Democratic collapses rarely happen like that. What does worry me is the potential for this to become a common tool in American politics.

If every president who cannot get his or her way through traditional political channels decides that emergency declarations constitute an effective means by which to achieve their goals, we’ll end up with an even more severe centralization of power than we already have, and the potential for even more toxic and socially destructive elections as a result.

Please, let’s not do that.

American politics is already drowning in opprobrium and discontent. The last thing we need is to elevate the presidency to such an extent that we turn every election into a hellish game of King of the Hill.

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Tense standoff spells endgame for IS militants in Syria BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — The collection of tents was largely silent on a sunny winter Monday afternoon.

Few people were visible, but the few out and about were calm: Two men in long robes and pants walked slowly together through the grass, a woman leisurely came out of her tent to look around, a man on a motorcycle drove toward the river.

This is the last speck of land held by the Islamic State group — a patch along the Euphrates River in eastern Syria where an estimated 300 militants are mixed in with hundreds of civilians, refusing to surrender and trying to negotiate an exit with the U.S.-backed forces surrounding them.

An Associated Press team got a rare glimpse of the IS-held settlement, standing on a rooftop about a kilometer (half mile) away during a media tour to the front lines organized by the Syrian Democratic Forces.

The roof looked out over a flat, green landscape with scattered palm trees, to an earthen berm and a line of pickup trucks put up by the militants at the edge of the camp.

At one point, gunfire crackled in the distance. An SDF commander on the roof with a number of fighters said it isn’t always so quiet.

Only days earlier the militants surprised the soldiers with an attempted night raid. The SDF can’t assault the site or

SCHOLARSHIPS Continued from page 1 side is that there is clearly people who believe in young adults and what we’re doing here at the university, so they’ve put forth money to assist and do that.”

Jones, along with Carolyn Nelson, the Director of Scholarships, go through thousands of students, looking at multiple different essays students have written to explain why they should receive their scholarship of choice.

For Jones, he says the winning strategy for a scholarship essay is to not exaggerate yourself, all you need to do is be yourself and not express yourself that isn’t authentic to who you are.

“There is some benefit in brevity, I definitely encourage students to not be too overly verbose if you feel like you can get your message across in a page or

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two pages. Don’t write five,” Jones said about scholarship essays.

The University makes a good effort to make sure all scholarships are able to be given to students who fit the right requirements. At the end of the February window, departments and professors are given the opportunity to give students they see as best fitting the requirements of the scholarship and are awarded accordingly.

There are some scholarships that have very specific requirements that may cause them to go unused during the school year.

There are no negatives when applying for scholarships, the worst that can happen is that you do not receive one and you’ll have to wait next year to try again.

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call in airstrikes because of the civilians, he said, adding that his fighters have seen the militants moving civilians around at gunpoint as protection.

“They try a psychological war. But that is it! The war

endgame for the militant group that since 2014 controlled a vast stretch of territory across Syria and Iraq — at one point nearly from Aleppo to Baghdad — and ruled for years, aspiring to create an enduring and

“Activists said a truce in place has been extended for five days as of Sunday.” is over, and we won,” said the commander, who spoke on condition he be identified only by his nom de guerre, Baran, in line with SDF rules.

The tense standoff by the village of Baghouz is the

expanding jihadi state. The 300 militants in the pocket may include high-level figures and are believed to hold hostages.

Activists said a truce in place has been extended for

five days as of Sunday. A person familiar with ongoing deliberations said the group has asked for an exit through a corridor to the rebelheld northwestern province of Idlib and demand to be allowed to leave along with the civilians. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak about the talks, which he described as taking place indirectly.

Baran said the militants had sent messages with civilians they allowed to out up until last week, asking for a corridor out to Idlib and Turkey. Since Wednesday, no civilians came out of the pocket. The SDF denies any negotiations are taking place The Britain-based Syrian

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CULTURE Continued from page 1 Immediately after the panel discussion was a fashion show of several clothing brands showing their designs. The designs were urban, which really represent the black culture and some African attire clothing, which also reminds

the African community of the motherland-Africa.

In between the fashion show were poetry and music performances by Tomi Adeola and Udu Ovraiti, just to name a few.

The event concluded at 10 p.m. as members of the

audience proceeded to go do extra shopping of the clothes and beauty products from the black business owners, waiting to go back to their abode with all their merchandises sold.

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Five ways to become a better leader

How you can improve your leadership skills in a few easy steps

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STEVEN JOHN NDIKUM STAFF WRITER At some point in our life, we want to be the best version of ourselves. Leadership and growth are things which come with experience and positive attitude. It is a zone many people avoid, while others feel comfortable joining. Being a leader can be one of the most awesome decisions you can make. The flames to bring change keeps burning in you, and I call that leadership. Moreover, every president or CEO began as a leader in a certain area of the community, be it a school club or a fraternity.

The goal is leaving a legacy for generation to tell, and your knowledge was used for sustainability and career growth. Below are some suggestions on becoming a leader.

1. Listen more and speak less Being a good listener can open our subconscious to think more critically and say what is needed at that time frame. You may be surprised how Barack Obama made it as president. He is a critical

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listener and pays attention to details. Being a good listener and hearing the thoughts and inspirations of others can help you, even when you’re the one in charge. Every leader learns every day, and doesn’t know everything.

2. Consensus is good but direction and decisiveness create action Leading by consensus will rally a team around a common goal, but according to Jennifer Lum, Human Resource Director of ENEO Cameroon, that alone is not enough to be a leader and create change. “Consensus is good, but direction and decisiveness create action,” she emphasized. “You must guide consensus.”

3. Anyone can identify a problem; A leader is part of the solution

When people are complaining, leaders think of a solution. What is the way forward? Just thinking that way can put you in the position of leading. We can build our minds to not see problems but to see solutions to the problems. The focus and the goal are bringing a change to the abnormalities.

Where do I find myself? How is the interaction among my family members? Do I need to bring change?

4. Apologize publicly and gloat privately True leaders don’t just praise publicly and criticize privately. They are also humble enough to apologize publicly and gloat privately.

Be ready to say you sorry like you were sipping a cup of tea.

Humility is the key to be there to stand for people. You don’t

see leaders bragging about their success, they talk about their team and their team’s contributions. And if they feel good about themselves, they do it at home or with a close friend but not publicly. A leader will apologize and take accountability their actions.

5. Give the hard message It is very easy to praise somebody. It is easy to give somebody a raise or a good review. It can be much harder, however, to have the tough conversations. At college, maintaining a conversation often come with diligence and how well we can communicate our thoughts without hurting.

At the end of the day, we have to say how view things not only to express ourselves but to protect our sanity.

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“You should be able to work in a team, and to have good time management.”

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Northwestern Mutual makes 5-Year sponsorship commitment to Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Business, Intercollegiate Athletics Mankato, Minn.

– Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC recently announced a $100,000 sponsorship agreement with Minnesota State University, Mankato’s College of Business and the University’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.

The sponsorship agreement includes a $20,000 pledge from Northwestern Mutual each year over the next five years.

Each year, $10,000 of the sponsorship will be designated for the financial planning program in Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Business, and $10,000 will be designated for the University’s Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.

Brenda Flannery, dean of Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Business, said the Northwestern Mutual sponsorship would provide significant growth opportunities for the

University’s financial planning program.

“We are grateful for Northwestern Mutual’s recent sponsorship, especially for our financial planning program,” said Flannery.

“Each year Northwestern Mutual offers a significant number of internship opportunities helping our students learn more about the industry and find their path as young professionals.

This sponsorship will be important as our new director of financial planning, Dan Hiebert, grows the program with even more graduates ready to launch their careers in financial services.”

Kevin Buisman, director of athletics at the University, expressed his appreciation to Northwestern Mutual for its commitment to Maverick Athletics.

“We are profoundly appreciative of the opportunity to build upon our past relationship and

to expand upon an already fabulous partnership between Northwestern Mutual and Maverick Athletics,” said Buisman. “Our collaboration over the years has created some outstanding personal growth and development opportunities for our coaches and student-athletes. At the same time, some of the attributes we hope to instill in our student-athletes such as character, work ethic, commitment, loyalty, and teamwork align closely with the characteristics Northwestern Mutual is seeking for its future leaders in the workplace.

This creates a strong synergy that is mutually beneficial to both organizations and we are enthused about taking these initiatives to the next level as we continue moving forward.”

Colby Staloch, managing director of Northwestern Mutual-Mankato, said the partnership reflects the strong relationship between

Northwestern Mutual and Minnesota State Mankato.

“This partnership has meant a lot to our organization,” said Staloch. “We have a strong track record of Minnesota State University, Mankato students and graduates in our internship program and full-time careers, impacting thousands of clients.

This is a result of strong relationships built over time with professors, coaches and administration. We started working with Minnesota State Mankato on campus on a smaller scale about 10 years ago, and it has evolved to Northwestern Mutual being the head sponsor of the CFP competition and lead sponsor of athletic events with the athletic program. We are excited for what the future holds.”

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Border wall a complex issue for 2020 prospect Beto O’Rourke EL PASO, Texas (AP) — When President Donald Trump visited Beto O’Rourke’s hometown to argue that walling off the southern border would make the U.S. safer, the former Democratic congressman and possible 2020 presidential hopeful was ready.

As the president filled an El Paso arena with supporters, O’Rourke helped lead thousands of his own on a protest march past the barrier of barbed-wire topped fencing and towering metal slats that separates El Paso from Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.

O’Rourke clearly hopes to make his personal experience with the border a strength if he runs for president — and the battle over billions of dollars in new fortifications may well shape the 2020 campaign.

But O’Rourke’s history with the barriers that have lined the Rio Grande since he was a child actually could be a bit of vulnerability, too.

As the 2020 campaign is joined, other top Democrats can oppose Trump’s call for more and larger walls as a straightforward wedge issue — something they say shows anti-immigrant feeling, intolerance and even racism.

But O’Rourke’s record on border walls is complicated.

In March, he supported a spending package that other leading Democratic

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contenders opposed and included $1.6 billion for border wall construction in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere. Buried in that was $445 million for repairs of existing fencing elsewhere — including El Paso.

O’Rourke later explained the vote as a compromise to win approval of another proposal he backed, expanding access to mental health care for military veterans who had received other-thanhonorable discharges. But his action attracted criticism from people who know the border best. Scott Nicol, co-chairman of the Sierra Club’s Borderlands team, called it “very disappointing.”

“The things that he has

said have been dead on,” Nicol said. “The next step becomes what do you do.”

O’Rourke’s nuanced position on border barriers, sometimes willing to use them as a bargaining chip, could be politically awkward in a national campaign but it’s shared in El Paso. Here, many people accept dozens of miles of existing walls as a fact of life, objecting mostly to structures so intrusive they suggest a war zone.

“People in El Paso live with the border and the ambiguities and contradictions of the border,” said Josiah Heyman, director of the University of Texas at El Paso’s Center for Interamerican and Border Studies.

In an interview Thursday night on MSNBC, O’Rourke said he would “absolutely” tear down El Paso’s existing walls and that he believed a majority of residents would back doing so. That somewhat contradicts his past statements about opposing entirely open borders, but O’Rourke has previously backed having them porous enough to promote trade and immigrant culture. In an interview in 2006, he decried President George W. Bush’s proposal for bolstering the existing walls with more

surveillance technology.

Bush’s barrier “didn’t seem like a meaningful suggestion at all, but maybe that’s because we already have it and it doesn’t seem to be working,” he said.

City Council member Peter Svarzbein said El Paso’s character isn’t based on keeping people out, but rather on tens of thousands who legally cross every day for work, school, shopping or to see bi-national relatives.

Democratic analyst Colin Strother noted, “There are places that physical barriers make sense, but it does not make sense everywhere and that seems to be the big disconnect.”

O’Rourke’s attempts to explain his record could be difficult in a hotly contested primary campaign. His 2020 rivals could run into their own complications on the issue soon, however, after Congress approved $1.4 billion in new border wall money as part of a deal to avoid the latest government shutdown.

In the end, O’Rourke “may have some firsthand

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O’ROURKE Continued from page 5 knowledge, but I don’t know if it’s a winning argument,” said Democratic political consultant James Aldrete, who helped conduct Hispanic outreach for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

El Paso had only limited border security before 1978 when, facing an influx of immigrants looking for work in the U.S., Congress approved chain-link fencing later dubbed the “Tortilla Curtain.” A 1986 federal law granting legal status to

about 2 million Mexicans in the U.S. made the prospect of heading north even more attractive.

Eventually, thousands of people were pouring into El Paso every day, sometimes paying as little as a quarter for rides on makeshift rafts over the Rio Grande.

“People could cross whenever they wanted,” said Silvestre Reyes, who was chief of the Border Patrol’s El Paso sector in 1993 and won a congressional seat in 1996.

“The city was tired of it.”

Reyes ordered around-theclock patrols and authorities repaired 100-plus holes in nine miles of fences downtown.

But when O’Rourke, then an upstart ex-City Council member, ran against Reyes in the 2012 Democratic primary, he didn’t make Reyes’ border crackdown an issue. Instead, O’Rourke more frequently complained of long wait times for cars crossing into El Paso from Juarez.

O’Rourke now opposes pumping any money into new walls. Instead, he’d like to see a coalition of border Democrats and Republicans in Congress hammer out a broader immigration overhaul.

“We know that there is no bargain where we can sacrifice some of our humanity to gain a little more security,” O’Rourke told an emotional El Paso rally he headlined after the Trump protest march. “We know

that we deserve to, and will, lose both of them if we do.”

Reyes doesn’t agree with O’Rourke on much but also opposes erecting concrete walls, which Trump has supported in the past.

“We have a lot of slats where you can still see through it,” he said of El Paso. “That helps Border Patrol agents, but it also is supported by people living at the border.”

since September. In recent years, they and other forces have steadily driven IS from nearly all the territory it once controlled, in battles that have killed tens of thousands of people and left entire towns and neighborhoods in ruins.

Villages leading to Baghouz lie mostly empty and destroyed, ghost towns where the only sign of life is wild grass that grew after weeks of rare heavy rain.

At least 62 people have died in recent weeks,

mainly from exhaustion and malnutrition, after making their way out of militant-held territory, the International Rescue Committee said.

Spokesman Paul Donohoe said two-thirds were children under the age of one. He said they either died along the way or soon after arriving at a camp for the displaced.

Over 30,000 people who left the last IS-held areas have arrived at the al-Hol camp in Syria’s northern Hassakeh province in the last few weeks, raising the overall population

of the camp to almost 42,000.

In Baghouz, SDF fighters hold a base they seized from the militants last week after intense fighting and a blitz of airstrikes.

The militants appear to have used the base as a makeshift hospital. Medical supplies and medicine were strewn all over the floor. In a car outside the three-story pink building, a blank form

SYRIA Continued from page 3 Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that monitors the civil war in Syria, said another request

by IS to be evacuated to neighboring Iraq was also rejected. IS released 10 SDF fighters it had been holding on Sunday, but it was not clear what, if anything, the extremists would get in return, the Observatory said.

Soldiers reported some of their colleagues have also been released since.

The SDF appears to be aiming to wait the militants

out. “They don’t have supplies in the area they are in that would last for a week or more,” said Baran, the commander.

But DeirEzzor 24, an activist collective in eastern Syria, said several trucks loaded with food entered the IS-held areas Sunday. It also reported the release of the SDF fighters, without saying whether there was a quid pro quo.

The SDF and the U.S.-led coalition have been fighting IS in the surrounding region

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Basketball splits final home series of the season The team fell to Augustana on Friday night, before defeating Wayne St. on senior day

AARON YOUNG STAFF WRITER The Minnesota State Mavericks men’s basketball team split their two-game homestand this weekend, losing to the Augustana Vikings, 9790, in double overtime Friday night, before bouncing back with a victory over Wayne State, 89-78, Saturday night.

The Mavs are now 17-9 on the year, and 13-7 in conference play. They are neck in neck with Wayne State for first place in the South division.

In the first game, the Mavericks jumped to a 9-0 lead right out of the gate.

The Mavs held their lead early on behind freshman guard Tre Baumgardner as they were up 20-12 with un-

der 10 minutes to go in the half.

Minnesota State kept the pedal to the metal, as senior guard Carlos Anderson hit back-to-back threes and outscored Augustana 6-4 going into halftime with a 38-24 lead.

Coming out of the locker room, the Vikings came out with a vengeance, going on a 9-2 run, chopping down the Mavs lead to eight. Both teams exchanged points and possessions down the stretch, with the score at 6564 before junior guard Kevin Krieger drilled a three late in the game.

With the score tied at 70, Anderson would capitalize on lockdown defense to put the Mavs up by two with a basket under a minute to go.

Augustana wouldn’t let up and after drawing a foul on the other end, hit two free throws to tie the game. With one last chance to win the game, the Vikings clamped the Mavs down, forcing over-

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Junior guard Juwan McCloud (left) drives to the basket during a game against Augustana on Friday night. time.

In overtime, both teams found success from the threepoint line, but the Mavericks had the edge when it came to free throws.

However, Augustana nev-

er quit, but failed to take the victory after killing the clock in the last possession, leading to double overtime.

When double overtime came, the Vikings pulled away after going on a 6-0

run, securing the 97-90 win.

Anderson, along with junior forward Cameron Kirk-

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Swim & dive finishes second at NSIC Championships The team took second place behind winner, St. Cloud State, during the three-day event

BRADY OLSON STAFF WRITER The Minnesota State swimming and diving team competed at the NSIC Championships from Wednesday through Saturday. Minnesota State would become locked in a battle with St. Cloud State for the entire championship, but eventually St. Cloud would emerge victorious as Minnesota State came home with a second-place finish.

The Mavericks came out firing on Wednesday, as sophomore Lily Borgenheimer finished second in the 200-yard individual medley, with freshman Katie Streiff finishing fourth.

In the 50-yard freestyle, junior Maggie Knier would finish fourth and fifth to add

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onto the Mavs’ team point total.

Their first win of the day came in the 200-yard medley relay, with Borgenheimer, Streif, Knier and freshman Brooke Miles winning with a time of 1:43.33. Despite the win, the Mavericks ended day one in second place,

23 points behind leader St. Cloud State.

On Thursday, Borgenheimer would again take second place, this time in the 400-yard individual medley.

Streiff would find a fourthplace finish in the 100-yard butterfly, and the 200-yard freestyle relay comprised

of Knier, Nikki Ault, Kayla Rinderknecht and Anja Enervold would take third place.

In the 400-yard medley relay, with the same team used in the 200-IM relay, the Mavericks scored a second-place finish.

And while St. Cloud State took five of the top six spots

in the one-meter dive, the Mavericks would take fivepoint lead over the Huskies thanks to consistency across almost all events.

On Friday, Borgenheimer would score her first individual win in the 100-yard breaststroke.

Later, in the 800-yard freestyle relay, a team of Borgenheimer, Rinderknecht, Emelia Selky and Kelly Leonard would finish in second, losing to the Augustana team by less than a second. Add in a flurry of sixth, seventh and eighth place finishes, and MSU would finish the day with a 14.5-point lead over St. Cloud State.

With third-place Augustana over 200 points behind MSU, both the Mavericks and the Huskies would have to battle out Saturday’s events for the conference title.

In Saturday’s first event, the 100-yard individual med-

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Softball takes one of four games in Arkansas

The team now waits until March for their next set of games in Florida for spring ball

JOHN LAFOREST STAFF WRITER The Minnesota State softball team had a tough set of games, as the team dropped three of four games on the weekend, that ended with a pair of losses Sunday after splitting their pair of games Saturday.

The Mavericks split a pair of games Saturday, defeating Northwest Missouri State, 8-7, on a walk-off, before falling to Washburn, 6-3.

The team on Sunday later fell to Arkansas Tech, 14-4, in five innings and then came up short against Central Missouri in a close 2-0 matchup on Sunday.

In the team’s first game, the squad was down 7-4 against Northwest Missouri State, until the Mavericks rallied back, which was sparked by a double to left center off the bat of sophomore catcher Emma Shifferle.

Junior third-baseman Kennedy Rieck later in the inning

brought Schifferle home on a sac fly.

Down by one run, with one out, senior outfielder McKenzie Paap took advantage of an errant throw from the shortstop which scored sophomore outfielder Courtney Potter and freshman second baseman Kayla Moky, to earn Minnesota State the nail biting walk-off win.

Minnesota State finished its day with a 6-3 loss to the Washburn Ichabods.

Sophomore pitcher Mackenzie Ward (2-2) took the loss in the game. Ward allowed six runs in six innings, while striking out seven.

The Mavericks struck first, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning when sophomore infielder Torey Richards hit Paap home with a single, then senior catcher Cori Kennedy doubled Richards home, before freshman Hannah Hastings reached on an error, sending Kennedy home.

The Ichabods got a run back in the fifth, and in the sixth inning rallied to score five runs on a string of hits, taking the 6-3 lead they would ultimately win with after the Mavericks couldn’t muster another late rally.

Sunday, MSU began the

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Sophomore pitcher Mackenzie Ward (left) and the Mavericks had difficulties garnering any success against their opponents this past weekend. day with a 14-4 loss to Arkansas Tech.

Ward (2-3) took the loss again, allowing nine runs, four of them earned, in three innings. Senior pitcher Megan Goodnight (3-0) started for Arkansas Tech, allowing five hits and four runs in 4.1 innings, and earning the win.

The Mavericks found success in the top half of the fifth

with key RBIs from Schifferle and Kennedy, cutting the lead to 11-4, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough as the team lost once again.

Minnesota State finished its day with a 2-0 loss to the Central Missouri Jennies.

The Mavericks threatened in the seventh inning, when Paap singled then stole second before Moky was walked.

Junior outfielder Carly Esselman, with runners on first and second with two out, grounded out to first base to give the Jennies the win.

Minnesota State will take next weekend off before traveling to Clermont, Fla. for the NTC Spring games, a series of ten games over the course of six days.

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Senior guard Carlos Anderson (pictured shooting), as the Mavericks took a tough loss to the Augustana Vikings on Friday in double overtime. sey led the Mavericks with 19 points each.

Krieger recorded another double-double, having 13 points and 10 rebounds.

In the next game against Wayne State, it was closely

contested to begin, with neither team able to pull ahead.

The game would slow down but opened way up for the Mavericks to stomp their way to a 42-29 lead at half.

The Mavericks started out the second half with a 12-8

run before Wayne State responded with back-to-back threes of their own.

However, the Mavs were already up 20 points and closed the game out 89-78 with a big conference win.

This time through, it was

Krieger who led the team with 24 points and seven rebounds.

Kirksey was equally impressive, as he scored 17 points and had six rebounds along with three blocks.

The Mavericks hit the road

for their last two games of the year, facing Upper Iowa Friday night at 7:30 p.m. and Winona State Saturday at 5:30 p.m. for their final pair of games before heading into the NSIC tournament.

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Track races past field in last regular season meet

The team hosted their final regular season meet before the NSIC Championship

BOBBI PATRICK STAFF WRITER The Maverick track and field team hosted their last regular season meet Friday, Feb. 15 at Myers Field House.

Some athletes competed while others took the weekend to rest before the Mavericks compete at the NSIC indoor Championship this Friday and Saturday.

Some of the top performances on the men’s side came from junior sprinter Justin Taormina who finished first in the 60-meter dash with a personal record of 6.92.

Senior sprinter Vance Barnes and junior runner Parker Gloudemans also finished 2nd and 3rd behind Taormina for the Mavericks to take the top 3 spots in the event.

In the shotput throw, junior Connor McCormick took second with an 18.98-meter throw which puts him 18th in the nation going into confer-

ence.

Senior jumper Victor Ogeka won the triple jump with a 14.45-meter jump while in the shot-put sophomore Bedale Naba and senior Jayme LaPlante took first and third.

Naba threw a new personal best with a 16.78-meter throw and LaPlante took 3rd.

On the women’s side, many Mavericks walked away with new personal bests and a good standing in the conference meet.

Sophomore hurdler Carolyn Hackel took 1st in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.77. Hackel is seeded 5th in the conference with her season best time from the

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Sophomore thrower Brea Perron (left) and junior sprinter JT Taormina (right) competed during last Friday’s meet at Myers Fieldhouse in Mankato, Minn.

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meet.

Freshman sprinter Enyo

Edeh took 1st in the 60-meter dash with a new personal best time of 7.90, while another freshman, Jenny Vetter, took 3rd with a 7.99.

Senior sprinter Mary Fixsen ran a season best time

in the 600-meter dash with a 1:40.97.

The throwers dominated the meet with multiple personal bests.

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Mary Fixsen

Sophomore thrower Katie Taylor won the shot put and the weight throw event. Currently, Taylor is ranked 10th in the nation in the shot put and after her personal best throw of 19.25 meters in the weight

throw, she is ranked 8th.

Senior thrower Heather Buckler finished third in the shot put with a toss of 14.20 meters while teammate, junior thrower Annabelle Haarstad, finished third in the weight throw with a provisional qualifying mark of 17.57 meters.

The women’s 4x4 team of sophomores Grace Hartman, Mackenzie Woodward, Autumn Anderson and junior Crystal Malone finished 2nd with a best time of 3:53.11.

This time seeds them 21st in the nation.

The men and women’s track and field teams compete this upcoming weekend at home in the Myers Field House for the NSIC Championship. Events start at 9:30 a.m. Friday and continue until 6 p.m. Saturday.

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ley, Streiff came in with an impressive third-place performance, as Rinderknecht also would come in at sixth.

Knier would follow with a third-place finish in the 100yard freestyle.

The Mavericks were able to pick up a lot of points in

the 200-yard backstroke, as Leonard, Enervold and Miles would finish second, fourth and sixth respectively.

Borgenheimer would follow that with a victory in the 200-yard breaststroke, but that proved to be the end of MSU’s rope. St. Cloud would

go on to win the 400-yard freestyle relay, and would also take second through sixth places in the three-meter dive. After all was said and done, St. Cloud would hold off MSU by a margin of 950.5 to 902.5.

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Mankato group wins SingStrong A capella competition Maverick Vocal Precision takes home first place at New York festival

MARK REYNOLDS STAFF WRITER A capella group Maverick Vocal Precision, or MVP, claimed the first-place, $1000 prize in the ACA-Idol competition at the SingStrong NY a capella Festival Friday, Feb. 8.

The group of Minnesota State University, Mankato students attended the threeday festival in New York after intense preparation from its members, coached by Dr. Stephanie Thorpe and Dr. Douglas Snapp.

“Since the semester started, we’ve rehearsed six, nine hours a week at least,” said Cassidy Allison, an alto singer in MVP. “So, we have three hours of class time with Dr. Thorpe and Dr. Snapp,

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and then we do three-hour rehearsals once or twice a week on top of that. So, lots of rehearsals.”

Their rigorous schedule was for good reason. Competing against eight other

groups, MVP had to bring their best to the stage. But Allison explained the mindset that helped them to be confident in their performance.

“Backstage we were all very nervous,” she said. “But

we went in with the mindset that this was for fun. We weren’t competing to compete. We were competing to showcase what we could to and to have fun and perform for people.”

Their hard work and confidence paid off. The ACA-Idol judges commented on MVP’s performance saying, “Awesome program,” “Incredible depth of soloists,” and “Well-polished throughout.”

Their three-song set completely won over the crowd, clapping and grooving along to the music, and earned MVP a standing ovation.

“I think we were the only group to have that. So, that was really cool. It was just lots of emotions,” said Allison.

Before the judges could announce the winner of the competition, they had to announce the winner of another category: the Audience Favorite.

After their performance, the group were confident and proud of their performance but were still unsure

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Action blockbuster, “Alita” is a visual feast for the eyes KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER I cannot believe it, but this stupid live-action anime adaptation about a robot girl with huge eyes just might be the best movie that’s released this year. It has a shot at being the best action movie of the year, and contains one of my favorite movie moments in recent memory.

Despite all of this, the movie has some serious problems that keep it from being the groundbreaking feat it could have been.

Before we get into everything, we need to address the elephant in the room. Al-

ita’s eyes are absolutely massive. At first, they are pretty distracting because there isn’t really anything like them in anything else. Once the movie gets rolling, you don’t really notice them anymore.

They just become part of the package. Alita herself, big yes and all, looks really convincing. For example, there is a closeup shot of Alita’s face towards the end of the film that looks so realistic I forgot that the actress doesn’t look like that. Outside of Alita, the movie looks awesome.

That word has been used to death in reviews, but it really is fitting here.

Outside of these unreal special effects, Alita’s biggest strength is the pulse pounding action pieces it features.

The fights are amazingly crafted, and Alita herself moves in a way only a CG character could. She looks

like she is dancing gracefully as she rocks some poor cyber-dudes socks off. There is one fight, around the middle part of the film that takes place in the sewers. I won’t spoil it here, but the way that fight ends is so amazing that it makes paying 7 bucks for a ticket and 7 bucks for snacks worth it.

The problems, however, are definitely there. The main issue with the movie is the romantic subplot. Alita doesn’t really have any chemistry with the guy, and the detours into love make the movie’s pace feel off-kilter. In addition to this, a few of the lines are kinda funky, feeling like the first draft of a large paper you’ve been procrastinating forever.

These problems detract from what could have been a classic in the action genre.

That being said, the fight

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scenes and visuals make this movie very much worth the price of admission, and I think anyone who likes movies should see this in theaters. A sequel hasn’t been announced yet, but hopefully

Alita will get another shot on the big screen.

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Can “Happy Death Day 2U” repeat the success of the original ?

LUCAS TORBORG A&E EDITOR

Last year, Blumhouse productions released a horror comedy in the vein of “Groundhogs Day”, in which a college girl must live the day of her death over and over again until she discovers who the killer is.

“Happy Death day” proved to be a clever twist on the once-tired “slasher” genre. In just over the span of a year the sequel “Happy Death Day 2U” hit theatres. Will the sequel repeat the success of the original or will it be a repetitive lifeless sequel.

“Happy Death Day 2 U” once again focuses on Tree Gelbman the survivor of the murderous timeloop from the first film.

Jessica Rothe returns to play the character which is ultimately the heart and soul of the movie. Without Jessica Rothe’s charismatic and highly entertaining

performance both movies would lack the energy both films are known for. Director Christopher Landon also returns to film the sequel.

Although, the sequel once more focuses on a time loop, the sequel goes in a much different direction. Fans of the horror genre may be disappointed to learn that this movie is more of a science fiction comedy than a horror film. In actuality, as of the release date of the movie; Valentines Day indicates, the sequel focuses more on romance and true love than it does on thrills and chill.

Many of the same characters from the original return, including Tree’s quirky love interest Carter (Israel Broussard), and his roommate Ryan (Phi Vu) who fortunately gets a much bigger role this time around. New characters are also introduced, but they are ultimately either forgettable or annoying.

In the sequel, Tree finds herself not only in the same time loop on the same day as before, but now finds herself in a parallel universe where her

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boyfriend is dating someone else and her mom is alive.

Tree discovers that a science project created by Ryan is the cause of the loop and the parallel reality. Meanwhile, a killer with the same eerie baby mask, but a different identity is killing off Tree’s friends.

Tree must relive the same loop until she is able to fix the time machine and live in the best parallel universe possible for her and her friends.

A CAPELLA Continued from page 10 how they would place. Being the only competing group that wasn’t from the East Coast, they knew that they were at a disadvantage.

“I’m like, “All these groups have their supporters here, and we don’t really have many people out here to support us just because of the distance,’” Allison said.

“And I’m like, ‘Oh, we’re not going to get People’s Choice. Everyone’s just going to support their home team, right?’

“But we actually ended up winning that, which blew my mind. I was like, ‘What!?’” she laughed.

Allison and the rest of MVP were so excited and shocked by this that it took them a moment to realize that they won ACA-Idol as well.

“And when they announced our name and put our name on the screen, we were just all jumping up and

down,” she said. “Everyone was just so supportive of us, but then we also returned that. Because we competed against some pretty amazing groups.”

In addition to the $1000 prize, MVP was featured in a spotlight showcase, and received a private coaching session from Diana Preisler, who stars in the TV show “Pitch Slapped,” and is a member of the a capella group Blue Jupiter, who lead an a capella workshop at the University last year.

“She was very insightful about what it was like to learn from everyone in the group rather than just have leaders dictate what we’re doing. So, having her accept everybody in the group no matter what stage they were at, that was really cool,” Allison said.

The group also got to record some of their songs with

singer/recording engineer Andrew Kim, founding member of the a capella group Backtrack, and a current member of the group Iris, who won the 2018 International A Capella Open Championship at Carnegie Hall.

Overall, the festival, the proceeds of which supported the “Cure Alzheimer’s Fund,” was an incredible experience for the members of Maverick Vocal Precision. Their winning performance brought eyes from around the world to Mankato. It helped the group grow and learn.

“Humility was probably the biggest thing,” Allison said.

“Communication and showing others the same gratitude that we got from them. Just being a family and just embracing everybody no matter who they are or where they come from. Just accepting and being a big family.”

“Happy Death Day 2U” throws a lot at the audience and not all of it sticks. It’s goofy plot in the vein of “Back to the Future” and other 80’s scifi comedies, often times gets too silly. Most of the humor lands, but when it falls flat, it is cringey. The movies main problems are that the stakes just don’t feel very high and overallfeels rushed.

“Happy Death Day 2U”, is a great guilty pleasure movie. It is fun, entertain-

ing and ultimately a fresh and unique concept. It’s not quite as good as the first movie, but its definitely worth watching for those who enjoyed the first.

The movie is definitely cheesy and is far from perfect. However, the sequel takes the series to an interesting un-conventional route that could make for an interesting franchise.

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