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Women’s Center educates students with PEACE Practices Consent, bystander intervention, and more addressed in biweekly meetings.

ALISSA THIELGES Staff Writer Students at Minnesota State Mankato are continuing their pursuit to educate their peers on recognizing and handling unhealthy relationships.

PEACE, which stands for Peer Educators Acting for Change and Equality, is a student organization at the MNSU Women’s Center that was initiated through the Violence Aware Response Program (VARP). They are a theatre troupe that advocates for change and increased awareness on topics such as: by-stander intervention, inclusive language, victim blaming, violent behavior, violent language used to describe sex and sexual behavior, and responding to

Photo from mnsu.edu/womenscenter and incorrect ways of handling situations, as well as ask questions to the audience to generate feedback and get students to think about what is being performed.

“The scenes are very realistic about what is happening,” said Emily

“We ask [the audience], well, how could we respond better?” someone who’s been sexually assaulted.

PEACE members meet every other week to practice skits that incorporate the above situations. During practices, members run through scenes, play improvisational games and get comfortable with the different roles that need to be cast. Upon professors’ requests, these interactive performance are then acted out in front of classrooms to demonstrate both correct

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Euerle, the Graduate Assistant for PEACE. She facilitates the scenes, prompts questions, and talks about what went on in the scene. “We ask [the audience], well, how could we respond better?”

Emily Roiger, a junior majoring in social work and gender and women’s studies, says that the underlining theme of all the scenes is consent.

“In each scene, we address what consent is in a way,” she said. “What’s

not consent, what it means, different ways to ask for it, and when you can’t give consent. Each scene relate[s] back to consent.”

The idea behind PEACE came in 2011 from another graduate assistant. Peer education, in combination with theatre, was, and still is, a relatively new concept in terms of best practices for reducing sexual violence, according to Laura Schultz, the Violence Awareness Response Assistant Director.

As more and more articles came out about it, many schools turned their focus to interactive theatre as a way to increase awareness.

“Ultimately, the reason we started PEACE was to reduce sexual violence on our campus and grow more awareness and education around those topics,” said Schultz.

The responsibilities of maintaining the group is included in the job description of the graduate assistant as a way to make the organization sustainable in the long-term without the need for direct faculty involvement.

“I think that the way

it’s presented as peer education—students on our campus are presenting this information, and often times we hear peers in a different way—I think that’s one of

major to get involved.

“You just have to be passionate about advocating for change, really,” said Roiger. “I was not an actor.

I’m still not, but it helps with public speaking skills for anyone wanting to work on that.”

PEACE is based loosely off of a style of theatre that is, literally, referred to as “acting for the non-actor,” says Schultz.

“So this is very much accessible for people who have never acted at all,” Schultz said.

PEACE is an open group and so new people can stop by any practice to check it out.

“Coming to one practice does not mean you are committed,” said Euerle. “It just means you get a feel for it; you can make that decision from there.”

Their next meeting is on March 2 at 6 p.m. in the Women’s Center, CSU 218.

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The organization is managed and produced by students. You don’t have to be a theatre or social science

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LUKE LARSON Staff Writer Last Wednesday’s student senate meeting began with a presentation from David Schiller, Graduate Assistant for the Maverick Adventures program. Schiller gave an update on progress that has been made since August.

Schiller noted that Maverick Adventures is seeking funding through a grant from the Association for Outdoor Recreation and Education.

Schiller noted that the original budget, conceived last spring, has been gradually “fine-tuned.”

Maverick Adventures’ “Learn to Ski” pilot program began a couple of weeks ago. Schiller says that its six participants “are really enjoying the program.”

Schiller has attended several conferences, such as the Association of Outdoor Recreation Conference and the American Canoe Association Conference,

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in order to gain useful information which could be applied to Maverick Adventures.

Schiller has also been speaking in classes.

Maverick Adventures has been looking into the possibility of a snowshoeing program and a campus bike share program. The latter has been a hot topic. Maverick Adventures has reached out to Greater Mankato Growth and Visit Mankato, suggesting the possibility of establishing a partnership program. Both groups responded saying that they lack the funds to run such a program. Sen. Naeemul Hassan asked Schiller whether it would be more feasible for Maverick Adventures to purchase their own bikes and start a program rather than introducing a preestablished program. Schiller laid out the pros and cons of both options. A benefit of a pre-established program would be that students would be able to rent bikes via an app on their phone. Such a program, however, would cost $36,000 annually. Schiller said that while a Maverick Adventures-devised program looks cheaper on the surface,

maintenance costs for bike repair would be costly.

The consent agenda was approved without dispute. President Faical Rayani added several minor additions. David Ausen was appointed to the search for a part-time director of Veterans Affairs, Ibelizet Dominguez was appointed to the Ethics and Standards Committee, and Ben Thao and Pakou Lee were appointed to the search for a director of Asian American Affairs. $570 of recommendations from Student Allocations Committee were passed. $500 were allocated to the Sigma Nu fraternity for a trip to the Sigma Nu Annual Leadership Conference in Fort Collins, Colorado this coming weekend. $70 were allocated to the Muslim Student Association for travel to a planning meeting for Islamic Awareness Day in Brooklyn Park last Saturday.

In his report, President Rayani congratulated the delegates from MNSU who participated in the Feb. 10 Students United conference.

MNSU passed more motions than any other school represented. Among these

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were a motion that requires professors to use 15 percent of any textbook they assign for a class, a motion that requires accommodations for those with hearing impairments for videos displayed on campus, and a motion that requires special assistance for veteran students in the job application process. Students United is the overarching student government for all schools in the Minnesota State system.

Rayani also noted that he met with MNSU president Richard Davenport to discuss the long-term campus plan.

He also mentioned an open forum designed to give

an opportunity to both Republicans and Democrats to express their positions and answer questions in a civil atmosphere. MSSA has invited the College Republicans, College Democrats, faculty, students, and state legislators to participate.

Vice President Maria Ruiz mentioned a variety of issues in her report. She announced an upcoming retreat at Winona State University

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Continued from page 2 “President Rayani congratulated the delegates from MNSU who participated in the Feb. 10 Students United conference. MNSU passed more motions than any other school represented.” entitled the “Social Justice Retreat.” She brought up Student Advocacy Day, which took place last Thursday.

“The Mankato delegation along with Students United advocated for affordable higher education. We spent the day meeting with our state representatives and senators discussing appropriating money to the Minnesota State Universities to make college more affordable for all,” says Ruiz.

She noted that university vice president Rick Straka will be present at this Wednesday’s student senate meeting to give an update on what’s happening in the state legislature and to discuss tuition projections for the next two years.

She also mentioned the Hubbard building, a building downtown purchased by MNSU. Ruiz noted that the interior design of the building has been altered in order to integrate its style with the rest of the MNSU buildings.

She also noted that David Cowan will be present at this Wednesday’s student senate meeting to present on the

Parking Committee’s sevenyear parking budget forecast.

“It is imperative that senate has a clear understanding of the projected outlook for the next seven year’s budget planning forecast,” says Ruiz.

“We want to make sure that everyone has an educated understanding of it, in order to vote accordingly on April 5 at the Budget deliberation.”

Senator Connor Martin announced that he and Senator Qendresa Isniqi have been working with Ashley Strom (Assistant Director for Non-Traditional Student s, Registered Student Organizations, and Leadership) on organizing an “inclusivity event.” The event would be held in response to President Trump’s recent executive order suspending travel from seven countries that was the focus on much discussion at the Feb. 1 student senate meeting.

Much of last Wednesday’s meeting was dedicated to electing a new senator to represent off-campus housing students. Four candidates vied for the vacancy: D.J. Gries, Samuel

Oluwadoromi, Wallace Pope, and Jeremy Loger.

The election began in controversy due to the fact that Jeremy Loger was not able to attend the meeting and requested to Skype into the meeting. Speaker de Ruiter called for a vote on whether or not to permit it and reluctantly allowed a five-minute discussion.

Speaker Connor Martin took a strong stance against the idea, arguing that the senate should not make a rash decision. The senate voted 15-4 to permit Loger to Skype in. After the election, an even longer discussion was held on this issue.

After interrogation of the candidates, a discussion was held. It became clear that the senators were drawn to D.J. Gries and Wallace Pope. The senators were impressed by Gries’ leadership with his fraternity, his speaking confidence, and his experience working with budgets. Senator Lucier went so far as to say that he “shone as a star.” Senator Martin and Proxy Al-Shammari argued that Pope seemed

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Pope is a Social Studies Education major and is involved with the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. During interrogation, he emphasized the importance of raising awareness for campus events

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MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer One of the main focuses of colleges worldwide is broadening students’ understanding of various issues, not only by looking at the big picture, but also by analyzing and interpreting details. Colleges achieve this goal through different means, like course work, volunteering, out- ofclass activities, and even Greek life. The difference between colleges and other learning institutions is that responsibility is placed on the shoulders of the student.

The student gets to choose whatever pathway to success they want to follow.

College courses bring the topic of group work into play.

Group work allows students to perform a certain task working together as a unit.

Group work also broadens diversity and enriches the perspectives of each person in the group. It allows people to show the areas they are strongest in while learning from others about the areas where they fall short. Group

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However, group work can also be the heaviest burden a student can bear. It requires effort from every member of the group, which can range anywhere from two students to however many a lecturer sees fit.

Group participation in many instances ends up becoming another issue all the same. Some group members may not be concerned about the project until its final minutes, while others may not even be concerned at all. This ends

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up becoming a problem for those who intend to bring out the best in the group or plan on receiving a good grade in the course. My personal preference is toward working alone but, whenever I find myself in a group, I always learn something new.

Students here at Minnesota State University all have different thoughts on group work — some feel that they work well in groups, while others prefer to work alone.

Hailey Gorman, an Environmental Science major, felt the situation depends more on the course. In courses that had a lab, she would rather work in groups but in other courses for

example those that entail a good amount of reading or critical thinking she would rather take up the tasks independently.

Suhan Budhathoki, an Information Technology major, would prefer to rely solely on himself, as he would feel unbound and could perform a task to his satisfaction without having to worry about other people.

Jessica Bew, a Linguistics major, and Saroj Bhetawal, an Electric Engineering graduate, reported being in

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“They try to find the smartest person and ask them to do the work, especially at the 100 level.”

“They suck! It has never worked out well.”

“I hate them. One student does all the work.”

“They are annoying. People are irresponsible and childish.”

“They are good. We live in a society, so it’s good to share, meet, and exchange ideas.”

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Thousands of demonstrators across U.S. say ‘Not My President’ Thousands of demonstrators turned out Monday across the U.S. to challenge Donald Trump in a Presidents Day protest dubbed Not My President’s Day. The events on the federal holiday didn’t draw nearly as many people as the million-plus who thronged the streets following the Republican president’s inauguration a month earlier, but the message was similar.

Thousands of flag-waving protesters lined up outside Central Park in Manhattan.

Many in the crowd chanted “No ban, no wall. The Trump regime has got to fall.”

They held aloft signs saying “Uphold the Constitution Now” and “Impeach the Liar.”

A rally in downtown Los Angeles also drew thousands.

Demonstrators there called attention to Trump’s crackdown on immigration and his party’s response to climate change and the environment. Organizers said they chose to rally on the holiday as a way to honor past presidents by exercising their constitutional right to

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press assemble and peacefully protest.

In Chicago, several hundred rallied across the river from the Trump Tower, shouting “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go.”

Rebecca Wolfram of Chicago, who’s in her 60s, said concerns about climate change and immigrant rights under Trump prompted her to start attending rallies.

“I’m trying to demonstrate

as much as possible until I figure out what else to do,” said Wolfram, who held a sign that said “Old white ladies are really displeased.”

S ever al hu n d r e d demonstrated in Washington, D.C. Dozens gathered around the fountain in Dupont Circle chanting “Dump Trump” and “Love, not hate: That’s what makes America great.”

Dozens marched through midtown Atlanta for a rally

named with a Georgia flavor: “ImPEACH NOW! (Not My) President’s Day March.”

Hundreds of protesters chanting “This is what democracy looks like” marched through Salt Lake City.

The Salt Lake Tribune re p or t s ( ht t p: // bit. ly/2kFqWIG) that the crowd marched to push back against Trump and his administration’s stance on such issues as the

environment, immigration, free speech and Russia.

Some people raised signs that said “Not My President,” while others held up a large American flag. Protester Reg Brookings warned the crowd that Trump is trying to divide the country by making such groups as immigrants the enemy.

A small but unruly group of protesters faced off with police in downtown Portland, Oregon.

The O r e g o nia n / OregonLive reports (http:// bit.ly/2lfx6xL) the police confronted the crowd in front of the Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building.

Police took some people into custody.

Hundreds of Trump opponents and supporters turned out in Rapid City, South Dakota.

A larger anti-Trump faction stood on a street corner as part of a “Not My President” protest, similar to other demonstrations being held across the country. A group supporting the president lined up on a different corner at the same intersection.

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Deadline looms for Dakota Access pipeline protest camp CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — As dawn breaks over an encampment that was once home to thousands of people protesting the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a few hundred holdouts rise for another day of resistance.

They aren’t deterred by the threat of flooding, nor by declarations from state and federal authorities that they must leave by Wednesday or face possible arrest. They’re determined to remain and fight a pipeline they maintain threatens the very sanctity of the land.

“If we don’t stand now, when will we?” said Tiffanie Pieper, of San Diego, who has been in the camp most of the winter.

Protesters have been at the campsite since August to fight the $3.8 billion pipeline that will carry oil from North Dakota through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners began work on the last big section of the pipeline this month after the Army gave it permission to lay pipe under a reservoir on the Missouri River. The protest camp is on Army Corp of Engineers land nearby.

The protests have been led

by Native American tribes, particularly the Standing Rock Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux, whose reservation is downstream. They say the pipeline threatens drinking water and cultural sites. ETP

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press disputes that.

Faced with the prospect of spring flooding, some protesters are considering moving to higher ground, though not necessarily off the federal land. Some may move to the Standing Rock Reservation, where the Cheyenne River Sioux is leasing land to provide camping space even though Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Dave Archambault has urged protesters to leave.

“We have the same goals,” Cheyenne River Chairman Harold Frazier said of himself and Archambault. “We don’t agree on whether or not the water protectors should be on the ground.”

On Monday, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum talked with Archambault on the telephone about efforts

to clean up and vacate the protest camp, Burgum’s office said. Burgum and Archambault both stressed the importance of keeping lines of communication open, including a one-page flyer that the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs will distribute in the camp, reminding protesters that the main camp will be evacuated at 2 p.m.

Wednesday and re-entry will not be allowed, Burgum’s office said.

More than 230 truckloads of debris have been hauled out as of Monday, according to the governor’s office.

Those urging the protesters to leave say they’re concerned about possible flooding in the area as snow melts.

One concern is that floodwaters could wash tons

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of trash and debris at the encampment into the nearby rivers.

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Many in camp think authorities are exaggerating the flood threat and trying to turn public sentiment against them.

The camp has been the site of numerous and sometimes violent clashes between police and protesters who call themselves “water protectors,” with more than 700 arrests. The camp’s population has dwindled as the pipeline battle has largely moved into the courts.

Protesters who remain say they’re prepared to be arrested, but will remain peaceful.

The Corps and the governor say they would rather there were no arrests.

“The ideal situation is zero arrests are made because everybody figures out that it’s not a place where you want to be when the flood starts to happen,” Burgum said.

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Colorado town getting a drive-through marijuana shop PARACHUTE, Colo. (AP) — The western Colorado town of Parachute is getting a drive-through marijuana shop, believed to be the first in the state.

The Parachute Board of Trustees approved a business license for Tumbleweed E xpress last week, the Glenwood Springs Post Independent reported Saturday (http://bit. ly/2m1PZCA).

“As far as I can tell, we are not aware of this business model ever coming up before,” said Robert Goulding, spokesman for the state Marijuana Enforcement Division.

The business is expected to open in March in a former car wash.

Tumbleweed Express also had to get approval from

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press the Marijuana Enforcement Division, which said the store cannot allow anyone younger than 21 on the premises, even in the back seat of a car.

The business must also have security and surveillance, and marijuana may not be visible from outside the dispensary.

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Continued from page 4 the same boat as Budhathoki, but they agreed that the format of the course also comes into play.

Paige Schuh, a social worker, also fell under the “work-alone” category and stated that the individualized study setting she grew up with was probably the reason why she now prefers to work alone, although she did admit that she could adapt if

a course required her to work in groups.

Group work is a very important preparation tool for the real world, where tasks are often assigned to teams.

Everyone requires a sense of support even if they believe they have the capacity to achieve a task alone with ease. Working alone is also essential for teaching independence and personal

responsibility. The type of work to be done also plays a huge role in determining whether students want to participate in group work or take up the challenge independently.

All in all, working alone is noble, but working in groups divides the tasks and multiplies the success.

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The car wash building will allow the goods to be screened from outside view.

“We think the drivethrough is a very creative and innovative idea,” Parachute Town Manager Stuart

McArthur said.

Marijuana accounted for nearly 30 percent of the community’s 2016 sales tax revenue of just over $1 million, McArthur said. “The really good news is that other businesses are benefiting from it,” he said.

Travelers stopping to buy marijuana in Parachute are more likely to stop at restaurants and other shops, he said, helping an economy that was hit hard by a downturn in natural gas production.

Parachute Mayor Roy McClung said the town’s economy would have been in serious trouble without legalized recreational marijuana.

Statewide, marijuana sales brought in close to $200 million in taxes and fees last year, the Colorado Department of Revenue said.

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Trump election has parallels to Andrew Jackson’s presidency NEW YORK (AP) — It was an ugly, highly personal presidential election.

An unvarnished celebrity outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten laborer took on an intellectual member of the Washington establishment looking to extend a political dynasty in the White House.

Andrew Jackson’s triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams bears striking similarities to Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton last year, and some of those most eager to point that out are in the Trump White House.

Trump’s team has seized upon the parallels between the current president and the long-dead Tennessee war hero. Trump has hung a portrait of Jackson in the Oval Office and Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, who has pushed the comparison, told reporters after Trump’s inaugural address that “I don’t think we’ve had a speech like that since Andrew Jackson came to the White House.”

Trump himself mused during his first days in Washington that “there hasn’t been anything like this since Andrew Jackson.”

It’s a remarkable moment of rehabilitation for Jackson, a figure whose populist credentials and antiestablishment streak has been tempered by harsher elements of his legacy, chiefly his forced removal of Native Americans that caused disease and the death of thousands.

“Both were elected presidents as a national celebrity; Jackson due to prowess on the battlefield and Trump from making billions in his business empire,” said Douglas Brinkley, a professor of history at Rice University.

“And it’s a conscious move for Trump to embrace Jackson. In American political lore, Jackson represents the forgotten rural America while Trump won by bringing out that rural vote and the blue collar vote.”

The seventh president, known as “Old Hickory” for his toughness on the battlefield, gained fame when he led American forces to a victory in the Battle of New Orleans in the final throes of the War of 1812. He did serve a term representing Tennessee in the Senate, but he has long been imagined as a rough and tumble American folk hero, an anti-intellectual who believed in settling scores against political opponents and even killed a man in a duel for insulting the honor of

Jackson’s wife.

Jackson also raged against what he deemed “a corrupt bargain” that prevented him from winning the 1824 election against Adams when the race was thrown to the House of Representatives after no candidate received a majority in the Electoral College. Even before the vote in November, Trump railed against a “rigged” election and has repeatedly asserted, without evidence, widespread voter fraud prevented his own popular vote triumph.

Jackson’s ascension came at a time when the right to vote was expanded to all white men — and not just property-owners — and he fashioned himself into a populist, bringing new groups of voters into the electoral system. Remarkably, the popular vote tripled between Jackson’s loss in 1824 and his victory four years later, and he used the nation’s growing newspaper industry — like Trump on social media — to spread his message.

Many of those new voters descended on Washington for Jackson’s 1829 inauguration and the crowd of thousands that mobbed the Capitol and the White House forced Jackson to spend his first night as president in a hotel.

Once in office, he continued his crusade as a champion for the common man by opposing the Second Bank of the United States, which he declared to be

a symptom of a political system that favored the rich and ignored “the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves.”

Jackson, as Trump hopes to do, expanded the powers of the presidency, and a new political party, the new Democratic party, coalesced around him in the 1820s.

He was the first non-Virginia wealthy farmer or member of the Adams dynasty in Massachusetts to be elected president.

“The American public wanted a different kind of president. And there’s no question Donald Trump is a different kind of president,” Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said this past week. “He’s now comparing himself to Andrew Jackson. I think it’s a pretty good, a pretty good comparison. That’s how big a change Jackson was from the Virginia and Massachusetts gentlemen who had been president of the United States for the first 40 years.”

But there are also limits to the comparison, historians say.

Unlike Jackson, who won in 1828 in a landslide, Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots.

Jon Meacham, who wrote a 2008 biography of Jackson, “American Lion,” said Jackson was “an outsider in

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“He was a wild man during the day but a careful diplomat at night,” said Meacham, who said it was too early to know whether Trump, like Jackson, “had a strategy behind his theatrics,” and whether Trump had the ability to harness the wave of populism that has swept the globe as it did in the 1820s.

“The moment is Jacksoninan but do we have a Jackson in the Oval Office?”

Meacham asked.

Trump’s appropriation of Jackson came after his victory. Trump never mentioned Jackson during the campaign or discussed Jackson during a series of conversations with Meacham

last spring But it is hardly unique for a president to adopt a previous one as a historical role model.

Barack Obama frequently invoked Abraham Lincoln.

Dwight Eisenhower venerated George Washington. Jackson himself had been claimed by Franklin Roosevelt and his successor, Harry Truman, both of whom — unlike Trump — interpreted Jackson’s populism as a call for expanded government, in part to help the working class.

There could be other comparisons for Trump.

A favorable one would be Eisenhower, also a nonpolitician who governed like a hands-off CEO. A less favorable one would be Andrew Johnson, a tool of his party whose erratic behavior helped bring about his impeachment.

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Maverick profile: Meet basketball player Jon Fuqua Basketball was never a sure thing with Fuqua, yet he has molded a terrific career.

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer Try as some might, sometimes it’s just impossible to escape ones DNA. That seems to be the case with Minnesota State men’s basketball senior Jon Fuqua. At a young age, he didn’t have that instant clichéd infatuation with the sport that gets glorified at times. A part of him even wanted to rebel against the status quo of what his three brothers and sister, all four older, had established with their time on the court.

Photo by Adeolu Asaolu Senior Jon Fuqua (10) has become the central focus for the men’s basketball team.

“I think that might have been one of the things that made me not want to play.

I wanted to be different because I’m the youngest,” said Fuqua.

Coming from a family of athletes, his father played basketball, his mother played softball and volleyball, and his older brother Nate was an All-American in basketball.

Even though he resisted, he was still eventually caught by the balling bug. It started in the sixth grade when Jon transferred into a new school where the coach recruit-

ed him to give it a try. From there, he was hooked.

“From there on, I just loved it,” said Fuqua.

It finally started to click with Jon that he could be good at the sport when he was in the seventh grade. After one of the starters got hurt, Fuqua came off the bench scoring 15 points in the game.

“From there, it kind of clicked with me that I could be kind of good,” said Jon. Fuqua played high school ball at Walther Lutheran High School in Melrose Park, Illinois. Playing there was where his favorite pre-college memory of playing basketball was birthed.

“I hit a game-winner my

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Softball: Meyer wins No. 1,100, Mavericks split weekend Minnesota State will have to work on consistent hitting in key situations going forward.

CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer The Mavericks softball team split the weekend at the UAM 6 State Class in Bentonville, Arkansas, giving head coach Lori Meyer her 1,100th career win.

“We had 10 games in February, all on the road and we ended up 7-3. This past weekend we could have been 6-0 instead of 3-3, as in our three losses we out-hit our opponents,” Meyer said. “What we were missing in those three games was stringing our hits together to create runs. We need to find that piece of the puzzle when it comes to our offense.”

The weekend started off with Minnesota State winning over the Harding Lady Bisons Friday. Senior Coley Ries earned another win, pitching all seven innings allowing only three hits. The only run of the game came as a result of Jess Meidl’s home run in the sixth inning. The game gave the Lady Bisons’ Autumn Humes her first lost of the season despite throwing all seven innings allowing only three hits and striking out 12 Mavericks.

Minnesota State finished the first day of the tournament with a 3-2 loss to the Missouri Western State Griffon’s. Despite a solid seven innings, Libby Bemis took the loss for Minnesota State, allowing six hits while striking out six. The Mavericks were the first on the board courtesy of Alyssa Rickels singling to left field to bring home

Jess Meidl Amber Kral in the second.

Meidl helped the Mavericks with the team’s other run, cranking her second homer of the day in the seventh inning. Griffons’ Katie Klosterman gave Missouri Western

all three runs with the first one coming in the third as the result of a sacrifice fly-out to left field before hitting a tworun shot in the seventh.

The Mavericks started the second day of the tournament strong, blanking Arkansas Tech 8-0 and giving Meyer her 1,100th career win. Ries improved to 4-0 on the season, throwing all six innings allowing only one hit while striking out 10. The third inning produced four runs for Minnesota State, beginning with Meidl being walked before advancing to second on a wild pitch while Carly Esselman advanced to third.

Ashley Thell was walked, loading the bases before Kral doubled to left field bringing home all three Mavericks, while Samantha Buhmann’s triple down the right field line brought home Kral. Esselman was the last to put up a run hitting a homer to center field, going three-for-three and earning two runs batted in (RBI) during the game.

Libby Bemis’ record fell to 2-2 after going four innings before Ries came in for the final two innings of the game against Arkansas-Monticello.

Reporter Archives Bemis started the first four innings allowing three runs off five hits. Ries closed out the final two innings, striking out five of the six batters she faced. Meidl was the Mavericks’ only run in the 3-1 loss to the Blossoms after being brought home by a single off the bat of Thell.

Minnesota State started the third day with a 5-2 loss to Pittsburg State. Ries’ record fell to 4-1 with the loss, despite striking out nine batters and allowing only five hits in the six innings thrown.

The game started with the

Gorillas’ Kylie Guthier homering to left-center while the Mavericks two runs came in the sixth. Esselman started by doubling to right to bring home Dana Mogren before McKenzie Paap singled to short to bring home Esselman.

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“‘Jon has been a huge impact on us these past two years and obviously is one of the most talented guys in the league. He’s not only just a great player, but a very good teammate and has worked extremely hard on his game since he’s been here,’ Head Coach Matt Margenthaler said on Fuqua.” senior year against our rival St. Francis. Our team stormed the court and it was their senior night too so it was a huge thing,” Jon said.

After attending a showcase event that he almost didn’t even go to, Jon was recruited to play for the Des Moines Area Community College Bears. Fuqua spent two years playing there along with a familiar face to Maverick basketball fans in Aarias Austin.

“We were both being recruited by a lot of the same junior colleges, so we kind of decided that we were going to be a package deal and we both visited Des Moines and that was the school that stood out to us,” said Fuqua.

The two men had a great two years in Des Moines.

Their freshman year, the team finished in eighth place and improved to fourth place their sophomore years, along with making it to the National Tournament both years.

Once his two years at Des Moines were up, it became time to start thinking about where to head next. Fuqua had a few choices in mind but also didn’t want to stray too far away from home. After making a few visits to schools, including Minnesota State, the decision was an easy one for Jon to make.

“I was welcomed with open arms. I took a couple visits before then and some guys, they can kind of be distant from you because you might play that same position or, they don’t want you to come there but, when I came here the coaches embraced me, the players embraced me, and I just kind of felt like I was family already when I came on my visit,” explained Fuqua, on what led to his choice.

In Fuqua’s two years as a Maverick, he averaged over 15 points and seven rebounds per game. After his final two regular season games with

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Minnesota State, he is sitting at an impressive 937 points as a Maverick.

“Jon has been a huge impact on us these past two years and obviously is one of the most talented guys in the league. He’s not only just a great player, but a very good teammate and has worked extremely hard on his game since he’s been here,” Head Coach Matt Margenthaler said on Fuqua.

Fuqua, a senior, is wrapping up his time at Minnesota State and majoring in Interdisciplinary Studies with focuses on communication, ethnic studies, and management. While he has had thoughts of playing professional ball, his goals seem more focused on going back to school to get his master’s degree in communications and eventually coaching.

“Maybe I’ll do youth coaching because I’d work with kids and I’d be able to coach basketball which I love

so, you know, that’s always out there as something, maybe go back to my high school and coach. That’s something

I could maybe see myself doing,” said Fuqua.

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“‘We need to find consistency. I thought we did a great job of getting hits, as we faced every team’s number one pitcher,’ said Meyer.”

2017 going all seven innings allowing only one hit while striking out three. MNSU’s two runs came as a result of

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error occurred in the seventh after Esselman singled before advancing to second on a throwing error bringing home Mogren.

“We need to find consistency. I thought we did a great job of getting hits, as we faced every team’s number one pitcher,” said Meyer.

“I thought our defense for being on dirt for the first time was very solid. Our pitchers, Ries and Bemis, did what they needed to do to keep us in the games and allow our hitters an opportunity to score runs. We have some things we need to work on this week and next to get better prior to our spring break trip.”

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Mavericks tame the Wildcats in weekend sweep The men’s hockey team is now only four points shy of second place in the WCHA.

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks netted 12 goals over their two-day stint against the Northern Michigan Wildcats to tally their fourth home sweep of the season in their final regular season games at the Verizon Wireless Center.

“The guys had a really good week and backing up [Friday] night’s performance was important,” said head coach Mike Hastings after the weekend was through. “We showed some soft spots but we kept coming. I thought we did a good job with the puck, and I just thought we kept picking each other up when bad things happened.”

From the start of the first period on Friday night, the Mavericks offense was explosive. The Wildcats did have the occasional burst, like Denver Pierce hitting both pipes on a breakaway miss that bailed out MNSU goaltender Aaron Nelson.

MNSU continually marched into the crease early, leading to Zeb Knutson’s goal from out front, which broke the Wildcats goaltender Atte Tolvanen’s five-game shutout streak. The Wildcats stayed right with MNSU on an equalizing goal off of Zach Diamantoni’s stick. The Mavs stayed right on top of the Wildcats defense, however, and Parker Tuomie was able to grab his sixth goal of the season. Max Coatta caught the pipe once but got all net late in the period to put the Mavs up 3-1 going into the second period.

After a mess of penalties that had both teams in the box to start the second, the Wildcats’ Shine stepped into the spot light with his 17th goal on the season, bringing the Wildcats within one. But the Mavericks offense was far from done, as they grabbed a shorthanded goal off of Nicholas Rivera’s tip-in to pull ahead by two scores yet again.

“We got beat two times early in the game and we made some mistakes,” said Wildcat head coach Walt Kyle. “Good job by them and we have to reload and get it done.”

The Wildcats started out the third period on the penalty, giving the Mavericks an early shot to potentially put the game away. Brad McClure wasted no time in grabbing the power play goal, displaying five goals for the Mavericks, and netting McClure his 14th of the season. Late in the third, Diamantoni netted his second of

Reporter Archives the day on a beautiful flick to the top shoulder of Nelson, after breaking away and finding open ice, to bring them back within two. With 1:16 remaining, the goalie for the Wildcats was pulled, almost resulting in an empty-netter out of a face-off, if not for a great effort and save from Rylan Yaremko.

The Mavs started the weekend off right with a win despite some penalty trouble, as they ended with five, to keep grabbing points before playoff hockey.

Nicholas Rivera “We just wanted to play quality- we just wanted to make sure we were making plays when they were there,” said Hastings of the goaltender and defense for the Wildcats. “And when they weren’t, try to get pucks to him in traffic, no different then when we are playing any of the other goaltenders in this league.”

The next night found the Mavs and Wildcats locked in another scoring bonanza in the Verizon Wireless Center as MNSU tried to gain six points for the rankings on the weekend.

The first period started out all Minnesota State but without the goals to show for it, until a late power play off of a roughing on the MNSU goaltender gave them the

extra man. Brickley cashed in on the power play with a deep shot from the point to take the lead. The Wildcats were able to comeback with an opportunity of their own as they went on a power play deep in the period, leading to a quick score as Loggins netted his eighth on the year. The Mavs regained the lead on the double putback by Gerard right out in front of the crease. Then it was the Wildcats’ turn with a top shelf breakaway goal from Luke Voltin, with under three minutes to play. A mere 10 seconds later, Zach Stepan snatched the Mavericks’ lead back with a shot driving to the goaltender on Tolvanen’s glove side to go up again.

“It’s big, they’ve been working hard all year and you like to see them get rewarded for doing the things during practice,” said C.J. Franklin of the young talent making plays over the weekend.

“And it helps a team as well in games like this when they have three or four points, it’s good for them and good for the team.”

The Mavericks picked up right where they left off by quickly gaining a two-score lead off of the stick of Knutson to start the second. The Wildcats stayed in the game, however, by quickly scoring on a power play goal from freshman Darien Craighead.

The fireworks would not stop, as Rivera threaded through defenders on a two-on-one break away that ended with a goal as the puck went in-andout of Wildcat goaltender Tolvanen’s glove to find the back of the net. The Wildcats were able to climb back to a one-score deficit on a power play goal from Troy Loggins, his second on the night, leading to the pulling of Nelson after a .636 save percentage night in favor of Cole Huggins

in the net. Penalties would be big for the second straight night, as the teams combined for 10 before the second period expired.

“I thought that [Stepan’s] was a really big goal to give us the two-goal cushion,” said Coach Hastings after the high scoring, back-and-forth game. “And I thought that [fourth] line was the line that carried us early, and when we can play with four lines that makes us better.”

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Franklin netted a power play goal in first minute of the third period to grab a 6-4 lead. Midway through the period, the Mavericks found the back of the net for the seventh time as Michaelis found a crease on the left side of wildcat territory with plenty of space to drive and score, effectively icing the game at 7-4. That secured the sweep for the Mavericks as they climbed to a meager four points behind Michigan Tech and the second spot in the conference.

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NBA All-Star weekend with record results The game itself produced new records in scoring, as the other events lacked a punch.

COLT JOHNSON Staff Writer The NBA celebrated and recognized this season’s AllStars after getting together for the All-Star game and skills competition over the weekend in New Orleans’ Smoothie King Center.

It was another less-than-impressive All-Star game and weekend. Like what’s been seen in most professional sport’s All-Star games of recent, there was an obvious lack of competitiveness by both teams and competitors.

Saturday’s skills competitions started off a little slow.

In the Taco Bell Skills Challenge, the big men were

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Anthony Davis (23) won the MVP award for the 2016-2017 NBA All-Star game Sunday night.

Davis finished with 52 points and 10 rebounds.

Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kyrie Irving took full advantage over Thompson’s mishap, outscoring him and meeting in the fi-

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trying to prove themselves once again after Minnesota Timberwolves’ Karl Anthony-Towns won it last year. In the final round for the big men, the New York Knicks’ Kristaps Porzingis barely beat out Denver Nuggets’ Nikola Jokic. For the guards, it was Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz edging out Boston Celtics’ Isaiah Thomas. In the final round of the skills competition, Porzingis and Hayward faced off and Porzingis, “the unicorn” won it again for the big men, showing the NBA just how versatile the 7’ 3” Latvian is.

In the JBL Three-Point Contest, defending champion Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors was looking to regain his title, but faltered in the first round. Eric Gordon of the Houston Rockets and

nal round for a head-to-head matchup.

Gordon scored 21 points

in the final tiebreaker round after Irving, who shot before him, finished with 18. He’ll be taking the three-point trophy back to Houston with him and it was well deserved: Gordon is shooting threes at a .385 percent clip, averaging over nine points per game by way of the three.

The last event Saturday was the Verizon Slam-Dunk Contest.

Aaron Gordon of the Orlando Magic, last year’s runner up to the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Zach LaVine in the dunk contest, was the favorite to win seeing as there were those who thought he should have won it last year. While bringing a drone out to hover over the court and drop the ball to him was creative, not being able to complete the dunk on his first several tries really hurt him.

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Sunday’s All-Star game was record-setting however, after it was all said and done the two teams put up 374 points, the West won by a score of 192-182. The MVP of the highest scoring NBA All-Star game in league history was the New Orleans Pelicans’ Anthony Davis, who finished with 52 points on 26 of 39 shooting and 10 rebounds. Russell Westbrook also put up big numbers for the West, scoring 41 points on 16 of 26 shooting.

Defense was a hot commodity in the All-Star game, but the scoring and athleticism was fun to watch. The NBA season will pick up again Thursday the 23rd and the home stretch is right around the corner. We’ll see if any teams can make a late-sea-

“Sunday’s All-Star game was record-setting however, after it was all said and done the two teams put up 374 points, the West won by a score of 192-182.” dunk champion. Robinson won the contests with a reverse dunk over three people and added a clutch to the dunk for added flair and 50 points. He saved his best

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Fashion insiders declare ‘I Am an Immigrant’ in new video W Magazine video features designers, models and photographers.

NEW YORK (AP) — While some fashion designers have always been overtly political, the recently wrapped New York Fashion Week just a month after President Donald Trump’s inauguration included a broader range of brands addressing these tumultuous times.

On Friday, the day after shows concluded, W magazine took on one element, Trump’s position on immigration, in a video featuring designers, models, photographers and industry activists and insiders who are, themselves, immigrants.

The video, shot in a studio over six hours during the frenzy of fashion week, has them looking directly into the camera and saying “I Am an Immigrant,” with each uttering part of that declaration in a show of unity. The video is accompanied on Wmagazine. com by an editorial written

by Katherine Cusumano and the effort is part of a series of web content covering the intersection of fashion and politics.

The magazine’s editor, Stefano Tonchi, said in an interview Thursday ahead of the video’s release that the “I Am

Diane von Furstenberg is featured in the video. an Immigrant” video, running about a minute, is intended as a “united and defiant” statement against Trump’s travel ban and other immigration policies from inside the fashion industry.

Participants include designer Diane von Furstenberg, models Doutzen Kroes and Winnie Harlow, photographers Inez van Lamsweerde and Mario Sorrenti, and fashion activist Bethann Hardison.

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“Fashion designers and models have every responsibility, now more than ever, because young people through social media are really influenced by their opinions,” said Tonchi, who arrived in the United States from Florence, Italy, 25 years ago and became an American citizen five years ago.

“Fashion has not been taking enough responsibility, and they can do much more,” said Tonchi, who also ap-

pears in the video. “Fashion is always a mirror of society.”

This fashion week was heavier than usual on politics and social issues, on and off runways.

Jonathan Simkhai handed out “Feminist AF” T-shirts to his front-row guests. Prabal Gurung walked models for his finale in T-shirts emblazoned with “Yes, We Should All Be Feminists” and “The Future is Female.” Christian Siriano included a shirt on one model

with the words: “People are People.”

There were white bandannas worn by designers and models walking shows signifying unity, and pink buttons passed out declaring that “Fashion Stands with Planned Parenthood.” Public School designers Maxwell Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osborne riffed on Trump’s red campaign caps reading “Make America Great Again” with their own version: “Make America New York.”

“Then you get to Raf Simons and he’s just celebrating being a foreigner in America. That was the most important show of the season, and he just celebrated America,” said W’s creative and fashion director, Edward Enninful, of Simons’ debut at Calvin Klein.

Enninful was born in Ghana and raised in the United Kingdom. He, too, appears in the video.

“Designers are expressing empathy, joy, everybody is treating the current political climate in their own way,” Enninful said. “There’s not one way to respond to today.

There’s not one way you can celebrate or you can protest.”

CNN: Donald Trump attacks haven’t hurt the news network 31 percent of Americans believe network’s news coverage is unfair.

NEW YORK (AP) — The president of CNN said Thursday that neither the network’s journalism or business have been hurt as a result of President Donald Trump’s attacks.

Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide, spoke Thursday at the same time Trump was holding a news conference in Washington in which he continued his barrage against media coverage of the administration.

Zucker said he was worried enough about Trump’s labeling of CNN as “fake news” through the campaign and after that he ordered a study last month to see if it had damaged the network’s reputation with viewers. He said it hadn’t. Less than a third —or 31 percent — of 2,000 Amer-

respondents said they trusted CNN, but that was well above the trust level for Trump or members of Congress.

“The CNN brand has been as strong as it has ever been,” Zucker said. Network executives said CNN had its most profitable year in 2016 and was on pace to do even better this year.

The administration has reportedly banned its officials from appearing on CNN, although there have been sporadic exceptions. The dispute has been most apparent on Sundays, where on two weekends Vice President Mike Photo courtesy of The Associated Press icans surveyed said they believed CNN’s coverage of

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Vatican, Rome’s Jewish Museum, team up for first joint show Figurative exhibit to open in May, center around the menorah.

ROME (AP) — The museums of the Vatican and Rome’s ancient Jewish community are hosting their first joint exhibit, building on decades of improved Catholic-Jewish relations following centuries of mistrust.

The focus of the exhibit opening in May will be the menorah, the seven-armed candelabrum described in the Jewish Torah and depicted in Jewish, Catholic and secular art over the centuries.

Through figurative art, the exhibit “recounts the multi-millennia, incredible and suffered history of the menorah,” organizers said in a statement Monday announcing the initiative.

Part of the show will explore the legend of a solid-gold menorah that was kept in the first Temple of Jerusalem. The menorah was taken to Rome after the 70 A.D. destruction of the temple by troops of the Roman emperor Titus.

The historic trail of the menorah seems to have been lost during the 5th century, when it was possibly hauled

One of the highlights is expected to be a recently discovered bas relief from a 1st century Galilee synagogue.

Ancient Roman glass, sarcophagi and memorial stone tablets from Rome’s Jewish catacombs also we be featured.

Marc Chagall and Nicolas Poussin are among artists to be represented in the exhibit.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press off by the Vandals who sacked Rome in 455.

Arnold Nesselrath, a Vatican Museums official who is one of the show curators, called the exhibit about the menorah’s history and symbolism a fruit of “intense dialogue” developing between the Holy See and the Jewish community in the last three decades.

Representations of the

menorah throughout the centuries helped “Christians recall their Jewish roots” in faith, he said.

Nesselrath noted that an image of a menorah is frescoed on a wall of the Vatican’s Borgia Apartment built for Pope Alessandro VI. His papacy began in 1492, the same year Jews in Spain were ordered expelled.

Since Rome’s Jewish Mu-

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seum is tiny, most of the 130 works on display will be hosted at the Vatican Museums’ Carlo Magno exhibit space in St. Peter’s Square.

The Jewish Museum flanks Rome’s main synagogue. The late Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit a synagogue when he went there in 1986. On that occasion, he referred to Jews as “our older brothers in faith.”

Lending museums for the exhibit, which runs from May 15 to July 23, include the Louvre and London’s National Gallery.

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A fleet of Mercedes-Benz sedans is ferrying VIPs from venue to venue as buyers, bloggers and wannabes gauge each show for that elusive dash of something special and off the wall. Not to be outdone, some have ar-

rived at shows in a polished silver Rolls-Royce.

The pace of shows is a challenge for anyone trying not to miss a thing. The Monday slate is full as well, topped by the long-anticipated Burberry show.

TOPSHOP UNIQUE DOES BREEZY BOHEMIAN She’s a bohemian soul, living in the moment — Topshop Unique’s latest offering is all about clothes that give off that carefree, freewheel-

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The outfits may look thrown on and eclectic, but the look is anything but effortless. Getting the dressed down cool girl look just right requires careful layering and thought.

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FASHION Continued from page 14 gallery, the label’s show featured models in figure-hugging, bias-cut slip dresses — some with high slits — that were layered under graphic sweatshirts, oversized sweaters and outdoorsy fleeces.

Elsewhere, super-short mini-skirts in high-shine primary colors and satiny, striped wide trousers were paired with sporty striped tops.

As always with Topshop, there was plenty of fun and attention-grabbing party wear, too. A huge, fluffy orange coat stood out, as well as some silver sequined dresses adorned with bright floral embroidery.

PREEN MAKES IT MARK IN SPRINGTIME SETTING It’s time for fall and winter collections, but the space set up by Preen by Thornton Bre-

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press gazzi had a springtime feel more in tune with the British countryside with painted splashes of color suggesting flowers bursting into bloom.

This cheerful feeling per-

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Pence and presidential aide Stephen Miller were guests on other network political affairs shows but not on Jake Tapper’s CNN show, “State of the Union.”

Zucker, who said he had not spoken with Trump since December on this or other issues, said it hasn’t affected CNN’s ability to tell the political story.

“We don’t feel it’s hurt us in any way,” he said.

Angered by the Pence snub, CNN said that it declined an administration offer to instead have aide Kellyanne Conway on Tapper’s show, saying she had credibility issues. Conway has said she wasn’t available that day.

But Tapper interviewed her two days later. “Saying that we have questions about her credibility does not mean that we would never interview her,” Zucker said.

Like its rivals, particularly Fox News Channels, CNN has

benefited from extraordinary interest in the new administration. CNN’s ratings are up 51 percent this year compared to last, he said. That’s unusual because news network ratings usually tumble after a presidential election.

Trump’s lengthy news conference on Thursday was filled with media criticism.

But he took questions from a range of reporters; many

vaded the collection, with many black outfits set off by floral themes relying on fine embroidery and other outfits featuring reds and blues.

The models wore smeared

red lipstick (evocative of a kiss, the designers said) and the choices were unusual, including a black and white shearling coat worn over a black floral bra.

White House reporters - including CNN’s Jim Acosta - had been concerned over the past week when Trump bypassed the mainstream media in three separate news conferences connected to visits by foreign leaders, instead calling on representatives from more friendly news outlets. On Thursday Trump even took questions from Acosta, but also specifically

criticized some of CNN’s coverage of him.

The president said that CNN’s 10 p.m. news show, hosted by Don Lemon, “is almost exclusive anti-Trump.”

“I would be your biggest fan in the world if you treated me right,” Trump said. “I sort of understand there’s a certain bias, maybe by Jeff or somebody, you know, whatever reason. And I under-

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Gowns were styled off the shoulder, and flat shoes and boots featured pale pink, a color seen in a number of outfits in the first few days of fashion week.

There was also a traditionally tailored tweed suit, as might have been in style a century ago, but set off with an oversize, bright green color, and a lingerie-style dress.

Designers Justin Thornton and Thea Bregazzi displayed photos of books they said had helped inspire the collection, including works by poet Carol Ann Duffy, the photographer Christina Boom and the artist Tracey Emin.

“It’s just a celebration of women throughout history and the importance of women who have something to say,” Thornton said of the collection.

stand that. But you’ve got to be at least a little bit fair and that’s why the public sees it.

They see it. They see it’s not fair. You take a look at some of your shows and you see the bias and the hatred.”

Acosta, for his part, told the president that “just for the record, we don’t hate you. I don’t hate you.”

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