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International relations presents “New Cold War?” MSU discussion will provide insight into US-Russia affairs.

PRATAKSHYA BHANDARI Staff Writer Students from the International Relations Department will hold a panel discussion Tuesday, March 3 from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in CSU 201. The purpose of the panel is to understand the current crisis between the United States and Russia regarding Ukraine.

Two students from the department, Akmal Abdulmuminov and John Jacobs were selected as delegates from MSU to attend the “United States – Russia Relations: Rebuild, Refocus, and Reenergize” conference held by the U.S. Air Force Academy in Denver, February 2 to 4. The conference featured speakers, including former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul. The International Student Association and

the Department of Government had sponsored the students to attend.

The open forum discussion, “New Cold War?” will be an overview of the conference.

Abdulmuminov and Jacobs will talk about their experience and provide more insight into the conference. Each student will take some time to discuss the different issues that were raised during the conference. They will also reflect on some of the speakers, and topics covered in round table discussions. They will also be commenting on the perspectives of speakers from the conference.

Dr. Tomasz Inglot, professor of Political Science at MSU will be facilitating the panel, which is sponsored by the Department of Government, and the Office of International Relations.

The event is free to attend and open to the public. The

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discussion will be useful for anyone who is interested in learning about the subject and does not necessarily require an academic focus.

“We are going to have a forum for anybody who is interested in learning about what the

situation is in regards to Russia, United States and Ukraine.

How that has transpired and where it might potentially go, as far as issues are concerned,” Jacobs said. “It is hard to stay tuned to the news all the time, and you’re busy with homework

and everything. This will be a good way to get a quick dose of what is going on and what is the on-going relation and outlook between the two nations.”

“Understanding the past to direct the future” 39th Pan African Student Leadership conference to take place in Twin Cities.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer The 39th Pan African Student Leadership Conference, titled “Understanding Our Past to Direct the Future ‘Sankofa,’” will take place from Feb. 25 to 28 in Bloomington, Minn., and Edina, Minn.

The goal of the conference is to help students build leadership and provide an opportunity for scholars, professionals, students and community members to discuss the issues regarding Africans on a local, national and international level.

In the conference, two nationally-recognized keynote speakers will headline the conference which Dr. Michael T. Fagin, professor in Department of Ethnic Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato, created and coordinated.

Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban

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League, is the keynote speaker on Thursday at 7 p.m., and the Rev. Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr., former executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), is the keynote speaker on Friday at 7 p.m.

Both will speak at the con-

ference, located at 7700 France Ave. S. in Edina. The remainder of the conference will be continued by other speakers at the Hilton Hotel at 3900 American Blvd. W. in Bloomington.

The conference is held in the Twin Cities this year in order to reach a larger audience. Del-

egates from the United States and many international speakers and students will attend the conference.

Fagin founded the Pan African Student Leadership Conference in 1977 after traveling to West Africa with a few students.

Mahmoud El-Kati, one of the

guest speakers in this year’s Pan African Conference, inspired Dr. Fagin to found the conference to promote Africa and its unique culture in the U.S. There are several guest speakers who will also headline the conference and address a variety of topic: • Mary Whitney’s lecture, “Understanding the explosive impact of domestic violence on family& community. Our challenges and response.”

• Diane Haulcy speaking on “the impact of early childhood education in the Pan African community and other.”

• Tamrat Tademe speaking on how “We must understand out past to live efficiently in current day society to guide our future.”

• Mahmoud El-kati speaking about “The inspirational force in maintaining the Pan African Leadership Conference.”

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Art and culture organizations make an impact in MN Regional arts council takes a snapshot of cultural contributions.

VALISA FAIR Staff Writer Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council and Minnesota Citizens for the Arts will release a new study on the health and impact of the nonprofit arts and culture sector at 6:30 p.m. on March 2, 2015. The The study, Creative Minnesota, is a new effort to fill the gaps in available information about Minnesota’s cultural field and to improve our understanding of its importance to our quality of life and economy. It kicks off a new centralized, concentrated effort to collect and report data on the creative sector every two years for analysis, education and

advocacy.

Sheila Smith, Executive Director of Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, who will be presenting the information notes says, “It is a testament to how much Minnesotans care about arts and culture that, although Minnesota is just now crawling out of the Great Recession, the nonprofit arts and culture sector seems to have shown resilience and even growth in this period.”

Eighty-nine nonprofit arts and culture organizations in South Central Minnesota participated in the study. The report is the most inclusive, widespread, report ever done about the sector’s health and economic impact.

The study breaks out data both

statewide and regionally about the health and impacts of the nonprofit arts and culture sector.

The 89 nonprofit arts and culture organizations create 348 full time jobs in South Central Minnesota, and has generated over $13.6 million in total economic impact annually. Statistics show that over 358,731 people attend nonprofit arts and cultural events annually in the region.

The study, Creative Minnesota, evaluates and determines the economic impact from 1269 arts and culture organizations in every corner of the state. It also looks over and assesses information about jobs created, local vs. non-local attendees spending, nonprofit arts and culture orga-

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nizational budgets, and artist employment levels.

It is just a snapshot of spending by nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences as well as other indicators of the sector’s health and impact on the economy in 2013.

This report showed a growth in the economic impact of the arts and culture in this region of over $3.6M since the last report in 2006, The Arts: A Driving Force in South Central Minnesota’s Economy, which was conducted right before the Great Recession.

Creative Minnesota was developed by a collaborative of

arts and culture funders in partnership with Minnesota Citizens for the Arts (MCA). Many public and private grant makers in Minnesota require some or all of their arts and culture grantees to submit data to the CDP. Americans for the Arts (AFTA) was commissioned to calculate the economic impact of the arts.

For more information about Creative Minnesota and to download additional research about Minnesota’s arts and cultural community, visit creativemn.org.

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Researching a new New Year One student learns more about the Chinese New Year.

AMANDA HINDE Staff Writer

The Chinese New Year has come and gone, and that means what exactly? Having come from a small rural high school where the largest diversity of student statistics were male vs. female, I thought I could use a little research into what is the Chinese New Year is exactly. I mean, when someone tells you “Happy New Year!” and it’s well past Jan. 1, you kind of stand up and take notice. So being the awesome person that I am, I did a little research on the Chinese New Year.

In my research of the Chinese New Year, I found out many interesting things that are involved with this annual holiday. The Chinese New Year is a 12 year cycle of different animals that have their own different meanings for each of their 12 years.

Last year, the Year of the Horse, has led us to this year, the Year of the Goat. Or sheep. Or ram for that matter. According to a BBC article, “Lunar New Year: Year of the Goat predictions” published on Feb. 19, “In Mandarin the symbol yang means ‘horned

animal’ and covers all three of those animals, so no one is really sure which it is meant to be.”

We’ll just go with the Year of the Goat, because that has been trending on Twitter and people on there have obviously done their research.

The 12 year cycle has a whole host o f

be seeing you next year, for this year I will be “broadening my horizons” to gain “a different mind-set” according to TingFoon Chik, a Feng Shui consul-

celebrated all over the world and all I have to say is who wouldn’t want to celebrate the Chinese New Year? They have food, pyrotechnics, more food, brilliant colors all over the place, floating lanterns, food, performers dancing in cool costumes, and lots of incense burning

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different animals, complete with a fun story that tells how the animals go in order of their 12 year cycle. A few of the animals are horse, goat, rat, dragon (the most awesome of the animals), rabbit, and dog.

I won’t mention the year I was born (a woman never reveals her secrets) but I can say that I was born in the year of the dog; if the Chinese zodiac rings true, this year I need to go out and meet new people. Sorry friends, I will

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I don’t know if I have ever really paid attention to the news in the past, which is sad considering my current employment, or if I was just so focused on the sad news instead of the happy news. The Chinese New Year is

t o name only a few. Wait, did I mention food? Each town even seems to have their own fun events particular to them. Last year, many of the events were surrounding horses; horse races were overflowing with revelers to win their fortunes on the lucky animal of the year. While I am assuming there were no goat races, there is plenty to love on these cute,

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“Do you ever read horoscopes or zodiac predictions for fun?

SOLOMON OBASI, GRAPHIC DESIGN “Fortune cookies I usually read for fun and don’t take them seriously.

I’ve never been the type to take horoscopes to heart.”

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“Yes I do, I am a sucker for horoscopes and have an app on my phone I check everyday.”

“I believe in astrology, it helps plan my day. If it’s positive, I follow it but if it’s negative I do not.”

“Yes but I’m responsible about it.”

“Yes, I read some in Arabic.”

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Thailand tightens legislation on foreign surrogacy Country revamps ban after failed attempt in 1997.

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NICOLE SCHMIDT Staff Writer Thailand’s government placed a ban on commercial surrogacy for foreigners last Friday.

Thailand has been a leading country in surrogacy for some time now, and the decision is made with various reasons behind it.

The decision was spurred by the story of a surrogate mother

close to 150 Australian couples were expecting a child by a Thai surrogate mother—an impressive number of babies being born through surrogacy from a single country!

Japan, which also rates high in surrogacy, was upheaved when it was revealed that a single Japanese man fathered more than 12 children through Thai surrogacy. Thailand is being looked at as a “baby factory,”

national people. So in essence, there will be no surrogacy for foreigners and no promotion of surrogacy for foreigners.

Yet this does not mean that surrogacy within Thailand is banned altogether. The law says that married Thai couples or couples with one Thai partner can seek surrogacy if they have been together for three years.

Thai citizens should be wary if they seek to break this new

telegraph.co.uk Surrogate mother Pattaramon Chanbua carried twins for an Australian couple who refused to accept the child born with Down’s Syndrome.

who conceived twins for an Australian couple. Pattaramon Chanbua, 21 years old, gave birth to twins last year, one a healthy little girl and the other a healthy boy with Down’s Syndrome. The Australian couple accepted the baby girl and refused to accept the boy. “Baby Gammy” now resides with his birthmother in Thailand.

The abandonment of Baby Gammy spurred the government of Thailand to address the situation in earnest. Thailand has always been the world’s leader in surrogacy, often being referred to as the womb of the world, with Australia leading the way in Thai surrogate births. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in 2015,

and was so named in the case concerning this overwhelming revelation.

Despite the activity of Thai surrogacy through the years, regulation and law enforcement have been somewhat of a joke. In fact, commercial surrogacy was allegedly banned by Thailand’s Medical Council in 1997, yet it is obvious the legislation had little to no impact on surrogacy.

The new law hopes to create effective change using legislation to enforce different rules and regulations. First and foremost, the law bans foreigners to use a surrogate mother from Thailand. Period. The law also states that no agents may be used to promote surrogates for inter-

law, as the Thai government says that anyone discovered hiring a surrogate mother and breaking any of these rules can face up to 10 years in jail.

This law is going to be hard to uphold. As stated earlier, the Thai enforcement on surrogacy has not been up to par for the last 18 years, lacking legitimacy.

This brings skepticism to people who may think this law will be any different than that of the 1997 law, which had little effect.

Also, however noble and right this law sounds, it will be hard to enforce it for reasons other than poor enforcement strategies. Surrogacy is a tempt-

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ering “My beauties, let me tell you how it was, where we are, and where we should be as a people.”

• Chantel Sings’ “Overcoming tragedy: Music and miracles in the Pan African community;” • Amos Otis presenting on “Developing and owning your own business. It is benefits and concerns.”

• George Amedee speaking about how “A political problem is an economic problem. Issues facing the Pan African community.”

MSU and various community organizations and institutions sponsor the Pan African Student Leadership Conference every year.

Dr. Michael T. Fagin is a professor at Minnesota State University, Mankato in Ethnic Studies. His area of interests in the academic

field will address “Impact of Institutional Racism on Cognitive Development, Social & Psychological Dynamic that Impact the Growth & Development of Multi-Racial Children/Families.”

The Department of Ethnic Studies promotes multicultural and ethnic knowledge, skills and values, which help students to participate in a culturally-diverse and world.

Registration for the Pan African Student Leadership Conference is available online. Free parking is also available to delegates at the conference site at 7700 France Ave. For more information about the conference, please contact Dr. Michael T. Fagin at 507-389-1126 or email him at michael.fagin@mnsu.edu.

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Why Bangkok is bugging out over food There’s a pest problem at Le Cordon Bleu, and apparently it’s delicious!

BANGKOK — Bugs in a gourmet kitchen are usually something to be squashed or swatted. But at Le Cordon Bleu, the esteemed French cooking school, chefs and food scientists spent a week simmering, sauteing and grilling insects to extract innovative flavors they say could open a new gastronomic frontier.

As a finale to their research, the school’s Bangkok branch held a seminar Thursday called “Edible Insects in a Gastronomic Context,” which booked up weeks in advance. The event included lectures and a tasting menu for 60 open-minded participants, a mix of student chefs, scientists, professors and insect farmers.

First came a vial of ant-infused gin, followed by a shot glass of warm cricket consomme, then an hors d’oeuvre of cockchafer butter and herb crisp.

For the unfamiliar, a cockchafer could be mistaken for a water bug but is in fact a giant beetle.

The insects were not visible in the final products but artfully

bug on a salad and say, ‘Voila!’

We wanted to know, can we extract interesting flavors, new textures, aromas and turn it into something delicious?” said Christophe Mercier, an instructor who helped organize the event in the Thai capital.

Before anyone else could crack a joke about bugs in fine French food, the chefs made their own.

“This is the first time that insects have been granted access to the Cordon Bleu,” Mercier said with a smile, adding that the 120-year-old Paris-based school had never to his knowledge held a workshop quite like this.

At the school’s entrance, a welcome table was decorated with tropical flowers and bowls of bugs — crickets, silk worms, bamboo worms and live water bugs as big as a toddler’s hand.

The idea for the event was inspired by local eating habits in Southeast Asia. In Thailand and neighboring countries, many people eat fried insects as snacks, leading Mercier and col-

Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press A group of chefs and food scientists at the esteemed French school’s branch in Bangkok spent the week simmering, sautéing and grilling insects to extract innovative flavors they say could open a new frontier for the world of gastronomy.

hidden, pureed into batters, their juices extracted for essence.

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leagues to wonder if they could learn from the locals. He ran the idea past his Paris headquarters

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and “they were excited by the idea,” he said.

“You have to approach this with a really open mind,” said Roberto Flore, head chef at the Nordic Food Lab, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based laboratory devoted to discovering new tastes for cooking. The lab started a project called the “Deliciousness of Insects” in 2012 and was invited by the Cordon Bleu to work with its Bangkok-based chefs this week and help develop the recipes that were presented at the seminar.

Flore brought along certain products from his lab, where he first created the cricket consomme and the gin, which he described as having “an explosion of lemony taste” that came from acid produced in the ants’ abdomens.

It was the gin that helped win over the chefs.

“Some things were very impressive, and some things were very bizarre,” said Fabrice Danniel, master chef at Bangkok’s

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Cordon Bleu. “The taste of the alcohol was amazing. It’s more than alcohol. The taste was unique.”

“I was very surprised with the consomme, too,” he said about the broth served in a shot glass. Participants described it as meaty, nutty, flavorful, subtle and not-at-all grainy. “It was light, yet full with aroma and flavors — flavors of the insect,” Danniel said.

A Cordon Bleu chef, Christian May, admitted privately that he was initially repulsed by the intense aroma of the grilled

crickets for the broth. He encouraged his colleagues not to demonstrate for the seminar how the consomme was made but just serve it elegantly on trays, which they did.

“It tasted good. You just have to remove the image of the insect from your mind,” he said, noting that this will be the biggest challenge if and when insects go mainstream in Western cuisine.

Before that happens, more research is needed. It’s not clear if serving insects is legal in all

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“In my research of the Chinese New Year, I found out many interesting things that are involved with this annual holiday. The Chinese New Year is a 12 year cycle of different animals that have their own different meanings for each of their 12 years. ”

“The decision was spurred by the story of a surrogate mother who conceived twins for an Australian couple...The Australian couple accepted the baby girl and refused to accept the boy. “Baby Gammy” now resides with his birthmother in Thailand.”

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stubborn, curious and independent little animals—did I just describe myself?

Another component of this Chinese New Year is that the year of the goat also comes with one of the five elements: wood, water, fire, earth, and metal.

This year is wood, which is considered to be very volatile.

This would spell bad news for this year, but luckily the goat is a yin animal not a yang animal.

Yin animals are passive and negative while yang animals are

active and positive, and because of the passive nature of the goat, some are saying that the year of 2015 will be peaceful. Another Feng Shui adviser from the BBC article stated, “It’s quite possible that conflicts around the world, even long standing ones, will finally resort to peace negotiations. The Wood element, although volatile this year, is calmed by the yin quality of the sheep [or Goat] giving it flexibility and the motivation to find solutions.”

I know from writing for the international news section that there is need for more peace in the world. Maybe I could use a new outlook on life and maybe I do need to make more friends; after all, maybe my mother isn’t wrong in saying I have no social life and I need to “get out there” or whatever that means. So look out people, I’m fixing to make some new friends in this happy New Year.

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While little Baby Gammy sleeps, cries, or giggles, he is unaware of the spark he has unintentionally created. It will be interesting to see the outcome of the new Thailand law, and whether surrogacy will finally receive the legitimacy of attention and proper regulation it needs and deserves.

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“As a finale to their research, the school’s Bangkok branch held a seminar Thursday called “Edible Insects in a Gastronomic Context,” which booked up weeks in advance. The event included lectures and a tasting menu for 760 open-minded participants, a mix of student chefs, scientists, professors and insect farmers.” continued from 6 Western countries. Proper hygiene needs to be ensured at insect farms. There are also safety concerns.

“We do have to be a bit careful,” said Alan Yen, an insect expert and professor from Australia’s Latrobe University, who suggests never eating raw insects and says anyone with a seafood allergy should probably steer clear of bugs. “Some insects are toxic, some have allergens.

There are medical complications with some people.”

Chefs should tap the knowledge of cooks in countries where insects are commonly eaten, he said. According to the U.N., insects have long been part of human diets in nearly 100 countries, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

In Thailand alone, there are 200 species of insects eaten as food, said Patrick Durst, a senior official with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization who has co-authored a study on Thailand’s edible insect in-

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And what about snails, said French chef Willy Daurade, who made the evening’s dessert — a “bamboo worm bite.”

“We eat escargots,” said Daurade. “They’re ugly. But in fact it’s delicious.”

After the seminar, the chefs repaired to a back room for a glass of champagne and congratulated themselves on a good start.

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McFarland, USA review

Another feel-good, tear-jerking sports film by Disney.

SHAWN CLOSE Staff Writer Kevin Costner seems to be on a life-long journey to appear in every sports movie that ever made. With classics such as Field of Dreams, Bull Durham and Tin Cup (as well as the recent tragedy Draft Day)

Costner has had his fair share of memorable sports movie roles.

Enter the lazily named McFarland, USA the latest of Disney’s BOTS (based on a true story) inspirational sports movies. It’s a by the numbers cookie cutter movie with little in the way of the creativity or distinguishing features, but that doesn’t mean

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McFarland, USA follows Jim White (Kevin Costner), a championship high school football coach who is fired from his job after throwing a cleat at a player.

Unable to find another job Jim accepts a job as an assistant coaching position at McFarland High School, a poorly funded school predominantly attended by the children of Mexican-American day laborers. After clashing with the head coach after the first game, Jim is forced to step

down from his assistant coaching position, but remains at the school as a P.E teacher. After noticing that several of his students are able to run long distances without getting tired (a byproduct of working in the fields and traveling by foot around town) he convinces the principal to let him form a Cross-Country team, which was about to have its first state championship competition later that year. After some initial reluctance Jim is able to form the seven-man team he needs to

compete. The team struggles at first as Jim and his team adapt to the new sport, but through hard work and determination they are able to succeed against larger, better funded schools as the community embraces them.

McFarland, USA has the quality you expect from Disney, well shot well scored and well edited with the kind of slick production that can only come from a multi-billion dollar media conglomerate. The ‘true story’ part

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410 Project’s latest gallery

Winners of local art competition announced.

LISHA KIRPALANI Staff Writer

Last Friday Night, Feb. 20th from 7 to 9 p.m., Mankato’s local experimental art gallery, The 410 Project, held an award reception for their annual juried exhibition. The gallery was accepting submissions from local artists, prior to the opening, which contributed to the large diversity of artwork. All submitted works were accepted, which allowed the gallery to present over 60 works in a variety of mediums.

The 410 Project declares it was their goal “to exhibit a variety of work by artists of all stages of their career” in a gallery setting.

The exhibition is open to anyone who wants to enjoy works by local artists and it runs until March 1st.

The Juror of this show was

Keren Kroul, who grew up in

Mexico, Israel, and Costa Rica

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and now lives in Minneapolis, MN. Her work has been exhibited in various spaces in Minnesota and beyond. As the award reception proceeded and most of the artists were present, it was finally time for the Juror’s decisions to be announced. The best of the show was Elise Nyenhuis’ “Destructure 3”; a photograph

by Lina Seijo “Early Morning Work Out” won second place; and third place went to “Persona Obscura” by Heidi Fuhr. There were also two honorable mentions, a woodcut relief “Gods must be crazy” by Britta Strum and a ceramic sculpture “Killer Whale” by Kyle Archard.

Here is the Juror’s statement on how she picked the winners: “I am trilled to have been invited to jury this show. I was drawn to specific artworks on two different levels. First, formally I was

interested in pieces whose materiality and medium related to the content or theme of the image itself. The wax house, artist book, and woodcut, all chose mediums that push the narrative forward, the very form and process of creating the piece rewards the viewer with a deeper understanding of the image. Second, intuitively I responded to work that had a quite vulnerability.

The photograph of the coffee cup and half eaten pastry is nothing less than a portrait. The ceramic killer whale has the presence of the hands that lovingly shape it.

Overall, the pieces that I picked embody both the indelible mark of the artist and a wonderful understanding of the power of the object to express ideas and emotion.”

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Retro Spotlight: Coach

A look back at the fictitious Screaming Eagles of Minnesota State University.

WES HUNTINGTON Staff Writer Before Blue Mountain State, before The League, there was the sitcom Coach, which originally aired on the ABC network from Feb. 28, 1989, to May 14, 1997.

Coach starred Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, the head football coach of the (then) fictional Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles. Joining him on his staff is special teams coordinator Michael “Dauber” Dybinski (Bill Fagerbakke, later known as Patrick Star on SpongeBob and in the recurring role of Marvin Erikson on How I Met Your Mother), assistant head coach/ defensive coordinator Luther Van Dam (Jerry Van Dyke), and not in an official capacity of the team is Hayden’s girlfriend and later wife Christine Armstrong (Shelley Fabares).

In the first three seasons, the

Screaming Eagles are shown to be a lowly team with little to hope for. They are continuously shown as a team who get blown out by usually three touchdowns per game. The team steadily improves in the third season but they don’t fully improve until the next season. In the fourth year of the series, after some serious recruiting on the part of Fox to get the top overall quarterback prospect in Bo Whitley, Minnesota State starts to make serious strides in the college football rankings, eventually making it all the way to Pineapple Bowl, defeating Fox’s mentor Jake Connelly of Southern Texas. The team doesn’t repeat as national champions, but instead get blown out in the “Patriot Bowl” by creator Barry Kemp’s alma mater, the University of Iowa. They do eventually complete an undefeated season and win a second national champi-

onship, defeating the University of West Texas, intercepting the ball to seal the close win. In the final two years, Hayden finally gets an opportunity to coach a NFL team, the fictional Orlando Breakers (a parody of the Jacksonville Jaguars). After a rocky first season, the team battles to reach the AFC Wild Card game and is defeated by the Buffalo Bills.

Overall, the series a great little gem from the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. There are some hilarious episodes such as “Homewreckers,” which aired on March 6, 1990. This episode showcases some pretty hilarious physical comedy from Nelson, Fagerbakke and Van Dyke.

That episode is highly recommended to watch. Some other episodes that are worth watching are “Coaches Conference” (aired Feb. 13, 1990), because of some of the special guest stars,

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and of course the episodes that have the Screaming Eagles playing either in a bowl game or a national championship. This show is great to watch for a retro TV show viewer, a sports nut or to just to sit around and have fun watching all nine years of it (which usually aired before ABC’s coverage of “Mon-

day Night Football,” especially during its last two years on the air). This series is available for streaming on Netflix.

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Mike Stern at MSU Legendary guitarist to perform on Mankato campus.

LORIEN MEGILL Staff Writer Legendary Jazz Guitarist Features in Contemporary Music Festival This Saturday, Feb. 28, sixtime Grammy nominee Mike Stern will appear with the

has worked with an array of groups including the Miles Davis Group, the Becker Brothers, Blood Sweat and Tears, and groups of his own. He was named in DownBeat magazine’s list as one of the seventyfive all-time best guitarists in the world.

Mike Stern has made a career as a jazz guitarist.

University Jazz Mavericks and close out the Contemporary Music Festival with a performance at 7:30 p.m.

In his broad career Stern

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This is the festival’s first year as a Contemporary Music Festival; previously it was a JazzFest.

The broadening of focus allows contemporary music groups

(such as hip-hop ensembles and a cappella groups) that fall outside of the realm of traditional jazz to participate in the festival. Bands are judged on overall performance and receive both oral and written critiques from experienced adjudicators. Topical clinics are offered by visiting artists and clinicians. All of these clinics are free and open to anyone involved with the festival and the public.

In addition to Stern, the festival concert will feature Kenni Holman (saxophone -The Hornheads), Ryan Frane (piano - Director of Jazz at the University of Minnesota-Duluth), Jeff Bailey (bass - McNally Smith College of Music), and Steve Jennings (drums - McNally Smith College of Music).

The concert will be held in the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall of the Earley Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $15, or $13 for students with a valid MavCard. To purchase tickets visit www.mnsu.edu/music. For more information, call the Performance Series office, (507) 389-5549.

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Germany hosts WWII art dispute

Jewish art dealers suing Germany for loss of art from Nazi-era.

BERLIN — The heirs of Nazi-era Jewish art dealers say they have filed a lawsuit in the U.S. suing Germany and a German museum for the return of a medieval treasure trove worth an estimated $226 million.

The suit, which attorneys said was filed late Monday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., is the latest salvo in a long-running campaign by the heirs for return of the socalled Welfenschatz, or Guelph Treasure — which they claim their ancestors sold under Nazi pressure.

Originally collected over centuries by the Braunschweig Cathedral, the Welfenschatz includes some of the outstanding goldsmith works of the Middle Ages, among them ornate containers in the form of cathedrals used to store Christian relics.

Many of the silver and gold pieces are decorated with jewels and pearls. Some are more than 800 years old.

Attorney Nicholas O’Donnell told The Associated Press in an interview in Berlin that the suit asks the Washington court to declare an American and a British descendant of a consortium that owned the collection in 1935 — when it was sold to the German state of Prussia — the rightful owners today.

“Any transaction in 1935, where the sellers on the one side were Jews and the buyer on the other side was the Nazi state itself is by definition a void transaction,” O’Donnell said.

The organization that oversees Berlin’s museums, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says that the collectors were not forced to sell the pieces, arguing among other things that the collection was not even in Germany at the time of its sale.

Last year, a German government commission created to help resolve restitution claims evaluated both arguments and recommended that the collection stay in Germany. The commission wrote that after thoroughly investigating the sale process, it came to the conclusion that it was not a “forced sale due to persecution.”

The commission’s recommendations aren’t binding, but they are often accepted by parties in such disputes.

The foundation’s president, Herrmann Parzinger, said Tuesday that he was “astonished” by the claimants’ decision to sue

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for the collection.

“The applicants’ legal representative had told me that the applicants would also accept and abide by the recommendation of the Commission,” Parzinger said in a statement.

“I am not aware of any new facts that might lead to a different evaluation of the case.”

“While we believe that there is no ju r isdict ion Photo Courtesy of Associated Press over this claim in the United furt in 1929 when they purStates, we are confident that any chased it from a Braunschweig court ruling on the merits would duke. With the onset of the Great reach the same conclusion that Depression, they were not able we and the advisory commission to resell all the relics as quickly have reached,” Parzinger added. and profitably as expected; in German Culture Minister the early 1930s they still owned Monika Gruetters said in a statehalf of the collection. ment she noted the development After Adolf Hitler’s rise to with regret, calling the heirs’ power in 1933, the story beclaim “difficult to understand.” comes murky.

However, the heirs’ attorney What is undisputed is that O’Donnell called last year’s Jewish owners sold the remainrecommendation by the coming 42 pieces to the state of mission “flawed,” and said his Prussia, which at the time was clients decided to file suit in governed by top Nazi Hermann Washington because they feel Goering.

“U.S. federal courts are the best The lawyers for the heirs told suited to sort out these ownerthe AP that the art dealers had ship rights” based on the Foreign to sell the treasure significantly Sovereign Immunities Act. below its actual value because The plaintiffs are identified they were under massive presin the suit as Alan Philipp from sure, exposed daily to the terrors London and Gerald Stiebel from of the Nazi regime.

Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Prussian Cultural HeriThere have been other castage Foundation, which overes in which heirs of looted art sees the Berlin museums, has have sued Germany or German maintained in the past that the government museums in U.S. price was fair. It notes that the courts. Two recent cases involvcollection was in Amsterdam at ing looted art were dismissed by the time, though several of the the courts on sovereign immuowners still lived in Germany. nity grounds.

The Germans did not invade the Complicating matters, the Netherlands until 1940 — five state of Berlin recently declared years after the sale. the collection a national cultural The collection, which has treasure, meaning the art pieces been on display in Berlin since can no longer leave the country the early 1960’s and is on show without the explicit permission at the city’s Museum of Decoraof the country’s culture minister. tive Arts, is considered the largThe Welfenschatz collection, est collection of German church originally 82 pieces, ended up treasure in public hands. in the hands of a consortium of Jewish art dealers from Frank-

MCFARLAND continued from 9 of McFarland, USA is very compelling, I found myself rooting for the McFarland athletes and feeling satisfied when they inevitably triumphed.

Disney does have a history of twisting the truth to suit its movies theatrical needs, either adding conflict to spice up the story (The football team that Remember the Titans is based on won every game by 50 or more points) or sanitizing what could be an even more interesting story to keep family standards (The same team had a lot more problems with racism among players than their movie counterparts, who seemingly get over a life time of racial conflict in about a month). So I can’t help but wonder if there’s a much better movie that could have been made if the Disney PC machine hadn’t gotten a hold of it, or if their making mountains out of mole hills for the sake of story telling, or more likely a little of both.

As I stated in the opening paragraph, McFarland, USA is a by the numbers Disney sports movie. Sticking heavily to the formula developed by other

BOTS sports movies, such as Remember the Titans and The Rookie, McFarland makes little attempt to surprise you. An accomplished outsider helps a group of underdogs reach their true potential, and while initially meeting resistance (both on and off the field) they manage to pull through against seemingly insurmountable odds while also solving some sort of social issue in the community that they’re a part of.

If you’ve seen a BOTS sports movie before then you know how this movie goes, McFarland is a predictable as what day Christmas is on. Good guys win, bad guys lose and everyone is happy by the time the credits role, and while that could make for a very boring movie, McFarland is too well made to let its predictability drag it to far down. You go to a BOTS sports movie to feel good, not to be surprised, and McFarland, USA delivers all the feel good moments you could ever want.

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Mavericks look for first MacNaughton Cup on home ice With a sweep at home this weekend, MSU can win their first WCHA regular season title.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor The Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team has made some serious strides as a program over the past two seasons. Their success this season may be more than what most had expected from the squad, but is hardly unbelievable.

When Mike Hastings took over the team in the summer of 2012, he inherited a team that had finished 11th in the 12 team WCHA at the time. In his first season behind the MSU bench, Hastings turned the program around, winning a program high 24 wins that season and returning the Mavericks to both the WCHA Final Five and the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003.

The success continued the following season. Last season, Hastings’ second with the Mavericks, saw the team lose the MacNaughton Cup as the WCHA regular season champions by one point to Ferris State.

The Mavericks lost their share of the cup by tying Michigan Tech on the final day of the season, falling a single point shy of FSU. However, MSU would return to the Final Five and win the Broadmoor Trophy as the WCHA Final Five champions, their first in school history.

From there, the Mavs went on to their second consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance before falling to UMass-Lowell 2-1 to end their season.

Coming into this season, the expectations were high for the Mavericks. Picked as the preseason favorite to win the WCHA, the position the Mavs are in seemed like a given, but nothing is a sure bet in college hockey.

MSU has had one of the more consistent seasons this year in comparison to most of college hockey. With a 23-6-2 record, the Mavericks are the no. 2 team in the national rankings, which they had been no. 1 for a portion of the season. The high ranking is nice, but more importantly, MSU sits atop the NCAA pairwise rankings for the NCAA

Tournament. At no. 1 right now, the Mavericks are a sure bet to make the NCAA Tournament for a third consecutive year, but a no. 1 ranking for the tournament depends on how they finish the season.

This weekend, the Mavericks return home to the Verizon Wireless Center in downtown Mankato with the opportunity to do something they have yet to do as a program: win the MacNaughton Cup. Michigan Tech comes to town on Friday, ranked no. 3 in the country. No. 2 versus no. 3 in the nation will make for an exciting enough series as is, but with the stakes this high, it will surely be one of the highlights of this year in college puck.

One point behind the Mavericks in the conference standings, Tech is the lone team that could prevent MSU from winning the MacNaughton Cup. However, there is only one scenario that sees the MacNaughton Cup presented to a winner this Saturday night: a Maverick sweep.

If MSU pieces together two quality games and comes away with a series sweep this weekend, they will put themselves five points ahead of the Huskies, clinching the Cup. A series split leaves the teams in the same position going into the final weekend, while a three-point weekend by either team would

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still push the crowning of the WCHA’s regular season champion to next weekend.

So what do these teams need to do in order to bring the MacNaughton Cup to their campus?

The Mavericks have the upper hand here, so to speak.

Earlier this season, MSU went

into the MacInnes Ice Center in Houghton, Mich. and swept the Huskies, who were no. 1 in the nation at the time. Beating the Huskies on their home ice, especially when they were an undefeated 12-0 to that point, sent a message.

These two teams are as even as it gets on paper. The Mavericks are led up front by senior Matt Leitner, who has a teamleading 32 points on the season.

Junior Bryce Gervais’ 20 goals top the WCHA, while the Mavs have four other players who have broken the 20-point barrier this season.

On the back end, the Mavericks are not only steady defensively, but get a great deal of scoring from the blue line as well. Sophomore defenseman Casey Nelson ranks third on the team in points with 27, while senior defenseman Zach Palmquist has recorded 24 of his own, including a career-high eight goals.

Between the pipes, Stephon Williams’ resume is rivaled by few. Williams has posted a 194-2 record on an incredible 1.64 goals against average and a .926 save percentage. Williams also has three shutouts on the year, bringing his career total to eight, an MSU record. Few teams can match the lineup that the Mavericks carry, but Tech may be one of them.

The Huskies are led by senior Tanner Kero, who has a WCHA-leading 40 points, and his 17 goals ranks second in the conference. Behind Kero sits a well-balanced lineup, with Alex Petan and Malcolm Gould each posting 14 goals so far this season. These two teams will battle back and forth offensively all weekend. MTU has the second best offense in the country, scoring 3.75 goals per game, while the Mavericks rank fifth in team offense, scoring 3.61 goals per game.

The real difference between these teams is the defense.

While the Mavericks get offense from the back end, the Huskies defensive core tends to stay back and doesn’t produce as much offense. It seems to work, however, as Tech has the second

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best defense in the country, allowing 1.78 goals per game. The Mavericks have the fourth-best defense nationally, allowing 1.97

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goals per game.

While MSU has Williams in net, the third-ranked goaltender in the country, the Huskies have a confident man between the pipes on their end as well.

Jamie Phillips ranks as the sixth best goaltender in the nation, boasting similar statis-

tics to Williams’ with a 23-6-1 record on a 1.76 goals against average and a .934 save percentage. Williams has also posted four shutouts on the year and been one of the most reliable goaltenders in the country.

The keys for this weekend will be for the Mavericks to get ahead early on home ice and keep powering through till the end. With standing room only tickets available for this weekend, the packed VWC will be rocking, and if the Mavs can get on the board early it could bode well for them.

For the Huskies, the key will be not letting the crowd get into the game. They can do this by getting a sizable lead on MSU, or not allowing MSU to score.

The puck drops at 7:07 p.m.

Friday and Saturday night in Mankato. If the Mavericks are able to come away with a pair of wins, MSU will be awarded the MacNaughton Cup following Saturday night’s game.

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Another Maverick laces up his skates in the NHL After over four seasons spent in the minor leagues, Kael Mouillierat becomes the tenth Maverick to suit up in the National Hockey League.

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Web Photo Mouillierat’s teammates congratulate him on his first career NHL goal on Tuesday.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor Given how long the Minnesota State University, Mankato hockey program has been playing at the Division I level, it’s not entirely surprising that they don’t boast the NHL alumni of some of the country’s longtime powerhouses. But the Mavericks have more than a few alumni to be proud of.

Most notably is David Backes, the former Maverick turned captain of the St. Louis Blues and a two-time Olympian of Team USA. Other current players include Minnesota Wild forward Ryan Carter, Tim Jackman of the Anaheim Ducks, Travis Morin of the Dallas Stars, Tyler Pitlick of the Edmonton Oilers, and Eriah Hayes of the San Jose Sharks.

Over the past weekend, another was added to the list.

Kael Mouillierat, a Maverick from 2006-2010, made his NHL debut on Saturday for the New York Islanders, playing against the Washington Capitals. The 27-year-old Edmonton, Alta. native went scoreless in his debut, and also failed to register any points the next day against Vancouver, but in his third game he broke through.

Playing against the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday, Mouillierat scored his first NHL point and goal in the same game. After recording an assist earlier in the

game, Mouillierat found himself alone in front of the Arizona goal, and Colin McDonald fed him a pass that he one-timed into the top corner of the net past goaltender Mike Smith.

“There’s times you think it’s never going to happen,” Mouillierat told Newsday. “It’s pretty unbelievable, especially at my age, in my first crack in the NHL.” It is fairly impressive that at 27, Mouillierat is getting his first shot at the NHL, five seasons after graduating college and leaving NCAA hockey for the professional ranks. Looking at his resume, it’s been quite a journey for Kael.

Before coming to MSU, Mouillierat played two seasons with the Drayton Valley Thunder of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. Then from 2006-2010, he played for the Mavericks, recording 92 career points over four seasons and being named an assistant captain as a senior in 2009-2010. But after college, Kael bounced around a little bit.

After leaving Mankato, Mouillierat spent the next three seasons up and down between the American Hockey league, the NHL’s top minor league, and the East Coast Hockey League, a step below the AHL. It wasn’t until the 2013-2014 season that Mouillierat was able to earn himself a permanent spot in the AHL, playing with the Winnipeg Jets’ farm team, the St. John’s IceCaps.

First NHL assists? Check. First NHL goal? Check.

With the IceCaps, Mouillierat posted 53 points in 60 games, and helped his team to the AHL championship series, where they lost the Calder Cup to Kael’s former MSU teammate Travis Morin and the Texas Stars. Then this past summer, the Islanders signed Mouillierat on the first day of free agency to his first NHL contract. The contract was a one-year, two-way contract, paying Mouillierat $675,000 for the season in the NHL, with roughly a $67,000 AHL salary.

While playing the majority of this season with the Islanders’ AHL affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, Mouillierat has recorded a team-high 18 goals for the Sound Tigers, and sits second on the team with 40 points. With two points in three games with the parent club, he may have finally shown he can be an everyday player in the NHL. It’s likely Mouillierat will return to the AHL at some point this season, and could return again this season to the NHL. His contract expires at the conclusion of this season, but he may have earned himself another season or two with the Islanders, if not some potential free agency interest this summer. The Islanders will be a playof team this spring, so the former Maverick will have some time to continue to prove himself some more on Long Island

this season.

For now, Mouillierat is enjoying the ride to the world’s best hockey league. It was a long journey, playing parts of six different seasons between two minor leagues and five different teams since leaving MSU. Re-

gardless of what happens, right now Mouillierat is an Islander.

He and the Islanders’ next task is a home game on Friday night against the Calgary Flames.

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The Big Ticket returns to Minnesota LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer Kevin Garnett will put on a Timberwolves jersey for the first time in nearly eight years this season, as Garnett was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Thaddeus Young on tradedeadline day.

Garnett waived the no-trade clause in his contract to come back to Minnesota for the end of his playing days. The trade was made to help create a winning culture in the locker room, which is something the Timberwolves haven’t had since the squad last made the playoffs in 2004.

Garnett was introduced at a press conference Tuesday afternoon, where he told the crowd how he made his decision. “I figured if LeBron can go home, why can’t I?” drawing several laughs.

The 38-year-old forward is averaging 6.8 points and 6.8 rebounds on the year, and will come in as more of a role model; rather than the superstar Minnesota fans remember him being.

“I’m here to share my experience, my journey and instill confidence in these young guys,” Garnett said. He is also high on the potential on the T-Wolves

roster, “The potential for (Andrew) Wiggins and (Ricky) Rubio is endless. If they ever want to know anything I’m here. I’m an open book for all the young guys.” Garnett will take over as a mentor a young core of players led by Wiggins and Rubio.

“I’m trying to be like what Sam Mitchell was for me.” Mitchell is now an assistant coach for the Timberwolves.

As we have seen in the past, Garnett will bring fire and passion to an organization that has missed on that piece since the team traded him, “I won’t…settle for mediocre,” Garnett said.

The team has already found that out when “KG” got after center Nikola Pekovic for not hustling back on defense during practice.

Garnett did denied “Throwing phones in the toilet” saying he didn’t know were reporters got that idea, again drawing laughs, but he just wants the best out of the team. He described himself has a loyal, and prides himself on being a good teammate. Seeing this before, Timberwolves fan should be excited to have a passionate, fiery and veteran voice in the locker room.

The Big Ticket was never happy with how he left the Twin Cities, “I wasn’t really happy in how I left here…my goal since

Web Photo Garnett at a press conference following the anouncement of his return to the Wolves.

I’ve been in the league was to win a championship, and I wanted it to be here in the Twin Cities,” but he is more than happy to be back in the place that it all started for him, “It’s perfect.

If you have a…fairy tale, this is a perfect ending to it.”

The perfect ending might not be as close as some think, as the Timberwolves want to extend

Garnett’s contract, which ends this season, for another two years. “I will listen to my body” Garnett said when discussing his extension. He does plan on staying for the long haul, whether that is playing or in ownership.

“That is the goal, at some point, I want to understand ownership and try to get into that and bring a championship to this

city. That’s been my goal since I became a Wolf.”

A championship is definitely years away, but with the help of Garnett, the future is very bright in the Twin Cites.

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NSIC Indoor Championships up next for Mavs jumps.

DENZELL OATS Staff Writer

The Men of the Maverick track team are looking to solidify their dominant season in 2015 NSIC Indoor Championships today and tomorrow.

The Mavericks have won the last three indoor conference titles and are the favorite to win once again this year and for many reasons.

The Mavericks will be returning top performing athletes such as senior Khalil Jor’Dan in the triple jump, and 2014 NSIC indoor 200 meter champ Anthony Gustafson.

And with the talents of senior sprinter Emanuel Matadi and sophomore Myles Hunter in the hurdles who are ranked among the best in the nation, the Mavericks will come together oto look for a bevy of top place finishes.

The coaching staff took a strategic approach in planning for this year’s conference meet.

“When planning entries and personal for the meet, it always about who can score.” Says distance Coach Loren Ahonen.

“Most times you have a very good idea within your own team who can put up a mark, or run a time, in an event – but you won’t always know what other teams in the conference will do which is where you have to be strategic” With the nature of the Men’s team, they will look to get a load of their points through sprints and jumps as they have at least two athletes in the top five in all of the short sprints, hurdles and

And with a few individual national qualifiers as of now the Mavericks look qualify more here at the conference meet with relays in the 4x400 meter relay and the Distance Medley Relay.

“Running on your home track is always an advantage but in this case with relays it especially works in our favor,” Coach Ahonen says, “it’s nice to have athletes competing at home as they are comfortable with the track, all their teammates will be around, and as always, the track in Myers Field House is hot!”

“Our goal is to win our fourth consecutive indoor championship. Anything less than that will be a disappointment.”

Head Coach Jim Dilling says.

“As well, we hope to bring home many individual championships” The Mavericks will be counting on their power athletes for a brunt of the point total. Myles Hunter, Emmanuel Matadi, Nathan Hancock, and Ben Ojika will be tremendous assets with their ability to put points on the board.

From the distance side of things, Coach Ahonen would like to see the senior athletes step up to the plate in their last

NSIC indoor meet.

“There is something to be said for running fast,” Ahonen adds, “but beating people for a conference title is another thing and when the conference meet rolls around, it’s about competing for pride – both personal and team.”

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W/D, A/C, off street parking - only 2 left. 507 - 327 - 5699. Max capacity 5.

2/26 LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIVE STARTING 8-1-2015?

Downtown? This could be it! 3 bedroom above Mecca Tattoo and a 4 bed next to Rounders!

Call/text Jeremy 952-994-5966.

3/05 4 BED/2 BATH and 6 bed/2 bath house for rent. Across the street from campus. Call or text 507995-5300. 4/30

SECONDHAND BOOKSTORE & EXCHANBGE South Front St., across from Fillin’ Station Coffee House. All types of leisure reading. Browsers welcome.

Once Read. 507-388-8144.

Mon.-Sat. 10am-5pm.

THE SOCIAL JUSTICE LECTURE SERIES PRESENTS:

HOW FAIR IS FAIR? SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE FAIR TRADE MOVEMENT A Lecture by Dr. Mark Hudson and Dr. Mara Fridell Tuesday, March 17, 2015 - 7:00 PM Centennial Student Union, Room 253/254 Sponsors: Department of Sociology and Corrections, Sociology Club, Kessel Peace Institute, Library Services, Mavericks for Fair Trade, Mankato Area Free Trade Town Initiative, and the Center for Earth Spirituality and Rural Ministry.

NOTICES

FREE SHOTOKAN KARATE classes offered Monday 6-8 pm, Tuesday 7-9 pm, Thursday 6-8 pm. Room PH 102. Beginners are welcome. Need not to be a MSU student to join. For info call Brad @507-388-5301 or lostgonzo@gmail.com or search MSU Shotokan on Facebook or Yahoo Groups.

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MEET THE AUTHOR OF "PERFECTLY GOOD WHITE BOY" Carrie Mesrobian An Interview with Carrie Mesrobian Friday, March 20, 2015 - 1:00 PM Memorial Library, ML45 Sponsors: Library Services, English Department and Maverick Visual Productions.

For more information: http://libguides.mnsu.edu/mesrobian-perfectlygood-white-boy

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Thursday, February 26, 2015