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MSU Parking Plans Fee increases, no new lots CHELSEA MILLER

staff writer

The lack of parking around a college campus is a struggle that most students will encounter at some point in their college careers, and at Minnesota State University, Mankato, the desire for more parking spots has been around for years.

Students are given the opportunity to voice their opinions on this matter at the annual public hearing on parking and transportation policies, capital improvements and budget.

On March 14 at 1 p.m. everyone is welcome to attend this hearing which will take place in the Ostrander auditorium in the Centennial Student Union.

The topic highlighted at this year’s meeting is not about plans for more parking spots, but the proposed permit price increases that will help fund the reconstruction of existing lots.

A hearing, in this case, is a preliminary examina-

tion of the actions needed to be taken for next year’s parking budget. Actions have already been proposed and discussed at the meeting of the Parking Advisory Committee which took place February 2, at 1 p.m., but next months public hearing will give the public a chance to review what has been decided before they actually commit.

Four days after the meeting of the PAC, an online copy of the proposal was posted on MSU’s website. This proposal documents the increases which are expected to be seen for the gold, purple, orange, light green, dark green, motorcycle and handicap parking permits. The increases range from $8 to $102, with the average being $41.

This could be seen as incentive to utilize other forms of transportation, such as walking or riding your bike. Anytime a

student chooses to walk or even ride the bus, they are helping to decrease the impact cars have on our ecosystem.

Unfortunately, the fee increases do not stop at parking permits. Made available through a separate link on the university’s website, you will find the same proposal but with data on increased bus fare.

This extended version, first available at the February 1 Minnesota State Student Association meeting, notes changes in the fee for route 1 and route 8, as well as the semester U-pass.

For example, it currently costs 50 cents to ride route

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Lecture: A sense of home

Graduate student discusses Minnesota’s role in the Civil and Dakota Wars ELISE KONERZA

news editor

As the 150-year anniversary of the Dakota Conf lict approaches, history students and faculty members of Minnesota State University, Mankato gathered in Erick Hughes discussion of “The Ideas of Home in Minnesota during the Civil and U.S. Dakota War.” Erick Hughes is a History and Anthropology graduate student at MSU. Hughes discussed Mankato’s place in the U.S. Dakota War and why the Dakota War and the Civil War was talked about separately but occurred at the same time.

The Civil War helped cause the Dakota War in the rashness of resources to

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be spread about the people.

Yet, the Dakota people developed their home here in Minnesota before the American home was conceptualized.

The idea of a “manifest destiny” helped advance the movement of the American home as Fort Snelling, Mendota went under attack.

A manifest destiny was the overriding theme in both wars.

As the advancement took place in Minnesota, questions were raised about what to do with the indigenous people. Americans wanted the land, so the expansion of slavery developed in Minnesota. The Treaty of Fort Laramie with the Sioux in 1851 was created for safety

purposes of settlers as they passed through Dakota Territory. The Dakota were given a reservation by the river.

Another critical part to the advancement was the trader’s papers, or the Treaty of the Traverse de Sioux. The United States wanted the treaty to gain control of agricultural lands for more settlers. The Dakota were hesitant to sign so much land so, in agreement the United States would pay $1,665,000 in cash and annuities to the Dakota.

The trickery of the United States slowly showed as debt set in among the Dakota people and the cash and annuities only amounted to a few pennies per acre,

leaving the Dakota people struggling for survival. The treaty wasn’t ratified until 1854.

The American people were drawn to Minnesotan land by mental desires, the land of opportunity, settlements, communities, friendships and families. They soon started to consider the land as their own.

The eruption of the Civil War gave more national attention to Minnesota and incorporated Minnesota into the national identity. White settlers fought in Minnesota regiments under Minnesota, and wanted to spread the word of their existence because they were “so far north.”

One Irishman even went

so far as to ask what regiment a soldier was from. In response the soldier said, Minnesota. The Irishman said, but where… what state? Minnesota was far off the map.

Minnesota was then consolidated as a white American home. The Dakota people desired to fight for the union army but were rejected. “Forbids the use of savages,” said Thomas S. Williamson in response to the Dakota’s request.

If the Dakota were allowed to enlist in the union army, questions were raised as to what would happen next. The United States thought it would reinforce

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Pan African conference draws a crowd

Annual conference named after MSU professor deemed successful REBEKAH ZENS & JUAN AYALA

staff writers Thir ty-six years of dedication from the Ethnic Studies depar tment at Minnesota State University, Mankato has brought in many prestigious keynote speakers.

The Michael T. Fagin 3-day Pan African Student Leadership Conference took over the CSU for another year Thursday through Saturday. This marks the second year that the conference has been named by Richard Davenpor t after Ethnic studies professor, Dr. Michael Fagin. Fagin’s motto, deriving from Black American political activist, Jesse Jackson, still stands tr ue and will in years to come: “Sweat causes change.”

The highlight of the event this year was deemed to be renowned Black American author and Georgetown University professor, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson. The ballroom was f illed to its capacity during his keynote address Friday evening.

“His speech had people standing in line for more than half an hour,” said Dr. Fagin, “They were waiting to get their books signed.”

The rest of the conference was just as f looded

with people with an estimate of more than 600 people in attendance. The high school and public attendance was recorded to be a major increase this year.

“There was a long histor y of dynamic, national and inter nationally k nown and recognized scholars and speakers,” said Dr. Fagin, “[In the past] we have had just a number of similar intellectuals.”

The conference held new events this year including a poster competition for high school and college students. These students were able to present their designs and research projects to other students, scholars and the public.

The events came to a close with the Mr. and Ms. Pan-African Talent Ceremony, which drew in more than 150 people.

Fagin and his colleagues believe that the event was a success. In addition to Dyson, the conference highlighted speeches from the following members of the Pan African community: Acclaimed child rights activist, Kimmie Weeks; Dr. Fagin’s “force behind the conference” as well as a distinguished leader in the upper Midwest African community, Mahmoud El-Kati.

• courtesy of the mankato free press MSU President Richard Davenport named the annual Pan African Conference after Ethnic Studies professor Michael Fagin two years ago.

Other noted speakers were for mer four th judicial district cour t judge of Hennepin County, Judge LaJune Thomas Lange; M N Senator, Bobby Joe Champion; and one of Ebony Magazine’s “50 Leaders of tomor row,” Chike Akua.

Many in attendance felt as though the annual conference is an impor tant asset to MSU and the surrounding community.

“W hen you come from a homogeneous culture

where ever ybody is almost the same and then you come to a melting pot, or metropolis, where you have many diverse cultures and one has been oppressed for so long.” said graduate student, Fuquan Jackson. “W hen they star t to talk about it and bring it to the forefront it makes it ver y uncomfor table for some.”

Some students believe that, the more people k now each other, the better the world is and can be.

This group of individuals encourage students, faculty, staff and community members get to k now each other’s backgrounds and adapt to friendships and relationships they would have never done before.

“We can no longer exist in small cocoons,” said Dr. Fagin. “That we are a global society – just one walk across our campus tells us that we need to prepare ourselves to be world citizens.”

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Dove lecture postponed ALLISON MATTHEWS

staff writer

It isn’t easy to define real beauty. Women’s bodies are often the target of rampant scrutiny.

Dove model, Stacy Nadeau, will speak at Minnesota State University, Mankato to combat the negative messages about women’s bodies. Embracing Real Beauty was originally scheduled at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Centennial Student Union ballroom, but due to weather conditions the event is postponed until further notice.

In 2005, Nadeau posed alongside five other women in the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty. The national campaign looked to change negative views of women’s bodies by embracing different body sizes and shapes.

The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty began in 2004 to launch discussions about advertisements that contribute to negative images of bodies that women believe they need to live up to, according to the Dove website. The photo Nadeau posed in showed women don’t have to be thin to be considered beautiful.

“As a college student, I think it is really important to realize that just because we see a size zero model on television... it doesn’t mean that we are all meant to be that way,” Women’s Center intern Madeline Greene said.

Nadeau brings the message of healthy bodies to various campuses and events around the nation to help women and girls feel more comfortable in their own skin. Nadeau has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and

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PARKING CHANGES “I honestly don’t know what the student government does. I don’t hear that much about them.” continued from 1

• web photo Stacy Nadeau (far right) of the Dove Real Beauty campaign was supposed to give a lecture at MSU Wednesday.

The Ellen Degeneres Show along with many other national talk shows.

On Nadeau’s official website she says, “I can be part of attempting to finally change the media’s view on women’s body types. I have always been a curvier girl and always will be.”

Nadeau also says on her website that women partake in diets and unhealthy eating habits to achieve a certain look that is stereotyped in media.

The talk will focus on embracing different kinds of beauty and how students can adopt healthier ideas of their own bodies.

Greene helped organize the event with the Women’s Center and Residence Hall Association.

Greene said Nadeau’s message is important for MSU students to hear. Men and women can both learn ways to influence healthier body images for women, according to Greene.

“Whether students and staff

recognize it or not, the MSU campus has may students who are battling a negative body image,” Greene said. “When we decided to bring Stacy to campus, we could see potential to change the way women look at their bodies.”

The free event will focus on ways women can start looking at their bodies differently. Greene said that Nadeau’s message along with the Dove campaign has given her more confidence and helped her feel comfortable in her own body.

“The Real Women campaign shows that you are beautiful the way you are and I can’t imagine a better message for college women to hear,” Greene said.

For further information about upcoming information on the time and date of the event, visit the Women’s Center in CSU 218 or visit the Embracing Real Beauty with Stacy Nadeau event page on Facebook.

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1 and $45 for a semester pass. Next year, it may cost 75 cents to ride and $50 to get a semester pass. The University hopes to see more people choosing to ride the bus.

Students may ask, “Why would I go to the annual public hearing if all the information has been made available online?”

The hearing, although appearing to be the last time the proposal will be discussed, is not just for informational purposes. It is an opportunity to voice concerns, or present alternatives that might benefit students.

If a student wants to be a part of this process prior to the hearing in March, it is also possible to have your voice heard at MSSA’s student senate meetings.

The student senate, unlike student governments in high schools, have power over their own budget as well as a say in other budgets like the money spent by the parking and transportation program.

When asked about her knowledge of MSSA’s responsibilities as our student government, junior Cayla Tingelstad said, “Well, I know they are supposed to be like the voice of students.”

An undergraduate class of MSU students were asked the same question about MSSA and the results showed that only one out of 24 students was educated on the topic.

Ashley King, a senior at MSU said, “I honestly don’t know what the student government does, I don’t hear that much about them.”

Attending the annual public hearing is a great opportunity for anyone who is eager to participate in the proposal for next year.

Although, for those students who are looking to really make an impact, the weekly student senate meetings is a great way to stay ahead of the game and make your voice heard.

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HISTORY LECTURE “No one considered the fact that the Dakota were only trying to defend their own home and because the white settlers were attacked, they were the victims.” continued from 1 their warrior society, for important rights of passage.

The Dakota occasionally fought the Ojibwe, yet they wanted to fight the Civil War too. The Dakota soon realized the United States’ hypocrisy when the U.S. war was waging enemies in their borders and they were doing the same thing.

The Dakota were so intent on learning about the status of the union army because the more they heard the union army was not doing very well, rumors and paranoia developed within the Dakota.

The government was in need of more troops, and the Dakota began to see mixed blood Dakota people enlist in the union army. The Dakota people began to take on American culture through clothes, food and language.

Jealousy began to grow among traditional Dakotans and those changing to adapt to American culture.

In 1862, the Dakota became hungry. The building of white settlements petrified the hunting game so the Dakota could not eat. Annuity payments were delayed.

Government traders refused any credit and made it hard for the Dakota people to sustain living. One American declared, “Eat grass or their own dong.”

The Dakota people were livid. Their attacks weren’t

a grand conspiracy. Little Croix warned the Dakota of the white man’s power and not to get caught up in the passions of war. Little Croix finally agreed to attack but said the white power is vigorous.

The attacks were organized but quickly spun out of control; it truly was a “massacre,” Hughes said.

The complexity of mixbloods among the loyal Dakota and marriage between Americans and Dakotans spiraled out of control in the case of identity, which mattered on political and cultural identities. One of the most complex families of that time was the Campbell

family. Many were taken captive, one of them was James Campbell – a mixed blood and brother of Baptist Campbell, who was one of the 38 hung in Mankato.

The newspaper reported mainly on the Civil War before the Dakota War. If the Dakota War happened to be featured in an issue, the Civil War sustained the limelight with larger headlines.

On Sept. 6, two weeks after the outbreak, Ramsey convinced President Abraham Lincoln, it was a national matter. Lincoln didn’t know how to handle the situation. The Dakota capitalized on defeat at the

Battle of Murphy’s Burrow.

A battle of Wood Lake broke out, and produced a “third Minnesota.” The third Minnesota allowed soldiers to redeem themselves. The Dakota admitted defeat after the battle. A trial was held for each Dakotan soldier. Each trial lasted less than five minutes. The original court order was for 303 executions; Lincoln reduced it to 38.

The connections the Dakota War had to the Civil War are what could be used to make sense of the matter. There were beliefs that the confederate embassies were sent up north and were somewhat involved. Thomas

Gailbrith was the biggest believer.

No one considered the fact that the Dakota were only trying to defend their own home and because the white settlers were attacked, they were the victims. Yet, it was really the Dakota who were starved and poor because of the white settlers.

A Swedish settler asked the question, “Did the Indians or Negroes suffer more?” The United States built their home at the expense of other’s homes, Hughes claims. Yet, to understand why we are here, we need to understand how we got here, even if the answer is unsettling.

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MSU Women’s Hockey:

The Mavericks were swept in the first round of the WCHA playoffs by top-ranked and national No. 1 Wisconsin. The Badgers took Friday’s game 7-0 before capping off the sweep of MSU on Saturday 4-0, ending the Mavericks season. MSU concludes the 2011-12 season 7-28-1 overall and 3-24-1 in the WCHA.

MSU Track and Field: The Maverick men captured the program’s third NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championship on Saturday in Mankato. Junior Jerrell Hancock led the way with two firstplace finishes for MSU.

Stopping pucks not Lee’s only strong suit

The senior goaltender must try to shut down WCHA offenses all while sporting a cumulative GPA of 3.92 and double-majoring in economics and history.

JOEY DENTON

staff writer

With the regular season winding down for the Minnesota State, Mankato men’s hockey team, the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s All-Academic team was released, with some of the Mavericks deservingly making the team.

Freshman goalie Evan Karambelas, juniors Tyler Elbrecht and Evan Mosey, and seniors Austin Lee, Cameron Cooper and Joe Schiller were honored.

The six Mavericks were named to the team because they have maintained a GPA above 3.5 in the past academic year.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Lee, a goalie, has earned himself a WCHA Scholar-Athlete Award, and he is a double major.

The Bloomington native clearly has his priorities straight, putting academics first despite the demands and distractions that come with being a student-athlete, as he has recorded an impressive cumulative GPA of 3.92 in his four years here at MSU. So how does he do it?

“It was all about time management skills,” Lee said.

He admits that it gets tough once hockey season rolls around to keep up with his academics, but he understands that

he is a student-athlete.

“It takes hard work and dedication to focus on both your academics and your athletics,” said Lee, who’s doublemajoring in economics and history. “It gets pretty busy, but being a senior, I’m better at my time management skills.”

After graduating from high school, Lee played for the Fargo-Moorhead Jets in the NAHL for a season and went 24-7-5 in 38 games with a .925 save percentage, which opened up a lot of college coaches’ eyes.

When deciding where to play his college hockey, he was not only considering the level of competition on the ice, but also if the school carried both of his majors. Lee, a concert cellist in high school, thankfully decided to come to MSU. “It was a combination of playing in the WCHA, an elite conference, and MSU offered the majors I was in, so it was a great combination of athletics and academics,” Lee said.

After being redshirted his freshman year, Lee didn’t get to play at all his rookie season, but as a sophomore he jumped right in, playing 20 games and going 7-11-0 with a 2.85 goals against average.

Last season, the 2005-06

Jefferson High School Athlete of the Year played well as the Mavericks netminder for 13 games, going 4-5-2 with a .911 save percentage.

One of those wins was a 3-1 victory against then fifth-ranked and eventual national champion Minnesota-Duluth. Lee saved 40 of the Bulldogs’ 41 shots and was named the WCHA Defensive Player of the Week.

“One of the top moments that I will remember would be beating UMD last year, because they eventually became national champions,” Lee said.

So far this season, Lee has gone 5-13-1 in 21 games with a .905 save percentage, and hopes MSU will go as far as they can this season.

Lee wants to pursue hockey as far as it will take him after he graduates with two degrees this spring, and then he eventually plans on going to law school.

He has enjoyed his years at MSU and is glad to be a Maverick.

“I got to play in the WCHA against elite teams, and overall it was really enjoyable,” Lee said. “I want to thank the fan support for my dearest years shannon rathmanner • msu reporter Lee has split time in net with junior goalie Phil Cook this season, but still here.” boasts a 3.20 goals against average to go along with one shutout win.

Women’s Basketball

Fifth-seeded Mavericks open up NSIC Tourney in Duluth against Bulldogs TIGE HUTCHESON

staff writer

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After digging itself into Minnesota-Duluth another early hole, the When: 7 p.m. Wed. Minnesota State, Mankato women’s basketball team Where: Duluth, Minn.

(13-9 NSIC, 17-9 overall) was able to successfully shooting to finish the half. dig itself out and put itself in “We started out a little slow, the best position it could for which was a little concerning, the conference tournament with but we came on and finished an 84-65 victory over Souththe half strong,” said MSU west Minnesota State (5-17, head coach Pam Gohl.

6-20) in its last regular season Davis finished the first game of the season on Saturday half 5-for-6 from three-point afternoon. range with 15 points, leading The Mavericks came out the Mavericks as they charged lethargic to start the game and back from down 13 to up five found themselves down 13 to by the intermission. the worst offensive team in the MSU didn’t take its foot off Northern Sun Intercollegiate the gas in the second half, widConference with 14 minutes ening the gap and eventually remaining in the opening half. running away with an 84-65 But the 13-point deficit victory over the Mustangs. would evaporate quickly Davis would finish as the thanks largely to freshman game’s leading scorer with 18 point guard Aubrey Davis’ hot points, while senior forward

Laura Weber (15 points, 12 rebounds) recorded a doubledouble. Sophomore guard Alli Hoefer and senior guard Jennie Noreen also contributed on offense with 17 and 14 points, respectively.

The 17 points for Hoefer were good for a careerhigh. The home game was also likely the final game Noreen at Bresnan Arena for seniors Weber and Noreen.

“It was fun to leave the court with a win on Senior Day and pick up some momentum going into the playoffs,” said Gohl.

With the win, the Mavericks finished the season with

a conference record of 13-9 and landed the fifth seed in the NSIC Conference Tournament.

And while the first round draw sets up another road rematch against the pesky Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs, a team that won both of its regular season contests against MSU, it’s a matchup Gohl and her team are thrilled about.

“We’re excited to play Duluth again,” said Gohl.

“They’ve beaten us twice and we feel like it’s hard to beat a team three times in a season.

We’re making some adjustments and we played them so recently that they’re fresh in our minds and we’re still pretty mentally prepared for them.”

The Mavericks won’t have much time to prepare with the conference tournament scheduled to begin tomorrow at 7 p.m., but it’s been less than two weeks since the Mavericks last

saw UMD and the memory of the game is still pretty fresh.

Last meeting (Friday, February 17), the Bulldogs clamped down on MSU’s offense, holding it to a seasonlow 44 points and miserable shooting percentages (21.2 percent from the floor and 11.1 percent from behind the arc), as they suffocated the Mavericks for a 65-44 win in Mankato.

While the win seemed pretty convincing, it is hard to beat a team three times in a row, and MSU has had plenty of time to work against Duluth’s seemingly indestructible defense and figure out how to crack it.

Duluth does boast a twogame winning streak over the Mavericks, but it seems only fitting that, if MSU wants to make a tournament run, they have to go through the Bulldogs first.

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Men’s Basketball

Mavericks cap disappointing

season with loss to Southwest REECE HEMMESCH

staff writer

Saturday’s matchup between the Minnesota State, Mankato men’s basketball team and Southwest Minnesota State did not mean a whole lot for MSU. The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament had not been set for sure, but the Mavericks knew that their team would not be participating in it.

Looking at it that way, the season’s final game against the Mustangs meant nothing; but the Mavericks still fought hard, coming up just short once again in falling to SMSU 79-71.

The loss gave MSU a final overall record of 7-19 and 6-16 in the NSIC, good for one of the worst records in the Matt Margenthaler era.

The loss also made it seven in a row for MSU to close the regular season, and it was also the 10th loss of the season that was decided by 10 or fewer points.

The Mavericks made the final game of the season look like so many they have played in so far this season: Start the game trailing, claw their way back in it and finish with not enough gas in the tank to get the win.

“We just needed to find ways to come out on top in those close games and the season would’ve been much different,” explained sophomore post Connor O’Brien on the season’s woes. “I think it was a positive that we really battled even though we were not advancing to the postseason.”

The Mavericks were led in the scoring department by sophomore combo guard Jimmy Whitehead, who finished the

game with a career-high 24 points.

O’Brien added 11 himself on the night, and senior wing Stephen Kirschbaum scored 22 points in his last game in a Mavericks uniform.

The season concludes with Kirschbaum and freshman Zach Romashko on top of the season’s scoring charts, with both averaging more than 12 points per game.

Whitehead and O’Brien follow in third and fourth place with around 11 per game, and O’Brien took home the team rebounding crown, grabbing more than eight per game.

Even though it was a down season for the Mavericks, the future is looking bright with the current roster that they possess. The squad will only lose one player from this season in Kirschbaum, and all the players who received significant playing time this season are only sophomores or freshmen on the team.

Throw in Division-I transfer Jayme Moten, who will have four years of eligibility left, and Assem Marei, a 6’9” transfer from Egypt who will come in as a sophomore, and you have yourself a team that could once again compete for a conference title.

“We really need to do everything in our power to make sure this type of season doesn’t happen again,” O’Brien optimistically said regarding next season.

“We want to get back to the success we had in prior years, and we are capable of doing that, but we need to put in the work.”

MSU takes ninth overall, sends two to NCAAs

RYAN LUND

staff writer

In a season filled with potential and close contests and lacking in successes, the Minnesota State, Mankato wrestling team was looking for a positive heading into the 2012 NCAA Division-II Super 3 Regional in St. Cloud this weekend; they found two.

The Mavericks finished the tournament with 52.5 points, good enough for ninth place, but the story of the day was the performance of sophomore David Demo and freshman Cody Quinn, who both advanced to the NCAA Division-II Championships this Sunday.

Demo, who opened the tournament with a 4-2 decision loss to St. Cloud’s Eric Forde, followed the close defeat with a major decision win over Hunter Menendez of U-Mary, along with a decision win over Newman University’s Anthony Bruno.

Demo then fell to Augustana’s Cody Lensing 7-3, setting up the much-anticipated rematch with Forde.

Demo would prove to be up to the task the second time around, downing the SCSU freshman in a convincing 7-2 decision.

Demo remained strong in his final bout, defeating Upper Iowa junior Chris Paulus in a tense 4-3 contest to secure fourth place and a trip to the National

Championships.

Freshman Cody Quinn, a stalwart performer for the injury-plagued Mavericks, was granted a first-round bye before defeating Wisconsin-Parkside’s Montraill Johnson in a 9-2 decision.

A pin from St. Cloud’s Tad Merritt proved a minor setback, but Quinn rebounded with a pin of his own over Indianapolis’ Jeff Weiss, followed by a 9-5 victory over U-Mary’s Taylor Nagel to advance.

MSU sophomore Brendan Eichmann was a strong performer for the Mavericks as well, capturing Quinn fifth place at 174-lbs., falling just short of a national championships bid.

After recording wins over Northern State senior Donnie Bowden and SMSU senior Trent Molacek, Eichmann suffered a close 3-2 overtime loss to Upper Iowa junior Wade Gobin.

Eichmann followed the pair of losses with a 4-2 decision win over Moorhead junior Trent Sovde, but it wouldn’t be enough to advance.

Senior Tel Todd also started strong, recording a pair of decision victories over MSU-

Moorhead sophomore Jacob Bennett and Maryville freshman Joseph Moorhouse, before an undisclosed ailment knocked the veteran from the tournament.

Quinn and Demo might have finished strong, but for one of the most storied programs in Division-II, the team’s ninthplace finish was less than ideal.

Still, despite the setbacks head coach Jim Makovsky remained positive.

“I am excited and proud of David and Cody’s performance,” the veteran head coach said.

“Neither one has peaked yet and I believe the best is yet to come.

Makovsky however, appears to have taken the team’s uncharacteristically poor season to heart.

“We took a huge step back this season and have a lot of work to do to build it back up,” he said. “Wrestling is a tough sport and you don’t always get what you deserve, you get what you earn.”

The Mavericks will look to wrestlers like Quinn and Demo again next season, along with fellow underclassmen Drew Lexvold and Brendan Eichmann, all of whom put together strong performances on Sunday.

Demo and Quinn will move on to the Division-II National Championships, which take place March 9-10 at Massari Arena in Pueblo, Colorado.

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Can An Old Piano Help Save Our Public Schools?

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hey sit looming in living rooms and corners; their presence nostalgic and wise. Often their grace and handcrafted beauty quietly slips past conscious acknowledgement and into sensory ignorance. All sorts of metal and wood were artfully formed and mingled into an unintentional statement of times forgotten.

When you clean, you might have a respect similar to that of placing flowers on the grave of a distant ancestor as you dust off the hardwood. And maybe if you’re not careful you might accidentally strike a key, and a healthy note would sing through the house, sounding a great release, breathed out by the giant that is the family piano.

Throughout the past century, it was a cultural norm to have a music box in the common quarters of a family home. The bench was full of popular sheet music to entertain visitors and build hobbies.

But as television took attention away from the previous focal point of the living room, the Internet finished the job, leaving pianos across the country to lose tune and collect dust.

Hardly anyone seems to want them anymore; they take up space and are difficult to move. Hardly anyone seems to care enough to cherish them and tickle their ivory keys any longer. Hardly anyone, that is except for Newell Hill.

It began in 2000, when Hill started repairing old pianos in his parents’ garage in Woodbury, MN. After teaching himself, and becoming proficient in, the maintenance and salvage of the instruments, Hill saw opportunity to do

brian rosemeyer • msu reporter Newell Hill stands with one of his donated pianos at Keys 4/4 Kids’ new warehouse in Belle Plaine.

good.

Hill began teaching piano lessons to children in North Minneapolis because he felt the need to share the impact the instrument had on him at a young age.

“I was excited about playing, and I loved to compose music on [the piano],” said Hill. “And I wanted to have more kids be able to learn music and have the opportunity to get instruction and have access to instruments.”

As Hill went on repairing pianos and selling them to raise money for art supplies and music for his students, he became interested in the idea of officially forming a non-profit organization out of his work.

“When I started reading about non-profits, and how to start them and run them, I started to actually do it,” Hill said. “I remember

when it clicked. I was riding the bus to one of my classes at the University of Minnesota and I thought ‘you know, this could be my job.’”

The organization he started was named Keys 4/4 Kids (pronounced ‘keys for kids’), “4/4” being a common time signature used in music.

The idea is basic, but brilliant.

Hill and his crew accept pianos that people donate, which acts mutually beneficial to both parties. Most people with pianos in their homes don’t use them much, and it’s a hassle to get them out.

So Keys 4/4 Kids comes and picks the instruments up, repairs them, and then sells the pianos to people or organizations who really want or need an affordable piano. Keys 4/4 Kids then takes the profit they make and donates it to nourish arts

programs in public schools.

Last year alone, Keys 4/4 kids netted over $500,000 from their three locations; St. Paul (the original), Chicago and Kansas City.

They took in around 1,000 pianos in donations.

In 2012 Keys 4/4 Kids finds itself ready to continue expanding into our neck of the woods. Southern Minnesota will get a Keys 4/4 Kids warehouse in Belle Plaine.

“We’re happy at our St. Paul location,” said Hill. “But it’s become really expensive.”

The new warehouse is located at 125 E. Main Street.

Aside from their basic operations, Keys 4/4 Kids also holds a number of events to promote art within the community.

The Paint a Piano Program involves Keys 4/4 Kids giving a piano to a local school, community center or church and allowing kids to express themselves through painting it any way they would like, after the kids are done with their piece of art, they can keep the piano and learn to play it.

Aside from taking in pianos from the Belle Plaine community, Keys 4/4 Kids plans to hold scheduled “Mankato Days” where all the folks from K-Town can donate their pianos on a common day and Keys 4/4 Kids will haul them up 169 back to their warehouse.

The new location in Belle Plaine had its grand opening on Jan. 28th.

Hill and company encourage anyone who would like to buy a refurbished, affordable piano, or to donate a piano to Keys 4/4 Kids to visit them in Belle Plaine.

Don’t ever let anyone tell you that music can’t help change our world.

The Keys 4/4 Kids Process 1.

Contact Keys 4/4 Kids: keys44kids. com 651-6983280 keys44kids@ gmail.com

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Arrange for a piano pickup: Free if valued over $500, or donate to help cost

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Your piano The Piano is repaired: is sold: To the By the general experts at Keys 4/4 Kids public, schools, churches, anyone

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Profit is given: To nurture art programs in public schools, everyone wins

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Minneapolis Gets Moody A first look at Polica CHRISTIAN HAGEN | web editor

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Best Picture: The Artist Best Director: Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist Best Actor: Jean Dujardin, The Artist Best Actress: Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, The Help One year after trying, and failing, to angle the youth vote, the Academy retreated into old habits with Sunday’s Oscars. A nine-time host (Billy Crystal) saw an award go to a 17time nominee (Streep) all while statues were granted for the year’s most innocuous and inoffensive productions.

That said, here are some awards for Hollywood’s Safest Night: Least Surprising Surprise Viola Davis was the odds-on favorite to win Best Actress for her inspiring turn in The Help, which would have made her the second African-American to ever win the award.

So, of course, they gave it to “upset special” Meryl Streep.

Best Presenters The prevalence of comedians like the stars of Bridesmaids and Christopher Guest’s contingent was a welcome addition to the year.

But Will Ferrel and Zach Galifianakis were the best of all, funny beyond belief.

Best Acceptance Speech The year’s most welcome change was the infusion of real sincerity in almost every acceptance speech, a far cry from years of smugness. It’s hard to pick a favorite, so it’s a tie between Asghar Farhadi ’s politically moving acceptance for A Separation and Christopher Plummer ’s long-awaited win for Best Supporting Actor.

Fail of the Night Billy Crystal. In blackface. In the opening film montage. Yikes.

Win of the Night Bret McKenzie of Flight of the Conchords, winning for his Muppets tune “Man or Muppet.” Because who wasn’t rooting for him?

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inneapolis has a host of musical artists that are poised to mount an assault on the world in 2012. New acts like Howler, MaLLy and The Tribe and Big Cats are generating steady buzz outside the frigid metro area, and with breakout stars like P.O.S., Brother Ali, and others prepping new albums, this may finally be the year that the Twin Cities take over.

The most recent act of the new year to make their play is Polica, the electro outfit fronted by former Roma Di Luna songstress Channy Casselle, with their new album Give You the Ghost. And from the start, the greatest apparent strength of Polica is Casselle’s gift for melody. Sorrowfully sliding vocoded vocals twist amidst, above, and occasionally under the dark bass and dancing grooves of the rest of the band. The bittersweet longing of her voice, even buried as it is under a signature of electronic distortion, is no less haunting, especially in moments like the chorus of “I See My Mother” and the grand sweep of “Violent Games.”

The heavy blast of dueling drummers keeps the melancholy parade from becoming too bogged down in its own morose palette. And, at the band’s best moments, the production recalls greats like Portishead or 2011 indie darlings Phantogram (apparently the letter “P” denotes electronica sad-sackery with lady vocals. Who knew?).

Unfortunately, as much as the band soars in their best moments, they seem torn in principle as to their actual ambitions.

Casselle has said that the distortion on her voice allows it to act as another instrument within the band, denoting them as more of an instrumental act wherein one of the instruments in question happens to be a woman’s voice. But the careful, chorus-laden compositions mostly debunk the idea of the organically arranged instrumental tunes of other acts.

Songs like “Dark Star” and “Lay Your Cards Out,” while certainly some of the album’s best pieces, are decidedly tight in structure. Yet the lack of conviction in the concept of being an instrumental outfit makes other songs a tad flat. “Form” and “The Maker” are pretty enough, but evaporate from memory as soon as they wrap. This isn’t to say it’s wrong to write songs in this manner, but rather that the aimless nature of the band’s mission informs some of the sleepier moments which dot the collection.

Still, when the ideas coalesce well, the result is deeply beautiful. The aforementioned “Lay Your Cards Out” and “Dark Star” are wonderful, but it’s lead single “Wandering Star” that really seals the potential of the group; Casselle is as wanting and forlorn here as any weeping songstress of her day, but the restraint of the production keeps it from becoming a wailing melodrama. The drums are sure to make it a hit in dark dance clubs as the beats wrap nimbly around Casselle’s love-lost lyrics.

Too often, though, it’s easy for a listener to become lost in the similarity of these songs. Without standouts like those mentioned above, and even those bear a definite resemblance to one another, Give You the Ghost could easily be a monochromatic bore.

Perhaps paring down some of the weaker moments, including the bizarrely funky conclusion “Leading to Death,” which brings a sour and confused end to an otherwise pretty album, might have left a stellar, even star-making EP. As it is, Polica has definitely left their first stamp on the new cadre of Minneapolis artists on the rise. With their considerable talents, their name is sure to ring out around town in the months to come, and hopefully beyond.

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