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How to spot reliable news in the age of social media Mass Media professor Rachael Hanel offers helpful hints to stay media savvy.

RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer Since President Donald Trump won the election, a paralyzed state first attacked hearts of many people.

Misgivings have now turned into suspicion, which has now transferred to fear that now plagues the atmosphere.

Some may even say hysteria has formed.

Most of these extreme feelings tend to be biased from the news outlets that may favor one side over the other, and even more so, what the general opinion is in your area.

Images flood our vision all the time with modern social media. Because of the power of the image, photos also resonate with our hearts. This fact leads images we see on a daily basis to tear at our hearts with how connected we feel to the recent ongoing events. While this is a good feeling (because it means you care), the passion can

(CC BY 2.0) by Phil Roeder head while you weigh the facts in your research and recognize that sometimes the job of ‘reporter’ is not as easy as it may appear.

While it is important to research information from

“Still, it is important to maintain a level head while you weigh the facts in your research and recognize that sometimes the jobs for reporters are not as easy as they may appear.”

sometimes drive you to the brink of insanity. You may become so in tune with one side that you miss the full picture.

Many changes have taken place or will take place within a matter of months. Still, it is important to maintain a level

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various medium formats such as newspapers, on radio or television, you should be selective about your choices for sources, too.

Mass Media professor Rachael Hanel agrees and offers a couple pointers.

“I suggest doing research

within credible sources.

This includes trusted media outlets and the incredible research databases available through the MNSU library,” Hanel wrote in an email Wednesday.

“Credible sources are less likely to take a sensationalized tone and present a more neutral, balanced stance on issues.”

Instead of what is being said or focused on, one should also exercise an often overlooked ability to read the fine print and see what is actually being done rather than what is being assumed or implied.

For instance, last month when Trump gave the executive order on the refugee ban, it was to prevent radicals from entering the country. The ban did not include a permanent ban on all Muslims as many were suggesting, but rather a temporary ban from seven countries. He also did not make it a permanent order and the length of time was a matter of a few months while he improves security.

“The bottom line is that Trump is improving security

screening and intends to admit refugees at close to the average rate of the 15 years before Obama’s dramatic expansion in 2016,” writer David French said in a National Review article.

“Obama’s expansion was a departure from recent norms, not Trump’s contraction.”

So despite the fact that you may have already formed your opinion, you should look at the counter side of the issue and dive deeper there to discover a balance between the two views. While it is an important exercise that any reporter should maintain, it also goes for a critical thinker, too.

“It is important to make sure you are looking up information on your own and that you are reading ever y thing through,” Hanel said. “If you want to share something, you should make sure you are reading everything through thoroughly before you link it or share it. I believe that’s a good thing to try to combat how that news can snowball when it’s not factually accurate.”

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If you consistently watch the news and you perceive that it focuses on just one negative aspect, Hanel advises to look for cases where that particular incident does not happen.

On the other side of the fence as a reporter, Hanel acknowledged that sometimes the newspapers could run short on resources or staff, and then you must cover the local events that are happening and that are unusual.

When Hanel worked for The Free Press, the only political issues she covered occurred at city council meetings. Yet Hanel said sometimes the city and county governments would address issues that were controversial.

“As reporters, we made sure we had all the facts and talked to all of the parties involved in order to present a balanced account,” she added in her email.

When asked if a working journalist could overcome their personal bias, Hanel provided a straightforward but insightful answer.

“Journalists will always have a bias due to their personal beliefs, the ways in which they were raised, the places in which they were raised, etc.,” Hanel said.

“Only robots could be devoid of feelings, experiences and emotions. So journalists have to recognize that they have biases and strive for as much balance and neutrality as possible. If at any point they felt that their personal beliefs or opinions were influencing their coverage of an issue, they need to stop writing about that issue and hand it over to someone else. If their personal beliefs became a regular interference with their work, then they should find another job.”

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Airports, legal volunteers prepare for new Trump travel ban SEATTLE (AP) — Airport officials and civil rights lawyers around the country are getting ready for President Donald Trump’s new travel ban — mindful of the chaos that accompanied his initial executive order but hopeful the forthcoming version will be rolled out in a more orderly way.

The new order is expected to be issued in the coming days. A draft suggested it would target people from six of the original seven predominantly Muslim countries but would exempt travelers who already have visas to come to the U.S. The latest draft in circulation no longer includes Iraq.

Since last month’s ban, which courts have put on hold, a section of the international arrivals area at Dulles International Airport outside the nation’s capital has been transformed into a virtual law firm, with legal volunteers ready to greet travelers from affected countries and ask if they saw anyone being detained.

Similar efforts are underway at other airports, including Seattle-Tacoma International, where officials have drawn up plans for crowd control after thousands crammed the baggage claim area to protest the original ban.

“The plan is to be as ready as possible,” said Lindsay Nash, an immigration law professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York who has been helping prepare emergency petitions on behalf of those who might be detained.

Trump’s initial action, issued Jan. 27, temporarily barred citizens of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan and Libya from coming to the U.S. and halted acceptance of all refugees. The president

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press said his administration would review vetting procedures amid concerns about terrorism in those seven nations.

Protesters flooded U.S. airports that weekend, seeking to free travelers detained by customs officials amid confusion about who could enter the country, including U.S. permanent residents known as greencard holders.

Attorneys also challenged the order in court, including officials from Washington state. That lawsuit, which Minnesota joined, resulted in a federal judge temporarily blocking the government from enforcing the travel ban, a decision unanimously upheld by a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Many civil rights lawyers and activists have said they don’t believe a new order would cure all the constitutional problems of the original, including the claim that it was motivated by anti-Muslim discrimination.

Trump has said he singled

out the seven countries because they had already been deemed a security concern by the Obama administration.

In his first address to Congress on Tuesday night, Trump said his administration “is taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism” and is working on improved vetting procedures.

“And we will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe — and to keep out those who would do us harm,” Trump said.

Last week, analysts at the Homeland Security Department’s intelligence arm found insufficient

evidence that citizens of the seven Muslim-majority countries pose a terror threat to the United States.

“It’s not enough to just tweak an order and not change the nature of why it was issued in the first place,” said Rula Aoun, director of the Arab American Civil Rights League in Dearborn, Michigan, which sued over the initial ban and is prepared to do the same with the rewrite if necessary.

In New York, American Civil Liberties Union attorney Lee Gelernt said the organization was ready to go to court if the administration tries to immediately enforce its new

order.

“The primary focus is being able to respond immediately to any request by the government to lift any of the injunctions, before the courts have had a chance to examine the new order,” he said.

Activists and airport officials alike said they hoped it would be phased in to give travelers fair warning, which might preclude any detentions from arriving flights.

“We are prepared and willing,” said Rebecca Sharpless, who runs the immigration clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. “But it’s unlikely to cause the same kind of chaos of last time.”

At Dulles, Sea-Tac, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other airports, legal volunteers have greeted arriving travelers in shifts every day since the initial ban, wearing name tags or posting signs in different languages to identify themselves.

The legal-ser vices nonprofit OneJustice was ready to send email alerts to 3,000 volunteers in California if needed, deploying them to San Francisco and Los Angeles airports for people

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As Mardi Gras revelry ends with a party, Lent begins NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After a day of parades, blaring marching bands, elaborate costumes and crowds screaming for beads, another Mardi Gras celebration is over.

Fat Tuesday, which marks the end of the Carnival season, started before dawn in New Orleans and wrapped up with a ceremonial clearing of Bourbon Street at midnight.

Lent — for many Christians a period of reflection or fasting ahead of Easter — begins Wednesday.

But the festivities were marred in the Alabama beach town of Gulf Shores where police said a car participating in the city’s Fat Tuesday parade accidentally plowed into a band, injuring 12 people.

But in New Orleans and elsewhere the day was marked by frivolity and fun with locals and tourists watching parades and dressing up in funky costumes.

The Clements family has

been staking out the same bit of St. Charles Ave. sidewalk for more than 50 years to watch the krewes of Rex and Zulu parade. The extended family had a dozen children with them — including 2-yearold Cecile Gros who lasted until about noon before falling asleep. Her mother, Alison Gros, recalled coming one year when she was nine months pregnant.

“If I’d delivered on Mardi Gras I wanted to name her Marty — Marty Gros. But my husband didn’t really go for it. And she was born two weeks later,” she said.

Other children had also partied till they napped, sleeping in parents’ arms or strollers. Mardi Gras may be a bawdy party in the French Quarter, but outside the Quarter, it’s often a family affair.

Carnival season kicked off Jan. 6, and Fat Tuesday is generally a holiday for people in the New Orleans area. One reveler, Craig Channell who

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In Chicago, travelers have been signing up for an assistance program started by the local Council on American-Islamic Relations office to ensure swift legal help if they’re detained.

Groups urged those arriving at 17 other airports, including Miami, Atlanta and San Diego, to register with Airport Lawyer , a secure website and free mobile app that alerts volunteer lawyers

to ensure travelers make it through customs without trouble.

Asti Gallina, a third-year student at the University of Washington Law School, volunteered at Sea-Tac for the first time Tuesday. It was quiet, she said.

“An essential part of the American narrative is the ability to come to America,” Gallina said.

“Any infringement of that is something that needs to be resisted.”

was visiting from Tampa, Florida, described it as “the one time of year people can act like fools and get away with it.”

The biggest parades took place along the St. Charles Avenue parade route, where the Krewe of Zulu kicked things off, followed by the Krewe of Rex. Pete Fountain’s Half-Fast Walking Club strutted from the famed Commander’s Palace restaurant to the French Quarter, tossing beads and doubloons to recordings of his music.

Fountain, a clarinetist, died in August of last year, but the club members — decked out from hat to shoes in nearly fluorescent lime green — were carrying on the tradition. They dubbed it “Walking in the Limelight with Pete.”

Last year’s Mardi Gras took place on a chill February morning but the weather this year was balmy. Keyshaun Morgan said she couldn’t remember the last time she’d been able to wear shorts on Fat Tuesday.

“It’s lovely. Thank you, Jesus, for this weather!” she exclaimed.

In another part of the

city, people dressed in costumes took part in the St. Anne’s parade — an eclectic walking parade that starts in the Bywater and Marigny neighborhoods and ends in the French Quarter.

Linnea Eitmann and her husband Adam were dressed in hand-made purple and cream colored costumes inspired by French royalty and the Brazilian samba — an homage to the French and Brazilian Mardi Gras traditions.

Linnea says the couple takes part in many activities leading up to Fat Tuesday but this is the day to really “show people what you are made of” when it comes to costumes.

“Everybody works so hard on their costumes,” she said.

“You can wear whatever you want.”

The country’s heated politics have been a running theme through floats and costumes this Mardi Gras season. Jim Segreto wore a costume inspired by President Donald Trump’s promises to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

The costume consisted of blue sateen pants, an Uncle Sam hat and a cardboard box

marked with black lines for cinderblocks. A label read: “Trump’s $26 billion wall.

Mexico offers ‘nada.’ We’re stuck with the bill.”

“I had to have something that made a statement,” Segreto said.

Government offices and many businesses were closed in Mobile, Alabama, for the festivities as many towns and cities across the Gulf Coast also celebrate Mardi Gras.

This year’s Mardi Gras season was marred by accidents. In Gulf Shores, Alabama, spokesman Grant Brown said a band had just entered a Fat Tuesday parade when a car behind the group lurched forward. Three young people were in critical condition and nine others had less-severe injuries.

In Mississippi, a man watching Biloxi’s Mardi Gras parade died after falling from the back of a pickup truck onto a piece of exposed rebar.

A suspected drunkendriving incident sent more than 20 people watching a parade in New Orleans to the hospital Saturday night. No one was killed.

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COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer As I sat on the couch watching the closing hours of the election, my wife and I looked at each other in surprise, not because we thought that the world was going to end or this somehow marked the end of democracy, but simply because the host of The Apprentice was now president. The next day the sun would still rise, homework was still due, work still needed to be done and we would still love each other. Although we were both in college and had front seats to the decay of our generation’s moral spine, we foolishly thought after all had sunk in that this would be the response shared by most.

However, students showed up to class in tears, and the protests that had been raging for months kicked up in intensity. The relief after a fairly ugly election that I had anticipated eluded the populace. While this reaction should not have surprised, it did. The lack of maturity, class, and acceptance disappointed me. Why? Why was this the result despite the fact there is one side that loses every single election?

I am not a political writer, nor am I a student of human psychology. I am simply a sports reporter, which means I can observe objectively and

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The problem with this generation of liberals is they have absolutely no idea how to lose. My generation has almost always received a trophy, gotten the ribbon, never kept score, avoided picking teams so no one was last and constantly took part in the spoils of victory despite the performance put forth.

While this was a problem that shows most easily in sports, it has reached an ugly hand into everything. Kids are not punished in school, and students are constantly given outs and grade curves to help with classes. They are told they are special, nothing they could strive to is wrong, and they will always be

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successful because no one wanted to hurt their feelings and say otherwise. They then are sent to colleges where they are told that any belief in their head cannot possibly be wrong, and will always be excepted.

The problem then extends further than a generation that does not know how to lose. It is now a generation that has no appreciation for consequence. Why would they? Every misstep taken has been labeled as free will and expression. So when the entire country told a generation of new voters that their candidate was a lock, then saw her go down in a stunning election, they had no idea what do with themselves.

What has followed has been nothing short of disgusting. People have crowded the streets to protest the new president, crying out against one of life’s simplest happenings: losing. While we should all be grateful every four years that one power willingly relinquishes control to the incoming power, something few countries can say, the masses cry out because the concept of something not going their way is foreign.

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Washington produces record harvest of wine grapes SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Washington state’s booming wine industry produced a record harvest of wine grapes in 2016 after cooler weather lengthened the growing season, officials said Wednesday.

Last year’s harvest in Washington, the secondlargest producer of premium wines in the U.S., tallied 270,000 tons, beating the state’s previous record of 227,000 tons in 2014, according to the Washington State Wine Commission, which represents licensed wineries and wine grape growers.

As recently as 2012, the state produced just 188,000 tons of grapes.

California is by far the nation’s largest wine producer. A preliminary report for 2016 showed that farmers there grew 4 million tons of grapes, up 8.5 percent from the year before but short of a record.

California’s final report on the grape crush is due March 10.

In Washington, the 2016 haul was up 22 percent from 2015. Red varieties outpaced white, totaling 58 percent of the harvest. Cabernet

Sauvignon was the top variety.

“Not only did we see our biggest harvest ever, but it was a great harvest,” said Steve Warner, wine commission president.

“The weather in eastern Washington cooled down a bit to extend the growing season and allow the grapes some extra time to mature on the vine.”

The state has more than 900 wineries, with most of the grapes grown east of the Cascade Range that runs through the middle of the state.

“Our growers and winemakers are extremely excited about these wines,” Warner said.

It was too early to say if the record production will affect wine prices in the future, said Heather Bradshaw, a spokeswoman for the wine commission. Prices depend on the worldwide supply of wine and the quality of the vintage, among other factors, she said.

Production of red varieties showed a substantial increase over the previous year, at 39 percent, while white varieties grew by 3 percent. The largest

share of the growth in reds was Cabernet Sauvignon, the commission said.

“We attribute the significant growth of our red varieties, especially Cabernet Sauvignon, to a number of positive outcomes in 2016 compared with the previous year,” Warner said. “The 2016 harvest was the result of a near-perfect growing season and higher-than-expected

grape yields.”

Plus, new vineyard plantings are beginning to produce fruit, a trend that’s expected to continue, he said.

Merlot was the secondmost popular grape produced in Washington.

Chardonnay was the top white and third overall, while Riesling was fourth.

Wine grape growers

received an average of $1,157 per ton for all varieties in 2016, an increase of $12 over the previous year. Malbec was the most expensive grape, the commission said.

The preliminary report for California found that average prices for all varieties were $750 per ton, up 11.7 percent from 2015. Chardonnay grapes accounted for the most production in California.

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The ignorance of how good we have it because of an elected official that has yet to fail makes this country’s masses look dreadfully unprepared for most anything of significance.

And to those who say I am overreacting, I am the one who has to go to

class and work the rest of my life in the workforce with these individuals and their souped-up sense of entitlement.

We are living in a world that has coddled these infants for 20 odd years of life and ill prepared them for the smallest bump in the road. Instead of trusting a system of checks and balances, the country has thrown itself into the disarray that they will then blame the president for.

The reaction to Trump is far more concerning than anything I anticipate from the president.

The idea of losing with grace like an adult, or accepting consequences for actions, has missed a generation and now the real tragedy has come to light.

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Deadly storm in Midwest sounded like ‘explosion of glass’ ST. LOUIS (AP) — A deadly spring-like storm that one Illinois resident described as sounding like “an explosion of glass” damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes in that state and others, blew cars off a major Missouri highway and forced people in an Arkansas town to huddle for safety in a high school.

Tornadoes were blamed in three deaths amid a large swath of destruction through the central U.S. before rumbling eastward.

Forecasters said up to 95 million people are potentially in the storm’s path as it moves toward the midAtlantic states and southern New England. Forecasters said cities including New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., could be at risk.

Officials in Arkansas, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri were assessing damage after storms Tuesday night and early Wednesday.

In northern Illinois, an uprooted tree killed 76-yearold Wayne Tuntland of Ottawa. More than a dozen others were injured. In the small community of Naplate, next to Ottawa, about a quarter of the roughly 200 homes were damaged, Fire Chief John Nevins said.

Debbie Loughridge, 61, and her son were inside their Naplate home, riding out the storm in the bathtub.

Firefighters rescued them after the roof was torn off.

“All I heard was the wind and the breaking glass.

Like an explosion of glass,” Loughridge said.

the storm passed.

Tornadoes may have touched down Wednesday in and near Nashville, Tennessee. Weather service meteorologist Sam Herron cited numerous reports of scattered damage across central Tennessee and a possible tornado near the Cool Springs mall south of Nashville. The city’s Emergency Operations Center tweeted that damage to power lines and trees indicated that another tornado may have touched down in the city.

A tornado is suspected of damaging several homes and a church building in Ireland, Indiana. No injuries were reported but one woman had to be rescued from a partially collapsed home.

White House spokesman Sean Spicer said President Donald Trump is monitoring the severe weather. He said the White House will stay in touch with state and local officials to provide federal support as needed.

Strong winds elsewhere in the Plains spread wildfires in Texas. Four homes were destroyed near Tulia, about 50 miles south of Amarillo, before firefighters beat back the flames. Texas A&M Forest Service spokesman Phillip Truitt said the fire prompted the evacuation of almost 1,200 homes.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press In southern Illinois, an apparent tornado near the town of Crossville killed a 71-year-old man and injured his wife, White County Coroner Chris Marsh said.

In Missouri, a twister touched down Tuesday night, blowing several vehicles off of Interstate 55 near Perryville, 65 miles southeast of St. Louis. A 24-year-old man from Perryville was thrown from one of the vehicles and died, Missouri State Highway Patrol Cpl. Juston Wheetley said. The wind was so strong that it lifted crumpled cars from a nearby salvage yard and tossed them along the highway.

Nearly 110 homes in the Perryville area were damaged or destroyed and 12 people suffered minor injuries, Perryville Fire Chief Jeremy

Triller said.

“I feel we’re very blessed and fortunate we didn’t have a higher fatality number with this terrible disaster,” Triller said.

Meteorologist Rick Shanklin of the National Weather Service said the Missouri twister was a “strong tornado,” but the actual wind speed has not been estimated. Officials believe it was on the ground for 13 to 15 miles, crossing the Mississippi River into Illinois.

National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center meteorologist Patrick Marsh said crews are still determining how many twisters touched down across the central U.S. Marsh said a strong storm system moved from the Mountain West and collided

with warm and humid air in the Midwest, which has enjoyed an unusually warm winter and where temperatures Tuesday were well into the 70s in many places.

“That’s why we saw storms more representative of late March and April,” Marsh said.

“The atmosphere doesn’t care what the calendar says.”

Northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas, emergency managers said about 40 homes were damaged and 10 to 15 people were injured near Higginson, while additional minor injuries were reported at a state prison near Newport. Hundreds of people, including schoolchildren, had to take shelter at Bald Knob High School, which was hosting a state basketball tournament.

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Album review: Dirty Projectors’ self-titled album Indie band releases first album since departure of band members.

KRISTINA BUSCH Staff Writer Dirty Projectors, a Brooklyn indie rock band led by David Longstreth, has released a total of eight albums. After the band’s 2012 album Swing Lo Magellan, Longstreth worked alongside Rihanna, Kanye West, and Solange (who co-wrote “Cool Your Heart” in the new album). Of all the band’s albums, however, this is the first time one of those is self-titled. In the album Dirty Projectors, Longstreth explores all the layers of a breakup—the anger and frustration of not seeing eye to eye, the acceptance of things not working out, the loneliness after the breakup, and the reconciliation of differences.

The band has gone through several changes in lineup, but Longstreth has always been the front man.

Most recently, vocalist Amber Coffman (Longstreth’s former girlfriend) left the band, along with Angel Deradoorian. Understandably, the new album presented the opportunity for Longstreth to express his feelings after the

David Longstreth of Dirty Projectors. breakup and to do so all on his own.

In “Little Bubble,” Longstreth laments about “dumb and meaningless dreams” and feels alone, with lyrics like “Morning / There’s no one else here / I’m alone in the cold.” I’d recommend watching the music videos for this song and others by the

band. I’ll be honest and say that some of them are super weird, but they definitely are profound.

Anger is felt in the song “Death Spiral,” where Longstreth sings “But it’s the end / we’re enemies, not friends / I don’t know your state of mind, mine’s good, bye.” The song has a scattered nature

(CC BY 2.0) by livepict.com about it, which embodies what one often feels when they deal with confrontations in a breakup.

The song “Keep Your Name” has a warped, hazy feel to it. Longstreth comes to terms with his differences of his ex, when he sings “What I want from art is truth, what you want is fame / Now

we’ll keep ‘em separate / and you keep your name.”

In “Up in Hudson,” Longstreth weaves together a narrative of his past relationship, assumingly with Coffman. He sings about how he met her, when she joined the band, and the realization that their love would eventually die.

This can be felt when Longstreth sings “And love will burn out / And love will just fade away.” The song reconciles the separation, but still acknowledges the pain.

The song also features brass accompaniment and blends together a pop and classic trumpet sound.

What I love about Dirty Projectors is that Longstreth does not wallow in the stereotypical themes of any other “breakup album”—like self pity, and the “he-said, shesaid.” Longstreth uses his breakup to fuel a profound album, one that’s interesting, quirky, and cathartic all at the same time.

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Retro review: The Other Woman an ultimate revenge movie This 2014 film is the adult alternative to John Tucker Must Die.

DAVID PARPART Staff Writer Warning: This review may contain mild spoilers.

Carly Whitten (Cameron Diaz) is a high-powered New York lawyer specializing in corporate acquisitions and mergers. When it comes to love and romance, she and her father Frank (Don Johnson) are two sides of a similar coin: while Frank marries one wife after another (he is currently on divorce number five), Carly does not believe in monogamy, since she has several casual sexual partners at any given time.

Carly rethinks her beliefs on the matter after two months into a passionate and romantic relationship with Mark King (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) for who she drops all her other boyfriends. What Carly is

(CC BY-SA 2.0) by Eva Rinaldi Celebrity and Live Music Photographer unaware of is that, back in upscale suburban Connecticut, Mark is married to his wife,

Kate King (Leslie Mann).

In Mark and Kate’s decade-plus-long marriage,

Kate has forgone all her own dreams and aspirations to be a stay-at-home housewife,

happily supporting Mark in his life, including what has been his lucrative business in developing start-ups. After Carly and Kate meet and find out about the other in Mark’s life, each has an immediate reaction based on their own life: Carly, who is not a home wrecker, willingly will never see Mark again despite previously believing he may have been “the one,” while Kate, who has devoted most of her adult life to Mark, may have a problem envisioning a life without him.

Wanting to understand what has happened and in her fragile mental state, Kate turns to the only person who she feels she can turn to and

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Netflix picks: The Big Short features top-billed cast Wall Street movie plot is hard to digest, but still enjoyable.

CALEB HOLLDORF Staff Writer Remember back in 2008 when the housing market crashed and it was like a reincarnated version of America’s Great Depression? Ever wonder how it happened and what led to such a devastating blow?

I didn’t either. In fact, I’m still a little confused as to how it happened, but The Big Short does a decent job of tackling this collapse and spinning some Hollywood magic into the mix.

The Big Short (2015) is a film adaptation of Michael Lewis’ best-selling novel The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Written by Adam McKay and Charles Randolph, McKay also takes the director’s chair and delivers a film that does a decent job at simplifying the complicated concept behind Wall Street and the burst of housing bubbles.

As a hedge fund manager, Michael Burry (Christian Bale) finds a defect in America’s

(CC BY 2.0) by Rayukk housing market, and realizes it is unstable due to high-risk loans. He seems to be the only one to have come to this realization, and uses the opportunity to make a profit off of the banks. Basically he’s betting against the banks that the housing market will collapse, which would be the first time in history. Everyone who gets word about Burry’s plan writes him off as being outrageously stupid.

The rest of the plot is difficult to explain due to the expansive banking terminology used in the film, and to be honest, most of it flew over

my head. My brain hurt by the end of the film, but that doesn’t mean McKay leaves the viewer hanging by a shoe string over a cliff.

After every two or three scenes of the story, McKay offers a few celebrity appearances from guests Margot Robbie, Anothony Bourdain and Selena Gomez to help explain the concepts within the film. They were a great way to accompany the audience by breaking the fourth wall and using simpler real world explanations, such as betting on a poker player at the casino.

Salesman Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) also breaks the fourth wall numerous times throughout the film, acting as both a character and the story’s narrator.

Through Vennett we are later introduced to other major characters in the film like Mark Baum (Steve Carell) another hedge fund manager, and retired securities trader Ben Rickert (Brad Pitt). Each having their own respected role in the film, their separate stories eventually overlap and we’re able to get multiple angles on the horrors that Wall Street entails.

One of the most dark and disturbing “slap in the face” moments I wasn’t ready for came halfway through the film. Rickert is helping two younger investors who by chance occurrence also got whiff of what was going down in the banks and are in Vegas investigating.

When they sell their securities to banks for cheap swaps, in turn they will make nearly $80 million. Just like any other person might, they become over joyed and break out into a geeky celebrating dance. Rickert turns around and blasts them the reality of the situation. Since the economy will be taking such a hit, he points out how the unemployment rate is attached to 40,000 deaths every one percent. Once that sinks in, the gravity of what is happening to the economy isn’t so pleasant.

This is a difficult idea for any viewer to wrap their head around if they’re not Wall Street whizzes or investors, but The Big Short delivers a stellar cast with an irresistible script you won’t want to miss.

You might feel exhausted at the end, but the trip is worth it.

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Netflix CEO: co-workers were affected by Trump travel ban Iranian and Iraqi employees were unable to come to work due to ban.

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Netflix employees were personally affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban people entering from seven Muslim countries, the company’s CEO said Tuesday.

Reed Hastings has been a critic of the temporary travel ban, which Trump hopes to revive in a revised form this week, and told The Associated Press on Tuesday that some of his co-workers had gotten caught up in it.

“We had Iranian and Iraqi employees who were unable to come to work,” he said on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry’s biggest annual gathering held in Barcelona, Spain.

Netflix was among dozens of tech companies that publicly opposed the travel ban out of fear that it would stifle innovation.

U.S. politics has become

as gripping as a TV drama but Hastings says that Netflix, the distributor of the show “House of Cards,” is not planning a show based on Trump.

“Maybe someday, but it’s better to make a show about things in the past so you can have some perspective,” he said. “We let the news channels do the things that are current, while hoping to provide a relief from politics to people on both sides.”

One of Netflix’s biggest hits has been “House of Cards,” a fictional show about the ruthlessness of politics in Washington that it first distributed in 2013, well before Trump’s rise to power.

Hastings aims to make Netflix even more global, including by creating more original content in foreign languages.

“We are focused on international expansion, mainly in Europe and Asia,” Hastings said. “It’s just the beginning of the Internet. We are pro-

ducing all over the globe with great success, now also in Spain, France, Germany, the U.K., Turkey, India, and even Japan, with anime shows.”

Netflix, which has some 93 million subscribers across 190 countries, is riding the success of some of its own productions, having won its first ever

Oscar this week for the documentary “White Helmets,” about Syria’s humanitarian aid force.

OTHER WOMAN Continued from page 10 who may have the answers for which she is looking: Carly. At first, Carly is a reluctant support for Kate.

Things change when they find out that they are not the only two women in Mark’s sexual life. They learn that Mark has a younger girlfriend, Amber (Kate Upton) and they befriend her. The trio decide to team-up and plot revenge against Mark.

This movie is a perfect adult alternative to the young adult movie John Tucker Must Die, except these three women know how to get back at this player better than the teen-

age girls. These women gave Mark hormones, put hair removal in his shampoo, gave him laxatives so he had a fecal incident, offered a three-way with a drag queen and more, all while figuring out how to get Kate’s portion of the money from their marriage.

It’s a lighthearted, feelgood comedy that ultimately becomes a story about female friendship and self-empowerment.

If you’re a girl who’s ever been betrayed, felt insecure, down in the dumps, or felt like you’ve lost the upper-hand in a relation-

ship, go see this movie. It will pick you up, dust you off, give you a pep talk, and remind you of how important it is to have good girlfriends that make you laugh and pick you up when you’re down.

Everything from the chemistry to the hilarity of the movie is definitely worth the watch and it is a movie you will be entertained by from start to finish.

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Film reviews: Ousmane Sembene’s Black Girl and Faat Kine Senegalese director’s two films feature strong, independent female protagonists.

In honor of Black History Month, I thought I would provide encouragement by giving overview and insight to acknowledge we still possess the ability to change our lives in the present space we occupy. I thought it would also be helpful to share what I learned in watching Black Girl (1966) and Faat Kine (2001), both directed by Ousmane Semebene, in my International Cinema class a few weeks ago.

Both protagonists are strong, independent women who brave a world outside of what is familiar to them despite the obstacles set against them.

Originally, Diouana (Mbissine Therese Diop), in Black Girl, a young woman in Senegal, jumps at the chance to work as a babysitter in Paris for a couple. Every day, she sits on the street and waits for an opportunity that would offer a job where she could build her own life.

The film is set during the Post-Colonial period that encompassed certain regions in Africa involving Britain and France, and to an extent Portugal and Belgium. The French countries came into Africa for slave trade business and would “civilize” according to their point of view and values.

“The French occupied Senegal from the mid-nineteenth century on and essentially, they imposed the French way of life, the French educational system and French films were only reviewed,” Film Studies professor Steve Rybin said.

“It was actually against the law for the Africans to make their own films.”

Diouana is willing to do

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NOW PLAYING: Black GIrl & Faat Kine anything for them so she can achieve the comfortable life she has only dreamed of. But the couple quickly sees that and starts taking advantage of her. When Diouana first arrives, she gives them a mask which becomes a motif—a repeated symbol—throughout the rest of the movie.

She trusts them with a piece of herself, which they end up betraying through their mistreatment of her.

First, Madame (Anne-Marie Jelinek) informs Diouana that she will take care of the children while she and her husband indulge in an occasional outing or leave for vacation.

Ultimately, she demands that Diouana assume charge at all times, even if she is lounging on the couch.

Madame also piles the housework and other odd duties on Diouana. The couple has visitors over and, at one point, an elderly man announces he would like to kiss Diouana just because he has never kissed a black woman before. What she thought was her newfound freedom reveals the contrary; that she has become an object just like the mask.

The couple also lies to Di-

ouana about her mother writing her a letter and shaming her for neglecting the family back in Senegal, but Diouana recognizes the deception.

She tries to take back the mask, whose meaning she feels gets abused and, while she succeeds, she still reverts to what some may consider a dark decision.

But an older student from my class observed that Diouana actually expressed her strength since she rejected a life she could not live.

In the process, her choice also changed the family she worked for and hers and the spaces she lived in, both in her past and present.

The other film, Faat Kine, lands on a more optimistic note and the initial plot revolves around Faat Kine (Venus Seye), a woman in her forties who lives in Senegal and shatters the societal norms from how she grew up. The history carries into another period called Neo-Colonial-

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ism where oppression from the upper classes and practices continue, even though Senegalese people have more power in their hands at that point.

Despite that, Kine had two children out of wedlock and from different fathers. She becomes the manager of a gas station. While that does not sound like the greatest career in the world in America, she owns the business and in that culture, breaks from traditions.

One of those traditions stems from the Islamic and Christian religions where the patriarchy prominently reigns. Rybin clarified that it is not that Semebene does not like Islam, nor that he does not like Christianity, but that he is critical of them.

Kine also has good relationships with the community around her, but she knows she still needs to assert herself when she interacts with men. Tim Starman, a sopho-

more in Film and Media Studies, pointed out that while society has improved, her wariness shows that equality between the sexes still needs work.

It is inferred that Kine gains her confidence from her mother (Mame Ndoumbe) when Kine’s father discovered that she was pregnant with her first child. He had wanted to burn Kine alive for her disgrace to the family, but Kine’s mother stood up for her by getting in front of Kine and the fire leading to her entire back getting burned.

Years later, when Kine’s mother walks into one of the first scenes in the film, she carries herself with power, but she is stiff. She is alive, like Kine, but she bears scars like the emotional wounds Kine has inside her.

Kine has had to live her life alone, in a sense, because other women in the community have married and are jealous. They lack the financial power Kine has now, but, in the past, fought to achieve.

Although sometimes it feels like society is going backwards, it really is moving ahead. Sometimes it is the congestion that results from ignoring issues rather than confronting them.

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Maverick Profile: Eric Peterson

CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer

Eric Peterson has been a Mavericks fan as long as he can remember, so the decision to play for the Minnesota State baseball team was an easy one.

“I grew up being an MSU hockey fan because my dad played here,” Peterson said.

“When I visited, it felt like home.”

His experience in baseball goes way back to days of youth.

“I’ve been hitting a baseball since I was two, and started playing tee-ball at age five. My family is into sports and especially because my grandpa loves baseball,” he said about his lengthy playing career.

The 5’11” infielder started off his senior season strong, scoring two runs on two hits in his four at bats against the Minnesota-Crookston

Golden Eagles Saturday at U.S. Bank Stadium. Peterson started the game with a single in the first inning. He would then go on to hit a single down the right-field line, steal second and be brought home by Josh Wenzel in the second before getting hit by a pitch in the fifth inning.

An Eagan, Minnesota native, Peterson started all 54 games in his junior season and led the team with 62 runs, tied for second for the all-time record in a single season. He ended his 2016 season fourth on the Minnesota State list of all-time career runs with 163. Peterson also went on a 12-game hitting streak and reached base in 22 games straight starting off the season. He led the team with 13 steals and highest on base percentage with .466.

He had the second-highest batting average on the Mavericks with a .351 clip.

Peterson finished his 2015

season with a .340 batting average, appearing in 40 games and starting in 38. He scored 46 runs, second most on the team, on 50 hits. He also led the runs scored per game category with 1.18.

In 2014, Peterson finished with the third-most runs scored with 54, lead in stolen bases with 19 and steal attempts with 22. He finished his first season with a .310 batting average, a .450 slugging percentage and an impressive .968 fielding percentage.

He had a season-high four hits and four runs batted in (RBI) against Southwest Baptists on Feb 17. He also had a 17-game hitting streak and a 25-game on base streak.

The Mavericks who have appeared in 33 NCAA Division II National Tournaments and eight NCAA Division II World Series made their last appearance in 2014, Peterson’s freshman year.

“Playing in the Division II

Reporter Archives College World Series would have to be my favorite baseball moment,” said Peterson.

He finished the season as the NSIC Freshman of the Year.

Peterson, who was a twotime All-State and All-Conference selection at Eagan High School will graduate this year with a degree in business

marketing.

“Its up in the air right now.

I’d like to stay in the game of baseball in some sort of way,” he said about his plans after Minnesota State.

Peterson hopes to finish his senior year with “the best time possible and with my teammates and ultimately win a national championship.”

Minnesota Lynx head coach speaks at MNSU Cheryl Reeve addressed the state of the league, her team, and battling adversity.

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer If there is one person in Minnesota who knows about success and accomplishment, it is the head coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx: Cheryl Reeve. Over her head coaching career in the pros from 2010 – present, she has won the WNBA title three times (2011, 2013, 2015) and Coach of the Year twice (2011, 2016) which came after nine years of being an assistant coach at the pro level.

Experience and winning are both in Reeve’s portfolio and she has been able to garner an impressive 168-70 record with the Lynx.

“In 2010 it was ‘we are going to be a playoff team’, we were going to be different,” said Reeve in recollection of her rookie season as a WNBA head coach. “Well it turns out we were no different then the teams prior to that season.

So we had to figure out why, what was the reason for our perennial lottery team and how could we escape that?”

Instead of excepting the good draft picks and medi-

ocrity, something Reeve has labeled “the easy way to be normal”, the three-time champion set out to change the culture and the way the team approached basketball.

“We really got together after the 2010 year and had to make some tough decisions,” said Reeve. “In what we wanted to do and who we wanted to be, we had some non-negotiables that we learned about ourselves and the number one thing is we want to be the hardest working team in the league. The second part of it was we wanted to have the most unselfish team in the league, where we literally put the goals of the team every single day ahead of anything individual.”

Of course changing a losing culture to a winning culture usually takes time and lots of patience, looking to the NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers for an example of the slow process of change. Even the Lynx coach admitted that “sometimes in life you have to fail first before you succeed”. So how was the turnaround so quick?

“Getting lucky is some-

times really important too,” said Reeve when pairing something else with the hard work. “In November we got lucky to be in the lottery when Maya Moore was coming out of college. We weren’t the worst team in the league but we won the lottery.”

Now the team had their super star; they had the core of players that made it through the previous season. Now they needed the culture to breed success.

“The four P’s of a champion: Preparation, there is no way around being great with ought preparation, no way around it. Prepare, prepare, prepare it’s a necessary evil, do it, preparation breeds success,” said Reeve.

“Passion, you know when you encounter a passionate person. When I go to a basketball game, give me a passionate player… a passionate player has a chance to be successful. Perseverance, it’s a tough world- it’s going to throw stuff at you and in our world that means overcoming tough moments in a season, tough moments in a game and that is one of the great-

est reasons we have been successful in handling adversity. Then what defines our team is Principles, the code of conduct you live by, who you want to be and what you want to give off or offer. It’s a code of conduct you live by that would make your friends and family proud.”

dice Wiggins.

“It was her experience and not that of 99.9 percent of the league,” said Reeve of Wiggins’ comments before addressing the lack of exposer. “Media can do more for the women’s league, and should and have a responsibility to do so because the

“‘...Prepare, prepare, prepare it’s a necessary evil, do it, preparation breeds success,’ said Reeve.”

The work put in on the team’s character and performance on and off the court has truly made a difference in the organization and in the caliber of the team as a winning squad. But this success has still received less than the average celebration because of the “lack of exposer for the league” that Reeve mentioned. This problem still plagues the WNBA despite the success of teams like the Lynx, which remains further damaged by the remarks of a former WNBA player in Can-

participation numbers show the interest is there and that should be the focus, it’s up to the decision makers who are often times men, so stepping outside what’s always been would be the best thing we can do for women’s sports.”

No matter what the obstacle, whether it’s getting another title or helping move the WNBA further into the public spotlight, Reeve is more than capable of leading her team and her league through the adversity.

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Men’s basketball will miss Fuqua, Austin With five seniors graduating, the team will look towards the youth for production.

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer Minnesota State’s men’s basketball team had its season come to an end in the semifinals of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Tournament on Monday in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

After their loss, the Mavericks finish off the year holding onto a 21-10 record while going 14-8 in the NSIC. The Mavs had a regular season record of 12-7, which earned themselves a home game in the first round of the NSIC Tournament. After picking up a win over the University of Mary, the Mavericks got a victory over Concordia-St.

Paul. Their season came to an end the following day against Upper Iowa.

Minnesota State will be saying goodbye to five seniors: Jon Fuqua, Aarias Austin, Grant Pope, Trey Sampson, and AJ Patty, as the season ends. Fuqua led the team this year in both scoring and rebounding, averaging 15.3 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. Fuqua’s fantastic play led him to receiving AllNSIC First Team accolades.

Fuqua has been a pivotal part of the Mavericks team since his arrival last year and there will be a huge hole to be filled in his absence.

Austin also made a big impact in his lone year with the Mavs, coming in third in scoring for the team with 11.8 points per game. Austin’s play in the NSIC tournament was also a big reason why the Mavericks were able to advance as far as they did.

Austin also proved to be the team’s best passer, finishing

the year with 95 assists which is nearly forty more than the second-best number of 57.

Patty had the second-best rebound average on the team with 5.6, while adding 9.3 points a game.

Players that will be returning next year include Joey Witthus, who was the only other Maverick to earn AllNSIC honors by making it to the second-team. Witthus faced some injury problems late in the season but still came away averaging 13.7 points per game, while adding 4.7 rebounds. Look for Witthus to be the man to take the reins of the team as he enters his senior year during the 2017-18 season.

Coming off the bench to provide some spark for the team were junior Charlie Brown and freshman Cameron Kirksey. The duo combined for 25-bench points in the opening round of the NSIC tournament. Brown finished the year averaging 8.8

Photo by Adeolu Asaolu points while Kirksey added 6.2 points a game. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, it is a safe bet to assume a promotion will be in the works for both men during next year’s season.

As of now, the next season will have three seniors taking over as the vets of the team in Witthus, Cole Harper, and Jay Knuth.

Hanzal, White boost Wild’s roster depth Each newcomer has already seen success in the two games played for Minnesota.

COLT JOHNSON Staff Writer Looks like the Minnesota Wild are trying to set themselves up for a deep playoff

run after acquiring Phoenix Coyotes’ Martin Hanzal and Ryan White in a trade, just days before the NHL trade deadline.

The Wild made a big splash in the trade market after giving up a first-round pick from this year’s draft, as well as a second-rounder next year and a conditional pick in 2019, for Coyotes’ assistant captain Hanzal, White

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and a fourth-round draft pick.

While the trade was an obvious move to better the team and put them into position to win a Stanley Cup, there have been some who are skeptical of the trade.

Hanzal, the 6-foot-6, 226-pound center is in his ninth season in the league and spent his whole career up to this point in a Coyotes jersey. He was also having one of his best seasons of his career with the Coyotes up until he was traded, scoring 16 goals with 10 assists in 51 games played. In his two games with Minnesota he has two assists and seems to be fitting into the lineup quite nicely. Hanzal is in the last year of his contract, however, and is set to make a $3.1 million this year, according to capfriendly.com, but the Coyotes are required to pay 50 percent of his contract.

White, the 6-foot, 200-pound center has been the over-looked player that came in the trade from Phoenix along with the fourthround pick from this year’s draft. In his two games with Minnesota, White has actually seen more production than Hanzal, scoring two goals and adding an assist to his record. Before being traded to Minnesota, White’s career

wasn’t extremely successful.

His best season was with the Coyotes in the 2015-2016 where he scored 11 goals with five assists in 73 games

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Playoff time has arrived for men’s hockey The Mavericks will face the University of Alaska-Fairbanks at home this weekend.

RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer It’s that time of year yet again: Minnesota high schoolers are gearing up for state hockey, the Minnesota Wild are on a roll, and of course your very own Minnesota State Mavericks begin playoff hockey.

This weekend will feature an intriguing matchup as Minnesota State welcomes the University of Alaska Fairbanks to the Verizon Wireless Center for a best-of-three series.

Coming off a split last weekend against the top-ranked team in the WCHA (Bemidji), the Mavericks are feeling good and playing even better. Peaking at the right time, the Mavericks have won six of their last eight games. While the defense has stepped it up as of late, the offense has been a scoring juggernaut, averaging nearly four goals per game.

The weekend series will likely be good for its fair share of fireworks. In the

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Minnesota State leads the conference in goals scored with 109 goals on the season.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, the Nanooks have allowed the second-most goals in the conference meaning the Mavericks could be finding the net early and often. Don’t count out Alaska, as they have played the Mavs competitively this year.

In order to be a high-scoring team, a team must have multiple players who can put the puck in the net consistently. The Mavericks have a high number of players who account for a high volume of points. Junior forward Zeb Knutson is currently third on the team in goals (13) and fifth on the team in points (23).

Junior forward C.J.

Franklin is second on the team in points (30). Franklin is in his first season as a team captain and leads the Mavericks with 341 face-off wins.

Two-time SCHA Rookie of the Week award winner Marc Michaelis is having a year to remember for the Mavericks.

Michaelis, a freshman, leads the team in points with 36, which is good enough for third best among all freshman in NCAA Division-I. This team also has a high-scoring defender in sophomore Daniel Bradley. Bradley is tied for third in scoring for MNSU and led defensemen in scoring throughout the WCHA. Although neither team is ranked, this weekend is very important for possible NCAA tournament implications. As of now, the Mavericks are on the outside looking in and will likely need to make a run in the WCHA tournament in the coming weeks to make a stronger case as to why they deserve to be in. If MNSU wins this series and moves on, it will help their chanc-

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Playoff hockey will be played Friday, Saturday and if needed Sunday at the Ver-

izon Wireless Center. Puck drop is scheduled for 7:07 p.m.

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“Minnesota might have given up a lot of picks for potentially a one-year player, but the move solidified their lineup adding even more depth to their forward lines.”

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played.

Many see Hanzal as just a rental player for the rest of this year, being it’s the last year of his contract, but the Wild are making it blatantly clear to the teams in the NHL that they are gunning for the finals. Minnesota might have given up a lot of picks for potentially a one-year player,

but the move solidified their lineup adding even more depth to their forward lines.

Both players have seemed to gel well with the team and Bruce Boudreau’s system, each with at least a point in both of their games played so far with the Wild.

Minnesota has won their first two games since the

acquisition of Hanzal and White. In their first game with the Wild, both played a very familiar opponent in the Los Angeles Kings. Minnesota ended up winning a tight game 5-4 and White accounted for two of the points with a goal and an assist in the game.

In their second game, they faced the Winnipeg Jets and the Wild won another close one that came down to a game-winning goal in the final minutes of the game. Minnesota ended up winning 6-5 with White scoring a goal and Hanzal getting two assists in the game. The Wild have looked good so far with the newly acquired duo and they seem to be fitting in nicely.

This may have been the missing piece to the championship puzzle that Minnesota has been missing; fans will find out if the big decision by Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher will pay off come playoff time.

The Mankato Golf Club is now accepting applications to fill part-time positions for spring and summer in all areas.

Applications can either be picked up at the Mankato Golf Club or on our website, www.mankatogolfclub.com.

Training for these positions could begin as soon as March 1, 2017.

Return applications with preferred area to Cheryl at the Club or email to Cheryl@mankatogolfclub.com.

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