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THURSDAY MARCH 14, 2019

Women’s Center celebrates its 40th birthday

Events to come as Women’s Center celebrates International Women’s Day

MARIA LY STAFF WRITER The Women’s Center celebrated their 40th birthday this past Wednesday with birthday cupcakes, bingo, music, and party favors.

The Women’s Center first opened its doors on March 3, 1979 and has had many achievements from its educational events to its support system, they continue to uphold their mission statement of “fostering a healthy, safe, and engaging

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campus community”.

Liz Steinborn-Gourley, the Interim Assistant Director of the Women’s Center said, “I

think getting to be a part of it is my favorite memory of the Women’s Center so far.

Knowing that there is a legacy

of 40 years and that I get to contribute to that in some small way is just amazing.”

The Women’s Center

has been there for so many students through their events, programs, and its creation of a safe space.

Anarose Hart-Thomas, a member of the Women of Action Council at the Women’s Center stated, “I think the Women’s Center has really become kind of a safe space to talk to different kinds of people and really have conversations that you don’t typically have. There’s really no platform on campus that you can have conversations that we do here.”

The Women’s Center has helped students in small and big ways in educating

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Sitting down with President Davenport DAVID BASSEY EDITOR IN CHIEF Last month at the Verizon Center, the men’s hockey team got to showcase their latest bounty, the MacNaughton cup. In attendance at this event were fans, players and supporters of MSU hockey and athletic community.

Amongst others, it was great seeing the President and his wife, Mary Davenport looking dashing as always in their custom-made hockey jerseys. Beaming with smiles so resplendent and the notable athletic and academic achievements accrued so far, it’s no wonder whether President Davenport is having a great year so far.

We wanted to know what’s been going on and what’s yet to come at MNSU. We asked him many questions ranging from his personal interests to the impact he would like to leave on the University. This is what he had to say; R: How do you spend your

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holidays?

D: Christmas - Like most people, the University is closed but I spent part of the time coming down here and taking a more casual approach to getting caught up on stuff and of course, the phone’s not ringing, nobody’s here and it’s a great time

to kind of refresh and get caught up. I have a son living in Chicago, so we travelled there to spend part of the holidays with him. I read a couple of books and I just relaxed.

Valentines’ Day - Although I wouldn’t recommend it. I worked all day and then got

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to spend quality time with my wife on Friday. We got to view the snow moon. We love that stuff!

R: What are your thoughts on the city’s transitions in the GMG and Mayoral offices?

How will it impact the University?

D: Under his [Jonathan

Zierdt’s] leadership, the city has flourished. It’s really been outstanding. Jonathan’s work is hard to replace. He’s a super guy! He’s an inspiration to everybody and he needs to be widely applauded for the success that he has brought to our community.

The partnership with the University is very solid, we know the importance of the university to the city and we also know how important the city is to the university.

The new mayor Najwa replaces Eric Anderson who was in that role for a period of time and he also was an outstanding leader and in the field and he really raised the important questions in terms of the direction the city is taking and got the city to focus on their the future. The replacement with a new mayor. I am also very encouraged with Najwa’s leadership. She has served on

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WEATHER OUTLOOK: THURSDAY (3/14)

H: 41 L: 24 Rain/drizzle in P.M.

FRIDAY (3/15)

SATURDAY (3/16)

H: 33 L: 17

H: 34 L: 24

Mostly cloudy; breezy.

Mostly cloudy.

SUNDAY (3/17)

H: 36 L: 22 Very cloudy.

MONDAY (3/18)

H: 40 L: 25 Mostly cloudy.

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Annual Public Hearing Parking & Transportation Policies, Budget, and Capital Improvements Thursday, March 14, 2019

238 Centennial Student Union

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12:00 NOON - 1:30 P.M.

If you cannot attend the public hearing, please email your comments or concerns to david.cowan@mnsu.edu by 10 A.M., March 14, 2019.

Hearing Docket 1) Opening statement establishing ground rules for Annual Public Hearing on Parking & Transportation Policies, Budget and Capital Improvements.

2) Introduction of volunteers serving on Parking Advisory Committee and the independent parking Citation Appeals Board.

3) Proposals for Change:

Constituency

• 2019-20 Proposed Income and Spending Plans • 3% rate increase proposed for permits.

Annual 3% rate increases are tied to Parking Capital Improvement Plan.

4) Open forum for input from public.

5) Adjourn the Annual Hearing on or before 1:30 P.M.

Parking and Transportation Advisory Committee

Parking Citation Appeals Board

Administration or Excluded or MAPA (Minnesota Association of Professional Employees)

David Cowan, Advisory Committee Chair

Casey Boone, MAPE

Classified Employees

Mike Cofield

Bradley Barnard, Board Chair

IFO Faculty Association

Seong Jin “Tommy” Kim

Mary Hadley

Student Association

Andrew Trenne

Neil Mendonca

Student Association

Sanjaya Balami

Vacant

MSUAASF (Minnesota State University Association of Alexis Paladini Administrative & Service Faculty

Jeremy Riesenberg

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Student Financial Services Representative

Jodi Orchard

Not Applicable

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Parking & Traffic Services Coordinator; Parking Citation Appeals Board Liaison

Sue Edstrom

Sue Edstrom, Appeals Board Liaison

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Planning & Construction Department Liaison

Nathan Huettl

Not Applicable

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Office of Residential Life

Cynthia Janney

Not Applicable

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Residence Hall Association President

Andrew Trenne

Not Applicable

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE)

(Vacant)

Not Applicable

Ex-officio Nonvoting – Minnesota Management Association (MMA)

Twyla Tinney

Not Applicable

Ex-officio Nonvoting – University Scheduling

Shirley Piepho

Not Applicable

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Accessibility resources allows all students chance to succeed

MICHAEL MCSHANE STAFF WRITER For many students, college can be a tough hill to climb in pursuit of one’s educational goals. Some students have to struggle with multiple jobs, others have children they have to raise, sometimes on their own.

There is one group of students in particular who have their own set of struggles that they deal with on a daily basis when going to college as well. Students with disabilities, whether that be intellectual, mental or physical go to college every semester.

To their peers, they are as normal as every other college student, with friends and social lives. But inside the classroom, they deal with issues that can be roadblocks to their success in college.

There are many students in every college in the nation that suffer from a wide range of disabilities. Students on

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the Autism spectrum, who are blind or deaf and students

such as depression, Bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia.

“Around for decades now, Accessibility Resources helps hundreds of students each semester in assisting with their specific disability that impedes them from their academic responsibilities.” with mental health diagnosis

All of these are serious

problems that many students have to live with and can impair them during their time in school.

In comes Accessibility Resources, an office that works with students with a wide range of disabilities to help them throughout the semester.

Rooted in laws passed to protect the civil rights of disabled citizens such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,

offices similar to Accessibility Resources spread to colleges and universities nationwide.

Speaking to the Reporter, Beth Claussen, the assistant director for Accessibility Resources, desires for every student be given equal chance to achieve their academic dreams.

“Our role for students on campus here is to consider the challenges, the barriers to their learning, and try to connect the dots to the appropriate accommodations,” Claussen said.

Around for decades now, Accessibility Resources helps hundreds of students each semester in assisting with their specific disability that impedes them from their academic responsibilities.

This help can take the form of extra time on tests, the ability to record lectures, early registration for classes, and many other accommodations. Students are not charged to receive these accommodations.

With a wide range of disabilities, every student

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THE PCSW IS COLLECTING RECOGNITION NOMINATIONS FOR INCREDIBLE WOMEN AT MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY, MANKATO

Nominations will be recognized at the Women of Courage & Vision Reception on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. in the CSU Ballroom WHAT IS IT? Each year the President's Commission on the Status of Women and Women's Center celebrate women of courage and vision with a reception in their honor. For each person you wish to recognize, the Commission shares your comments with them in a beautiful card at the reception.

WHO CAN BE RECOGNIZED? Anyone can recognize any woman at Minnesota State Mankato for this recognition, including students, faculty and staff.

HOW DO I RECOGNIZE SOMEONE? Visit the Women's Center website and click on '2019 Recognitions' to submit your recognition. Deadline is March 20, 2019.

For more information, contact Shalinie Bandaranayaka at shalinie.bandaranayaka@mnsu.edu.

A member of the Minnesota State system and an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity University. This document is available in alternative format to individuals with disabilities by calling Women’s Center at 507-389-6146(V), 800-627-3529 or 711 (MRS/TTY).

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RESOURCES Continued from page 3 case is handled differently and individually assessed to make sure the specific student is given the adequate assistance pertaining to their disability.

Accessibility Resources makes sure students in high school getting ready for the transition from high school to college know about the office and the assistance they can receive upon acceptance.

“We go out and speak in high schools as well,” Claussen said.

“Just prospective student visits, we do resource fairs and meet students and their families just to kind of talk about the differences, what our role is

and just try to orient them to help them along in that transition.”

The National Center for Learning Disabilities published a report back in 2014 that stated that 67 percent of young adults with learning disabilities reported enrolling in postsecondary education within 8 years of leaving high school.

The report showed that 1 out of 4 students who received special education in high school considered themselves with a disability and requested need of accommodations from the university.

“I think a part of it is that

sometimes students come from maybe high school where they were on a 504 or IEP plan, they get to college and it’s not a haveto for them or they feel like they don’t want that stigma attached to them they really want to try without having the accommodation plan,” Claussen said.

The Accessibility Resource Office wishes for any student who is struggling through the semester to not be afraid to receive assistance to better help their academic lives.

Accessibility Resources is located on the basement floor of the Memorial Library.

BIRTHDAY Continued from page 1 students and offering a voice for them to speak out their opinions. Daisy CanamarCedillo agrees as she said, “Being part of the whole community I’ve learned a lot including about relationships, the LGBT community as well, about things I didn’t know, and I feel really good about that.”

Nimo Quadri stated, “They open up the office after hours so people can stay in there and hang out and stuff, and that’s really cool, and a lot of offices don’t do that. And it’s very inviting, when we have holidays they decorate the office and it’s very nice.”

The Women’s Center in lieu of their 40th birthday

is also having other events to celebrate International Women’s Day. Among of them is Writing Herstory, SteibornGourley said, “Students and administrators will be speaking. We’re having the original director of the Women’s Center coming and talking at the event. We’ll have a full spread of fancy appetizers and it will be more of a formal recognition of the time we had here.”

Another event the Women’s Center is hosting is International Women’s Day, Steinborn-Gourley stated, “In that event we’re going to have a speaker that’s going to talk about

global feminism, there will be student performers who are going to dance, there will be poets, there will be an acting troupe and there’ll be a panel about feminism from the perspectives of current students.”

These events are both free! The Writing for Herstory event will be occurring on March 20 in CSU 253 from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and the International Women’s Day celebration will be held on March 21 in Ostrander Auditorium from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Steinborn-Gourley states, “It’s going to be endless and non-stop fun.”

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Continued from page 1 many committees and boards and I think she’ll bring a new vision to the city of Mankato and now as well. I think I can only look forward to a great leadership from her and the city and we will continue to promote the outstanding partnerships that we have.

R: Let’s talk about books and your day-to-day life.

What books are you currently reading?

D: Well there’s two of them.

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. It’s kind of a science or medically focused book about the status of modern medicine today and it is it’s really quite good.

Although it doesn’t have a lot to do with the University; as a student, I thought I’d go into

medical school, but I didn’t go and decided to do this.

It keeps me abreast in the research developments in the area of medicine.

The second is a non-fiction book about James J Hill. He was what you’d call a railroad baron in Minnesota’s early days. He was able to allow the flour mills to flourish, which were a big part of the evolutionary development of the of Minnesota in general and farmers in ag to provide the transportation to move the products around the country.

As an avid reader, I read

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Should millions of dollars be in hands of Student Govt?

MADISON DIEMERT NEWS EDITOR Minnesota State University, Mankato, similar to other colleges, has a student senate. MNSU’s Student Government, (formerly known as MSSA), is a collection of students who meet every week to discuss issues that involve students.

While the student-run organization has an advisor that helps them, the advisor has little to no say in what goes on. The students run the weekly meetings, provide services for students such as the Maverick Textbook Reserve Program, and deliberate and decide on decisions.

Those decisions range from renaming their organization from “MSSA” to “Student Government,” or even deciding on the entire budget of a student

organization.

Yes. Students get to vote on the fate of student organizations. This happens at the annual budget meeting every year. At a typical budget hearing, SAC (the Student Allocations Committee), gives the Student Government a recommendation on what the budget of organizations should be to accommodate for the amount desired. Then each department can appeal for a higher budget if they want, and answer questions the senators have.

The senators then get to discuss their thoughts and vote on the fate of the budget; either cutting it or raising it. They decide if the organizations get the money they need, or slice it.

In all, Student Government is in charge of 2 million dollars. This is a huge amount of money to throw in the hands of a bunch of kids from the ages of 18 to 22.

Many of them don’t even have experience in business or understand money in a buisness perspective.

That 2 million dollars should be in the hands of faculty and staff who have experience with budgeting

and knowledge on such numbers.

For college students to decide on the entire budget of actual organizations is completely inappropriate. And frankly, it makes the university itself look lazy.

To hand all this responsibility over to such young people makes the

more equipment, etc.

There may also be some bad blood between organizations, or some students may dislike certain ones because of personal reasons. This makes the students extremely biased and it is highly unethical.

To have a student involved in an organization and speak

“For college students to decide on the entire budget of actual organizations is completely inappropriate.” faculty seem indolent. This is something adults with degrees and extensive knowledge should be handling. Not college students in the first steps of learning.

Many of these students are also on the senate solely to help their own organizations.

They often do not take into account the people involved in other organizations, if those people need to be paid, if they are in need of

on why that organization needs the money more than the others, is clearly wrong.

Especially since there are only a number of limited spots on the senate. Not every organization can get an advantage like that. It is unfair.

This gives that organization a foothold that many organizations do not get if they cannot have one of their members on the senate.

Whoever speaks on behalf of an organization only gets to appeal for a higher budget if desired, and answer questions the senate may have. They have no say in the senate’s actual discussion on the budget.

I have experienced this all firsthand as I have attended the budget meetings for the past three years. I have seen organizations ripped apart solely because many of the senators were biased and did not like what those organizations represented.

Not to mention, the meetings are always very disorganized and far from formal. If you were holding 2 million dollars in your hands, would you be eating goldfish crackers and sipping on coffee? Some senators were seen not only doing that on Wednesday’s meeting, but many of them seemed entirely uninterested in the conversations happening around them.

Some senators were far too relaxed, laughing

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BASIC comes to MNSU DAVID BASSEY EDITOR IN CHIEF Jesus taught in stories so that we could understand the mysteries.

On Monday, March 11, at the Ostrander Auditorium, BASIC an acronym for Brothers And Sisters in Christ, held its inaugural worship concert.

Pathology graduate student here at Minnesota State University, Mankato came up to tell her story. Hagen, who’s biological mom died three weeks before her second birthday and father years later by age 17, had to deal with the pain of losing those who were meant to love her.

Hagen was determined not to be the kind with the super messed up home life.

senior leaders at Orchard Hill Church, Jeff Mickey, spoke on the parable of the mustard seed; the most personal story Jesus ever told. Mickey, a U2- fan spoke with so much passion; illustrating what it means to live with a mustard seed of faith. He spoke from Matthew 13 versus 31. This parable is an invitation for people to take one more step into the kingdom of God.

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Psych demo to take place at Children’s Museum JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER The Psychology Department at Minnesota State University, Mankato will be presenting children with a variety of demonstrations in the science of psychology.

The goal of the event is to get more kids interested in psychology and appreciate the complexity of the human mind, along with various enjoyable activities.

“The main message is that psychology is a science and it is important to learn this and be open to studying the science of how humans behave at a young age.” said Dr. Karla Lassonde, a professor of psychology at MNSU who is helping with the event.

The demonstrations will take place at the Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota, Mankato and

include discussions about the human brain and what it looks like, as well as some practical ways to improve one’s memory skills. Some activities for kids at the event include wearing spatial vision goggles to experience changes in spatial perception, and building model neurons out of craft supplies.

For Dr. Lassonde, an important part of these demonstrations is diversifying the perception of psychology among children. “We aim to change the perception that psychology is all about clinical practice, which is very important but only one part of the hundreds of areas of study.”

If you can’t make it one day, don’t worry! The demonstrations will take place Friday, March 15 from 1-3 p.m. and Monday, March 25 from 10 a.m.-noon and 1-3 p.m.

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BASIC started out in Northern Iowa and is a community that seeks to bring young adults closer to Jesus.

The night started out with some lighting features never seen before in the auditorium: glass polycarbonate panel lights and overhead hanging lights. Music was led by three angelic voices with keyboard and guitar to accompany.

Amber Hagen, a second semester Speech language

It was through this journey, and a mission trip in her junior year of high school that she found herself giving her life to Christ in the back of a 15-passenger van. “it was incredible” she says.

Looking to now, Hagen says it’s not about the pain and suffering, but the joy that comes from knowing God loves you and “he really loves you,” she reiterated.

Before the next phase of worship began, one of the

If you are looking for a way to get connected on campus, or perhaps in Mankato, check out the many Christian fellowships such as Intervarsity, Hillside Church, Alpha Chi, Qodesh family church, CRU, Encounter and many more on Engage.

Next week, the center page of the Reporter will feature a “Where to Worship” section.

Look to get connected and stay in love with Jesus.

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JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER Recently, fifty people, including a number of celebrities, have been charged or implicated with a multimillion dollar scheme involving fraudulent admissions to elite universities.

Which ones? Yale and Stanford, two of the most acclaimed elite universities in the country number among them.

Wealthy parents conspired to enable their children to cheat on exams, be recruited for sports they never actually played, and acquire admissions to elite schools on a fraudulent basis.

In other news, Paul Manafort, a former campaign official for President Donald Trump, was sentenced to just under four years in prison for eight felony tax and bank fraud charges.

Manafort’s light sentencing might seem to have little to do with a collegiate cheating scandal, but on closer inspection, they have a great deal in common.

In one case, wealthy elites were able to cheat their children into top colleges, putting to pasture the myth of meritocracy in the American education system.

In the other, America’s famously punitive criminal justice system treated a major white-collar crime less severely than it treats various nonviolent drug crimes. In a country where some people are serving life sentences for selling marijuana, Manafort’s conviction comes as a disgusting monument to inequality.

American elites, whether affiliated with government or the private sector, are increasingly under suspicion, and rightly so.

Their legitimacy, and by extension the legitimacy of the system they dominate, is not only being called into question, but openly attacked.

The lack of accountability among economic and political elites is dangerous for the country, since it directly contradicts basic decency and core American values.

To fix that, we need to apply the rule of law equally.

Let us hope that those implicated in the collegiate scandal are not dealt with as leniently as Manafort was.

at least three newspapers everyday as I pour my cup of coffee; Wall Street Journal, Star Tribune, our local newspaper and a combination of online ones. If I don’t read the newspapers, I feel like I’m not starting the day right.

R: What are your goals for the University now that the sesquicentennial celebration is over, what are your goals for the University?

D: We have multiple set of goals and some of those goals that are rising to the top of the list certainly include what we call enrollment management. Maybe with one or two exceptions, we have students that enroll here from every state from all 50 states of the US, and we also have students that come here from 90+ countries. We have a lot of underrepresented students, students of color students that come from different backgrounds.

This has become kind of a destination for a very, very diverse campus.

One of our goals is to

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make certain that it stays as an attractive campus for students from all over the world. That’s really a major goal.

R: What do you hope your legacy to be?

D: What I would like my legacy to be is creating the kind of global high-quality campus.

Our goal is to create a university where students, when they leave feel like they really made a good

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The University should be seriously considering the power Student Government holds, and the effects it

has on students and their organizations. We are a college that is open to new ideas and criticism, but it is unfair to unjustly rule an organizations budget by biased opinions. That is exactly what the majority of senators are doing.

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Should daylight savings time be abolished?

Why daylight savings time has more cons than pros

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OLUWATOMIKE BALI STAFF WRITER The idea behind daylight savings time started as far back as 1784. This idea was overlooked initially but the United States started to use daylight savings time toward the end of World War I and was implemented fully during World War II to decrease energy use and conserve supplies during the war. A lot of states in the United States observe daylight savings time, except for Arizona and Hawaii.

Over the years, this practice has attracted a lot of mixed reactions amongst Americans with most people raising petitions to end daylight savings time.

Should “spring forward, fall back” be aborted?

My first time in the US, I didn’t understand the reason for the change in time. It was pretty confusing and frustrating for me. I didn’t see the need for the time change and never understood the idea behind it and the only reason I don’t have my day

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messed up on those days is because my phone sets the time automatically.

As a result of this confusion, I think the DST should be

schedules, especially flight and workers schedule. A lot of people have showed up late to work or for a flight because they forgot to set

“Changing the clock back and forth can also affect our body clock or sleep rhythm, and this can also have serious consequences such as accidents or injuries. ” cancelled. It doesn’t fulfill its original purpose, which is to save energy. Instead, daylight savings has only succeeded in messing up people’s

their time back or forward.

Changing the clock back and forth can also affect our body clock or sleep rhythm, and this can also

have serious consequences such as accidents or injuries.

Researchers have also linked DST to depression. Studies have shown that the seasonal change can trigger mental illness like bipolar disorder or winter depression.

DST definitely has its pros, such as longer evenings, which gives people more time to get things done and more natural light, which creates a safer environment for people and reduces the need for artificial lights.

However, if the purpose of DST is to conserve energy, this practice should be observed all year round and should be monitored effectively.

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Women in the military to be celebrated March 19

KAITLYN JORGENSEN STAFF WRITER March is Women’s History Month, and what a better way to celebrate than to discuss the variety of career opportunities for women that lie with our Armed Forces.

Join the Women’s Center along with Maverick battalion Army ROTC and the Veteran’s Resource Office, for a luncheon and an open discussion panel about “Women in the Military.”

The event will take place on Tuesday March 19 from 11-2 p.m. in the Centennial Student Union room 201.

Students should register for the event via Handshake by Monday, March 18.

The event will focus on career opportunities for women after college.

Options such as enlistment, officer candidate school or contract positions with the US Government will all be discussed. There will be a

diverse panel with a wide range of experiences that can help to answer questions ranging from education benefits to life in the military.

The objective is to present career opportunities to women students that they may not have considered before.

Jade Hengel, a specialist in the Minnesota National Guard, and an active volunteer at the Veteran’s Resource

associated with specific jobsthe military being a big one.

The military is something that most people can’t see themselves doing, but in reality most people can find a job they will enjoy in it, and they will find themselves in a place they never thought they could make it to, with people they now consider family.”

Kristie Uhren, a simultaneous member of the

“We need women in the military because it increases the diversity of our forces, and oftentimes women can offer a different perspective and insight to certain situations.”

Center stated “I think that it’s important for women to be in the military because they are actually able to. It hasn’t always been an option for females to be in the service, and now that it is, I think it’s important not only to help empower women but to help diminish typical gender roles

Minnesota National Guard and an ROTC Cadet stated “Women have and will continue to succeed in the military. Many women hold high leadership roles- and they do it just as well as men. We need women in the military because it increases the diversity of our forces, and

oftentimes women can offer a different perspective and insight to certain situations.”

The panel will include Katherine McNair, a U.S. Marine Corp Veteran, Jenna Alm, Sergeant First Class (retired), Teresa Anthony, Sergeant First Class, MN Army National Guard Education Services and Recruiting and Retention NCO. Uhren is excited to hear from some of our veterans

and retired servicewomen.

“As someone who is enlisted, it will be interesting to hear from someone who is retired about their military experiences, their re-entry into society, and how they dealt with all those different situations.”

Hengel added “I’m really looking forward to the diversity of the panel-it should make for a great discussion.”

US OThe U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued an emergency order keeping the planes on the tarmac after refusing to do so in the days immediately following the crash of a Max 8 operated

by Ethiopian Airlines that left 157 people dead.

WORLD O Police on Thursday questioned two K-pop stars over interlocking sex scandals that have fascinated South Korea and prompted both men to say they were retiring from the entertainment industry.

OThe Republican-led Senate is set to deal President Donald Trump a rebuke on his declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, with the only remaining question how many GOP senators will join Democrats in defying him.

MINNESOTA O Minnesota’s legislative auditor said Wednesday that an investigation found no proof that money defrauded from a state child care program found its way to terrorist organizations overseas.

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Michael Jackson’s legacy tarnished after documentary

Child-molesting accusations resurface against deceased artist coming. It had just a small bed. Up there, we would have sex,” according to People Magazine.

Joy Robson, Wade Robson’s mother, also commented in the documentary stating, “they’d [Robson and Safechuck] take off for the day and I’d spend all day looking for them,” according to People Magazine.

Rewinding the clock to 2005, when the star was first accused of molesting children at his estate, Robson testified in favor of Jackson’s innocence, according to Forbes. Robson under oath stated that nothing sexual ever happened between them at the Neverland

ALYSSA BUNDE STAFF WRITER In 2005 pop star Michael Jackson was accused of molesting children at his Neverland estate, he was ultimately cleared of all charges, according to Forbes. It is now 2019 and while the star is long gone, the accusations are not.

HBO’s new documentary, Leaving Neverland, tells the chilling story of Wade Robson and James Safechuck, and their allegations of being molested by Jackson as children, according to CNN. During the documentary the pair describe their time at the estate with Jackson and

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the sexual assaults in great detail. Safechuck recalls,

“there was a castle in the theme park and upstairs

there was a bedroom. You could see if somebody was

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A&E

Album Review: Stella Donelly’s “Beware of the Dogs”

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KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER Sometime in my spring semester freshman year, I started getting really into music. Prior to this I listened to and very much enjoyed music, obviously, but it was around this time my friends and I created a spreadsheet where we would all review and discuss albums that were releasing that year.

The first album I reviewed for this spreadsheet was, funnily enough, technically not even an album. It was an EP by an indie darling from Australia named Stella Donnelly called “Thrush Metal”. The review was equivalent to an empty f*#&ing water bottle, containing the phrase “I love this” on four separate occasions and me messing up the titles of the tracks throughout the review.

However, despite the review being an abomination, one thing was obvious.

I loved the EP. The way Donnelly’s soft voice and rhythmic strumming combined with her poignant lyrics turned what I expected to

be a prototypical “sad girl strums a guitar” effort into one of my favorite musical moments of that year. Since that EP I’ve eagerly been awaiting her debut album, all the while simultaneously improving my reviewing skills. .

Finally, this past Friday Stella Donnelly released her album “Beware the Dogs” and it is everything I could have hoped for. Donnelly takes the themes of her original EP and expands them in every possible way, similar to the leaps that are made between a rough draft and the final submission of a term paper.

Her vocals are as beautiful as ever, her work as a guitarist has improved a tad over the interval between projects, and her witty, powerful lyrics are still present, showing she hasn’t let up as a songwriter either.

Releasing on International Women’s Day seems to be no accident, as the main theme tackled on this record her experience as a woman in today’s society.

As a male who identifies as a male, I obviously cannot have any idea of what this is like, however, if tracks like “Tricks” and “Boys will be Boys” are to be any indication, it sounds intimidating to say the least. “Boys will be Boys”, a track originating from her aforementioned EP, deals with the aftermath of

a rape, victim blaming, and the living trauma the victim endures everyday in an extremely moving way, while “Tricks” deals with what it feels like to be treated like less of a person and more of a trophy by someone you love.

While songs like these are amazing and extremely important, what I loved most about this album was the parallels she added through tracks like “Old Man” and “U Owe Me”. In these songs she explores how an empowered woman can do anything from presenting and subsequently attacking social issues when she is given a voice, to something as simple as standing up to her d!#k of a boss.

Throughout the album, her vocals are a treat to listen to; as is her work with her guitar.

What makes her songs special are her lyrics, as lines like “Cause you’re a pretty light and I’m so attracted to ya/A malaria mosquito buzzing in the shadow” add just the right amount of personality to the album to set it and her apart from contemporaries, while lines like “Why was she all alone/Wearing her shirt that low?/They said, “Boys will be boys”/Deaf to the word no” drive a message home in a much needed way.

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Hip Hop group, The Reminders come to campus MANKATO, Minn. – The Building Bridges: Arts, Culture and Identity grant program in association with the Minnesota State Mankato Performance Series presents The Reminders, a Colorado based hip-hop/soul duo joined by hip-hop dancer and choreographer Amirah Sackett, an internationally recognized hip-hop dancer, choreographer, and teacher based in Chicago.

During their three-day residency, the artists will be actively engaged with community organizations, schools, and the University delivering workshops and talks that are free and open to the public.

Topping off their residency will be a public performance on Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 pm on the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall stage in the Earley Center for Performing Arts, 320 Maywood Ave. The Reminders are a rare and remarkable musical duo seamlessly blending soulful sounds and roots music with insightful messages and thoughtful lyrics. The group consists of Brussels-born emcee Big Samir and Queens-born emcee/ vocalist Aja Black. Big Samir weaves intricate rhythmic patterns with a bilingual French/English flow, displaying his street-smart credibility in both his lyrics and cool demeanor. This is beautifully complimented by Aja Black’s confident delivery, diverse cadences, and unique vocal

stylings. The two have an undeniable magical chemistry as they share more than lyrical abilities and stages; the couple shares a partnership in both music and life as Samir and Aja have been married for almost a decade.

Amirah Sackett explores and embodies her Muslim American identity through combining hip-hop movement and Islamic culture.

She is widely known for her choreography and performance ensemble creation, “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic.” Amirah Sackett was honored as one of the first female hip-hop artists to receive the Jerome Travel/ Study grant in 2008 and traveled to Rotterdam, Holland to study and train at Hip Hop Huis. She curated the international festival for women in Hip- Hop, B-Girl Be in 2009-2010 at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis, MN. Most recently, she was chosen to be a Tedx speaker at TedxAmoskeagMillyard in New Hampshire. Huffington Post featured Amirah in their article, “17 Muslim American Women Who Made America Great in 2016.” Amirah believes hip-hop culture, as a whole, gives voice to those often unheard and is a way to uplift, inspire, and bring

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Coaches and parents in college scheme find jobs in danger LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colleges and companies moved swiftly to distance themselves from employees swept up in a nationwide college admissions scheme, many of them coaches accused of taking bribes and others prominent parents accused of angling to get their children into top schools by portraying them as recruited athletes.

That celebrities were among the accused parents — actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman headline the list — created much buzz, but other parents charged included people prominent in law, finance, fashion, manufacturing and other fields — people who could afford the steep price.

At least nine athletic coaches and 33 parents were among those charged. Some parents spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, as much as $6.5 million, to guarantee their children’s admission, officials said.

“Every student deserves to be considered on their individual merits when applying Actress Lori Loughlin to college, and it’s disgraceful to see anyone breaking wise imposed strict travel rethe law to give their children strictions. Magistrate Judge an advantage over others,” Steven Kim said Loughlin U.S. Education Secretary Bet- must surrender her passport sy DeVos said in a statement in December, inform the Wednesday. “The departcourt of her travel plans and ment is looking closely at this provide evidence of where issue and working to detershe’s been if asked. mine if any of our regulations Loughlin’s lawyer Perry have been violated.”

Viscounty declined comAt a brief court appearance ment outside the courtroom, Wednesday, a judge allowed where a day earlier her Loughlin to be released on husband, fashion designer $1 million bond and travel to Mossimo Giannulli, was freed the area around Vancouver, on similar terms.

Canada, to work but otherEven though prosecutors

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had agreed to it, Magistrate Judge Steve Kim at first said he was “not comfortable” with letting Loughlin keep her passport and travel to Canada, but relented after peppering Viscounty with questions about the projects and signed off on the deal.

Among the other parents charged was Gordon Caplan, of Greenwich, Connecticut, co-chairman of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, based in New York.

Caplan “will have no further

JACKSON Continued from page 12 estate. When Jackson died Robson also stated, “I will miss him immeasurably, but I know that he is now at peace and enchanting the heavens with a melody and a moonwalk,” according to Forbes.

It is now years later and with Jackson out of the picture this whole endeavor begs the question, why now? Why would these two men wait so long to come forward? In an article from Psychology Today, it explains why sexual assault survivors don’t always come forward right away. One of the main reasons being shame. The article quotes

Gershen Kaufman, author of Shame: The Power of Caring.

Kaufman states, “shame is a natural reaction to being violated or abused. In fact, abuse, by its very nature, is humiliating and dehumanizing.” The article continues on stating that denial and fear of consequences are also common reasonings.

HBO however, is not fearing any consequences, even a $100 million one. According to Vulture Magazine, days before Leaving Neverland released Jackson’s estate filed a lawsuit against HBO for $100 million. The magazine continued explaining that the

firm management responsibilities,” the firm said in a statement Wednesday.

Telephone messages seeking comment have been left with Caplan, who is accused of paying $75,000 to get a test supervisor to correct the answers on his daughter’s ACT exam after she took it.

Hercules Capital, a Palo Alto, California, hedge fund, announced Wednesday it was replacing its leader, Man-

uel Henriquez, who has been arrested in New York City and released on $500,000 bail.

Henriquez will still hold a seat on the board and serve as an adviser, Hercules said.

Henriquez and his wife, Elizabeth, of Atherton, California, were charged with participating in the scheme on four occasions for their two daughters. They were also charged with conspiring to bribe Gordon Ernst, former head tennis coach at Georgetown University, to designate their older daughter as a tennis recruit to facilitate her admission and with making a $400,000 contribution to a charity to help her get accepted to the school.

Georgetown said he hadn’t coached there since December 2017 after an investigation found he violated university admissions rules.

The University of Rhode Island says Ernst, who was hired as head women’s tennis coach in August, was placed on administrative leave.

At a court hearing Tuesday in Maryland, a federal magistrate freed Ernst on $200,000 bond.

His lawyer, Michael CitaraManis, said his client isn’t a flight risk. Ernst had planned to attend a job interview in Toronto soon, he said,

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Michael Jackson is a legend in the music industry, but with his public image in question it is currently unclear if the label of child molester will now follow his name for years to come.

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LOUGHLIN Continued from page 14 “although I don’t know the impact from these proceedings.”

Also among the charged parents was Homayoun Zadeh, an associate professor of dentistry at the University of Southern California. His status at USC was unclear; his faculty profile has been removed from a website, and phone messages seeking comment were not returned.

Mark Riddell — an administrator for Bradenton, Florida’s IMG Academy, which was founded by renowned tennis coach Nick Bollettieri and bills itself as the world’s largest sports academy — was suspended late Tuesday after he was accused of taking college admissions tests. Riddell didn’t return phone calls seeking comment.

Many of the coaches were quickly fired or suspended by the colleges. Prosecutors said the colleges themselves are not targets of the continuing investigation.

Stanford fired sailing coach John Vandemoer after he was charged with accepting $270,000 in contributions to the program for agreeing to recommend two prospective students for admission. Neither student came to Stanford, the school said.

USC fired senior associate athletic director Donna Heinel and water polo coach Jovan Vavic. Court documents say Vavic was paid $250,000 and designated two students as recruits for his team to

REMINDERS Continued from page 13 change to those communities that need it the most.

These activities are made possible in part by a grant from the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, and Building Bridges: Arts, Culture, and Identify, a component of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. Admission to the March 16 concert is $12 for community members and $11 for University students with a valid MavCARD. Discount tickets are available online for University students. Advance purchase is encouraged.

Those who wish to purchase tickets online should go to www.mnsu.edu/music. For more information, call the Performance Series office, (507) 389-5549.

facilitate their admission. He has been released on bond.

A message was left with Vavic’s lawyer seeking comment.

The University of Texas fired men’s tennis coach Michael Center on Wednesday, a day after federal officials unveiled documents accusing Center of taking up to nearly $100,000 to get a student into school by listing him as a tennis recruit. Once enrolled the student never played tennis. Center’s attorney has said the coach denies the allegations.

At Wake Forest, President Nathan Hatch said volleyball coach Bill Ferguson, who was accused of taking a bribe, has been suspended. The university’s outside counsel is conducting an internal review, Hatch said.

Federal prosecutors said parents paid admissions consultant William “Rick” Singer millions of dollars to bribe their children’s way into college. Some of the payouts went to coaches and administrators to falsely make their children look like star athletes, and Singer also hired ringers to take college entrance exams for students and paid off insiders at testing centers to correct students’ answers, authorities said.

Singer, founder of the Edge College & Career Network of Newport Beach, California, pleaded guilty Tuesday.

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Is entertainment becoming heavily monopolized?

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER Wednesday, rumors started circulating that Sony, the tech giant responsible for the Playstation line of consoles, is looking into buying TakeTwo Interactive.

Take-Two might not be immediately recognizable to most, but the products they create will be. Games like Grand Theft Auto, NBA 2K, and Red Dead Redemption are just a few of the numerous titles the company is responsible for. If Sony ends up actually buying Take-Two, it would most likely mean that any sequel game, like GTA6 for instance, would only be playable on Playstation consoles.

Conversely, nearly all of Fox’s media properties were bought up by Disney, excluding the News and Sports portions of the company. As March 20th, the official day the deal goes through, many are airing concerns that Disney controls too much of the entertainment industry.

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A popular saying was that the deal could effectively make “Disney the Walmart of movies”.

These two deals are at the very least troubling many consumers. The implication deals like this entail is that one company will be controlling a vast majority of the medium it is in, effectively creating a near monopoly.

While it doesn’t look like any sort of monopoly is coming anytime soon, it does create a new problem. If large companies like Disney and Sony keep eating up smaller companies, it will cause their main competitors like Warner Media and Microsoft to do the same.

For instance, if Sony does buy Take-Two, Microsoft would most likely try to pur-

chase a company like EA in retaliation. This would cause consumers to be effectively cut off of half of the gaming landscape while also making it harder on new companies to get started in the industry.

Some may not have a problem with a company like Disney having control because they, by most accounts, aren’t a giant evil corporation from a Saturday morning cartoon. However, all it takes is a big payday or change of the guard for morals to get twisted and messages to change.

Is it time to panic? I’d say we’re good for now. However, if this goes through, start watching out for even more deals like it to come rolling in.

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Basketball Punches Ticket to NCAA Tournament They squeak into the tourney after being upset by Bemidji State in the NSIC tournament

BRADY OLSON STAFF WRITER Despite an early exit in the NSIC (Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference) tournament, the Minnesota State men’s basketball team will see their season last a little longer, as they received the No. 8 seed in the NCAA D-II Tournament during Selection Sunday this past weekend, and will face-off with No. 1 seed Northwest Missouri State University.

Coming into the NSIC tournament, MNSU was No. 7 in the NCAA’s Central Region rankings. That is important because of the way the D-II tournament functions.

Instead of four 16-team regions like in the Division I tournament, the Division II

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Freshman guard Tre Baumgardner (pictured) and the Mavericks survived and made it to the NCAA tournament. Now, the team hopes to pull the upset over Northwest Missouri State on Saturday. format has eight eight-team regions. Each region holds three conferences, and the winner of each conference tournament, along with five at-large bids, fill out each region.

Going into the first round matchup against Bemidji State in the NSIC tournament, Minnesota State’s ranking spot had them one ahead of fellow NSIC member Minnesota-Duluth.

What was expected to be an easy first round victory for the Mavericks turned into a hard-fought battle, culminating in a 66-56 defeat at the hands of Bemidji State.

As a result, Southeastern

Oklahoma moved into the seven-seed in the final bracket. Luckily for MNSU,

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Hockey ready for second round test

The team gears up for their second round matchup versus Lake Superior State

JOHN LAFOREST STAFF WRITER The Maverick hockey team marches ahead into the WCHA tournament, as they completed the sweep of Alabama-Huntsville this past weekend after capturing a 4-1 victory in the second game of a best-of-three series at the Verizon Center, punching the team’s ticket to the second round of the WCHA tournament against the Lake Superior State Lakers.

The win gave MSU its seventh consecutive WCHA first round series win dating back to the 2012-13 season.

After the game Saturday, coach Mike Hastings had comments on the overall outlook to the game he said, “the first 40 minutes were great for us we got off to a

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Sophomore forward Dallas Gerards (22) and the Mavericks march into the weekend with hopes of conquering Lake Superior State, and moving on to the WCHA championship. great start.” He later pointed to the start as a key reason the team was able to prevail.

The Lake Superior State Lakers enter the matchup sporting a 23-11-2 overall record finishing fourth in the league regular-season standings with a 16-10-2 WCHA record. The journey

to the semifinals started with a WCHA first-round series win over Bemidji State with 4-2 and 3-1 victories over the Beavers last weekend.

LSSU is led by head coach Damon Whitten. Whitten, a 1997 Michigan State grad, owns a 66-101-2 record so far in his five seasons with the

Lakers.

The Mavericks and Lakers have played four games this season already. The Mavs have come out victorious in three of the four matches, scoring at least three goals in the wins. The Mavericks’ only loss to the Lakers on the season came in mid-January,

in a close defensive matchup in a 1-0 game.

Mike Hastings through seven seasons as head coach owns a record of 180-79-21

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MSU hockey player wins WCHA Student Athlete of the year Maverick senior co-captain Corbin Boyd has had success on and off the ice this season

KEVIN KORBEL SPORTS EDITOR Minnesota State senior forward Corbin Boyd has been named the Western Collegiate Hockey Association Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year, powered by GoodWood Hockey, as announced by conference officials a couple of days ago.

Boyd, a native from Minnetonka, Minn., served as a co-captain for the 201819 season for the Mavericks, while boasting a 3.98 grade point average in the classroom and plans to graduate with a Biochemistry degree before attending Pharmacy school next year.

Corbin is the second player from Minnesota State selected as the WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year - goaltender Katie Beauduy was selected in 1998-99.

Boyd had this to say about receiving the award, “It was a huge honor to receive the

WCHA outstanding student athlete of the year award.

There are a lot of very deserving girls in our league that could have won that award so I feel very grateful for being chosen as the award winner.”

After a career best season in 2018-19 on the ice, where she accumulated eight goals, 14 assists, 22 points, 114 shots on goal and 19 blocked shots for the Mavericks, which are all career highs for her, she’s also made an effort off the ice to better herself in the classroom.

“Balancing hockey with my school hasn’t been the easiest over the past four years, especially since hockey spreads from September until March,” said Boyd, “I’ve been so fortunate to have such understanding professors and classmates over my time at MNSU who are always so accommodating with my hockey practices, games, and travel schedules.”

She also mentioned how it was difficult at times to keep up with school work, but she was able to keep up with it due to her dedication to making class a priority, “I had to miss a lot of exams and lectures which would result in me making up the work on my

own or teaching the material to myself. I’ve learned how to manage my time pretty well and not to procrastinate on my schoolwork.”

A three-time WCHA Scholar Athlete, two-time WCHA All-Academic Team member, CoSIDA Academic All-District Team member and an AHCA All-American Scholar honoree, Boyd has been nothing short of stellar in the classroom for the Mavericks.

Boyd has also been involved outside of the classroom by being the Mavericks’ team representative for the Headway Foundation’s Concussion Awareness Weekend the last two seasons.

After college, Boyd plans to graduate with a degree in biochemistry, and as of just recently has been accepted to pharmacy school for next year. She will then be attending Creighton University the next four years to obtain her Doctor of Pharmacy degree. She hopes to stay involved with hockey in some way once she leaves school.

In her career at Minnesota State, Boyd has played in 132 games, while scoring 15 goals and collecting 41

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MSU senior forward Corbin Boyd (pictured) assists for 56 points in her career as a Maverick.

Minnesota State finished its season a couple of days ago after being swept by #10 Ohio State in the WCHA Tournament Quarterfinals.

They finished the season with

a record of 9-19-7, and now look to compensate for the loss of Boyd next season.

As Boyd moves into life after hockey, she’s now left a pair of big skates to fill for the team on the ice this next season.

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the UMD Bulldogs were having a bad night as well, and would go onto lose to Winona State 62-56.

The last shuffle put MNSU into the eight-spot, and forced Minnesota-Duluth out of the tournament picture.

While the Mavericks are certainly thrilled to be in the tournament, their first-round matchup will be the toughest in the entire country. Their opponent is none other than

Northwest Missouri State, the unanimous No. 1 team in Division II. The match will also take place on the Bearcats’ home turf, as No. 1 seeds get to host their respective regional tournaments.

Luckily for the Mavs, they are 11-3 this season when they play away from Bresnan Arena, compared to 7-8 when they play at home.

The Central Region

tournament will take place on March 16, 17, and 19 in Maryville, Missouri. The Mavericks will face-off with the Bearcats this Saturday with tip-off scheduled for 6 p.m. If the Mavericks advance past the first round, they will face the winner of St. Cloud State and Southern Nazarene. This is MNSU’s second straight tournament appearance, and their sixth in seven years.

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NFL: OBJ to the Browns highlights new league year CLEVELAND (AP) — Odell Beckham Jr. is about to run a deep route out of New Jersey — straight to Cleveland.

The superstar wide receiver is bound for the Browns to be a target for quarterback Baker Mayfield as the centerpiece of a blockbuster trade, two people familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday night.

The Browns are sending first- and third-round picks this year along with safety Jabrill Peppers to the Giants for Beckham, one of the NFL’s top players, said the people who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because league rules prohibit teams from announcing trades until 4 p.m. Wednesday.

The deal is conditional on both players passing physicals.

With the Browns, Beckham will be reunited with receiver Jarvis Landry, a close friend and teammate at LSU. He’ll also give Mayfield an elite weapon, and his arrival could vault the Browns, who went

7-8-1 last season after not winning a game in 2017, into legitimate championship contenders.

Rumors of a possible deal have swirled for weeks, with several Browns players teasing a major move by Cleveland general manager John Dorsey on social media.

Dorsey pulled it off, bringing a major talent to accelerate his attempt to rebuild the Browns into consistent winners. Cleveland hasn’t been to the playoffs since 2002.

The trade is the second major one involving a star wide receiver in four days as the Pittsburgh Steelers recently sent Antonio Brown to the Oakland Raiders.

While Beckham is immensely talented, there is some baggage as he can be temperamental and difficult.

He was suspended for one game for his on-field battles with Carolina cornerback Josh Norman. He also comes off two injury-plagued years.

Before last season, he became the league’s highest-paid

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New Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. (pictured) is ready to make the Browns a Super Bowl contender in 2019. receiver with a five-year, $90 million contract extension.

He played five seasons in New York, making the Pro Bowl in his first three. He was the AP Offensive Rookie of the Year in 2014.

It’s the second trade completed in the past week

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by the Giants and Browns.

Cleveland sent guard Kevin Zeitler to New York for edge rusher Olivier Vernon, who will now play on the opposite side of Pro Bowler Myles Garrett.

The Giants had been reluctant to trade Beckham, with GM Dave Gettleman insisting over the past few months that the club did not sign him to the historic deal in late August to trade him. But the Browns were persistent and Dorsey, who has remolded the Browns since coming to Cleveland at the end of 2017, came up with a package the Giants simply couldn’t resist.

“John Dorsey is officially

a genius...” tweeted Browns defensive back Damarious Randall.

When news of the agreement broke, Mayfield posted a photo on Twitter of him shaking hands with Beckham. “Movement” was the caption.

Dorsey has had a busy offseason, signing troubled running back Kareem Hunt to a one-year contract, trading for Vernon and agreeing to a three-year, $39 million deal with defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson.

Landing Beckham is his signature move, a signal that he believes the Browns are on the verge of a Super Bowl run.

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during his head coaching run, the Mavericks have won at least 20 games every year, something that is unprecedented in the 50-year history of the program. Through Mike Hastings tenure he owns the most wins in the conference.

Minnesota State comes into their matchup against the Lakers on an offensive roll. The team ranks first in the country with 42 power play goals, and a +70-scoring margin.

Minnesota State’s will look keep building on this historic season. The teams’ 29 wins this season are tied for second on the alltime list for most wins in a season. This teams’ current win total is only precedent by the team from 1979-80, which currently ranks one win ahead of this year on the school’s single-season wins

list.

These two teams will first drop the puck Friday at 7:07 p.m. in the Verizon Center to

kick off a best of three series, with the last game (if needed) Sunday at the same time and location.

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