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Suicide presentation slated for tonight St. Cloud State professor to discuss personal, sensitive topic.

ASHLEY GERKEN Staff Writer “Suicide Punchline” is coming to the Centennial Student Union’s Ostrander Auditorium tonight at 7 p.m. for the 20132014 Nadine B. Andreas Lecture.

The performance is free and open to the public and there will be a reception at 5 p.m. in the CSU’s Heritage Room.

Jen Tuder, an Associate Professor at St. Cloud State University, will be describing the ways she has survived since the suicide of her father in 1997.

“It has been a complicated grieving process ever since,” Tuder said.

Tuder has received a lot of advice from others, but she feels

that most of the advice given only helps deal with the six months to a year after the incident. What advice can people get for after the immediate aftermath?

The autobiographical performance focuses on the journey taken by those who have survived the suicide of a loved one. It is like a “map of survival” which provides a lifeline for anyone who has ever wondered if there’s life after a loved one’s death.

“Suicide Punchline” takes the audience from life to death.

Suicide is usually the end of pain and suffering for the victim.

For surviving family members it is only the beginning of the pain and sorrow.

Tuder rehearses survival by interrogating the dead, kidding

around at cocktail parties and building dioramas of the afterlife. The audience can expect an intense experience with a few jokes in between.

Tuder has three characters; the Questioner, who personifies the unanswered questions that haunt suicide survivors, the Celebrant, who never lets the hard facts of survival bring her down and the Architect, who creates a world where she can find her father and herself.

Through the process, the writer realizes survival will be an ongoing process.

“I want to reflect on how to deal with surviving after a suicide for the rest of your life,” Tuder said.

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Spring concert act to be announced today EMMA DEPPA Staff Writer

PACT plans events and activities for the campus using student activity fees and seeks to make students more involved on campus. IMPACT’s vision is to “cultivate student engagement through intentional programming and activities that promote student learning and retention.”

With a campus that is engaged and involved on campus, there is a higher chance that students will stay at MSU and be participatory in student life.

The Big Spring Concert will be on April 28th and will be feature hip-hop sensation Mike Posner. Posner, 26, is a rap-singer from Detroit, Mich.

He has several hit songs including “Cooler Than Me”, “Bow Chicka Wow Wow”, “Please Don’t Go,” and his latest hit single with Big Sean “On Top of the World.” He is also well known as a songwriter, creating

Well-known musician Mike Posner,

Minnesota State University, Mankato’s student activity programming committee, IMPACT (Innovative Memorable Programming Achieving Campus Togetherness), will be hosting an event promoting their Big Spring Concert. The event will take place today from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Hearth Lounge. Radio Mankato will serve as the master of ceremonies, as well as student DJ Ralph Weber. Weber will by mixing the spring concert artist’s music along with other favorite hits from today’s Top 40.

The Big Spring Concert will bring a very popular and successful performer to campus and from that IMPACT hopes to start a tradition of having an annual spring concert. IM-

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the music and lyrics to Justin Bieber’s “Boyfriend” as well as Snoop Dog and Wiz Khalifa’s “French Inhale,” which he is featured on.

Posner attended Duke University, where he had his musical beginnings. He was involved on his campus through his fraternity, Sigma Nu and studied sociology, receiving his degree in 2010. Even with his dedication to music, he maintained a high GPA of 3.59.

If you are unfamiliar with the work of Mike Posner, I would suggest catching up on his work before the concert. The talented singer, songwriter and producer makes music that you can both dance to or chill and listen to.

With three mixed tapes, seven singles, one album already released and another due out this year, Mike Posner always leaves his fans wanting more.

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LECTURE “It is a tough conversation, but it is one we should have.” continued from 1 “People need to communicate about suicide to help others learn more and reach out to prevent suicide.”

While suicide is not generally seen as a conversational topic, Tuder wants to change that. If the world learned to talk about it, maybe more people would know how to deal with issues surrounding suicide.

“I want to contribute to the effort, I want people to live,” said Tuder.

Jen Tuder had her first run of the show in Stillwater, MN. She has received performance requests at universities and other community events. She says she is happy to go on tours to educate.

Tuder is an associate professor in SCSU’s Department of Communication Studies and Department of Theatre and Film Studies. She holds a doctorate in speech communication with an emphasis in performance studies from Southern Illinois University. “Sex Across the Catechism” is her newest presented solo show.

“This is a tough conversation, but it is one we should have,” Tuder said. “Talking about suicide will only make our society healthier.”

“Suicide Punchline” is sponsored by the Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Department of Communication Studies.

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Four charged in Mankato synthetic drug investigation MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Mankato home of a man and woman charged in an investigation into a synthetic drug that may have killed two people was littered with drug paraphernalia and capsules containing white powder — some within reach of a toddler, according to charges filed Thursday.

The home of Tyler Caputo and his girlfriend, Skylar Jo ReichelSchneider, also contained small blue baggies with crown designs on them, the criminal complaints said.

Police believe a synthetic form of LSD or cocaine was sold in similar baggies, and that a 22-year-old man and a 17-yearold girl had used the drug shortly before they died. Police haven’t confirmed that the drug caused the deaths, but it is suspected.

Caputo and Reichel-Schneider are among four people facing various drug charges. Mankato police Cmdr. Dan Schisel said Thursday the investigation is ongoing and there could be more arrests.

Caputo, 21, and ReichelSchneider, 19, each face four counts, including selling drugs to someone under 18 and child endangerment. James Inman, 30, faces one count of selling drugs. A 15-year-old boy was also charged.

The adults were appointed public defenders, but individual attorneys hadn’t yet been assigned Thursday afternoon, said Carrie Leone, who manages

public defenders in Blue Earth County.

Authorities were called to a home March 5 and found Louis Folson, 22, not breathing. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital. On Saturday, authorities were called to another home where 17-year-old Chloe Moses was having a seizure. She was taken off life support Monday.

Police recovered small blue baggies with crown designs at each scene and believe the baggies contained a drug called 2-C, which has caused accidental overdoses elsewhere. In 2011, one teen died and 10 others became ill after several people used it at a party in Blaine.

According to the criminal complaint, Moses’ boyfriend told investigators he got the drug from another juvenile, and that both he and Moses used it before she died. A search warrant of that juvenile’s home yielded clear pill-style capsules and the blue baggies.

The complaint said Inman acknowledged he provided the drug to Folson, and that he got it from Caputo around March 1, packaged in clear capsules.

Inman told police Caputo also gave him baggies with crown emblems.

Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, officers searched Caputo’s and Reichel-Schneider’s house. The complaint said they found several baggies, suspected marijuana pipes, a pill crusher, snort tubes filled with a powder residue,

a digital scale and many other items.

There was also a suspected mushroom grower in the closet, which Caputo claimed was not his, the complaint said. Drug task force agents found more white powder-filled capsules, a baggie containing 10 grams of brown powder and a baggie containing 30 grams of light tan or pink powder in a safe. The safe also held baggies with powder and “2CE” and “2CI” written on them.

Caputo acknowledged he had access to the safe but told police it belonged to a juvenile, the complaint said.

In the kitchen, agents found a

small Mason jar containing marijuana next to baby food.

The complaint said “several of the suspected drug paraphernalia and other related items, including the capsules of an unknown substance and the psilocybin mushroom grower, were accessible to a juvenile toddler, who also resides in the residence.”

The Free Press of Mankato reported that the victims lived about three blocks apart, but it appears they didn’t know each other.

Schisel said police urged anyone who has the potentially deadly substance to turn it in.

“We definitely wanted it off the streets,” he said.

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MSU student selected to study abroad in Germany

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SAM WILMES News Editor A Minnesota State University, Mankato honors student has earned a fellowship to study abroad at one of the premier institutions of learning in the world.

Junior Abrar Zawed was recently awarded a RISE (Research Internships in Science and Engineering) Fellowship to the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry

in Martinsried, Germany.

On May 20, Zawed will begin his 10- week journey in Martinsried, a suburb of Munich, Germany, helping the doctoral research of PhD Student Neysan Donnelly. Zawed’s research will examine the effects of chromosome abnormalities on human cells.

A native of Chittagong, Bangladesh, Zawed is enrolled in MSU’s Honors Program and is a biomedical sciences major. Za-

wed is minoring in Chemistry.

He is one of 300 undergraduates to earn the award and was selected from more than 2,200 applicants from Canada, the U.K. and the US. A stipend from a German Academic Exchange Service, DAAD covers interns’ living expenses. “I would like to thank the Minnesota State Mankato Honors Program and the Office of University Fellowships for their support and encouragement,” Zawed told the university.

“This research experience will motivate me to come up with new ideas regarding my ongoing research and help me to achieve my academic goals in the future.”

Zawed has participated in undergraduate research at Minnesota State, Mankato under the guidance of Assistant Professor in MSU’s Department of Biological Sciences David Sharlin.

“Abrar has played an integral part in lab’s goal to develop new molecular tools for investigating the role thyroid hormone action in auditory system development,” Sharlin told the university.

“His project has provided the opportunity for him to develop modern molecular biology skills that will serve him in his future research career. It is great to know that his hard work was acknowledged with being awarded this prestigious fellowship.”

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According to Sharlin, Zawed has a substantial work ethic.

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The truth behind an Irish holiday

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The truth behind Saint Patrick’s day lies far beneath any beer or shamrock.

EMMA DEPPA Staff Writer Yesterday, people all across America celebrated the beloved holiday of Saint Patrick’s Day. Green was everywhere, along with four leaf clovers and many wearers of “Kiss Me, I’m Irish” apparel. However, much of this holiday is incorrect and has been turned into another commercial holiday. In fact, there is little that is actually factual about this holiday as it is celebrated in the United States.

The first fact about Saint Patrick that everyone should know is that he wasn’t Irish.

Born in Roman England, Saint Patrick was a native Englishman. His first trip to Ireland was not by choice, but by force.

He was kidnapped by Irish pirates at the age of sixteen, who make him work as a slave for six years. When he finally escaped, he made it back to England and began his studies of Christianity. He studied Christian doctrine for several years and then made his return to Ireland working as a missionary.

A second myth about Saint Patrick’s work in Ireland is his riddance of snakes from the country. True, there are no snakes in Ireland nowadays, however, evidence suggests

that there never were snakes.

In his era, snakes were typically used to symbolize evil and some believe that this legend spurs from the casting out of the Celtic Druids, a Pagan religion that celebrated snakes and were not favored by Christians.

Another and perhaps the most common misconception about Saint Patrick, is that his color was green. Saint Patrick’s main color was blue. The majority of art that portrays Saint Patrick depicts him wearing several shades of blue and there are even specific shades titled “Saint Patrick’s Blue”.

The fourth misrepresentation of Saint Patrick is the use of the four-leaf clover. Saint Patrick did use shamrocks, or three-leaf clovers, as a symbol in his teachers, however. He used the three-leaf clover to depict the Holy Trinity, making comparisons between the three leaves in one shamrock and three persons in one God. A four-leaf clover, representing luck, defeats the purpose of his comparison.

Lastly, Saint Patrick’s Day began as a religious day of reverence, certainly not one that involved green beer and getting obscenely drunk. As a Christian holiday and one that is during the Lenten season, drinking was originally

frowned upon and forbidden in some parts of Ireland. In fact, up until the late 1960’s many pubs were closed on Saint Patrick’s Day due to the extreme Catholicism that prevailed in the country.

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Saint Patrick was an English saint who wore blue and described the Holy Trinity using three-leaf clovers. It appears that almost everything we thought we knew about Saint Patrick’s Day was in fact a farce.

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Veto of veterans bill a loss for veterans Veto a slap in the face to all veterans.

SAM WILMES News Editor Congress’ rejection of the latest bill involving veterans benefits leaves me puzzled and dismayed.

A Department of Veterans Affairs bill that would have expanded benefits for veterans and repealed military pension cuts for future troops was rejected after the senate couldn’t garner enough Republican votes.

Much of the Republican reaction to the bill was expected.

“We have veterans dying from long waits for basic, necessary tests like colonoscopies,” Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) told the Washington Post on Thursday.

“Veterans waiting for their disability claims to be processed know all about frustrations and delays at the VA and adding more individuals to an already broken system doesn’t seem wise.”

If it’s broken then fix it! Don’t reject a bill on these premises

and not offer a solution. By doing so, they are part of the problem.

The bill had numerous other purposes: medical and dental care, educational assistance and caretaker stipends and although these apply to only post 9/11 veterans, it still would do a lot of good to those in need and would allow the opening of 27 new VA facilities.

Cost-of–living increases for the pensions of future military retirees would have been restored. The bill, the largest of its kind in decades, would have also expanded compensation to family caregivers of disabled veterans, a service that is currently only provided to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

Only two Republicans in the senate voted for this. Some of the actions of the Republicans in the senate in veterans’ relations, including this pressing matter, have been incomprehensible.

It is unfathomable partially because of the Republican stance on defense spending. We spend

Web Photo New Mexico Senator Kelly Ayotte and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.

more on this than any country in the world, more than many countries combined.

Why don’t we shift $20 billion of the over $700 billion spent on defense to this? It is less than 10%.

“This bill proposes to spend more than we agreed to spend,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said

before raising the budget point of order. “This bill creates new veterans’ programs and it’s not paid for — it’s all borrowed money.

How does Sen. Sessions say this when he doesn’t support cuts in our massive defense budget?

That is borrowed money as well.

A Senate bill was introduced earlier this month to streamline

VA claims and reduce backlog.

Hopefully this will pass.

More awareness in congress is needed to the state of veterans.

It is easy to sit behind a desk and crunch budget numbers to see what you can and can’t afford, but unfortunately sometimes there are lives at stake and that trumps any financial obligations.

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New uncertainty surrounds missing Malaysian plane KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Officials revealed a new timeline Monday suggesting the final voice transmission from the cockpit of the missing Malaysian plane may have occurred before any of its communications systems were disabled, adding more uncertainty about who aboard might have been to blame.

The search for Flight 370, which vanished early March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board, has now been expanded deep into the northern and southern hemispheres. Australian vessels scoured the southern Indian Ocean and China offered 21 of its satellites to help Malaysia in the unprecedented hunt.

With no wreckage found in one of the most puzzling aviation mysteries of all time, passengers’ relatives have been left in an agonizing limbo.

Investigators say the Boeing 777 was deliberately diverted during its overnight flight and flew off-course for hours. They haven’t ruled out hijacking, sabotage, or pilot suicide and are checking the backgrounds of the 227 passengers and 12 crew members — as well as the ground crew — for personal problems, psychological issues or links to terrorists.

Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said finding the plane was still the main focus and he did not rule out that it might be discovered

intact.

“The fact that there was no distress signal, no ransom notes, no parties claiming responsibility, there is always hope,” Hishammuddin said at a news conference.

Malaysian Airlines CEO Ahmad Jauhari Yahya said an initial investigation indicated that the last words ground controllers heard from the plane — “All right, good night” — were spoken by the co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid. A voice other than that of Fariq or the pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, it would have been clearest indication yet of something amiss in the cockpit before the flight went off-course.

Malaysian officials said earlier that those words came after one of the jetliner’s data communications systems — the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System — had been switched off, suggesting the voice from the cockpit may have been trying to deceive ground controllers.

However, Ahmad said that while the last data transmission from ACARS — which gives plane performance and maintenance information — came before that, it was still unclear at what point the system was switched off, making any implications of the timing murkier.

The new information opened the possibility that both ACARS and the plane’s transponders, which make the plane visible to civilian air traffic control-

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lers, were turned off at about the same time. It also suggests that the message delivered from the cockpit could have preceded any of the severed communications.

Turning off a transponder is easy and, in rare instances, there may be good reason to do so in flight — for example, if it were reporting incorrect data.

The Malaysian plane does not appear to fit that scenario, said John Gadzinski, a 737 captain.

“There is a raised eyebrow, like Spock on Star Trek — you just sit there and go, ‘Why would anybody do that?’” Gadzinski said of what he is hearing among pilots.

Other pilots in the United States cautioned against reading too much into what little is known so far about the actions of the Malaysia Airlines crew.

“You can’t take anything off the table until everything is on the table, and we don’t even have an aircraft,” said Boeing 737 pilot Mike Karn, president of the Coalition of Airline Pilots Associations.

Authorities have pointed to the shutdown of the transponders and the ACARS as evidence that someone with a detailed knowledge of the plane was involved.

But Bob Coffman, an airline captain and former 777 pilot, said that kind of information is not hard to find in the digital age.

Authorities confiscated a flight simulator from the pilot’s home Saturday and also visited the home of the co-pilot in what

Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar initially said were the first police visits to those homes.

But the government, which has come under criticism abroad for missteps and foot-dragging in releasing information, issued

a statement Monday contradicting that account, saying police first visited the pilots’ homes as early as March 9, the day after the flight disappeared.

Coffman said the flight simulator could signify nothing more than the pilot’s zeal for his job.

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Grand Rapids bound After a first-round sweep in the WCHA playoffs, the Mavericks are off to their secondconsecutive WCHA Final Five appearance.

LUCAS RYAN Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato Mavericks have done it again. The Mavs men’s hockey team returns to the WCHA Final Five for a second straight year and the first back-to-back appearance in program history. While the Mavs were expected to be at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich. next weekend for the tournament, the road there wasn’t an easy one.

The Mavericks had the MacNaughton Cup within reach two weekends ago after a Friday night win over Michigan Tech, but after Tech held the Mavs to a 1-1 tie on Saturday, MSU slipped to second in the WCHA league standings, with Ferris State taking the regular season title and the no.

1 seed for the WCHA playoffs.

Still, the Mavs performed well enough to earn the no. 2 seed, and they also earned home ice for the

first round of playoff hockey for the second consecutive season.

The Northern Michigan University Wildcats came to town this past weekend hoping to extend their season into the Final Five, but MSU had different plans. In a best of three game series, the Mavericks got out to a 3-0 lead in Friday night’s game with a goal by junior forward Matt Leitner, and a pair of power play goals coming from the sticks of sophomore Bryce Gervais and freshman Sean Flanagan. NMU answered back and scored two of their own to make Maverick fans a little nervous, but freshman goaltender Cole Huggins was able to protect his team’s lead and hold on for a 3-2 win.

With the first victory of the series, the Mavericks had to win Saturday night to prevent a Sunday night rubber match that could have ended either team’s season.

Game two of the series on Saturday night saw the Wildcats

Arnold Bagamba• MSU Reporter Sophomore forward Bryce Gervais (above) had a tremendous weekend for the Mavericks scoring one goal and assist in Friday’s game and scoring two goals with an assist on Saturday.

fight to keep their season going, and they didn’t give the Mavericks a lead until the game was over. After NMU took a lead at the midpoint of the first period, the Mavericks had trouble finding the back of the net. That was until Leitner scored a beautiful breakaway goal with only .5 seconds remaining in the period. Leitner split the Wildcat defenders, came in all alone on NMU goaltender Mathias Dahlstrom, and lifted a backhand shot over Dahlstrom’s shoulder for a buzzer beating,

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Arnold Bagamba • MSU Reporter Freshman forward Zach Stepan put the nail in the WCHA first round coffin with a goal in overtime in the Mavericks’ overtime win on Saturday.

game-tying goal.

The late goal seemed to carry some momentum into the second period as the Mavs continued to pepper shots on Dahlstrom, but the Wildcats answered first in the second period with a goal from Ryan Kesti on a shot that

Huggins never saw. But the Mavericks, who hold the third best power-play unit in the NCAA, were able to knot the game again when senior captain Johnny McInnis tallied a power play-goal late in the second period.

Again heading to the locker room having tied the game, both teams came out firing in the third.

For the Mavericks, the third period was the Bryce Gervais show.

The Wildcats twice scored power-play goals in the third period to take a one goal lead, but each time Gervais answered back to tie the game again. Gervais’ second goal of the game came on the power play with under five minutes left in regulation, sending the game into overtime.

In overtime, it was a freshman who kept the party going for the Mavericks. After a Zach Palmquist blast from the point that got away from Dahlstrom, freshman Zach Stepan collected the loose puck behind the net and jammed it in the net for the game winning goal, extending the Mavericks’ season for at least another week.

Maverick head coach Mike Hastings expressed his excitement after the game.

“I learned a lot about my guys tonight,” Hastings said. “That’s as hard fought of a win as we’ve had all season, every time they

made a push we answered the bell.”

Only two wins this weekend

Matt Leitner

separate the Mavericks from the Broadmoor Trophy as the WCHA Final Five champions. The Mavs play Bowling Green on Friday, who they went 2-2 against this season, including three overtime games. If the Mavericks can take down the Falcons, they advance to the championship game on Saturday to face the winner of Ferris State or Alaska-Anchorage.

Heading into the tournament, the Mavericks feel confident.

“We don’t play down much and when we did we were able to come back,” Stepan said. “We learned tonight that is doesn’t

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Mavericks knocked out of NCAA tourney LUKE CARLSON Staff Writer Saturday evening, the Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s basketball squad took care of the Harding Bison with efficiency in the first round of the NCAA Division II Central Region Tournament. But it was on Sunday night that the No. 9 Mavericks just about played the upset kings in a close second round affair with the Northwest Missouri State Bearcats. In a game that went down to the wire, MSU came oh so close but were not able to pull off the come-frombehind win, losing 71-66 to the Bearcats and ending the Mavericks’ season.

The Mavericks looked good the night before the season-ending game, when they handed the Harding Bison a blowout loss Saturday evening. And it was an especially emotional experience for the men in purple and gold as the MSU campus played host to the tournament.

The Mavericks, in their 14th consecutive win, stormed over the Bison with a single-game high 17 three-pointers and excellent rebounding. MSU came out strong and quickly opened up a margin on the Bison that turned into a 51-24 lead at halftime.

MSU senior guard Tanner Adler led all scorers in the first half with 15 points, while junior guard Zach Monaghan contributed 10 points and five assists. As a team, the Mavericks shot 67.7 percent from the field and went 8-of-13 from beyond the threepoint arc.

In the second half, it was all

Mavericks. The home squad maintained at least a 23-point lead over the Bison in the entire 20 minutes and sailed to a 97-56 win.

Adler finished the night leading MSU with 24 points and went 6-of-10 from the three-point line.

Monaghan ended the match with 18 points and eight assists, while senior guard Gage Wooten contributed 17 points. As a team, MSU shot 60.7 percent from the field and dominated in the rebound category with 41 to Harding’s 18.

The win over the Bison saw the Mavericks set a new singleseason record of 293 shots made from beyond the arc. It also stood as MSU head coach Matt Margenthaler’s 284th win, tying Dan McCarrell for most in MSU history. Unfortunately, Margenthaler will have to wait until next season to break the MSU wins record.

At approximately 7:40 on Sunday night, the opening tip of the tournament semifinals commenced. After a sound victory the night before, the Mavericks started the first half against Northwest Missouri State in not too sound a fashion.

The Bearcats controlled the tempo of the game early, jumping ahead of the Mavericks and maintaining the lead through most of the first half. NMSU led by as many as 20 at one point before MSU cut the Bearcats’ lead to a score of 39-26 at halftime.

Monaghan led MSU in the half with an impressive 11 points.

But as a team, MSU did not fare well in the shooting and rebound categories, posting only a 42.9

shooting percentage from the field and 16 rebounds and failed to capitalize on many a scoring chance in order to keep it close with the Bearcats.

Freshman forward Zach Schneider led NMSU with 13 points while the Bearcats shot 44.4 percent from the field and brought down 18 rebounds in the first half.

In the second half of the intense semifinal, the Mavericks attempted to stop the bleeding in the opening minutes. They managed to pull their deficit to within 10 points at about the midway point of the second half behind better shooting and rebounding.

The home team found themselves down 55-45 with 9:36 left to play in the game. It was from there that the Mavericks started to chip away at Northwest Missouri State’s lead. With loud and frequent chants of M-S-U, the Mavericks began to feed more and more off of the crowd, which was becoming louder and louder as the closing minutes ticked away, knowing that their team’s season could be decided here and now.

MSU brought the deficit to single-digits in the final five minutes before drawing to within one point with 36 seconds remaining off of a pair of successful free throws by Monaghan. With the game standing at 67-66 in favor of the Bearcats, NMSU answered with two made free throws of their own to make it 69-66.

At only 15 seconds left in the game, MSU’s Wooten put up a three point shot to tie the game.

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David Bassey • MSU Reporter Eight points and two big three pointers came from junior forward Zach Romashko in the Mavericks’ loss on Sunday.

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night, sealing the deal and punching NMSU’s ticket to the tournament’s championship match.

The Mavericks improved their shooting in the second frame but still only managed 43.4% from the field and 37 rebounds overall. MSU’s Monaghan ended the match with 16 points, as did junior forward Assem Marei.

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But the shot heartbreakingly missed its mark and the Bearcats brought down the rebound. A finishing basket by NMSU senior guard DeShaun Cooper, who led the Bearcats with 25 points on the

Senior forward Connor O’Brien added 12 points and nine rebounds in the losing effort.

The Mavericks end the season with a 30-5 overall record while Northwest Missouri State will take on Central Missouri in the tournament finals this Tuesday night at 7 p.m. back in the Taylor Center.

matter if we are down or up, we’ll be able to win the hockey game.”

Coach Hastings also credited the win to the emergence of young players, specifically Gervais.

“Bryce Gervais has just taken his game to a new level,” said Hastings.

After a three-goal weekend

by Gervais, he now has scored 15 goals this season, and ten in his last 13 games. A natural goal scorer who led the British Columbia Hockey League in goals just two seasons ago, it seems he may be starting to breakout at the college level. As for any change in his game that’s helped him raise his game, he says it’s mental.

“My mental preparation was lacking for a while,” Gervais

said. “Now I’m just more focused.”

The Mavs are going to need that focus to get them to the NCAA tournament, as right now they may not be a shoe-in.

MSU sits 12th in the NCAA pairwise rankings, with the top 16 teams making the NCAA tournament. Right now, it looks as if the Mavs will likely make their second consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament, but there are no gaurentees. If any teams below the top 16 wins their conference tournament, they push out the bottom of the top 16. If the Mavericks are able to win the WCHA Final Five this weekend, they receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, and likely a more favorable seed.

“This weekend showed us nothing is going to come easy,” Gervais said. “We’re going to have to work just as hard up at Van Andel.”

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Double take review: Veronica Mars JAMES HOUTSMA’S TAKE If you wish upon a star, maybe one day you’ll get back Veronica Mars.

For years this has been the most realistic hope for fans of UPN’s teen mystery series to see their beloved show again in a new light. Along comes an ambitious idea by the series creator and cast to fund a feature film through Kickstarter and after gaining contributions that went above and beyond initial plans, here we stand with the cinematic continuation of Veronica Mars. The faithful have been rewarded.

And really, wish fulfillment is the heart of Veronica Mars (the movie). Not only does the movie strive to give its devotees anything and everything they could want, the character of Veronica must come to terms with what she really wants and needs.

Ten years after the series finale, Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) has put her past in Neptune behind her and set up shop in New York, aiming for a high profile legal position while going steady with her college friend, Piz (Chris Lowell). But her old life finds a way back in when Veronica’s former flame Logan Ecchols (Jason Dohring) is accused of murder right ahead of their 10-year high school reunion. Once back, Veronica realizes Neptune hasn’t changed that much and maybe she hasn’t either.

Between the onslaught of character returns and inside references, Veronica Mars is easily something fans of the series can sink their teeth into. While it’s harder to say how involved the uninitiated will be, it’s not hard to see all audiences finding enjoyment in the snarky exchanges, intricately layered mysteries and character-driven storylines that made the original series so appealing.

Bell effortlessly falls back into the character she made her own. Part of the fun is seeing Mars, after trying desperately to become a different person, slip back into her old routine as a ‘darker’ person. There’s always been a strong subversive vibe to Veronica’s character as she continues to nail the town’s affluent criminals who would otherwise have their way; it’s a trait that we actively root for her to jump back into. Catching up and seeing how the other characters have grown (or stayed the same) is also a treat as shenanigans and past rivalries come back into the fold. Veronica’s interactions with her father (Enrico Colantoni) are as priceless as ever and act as the ever-endearing backbone to the series.

Like other film continuations of beloved, cancelled series (cough, cough, Serenity), Veronica Mars’ defining feature is that it provides some measure of satisfying

closure the original series couldn’t. It’s a big thank you to the fans. Why shouldn’t it be? They bankrolled the film. It’s in setting up this idyllic ending that creator Rob Thomas (not the singer) hits the film’s only snags in character motivation and continuation. We do, finally, get the resolution we want (in character at least) but some characters take pretty

ANDREW SIMON’S TAKE Every season, there are shows that come and go with little fanfare or significance. On those rare occasions, there’s a series that is cancelled far too soon, but thanks to a ravenous fanbase and high DVD sales, it rises again in feature form

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confounding steps to get there.

Hints of a darker, more dangerous and divided Neptune are planted and briefly reach a head but are never followed through on. This is where Thomas and company pass the buck for a potential sequel. It may have worked on the show as a subplot that will be expanded upon in the upcoming season, but here it just feels blatantly unresolved.

And yet, it’s not all a bad thing. The whole idea behind this film was for the fans to get something they desperately wanted: more. Veronica Mars has proven the soul and appeal of the original show is alive and well, so if a sequel is in the works, we know it’s in capable hands.

like Serenity, the ‘second season’ to Joss Whedon’s critically acclaimed Firefly.

Ten years ago, Veronica Mars debuted on the UPN network, a smart, sophisticated series about the titular teenage detective. 64 episodes and three seasons later, the series was cancelled, ending on a largely unfulfilled note, while its fanbase was never stronger.

After years of clamoring for further adventures of Veronica Mars, exactly a year ago, creator Rob Thomas (not the singer) and actress Kirsten Bell launched a Kickstarter campaign to finally realize a feature film continuation of the character, with a modest $2 million goal. The fans spoke out immediately. Within ten hours, its initial goal was trumpeted,

ending with an unprecedented $5.7 million. The film was greenlit by Warner Bros., and last weekend, in select AMC theaters, the snarky detective came to life again.

Ten years after leaving Neptune and living in New York as a law student, Veronica (Bell) is pulled back in when her ex-flame Logan Echolls (Jason Dohring) is charged with murder (again). While determined to find out the real murderer, Veronica reconnects with her friends, Wallace (Percy Daggs III) and Mac (Tina Majorino), and faces even a more daunting problem than finding a serial killer: a 10-year high school reunion.

One thing that must be absolutely said: it’s fantastic to see Veronica and nearly everyone back in this movie, almost as if the series never left. As a fanfunded project, Veronica Mars pays a lot of fan service, and that’s not entirely a bad thing. There’s Dick Casablancas (Ryan Hansen) with his drinking cup on his belt, Weevil (Francis Capra) putting down his biker jacket to concentrate on family, Madison (Amanda Noret) being her typical annoying self, and Vinnie Van Lowe (Ken Marino) being ratty and mischievous as always. Loaded with surprising and hilarious celebrity cameos, this film is blasting off the edges with fun, levity, and callbacks.

But be not afraid, Veronica Mars newbies, the film is relatively accessible for you, and if all else fails, there’s a 2-minute quasi ‘Previously On . . .’ that fills in the blanks before the film starts properly.

The best part of Veronica Mars is the titular character herself. After three seasons of Veronica solving mysteries that were personal and expansive, where does one take the character? You explore her complexities. Where co-writer Thomas takes the character in this film, and the final declarative statement of who Veronica is and what type of addiction (in a sense) she has, is perfect, the perfection summation of the character and her arc. For all the fun in having these characters back and solving a mystery again a la the Scooby Gang, it’s Veronica herself that is the best and most nuanced aspect of the feature.

For all the praise and excitement that can be directed towards this big screen return, there are a couple of hitches.

As writer, Rob Thomas brings back the same quips and cleverness the series boasted time and time again, but as first time feature director, his shots seem very paint-by-numbers, feeling more at home on a CBS sitcom than emulating the style and tone of the original shows visuals.

What feels like bad pacing could be just

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a consequence of unimaginative filmmaking, with little momentum to the case or character work being accomplished or felt. And perhaps because it’s been so long since they were these characters, but performances by Bell and Dohring felt, at times, off.

The fact that this movie exists, that Veronica Mars is back in the cultural landscape of conversation, that these characters got to live and breathe once again for 108 minutes is a sheer miracle, and probably one of the biggest pleasures 2014 will offer all year. A couple of minor quibbles by no means make this film any less enjoyable or exciting. Veronica Mars is back, almost as if she never left.

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