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World-famous guitarist to perform tonight Willy Porter has drawn acclaim from Sting, Jethro Tull and other artists.

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Minnesota State University, Mankato will welcome a highly praised American musician and songwriter to campus tonight.

Singer Willy Porter will perform at 7:30 p.m. in the Halling Recital Hall of the Early Center for Performing Arts, located at 320 Maywood Ave. General admission tickets will be $12, students with a valid MAVcard will pay $11. Advanced buying is encouraged and to do so visit www.mnsu.edu/music.

Porter is known for his passion and intensity he brings to every song. Porter’s songs are known for touching on both light and more serious subjects. Porter, who describes himself as a guitarist first and foremost, has earned the praise of those he has performed withj: Jeff Beck, Paul Simon, Jethro Tull, Tori Amos and Sting.

While Porter has gained a significant audience in the indie

community he has not been disappointed by the elusive power of commercial success.

“I consider myself lucky to be doing what I’m doing,” Porter told the university.

“I’m kind of a journeyman.

I’ve been doing this a long time, but I still feel like a student. I still look at the guitar and it challenges me and music challenges me to dig deeper and try to express more honestly, more clearly. That has probably been the best part of my quest. I’m just trying to learn and trying to get better and trying to observe. To still have an audience and be able to tour and do what I love to do, I have nothing but gratitude.”

According to Fret magazine, Porter may be the best in the world at playing the guitar.

“If you have never heard of this guy before, you are in for the musical discovery of your lifetime. He can still play guitar perhaps greater than anyone else on the planet.”

New website available to answer questions

Free site offers tutorials on different subjects to expand knowledge.

EMMA DEPPA Staff Writer New to the Minnesota State University, Mankato campus is a very exciting new online tool at Lynda.com. Lynda.com is an online training system that covers a variety of questions. “Lynda. com is a online tutorial resource.

It contains over 2,300 video tutorials on a variety of different topics. Some of the most popular topics include iPad tutorials, Microsoft Office Tutorials, and Adobe software tutorials,” Rae Fenske, the Instructional Support Specialist for Academic Technology Services said.

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cense to access, however MNSU has purchased one that gives access to all faculty, staff and students.

This new tool is very important for students to be aware of, as it can offers a variety of tutorial videos that will benefit a wide array of students. “Lynda. com offers video tutorials designed for Graphic Arts majors, video production and business majors. For the general student body, there are video tutorials that center around professional development with resume writing tutorials and interviewing tips,” Fenske said.

This shows how this new tool can help not only specific majors

that use tricky software, but also the rest of the student population, Aside from school and professional life, students, faculty and staff can also enhance their skills within their hobbies with many tutorials on photography, iMovie, etc. There is something for everyone on Lynda.com!

Lynda.com will enrich student knowledge and their application of software and tools, which they can use for school, professional and personal life. It is free, fast, and simple to sign up for use! Simply go to link. mnsu.edu/lynda and follow the steps at the top of the page to activate your account. Then log in and start watching videos.

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Project aims to end road fatalities The Minnesota Towards Zero Deaths project uses common sense, helpful tips to illustrate the need to be a safe, conscientious driver.

RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer It would be an understatement to call Minnesota’s roads unforgiving during the harsh winter. Despite the many blizzards, black out conditions, and pothole filled highways we face ever year, the necessity to reach our jobs and schools forces us to brace the cold weather and hope for the best.

Many would think that such conditions would be among the leading cause of death on the roads, however, that is not true.

In fact, many deaths can be avoided by using common sense and good planning. The Minnesota Towards Zero Deaths project aims to help citizens keep those factors in mind.

The statewide program, launched in 2003 by the Minnesota Departments of Public Safety, Transportation and Health, was initialized in 2001.

After the North Star Workshop, which brought together experts from around the world, Minnesota decided to come up with a comprehensive plan to increase overall road safety.

Led by co-chairs Donna Berger of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety and Sue Groth of the Minnesota Department of Transportation, the program’s mission is “to create a culture for which traffic fatalities and serious injuries are no

longer acceptable through the integrated application of education, engineering, enforcement and emergency and trauma services.”

According to the program’s official website, thanks to the efforts of those involved, fatality rates in Minnesota have decreased by more than 35 percent.

Going over various highlights of the program, the PDF document released in 2010 states that “To date, an estimated 900 people are living today who wouldn’t be if Minnesota had changed nothing and stayed the course it was on.”

Those words aren’t used lightly. According to the statistics included on their official website, there were 103,591 logged accidents and 576 deaths in 2000, with only 69, 236 accidents and 395 deaths reported in 2012. Incidents of individuals being arrested for DUI related charges during holidays, however, is steadily increasing. Through increased law enforcement activities during those times, the State hopes to increase road safety.

Not only will the program be increasing its enforcement of State policies, work is also being done in every county to improve overall road conditions. Better lighting for rural roads and systematic safety improvements such as rumble strips and cable median berries are expected to help drivers throughout the state.

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Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind while driving is to use common sense.

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“Leadership Awards” set for April Numerous categories will be awarded, setting the spotlight for difference makers throughout a diverse and unique campus.

HANNAH KLEINBERG Staff Writer

On Sunday, April 27th, at 4p.m., our University’s Student Activities association will be hosting MN State’s annual Leadership Awards. For over two decades now, this celebration of exemplary leadership skills has taken place, awarding students and staff across campus that show excellent signs of leadership. Assistant Director of the Recognized Student Organizations (RSO) and Non-Traditional Student Advisory Board, Ashley Strom, couldn’t be more ecstatic about the event.

“The administration on campus rallied behind the creation of this program, because they felt that it would be a great way to thank students for their engagement on campus,” Strom explained.

Students and staff members are nominated by their peers for the assigned categories of the Leadership Awards. There is an array of categories that cater to all sorts of leadership on campus.

•The ‘Big Ideas, Real World Thinking’ category is for students in their senior year or an experienced staff member that actively practices MN State Mankato’s mission statement

through their personal education, teaching, and other helpful additions toward the school and learning.

•The ‘Scott Hagebak Centennial Student Union Hall of Fame’ award is designated for senior students of experienced staff members who have actively practiced the University’s mission statement to welcome students, staff, faculty, and people in the community.

•The ‘Commitment to Diversity’ category is for a student who encourages understanding and open-mindedness to all cultures on campus.

•The ‘Maverick Spirit’ award

is designated to a student who is driven to better MN State Mankato, despite the risks that may come along with it.

•The ‘Outstanding Collegian’ award is given to a student who is a recognized leader of RSO and represents the University’s most important values by working toward the better good of others and working hard in their organization.

These categories are only some of the many award categories.

Over the years, the categories for the Leadership Awards have evolved: however, Student Activities have awarded at least 10

students each year since its beginning. Over 200 students have been recognized for their leadership and 1,000 nominations have been received since the birth of the program.

To nominate a student or staff member, visit mnsu.edu/activities/leadership_awards to click on the application and submit it.

All applications are due by Friday, March 28th.

“Engaged student leaders bring the campus to life with their ideas and the programs they host throughout the year and the administration is incredibly thankful for their dedication to the University,” Strom said.

Malaysia, FBI analyze missing flight’s simulator

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The FBI joined forces with Malaysian authorities in analyzing deleted data on a flight simulator belonging to the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, while distraught relatives of the passengers unleashed their anger Wednesday — wailing in frustration at 12 days of uncertainty.

The anguish of relatives of othe 239 people on Flight 370 boiled over at a briefing near Kuala Lumpur’s airport. Two

Chinese women who shouted at Malaysian authorities and unfurled a banner accusing officials of “hiding the truth” were removed from the room.

In a heart-wrenching scene, one woman screamed in sorrow as she was dragged away.

“I want you to help me to find my son! I want to see my son!” one of the two unidentified women said. “We have been here for 10 days.”

Files containing records of flight simulations were deleted

Feb. 3 from the device found in the home of the Malaysia Airlines pilot, Capt. Zaharie Ahmad Shah, Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu said.

It was not immediately clear whether investigators thought that deleting the files was unusual. The files might hold signs of unusual flight paths that could help explain where the missing plane went.

Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein told a news conference that Zaharie is con-

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sidered innocent until proven guilty. He said members of the pilot’s family are cooperating in the investigation.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation by name, said the FBI has been given electronic data to analyze.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in Washington that the FBI was working with Malaysian authorities.

“At this point, I don’t think we have any theories,” Holder said.

Flight 370 disappeared March 8 on a night flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Malaysian authorities have not ruled out any possible explanations, but have said the evidence so far suggests the flight was deliberately turned back across Malaysia to the Strait of Malacca, with

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MnSCU awarded scholarship money from foundation

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ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer Minnesota State University, Mankato has been awarded nearly one-third of a state scholarship distributed between seven universities in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system for the 2014-2015 school year.

The Charles and Ellora Alliss Educational Foundation has awarded a grant in the amount of $668,145 to Bemidi State University, Metropolitan State

University, Minnesota State Morehead Univesrity, St. Cloud State University, Southwest Minnesota State University and Winona State University, along with MSU, in order to provide need-based scholarships to students. Of that total, MSU will receive $218,492 in grant funding, or 32.7% of the total.

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Since 1962, when the foundation was founded by Mr. and Mrs Alliss to assist young Minnesotans attend college, more than $125 million in scholarships has been distributed out to thousands of Minnesota students.

According to the foundations website, Mr. Alliss, a lifelong 3M employee, believed that had he received a college education, he could have advanced to higher levels within the company.

“Unmet financial need is often an obstacle that keeps students from beginning or completing their education. The Charles and Ellora Alliss Educational Foundation has provided support for thousands of our college and university students since 1977,” said Doug Anderson, Director of Communications and Media for Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. “This kind of generosity makes a tremendous difference and we deeply appreciate this support.”

Scholarships will be awarded in the amount of $350 to $1,100 during the 2014-2015 academic year. Any student interested in applying for such a scholarship should visit Minnesota State University, Mankato’s campus hub.

“The legacy of Charles and Ellora Alliss lives on in the achievement of Minnesota students who strive to better themselves and their communities through the benefits of education,” Sarah Godfrey, Vice President of the U.S. Bank Charitable Services Group said in a statement to the university. “By making it possible for these students to further their education, we hope to contribute to their success and help secure their contributions to Minnesota communi-

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Charles Alliss, born in Niagara Falls, New York in 1880, moved to Duluth, Minn. in 1906.

Alliss was one of the first employees of 3M Company and eventually was named general superintendent of factory administration responsible for all 3M manufacturing. Alliss retired inA 1945 and moved to the lakes nearS Brainerd, Minn., until his death in 1958. The foundation donated $6 million worth of 3M stock coming from his estate.

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Beyond The Horizon PART 3 This time, Anya Zhukova, an exchange student from Russia, talks about different Russian and American education systems, spring break and general confusions on Russian spies.

ANYA ZHUKOVA Staff Writer Hello everyone and welcome on board! Hope everybody had a great spring break and is now ready for the second half of the semester.

Meanwhile, I can honestly say that I’m not ready at all.

I actually sort of hate Spring breaks. Russian Universities operate differently and only give their students summer and winter breaks; so this story goes back to the last time I had a spring break, which was my graduation year in high school.

I can remember the mixed feelings I had about spring break like it was yesterday: A week before the beginning of it you start growing impatient, lose concentration and any desire to study/work efficiently at all. Then the spring break begins and, of course, it’s always an awesome week full of fun times with friends, sleep and delicious food (oh yeah, yummy food!). But after it ends you kind of find yourself still expecting more; more parties, more relaxed

evenings, more rest, after all.

As a result, it takes you another week or two to get back on track: to start your day early, to study hard. Now, if we do simple math, this will show us that three weeks of anticipation and anxiety, plus one week of fun is exactly what spring break is. So the question is whether or not it makes sense to sacrifice all this time just to have a little holiday period two months away from the end of the school year, or would it make sense to postpone it and let the students have an extra week of summer holidays (which makes even more sense in terms of Minnesota weather conditions)?

Anyways, I’ll leave this for you to decide. Besides, this year I have to give a credit to those who invented spring break. For an international student abroad and especially for an exchange student abroad, spring break is a chance to explore the territory. For some students it means travelling around the U.S., for others – getting to know Minnesota better. Either way can provide you with better under-

standing of American culture, people’s habits and traditions; I chose to devote the whole time to cultural experience.

While going to Florida/Miami/New York made perfect sense for everybody, I went to see my friends in Washington DC, had a road trip to the heart of New Jersey and the city overwhelmed with the American history – Philadelphia. On the way I found out that talking about my spring break itinerary is the second best way to convince people I am a spy (the only phrase that beats it is “I hate ice cream”. I know, unbelievable, but fact).

But all the good things tend to end quickly and now I’m back to reality, which, I have to say, is almost as exciting. After the short break I, just like everybody else, have twice as many things to be done. We’re all back to business, I guess.

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Letter to the editor: an inside look at life in the food industry You wouldn’t have an identity thief file your taxes, you wouldn’t trust the mechanic to cut your hair and you wouldn’t let a professional basketball player fly your airplane; so why would you trust anyone besides a farmer to tell you how your food is raised?

The activist group that was on campus on Tuesday was just that, an activist group. Their goal is to convert everyone to a vegan diet. I have no problem if you are vegan, that is your choice.

However, that lifestyle is not for me and I have the right to make that choice. These activists are not farmers; they do not raise animals and do not have first-hand knowledge of what happens on farms.

I am from a pig farm and I know what happens on thousands of farms across the state of Minnesota and it is nothing like Mr. Wilmes alludes to in his article, New Look Needed at Animal Abuse in Food Industry. Animal abuse is NEVER tolerated. It is our responsibility to care for our animals and we take that very seriously.

Are all farm practices perfect? No, but farmers are constantly improving. Look at how far we have come; compared to 50 years ago we use 41% less water and 78% less land to produce one pound of pork.

Continually evolving has allowed us to produce a safe and wholesome product. Contrary to what the activist group suggests, consumer health is not in danger. In fact, the United States of America has one of the safest food supplies in the world. Products like meat, eggs and dairy are tested again and again to ensure that they are safe to eat.

Mr. Wilmes wishes for an environment that provides the decency that animals deserve as suppliers of our food and I can assure you that decency is already being provided for animals across the county. If you don’t believe me, I challenge you to go to the source and ask a farmer.

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Maryland case illustrates bullying issue SAM WILMES News Editor Two Maryland girls have recently illustrated the problem society has with understanding and empathizing people with autism spectrum disorders.

The two girls have been alleged to have had an autistic boy perform sexual acts on a family pet and recording the disturbing images on their cell phone. They allegedly held a knife to his throat at one point and force him to walk over a lake thinly frozen over. When the 12-year-old inevitably fell through they did nothing to help him out.

What is the most sadistic part of this case, however, is how the two girls manipulated the young man into thinking they were his friends. One of the central elements of autism is the lack of comprehending basic social skills. They don’t have the proper understanding of who is and isn’t their friend.

These girls manipulated him into telling his mother that it wasn’t the girls’ fault that he had been submerged in freezing water. Although

one of these girls is underaged, they both need serious psychological evaluation and treatment.

Their ability to treat another human being like a dog implies antisocial personality characteristics and those aren’t going to be solved by a trip to the penitentiary.

While this is an extreme case of psychological torment, statistics show that far too many people with autismrange disorders have been victimized. According to the Huffington Post, 46.3% of Autistic spectrum disordered people have been victimized.

Non-spectrum adolescents reported a 10.6% victimization rate.

While extraordinarily large, it is simple to understand and thus fix this problem. The answer lies in greater education, an understanding of what autistic people go through on a daily basis: it is easy to pick on and ridicule people who we don’t understand.

Once we attain the greater sense of understanding, we will be able to empathize and cut down on this startling statistic.

“What should be the punishment for people who bully autistic kids?”

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“They should go to jail, or be forced to work with them.”

“They should be sent to jail with a heavy fine.”

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“I think that they should be punished the same way as if they bully anyone else but have to sit down with them to really understand them.”

KATIE ROGERS, SPEECH COMMUNICATION “Punishment should be expulsion from school and return to an alternative learning program.”

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Questions over Crimea raises uncertainty about future With Vice President Joe Biden bringing up Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, many wonder about the government’s stance on the new issue.

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press Vladimir Putin is respecting the wishes of Crimea in their vote to secede from Ukraine, but the question is, what is in store next for the Russian president?

REECE HEMMESCH Editor in Chief As the conflict involving the tiny peninsula of Crimea continues to wage and sides begin to come a little closer to one another, Vice President Joe Biden took a big step towards the face of Russia Wednesday morning, showing the United States’ stance on the side of their NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) brethren to continue to support its member countries.

“As long as Russia continues on this dark path, they will face increased economic isolation,” the vice president said to reporters, according to msnbc. com. “The president wanted me to come personally to make it clear what you already know, that under Article 5 under the NATO treaty, we will respond.

We will respond to any aggression against a NATO ally.”

While most see this as yet another ploy by the United States government to take an opportunity for some worldwide police work, even more do not understand the context of NATO or the treaty which established it.

NATO began in 1949 after the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty that bound 12 countries, including the US, Italy, France, United Kingdom, Canada and the BENELUX (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) countries into a mutual pact in case of an attack on any country. Article 5 of that treaty, the main point that Biden is talking about, has only been summoned one time in its 65-year history but stands as the true marker for these countries diplomacies with one another.

According to the treaty under article 5, “The parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of the them in Europe or North America shall be con-

sidered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary.”

Basically, this says that you cannot attack any of these countries without expected reciprocation from all of them, as an attack on one should be seen as an attack on all. The one invocation of this article came one day after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, where NATO recognized the attacks on the US as an attack on all the other nations.

Since its inception, 16 other countries have joined the treaty, bringing the total to 28 states involved with NATO membership. One country that is not on the list is Ukraine, who is in the middle of the conflict as it has just lost Crimea to Russia and could be looking at more loss as the question-mark-conflict continues to wage. Due to Ukraine’s removal of NATO membership from its agenda back in 2010, the treaty has no ties to the eastern European country, leaving the conflict out of NATO’s, and the United States hands at the moment.

Still President Barack Obama has placed sanctions on seven Russian officials who are involved in the intensifying calamity. You can see that Obama still is engaged in the issue, calling Crimea’s vote to secede “unconstitutional” and done amidst “threats of intimidation and violence.” But the president has made no military moves in this area and is keeping with the NATO thought process that a treaty member must be attacked before military involvement can be called on.

The economic isolation that

the vice president speaks about is a move that can and has been done by the president and in no way makes his (or this country’s) involvement appear that it’s going too far and that the US is once again looking to become law enforcers around the world.

According to a poll done by msnbc.com reaching over 16,000 people, 48 percent do not approve of Obama’s response to the Crimean crisis while 41 percent approve and 11 percent are not sure. United States citizens by this poll feel once again that the US is doing too much outside of its own country and should back off.

I am in agreement with Obama that sanctions should be called upon Russia, but to hold off on military involvement until article 5 of the NATO treaty is invoked. The president is per-

fectly within his rights for placing the sanctions and though it may appear as if the United States is getting too involved in a situation it has no business being in, I share Obama’s idea that sitting back could result in bigger altercations with Russia.

I agree with most Americans who feel this country should learn from the past and not try to get involved with conditions that do not inquire us, but we should still be the standard bearer for doing what’s right and standing up against a possible future threat to our national security, and the European security as well, especially if it involves anyone with a NATO membership. The military should stay at home for the time being, but the instant that article is summoned, if ever, the call will have to be made and repercussions will have to be taken.

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press President Barack Obama now has to answer a question tougher than the one everyone is asking about Putin, if the Russian president decides to move further, what will be the US response?

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Minnesota keeps Sunday retail beer sales illegal The movement for legalizing sales on Sundays remains strong.

Many small liquor store owners support the Sunday prohibition, saying it saves them from having to be open a seventh day of the week for competitive reasons while not adding much profit.

Minnesota is one of 12 states that doesn’t allow in-store liquor sales on Sunday. Sixteen states have repealed bans since 2000 and all four states that border Minnesota allow Sunday sales.

Lobbying by the Licensed Beverage Association and its members have helped preserve the ban in past years. The full House rejected repeal last year by 106-21.

Reinert’s pieces of legislation may have gotten a boost when a traditional opponent of Sunday sales testified in favor of the growler bill.

“It doesn’t have direct impact on liquor stores,” said Joe Bagnoli, a lobbyist for the Minnesota Licensed Beverage Association.

“This is another way to help (craft brewers) and hopefully help the entire industry.”

Several people who testified in support of Reinert’s bills said legalizing Sunday sales would grow their own organizations as well as the state’s craft-brewing sector.

Badger Colish, head brewer at Canal Park Brewing Co. in Duluth, said his brewery already is open Sundays. People can buy a beer to drink there on a Sunday, but can’t buy some to take away. Colish says that means they’re incurring costs such as employee wages and taxes without full ability to profit from it.

“The inability to sell growlers on Sundays inhibits one avenue of income by one-seventh,” Colish said.

What makes his situation and location particularly difficult is that the brewery is “only a bridge away from (Wisconsin) that allows growler sales on Sundays.”

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press Sen. Roger Reinert (Right) of Duluth and Rep. Jenifer Loon (Left) of Eden Prairie.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An effort for a full repeal of Minnesota’s ban on retail sales of alcohol on Sunday appears unlikely this session, but lawmakers may give more freedom to the state’s burgeoning craft brewing movement.

A House committee on Wednesday moved a bill to the floor that would allow the sale of 64-ounce beer containers called “growlers.”

And earlier Wednesday, a Senate committee kept alive one bill that would legalize Sunday sales by small brewers and another that would open taprooms on Sundays and also allow growler sales.

During his opening remarks to his House Commerce Committee colleagues, Rep. Chris Swedzinski, R-Ghent, echoed a familiar refrain at the Capitol: Wineries are allowed Sunday bottle sales. Brewers should be,

too.

Swedzinski also said Sundaygrowler sales would specifically help rural brewers, such as Dustin Brau of Brau Brothers Brewing Company in Marshall, Minn.

“Sunday growler sales would help us quite a bit,” Brau said.

“Not only do we have to turn people down, but we also have to explain Minnesota law (that bans Sunday sales).”

Sen. Roger Reinert, a Duluth Democrat who has championed Sunday alcohol sales for years, conceded that he didn’t have enough support from the Commerce Committee for a complete rollback of the law.

“There aren’t the votes,” Reinert said in a Capitol hallway outside the room where the Senate commerce committee was conducting a hearing. “But we’re clearly moving forward.”

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Reinert didn’t view events as a loss, or the lesser measures as a concession.

“A concession would be doing nothing,” Reinert said in the interview. “That’s why we presented a full spectrum of options in our news conference two weeks ago. These are just baby steps to what ultimately will be a full repeal.”

Reinert and Rep. Jenifer Loon, R-Eden Prairie, earlier this month presented options for expanding Sunday-alcohol sales in Minnesota. Those included a full repeal of the ban, providing decision-making power to local government entities and a statewide voter referendum to decide the question.

Gov. Mark Dayton said earlier this year that he’d sign a repeal bill.

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Army general sex case sentencing nears conclusion

Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair admits to relationships with three subordinates and could face a maximum of over 21 years for charges of improper relationships.

FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — An Army general who admitted to inappropriate relationships with three subordinates was described as a selfless leader by fellow officers on Wednesday during testimony that the defense hopes will lead to a lenient sentence.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair also broke down in tears when one of his attorneys read a letter his wife wrote.

Sinclair’s sentencing hearing was expected to wrap up in the afternoon after both sides deliver closing arguments. It’s not clear, though, how long it will take the judge to decide on Sinclair’s sentence.

Sinclair faces a maximum of 21 ½ years in prison and dismissal from the Army, but will likely wind up with a far less severe punishment.

The sentence can’t exceed terms in a sealed agreement between defense lawyers and military attorneys. The judge will make his own decision before unsealing the agreement and Sinclair will receive whichever is the more lenient punishment.

The general admitted he mistreated a captain under his command during a three-year affair and had improper relationships with two other women. He also pleaded guilty to adultery — a crime in the military — as well as using his government-issued credit card to pay for improper trips to see his mistress and other conduct unbecoming an officer.

The 51-year-old general had been accused of twice forcing the female captain to perform oral sex during the three-year affair, but the sexual assault charges were dropped as part of the plea deal. o When the letter from his wife was read, Sinclair buried his head in his hands, appeared to cry and dabbed his eyes with two tissues.

In the letter, Rebecca Sinclair says she hasn’t fully forgiven her husband but doesn’t want the Army to punish him and his family further with a significant reduction to his pension and other benefits.

“Believe me when I tell you that the public humiliation and vilification he has endured are nothing compared to the private suffering he lives with every day. He is racked with guilt over

the pain he has caused me, my children and the Army,” writes Rebecca Sinclair, who hasn’t attended her husband’s hearings.

Defense lawyers finished calling character witnesses before the letter was read. Sinclair was expected to address the court himself in the afternoon.

Col. Kenneth Kelly, who’s currently based in Tokyo, served under Sinclair in Iraq and praised his leadership.

“He was selfless. He was always more concerned about what his soldiers were doing than his bosses,” Kelly said.

One of the general’s brothers, Clark Sinclair, testified that their parents taught them to work hard and be respectful.

The older Sinclair, who works for the FBI, said his brother told him when the scandal erupted that he would hear things that weren’t true about the longtime Army officer.

But Jeffrey Sinclair also took responsibility, he said.

Clark Sinclair quoted his brother as saying: “’I messed up as a commander. I had an affair.

I don’t deserve to be a commander.’”

Prosecutors have countered

some of the witnesses by asking them whether a true leader would ask subordinates for nude pictures — behavior that Sinclair has admitted to.

Sinclair’s sentencing comes as the military and Congress grapple with the problem of sex crimes in the ranks. To better protect victims, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved legislation last week to ban the “goodsoldier defense” to ensure that a defendant’s fate is determined solely by evidence. The House has signaled it won’t take up the bill immediately.

The Army’s case against Sinclair started to crumble as questions arose about whether his primary accuser had lied in a pre-trial hearing. It was further thrown into jeopardy last week when Judge Col. James Pohl said the military may have improperly pressed ahead with the trial to send a message about its determination to curb rape and other widespread misconduct.

The decision was supposed to be decided solely on the evidence, not its broader political implications. The judge’s decision initiated new plea negotiations.

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Sinclair shakes hands with his defense attorney Ellen C. Brotman outside the Fort Bragg, N.C., courthouse, Monday, March 17, 2014.

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FLIGHT 370 “Police are considering the possibility of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board and have asked for background checks from abroad on all foreign passengers.” continued from 3 its communications systems disabled. They are unsure what happened next and why.

Investigators have identified two giant arcs of territory spanning the possible positions of the plane about 7½ hours after takeoff, based on its last faint signal to a satellite — an hourly “handshake” signal that continues even when communications are switched off. The arcs stretch up as far as Kazakhstan in central Asia and down deep into the southern Indian Ocean.

Police are considering the possibility of hijacking, sabotage, terrorism or issues related to the mental health of the pilots or anyone else on board and have asked for background checks from abroad on all foreign passengers.

Hishammuddin said such checks have been received for all the foreigners except those from Ukraine and Russia — which account for three passengers.

“So far, no information of significance on any passengers has been found,” he said.

The 53-year-old pilot joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and had more than 18,000 hours of flight experience. People who knew Zaharie from his involvement in opposition political cir-

cles in Malaysia and other areas of his life have described him as sociable, humble, caring and dedicated to his job.

The crisis has exposed the lack of a failsafe way of tracking modern passenger planes on which data transmission systems and transponders — which make them visible to civilian radar — have been severed. At enormous cost, 26 countries are helping Malaysia look for the plane.

Relatives of passengers on the missing airliner — two-thirds of them from China — have grown increasingly angry over the lack of progress in the search. Planes sweeping vast expanses of the Indian Ocean and satellites peering on Central Asia have turned up no new clues.

At a hotel near the Kuala Lumpur airport, one of the Chinese women who was removed from the room displayed a banner that said, in part, “We are against the Malaysian government for hiding the truth.” She later expressed frustration with officials.

“We launch our demands every day but to no answer, and they tell me to come back the next day,” she said. “No answer, every day.”

The father of passenger

Pushpanathan Subramaniam said in an interview that the wait was “really too much.”

“I don’t know why it is taking so long for so many people to find the plane. It’s 12 days,” said 60-year-old Subaramaniam Gurusamy from his home on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. His 34-year-old son, Pushpanathan, was on the flight to Beijing for a work trip.

“He’s the one son I have,” Subaramaniam said.

Hishammuddin said a delegation of Malaysian government officials, diplomats, air force and civil aviation officials will head to Beijing — where many of the passengers’ relatives are gathered — to brief the next of kin on the status of the search.

Aircraft from Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand searched an area stretching across 305,000 square kilometers (117,000 square miles) of the Indian Ocean, about 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) southwest of Perth, on Australia’s west coast.

Merchant ships were also asked to look for any trace of the plane.

China has said it was reviewing radar data and deployed 21 satellites to search the northern corridor, although it is considered less likely that the plane

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Warning Russia, Biden says US will defend allies

h VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) n — Issuing an outright warnd ing to Moscow, Vice President e Joe Biden declared Wednesday the United States will respond e to any aggression against its e NATO allies, as Russia’s neigh” bors looked warily to the escalating crisis in nearby Ukraine.

Standing side by side with a pair of Baltic leaders in Vilnius, Lithuania, Biden said the U.S. was “absolutely committed” to defending its allies, adding that President Barack Obama plans to seek concrete commitments from NATO members to ensure the alliance can safeguard its collective security.

In a jab at Russia, he said the U.S. stands resolutely with Baltic states in support of the Ukrainian people against Russian aggression.

“Russia cannot escape the fact that the world is changing and rejecting outright their behavior,” Biden said, after meeting in Vilnius with Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Latvian President Andris Berzins.

Biden’s comments came at the close of a two-day trip s to Lithuania and Poland with a two-pronged theme: Sending a stern message to Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. won’t abide Russian intervention in Ukraine, and reassuring fretful NATO allies that the U.S. and others will come to their defense if necessary.

“We’re in this with you, together,” Biden said.

Amid the tough talk from Biden and the Baltic leaders, Russia’s annexation of Crimea was increasingly looking like a foregone conclusion.

At the Ukrainian navy headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, militias stormed the base Wednesday, taking it over without resistance. Although senior Ukrainian officials planned to travel to Crimea in hopes of averting an escalation in hostilities, Crimea’s pro-Russian prime minister insisted they weren’t welcome and wouldn’t be allowed to enter.

A day earlier, Putin declared Crimea part of Russia in a passionate speech steeped in Russia’s sense of being slighted and marginalized by the West in the years since the Cold War. While repeatedly insisting that Russia’s move is illegal and won’t be recognized, the U.S. and other world powers have also turned their attention to eastern Ukraine and other areas with large ethnic Russian populations, lest Putin seek additional territory in what some

fear could portend a return to Moscow’s traditional imperialist ambitions.

To that end, Western powers were seeking fresh ways to show that Russia would incur real costs unless it changes course.

Berzins announced that he and Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski had agreed that Poland and Latvia will start coordinating its security activities more closely. France’s foreign minister said leaders of the Group of Eight world powers have suspended Russia’s affiliation with the group over its actions in Ukraine. Obama invited the seven other members to discuss what comes next during an emergency meeting in Europe.

Meanwhile, Britain said it was suspending military cooperation with Russia in light of the crisis. And German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a phone call with Obama on Tuesday, agreed that U.N. and other international monitors must be sent in to other parts of Ukraine without delay.

At the same time, the U.S. and its partners were seeking to mount a more visible show of NATO’s military might in the region, despite Putin’s insistence that he has no intention of invading other regions in Ukraine, much less other nations.

Biden announced in Warsaw that in addition to new NATO exercises that will take place in Poland, the U.S. was considering rotating American forces to the Baltic region as a step toward ensuring the collective

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press U.S. Vice President Joe Biden (left) walks prior to their meeting at the Presidential palace in Vilnius, Lithuania on Wednesday. Biden arrived a few hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a draft bill for the annexation of Crimea, one of a flurry of steps to formally take over the Black Sea peninsula.

defense of NATO allies. Those forces could conduct ground and naval exercises and engage in training missions. At Warsaw’s request, the U.S. last week sent some 300 air troops and a dozen F-16 fighters to Poland for joint training.

“This situation is a direct threat to our regional security,” Grybauskaite said, denouncing “the use of brutal force to redraw the map of Europe.”

NATO’s modern role in global security has come into renewed focus with the eruption of tensions in Ukraine, as NATO members like Poland and

the Baltics question how deeply they can rely on an alliance that has more recently been focused on other entanglements, like the war in Afghanistan. Almost 10 years to the day after Lithuania and Latvia joined NATO, the Baltics are suddenly plunged into the type of eerie concern about foreign aggression they may have thought they’d left behind at the end of the Cold War. Firm rhetoric, sanctions and travel bans have not been enough so far to dissuade Putin and his military from seizing control of Crimea and then, after a Crimean referendum

that the West condemned as illegal, declaring it part of Russia. Other countries have been watching warily out of concern they could be next.

“The punishment doesn’t fit the crime and the Baltic states and central European states know this,” said Michael Geary, a European relations analyst at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank. “They’re worried that the U.S. response has been mediocre at best and there’s a palpable sense they need reassurance. Will they be protected in the event of further westward march by Russia?”

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Supermodel struts Foster’s stuff Sophomore album from Foster the People mixes old with new for one special sound.

JAMES HOUTSMA A & E Editor Foster the People’s debut album, Torches, was one of 2011’s breakout hits, catapulting the band to instant fame with their unique indie rock sound.

It’s with baited breath that their sophomore effort arrives and, with Supermodel, Foster provides a largely satisfying new offering that has both familiar and new elements to enjoy.

Supermodel sees Mark Foster and company take aim at American materialism, greed and fame with an album that asks whether the high life is all it’s cracked up to be. There’s a delightful sonic dissonance at the heart of Foster the People, heard in past hits like “Pumped Up Kicks” and “Helena Beat”. The band is known for their upbeat, electronic instru-

mentals, stacked vocal layering and general bright, happy sound.

This high-energy sound services some incredibly heavy and morose lyrics that contrast and make tunes that share the best of both worlds.

Whereas Torches kept to a more controlled studio sound, Supermodel takes the band’s sound and blows it sky high. World instruments and genres are incorporated on several tracks, showing how the trademark Foster sound can be adapted and molded into several different formats.

Sometimes the result is excellent; sometimes you just want to say ‘good try.’

The first seven tracks of the album are the band at its most ingenious, producing songs that echo and expand upon their signature sound and perfectly utilizing it into new formats, blending different styles perfectly. The last

half is where things lose steam and the band merely sounds like they’re mimicking other, similar music groups instead of expanding upon similar ideas. “A Guide to Destroying the Moon” could easily be mistaken as a Smashing Pumpkins tune.

But it cannot be understated how much fun many of the early tracks are. Foster is no stranger to being a sort of instant hitmaker and parts of Supermodel are destined for that same glory.

Some essential tracks include: • “Are You What You Want to Be” is a real shocker. While it’s set up to be in the indie-rock vein, track one of the album quickly shifts gears into an infectious African rhythm and doesn’t let up. This is the greatest example of how Foster stretched their sound into something amazing.

Good luck trying to keep up with the lyrics though.

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• “Coming of Age” was the first single released for the album and similar to the message within, sounds like a natural maturation of the original Foster

sound. A bit more realized and wise but still completely engaging, the tune stands as a great

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True Detective, true delight

ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer

At its base, True Detective is an eight-episode crime anthology series on HBO starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as they investigate the Yellow King, a mysterious murderer of a young woman, Dora Lange, in Louisiana. More than that, it’s about narratives, humanity’s cyclic nature, light and dark, philosophies genuine and bullcrap, existentialism, the supernatural, and the existence of God in a Godless world. This is not a detective show, and very little of the series is about the serial killer himself – it’s about life, death, and finding purpose in everything in-between. Most of all, it’s about Rust Cohle (McConaughey), Marty Hart (Harrelson) and their rocky friendship.

True Detective is a difficult show to describe, as it refuses to be pigeon-held in any one category, but it’s just an extraordinarily well done show about human nature as two men, who represent the natural order, fight the opposition of the Yellow King’s murderous nature. By emphasizing character over arc, the story allows scenes to breathe and the

characters to talk, to ruminate about mankind and purpose and to navigate friendship with two strikingly adverse personalities. The grating push-and-pull relationship of these two men is a large part in what makes this series so compelling.

Really, though, everything about this series is outstanding. Each of the eight episodes are written by series creator Nic Pizzolatto and directed by Cary Fukunaga. To say this is the most visually striking series on television would be an understatement. Each shot is masterfully composed, like a frightening, yet beautiful, painting. Predominantly dark hues against a washed out palette (but not to the extreme lengths of, say, NBC’s Hannibal), this is an eight-hour movie of sheer visual perfection.

Episode four and director Fukunaga are now renowned to a celebrity degree for a six-minute, continuous tracking shot, and rightfully so. Writer Pizzolatto’s scripts are restrained in ‘big moments’, but so powerful in dialogue and actions.

While fans and critics of television will be left salivating over the keen eye of Fukunaga and the multi-layered writing of Pizzolatto, everybody will be floored

Web Photo McConaughey and Harrelson shine in True Detective.

by the performances of McConaughey and Harrelson. Regardless of his Dallas Buyers Club win, True Detective is the performance of McConaughey’s career thus far. To say a nomination is in store for both McConaughey and Harrelson is a foregone conclusion. McConaughey has these dead eyes that seem to see what others can’t, and Harrelson wears his emotions on his sleeves -- bursting out in fits of rage and

surrendering to his faults.

Leaving less said about the series the better, but all eight episodes of True Detective are marvelous. It’s not a show to necessarily like or love, there isn’t an enjoyment factor to be had here, it’s solely a series that is masterful in all aspects of its craft, and would rather spend its running time postulating on existence and morality than who the Yellow King is, and there’s

not a single thing wrong with that – in fact, it’s a welcome difference from the likes of Castle and the one hundred other serial killer shows out there. Whatever permutation True Detective takes next year, with the story of Rust and Marty done and over with, it will be a difficult task to beat the sheer superb craftsmanship of its freshman season. Can’t recommend it enough.

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Rise of an alright sequel New 300 film escapes the mundane with a standout performance and technical competency.

ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer

The slow motion, testosterone-fueled, hugely successful swords-and-sandals bloody massacre flick 300 didn’t necessarily call for a sequel – after all, 97% of the players were dead – but box office numbers speak louder than sense, so seven years later after the first film slayed at theaters, 300: Rise of an Empire has been unleashed, boasting more of the same. It’s hard to navigate which title is superior, as each have their strengths and each have their weaknesses, and both aim to be something a little different. One is a festival of masculine strength and honorary death, and the other a sort of lyrical painting of blood for morality’s sake, but each bring their point across with storms of crimson, far-too-slow motion, loud, bolstering music, and a lot of fit dudes yelling at the camera.

Themistocles of Athens (Sullivan Stapleton) is a renowned o warrior, legendary for his murder of King Darius in a decisive war, but lives in regret for h not killing Darius’ son, Xerxes - (Rodrigo Santoro), when he had e a chance. Xerxes, fueled by rel venge and seductive whisperr ings of godliness by his barbaric s advisor Artemisia (Eva Green), t transforms himself into a powt erful man god intent on laying e waste to all cities that oppose his s rule. Themistocles, with the help - of his fellow Athenians and any who will join his cause, head to war to rectify his long-ago mis-

take and purge this world of Xerxes rule.

To the film’s credit, Rise of an Empire isn’t the typical sequel.

Instead, its narrative timeline spans to the past with the history of Xerxes and Artemisia, concurrently with the events of 300, and largely following the fallout of the defiant Spartans last stand. It makes for an interesting feature, but one loaded with an offensive amount of voice over narration

by Lena Heady and ridiculous monologues of exposition. It would almost be preferable to have no narration at all and instead have date and place conveyed through on-screen chyron.

Rise of an Empire is, overall, an entertaining movie without much in the way of substance or emotion. As a story, it’s a clever way to continue the larger framework of the 300 story while staying true to the tone, style, and visuals of the 2007 blockbuster, but the execution, save a handful of instances, is otherwise serviceable but not extraordinary.

What will remain in the viewer’s memory long after they watch Rise of an Empire is Eva Green’s stunningly wicked performance as Artemisia. Her ruthlessness, her lust for carnage, and her perverse pleasure in pain – all beautifully brought to life by Green, with her furious eyes and smokey voice, Rise of an Empire is truly her movie. If there would be a reason to rewatch the film theatrically, it would be to experience and, in an odd way, enjoy her brutality all over again.

Where it falls short is finding any emotional connectivity

to Themistocles and his band of Athenians. Although all impressively buff and most passable actors, the film juggles so many subplots and characters and little effort is paid to give the Athenians much in the way of personality that they become little more than ‘the good guys’. That said, it’s hard not to feel a sense of excitement and energy when Lena Heady comes onscreen to spout declarative war sentiments, and Rodrigo Santoro is all kinds of menacing (yet humorously childish) as Xerxes, but as far as the current crop of main characters are concerned, they aren’t all that interesting.

The reason Rise of an Empire exists, though, isn’t for telling a harrowing tale of strength and morality against impossible odds, or fighting for what’s right, or event about the friendships and bonds of Athenians and Spartans – it’s about watching sword fights and lots of it, and Empire definitely delivers, even with a new spin with an sea battle melee added in. Limbs and heads are severed, ships and people explode, arrows puncture eye sockets, and the grainy signature style of 300 is splashed over crimson.

Rise of an Empire isn’t a great sequel, but it’s a competent one made with the right intentions and ideas, and with one hell of a strong lead in the form of Eva Green. Predictably, the film leaves the door open for a third film, which will hopefully conclude the reign of Xerxes and end this convoluted story.

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Action time: reviews for Need for Speed and Non-Stop ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer Need for Speed, based off the video game by Electronic Arts of the same name, relies on consumer interest of lead actor Aaron Paul and the popularity of the Fast & Furious franchise to mask how bland and boring their film is. Following Tobey Marshall (Paul) after he serves time for the death of one of his best friends in a car race, he enlists in the legendarily dangerous De Leon race to face off against Dino, the man responsible for his friends death, and prove his innocence – somehow . . . while driving really, really fast.

If it wasn’t for five full seasons of giving a tour de force performance in Breaking Bad, one would think Aaron Paul’s range is restricted to only yelling and looking stern while croaking lines together. His posse don’t fare all that well, either, including Ramon Rodriguez, Scott Mescudi (another rapper turned actor), and Rami Malek (the quintessential ‘oh, it’s that dude from that one movie!’), who lack anything resembling characterization and instead act solely as devices, instruments brought into the plot to save the day for Tobey when he needs it. Although not entirely well written – actually, very little of it is – Imogen Poots’ Julia Maddon steals the show from her male co-stars, portraying a quite capable and resourceful character that relishes destroying the men’s misconceptions about her.

What Need for Speed really needs is a script. There is little

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to zero emotional connection to Tobey, and for a movie that predominantly is a revenge vehicle, that’s not a good thing. In fact, the whole notion of using the De Leon race as a way of clearing his name doesn’t come up for a long time, making it seem that instead of honoring his friend, Tobey is kind of a jerk, his mind solely set on the race and completely forgetting what the first thirty minutes set up. To boil it all down, there’s no emotion, and there’s no momentum. There are hundreds of shots of cars swerving through lanes or nearly dying in insane stunts or crashes – and if that’s all a viewer wants from their film, then Need for Speed trumps the Furious franchise – but if, instead, they want something a little more competently

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done, it’s best to avoid this film and wait until Fast 7 hits next year.

Since Taken, Liam Neeson has become a worldwide, indestructible, infallible bonafide action hero, and his trek of buttkicking roles continue with NonStop, the least interesting of his crop of action flicks. Neeson is Bill Mark, an alcoholic federal airline marshal who receives an mysterious text message while in flight threatening to kill one passenger every twenty minutes if demands are not met. While Bill tries to figure out the identity of the threat on the plane, on ground, the world believes Bill has hijacked the flight with deadly intent. A struggle of paranoia and extreme actions ensue as the clock keeps ticking down.

For Neeson as an actor, NonStop is another win. Confident in his decisions but also unhinged due to his alcoholism and past tragedies, his Bill Marks is a great character for him to work off, and as the passengers start doubting his abilities and it becomes him against a mob, Neeson’s performance is just spectacular. His moments of doubt, fear, and confessions are far more interesting and compelling than the final reveal of whodunit, which is rather lackluster in one regard and predictable in another.

This is Neeson’s show, no doubt about it, but he’s aided by such actors like Julianne Moore (Don John), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), and Lupita Nyong (recent Oscar winner, 12

Years a Slave) who have proven their skills, but are regulated to something less than supporting roles. Perhaps it was the chance to work with the once Jedi Master, because they all have so little to do it makes little sense any of them agreed to work on the film.

Overall, though, Non-Stop keeps the viewer entertained as Bill’s time keeps running out and bodies start accumulating (and effort is made to make each unique and unexpected), so in that regard it’s a success. Even with Bill’s dark past and his journey in the film, it’s not a substantial role for Neeson, and although his action films are always a joy to watch one way or another, it’s time for him to go back to making nuanced work, like The Grey.

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Embracing the selfie phenomenon MADELINE ZAFFT Staff Writer “But first, let me take a selfie,” is a phrase that has been roaming throughout social media sites for a couple of weeks now, so lets dissect this bad boy! “#Selfie,” the song by Alex Pall and Drew Taggert, two New York City DJ’s, also known as “The Chainsmokers”, recently went viral.

“The video inherently had this viral concept built into it, which certainly helped get it off the ground,” says Pall. The song follows a girl who goes through a dialogue with a friend about how few Instagram likes she is getting and then pauses the conversation to take a selfie. I know we are all guilty of taking at least one selfie in our lifetime. Let’s be honest -- you can spot the in-class snap-chatters from a mile away.

The main star in the music video talks about what filters she should use to make herself look tan, what clever caption to use and if she should take the picture down because of how few likes it has gotten in the last five minutes -- conversations I am sure we have been a part of , overheard or said to ourselves in our head. I’m not sure if admitting that I am a victim

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of selfies posting makes me normal or if it’s just embarrassing. The popular #selfiesunday might make your feed blow up with selfies of the people you follow.

The music video shows peoples selfies from around the world, even David Hasselhoff makes an appearance. Since the hit dropped I have seen numerous captions that read “but first, let me take a selfie,” on my own Instagram feed. #Selfie has “become one of the fastest-climbing tracks on the sales charts, with 180,000 downloads since the song’s release January 28, according to Nielsen SoundScan. After Ellen DeGeneres tweeted out the famous selfie during this year Oscars that was jammed full of great actors and actresses, the song elevated to another level.

The DJ’s posted a 15 second clip with the photo in action with the hook playing in the background to Facebook.

Give #selfie a couple more weeks and it will be sitting with “Friday” by Rebecca Black on the shelf, along with the other old viral songs. Obviously the show must go on though people, so continue to take your selfies, #nofilterpicture or even a selfies of you reading this article with your favorite filter and lets embrace our selfie generation.

The Fabulist promises keeping up with fashion trends New show hosted by Laguna Beach figure Kristen Cavillari shows latest trends in entertainment world.

MADELINE ZAFFT Staff Writer I was pretty excited for the premiere of The Fabulist on E! Monday night. I was even more eager when I saw that Kristen Cavallari was going to be a cohost, because who doesn’t love an old Laguna Beach cast member on their TV screen again?

The Fabulist is the newest addition to E Network hosted by Kristen Cavallari and Orly Shani. The show focuses on the latest trends and discusses how the duo and their guest panel feel about them: fashion, cooking, traveling and fitness -- the show basically covers it all.

On Monday the guest panel was Nigel Barker who, in the past, has been on America’s Next Top Model and is now the host of The Face and supermodel Jessica White. They discussed slouchy pants, ombre lips, earcuffs, headscarves and a few other trends. While I did enjoy the friendly debate and differences of opinion, I felt that the show was a little unorganized or maybe not rehearsed, but I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt since it was their first episode. Cavallari was a little awkward at time, but I

loved how energetic and positive Shani was; quite frankly, without her the first episode would have been really blah.

The first trend they discussed was slouchy pants: Cavallari and Shani took the same approach of loving how this trend can work for the everyday girl and how easily it can be pulled off.

Barker and White had a different viewpoint of this trend saying it’s “not figure flattering.” I have seen a lot of slouchy or harem pants here on campus and for the most part they have been pretty pleased with the trend.

The next trend they discussed was the ombre lip, yes, ombre lip. Don’t get me wrong, the ombre hair trend really took off and done right can be phenomenal; heck, look at Khloe Kardashian: she is a great ombre hair role model. I agreed with Cavallari when she said it looks too timeconsuming. Shani showed viewers a quick way to do this trend with her own lipstick and gloss putting the darker gloss just in the middle and it looked nice and subtle.

Next, they tried on headscarves and earcuffs, which I am all about. I think earcuffs can be such a fun accessory, especially if you wear your hair up and really want show off your style.

As for headscarves, I think they will be a great hair accessory for spring and can be a great way to cover a bad hair day.

The number one trend for this week was voluminous hair. Who doesn’t love a good backcombing to their hair? Backcombing your hair can add so much to your bulk and just adding a little more volume. A quick tip to add quick height to your hair is to use a little bit of dry shampoo at the roots. The only thing that can really go wrong with this big voluminous hair is by not covering up your backcombing -- remember to smooth it over because nobody likes a big tangled mess showing.

I have pretty good expectations for this show and I think it will be a great addition to E! Network. It should do great because it focuses on trends and ideas that are meant for everyday people, not a focus on Hollywood stars. It’s hard to say how long any show like this will stick around, after a while it might end up getting a little dry.

What trends from this new show are you guys loving or which ones are you wishing would just go away? The Fabulist airs every Monday night on E! Network at 7:30 p.m.

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SUPERMODEL “Foster is no stranger to being a sort of instant hitmaker and parts of Supermodel are destined for that same glory. ” continued from 14 cornerstone of the album.

•“Pseudologia Fantastica” sees the band venture into semi-psychedelic territory with a song about betrayal and frustration that has a deliberate, yet driving feel to it. Another example of stepping outside their comfort zone.

• “Best Friend” is, in all intents and purposes, the most memorable track on the album.

Track number seven is all out fun as the band goes all out with their high energy sound, utilizing a brass section in the pre-chorus, and maxing it out with some profound lyrics. If anything is to be taken away, it’s this song.

• “Ask Yourself” and “Nevermind” are bother great ventures into the acoustic rock scene and provide a show you can sometimes get more with less.

As an album, Supermodel justifies its existence with a worthwhile message and a first half that kills. Despite some derivativeness, Foster provides some wholly entertaining tunes. It’s in these top songs that listeners will fill the most toe-tapping, dance-inducing ecstasy.

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Virtual reality one step closer with Sony prototype SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sony is getting into the virtual reality business.

The Japanese electronics and gaming giant unveiled a prototype virtual reality headset to be used in conjunction with its PlayStation 4 video game console during a Tuesday talk at the Game Developers Conference.

Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, showed off the slick black-and-white headset at the annual gathering of game designers. He said Sony has been working on the technology for more than three years.

The adjustable doodad is codenamed Project Morpheus and features a head-mounted display with 1080p resolution and a 90-degree field of view. Sensors built into the headset can track a wearer's head movement in concert with a PS4 camera.

"This prototype is by no means final," said Yoshida. "We will continue to work on this to improve it, but we believe it's a good representation of how PlayStation will deliver VR." Anton Mikhailov, a senior software engineer working on Project Morpheus, said the current version of the technology must be attached to a PS4 console with a cord that's about 15 feet long, and users' virtual perspectives can be simultaneously broadcast on a television screen.

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Mikhailov. "I think that's going to be the key. Once people see someone else interacting in VR, they're going to want to put it on and try it next."

Mikhailov said users will be able to interact with the virtual world displayed on the headset with the gesture-detecting PlayStation Move controller, as well as the standard DualShock 4. He declined to specify when the headset would be released or how much it would cost.

Project Morpheus will be available for demonstration beginning Wednesday for conference attendees on the conference's expo floor with four games: diving cage simulator "The Deep," medieval combat game "The Castle," sci-fi dogfighter "EVE: Valkyrie" and a VR rendition of the stealthy action-adventure title "Thief."

While Sony Corp. has released other head-mounted display units, Project Morpheus

marks the company's first foray into VR with PlayStation. Sony's headset is similar to the Oculus Rift, a VR device currently in development by the Irvine, Calif.based startup Oculus VR. Both devices use head tracking to reduce queasiness when users peek around a virtual landscape, and they look more like ski googles than the bulky gaming helmets of the 1990s that usually left users with headaches.

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Running, jumping, vaulting, hurdling and throwing themselves into 4th at nationals After taking the NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championships, the Mavericks showed their athleticism in Winston-Salem, N.C. LUCAS RYAN Staff Writer Four athletes for the Minnesota State men’s track team earned All-American honors over the weekend en route to a fourth place finish at the NCAA Divi-

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sion II Track and Field Championships in Winston-Salem N.C. The Mavericks finished fourth place one other time in school history in 1992. MSU was led by junior Nathan Hancock and senior Chris Reed with second place finishes, while several other Mavericks finished in the top ten.

Nathan Hancock set a new school record in the heptathlon.

He broke his own record by more than 100 points, en route 5,449 total points.

Nathan Hancock finished in fifth place in the pole vault portion clearing 14’ 1.25”. He also earned an eighth place finish in the 60 meter hurdles to help get his third All-American honors in the heptathlon.

Reed is now an All- American in two events after earning second place in the shot put and fourth place in the weight throw.

Reed broke his own school record in the weight throw of 67’ 7 ½” after clearing 68’ 5” on Friday.

Saturday Reed backed up a good performance in the shot put with a put of 62’ 11.5”, just one foot behind first place. Reed his now a three time All-American in shot put.

Senior Jerrell Hancock also a three-time All-American in the 200-meter dash after earning second place with a time of 21.33.

Jerrell Hancock also placed fourth in the 60 meter dash with a time of 6.78 seconds garnering his second All-American honors in the event.

Senior Keyvan Rudd finished sixth place in the high jump after clearing 6’ 10.75 to become

Photo Courtesy of Minnesota State Athletics Senior Jerrell Hancock (left) finished fourth in the 60-metter dash (6,78) and took the silver in the 200-meter dash (21.33).

Photo Courtesy of Minnesota State Athletics Junior Nathan Hancock finished in second place with a school record score in the hepathlon, finishing with a total of 5,449 points.

a two-time All-American in the event. Junior Carmon Lane, sophomore Zach Gearman, Jerrell Hancock, and Nathan Hancock teamed up on the 4x4 meter relay for an eighth place finish with a time of 3:16.56.

Junior Khalil Jor’dan finished 12th while senior David Pearcill placed 15th in the triple jump for the Mavericks. Jor’dan had a leap of 47’ 3.5” while Pearcill leaped 46’ 7.5”.

The MSU women’s track and field team was led by junior Bryanna Sudman with a tenth place finish in the pole vault, clearing 12’ 1.5.”

The Mavericks women earned 12th place in the 4x400-meter relay and the weight throw. Junior Morgan Stampley had a throw of 56’ 3.25” good for the 12th spot, while the team of junior Jenni Vantinnen, freshman Taylor Glover, junior Madison Alexander, and freshman Taylor Naatz finished the 4x400 relay with a time of 3:54.83.

The NCAA Championships warp up the indoor portion of the season giving teams a couple weeks off before returning to competition. The Mavericks will begin their outdoor season at the Vance Butler Invite, April 5, at Augustana College.

Photo Courtesy of Minnesota State Athletics Senior Chris Reed finished second in the shot put with a 62’11.5” throw.

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WCHA FINAL FIVE PREVIEW DEREK LAMBERT Staff Writer The 2014 Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s Final Five tournament will have a little different look to it than in years

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past. The Final Five originally consisted of the top six teams from the conference, with the top two seeds getting a bye to the semifinal game, and two quarterfinal games between seeds three through six to advance to the semis. The weekend would end with a championship game,

the fifth of the weekend, giving the tournament its name.

Now, with the formation of the Big Ten hockey conference and the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, the Final Five takes on a new format, and includes some new faces. This year’s tournament includes four teams to make up two semifinal games and one championship game. Minnesota State University, Mankato is the only team of the four who played in the 2013 Final Five, with longtime WCHA member Alaska-Anchorage and newcomers Ferris State University and Bowling Green State University joining them this weekend in Grand Rapids, Mich.

So what’s on the line for these four teams this weekend? Ferris State heads into this weekend with a guaranteed spot in the NCAA tournament, meaning for them this weekend is more about winning the tournament and receiving as high of a seed for the NCAA tournament as possible. For MSU, this weekend is a mixed bag.

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position to make the NCAA tournament regardless of results this weekend, though it isn’t a guarantee. Sitting at 12th in the NCAA pairwise rankings, the Mavs will make the tournament unless three or four teams outside the top 16 win their conference tournament. However, should the Mavs win the Final Five this weekend, it would give them an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, which would be their first back to back NCAA appearance in program history during the Division I era.

For Anchorage and Bowling Green, this weekend means extending their season into the NCAA tournament, something that both programs would likely say is overdue for their team.

Anchorage has not made the NCAA tournament since 1992, after making three consecutive appearances. Bowling Green on the other hand, hasn’t made the tournament since 1990 after being a college hockey powerhouse in the 70’s and 80’s.

Each of these teams has a shot at taking home the Broadmoor Trophy this weekend as the WCHA Final Five champi-

ons, but how did they get here?

Top seeded Ferris State have been a force to reckon with all season long. The Bulldogs have been ranked among the top ten for nearly all of this season and are no. 4 in the nation currently.

With a record of 27-9-3, Ferris hasn’t lost often, but they have shown they are beatable. MSU

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swept the Bulldogs back in January in Mankato, and Ferris also played tight games with Anchorage and Bowling Green, who they tied earlier this year. Sitting at no. 3 in the pairwise rankings, the Bulldogs are in position for a

no. 1 seed for the NCAA regional tournaments en route to the Frozen Four. Ferris doesn’t carry any elite scorers on their roster, but boast a deep lineup where the scoring can come from anywhere, which has been their key to success on the ice this season.

The second seeded MSU Mavericks come into the Final Five with a 24-13-1 record, equaling their school record win total they set last season. The Mavs had high expectations set for themselves this season, predicted to be among the top ten teams in the country, and picked

by WCHA coaches and media to finish first in the conference.

After a slow start, MSU has put together a great season, being ranked no. 15 in the nation.

Key wins include a sweep over Ferris, a sweep over Anchorage, and a 2-2 record this season against Bowling Green. Though, Anchorage also swept the Mavs, and with two losses against BGSU, MSU shows they too are a team capable of being upset this weekend.

Unlike Ferris, the Mavs

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have a few players with targets on their backs due to their scoring ability. Senior captain Johnny McInnis and junior Jean-Paul LaFontaine have both hit the 20 goal mark this season, while junior Matt Leitner leads the way with 41 points on the year.

Sophomore Bryce Gervais has also been adding to the offensive punch for the Mavericks, scoring 15 goals this season, ten of which have come in his last 13 games. With the third best power play in the NCAA, special teams could be a huge factor in the Mavericks having success this weekend.

Bowling Green, the third seed of the Final Five, were an unexpected surprise this season. After a fairly mediocre season last oyear in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, the Falcons weren’t expected to make much noise in the WCHA this year. At 18-14-6, the Falcons come in as the dark horse; the team most likely to pull an upset this weekend. With a 2-2 record against MSU that includes three overtime games, the Falcons cannot be counted out. Similar to FSU, Bowling Green doesn’t have one elite scorer, but carries a deep lineup led by junior Dan DeSalvo who has tallied 31 points on the year. This is a big weekend for the Falcons, who need to win the Final Five to earn a spot into the NCAA tournament.

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Alaska-Anchorage are in the same boat as the Falcons, needing to win the tournament to make the NCAA tournament.

After going 4-25-7 last sea-

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son, the Seawolves have turned things around in dramatic fashion, going 18-15-4 this season.

Not expected to be in Grand Rapids this weekend, Anchorage upset Alaska-Fairbanks last weekend, sweeping them to

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18-14-4 (12-12-4 WCHA) The Seawolves earned 14 more wins than in 2012-2013 including ten more WCHA wins than a year ago. Almost every game they've played this season has been within a goal or two so they are a team that will play anyone close.

Matt Bailey, Scott Allen, and Jordan Kwas are the Anchorage goal scorers to keep an eye on this weekend while Rob Gunderson has been solid between the pipes with a steady 2.45 goals against average.

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advance to the Final Five. The Seawolves have big wins over no. 6 in the nation Wisconsin Badgers, a sweep over MSU, and a win over Bowling Green.

Senior Matt Bailey leads the way for Anchorage, burying 20 goals to go along with 18 assists this season. With the no. 4 seed for the tournament, Alaska will face Ferris State on Friday for a chance to extend their season.

Bowling Green and MSU will also face off against one another on Friday for the chance to play in the Final Five championship game against the winner between Ferris State and Anchorage with the Broadmoor Trophy on the line. Both semifinal games on Friday lead up to Saturday night’s championship game at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich.

18-14-6 (13-11-4 WCHA) Easily one of the Mavericks' new rivals. Four games, three in overtime, with each team winning two on the year. The Falcons are riding a five game win streak into this weekend which has brought them to an above .500 record. Led up front by Dan DeSalvo's 32 points and Bryce Williamson's 28, the Falcons also get some offense from the back end. Ralfs Freibergs has recorded 22 points from the blue line.

Between the pipes, Chaska, Minn. native Tommy Burke holds a record of 14-6-6 behind a 2.41 goals against average and a .912 save percentage.

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27-9-3 (20-6-2) the Bulldogs rebounded nicely after being swept by Alaska-Fairbanks last month. They went on the sweep Lake Superior State the following weekend to win the MacNaughton Cup as WCHA regular season champions. Justin Buzzeo and Garrett Thompson's 30 points lead the Bulldogs, but it's in goal where Ferris shines. Goaltender C.J. Motte posted a 26-7-3 record with a .928 save percentage and four shutouts. The Bulldogs have held their opponents to one or no goals 13 times this season.

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The Minnesota State University, Mankato Mavericks’ baseball team won seven of their nine games while outscoring their opponents 60-34 on their spring trip in Florida.

MSU Reporter Archives Senior Jason Hoppe is the owner of a 4-0 record with a 3.51 era after pitching 25.2 innings so far this season.

ADAM PIERSON Staff Writer The MSU baseball team played nine games in eight days on their spring trip, bringing their overall record to 12-3 this season and still remains as second in the National College Baseball Writers Association’s national poll for the sixth straight week.

Mar. 6 MSU’s first game took place against the University of Findlay, winning the game with their

only two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Senior Mike Andries cracked a two-run double to left center field to give the 2-0 lead in the bottom of the eighth. Senior Todd Standish led the team with two hits. The Mavericks also collected four stolen bases.

Senior Bryce Bellin started on the bump, completing seven shutout innings allowing six hits and one walk while striking out four. Although Bellin earned a no decision, he was key for MSU, striking out a Findlay bat-

ter with two outs and runners on second and third in the bottom of the fourth inning to keep the game scoreless. Bellin’s record remains 0-0 through his two starts this spring.

Senior Taylor Nawrocki improved his record to 2-0 in his one inning of work after tossing a scoreless eighth inning, and senior Chris Williams earned his second save of the season, striking out the side in the bottom of the ninth.

Mar. 7 MSU swept the floor with

Saginaw Valley State, University outscoring them 20-7 in their doubleheader.

After a two-out error by SVSU, MSU jumped on the board in the second inning when freshman Eric Peterson laced a two-run single up the middle. Junior Connor McCallum followed that up with a two-run triple to right center field.

SVSU answered in the latter part of the inning with an RBI double to center field.

Wasting no time, Standish cracked an RBI double to right center field and was followed by teammate and fellow senior Parker Sullivan with his diamond cutting two-run single.

Junior Max Waletich notched another run in the fourth with his two-run double to right center, bringing the score to 9-1.

In the sixth inning, Standish doubled down the left field line and Sullivan followed him again with a sacrifice fly to right field, bringing in one more before the end of the sixth.

Senior Stetson Olson put an exclamation on the win with his three-run bomb to right field in the top of the seventh.

SVSU scored a run when the Mavericks turned a four-sixthree double play, before shutting the door on SVSU for the final.

Senior Jason Hoppe started on the mound, allowing seven hits and one walk while striking

out four batters in his six innings of work, earning the win and increasing his overall record to 3-0 this season.

Junior Joey Reed closed the door allowing one hit, two walks and one run in the bottom of the seven.

Standish and Waletich led the team with two doubles apiece.

Mar. 8 The Mavericks’ win streak of seven came to a halt after facing off against Ashland University, losing the battle 10-2.

MSU’s only runs came from junior Nolan Johnson’s two-run single in the bottom of the third inning.

Ashland put up six runs in the fourth, one run in the sixth, two runs in the seventh and one run in the eighth, collecting 17 hits while MSU collected six.

Sophomore Josh Matheson earned the loss in his 3.2 innings of work. Matheson surrendered eight hits, one walk and six earned runs while striking out two batters, bringing his season record to 0-1.

Mar. 9 MSU squared off against the Northwood University Timberwolves and took the win 6-2, behind strong pitching.

MSU’s Andries cracked it off with an RBI single in the second inning.

In the fourth inning, MSU

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continued from 22 scored off of a NU wild pitch, bringing Johnson across the plate. Peterson tallied another run with his sacrifice fly to center field later that inning, brining the score to 3-0.

In the fifth inning, MSU capitalized on a Timberwolves error, scoring a run. Johnson collected a sacrifice fly to right field before Andries laced an RBI double, bringing the score to 6-0 at the end of the fifth.

Both of NU’s runs came from a walked-in runner and an RBI single in the ninth inning.

MSU was led by Nawrocki’s performance on the mound, al-

Sports lowing just three hits, three walks and fanning two batters in seven innings of shutout work.

Junior Matt Geislinger picked up two strikeouts in his eighth inning appearance before Williams came in and allowed three hits, two runs and one walk in the ninth inning.

Mar. 10 The Mavericks continued their success against the Grand Valley State University Lakers, topping them 6-4.

GVSU put up their first run in the first inning on a MSU fielding error, but MSU answered back in the second when Peterson cut the field in half with his two-run single.

In the fourth, Sullivan ripped a single up the middle bringing

MSU Reporter Archives Senior infielder Todd Standish is batting .346 with five RBIs and has stolen four bases so far this season.

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Williams pitched the ninth inning, allowing three hits and one run while striking out one batter.

ODU’s Sean Blackburn pitched a complete game shutout, allowing five hits and fanning five MSU batters.

Mar. 12 The Mavericks got back on the right path, taking the Saint Joseph’s Pumas down 11-5. MSU started the game on a high note, scoring nine runs in the first two innings.

Standish crossed the plate for MSU first on a wild pitch and Andries followed it with an RBI single. McCallum then knocked in a run with an RBI single. Waletich crossed home on a wild pitch before Olson ripped a tworun single. Andries put runs on the board again, finishing the inning off with a three-run bomb, bringing the score to 9-0 after the second.

The Pumas scored on an RBI single in the third, but MSU’s Peterson got the run back in the seventh inning with a solo-shot.

Saint Joseph’s score four runs in the eighth inning on a two-run single and a two-run homer.

Sullivan gave MSU the last tally in the ninth with an RBI single, bringing the score to 11-5.

Hoppe earned the win for MSU in his 7.1 innings of work.

He allowed seven hits, four runs and one walk while fanning 11 Pumas, improving his overall record to 4-0 on the season.

Mar. 13 MSU ended their trip on a high note, outscoring the Alderson Broaddus University Battlers 15-2.

Through three innings the game remained knotted at zero.

In the fourth inning Andries took a walk, allowing a runner to score.

In the fifth inning, Sullivan cracked an RBI single and sophomore Jon Heiderscheit followed by scoring on a wild pitch.

Standish cracked a two-run single next and Johnson followed

that up by bringing Standish home with his RBI single.

Peterson earned an RBI on a fielder’s choice, then sophomore Kevin Kramer followed that up with a two-run double. Freshman Hunter Harnisch added one more run with a RBI single.

The Battlers added one run in the sixth after getting caught in a pickle.

MSU wasted no time getting that run back, Standish added an RBI single, Harnisch then took a walk, bringing in Peterson, before Olson slapped two more runs on the board with his tworun single and Andries followed that up with a RBI single. Three batters later, Peterson brought MSU’s last run of the game across the plate with his RBI double.

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in a run. Olsen slapped a two-run double to right field later in the inning, bringing the score to 5-1.

The Lakers struck three times in the seventh inning, first off a two-run single through the left

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side and a RBI double by the next batter, but Andries got one back in the seventh with his soloshot to right field, giving MSU the 6-4 edge.

Junior Mathias Butala earned the win for MSU in his five innings of work. Butala allowed three hits and one run while striking out five batters in his first career start.

Junior Tyler Ockuly allowed three runs on four hits and one walk while fanning two batters in his 1.2 innings of work.

Geislinger finished the final two innings of the game, earning his first save of the season without allowing a base runner and sending two batters back to the bench on strikes.

Mar. 11 MSU lost against the Ohio Dominican University Panthers 2-0.

The Panthers struck on an RBI double in the fourth inning and an RBI single in the ninth inning.

MSU’s Bellin earned the loss in his eight innings of work.

Bellin allowed four hits, one run, one walk and fanned six batter,s bringing his record to 0-1 this season.

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Alderson tacked one more run on the board in the bottom of the seventh on a wild pitch.

Senior T.J. Larson earned the win for MSU, bringing his overall record to 2-1. Larson allowed three hits, two walks and struck out nine batters in his four innings of work.

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