March 21, 2019

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Mavericks look to snag WCHA title against Bowling Green The team plays their final game of the tournament Saturday at the Verizon Center

BRADY OLSON STAFF WRITER

After breezing through the first two rounds of the WCHA tournament, the Maverick men’s hockey team will face its biggest challenge of the year this weekend when Bowling Green comes to town for the WCHA Championship on Saturday at the Verizon Center.

Both teams took only four games to make the championship game.

MSU’s route involved sweeps over AlabamaHuntsville and Lake Superior State, while Bowling Green had to take down Michigan Tech and Northern Michigan.

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Sophomore forward Jared Spooner (11) with goal-locked eyes is about to take a slapshot at the Verizon Center.

These two teams also met in a series earlier this season, with Bowling Green sweeping the Mavericks in

Ohio.

Bowling Green is the only team this year to have beaten the Mavs twice.

Adding intrigue to this game is the fact that the Mavericks and Falcons are 4-4 in their last eight meetings in the

Verizon Center, with each series being split.

Another big aspect of this game will be the NCAA tournament.

Whoever wins will be one of six automatic qualifiers into the tournament, while the other will have to hope they get in as one of ten at-large bids.

Minnesota State is firmly a lock to make the tournament this season, but the result of Saturday’s game could determine whether they are a 1 or 2-seed. Bowling Green is currently the No. 13 team in the country, but an embarrassing loss could force them out of the tournament.

Minnesota State, currently the 2nd-ranked team in the country, is looking for their first tournament title since

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More women needed in military leadership positions

KAITLYN JORGENSEN STAFF WRITER In celebration of Women’s History Month this March, the Women’s Center, Maverick Battalion ROTC and the Veteran’s Resource Center hosted an open discussion panel featuring Women in the Military. On Tuesday, March 19, panelists, students, and military members gathered for a luncheon and discussion about what it means to be a woman in the military. Topics included options for enlisting, different branches, military jobs and the difference between reserves and active

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duty.

Panelists featured Katie McNair, a retired Marine Corp veteran, Minnesota Nation Guard Staff Sergeant Mercedes Calvillo, and Carinda Horton, the

marketing NCO also from the Minnesota National Guard.

Hannah Mettler, an ROTC Cadet who attended the discussion said, “I think it’s important for women to go into the military to allow

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themselves to be pushed beyond the limits a civilian job can provide, showing how strong and capable women are in all aspects of their lives.”

A lot of uncertainty

surrounds the topic of women in the military, but Horton wants to reassure and encourage those considering enlistment. She stated, “A lot of changes have happened in the last 20 years that I have been enlisted. I have a daughter who works in field artillery, and I wouldn’t want my daughter to join an organization that I did not think she was safe in.”

Part of the discussion featured the prevalence of sexual assault in the military.

“The issue of sexual assault doesn’t just occur in the military, it can happen in any workforce environment,” said Elizabeth Steinborn-Gourley, Director of the Women’s Center. “With this in mind, we

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Women’s Center to celebrate International Women’s Day

MARIA LY STAFF WRITER Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Women Center plans to celebrate International Women’s Day today with an entertaining set of performances.

According to the official International Women’s Day website, “International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social,

economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call for action for accelerating gender parity.”

International Women’s day has been around since 1911 as many women celebrated all over the world from the United Kingdom to Austria, as many groups campaigned for women’s equality.

The holiday took place on Friday, March 8, but due to spring break, the Women’s Center plans to celebrate the day today in observance of International Women’s Day. The theme for the event and International Women’s Day is #BalanceforBetter,

to celebrate feminism from around the globe and to honor the special day as the website states, “A balanced world is a better world. How

Liz Steinborn-Gourley, the Interim Director of the Women’s Center, said this about the event, “It’s just endless, non-stop fun. In that

“International Women’s day has been around since 1911 as many women celebrated all over the world from the United Kingdom to Austria, as many groups campaigned for women’s equality.”

can you help forge a more gender-balanced world?”

event, we’re going to have a speaker that’s going to talk

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

The speaker and special guest coming to Thursday’s event is Dr. Neala Schleuning, the first Director of the Women’s Center.

The event is free for all students and everyone is welcome to come.

As the International Women’s Day states, “Make International Women’s Day your day – everyday.”

Kessel Peace Institute advocates for refugees in Minnesota mean to the audience, and the different things they had heard about them. After various answers from the audience, she further asked the difference between refugees and immigrants.

Musse explained that a “refugee is someone who was forced to live their county due to some crisis while an immigrant is someone who chooses to live.”

The second panelist, Nimo Farah, is an artiste and an activist from Somalia, who moved to the U.S. as a

OLUWATOMIKE BALI STAFF WRITER

The Kessel Peace Institute held a panel discussion on serving and advocating for refugees in Minnesota Tuesday, on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The event started off with each member of the panel giving a short presentation on being a refugee, what it meant to them.

Maria Ly | MSU Reporter Ayan Musse speaking at the Kessel Institute refugee advocacy event on Tuesday, March 19, 2019.

The first speaker was Ayan Musse, who came to

the U.S. as a refugee from Somalia. Musse, who is also

a student at MNSU, started off by asking what refugees

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MNSU mourns victims of New Zealand shooting OLAYINKA GBOLAHAN STAFF WRITER It saddens the heart to have to write about the act of terrorism that occurred on Friday, March 15 in Christchurch, New Zealand by a suspect who is a 28 year old Australian male with white supremacy views: Brenton Harrison Tarrant.

The attacker targeted two mosques in Christchurch during the Friday prayer session; Al Noor Mosque, Riccarton and Linwood Islamic Centre where the attacker killed 50 and injured 50 plus with two semi-automatic weapons, two shotguns and a lever-action firearm while livestreaming 17 minutes of the attack on Facebook.

This incident had a lot of responses from New Zealand’s law enforcements and judicial

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Continued from page 1 want women in the military to know and recognize that there are civilian options to receive health services and prosecution without necessarily going through the UCMJ.” The UCMJ, or the Uniform Code of Military Justice is a regulation that defines criminal offenses and is the basis for the military criminal justice system.

“The military has made great strides towards gender equality in the time that I have been enlisted,” said Horton. “There are now more opportunities for mothers, numerous jobs have become open to women, women are now able to cross train between different jobs and be in leadership positions.

Most of all, the climate that has changed. Remarks that were made and normalized back in the 80s and 90s are no longer tolerated, and that has made for a better work environment for females.”

Horton does admit that there is work still to be done, and a lot of it requires female leadership.

An example of this is the job of the role of an Army infantryman, which is traditionally a very male dominated job. Infantry jobs have recently become open to females according to military regulation, however females in the Minnesota National Guard cannot be in infantry jobs because there is currently no female infantry officer to oversee them. They

hope to see that change within the next year.

In their quest for gender equality, the Army also hopes to replace the APFT with a six-event physical fitness test next year called the Army Combat Fitness Test or ACFT. The APFT or Army Physical Fitness Test which scores you out of 300 based on your push-ups, situps and 2-mile run according to your age and gender, it is the current standard in the Army to measure physical fitness. Traditionally women are allowed fewer push-ups and extra time to complete the 2-mile run with the APFT. With the new ACFT, they will now hold the same standards for both men and women, in order to make it gender-neutral and non-age discriminatory.

Mercedes Calvillo a Staff Sergeant in the Minnesota National guard stated “We want more quality women, and not just quantity. We do have family planning options available to women, and we want mothers and women with families to consider us. To us, you are not just another number. We need females, especially in leadership positions. It is getting better and easier for females to make rank and compete with men for leadership positions.”

Females can become leaders in the military through enlistment, direct commission, ROTC and other service academies.

government in response to gun laws, alt-right groups,

the Kessel Peace Institute and African American Affairs

“The vigil was held to mourn the death of the victims and show solidarity and support with the people most affected by the attack.” world-leaders, Islamic groups, mega-corporations, pro-gun groups, press, social-media and the community.

In response to this tragedy,

coordinated a vigil that was held on Tuesday, March 19 in the Centennial Student Union, at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The

vigil was held to mourn the death of the victims and show solidarity and support with the people most affected by the attack.

The vigil had a sad and quiet atmosphere, where most attendees were holding pink flowers. It also accommodated four speakers, whom of which were two faculty members of Minnesota State University; the head of African-American Student Affairs Kenneth Reid was the vigil opener. He gave a speech about minority empowerment by recounting past tragic attacks towards African-American and how they overcame them through solidarity. He also re-assured the attendees of his continued support.

Then Dr. Habib, another faculty member, who mentioned the importance of unity within humanity irrespective of race, religion or views. He also appreciated attendees for coming because this shows solidarity and made emphasizes that this is the time for people to speak up and stand for humanity.

He also recounted the event to encourage the attendees to embrace courage instead of fear.

The vigil also featured two student speakers. One was Awais Qarni who shared his immediate reaction to the

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Say Her Name: Combating institutional racism

JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER Institutional racism has been part of the American political and economic system for the entirety of the nation’s history. Nowhere has that been more apparent than in the criminal justice system, wherein people of color, especially African-Americans, face horrific disparities.

The Minnesota State University, Mankato Women’s Center is partnering with Black Motivated Women, a Registered Student Organization dedicated to discussing the issues that black women face, as well as fostering sisterhood and community. The event will be sponsoring a showing of the documentary film, “Say Her Name, the Life and Death of

Photo courtesy of Associated Press Residents paying respects by dropping flowers by a tribute tree in Waller County, Texas

Sandra Bland” on Monday, March 25.

“The purpose is to discuss the way law enforcement

and ‘typical traffic stops’ are resulting in death when it

with his grandmother.

The fourth panelist was Jay Shahidi. Shahidi centered more on data facts and positive influence of refugees in the United States. In his presentation,

he mentioned that refugees boost the GDP growth in the country, and they have higher employment rates.

Shahidi is from Iran and went to school at MNSU. A Q&A session started

involves people of color,” Elizabeth Steinborn-Gourley, the Director of the Women’s Center at MNSU, said.

“Black women and men are susceptible to police brutality and we need to acknowledge it, understand it, and dismantle it.”

The documentary film was released in 2018, and it investigates the death of Sandra Bland. Bland, an African-American woman, was arrested during a traffic stop and died in custody in Texas. Her death is an example of the violence and lethality of institutional racism and was responded to with a wave of political activism dedicated to police reform and the dismantling of mass incarceration.

After the showing, there will be a discussion led by Taylor Kueng, the president of Black Motivated Women.

The event begins at 5 p.m. and is free and open to the public. It will take place in the Women’s Center, located in CSU 218.

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Continued from page 2 refugee. She presented by reading a couple of short poems she wrote. Farah said she draws her inspiration from older women because she spends a lot of time around them. Farah also read a poem she wrote for her “Ayeeyo”, which means grandmother in the Somali language.

The third speaker, Tou

Saiko Lee, is a storyteller and a hip-hop recording artist, who is from the Hmong cultural background and was born in a refugee camp. He started off by talking about his works mentoring younger generations.

Lee said, “Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of positive role models.”

As a recording artist, Lee is popular for his collaborations

immediately after the panelists finished talking.

The moderator asked some questions and later on questions from the audience were entertained.

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Nunes sues Twitter, and users JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER Far too many Americans do not have adequate access to nutritious food. There are numerous reasons for this.

One of them is the existence of food deserts. Food deserts are defined as areas wherein there are no businesses which provide fresh food (i.e., grocery stores, farmers markets, or other sources of fresh food) especially produce.

Food deserts are usually found in low-income urban neighborhoods, but they are common in rural areas as well.

In large metropolitan areas, it’s often difficult to get a business loan to start a small grocery store or similar business in a low-income area.

Moreover, local licensing laws often make street vending, a particularly common type of food business with low startup costs, illegal or too expensive to engage in.

In rural areas, population loss and long distances to the nearest market either lead to a complete lack of grocery stores or the presence of a single one that, due to its monopoly, can charge more for its products than would otherwise be the case.

Broadly speaking, the problem has a number of solutions. Food shelves can help, especially if they network with larger providers of rescue food (good produce that would otherwise find its way into a dumpster) and are locally run. Schools can help too, by making sure that kids get enough nutritious food in their lunches.

Another option is to create special tax credits or funding sources for entrepreneurs who want to start a small shop in the neighborhood. That will bring wealth into a community as well as fill a need. Removing restrictions on street vendors, especially those who deal in fresh produce, is another excellent idea.

Clean energy documentary premiere Mankato, Minn. --On Tuesday, March 26th, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., a film screening of the new documentary, The Power of Minnesota, will take place at Ostrander Auditorium.

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ALYSSA BUNDE STAFF WRITER California Republican, Devin Nunes is suing three Twitter users and Twitter for defamation and seeking $250 million in damages, according to The New York Times.

The accounts include two parody accounts, @ DevinNunesMom, @ DevinCow and Liz Mair, Republican strategist.

According to Vox News, Nunes claims that Liz Mair and the two accounts were working together to defame him and hinder his work as a congress member. In addition, Nunes is claiming that, “Twitter is censoring Republicans and

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sides. Twitter has repeatedly denied all such claims.

According to Vox News, Liz Mair took to Twitter to defend herself. She stated,

“You have to have thick skin to be a public figure, and that has been true since our early days as a nation.” shadow bans their accounts and actively helps their opponents,” according to The New York Times. Shadow banning is when a platform allows someone to post but does not allow others to see the post.

In the same article, The New York Times continued explaining that this is not the first time Twitter has been accused of shadow banning or censorship. A plethora of other Republicans have also claimed the app to be picking

Jim Bickerton, an expert in libel law, spoke to The Washington Post regarding the Twitter accounts criticism.

Bickerton explained that Nunes is a public figure, “the right to mock him, however mercilessly, is protected under the First Amendment.”

Bickerton concluded that the tweets were, “most obviously hyperbole.”

Mark Braun, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Mass Media Law professor also weighed in on the case.

Braun stated he does not think Nunes will prevail. In addition, he explains, “you have to have thick skin to be a public figure, and that has been true since our early days as a nation.”

According to Vanity Fair, Mair and @DevinCow have gained followers from the lawsuit. Nunes had stated Twitter was amplifying the critical accounts but it now seems he is the one causing the accounts to gain attention.

according to Vox News, “as a libertarian Republican,” she holds the principles of the First Amendment, “very dear.”

After speaking on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Monday a few of the tweets that Nunes is labeling defamatory were presented.

According to The Salt Lake Tribune, one of the tweets stated, “Devin’s boots are full of manure. He’s udder-ly worthless and its pasture time to move him to prison.”

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MADISON DIEMERT NEWS EDITOR In the wake of the recent mass shooting that happened in New Zealand on March 15, there is something to be said about the way we treat mass shooters.

Just like the many mass shootings that have happened in America, New Zealand released the name and details of the shooter.

But unlike us, they have not given him a platform to rise in infamy or spread his racist rhetoric.

As a country, we should be following New Zealand’s actions. Releasing their name, their face, their manifesto etc. is exactly what they want. Their goal is not only to spread hate and violence but also to become worldrenowned for their actions.

A good example of this would be the Parkland shooter. He garnered the attention of young girls and women who thought he was “cute” and they romanticized him.

This has happened a lot within the past years with

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New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Arden mass shooters, and certain ones have admitted to being inspired by other shooters.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is making sure this won’t happen in the case of the white supremacist who shot up the two mosques.

Now the question I propose is this: Why have we not followed in suit?

Why has President Donald Trump not vowed to work as hard as Arden to make sure the shooter, and all other shooters, stay out of

“...According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been a total of 61 mass shooting incidents as of March 19.”

She has been fighting to keep the shooter’s name out of news media and to take down the video the shooter streamed while gunning down the mosques.

the spotlight?

Arden is also proposing a ban on semi-automatic weapons, though there have been no official statements on the matter. Just her saying

that she supports a ban, though, is far more progress than America has seen in relation to gun violence.

In light of this recent tragedy I think America should be seriously considering its gun laws. Of course, this phrase has been repeated over and over throughout history. But according to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been a total of 61 mass shooting incidents as of March 19. We’re not even close to finishing our third month this year.

I think America should be taking notes from Prime Minister Arden. For New Zealand, they are taking all the right steps to end gun violence and mass shootings.

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“Do you think media coverage has contributed to the increase of mass shootings in recent years?”

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MNSU to host healthcare summit next Tuesday

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Another professor, Dr. David Sharlin, will be speaking with other members of the Biological Sciences Department about their newly created RISEbio Program.

The session will talk about the launch of the program, what the program will do and early results that have already come out.

Much like Prof. Shunkwiler, Dr. Sharlin is also eager to be a part of the science conference.

“I think it wants to highlight some of the excellent opportunities and initiatives that are currently underway at MSU as well as highlight the expertise of faculty at MSU,” Dr. Sharlin said.

There will be other nonfaculty speaking at the event as well including Toby Freier, president of the New Ulm Medical Center. Freier is set to be the opening speaker for the event in the Ostrander Auditorium.

Along with a new and advanced attitude about current trends in healthcare, students will also be given professional development credits as well as CEUs. The price of admission is $175 for both days and $100 for just one day.

selflessness.

After the speakers, a oneminute silence was held to honor the lives lost and immediately accompanied with a solemn piano

song. Then there was an announcement on a class of how to become an ally to minorities and immigrants was going to be held later that night.

MICHAEL MCSHANE STAFF WRITER Minnesota’s science community is set to commence the second Health and Biomedical Sciences Summit here at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The event, scheduled to begin Tuesday, will take place within MNSU’s Centennial Student Union building.

The summit will include many in the science and medical field who will speak about a wide arrange of topics that are affecting the country.

Subject such as discoveries in disease treatment, rural healthcare and 3D printing.

The event will cover two days, Tuesday and Wednesday, with each going from 7:30 a.m. all the way to 12 p.m.

Many of the speakers include MNSU faculty such as Thad Shunkwiler, an assistant professor in the Health Science Department. Prof.

Shunkwiler is excited to speak at the event as he did the

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year before.

“I think it’s a great opportunity to bridge the university with the biomedical world outside the university and start developing partnerships and really strengthening those as well as an opportunity for students to get involved with a professional level conference,” Prof. Shunkwiler said about the summit.

Prof. Shunkwiler added that the summit will overall be

“The summit will include many in the science and medical field who will speak about a wide arrange of topics that are affecting the country.” a benefit for all who attend the event next week. He will

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MNSU Student, Awais Qarni addresses the public at the Christchurch Vigil at the Hearth Lounge on Tuesday, March 19, 2019. tragic news. He shared that he felt so many emotions including greif but he definitely was not surprise due to the fact that he has experienced a loved-one go through the same tragic scenario in Pakistan, and the high frequency of hate-crime toward Muslim, Jews and Christians in various parts of the world. He also mentioned that the attack cannot prevail

because through unity, we will all be stronger.

Then Abdul Haseeb Mohammed started his speech with, “As-salamu alaykum,” which means peace be upon you. He also recounted the event in New Zealand saying that “peace be upon you” was said by the first victim with intention to greet the shooter without knowing his intentions.

He also shared his reaction in response to watching the video of the event, that he saw how people in event of this traumatizing experience still remembered to put other people first by making effort to protect others from the shooter. He shared that these two occurrences highlighted the beauty of religion and its teaching and that it is all about love, peace and

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Google strives to create the future of gaming New streaming video game platform set for 2019 release

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER Tuesday, Google held a special conference at the Game Developers Conference, GDC for short, in which they revealed their newest project, dubbed the Stadia.

While a whole lot wasn’t actually revealed, what was revealed was fairly substantial for the future of streaming and gaming, and could possibly signal the beginning of a new technological war for consumers time and money.

First things first, what exactly is the Stadia? Stadia is essentially a service in which users would be able to play games through Chrome or Youtube using an intricate cloud system. The whole idea is based in ushering in a new era of gaming, on what can cater to streaming

The controller for Google’s new service Stadia and viewing culture. Streamers and Content Creators generate millions of dollars in revenue for both the gaming publishers whose games they play, ala Ninja and Fortnite,

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and the streaming services they use, ala Ninja (again) and Twitch.

In addition to the service, a controller was announced, and while it seems fairly

rudimentary, two special buttons have been added. The capture button, enabling the user to upload clips directly to Youtube when pushed, and the Google Assistant

button, which will allow the user to ask Google for help when stuck on a puzzle or level.

Focusing back on the actual service, it seems that when using Stadia a customer would be able to watch a Ninja type play a game, say the newest DOOM, and be able to jump right into that game themselves if they so desired. They could also be watching a trailer, as shown in the conference, and then immediately be able to play the game afterwards by using a link, jumping into the action in a matter of seconds.

In addition to this premise of game-streaming, you would be able to play and continue playing games between a number of different devices, ranging from phones to tablets to computers. As long as the device has access to Chrome, the consumer will

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Hundreds of millions of dollars in unpaid royalties waiting for musicians to claim them

MARK REYNOLDS STAFF WRITER In October of 2018, the Music Modernization Act (MMA), the largest reform to copyright laws in decades, was signed into law after being unanimously passed through the House and Senate.

This bill updates copyright laws to adapt to the modern world of streaming music. In essence, it helps more people get paid more money for writing, producing and performing music that is streamed online. They also wanted to make it easier

for artists to collect those payments.

Every time that a company like Pandora streams a song to a user, they are required to pay a small fee, or “royalty,” to the song’s copyright owners. Performance Rights Organizations (PROs) have existed for a long time to keep track of TV, radio and live performances, but they didn’t cover the internet.

This meant that there were few rules for how much the artists should be getting paid, and fewer for how they would receive royalties.

Previously, any unclaimed royalties were held by the music streaming companies.

Now, that job has been taken by a company called SoundExchange.

With the passing of the MMA, SoundExchange was designated by the U.S. Con-

gress as the sole organization responsible for collecting and distributing digital performance royalties.

The company originally started as a division of the Recording Industry Association of America in 2000. Back then, it oversaw royalties from cable and satellite music services, and eventually handled webcasts as well.

As of 2018, SoundExchange has paid over $5 billion in royalties to artists and owners. But there is still a huge amount of money that isn’t getting to the artists.

According to a document provided to Billboard, SoundExchange held $527 million at the end of 2017. A large percentage of that money is due to either data issues or unregistered rights owners.

Both of which prevent royalties from being paid.

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Many artists don’t realize that they need to register with SoundExchange to get paid for digital royalties. With the passing of the MMA, more money is on the table

than ever before.

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“Captain Marvel” is more ‘meh’ than marvelous First female-led superhero movie in the MCU is less ground-breaking than it should be

JANESSA HAMMERS STAFF WRITER Review contains some spoilers When we last left the most important hero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe she was halfway across the galaxy?

And her cat alien scratched Nick Fury’s eye because he was naïve enough to hold a cat directly in front of his face? And the only way the present-day Avengers have to contact her is a 90s pager-looking device? Yes, yes, and yes. Just as Thanos has smashed the Avengers and the rest of the universe by decimating half the population, who will fly in and save everyone except Carol Danvers, the Air Force fighter pilot and unwitting Kree soldier all at once. In the film she has electric powers and overcomes any obstacle using her powers and an uncanny ability to stare meaningfully into the camera whist the wind blows back her luscious locks. Both of these abilities carry the storyline as she develops these abilities rapidly while also rediscovering her memory while also

Captain Marvel (center), played by Brie Larson searches a subway for an evil Skrull reconnecting with her long lost Air Force BFF while also initially fighting the villain only to turn the villain into a refugee with a sob story while also realizing her Kree boyfriend had been brainwashing her the whole time.

Danvers overcomes a lot without breaking a hair out of place in a short amount of time, must be another of

her powerful abilities. I am not sure if the studio simply did not want to introduce another villain and confuse the audience’s attention away from Thanos’ official Big Baddie title, or if they really just wanted to make that big of a statement about the political climate in America where often refugees are misunderstood to be an

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Jeremiah Ayodele | MSU Reporter MNSU junior student Tomi Adeola performs a poetry piece at the Black History Month Poetry Slam at the Ostrander Auditorium on Wednesday, March 20, 2019.

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enemy as what occurs in the film. Whichever the case, it left the audience feeling jipped without a real villain, the only character that they tried to twist into a villainous teacher role was her Kree officer played by Jude Law who mansplained to Carol throughout the film and represented everything wrong with the patriarchy. This was

a nice attempt at women-empowering movie but throwing feminism at the audience and parading around as if they were the first to make a woman superheroine should not have been the sole focus of the movie, her storyline could have gone so much further beyond the political but it did not.

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Facebook says service hindered by lack of local news LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California on Wednesday announced a new school president to usher “a new era” following a series of high-profile scandals that culminated last week with a massive college admissions bribery case.

Carol Folt, former chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will become USC’s 12th president and the first permanent female president in school history — an announcement that came a week after news of the bribery scandal broke.

Folt said the scandal didn’t give her pause about taking on the job.

“I want to be a part of fixing this,” Folt said. “If you’re trying to run an institution, you have to enjoy the fixing as well as the advancing.”

Folt said she was horrified to learn of the scheme, which involved wealthy parents paying bribes to have a college counselor rig standardized tests or get their children admitted as recruits of sports they didn’t play.

“Most of us (at universities) spend our lives caring about students and admissions and trying to do things fairly ... so when you see something like that, you’re just aghast,” she said. “But most of us immediately started thinking, ‘OK, boy, we know how to get to the bottom of this, we’re going to figure this out and that is not something I want to ever see happen again.’ “ Rick Caruso, chairman of the USC board of trustees, said problems will occur, but the measure of great leadership is how one reacts to them.

“We have worked hard to try to turn a corner, to make a change,” Caruso said.

“Today firmly cements the fact that there is a dramatic cultural change in this university.”

A lengthy search for a new president led a 23-member

committee to unanimously recommend Folt, Caruso said.

“If nothing else, this last nine months has shown us that this university can handle whatever’s thrown at us,” he said. “We are ready to move forward.”

Folt will take over USC from interim President Wanda Austin, who stepped in after former President C.L. Max Nikias resigned last summer amid two major controversies: reports that the school ignored complaints of widespread sexual misconduct by a longtime campus gynecologist and an investigation into a medical school dean accused of smoking methamphetamine with a woman who overdosed.

Combined with the bribery scandal, Folt will have her work cut out for her, said Roger Sloboda, a Dartmouth biology professor who worked with Folt at the New Hampshire school, where she started her academic career and spent three decades.

“Considering the recent stuff at USC, I feel sorry for Carol jumping into that mess.

But I think she’ll clean it up,” he said. “She is a scientist and she’ll look at the data, figure out what happened and how to fix it.”

From a crisis standpoint at her previous job at UNC-Chapel Hill, Folt did just OK, said Jay Schalin, policy analysis director at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, a right-leaning think tank.

At UNC, Folt inherited a department that offered irregular courses with significant athlete enrollments dating back years before her arrival. The courses were misidentified as lecture classes that didn’t meet, required a research paper or two for typically high grades with little to no faculty oversight.

Folt also was forced out early from the job in January amid a controversy over a

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And once registered, rights owners can collect whatever royalties have been held and continue to get paid in the future.

Streaming has taken over the music industry, and while the MMA was a huge step in the right direction, there are still a lot of flaws in the sys-

tem that need to be worked out.

Currently, Spotify, Google, Pandora and Amazon are fighting the increase in payments to artists. Spotify, who are already operating at a loss, argued that while they agree artists should be paid more, the new ruling isn’t the answer.

Confederate statue known as “Silent Sam” that was torn down on campus.

Schalin said Folt angered conservatives in North Carolina with “mixed signals” on Silent Sam that they felt emboldened protesters.

As far the academic scandal involving UNC athletes, he said the USC scandal seems smaller in scope. “Folt should have little trouble managing it, unless the media goes after USC in a major way,” he said.

The president of the Association of Public and Landgrant Universities, where Folt served as chair of a committee on science and technology policy, said he has always “admired her insights and wisdom on ways universities can better serve students and the public at large.”

“Carol Folt is a very accomplished and highly respected higher education leader,” association President Peter McPherson said in a statement.

Four USC students showed up to Folt’s introduction at USC protesting her actions during the Confederate statue controversy, saying she took credit for taking it down when it really was a student-led movement.

One of the students, Rebecca Hu, said she wanted to make her concerns known and felt students should have been more heavily involved in the selection of a new president.

“I think the student community is really hurt by everyone in USC administration, and we just want to make sure they actually hear us for once and take us seriously,” said Hu, a senior majoring in philosophy.

Jason Chang, a 20-year-old accounting major, said he and his fellow students “just want transparency” about the unfolding scandal.

“It’s sad to say that it’s tainting the school’s reputation,” he said.

The one thing that is certain is that streaming is not going away. With “smart” devices being put in every aspect of our lives, we are listening to more music than ever before. And artists should make sure they’re getting paid for it.

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GOOGLE Continued from page 10 have access to Stadia.

Or so it seems. Many questions have been left unanswered by Google, like how people living in rural communities are expected to buy into this service.

An even bigger, and more pressing question, is how buying this service will work.

Will it be like a Playstation Now, Xbox Game Pass situation where you pay monthly for the service? Or will you need to purchase the games ahead of time to play them on Stadia? Or even worse than those two options, will you pay for a set amount of time where you can use the service, like $10 for 10 hours of play? Many more questions, like how they plan on addressing data limits and throttling of usage due to the death of Net Neutrality.

As of now, Google has not answered anything outside of what they announced at the GDC. Competition wise, Google has an uphill battle ahead of them. In terms of cloud based resources, only Microsoft and Amazon can challenge them, but Microsoft has the advantage of having not only a place in the industry already well established, but their own streaming service built up in the previously mentioned Xbox Game Pass. In addition to this,a major part of console wars at the moment is the use of exclusivities and in house studios to bolster a consoles worth to consum-

ers over the others. Sony’s PS4 has outsold the Xbox One effectively by double the units if a recent article

by Polygon is to be believed, due in no small part to their nearly unending list of amazing exclusive games like God of War and Marvel’s Spiderman.

The biggest advantage Google has at the moment is Youtube. Youtube garners millions, if not billions, of views daily. Youtube is one of the most important parts of internet culture, and if Google were to remove the platform from competitors consoles, it may sway some to use the service. Google has in the past used this method, according to The Verge. Most notably with the Windows phone, which in addition to a number of other issues ended the devices life before it started.

While it is obvious that streaming will be the future of gaming, what isn’t obvious is who will lead the revolution. Google seems to have gotten ahead of the pack, but being first isn’t necessarily synonyms with success. In the next year or so, specifically at E3, expect to see other services like Stadia start to pop up everywhere. Once that happens we’ll get a better idea of how things might shape out.

One thing is certain though.

You better have a real good internet connection.

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2019 March Madness preview: Duke versus all

Zion, RJ, and the Blue Devils ride into the tournament with a target on their back

KEVIN KORBEL SPORTS EDITOR With March Madness finally here, millions of people across the world are submitting brackets into their office or friends pool this month trying to prove that they can pick games better than Dan from accounting or their best friend, and the heavy favorite on everyone’s bracket are the Duke Blue Devils, led by freshman stars Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett.

While a lot of people are picking them in their bracket challenge this season, there are many people, including myself, who believe Duke might be way over-hyped going into the season.

With their flashy play, and

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While Duke freshman Zion Williamson and RJ Barrett (pictured) are the heart and soul of the Duke Blue Devils, it might not be enough this season to lead them to a championship this season.

Sports Center top-10 plays, it’s no question that this team on paper has the talent to be a power team in this year’s tournament, but that doesn’t mean that this makes them

the best team in this year’s tournament.

One of the many flaws of this team is that they rank dead last in three-point percentage out of the power

five conferences in the country, which comes into question who you give the ball to when you’re down by three late in the ball game.

With unreliable shooters

around the perimeter, it’s going to tough for this team

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Trout signs largest contract in history of pro sports The talented Los Angeles Angels slugger signed a 12 year/$430 million contract Tuesday

JOHN LAFOREST STAFF WRITER Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels broke the bank on Tuesday after signing a 12-year, $430 million contract with the team, finalizing the largest contract in professional sports history.

The deal pushed past Bryce Harper and Manny Machado’s contracts that were signed earlier this offseason, at $330 million and $300 million respectively.

Harper even had comments on the contract after he was warned with tampering for saying earlier this week in wanted to recruit Trout who is from the Philadelphia area.

He said, “I texted him when the news broke. Very excited for what’s to come for him and his contract and his career and looking forward to it.”

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Angels’ outfielder Mike Trout (pictured) got paid on Tuesday, and is now going to earn an estimated $68k per at bat this season.

At age 26, Trout has already put up a Hall of Fame career. He’s won two MVP awards and finished second in the voting four times. He has compiled the highest career WAR through his age of any position player in history,

Trout has been regarded as the best player in the baseball for some time now and the Angels decided to center their future around their MVP. The gap between Trout and the second-best player seems highly significant after this

contract. The deal sends the message that they believe Trout is their man in every facet of the game.

One thing that should stick out for concern for the Angels regarding Trout is that the team is yet to win a playoff

game since he’s played with the team.

In his seven full seasons

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4 years after Tyus, Tre Jones looks to lead a Duke title run DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Tre Jones considers himself the classic tagalong little brother, always wanting a piece of whatever his big brother had.

So when Tyus Jones won a national championship for Duke — well, Tre wanted one, too.

Four years after Tyus Jones ran the point as a freshman for a title-winning team of Blue Devils, Tre Jones takes his turn to chase a championship for a top-seeded Duke team.

And making it even more special for the Jones family is that baby brother is playing for a trip to the Final Four in Minneapolis — near the their hometown of Apple Valley, Minnesota, and where Tyus is in his fourth season with the NBA’s Timberwolves.

But first the Blue Devils (29-5) have to win four NCAA Tournament games, starting Friday night in Columbia, South Carolina, in the first round of the East Region.

“We have a pretty good feeling what’s coming,” Tre

Jones said. “The older guys have said the energy’s crazy, the atmosphere’s a lot of fun, but it’s win or go home, and we know that. We all have the same goal in mind.”

Tre had a front-row seat for his brother’s title run — as a high school senior in 2015, he was in the crowd for each of Duke’s six wins in that tournament — and that experience has fueled him ever since.

“I put out a goal for myself that I want to be in that moment one day,” Tre Jones said. “And now that I’m here, that I’m in that moment, it’s going to be fun to be able to partake in it.”

Tre has been just as indispensable to this Duke team as his brother was to the program’s last team to win a national title. Tyus Jones averaged 11.8 points and 5.6 assists during his only college season, and his two big 3-pointers in the title-game victory over Wisconsin earned him the Most Outstanding

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Duke guard Tre Jones (pictured), who went to school in Apple Valley, Minn., is looking to follow his NBA brother’s footsteps and lead Duke to a title run.

Player award at the Final Four.

Tre Jones leads the Atlantic Coast Conference and ranks fifth in Division I with an assist-turnover ratio of 3.49 and also has a leaguebest 171 assists. Though he’s scoring 9.3 points per game, he reached double figures in

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all three games of the ACC Tournament, capping it with a season-high 18 points in a victory over Florida State in the title game.

“I’m excited for him, I’m excited for their team,” Tyus Jones recently said. “I just told them to stick with it, take it one game at a time and kind of ride that momentum from the ACC Tournament to the (NCAA) tournament.

And he’s done a great job with the ups and downs of the season, of continuing to work, continuing to try to improve and learn on the fly.

He’s going to continue to do so in the tournament.”

And just as Tre was along for the ride four years ago, the roles have reversed — thanks in part to the NBA’s schedule.

The Timberwolves play Thursday night in Charlotte, roughly a 90-minute drive from the South Carolina arena where the Blue Devils will play their first NCAA Tournament games. Tyus said the family is

making the trip to both places and, depending how things go for the Timberwolves this week, he said he might ask coach Ryan Saunders about sneaking down to catch his brother’s postseason opener.

That would mean so much for the little brother who has spent his entire life trying to keep up with the bigger Jones.

“I always wanted to be there with him, wherever he went. Whatever he was doing, I wanted to do exactly what he was doing,” Tre Jones said. “And I feel like that’s part of the reason all of the comparisons don’t really matter to me. Whatever he’s done in basketball, or just life in general, I’ve always wanted to do. He’s always set a great example for me, and always been a great role model for me, so with everything he’s done in life, I’ve wanted to follow. And that’s why I am where I am today, because he was able to do what he did first.”

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However, once the Mavericks get out of the WCHA, they have a tendency to go cold. In their five NCAA tournament appearances, MSU has not been able to advance to the second round.

Hopefully, with arguably their best team since the 2014-15 season, the Mavericks can buck that trend and make a run in the NCAA tournament.

The WCHA Championship game will take place on Saturday at the Verizon Center, with the puck dropping at 7:07 p.m. The game can be watched on Charter 191 & 826, and also can be listened to via radio on KTOE. The next game for

the Mavericks after Saturday will be the NCAA Regional Semifinal on March 28. The

Mavericks’ opponent and region will be announced on Sunday.

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With that said, Mankato Golf Club is excited to open our restaurant to the entire Mankato area community over a special week beginning Tuesday, March 19th through Tuesday, March 26th, which is the date of our Spring Open House & Membership Drive.

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TROUT Continued from page 13 with the Angels, they’ve only made the post season once and were swept in three games. The Astros have been dominated by the AL West the last couple of years, with the team finishing under .500 the past three seasons.

Getting Albert Pujols, Justin Upton and Josh Hamilton’s contract off their books will help the Angels in the future. These big contracts have made the Angels activity in free agency throughout the past few off seasons low up to the team’s standard. The Angels can start spending more money and

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Could a team like No. 2 Tennessee (pictured) or No. 1 North Carolina ruin the Duke Blue Devils’ shot at the championship this season? to make clutch shots from behind the arc late in games.

Obviously this team is too gifted to lose to a No. 16-seeded team in this year’s tournament, so it might take until the round of 32 to justify where this team is truly at in terms of playing as a team.

A big stat that puts the effect of Zion Williamson into perspective is that the team has a 3-3 record when he’s been injured, while when he’s on the floor for the team is 26-2 against opponents, but what happens to this team once you double team Zion?

Will RJ Barrett or Cameron Reddish step up for the team, or will we have to see some major changes to how the team plays basketball?

The biggest piece of advice for people filling out brackets this season is try your best to not pick Duke this season because if this team falls in the tournament, 75 percent of brackets that picked Duke to win it all will be affected, which puts the few who didn’t pick them in the driver seat this year to win their bracket challenge.

Not a lot of teams have stopped them this season, so they rightfully deserve a No.

1 seed in the tournament, but is the hype too big for a team

with three or four future NBA players, and no bench? We’ll

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soon see who the real deal is starting today.

make themselves competitive again in the upcoming years with some of these contracts getting off the books.

Growing the team under the farm system can deliver a better outlook for the future of the team under general manager Billy Eppler, the farm system has improved dramatically in a short period.

Keith Law of ESPN ranked the team’s farm system seventh, up from No. 19 in 2018, which in turn was up from 27th in 2017 and 30th in 2016, when it rated as one of the worst farm systems in recent memory. Teams like the Chicago Cubs have used this same system to build a winning culture in recent years.

The Angels recent season have not produced the best outcomes but will look to continue to move forward with the farm system and the best player in the world.

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