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10 people killed in Colorado supermarket ASSOCIATED PRESS A shooting at a Colorado supermarket killed 10 people Monday, including a police officer who was the first to respond to the scene, authorities said. Police arrested a suspect, but didn’t reveal his name or any details about the shooting at an evening news conference where Boulder police Chief Maris Herold fought back tears. Investigators had just begun sorting through evidence and witness interviews and didn’t have details on a motive for the shooting at the King Soopers store in Boulder, which is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northwest of Denver and home to the University of Colorado, said Boulder County District Attorney Michael Dougherty. “This is a tragedy and a nightmare for Boulder County,” Dougherty said. “These were people going about their day, doing their shopping. I promise the victims and the people of the state of Colorado that we will secure justice.” The attack was the seventh mass killing this year in the U.S., following the March 16 shooting that left eight people dead at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. It follows a lull in mass killings during the pandemic in 2020, which had the smallest number of such attacks in more than a decade, according to the database, which tracks mass killings defined as four or more dead, not including the shooter. The slain officer was identified as Eric Talley, 51, who had been with Boulder police since 2010, Herold said.
explore future careers while considering how COVID-19 might affect them. The Career and Development Center’s main goal is to provide resources and guidance for students through individual career planning,
hosting career events, jobs and internships and access to online resources. One relatively new section on the CDC’s website in tips for finding careers in the virtual world. Under this module are resources such as virtual
interviewing 101, tips to impress at a virtual career fair, and a video library with over 7,000 videos discussing a variety of careers which give tips and other valuable strategies to help students achieve their goals.
“It’s reasonable for candidates who go into a job search and students who are graduating this year to have a realistic expectation and sense that it’s not gonna be the same world
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New peer program aimed at international students By BAILEY BRENDEL Staff Writer For Minnesota State University, Mankato International Students, moving to a new country to attend a school can be a terrifying experience. It can be hard to meet new people, build connections, and find opportunities within the community. Now, imagine all those obstacles for these students placed with the added stresses of COVID-19. The Mav2Mav peer program was started at the beginning of COVID-19 to help reach out to international students who might have been struggling during this troubling time. “The purpose of peer leaders is to reach out to the students and ask them if they are having any trouble during the pandemic,” said MNSU senior Arnavee Maltare, who is also the Student Government Vice President. “We also want to provide them with all the resources they may need.” Peer leaders message their assigned students each week and follow up with how things are going for them and if they need any source of help. They answer questions internation-
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MNSU senior Arnavee Maltare is a Mav2Mav peer leader. She reaches out to other international students and educates them about resources that are available to them.
al students may have throughout the semester, update them about different ways to get involved around our community help them find a welcoming community. Mav2Mav program participants are typically assigned mentors who hail from geographically similar regions. Mav2Mavs also makes mentors sign a confidentiality agreement. This is so students can build a connection with
their mentor and feel comfortable to open up about problems they may be facing as an international student. The mentor is a person to be there to help them through those issues they may be having. Maltare pointed out, “I would encourage students to share if there are any problems they are experiencing or any suggestions they might have because this program was created to make sure that
students share the issues they are seeing. Right now is a hard time and we’re all in this together. There are resources you just don’t know about and a lot of students don’t reach out.” The program is currently looking for more students to become peer assistants in order to help mentor more students. If you are interested in applying, reach out to the International Center.
Campus Security gives out safety guidelines for students By ASHLEY OPINA Staff Writer The excitement and freedom that being on a college campus brings can cause students to forget about the possible dangers of it all. With no parental supervision, curfew, or strict rules to follow, students are destined to find themselves in some trouble if they are unaware of how to avoid it. Sandi Schnorenberg, Director of University Security at Minnesota State University, Mankato, acknowledged
that and said she was eager to share some of her insights with MNSU students. With roughly 30 years of experience working in law enforcement for the Mankato Department of Public Safety, Schnorenberg has accumulated a plethora of tips and tricks regarding safety. However, one piece of advice she finds herself reciting time and time again is one she wants MNSU students to hear as well. “Pay attention to your surroundings,” she says. “We
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Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire plan to Yemen’s Houthi rebels
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Israeli election seen as referendum on divisive Benjamin Netanyahu
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HANI MOHAMMED • Associated Press Men are silhouetted against a large representation of the Yemeni flag as they attend a ceremony to mark the anniversary of North Yemen’s 1962 revolution in Sept. 26, 2016 Sanaa, Yemen.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Saudi Arabia on Monday offered a ceasefire proposal to Yemen’s Houthi rebels that includes reopening their country’s main airport, the kingdom’s latest attempt to halt years of fighting in a war that has sparked the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The move comes after the rebels stepped up a campaign of drone and missile attacks on the kingdom’s oil sites, briefly shaking global energy prices amid the coronavirus pandemic. It also comes as Riyadh tries to rehabilitate its image with the U.S. under President Joe Biden. Saudi Arabia has drawn internationally criticism for airstrikes killing civilians and embargoes exacerbating hunger in a nation on the brink of famine. Whether the plan will take hold remains another question. A unilaterally declared Saudi cease-fire collapsed last year. Fighting rages around the crucial city of Marib and the Saudi-led coalition launched airstrikes as recently as Sunday targeting Yemen’s capital of Sanaa. A U.N. mission said another suspected airstrike hit a food-production company in the port city of Hodeida. “We want the guns to fall completely silent,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told journalists at a televised news conference in Riyadh. “It is up to the Houthis now. We are ready to go today. We hope we can have a cease-fire immediately, but the onus is on the Houthis.” A senior Houthi official, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said the rebels had been aware of the proposal and in direct communication with the Saudis, as well as interlocutors from Oman. However, he said the Saudis needed to do more to see a cease-fire implemented, something reiterated by others in the Iranian-backed rebel group. Saudi Arabia said the plan would be presented both to the Houthis and Yemen’s internationally recognized government later Monday. Both would need to accept the plan for it to move forward, with any timeline likely to be set by U.N. Special Envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres welcomed the announcement, said U.N. dep-
uty spokesman Farhan Haq. “There is no doubt that every effort must be made to end the conflict and the suffering of the Yemeni people, and the United Nations looks forward to continuing its work with the parties to achieve this goal,” Haq said. He said Griffiths “has been working extensively with the parties to see what can be done to bring them together on the sort of proposals that he made in the Security Council. ... So he will be in touch with the Houthis, as with all parties, to see whether we can go further on this.” Saudi Arabia made two concessions to the Houthis in the plan, while not offering everything the rebels previously wanted. The first involves reopening Sanaa International Airport, a vital link for Yemen to the outside world that hasn’t seen regular commercial flights since 2015. Officials did not immediately identify what commercial routes they wanted to see resume. The second would see taxes, customs and other fees generated by the Hodeida port while importing oil put into a joint account of Yemen’s Central Bank. That account would be accessible to the Houthis and Yemen’s recognized government to pay civil servants and fund other programs, officials said. The Saudi government and the Yemeni government it backs have accused the Houthis of stealing those funds in the past. A report this year by a U.N. panel of experts said the Houthis “diverted” about $200 million from that fund. “Only a small portion of the funds were used to pay salaries,” the report said. Whether the Houthis accept the Saudi proposal remains in question. On Friday, Houthi leader Mohammed Ali al-Houthi proposed a nationwide cease-fire contingent upon Saudi Arabia reopening Sanaa’s airport to commercial flights and lifting restrictions on cargo shipments to Hodeida. The port handles most of the country’s vital imports. Both are long-standing demands of the Houthis, who swept into Sanaa from their northwestern strongholds in September 2014. “There is nothing new about the Saudi initiative,” another senior Houthi official told the AP on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Israelis vote Tuesday in their fourth parliamentary election in just two years. Once again, the race boils down to a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who has served as prime minister for the past 12 years, hopes voters will reward him for leading the country’s successful coronavirus vaccine rollout and his diplomatic outreach to the Arab world. His challengers have highlighted his earlier missteps in combatting the virus, his ongoing corruption trial, and his reliance on divisive religious and ultra-nationalist allies. Over the years, Netanyahu has developed a reputation as a political magician and master manipulator ca-
pable of surviving any crisis. With witnesses set to take the stand against him next month, Netanyahu is hoping for another miracle that could deliver a friendlier parliament willing to grant him immunity or freeze his trial. Opponents portray him as a serial liar who has caused two years of political paralysis by putting his political survival and legal troubles ahead of the country’s interests. Opinion polls forecast an extremely tight race, raising the possibility of continued deadlock and even an unprecedented fifth consecutive election. Netanyahu appears to hold a slight advantage because of the intricacies of Israel’s political system. In Israel, people vote for parties, not individual candidates.
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Shooting victim’s husband says police detained him ASSOCIATED PRESS A man who survived the shooting that killed his wife at an Atlanta-area massage business last week said police detained him in handcuffs for four hours after the attack. Mario Gonzalez said he was held in a patrol car outside the spa. The revelation, in an interview with Mundo Hispanico, a Spanish-language news website, follows other criticism of Cherokee County officials investigating the March 16 attack, which killed four people. Four others were killed about an hour later at two spas in Atlanta. Gonzalez’s accusation would also mean that he remained detained after police released security video images of the suspected gunman and after authorities captured him 150 miles south of Atlanta. He questioned whether his treatment by authorities was because he’s Mexican. The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment Monday. Robert Aaron Long, a 21-year-old white man, is accused of shooting five people, including Gonzalez’s wife Delaina Ashley Yaun, at the first crime scene near Woodstock, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta. One man was wounded. In all, seven of the slain victims were women, six of them of Asian descent. Cherokee sheriff’s Capt. Jay Baker was removed as
CURTIS COMPTON • Associated Press After dropping off flowers Jesus Estrella, left, and Shelby stand in support of the Asian and Hispanic community outside Young’s Asian Massage March 17, 2021, in Acworth, Ga.
spokesman for the case after telling reporters the day after the shootings that Long had “a really bad day” and “this is what he did.” A Facebook page appearing to belong to Baker promoted a T-shirt with racist language about China and the coronavirus last year. Sheriff Frank Reynolds released a statement acknowledging that some of Baker’s comments stirred “much debate and anger” and said the agency regretted any “heartache” caused by his words. Gonzalez and Yaun, 33, had gotten a babysitter for their infant daughter and went to Youngs Asian Massage to relax. They were in separate rooms inside when the gunman opened fire. Gonzalez heard the gunshots and worried about his wife but was too afraid to
open the door, he told Mundo Hispanico in a video interview. Deputies arrived within minutes. Gonzalez said they put him in handcuffs and detained him for about four hours, according to the website. “They had me in the patrol car the whole time they were investigating who was responsible, who exactly did this,” Gonzalez said in the video. During the interview with Mundo Hispanico, Gonzalez showed marks on his wrists from handcuffs. “I don’t know whether it’s because of the law or because I’m Mexican. The simple truth is that they treated me badly,” he said. “Only when they finally confirmed I was her husband, did they tell me that she was dead,” he said.
SAFETY Continued from page 1 often find ourselves so absorbed with what we’re doing that we neglect to see the dangers around us.” According to Schnorenberg, staying present and highly alert in the moment is one of the surest ways to remain safe on and off campus. “Somebody might choose to harm us or the wind may knock down a tree right where we’re standing,” she says. “Those things can happen and we’re unprepared to handle them because we’re distracted by our phones or listening to music.” Schnorenberg says that, while out and about, having little to no distractions not only helps with alertness, but also allows for quicker reflexes if danger approaches. “We have a greater opportunity to respond and get out of harm’s way if we’re paying attention to everything around us,” she says. “We would be unprepared and caught off guard if we were otherwise distracted.” Fortunately for the MNSU community, Schnorenberg says the campus and the surrounding area is a safe place to be. “Our chances of getting
hurt by someone are not non-existent but they are less prevalent here than in other places,” she says. On the occasion someone feels unsafe on campus due the threatening or harmful behavior, Schnorenberg says they can report it to University Security where a security official will decide if the incident warrants law enforcement involvement. “We decide if the situation presented to us is something we should handle,” she says. “There are certain incidents that we always get the police involved in, such as crime-related ones.” According to Schnorenberg, University Security and the Mankato DPS work closely to resolve crime related incidents. However, for minor violations, University Security leaves it up to the student to decide if they would like to get law enforcement involved. “We have a great place here and encounter very few serious incidents,” she says. “When we do encounter one, we have a great relationship with Mankato DPS who work with us to maintain the safety of our community.”
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Safety education is the key to a secure campus
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Minnesota State University, Mankato is a fairly safe campus. With emergency phones around campus to access if you feel unsafe, a communicative campus security team and well-lit paths throughout campus, it’s easy to feel comfortable when walking around. Yet, our campus seems to have a relatively high number of reported stalking incidents lately, making people uncomfortable walking around campus. Anyone can look up the security reports through the MNSU website, and while some of them are as ridiculous as public urination, the number of stalking reports in the past month have been too high for students’ comfort levels. There are some programs implemented through the University to help students and staff feel secure. Along with the emergency phones stationed along campus, there is a safe walk service, where a security officer will walk with you to any destination on campus. Other services security offers include vehicle jumpstarts and unlocks, silent witness reports, star alert, personal safety alerts and daily updates of all incident reports. If you have any questions or need help for anything security related, don’t hesitate to reach out to campus security at 507-389-2111. Even with these programs in place, one question still remains; how can we create a safer campus environment?
There are a number of ways MNSU can take the necessary steps to ensure a protected environment for everyone. Some are already in effect.
pushing more safety information onto the victim we need to teach people how to stop making others feel uncomfortable. What would this look like?
“One of the first things we can do is educate everyone on safety.” One of the first things we can do is educate everyone on safety. You need to first protect yourself. But it’s also important to inform students how to help others feel safe. Instead of
Hanging up informative posters may seem like a simple and effective idea, but you also need to consider how many people are going to stop and read these. If
this option is to be used, it’s important to keep the words to a minimum and the paper bright and eye-catching so people will stop and look at it. A more effective method may be having RAs in dorms discuss this topic at the first floor meeting and continuously throughout the year to keep it fresh in the residents’ minds. Having the conversation right away will inform freshmen of the realities of college and allow them to learn how to become a better person to be around. Keeping the discussion away from victim blaming and instead focusing on how to create safe spaces will allow for a trustworthy campus.
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Mysterious new system at border keeps migrants guessing ASSOCIATED PRESS After hearing rumors that Central American families with younger children were being allowed into the U.S., Irma Paz left Honduras with her husband and two kids on a nearly two-month journey to the banks of the Rio Grande. They waded through the cold waters, turned themselves in to immigration authorities and were allowed in the country to request asylum. “I thought, ‘Thank you, my Lord.’ We made the cut,” she said while waiting at a Brownsville bus station with her son and daughter, ages 3 and 5. They planned to travel to Oklahoma to join her father-in-law, carrying documents to present at a future immigration court hearing. Meanwhile, in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, a mother from El Salvador sobbed after U.S. border authorities expelled her and her 8-year-old daughter. Their circumstances were almost the same as Paz’s family, but they suffered a completely different fate — the result of a mysterious new system under President Joe Biden’s administration that governs the fate of thousands of migrants with children who have arrived at the border in recent weeks. The criteria to be allowed into the U.S. are a closely held secret. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has referred only to “acute vulnerabilities” that qualify families for release in the United States to pursue asylum instead of immediate expulsion. The mystery leaves migrants guessing as they arrive
JULIO CORTEZ • Associated Press U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, center, instruct migrants to walk toward the McAllen-Hidalgo International Bridge while deporting them to Mexico, Saturday, March 20, 2021, in Hidalgo, Texas.
at the border. For Paz, the system meant a ticket to Tulsa and a chance to reconnect with relatives. For the Salvadoran woman, Roxana Cardosa, it meant being banished to a violent Mexican border city with no food or money and sleeping on the concrete of a plaza. The expulsions are among many challenges confronting the new administration at the border as it tries to maintain some elements of former President Donald Trump’s deterrent policies while taking a softer stance toward the most vulnerable migrants. The issue also looms over Biden’s efforts to pass landmark legislation that would grant a path to citizenship to all of the estimated 11 million people who are in the U.S. illegally. The asylum system arose from an emergency measure enacted during the coronavirus pandemic by the Trump administration that is being applied unevenly by Biden. More than seven of 10 encounters at the border in February resulted in expul-
JOBS Continued from page 1 pre-pandemic,” says Mandy Weister, associate director for the Career Development Center. “The way you interview will be different and during a pandemic, you might have to stretch your standards. Any position in a full time job will build transferable skills that can help you build onto the next level. Even if it’s not what you hoped your first job would be post-graduation, that job is still very valuable and will show future employers that you’re able to adapt with the current environment.” Students at MNSU who are looking forward to graduating this spring have an interesting path ahead of them as they navigate the job world during a challenging time. Senior Hope Wickert offered this advice. “Take different types of classes to get a feel of what you’re interested in,” she said. “If you take classes in the major you thought you wanted and didn’t like them, trust your gut and try something new.” As far as a post-graduation plan, Wickert says she has a solid plan. “Following graduation,” she added, “I
sions under pandemic-related powers known as “Title 42,” named for a section of an obscure public health law the Trump administration invoked a year ago. Biden has kept Title 42 in place as he designs what he promises will be “a humane asylum system.” Citizens of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador are usually back in Mexico within two hours, while other nationalities are held in the U.S. to be flown home without a chance at asylum. In a break from Trump, the Biden administration releases most children traveling alone to relatives in the U.S. and gives them notices to appear in immigration court. Nearly 9,500 such children arrived in February, up 60% from a month earlier. Nine of every 10 encounters with single adults in February resulted in expulsions under Title 42. Mayorkas said last week that the U.S. makes exceptions only for adults with “certain acute vulnerabilities,” without elaborating.
plan to work at a school or an institution as a counselor until I get my Ph.D.” Most of the Career Development Center events have moved online for the duration of this academic year. The #Adulting Fair is an online virtual event coming up this Thursday from 10 a.m. 1 p.m. Just like a job fair, this event will have over 100 employers from different occupations that students can talk to and learn from during the group and one-on-one sessions. For details about what employers or industries have signed up, you can visit the MNSU website under the Career and Development Center home page as well as register for this event on Handshake. Another helpful guide to jobs for students is the Majors in Minutes virtual event, scheduled for April 5. It will showcase upper-class students’ thoughts on why they chose their major and the experiences they’ve had at MNSU. Over 50 students have already submitted two-three minute clips talking about their journey as more students are predicted to share their stories within the upcoming weeks.
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The Latest: Minnesota reports no new deaths due to COVID-19
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Minnesota health officials reported no new deaths due to COVID-19 for the first time in nearly a year. The Minnesota Department of Health also reported 1,152 new cases, putting the state at 506,376 cases and 6,782 deaths since the start of the pandemic a year ago. The Star Tribune reported that while Mondays tend to feature fewer deaths reported than average, the figure is the first time the state has reported no new deaths in a daily situation update since April 13. Despite the good news on deaths, health officials have said in recent weeks they’re worried about the spread of coronavirus mutations — called variants — in different parts of Minnesota, which they say could derail the state’s progress in fighting
the pandemic. Officials said the state is in a race against the spread of the variants and reaching Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s goal of 80% of the state’s population being fully vaccinated. HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING: GENEVA — The World Health Organization has a message for any countries that have stocks of AstraZeneca vaccines against COVID but are hesitant about using it: Give it to us, we have a lot of would-be takers. Dr. Bruce Aylward, a special adviser to the WHO director-general, acknowledged the U.N. health agency received “a lot of questions” from AstraZeneca’s vaccine amid early concerns whether it might be linked to cases of a severe, rare blood clotting in some patients who received it.
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Mavs miss their shot at WCHA ‘ship By DANIEL McELROY Sports Editor It’s not something that happens very often, but it came at one of the worst times possible for the Mavericks. Over the weekend, the Minnesota State men’s hockey team took a loss to the Northern Michigan Wildcats in the WCHA semifinals of Championship weekend. The Mavericks allowed the most goals in a game since their 7-2 loss to St. Cloud State University in the Mariucci Classic in December of 2019. NMU put up 5 goals on the Mavs in the win. The Wildcats wasted no time getting the scoring going on Friday, scoring their first goal just over a minute into the first period from Andre Ghantous, the leading scorer in the WCHA. The scoring would quiet down for the next 20 minutes, almost on the dot. Alex Frye struck next for NMU, when the initial shot from Brandon Schultz was blocked by Jack McNeely, but Ben Newhouse managed to get another shot on net, creating a rebound and a wide open net for Frye to make it 2-0 in favor of the Wildcats. With just over 11 minutes remaining in the second, Northern Michigan scored
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through six complete innings pitched. Game two was a much different story for the Mavericks, where they let up 11 total runs but were able to hold off a late game push from the Beavers in the eighth inning to secure their second win of the weekend. The Beavers started off the scoring in the third inning, sending in four runs, but the Mavericks answered with five runs of their own in the bottom of the inning and held off the Beavers for the rest of the game. Teddy Petersen and Joey Werner led the Mavericks in batting in game two, each recording four RBIs and one home run on a combined seven total at bats. Nathan Berg
The Minnesota State softball team went on the road this past weekend and came home with four more wins under their belts. At the Hy-vee Softball Classic, the Mavericks played two doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday and failed to drop any of them. The weekend began with a match against the host of the event, Missouri Western. Torey Richards led the team going 2-for-3 in the team’s 2-1 win. The Mavs got on the board first in the second inning on an error by Missouri Western’s Taylor Hoelscher, following a hit from Kylie Sullivan. WMSU tied the game in the third inning with an RBI single from Emma Hoffart, Mackenzie Ward’s only run allowed in the game. The Mavs game winning run came in the top of the 5th inning, when Sydney Nielsen singled up the middle, scoring Carly Esselman to take the 2-1 lead, and the eventual win. Ward pitched a complete game and allowed four hits while striking out 13 batters in the contest. In the latter half of the Mavericks doubleheader, the Minnesota State took on the Missouri Southern Lions in a 4-0 win. All four runs for the Mavericks came in the first inning. Esselman led off the inning with a walk for the Mavericks. Nielsen then singled to right field, followed by another walk for Richards, loading the bases with no outs for the Lions. Hannah McCarville singled to right field in her at bat, scoring two on the play. This led to the Mavericks having runners on the corners, and eventually McCarville scoring from third. After a pitching change, the Mavs would have two more batters walk in the inning, the second walk with the bases loaded and advancing the runners at every base, making it a 4-0 game for Minnesota State. McKayla Armbruster
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MANSOOR AHMAD • The Reporter Shane McMahon (10) attempts to get the Mavs on the board in the second period in Friday’s loss.
three goals in the next four minutes, Joseph Nardi, AJ Vanderbeck, and Ghantous scored the Wildcats goals in the span, extending their lead to 5-0. Following Vanderbecks goal, head coach Mike Hastings pulled Dryden McKay, and was replaced by Ryan Edquist, a graduate transfer from Boston College. The Mavericks managed to get their lone goal of the game just under three minutes into the third period, when Brendan Furry connected with Reggie Lutz on the powerplay to cut the
lead, but that was all that was salvageable. “We didn’t handle today very well. Our opportunity is to learn from it, flush it, and move on,” Hastings said after the loss. “We’ve got to get some business done here before we get to the tournament.” Northern Michigan continued on to play in the Championship game against Lake Superior State, where the Lakers won the WCHA Championship by a score of 6-3. The Mavericks then had to play the waiting game
until Sunday night, when the Minnesota State squad awaited to find out their opponent in the NCAA Tournament. The Mavericks are paired up against the Quinnipiac Bobcats, the automatic bid from the ECAC, where the teams will fight it out for a chance to compete in the Frozen Four. Hastings commented on their matchup following the NCAA Selection Show Sunday night saying, “We’re excited, everybody’s excited.”
Mavericks score 40 runs in three wins at Bemidji MANSOOR AHMAD • The Reporter
By KOLE BUELOW Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks baseball team played their first interconference series this past weekend against the Bemidji State Beavers. The Mavericks handled the Beavers in all three games improving to 6-1 overall, and extending their win streak against the Beavers to 25. In the series last weekend, Minnesota State took on Bemidji State in a three game series where the Mavericks won each game by scores of 13-0, 14-11, and 13-0. The Mavericks dominated in batting each game and had great pitching in games one and three. The first two games of the series were played on Saturday, March 20, in double-
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Jon Ludwig allowed three hits, one walk in six innings pitched.
header fashion. The first game started off strong for the Mavericks where they were able to earn four runs early in the first inning and kept the hitting going steadily throughout the game. Junior first baseman Ross
Indlecoffer highlighted the Mavs great batting performance in the first game, hitting two home runs with four RBIs. Senior pitcher Jon Ludwig continued to show his dominance in game one as well, holding Bemidji to only three hits and one walk
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NFL deal is likely a matter of survival ASSOCIATED PRESS The $113 billion deal to telecast NFL games through 2033 is head-swimmingly large — until you consider that the very survival of broadcast networks as we know them may depend upon it. The deal announced by the NFL and media companies last Thursday spreads professional football content broadly, with CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC, ESPN and Amazon all getting pieces, and locks it in at a time little else can attract such a wide audience. “If you think of the future of network television, there is nothing more important to it than the NFL,” said Rich Greenfield, a media analyst for LightShed Partners, an industry research firm. During the current television season, the eight most-watched recurring programs are football: the game “windows” on Sunday afternoon and Sunday or Thursday nights, the Nielsen company said. NFL football accounts for 12 of the 20 most popular programs, including highlights packages. A decade ago, there were seven football entries in the top 20, Nielsen said. In 2000, when “ER” was the most popular program on television, football accounted for two of the top 20. The economics are simple for broadcast networks: the bigger the audience, the more they can charge to run commercials. Yet the
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finished the game with 3 hits allowed, 2 walks, and 3 strikeouts in 6.0 IP. Katie Bracken relieved Armbruster in the 7th inning, allowing just one hit while facing three batters, with the game ending in a double play. In Saturday’s first game the Mavs faced the No. 9-ranked Rogers State, where MSU took another 2-1 win. The scoring took a bit longer to get started than the previous game, with Nielsen getting it going with a lead off home run to left field, giving MSU a 1-0 lead. In the 5th inning, Hannah Hastings hit a single up the middle, with Ellie Tallman coming in to pinch run for her. Tallman scored off Sullivan’s single to center field, after advancing to second on the previous at bat. Rogers State scored their lone run of the game off an RBI double, with Lana Gass scor-
games are also important to a network’s identity. With viewers cutting cords and spreading out among streaming services, there are no better platforms to promote their latest comedies and dramas. In recent years, live events that viewers can’t see anywhere else have became increasingly crucial to networks. But the sudden collapse in ratings for awards shows like the Golden Globes and Grammys during the pandemic is an alarming warning that special events may not be so dependable anymore. Pro football is still dependable. Live sports is now the top reason people cite for subscribing to cable or satellite television hook-ups, said Dennis Deninger, a longtime ESPN employee and now a professor in the Falk College of Sport & Human Dynamics at Syracuse University. “They are banking on the interest in sports to help them survive,” Deninger said. Without sports, networks would be left chiefly with entertainment and news. People, especially young viewers, consider broadcast networks less important to filling those needs, he said. The deal also accounts for digital transmission of all NFL games; while NBC will continue to air “Sunday Night Football,” that game will also be seen on the Peacock streaming service. Some analysts consider this a ticking time bomb, wondering if the digital availability will make people less dependent on television.
ing from first. The run would not be enough, as the top 10 team dropped their sixth game of the season, and their second in a row. MSU closed out their weekend with a 7-0 win over Northwest Missouri State. After a quick three up, three down inning for the Northwest Missouri offense, the Mavs answered with three runs, including a 2 RBI double from McCarville. Hailey Forshee then singled to center and batted in McCarville, to take an early 3-0 lead. MSU scored another three in the 3rd inning, where the Mavericks recorded five hits. The final run came from Richards scoring off Forshee’s single up the middle in the 6th inning, giving the Mavs the 7-0 win. Over the weekend, MSU improved their record to 11-2 and are riding a five game winning streak. The squad will begin their conference play next Tuesday, March 30, against Concordia St. Paul.
ASSOCIATED PRESS The Rocket Mortgage Classic made its debut on the PGA Tour in 2019 and won the inaugural “Fair Way Award” for diversity and inclusion by leaning on minority-owned vendors at Detroit Golf Club and having a volunteer base that reflected the community. Turns out that was just the start. The tournament is launching “The John Shippen,” a four-day event in late June. It starts with a 36-hole tournament for the top Black golfers who can earn an exemption to the Rocket Mortgage Classic and to the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational on the LPGA Tour. It concludes with a twoday sports business summit that offers paid internships and scholarships for students of color. “Golf is a multi-billion dollar industry and it lacks diversity,” said Jason Langwell, executive director of
the Rocket Mortgage Classic. “We’re building a platform, two events that show up on the intersection of diversity, inclusion and golf. We’re not only excited about that, we’re also excited to use the event to shine a light on the legacy and great untold story of John Shippen Jr.” Shippen was the first Black to play in the U.S. Open in 1896 at Shinnecock Hills and the first American-born golf professional. Shippen, an assistant to Willie Dunn at Shinnecock, was encouraged to play in the second U.S. Open along with Oscar Bunn, a club caddie and member of the Shinnecock tribe. Still to be determined is the size of the field. Langwell said he has a dozen people on a selection committee to find the best Blacks, male and female. Regardless of how many players, he said The John Shippen would pay for all travel and lodging involved, another step to remove any barriers.
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Freshmen show no signs of jitters in NCAA Tournament ASSOCIATED PRESS Several freshmen showed no jitters on the opening day of the women’s NCAA Tournament. In fact, they embraced the bright lights of the Big Dance. It came as no surprise that Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, the nation’s leading scorer during the regular season, began a run of impressive performances in the first game of the tournament. UConn’s Paige Bueckers showed why she’s All-American as a freshman, while teammate Aaliyah Edwards started with a double-double. There were others, including Anaya Boyd, who averages only eight minutes a game for Georgia Tech but made major contributions down the stretch to help the Yellow Jackets avoid being upset in the first round. Clark, a second-team All-American, said she was a little nervous before tipoff. She said playing the first game of the day and not sitting around all day waiting to play or watching games on TV was a benefit. “And more than anything,” Clark said, “it’s just a dream come true to be out there
ERIC GAY • Associated Press Central Michigan guard Micaela Kelly (1) fights for a rebound with Iowa guard Caitlin Clark, right, during the second half of a college basketball game in the first round of the women’s NCAA tournament.
playing in the NCAA Tournament.” Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said his talented freshman is used to playing on big stages. “She’s always played up, you know?” Bluder said. “She won a national championship with her AAU team. She’s played for USA Basketball. So having those experiences have
helped her.” A look at some of the freshmen who made an impact in their women’s NCAA Tournament debuts: Clark didn’t match her 26.7-point a game scoring average, but she finished with 23 points, seven rebounds seven assists playing a team-high 36 minutes. She also had two
steals to go with three turnovers. The guard nicknamed Buckets turned in one of the best tournament debuts by a freshman in UConn history. She scored 24 points as the top-seeded Huskies routed High Point and wasn’t far from a triple-double with nine rebounds and six assists.
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