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ISA presidential elections held today All international students encouraged to cast their vote online.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer The International Student Association’s Presidential Election takes place Tuesday, March 31, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

All international students are encouraged to vote on the ISA Presidential Voting Day. Candidates for president and vice president had the ISA Election Debates from 3 to 4 p.m.

Friday in March 27 in the Ostrander Auditorium.

Four international students are running for president: Dolly Baruah from India, Christina Tchatchouang from Cameroon, Ayushma Shrestha from Nepal and Akmal Abdulmuminov from Tajikistan; two are running for vice president: Faical Rayani from Tunisia and Charles Thiemele from Ivory Coast.

Dolly Baruah and Faical Rayani, and Christina Tchatchouang and Charles Thiemele are run-

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ning campaign and election together, but students can vote for them separately.

Each candidate expressed their aspirations on how they

will contribute to integrating international society here on campus if they are elected.

“I always wanted to do something for others,” Baruah said.

English Department awards students for excellence

The MSU Department of English congratulates the following students for their excellence in the study of language, literature, writing, and/or English education.

Norman Adams Award $300 —For an undergraduate English major who demonstrates excellence in English language or literature studies: • Jordan Farmer Robert L. Carothers Award $100 — For a student who demonstrates excellence in writing: • Molly Kessler Jane F. Earley American Literature Scholarship $2500 — For excellent student work in American literature, based upon both work completed and the potential of work to come: • Elizabeth Mouw English Major Scholarship $3000 — For a continuing undergraduate English major who demonstrates financial need: • Melissa Donner Harold Fitterer Award /

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$1000 — For a junior in English Education with the highest GPA: • Sarah Palmer Dr. Ronald Gower Scholarship $500 —For students who contribute to the promotion and development of Creative Writing in the larger community: • Thomas Delano • Clair Rogers Innovation in Teaching Award $200 —For graduate students teaching composition who demonstrate excellence and innovation in curriculum design or teaching practice: • Eric Blix • Thomas Delano William A. Payne Memorial Endowment — Award given by Department of Music in 2015.

Raymond & Florence Sponberg Scholarship $500 — For a female graduate student in her second or third semester: • Nigina Boltaeva Marcia Thompson Award $500 — For an accomplished

undergraduate major pursuing a career in English Education: • Riley Hicklin Robert C. Wright Awards $1000 / $750 / $500 — Three awards for undergraduate and graduate students whose writing samples are judged to be the best by an outside judge: • 1st—Taylor Tolchin • 2nd—Kate MacLam • 3rd—Justin Eells • Honorable Mention— Thomas Delano Youel Award $1000 — For an outstanding graduating major whose achievement predicts an outstanding future career: • Amanda Fox 2014-2015 Outstanding English Graduate Student Award $300 — For a graduate student in the last year of his/her program who has demonstrated outstanding professional activity during his/her graduate career at MSU: • Elizabeth Horneber

“I have always contributed to MSU as a performer. I had the opportunity to perform in front of many people who are all from different parts of the world. And that made me feel great and honored that I was able to communicate with all the people who were from different countries and culture. I got really inspired to be a part of ISA and run for the ISA Election as president because I really feel proud of being an international student. All the international students had the courage to leave behind their family, their home and come here to achieve their dreams.”

Baruah also said she will take the lead to raise funds for international students and help them find a job for their welfare.

“Their potentiality will be my inspiration from now on till the end of my struggle. I can truly say that international students’ dreams will be my responsibility.”

Tchatchouang said, “I decided to run for the position of ISA president because I believe it was time for a black woman with strong leadership skills to do something bold for a change.

However, on a more serious note, I decided to run for that position because I love international students. Also because I know the skills I am bringing to the table, and because of that, I can’t see any better person to run for this position than me.”

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Shrestha said, “I have seen ISA run by three different presidents. I feel experience is the most important thing needed to be the president because you have a period of only about ten months to learn, brainstorm and implement your ideas. If you are completely new and the board you set up is new, you will not have enough time to achieve your set goals. I feel that I am quite experienced and can set up definite goals with proper priorities with my board members.”

Abdulmuminov also said, “I believe ISA needs a leader who offers the diverse world and academic experiences I might bring to this position. Throughout my academic career, I have been involved in numerous school projects, organizations and event planning committees that have developed and influenced my communication, planning and responsibility skills. I am very excited with the possibility of “paying it forward” by working in the same role as I begin my position as the president of ISA. I have a proven track record in all of the sought-after competencies for this position, particularly in leadership, communication, and diverse working and learning environment.”

Vice president candidate Rayani also said, “I wanted to make a difference in the MSU international community. I wanted to see to it that the international population will become closer and more aware to itself and to the American population. If I am elected, I will make sure to not leave behind any international student population. I want to see friends from all different backgrounds come together more frequently and I want to see less separation between our communities.”

“I would also like to raise awareness for the international student. It seems to me that not everyone knows what is going on with our school and what services are available to them. I love the international presence on campus. I think it’s wonderful that we have so many cool people from all over the world and I think that makes us a bet-

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Saudi Student Association hosts Saudi Cafe Newly rejuvenated RSO to bring Saudi Arabian culture to campus.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer The Saudi Students Association at Minnesota State University, Mankato will host its first event, Saudi Cafe, Wednesday, April 1 from 12 to 2 p.m. in Centennial Student Union 245.

In the event, there will be two speakers who will be providing information about Saudi Arabia and promoting its culture.

Ammar Aljuhani, one of the speakers of the event, said, “Actually, we are going to speak everything that we can show about our culture to our audience. This is the main purpose of having this Saudi Cafe event.”

Aljuhani also said that even though the Saudi Cafe event is SSA’s first event, he will organize the event once a year, mak-

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Vigil held for U of M student MINNEAPOLIS — A University of Minnesota student missing for three days went into the Mississippi River, Minneapolis police said Monday, and authorities were seeking to recover her body.

Jennifer Houle was seen on video entering the river from the 10th Avenue Bridge early Friday morning, according to a police statement.

Police spokesman John Elder wouldn’t say whether the video showed Houle jumping or falling in. Houle, identified by her clothing in the video, was alone on the bridge, Elder said. Police aren’t seeking any suspects.

Houle, 22, was last seen around 1 a.m. Friday at Blarney Pub and Grill in the Dinkytown neighborhood. Police say her purse was found at 3 a.m. about three blocks west of the bar.

Nearly 300 of Houle’s

friends and relatives attended a vigil Sunday evening outside Stillwater Area High School, where she graduated before studying at the university’s Carlson School of Management.

In a statement, university vice provost for student affairs and dean of students Danita Brown Young offered condolences to Houle’s family and friends. The university is offering counseling for students, faculty and staff.

Authorities from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and other law enforcement agencies have been searching the river around and downstream from the bridge since Sunday, said Rebecca Gilbuena, a spokeswoman for the office.

Students planned a sunset vigil for Houle outside the university’s student union Tuesday.

important event” of SSA. According to another speaker of the Saudi Cafe event, Adnan Alalyani, he will be talking about Saudi Arabian culture and tradition in general, highlighting geographical information and civilization and development of Saudi Arabia.

In addition to the presentation provided by two speakers, SSA will be providing foods, prizes, gifts, henna tattoo and exhibition through the event.

“This is my first time talking about my country in front of internationals and I am so happy to do that and I am expecting audience to know more about Saudi Arabian culture. I am sure it will be a great time for everybody,”

Alalyani said.

Saudi Students Association is a new Recognized Student Organization at MSU and consist of students from Saudi Arabia.

According to Zuhair Almizraq, treasurer of SSA, the new multicultural organization will bring a lot of benefits to Saudi Arabian students on campus.

“The main purpose of creating SSA is to help each other and give Saudi Arabian students an opportunity to meet people, like international office staff or instructors. Another benefit would be teaching other internationals who we are, where we are from, and our culture,” Almizraq said.

“Actually, we had a club before but it has been closed for

some reason. It took us a while to start our own club again,” he continued.

The five board member positions of SSA include president, treasurer, public relations, sports and social activities. Almizraq said all Saudi Arabian students on MSU campus are welcome to join SSA and they don’t have to be the primary members as long as they can be a part of the organization and help each other.

Almizraq also said that SSA is actively using social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and WhatsApp, to promote the new organization to as many as people.

Even though Saudi Students Association is still in the process of being approved as a RSO because all RSOs must be approved in the beginning of the semester, it will be an official RSO in the upcoming semester.

Currently more than 30 students joined Saudi Students Association and it has a regular meeting every Wednesday.

Saudi Cafe is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact president of Saudi Students Association Hatem Aljahdali at hatem.aljahdali@mnsu. edu or vice president Faisal Alnasser at faisal.alnasser@mnsu. edu.

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running for president: Dolly Baruah from India, Christina Tchatchouang from Cameroon, Ayushma Shrestha from Nepal and Akmal Abdulmuminov from Tajikistan; two are running for vice president: Faical Rayani from Tunisia and Charles Thiemele from Ivory Coast. ” continued from 1

ter school. I value each nationality and I hope I am elected so that I can have the pleasure of working with all of them. If I am elected I want to set in stone a solid step forward in terms of bringing together International Students and Americans,” Rayani continued.

International students can take a vote online on the ISA website at https://www.mnsu. edu/voting/.

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For the love of personalized license plates Supreme Court to address free speech debate in Texas.

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The Supreme Court is finally taking on the issue of the legality of Texas license plates bearing the Confederate flag after the Sons of Confederate Veterans was denied the right to do so four years ago.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans has been fighting for the allowance of the Confederate plates for some time now. In 2011, The Sons of Confederate Veterans first tried and failed to get the flag on plates. Texas’ State Department of Motor Vehicles ruled the flag was an offensive racially-charged symbol of succession and slavery.

Despite the decision, Sons of Confederate Veterans believed the plates to be legal, and that the plates were protected under the First Amendment because it displayed an individual’s viewpoint. They argued that “offensive” speech is, after all, constitutional.

Texas, however, said that a viewer could interpret the plate as the state advocating for the image displayed.

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and that’s why this case is so tricky.

License plates are considered state property. This means that the plate can bear “government speech.” By the Supreme Court, government speech allows people to display their opinions just as much as the individual, and does not need to maintain neutrality.

For instance, the government does not need to remain neutral on marijuana use. The government can legally express it thinks marijuana is bad without consequence.

Texas believes this, saying a license plate is not a bumper sticker that features an individual’s opinions under the protection of free speech, but a governmentally owned object.

Therefore the plates, governmentally owned by Texas,

should be able to deny the confederate symbol on the grounds of government speech, right?

Well, as expected, it isn’t that simple.

These plates aren’t just protected by “government speech,” but are also protected by individual speech as well. What the motorist chooses to display on their plate is a personal choice, and are therefore protected by the First Amendment.

The issue here is that there are two contradicting powers that are legally in control of the plates.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said it best by saying that license plates are “hybrid speech” because they are made and owned by the government while conveying an individual message.

Usually “hybrid speech” isn’t such a big deal. It’s only in these

rare cases that the state denies the individual of his or her plate of choice.

It is also funny how the state of Texas would make a case about bearing the confederate flag anyway, when it already commemorates the Confederacy by celebrating Confederate Hero’s Day and having a huge marble monument commemorating the confederacy in the Austin, the capital.

Nine states already bear the confederate flag on plates as Texas seeks to become the 10th.

Maryland won the right to do so back in 1990 and today 409 vehicles and 61 motorcycles bear the flag.

The Supreme Court is expected to rule on Texas in Walker v.

Sons of Confederate Veterans in late June.

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“Yes the right for expression of one’s thoughts and ideas counts as freedom of speech.”

“License plates such as Minnesota’s wildlife collection can express someone’s interests and hobbies.”

“I think it is free speech because you can have, for the most part, what you want on there.”

“Yeah, it might be free speech because you get an opportunity to tell people a quote.”

“Yes, as long as they don’t have anything provocative.”

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Australia breezes past New Zealand for fifth title win Many Americans are missing out on the celebrated Cricket World Cup. LUKE LARSON Staff Writer Late Saturday night, one of the year’s most important sporting events took place. It wasn’t a March Madness matchup. Nor was it a Cactus League spring training game gone late. It had no affiliation with the NBA nor NHL. The Mavericks had already completed their Frozen Four showdown earlier that afternoon, so it wasn’t that either.

Across the world, throngs of fans tuned in to the championship of a sport almost totally ignored by Americans: cricket.

Their attention was focused on the International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia. The stadium was packed with over 93,000 fans, according to the official estimate. The game featured a matchup between the tournament’s hosts: Australia and New Zealand. According to an article for ESPN Cricinfo

by Peter Della Penna, Australia entered the 2015 final already a four-time World Cup champion,

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with a comfortable 95-run win over India.

“I was a little disappointed that India couldn’t reach the finals,” says Anand Pydimarri, an MSU graduate student from Hyderabad, India. “They were the defending champions, but failed to keep the trophy. It was unfortunate that they did not go through the semis with such a

ed to play against, or if you’re playing against someone in the backyard it was New ZealandAustralia,” New Zealand bowler Tim Southee was quoted as saying in an article by Brydon Coverdale for ESPN Cricinfo.

“There is a massive rivalry in whatever sport you play, and in New Zealand you always want to have one up over the big brothers.”

New Zealand had already defeated Australia in a match on home turf earlier in the tournament according to the ICC website, but Australia was the favorite for the final.

“New Zealand is most definitely the underdog, especially in the Melbourne Cricket Ground,” said commentator Ian Chappell, former captain of team Austra-

lia, during the pre-game show, citing field conditions that were favorable to Australia’s style of play.

The outcome of the game seemed determined from the beginning. On the third ball of the match, New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum was bowled out for a duck. Before they had even reached 40 runs, two more Kiwi batsmen had been dismissed, including Martin Guptill, who had scored an astonishing 237 in the quarterfinals against the West Indies. Grant Elliot carried the offense on his shoulders for a while, scoring an impressive 83 runs. Ironically, three more New Zealand batsmen were dismissed shortly after the beginning of the batting powerplay, putting the brakes

on their offense. New Zealand’s innings ended with a disappointing 183 runs all out in the fortyfifth over.

The Australians hoped to make quick work of the Kiwis as they wielded their bats for their innings. There was a brief glimmer of hope for New Zealand when Aaron Finch was caught on an edge on a delivery from Trent Boult in the second over.

They weren’t able to keep up the momentum, though, as the Australians surpassed New Zealand’s run total with a four from Steve Smith in just 33 overs, cementing their fifth World Cup title with a seven-wicket win in front of a euphoric Australian crowd.

“I think the Australian bowlers simply dominated the mediocre New Zealand batting,” says Mazumder. “They have a fierce bowling attack and then a solid batting lineup.”

On his team’s World Cup victory, Australian captain Michael Clarke was quoted in a BBC Sport article as saying, “It’s a great thing just to make a World Cup final, but to be able to win in your own backyard in front of your family and friends is extremely special.”

He commended the Kiwis on their World Cup performance as well, saying “The New Zealand team deserve a lot of credit.

They’re always a tough team to beat it seems in any sporting event. Australia vs. New Zealand is always an exciting contest and tonight was no different.”

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and while New Zealand was making its very first appearance in a World Cup final.

The tournament, which began Valentine’s Day, was a showcase of the best in global cricket, including the likes of England, the West Indies, Pakistan, India, Zimbabwe, Ireland, and Afghanistan. In total, 14 teams participated, according to the ICC’s official website. It all led up to last weekend’s match, which began at 10:30 p.m. Central Time on Saturday and ended around 5:30 a.m. According to the ICC website, New Zealand entered the game undefeated, having taken out South Africa in the semifinals with a four-wicket victory.

Australia advanced to the finals

good batting lineup.”

Bikash Mazumder, a sophomore at MSU originally from the state of Assam in eastern India, said: “I am not so much disappointed that India didn’t make it to the finals as much as I am with their last performance against Australia. I think they didn’t put up a fight,” “I must add that India were the underdogs coming into the World Cup after losing all their matches against Australia and England, so overall I think they did pretty well.”

There was an obvious rivalry between the two neighboring cricket-mad nations playing in the final match.

“As a kid growing up, it was always Australia that you want-

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Five MSU students participate in international project Researchers from around the world will present in Geneva, Switzerland.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer Five Minnesota State University, Mankato students are participating in international research project, titled “From Morse Codes to the Internet of Things.”

For the project, students should create a vision, idea, or product of how to apply for connecting physical, scientific, and technological things to the Internet in daily life and standardize them.

The students of the team working on the project consist of three graduate students: Todd Edlin and Yukiko Yamasaki from the Department of Industrial and Organizational Psychology and David Wahl from the Department of Sociology, and two undergraduate students: Nicholas Schweisthal and Olumide Ige from the Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology.

About 50 students, including the five students, from nine different universities around the world are participating the four-month multi-university project, conducting “mega-trend research that may include hypotheses about countercultural developments.”

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disch in Switzerland this February and spent a week to attend the Physical Kick-Off. During the meeting, participants were separated into several groups based off multi-disciplinary background of students. Thus, students from different universities will work on the project together.

“There are almost seven teams working about Internet things,” Assistant Professor of automotive & manufacturing engineering David A. GuerraZubiaga said. “I think it is a better methodology that students from different universities work together collaboratively.”

According to Edlin, outcome of the research is to create a vision, so it’s not entirely researchbased project. “We are brainstorming. We can talk, interact and build an idea what we want to move forward with.”

“We started with connecting people to gather through writing, emails and calling,” said Todd Edlin, one of the graduate student participants. “So people were becoming more and more connected. Computers are connected to the Internet and my phone is connected and your watch can be connected these days. The idea is that the Internet of Things is sort of the next

St. Olaf cancels baseball season over hazing policy NORTHFIELD, Minn. — St. Olaf College announced Friday that it is canceling the rest of its baseball season because of hazing.

St. Olaf said federal law and college policy limit its ability to discuss details but said an investigation found the misconduct “constitutes ridicule, harassment, and public displays of servitude under St. Olaf’s hazing policy.”

The incidents also involved underage drinking, the school said in a statement.

The school in southern Minnesota said a formal investigation by the college and its independent counsel found that serious violations of St. Olaf’s hazing policy occurred both on and off campus during the weekend of Feb. 28.

“Violations were compounded by an orchestrated attempt to deceive college officials and the outside investigator and prevent them from learning what had happened,” the statement said.

In an email to the St. Olaf community, college President David Anderson said: “Hazing has no place at St. Olaf. Any

form of hazing is reprehensible and inconsistent with our core values as an institution. Therefore, in the weeks and months ahead we will redouble our efforts to communicate the standards and values that should

properly guide our co-curricular programs.”

The Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference said St. Olaf has been removed from the schedule and standings for 2015. The MIAC will operate as a 10team baseball conference for the rest of the season, and teams will receive a bye when they were scheduled to face St. Olaf.

The MIAC was scheduled to start conference play on Saturday.

Conference executive director Dan McKane said the MIAC is saddened by the events but commends St. Olaf’s administration for its “swift and decisive action.”

“Our primary concern is for anyone — especially student-athletes — who have been negatively impacted by the hazing uncovered by St. Olaf’s investigation,” McKane said.

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step when you start connecting things that have never been connected before.”

After two Design Review sessions for the project, all students participating the project are going to provide international exhibition and display their research outcome in Geneva, Switzerland in May 6 for their final presentation.

MSU has participated in the international project two years in a row. The project this year is sponsored International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a specialized agency of the United Nations headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.

The project is the latest in a series of Project Oriented Learning Environment (POLE) semester projects. The 2015 POLE participating institutions include University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Northwestern Switzerland), Zurich University of the Arts (Switzerland), Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara and Queretaro (Mexico), Aalborg University, Campus Copenhagen (Denmark), Merz Akademie, Stuttgart (Germany), BTK, Berlin (Germany), Windesheim University, Zwolle (The Netherlands), Technical University of Lodz (Poland), Illinois Institute of Technology (United States) and Minnesota State University, Mankato (United States).

David A. Guerra-Zubiaga, an assistant professor in the College of Science, Engineering & Technology’s Automotive & Manufacturing Engineering Technology Program, is the faculty member supervising the Minnesota State Mankato students.

For more information, please contact David A. Guerra-Zubiaga, assistant professor for the College of Science, Engineering & Technology, by phone 507389-5810 at or by email at david. guerra-zubiaga@mnsu.edu.

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Veterans Resource Center to host 22-day event MSU students to raise awareness for veterans one push-up at a time.

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there. Even if you can’t do pushups. Even if you can do only two pushups. We’re inviting every one of all backgrounds and physical abilities. It’s a good event because you can prove your physical fitness, do some pushups and show your support.”

The conversation about veteran suicide was brought to attention at MSU when a veteran, 27-year-old Timothy Lee Anderson, committed suicide on the second floor of the MSU Memorial Library in February.

The global movement called #22kill was started by a nonprofit called Honor Courage Commitment, Inc., that focus-

es on creating a better life for veterans and military families through empowerment and encouragement. The organization is keeping track of push-ups nationwide until it reaches the 22 million mark. Participants in the movement can be individuals, groups or organizations.

At MSU, the Veterans Resource Center will keep track of the number of students who show up every day to the event.

The number of students each day will be multiplied by the number 22, and the grand total at the end of April will be added to the global movement as MSU Mankato’s contribution.

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For 22 school days during the month of April, the Veterans Resource Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato will organize an event where students can meet in front of the fountain near the CSU at noon and do push-ups.

The month-long event is organized to raise awareness about veteran suicide. According to recent data released by the Department of Veterans Affairs, 22 veterans commit suicide every day in the United States. The event at MSU is part of a national effort to bring awareness to the staggering statistic and the global movement involves a mission to reach 22 million push-ups. Campuses nationwide have participated, including University of California.

The Veterans Resource Center is inviting students to participate in the event as a show of support. Students can do as many push-ups as they are able to, and even those who can’t do push-ups are encouraged to show support by simply showing up to the event and cheering the participants.

Tien Bui, president of Veterans Resource Center said: “We invite everybody to come out

The Veterans Resource Center is located at CSU Room 167 and provides information, as well as resources for veterans and military family members as well as students. It provides assistance, peer support, and educational events for all students impacted by military service.

Resources are available for veterans, current military members, and family members of military service members. Resources include educational opportunities and scholarships, employment help and unemployment benefits, medical, health resources including both mental and physical well-being, and assistance for family members.

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University of Oklahoma investigating after viral video Fraternity chant allegedly “an integral part of life in the local chapter.”

VALISA FAIR Staff Writer The University of Oklahoma says it has determined that fraternity members learned a racist chant at a national “leadership” event organized by Sigma Alpha Epsilon four years ago, and that it was then “formalized” at the local chapter.

But just two weeks ago the University of Oklahoma SAE chapter claimed otherwise, stating, “The national fraternity does not teach such a racist, hateful chant, and this chant is not part of any education or training.” The fraternity brothers probably “learned the song from fellow chapter members,” SAE said.

It’s hard to identify the actual truth of how the chant formalized, when the story is being changed.

The chant includes racial slurs against African Americans and a lynching reference. It migrated to the University and had become “part of the institutionalized culture of the chapter” and its pledging process.

University officials implied that the chant on the bus, which carried partygoers to SAE

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Founders Day festivities March 7, was not an isolated event and instead was part of the local chapter’s recent traditions.

The university’s report also said that as part of the chapter’s typical recruitment process, a dozen high school students had been invited to the event March 7 and had joined fraternity members on the bus, where the chant erupted. Many of the students were drinking before the event.

Executive Director Blaine

said the organization has no evidence the chant is widespread across the fraternity’s 237 groups.

“Our investigation to date shows no evidence the song was widely shared across the broader organization,” Ayers said. “The song is horrific and does not at all reflect our values as an organization.”

But at a press conference Friday, OU President David Boren, revealed the results of the uni-

Coachella bans selfie sticks

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LOS ANGELES — You can bring your beach towels and floral headbands, but forget that selfie stick if you’re planning to go to the Coachella or Lollapalooza music festivals.

The devices, which grasp cellphones to allow people to take pictures of themselves farther away from their faces, are banned at this summer’s multiday festivals in Indio, California, and Chicago. Coachella dismissed them as “narsisstics” on a list of prohibited items.

Selfie sticks have become a popular but polemical phototaking tool: Avid picture takers

like snapping their own shots in front of monuments and sunsets, but critics dismiss them as obnoxious and potentially dangerous to others around them.

A spokeswoman for Coachella would not comment on the restriction. Lollapalooza representatives did not immediately return a request for comment.

Coachella and Lollapalooza are among dozens of popular events and landmarks taking a stand against the sticks.

In Europe, the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, Britain’s National Gallery in London and the Colosseum in Rome have all banned selfie

sticks, saying they need to protect exhibits on display and ensure the safety of visitors.

In the U.S., Ultra Music Festival in Miami, one of the world’s largest electronic music festivals, also prohibited selfie sticks at last weekend’s event.

“They will be turned away and we’ll probably make fun of you,” Ultra said on its Twitter account early this month.

Some concertgoers welcomed the decision, saying the sticks get in the way of seeing the stage and enjoying the concert.

versity investigation into the chant that went viral.

Boren said the chant was an integral part of life in the local chapter.

“Over time the chant was formalized in the local SAE chapter and was taught to pledges as part of the formal and informal leadership process,” he said. “It is clear that during the four years since the chant was brought to the university campus, its ex-

istence was known by recent members and it became part of the institutionalized culture of the chapter.”

The chant was discovered by the school newspaper and a student organization, which received the video clip via anonymous messages.

The video shows party-bound students on a bus clapping, pumping their fists and laughing as they chant, “There will never be a ni**** SAE. You can hang him from a tree, but he can never sign with me. There will never be a ni**** SAE.” The university cut ties with Sigma Alpha Epsilon after the video surfaced, as well as the national fraternity. Both had then launched investigations.

Boren announced that 25 students will be disciplined, in addition to the two who were expelled.

SAE issued questions-andanswers about the controversy, noting the fraternity plans to hire a director of diversity and inclusion. About 20% of SAE members self-identify as a minority or non-Caucasian, SAE said.

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Colorado town turns abandoned space into housing LOVELAND, Colo. — A national movement that counts on painters, dancers and musicians to help revitalize downtowns is coming to this Colorado city as the first residents prepare to move into new low-income apartments built for artists and their families.

It’s the latest project by Artspace, a Minneapolis-based organization that develops artist housing from abandoned urban properties. Artspace got its start three decades ago when it turned an early 20th century warehouse in St. Paul into low-income artists’ housing and space for nonprofit arts organizations to do business.

Its newest projects include Loveland and turning an abandoned public school in East Harlem, New York, into housing for artists and space for arts organizations.

“There’s a wave of awakening to the value of creative people in the community,” said Wendy Holmes, an Artspace senior vice president.

In Loveland, more than $5 million in Colorado Housing and Finance Authority tax credits, plus grants from national development groups, spurred the transformation of an old mill building and vacant lots, warehouse and factory space

Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press Megan Tracy, artistic director, of Arts @ The Feed & Grain, sits in a window at a defunct 19th century mill now being remodeled to house a creative sector business incubator and gallery and performance space.

along railroad tracks in the lakeside community an hour’s drive north of Denver. Entrepreneurs are opening restaurants and galleries near the 30-unit housing complex, which will be occupied in May. Mayor Cecil Gutierrez said downtown sales tax revenue has increased 10 percent in recent years as buzz about the development has grown.

In a pattern familiar nationwide, Gutierrez said downtown began to die in the 1970s when a large mall opened in the region. Its opening cut traffic to a shopping district of department and hardware stores. Loveland repeatedly launched downtown

development studies, to no avail.

Gutierrez believes targeting the arts meant the difference between seeing more proposals fade away and seeing them take off.

“Loveland is a brilliant microcosm of what is happening across the country,” said Jamie Bennett, executive director of ArtPlace America, which brought together major funders like the Ford and Rockefeller foundations to distribute grants weaving the arts and artists into community planning and development.

Jason Schupbach, director of design programs for the National Endowment for the Arts, said the

idea that art can make or break a city has been around at least since Michelangelo. But he said the last dozen years have seen policy-makers settle on goals, agree on ways to measure progress and coin a phrase — creative place making — that have given the concept a modern twist.

Artists have been the focus of development efforts in Detroit, Boston, Baltimore and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

As Loveland’s new apartment building neared completion, rehabilitation began on a cavernous 1892 mill that went out of business in the early 2000s. Felicia Harmon, long involved in development and the arts, had

been trying to save the mill from demolition. She credits artist Megan Tracy with helping others see the charm in the mill’s soaring brick walls and roomsized grain hoppers. The mill will house a business incubator, gallery and performance space.

As artistic director of what became known as Arts @ the Feed & Grain, Tracy has found support from Artplace, the Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the National Endowment for the Arts to bring more than 100 artists and 20,000 art lovers to the mill over the past three years.

“Artists just think differently,” Tracy said. “They can show you things you didn’t see before.”

The developments promote others. Doug Erion, a painter, renovated a long-vacant warehouse, transforming it into artist galleries and workspace.

He’s planning an expansion and helped a shared-space business for engineers and other technofiles next to that.

None of Erion’s projects are connected to the Artspace development, but he could not imagine any happening without it.

“I would love to see Loveland be a community of creators, whether it be computer programmers or whatever,” Erion said.

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And then there were four

College basketball’s March Madness has lived up to the name this year, and now comes the Final Four and a chance for a National Championship.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer After two entertaining weekends of basketball, we finally have the Final Four field set.

Kentucky, Wisconsin, Duke and Michigan State will get their chance to cut the nets down in Indianapolis. The big dogs rose to the occasion late in the tournament, sealing their respective games with shut down defense.

Early in the tournament, a lot of quality teams fell early to some Cinderella hopefuls. Iowa State and Baylor were two teams that many people were high on entering the tournament, but after the first three games of the tournament, those two teams were out and several brackets were busted. Georgia State downed Baylor at the buzzer, and Alabama Birmingham was able to shut down Iowa State’s three-point shooters to knock off the Cyclones.

In the round of 32, fans were treated to a much-anticipated matchup between two Kansas powerhouses. University of Kansas and Wichita State battled it out, and the no. 7 seed Shockers, took out Kansas to move on to the Sweet Sixteen.

The only no. 1 seed to fall, Villanova, fell in the round of 32. North Carolina State was able to knock off Villanova, adding another upset to the book.

Then there was the Spartans

of Michigan State. Granted they might have been under-seeded, the Spartans played in four close games to get their chance against Coach K and the Duke Blue Devils. Michigan State was awful from the free-throw line all year, but March is the month of Tom Izzo and the coach was able will his team to victories, finishing many of the games at the line.

Duke’s road was not has tough as others in the tournament, as they were able to roll through their fist two games of the tournament. They then ran into a little bit of trouble against Utah, but were able to prevail behind the young talent of Jahlil Okafor, Tyus Jones, and Justice Winslow. Gonzaga gave Duke a run for their money, but the Winslow and Jones combination was too much late in the game and Duke was able to punch their ticket to the Final Four.

Wisconsin’s road was very difficult. Taking on three teams that like to set the tempo and run the floor, the Badgers had to pick up the pace and continue to score points in every game.

Oregon and North Carolina both had chances at knocking off the no. 1 seed, but Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker were too much for those teams, setting up another Elite Eight matchup with Arizona. After trailing at the break, the Badgers were able to shut down the Wildcats. Behind the hot shooting of Dekker, the

Web Photo National Champion favorite Kentucky is one of four teams heading to the Final Four in Indianapolis.

Badgers head to Indy.

Kentucky remains to be the favorite of the tournament, even after a couple of scares in the tournament. Cincinnati really gave Kentucky a scare, but the youngsters have been there before and were able to close out the Bearcats.

West Virginia thought they were going to be the team to give the Wildcats of Kentucky

their first lost.

“Tomorrow they will be 36-1,” West Virginia Freshman Daxter Miles Jr. said.

Boy, was he wrong. Not only did the freshman not score a single point, his team lost to the powerhouse of Kentucky 78-39.

The 39-point victory really put Kentucky into the favorites role.

Kentucky was able to prevail over a talented Notre Dame team. The Fighting Irish were able to keep pace with Kentucky, and looked to have the game in the bag. A couple of clutch free throws by Kentucky, they were back in the game. Notre Dame had a chance at the end, but the Kentucky defense swarmed the ball and sealed their fate in the Final Four.

Kentucky will take on Wisconsin in one semi-final, while Michigan State and Duke will battle it out for the other spot in the National Championship game. I still predict Kentucky to cut down the nets, but Wisconsin

has a very good shot at knocking off the favorites.

Duke and Michigan State will have a lot of history, with a couple of Hall of Fame coaches, and the players are no slouches either. There is a ton of young talent at Duke in Okafor and Winslow, while Michigan State relies on solid contribution from many players, and look at Denzel Valentine to close out the game. Look for Duke to come out on top in this one, setting up an exciting match-up of Duke’s potent offense against the stellar defense of Kentucky.

It has been an exciting tournament, and it will only get better as the Final Four approaches.

As the big dogs rose to the top, some great basketball is in store for basketball fans.

Hockey weekend recap coming Thursday!

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Minnesota Wild just keep climbing After a mid-season lull, the Wild have put themselves in a position of near certainty to reach the NHL Playoffs for a third consecutive season.

TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer In a matter of a couple months, the Minnesota Wild have gone from barely getting by, to one of the best professional hockey teams in the NHL. Dating back to the month of January and the addition of goaltender Devan Dubnyk, Minnesota has won 24 of their last 30 games, bringing them to 44-25-7. There have been many keys for Mike Yeo’s team to succeed as they are, as going 12th overall in the conference to 4th did not come easy.

Devan Dubnyk has easily been the greatest piece acquired this season. His .930 saves percentage is ranked only second in the league behind former teammate Carey Price of the Montreal Canadians. Dubnyk is also tied for third in the league in shutouts with six, ranked sixth in the league with 35 wins and ranks second behind Price in goals against average (2.05).

“He’s got a very calm demeanor in the net, especially at that time when we were reeling a little bit and didn’t have a lot of confidence,” Minnesota Head Coach Mike Yeo told ESPN.com earlier last week. “His confidence and calm demeanor in there filtered through to the rest of the group.”

When crazy stats are put up, they are eye popping. In the past 34 games, the Minnesota Wild has given up 57 goals.

Compared to where they were at prior to that, they gave up 58 goals in the previous 14 games before they went on a tear.

When the Wild were struggling, a lot of grief was given to winger Thomas Vanek. Through his first 20 games with the Wild, Vanek had only tallied one goal.

During his ten-year career in the NHL, the former Minnesota Golden Gopher has scored at least 20 goals every season.

Vanek has now 20 goals and 50 points this season, including 11 points in the month of March. After some listening to the coaching staff and adjusting, Vanek has turned into just what Minnesota signed him for.

The Minnesota Wild may still rank towards the bottom of the league when it comes to power play goals, but on the flip

side of it when killing penalties this team is the best at it.

They lead the NHL in killing 87 percent of penalties put on them. The defense has of course earned some credit on this streak of success, but Dubnyk’s story may be a tale to tell no matter if you like sports or not.

Last season was a season to never look back at for Devan Dubnyk. He possessed a .894 save percentage in Edmonton and a .850 save percentage in Nashville for two games. To think he was the fourth-string goalie for the Montreal Canadians at the end of the season is ridiculous, spending some time in the minor leagues. We look at Dubnyk today, and he is considered one of the great stories of the season.

General Manager Chuck Fletcher has made some key moves all season, easily putting him in talks for GM of the year. Not only the Dubnyk move wowed the NHL, but sticking with Head Coach Mike Yeo through the rough times instead of firing him. He also acquired Chris Stewart for a second round draft pick in 2017. Stewart has emerged on a power line that includes himself, Mikko Koivu, and Nino Neidereitter. Now all the Wild need to do is keep up the pace. Minnesota finally could see a shiny new cup on a float in downtown St. Paul this coming summer with this squad.

Currently, Minnesota holds the top wild card spot for the Western Conference Playoffs, but trail third place Chicago by just one point with six games remaining. Though the Wild would rather not take their chances, they are almost a lock for the postseason yet again this year.

If the Wild go .500 the rest of the season or 0-6 with all overtime losses to finish the season, they still will make the playoffs.

Just five points separate Minnesota from clinching a postseason slot.

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Mavericks find success at Emporia Spring Open Going up against Division I competition, Minnesota State Track & Field were able to hold their own in Kansas.

DENZELL OATS Staff Writer It was a great outdoor showing for both the men’s and the women’s track programs as they competed in Kansas at the Emporia Spring Open this past weekend.

The meet included plenty of Division I competition such as Kansas, Kansas State, Northern Iowa, Wichita State and many more.

Ranking among the finishers in the team scored meet, the women’s team managed to take a third place finish compiling 82 points while the men’s program went on to take a first place feat with 129 points.

On the women’s side, sprinters Sid’Reshia Floyd and Brieanna Puckett combined for 24 points to add to the team effort.

In the 100-meter dash, senior Floyd’s efforts were in tracking down Cloud County’s freshman Jade Athersby. In a close race, Floyd was unable to do so but finished third with a time of 12.35. She carried over to the 200 meter dash where Floyd

took a seventh place finish running a time of 25.86.

Teammate Puckett however had plans of her own in the 200. Running a time of 25.28, sophomore Puckett’s efforts yielded her a first place finish in the event. In the 100 meter dash however, Puckett came in fourth behind teammate Floyd in a time of 12.37.

“It’s great to have a teammate who not only pushes you in practices but in competitions as well,” said Puckett. “I think that’s what Sid’Reshia and I do for eachother and it will pay off in the latter part of the season.”

Following the sprints sophomore Taylor Glover made her season debut in the 400 hurdles.

Glover finished her indoor season for the Mavs specializing in both the 600 and the 400 meter dash. Her skills earned her runner up in this past NSIC Indoor 600 competition. Expanding her skill set, she now can add 400 hurdles to her list after her performance this past weekend. She turned in a second place finish with a time of 1:04.23 establishing her career best.

In the 100 meter hurdles,

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junior Brooke Foreman led the Mavs coming in at fourth place with a time of 14.82. Freshman Kellie Wong was also able to score for her team after she captured a ninth place finish in the event with a time of 15.65.

In the jumps, sophomore Brianna Ziolkowski gained

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And the lone Maverick competitor in the triple jump, Anna Veroeven, also had a good finish for the women. Overtaking the field of competitors on her second jump, the indoor

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TRACK & FIELD “It’s great to have a teammate who not only pushes you in practices but in competitions as well,” said Puckett.

“I think that’s what Sid’Reshia and I do for eachother and it will pay off in the latter part of the season.” continued from 15 All-American placed first in the event with a mark of 38’4’’ On the Men’s side, the team was led again by the sprinting duo of Emmanuel Matadi and Kyran Stewart who added 36 points to the Maverick 129 point effort.

Matadi and Stewart finished 1-2 in both the 100 and the 200-meter dash respectively

Emmanuel Matadi Matadi’s 100-meter dash of 10.41 seconds ranks third in Division II.

and with provisional qualifying times.

In the 100-meter dash Senior Matadi opened his outdoor season with 10.41. His time currently sits him third in the nation among the Division II competition. Stewart would finish not too far behind Matadi with a time of 10.46. His time currently sits him fourth behind teammate Matadi again in the D2 rankings. Freshman newcomer Jacob Gourley who competed for the first time in a Maverick uniform turned in a 10th place finish with a time of 11.04.

In the 200 meter dash, where the Mavericks seem to earn

a bevy of points, Matadi and Stewart would overtake the field again with times of 21.00 and 21.13 respectively. Junior Richard Wilhite also brought his specialization in the 200 to the team finishing third behind his team mates with a time of 21.81. Senior Captain Anthony Gustafson placed ninth among the field earning points with a time of 22.23.

Senior hurdler Slater Powell led the Maverick effort in the 110-meter hurdles where the Mavericks as well saw a great deal of success. Powell’s third place finish in a 14.55 fashion earned him a spot on the Division II provisional list where he currently sits 18th in the nation.

Sophomore Benjamin Ojika finished close behind Powell in fourth place with a time of 14.61.

“We’ll get our points wherever we can get them,” says head coach Jim Dilling. “But the nature of this team is just that were a heavy “sprint” team and it’s been working in our advantage.”

But the Mavericks have much more to offer than just sprints.

In the 1500 meter run, true freshman Austin Pasch had a great outdoor opening. Running a time of 4 minutes flat the freshman managed to break up the Kansas running team of Ellis, Donahue and del Azar with a tight second place finish. Pasch would go on to serve as the anchor leg in the distance 4x4 relay which placed sixth.

“I’m fortunate that my transition from high school track to college track has been nothing short of successful in my opinion,” says Pasch. “There’s still a great deal of room for improve-

ment but I’m excited to see what I can do this outdoor season.”

And carrying to the field with jumps, sophomore Frank Veldman earned a third place finish in the high jump after his leap of 6’8.75’’. His mark also qualified among the Division II provisional list.

Senior captain David Pearcil also returned to the field for the

Kyran Stewart Stewart ranks fourth in the nation in the 100-meter dash, finishing just .05 seconds behind Matadi.

Mavericks for his last outdoor season. To kick it off Pearcil produced a late effort jump in the final round to earn him the first place spot. His mark of 49’1’ sits him fourth in the nation as well as a spot on the provisional list. Junior Khalil Jor’Dan and sophomore Alex Campbell added to this effort with a leaps of 46’7’’ and 45’10 respectively taking the seventh and eighth spots.

The men’s and women’s programs will compete this weekend in Souix Falls, S.D. at the Vance Butler Invite.

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Wild sign hometown kid DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor It was no surprise that St. Paul, Minn. native Zach Palmquist was picked up by an NHL team almost immediately after his college career came to an end on Saturday.

The Minnesota State University, Mankato senior never missed a game in his four year career with the Mavericks, playing in 160 straight games, scoring 96 points for his career. His 96 points have him tied as the all-time scoring leader among defenseman at MSU. Palmquist, who was a Mr. Hockey candidate in 2009 with South St. Paul High School, recorded eight goals and 29 points this season to rank fourth on the MSU scoring chart. In both 2014 and 2015, Palmquist was a First Team All-WCHA selection playing on one of the best teams in the country over that span.

The smooth-skating defenseman doesn’t have a huge frame, but should fit in nicely with the Wild. Minnesota has similar defenseman in Jared Spurgeon and Matt Dumba, who though considered undersized defenseman, have the skill to make up for it and play at a high level in the NHL. Palmquist showcased one of the prettiest skating strides in all of college hockey over the past four seasons, often making his game look effortless. It’s not just his skating that gives him an edge, though. In the defensive zone, Palmquist is a steady and reliable defenseman,

Zach Palmquist

recording a plus-minus rating of 12 this season, and his offense is undeniable.

Scoring a career high in both goals and assists this season, Palmquist was a key to the Mavericks’ power play, as he’s been the past four seasons. He acts as a quarterback at the point, making crisp passes and firing pucks to the net, creating scoring opportunities for his teammates.

At 24, Palmquist signed an entry-level contract with the Wild that will go into effect at the beginning of next season, making him a free agent once again in the summer of 2016.

Until then he’s off to Des Moines to finish out the season getting some professional hockey experience playing for Minnesota’s minor league affiliate, the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League.

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boom, the explosive hit

Review of MSU’s latest theatrical production.

LISHA KIRPALANI Staff Writer From March 25 -28, the MSU theatre department presented boom, a play by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. This one act show was about the dilemma of two individuals who are faced with the end of the world and now have to make a choice about saving humanity.

The show consisted of only three actors and there was a lovely consistency in the simplicity of the set, music and lighting. The three characters on stage were Jules, a marine biologist, played by Matthew Stairs; Jo, played by Laura Schaefer, a young journalism student; and Barbara the museum curator, played by Alexandra Blesi. In my opinion, each of the actors exceptionally captured their characters. Although there were

a few fumbles as their dialogues were pretty elaborate, I don’t think they were very noticeable. The story of ‘the boom’ begins with Jules luring Jo to his apocalyptic shelter using sex as bait through craigslist and then explaining his research that concluded that the end of the world is here. When the large comet lands on the face of the earth destroying everything, the two main characters have to confront the problem of repopulating the planet, the problem is how incompatible are they.

The set did not change throughout except for the movement of some furniture items.

The action of the play is situated in a weird research lab in the basement of a university that Jules transformed into a living space with couches, a kitchenette, a light-up fish tank, and heavy doors. The walls are

yellow and covered in random marine life posters, which helps emphasize the awkwardness of the room. There is a section of the stage, where Barbara operates from, which is complete with levers that seem to control the lighting, as well as the characters of Jules and Jo. This space is also complete with a desk with many small instruments. The most intriguing aspect of this play is that most of the sound effects are done on stage by the character of the Museum curator.

A seemingly controversial aspect of the play was the language, which made it suited for mature audiences only. Although I thought it supplemented to the humor of the play, more conservative audiences might not be as supportive of the use of vulgarisms as a comic device.

My one complaint would

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be that maybe it was a little stretched out, I think it could be as effective even if it was shortened. I found the audience filled with laughter on the opening night and I imagine that was the case the other days as well.

I think the character of Barbara was a real crowd pleaser and my

personal favorite part of the play, I think Alexandra Blesi did a great job as the quirky museum curator, saying the most random and awkward things. I think the play overall was a success, with many interesting aspects, like the music and set, and great acting.

MSU film festival crowns winners A look at the eight films submitted for the event.

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WES HUNTINGTON Staff Writer On Thursday, March 26, six weeks since the announcement, IMPACT put on it’s first Student Film Festival. The event was held at the Ostrander Auditorium at 7 p.m. In the six weeks since the announcement was made and until the deadline on March 17, eight films were submitted. Amanda Anez, Stomper Cinema’s chair with IMPACT, had this to say regarding the number of films submitted, “I was satisfied with the number of film submissions we received, especially for a first-time event!

Though I will say I’d like to see more submissions in the future; the eight finalists we ended up with made for a successful event that was just the right length of

time.” Indeed, the event lasted around 75 minutes from the time it started to the time it was finished.

As mentioned, there were eight films submitted for the event. Out of the eight filmmakers, only six were able to attend. The film was introduced

by Anez, and then if the filmmaker was available, they got up to the stage and introduced the film. The first film shown was an animated film called “I Can”

by Michael Williams. Williams introduced the film and said that the film was his own struggle for identity. Indeed, this film definitely epitomized that struggle.

The message that was hit hard in it was the fact that you can strive for your dreams and you can find strength through God. Williams also created the music as well.

The next film shown was

“God Among Men” by Jake Sullivan. The film took place entirely outdoors in what looked like a deserted farmland. The plot dealt with a woman talking to man who was the Greek god Dionysus about religion and how God exists. The film had great production values but the main flaw of the film was the wind that seemed to silent some dialogue on the part of the actors. The next film – which was awarded second place in the festival – was “Shrouded Echoes”

by Kyle Quast. Quast mentioned in the introduction that he did a ‘test film’ the year before which sparked his idea for the production. He used green-screen animation and other products to create the environment that looked like the popular Assassin’s Creed video game series, but according to the credits, it was based on another video game, Thief. The fourth film – which ended up taking the top prize – was “Our Memories” by Eunhye Choi. Choi made a film in which it followed two international students who were of Korean descent struggling to assimilate into college life in America and here at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The fifth film was called “And in the Beginning, If There Was

One” by Aashish Maskey. Maskey made a film that was utilized stop-motion animation. Anez said during the introduction that 700 still images were utilized in the film. The film lasted 93 seconds, which made it the shortest of the films. The sixth film – which took the Audience Choice award – was “Steampunk Lily: The Watch of Time” by Jeffery Mathwig. Mathwig made a steampunk film – a genre of fiction having 19th century technology in the present day – set in the future – the 23rd century. Mathwig said that his sister loved steampunk, and graciously donated costumes and other such material to the production. The seventh film was simply called “Sexual Harassment” by Farhan Chowdhury. He said in his introduction was that the genesis of the film came from witnessing a sexual harassment. The film used title cards to hit home the message that we need to take steps necessary to stop sexual harassment – one that has become quite prevalent in the media today following incidents involving NFL players such as Ray Rice and Greg Hardy. Finally, to close out the Festival, the eighth film – a film that Anez said later was one of her favorites – was “Survival Lies Within” by Brandon Olson.

The film was in black-and-white and without sound as it was a life-and-death struggle for the main character in the metaphor of a chess game.

To determine who won the festival as well as the second place prize and the audience choice award, Anez said, “We determined the winners of 1st and 2nd place prize through a judging process between three judges (2 IMPACT board members and a professor from the film department). These judges filled out a criteria worksheet to assign point values to aspects of content, technical excellence, and overall quality for each film.

Lastly, the Audience Choice Award was determined by a vote from the in-house audience at the event.”

Finally, Anez said she thought the festival was a success because it engaged students to be creative and put their filmmaking skills to work. Asked if there would be one next year, Anez said, “The upcoming Stomper’s Cinema chairperson, Brandin Schmidt, and I have been talking about our plans for next year, and a second student film festival does seem to be on the horizon!” So, based on that, be on the lookout for a similar event next year.

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Dying Light review

The latest video game addition to the zombie craze.

SHAWN CLOSE Staff Writer Zombies are fun. It’s one of the universal laws of video games, right next to eating food gives you health and escort missions suck. There is just something so satisfying about killing a zombie, whether it’s with bullets, bombs or cricket bats, sending the walking dead back to the grave is just plane fun. Dying Light does its absolute best to bring as much joy as possible to the art of slaying re-animated corpses, and for the most part does an excellent job.

Dying Light is a first person action/shooter/plat-forming and the spiritual successor to Techland studios previous game Dead Island. Dying Light features a Skyrim like melee system, strong RPG elements, weapons upgrading system and a parkour/free running system that actually works. Dying Light is the game Dead Island should have been, so anyone that bought into (and was subsequently disappointed by) all the hype surrounding Dead Island might finally have a way to scratch their zombie killing itch.

You start off the game by air dropping into a zombie infested city, immediately getting your shit-rocked by the a group of bandits, making a bunch of loud noises that attract zombies, having to be saved by a group of good guys and getting one of them killed by the zombie hoard you attracted. It’s a rough start, and you spend the early portion of the game finding new and better ways for the game to show you how much you suck. Pretty much everything in the game

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wants to kill you, from multiple varieties of zombies, each stronger than the last, bandits, desperate survivors and the forces of gravity will all kill you at some point.

The games story is bland in its grandeur. Your a secret agent/ mercenary (stop me if you’ve heard this one before) who is dropped into a quarantined city after a zombie outbreak to retrieve a sensitive file from a rouge agent who has nefarious intentions. The main story tries so hard to be epic (see every game that’s come out since Call of Duty 4) that it just feels tired.

They tried so hard to make you care for of your allies, but it fails miserably. This makes for some awkward scenes when one of them dies and the game makes a huge deal of it since its suppose to be a big ‘OMG I can’t believe they kill what’s his face’ and it falls flat. Of the main cast only

two are worth remembering (this does not include your character, who we will get to in a minute), the villain (who is 90% Vaas from Fry Cry 3, 10% Joffrey from Game of Thrones) whose name I cant even remember and Jade, a three time world kickboxing champion nicknamed ‘the scorpion’. Jade seems like she’s going to be a pretty sweet character, until the game decides she’s better used as the standard love interest/Damsel in distress.

I’m not going to say I’m surprised Dying Light, but I am disappointed.

This brings us to he main character; to put it bluntly he’s a giant trash pile. He spends the first part of the game helping a shady government agency only to find out after causing a bunch of horrible problems for the people who helped him that they’re super, duper, obviously evil. You cause all the early game prob-

lems (other than the actual zombies), you’re the bad guy. Which, would have been fine if he didn’t pussy out, try to cover up what he did, go crawling back to the good guys, get found out and eventually forgiven when your needed to stop the city from being bombed to the ground.

The only reason anyone forgives you for any of the shady things you did is because they need you’re shovel wielding, parkour performing self to save the city form being blown up.

You have no choice in all of this, which is fine, not every game needs a morality system, but when your main guy is constantly doing stupid things which becomes a problem. This is made all the more frustrating as the main villain constantly taunts you for being a ‘slave’ and letting others ‘make your decisions for you’. He’s talking about how the main character is always per-

forming tasks for other people, but might as well be talking directly to the player, taunting us for being at the mercy of bad writing.

This point is driven home in the games final sequence, which ends (in the most anti climatic way possible) with a quick time event cut scene where you fight the main villain. I failed the quick time event (QTE) three times from the hefty combo of being angry that the final battle with my great nemeses, a fight the game has been hyping up for 12 hours, boiled down to me pressing A, B, X or Y 7 times in a row and being bored that I had to press A, B, X or Y 7 times in a row. After the QTE the main villain says something to the effect of ‘you’re still a slave, all your choices are made for you’ to which your character says something to the effect of “No -Insert villain name here- (I refuse to look his name up because if his name was worth knowing I would have remembered it) I’m not a slave, I choose to do this.”

Then you kill him, with the player having no say in the matter.

The irony is thick that Sir Mix A Lot wouldn’t want to get with it. While the main story line is in general terra-bad, Dying Light’s side quests are amazing. With story lines ranging from funny to tragic to depressing as hell, the side quests are the best parts of the game, and are a hell of a lot more entertaining than the main story line.

The game follows a pretty standard modern RPG structure.

You have a hub (A skyscraper full of people), you have a main

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quest and a series of ‘optional’ , side quests, a map to explore, treasure to collect (even if treas sure in this game is mostly d weapons and crafting items like duct tape), quest givers, shop n keepers and skills that level up. h You have three skill trees that c level up separately. These skills e are combat (for killing things), t agility (for running away from e things and climbing stuff) and e survival (leveled up by completf ing missions and other objece tives, Increases generally useful t thing like crafting and backpack p space). While I do like the skill e system with the separate leveln ing, while a cool idea, seemed d of little consequence, since all n your skills level up pretty much n evenly.

Even though I spent most of l the early game running and not ’ fighting my agility was never s more than a level above my como bat. The only time there was a major separation was late in e the game when I was rewarded I a massive amount of survival m points for finishing a bunch of ” late game quests. In the end I ended up maxing out survival at . level 25, with agility and combat x both at 23. If I would have spent h an hour or two grinding my skill n I could have maxed them out to. s I also didn’t like how linear the h bonus skills were. There where y only 25 skills in each tree with , 25 points to put in them, means ing that at max level you have all a the skills. While it’s nice to not e be punished for taking a crappy skill before you know how crapy py it is, having to choose bad or . useless skills after getting the r ten or so skills you actually want n isn’t very good either.

9 For the first hour of the game fighting a zombie is like trying

to chop down a tree with a rolled up newspaper. The first basic zombie I killed took 8 full head shots with the 2x4 I found on the ground, all while my character gasped for air (you have a limited amount of stamina).

By the time I made it to the first special zombie (a hulking 8ft tall monstrosity wielding an rebar and concrete hammer) I thought I had the whole zombie killing thing down. 12 minutes, 10 broken weapons, eight medkits, one game over screen and a whole lot swearing I knew that I still had a lot to learn. That’s not to say that you’re always awful, you acquire a steady stream of increasingly powerful zombie killing tools.

About six hours or so in you find your first gun, guns in Dying Light are magic killing wands, any human enemy and all but the toughest zombies will go down with one head shot, and since most enemies run straight at you or do standard pop and shoot cover mechanics getting a head shot isn’t too difficult. It’s a nice to finally have a sense of power in a game that does its best to keep you under its thumb, but since ammo is limited and the noise of guns often attracts more trouble than what you eliminated, it’s kind of a double-edged sword. Also a steady stream of new skills and ever more powerful weapons will allow you to mow down as many zombies as you please and take on powerful enemies with ease (the same lug that gave me so much trouble in the early game died in two shots from my fully upgraded flaming-electric katana).

The combat is good in hit and run situations but get repetitive and frustrating when the game

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forces you into lengthy fights (which it does far to often). The game does have a weapon degrading system, but it gives you so many quality weapons that at about the five hour mark it really doesn’t matter, and before that you’ll be doing more running than fighting. In addition the weapons you find scale with your level, so even if you are super attached to that super cool rare weapon you found, in a few hours its already useless, being out classed in every category by common rarity weapons.

Since your character sucks at combat for the first eight hours of the game you’ll be spending a lot of time using the games excellent parkour system to avoid enemies like the big coward you know deep down that you are.

The parkour system makes getting from point A to point B fun (which is good since you will be doing a lot of foot travel), turning what could have been a tedious choir into an on the fly puzzle, forcing you to pick the best route to pick while avoiding hazards.

About half way through the game you get a grapple hook, allowing you to live out all your Spider-Man fantasies in a zom-

bie infested city. The grapple hook is both your best friend and your worst enemy, it allows you to do some pretty awesome things and for you to access parts of the map that would have been difficult or time consuming to travel to easily, but it also means that all the cool parkour moves you spent hours perfecting become mostly useless. It also makes getting out of the most dangerous situations trivial, cutting a lot of the games tension. In addition, it’s hard to determine what the grappling hook can and can’t be used on, leading to some frustrating deaths as you try to Spider-Man across a gap only to fall on your face. The game maps your dodge, jump, grab and vault actions all to the right bumper button, which works pretty well but has a tendency to not reset very quickly. This normally wouldn’t be a problem but I noticed in some of the timed challenges that sometimes I would try to jump to a ledge only to side-step to my death because the game didn’t recognize that I had moved my stick forward instead of to the left. It also occasionally gets stuck in command loops. For example, if you jump then try to side step you might

instead jump twice, even if you put in the correct command.

Then when you try to side-step again because whatever you’re trying to avoid is still coming at you, you end up jumping a third time and get creamed by whatever you where trying to dodge.

It doesn’t happen a lot but it’s defiantly frustrating when its happens and its not a problem a modern AAA title should have.

Just like the Grand Theft Auto series Dying Light is more fun the farther you get away from the main storyline. The game play is great (if a little wonky at times), the exploration is fun and just spending a few hours messing around is a blast. It took me 38 hours to beat this game and I only think about 20 hours of that was spent doing quests (and only about seven of that was main quests). The rest of it was climbing up buildings, killing zombies and taking everything that wasn’t bolted down, and I couldn’t have had more fun. If the main story-line was a bigger part of Dying Light it might have dragged it down, but the rest of dying light is just too satisfying for me to not recommend it.

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