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Sri Lankan Student Association serves authentic meal MavLankans’ dinner at Newman Center raises funds for Red Cross charity.

STEPHANIE VOGEL Staff Writer The Sri Lankan Student Association, also known as the MavLankans, served an authentic Sri Lankan dinner at the St. Thomas More Newman Center on Saturday, April 1.

Their all-you-can-eat buffet dinner took place following a 20-minute presentation.

Salinda Jayaweera, the president of the MavLankans, expected about 200 people to come to the event. Tickets were not sold at the door, due to limited availability, but Jayaweera said at the time

dinner will be going to one of the Red Cross charities in Sri Lanka.”

The dinner featured traditional Sri Lankan dishes, some of which included additional Asian spices.

With regard to the menu, Jayaweera said, “Our main course is the authentic Sri Lankan yellow rice, and we have a chicken curry, a lentil curry, beans, and potatoes.

We have a pineapple curry as well, and chocolate mousse for dessert, and authentic tropical fruit juice.”

Sri Lanka, located off the coast of India, is a small,

“Coming up, the Sri Lankan Student Association will be hosting a Sri Lankan New Year festival on Saturday, April 15...” that they had been selling “pretty quickly.”

The money earned from the event is intended to go toward a good cause, Jayaweera explained beforehand. “All the funds we get from the Sri Lankan

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teardrop-shaped island.

Having lived in Sri Lanka, Jayaweera said of the country that, “It’s a very tropical island. There’s a lot of tourism, and it’s a very beautiful country. We’re all about the nature.”

Sri Lanka is also very ethnically diverse. Jayaweera said, “The most common ethnicities you can find in Sri Lanka are the Sinhalese, Tamil, Islam, and Burgher.

The most common language is Sinhala, but people also speak Tamil and English.”

Since the founding of the MavLankan organization 10 years ago, this event marked their eighth annual Sri Lankan

dinner. While the MavLankans are still a small organization, they are very active within the MNSU community. “There’s about 45 Sri Lankans at MSU right now. The numbers keep growing. Every semester we get at least five or six new Sri Lankans coming in,” said Jayaweera.

Coming up, the Sri Lankan Student Association will be hosting a Sri Lankan New

Year festival on Saturday, April 15, which will be free and open to the public. The event will be held outside, near the fountain in the CSU mall. There will be a lot of fun games offered, like musical chairs, as well as dancing, and the MavLankans will also be selling authentic Sri Lankan food.

Student Forum Report: Wednesday, March 29

LUKE LARSON Staff Writer Last Wednesday’s student senate meeting was the last regular meeting of the 2016-2017 term. Next week’s meeting will be the annual budget meeting in which

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student senate allocates its funds for the 2017-2018 academic year. Elections will take place on Tuesday, April 11. Students will be able to vote at www.mnsu.edu/ voting. A debate between the candidates will take place Wednesday, April 5, at noon in the Heritage Lounge of the CSU. Check upcoming issues of the Reporter for election coverage.

Last week’s meeting featured four presentations and three motions.

Lexi Byler of MNSU Moorhead made her case to the senators that they should elect her the new Vice Chair of Students United, the overarching student representative body for the Minnesota State system.

Byler is originally from Wisconsin and is majoring in advertising/public relations.

She is president of the Black Student Union on her campus and works as Student Success Advisor in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion. As

Vice Chair, she says that her three main focuses would be diversity, affordability, and student wellness. MNSU student senate speaker Fred de Ruiter is also running for the position. President Faical Rayani is running for the position of State Chair.

Salma Abdelhamid and Student Allocations Committee (SAC) Chair Cristian Perez presented SAC’s recommendations for the 2017-2018 budget.

While student senate has

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the final say in the budget, they rely on SAC’s extensive research leading up to the budget meeting to make their decision. SAC’s recommendations are as follows. For each category, the first number listed represents the 2016-2017 budget, the second number represents the 2017-2018

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Blast on Russian subway kills 11; 2nd bomb is defused ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — A bomb blast tore through a subway train deep under Russia’s secondlargest city Monday, killing 11 people and wounding more than 40 in a chaotic scene that left victims sprawled on a smoky platform. Hours later, anguish and fear rose again when police found and defused a shrapnel-packed explosive device at another St. Petersburg station.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, which came while President Vladimir Putin was visiting the city, his hometown. In the past two decades, Russian trains and planes have been frequent targets of terrorism, usually blamed on Islamic militants.

News reports initially said police were searching for two suspects, and Russian state television showed a photo of one suspect wearing what appeared to be a skullcap characteristic of Russia’s Muslim regions. However, the Interfax news agency later cited unspecified sources as saying police now suspect the blast was the work of a suicide bomber linked to radical Islamists.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Russian police and emergency service officers block an area next to fire trucks at Sadovaya Square after explosion in St.Petersburg subway in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 3, 2017. The subway in the Russian city of St. Petersburg an explosion on a subway train.

The National AntiTerrorism Committee said the death toll was 11, with another 45 people being treated for wounds in hospitals.

Amateur video broadcast

by Russian TV showed people lying on the platform

“The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said the death toll was 11, with another 45 people being treated for wounds in hospitals.”

The National AntiTerrorism Commit tee said it was looking for the “perpetrators and organizers of the terror attack.”

St. Petersburg, a major tourist destination famed for its imperial palaces and lavish art museums, had been spared previous attacks.

“From now on, I will be scared to take the subway,” said Marina Ilyina, 30, who brought flowers to the station where the train stopped after the bombing. “We in St. Petersburg thought we wouldn’t be touched by that.”

The explosion occurred in midafternoon as the train traveled between stations on one of the city’s north-south lines.

The driver chose to continue on to the next stop, Technological Institute, a decision praised by the Investigative Committee as aiding evacuation efforts and reducing the danger to passengers who would have had to walk along the electrified tracks.

of the Technological Institute station, and others bleeding and weeping just after the damaged train pulled in.

“Everything was covered in smoke. There were a lot of firefighters,” Maria Smirnova, a student on a train behind the stricken one, told independent TV station Dozhd.

Within two hours of the blast, authorities had found and deactivated another bomb at another busy station, Vosstaniya Square, the antiterror agency said. That station is a major transfer point for passengers on two lines and serves the railway station to Moscow.

Russian law enforcement agencies confirmed the device was loaded with shrapnel, and the Interfax news agency said it contained up to 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of explosives.

Inter fax cited an unidentified law enforcement of ficial saying that investigators think the suspected suicide bomber left the bomb at the

Vosstaniya Square station before blowing himself up on the train.

The agency said authorities believe the suspect, a 23-year old who came from ex-Soviet Central Asia and was linked to radical Islamist groups, carried the explosive device onto the train in a rucksack.

Asked about the report, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov wouldn’t comment, saying it’s up to law enforcement agencies to comment on details of the probe.

The entire St. Petersburg subway system was shut down and evacuated, but partial service resumed after about six hours.

Security was immediately tightened at all of the country’s key transportation sites, Russia’s National AntiTerrorist Committee said.

Moscow officials said that included the subway in the Russian capital.

Putin, who meeting with the president of Belarus at the Constantine Palace on the city’s outskirts, offered condolences on national television.

“L aw enforcement agencies and intelligence services are doing their best to establish the cause and give a full picture of what happened,” a somberlooking Putin said.

He later laid flowers outside the Technological Institute station, where the damaged train arrived after the explosion.

Some residents of St. Petersburgh, a city of 5 million, responded with both dismay and determination.

“They won’t succeed in

breaking up our country. We are all citizens of one country despite various political views and religious beliefs,” said 24-year-old Alexander Malikov, who brought flowers and candles to an improvised memorial outside one of the stations.

The bombing drew widespread condemnation.

President Donald Trump said it was “absolutely a terrible thing.” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the U.S. was prepared to offer assistance to Russia.

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group, which is backing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces along with Russia, says the incident was the type of “terrorism”

Russia was fighting in Syria.

Most of the terrorist attacks in Russia have been connected to the insurgency in Chechnya and other Caucasus republics in the southern part of the country.

The last confirmed attack was in October 2015 when Islamic State militants downed a Russian airliner heading from an Egyptian resort to St. Petersburg, killing all 224 people on board.

The Dec. 25, 2016, crash of a Russian plane near the southern city of Sochi that killed 92 people, including members of the Red Army Choir, is widely believed to have been due to a bomb, but no official cause has been given.

Two female suicide bombers killed 40 people and wounded more than 100 in the Moscow subway on March 29, 2010. Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the attack, warning Russian leaders that “the war is coming to their cities.”

A Mos cow -to -St. Petersburg train was bombed on Nov. 27, 2009, in an attack that left 26 dead and 100 injured. Umarov’s group also said he ordered this attack.

Russian airports also have been targeted. On Jan. 24, 2011, a suicide bomber blew himself up at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport, killing 37 people and wounding 180. The same airport in August 2004 saw Islamic suicide bombers board two airplanes and bring them down, killing a total of 90 people.

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Continued from page 1 budget request, and the third number represents SAC’s budget recommendation to senate. Campus Recreation Sports: $504,309; $523,908; $512,137.

Intr amur al Recreation – Sports Clubs: $25,000; $25,000; $25,000.

Campus Rec (Adventure Ed Program/Climbing Walls): $143,728; $143,728; $143,728.

Campus Rec Equipment R&R Fund: $20,000; $20,000; $20,000.

Campus Rec Maverick Adventures: $15,849; $17,349; $0.

Forensics: $19,612; $19,612; $19,612. Gender and Sexuality Programs: $55,000; $55,000; $55,000.

Green Transportation Fee: $313,515; $352,538; $313,515.

Inter national Center Activities: $53,400; $53,400; $53,400.

Multicultural Student Activities: $43,500; $50,500; $45,500. Music Ensembles: $76,950; $81,000; $76,950.

Non-Budgeted Request Fund (RSO Travel/ Program): $40,000; $40,000; $40,0 0 0.

Reper tor y Dance: $5,000; $5,000; $5,000. Reporter: $60,040; $67,900; $58,040. Reporter Equipment R&R Fund: $0; $0; $0. Student Activities Fee Administration: $256,269; $256,063; $256,053. Student

Senate: $109,869; $113,839; $109,823. Theater: $82,000; $85,616; $82,000.

The Student Activities budget is divided into nine categories, which are as follows.

Administration: $523,745; $533,330.33; $533,330.33.

Community Engagement: $9,797; $9,797; $9,797. Greek Life: $15,000; $15,000; $15,000.

Homecoming: $51,000; $51,000; $51,000.

Leadership/Leadership U: $5,100; $5,100; $5,100.

Mavericks After Dark (to be combined with Student Events Team): $10,000; $12,500; $0. Non-Traditional Student Center: $5,000; $5,000; $4,000. Registered Student Organizations: $6,200; $6,200; $6,200.

Student Events Team: $10 0,670; $103,670; $112,170. Overall budget: $2,550,603; $2,652,040.33; $2,552,355.33.

For more information on the budget as a whole or specific budget proposals, contact John Bulcock at john. bulcock@mnsu.edu, Cristian Perez at cristian.perez@ mnsu.edu, or one of your MSSA senators.

Senator Jacob Royce gave an update on the effort to eliminate the terms

homecoming king and queen and replace them with the gender-neutral term “homecoming royals.” He noted that the Homecoming Committee voted 10-0 to continue moving forward with the plan and would like to hold a Q&A session in which students will be able to voice their concerns to a panel of supporters of the name change. Senator Royce has also noted that plans are being made to handle any dissent to the move. He also noted that the LGBT Center hopes to improve its outreach to students in the coming academic year.

Senator Griffin Goode, who serves as Chair of the Ethics and Standards Commission, went over the ethics and standards policies of the MSSA constitution.

The appointments and allocations passed in the consent agenda are as follows. Ayoola Okuribido was appointed as an MNSU Students United delegate and Mitchell Favor was appointed to the Public Relations Committee. $350 in funds were allocated from student senate’s nonbudgeted request fund. The Muslim Student Association

Watch their steps: Track journey of Yosemite bears online FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife enthusiasts around the world can now follow the daily journey of Yosemite National Park’s black bears from their laptops and smartphones, tracking the iconic animals as they lope up steep canyons and cross vast distances in search of food and mates.

Park rangers unveiled keepbearswild.org on Monday showing where select bears fitted with GPS collars are heading. The tracking tool, which pings the bears’ steps from satellites, have already revealed surprises, wildlife biologists say.

“I think people are going to be blown away,” said Ryan Leahy, a wildlife biologist at Yosemite National Park who leads the project. “It’s our responsibility to keep bears wild.”

A bear’s location is delayed so people aren’t tempted to track it down in real time, rangers said. But the tracking collars alert rangers so they

can block a bear from going to a campground or parking lot in search of food.

The goal of the website is to draw in the public so they know to slow down while driving and properly store food when they visit the park’s towering granite cliffs, charging waterfalls and abundant wildlife, including up to 500 black bears.

Yosemite attracted more than 5 million visitors last year.

Too often, black bears — many of which are actually brown in Yosemite — are hit and killed by drivers on Yosemite’s winding roads.

The website shows where 28 bears were struck by cars last year, many fatally.

The park has used up to 20 GPS collars for the last three years, learning that bears in the park begin mating in May, more than a month earlier than previously thought, rangers said.

Leahy also said that the tracking devices show that bears move more than 30

miles (48 kilometers) in a day or two, moving with ease up 5,000-foot (1,524-meter) canyon walls.

The Yosemite Conservancy has spent $1.2 million since 1998 to help the park manage bears. The latest project cost $279,000, rangers said.

The tracking technology and public website help rangers learn even more about bears’ habits to protect them, said Frank Dean, the conservancy’s president, and it raises awareness among visitors about what they can do to save bears.

“People love to see bears,” Dean said. “Protecting them is something we can all do.”

Yosemite’s effort drew praise from Jesse Garcia, a black bear specialist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. He said it’s important for park visitors to understand bears while in the animals’ natural territory.

“You’ve got to give them their distance and always be aware, knowing that they’re there,” Garcia said.

was given $150 to travel to the United MSA Council meeting in Saint Paul. $200 was given to Phi Delta Theta to travel to the Phi Delta Theta Central Region Recruitment Workshop at Iowa State University.

Additional amendments were added to the consent agenda but have not been included in this update.

Three motions were passed at the meeting. The first was a motion proposed

by Senator Alex Lucier which had been postponed at three consecutive student senate meetings prior to Wednesday’s meeting. The motion called for the creation of a Graduate Welfare and Education Ad Hoc Committee to improve conditions for graduate students at MNSU. It passed without dissent.

The second motion, also proposed by Senator Lucier, called for an increase in closed-captioning service for MNSU students who are deaf or hard of hearing. It also passed without dissent.

The third motion, proposed

by President Rayani, was a simple logistical action appointing Vice President Maria Ruiz to the position of MNSU Board Director at the March/April Students United delegates assembly.

President Rayani will not be able to serve in that capacity while he runs for the position of Students United State Chair. The motion passed.

Senators Connor Martin and Qendresa Isniqi announced an upcoming event they organized called “Refugees: Join the Discussion.” It will take place on Monday from 7-9 p.m. in the CSU Ballroom. The event was originally proposed as a response to President Trump’s original travel suspension.

In other campus political news, Ayoola Okurbido, a mechanical engineering major from Nigeria, was elected as President of the International Student Association in a student vote last Tuesday.

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MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer Arguments, conflicts, and disagreements have been inevitable events throughout human history. Arguments allow one to express their opinions, conflicts result from two or more parties failing to agree on certain issues, and simple disagreements occur almost daily. The question that all of these scenarios raise is whether one should either maintain their opinion or compromise and accept that they are wrongw—which is usually the most difficult option. No one ever wants to go through the emotions that come with choosing to wave the white flag and accept defeat. While arguments, conflicts, and disagreements have their own merits and demerits, admitting the possibility of compromise allows parties to establish pathways on which to positively move forward.

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Arguing prevents the buildup of negative emotions toward one’s partner.

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Married couples who avoid confrontation throughout their relationship also tend to have shorter life expectancies in comparison to couples

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who argue. Arguments also help improve feelings of intimacy and can add spice to a relationship.

However, not every argument is worth having.

Debating various points tests the horizons of one’s reasoning and pushes the brain to think harder, but having an argument is just as much about listening as it is speaking. Compromise, in my opinion, should be considered when one becomes over whelmed by the other party’s facts and experience. Having had practical contact and firsthand experience in any situation tends to give one the

upper hand, but it becomes an added advantage when debating.

My belief is that everyone has been in a situation where an argument between themselves and their parent or guardian turned into a life-lesson lecture and they became so angry afterward that they forgot what the argument was even about.

In this parent-child context, the parent or guardian is always more experienced, but as youths we tend not

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Bill O’Reilly, ex-Fox chief hit with more sexual allegations NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News contributor came forward to level more sexualharassment allegations against deposed chief executive Roger Ailes on Monday, two days after it was revealed the network’s most popular on-air personality, Bill O’Reilly, has settled multiple complaints about his own behavior with women.

O’Reilly was due to return to the air on Monday following a weekend report in The New York Times that he and his employer had paid five women $13 million to settle allegations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate conduct by Fox’s ratings king.

Meanwhile, the lawyer for another woman who says she was punished for rebuffing O’Reilly’s advances called on New York City’s Human Rights Commission to investigate O’Reilly’s behavior.

The new lawsuit against Ailes was brought by Fox’s Julie Roginsky and is notable because it accuses Fox’s current management of trying to cover up for Ailes.

Roginsky said Ailes, who lost his job last summer following sexual-harassment complaints he has denied, suggested she have sex with “older, married, conservative men.” She said Ailes would insist upon a kiss hello at their meetings, requiring her to bend over so he could look down her dress.

She was seeking a permanent role on Fox’s show “The Five.” But after an April 2015 meeting at which she turned down Ailes’ advances, he wouldn’t meet with her again, and she never got the regular role, she said.

Later, she said, she was pressured to join Team Roger, a group of people who publicly defended Ailes when the first harassment complaint made public

against the Fox boss was brought by Gretchen Carlson last summer.

Roginsky refused.

She said that even though Fox executives knew she had her own harassment allegations against Ailes, she was never encouraged to speak to the law firm hired

by Fox News parent 21st Century Fox to investigate claims against him. And she said Fox never looked into her charges. Her lawyer would not say Monday why Roginsky never contacted the firm on her own.

Roginsky said that during a meeting in December, new Fox top executive Bill Shine told her he didn’t believe the allegations against Ailes until recently. But the lawsuit alleges Shine and other top Fox executives should have known about Ailes’ behavior much earlier.

“Shine and other senior executives kept Ailes’ conduct secret and enabled it,” said the lawsuit, filed in state court.

Fox News representatives did not immediately return messages for comment.

Roginsky said she believes Shine hasn’t given her an opportunity for advancement in retaliation for her harassment complaint and her refusal to speak out against Carlson.

At a Los Angeles news conference Monday, lawyer Lisa Bloom detailed allegations against O’Reilly

by Wendy Walsh, a regular guest on the prime-time show “The O’Reilly Factor.”

Bloom said O’Reilly had told Walsh he would recommend her for a paid contributor role on the network. Walsh and O’Reilly had dinner in Los Angeles in 2013, but when Walsh refused his invitation to go to his hotel room, his attitude changed and she was soon

dropped from the show, according to Walsh.

Bloom was seeking an investigation by the city Human Rights Commission.

A spokesman for the commission said no claim had been filed. Claims have to address activity that happened within the city’s five boroughs and must be filed within one year of an alleged infraction.

Walsh said she came forward because she was told by a Times reporter that many of the women who have accused O’Reilly of harassment are bound by gag orders. She said she is not bound by any such agreement, and the statute of limitations for suing has run out.

“Nobody can silence me because my voice is not for sale,” Walsh said. “Nobody can buy my voice.”

O’Reilly said over the weekend he is vulnerable to lawsuits from people who threaten to cause him bad publicity unless they get paid. He said he had “put to rest any controversies” to spare his children.

O’Reilly’s ratings have gone up over the past year with the intense interest in politics. Independent studies show he generates more than $100 million in advertising revenue per year for TV’s top-rated cable news network. But at least one advertiser, car company Mercedes-Benz, said it was pulling its ads from the show because of the “disturbing” allegations.

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with a more knowledgeable party ensures that the platform for discussion will be maintained.

In short, arguments lead to understanding, co m p r o mi s e, and cooperation.

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California may not require bail for most criminal suspects SACRAMENTO, Calif.

(AP) — California could dramatically change the way it pressures criminal defendants to show up for court, doing away with monetary bail for most and taking income into account for others to ensure poor suspects get an equal shot at freedom.

Instead of requiring suspects to post bail, county officials would decide whether to release them based on their risk to public safety and would use jail alternatives like home detention or monitoring bracelets that track their locations.

When a judge decides monetary bail is needed for suspects accused of serious or violent crimes, the amount would be based on defendants’ incomes instead of on a pre-determined bail schedule that varies in each of California’s 58 counties.

“It f undament ally transforms a broken cash bail system that punishes poor people for being poor,” said Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland.

He and Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, have submitted bills that would create the new system.

Hertzberg’s bill has its first committee hearing Tuesday.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Ato Walker, who says he was adversely affected by the current bail system, poses outside his home Monday, April 3, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. California could dramatically change the way it pressures criminal defendants to show up for court, doing away with monetary bail for most and taking income into account for others to ensure poor suspects get an equal shot at freedom. get a company to post bail is out of reach for many.

If a person is acquitted or the charges are dropped, bail money they put up themselves is returned.

But if they hire a bail company they lose the 10 percent. That’s what

“Instead of requiring suspects to post bail, county officials would decide whether to release them based on their risk to public safety and would use jail alternatives like home detention or monitoring bracelets that track their locations.”

The current system keeps many innocent people behind bars, disproportionately affects minority defendants and encourages some suspects to plead guilty simply to get out of jail, bill supporters say.

Bail is money or property that can be forfeited if suspects fail to appear for trial. When defendants can’t post bail they often hire a bail company that puts up the money for a fee, typically 10 percent of the full bail amount. The company must pay the court in full if the accused do not show up.

The median bail in California was $50,000, the Public Policy Institute of California reported last year, and the $5,000 required to

happened to Ato Walker, a 37-year-old janitor from San Jose.

He was jailed for five days nearly four years ago when his bail was set at $165,000 following a confrontation with police. It was reduced to $85,000 and his mother was able to pay $8,500 to a bail company to get him out of jail. The charges were dismissed eight months later but the $8,500 was gone.

“The justice system is disproportionately punitive to poor people,” Walker said.

“It’s not fair, it’s not right.”

The bail industry and some victim rights and law enforcement groups oppose the bills. They say the changes will allow dangerous people back on the streets, victims

won’t be able to object beforehand and suspects will be more likely to skip court dates.

“I think it’s a mistake to substitute some risk assessment formula for what judges are already doing when they grant bail. I think we’re going to see more defendants who just don’t show up,” said Michael Rushford, president of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for crime victims.

Corrin Rankin of the California Bail Agents Association said counties already have the option of freeing suspects without bail, but argued that having money at stake remains the best way to ensure that defendants show up in court.

Rankin, who runs the Out Now Bail Bonds company south of San Francisco, predicted counties won’t save enough money to pay for the intensive pre-trial supervision envisioned in the bills.

State Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani CantilSakauye last week told state lawmakers that California’s courts already are testing 11 pretrial bail alternatives and developing a formula to help decide whether individuals have the ability to pay bail, fines and court fees.

John Lovell, who represents several law enforcement organizations including the California Narcotic Officers’ Association, suggests lawmakers wait to act until the court’s Judicial Council

completes its review later this year.

The bills’ supporters say there is little statistical difference in how often suspects show up in court if they are released without bail.

They say it is much cheaper to monitor suspects than to jail them and that releasing lower-risk suspects frees up room in overcrowded jails for

more serious criminals.

Variations on the California proposal are already in place in Kentucky, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., and some local California jurisdictions, including San Francisco, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties.

The bills are part of a nationwide push to reduce mass incarceration and close the gap between how rich and poor are treated by the justice system.

For example, Hertzberg authored a traffic ticket amnesty program in 2015 that expired Monday. This year he wants to block automatically suspending driver’s licenses for drivers who can’t pay traffic tickets and require judges to consider violators’ ability to pay before setting fine amounts.

Every state has made some change to its pre-trial release law since 2012, said Amber Widgery, a criminal justice policy specialist with the National Conference of State Legislatures.

“Six out of every 10 people held are not convicted of a crime,” she said. “That’s been of great concern to state lawmakers because in this country we have a presumption of innocence, so why if you’ve not been convicted of anything are you still in jail?”

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The Council for Exceptional Children attends lighting of MNSU Bell Tower for Autism Awareness Month. The tower will be lit up blue all through the month of April.

Vikings sign backup QB Case Keenum EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings have signed quarterback Case Keenum, acquiring the experienced backup sought for starter Sam Bradford with the unlikelihood that the rehabilitating Teddy Bridgewater will be ready to play this season.

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Maverick softball keeps success train rolling

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer Minnesota State’s Maverick softball team dominated NSIC action this past weekend and picked up wins in each of their outings to extend their winning streak to seven in a row. Minnesota State outscored their opponents 37-5 on the way to the weekend sweep. With the wins, the Mavericks improve to 27-4 and hold onto an undefeated record in the NSIC with six wins in the conference.

The Mavericks opened their home stand-weekend on Saturday against the Augustana Vikings who entered the weekend holding on to a 17-7 overall record. Game one ended in a 4-0 win, with Coley Ries getting the shutout win, striking out nine batters and allowing six hits.

Minnesota State got what ended up being the game-winning run in the sec-

Photo by BoHyun Ahn ond inning when Alyssa Rickles drilled it to center field and scored Carly Esselman.

Amber Kral would end with two RBI’s and Samantha Buhmann added one while Jess Meidl, Ashley Thell, and Kral added runs.

Augustana didn’t allow themselves to be shutout in game two of the double-header as the Vikings got on the scoreboard in the first

inning to go up 2-0 off the rip. The Vikes added another run in the third inning but the Mavs added their first run at the bottom of the inning when Alyssa Rickles stole third for the score.

The fifth inning was the game changer. Thell popped off a home run to score three other Mavs and put the team up 5-3 that gave them the eventual win. Libby Bemis

got the win with one strikeout and allowed three hits in five innings while Ries was credited with the save for her two innings.

Sunday afternoon’s games against Wayne state weren’t as close as the previous day and accounted for the large scoring differential outscoring Wayne State 28-2 in the two games which only went five innings each. Game one

saw the Mavericks go up 6-0 in the third inning. Dana Mogren led the Mavs by supplying five RBI’s and adding two runs off two hits in three at bats. Cori Kennedy had six RBI’s and two runs, and Jess Meidl had five RBI’s and five runs off seven hits.

Ries added to her great weekend with another win striking out six batters and allowing one hit in her five innings. She’s now 14-2 on the season.

Game two didn’t go much different and Minnesota State picked up where they left off, winning 16-1 in the final game of the team’s weekend.

By the end of the second inning, the Mavericks were up 9-1 and in firm control on the way to the win.

In the double-header, Minnesota State’s Jess Meidl had five RBIs and five runs off seven hits, Dana Mogren had five RBI’s and two runs off two hits, and Cori Kennedy had six RBI’s and added two runs.

Game two also saw Kennedy and Meidl hit home runs.

Minnesota State will hit the road and play Sioux Falls in NSIC action on Tuesday, April 4 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Maverick baseball dominates Mustangs

CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer

The Minnesota State Mavericks extended their win streak to 15-straight games after a weekend sweep of the Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs.

The weekend started off with a 2-0 win Saturday afternoon. Brody Rodning picked up his fourth win of 2017, going all seven-innings allowing only three hits while retiring nine Mustangs. Jordan Hart and Eric Peterson were the two to get the Mavericks on the board with a homer in the fourth and a fly out to right respectively. The win was Rodning’s third consecutive seven-inning shutout win.

In the second game of the weekend series, junior Cody O’Brien picked up his first win with a 2-1 final score. O’Brien closed out the last hitless inning to give the Mavericks the win. Nick Belzer started

the first six innings, allowing only three hits while striking out 11 batters. Southwest Minnesota State started the scoring with an RBI single in the first. Minnesota State put up the two runs off the bat of Josh Wenzel. Wenzel hit a walk off home run in the eleventh after hitting an RBI single in the third to score Cody Ulfers.

The Mavericks started the Sunday series with a 24-3 win. Ricky Digrugilliers notched his third win of the season starting the first five innings allowing four hits while striking out two. The Mavericks had an explosive fifth inning scoring 10 of their 24 runs and eight in the sixth.

Ryan Moffett, Dylan Dresel and Noah Bluth each picked up a homerun while Tommy McDonald and Dresel totaled four runs in the contest. Eric Peterson, Moffett, Wenzel, Luke Waldek and Teddy Petersen all put up two runs

each while McDonald, Walsh, Petersen and Bluth each earned a double. With the run, Peterson moved into the first-place spot for most career runs with 183. Christian Howell and Austin Franzen each pitched a scoreless inning in relief to close out the game. Freshman McDonald totaled four runs on three hits and four RBI’s in his four at-bats.

Minnesota State closed out the series with a 7-1 win over the Mustangs Sunday afternoon. Junior Quinn Ahern earned his second win, throwing the first six innings allowing five hits while striking out seven. Dresel got the scoring started with a single to left to score Peterson. They earned two more runs in the third before Hunter Walsh hit a homerun to left in the sixth.

The Mustangs ended the Mavericks chance of a shutout with a double down the left-field line to score one in

Reporter Archives the eighth. Minnesota State answered with three more runs in the top of the ninth.

Peterson totaled two runs on two hits in three at bats while Dresel and Waldek each put up two RBI. The Mavericks play the

Concordia-St. Paul Golden Bears Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. at the MSU Baseball Complex in Mankato, before heading to Minot, North Dakota this weekend.

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UNC Tar Heels outlast Gonzaga Bulldogs, 71-65 In an ugly, grind-it-out game, UNC captures their sixth NCAA title.

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer COLT JOHNSON Staff Writer RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer It will be the two sides of the college spectrum in this one, as the classic college blue blood in the North Carolina Tar Heels takes on the West Coast, first championship appearance Gonzaga Bulldogs in the culmination of the 2017 tournament. First, we take on the Final Four recap and guess the championship scores (before the game), then we will stay up late on a school night to give you the championship recap.

Final Four Recap Ryan Monday will provide us with an extremely intriguing championship matchup as the North Carolina Tar Heels face off against the Gonzaga Bulldogs. The Tar Heels are a true ‘blue blood’ program in college basketball and are appearing in their 20th Final Four appearance (most all time). They are also looking to capture their 6th National Championship in school history.

Gonzaga meanwhile is a tiny private school from Washington appearing in their first Final Four. North Carolina, as expected from a team that’s playing in the National Championship, is very solid at every position on the floor. They have a slew of tall, tough and talented big men complimented by guards that can spread the floor and feed the ball inside.

Starting point guard Joel

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Barry is the guy that makes it all go right for the Tar Heels.

Often if Barry is not playing well, neither is North Carolina. The senior point guard averages 14 points a game while creating opportunities for his teammates as he dishes out nearly four assists a game. North Carolina is finding ways to win in the tournament, however, as Barry has been struggling as of late. Slowed by an ankle injury, Barry has had a less than spectacular tournament making it even more impressive that the Tar Heels are even in this position.

Gonzaga meanwhile has only one loss on the season. Many people scoff at that feat because they play in the weaker West Coast Conference but a team that goes 37-1 is not one to laugh at. It will be a matchup of All-American guards, as Joel Barry from North Carolina will be asked to guard Nigel Williams-Goss from Gonzaga. Williams-Goss will try to

use his size against Barry as he has a couple of inches on him. When the shot clock is running down, look for Williams-Goss in pick and roll situations with center Przemek Karnowski. Karnowski is a hulk of a man (7’1”, 310 lbs.) and can take up loads of space down low in the trenches. He can also score efficiently. In 22 minutes per game, Karnowski averages nearly 13 points a game and 6 rebounds a game. The matchup down low of Karnowski and Meeks might decide the game.

Gonzaga has a great shot to win this game. The new guys on the block can, and will take down the Tar Heels from North Carolina. For years, this country has been down-playing what Gonzaga has been doing out on the west coast and now is the time everyone better start paying attention because by the time the clock strikes zero Monday night, Gonzaga will be hoisting its first Nation-

al Championship trophy in school history.

Prediction: Gonzaga wins 82-78.

Colt Poor shooting and rebounding on the defensive glass led to the Oregon Ducks’ heartbreaking 77-76 loss Saturday night against North Carolina. The Tar Heels ended the game with 17 offensive rebounds and were much stronger on the offensive glass than the Ducks. Oregon’s best players struggled to do much all game; Dillon Brooks only scored 10 points on 2-11 shooting before fouling out of the game with 1:32 left on the clock. Tyler Dorsey also struggled to find his shot, only going 3-11 from the field. Dorsey did finish with 21 points however and he was able to get to the line and convert on 12-12 from the charity stripe, to make up for the poor shooting night.

The most glaring mistake made by Oregon was the lack of rebounding on the defen-

sive glass in the last seconds of the game. Not once, but twice, Oregon gave up an offensive rebound to North Carolina with just seconds left on the clock, taking the chance to win away from themselves.

Tar Heel fans must be excited though. They have punched their ticket to the championship for the second time in two seasons and are facing fellow No.1 seed Gonzaga. North Carolina has to be determined to win the tournament after it was taken away from them last year

by Villanova’s Kris Jenkins’ buzzer-beating three. Gonzaga is looking strong as well though, and if they continue to ride their combination of 7-footers in Przemek Karnowski and Zach Collins on the inside, North Carolina must get creative on offense if they want redemption.

Prediction: Gonzaga wins 71-69.

Colton While you can break down the games with all kinds of shooting stats or rebounding or foul trouble, the big difference for both winning teams are quite simple: depth.

Dillon Brooks and Jordan Bell went away for long stretches of the game and this team is not built deep enough to compensate for two of their studs disappearing for 30 minutes. On the other side, when Hicks could not generate more than two points and Joel Berry II went 2-14 shooting, Meeks

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Maverick tennis sees more lows than highs

CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer

Minnesota State closed out their home schedule with a pair of victories this weekend.

The Mavericks started the weekend series off with a 5-4 victory over the St. Cloud State Huskies in St. Peter.

Minnesota State started off by claiming two of the three double-matches to take a 2-1 lead early on. Senior Melissa Mashburn and sophomore Erin Streeter won the No. 1 doubles match with a final score of 8-2. Junior Killian Doran and freshman Kelly Spileman claimed the No. 3 doubles match with an 8-3

victory.

The team went on to claim three of the six singles matches to get them to the 5-4 victory. Streeter won with straight sets in the No. 1 singles match while senior Kelly Lechowski won 2-6, 6-1, 1-0 [10.7] in the No. 2 singles match. Senior Abby Schmidt claimed the victory in the No. 6 singles match finishing 6-3, 6-4.

The Mavericks finished the weekend off with a 7-2 victory over Minnesota Duluth. They began the day by winning all three of the doubles matches to take an early 3-0 lead.

Streeter and Mashburn started the day off with a 9-6 [8-6] victory in the No. 1 doubles

match while Lechowski and Ryan beat Drew DeCorsey and Megan Anderson 8-6 in the No. 2 match. Doran and Spielman finished the doubles off with an 8-2 victory.

The singles matches gave the Mavericks an additional four victories. Lechowski and Mashburn won both of their singles matches in straight sets. Streeter earned a win with a 6-4, 4-6, 1-0 [10-4] final score in the No. 1 singles match before Lisa Dobbelaere won 7-6 [8-6], 6-3 in the No. 6 singles match.

With the wins, the Mavericks improve to 7-10 on the season and 5-4 in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).

The Mavericks started conference play with four losses, starting with a 9-0 loss to Augustana February 11. February 12 the Mavericks won 9-0 over Sioux Falls. The following week, the team headed to Winona where they lost 5-4 to Winona State and 5-4 and 7-2 against Upper Iowa.

In their last two games before their Spring Break trip, the Mavericks lost 5-4 to MSU-Moorhead before picking up a 7-2 win over the University of Mary.

The team returned from their spring break trip in Orlando with two wins and four losses. The team started the trip off strong with an 8-1 win over Findlay and a 7-2 win

over University of the Science in Philadelphia. Day two of the tournament resulted in a 7-2 loss to Saginaw Valley State before losing 7-2 on day three to Wheaton College. The Mavericks finished off the tournament with a pair of 8-1 losses to Grand Valley State and Tampa.

The Mavericks’ first games back resulted in a 7-2 loss to Gustavus Adolphus and a 9-0 win over Southwest Minnesota State on March 18.

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Timberwolves snap Blazers’ 6-game streak, 110-109

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — As Karl-Anthony Towns powered through Portland’s smaller frontcourt, the Trail Blazers found out just how much they’re going to miss big man Jusuf Nurkic down the stretch.

Towns had 34 points and 12 rebounds and the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped Portland’s six-game winning streak with a 110-109 victory over the Trail Blazers on Monday night.

It was the second game for Portland without Nurkic, who galvanized the team after coming over in a trade from Denver at the deadline.

He will miss at least the rest of the regular season with a fractured right leg, leaving the Blazers to battle big frontcourts in San Antonio, Utah and one more time against Minnesota without him and just a 1½-game cushion on Denver for the

eighth seed in the Western Conference.

“There’s a lot of good bigs out there, and we’re thin right now. We’ve got Meyers (Leonard) and (Al-Farouq Aminu), who’s not really a five,” C.J. McCollum said.

“So we’re in a tough position, but it’s not an excuse. We’ve got to go out there and play and make the best of it.”

Damian Lillard scored 25 points but made just 7 of 21 shots, including 3 of 11 3-pointers. His potential game-winning pull-up jumper at the buzzer glanced off the rim.

Andrew Wiggins scored 29 points and Ricky Rubio had 11 points, 16 assists and seven rebounds for the Timberwolves, who bounced back from an ugly home loss to Sacramento that eliminated them from postseason contention on Saturday.

“They’re playing small, we

have a big who can guard smalls and play like a big at the other end,” Rubio said of Towns. “That’s big for us.”

Aminu scored 20 points and Maurice Harkless had 17 points, eight rebounds and a big block of a Rubio drive that gave the Blazers the ball back with 4.9 seconds to play.

Lillard got a clean look, but couldn’t knock it down and Portland missed a golden chance to pad its lead on Denver in a tense race.

The Blazers beat lowly Phoenix in their first game without Nurkic and went super-small on Monday against the Wolves with Aminu and Harkless seeing some time at center.

The sleek lineup put the Blazers in control with a 34-point second quarter, but the 7-foot Towns had his way in the fourth. He scored 14 points in the period, including a big dunk for a 110-106

NCAA Continued from page 11 stepped up for 25 points and eight offensive boards.

When Gonzaga’s Perkins dropped an egg, Collins came off the bench for 14 points and 13 rebounds, grabbing a double-double against the second-most efficient defense in the tournament. Both teams that advanced had a layer of players behind the two or three everyone expects to produce who can contribute and be a difference maker in the spotlight when the first line fails.

Both these teams have length and deep shooting in the backcourt, size and aggressive rebounding in the front court, and depth to keep a game star studded for 40 minutes. Despite the difference in pedigree, this will be a great game.

Prediction: UNC wins 83-78.

Championship Reactions Colton What a performance from the Tar Heels, as they were able to outlast the Bulldogs barrage from Williams-Goss (ending with 15 points and nine rebounds) and company early to seal a championship. After a tough tournament that saw him enduring a high ankle sprain, the veteran Berry II, had the night the Tar Heels needed him to have so desperately with 22 points, six assists and a pair of steals in a nail-biter game that went to the wire.

Hicks also stepped up after a Final Four showing with 13 points and two huge blocks

in the second, while the studs for Gonzaga on the other side could only grab a pair of double-digit scorers and saw Collins foul out.

In the end, the nail in the coffin were turnovers as the Bulldogs had 14 to UNC’s four, the costliest coming late in the game as the Tar Heels sealed the 71-65 win with a 9-2 run in the final minutes to claim the Championship Title.

Ryan Looking more like a heavyweight boxing match, the National Title game between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and the North Carolina Tar Heels was an ugly, grind-it-out type of game.

Both squads missed shots early that they would normally make while turning over the ball seemed to be the norm. Gonzaga had the edge going into the locker rooms at halftime, 35-32.

Two main story lines emerged as the second half went along. First, the Joel Berry show. The Tar Heel point guard carried his team to victory down the stretch, hitting clutch-three after clutch-three. The spectacular senior finished the game with a team-high 22 points and six assists. The second main storyline that emerged was how involved the refs were in this game.

With nine minutes remaining in the second half, there were already 22 fouls called on both teams, including four on both of Gonzaga’s big men. By the five-minute mark, the Bulldogs had the

chore of going without 7’0” big man Zach Collins. Down the stretch, North Carolina did what was necessary to win. They had some key steals in big-time situations and deserve to be called National Champions.

Colt North Carolina redeemed themselves after a heart-breaking loss last year in the national championship with a 71-65 victory over the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

Neither team shot very well in a closely contested contest between North Carolina and Gonzaga. The Tar Heels were able to pull out the narrow victory, while being out-rebounded 4946 by the Bulldogs. North Carolina’s Isaiah Hicks was a huge part of the win, with two big time shots to help lift the Tar Heels past Gonzaga.

Hicks finished the game with 13 points on 5-9 shooting and 9 rebounds. Joel Berry was also a key contributor for North Carolina ending the game with 22 points and 6 assists, hitting all the Tar Heels’ three’s. Somehow, they pulled out the victory, while being out-rebounded and shooting 4-27 from behind the arch.

Well that’s it for college ball, as UNC takes the crown, thanks for listening to our humble options throughout and hope we could bring something more to your March Madness experiences.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press lead with 35 seconds to go.

“We just had a hard time,” Lillard said. “Guys competed hard on him. We made it as hard as we could on him, but he’s very good and he’s going to score points. That’s what happened.”

TIP-INS Trail Blazers: Terry Stotts was the Western Conference coach of the month and Lillard was the conference’s player of the month as Portland finished March at 13-3. ... Lillard’s first 3 of the game in the third quarter gave him 200 for the season, the third time he’s done that in his career. Wes Matthews is the only other Blazers player to do it even one time.

Timberwolves: Brandon Rush scored 12 points, giving him back-to-back double-digit efforts for the first time since Jan. 11-13. ... Rubio hit a technical free throw in the third quarter after the Blazers were whistled for defensive 3 seconds. It was his

49th straight technical free throw made, the longest active streak in the league.

MCCOLLUM STRUGGLES McCollum struggled as well, scoring 17 points on 5-for-14 shooting and 0 for 3 on 3s. He scored 43 and 32 points in his first two games against the Wolves.

“I think I’ve got to be more aggressive at certain times,” he said.

MAKEUP GAME Both teams are set up for difficult back-to-backs because this game had to be shoe-horned into the schedule. It was originally scheduled to be played on March 6, but an ice sheet that was placed under the court so Target Center could host a college hockey tournament started to melt due to unseasonably warm weather. That caused condensation on the court that could not be corrected, so the league postponed the game.

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Ghost in the Shell a visually stunning piece of art Despite casting controversy, anime adaptation is impressive.

DAVID PARPART Staff Writer Warning: This review may contain some mild spoilers.

In the near future, Major (Scarlett Johansson) is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world’s most dangerous criminals.

When terrorism reaches a new level that includes the ability to hack into people’s minds and control them, Major is uniquely qualified to stop it. As she prepares to face a new enemy, Major discovers that she has been lied to: her life was not saved, it was stolen. She will stop at nothing to recover her past, find out who did this to her, and stop them before they do it to others. It is based on the internationally acclaimed Japanese Manga, The Ghost

Scarlett Johannson stars as Major. in the Shell.

Major was built for a reason, but she feels that she is more than just a weapon.

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Throughout the movie, she experiences “glitches” that are suppressed memories that her designer, Dr. Quelet,

tries to keep suppressed with medication. She has trouble remembering her past, only seeing brief glimpses and

flashes of what she thinks was her past. The threat that is invading Hanka Robotics and Major’s team, Section 9, is a hacker by the name of Kuze.

When Major is able to secure his location and find him, we find out that he was a test subject of Hanka’s, but was considered a failure and a freak due to his deformed outcome. Major then goes to Dr. Quelet to be told that there were 98 failed experiments before her, as she became the first successful one. Before the order to be terminated, Dr. Quelet gives Major her an address so that she can find the answers for herself.

I have not seen the original Japanese anime, but now I really want to see the original.

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Everything works in Jay Som’s Everybody Works Dream pop artist maintains identity while exploring different sounds.

KRISTINA BUSCH Staff Writer One-woman band Jay Som (born Melina Duterte) has been making music for over 10 years, which is incredible for someone who’s only 22 years old. The self-taught artist is emerging as a unique voice for the underrepresented Asian American women in indie music, and has formerly toured with Japanese-American singer-songwriter Mitski.

In an interview with Stereogum, Duterte said, “Being by myself and making music all the time…that’s where the art is. That’s where I’m the most creative, and that’s where my cathartic process for everything is. It’s what makes me feel 100 percent.”

Duterte’s previous release in 2015, Turn Into, was what she admits to be a “hastily assembled” collection of songs and incoherent thoughts that she spontaneously uploaded to Bandcamp. Her most recent album, Everybody Works, however, seems to have a more cohesive theme.

The ten-song album flows

Jay Som plays at 7th St. Entry in Minneapolis on March 22.

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well from start to finish and captures Duterte’s velvety vocals and influences of both pop and 90s rock. The vibe that I get from Everybody Works is that Duterte reveals more emotion as the album goes on. The beginning songs are more robust and rhythmic and the later tracks leak more feelings of vulner-

in the album, “Baybee,” has a unique sound, making it stand out from the rest of the songs in Everybody Works.

The mood is surfy, but also introspective. The groovy bassline reminds me a lot of singer Mac Demarco’s music and the sound contrasts the uncertainty Duterte sings in lyrics like, “Sweetheart, listen

ability, which can be rare for many artists.

“The Bus Song,” the second song in the album and the lead single, is both reassuring and uplifting. “Take time to figure it out,” Duterte sings, “I’ll be the one who sticks around / And I just want you to lead me.”

One of my favorite songs

/ Make up your mind / What if it helps you sleep in the night?”

Another notable track is “Remain,” which has a hazy, yet smooth sound. The meaning of the song is likely to stem from a one-sided relationship, suggested by lyrics like, “Our pinkie promises were never meant for this / I remain, under the moon / watching it move.”

The song I found to be the most profound (and also the longest, at seven minutes, which was fine with me) is “For Light.” The song closes out the album, with a mood that suggests there is light at the end of every tunnel.

In the song, Duterte repeats, “I’ll be right on time / Open blinds for light / Won’t forget to climb.” What I gathered from this song is that Duterte wants us to know that life isn’t always so miserable and it may take some work some-

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Film review: Carlos Saura’s Cria Cuervos (1976) Spanish director draws line between what’s real and what’s fantasy.

RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer Carlos Saura, a Spanish film director, has plots in his movies that are not directly political, yet, at the same time, he uses characters and their situations that hint at those current events.

Cria Cuervos (1976) focuses on the theme of motherhood and society’s expectations of that situation to parallel Franco’s dictatorship in Spain.

Cria Cuervos is about a young woman named Ana (Geraldine Chaplin) who recounts the memories she has about her mother who died of cancer at a young age.

The audience receives the impression that she is proud of her mother who she says had musical potential while she grew up and gave public concerts after she graduated high school. Ana informs her audience that it was at one of these concerts that her mother met her father. In these first minutes of the opening scenes, as the camera pans across family photographs, the piano playing in the background evokes a nostalgic and melancholy feeling and a vibe that something is not quite right.

Film and Media Studies Professor Steve Rybin said at one point in teaching his International Cinema class that the family avoids discussion of the past in general.

“But eventually it’s going to come to the surface,” Rybin added. “For Ana, it comes through the memory of her mother and dealing with that.”

It is interesting to note that Saura chose Geraldine Chaplin to play both the adult Ana who narrates the film and her mother when the adult Ana is reviewing her life in retrospect. Saura also does not use flashbacks to indicate the different times, which refers to how the past can still influence the present. It creates a surrealist style and an appearance of ghosts without a presence that actually haunts the young Ana (Ana Torrent).

In a journal article titled, “Women in Spanish Cinema: Raiders of the Missing Mother (2003),” writer Maria Jose Gamez Fuentes talks about the mother as a burden.

“The mother is not presented as a clinging monster that one needs to get rid of, but as a dead ghost that, in any case, haunts the new generation,” Gamez observed.

Film and Media Studies major and sophomore Annie Krenik added to the social perspective that children bond with the mothers versus the fathers.

“The mother is trapped in the sense of motherhood and raising her kids and dealing with her cheating husband,” Krenik said. “Historically, in this time, that’s how the customs worked. The women

would take care of the children and the men would work and be more detached.”

Krenik also said she noticed how, in her head, Ana turned her mother into a saint.

“The first time when I was watching it, I was trying to decide if they were the same person or not because it obviously wasn’t an easy interpretation,” said Shea Puent, a junior Film and Media Studies student. “So I wanted to know if they were different versions of the same person or if the mother and daughter were so intertwined that they were sharing memories and experiences.”

When Rybin engages his students, he often replays the films the students watched to help trigger their original thoughts.

Puent referred to the screen when she added, “Even now when I’m watching it for the second time, I have a hard time believing that’s Ana alone. It’s so metaphysical to me.”

“Sometimes it feels like the mother is really there,” agreed Joan Gruter, another student in the class. “So you think, ‘how can that be, when she died?’ Is that her ghost or is she really there and that is the present?”

As Cria Cuervos develops the plot, it is easy to see how the young Ana’s background and environment influences her current situations as a child. While the child Ana

GHOST Continued from page 13 I was really impressed with everything. The live action delves even deeper into the story lines to create a fantastic action sci-fi that is both intellectually and visually stunning. I was amazed by how they call her brain/ mind her “ghost” and her body was the “shell.” It definitely grabs my attention to see the movie because of how the title correlates with identification.

Despite the controversy on whitewashing, Scarlett Johansson delivered with her performance as “Major.” The Major in the anime was in a white looking cybernetic body even though she had a Japanese name. The creator of Ghost in the Shell has come forward to say that both Scarlett Johansson’s casting and her acting abilities impressed him. I thought

she deserved this role because she worked hard and studied the original movie closely to mirror Major’s mannerisms and behavior.

Major kind of reminded me a little of Black Widow from The Avengers.

I was in awe by the cast’s performance, but also by the visual effects that made you feel like you were there. There also was an inter-language barrier break without restraint so you still had that “original” feeling if you have seen the anime.

The storyline and plot kept me tuned in and focused throughout the film. It has a lot of amazing action sequences, both in slow motion and high speed, that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

What got me more into the movie was Major’s identity and how her dis-

covery of who she was and still is helped her mature into who she is meant to be in the world. Major’s quote in the end of the movie is what got me: “We cling to our memories as if they define us. But it’s what we do that defines us.” Because she had troubling remembering her past, she had difficulty knowing who she was. But she learns at the end of the movie, it’s what she does that will define her as the person she’s going to become. Her ghost still lives on in her shell.

This mind-blowing, heart-pounding thriller is definitely worth seeing.

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(CC BY-SA 2.0) by Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación grew up with the freedom in exploring her parents’ estate and enjoyed the outdoors in an aristocratic type style, she had a pretty dark childhood.

For instance, Ana contemplates how she will murder her father and aunt because she blames them for her mother dying. She also goes as far as to think about suicide after she pushes her grandmother in a wheelchair and leaves to play in a drained pool. Since it is during the summer, the audience expects the pool to have water. The camera gives the impression that Ana is gracefully floating above ground for several seconds then the camera shakes and dizzies to create the motion that she is falling to her death. For a second, the audience believes it has actually happened when the car honks grow louder and the viewers do not see the body.

In addressing the question as to whose point of view it is in Cria Curveos, Krenik agreed with Puent in the aspect that the story is told from a child’s.

“But she’s projecting herself as an adult intermingled with her mother and she imagines herself as her mother,” Krenik said. “I feel like she’s experiencing the past

simultaneously at the same time as the present and she can also be projecting the future...I feel like the whole film is happening in her head and it doesn’t need to make sense because she is a child.”

By the end of the film, it is quite clear that the young Ana has established her own identity and has moved on from the past, though there are subtle hints that it still affects her to a point.

Rybin said that there could be two different ways audience members could read Cria Curveos, but also said he wasn’t sure if it really mattered. Depending on the scene one analyzed, Rybin said Ana could project herself 20 years in the future or another person could argue that the entire film could be a recollection in a sense at a later time when the older Ana looks just like her mother.

“The themes still get through either way,” Rybin said, “but I think Saura is asking us to think about that: the way the past and future and present are interconnected.”

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Judge rejects Roman Polanski’s bid to end sex abuse case LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge on Monday rejected Roman Polanski’s bid to end his long-running underage sex abuse case without the fugitive director appearing in court or being sentenced to more prison time.

Superior Court Judge Scott M. Gordon refused to address how Polanski would be sentenced if he returned to the U.S. after 40 years abroad. He noted that other courts, including a California appellate court, have ruled that the Oscar winner is a fugitive and must return to Los Angeles for sentencing.

“There is no sufficient or compelling basis for reconsideration of these issues,” Gordon wrote.

Polanski was charged with six felonies in 1977 after he was accused of plying a 13-year-old girl with champagne and part of a sedative pill, then raping her at actor Jack Nicholson’s house.

Polanski pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a minor, but he fled Los Angeles on the eve of sentencing in 1978.

He has sought to resolve the case several times without personally appearing in court.

His travel has since been confined to three countries: France, Switzerland and his native Poland.

The victim has said she forgives the “Rosemary’s Baby” director and believes the case should end.

Polanski, 83, has long con-

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press This Feb. 25, 2015 file photo shows filmmaker Roman Polanski during a break in a hearing concerning a U.S. request for his extradition over 1977 charges of sex with a minor, in Krakow, Poland. tended that he is the victim of judicial misconduct because a now-deceased judge who handled the case suggested in private remarks that he would renege on a plea bargain and sentencing agreement. It called for no more time behind bars for the director after he spent 42 days in a prison undergoing a diagnostic screening.

Polanski’s lawyer, Harland Braun, said Gordon’s order failed to address what he called the central issue in the case — misconduct by several previous judges who handled the case.

Polanski contends emails show that several judges had discussed how Polanski had

to return to Los Angeles for sentencing.

“It seems like this just another cover-up,” Braun said in an interview.

He said his efforts were aimed at seeing if the judicial system could fix previous errors in the case, and whether it was “capable of healing itself.”

“In that regard, Judge Gordon proved that he cannot,” Braun said.

Gordon’s ruling says Polanski and Braun had “not presented sufficient credible, admissible evidence or legal arguments to warrant the requested relief.”

Previous rulings have stated that the only way Polanski

can address his allegations is to return to Los Angeles for his sentencing hearing.

That would likely involve him being arrested and serving additional time behind bars

while he awaited a hearing.

Braun has said Polanski’s confinement in jail and house arrest in Switzerland during a failed extradition effort in 2009 and 2010 meant the director has already served his sentence.

The ruling came two weeks after Gordon convened a hearing to address several requests by Polanski’s lawyer. Los Angeles prosecutors, who declined to comment on Monday’s ruling, vehemently opposed any ruling that would end the case without Polanski’s appearance in court.

Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee said Polanski was asking Gordon to give a “wealthy celebrity different treatment than any other fugitive.”

Polanski won an Academy Award for best director for his 2002 film “The Pianist” and was nominated for 1974’s “Chinatown” and 1979’s “Tess.”

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In an interview with Pitchfork, Duterte said, “All my songs are so different, but you know it’s me.”

She’s right, though, and I think it’s worth noting that not many artists are able to explore new styles, lyrics, and emotions and still

be able to maintain their identity. It’s awesome that Duterte is able to do all of this, especially for being so early in her music career.

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