April 4, 2019

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Meet your future Student Government leaders

David Bassey | MSU Reporter Candidates for the 2019 Student Government executive office (L-R: Andrew Trenne, Anisa Omar, Logan Dahlk, Kayla Erickson) discuss in a debate moderated by Election Chair, Alex Lucier (Center) on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 in the Hearth Lounge.

On Wednesday at noon, in the CSU Hearth Lounge, the Student Government will host a debate for the candidates running for the president and vice president for 2019-2020.

Prior to this, the Reporter sat down with this year’s candidates for the Student Government president and vice president to learn more about their platforms and their targets for the future.

PRESIDENT Why are you running for President?

Kayla Erickson: I am running for Student Government President because I want to make Student Government the best it can be for the students, and I believe I have the knowledge, experience, passion, and drive to do so.

Anisa Omar: I believe that a college experience should be student-focused, accessible, and most importantly empower students. My first involvement on campus started with the Pre-Law Society, and through the Pre-Law Society, I was introduced to other student organizations such as student government, in this organization I had the honor and privilege to serve not just as a Senator but as Vice President. During my term, I learned that our ability to make a change as a student depends on our ability to work with and empower each other. I plan on advocating for issues on campus such as continued tuition freeze, better insurance policies for international students, and working towards bettering our counseling center by advocating for more staffing which would better help reach the student body, and ensuring the school is working with us to help

bring about a resolution. I am hoping to get the opportunity to be your student body President.

What makes you the most qualified candidate for president?

Anisa Omar: I believe I am the most qualified candidate because I have the skills and experience needed. I am the current student body Vice President and in this role I had the opportunity to learn all that the Presidency role requires by working closely with the student body President. I know that I can do the work and deliver exceptional results.

Kayla Erickson: I believe I am the most qualified candidate for various reasons. One being, last April I was voted in as the senator for the College of Allied Health and Nursing which gives me a full year on Student Government. I am also apart of six different committees, a few being: the Bookstore Advisory Committee, the Student Union Board, and the College of Allied Health and Nursing Advisory Board Committee.

And lastly, this year I have worked alongside various university directors to continue bettering MNSU. With these experiences and my passion and drive I believe I can best represent the students at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

What do you see as being the top issues facing students and Student Government?

Kayla Erickson: I believe one of our biggest issues facing students is the lack of communication, and when there is communication it not being transparent. This is an issue I am planning on working on. I personally believe we should not only be openly transparent with the students, but also the staff, faculty, and administration.

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Without full open and transparent communication, Student Government can not work to its full potential to best represent MNSU students.

I believe one of the biggest issues facing Student Government is the fact that students don’t necessarily know who we are. We are here to represent our constituents, be a voice for them, but we can’t best represent them if we are not making ourselves visible and available.

Anisa Omar: The top issues I see on our campus that we are advocating for as a party include ensuring tuition freeze is continued. When it came to budgeting, Governor Tim Walz’s higher education budget did not fulfill what we were expecting, because of this universities will have to rely less on public funding and more on students. However, University’s relying on students will drive us further away from the Minnesota State Statute Section 135A.01 which states Minnesota Legislature is to fund 67% of the cost of higher education and leave the students to fund 33%.

Through the years we have moved further away from the statue which is now causing students to fund 51% of the costs. I have met with Senator Nick Frentz and Representative Jack Considine and advocated to get us closer to the state statute promise.

Another issue I would like to address on the campus is bringing about mental health awareness. This year I have worked with a few senators in Student Government to work on improving our campus counseling.

As of now, it takes approximately six weeks to meet with a counselor after you have booked an appointment.

As a party, we are working on getting more counselors onto our campus.

Lastly, we set out to work on healthcare for our international students. As of now, healthcare cost have gone up significantly from a few years ago, the policies, however have stayed the same. While meeting with different International Student Association Presidents they have voiced their concern for the lack of dental and eyewear coverage in the insurance policies. I have met and worked with many international students as well as administrators to help find a solution so that our students do not have to add on another stressor. I am hopeful that as a party we will be able to bring about a resolution to these issues.

If elected, what do you and your party hope to accomplish?

Anisa Omar: If elected my party and I plan on accomplishing the three issues we as a party feel very passionate about. I know that with the group of talented senators we have working with us, my Vice President Andrew Trenne and I will excel. I am more than excited to get the chance to work on the betterment of our campus and I am hoping to get that opportunity as your student body President.

Kayla Erickson: Our top priorities if elected is to focus on the issues of communication within our university, the lack of standards in Student Government, and making Student Government more known and available to our constituents.

With these top priorities I believe we can best represent the students of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

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Women in STEM Dinner to teach etiquette JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER Americans’ wages are rising, but not fast enough to keep up with the costs of living. Moreover, almost half of American workers make under $30,000 a year, even as the costs of housing and healthcare skyrocket. What can be done about this? It’s a question worth asking.

There are two points of policy necessary to raise wages.

The first is to increase workers’ power. Workers need a seat at the table of the companies that are able to exist because of their labor. That not only means unionization, it also means that workers should have representation on company boards.

The second point is to create a national wage floor.

There are two ways to do this: raising the minimum wage, and providing wage subsidies.

Wage subsidies are a government payment that “tops off” the wages of a worker, in accordance with a wage floor. Let us suppose that the floor was $12 an hour.

A worker making $10 an hour would receive an additional $2 for every hour worked.This policy is good, and needs to be deployed. However, it cannot be deployed alone.

If it were, states with low minimum wages would benefit from the subsidization of low-wage work.

So, increasing the federal minimum wage is needed.

Make the wage floor $15 an hour. To do that, raise the minimum wage to $12 an hour. Provide wage subsidies that will boost every worker’s pay to $15 an hour, and index the combined wage floor to inflation. If one wanted to be ambitious, one could even raise the floor to $17 an hour.

MARIA LY STAFF WRITER Minnesota State University, Mankato is having another Women in STEM networking dinner where students can connect and network with others, faculty and industry members.

The networking dinner is hosted by the Minnesota State University, Mankato Engineering Center of Excellence and the MNSU Mankato Women’s Center and College of Science, Engineering and Technology.

According to the engineering page for Women in STEM, they state, “The purpose of this free event is to provide an opportunity for post-secondary students in

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STEM degree programs and professionals in STEM careers to meet and form informal mentorships, collectively building a network of support and positive role model.”

The event’s theme is

etiquette and will feature keynote speaker, Deenna Steinhaus, is the owner of Etiquette and More and has been a Certified Etiquette Consultant for over eleven years.

One of the goals of Etiquette and More, according to their webpage, is to “assist students and new

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New AI model generates fake news rudimentary reading comprehension, question answering and summarization.

OpenAI claims the model is, “chameleon-like—it adapts to the style and content of

ALYSSA BUNDE STAFF WRITER OpenAI, an artificial intelligence research company, has created an AI model called GPT-2, that can generate fake news. This model is a large transformerbased language model with 1.5 billion parameter and is trained on a dataset of eight million web pages.

GPT-2 is proficient and OpenAI discusses its capabilities. They state the model can generate coherent paragraphs of text, achieve state-of-the-art performance on many language modeling benchmarks, perform

the advancing AI technologies, “I am impressed with how fast the AI systems are improving, but at the same time I don’t want them to get too good at doing human jobs.”

“While the GPT-2 model is impressive and has great potential, the company fears for malicious applications of the technology.” the conditioning text.”

The company continued stating, “this allows the user to generate realistic and coherent continuations about a topic of their choosing.”

Minnesota State University, Mankato, student Morgan Stelzer shared her thoughts on

MNSU construction management student Will Runyan expressed positive feelings for the growing

technology in regard to his field of study. Runyan stated, “The technology is a great avenue for decreased labor cost and an increase in quality and repetition with an experienced and qualified technician.”

While the GPT-2 model is impressive and has great potential, the company fears for malicious applications of the technology. Therefore, OpenAI stated they will only release a smaller model for researchers to experiment with, as well as a technical paper.

For further information on the GPT-2 model visit https:// o p e n a i . c o m / b l o g / b e t t e rlanguage-models/

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President of Emily’s List to lecture 2019 International Festival

KAITLYN JORGENSEN STAFF WRITER The Women’s Center and Gender and Women’s Studies Department invites everyone to attend the 14th Annual Carol Ortman Perkins lecture Wednesday, April 10 at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom.

This year’s lecture is titled “Reject Apathy and the Status Quo.” The discussion will be featuring political strategist Stephanie Schriock, Minnesota State University, Mankato alumna and President of Emily’s list.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets are available in the Women Center CSU 218.

Emily’s List is a political action committee dedicated to driving progressive change throughout the United States by winning elections that put pro-choice Democratic women into office.

Schriock received her

undergraduate in 1995 from MNSU. She then began working in politics for Minnesota congressional candidate Mary Rieder in 1996. She then went on to pursue a master’s degree in political management at George Washington University.

An event preview released by the Minnesota State, University Mankato Women’s Center stated, “Under Schriock’s leadership, EMILY’s List has expanded and tripled

List from the founder Ellen Malcom in 2010 and grew its membership from 400,000 to over 2 million today. The organization raised a record of $52 million in 2012 for candidates, resulting in a record number of women being elected to the House of Representatives and Senate.

Schriock serves as President of American Women, a research organization affiliated with Emily’s List that seeks to increase public awareness

“Emily’s List is a political action committee dedicated to driving progressive change throughout the United States by winning elections that put pro-choice Democratic women into office.”

its staff and resources, leading to the election of record numbers of women to the U.S. House and Senate and the recruitment and training of thousands of women to run for office.”

Schriock took over Emily’s

of the issues with an impact on women and families. She also serves on the board of advisors for Let America Vote, an organization dedicated to end voter suppression in the U.S.

set for Sunday

MICHAEL MCSHANE STAFF WRITER There will be a lot of fun and entertainment for students and visitors to enjoy as the 2019 Mankato Area International Festival is set to take place Sunday.

With the opening ceremony starting at 11 a.m., MNSU is set to celebrate all that is diverse in the community in the Centennial Student Union.

The event, one of the largest in Minnesota, will showcase multiple different cultures that continue to grow each year. MNSU has hosted the International Festival for over 40 years now. This year, the event will be featured on Minnesota Public Radio’s Art Hounds.

This year’s theme is Fusion and Inclusion which Alissa Morson, the interim

programming and retention advisor for MNSU’s Center for International Student Services, says is because with the growing diversity on campus and Mankato in general, the CISS wanted to make sure every student is welcomed at the university.

The turnout for the event is estimated to be around 1000 – 1500 people from all around the Blue Earth County area.

People from the Twin Cities and nearby communities are also expected to come for the festival.

Entertainment will include music such as African drumming performed by Brother Ghana, Satori Violet Belly Dance and Aztec dancing. Low cost food will also be served at the festival including teriyaki chicken, stuffed potato chop and Kabli Arabic rice. Food will only be provided by giving vendors food tickets. Tickets for food can be paid for with either cash or card.

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Regional Arts Council will hold Public Hearing April 25 on FY 2020-21 Arts Plan

MANKATO- The Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council’s Biennial Plan to the Minnesota State Arts Board for Fiscal Year 2020-2021 will be discussed during a public hearing on April 25, 2019.

The hearing will begin at 7:00 p.m. in Room 215, Honsey Hall, Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato.

Individuals or groups can present oral testimony about the arts council’s programs, policies and budget at the Mankato meeting. The Arts Council anticipates similar funding for the next two year period from the State and Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the McKnight Foundation.

Prairie Lakes’ board members are asking the public to comment on grant programs and use of State arts funding and how the arts are vital to you and those in your community.

Written comments about the grant programs may be submitted by April 22, 2019 by email to plrac@hickoroytech. net or sent to Brenda Byron, Executive Director, Prairie

Lakes Regional Arts Council, 105 22nd Avenue NE, Suite A, Waseca, MN 56093.

A summary of the biennial plan and budget is available upon request. Commentary and recommendations will be considered at the board meeting on April 25, 2019. The council awards grants to a variety of arts activities in the region including: artist residencies in the school, community choirs, dance activities, literary readings, music presentations, orchestras, theatre productions, visual arts classes and exhibitions, etc.

In FY 2018 Prairie Lakes awarded 214 arts grants totaling $409,330 to artists, arts organizations, community groups, schools and for youth scholarships. To view the list of funded activities refer to our website www.plrac.org.

The Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council serves the ninecounty area including Blue Earth, Brown, Faribault, LeSueur, Martin, Nicollet, Sibley, Waseca, and Watonwan Counties.

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Thoughts on American wages

JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER On the face of it, one could easily think that the American economy is doing rather well. Unemployment is low, wage growth seems to be picking up, and small business-confidence has increased over the last few years as well.

But those sunny numbers and perspectives don’t tell the truth about the American economy. The truth is more somber, and bodes a great deal of ill for the future.

First of all, wages. A full 48 percent of Americans, or almost half, make less than $30,000 per year. 68 percent make less than $50,000, and a staggering 34 percent make less than $20,000.

Those numbers don’t come from any partisan news source either. They come from the Social Security Administration.

Moreover, most Americans

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live in metropolitan areas, where the cost of living is usually fairly high, though wages usually are somewhat higher as well. That means that Americans might actually be struggling more than the numbers suggest, since a salary of, say, $50,000 a year will not get you particularly far in the Bay Area. In other words, a portion of the 32

percent of Americans making $50,000 a year or above might not have the standard of living one might expect at that income.

Alright, you concede, income is a mess. But surely unemployment is low! People might not be making a lot of

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professionals with learning and using professional business behaviors and dining etiquette.”

Deenna Steinhaus has presented topics of dining etiquette, professional dress,

business etiquette and behaviors, and transitioning from student to professional for over nine years.

Other activities occurring during the networking dinner is speed networking, where

students are able to quickly meet and connect with faculty and industry members in a quick interview. After speed networking, they will be able to reconnect with those members in an open

networking session.

The event is free upon registration.

Participants are encouraged to dress business casual. The Women in STEM networking dinner will occur 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

on Thursday, April 4 in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom.

As the website states, “All are welcome to attend.”

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US investigates seizure risk with electronic cigarettes WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials are investigating whether electronic cigarettes may trigger seizures in some people who use the nicotinevaping devices.

The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has reviewed 35 reports of seizures among e-cigarettes users, mainly in young people.

Regulators stressed it’s not yet clear whether vaping is responsible. But they said they’re concerned and encouraged the public to report information about the issue.

These cases warrant “investigation into whether there is in fact a connection,” FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in a statement.

Gottlieb is stepping down on Friday after nearly two years heading the agency.

Cases go back to 2010 and were reported to the FDA or poison control centers around the country. Regulators said they detected an uptick in reports beginning mid2018. While they represent a tiny fraction of Americans who have used e-cigarettes, many safety issues with foods, supplements and other consumer products can go unrecognized because reporting is voluntary.

Most e-cigarettes heat a flavored nicotine solution into an inhalable vapor. The battery-powered devices have grown into a multibillion dollar industry though there are few standards, including how much nicotine they deliver. Additionally, many

refillable e-cigarettes can be used with nicotine formulas of varying strength.

Nicotine poisoning can cause seizures, convulsions, vomiting and brain injury. The FDA has previously warned of potentially fatal nicotine poisoning in infants and children who accidentally swallowed nicotine solutions.

Seizures usually last a few seconds or minutes and rarely cause permanent injury. But they can be a sign of underlying neurological disorders that need medical attention.

Laboratory and animal studies have found a link between nicotine and hyperactivity in the brain.

What needs further study is what type of e-cigarette could deliver levels of nicotine capable of causing seizures, said Maciej Goniewicz, a toxicologist at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York.

The FDA said the handful of seizure reports often lack information about the brand of e-cigarette or whether users had a medical condition that might have contributed. In some cases, e-cigarettes were being used with drugs like marijuana and amphetamines. Some seizures were reported after just a few puffs of the device, others after a day of use.

The FDA is asking consumers to report problems to an online site. The agency is seeking details about vaping brands and models and whether users who have experienced problems were also taking medications,

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Continued from page 4 money, but at least they can find jobs easily enough.

Sadly, that isn’t true either.

The official unemployment rate counts only those who are unemployed and actively seeking work. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the civilian labor-force participation rate is about 63 percent. Among men, the number has declined from 76 percent in 1999 to 71 percent today. Among women, the number has stagnated, from sixty percent in 1999 to just under that today. There is not a single demographic cohort for whom the labor force participation rate was higher in 2019 than in 1999.

But surely this can’t be all bad! After all, many of these

people must have retired, or are continuing education.

Unfortunately, even after we account for all of that, there still remain a large group of people who have dropped out of the labor force. Some, perhaps, chose to, but it is very likely that most did not.

President Trump is not to blame for that. Neither was President Obama. The American economy of the 21 century is characterized by low wages, high costs of living, and resultant skyrocketing rates of debt.

If you wanted any evidence that our economic system is not working, and has not been working for quite some time, this is it.

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supplements or other drugs.

A spokesman for the American Vaping

Association called the FDA announcement “incredibly irresponsible,” given the

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JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER Research papers are unpleasant and stressful for many, if not most students. Quite a few tend to procrastinate until the last minute, having to rapidly assemble a paper (complete with sources) in a short period of time.

If you’re in a major that has more writing intensive and research-based classes and assignments, you might have multiple research papers in the same period of time.

Especially in the last month or two of the semester, that situation can cause enormous amounts of stress.

Here are a few ways to handle research papers.

First, make sure that your topic is as narrow and specific as possible. It’s tempting to pick a broad topic because it is more familiar or impressive, but it’s going to make the paper more ponderous and difficult to synthesize. Pick a narrow topic with plenty of sources to draw from. If you need to, try asking your professors for advice on what

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That leads me to my second point: use office hours. Professors are usually more than happy to provide assistance in finding sources and topics, and many will also accept rough drafts. They can also clarify requirements and suggest pathways forward if you’re stuck.

Third, assemble your collection of sources before you break ground on a paper.

Try to have more than the minimum amount of required sources as well, since you might find that you actually need more sources for the paper, or you might find that one of your sources isn’t

what you need. Read your sources and write down notes about what you want to draw from them along with page numbers. That way, you can easily access the pages in your source that you want to cite in your paper.

Fourth, make sure that you write a rough draft first.

Submit it to your professor (if they accept rough drafts) and edit it thereafter. Although it might be a rough draft, make sure that your paper doesn’t have any glaring inconsistencies or flaws. The worse your rough draft is, the more intensive and difficult the editing process will be.

My fifth piece of advice is

to break down assignments ahead of time. Suppose that you have a twelve page paper to write. Break ground on it early and write three or four pages per day, when all of your sources and notes have been assembled. That makes a longer paper much less intimidating, and you won’t get completely exhausted before you get it done.

Finally, for the love of all that is holy, do not procrastinate.

Procrastination, taken to excess, leads to lower-quality papers and extreme stress.

It’s far better to do a little bit each day for two months than to do a crippling amount of work in two days.

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Letter to the editor: Addressing student fees and referendum I would like to clarify some misconceptions in an article in your last issue titled “New referendum underway, could significantly increase student fees.”

Although this was not an opinion article, the information was obtained from the CSU’s blog post not through the Student Government.

The full budget is posted on the Student Government website with the specific line items. An open forum will be held after the debate on April 3 to discuss it.

We aren’t being deceptive

because we didn’t post the blog the CSU did. When Diemert says the diction is misleading and gives the quote, that was the exact wording we had to use for our “plan b”, we have to state it a certain way. Thus we aren’t trying to say the SAF budget is getting cut, we specifically say it’s the SAF reserve.

Additionally, wording the article in such a way may confuse some students.

Diemert also said both referendums for the sports bubble were during busy times, but we are required to have it at times and we

are certain people can come and explain it and also those were open forums not referendums.

Next, she talks about the number of students who voted. That was the biggest turn out for voting we have had in forever. We can’t force students to vote and I agree that’s not a good representation of the entire campus but we tabled all day for the referendum and the amount of people who said they didn’t care and didn’t want to vote was astonishing but we can’t do anything about it.

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Continued from page 5 uncertain connection between e-cigarettes and the handful of reports cited.

“It would actually be highly unusual if zero consumers of a product used by millions of adults over the last decade reported suffering a seizure,” spokesman Gregory Conley said in a statement.

It’s not the first time the FDA has flagged a potential

health hazard with vaping devices — the agency has warned of rare burns and explosions related to overheating of batteries that power the devices.

The latest concern comes amid a nationwide push to fight underage use of e-cigarettes, which have surged in popularity among high school and

middle school students. Last month the FDA outlined new restrictions on retail and online sales of most flavored e-cigarettes.

Meanwhile, local and state officials are considering age restrictions, taxes and flavor bans to keep the products away from teenagers.

Finally, we can’t have two-day voting. Drawing comparison to the United States presidential election which is only one day as well.

We keep the polls open from 8am - 6pm and it take a minute max to vote; we can’t help it if students don’t want to.

I understand that this article is not a reflection of the Reporter’s stance but a proper investigation of the

facts will help inform the public because it’s just not right and now it is on your digital platform as well and if this affects the voting then that would be very disappointing because these are false facts.

Sincerely, Kayla Erickson Senator, College of Allied Health and Nursing

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Continued from page 3 Children are not exempt from enjoying the festival either as Morson lists the many activities children can dig into at the festival, “There is a Children’s World, that’s a space for, kinda geared to children 12 and under. They can do take-home crafts, there’re activities, coloring all that good stuff.”

With the exception of food, parking and coming to the event is completely free of charge. Photographers

will also be at the event to capture all the amazing moments of the event.

Those who wish to not have their picture taken can notify the photographers and have themselves cut out of the shots.

The grand marshals for the event will be Pat Lueck and Dr. Jackie Vieceli.

They will be involved in the flag parade to open up the event. The festival is scheduled to go from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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GOVERNMENT Continued from page 1

Kayla Erickson & Logan Dahlk (Mavericks: United as One)

Anisa Omar & Andrew Trenne (Empowering Mavericks)

VICE PRESIDENT Why did you decide to run alongside your partner on the same party ticket?

Andrew Trenne: I decided to run alongside Anisa because I have complete confidence in her ability to provide leadership to the Student Government and the Student Body. When I decided I wanted to run, I talked with Anisa and confirmed what I knew that she would provide the best leadership if elected this upcoming year and I am here to help support her in that mission.

Logan Dahlk: We agree on various opinions, thoughts, ideas, and suggestions when it comes to bettering our university. I have full trust and support in Kayla Erickson and believe she has the knowledge, experience, passion, and drive to lead an extraordinary Student Government. Even though

we agree on most things we are different enough to balance each other out, and because of that we are able to reach out to a wide array of students at MNSU. What do you see as the role of the Vice President?

If elected, how do you see yourself fulfilling this role?

Logan Dahlk: I believe a Vice President’s role is to help run an efficient, effective, and transparent Student Government. As stated in our party’s platform, if elected our top priorities is to focus on the issues of communication within our university, the lack of standards in Student Government, and making Student Government more known and available to our constituents. With my passion and drive for change I feel as though I can best represent the students at Minnesota State University, Mankato as their student body Vice President.

Andrew Trenne: So, the Vice President position is crucial as it takes over in case the Speaker of the Senate can’t do their job and fills in for the President if there is a vacancy in that office.

Among that one huge part of the job is keeping track of vacancies in committees and boards of Student Government. If elected I plan to work with Anisa to ensure that people are appointed to all the committees, boards and commissions because a lot of the work of Student Government comes from the individual work in those areas, so we need to ensure each committee, board or commission is full and active. Also, one thing that makes our team unique is our working relationship as Anisa, and I have been working together and have become close friends. Being this close will work to our advantage as we will prevent infighting and work as a team

to accomplish the issues, we are campaigning for which is the important part.

What experiences have at MNSU have informed your decision to run for Vice President and how have they prepared you to lead?

to reach out across different groups on campus, it has allowed me to understand the problems that I may not notice about which if elected Vice President will let me and Anisa help those students who are often overlooked.

Everything up until this point has prepared me to be the best leader I possibly can be and while no person is ever perfect, I am ready to lead and tackle the massive issues facing our student body.

Logan Dahlk: At MNSU I am involved in various leadership roles. A few being: the Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) President, an Off-Campus Senator, and I am on the Football Leadership Committee. I plan to use my experiences from these different leadership roles to help me be the best Vice President for our students.

Voting will take place on Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Andrew Trenne: Currently, one significant experience that has shaped my opinion of running had to be my term as RHA President as I have seen a lot of what the students have been experiencing here on campus and have made me want to help solve them.

I would also say that being a part of Student Government in various positions over the last two years has also allowed me to gain a better understanding of not just on campus issues but issues relating to the CSU, offcampus students, Parking issues and even about the International healthcare options. Because of my desire

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“Serendipity Music Series” brings musician Rachael Kilgour to campus JOHN SHRESTHA STAFF WRITER The Serendipity Music Series brings multi-talented artists from around the state to the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

This time, we were mesmerized by emotional songs from Rachael Kilgour.

On Monday, a tune of the guitar was making everyone get lost in the world of music.

Kilgour, an award-winning songwriter, presented her songs and skills at the Flexible Programming space from 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

The CSU invited her for the Serendipity Music Series, in collaboration with the LGBT Center here on campus. The performing artist, whose lyrics are mostly composed between personal and political scenarios, has been featured at many events like Sundance Film Festival and NYC’s Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Rachael Kilgour was born in Minnesota, and is based in Boston.

She spent the early 20s raising her step-child and

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focusing on family life. As she concentrated on the family as a young parent in a samesex partnership, her musical

career took rest for a while.

In 2017, she made a comeback with her third full-length album “Rabbit in the Road”.

“Rabbit in the Road” talks about the marriage, life and family. With the start of 2019, Kilgour released her new

SERENDIPITY page 13

Billie Eilish’s debut album is hauntingly beautiful

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER Billie Eilish dropped her debut album “When We All Fall Asleep, WHERE DO WE GO?” last friday. It is easily one of the most anticipated albums in recent memory and has garnered quite a bit of buzz due to Eilish’s fan following and internet presence. The roll out has featured stellar singles like “bury a friend” and loads of highly viewed interviews, which have only added to this roaring fire.

With all this hype surrounding the album, my expectations were pretty high going

in. I had previously listened to and enjoyed her EP, “don’t smile at me”, back in 2017.

While I didn’t exactly think it was anything special, it was clear to me that Eilish possessed immense talent and I had hoped she would be able to make a huge leap forward on her debut.

While not exactly the huge leap I wanted, this album is still a well-made pop record that deserves its time in the spotlight.

What keeps the album from being truly great is also one of the reasons many love it. The age of the artist.

Billie is only 17, and while that may cause many to fall in love with this album,I think it only stands to hinder it.

Some of the lines can be outright cringe inducing, and Billie doesn’t really explore any new ideas on the record or have any underlying

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themes that are anything to write home about. Billie more or less comes across as someone trying to make an

edgy pop album, rather than someone who does so without trying. Tracks that left me scratching my head include

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Opera alive and well in Mankato ALYSSA BUNDE STAFF WRITER Opera, an art form that is typically overseen was alive and well this past Saturday at Mankato’s Fillin’ Station coffeehouse. Four vocal performance and music education students performed opera pieces and music for the coffeehouse attendees.

This event was facilitated

by Wyatt Gag, Minnesota State University, Mankato, student and Fillin’ Station employee. This event was created to give the students a chance to perform outside of the MNSU music department and show the community opera’s relevancy in today’s world.

One of the performers, Molly Schumacher expressed her love for the art form, explaining opera is high and powerful singing and that, “opera composers are hilarious. Opera is either about

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love, lust, hate or drinking, It’s funny! People our age would think it’s funny.”

Another performer Sam Hagen stated, “opera is high art and almost archaic. However, people in their 20’s are

singing and performing it.”

Performer Megan Littlepage followed Hagen’s comment stating, “it’s so not dead like people think, if were not going to get as many opportunities here [at

MNSU], we’ll just make our own.”

The event showcased Schumacher, Hagen, Littlepage and Alec Otto. There were two duets and a group number. Schumacher and

bought from her website.

Between the songs, she talked about her life and how it has shaped to be what she is now. Remembering her talk with her mother, she went on

explaining the lyrics of the songs. In one of her songs, “In America”, from her newly released EP, she presented the fact with powerful meaning and message in the song

Otto sang “The Cat Duet”.

Schumacher and Littlepage sang “Pur Ti Miro,” and all of the performers sang “The Three Ladies.”

The performance also held some educational value.

Hagen explained, “I love that we’re showing southern Minnesota that there’s all these exciting things being done, opera is being sung and there is so much talent around here.”

When asked about the event, Schumacher had only positive comments. She explained, “the audience seemed surprised to see us performing opera in an atypical venue. We were surprised by how responsive they were, too.”

“It was so incredibly heart warming to see the community show up to watch these guys perform and I can’t wait for our next show on April 26th,” Gag expressed.

The details of the next event are still being worked through. However, the group is confident the venue will not be changed. As details are finalized more information will be provided.

SERENDIPITY Continued from page 12 EP, “Game Changer”, which is comprised of five songs: “Garden”, “Holy Are We”, “In America”, Sincerely” and the title song, “Game Changer”. Kilgour’s writing

and delivery cut deep, and her emotional poetic words touched everyone’s hearts.

Kilgour’s songs are mostly available on music streaming websites, and can also be

as she said, “Welcome to America... where hard work gets you nowhere, and the money is diseased...”

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Manhunt over, focus in Nipsey MNSU Hussle case shifts to court Theatre presents “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”

Photo Courtesy of MSU Theatre & Dance Department Quasimodo (Billy Gleason) is delighted to be “On Top of the World,” in the bell tower of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, with his new friend, Esmeralda (Delanie Wiedrich)

MANKATO – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Department of Theatre & Dance will open “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” on April 11 in the Ted Paul Theatre at the Early Center for the Performing Arts.

Based on the Disney movie and the original book by Victor Hugo, this musical features music by Alan Menken, with lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and book

by Peter Parnell.

The musical begins as the bells of Notre Dame sound through the famed cathedral in 15th-century Paris.

Quasimodo, the deformed bell-ringer, observes all of Paris reveling in the Feast of Fools. Held captive by his devious caretaker, Dom Claude Frollo, he escapes for the day and joins the boisterous crowd, only to be treated cruelly by all but the

beautiful gypsy, Esmeralda.

The production includes a 30-person choir that remains on stage for the duration of the musical, as well as a cast of 21 students and a 12 member orchestra.

“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” runs Apr. 11-13 and Apr. 18-20 at 7:30 p.m., and Apr. 20 at 2:00 p.m. in the Ted Paul Theatre at the Earley Center for Performing Arts, Minnesota State Mankato.

Tickets are $22 regular; $19 for seniors ages 65 and older, children under 16 and groups of 15 or more; and $15 for Minnesota State Mankato students.

The Box Office is open 4-6 p.m. weekdays in the lobby of the Performing Arts Center, or buy single tickets online at MSUTheatre.com.

Call the Box Office at 507389-6661.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — After a nearly 48-hour manhunt, police arrested the suspect they say gunned down Nipsey Hussle in front of the popular rapper’s South Los Angeles clothing store.

Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies detained Eric Holder, 29, on Tuesday afternoon in the city of Bellflower, two days after the shooting and 20 miles away from the crime scene. LAPD detectives quickly arrived to verify that he was the suspect they’d sought.

The focus now shifts from the streets to the courtroom.

Holder is likely to be charged with killing Hussle and to make his first appearance in front of a judge in the next two days.

Authorities announced Holder as a suspect Monday night, publicizing his face and name and publicly urging him to turn himself in. Police said a tip from a citizen led them to Holder.

Hussle and Holder knew each other, and the two had some kind of personal dispute in the hours before the rapper was killed, police Chief Michel Moore said at a news conference earlier Tuesday.

The two men had several interactions on Sunday, and Holder returned to the store with a handgun and opened fire on Hussle and two other men, who survived the shooting, police said.

The chief did not reveal how the two men were acquainted or offer any details about their dispute, but he emphasized it was a personal matter between Hussle and Holder. Hussle acknowledged that he was involved with a gang when he was younger, and police said Holder is a gang member, but the chief said gang rivalries played no role in the shooting.

After shooting Hussle and the two other men, Holder fled in a waiting car driven by a woman, Moore said.

The police chief and the president of the city’s Police Commission, Steve Soboroff, had been scheduled to meet with Hussle on Monday to discuss the relationship between the police force and the inner city.

At Tuesday’s news conference an emotional Soboroff read from the email Hussle sent asking for the meeting.

“Our goal is to work with the department to help improve communication, relationships and work towards changing the culture and dialogue between LAPD and your city,” Hussle said in the email.

A memorial with art, flowers and tributes to Hussle grew around the store that he had hoped would be an anchor to revive the blocks around it.

Hundreds of fans and friends came to celebrate him. The scene grew tense Monday

night when one man brandished a gun and caused a stampede that left nearly two dozen people injured, police said.

The 33-year-old Grammy-nominated rapper, whose real name was Ermias Asghedom, had recently purchased the strip mall and planned to redevelop it into a mixed-use commercial and residential complex.

The plan was part of Hussle’s broader ambitions to remake the neighborhood where he grew up and attempt to break the cycle of gang life that lured him in when he was younger.

“Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman on Tuesday joined a chorus of prominent names who have praised Hussle for his art and his humanity.

“He’s a person that — he didn’t see himself just rising on his own, that he saw himself rising with his community, with the people that he actually grew up with and knew,” Boseman told The Associated Press at the CinemaCon expo in Las Vegas.

“So to me, anybody that puts that much energy back into their surroundings, you have to honor them.”

Boseman added, “People knew where his heart was.

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Jordan Peele’s revival finds its own place in “The Twilight Zone” LUCAS TORBORG A&E EDITOR It is extremely coincidential that the introduction to the classic 1958 television anthology seriess begins with the sentence, “It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.” In many respects this sentence describes the show itself – timeless.

“The Twilight Zone” created and presented by master playwright and screenwriter Rod Serling is over 60 years old, but was at least 100 years ahead of its time when it was created. The show focused on stories with underlying themes of the common fears, anxiety, and social issues that are still relevant today. Because of this, it is still being discovered by kids of new generations and is referenced on the daily. Twilight Zone has opened not only “a gateway to another dimension”, but also a gateway to writing and filmmaking to many young viewers such as Stephen Speilberg, and Jordan Peele.

When it was announced that the Twilight Zone would be revived for the current generation many enthusiasts of the original were skeptical due to the fact that the original show simply cannot be replicated.

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This has been proven by the three previous efforts for a revival of the series; the 1980’s series which felt cheap and lacked the charm or visual appeal from the previous, the late 80’s anthology film that bombed at the Box Office regardless of Stephen Spielberg’s involvement and lastly the short-lived and ultimately forgettable 2002 revival. The thing that seemed to be missing from these reboots was the involvement of Rod Serling who passed

away in 1975.

When CBS announced that Jordan Peele would take the place of Rod Serling in the revival and act as a co-writer, producer, and presenter, it seemed like a great choice.

Jordan Peele’s 2018 hit film “Get Out” took the world by storm and his tight

thought-provoking screenplay won him an academy award.

Peele’s passion for horror and the Twilight Zone felt as if the revival would be in safe hands, in fact Peele conjured up the idea behind his new hit movie “Us” from a Twilight zone episode.

Two episodes were released to the streaming service CBS All Access April 1, “The Comedian” and “Nightmare at 30,000 feet”, “The Comedian” can also be found on Youtube for free. Each episode has a very unique, and surreal style of filming along with amazing retro-like set design. These aspects make this revival of the story feel more unique than the other revivals, and adds a bit of magic that was present in the the original series.

The weakest of the episodes, stars Kumail Nanjiani from “The Big Sick” and tells the story of a struggling comedian who discovers that telling jokes based on his own life get more laugh, however this discovery leaves to many consequences. This episode looks great and has some every interesting and dark commentary on comedy acts, however, the very slow pacing and messing dialogue creates for a slightly boring and a mildly disappointing first episode.

“Nightmare at 30,000 feet” starring Adam Scott is a remake of sorts to the classic original episode “Nightmare at 20,000 feet”. Although this episode takes place on a plane like the original instead of a monster on a wing of the plane, the main character finds a podcast on an mp3 player, presumably from the future, that indicates that the plane Scott’s character is on had disappered.

This episode is great because of its simple, yet extremely suspenseful plot, that will make keep audiences guessing. This in many ways is the same reasons the best episodes in the original series.

The new series is not at the level of the original series and there is no way it could have been, it is impossible to entirely encapsulated what made the original so great, but nostalgia could be involved. However, the new Twilight Zone is its own show, but inspired by the themes, and ironic twists of the original. In fact, easter eggs from the original show can be found certain scenes of the revival.

Although, only two episodes have been released this is the best Twilight Zone since the original and it will definitely rival another similar anthology show “Black Mirror”

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EILISH Continued from page 12 “8” and parts of the songs “bad guy” and “my strange addiction”. The artistic choices here just really didn’t vibe with me well, wth the former coming across as just plain not good and the latter possessing some insanely cringey lyricism.

That being said, the album does have some amazing highlights and is altogether a very well made pop debut in the vein of something like Pure Heroine from Lorde.

The production featured is absolutely amazing, combining Billie’s soft vocals with a dark, nasty bass to create what can only be described as a beautiful nightmare.

Stand out tracks include “ilomilo”, “all the good girls

go to hell”, and “when the party’s over”. These tracks all convey Billie’s overarching theme for the album well while simultaneously sounding wonderful.

While I don’t believe it is necessarily the next classic pop album, I do think it’s at least worth a listen. Billie flexes her creative muscles and vocal prowess here but doesn’t ever take it to the next level like I had hoped.

I think that in the future she will be forced to make that leap to keep her place in the industry, but for right now a simple, fun pop album is good enough. Give the album a listen and decide for yourself.

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Baseball splits series against UMD

The team took one game of a two games series against the Bulldogs in Wisconsin

JOHN LAFOREST STAFF WRITER The Mavericks were able to split a pair of double header games Tuesday night against Minnesota Duluth in Lake Superior, Wisconsin coming up with big offensive numbers in the night cap.

Minnesota State jumped on Duluth with a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning as senior right fielder Jordan Hart spanked his eighth home run of the season, scoring also freshman shortstop Nick Altermatt.

Duluth showed its resilience against the Mavericks scoring seven unanswered after a pair of home runs and an RBI double gave Minnesota Duluth a 7-2 advantage in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Sophomore second baseman Andres Brown led

Photo courtesy of Maverick Athletics Senior outfielder Josh Hart (pictured) helped garner the team’s offense, homering in the first game of the series.

off the inning with a solo homer to left center field and senior first baseman Tyler Wojciechowski followed with a three-run shot of his own and still no outs in the inning.

The seven unanswered runs

by Minnesota Duluth are what

knocked the Mavericks starter Jack Zigan out of the game.

He finished, lasting just 3.1 innings while giving up seven runs. This is the starters first loss of the season, dropping his record to 2-1.

After lasting suffering

a tough first game defeat, the Mavericks came out in the second game of the doubleheader hitting on all cylinders.

The Mavericks cranked out 17 runs on 15 hits in the rain-shortened game two. In

all six innings, MSU had five doubles and three home runs out of the 15 hits.

Sophomore right-hander Jimmy Larson (3-3) pitched all six innings for the Mavericks, giving up four runs (one earned run) on eight hits and two walks, while striking out eight.

The Mavericks are having a great season thus far sporting an overall record of 19-8 and a conference record of 10-5.

In their last five series dating back to March 21, the Mavericks have either split or won all of them, splitting only one series on Tuesday. The Mavericks are playing some of their best team ball of the season, firing on all cylinders to end the series.

Minnesota State will travel to Bismark, North Dakota, to take on U-Mary in a threegame series this Saturday and Sunday. Games will be played at 1:30 p.m., and 3:30 p.m., on Saturday with a single game following on Sunday at noon.

Softball drops two at home to Winona The team lost two games Wednesday night, move to 18-12 on the year

JENNA PETERSON STAFF WRITER The Minnesota State Maverick softball team struggled with their first home games against the Winona State University Warriors on Wednesday, dropping both of their home games.

The first game had a slow start with no runs until the top of the fourth inning.

The Warriors had the first run of the game after first baseman Alexis Kelsey scored during the inning and continued in the fifth inning with left fielder Carly Kordich.

The Mavericks were still held at zero and the Warriors kept pushing through.

In the sixth inning, they brought in a total of three

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Sophomore pitcher Lexi Schoper (5).

more runs by Makenna McCarthy, Kordich, and second baseman Jen Giesey.

In the seventh and last inning, Maverick senior catcher Cori Kennedy scored and gave the Mavericks a run.

The Mavericks failed to

make a comeback in this matchup, losing the game to the Warriors by a score of 5-1.

The second game was much like the first, but the Mavericks help the Warriors from scoring even more.

In the first inning, Warrior

center fielder Katie Kolb was the only run to come in.

The Mavericks caught up in the third inning, where senior left fielder McKenzie Paap scored off of a double hit by Kennedy.

The last two runs of the

game came in the fifth inning

by Warrior short stop Lani Van Zyl and catcher Alison

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While MLB salaries rise, MiLB salaries continue to fall Staff writer Brady Olson explains the disconnect between pay in the Majors and Minors

BRADY OLSON STAFF WRITER With Major League Baseball making its arrival for 2019, salaries are once again on the rise. But while players in the top tier of baseball may be striking it rich, low wages are the harsh reality for the thousands of players in Minor League Baseball.

To understand the salaries of minor league players, one must understand the structure of MiLB. The minor leagues make up six tiers of play, ranking from Triple-A to the Rookie leagues. Each MLB team has around 8-9 minor league teams affiliated with them.

Salaries can have a wide range depending on what level of play you are at.

First-year players in the Rookie leagues can make around $1,150 a month, while Triple-A players can make nearly $3,000 a month.

That doesn’t even count minor league players on

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the 40-man roster, who will make more than the average Triple-A player.

The biggest problem with the MiLB pay structure is that players are only paid for in-season play. The MiLB season is just over five months long, and players aren’t even compensated for spring training. Add it all together, and the average minor league player makes roughly $8,000$8,500 a year, compared to an MLB player, who averages $3.4 million per year.

This is absurd when you compare it to other minor

leagues.

The American Hockey League, the top minor league of the NHL, pays players roughly $45,000.

The NBA’s G League pays roughly $35,000 with housing provided. The MLB does not provide housing for its minor league players, and has actually fought efforts to raise players’ pay.

In 2018, Congress passed a $1.3 trillion spending bill. Buried nearly 2,000 pages deep was the Save America’s Pastime Act. The SAPA provides that baseball players paid by salary are

exempted from the Fair Labor Standards Act, and therefore are exempt from minimum wage and overtime pay. This legally allows MiLB to pay players what they do, and was passed after much lobbying from the MLB. While MLB teams cry out that an increase in minor leaguers’ pay would hurt them financially, this is far from the truth. 24 out of the 30 major league teams report a positive operating income, and every year salaries rise at the major league level. To put this into perspective, it would

cost less than $5 million per team to increase every minor leaguer’s salary to $30,000.

With the MLB unlikely to take action on this issue itself, the pressure to raise pay in the MiLB will have to come from outside sources. Whether it comes from Congress, the players or the fans, the worst possible result would be the status quo. Hopefully with time these players can finally start getting paid like baseball is their profession, and not just a hobby.

Twins off to hot start to the season After a disappointing end to the 2018 season, this year starts off on a good note

KEVIN KORBEL SPORTS EDITOR As the Minnesota Twins slowly begin their 2019 campaign, there are many reasons to be excited by this team’s early 4-1 start to the season after matchups with the Cleveland Indians at home, and the Kansas City Royals on the road this season.

One of the biggest reasons to be excited about the team this season is the amount of depth the team possesses this season, with the pitching staff looking the best on paper in years, almost going back to the days where we saw the one-two punch of starting pitchers Johan Santana and Francisco Liriano.

This season, with pitchers Jose Berrios, Jake Odorizzi,

and Michael Pineda having a rich background in getting big outings when it matters most, with also Kyle Gibson and Martin Perez rounding out the rotation, the team finally has a reliable set of arms that can come out and pitch when they need it most.

There bullpen looks to also be very strong this season, with the acquisition of former Angels reliever Blake Parker, and also finally seeing a fully healthy Trevor May pitching for the club this season.

Relief pitchers Taylor Rogers and Trevor Hildenberger also looks to be reliable arms for the club this season, with Rogers having a low 2.73 ERA to end the season last year.

Twins catcher Willians Astudillo looks to be a diamond in the rough for the club this season. After hitting .355 in 29 ball games to end the year last season, he again has proven that he belongs in the MLB, hitting .667 to begin the season in three games with the club. Nicknamed “El

Photo courtesy of the Associated Press Minnesota Twins starting pitcher Jose Berrios (pictured) has thrown 14 strikeouts in two games for the club so far this season.

Tortuga” by his teammates, which means tortoise, he’s shown that while he does possess a bigger frame than the average ballplayer, he can rumble around the bases.

The biggest acquisition for

the team this season was no doubt former Seattle Mariners slugger Nelson Cruz.

Cruz, who’s coming off a season where he hit 37 homeruns and 97 RBIs, has already been a nice bat to

have in the lineup, especially since third baseman Miguel Sano is out with an injury for

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Light-filled stadium creates complex Final Four conversion MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The losses last weekend by Duke, Gonzaga, Kentucky and Purdue pulled the curtains on their seasons, one painful game short of the Final Four.

Those teams that made it to Minneapolis ? The guys from Michigan State, Texas Tech, Auburn and Virginia will be greeted, literally, by giant drapes inside the building where the 2019 champion will be determined.

Yes, the bigger and fancier the site, the more complicated the conversion. From the extra speakers to the special center-hung scoreboard to the temporary blinds at U.S. Bank Stadium, turning a football-sized venue into a basketball-friendly facility has become quite the project.

That’s fitting, of course, because the Final Four has become quite the event.

“People have said, ‘It’s a game for an arena,’ but trying to go back at this point on the opportunities? Instead of giving approximately 5,000 tickets to each school, they’d be receiving far less than that, and then you’ve got all of the membership, the other schools that want access and the general public,” said L.J. Wright, the NCAA’s director of men’s basketball championships.

“The demand is still here, and so we want to expose and help grow the game through that exposure.”

When the NCAA first began using an “in-theround” seating configuration at Ford Field in Detroit in 2009, where the court is

Photo courtesy of the Associated Press The scene inside of the U.S. Bank Stadium with the light piercing through the stadium.

placed on the middle of the turf instead of in one of the corners and the entire bowl is used, the minimum-capacity requirement for a Final Four was raised to 60,000 seats.

That whittled the candidate pool to the 10 climatecontrolled NFL-level venues, which had been sprinkled into the rotation throughout the 1980s and 1990s until the last NBA-sized host was used in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1996. There are currently only 10 covered stadiums big enough in the entire country to bid.

Nestled into a compact downtown, filled with stateof-the-art amenities and fresh from holding the Super Bowl 14 months ago, U.S.

Bank Stadium fits the bill.

The not-quite-3-year-old facility’s defining feature, though, created an additional challenge for the host. The skyline-facing front of the building is essentially one big picture window, including five of the world’s largest pivoting glass doors ranging from 75 to 95 feet high. Then there is the roof, about 60% of which is composed of a lightweight translucent plastic called ETFE. Even on some of the coldest afternoons, like the 2-degree outside temperature at kickoff of the Super Bowl, enough sunlight can stream in to make a television viewer do a double-take and wonder for a second if the game

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is actually being played in Arizona or Florida.

“That’s what makes this building unique. That’s what makes it beautiful. That’s what really makes it the gold standard in the NFL. Unfortunately, that is also what makes it very complex for us,” said Patrick Talty, the general manager for stadium operator SMG. “Because of that competitive nature, needing the light to be the same for all teams in all situations, we then have to take our biggest asset away.”

To keep the glare off the TV cameras and out of the eyes of the free-throw shooters, a darkening plan is mandated for each bidding venue. There is no issue for many of them, but at U.S. Bank Stadium, this sleek, steep and ship-shaped $1.1 billion home of the Minnesota Vikings, there is 460,000 square feet to cover.

The $4.6 million project, covered by the building’s capital improvement fund, was so big the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority split it between two manufacturers: theater-style curtains for the front and sailboat-like textile for the roof . Just one of the custom-made ceiling darkening panels is 10 feet wide and up to 370 feet long.

The setup took five to seven days for 20 to 25 workers, with a similar timeframe for teardown.

The cost of the blinds and the altering of the building’s identity have prompted some complaints from the public, but the blinds will be reused for concerts and conventions and are expected to last for the life of the stadium, MSFA chairman Michael Vekich said.

For now, the fabric will help transform the colossal structure into an environment as close to an on-campus arena as possible, if that’s possible for an event that has averaged about 72,800 fans in attendance over the last 10 years. Putting 600 students from each school in $40 floor seats behind each basket was one way the NCAA has tried to increase the energy, along with subtly amplified noise for seats that are the farthest from the court so the swishes, clangs and squeaks can still be audible.

“Final Fours in the past used to be a little stagnant because you’d get people who sit on their hands who aren’t as energetic,” Wright said. “When you think of college basketball, you think of students on their feet and jumping. They’re involved.

They’re a part of the event, so that’s been a special thing.”

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Sophomore infielder Torey Richards (18).

Nowak, after Zyl hit a home run to dead center field.

The Mavericks proved to be the worse team once again, as the Warriors came away in this matchup by a

score of 3-1.

The Maverick softball team moves their record to 18-12 as they get set for their next set of home games Saturday, where they face off against

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Minnesota Twins catcher Willians Astudillo, also known as El Tortuga, is batting .667 through three games this season for the club.

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Cruz has the only home run this season through five games on the season, but that hasn’t stopped the

team from putting runs on the scoreboard, averaging 4.8 runs per game, which is enough to get a win in the MLB nowadays with the rise

in pitching talent.

As the Twins move forward in the season, they hit a tough road opponent this weekend in outfielder and MLB the

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