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Mankato Area International Festival Students from 90 countries to present a colorful cultural experience.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer The 2015 Mankato Area International Festival “Kaleidoscope of Culture” will be held Sunday, April 12 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

International Festival, the biggest cultural event in Mankato area, invites all students, faculty, staff and community members.

Diverse international food and unique performances of students from all different countries around the world can be experienced at the 39th International Festival.

In addition, the event will be started with the colorful flag

parade and participants will be able to enjoy a lot of fun activities such as Cultural Bazaar, Children’s / Teen’s World and Silent Auction.

“We have international students from about 90 countries,” said Doni Casula, assistant director of the Kearney International Center. “I don’t know exactly how many of them are specifically representing, I would say there are a lot of regional representations from all around the world, Latin America, Africa, Europe, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, so I think there’s representation from all the regions of the world, maybe not every single country.”

“We have a lot of international student performers, we have international student groups mak-

ing food, international students carrying flags in the Flag Parade, some have cultural booths so a lot of international students participate,” she continued.

Casula said the purpose of the event is to showcase diversity and various cultures that MSU has, not only in campus but also in the Mankato community.

According to Director of the Kearney International Center Tom Gjersvig, the International Festival was created as an idea of first International Student Office director.

“He had been an international student prior to that and then was hired as the first director.

He was honored in 2012 as the first Grand Marshal of the festival when we started doing that tradition. Before his starting fes-

tival he did a great job in getting students and the community all together to put on this festival,” Gjersvig said.

In the past during those years when the International Festival just got started, it was held not only on campus, but also at the downtown mall, the civic center, and Mankato East High School.

“In 2012 it came back to the campus after the student union had undergone a model. It continues to be a cooperative effort certainly the activity of our students, Kearney international center, and volunteer committee doing the planning and organizing,” Gjersvig said.

“We have our food area, foods from around the world, both some restaurants come in as well as many student groups

cook their foods, and then we have our Cultural Bazaar where there are some venders selling items around the world, but also cultural booths from students and community groups that represent their countries.”

“And then we have our entertainment. So we have multiple stages, multiple groups performing, inducing student performers, community and regional performers,” he continued.

This year, Director of Facilities Services David Cowan will be honored as Grand Marshal.

For the public event, admission and parking are free.

For more information, please contact the Kearney International Center at 507.389.1281.

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The Maverick Voter Party’s platform includes: Continually develop and enviUnite MSU Party’s platform includes: Allocate 1500 pages for printing to every MSU ronment full of diversity that enriches student lives with a variety of ideas, beliefs, student; Advocate for gender neutral bathrooms to accommodate LGBTQ community and values; Improve the dining experience of all students; Implement a partnership and student body; Continue to hold administrators accountable by increasing number of program to pair international and transfer students with current MSU students; open forums; Advocate for expansion of multicultural resource centers and implement Advocate for LGBT engagement and awareness within the campus community; space for all RSOs on campus; Improve MSSA transparency and student body relationFreeze both undergraduate level and graduate level tuition only if the requested ap- ships by holding more external office hours and monthly town hall meetings; Improve propriation from the Minnesota legislature is received; Collaborate with the Kear- relationships between Greek organizations and administration to develop relationships ney International Center to improve the experience of international, exchange, and between Greek students and the campus community. study abroad students; Extend student engagement within the Mankato community; Create or return academic majors and minors with the help of Academic Affairs; Collaborate with Academic Affairs to provide a better selection of graduate level courses; Collaborate with Student Affairs to develop new ideas to increase Information presented represents candidates who have given us notice of their intent student enrollment and retention; Implement a Greek Row; Change the per credit to run as of this publication. Platform updates will be provided on the Maverick Voter hour fees for off-campus Extended Education students; Increase collaboration beParty Facebook page. tween the main Mankato campus and the Extended Education satellite campuses.

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St. Peter to host tournament with human foosball players to raise funds for pool.

NICOLE SCHMIDT Staff Writer Are you ready to get your foosball on? The city of St. Peter will host a human foosball tournament Saturday, April 25 at Veterans Memorial Park.

If you don’t know, foosball is traditionally an arcade game played using your hands to maneuver poles sticking out of your side of the table. Attached to the poles are various players and if you’re quick enough, your players may block or ‘kick’ the oncoming ball into

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the opponent’s goal.

Human foosball, then, is essentially just like the table game, except with you in it! A team of six people costs $60.

Participants must be 18 or older to play.

This larger-than-life event will raise funds for the outdoor St. Peter pool to purchase wibits. If you are in the 99th percentile of people who do not know what ‘wibits’ are, they are large, floating objects for the pool, such as trampolines, slides, lily pads and numerous other obstacles.

Registration deadline is Friday, so find your team and sign-up soon. You can register online at www.saintpetermn. gov/recreation, or stop by the Recreation, Parks and Leisure Services office in Highland Center North 213 for a hardcopy of the form.

This tournament is bound to be a fun experience with lots of laughs and competition. So what are you waiting for? Find five foosball fanatics and sign up today!

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Boston Marathon bomber sentenced BOSTON (AP) — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a jury that will now decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed or shown mercy for what his lawyer says was a crime masterminded by his big brother.

The former college student stood with his hands folded, fidgeted and looked down at the defense table in federal court as he listened to the word “guilty” recited on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy and deadly use of a weapon of mass destruction. Seventeen of those counts are punishable by death.

The verdict, reached after a day and a half of deliberations, was practically a foregone conclusion, given his lawyer’s startling admission at the trial’s outset that Tsarnaev carried out the terror attack with his now-dead older brother, Tamerlan.

The defense strategy is to try to save Tsarnaev’s life in the upcoming penalty phase by arguing he fell under Tamerlan’s evil influence.

The two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs that exploded near the finish line on April 15, 2013, killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 other people, turning the traditionally celebratory home stretch of the world-famous race into a scene of carnage and putting the city on edge for days.

Tsarnaev was found responsible not only for those deaths but for the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer who was gunned down

days later during the brothers’ getaway attempt.

“It’s not a happy occasion, but it’s something,” said Karen Brassard, who suffered shrapnel wounds on her legs and attended the trial. “One more step behind us.”

She said Tsarnaev appeared “arrogant” and uninterested during the trial, and she wasn’t surprised when she saw no remorse on his face as the verdicts were read. She refused to say whether she believes he deserves the death penalty, but she rejected the defense argument that he was simply following his brother’s lead.

“He was in college. He was a grown man who knew what the consequences would be,” Brassard said. “I believe he was ‘all in’ with the brother.”

Tsarnaev’s lawyers left the courthouse without comment.

In the penalty phase, which could begin as early as Monday, the jury will hear evidence on whether he should get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life in prison.

Defense attorney Judy Clarke argued at trial that Tsarnaev was led astray by his radicalized brother, telling the jury: “If not for Tamerlan, it would not have happened.” She repeatedly referred to Dzhokhar — then 19 — as a “kid” and a “teenager.”

Prosecutors, however, portrayed the brothers — ethnic Chechens who moved to the United States from Russia more than a decade ago — as full partners in a brutal and coldblooded plan to punish the U.S. for its

wars in Muslim countries. Jihadist writings, lectures and videos were found on both their computers, though the defense argued that Tamerlan downloaded the material and sent it to his brother.

Tamerlan, 26, died when he was shot by police and run over by his brother during a chaotic getaway attempt days after the bombing.

The government called 92 witnesses over 15 days, painting a hellish scene of torn-off limbs, blood-spattered pavement, ghastly screams and the smell of sulfur and burned hair.

Survivors gave heartbreaking testimony about losing legs in the blasts or watching people die.

The father of 8-year-old Martin Richard described making the agonizing decision to leave his mortally wounded son so he could get help for his 6-year-old daughter, whose leg had been blown off.

In the courtroom Wednesday, Denise Richard, the boy’s mother, wiped tears from her face after the verdict. The youngster’s father, Bill Richard, embraced one of the prosecutors.

In Russia, Tsarnaev’s father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told The Associated Press in recent days that he would have no comment.

The others killed in the bombing were Lingzi Lu, a 23-yearold Chinese graduate student at Boston University, and Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager. MIT Officer Sean Collier was shot to death at close range days later.

In a statement, Collier’s fam-

ily welcomed the verdict and added: “The strength and bond that everyone has shown during these last two years proves that if these terrorists thought that they would somehow strike fear in the hearts of people, they monumentally failed.”

Some of the most damning evidence at the trial included video showing Tsarnaev planting a backpack containing one of the bombs near where the 8-year-old boy was standing, and a confession scrawled inside the drydocked boat where a wounded and bleeding Tsarnaev was

captured days after the tragedy.

“Stop killing our innocent people and we will stop,” he wrote.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers barely cross-examined the government’s witnesses and called just four people to the stand over less than two days, all in an effort to portray the older brother as the guiding force in the plot.

According to defense testimony, phone records showed Dzhokhar was at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth while his brother was buying bomb components, including pressure cookers and BBs. Tamerlan’s computer showed search terms such as “detonator” and “transmitter and receiver,” while Dzhokhar was largely spending time on Facebook and other social media sites. And Tamerlan’s fingerprints, but not Dzhokhar’s, were found on pieces of the two bombs.

Clarke is one of the nation’s

foremost death-penalty specialists and an expert at keeping her clients off death row. She saved the lives of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two children in a lake in 1994.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers tried repeatedly to get the trial moved out of Boston because of the heavy publicity and the widespread trauma. But opposition to capital punishment is strong in Massachusetts, which abolished its state death penalty in 1984, and some polls have suggested a majority of Bostonians do not want to see Tsarnaev sentenced to die.

The 12-member jury must be unanimous for Tsarnaev to receive a death sentence; otherwise the penalty will be life behind bars.

During the penalty phase, Tsarnaev’s lawyers will present so-called mitigating evidence to try to save his life. That could include evidence about his family, his relationship with his brother, and his childhood in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and later in the volatile Dagestan region of Russia.

Prosecutors will present socalled aggravating factors in support of the death penalty, including the killing of a child and the targeting of the marathon because of the potential for maximum bloodshed.

Chicana-Latina Mother and Daughter Conference RAE FRAME News Editor On Saturday, April 18, Minnesota State University, Mankato will be hosting the Chicana-Latina Mother and Daughter Conference with the Life-Work Planning Center.

The conference will be held in the Centennial Student Union, rooms 201, 204, 245, and 2534-5.

Offered to Chicana-Latina mothers and their daughters who are between the age of 10-18, the event has been titled “Your Generation and Mine” (“Tu Generación y la Mía”) and will be centered on fostering bonding and communication with resources that will include workshops, panel discussions, and a keynote speaker.

Informational booths will

be providing information on women’s health, education, immigration services, parenting, cultural identity, and more.

The Life-Work Planning Center, located in Mankato, is collaborating on this event with the Minnesota State Mankato Institutional Diversity’s office of Latino Affairs and Oasis, the University of Minnesota Extension Regional Office in Mankato and the Latin American-Multi-Ethnic Association for Networking & Opportunities (LA-MANO).

Registration for this event is $10 and is required to attend the event.

Applications are available at Life-Work Planning Center, or by contacting Maritza Navarro at 507-345-1577 or by email at mnavarro@hickorytech.net.

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Exploring relativism and the truth about the truth A student discusses an enticing yet inherently unsustainable philosophy.

LUKE LARSON Staff Writer

There have been a few occasions during my time here at college that I’ve run into a very peculiar philosophy. The first time I heard it seriously advocated, it left me both surprised and confused. I’m speaking of relativism, the belief that there is no absolute truth. As far as I understand from conversations I’ve had with supporters of the theory, relativism claims that each individual has their own truth, which can be different from – and even contradictory to – the truths of others. If I believe gravity does not exist, it truly does not exist for me, according to the relativist. While that example may seem a little far-fetched, relativism can be found in everyday life. “It’s not my truth that getting a little drunk and then driving home is wrong.” “Global warming may be true for you, but that doesn’t make it true for me.” “It may be your truth that stealing some cash from my roommate is wrong, but it’s not mine.” What’s true for you may not be true for me – that’s the

relativist’s creed.

Now, society has progressed in many ways. We are far more technologically advanced than we were a century – or even a decade – ago. Our knowledge of the human being, the planet Earth, and the universe have increased dramatically. But if this relativist theory is any indication of the direction in which we are headed, we are most certainly not progressing philosophically.

We have unfortunately come to a point where we literally have to defend the reality of reality.

Relativism is contrary to science. Science is grounded on the belief that there is a single, absolute reality which we can come to know through observation and examination. Science is the pursuit of understanding reality.

Relativism, on the other hand, posits a world in which one can believe the Earth is round while another believes it to be flat and they are both right. Science, which would attempt to prove the true and absolute shape of the Earth, cannot exist if we are to accept such a worldview. The law of contradiction, or any of the laws of logic for that matter, don’t seem to bother the relativist. One person’s “reality” can be just as real as another’s. 2+2=5 is just as true as 2+2=4. It’s the belief that reality is shaped entirely by human minds. No matter what you think, according to relativism, you are right because you determine reality for yourself. Science definitively rejects this. Reality could care less what

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human minds think about it.

Things that are true will remain true whether I think they are or not.

I can hear the objections.

Who gets to decide what this objective reality is? Why do you think you’re so special that you get to determine what is true for all of humanity? I, Luke Larson, do not claim to be right about everything. I am in fact certain that there are many things that I am wrong about and perhaps I am wrong about even more than I think I am. But the very fact that I can be wrong points to the fact that there is an absolute reality. Every time I am right about something, my understanding is in accord with reality. Every time I am wrong, my understanding does not correspond to reality. We as humans may have a very poor understanding of reality. The goal of science and philosophy is to perfect that understanding, to make it more

Awareness: It’s On Us Why I took the pledge to end sexual assault

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Commercials are starting to take a stance on many social issues in a direct and highly relatable way—a great example is the “Left Swipe Dat” campaign against smoking.

Joining the airwaves is the It’s On Us campaign for sexual assault awareness, featuring commercials encouraging bystanders to be on the alert and intervene in situations that may result in non-consensual sex.

In one commercial, a young man at a party gets up off the sofa in order to protect a young woman who has clearly had too much to drink and is being aggressively pursued by another partygoer.

Viewers are encouraged to visit ItsOnUs.org for more information on how to join the fight against sexual assault.

The website feature videos of famous faces such as Jon Hamm, Questlove, and Rose Byrne discussing portions of the pledge and speaking out against sexual assault.

Visitors to the site are invited to take the pledge and upload their picture to create a badge to use as their profile picture on Facebook or Twitter.

The pledge, which is described as “a personal commitment to keep women and men safe from sexual assault” is as

follows: “I pledge To recognize that non-consensual sex is sexual assault.

To identify situations in which sexual assault may occur.

To intervene in situations where consent has not or cannot be given.

To create an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are important.”

It’s On Us has partnered with EA, BET, iHeartRadio, Microsoft, MTV, Spike, the White House, and many other major corporations to spread the word.

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closely correspond to reality.

All of us are in college for that purpose. This goal presupposes the fact that there is indeed a reality which can be understood or misunderstood. The fact that we don’t (and can’t) know everything, does not rule out the existence of an absolute reality, it is rather an affirmation of its existence. The fact that we have varying levels of understanding points to the fact that there can theoretically be a fullness of understanding, and thus an absolute reality to be understood.

Perhaps we should take a moment to clarify what is meant by “reality”. “Reality” essentially is a word to describe everything that exists.

Elephants, the sun, the English language, time, and Minnesota State University, Mankato all fall under the category called “reality”. If all of these things exist (and I think we have very good reason to believe they do), then they exist whether we think they do or not. Even if everyone suddenly stopped believing in the existence of elephants, they would continue to exist regardless. That should be a pretty straightforward, uncontroversial assumption. But the relativist would argue that if you do not believe that elephants exist, they truly do not exist for you. I think relativism is getting “reality” and “perception” confused. The two terms are being equated. It argues that your perception of the world, no matter what it may be, is reality. Science makes a distinction between one’s per-

ception of reality, which can be false and incomplete, and reality itself. It argues that reality is the standard against which your perception of reality is judged.

One’s perception may be right and it may be wrong; it all depends on whether it corresponds to reality or not.

It basically comes down to whether we believe in logic or not. Relativism claims that everyone’s beliefs are correct. We know that there are many beliefs that are in logical contradiction to one another. The laws of logic state that two things which are in logical contradiction to one another cannot both be true. Logic thus rejects the foundational premise of relativism. Relativism is making the radical proposition that we throw out logic itself. Without logic, we must throw out reason altogether. If we throw out reason, the very basis of all philosophy, we can’t even have this discussion in the first place.

I’ve heard the Schrödinger’s cat experiment brought up a couple times as a rebuttal to this. Wasn’t Schrödinger’s cat both alive and dead at the same time? Doesn’t that prove that two things in logical contradiction to one another can exist simultaneously? The goal of Schrödinger’s popular experiment is commonly misunderstood. An article by Theo Merz for the Telegraph sheds some light on the issue. As he explains, the thought experiment devised by physicist Erwin

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Enforcing the bare minimum of health In light of France’s new modeling law, a student asks what “healthy” really means to society.

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Anorexia isn’t a word you hear that often these days. For me, it was briefly talked about in my sophomore high school health class and that’s where it left off.

Currently, curves are in the limelight and people are flaunting them. But in the modeling world, are things changing there as well? You still see “plus-size” models walking the runways in size four fashion, but we are also seeing some actual plus-sized models out there and they look great.

Housing one of the top ten fashion capitals of the world, France has taken its first steps in the direction of making a major change in the modeling world.

Recently, a law has been approved by the French members of Parliament to outlaw the use of fashion models deemed to be unreasonably thin. The way of measuring if a model is too thin for the runway is with the Body Mass Index (BMI). The models need to have a BMI above a certain level, with this law, to be at least measured at an 18.

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According to an article on BBC, the average BMI for a woman in France is 23.2.

The law will be a part of a overarching health bill that was voted on and approved in the French National Assembly lower house of parliament is now on its way to the Senate to be approved.

The law banning “excessively” thin models would give the government power to fine or censor modeling agencies if they are found to be forcing models to lose an unhealthy amount of weight for jobs.

Olivier Veran, a member of French Parliament who is in the Socialist Party, proposed parts of the health bill including the law banning excessive thinness in models. He announced that “there would be regular checks to enforce the rule.”

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try to put through one of these laws. A few countries I found had passed laws years ago—like Israel did back in 2012. In 2012 about 2% of girls in Israel between the ages of 14 to 18 had severe eating disorders. This newly proposed law also would use BMI and make models bring medical proof that they had the right BMI. Despite some support, there were people against the law. Eli Edri from the Roberto Models Agency told the Haaretz newspaper in Israel that the measure of BMI is “not appropriate for every model.”

The BMI, a ratio of height to weight, is still up for debate.

Many people are saying that the use of the BMI in measuring the models is not the top pick for ways of measuring health. Even on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) web-

site they say that the “BMI is a fairly reliable indicator of body fatness for most people.”

What happens if measuring some models BMI isn’t as accurate as it is with others? Those models would be out of a job.

But then again, BMI is low cost, straightforward, and simple.

The CDC also said that the BMI test shouldn’t be your only measurement for health. “…to determine if excess weight is a health risk…[doctors] would need to perform further assessments.” According to the CDC, the normal range for an adult’s BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9, anything over or under is considered unhealthy.

I wonder what is considered healthy in today’s society, is it having a BMI that is in a certain range? What if you have

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“What does healthy mean to you?”

PAIGE BROICH, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION “I think being healthy means being overall emotionally, mentally, and physically healthy.”

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“Making sure you’re eating what your body needs, all the necessary nutrients, and exercising.”

“Feeling comfortable with my body.”

“Eating right and having a sexy body.”

“Exercising at least 3 times a week and balancing between healthy food and junk food.”

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PHILOSOPHY continued from 4 Schrödinger was this: say a cat is put in a sealed box which contains unpredictable radioactive material. If this material decays, poison will be released and the cat will die. But we have no way of knowing whether the material has decayed or not. Many physicists, following what is known as the “Copenhagen interpretation,” concluded that until an atomic particle is observed, it exists in multiple states simultaneously. As Merz explains, “If the Copenhagen interpretation suggests the radioactive material can have simultaneously decayed and not decayed in the sealed environment, then it follows the cat too is both alive and dead until the box is opened. Common sense tells us this is not the case, and Schrödinger used this to highlight the limits of the Copenhagen interpretation when applied to practical situations.

The cat is actually either dead or alive, whether or not it has been observed. Schrödinger is in fact arguing against what most people mistakenly believe he is arguing for.

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What is the evidence for relativism? Why should anyone believe in it? Well, according to relativism, evidence is useless. Any evidence that could be produced can merely be dismissed as “your reality,” which has no impact on “my reality.” The evidence for gravity may be overwhelming if you accept objective truth, but if I don’t believe in it, it is not real for me. Relativism is an assertion with no defense for itself.

What does it even mean for something to be real “to me”? This is another fundamental question for relativism to answer. Now, people have different preferences, but we shouldn’t get confused and claim that these are different realities. I may find broccoli tasty, while others find it revolting. We do not have different “realities” regarding broccoli, but rather different ways we experience the reality that is broccoli. My taste buds may process it differently and we may have different reactions to it, but the broccoli and its structure are not actually dif-

ferent for each of us. Unless by “reality” one means to say “perception,” the terms “my reality,” “your reality,” “her reality,” etc. are meaningless.

So what have I concluded so far? Firstly, that relativism is illogical because it implicitly rejects logic itself. Secondly, that it is without rational justification. Thirdly, that the language it uses is meaningless, or at least without clear definition.

But perhaps the strongest argument against relativism is that it is self-refuting. The problem is that relativism claims as an absolute truth the claim that there is no such thing as absolute truth. It is clear that this cannot be the case. The claim contradicts itself. If we accept relativism, we must necessarily reject it according to its own premises. According to relativism, relativism itself is just one reality that must be considered just as valid as any other reality. If that’s the case, we can’t even apply the relativist framework that brought us to that conclusion in the first place. To argue for relativism is an oxymoron. What is the point of an

argument except to bring another mind to a more complete understanding of an absolute truth? The question that the relativist should be asked is “who are you to tell me that relativism is true? After all, that’s just your truth, isn’t it?”

Relativism is appealing. Debates are uncomfortable and relativism rids us of the discomfort of disagreement. Relativism, if nothing else, is non-confrontational, and our culture despises any type of confrontation. Nobody likes the animosity that typically accompanies debate. It produces conflict. The solution, however, is not to say “everybody’s right – now let’s all just get along!” We need to realize that disagreement is inevitable and that sometimes debate is necessary so that we can come to a mutual understanding of the truth and act accordingly.

If we accept relativism, we must be prepared to admit that the per-

petrators of genocide are doing nothing wrong because they are following their truth. Who could blame them for that? If my truth is that it’s fine to text while speeding down the interstate, who are the police to infringe on my truth?

With relativism, we have no justification for any type of political action, be it to preserve the environment, curtail violent crime, or prohibit dangerous drugs. Who are we to intrude on the truths of others? I think we can agree that these necessary conclusions of relativism are neither desirable nor practical. Relativism may be a comfortable position to take, but it is ultimately a dangerous one, making its current prevalence all the more alarming. A society that accepts relativism is a society of chaos. But, hey, that’s just my truth.

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Favorite class: My favorite class to teach is a tie between Psychology of Women and Statistics. My favorite class I’ve ever taken was Creative Writing Hobbies: Kayaking, subversive cross stitch, kettlebell training, reading, playing the piano.

Originally from Helena, MT, Kristie moved to Minnesota when she was young. In college, she started as an English major, but took a class in Social Psychology and fell in love with the field. She studied I-O psychology in graduate school (basically what would happen if Psychology and Business mated) and worked as an intern at MDA Leadership Consulting and at Target Corporation before joining the faculty at MNSU. She continues to consult with businesses through the

Psychology Department’s student-run consulting firm, The Organizational Effectiveness Research Group (OERG). She loves to travel, and her most recent trip was to Turkey.

Some facts few people know about Kristie is that she is left-handed, she knows how to make balloon animals from a short stint working as a party clown, and she is alarmingly good at rewriting Journey lyrics to be more appropriate for singing to her cats.

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RAE FRAME News Editor As winter, March Madness, and finals week come to a close, there will be many students finding themselves with extra time on their hands that they would like to devote to something productive over the summer.

Whether you plan to travel or stay in the Mankato area, there are many opportunities to serve the community with volunteer work, make money with a summer position, or gain experience with an internship.

Seasonal positions are a great way to shore up your finances while school isn’t in session, whether you can find a gig working with family or friends or you can snatch up a seasonal job at a store in town.

One of the best things about summer jobs is the opportunity to spend time in the sunlight.

If you’re interested in being a lifeguard, keep an eye out for certification classes held by the American Red Cross or at the local YMCA. Landscaping, construction, and park services positions start to open up in the spring as well and offer competitive pay as well as a great oppor-

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There are many opportunities for volunteerism in the Mankato area, but for those who will not be staying here over the summer, check out a volunteer placement site like VolunteerMatch.org.

Volunteer Match informs users of openings in 29 areas of interest that include Advocacy & Human Rights, Animals, Arts & Culture, Health & Medicine, Sports & Recreation, and more.

Currently, there are opportunities to make a difference in Mankato with the ALS Association, Habitat for Humanity, American Red Cross, and

Mankato Area Public Schools.

Visit Volunteer Match to view these opportunities and receive email notifications when more become available in your areas of interest.

Internships are a great way to gain experience while you are still in school or just after graduation; though often unpaid, experience is invaluable to the average student’s resume.

Students are able to access MavJobs online or visit the Career Development Center on-campus or online to see what internships are being offered in the area.

In locations that aren’t offer-

ing many internships or any in a specific field, consider taking a certification class—it can be a great opportunity to get certified in a health service like CPR. Volunteer work, internships, and summer jobs could all contribute to your resume, but they can also be hugely rewarding on a personal level. Seek out people and communities that can help you make the most of your summer and you will find yourself wondering how you’re ever going to get back into the swing of school when fall rolls around once more.

the “correct” BMI and that’s just the weight you are with no exercise or healthy eating habits? Does that make you healthy? Or does eating right and having a healthy body image of yourself make you healthy?

Just like my sophomore health teacher, I know I really don’t have an answer for that. I think the question we should be asking is why do we feel the need to see the smallest number possible on the scale or walking the runways.

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Death Cab for Cutie’s hits high note on charts Indie rock band receives high praise, ratings for eighth studio album.

NEW YORK, NY -- Atlantic recording group Death Cab for Cutie’s eighth studio album, “KINTSUGI,” has debuted at #1 on the Current Alternative Chart, #5 on the Current Album chart and #8 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart. Additionally, the band has revealed a number of new North American tour dates as “KINTSUGI” earns critical acclaim and popular success from all corners.

Previously announced highlights include sold out dates at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium on April 29th, Chicago’s Chicago Theatre on April 30th and May 1st, and Toronto’s Sony Centre For The Performing Arts on May 7th, as well as major shows including Hollywood’s Hollywood Bowl on July 12th, Morrison, Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on July 15th, and New York City’s Madison Square Garden on September 12th. The tour -- which also sees European festival dates and headline shows including three sold out nights at London’s O2 Shepherds Bush Empire -- concludes October 3rd, 4th, and 5th with three homecoming shows at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre.

Support throughout the tour comes from an array of truly special guests, including Say Hi, The Antlers, Built To Spill, TUnE-YArDs, Twin Shadow, Best Coast and Explosions In The Sky. “KINTSUGI” has been welcomed with widespread critical applause, with Stereogum praising it in a recent Cover Story as “inevitably elegiac...full of classic Death Cab structures and melodies, but with new little elements that still sets it apart.

Synths and a rhythmic focus play a large role, but feel incorporated seamlessly into the band’s preexisting aesthetic...” ‘’A return to what made many fans fall in love with the group,” said NOISEY, as WYNC’s Soundcheck declared “KINTSUGI” to be “a classic Death Cab record, if such a thing exists. Over 11 tracks, lead singer and songwriter Ben Gibbard examines heartache, loss, absence -- and dresses these themes in driving, occasionally soaring pop garb with impeccable sheen.” ‘’The band continues its penchant for thoughtful poetic confessionals,” noted the New York Observer, adding, “The music flows like a well-

written novel, telling the group’s latest chapter beautifully.” ‘’The arrangements are leaner than before,” wrote the Chicago Tribune’s Greg Kot, “creating a desolate atmosphere that puts Gibbard’s carefully measured voice and lyrics upfront...The band’s subtle, painterly contributions should not be underestimated...The background hum of electronics, the ticking percussion, the sinewy guitars, the vaporous, often wordless backing vocals give the narratives plenty of room to breathe.” ‘’A sparsely textured...hear t-wrenchingly honest record,” wrote Rolling Stone, while A.V. Club noted how “KINTSUGI” “blends the newer sounds of the group’s recent output with the warmth and accessibility of its earlier work, which makes for a fine cocktail.”

Perhaps Magnet summed it up best: “With the new ‘KINTSUGI,’ Death Cab might have made the best record of its 17-year career.”

Recorded in Los Angeles with Rich Costey (Foster the People, Muse, Vampire Weekend, Chvrches) behind the board, “KINTSUGI” takes its title from the Japanese art of

repairing broken ceramics with precious metals like gold, silver, and platinum, highlighting cracks rather than hiding them.

As such, kintsugi represents a compassionate aesthetic philosophy in which damage and wear are embraced as part of an object’s history.

“Considering what we were going through internally, and with what a lot of the lyrics are about, it had a great deal of resonance for us -- the idea of figuring out how to repair breaks and make them a thing of beauty,” says bassist Nick Harmer, who suggested the name to Gibbard and McGerr. “Philosophically, spiritually, emotionally, it seems perfect for this group of songs.”

For nearly two decades, Death Cab for Cutie has been hailed as one of contemporary music’s most compelling and creative collectives. Born in Bellingham, Washington in 1997, the band followed a long relationship with the Seattle-based independent label, Barsuk, by making their Atlantic Records debut with their fifth studio release, 2005’s “PLANS.” The album proved Death Cab for Cutie’s popular breakthrough, earning RIAA

platinum certification as well as spawning the chart-topping singles, “Soul Meets Body” and “I Will Follow You Into The Dark.”

The latter track was honored with a GRAMMY(R) nomination as “Best Pop Performance

By Duo Or Group With Vocals,” with “PLANS” receiving the nod as “Best Alternative Album.” ‘’DIRECTIONS,” the 2006 DVD companion to “PLANS,” earned an additional GRAMMY(R) nod as “Best Longform Music Video.”

Now fully affirmed as an eradefining band, Death Cab for Cutie made a stunning #1 debut atop the SoundScan/Billboard 200 with 2008’s RIAA gold certified “NARROW STAIRS.” More critical acclaim and two further GRAMMY(R) nominations followed, including nods for “Best Alternative Album” and “Best Rock Song” (honoring the hit single, “I Will Possess Your Heart”). For more news and information, please log on to www.deathcabforcutie.com.

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Pirates of Penzance opens The timeless production sees second debut at MSU.

LORIEN MEGIL Staff Writer This week the Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of The Pirates of Penzance sails in for eight performances in the Ted Paul Theatre of the Earley Center for Performing Arts, starting on Thursday, April 9. This classic comic opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, whose other shows include The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore, first premiered in New York in 1879, and has been performed frequently since. This version, premiered in Central Park in 1980, and went on to a successful Broadway run.

MSU’s first production of The Pirates of Penzance was in 1987.

This farcical opera centers on Frederic, apprenticed to a group of kind-hearted, honor-bound pirates, and his discovery of the world, including falling in love with Mabel, the daughter of a Major-General.

This production includes a cast of forty-one, including Gabriel Sell, who recently played Samuel Byck in Assassins, as Frederic, and Michael Turner, who recently played Clotaldo in Life Is A Dream, as MajorGeneral Stanley, Mabel’s father.

Sophomore BFA Musical Theatre candidate, Emily Scinto will appear as Mabel. Scinto was recently seen as a Silly Girl in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Estrella in Life is a Dream.

Scinto has loved the experience of crafting Mabel and is excited to bring her to audiences. She said of the character: “She is very much the stereotypical female ingénue that we see so often in opera and musical theater.

She has this wonderful lightness

to her that’s accompanied by this sense of naivety that’s so exciting to play into. I love that I have

show and my favorites.” Scinto also has a favorite song, saying that, “My favorite number in the

sung by three of the central characters. It comes right before I make one of my entrances so I’m lucky enough to be able to watch it backstage every night before I go on!”

There is a reason that this show, almost one hundred and fifty years old, continues to be performed and draw audiences.

The show has aged remarkably well, and if the glowing words of the cast are any indication, will certainly be a wonderful viewing experience. Stasny said: “I’ve been having the time of my life! The show is almost deceptively funny, since it is such an old show and it is an ‘operetta’ one might not imagine that it would be so humorous but I

the chance to bring her to life every night!”

Senior BFA Acting candidate, Ben Stasny plays the Pirate King, who according to Stasny: “He is an aggressively fun guy who loves his merry band of pirates and enjoys sailing the high seas.” This season Stasny also appeared as Lumiere in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Stage Manager in Our Town, and Segismundo in Life is a Dream.

The Pirates of Penzance includes musical numbers such as the iconic “I am the very model of a modern Major-General.”

The lively music is fun and engaging and everyone who sees the show will likely walk away with a favorite; Stasny said that, “I have two favorite numbers in the show—’Oh Better Far to Live and Die’ and ‘When You Had Left Our Pirate Fold’. There are two of the goofiest in the

show is called ‘Away, Away! My heart’s on fire!’ It’s this wonderful little number in Act 2 that’s

promise you’ll be laughing the whole way through if you come.”

While the elevated status of a show such as this can be daunting, the MSU Department of Theatre and Dance has put in the work to make it their own. Scinto said, “It’s always a little bit scary when you do a piece that so many people are familiar with because you start to think ‘Oh no what if they don’t like it?’ or ‘What if it doesn’t meet their expectations?’ However, the whole cast has done a marvelous job of putting together a show that anyone will be sure to love. This whole process has been a delight. The show is filled with extremely talented people that are being led by a terrific creative team! I feel blessed to share the stage with such smart, funny and driven people! The entire cast, creative team and I have had a blast putting this show together and we can’t wait to show it to the public!”

The Pirates of Penzance is directed by faculty member Heather E. Hamilton, with scenic design by John David Paul and musical direction by Nick Wayne. Performances run April 9-11 and 16-18 at 7:30 p.m. and April 18 and 19 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $22; $19 for senior citizens, youth 16 and under, and groups of fifteen or more; and $15 for current MSU students. Tickets can be purchased online at MSUTheatre.com, by calling the box office at 507-389-6661, or in person at the Theatre & Dance Box Office in the lobby of the Earley Center for Performing Arts from 4-6 p.m., Monday-Friday.

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Lisa Congdon visits campus A look at an independent artist and her influences.

LISHA KIRPALANI Staff Writer

This week MSU had the honor of having Lisa Congdon, a self-taught artist, illustrator and author, visit campus. She has a been working primarily 2-di- mensionally in mediums such f as gouache, acrylic, pencil and e ink pens, as well as cutting pa- per and collage. Unlike many t artists, Lisa has not had formal t academic training; nevertheless h she has succeeded at making a h living with her art. r The artist was introduced to - by Liz Miller; a faculty member e in the Art Department; when

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speaking at the Ostrander Auditorium on April 6 about how to “Make Art Your Life”. Lisa Congdon was born in a small town in New York, but lived most of her life in California, and quite recently moved to Portland, Oregon. She worked in education as an elementary teacher, when a painting class with her brother slowly changed everything.

She gradually transitioned from her teaching career into the art world. Lisa has many titles and even more achievement. Although she generally defines herself as an artist, she also explains that she is an illustrator as she does commercial and commissioned works, she is a fine artist which she primarily prefers, she is an author of five published books, pattern designer for fabrics and wallpapers, a doodler or avid sketchbook keeper, a blogger and a late bloomer in her art

career. Her commercial clients include Martha Steward Living Magazine, MoMA, The Obama Campaign, Urban Outfitters and many more. Her books such as “Whatever you are, be a good one”, “Art Inc.”, etc. and many adult coloring books can be purchased on Amazon as well as her website.

Her works are very distinct due to her style and she is most known for her hand lettering.

She uses very vibrant colors that are often repeated in her works and work as a unifying element.

During one of her class discussions during her residency stay here at MSU, she discussed why she chose to draw in this stylized manner rather than drawing completely realistically. It seems that the purposeful imperfection and often lack of control in her

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A daring reboot on Netflix A retrospective of Daredevil on screen and what’s to come.

JAMES HOUTSMA Editor in Chief Starting this week, Marvel’s Man without Fear is getting a shot at redemption. After several years on the backburner, Daredevil will be returning to public consciousness in his own series on Netflix that will officially be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

With Friday marking the return of the blind lawyer/vigilante from Hell’s Kitchen and his regular crew in Marvel’s Daredevil, here’s a recap of some of Daredevil’s previous incarnations over the years.

Daredevil was first introduced in the Marvel comic book Daredevil #1 in 1964, created by Stan “The Man” Lee and Bill Everett. After being blinded by radioactive waste in a childhood accident, Matt Murdock develops superhuman senses that allow him to perform greater than any seeing person. After his father is killed for refusing to throw a boxing match, Matt devotes his life to justice as a lawyer by day and as the vigilante Daredevil by night.

Conceived of shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Daredevil is widely known as the first devoutly Catholic superhero, which has caused spiritual turmoil for the character over the years. Hell’s Kitchen was also known as a prominent area for Irish Catholic immigrants to live and work at the time of creation and experienced more crime than it does today.

Daredevil’s closest allies over the years have included his law partner Franklin “Foggy” Nelson, secretary and love interest Karen Page, Black Widow, Daily Bugle journalist Ben Urich and ninja assassin Elektra Natchios.

Though he was originally introduced as a Spider-Man villain, Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. The Kingpin quickly rose in the ranks as Daredevil’s arch-nemesis, battling Murdock tooth and nail for the soul of Hell’s Kitchen.

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Originally imagined as a fairly lighthearted superhero, not unlike Spider-Man, the addition of writer Frank Miller to the comics in the 80’s saw a much grittier re-imagining of the character -- one that fans and readers embraced. Under Miller’s hand, Daredevil saw several of his most well-known storylines, including the death of Elektra and

the Born Again story, in which the Kingpin discovers Daredevil’s secret identity and Murdock must rebuild his life after the Kingpin destroys it.

Thus far, Daredevil has not experienced the wide amount of media that most of his Marvel siblings have. Most notable is the 2003 film Daredevil, starring Ben Affleck. Directed by

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work is more sincere and natural. She also talked about her inspiration from folk patterns, especially traditional Scandinavian folk patterns.

The main theme of her talk was the importance of finding your voice as an artist. She describes this strenuous act by comparing it to looking for a lost cat; she explains that when you do not know where something is, it is extremely difficult to find it. She talks about the

Mark Steven Johnson, the film covered elements of Miller’s Elektra storyline and was a moderate success at the box office, if not with critics. A director’s cut of the film was released shortly after that added several story elements that were missing from the theatrical movie.

Talks of a sequel/reboot had circulated for years following

importance of making work, but also the importance of letting go of control. There is no magic formula to becoming a good artist, and there is no one right answer. She uses this quote by Biz Stone to shatter the idea of overnight success: “Timing, Perseverance & 10 years of really hard work will eventually make you look like an overnight success.”

Lisa Congdon is a great testament to the art world chang-

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the film but 20th Century Fox and New Regency let go of their film plans for the Man without Fear after being unable to put something together by late 2012.

The rights then reverted back to Marvel.

Daredevil has had a number of notable TV appearances over the years, though none in his own, until now. He appeared in 1989’s TV movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, in which Matt Murdock is an ally of David Banner/The Hulk.

The character also appeared in an arc of 1994’s Spider-Man: The Animated Series, in which he assists Spider-Man in taking on The Kingpin. This was after an appearance on the 1990 Fantastic Four animated series in which he assists a powerless four in taking back their building against Dr. Doom.

Plans were in motion for a Daredevil video game, which was set to be released for the Playstation 2 and X-Box in 2005, but the project eventually fell through. Test demos of the game can be found on YouTube. Since then, the character has made cameo appearances in several video games, including the 2000 Spider-Man videogame, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance and its sequel, and LEGO Marvel Super Heroes.

The new Daredevil series that debuts this week is part of Marvel’s efforts to branch out to television. The series will be the first of four (Daredevil, A.K.A. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist) more realistic, gritty superhero series leading up to a combined series, The Defenders. Marvel’s Daredevil stars Stardust’s Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/ Daredevil, True Blood’s Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page and Law and Order: Criminal Intent’s Vincent D’Onofrio as The Kingpin. The series will be rated TV-MA in order to capture the more graphic nature of the material. All 13 episodes will be available simultaneously Friday, April 10.

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SHAWN CLOSE Staff Writer I’ll admit I was a little surprised by the scope of Furious 7. International terrorism, super assassins out for revenge, warring shadow governments, this series is about racing cars right?

Now part of that confusion is my fault for missing a few installments (so I’m a decade plus behind on the Fast the Furious (FF) lore. But I honestly cannot see the transition making any sense, even spread out over five movies. That being said if you want a movie about street racers saving the world from evil shadowy terrorists, Furious 7 (F7) is your best option.

So the movie revolves around...I’m sorry, the plot to F7 is so dumb, complex and ultimately unimportant to absolutely everything that I’m not even going to try. There are cars and some guns, bad guys, chasing, hackers, something to do with a rich guy’s party, its all just so bland. If you really want a plot summery just go to Wikipedia, or watch a five year old play with hot wheels for a while, you’ll get the same effect.

So my first impression of F7 was ‘wow Vin Diesel looks old.’

Maybe I’m spoiled by the seemingly never-ending supply of ageless super beings that make up Hollywood but I was genuinely shocked by how Vin Diesel has aged. I remember him in Riddick a few years ago and he still looked pretty close to what he was in Pitch Black way back in 2000. Now he looks like your uncle that works out way to hard on the weekends and has been shaving his head since his mid-20’s to hide his receding hairline. I mean you still don’t want to piss him off, especially after he starts drinking out of his thermos full of straight grain alcohol, but behind all the gruff you just cant help feeling sad for him. He’s still big, but he’s lost a lot of his muscle tone, which is why he spends a large portion of the film in long sleeves. They also never show him in the same shot as human action-figure Dwayne ‘The Rock’ to save him the comparison. Vin also sports a very noticeable double chin, which distracted me even when I tried desperately to avoid it.

There’s nothing wrong with the aging hero, it’s been done very well many times in many different mediums. But Vin isn’t playing an aging hero, he’s playing a macho action hero, and I think he’s finally hit the point where he can’t do that convincingly anymore.

Moving on from my obsession with aging action stars (Sylvester Stallone still wont return

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my calls) F7 is a completely fine action movie. It has a lot of satisfying action moments, from parachuting cars onto remote highways to rescue a hostage, to The Rock dropping an ambulance onto a robot fighter jet, to jumping between skyscrapers in a multi-million dollar car, F7 has enough dumb action to keep your inner nine year old happy.

It’s stupid action, the special kind of action where you just have to ignore everything you’ve been taught about how the world works and enjoy all of the car chases and explosions. There’s nothing wrong with dumb action, there is a time and place for it just like dumb comedy, and while F7’s action can be fun it’s also really dumb. The action scenes can get cluttered and has a tendency to just slap an explosion onto a shot if they feel it’s getting a little too boring. This is okay for the most part but a few scenes where I had no idea what was happening in a scene cause there was just too much going on.

Dumb action works best if the pace is fast and the movies kept short. Too slow and the viewer has time to think about how dumb the movie is, to long and your brain gets explosion fatigue, F7 breaks both of these golden rules. The movie starts off at a snails pace. After a great scene of Jason Statham walking through a hospital that he utterly wrecked the viewer is treated to a frankly boring half hour of mains talking, boring story development and endless call backs to the other 30 FF movies.

The callbacks are nice in a way, as the film tries its best to tie off all the loose ends in a movie that is clearly intended to be the last in the series. But they’re are so many that they just kind off pile on top of each other and serve no purpose other than to make long time fans chuckle quietly to themselves.

Even when the movie gets

to the action it spends way too much time on its story, which is dumb even by dumb action standards. It may sound weird that I’m criticizing a movie for spending to much time on plot, but remember a dumb action movie plot’s purposed is to fill space between explosions. The movie is also an unnecessary 137 minutes long, you couldn’t cut any off that down? Maybe cut out all off the terrible attempts and humor, that would save you 10 minutes right there.

There is no reason F7 should be this long, its not Shakespeare, trim it down to 110 and you have a much better movie. Let’s cut it down to a nice, neat 90, it’s not like your loosing anything.

F7 has the kind of weird parallel plot that happens when you have eight ghostwriters all with their own ideas, working under a man who’s been out of touch with the world for years. The dialogue is cheesy even for its genre, with lines that sound like no one bothered to read them out loud before they started shooting.

Characters talk in one liners and clichés, which again is fine, F7 isn’t trying to win any Oscars, but your characters should at least sound human. The movie introduces a ‘hacker’ character whose only qualities are being a hot woman and being a hacker (a combo that is so outrageous that the movie spends a whole five minutes trying to play it for laughs, no jokes, an attractive woman being smart is the joke), oh also she’s British, so that’s a trait right? Because this is an action movie ‘hacking’ is treated like magic, allowing the hacker to do anything as long as they have enough time to ‘hack’ it. F7 isn’t alone, but it’s 2015, can at least one screen writer understand how a computer works. The most realistic portrayal of hacking in a movie was WarGames, a movie that came out in 1983, how long is this

troupe going to last?

The worst sin F7 committed was attempting to be ‘emotional’ with Vin Diesel as it’s lead. Vin Diesel does two things amazingly well, saying badass things in a voice that sounds like he deep throated a wire brush and look intimidating. Having Vin try to display human emotions other than anger or gruff indifference is trying to paint The Storm on the Sea of Galilee with a paint roller, your going to end up with a crappy end result and everyone is going to hate you for trying. In one scene Vin half smirks three times in rapid succession, like his face is physically incapable of holding even the most basic of facial gestures for more than half a seconds. None of this is Vin’s fault, he’s been around for a long time, he knows what he’s good at and so should everyone else, You don’t ask Payton Manning to return kicks.

The movie ends with a legitimately touching tribute to Paul

Walker. It’s a nice thing to end on, if it made any sense in the context of the movie. The tribute wasn’t an after the movie scene, it’s how the movie ended.

Walker’s character isn’t dead in the movie, he isn’t going away or getting locked up or had anything bad happen. He’s alive and well with his family living on the beach with all the time in the world for him and Vin Diesel to hang. So Vin’s character getting all emotional and reminiscing about how awesome Walker’s character is and all the great times they had together is just bazaar. It’s a cool thing to do, but give your movie an actual ending, you owe the audience at least that much.

I give action movies a lot of leeway because I love explosions and car chases and all that good stuff. But F7 is dumb even by dumb standards. It’s got some good parts to it and can even be a lot of fun at times, but its held back by its punishing length and overall mediocrity in everything not car/explosion based. If it was shorter I would have enjoyed it a lot more, but I was so numbed to all the car chases and explosions that by the two-hour mark I just wanted it to end. I want you to know how hard that is for me, that’s like saying I pet so many puppies that it no longer brings me joy, it’s a sad, horrible thing.

That being said if you’re a huge fan of the series then you’ll probably be fine, for anyone else I suggest skipping this one.

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March Madness ends in April sadness for all but Duke 64 teams began NCAA Basketball’s March Madness, but only the Duke Bluedevils walk away as champions.

Web Photo The Bluedevils of Duke hoist their National Championship trophy as the 2015 Final Four champions.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer The Duke Blue Devils were able to outlast the Wisconsin Badgers to win their 5th national title.

Freshman Tyus Jones scored 19 of his team-high 23 points in the second half to help Duke knock off the senior led Badgers. Senior Frank Kaminsky led the Badgers with 21 points and 12 rebounds.

The Badgers were able to take control of the game early, but Duke was able to knot things up to 31 at the half. Wisconsin, after playing the cool, calm and collected roll on Saturday in their upset of undefeated Ken-

tucky, created a nine point lead with 13:23 left in the game.

Duke would not go away easily, as the youngsters of Duke outplayed the savvy veterans of Wisconsin. It all started with the forgotten freshman, Grayson Allen.

Allen scored 16 points for the Blue Devils along with eight straight coming after Wisconsin had gone up by nine.

Jones connected on a three and took the lead for good with 4:08 to go. Freshman Jahlil Okafor helped seal the deal with a bucket of his own. Even though Kaminsky outplayed Okafor, Okafor made the big plays down the stretch to help his team secure a national title with a 68-63

victory. Okafor finished with Jones secured the Most Outstanding Player award after pushing Duke to the comeback win in the 2nd half. He made several big shots, and was in complete control of the game.

Duke had their hands full in the semi-finals, taking on a Tom Izzo led Michigan State team that was playing its best basketball of the season.

The Spartans opened the game scorching from beyond the arc, taking an early 14-6 lead.

That lead didn’t last long.

Duke was able to buckle down defensively and take away the open three-pointers that Michigan State was getting early in the game. Next thing the fans

knew, Duke had an 11-point lead at the half, 36-25.

Michigan State was never able to claw their way back into the game. Denzel Valentine had a quality game, shooting 7-of-11 from the field including going 5-of-9 from deep leading the Spartans with 22 points and 11 rebounds. Travis Trice added 16 points.

The Duke freshman played a crucial role in the semi-final game as well. Justice Winslow played great for Duke, finishing with 19 points and nine rebounds. Okafor finished with 18 points and six rebounds.

Duke got it done on the defensive end of the court, holding the Spartans to 40 percent

shooting. They also did a great job of getting to the foul line, shooting 37 free throws compared to Michigan State’s 16.

Duke was able to finish the Spartans off with an 81-61 victory.

Even though Wisconsin fell in the National Championship game, the Badgers did something this year that no other team did, beat Kentucky.

Fans knew that the Wisconsin - Kentucky was going to be a good one, but this game was just fun to watch.

Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker played great, Kaminsky

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College hoops is over, but college puck lives on

While March Madness created a madness of media coverage, the Final Four is over and a National Champion has been crowned, leaving sports fans with the Frozen Four this weekend in Boston.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor The parity that is college hockey has given fans a very interesting looking Frozen Four for 2015. There are a couple of traditional powers in the field, as well as some new faces looking to hang a banner in their home rink.

Boston University is a favorite to win the National Championship this weekend behind the offensive firepower of Jack Eichel. Eichel leads the nation in scoring with 67 points on the year and a nation-leading 43 assists. Just a freshman, this may be the first and only opportunity many get to see Eichel as a college player, as he is likely to win the Hobey Baker Award as the top college player in the NCAA. The general consensus is that at the NHL Draft in June, Eichel will be selected as the 2n overall pick and forgo his final three years of college eligibility to head to the NHL. After a down year last season, the Terriers from BU have gone 27-7-5 this season on their way to the Hockey East conference championship and the Beanpot Championship. BU is a favorite to come away as champions this weekend, but unfortunately for them they have

the toughest semifinal opponent of the field.

The Terriers will face off tonight against the University of North Dakota with the winner advancing to the National Championship game.

UND is a perennial winner, but haven’t won a title since 2000. Head coach Dave Hakstol has led North Dakota to seven Frozen Fours in his 11 seasons as bench boss of the team formerly known as the Fighting Sioux. UND has been among the top three in the nation for the entire season, spending much of the season at no. 1. With Hakstol at the helm, UND has gone 29-9-3 on the year.

Leading the way for UND is their goaltender, junior Zane McIntyre, who along with Eichel is one of the three finalists for the Hobey Baker Award.

Up front, junior Drake Caggiula leads the offense with 18 goals and 36 points, with senior Michael Parks posting 32 points on the season. UND may have more depth than the Terriers, but they’ll have to slow down BU’s top line. The winner of this game will be a heavy favorite for the National Championship on Saturday.

The other semifinal game features two teams who are in unchartered territory for their

Web Photo Boston University freshman Jack Eichel is the favorite to win the Hobey Baker Award, is a certain first-round NHL draft pick, and is garnering much of the attention surrounding this weekend.

program.

The University of NebraskaOmaha is making their first-ever Frozen Four appearance after becoming a Division I program in 1996. The Mavericks were

Web Photo UND’s Zane McIntyre will go head to head with fellow Hobey Baker Award finalist Jack Eichel tonight.

ranked high among the national polls early in the season, but had a late season slide before going on a run in the playoffs.

At 20-12-6, the Mavericks may have an advantage this weekend, their coach. Dean Blais is in his sixth season as the bench boss for UNO. Beforehand? He led North Dakota to National Championships in 1997 and 2000. UNO came out of the Midwest Regional tournament after defeating Harvard and the Rochester Institute of Technology on the way to their first Frozen Four.

Woodbury, Minn. native Jake Guentzel, son of Minnesota Gopher men’s hockey assistant coach Mike Guentzel, leads the Maverick offense with 38 points in 35 games, but is followed closely by line mates Austin Ortega who has 20 goals and 37 points, and Duluth native Jake Randolph, who has 26 points in his rookie campaign.

On the back end, senior Ryan Massa has been outstanding this season. Massa has collected a 14-7-6 record behind a 1.91 goals against average and an incredible .939 save percentage and two shutouts.

Omaha is a great defensive team, and they’ll have to show that in order to get past a pesky Providence team.

Providence is a team that while good, haven’t been to the Frozen Four since 1985. The Friars finished second in Hockey East behind BU, but have pieced together an impressive season.

At 24-13-2 have a balanced scoring attack throughout their lineup, and one of the best goaltenders in the country. Five different players have scored double-digit goal totals for Providence this year, with three players totaling over 30 points.

In goal, Jon Gillies has been the backbone of this team.

Gillies has gone 22-13-2 on the year behind a .929 save percentage, a 2.0 goals against average, and four shutouts.

The action starts tonight at 5 p.m. on ESPN2 with Omaha and Providence facing off against one another, followed by BU and UND at 8:30. The National Championship game will be played on Saturday on ESPN at 7:30 p.m.

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Twins struggle to find offense on Opening Day

The Minnesota Twins played their season opener on Monday at Comerica Park against the Detroit Tigers. The Tigers have won the past four division titles, and look like they may have their best assembled team this season.

On the mound was 2012 Cy Young Award winner David Price, and for the Twins was Phil Hughes. Twins manager Paul Molitor had quite the challenge for his first Major League game to manage, and the Twins certainly found out soon enough the Tigers were all that and more on Opening Day. The Tigers had their scoring party begin in the second inning, as outfielder J.D. Martinez went opposite field into rightcenterfield for a solo homerun.

Martinez has always had the reputation to get on a hot streak when starting the season, as last season in Triple-A Toledo he hit ten homeruns in the month of April to earn a call-up with Detroit.

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Web Photo Apple Valley, Minn. native Tyus Jones was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.

Web Photo Twins’ manager Paul Molitor is in his first season with the club.

TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer

FINAL FOUR “Freshman Tyus Jones scored 19 of his team-high 23 points in the second half to help Duke knock off the senior led Badgers.”

There is not much negativity to talk about with Twins starter Phil Hughes, but his problem with the New York Yankees was the long ball. Last season however, he only gave up more than one homerun in only three of his 32 starts last season.

Later on after Martinez’s homerun and a double by newcomer Yoenis Cespedes, catcher Alex Avila took a 2-2 cutter from Hughes and parked it over the left field fence to make it 3-0. Down 3-0 to David Price and the Tigers certainly is not where any team wants to be.

The Twins had some hard hit balls throughout the ballgame, particularly 2014 All-Star catcher Kurt Suzuki’s deep shot to left field in the top of the third inning, but Cespedes timed his leap and brought the ball back into play. It was a highway robbery and a clutch moment for the Tigers. At that moment of the game, you could sense how the rest of the game would go.

Danny Santana had a shot lined towards right-centerfield, but second baseman Ian Kinsler leaped and robbed Santana an

extra-base hit.

The Tigers ended up getting another run off of Phil Hughes, as with one out in the bottom of the sixth inning Yoenis Cespedes struck again and lined a triple to left field. The Tigers’ young third baseman Nick Castellanos hit a sacrifice fly to Twins center fielder Jordan Schafer, and Cespedes scored making it 4-0.

Hughes did not pitch great for the Twins, but he recovered from a bad start to the game. He finished pitching six innings, giving up four runs on eight hits, adding six strikeouts. As the season goes on, expect Hughes to pick up right where he left off last year and continue to be the Twins’ best option for starters.

Even though the Twins did not get a hit until the fifth inning and a runner in scoring position until the sixth, they had their opportunities towards the end of the game. In the ninth inning, second baseman Brian Dozier singled with two out in the in-

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went 7-of-11 from the field for 20 points to go along with 11 rebounds. Dekker was 6-of9 from the field for 16 points.

Coming off a tough game against Notre Dame, Kentucky looked a lot more vulnerable rather than unstoppable.

Kentucky had their chances down the stretch, going on an 8-0 run, taking a four points lead, and really putting the Badgers on their heels. Kaminsky and crew responded.

Wisconsin went on an 8-0 run of their own, as Dekker connected on a bucket, followed by a Nigel Hayes tip-in.

The Badgers tied the game at 60. On their next possession Dekker connect on a three pointer to give the Badgers the

lead for good with 1:42 remaining, punching their ticket to the record books, and a national title game.

The Badgers hit their free throws late, earning a 71-64 victory.

Freshman Karl-Anthony Towns led the Wildcats with 16 points and nine rebounds. The Harrison twins, Aaron and Andrew, finished with a combined 25 points. Wisconsin was able to out rebound Kentucky 3422, which was a key for their success.

Although the Badgers knocked off a team that some thought no one could beat, Duke would get to cut the nets down, and watch “One Shining Moment” on the main stage.

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Newcomers and veterans alike perform well for Minnesota State DENZELL OATS Staff Writer In cold and breezy conditions, the Minnesota State men’s track and field faced competitive action in South Dakota at the Vance Butler Invite in Souix Falls.

Junior sprinter Richard Wilhite, Jr. was able to stand out this weekend putting in one of his better performances as a Maverick. In the meet he managed to capture a pair of first-place crowns in both the 100 and 200-meter dash. In the 100-meters, he topped two Mavericks with his time of 10.80.

Carrying on to the 200, the speedy Wilhite took another first place victory in a similar manner crossing the line at 21.39. His performance in the 200 would hit the provisional qualifying standard and currently ranks him #18 among the nation’s DII sprinters.

Newcomer Jake Gourley and senior veteran Anthony Gustafson also had great showing in the meet. True freshman Gourley competed for his second time as a Maverick, where he was able to take a second place finish in the 100 behind Wilhite with a time of 10.94. Gustafson would cross the line in third for the 1,2,3 sweep with a time of

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10.97. Gustafson would go on to his favored event, the 200, where he would cross the line gracefully at 21.74. Gourley would come in not too far behind Captain Gustafson crossing the line at 22.00.

In the hurdle events, senior Slater Powell continues to lead the Mavericks. Taking control of the race early, Powell finished first in the 110-meter hurdles with his time of 14.30. This time betters his season best and previous time of 14.50. Powell, already having reached the provisional standard in the hurdles currently obtains the #11 spot in the nation.

Sophomore Benjamin Ojika followed in third at 14.60 and Zechariah Copeland was in fifth.

Powell would continue his day and lead the Mavericks yet again; this time in the 400-meter hurdles. Powell found a second place finish with a final time of 56.08 also bettering his season best from last week.

In the 400, conditions seemed all too combative. Despite a windy backstretch, freshman Javontee Brice held the Mavericks down the 400-meter dash. Crossing the line at 50.91, freshman Brice captured a fifth place finish among the field.

Zachary Gearman would finish

a spot behind Brice in seventh.

Concluding the 400 runs, Matthew Stocker picked another first place spot for the Mavericks and the first on the distance side.

In his specialty, the 800-meters, he was able to post a time of 1:58.10.

Frank Veldman would follow suit in the jumps. Kicking off the field events, he brought in a first place finish in high jump leaping a 6’8.75’’. Making his first outdoor appearance, senior Keyvann Rudd came in second with a height of 6’6.75’’.

Sophomore Alex Campbell and senior captain David Pearcill would see similar success in the triple jump finishing second and third, respectively, with Campbell leading the way at 44’9.75”.

A pair of Mavericks rounded out the competitions finding success in the throwing events.

Samuel McKay finished third in the javelin with his heave of 183’10”. Sam Udermann also finished third in the discus with a toss of 153’1”.

The Mavericks will compete next this weekend in St. Peter at the Lee Krough Invite hosted

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Web Photo Torii Hunter was visibly upset after a called third-strike ended Monday’s game, eliminating the Twins’ chances at a comeback.

ning against Tigers starter David Price. First baseman Joe Mauer singled after that, putting two on with two out.

That forced Tigers manager Brad Ausmus to go to the bullpen, as Price’s day was done.

Former Twins closer Joe Nathan was called on, as he came in to pitch to former Twins and Tigers teammate Torii Hunter. The ending of the game was something to talk about, as Hunter checked his swing on a breakaway slider from Nathan. Home plate umpire Joe West called Torii out on strikes, despite not checking down to first-base umpire Kerwin Danley. Hunter was furious at West, as he stood arguing

with West as the Tigers were shaking celebratory hands on the field.

“I have no idea why he didn’t check. He just walked off, so obviously he knew he was wrong,” Hunter told MLB.com.

David Price picked up the win, and Phil Hughes was handed the loss. Tigers closer Joe Nathan notched his 377th career save.

Next up for the Twins is a three-game road series against the Chicago White Sox, which include’s Chicago’s home-opener on Friday.

After the weekend, Minnesota will play their own home opener against the Kansas City Royals on Monday at Target Field.

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