April 10, 2014

Thursday, April 10, 2014 @msureporter

facebook.com/msureporter

Minnesota State University, Mankato

www.msureporter.com

THURSDAY

FRIDAY Clouds yielding Periods of sun TUESDAY to some sunL 66 WEDNESDAY L 66 L: 41 H: 65 L: 44

H: 62

H 86 SATURDAY

H 86

H 86

Cooler with THURSDAY rain possible L 66 L: 39

H: 57

MSU ‘votes Mariah and Joe’ as Haffield and Wolf take spring elections The Minnesota State Student Association spring elections are in the books as Mariah Haffield will take the presidency into the next academic year.

Photo Courtesy of Vote Mariah and Joe Party The 2014 MSSA Presidential and Vice Presidential spring election winners. At left, President Mariah Haffield, who took the presidency with 455 votes and her running mate Joe Wolf, who ran away with the VP nod, tallying 484 votes in his favor.

SAM WILMES News Editor A new president and vice president were elected in the annual Minnesota State Student Association Elections on Tuesday night.

Mariah Haffield, a sophomore, is a product of Worthington, Minn., and won with 36% of the vote. A Human Resource Management Major, she has several goals and ambitions as president.

A member of Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority, this caps off an extremely successful week, one in which her sorority won the sorority of the year.

The first female president in fourteen years, Haffield became the seventh female student body president since 1960.

First and foremost, she aims to have the MSSA President be a visible, empathetic figure on campus.

“I will have an open door policy,” Haffield said. “I don’t want to be a lofty figure no one

knows.” An example of this policy has been her acknowledgment of a student’s concerns over not having a clock on the south side of the CSU. She is also considering installing a phone charging station on the CSU. She served as a Residential Hall Association representative her freshman year where she met newly-elected Vice President Joe Wolf, who was also serving in the same position.

Haffield also served as an off-campus senator last year.

Soon after meeting, the two exchanged ideas and debates about important issues on campus. After mulling over the idea of running and overcoming the initial fear of running as sophomores, they set their minds to it.

Haffield is exceptionally happy with the candidates their party was able to field. Candidates were exceptionally in-

ELECTIONS • Page 3

Mankato sends 50 to prestigious research conference Students recognized for scholarly, creative achievements.

HANNAH KLEINBERG Staff Writer This Monday, April 14th is the third annual MnSCU Undergraduate Conference of Scholarly and Creative Activity. For the past two years, this newborn tradition took place here, at our University in Mankato; but this year the torch will be passed on to Minnesota State University Moorhead.

“The purpose of the conference is to provide undergraduate students from and MnSCU university the opportunity to

INSIDE:

present their research, scholarly, and creative projects through poster and oral presentations, visual displays and performance art,” explained Elizabeth J. Sandell, Interim Director and Associate Professor of Elementary Education.

For the past two years, MnSCU universities have used this event to highlight the remarkable research and progress done in the region. MnSCU schools include MN State Mankato, MN State Moorhead, St. Cloud State, Winona State, Metropolitan State, Southwest Minnesota State, and Bemidji

State.

Minnesota State, Mankato will be sending 50 students to work alongside 150 other students from the assorted MnSCU institutions. According to Sandell, as well as many others, this is a chance for participating students to reap major benefits.

Through dutiful research and clever thinking, students can gain much insight into the world of academic research.

They can also learn skills that will leave them well-equipped in the future when working on projects in a much larger set-

ting. This also helps them learn how to think outside of the box, by pushing them to think with alternative perspectives and to challenge themselves with what they do.

“Students have told me that there are many obvious advantages, such as a strong letter of recommendation for graduate school, the chance to see if you are really interested in what you think you are, and a great experience to list on your resume,” said Sandell. “What I have found to be the most important benefit, however, is that research provides you with the

2014 SPRING ELECTION RESULTS - PG. 3

opportunity to work closely with professionals in the field you are interested it. Students make drastic improvements in writing and in their practice of thinking critically.”

To get involved, people should consult others, as well as get a good amount of advice.

Students may ask professors and faculty advisors where it may be best to start research, as well as examine school websites for lists of faculty interests. It’s also suggested that students become acquainted with campus seminars to learn more.

ED/OP

4

A&E

9

SPORTS

13

2 • MSU Reporter

News

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Relay for Life held at MSU

(From left to right) (L) Two participants in the Relay For Life share in the memories made. (R) The Relay For Life group.

Photos Courtesy of Pat Lueck

Beyond The Horizon PART 5 Today, international student Anya Zhukova returns to the topic of culture shock to observe new cultural differences she came across during her time in the United States and observations made during a visit to New York City.

ANYA ZHUKOVA Special to the Reporter Right when I began to think that all these moments of “culture shock” were left behind, I discovered a new bunch of them and almost everything came out of the blue. It all started while I was planning my trip to NYC – one of the biggest adventures of my entire stay here.

People say different things about New York, but everybody agrees that NYC is a so-called cultural capital of the U.S.; thus, just like any other capital city, New York is extremely diverse in terms of people that live there.

My friends kept saying that New York is different, because it’s full of crazy people, although nobody could explain clearly in what way New Yorkers are crazy, everybody seemed to be sharing the same opinion about the Big Apple’s inhabitants. As usual, I never believed it, until I had a chance to experience it myself.

When coming to New York for the first time, be prepared to meet some “crazy” locals. I put “crazy” in quotes on purpose. If I tried to give you my own explanation of the phenomenon, I’d say they’re good “crazy,” in a very special way. Life in New York is different and people have to change the way of thinking and dealing with problems to live there. That’s why your perspective of life will probably differ a lot from everything they believe

in. Good news is, it will stop bothering you once you get to know New Yorkers and get used to the way the things are in the Big Apple.

Everybody’s singing. Out loud, in public transport. Now that is something internationals can find annoying. I still wonder if people do it just because they can’t help it, or they seriously believe that they’re as good at singing as The Beatles, Coldplay or Cranberries.

The first time I ever came across such performances was in NYC, but shortly after it started haunting me. Now whenever I’m on the bus/train/metro, there’s someone rapping or singing, thinking that his/her earphones cut them out of the entire surrounding World On my way back to Mankato from New York I was thinking about other things I ever found strange during my first half of the semester. I came up with quite a few of them.

40 means flip-flops? And Tshirts. Minnesota style spring is something I could never get. I mean, I remember myself behaving this way: going out in winter without a hat and a warm jacket.

But I was 14, and it was a part of my rebellious behavior – a reaction to the rules my parents wanted me to obey. But here you can see people of my parents’ age doing the same thing. People wait for it to get warmer for so long, they forget what “warm” actually means.

No tights; another interesting

thing about clothes/weather, even when it’s freezing outside, girls wear dresses without tights, or choose pants instead of dresses and skirts. I feel like it’s my duty to enlighten people that warm winter tights exist. They were invented for girls to still be able to wear beautiful dresses in cold weather and stay warm at the same time.

Last but not the least, individualism vs. collectivism. Family relationships are different all over the World and that’s exactly why it’s fascinating to observe the way families operate in different countries and the roles family members play. In Russia becoming an adult claiming responsibility for your own choices, decisions, and life in general is a long process. For some kids it takes years and years to get there.

In America it happens during a single summer, between your high school graduation day and the day you start working/go to college. From that last day on you are starting a new life, usually in a new place that you pay for, with new furniture, your own food and clothes. You are now responsible for your education, career, your future life and any extra expenses you might have. While in my country finishing school means that you finished school, it is as simple as that.

No matter how much time and effort you spend trying to adapt to the life in a new place, there will still be things that will

amaze, surprise and sometimes shock you. But fear not, as it only means that you are different, and the whole World is different.

After all, imagine how boring it would be to have it the same way everywhere. Like it or not, diversity will always be around you,

wherever you go. So let’s learn how to appreciate it instead of arguing about it.

Have questions/comments about what you just read? Just send them to annzhukova@inbox.ru . Your opinion is important to me.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MSU Reporter • 3

News

2014 SPRING ELECTION RESULTS

Election season has officially come to a close. The 2014 version featured different races at different positions and the results are in: Winners highlighted in grey.

President: Mariah Haffield - 455 Cody Nickel - 255 Blake Asbury - 253 Trevor Granberg - 216 Vice President: Joe Wolf - 484 Jessica Herion - 335 Nick Kragness - 262 Graduate Studies: Dillon Petrowitz - 31 Cody Ingenthron - 4 Allied Health and Nursing: PJ Piotrowski - 158 Tess Bunker - 2 Taylor Pederson - 2

Arts & Humanities: Danielle Barr - 69 Kristina Porter - 1 Taylor Pederson - 1 David Schieler - 1 Jaylynn Nash - 1 Social and Behavioral Sciences: Sarah David - 81 Nolan Brinkman - 35 Kyler Schoner - 18 Brian Viessman - 18 Meisso Wako - 18 Academic Senators College of Education: Lucas Van Beek - 1

ELECTION “We wanted to look for students to be interested, involved and wanting to make an impact.” continued from 1 volved all over campus with leadership positions that to her signified their readiness to make an impact.

“We wanted to look for students to be interested, involved and wanting to make an impact,” Haffield said. “I knew some people and so did Joe. “We have a diverse party, I mean I knew people were involved, but still, this is amazing.”

Haffield knows the positives and negatives the free lot brings.

“It costs a lot of money to repair the lot, but students really like it,” Haffield said.

“It’s great to have a free lot, but I’m not sure how to keep costs down on other lots just to improve that one.”

She likes the idea of the possible sports facility expansion.

“The bubble will be good for athletes and hopefully it will improve student involvement and will be good not only for intercollegiate athletics but also for intramurals.”

College of Science Engineering & Technology: Noel Leul - 110 Arnold Bagamba - 70 Frederick Price de Ruiter - 44 Off-campus: Elizabeth Jacobson - 303 Ashley James - 301 Rebecca Wegscheid - 279 Connor Martin - 273 Shahriar Arnob - 252 Marshal Tromberg - 238 Wake Meisso - 17 College of Business: Elizabeth Anderson - 69 Jeremy Herkenhoff - 49 Skeeter Rogers - 33

Student Union Board: Loghin Welch - 690 Taylor Pederson - 3 Newspaper Board: Matt Eberline - 624 Marchell Magxaka - 12 Athletic Advisory Board: Jon Marquardt - 652 Taylor Pederson - 4 Amendment #1: Combination of Spring and Fall elections: Yes - 575 No - 113

Amendment #2: Generalization of Residential Life Senators: Yes - 576 No - 75 Amendment #3: Undeclared Student Senators: Yes - 536 No - 176 Amendment#4: Clerical and Grammatical: Yes - 622 No - 47

Concert slated for Saturday SAM WILMES News Editor A local Mankato favorite will hit the stage on Saturday at Hooligans Neighborhood Pub. Davina and the Vagabonds will perform at the facility, located at 1400 East Madison Ave., at 9:30 p.m. Mankato. City Mouse will open the set at 7:45 p.m.

Tickets will be $10 in advance and $12 the day of the show.

Advanced ticket purchases are strongly encouraged.

KMSU-The Maverick and the Minnesota State Mankato Performance Series will be sponsoring the concert with assistance from the Arts and Cultural Heri-

Meet the Author: Kirstin Cronn-Mills

tage Fund.

“We are very excited to be returning to Mankato,” Davina Sowers told the University. “We always have a great time and the Mankato audiences have always been very supportive and enthusiastic. We plan to have some new music to share as well.”

Sowers has shared the stage with a number of top performers, including The Blues Brothers, Buddy Guy, Elvis Bishop, Joe Bonamassa, Los Lobos, PineTop Perkins, Aaron Neville, Little Feat, Irma Thomas and James Hunter.

She has also performed at a number of top venues, including the House of Blues in Atlantic

City, N.J., The Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, Calif., the Raperswil Blues & Jazz Festival in Switzerland and Blues in Hell Festival in Hell, Norway.

According to National Public Radio’s Marc Silver, “Davina Sowers’ classically trained right fingers shimmy down the piano keys and meet up with an insistent boogie-woggie bass. Then she reveals her other musical talent: a sassy, salty, sweet voice that’s childlike at the top, husky at the bottom.”

Blues in Britain has compared her vocals to some of the premier voices in the music genre, including Adele and Bessie Smith.

Now Hiring: Construction Workers Requirements:

• Construction experience (all trades accepted)

• Looking for skilled and unskilled laborers

• Valid drivers license Type of Construction:

Specializes in high-end products used for construction and remodeling in the Food, Beverage, Bio-Containment, and Pharmaceutical Industries Compensation:

• Equal Opportunity Employer

• Advancement Opportunities

• Health, Dental, Life Insurance Benefits

• Simple IRA Retirement Plan

• Vacation

• Perdiem & Overtime Opportunities

• Profit Bonus

• Competitive Wage

Live Streaming of the event funded by Maverick Visual Productions, a service of ITS, and Library Services.

Please stop in to pick up an application or email your request to Melissa Schiller at mschiller@icsmn.com

INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, INC. 215 Fifteenth Street South, St. James, MN 56081

507-375-4633

4 • MSU Reporter

Thursday, April 10, 2014 Follow the Reporter on Twitter @MSU Reporter or Like Us on Facebook.com/ msureporter

Email the Editor in Chief: reporter-editor@mnsu.edu

Spring voter turnout disappointing to say the least REECE HEMMESCH Editor in Chief Minnesota State University, Mankato has one of the largest enrollment sizes in all of the MnSCU (Minnesota State Colleges and Universities) system with over 18,000 students currently enrolled in programs here. Although the large student body yields unprecedented numbers of students, it is a little upsetting when you see empty seats at MSU sporting events or any other type of event on campus made to draw college students to it, but overall, in that sense, I can live with it.

A lot of students have a lot going on in their busy schedules and no time to go to events like that for their own pleasure.

Another bulk of the student body truly doesn’t care about any events put on by the university or athletics featuring the Mavericks, they are just here to have a good time and get through their four or five years of college with a lot of fun memories.

Again I say, in either situation, I’m not mad. You are entitled to your opinion on university events and if you do not feel they are sufficient to receive your attention, that’s your prerogative.

Where I’m getting with all this is that even though I am just a little upset about low attendance rates found throughout the system, I am truly and utterly disappointed in the MSU student body on the subject of the spring 2014 MSSA election

results. I am not displeasured at who won or what amendments were made to the constitution; I am distraught with the fact that this election yielded some of the worst voter turnouts in school history from the student body.

Overall, the amount of votes casted for each position vary throughout, which is acceptable considering you should not vote for a candidate that is not running for something that pertains to you. For example, if

On a side note, I don’t mind the abstention from certain categories as I chalk that up to a student not being prepared enough to make a sound judgment for a vote either way.

Again, that part is fine, considering it makes for a more pure election rather than whoever’s name is first on the ballot.

I cannot stress enough the importance of voting in a university like this, where policy making and many other provisions lie directly with the stu-

“What I don’t get is how out of more than 18,000 students here at MSU, only 1,179 made it to the polls to vote fore the next university president.” a student lived off campus and was in a major that is a part of the college of social and behavioral sciences, it makes no sense that you would vote for a dormitory senator, or an academic senator for the college of allied health and nursing, that part I get.

What I don’t get is how out of more than 18,000 students on campus, only 1,179 made it to the polls to vote for the next university president. In the vice presidential race, just 1,081 students casted their vote with almost 200 combined in both categories abstaining from voting for that particular category.

dent government. These people are in charge of the university for the next academic year and their positions should be ones that are heavily fought for, not just whoever had the most of their friends vote for them.

Seniors, you are exempt from this due to the fact that you will not be here next year, so choosing a president based on this would be very difficult for anyone planning to leave the university after this semester.

Underclassmen, if you feel your voice isn’t heard in this election, why would you ever think it is being heard in a gubernatorial campaign? Or even

a presidential campaign?

If you do not exercise your basic rights as an American by voting for the student senate, you are basically telling the senate to run the university without the consent of the students that go here.

As for the elections, one should put more of a precedent on getting the information of the candidates out to the students, instead of making it their duty to find the information for themselves. Sure, there were brightly colored posters found all over campus the past few weeks for presidential candidates, but no information was given about any of the candidates and what they plan to do with the presidency.

Even this Editor in Chief only discovered the occurrence of the presidential debates the day after they occurred, making it very difficult to obtain any information on the candidates before Election Day. If the university wants to set precedence and make the university elections as big a deal as they should be in the first place, information should be easier for the students to find. If you can’t get them statistics on who they are voting for, I do not blame them for not voting.

Students, it is a couple days late for this year so I will make a suggestion for those early in their collegiate careers and will be here for the next few years: vote. Your voice truly does make a difference and it molds this university, even if you believe it does not.

“Do you engage with the Student Senate?”

AMY MUKAMURI, CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT “No.”

Minnesota State University, Mankato

STAFF

SPRING 2014 EDITOR IN CHIEF: Reece Hemmesch.......389-5454 NEWS EDITOR: Sam Wilmes..............389-5450 SPORTS EDITOR: Joey Denton.............. 389-5227 VARIETY EDITOR: James Houtsma.......... 389-5157 ADVERTISING SALES: Natasha Jones........... 389-1063 Mac Boehmer............389-5097 Parker Riesgraf.......... 389-1079 Brandon Poliszuk.......389-5453 BUSINESS MANAGER: Jane Tastad............... 389-1926 ADV. DESIGN MANAGER: Dana Clark............... 389-2793

POLICIES & INFORMATION • If you have a complaint, suggestion or would like to point out an error made in the Reporter, call Editor in Chief Reece Hemmesch at 507-3895454. The Reporter will correct any errors of fact or misspelled names in this space. Formal grievances against the Reporter are handled by the Newspaper Board.

• The Minnesota State University Mankato Reporter is a studentrun newspaper published twice a week, coming out on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The Reporter generates 78 percent of its own income through advertising and receives approximately 22 percent from Student Activities fees. The Reporter is free to all students and faculty, but to start a subscription, please call us at 507-3891776. Subscriptions for the academic school year are $55.00 and subscribers will receive the paper within three to five days after publishing.

• Letters exceeding 400 words may not be accepted. The Reporter reserves the right to edit letters to fit space or correct punctuation. The Reporter reserves the right to publish, or not publish, at its discretion. Letters must contain year, major or affiliation with the university, or lack thereof. All letters must contain phone numbers for verification purposes.

Compiled by Yohanes Ashenafi

BETHELHAM LEGESSE, SOPHOMORE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

EMILY STEINMAN, SOPHOMORE EDUCATION

TREJVAN CARSON FRESHMAN, MARKETING

MAJESTIC JONES JUNIOR BIO-MEDICAL SCIENCE

“ No.”

“No.”

“Not really.”

“No.”

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MSU Reporter • 5

News

Aviation celebration set for Saturday ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer Minnesota State University, Mankato will be holding its first Aviation Celebration.

Students on Saturday from the University’s Department of Aviation and its various organizations will be working at the event, which will help the Maverick Flight Team attend the National Intercollegiate Flying Association’s (NIFA) National Safety and Flight Evaluation Conference.

The event, entitled SAFECON 2014, was described by Minnesota State University student and Maverick Flight Team Manager George Glaros.

“There are ground and

flight events. Ground Events test competitors knowledge, memory and Crew resource management. The flying events range from two precision landing events, a navigation event and a message drop competition where competitors attempt to hit a target on the ground with a “message container,” Glaros said.

The event will take place at 3030 Airport Road in Mankato.

Tickets for the pancake breakfast will be $5, attendees under 18 will eat for free. A silent auction will consist of a 1 hour combat simulation, Fagen Fighter’s Warbird Ride, MSU Similator Rides and more.

Aviation educational activities will be offered for kids of

all ages. Young eagle flights will be offered and a Pilot Knowledge Competition will be offered with a $10 entry fee.

Prizes include a Sea Plane ride and one hour of combat simulation.

North Star Aviation, the Department of Aviation at Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota Valley EAA and the Minnesota Aviation Career Education Camp are sponsoring the event.

Four Department of Aviation organizations will be putting on the event, including Alpha Eta Rho (Mu Kappa Tau Chapter), Women in Aviation International (Northern Lights Chapter), Aviation Club and the Flight Team.

The Maverick flight team has ten competing members that will be sent to Columbus, Oh., for the national compe-

tition. According to George Glaros, additional competitors to extend their educational to high levels.

Web Photo

Annual international festival to take place Sunday The Centennial Student Union will play host once again to a festival of diversity.

PRATAKSHYA BHANDARI Staff Writer All of us have a story to tell.

We come from diverse cultures and regardless of where we started, our stories are a part of the larger world that we call home. The 38th annual Mankato Area International festival is ready to celebrate the many stories and diverse cultures of MSU Sunday in the Centennial Student Union.

The festival is going to be held on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the CSU. All three levels of the building will have entertainment, food and cultural display. The event is free.

Food vendors include cultural groups and Registered Student

Organizations as well as popular restaurants around town.

The opening ceremony starts at 11 a.m. with the traditional flag parade. Students representing more than 90 countries will proudly host their flags and parade around MSU. Entertainment will be in abundance – different student groups will be performing cultural music and dance; Socaholix, a six-piece Minneapolisbased group will be performing Jamaican music; Ticket to Brasil, a Twin Cities-based band will be performing Afro-Brazilian samba and the Hung Vuong association of MN will be performing a dragon dance.

In addition, other performances will be held at the Hearth Lounge as well as the Ostrand-

er Stadium throughout the day.

The Mankato Area International festival is one of the largest cultural celebrations in Mankato and has become an annual tradition. Every year, the community experiences a pleasant mix of culture and authenticity as it celebrates the rich diversity of Mankato.

As the International student population continues to grow and students from all over the world add their personal stories to MSU, the festival will always have something new to offer. Part of the festival will be rooted in tradition- and part of it will be an experience like never before. It is after all what makes stories so interesting - the predictable and the unknown coming together for an extraordinary experience.

Yohanes Ashenafi • MSU Reporter Students carry different flags through this CSU yesterday.

Need to scrap your vehicle? $$ CALL US $$ Ride? Call a 24 ed e -7 N

CALL

388-

RIDE 7433

• Used parts, cars, trucks & repairables!

• Purchasing all grades of metal!

• 70' scale on-site!

• Free Pick Up! • Friendly, Reliable Service • Top Dollar Paid • Online Parts Search

HOURS: Mon.-Fri., 8-5

507-524-3735

(10 miles south on Hwy. 22)

BANDRAUTOTRUCKSALVAGE.COM

6 • MSU Reporter

News

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Loyalty and Indian night 2014 success in dictatorship

RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer Freedom: the founding principle embedded deep within the roots of our country. Without it, our identity as Americans would be meaningless; the lives of our forefathers would be for nothing. This is what is deemed to be equal, just and fair.

However, as citizens used to such a beloved concept, we often forgo all negative aspects of freedom and its shortcomings.

This leads to citizens that are blinded to the atrocities our nation has committed around the world in the name of justice. Not only that, but the system of diplomacy is a slow one; barriers must be overcome and lengthy discussions must be held in order for new laws to be passed and matters to be resolved.

These facts hold true to our own Minnesota State Student Association, which is the leading governing body of our campus.

Because of those reasons and more, I believe the best course of action would be to rid our University of MSSA and replace it with a totalitarian dictatorship. That way, laws would get

passed quickly, improvements to campus would be widespread and the level of nonsense would be reduced to zero. A strong dictator, who is proud of our wonderful campus, would lead us to a golden age in student representation.

Who would this dictator be?

That’s open to suggestion, but I would want someone who could sweep the elections with their charm and intellect, and have the courage to rule our university with an iron grip. Someone that would be there to pick students up when they are weak and backhand them when they are foolish. A grip that would show the MnSCU system how strong our university is, and in turn, show how feeble others are.

Through loyalty to our city and a ferocity that can’t be tamed, this proud dictator would be a god amongst men. Students would show respect by either bowing or curtseying upon laying eyes on our glorious leader.

Professors would stand in silence as this proud figure paraded around our halls, ensuring in a new era of prosperity for MSU. Every day that our current Senate is in power, we lose an opportunity to foster change and growth. Yes, there is equal representation in the current

Yohanes Ashenafi • MSU Reporter (From Top to Bottom)- Bollywood Tumka, featuring different members of the Indian-American community.

Food is served for those in attendance on Saturday night in the Centennial Student Union.

Senate, but how is that a good thing? All colleges should be under one united banner, a banner that glimmers purple and gold.

Now hiring seasonal employees. +/- 40 hours a week.

View website for job descriptions www.greencare4u.com

507-344-8314

• 4 & 5 BEDROOM TOWNHOMES • 1 BEDROOM APARTMENTS • 2 BEDROOM APARTMENTS • ROOMMATE MATCHING • PET-FRIENDLY STOP ON IN OR GIVE US A CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION

VISIT OUR WEBSITE AND CHECK OUT OUR

WEEKLY & MONTHLY SPECIALS!

744 JAMES AVENUE • MANKATO, MN 56001

(507) 387-3771 EMAIL: HUNTINGTON@NATIONWIDEHSG.COM

www.MGMWineandSpirits.com

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MSU Reporter • 7

News

20 hurt in school stabbing spree in Pennsylvania

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press A student and guardian walk to their car from Franklin Regional Middle School after more then a dozen students were stabbed by a knife wielding suspect at nearby Franklin Regional High School on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Murrysville, Pa., near Pittsburgh.

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Flailing away with two knives, a 16-year-old boy with a r “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 19 students and a police officer in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him.

At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy who was on a ventilator after

a knife pierced his liver, missing his heart and aorta by only millimeters, doctors said.

The rampage — which came after years in which U.S. schools have geared much of their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought teachers rushing to help the victims.

The motive was under investigation.

Police didn’t immediately release the name of the suspect, who was taken into custody and treated for a minor hand wound.

The attack unfolded just minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. Police said it was over in just minutes.

Witnesses said the boy with the knives at first tackled a freshman and stabbed him in the belly, then got up and ran wildly down the hall, slashing other students.

Nate Moore, 15, said he saw the first attack and was going to try to break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face, requiring 11 stitches.

“It was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt the blood splash on my face.

It spurted up on my forehead,” he said.

The attacker “had the same expression on his face that he has every day, which was the freakiest part,” Moore said. “He wasn’t saying anything. He didn’t have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression.”

Doctors said they expected all the victims to survive, despite large and deep puncture wounds to the abdomen in some cases.

The wounded campus police officer was released.

Authorities credited an assistant principal with subduing the assailant, though they did not

describe the end of the attack in detail. Students identified the assistant principal as Sam King.

A student, Ian Griffith, said he saw the school police officer confront the student, who then stabbed the officer. King then tackled the boy, Griffith told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

King’s son told The Associated Press that his father was treated at a hospital, though authorities have said he was not wounded by the knife.

“He says he’s OK. He’s a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I believe he’s OK,” Zack King said. The boy added: “I’m proud of him.”

As for what set off the attack, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said investigators were looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld didn’t specify whether the suspect received or made the call.

Mia Meixner, 16, said the initial assault touched off a “stampede of kids” yelling, “Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!”

Michael Float, 18, said he had just gotten to school when he saw “blood all over the floor” and smeared on the wall near the main entrance. Then he saw a wounded student.

“He had his shirt pulled up and he was screaming, ‘Help!

Help!’” Float said. “He had a stab wound right at the top right of his

ONLY 1 MILE AWAY FROM CAMPUS!

stomach, blood pouring down.”

Float said he saw a teacher applying pressure to the wound of another student.

Someone, possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm after seeing some of the stabbings, the police chief said. Although that created chaos, Seefeld said, it emptied out the school more quickly, and “that was a good thing that that was done.”

Also, a girl with “an amazing amount of composure” applied pressure to a schoolmate’s wounds and probably kept the victim from bleeding to death, said Dr. Mark Rubino at Forbes Regional Medical Center.

Public safety and school officials said an emergency plan worked as well as could be expected. The district conducted an emergency exercise three months ago and a full-scale drill about a year ago.

“We haven’t lost a life and I think that’s what we have to keep in mind,” said county public safety spokesman Dan Stevens.

$10-$11 TO START

NOW HIRING

Direct Support Staff to help up to 4 individuals with developmental challenges in area group homes.

Positions open include: - FT & PT 3p-10p - FT Awake Overnights - PT Sleep Overnights All positions include every other weekend.

HAUGBECK SUPPORT SERVICES

Apply at 125 Madison Ave or contact Paul at 385-6201

115 Parkway Ave., Mankato, MN 56001

Call 507-387-1217 Today!

HOUSE FOR RENT AVAILABLE AUGUST 1ST, 2014

Visit our website: www.mfdc.com/glenwood Beautiful Outdoor Pool

• • • • • • • •

1 Bedrooms @ $649 2 Bedrooms @ $799 FREE Parking on Campus Air- Conditioned Units Outdoor Grills On- Site Laundr y Heat & Water Included We Accept Small Dogs!

Spacious Apartments

Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Evenings and Weekends by Appointment

1228 HIGHLAND AVE.

5 bedroom, 2 bath house next to campus. Garage, off-street parking, washer, dryer, dishwasher. $1800 + utilities. Gas budget is app. $105/mo.

CONTACT JIM AT 507-345-2049

8 • MSU Reporter

Advertisement

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MSU Reporter • 9

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Follow the Reporter on Twitter @MSU Reporter or Like Us on Facebook facebook.com/msureporter

Email the A&E Editor: reporter-arts@mnsu.edu

507-389-5157

No Shame, all quality for the Gallaghers in season 4 ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer In the category of fantastic shows that receive little fanfare, Shameless would carve out a nice little place for itself. Based on a critically acclaimed British series of the same name, Shameless is a dramatic comedy about the Gallagher clan, an out-of-luck family striving to make ends meet in the Chicago suburbs. As is the normal pattern for most shows, quality tends to decline as the series progresses, but Shameless instead delivered its best outing yet in its recently concluded fourth year.

Eldest daughter Fiona (Emmy Rossum) is working a steady office job, finally making it slightly past the poverty line. Lip (Jeremy Allen White) is the first generation to make it to college, but his street smarts fail to help him in a harsh academic setting. Debbie (Emma Kenney) and Carl (Ethan Cutkosky) are hitting their formative teenage years, victims of

their hormonal impulses and high school warfare. And deadbeat alcoholic dad Frank (William H. Macy) is facing his mortality as his years of alcohol consumption are resulting in liver failure.

Friends of the Gallaghers have their own assortment of worries.

Neighbors Kevin (Steve Howey) and Veronica (Shanola Hampton) are facing the possibility of three kids to raise, while pimp Mickey (Noel Fisher) struggles with coming out to his homophobic father.

It’s a formative year for all the characters involved, almost like a reset of sorts, and the show has never been more interesting, dramatic, or funny.

Season 4’s most compelling developments involve the darker side of the Gallagher clan, allowing layers of their inner demons to be pulled back, and exposed a very real fear that the sins of the parents will be repeated in their children. Fiona, despite doing better than she ever had in the previous three seasons, succumbs to her own detrimental

addiction which causes chaos in her personal and work environment, and eventually leads to a downward spiral of bad choices that just keep getting worse. For three seasons, Fiona was the glue that kept the family together, and her unraveling this year is both tragic in how far she falls and enormously interesting from a

quel series, Bates Motel, has been picked up for a third season to air early 2015. Syfy has ordered a 12-episode first season for 12 Monkeys, a new series developed from the sci-fi film starring Bruce Willis. The series will follow a time traveler from the future returning to present day to stop a plague from decimating mankind.

In the category of either really smart or really bad TV ideas, Paramount is developing a series inspired by the Jim Carrey film The Truman Show. Little is known about the project outside of its active development, but it’s possible Paramount may aim to experiment with a limited run series instead of the normal television model.

MOVIES | Two years ago, director Bryan Singer and Universal announced development of a new cinematic reinvention of Battlestar Galactica, disassociated from the 2003-2009 television series by Ronald D. Moore (Helix). Those plans since hibernated, but now are being resurrected with the recent announce-

ment of Jack Paglen, whose recent credit includes the Johnny Depp-vehicle Transcendence, being hired to write the movie’s screenplay.

Sony’s plans to release a Spider-Man affiliated movie every year is gaining traction. Drew Goddard (Cabin in the Woods) has been hired to pen and direct The Sinister Six, the first in Sony’s expansion of the Spider-Man universe, which will also be complimented by spin-off film, Venom.

No release year has been specified, although likely in-between the gap between installments three and four of The Amazing Spider-Man (2016, 2018). Goddard is currently working on another Marvel property, the 10-episode Netflix series on New York vigilante Daredevil.

New Line Cinema is rebooting the Police Academy brand, and they’ve recruited Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key, of Comedy Central’s Key & Peele fame, to direct it. The original series spawned seven titles about inefficient police recruits trying to bring order to the streets.

Web Photo

character standpoint. Since she was little, she has hated her father, but now it seems she’s following in his footsteps.

Ian, who spends most of the season MIA, comes back with his own problems that directly related to the Gallagher DNA in an interesting development for a character that otherwise seemed

aimless – although, it could be argued, that was the point. And Frank’s refusal to give up drinking even when facing death, and his absolute rebuttal of death itself even when the hour’s up, goes to both comically hilarious and bleak places -- keeping

SHAMELESS • Page 10

Entertainment update: they’re back!

ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer

TV | In one of the most anticlimactic announcements in the television world since AMC’s Walking Dead season 5 renewal, HBO has officially picked up the critically acclaimed Game of Thrones for a fifth and sixth season. Game of Thrones, based on the Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R. R. Martin, is a worldwide phenomenon, having just enjoyed its best ratings yet, and the cable’s best ratings since 2007’s Sopranos series finale (6.6 million and 11.1 million, respectively). Series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have said the series is likely to end after a seventh season. In the event that the television series surpasses the books – five out of a planned seven are published – Martin has informed Benioff and Weiss of the series endgame to head towards accordingly. The current season 4 is adapting from the second half of book three, A Storm of Swords.

A&E’s popular Psycho pre-

Web Photo With Drew Goddard now on board to direct, the Sinister Six are one step closer to the big screen.

10 • MSU Reporter

A&E

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Battle of the Barbies

Things are not well in the Barbie Dream-Home as real life imitators battle it out.

MADELINE ZAFFT Staff Writer

It looks as though everthing in Barbie’s world is not as perfect and pink as most would think.

The Human Ken and Human Barbie aren’t quite seeing eyeto-eye. It all started when Justin Jedlica a.k.a Ken dissed Valeria Lukyanova, also known as the Human Barbie; plastic flew (not literally, but you get the picture).

You would think the two should get along great, since they are a lot alike in the aspect that they both want to look like dolls, but there is clearly some built up tension.

Jedlica has done it all when it comes to acheiving his looking like Ken and, yes, that includes close to 140 surgical procedures so far. He is now working with a silicone-fabrication company to create a custom artistic muscle-

Web Photo

augmentation-implant line. Almost $150,000 to permanently look like a plastic doll? To each their own I suppose.

Here’s where the drama starts: Jedlica spoke disapprovaingly of Lukyanova in his recent GQ interview when he said, “I don’t really get her. I don’t get why people think she’s so interesting.

She has extensions. She wears stage makeup. She’s an illusionist.” I’m just going to take a guess and say that people think Lukyanova is interesting for the same reason they feel Jedlica is interesting. For some reason, I am sensing that this human Ken has some serious jealousy issues.

Jedlica even took his distaste of Lukyanova as far as dressing up like her and comparing her to a “drag queen.” “Valeria has been my arch-nemesis ever since we met each other earlier this year, and by dressing up like her twin, I wanted to prove that anyone can

Valeria Lukyanova in full Barbie attire.

look like Barbie, even Ken!” Am I the only one very surprised at this argument? Ken and Barbie are supposed to be happy, not catty.

I was expecting a similar response back to Jedlica from Lukyanova, but that’s not really what happened. Lukyanova went on a rant about having children and calling people of mixed races a “degeneration” of beauty. Let’s just pause for a moment. What on earth is Lukyanova trying to get across? Instead of calling Ken plastic or fake Lukyanova stated “The very idea of children brings out this deep revulsion in me…I’d rather die from torture, because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle.” I’m not quite sure how this conversation got here. The fight itself seems pretty ridiculous to me as, there is plenty of room on the earth for both a human Barbie and Ken.

SHAMELESS “Season 4’s most compelling developments involve the darker side of the Gallagher clan, allowing layers of their inner demons to be pulled back, and expose a very real fear that the sins of the parents will be repeated in their children.” continued from 9 in general tone with the character. For Frank, self-preservation and self-satisfaction are the only loves he holds dear, going so far as to find, befriend, and manipulate a long-forgotten daughter to achieve his goals.

On the upside, Lip’s role expanded greatly, his year in college changing him considerably and forcing him to grow up in insane circumstances. As a high school student more adept at hustling money in a pinch than caring to learn anything, Lip is confronted with a world of rules and structure he’s not quite accustomed for. When Fiona’s dark slide bleeds into his college life, it leads to a quasiheroic and heavily impressive juggling act of keeping tabs on his brothers and sisters while keeping up to date on his school workload.

Debbie and Carl’s trip into adulthood is relatable, hilarious, and ridiculous. While Carl enjoys wreaking havoc in school and taking full use of Kleenexes, Debbie eagerly wants to grow up and sleep with boys.

She also learns, the hard way, that school can be a rough, traumatizing place.

After a close-ended season three finale which easily could

have substituted for a series finale, Shameless returned new, fresh, and stronger than ever – although that first year is still comedy gold. There isn’t another show like Shameless anywhere, and it doesn’t hit record numbers and it hasn’t hit the notoriety it deserves, but it’s difficult to conceptualize another show that is so outlandish but feels so real and earnest, and deserves to be in the same discussions as Breaking Bad and Mad Men. Life is funny, stupid, tragic and cruel. Families fight and families makes up. Shameless understands this, embraces it, and weaves a story that highlights the best and worst of people while being unpredictable, daring, and original, but most of all, powerful. It’s impossible not to be pulled in by the emotion of Fiona’s darker impulses, or elated by Lip’s dedication to family and school, or horrified for Debbie as the cruel pranks of teenage kids rear their ugly heads. If life lessons coupled with romance, drama, and comedy is appealing, forget Parenthood, and binge on Shameless. It’s one of the best shows around.

SATURDAY, APRIL 19TH 9AM-9PM

APRIL 19, 2014 FOR A COMPLETE LISTING VISIT: RECORDSTOREDAY.COM

100'S OF LIMITED EDITION VINYL RELEASES

100's OF LIMITED EDITION VINYL RELEASES

COME EARLY FOR FREE SWAG! REGULAR STORE HOURS: 10AM-6PM MON.-SAT. 12PM-5PM SUNDAY

Web Photo

507-625-6507 630 N. Riverfront Drive

s r

r

TM

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MSU Reporter • 11

A&E

Mickey Rooney: a movie character always larger than life — summed up the man’s passion and capacity for life.

Rooney began as a toddler in his parents’ vaudeville act in the 1920s. He was barely six when he first appeared on screen, playing a midget in the 1926 silent comedy short “Not to Be Trusted,” and he was still at it more than 80 years later, working incessantly as he racked up about 250 screen credits in a career unrivaled for length and variety.

“I always say, ‘Don’t retire — inspire,’” Rooney said in an interview with The Associated Press in March 2008. “There’s a lot to be done.”

This from a man who did more than just about anyone in Hollywood and outlasted pretty much everyone from old Hollywood.

Rooney was among the last survivors of the studio era, which his career predated, most notably with the lead in a series of “Mickey McGuire” kid comedy shorts from the late 1920s to early ‘30s that were meant to rival Hal Roach’s “Our Gang” flicks.

After signing with MGM in 1934, Rooney landed his first big role playing Clark Gable’s character as a boy in “Manhattan Melodrama.” A year later, still only in his mid-teens, Rooney was doing Shakespeare, playing an exuberant Puck in Max Reinhardt’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which also featured James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland.

Rooney soon was earning $300 a week with featured roles in such films as “Riff Raff,” ‘’Little Lord Fauntleroy,” ‘’Captains Courageous” and “The Devil Is a Sissy.”

Then came Andy Hardy in the 1937 comedy “A Family Affair,” a role he would reprise in 15 more feature films over the next two decades. Centered on a kindly small-town judge (Lionel Barrymore) who delivers characterbuilding homilies to troublesome son Andy, it was pure corn, but it turned out to be golden corn for MGM, becoming a runaway success with audiences.

“I knew ‘A Family Affair’ was a B picture, but that didn’t stop me from putting my all in it,” Rooney recalled.

Studio boss Louis B. Mayer saw “A Family Affair” as a template for a series of movies about a model American home.

Cast changes followed, most notably with Lewis Stone replacing Barrymore in the sequels, but Rooney stayed on, his role built up until he became the focus of the films, which included “The Courtship of Andy Hardy,” ‘’Andy Hardy’s Double Life” and “Love Finds Andy Hardy,” the latter featuring fellow child star Garland.

He played a delinquent humbled by Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan in 1938’s “Boys Town” and Mark Twain’s timeless scamp in 1939’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”

Rooney’s peppy, all-American charm was never better matched than when he appeared opposite Garland in such films as “Babes on Broadway” and “Strike up the Band,” musicals built around that “Let’s put on a show” theme.

One of them, 1939’s “Babes in Arms,” earned Rooney a bestactor Oscar nomination, a year after he received a special Oscar shared with Deanna Durbin for “bringing to the screen the spirit and personification of youth, and as juvenile players setting a high standard of ability and achievement.”

He earned another best-actor nomination for 1943’s “The Human Comedy,” adapted from William Saroyan’s sentimental tale about small-town life during World War II. The performance was among Rooney’s finest.

“Mickey Rooney, to me, is the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with,” ‘’Human Comedy” director Clarence Brown once said.

Brown also directed Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor in 1944’s horse-racing hit “National Velvet,” but by then, Rooney was becoming a cautionary tale for early fame. He earned a reputation for drunken escapades and quickie romances and was unlucky in both money and love.

In 1942 he married for the first time, to Gardner, the statuesque MGM beauty. He was 21, she was 19.

They divorced a year later.

Rooney joined the Army, spending most of his World War II service entertaining troops.

When he returned to Hollywood, disillusionment awaited him. His savings had been stolen by a manager and his career was in a nose dive. He made two films at MGM, then his contract was dropped.

“I began to realize how few friends everyone has,” he wrote in one of autobiographies. “All those Hollywood friends I had in 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941, when I was the toast of the world, weren’t friends at all.”

His movie career never regained its prewar eminence.

“The Bold and the Brave,” 1956 World War II drama, brought him an Oscar nomination as best supporting actor. But mostly, he played second leads in such films as “Off Limits” with Bob Hope, “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” with William Holden, and “Requiem for a Heavyweight” with Antho-

ROONEY• Page 12

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press

6TH ANNUAL YWCA GIRLS ON THE RUN 5K Community Run/Walk Event Saturday, April 26, 2014 Sibley Park, Mankato

Live. Dream. Learn. Run. COST:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mickey Rooney’s approach to life was simple: “Let’s put on a show!” He spent nine decades doing it, on the big screen, on television, on stage and in his extravagant personal life.

A superstar in his youth, Rooney was Hollywood’s top box-office draw in the late 1930s to early 1940s. He epitomized the “show” part of show business, even if the business end sometimes failed him amid money troubles and a seesaw of career tailspins and revivals.

Pint-sized, precocious, impish, irrepressible — perhaps hardy is the most-suitable adjective for Rooney, a perennial comeback artist whose early blockbuster success as the vexing but wholesome Andy Hardy and as Judy Garland’s musical comrade in arms was bookended 70 years later with roles in “Night at the Museum” and “The Muppets.”

Rooney died Sunday at age 93 surrounded by family at his North Hollywood home, police said. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said Rooney died a natural death.

There were no further details immediately available on the cause of death, but Rooney did attend Vanity Fair’s Oscar party last month, where he posed for photos with other veteran stars and seemed fine. He was also shooting a movie at the time of his death, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” with Margaret O’Brien.

“Mickey was somebody that everybody loved, but to me he was part of the family,” Liza Minnelli posted on her Facebook page. “He was one of a kind, and will be admired and respected always.”

He was nominated for four Academy Awards over a fourdecade span and received two special Oscars for film achievements, won an Emmy for his TV movie “Bill” and had a Tony nomination for his Broadway smash “Sugar Babies.”

“I loved working with Mickey on ‘Sugar Babies.’ He was very professional, his stories were priceless and I love them all ... each and every one. We laughed all the time,” Carol Channing said.

A small man physically, Rooney was prodigious in talent, scope, ambition and appetite. He sang and danced, played roles both serious and silly, wrote memoirs, a novel, movie scripts and plays and married eight times, siring 11 children.

His first marriage — to the glamorous, and taller, Ava Gardner — lasted only a year. But a fond recollection from Rooney years later — “I’m 5 feet 3, but I was 6 feet 4 when I married Ava”

ADULT: YOUTH: KIDS K:

$25

$10

$7

before 4/13/14 before 4/13/14 before 4/13/14 ($35 after 4/13/14)

($15 after 4/13/14)

($10 after 4/13/14)

TEAM:

(min. 6 people)

$20 before 4/13/14 ($25 after 4/13/14)

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT EXPIRES APRIL 13TH!

Businesses & families are encouraged to form teams. All team members must register individually.

Prices include: chip timing, t-shirt and goodie bag.

T-shirts are not guaranteed for those registered after 4/13/14.

REGISTRATION AND INFORMATION www.mankatoywca.org • (507) 345-4629

12 • MSU Reporter

A&E

Thursday, April 10, 2014

ROONEY “Mickey Rooney, to me, is the closest thing to a genius I ever worked with,” ‘Human Comedy’ director Clarence Brown once said.” continued from 11 ny Quinn.

In the early 1960s, he had a wild turn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” as Audrey Hepburn’s bucktoothed Japanese neighbor, and he was among the fortune seekers in the all-star comedy “It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.”

Rooney’s starring roles came in low-budget films such as “Drive a Crooked Road,” ‘’The Atomic Kid,” ‘’Platinum High School,” ‘’The Twinkle in God’s Eye” and “How to Stuff a Wild Bikini.”

But no one ever could count Rooney out. He earned a fourth Oscar nomination, as supporting actor, for 1979’s “Black Stallion,” the same year he starred with Ann Miller in the Broadway revue “Sugar Babies,” which brought him a Tony nomination and millions of dollars during his years with the show.

“I’ve been coming back like a rubber ball for years,” Rooney wisecracked at the time.

In 1981 came his Emmy-winning performance as a disturbed man in “Bill.” He found success with voice roles for animated films such as “The Fox and the Hound,” ‘’The Care Bears Movie” and “Little Nemo.”

“He was undoubtedly the most talented actor that ever lived.

There was nothing he couldn’t do. Singing, dancing, performing ... all with great expertise,” Margaret O’Brien said. “I was currently doing a film with him, “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” I simply can’t believe it. He seemed fine through the filming and was as great as ever.”

Over the years, Rooney also made hundreds of appearances on TV talk and game shows, dramas and variety programs.

He starred in three short-lived series: “The Mickey Rooney Show” (1954); “Mickey” (1964); and “One of the Boys” (1982).

A co-star from “One of the Boys,” Dana Carvey, later parodied Rooney on “Saturday Night Live,” mocking him as a hopeless egomaniac who couldn’t stop boasting he once was “the number one star ... IN THE WOO-ORLD!” A lifelong storyteller, Rooney wrote two memoirs: “i.e., an Autobiography” published in 1965, and “Life Is Too Short,” 1991.

He also produced a novel about a child movie star, “The Search for Sonny Skies,” in 1994.

In the autobiographies, Rooney gave two versions of his debut in show business.

First he told of being 1 1/2 and climbing into the orchestra pit of the burlesque theater where his parents were appearing.

He sat on a kettle drum and pretended to be playing his whistle, vastly amusing the audience.

The second autobiography told a different story: He was hiding under the scenery when he sneezed. Dragged out by an actor, the toddler was ordered to play his harmonica. He did, and the crowd loved it.

Whatever the introduction, Joe Yule Jr., born in 1920, was the star of his parents’ act by the age of 2, singing “Sweet Rosie O’Grady” in a tiny tuxedo. His father was a baggy-pants comic, Joe Yule, his mother a dancer, Nell Carter. Yule was a boozing Scotsman with a wandering eye, and the couple soon parted.

While his mother danced in the chorus, young Joe was wowing audiences with his heartfelt rendition of “Pal o’ My Cradle Days.” During a tour to California, the boy made his film debut in 1926’s “Not to Be Trusted.”

The Mickey McGuire short comedies that followed gave him a new stage name, later appended, at his mother’s suggestion,

to the last name Rooney, after vaudeville dancer Pat Rooney.

After splitting with Gardner, Rooney married Betty Jane Rase, Miss Birmingham of 1944, whom he had met during military training in Alabama. They had two sons and divorced after four years. (Their son Timothy died in September 2006 at age 59 after a battle with a muscle disease called dermatomyositis.)

His third and fourth marriages were to actress Martha Vickers (one son) and model Elaine Mahnken.

The fifth Mrs. Rooney, model Barbara Thomason, gave birth to four children. While the couple were estranged in 1966, she was found shot to death in her Brentwood home; beside her was the body of her alleged lover, a Yugoslavian actor. It was an apparent murder and suicide.

A year later, Rooney began a three-month marriage to Margaret Lane. She was followed by a secretary, Caroline Hockett — another divorce after five years and one daughter.

In 1978, Rooney, 57, married for the eighth — and apparently last — time. His bride was singer Janice Darlene Chamberlain, 39. Their marriage lasted longer

than the first seven combined.

After a lifetime of carrying on, he became a devoted Christian and member of the Church of Religious Science. He settled in suburban Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles west of Los Angeles. In 2011, Rooney was in the news again when he testified before Congress about abuse of the elderly, alleging that he was left powerless by a family member who took and misused his money.

“I felt trapped, scared, used and frustrated,” Rooney told a special Senate committee considering legislation to curb abuses of senior citizens. “But above all, when a man feels helpless, it’s terrible.”

That year Rooney took his stepson Christopher Aber and others to court on allegations that they tricked him into thinking he was on the brink of poverty while defrauding him out of millions and bullying him into continuing to work. At the time, Aber declined comment on the suit except to say, “this lawsuit is not from Mickey Rooney — it’s from his conservators who are stealing from him.” The New York Times reported that the suit was settled last year.

D I U A M T S P S ’ I Z E Z K A A J

42nd ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Sunday April 13th

Monday April 14th

Tuesday April 15th

Wednesday April 16th

Thursday April 17th

Bargain prices $2 off a large pizza, $1.50 off a medium and $1 off a small

Buy one get one free lunch special and $8 for a large one topping pizza

Buy one poorboy get the second for only $1.00

Bargain prices and $1.00 cheese bread or $1.00 tap beer with a purchase of a pizza limit of 5

Buy one pizza get one of equal or lesser value at 42% off.

All deals are eat in or take out only. Beer special is eat in only.

PARTY ROOM AVAILABLE GOOD FOR LARGE GROUPS

STADIUM ROAD | 507-345-5420 WWW.JAKESSTADIUMPIZZA.COM

MSU Reporter • 13

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Follow the Reporter on Twitter @MSU Reporter or Like Us on Facebook facebook.com/msureporter

Email the Sports Editor: reporter-sports@mnsu.edu

507-389-5227

From the gridiron to the track Nathan Hancock, Chris Reed and Keyvan Rudd compete at a high level all year round whether they are strapping on pads on Saturdays or taking off the sweats for their next meet.

LUCAS RYAN Staff Writer In today’s sports environment, it has been more common for athletes to specialize in one specific sport at a young age. This is a change in a reality of the competiveness of high school and college sports, but not everyone is embracing the trend.

Several of the Minnesota State football players are finding their abilities on the gridiron and are transferring over to their second sport--track and field. The Minnesota State men’s track and field team is having arguably the best season in school history, with several football players among the biggest contributors.

Junior offensive lineman Chris Reed, Junior safety Nathan Hancock and Junior wide receiver Keyvan Rudd played in every game this season to help the Mavericks football team to 11-1 record and second straight Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship. Now they are contributing to one of

the best men’s track and field seasons in MSU history.

“I think this year has seemed to be the craziest,” Rudd said.

“Our football program is developing and seen as a championship caliber team and things like that. Also our track team is developing into a championship caliber team.”

The Mavericks posted a fourth place finish at the NCAA Division II Track and Field Championships with a total score of 38 points just less than a month ago in Winston-Salem, N.C. Fourthplace matches MSU’s top team finish at the NCAA Championships, which was set in 1992 when the Mavericks finished with 22 points.

Hancock broke his own school record in the heptathlon by 100 points en route to a second place finish at the NCAA Championships. In doing so, Hancock earned his third All-American honors in the heptathlon while also earning All-American honors in the 4X400 meter relay.

Reed posted a fourth place

Photo Courtesy of Minnesota State Athletics Nathan Hancocks’s 2013-2014 years consisted with being named to the NSIC South Division All-Conference First Team Defense for football and finishing second in the heptathlon at the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships.

David Bassey • MSU Reporter After starting every game on the offensive line for the 11-1 football team, Chris Reed (74) continued breaking MSU records in track and field.

finish in the weight throw while earning second place in the shot put to acquire his third-straight All-American honors in the shot put, while Senior Keyvan Rudd earned his second All-American honors in the high jump after clearing 6’ 10 ¾”, good for a sixth-place finish.

There are positives to both individual and team sports that these athletes are drawn to. Football and track have some similar aspects, but for the most part are completely different types of sports.

“With track and field, with me as being jumper you got out to there and individually do it you self. But with football you get to go out there and compete, you get to hit people, you get to fly around and score touchdowns and celebrate with your teammates. I think that is an aspect I cannot get out of track,” Rudd said.

“I’m going to miss the selffulfillment I get with throwing and the pure technicality of it, as well as the individual competition,” Reed said.

Two-sport athletes are not able to do the same training as their team during the offseason. While the football players are in the midst of some of their

most grueling workouts, trying to build muscle mass, the track team is doing drills and lifts to increase speed and quickness.

“If you try to do football lifts for your track workout you are going to be really sore and are not going to be able to compete at your best. That’s why we have Tom (Inkrott). Tom is a genius with that, he works with the track guys and other athletes to get them the right type of work out sheet,” Rudd said.

Not only are they missing some of the most intense workouts of the year, these two sport athletes are not able to hone in on one sport to perfect the skills required. Instead of one area of focus, these athletes are looking to include training for two different sports in their weekly obligations.

“The only big disadvantage is that it is very time consuming and can be a lot to ask when going through spring ball and track because you want to focus on the sport in season, but also want to get better in football. It’s a little harder to switch back and forth,” Reed said.

Having success with two

SUPERIOR ATHLETES• Page 13

14 • MSU Reporter

Sports

Thursday, April 10, 2014

MSU splits four-game series with Augustana The baseball team has won four of the last six games, two against Upper Iowa and two against Augustana. MSU has improved their overall record to 23-6 and 11-3 in the NSIC. ADAM PIERSON Staff Writer After sweeping Upper Iowa in a double header last week, 3-0 in game one and 7-4 in game two.

Over the weekend, MSU traveled to Sioux Falls S.D. to square off against Augustana in two sets of double headers. Splitting the series with the Vikings and posting only 19 runs compared to Augustana’s 22.

April 5 MSU lost the first bout 5-3 to the Vikings, failing to score a run in any inning besides the first.

MSU took the early lead off of junior Nolan Johnson’s RBI single through the rightside of the field, scoring senior Todd Standish. Junior Connor McCallum came up to the plate next and ripped a RBI double, scoring junior Max Waletich. McCallum scored on a wild pitch later in the next at-bat.

Augustana scored in the bottom of the second inning on a RBI triple to right-centerfield.

The Vikings posted two more runs in the third inning, first off a sacrifice bunt down the third baseline and also off a RBI single to right field, tying the ballgame up.

In the fifth inning, Augustana launched a two-run blast, ultimately giving them the victory over MSU. Senior Jason Hoppe, earned his first lost of the season in his six innings of work, allowing five runs on nine hits while punching out seven Vikings. Hoppe’s over-

all record this season is 6-1.

MSU stole the second game back with a late inning home run, taking a 3-2 victory over Augustana.

The Mavericks’ scored a run in the third inning off of an Augustana throwing error.

The Vikings answered back twice in the bottom of the fifth inning, once on a solo homer and again on a RBI single, taking the 2-1 lead.

MSU tied the game in the next half of the inning off of Johnson’s solo shot to right-centerfield.

In the top of the ninth, Waletich cracked a homerun to rightfield, eventually giving MSU the 3-2 win.

Senior Bryce Bellin started on the bump for MSU, pitching seven innings and allowed only two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out four batters.

Junior Matt Geislinger filled in for two innings, allowing no runs, one hit and one walk. Geislinger earned the win for MSU, improving his overall record to 3-0 this season.

April 6 MSU was on the tail end of the third game, not scoring until the seventh inning, ultimately losing 6-3 to the Vikings.

The Vikings’ posted two runs in the third inning on a two-run single.

In the fifth inning, Augustana added three more runs on a bases-clearing double.

The Vikings added their final run in the sixth inning on a MSU fielding error.

t p

i r

b n i l

s u

i m R

a t

m t t f s MSU Reporter Archivest

Sophomore outfielder Taylor Branstad is currently batting .283 with one home run and 15 RBIs so far this season.

Trailing 6-0, in the top of the seventh inning, senior Stetson Olson cracked a three-run shot down the leftfield line but MSU failed to complete the comeback.

Senior TJ Larson pitched the first five innings on the hill for MSU, allowing two runs, eight hits and two walks while striking out three Vikings. Larson’s overall record is now 3-2 this season.

Freshman Trevor Patterson relieved 2-3 of an inning, allowing four runs, two hits and two walks while striking out one Vi-

BASEBALL • Page 13

king. Freshman Tyler Frohwirth finished the last 1-3 of the sixth inning, allowing one hit.

The final game of the series

t ended with MSU on top, beatinga

BASEBALL• Page 15

IS NOW HIRING KITCHEN STAFF Must be available to work nights & weekends.

Experience is preferred, but not necessary.

Please apply in person Monday-Wednesday.

414 S. Front St., Mankato 507-388-7767

NOW HIRING STUDENTS FOR SUMMER OPENINGS! Volt Workforce Solutions has positions available in Mankato and New Ulm! Positions include: machine operation, shipping and assembly!

Summer Positions in New Ulm as well. $9-11/hr. based on location and shift

MSU Reporter Archives

507-304-6514 or cgilmore@volt.com

i m o a P k i

t a fi w t

Thursday, April 10, 2014 BASEBALL “MSU faced the University of Mary yesterday in Bismark, N.D. They once again split for the third consecutive time, losing the first game 2-1 before catching fire at the plate for a 14-2 victory in game two.” continued from 14

the Vikings 10-9 in 11 innings of play.

Olson put MSU on the board in the top of the first with a tworun jack to centerfield.

The Vikings gained both runs back in the latter part of the inning on a RBI single and by being hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Augustana took the lead the second inning with a RBI single up the middle of the field.

MSU knotted things back up in the third inning when sophomore Taylor Branstad laced a RBI double to left-field.

The Vikings took the lead again in the fourth inning on a two-run homer to leftfield.

In the seventh inning freshman Hunter Harnisch took it for the team, earning a RBI with the bases loaded. McCallum followed him up with a two-run single to centerfield, giving MSU sthe 6-5 edge. . The Vikings tied it back up in the latter part of the inning with a RBI single to left-center-field.

The lead changed once again in the ninth inning when freshman Eric Peterson grounded out to second basemen, earning a RBI. Two batters later, senior Parker Sullivan reached on a Vikings’ shortstop error, bringing in a runner.

Battling back again, Augustana locked the score up at eight after a RBI double down the leftfield line and again by scoring on wild pitch in the second half of the ninth inning.

Next Sullivan reached on a

MSU Reporter • 15

Sports

fielder’s choice and McCallum scored following a throwing error by the second basemen. Sullivan then stole third and thus scored on a throwing error by the Vikings’ catcher, giving MSU a 10-8 lead.

In the bottom of the 11th, Augustana launched a one-run homerun to right-centerfield but was unsuccessful in completing the comeback.

Senior Taylor Nawrocki started on the bump, pitching four innings. Nawrocki allowed five runs on seven hits and three walks while punching out three batters.

Junior Joey Reed relieved for two innings, walking one batter and punching out two Vikings.

Senior Chris Williams took the ball for the next two innings, allowing one run on three hits while sending three batters back on strikes.

Geislinger earned the win for MSU with his three innings of work, improving his overall record to 4-0. Geislinger allowed three runs on five hits while striking out four Augustana batters.

MSU faced the University of Mary yesterday in Bismark, N.D. They once again split for the third consecutive time, losing the first game 2-1 and caught fire at the plate for a 14-2 victory in game two.

The Mavericks swing back into action this weekend against the University of Minnesota Crookston in two sets of doubleheaders in Crookston, Minn.

NOW HIRING! The MSU Reporter is looking for STUDENT ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVES. We need outgoing students who are comfortable meeting potential clients in person and maintaining communication with them on a weekly basis.

Position requires 20 hrs./week during daytime business hours and must have access to a vehicle.

Students from all fields of study are encouraged to apply.

Stop by the Reporter Office (CSU 293) for an application or for more information.

SUPERIOR ATHLETES continued from 13

sports is a challenge that can only be accomplished with hard work, dedication and good time management. Being able to succeed at two different college sports helps create good life skills that future employers are looking for.

“I think I can see it as an advantage because it will benefit me in the future. Maybe for a potential job and things like that. When they see that I have great time management, how I can split school, two sports and a part-time job. I think when they see things like that they understand that I am really good with my time and I know how to get things done in a certain time period.”

This balancing act of participating in two sports can make it difficult to be at you best for your offseason sport, but does have advantages as well.

“I think it has both (advantages and disadvantages), you get two different aspects of sport, a team oriented and individual sport,” Reed said. “Another advantage is that things from both sports help the other sport, like explosiveness, strength and agility.”

Most college students are unable to compete at the collegiate level in any sport. And even fewer students-athletes are able to compete in two different sports while at college. These players are not only doing what most cannot, but are doing it with great success.

“I know we are coming up on such a good run that I want to be one of those guys that everyone remembers as being a good two sport athlete and helping out around the community and just being a great guy overall,” Rudd said.

Both men and women’s track teams will return to action today and Friday as they travel to

David Bassey • MSU Reporter

Emporia, Kan. to take part in the Emporia Multi. This will be the first outdoor track and field meet of the season for them. The expectations are set high for these guys to have a good outdoor season after one of the best indoor seasons in school history.

“The Decathlon that I am going to do this week will actually be the first decathlon that I have been healthy for…I am pretty excited for that. I am hoping to break the school record and post a pretty good score to get to nationals,” Hancock said.

FOR RENT

FOR RENT

HELP WANTED

5 OR 4 OR 3 OR 2 OR 1 bedroom houses/apartments.

Available right now. Some for next year. Many to choose from.

Check out our website. www. ottoH.com owner/agent or call 507-625-1010. 6/19 1633LOFTS.COM LUXURY UNITS within walking distance to campus.

5/1 TWIN RIVERS TOWNHOMES: 2,5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms close to campus and on bus route $375/ person plus utilities. All inclusive option available includes cable + internet reduced $450/ person.

1, 4 bedroom $420/ person, all inclusive. Call today for showing 507-385-1999. 5/1 COLLEGETOWNMANK ATO. COM private bathroom in every bedroom. 5/1

COLLEGESTATIONMANKATO. COM Affordable housing on the bus route.

5/1 RE N T M S U.C O M 3 -10 BEDROOM student houses. 5/1 FIND A PLACE TO RENT AT RADRENTER.COM Mankato’s Rental Listing website. 5/1 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A 3 BEDROOM? This could be it!

Right next to Highland Park. Walk to MSU! Off-street parking. 1102 Warren St. $1,005 plus utilities.

Call Jeremy 952-994-5966. 5/1

GREAT PART-TIME JOB! Seeking salt delivery person.

Work weekdays, between 8am-5pm, 4 hrs./day, 20 hrs./ wk. Need a 4 hour block of time, morning or afternoon.

Earn $200/week ($10/hr.) Call McGowan Water Conditioning @ 388-3361. 5/1

HELP WANTED TACO JOHN’S NOW HIRING FOR BREAKFAST OPENERS. Flexible shifts between the hours of 6:30am to 5pm. Apply at 2112 North Broad Ct., Mankato or online at tacojohns.com. 5/1

NOTICES

FREE SHOTOKAN KARATE classes offered Monday 6-8pm.

Tuesday 7-9pm. Thursday 6-8pm. Room PH 102. Beginners are welcome. Need not to be a MSU student to join. For info call Brad @ 507-388-5301 or lostgonzo@gmail.com or search MSU Shotokan on facebook or yahoo groups.

5/1

16 • MSU Reporter

Advertisement

Thursday, April 10, 2014