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TV journalist Boyd Huppert to speak at MSU “It’s just a video until a storyteller creates an experience.”

RAE FRAME News Editor Journalist and speaker Boyd Huppert will be presenting his experience in the media world at Minnesota State University, Mankato on Tuesday, April 21 in honor of the Mass Media Department’s “Media Day” celebration.

Media Day is an annual event at MSU and is held to showcase the Mass Media Department as well as inform both the campus and Mankato communities about what the students and faculty are doing.

Rachael Hanel, a professor in the Mass Media Department, elaborated on the purpose of Media Day and what it means to the department: “Media Day is a time to highlight the Mass Media de-

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partment, the types of courses we offer and the students in the program. It’s important to me

that the wider campus community knows what the Mass Media department does (that is, to train

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students to be strong written communicators). We offer many skills-based courses on writing for print, working with multimedia, writing for public relations, along with thought-provoking courses such as media law and media ethics.”

Huppert, whose visual storytelling serves as an excellent example of modern journalism,

dia for more than 30 years and as a result he is one of the top media professionals working in Minnesota and really, the entire Midwest region,” said Hanel. “He has extensive experience with video because he is a TV journalist, and he will speak on how to tell a story through video. In the Mass Media program, we let students know that it’s no longer enough to simply be able to write a story. On the job they might be asked to write for the web, or manage social media accounts, or shoot short videos with their smartphones. Boyd can speak to today’s changing media landscape.”

Media Day will also see the Department of Mass Media honoring mass media students in a scholarship program at 3 p.m. in CSU 253.

“Media Day is also a time where we as a department recognize the “best of the best” students. In the afternoon we have a scholarship program in which we give money and recognition to our stellar students.

We are particularly proud of our

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer The last event of Mavericks After Dark (MAD) for this semester, Relaxation Sensation, will be held on Friday, April 17 at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Student Union lower level at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

MAD will present various fun activities such as inflatables, salad bar and chocolate fountains with some fruits, marshmallows and cookies, 10-minute free massages, 20-minute yoga session, ATM Cash Box, manicure and pedicure, and other DIY activities.

“The last Mavericks After Dark event is a collaboration with Special Events of IMPACT, and we are going to be calling it Relaxation Sensation,” said Rudy Correa, chairperson of MAD. “We will also have an ATM Cash-Box where you will be

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able to put your hand in and draw a prize or giveaway throughout the night. So it will be fun,” he said.

According to Correa, he came up with the idea of the event to bring relaxing and fun event before finals that people can enjoy and take their minds off schoolwork.

“So we just put in some different relaxing ideas together, talk to different people and

have it next week,” Correa said.

Graduate Advisor of MAD Mechelle Poessnecker also said, “The thought process behind the event was that we are near in the end of the semester and there tends to be a lot of general stress and anxiety among students and so we want to provide an atmosphere

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will present “It’s Just a Video Until a Storyteller Creates an Experience” to students and community members at 7 p.m. in Ostrander Auditorium.

In addition to his work with KARE-11, Huppert has also presented over 100 storytelling workshops across the globe— traveling to New Zealand, Denmark, and Norway to give his presentations.

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students and the work they produce,” said Hanel.

The event is sponsored by the Department of Mass Media and a grant from the Nadine B. Andreas Foundation. All members of the community are welcome and the talk is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Rachael Hanel at 507.389.1247 or rachael.hanel@mnsu.edu.

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Banksy: causing controversy, changing art Fervor continues to demonstrate that graffiti is leaving its mark.

AMANDA HINDE Staff Writer Graffiti is not something that certain people would consider as art. Some people assume that some adolescent got a hold of a spray can and had a little fun or that there is gang-related activity in town. But for some people, an entirely new meaning for graffiti has been taking hold for a few years thanks to a very specific person or persons called Banksy.

This group or person is a mystery to the art world and they are the art world’s take on a Robin Hood—whisking away into the night and instead of stealing gold from a corrupt king, they are leaving a different kind of gold. Banksy is leaving amazing works of art on the sides of buildings and walls, but do not assume that this is a just any per-

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rior wall. When you look at their work, you have no doubt in your mind that this is art.

Banksy’s style goes from political frankness to outright fantasy pieces. Their stenciled art is seen as real and straight to the point. Pieces such as a partially masked protestor throwing a flower bouquet instead of a Molotov cocktail, a young girl in a pink dress frisking a previously armed military soldier, an origami crane about to eat its catch of a gold fish and many other pieces have been seen all over the world—even in the U.S. Banksy’s mystery and art have sky rocketed their work to fame or infamy, depending on who you ask. One of the pieces fetched £403,000 when sold for a failing club in Bristol.

Dana Sikkila, an adjunct

professor for art at Minnesota State University, Mankato, gave some insights and opinions on Banksy’s art: “I’m really pro-public art, I think it’s a positive thing. It brings visual interest and more important public interest to certain places. People have a negative idea about their [graffiti artists] work because of the fact that it is graffiti. Graffiti has a negative connotation to it.”

Controversy has followed Banksy wherever they have gone, previously it was just running away or hiding from the police, now it’s over the ownership of his artwork. In February, Banksy made a trip to the Gaza Strip in the Middle East where they spent days painting on the wreckage that dots the cities and towns of the Gaza Strip.

According to Banksy’s website, while creating a lovable kitten on a broken down wall, a man came up to Banksy and asked him what it meant. Banksy said in they wanted people on the internet to look at the pictures of his art on the internet and see the destruction that war has done in Gaza City, but for that to happen there had to be cats in his art.

Another work of art that he finished in Gaza has been a little more looked at than a picture of a cat. A painting depicting the Greek goddess Niobe grieving over her dead children was painted on Rabie Darduna’s only thing left standing of his house— a door. Mr. Daruna came out in the beginning of April stating that he was tricked into selling the door to a group of men who stated that they were there on behalf of Banksy and wanted to take the door and put it in a museum. The door was then sold for about US $175, very little compared to the hundreds of thousands of dollars others have paid.

Mr. Darduna was so upset when he found out just how much he had lost that he has contacted a lawyer, put through a court order, and eventually the police took the door from the buyer and local artist, Bilal Khaled.

The two will now fight in court over who is the true owner of the Banksy piece. Sikkila stated, “I think that people should know what they are selling before they sell it. Someone [the buyer] just got lucky that’s what that is.“ Who is the true owner of the door, no one can really say at this point.

36th Annual Frontier Forum Lecture features Laura Harrison RAE FRAME News Editor On Thursday, April 16, Minnesota State University, Mankato faculty member Laura Harrison will be giving a presentation on some of parents’ earliest decisions titled “What’s Best for Baby?

Bed Sharing, Co-Sleeping, and the Politics of Inequality.”

The lecture will take place in Ostrander Auditorium in the Centennial Student Union and begin at 11 a.m.

As the 36th Annual Frontier Forum Lecture, Harrison’s

presentation is sponsored by the Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Harrison will be addressing some of the earliest decisions that parents make with their new infant—where it will sleep. Deciding between a nursery and the parents’ bedroom, a crib or parents’ bed can often be a complex topic and Harrison will discuss different reasons that parents choose to share a bed with their infant.

The lecture will analyze race, class, and gendered dimensions of the campaign

launched in Milwaukee, Wisc., that has been striving to eliminate bed-sharing and reduce infant mortality rates in the city as the campaign holds individual families responsible for the problem of infant death.

Harrison is an assistant professor in the Department of Gender & Women’s Studies, which is part of Minnesota State Mankato’s College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

For more information, contact Denise Thompson, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, at 507.389.5699 or denise.thompson@mnsu.edu.

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Artists request return Minneopa Golf Course to open of Snowden statue under new management

Park officials and police say piece was erected without permission.

NEW YORK — The mysterious artists who planted a bust of Edward Snowden on a Revolutionary War monument now want to free their sculpture from police custody and display it again, saying it was intended as a thought-provoking “gift to the city.”

The artists are applying for permission to show parkgoers

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bust “a gift to the city” that could spur discussion about American ideals, values and heroes.

Parks officials and police didn’t see it that way.

“The object was erected in the park without permission or authority,” Royster said in an email.

The city Parks Department didn’t respond to a request for comment on the artists’ bid for

Photos Courtesy of Brandon Smith A visualization of what the new clubhouse will look like when renovations are complete.

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their likeness of the former National Security Agency secretleaker, their lawyer, Ronald Kuby, told police in a letter Tuesday. In the meantime, a Manhattan gallery wants to show the sculpture next month.

“We feel the piece would offer a great deal of good” and reflect the city’s history as a home for free thinkers if exhibited through a temporary art-in-parks program, the artists — who have kept their identity secret — said in a statement Tuesday.

Police said they’re holding the sculpture while investigating its unauthorized, dark-ofnight appearance April 6 in Fort Greene Park; it was removed within hours. Deputy Chief Kim Royster wouldn’t comment on the status of the probe but noted that police may return confiscated property after investigations conclude.

The 4-foot-high, 100-pound, fiberglass-reinforced cement bust of Snowden, who is living in exile in Russia after divulging secret U.S. government collection of phone records, turned up on a monument that honors American captives who died on British prison ships during the Revolutionary War. The three artists say they considered the

permission to display the sculpture in future.

Parks activist Geoffrey Croft feels the bust deserves a place in the city’s public space, regardless how viewers may feel about Snowden.

“New York City has a long, storied history of art and dissention,” said Croft, who heads NYC Parks Advocates, a nonprofit group.

After all, the “Charging Bull” statue that has now become a symbol of Wall Street was an artist’s surprise, deposited overnight outside the New York Stock Exchange in 1989. City officials ultimately accepted it and installed it nearby.

For now, downtown Manhattan gallery Postmasters hopes to show the Snowden bust next month.

“It’s a very interesting effort and gesture,” both in its subject and its unauthorized unveiling, said co-founder Magdalena Sawon.

She doesn’t know who the artists are, she said.

Minnesota springtime is hopefully here to stay and golfers throughout the area are looking forward to their first tee time of the year so they can get out and enjoy the sunshine.

The Minneopa Golf Course, located at 410 Pintail St. in Mankato, will be opening on Friday, April 17 under new management and with many exciting changes to the prop-

erty.

Brandon Smith and his business partners recently purchased the property and began renovations on the clubhouse as well as updates to the course that include resurfacing the cart paths throughout the course.

The original clubhouse was ravaged by a fire in June of 2014 that caused extensive damage. Construction began on the building earlier this year following the purchase of the property and Smith says that

the completion of the project has been slated for late summer 2015.

The clubhouse currently under construction will have an all-new bar and seating area as well as a wraparound deck that will look out over the 2nd and 9th greens.

For information on scheduling and pricing at Minneopa Golf Course, visit www.minneopagolf.com.

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Voting numbers continue to decline Another year, another disappointing election turnout.

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Prelude: Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s student senate elections. I’m sure students are in for an eventful school year next year.

Last year, less than 10 percent of the student population of Minnesota State University, Mankato turned out for the annual student senate elections.

Despite well-intended efforts to fix this problem, the turnout this year was even worse.

The last presidential election for the senate yielded 1,240 votes between four candidates; this year saw fewer candidates at two and higher votes for the winner, but shrank in total votes at 1,132 with more abstentions.

Likewise, the vice presidential race featured fewer candidates and more votes for the winner, but went from 1,219 votes to 1,126 with more abstentions. At roughly 15,200 students enrolled at the university, that translates to seven percent of the student body voting for the next student senate leadership.

Elsewhere, the Student Body at Large race had more abstentions than votes for a candidate (1092 to 803), as did Athletic Ad-

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visory Board (1084 to 16, 2 and 2) and Student Health Services Advisory Board (1092 to 5 and 3).

The results of this year’s election are especially disappointing considering the election cycle was actually two weeks longer than normal to allow for “more issues-based campaigning.”

Funny then, that only one party did any real major campaigning by plastering the walls of the university with flyers, with poorly attended debates between presidential and vice presidential candidates.

In fact, the biggest subject of discussion on this year’s ballot wasn’t even part of the prominent campaign rhetoric: the referendum to reintroduce computer science as a major at MSU. The program was cut in 2010 from a major to a minor.

With 682 yes votes, 65 no votes and 396 abstentions, the referendum should, on the surface, have passed. However a technical-

ity requiring a 10 percent voter threshold kept it from being approved.

Yes, computer science could not become a major once more because, with 1,143 votes, only eight percent of university students voted on it. Had it been introduced in a medium students actually engaged in, it likely would have passed. On the whole, just being affiliated with the student election effectively killed it.

Which begs the question, why is this standard not held to every other category of student senate elections? Every year these students are given reign over people’s livelihoods, often judging on the basis of what they feel is and isn’t relevant. With only a comparatively meager handful of votes deciding who takes office, why is that same question of relevancy not applied to them?

In my experience, they seem awfully willing to dole it out but just might not survive it if turned

around. “Don’t throw stones in glass houses,” as it were.

I want to believe that change can happen, both in student voter turnout and overall meaningfulness of the process, but after three years of witnessing the same results, that hope dwindles.

Maybe I’m just disillusioned.

Then again, maybe I’ve been in the trenches long enough to justify it.

We’ve seen now that a longer election period yielded no improvements; instead, following through on promises of more meaningful campaigning by talking to broader student groups might bring better results--as might taking up the comments we gathered earlier in the year calling for free food.

That way, perhaps the senate’s slogan of “a voice for students” might, for once in several years, become more statistically accurate.

“What is one change you would like to see at MSU in the next year?”

TUCKER BRAND, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING “To see the teachers get more involved with the students.”

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“To have students of different races be more involved with each other.”

“I would like more variety and fresh food in Carkoski.”

ERIC KARORERO, CIVIL ENGINEERING “Less contribution hours 25 to 10-15. International students would participate because they want to and not because they have to.”

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Event strives to move “Toward Zero Deaths” State officer, MSSA president speak out against distracted driving.

NICOLE SCHMIDT Staff Writer Students may be more compelled to put down their phones and watch the road after Mankato State University Mankato hosted the ‘Towards Zero Deaths’ Campaign April 13.

The ‘Towards Zero Deaths’ campaign aims to appeal to the average student to show the dangers of distracted driving. In a world where distracted driving is common, a seminar such as this serves as a needed reminder of the importance of focusing on the road.

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nudge at a driver of what can happen while texting, emailing, eating, etc.

Another feature was a distracted driving simulation. This risk-free simulation gave the average participant a racing pulse as they received a taste of the real risk of taking your eyes off of the road.

After the visual part of the campaign was over, students listened to several speakers including current MSSA president and representative from the “Towards Zero Deaths” campaign

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Name: Paul Brennan Department: Accounting and Business Law Education: Ph.D. & MAcc (Southern Illinois University); B.A. University of Iowa Favorite class: as a student, a couple of grad stat courses and partnership taxation; as a teacher, individual and business taxation Hobbies: walking, biking, kayaking, fishing, reading;

watching college basketball and football; being nagged for food, attention, and exercise by my dogs Favorite Quote: “If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be.” -Yogi Berra

Brennan grew up in the Pennsylvania coal hills (a.k.a Pennsyltucky). He spent the majority of his adult years in the Midwest, and has been at MSU for 13 years. Brennan was an only child. He is married, and

also has an adult son who is an only child and an adult stepdaughter who is an only child. Brennan takes a great interest in WWII (The Big One), history and American political history.

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While hearing about distracted driving may fall on deaf ears, the message must be shared. According to pewinternet.org, 47 percent of all texting adults reported having sent or read a text message while driving—that’s nearly half of drivers on the road!

Think about this as well: while looking at something on

your phone for 5 seconds, you travel the length of a football fiend without looking at the road, according to textinganddrivingsafety.com. Texting and driving makes your risk of crash 23 times more likely, according to the same site.

With all of the facts and great campaigns such as the “Towards Zero Deaths”, why is it still so hard to put down the phone?

In our society, putting down, or dare I say leaving your phone at home, is a huge deal. We are connected and plugged-in what seems like 24 hours a day, and putting down your smartphone and going Wi-Fi free can feel like a chore.

Getting people to detach from their phones while driving needs to start by rewiring the average cell-phone user’s brain. We don’t need to have more willpower, we need more of an ability to sort out what is really important at the moment. While driving, driving is the priority, not a text message. The sooner we realize this, the better and safer all drivers will be on the road.

Every time you take your eyes off the road, you are looking for trouble. So please, stay alert and put down your phone while driving. It might just save your life.

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MSU students take first in national music auditions

Musicians Laken Fennern and Jesse Beulke advance to next stage of screening.

VALISA FAIR Staff Writer

Department of Music students Laken Fennern and Jesse Beulke recently placed first in the North Central Regional National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Music Theater Auditions.

Laken, a senior vocal music education major, performed four musical theatre selections from various time periods and styles, accompanied by junior vocal

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music education major, Jesse Beulke.

Jesse says that he’s really proud of Laken. “She worked really hard and that he’s just her accompanist. Laken deserves all the credit.”

Jesse is a little humble of his contributions to the musical pieces. Laken likes to think otherwise of her accompanist in the musicals they both rehearsed and performed.

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singing in the national screening round if it wasn’t for Jesse.

He deserves just as much credit,” Fennern claimed.

Laken and Jesse met at the beginning of their musical education program and has been friends since. Their musical harmony was the start of a great friendship.

“I’ve always accompanied her in the hallways as she sang a song. I would just start singing with her,” Beulke says.

Fennern says, “There was no one else I could think of that would be better to perform these songs with me other than Jesse.

I knew that he was reliable and that I could depend on him to help me sing the set of musicals chosen.”

The next step in the audition process for Fennern and Beulke will be to advance to the national online screening round.

Their compatibility landed them first place at regionals (NATS) and they are hoping to make it past the national screening round.

Laken says that if they make it to nationals, they are able to actually sing live in North Carolina on a stage – which she would really be excited about.

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“We are able to make changes to our audition tape but I won’t make any. I like the way we sound and I’m hoping the new set of judges will too. I appreciated the feedback from previous judges, because they are experienced and their critique has helped me improve.”

Laken attended a Performing Arts school in California and traveled all around the world performing and teaching the importance of music in schools.

Although, she has been singing since she was a baby - that’s

when she knew she had a love for music education. She aspires to teach at a Performing Arts school back in California one day. She is currently a student teacher completing her music education program.

The North Central Region of NATS encompasses Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Each state/province was allowed to send their top three students to the North Central Regional NATS Music Theater Auditions.

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Local contributions provide meals for students in need in Mankato.

WES HUNTINGTON Staff Writer If you’re running low on food and cash, come on down to Crossroads’ Campus Cupboard.

You can fill up a bag of food–one bag with no poundage limit–and use it for your own benefit. The Crossroads building is located at 331 Dillon Avenue, on the corner of Dillon and Maywood Avenues behind the Performing Arts Center. The Campus Cupboard is located in Crossroads’ basement, and there are signs that direct you to it.

Pastor Tammy Dahlvang, the ELCA pastor affiliated with Crossroads, said that the student food shelf began when they were offering a one-dollar lunch on Tuesdays in February 2014. They had started to get whispers that students were suffering from hunger for a variety of reasons.

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food and rent, others had their meal plans frozen from not fulfilling their financial obligations to the university. Some were international and non-traditional students who were trying to balance personal and family lives also experienced hunger.

From those whispers, it grew into the campus food shelf that it is today. Dahlvang said that when they started, they started with only five to seven students per week who visited the food shelf. Now, thanks to the efforts of Crossroads’ intern Oksana

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RAE FRAME News Editor The Minnesota State Student Association gathered informally to discuss a few recommendations for funding student expenses and to address the election results before heading out for a student game of softball.

Announcements were made concerning the new Carkoski expansion: new vol-

leyball courts will be part of the renovations and will benefit all intermural and casual use by students at MSU. The motion was made and passed to confirm the results of the election, noting the recent results from Tuesday’s voting.

Next week’s meeting will allow graduating senators to say their goodbyes and make their final statements to the senate and gallery.

Several events were announced to the group: The Sigma Nu Chicken Feed will be hosted at the Sigma Nu house just off campus on April 25th, the event is $7 at the door and all proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity.

The Quidditch Tournament will be taking place May 3 and is still accepting teams of players.

Schrunk and word-of-mouth, Campus Cupboard averages 26 to 35 students per week.

The future is looking bright for the Campus Cupboard. Last month, several students, including Schrunk, joined Dahlvang in a community-area food drive that garnered almost 400 pounds worth of food. Another food drive in Nov. 2014 had 352 pounds donated via the Campus Kitchen; Dahlvang said that they were gracious enough to give the food away. In addition, several grants have been written–although none have been approved yet–to give the students more variety at the food shelf. The grants, according to Dahlvang, include a stipend for anyone in the future who manages the

Campus Cupboard as Schrunk is graduating and not returning, and possible refrigerator to give the students fresher food.

Schrunk also makes regular trips to the Salvation Army here in Mankato to receive several loaves of bread and other such baked goods that they receive.

“It’s best to be get bread and baked goods on Mondays,” Schrunk said. Another grant in the works is that Campus Cupboard partners with the Echo food shelf in Mankato to receive more food. Occasionally, you’ll see Schrunk tabling in the CSU and promoting Campus Cupboard. Schrunk said that when that happens, around 13 students stop by and take part in the food shelf.

Donations are highly encouraged, and Dahlvang and Schrunk both agreed it is the proteins that are in high demand.

So if you have any unopened and unexpired peanut butter, canned tuna and canned chicken breast that you won’t be using, please donate them. The Campus Cupboard is open from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Thursday and open from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Fridays. If you would like to donate, stop by anytime it is open, call Pastor Tammy at 507.327.4256, or you can let them know on Campus Cupboard’s Facebook page at facebook.com/ campuscupboard.

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Former football player sentenced to life in prison FALL RIVER, Mass. — Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a deadly late-night shooting, sealing the downfall of an athlete who once had a $40 million contract and a standout career ahead of him.

Hernandez, 25, who had been considered one of the top tight ends in professional football, pursed his lips and sat down after the jury forewoman pronounced him guilty in the slaying of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old landscaper and amateur weekend football player who was dating the sister of Hernandez’s fiancee. The conviction carries a mandatory sentence of life without parole and automatically triggers an appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court.

Hernandez’s mother, Terri, and his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, cried and gasped when they heard the verdict. Jenkins wept loudly on his mother’s shoulder. Hernandez, his eyes red, mouthed to them: “Be strong.

Be strong.” Lloyd’s mother also cried.

Jurors deliberated for 36 hours over seven days before rendering their decision, which also included convictions on weapons charges.

“The jury found that he was just a man who committed a brutal murder,” District Attorney Thomas Quinn said after the

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Within hours of Hernandez’s arrest, the Patriots cut him from the team. The team declined to comment on the verdict.

Prosecutors presented a

friends, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, saying his client was a “23-year-old kid” who witnessed a shocking crime and did not know what to do. Wallace and

Ortiz will stand trial later.

Prosecutors have suggested Lloyd may have been killed because he knew too much about Hernandez’s alleged involvement in a 2012 drive-by shooting in Boston that killed two. But they were not allowed to tell the jury that because the judge said it was speculation.

As a result, they never offered jurors a motive beyond saying Hernandez appeared angry with Lloyd at a nightclub two nights before the killing.

In the 2012 case, Hernandez is accused of gunning down a pair of men over a spilled drink at a nightclub.

All 12 jurors and three alternates spoke to reporters Wednesday, saying they were shocked by the defense admission that Hernandez was at the scene of the killing — an acknowledgement that they said helped confirm that he was guilty.

wealth of evidence that Hernandez was with Lloyd at the time he was killed, including home security video from Hernandez’s mansion, witness testimony and cellphone records that tracked Lloyd’s movements.

Hernandez’s lawyer, James Sultan, acknowledged for the first time during closing arguments that Hernandez was there when Lloyd was killed.

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Lloyd was shot six times early on June 17, 2013, in a deserted industrial park near Hernandez’s home in North Attleborough.

The motive has never been explained.

Police almost immediately zeroed in on the former Pro Bowl athlete because they found in Lloyd’s pocket the key to a car the NFL player had rented.

They also described how the judge talked to them privately after they reached their decision and told them about other allegations and evidence not presented in the case, including the 2012 slayings and the last texts Lloyd sent minutes before he died saying that said he was with “NFL.” The jurors said that information reaffirmed their feeling that they had made the right decision.

In the Lloyd killing, the defense argued that investigators fixated on Hernandez because of his celebrity and conducted a shoddy investigation in their zeal to confirm their suspicions.

Prosecutors said Hernandez organized the killing, summoned his two friends to help carry it out and drove Lloyd and the others to the secluded spot in the industrial park. During closing arguments, prosecutors also accused Hernandez of pulling the trigger, though under the law it was not necessary to prove who fired the shots to convict him.

Security video from inside Hernandez’s home showed him holding what appeared to be a gun less than 10 minutes after Lloyd was killed. The surveillance system also captured Hernandez, Wallace and Ortiz relaxing at his home hours after Lloyd was shot, hanging out in the basement “man cave,” lounging by the pool and cuddling Hernandez’s baby daughter.

Lloyd’s sister, Olivia Thibou, said Wednesday that prosecutors in the trial were her “dream team.”

Defense lawyers left the courthouse without commenting.

Hernandez, a native of Bristol, Connecticut, was an AllAmerican out of the University of Florida who was drafted by the Patriots in the fourth round in 2010.

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continued from 1 for students to take a night off of doing homework, working on their final posters, projects and papers to just have a fun relaxing night.”

According to Poessnecker, there was a shift of culture of MAD over the past year.

“We found that there has been an increasing interest in prioritizing a focus on the Mavericks After Dark events rather than a theme with multiple activities.

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First of all, for budgeting reasons, we want to be able to use our budget efficiently by having fewer events that we can put more money into. That gives a lot more opportunities.”

“We also want to highlight the importance of having them on the weekend and also having them for an extended period of time,” Poessnecker continued.

The event is free and open to not only MSU students but also community members in Mankato.

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These themed events include free food, activities, games, bowling and billiards, collaboration with student organizations, and much more.

IMPACT is the student programming board of the Centennial Student Union, run by students and advised from staff in the Student Activities office.

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CEO cuts own salary to cover large raises in company SEATTLE — A Seattle CEO who announced that he’s giving himself a drastic pay cut to help cover the cost of big raises for his employees didn’t just make those workers happy.

He’s already gained new customers, too.

“We’ve definitely gained a handful of customers in the last day or two,” said Stefan Bennett, a customer relations manager at Gravity Payments, a credit card payment processing firm.

“We’re showing people you can run a good company and you can pay people fairly and it can be profitable.”

Dan Price, chief executive of the company, stunned his 100plus workers on Monday when he told them he was cutting his roughly $1 million salary to $70,000 and using company profits to ensure that everyone there would earn at least that much within three years.

For some workers, the increase will more than double their pay. One 21-year-old mother said she’ll buy a house.

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sity Graduate School of Business said it’s unclear if Price’s unusual gesture will start a trend.

“It’s an alternative way to think about a tough problem, and I give these guys a lot of credit for laying it out there,” Larcker said. “Whether this would scale to a bigger organization, it’s hard to know. But it’s clever, it’s interesting and it’s fun to think about.”

Washington state already has the nation’s highest minimum wage at $9.47 an hour, and earlier this month Seattle’s minimum wage law went into effect. It will

eventually raise base hourly pay to $15.

Labor unions and workers in the Seattle area on Wednesday joined national protests for better pay. Drivers for Uber and Lyft — the app-based car-hailing services — gathered in Seattle, while airport workers rallied at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

Gravity’s CEO launched the company from his dorm room at Seattle Pacific University when he was just 19. He’s long taken a progressive approach that included adopting a policy allow-

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“I think this is just what everyone deserves,” Price told workers in a video of Monday’s announcement released by the

company.

But he also acknowledged it won’t be easy: The increased pay will eat into at least half the company’s profits, he said, and he has no plans to simply raise rates on clients.

“It’s up to us to find a way to make it work,” he said.

Bennett, 28, went to college with Price and has worked for Gravity since graduation. He said he was already happy to work for a company that treats its employees and customers well in what he otherwise considers a predatory industry. For him, the raise will amount to about $10,000.

“I don’t care as much about the money,” he said. “But if I look at my colleagues, and what they talk about on a day-to-day basis and what their concerns are — just looking at their faces when Dan announced the pay increase, it was pretty phenomenal.”

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Venus in Fur to close the spring season Department of Theatre and Dance display final performances.

LORIEN MEGIL Staff Writer As the semester nears its end so does the season for the Minnesota State University, Mankato Department of Theatre and Dance. Closing out the season is the Spring Dance Concert. The concert is comprised of pieces choreographed by Department faculty Dr. Julie Kerr-Berry (Director of Dance) and Daniel Stark, adjunct faculty member Allison Doughty Marquesen, and student choreographers Sam

Chmiel, Alina Fatieieva, and Amber Hommer. Chmiel’s piece will also be presented on video in the lobby before the show and during intermission. Hommer’s piece “Edges,” was chosen to be performed during the Gala Concert at the recent American College Dance Association (ACDA) festival.

With performances on Friday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 2 at 2:00 p.m. in the Ted Paul Theatre of the Earley Center for Performing Arts, this show is the culmination of Photos Courtesy of Mike Lagerquist

a a semester’s work. Tickets are $10; $9 for people over 65 or under 16, and groups of 15 or more; and $8 for current MSU students. Tickets can be purchased online at MSUDance.com and MSUTheatre.com, or from the Theatre and Dance Box Office in the lobby of the Earley Center for Performing Arts from 4-6 p.m., Monday-Friday.

Just after the Spring Dance Concert is a Student Dance

Showcase of a variety of pieces, at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 3, in the Ted Paul Theatre. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased in the lobby of the Earley Center for Performing Arts starting at 1:00 p.m. the day of the show.

At 7:30 p.m. on April 25, in the Ted Paul Theatre, Minneapolis-based Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (SPDT) will perform pieces from the company’s 36year history, including their

newest work Bohemian Grove, and signature repertory The Men from the Boys and Tales from the Book of Longing. The performance will follow a weeklong residency with Theatre and Dance Students, and will feature SPDT’s eight company artists Suzanne Costello, Brian Evans, Heather Klopchin, Kari Mosel, Jesse Neumann-Peterson, Stuart

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Interview with Belfast Cowboys A look at a local band from the Twin Cities.

JENNA VAGLE Staff Writer With the trumpet tooting, saxophone yelping and drums pounding over the sound of the high-energy crowd, the Belfast Cowboys/St. Dominic’s Trio rocked the stage in their performance at Cabooze Jan. 10. A video can be seen on their website, www.belfastcowboys.com.

The group is scheduled to perform at the same club April 17 as they release their new album, The Upside To the Downslide.

“It isn’t officially released yet, but so far the response from the handful of people that have received the disc has been really positive, especially about the original songs,” said Terry Walsh, vocalist of the Cowboys.

The nine-piece band specializes in Van Morrison covers with their horn section on point, and is influenced by legends such as Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen.

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They play at Nye’s in Minneapolis every Tuesday night, and play other popular venues in the cities such as one weekend a month at Kieran’s Irish Pub, and once a month at Whiskey Junction and Lee’s liquor Lounge. They have a long list of performances this

summer at venues such as Lake Harriet Bandshell, and shows at the State Fair kickoff party and the Rock Bend Folk Festival.

The Cowboys played over 250 shows in 2012 and 2013, so they are in pretty high demand.

While the Cowboys prefer

to stay close to home, they have traveled as far as Ireland to play shows. In 2010, they headlined at BB King’s Blues Bar in Times Square. Walsh said the Cowboys opened for the band Chicago once in Stillwater, Minnesota and played for three hours in the

hot sun. “That was surreal,” he added.

“We’re lucky in that we don’t need to tour if we don’t want to. We have enough work in the Twin Cities to stay busy. Eventually I’d like to set up more shows around the country and play other cities, but moving a ninepiece band around can be pretty expensive,” Walsh said.

The Twin Cities is known for a hot music scene. Venues such as First Ave have been known to host many chart-topping artists such as Tina Turner, Prince and The Ramones. When the Cowboys released their album as St. Dominic’s Trio the release party was held in the main room of First Ave. Walsh said, “The thriving music scene in the Twin Cities never fails to inspire. You can walk in many venues any night of the week and be blown away by the undiscovered talent onstage.”

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MSU backstage pass A look at student Nick Voight, stage manager.

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The theater is a place of tranquility and hard work for actors, dancers and musicians. But what about the crew members?

They spend just as much time, if not more, putting together sets, setting up microphones, organizing props, and setting up cues. The stage manager is the one responsible for making sure all of this runs smoothly. MSU’s theater department is performing Pirates of Penzance for its spring musical, and Nick Voight is the man in charge backstage.

“I have to make sure everything is in place before the show.

If anything goes wrong, it’s my fault,” Voight said as he paced around the stage waiting for actors to show up for sound check.

The cast has been rehearsing for weeks, but hasn’t interacted with the set yet. The first tech rehearsal was four days before the first actual performance. ,Voight said it was the first time eactors had a set to work with. sMost of Voight’s job is telling epeople what to do. But there is -so much more that goes into that dthan one may think. e Voight sits near a trio of scomputers, next to the light ,board operator, halfway up the ,rows of seats in the house of t

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to see what works and what doesn’t as far as light and sound cues. It’s when the stage manager can make those crucial changes that will make the show a success. The curtain opened far sooner in the opening overture than Voight was anticipating, so when intermission came, he touched base with the director to get the timing right. Timing is everything when it comes

als and being responsible for the smooth running of the show.

I mean Hakuna Matata right?”

Voight said about the experience.

Voight originally went to New York knowing no one except his cousin who worked for David Letterman. While out there, he also was hired on for a day to work on the set of ABC’s show Unforgettable. He

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Pimsler, Timmy Wagner and Roxane Wallace Patterson.

Experience an evening of “choreography with exquisite abandon” as the company reveals “the urgency of expectation and the vulnerability that comes with a bared soul” (Minneapolis Star Tribune).

Tickets are $5 and can be purchased beginning at 6:30 p.m. the night of the show from the Theatre & Dance Box Office.

For more information about SPDT, visit www.stuartpimsler.com.

The MSU Department of Theatre and Dance’s production of the updated version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance finishes its

run with performances on the 16, 17, and 18 at 7:30 p.m. and the 18 and 19 at 2:00 p.m. And the theatre season closes with David Ives’ Venus in Fur. With performances on April 22, 23, 24, and 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Finally, for those wondering how to get their theatre fix over the summer, check out the 49th annual Highland Summer Theatre, this year presenting The Foreigner, Xanadu, Doubt, and The Addams Family. Brochures have been mailed out, and can also be found on MSUTheatre. com.

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the theater. This is where he has a score of the musical and calls light and sound cues. His headset is connected with his assistant stage managers,’ sound person, light person and other tech crew placed throughout the theater, according to their position. This is how they communicate and know what to do. Voight has to constantly be thinking ahead. He said that’s one of the hardest parts of his job, constantly knowing what’s coming next.

Basically, a tech rehearsal is the stage manager’s chance

to crew duties, and Voight is the one who calls the shots.

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New York City-the home to any stage managers dream which is Broadway. Voight got the chance to work behind the scenes for one of the most popular and longest running shows on Broadway, The Lion King.

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Run All Night in review

Liam Neeson redefines himself as an action hero and succeeds.

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SHAWN CLOSE Staff Writer Liam Neeson has done a great job of changing his reputation.

In less than a decade Neeson has gone from an actor known mostly for dramatic roles to Hollywood’s go to old man badass.

If you told me that the leading man in Schindler’s List would one day be best known for threatening speeches and punching a wolf with broken glass taped

Topping it off is his perfect voice and delivery. No one does quiet intensity like Liam Neeson; like your mom after you broke something particularly valuable, Liam doesn’t need to raise his voice for you to know that your in whole lot of trouble. There’s just something about his gravely almost whispers that runs a chill through my spine. In a genre dominated by manly screamers and men too cool to say anything other than a one liners, no

gruntled detectives until he can clear his sons name.

Run All Night (RAN) does small focused action well. Everything feels tight and well coordinated, which is no small feat in an era where action movies have a tendency to lose track around the 60-minute mark. The characters are simple but consistent and the relationships between them feel like they have real weight behind them. Whether it’s Liam’s relationship with his

if some of the shot where a little dark and a little close cropped for my taste, but I guess that a movie with night in the title can be given a pass for being darkly lit. My only real gripe about the movie is the nausea inducing transitions.

Whenever the movie changed location without time passing the camera zooms out and flies across the city to the other location. It’s a well-done shot, and it probably cost way more money than it’s worth, but in a movie that’s remarkably well grounded for it’s genre it just seems silly and distracting. I also don’t like the whole show a shot five minutes before the movie ends, then jump to the beginning story structure.

It’s done to often and (just like in RAN) often done poorly. It cuts a lot of tension of the story when the movie shows you that Liam is going to survive at least until daybreak. Its un-needed and the movie would be better off with a strictly chronological time line.

RAN is one big cliché of a movie. Just like John Wick, RAN doesn’t offer much in the way of creativity, and you’ll spend most of the movie knowing exactly what will happen next.

But just like John Wick it has a love and dedication to it’s genres strengths and faults that’s downright charming. Honestly John Wick and RAN are 90% the same movie, which is a good thing.

RAN feels more human and relatable than John Wick. John Wick has more style than RAN and has more satisfying payoffs to its action sequences. Honestly, if you like RAN or John Wick then you’re going to like the other. They’re two great action movies with two great leads that know exactly what they are and what they want to do, and I can respect that.

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He may lack the inhuman muscle mass of a traditional action star, but he’s tall with broad shoulders and a face that looks like he spent 40 years drinking scotch and sleeping on his face, which is just as intimidating.

ones delivery makes me believe in their bad-ass-ness more that Liam Neeson.

When retired mobster hit man Jimmy Conlon (Liam Neeson) kills the estranged son of long time friend and ruthless mob boss Shawn Maguire (Ed Harris) to protect his own son, Shawn swears to use all his power to kill Jimmy and his son. Now Jimmy has to use all of his experience to keep his son alive, all while being pursued by mobsters, rival hit men, crooked cops and dis-

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Jury seated in Colorado shooting trial Death penalty sought for man who killed 12 in 2012.

CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A jury was seated Tuesday in the death penalty trial of Colorado theater shooter James Holmes after a selection process that experts say was among the largest and most complicated in U.S. history.

Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and injuring 70 others in the July 2012 attack in suburban Denver.

His attorneys don’t dispute that he pulled the trigger but say he was in the grips of a psychotic episode when he slipped into the packed movie theater and opened fire.

Jurors will decide whether he was legally insane at the time. If they find him guilty, they must also decide whether he should be put to death or sentenced to life ain prison without parole.

THE BREAKDOWN The 12 jurors and 12 alterdnates were chosen in a process -that began Jan. 20 after court .officials summoned an unprecedented 9,000 people. s There are 19 women and five -men, all of whom will sit through the entire trial. The group of 24 epeople and the public will not .know who is a primary juror and -who is an alternate until they begin deliberations.

N Among those chosen are a union plumber; a woman who cares for her elderly parents; a kwoman who once worked at a edetox center; and a woman with ndepression. Also on the jury are ta Denver Public Schools emdployee, a teacher and a man who was a survivor of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings who said he could be fair despite

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having been childhood friends with the shooters and the prom date of a victim.

One juror said during the questioning process that she was nervous about what her community would think of her verdict.

The case is “big and serious, and it’s going to have a huge impact on me and everyone else, the defendant and people in the community,” she said.

LINE OF QUESTIONING Attorneys on Tuesday questioned 93 remaining jury candidates about their interpretations of the law, how they would gauge witnesses and experts’ credibility, and whether they could handle serving on such a high-profile trial.

District Attorney George Brauchler characterized it as a

“four- to five-month roller coaster through the worst haunted house you can imagine.”

He asked prospective jurors if they could serve even if they hear no evidence of a motive, since prosecutors are required to prove only the 165 charges against Holmes — not why they believe he committed the crimes.

Holmes’ attorney, Tamara Brady, focused on perceptions of Holmes and whether the jury candidates could be objective given the litany of charges against him and the public scrutiny they will face. She asked how they felt listening for nearly two hours as Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. read a list of the charges, including each victim’s name. She wondered if prospective jurors would be too sympa-

thetic to survivors.

She said she was nervous “about whether Mr. Holmes can get a fair trial in this case or whether it’s just too big.”

JURORS’ CONCERNS Potential jurors told attorneys they worry about what their neighbors might think if they reach an unpopular verdict and whether reporters would harass their families.

One man said he was reassured when the judge told him steps were taken to shield his identity. Many pledged they would not let their decisionmaking be influenced by con-

cern about what others think.

Other candidates expressed trepidation about hearing graphic testimony and perhaps being overwhelmed by emotion.

WHAT’S TAKEN SO LONG? Some prospective jurors have asked the judge why it has taken nearly three years for the case to come to trial.

Samour has said it’s not an unusual amount of time for a trial this complex. The death penalty and insanity plea introduced complicated and time-consuming legal requirements.

WHAT ABOUT OTHER LARGE TRIALS? In the amount of time it has taken to pick a jury in Denver, federal jurors in Boston convicted marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

That case was accelerated

by Tsarnaev’s admission that he participated in the April 2013 bombings and that his brother, Tamarlan, was the mastermind.

The Texas trial for the killer of a former Navy SEAL depicted in the movie “American Sniper” was complicated by publicity about the film. But jury selection moved quickly because it didn’t involve concerns about the large number of people affected by the crime.

WHAT’S NEXT? The chosen jurors will report to court on April 27 for opening statements.

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Furious 7 races past expectations at $143.6 million LOS ANGELES — The highoctane “Furious 7” peeled out of the gates in its opening weekend, picking up a stunning $143.6 million from 4,004 locations to easily top the domestic box office, according to Rentrak estimates Sunday.

The expectation-shattering sum is a studio and franchise best for the homegrown car-obsessed series, which has continued to grow over the past few films.

“Furious 7,” now the ninthbiggest opening of all time, also unseats previous April recordholder “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” which opened to $95 million on the same weekend last year.

While the “Fast and Furious” films have grown in popularity over the past three films, the mega-opening for “Furious 7” was also at least partially tied to audience interest in star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in Nov. 2013 before the film was completed.

Production on “Furious 7” was halted while the filmmakers and Universal decided whether or not to proceed with the film.

The team ultimately decided to delay the release from its originally scheduled July 2014 date.

“It probably created some curiosity, but, at the same time, (the

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film) fits in so well with the overall continuing saga of the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise,” Nick Carpou, Universal’s president of domestic distribution, said of Walker.

“It’s a motivator, but it’s not by any means the prime motivator the see the movie,” he added.

There is also a sense that massive openings like “Furious 7” point to the creeping of summer blockbuster season, which seems to be starting earlier and earlier as studios try to stake their claim on prime dates.

But for Carpou, in a 52-weeka-year release strategy, the demarcation of a summer blockbuster is almost irrelevant when it comes to getting audiences to

turn out in droves for a film.

“It’s that corny old adage that if you build it, they will come,” he said, adding that the impressive February debut of “Fifty Shades of Grey” helps prove his point.

Paul Dergarabedian, Senior Media Analyst for box office firm Rentrak, thinks that this is a liberating trend for studios who once clamored for the first weekend in May release date.

“Studios are finding tremendous value in putting their movies in non-traditional corridors,” he said.

As the most ambitious release in Universal’s history, “Furious 7” opened on 10,005 screens internationally as well, picking

up $240.4 million from 63 territories for a $384 million worldwide debut — a 48 percent increase over “Fast & Furious 6.”

The film will also debut in Russia, Poland, Japan, and China in the coming weeks.

Holdovers populated the rest of the top spots with DreamWorks Animation’s “Home” earning $27.4 to take a distant second place. “Get Hard” brought in an estimated $12.9 million, while “Cinderella” and “The Divergent Series: Insurgent” rounded out the top five with $10.3 million and $10 million, respectively.

But it’s all about “Furious 7” for the next few weeks. The film has the roads to itself until Dis-

ney and Marvel’s “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” hits theaters on May 1.

“This could be the first in the franchise to flirt with the billion dollar mark,” Dergarabedian said.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1. “Furious 7,” $143.6 million ($240.4 million international).

2. “Home,” $27.4 million ($20.7 million international).

3. “Get Hard,” $12.9 million ($2.6 million international).

4. “Cinderella,” $10.3 million ($24.3 million international).

5. “The Divergent Series: Insurgent,” $10 million ($15.5 million international).

6. “It Follows,” $2.5 million.

7. “Woman in Gold,” $2 million.

8. “Kingsman: The Secret Service,” $1.7 million ($20 million international).

9. “Do You Believe,” $1.5 million.

10. “The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” $1 million ($3 million international).

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Mavericks surge on the mound, leading to perfect record Minnesota State baseball exploded on offense over the past week, leading them to a 6-0 record over that span.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer The Minnesota State Baseball team is went 6-0 over the past week, with a couple of close victories and a historic blowout that saw the Mavericks explode for 41 runs.

The Mavericks travelled to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to take on NSIC foe Augustana for a double header April 8th, posting two 9-7 conference wins.

In the first game of the twin bill, Dylan Dresel hit his second home run of the season to give the Mavericks 2-1 lead in the top of the 4th.

The Mavericks earned a 7-1 lead after the top half of the 5th inning. Taylor Branstad doubled home two runs, followed by a double by Josh Crosby two plate two more runs in the top of the 5th to garner a 7-1 lead.

The Mavericks gave up six runs in the bottom of the 5th to tie the game at seven, Patrick O’Donnell doubled in two runs to tie the game. The game stayed tied till the bottom of the 8th.

In the top of the 8th, Connor McCallum cracked his second double of the day, scoring two runs to give the Mavericks a 9-7 lead and the win.

Joey Reed got the start for MSU, going 4 1/3 innings, giving up six hits and three runs, while striking out two. Dakota Belter got the win going 1 2/3

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without giving up a hit.

The Maverick offense cracked out 12 hits, while Augustana smacked around nine

Yohanes Ashenafi • MSU Reporter MSU senior Max Waletich at the plate for the Mavericks.

hits.

MSU gained a lead early, in the second game of the day, McCallum and Max Waletich both singled home runs in the 3rd. Augustana scored three in the third after Jack Goihl hit a three-run homerun.

The Maverick sticks then drove in seven runs in the top of the fourth. Eric Peterson doubled in two runs and Nolan Johnson did the same to help give the Mavericks a 9-3 lead.

Augustana put together a four runs in the bottom half of the inning, Josh Benson tripled, knocking in a run. The Vikings couldn’t get together any more hits through the game, earning the Mavericks another 9-7 victory.

As a team, MSU smacked around 13 hits including McCallum going 3 for 4 with 3 RBI. Augustana had nine hits in the game, including Goihl going 2 for 4 with 4 RBI.

Aaron Rozek started on the mound for MSU going 3 2/3 innings giving up eight hits and eight runs, three of them earned, striking out two. Peter Gaustad (2-0) got the win for the Mavericks while Dakota Belter got his fourth save of the season.

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Ryne Leese (4-1) started for the Vikings, going 3 1/3 innings giving up seven hits and eight

runs, two of the earned, striking out three.

MSU picked up four wins in a weekend series against Bemidji State, in Bemidji, including a record 41-20 victory in the second game of the series.

In game one the Mavericks knocked around 18 hits in a 10-9 victory. Two Mavericks went deep, in the first, Eric Peterson cracked a leadoff home run, then Waletich hit a solo shot in the 4th giving the Mavericks a 7-0 lead.

BSU then scored runs in three straight innings, including a six run 6th inning. Scott Litchy doubled to plate two runs, and then Mason Bellew singled home two more runs to give the Beavers a 9-7 lead.

In the top of the final inning, the Mavericks got a three run home run from Waletich, his second of the game, to give MSU a 10-9 lead. Belter got the win for the Mavericks. Pitching

1 1/3 innings, giving up two hits and two earned runs.

Mitchell Bauer got the start for the Mavericks, going 4 1/3 innings giving up four hits and three earned runs.

In the second game, the Mavericks and Beavers combined for an NCAA Division II record 56 hits. MSU got the 41-20 win.

16 total pitchers were used in what was an offensive show.

Waletich hit another home run, this time a two-run shot to put the Mavericks up 3-0. MSU got more run support in the second inning. Dresel highlighted the inning by hitting a grand slam over the left field wall to put the Mavericks up 9-0.

BSU hit two home runs of their own the in the bottom half of the innings, cutting the Maverick lead to 9-7. Waletich kept his hot streak going, hitting his second home run of the game and his fourth of the day. Four other Mavericks hit singles that scored runs, as MSU put up 10 runs in the inning, giving the Mavericks a 19-6 lead.

The Mavericks kept their attack going, as they scored another three runs. The Beavers didn’t let the game get away, as they scored 10 runs over the next two innings to trail by only four, 22-18.

The Mavericks put together 16 more runs in the final two innings, giving the Mavericks a 41-20 win.

The offense didn’t stop for the Mavericks in the final two games of the series, Sunday. The Mavericks piled on 14 runs in a 14-4 win, and in the second game of the day the Mavericks won 23-1.

MSU built an 11-0 lead, led

by Dresel clearing the bases with a triple, and Luke Waldek hit a home run. BSU got a one run back in the fourth and three more in the fifth to cut the lead to 11-4. The Mavericks kept their power surge going, getting a two-run home run from home

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Mavericks adding to next fall’s recruiting class Losing seven players off the 2015 MacNaughton Cup and Broadmoor Trophy team, Minnesota State looks to reload.

B more Cole Huggins will regain d the starting role next season, too h much depth is a good problem f to have. c Omaha, Neb. Native Jason t Pawloski was the man between the pipes for the Green Bay M Gamblers of the USHL this past i winter. His team struggled, but Pawloski still finished eighth in i the league in saves, and in 2014 t earned the honor of Clark Cup t MVP after leading the Indiana t Ice to the USHL playoff cham- a pionship. b While the players who are i now ending their career in an MSU sweater leave a big hole g behind, Mike Hastings and his P staff have done a great job in w bringing in a top notch talent s to keep the program running h as a well-oiled machine. The Mavericks don’t plan on having o to rebuild, but rather reload with T talent and continue the success t they’ve achieved over the past F three seasons.

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DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor The Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team is coming off their best season in program history during the Division I era, but with that they are losing a handful of critical players to their lineup.

Six seniors are moving on due to graduation, while goaltender Stephon Williams gave up his final year of eligibility to sign with the New York Islanders.

With that, the Mavs need to fill some gaps for next season to defend their conference title.

MSU is expecting eight rookies to begin their careers at MSU next fall, and geographically, it’s a pretty diverse group of players.

Forward Max Coatta and defenseman Clint Lewis are the lone Minnesotans of the group, with Coatta playing his high school hockey at Minnetonka and Lewis at Burnsville. Coatta played one season for Penticton of the British Columbia Hockey League before moving up to the tier I United States Hockey League this past season with the Waterloo Blackhawks, where he recorded 29 points in 60 games.

He left Minnetonka as the school’s all-time leading scorer, and could provide an added scoring touch that the Mavs will have lost to graduation.

Lewis is an interesting recruit as he already played college hockey prior to committing to MSU. The former Burnsville star left his hometown to play for the United States National Development Team in Ann Arbor, Mich. his final two years of high school before playing a season at Cornell University. In just one season at Cornell, Lewis posted a goal and an assist in 32 games, but left to play in the USHL for the Sioux Falls Stampede this season hoping to field an offer from another school.

After posting 15 points from the blue line in 52 games with Sioux Falls, Lewis got that with an offer from MSU. Another defenseman, Alec Vanko of Oregon, Wisc. will come to MSU after three seasons of junior hockey under his belt. Upon graduating high school, Vanko played a season for the Janesville Jets in the North American Hockey League

t fi Trevor Cokley • MSU Reporter Max Gaede is one of seven Mavericks who will not be returning next season.

before moving up to the USHL for his final two seasons. In 107 games in the USHL between the Chicago Steel, Madison Capitals, and the Youngstown Phantoms, Vanko posted 11 goals and 33 assists with a plus-minus rating of 12.

Coming to Mankato from north of the border, forward Steen Cooper has an incredible five years of junior hockey experience. The Duncan, B.C. native played all five seasons in the BCHL, totaling 218 games between the Victoria Grizzlies, Cowichan Valley Capitals, and Penticton Vees, where he posted 117 points in his career.

Not far from Cooper, forward recruit Ryan Schwalbe comes from Anchorage, though he played the past two seasons in the USHL with the Sioux Falls Stampede. In 88 games over the past two years, Schwalbe posted 8 goals and 8 assists to go along with 74 penalty minutes. He could add a little grit that will

be missed with the graduation of grinder Max Gaede.

Another couple of recruits coming from the west, defenseman Daniel Brickley and forward Chandler Madry call Utah and California their respective home states. Brickley played last season with the Topeka Roadrunners of the NAHL where he led the team in defenseman scoring with 12 goals and 37 points through 58 games, and was selected for the 2015 NAHL Top Prospects Tournament.

Madry also played his junior hockey in the NAHL, with the Fairbanks Ice Dogs. As an alternate captain for Fairbanks, Madry ranked second in the league in scoring with 77 points in 60 games, and compiled a total 114 points in 146 games in the league over a three year career with the Ice Dogs.

The final recruit for next fall is a goaltender to fill the hole left behind by Stephon Williams. Though it’s likely sopho-

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Providence beats Boston University 4-3 for NCAA hockey title A flukey goal late in the third period of the title game proves the hockey Gods may have been shining on Providence.

BOSTON (AP) — Providence defenseman Tom Parisi thought he was just dumping the puck in from the red line so the Friars could get some fresh skaters on the ice.

Boston University goalie Matt O’Connor thought he had it. Easy.

But after the puck fluttered into his glove, more a blooper than a line drive, O’Connor lost track of it. He opened his hand, the puck dropped below him, and as the BU junior scooted back to cover the net, he kicked it in for the tying score.

“I go back to the bench and guys are saying, ‘That went in,’” Parisi said. “I don’t even know what to say. I was stunned. The second that went in, I knew we had it.”

Officially, it was a couple of minutes later that Brandon Tanev scored to give the Friars the lead with 6:17 remaining.

Frozen Four Most Outstanding Player Jon Gillies stopped 49 shots, and Providence held on to beat BU 4-3 on Saturday night for its first NCAA hockey title.

It was the third straight year that the NCAA has crowned a first-time champion.

Anthony Florentino and Mark Jankowski also scored for the Friars (26-13-12). The Hockey East runners-up earned the last at-large berth in 16-team NCAA Tournament, but they won it all by beating the school that edged them out for the conference title.

“I think that’s what makes it a little bit sweeter. That BU team is, they were terrific,” Providence coach Nate Leaman said. “It’s kind of a little bit like our season: We started a little bit slow but we got better and better. We played a pretty good third period, and obviously got a big bounce.

And we had a heck of a bounce, and I think that got our bench alive a little bit.”

BU (28-8-5) was seeking its sixth championship in a virtual home game, protecting a 3-2 lead when O’Connor seemed to field a harmlessly lofted puck.

But then he doubted whether he had caught it after all.

“I couldn’t really see it in my glove. I thought it rolled out of it. I tried to drop and throw it to Jack (Eichel) and it was too

late,” O’Connor said. “Everyone in this locker room deserves a lot better. They deserve to be hoisting the national championship right now.”

Tanev scored off a faceoff to give the Friars the lead, and Gillies helped protect it with a diving save against Nick Roberto in the final minutes.

The PC fans who made the hour drive from the Rhode Island capital drowned out the sound of the final buzzer, and the players stormed over the boards to celebrate. It was the school’s second trip to the Frozen Four, its first since 1985.

BU players skated slowly over to O’Connor to console him after the loss. Providence players also tried to lift his spirits in the handshake line.

“As a goalie, you feel for a bounce like that,” Gillies said.

“And you’ve been there, so you know the bottomless feeling that it presents. ... You know that nothing you say right there can help, but just trying to get him lift his head up and realize he played an unbelievable year as a whole.”

Ahti Oksanen and Danny O’Regan scored an NCAA Tournament-record 4 seconds apart for the Terriers to overcome an early deficit, and Cason Hohmann gave BU a 3-2 lead in the second period. O’Connor stopped 39 shots.

But his gaffe cost BU the lead in a building where it had won so many times in the Beanpot and Hockey East championships — including both tournaments this season. In all, the Terriers came into Saturday night with a 42-22-0 record at the TD Garden since it opened in 1995.

Oksanen tied it at 1 midway through the first period, then Hobey Baker Award winner Eichel won the ensuing faceoff and skated into the Friars’ zone before sliding the puck over to O’Regan for another goal. The previous record for fastest goals was 5 seconds apart, set by Michigan in the 1948 championship game against Dartmouth.

Jankowski made it 2-2 early in the second and Hohmann put BU back on top midway through the period. It stayed that way for 20 minutes as the game settled into a lull before O’Connor’s mistake gave new energy to the

Web Photo The Providence Friars celebrate their National Championship victory over BU.

Friars.

BU called a timeout with 6:19 left. On the ensuing faceoff, Tanev picked up the puck in the slot and wristed it in for the goahead goal.

Terriers coach David Quinn, in his second season since replacing longtime mentor Jack Parker, pulled O’Connor with 1:50 to play, and BU put sustained pressure on Gillies.

The Terriers came closest to tying it when Roberto picked up a rebound with Gillies out of position, but the goalie dove back and got his arm onto the ice to stop the shot and protect the lead.

The Friars were the preseason favorite to win in Hockey East, but they stumbled early and BU won the regular-season and conference tournament titles. PC won two games in the Providence regional to reach the Frozen Four, and then had another virtual home game against Nebraska-Omaha on Thursday to make it to the championship game.

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New kid on the blocka At 21 years old, Texas native Jordan Spieth becomes the second youngest Masters winner in golf history, behind the legendary Tiger Woods.

ing for a span of five years, as Woods has done on more than one occasion. The parity in professional golf is a spectacle, with every event being up for grabs.

Golf fans everywhere are seeing a new era of the sport, where records that were thought to be broken someday, seem far unlikely to be touched. The great Jack Nicklaus’ record of 18 Major PGA wins was a feat that seemed would be diminished when Tiger would beat it, but Woods has 14 Major wins and may not ever have another.

Last weekend it was Spieth, the last few years it has been McIlroy, but professional golf no longer has a king in today’s game. Spieth may not become the next Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, or Jack Nicklaus, but he has solidified himself as the new kid on the block.

DEREK LAMBERT Sports Editor The most notorious tournament in professional golf came and went last weekend, and the world was introduced to a new up and comer who may be the next big thing in golf. Well, sort of.

Jordan Spieth, a 21 year old from Dallas, came out of the gate hot, and nearly set a record for the best score in Masters history. Spieth shot an impressive 64 in his first round of the tournament to be atop the leaderboard at eight under par. On day two, Spieth shot a 66, setting the 36-hole record of 14 under par after the second day. The former Texas Longhorns golfer shot 70 in the final two rounds to finish the tournament at 18 under par, taking home the green jacket.

With a score of 270 for the tournament, Spieth tied Tiger Woods’ record for the lowest score in Masters history, and set the record for most birdies in the tournament with 28. With the win, Spieth also became the second-youngest golfer to win the Masters after Woods’ win in 1997, leading him to be ranked the no. 2 golfer in the world following the weekend, behind Rory McIlroy.

Spieth finished four strokes ahead of all-time great Phil Mickelson, writing his name in the history books and establishing himself as one of the best young golfers in the world.

Meanwhile, no. 1 golfer in the world, McIlroy finished in fourth place at 12 under par, and

Web Photo Spieth recieving the coveted green jacket as the Masters champion from last year’s champion Bubba Watson.

Woods finished tied for 17th at five under par.

While Spieth hasn’t totally flown under the radar, winning the John Deere Classic in 2013 and the Valspar Championship last month, this was his first Major win, and at his age, is a possible sign of future greatness.

Tiger Woods is unanimously the most famous golfer in the world, despite his lack of success in recent years. Woods won his first Major at 21, like Spieth,

winning the Masters. Though Woods has since won 14 Major PGA tournaments and it’s hard to compare the young Spieth to one of the greatest golfers of all time, it seems that Spieth and McIlroy may be ushering in a new era of golf.

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Minnesota State earns split against in-state rival Winona LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer

The Minnesota State softball team spilt in NSIC action Monday.

The Mavericks took on a talented Winona State team at h home. The Mavericks were able to get the sticks going early in the first game of the twin bill, but they cooled down after that.

In the bottom of the first, junior Emily Branksy singled up 8the middle to score MSU’s first run. Ashley Thell and Molly Sager hit back-to-back doubles to plate two more runs, followed by a Jess Meidl single to give the Mavericks a 4-0 lead.

The Warriors got a run back in the second, but the Maverick offense was able to score

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another run when Dana Mogren doubled home a run, giving the Mavericks a 5-1 lead.

Winona State scored in the fifth and sixth innings to tie the game up at five. In the top of the sixth, Natalie Kalmes knocked a solo home run to start the Warrior rally. Reed Karsten then tripled in a run, and she scored on an Ashley Walker single to tie the game.

The Mavericks stayed resilient, Branksy stood in the bat-

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ter’s box with the bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth, and was able to double home two runs, giving the Mavericks a 7-5 lead. After shutting down the Warriors in the seventh, the Mavericks came away with a game one victory.

Ashley Walker got the start for WSU going 2 innings and gave up five runs on eight hits, while striking out two in a no decision. Hanna Lythberg got the loss for the Warriors, pitching one inning and gave up one run on three hits.

Freshman Libby Bemis got the no decision, pitching 5 2/3 innings, giving up four earned runs and striking out four.

Sophomore Coley Ries got the win, pitching 1 1/3 innings striking out two.

Game two did not go as well for the Mavericks.

After a slow start to game one, the Warrior offense got the sticks going early. They plated five runs in the top of the first.

WSU scored their first two runs on back-to-back fielder’s choice.

Jessica Kullmann singled home a run, Allyson O’Herron followed suit and singled home a run of her own. Jamee then smashed a double to score another run, and before the Mavericks had a chance to swing the bats they were down 5-0.

WSU kept their offense going in the third, as Lexi Perez doubled down the left field line to score two more Warrior runs.

Karsten then singled home Perez to give the Warriors a commanding 8-0 lead.

The Mavericks were able to get a run back in the fourth; Sophomore Samantha Buhmann singled home a run to get the Mavericks on the board.

The Warriors put two more runs on the board in the fifth on a Morgan Lintz double, giv-

ing the Warriors a 10-1 lead.

The Mavericks could only get one back in the final inning, as Mogren reached on a fielder’s choice to bring the Mavericks within eight, but still falling 10-2.

Ries (15-13) got the start for MSU, going 2 1/3 innings giving up nine hits and seven earned runs, while striking out two.

Lythberg (17-5) got the start for WSU giving up two earned runs on seven hits while striking out five.

After the double header the Warriors moved to a 34-9 (16-2) record. WSU is ranked 7th in the first release of the Central Region Rankings. The Mavericks moved to a 29-17 (14-6) record after the twin bill. They were ranked 10th in the Central

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run from Johnson, while Branstad hit a solo shot, propelling MSU to a 14-4 victory.

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Region Rankings.

The Mavericks softball team is back in action in North Dakota. Saturday, the Mavericks take on University of Mary, who hold a 19-26 (8-11) record, in Bismarck for a double header.

MSU will then travel to Minot Sunday to take on Minot State who hold a 27-16 (8-12) record for a double header.

Brody Rodning went the distance picking up his second win of the season, striking out four and giving up four earned runs.

In the final game of the series, Waldek started the scoring with a two-run double.

Waletich hit a two-run home run to push the Maverick lead to 4-0.

BSU tried to get back in the game, scoring their first

run of the game on a sacrifice fly. The MSU offense did not slow down.

MSU plated 14 runs, including six home runs in the bottom of the sixth. McCallum hit a three-run homer, Waletich hit a two-run shot, Kevin Kramer and Hunter Harnisch each hit a solo shot while Waldek hit a grand slam. After the home run brigade, MSU went up by a score of 21-1.

MSU scored two more runs in the final frame to win 23-1.

Dalton Roach got the win for MSU after throwing six innings giving up six hits and one earned run.

After the week MSU holds a 23-4 record with a 13-3 conference record. The Mavericks took the field Wednesday for a double header at home with Upper Iowa. Concordia University travels to Mankato over the weekend to battle the 7th ranked Mavericks for a four-game series.

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