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Football team tackles hunger

School’s first cultural fraternity expands greek population.

MSU football opens annual scrimmage to fans, proceeds benefit local charity.

web photo The Iotas represent MSU’s newest fraternity, the first of its kind here on campus.

web photo Blakeslee Stadium, typically vacant at this time of year, played host to a school-first public football scrimmage over the weekend, as student groups organized to raise money for local charities.

ELISE KONERZA

WESS MCCONVILLE

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Minnesota State University, Mankato established its first new culturally based Greek lettered organization.

Five MSU students aspired to bring something new to MSU, something that aligned with their own mission and values.

Working alongside many MSU faculty members, the group was able to bring its new ideas to fruition.

The five were educated about the Iota Phi Theta Fraternity Inc., an international fraternity with membership in the North American Interfraternity Conference (NIC)

and the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) that governs nine traditionally African-American fraternities and sororities.

The group is now known as the Theta Theta Chapter, also referred to as “The Iotas,” and will primarily focus their efforts on community service, Tibyus Hill, secretary and historian for the Iotas, said.

“We’ve even implemented an award for those dedicating so many hours of service to the community,” Hill said.

The mission of the Iotas is “building a tradition, not resting upon one.”

Hill said the organization

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staff writer

Even after all these years, Minnesota State University, Mankato students are still beginning new on-campus traditions that build school pride and help charity at the same time.

Each spring, the MSU football team holds an offense against defense scrimmage. However, unlike many other schools, these have always been closed practices.

The Leaders of Tomorrow, a nonprofit group organized by students from the sports management department, noticed a ripe opportunity to open up MSU’s spring game

and to incorporate charity into it.

“Division I schools always make a big production out of its spring football game,” said Justin Sullivan of the Leaders of Tomorrow. “[MSU football player] Brian Keys is a member of our group, and he thought if we opened up this practice, we would could start a new campus tradition and get our message out to the community.”

The mission of Leaders of Tomorrow is to teach young people how to lead and start charitable projects in the community. They also recognize people who have made a difference in the com-

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munity by handing out the Presidential Service Award, an award given by President Barack Obama to those who have fulfilled a set number of community service hours.

“When we first met as a foundation, we tried to think of different ways we could help locally,” Sullivan said. “We saw some stats on hunger that kind of blew our minds, so we decided to base our project around that.”

They then began the Mankato Million-Meal Challenge to raise awareness for hunger worldwide, particularly in Mankato. The goal is to pack one million meals for hungry families by next

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Rocking the Crossroads Campus Lutheran Church bringing area bands together for “Rock n’ Worship,” proceeds benefit Kids Against Hunger.

shannon rathmanner • msu reporter Crossroads Lutheran Campus Ministry, located next to the Performing Arts Center, is set to rock this week, when area bands come together to raise money for Kids Against Hunger.

JENNA SCHLAPKOHL

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When the church doors swing open this Saturday, the music pouring out will be a little different than that of the normal praise and worship songs expected every weekend.

Music, ministry and raising money are the key com-

ponents of this years Rock ‘n Worship for Kids Against Hunger event at Crossroads Lutheran Campus Ministry.

Starting at 7 p.m. on Sat., May 4, five different bands will grace the church with their musical talents in hopes to raise money for Kids Against Hunger.

Charging a $2 entry fee at the door, funds will be matched by Thrivent Luther-

an Financial.

David Foster is in charge of putting this event together and hopes to have at least 200 people in attendance, guaranteeing an $800 donation for the worthy cause.

This is the first year that an event of this scale that has been put on by the church. In previous years, the festivals were free and featured only campus worship bands.

Through hard work and simple networking, Foster was able to secure a wide range of bands to help draw attention to the event.

From punk pop and rap, to worship there is something there for everyone.

New to the Minneapolis music scene, Summertime Dropouts is a pop/punk band that has a sound reminiscent to All-American Rejects and

Sum 41.

Their debut album, Rewind, does just that. With vocal similarities to New Found Glory, their tracks take listeners back with a 90s punk aesthetic.

Another band hailing from the twin cities area, Saving Vinyl City, will also be performing at the event.

As noted on their Facebook page, concert attendees can expect a “wild, fun and energetic show with heavy amounts of crowd participation.”

Their music, described as funk rock, incorporates a strong base line with keys and saxophones to match.

Their set-list includes a mixture of covers of popular songs such as ‘Forget You’ and ‘Rolling in the Deep’ and original tunes.

Moving away from the rock category, DoubleJ brings his own style of hiphop to the table.

Breaking the stereotypes that come along with this category such as fame, money and girls, DoubleJ aims to “break that mold to show that there is a breed of rap that not only speaks

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Minnesota youth lacking mentors Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota survey finds deficit in male mentors involved with volunteer programs statewide.

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As the semester comes to a close, MSU students are anticipating the warm summer days, spontaneous fiestas and beach visits, and are in reach of a break that frees most of their time.

In addition to a job or hobby may have, summer is a

time for fun and relaxation.

It can also be a time for assisting local youth.

The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota program builds and supports mentoring programs to ensure that kids all over the state can be paired with a mentor.

It was founded in 1994 as a community initiative to promote mentoring for Min-

nesota youth, with a goal to provide caring adult mentors that can support and build with mentees.

With over 180 mentoring programs in Minnesota alone, there are many easy opportunities for students to mentor youth.

Recent results from a survey conducted by the group found that there is a great

need for male mentors both locally and nationally. In fact, there are twice as many female mentors as males.

Mentoring has a direct benefit on both parties involved in the relationship.

Young people who have mentors have an increased chance of succeeding and making positive life choices, while also displaying higher self-esteem.

When they are supported by the mentor-mentee relationship, national research as well as common sense shows that the youth can build better relationships with their parents and other people, their academics improve and they will have a reduced risk of being involved with substance abuse and violence.

“We want every child in Minnesota who needs a mentor to have one through one of these quality programs” explained Mai-Anh Kapanke, one of the directors of MPM’s operations.

According to Kapanke, mentors have found great benefits in participating in the mentor-mentee relationship, sometimes even more than the youth.

“Not only is it a great resume builder to volunteer,

but [the experience] provides a feeling of gratification from the impact that they make by supporting a young person,” he said.

Giving back to the community feels good, and being involved with a mentoring program can help students develop useful skills.

All of us can think back to someone who took the time to teach or guide us, so in a sense, everyone should consider participating in a mentorship relationship to pay it forward.

“This is not a one way street,” said Kapanke. “It can make the mentor feel youthful, and give them access to pop culture of a younger age group.”

Surely, a positive part of being involved with youth is hearing the comical statements that come out of kids’ mouths.

There are a great variety of different programs that require assistance.

As a mentor, you can volunteer in a community-based or school-based mentoring program. In Mankato, for example, the YWCA and YMCA serve as great vol-

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The river winds on

Wandering off of the career path and the art of letting go.

photo courtesy of Camp Amnicon Finding your way through college isn’t always about making the grade, sometimes it involves diving headfirst into the unknown. These canoes helped facilitate a few such dives.

RYAN LUND

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It’s mid-July, the heart of summer.

The sun beats down unyieldingly from on high, transforming the murmur-

ing waters of the river into swathes of diamond, each reflecting those pleasant rays in a dazzling show of natural brilliance.

The river winds in front of us, pushing steadily onward, rippling, spiraling, its waters

responding to every rock, every aberration, with shifting ebbs and meandering flows.

A small fleet of red and green canoes, plastic patched and preserved through seasons of wear and a half dozen repairs, moves in a disjointed

rhythm down the river’s smooth arcs and gentle curves.

Tired hands scoop paddles through the water, blending rhythmic splashes with the sounds of nature, always dissident, but never quite breaking the river’s natural chorus.

Gradually we round a bend, and the river opens up before us, the water breaking into a vast, still stretch as a sudden breeze drifts upstream, ruffling hair, pulling at caps and tugging at clothing caked in the grime of a week on the water, cooling bodies and minds.

Just a few months and a few hundred miles removed from writing, from class, from expectations and careers, and I’m already gone, already drifting, thoughts of the future pushed calmly to the periphery as the river winds on.

It’s been five weeks since my chief concern centered steadfastly on charting my course through college, just over a month since I last gave degrees and the future a second thought.

Exams and interviews take a backseat to the sort of work that we were helping to bring about.

Because behind me, stretched out over a few dozen yards or so, was a collection of kids that had spent much of

“How did you take advantage of the summer weather this weekend?”

their lives with minds infinitely more preoccupied than that of a privileged college kid.

Many of them were there to escape the boundaries of a life lived in urban America, to slip the confines of an impoverished neighborhood or a broken home.

A fair number of them came with stories that would break even the most hardened of hearts.

Plenty were simply dealing with the emotional turmoil of adolescence, a struggle that we’ve all experienced to varying degrees, but all of them were there to learn: about themselves, about others.

And we were there to guide them.

Not to teach them, no.

You can’t teach a child the truth of a world that has spent years doing its worst.

You can’t teach a kid about empathy and compassion; you can’t teach them that the world cares.

You can’t teach them, but you can show them.

And that’s what we were there to do.

I spent nearly three months at Camp Amnicon, nestled snugly along the southern shore of Lake Superior, a quick drive down the lake

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Phuong Vinh, freshman

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“I rode my bicycle.”

“I hung out with my friends outside.”

“I studied outside and people watched for like 5 hours.”

“A nature walk.”

“I had to study so I stayed inside.”

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Keeping students’ interest down Area politicians sign on to avoid increases in student loan interest rates.

web photo Area political voice Tim Walz supports keeping tuition costs down, and hopes that raising taxes on the country’s wealthiest will help to accomplish that goal.

SAM WILMES & CHRIS HOUCK

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With student loans playing a major role in the lives and futures of Minnesota State University, Mankato students, two Minnesota representatives are working on keeping the student loan interest rate at the current 3.4 percent.

Representatives Tim Walz and Keith Ellison have signed on with more than 60 other representatives in support of the 2013 Student Loan Relief Act. “The path to the American Dream runs through college campuses across this nation,” Walz told Minnesota Public Radio.

“As a teacher and a parent, I know how critical a highquality education is to our country’s economic future and I also know how much anxiety middle class families feel about the rising cost of college.”

Republicans agree with the need to extend the rates, but disagree about how to pay for the extension.

Senator Lamar Alexander, a Republican from Tennessee, voted against a bill that would

have kept student loans at the 3.4 percent interest rate.

According to Alexander, Republicans are in favor of keeping the interest rates at their current status, but disagree with the Democrats’ plan, which would’ve been able to stop the increase in interest payments by increasing Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes on high-earners.

“We agree with President Obama, we agree with Governor Romney, we agree with the House of Representatives that it should stay at 3.4 percent,” he said.

“The only difference is how we pay for it. They want to raise taxes on people who are creating jobs, while we’re still in the midst of the greatest recession since the Great Depression,” Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander said last May after Senate Republicans blocked further progress on a student loan interest bill.

Democrats wanted to pay for the bill by raising the social security and payroll taxes on high earning stockholders of some private companies.

The loans, otherwise known as Stafford Loans, are offered at a lower rate then a normal private loan. Cosign-

ers are also not necessary, a need for students who come from less affluent families.

In it’s main elements, the act involves retaining the 10-10 Loan Repayment Plan.

The plan would involve borrowers’ monthly payments being capped at 10 percent of their discretionary income.

Interest capitalization would also be limited to 10 percent of the original amount.

The act is limited to federal loans. Federal Family Education loans and Federal Direct loans would be eligible, and the 10-10 plan would be the default payment for the borrowers.

The plan also involves long-term forgiveness. The Income-Contingent Repayment, Income-Based Repayment and Pay As You Earn repayment plans will be tax free under the act, Public Service Loan Forgiveness will be improved by providing forgiveness after five years for borrowers involved in public service careers, instead of the current 10-year period.

While some may see keeping the current interest rate

Loans / page 8

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SCRIMMAGE “The whole reasoning behind $1 is because the meals we pack cost 25 cents per meal. Our vision is $1 will feed four kids.” continued from 1 fall5with the help of Kids Against Hunger.

Admission to the spring game is $1, while soda and pizza also cost just $1 a piece.

“The whole reasoning behind $1 is because the meals we pack cost 25 cents per meal. Our vision is $1 will feed four kids.”

The first MSU spring game could be considered a rousing success. The weather cooperated with a 75-degree day, and somewhere between 500 and 600 people showed up to watch purple take on white.

Troy Lavrenz, uncle of MSU wide receiver Taylor Johnson, drove from Iowa to tailgate with the family and watch his nephew in the game.

“We went to all of the home games last year,” said Lavrenz. “We usually tailgate before all of the games; even when it’s cold. It’s a great way to catch up with the family and I’m looking forward to this upcoming

year.”

With the $1 admission, some people also felt compelled to donate more of their money to a good cause.

“One guy gave me $20 and told me to keep the change after I told him what the money is for,” said tickettaker Taylor Pederson.

The Leaders of Tomorrow also raff led off Minnesota Vikings autographs, including that of Everson Griffin, a Vikings defensive end who has donated his name to their cause.

Andrea Connelly stayed busy accepting tickets at the raff le table, which also included a football signed by the entire Maverick football team.

“There is no set price for a raff le ticket,” she said. “Like about everything else we are doing, it’s all based on donations.”

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Gay athletes finding their way out of the closet

(AP) Even before Jason Collins, plenty of other athletes around the world have come out as gay, either while still active or in retirement.

From Martina Navratilova to Greg Louganis to Sheryl Swoopes, men and women from a variety of sports have openly acknowledged their sexuality, though many others are believed to still be reluctant to come forward.

Collins, a 34-year-old NBA veteran, became the first active player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay, writing a first-person account posted on Sports Illustrated’s website Monday.

Collins has played for six teams in 12 seasons, including this past season with the Washington Wizards, and is now a free agent.

“It is hugely powerful when any individual in the sports world, wherever they come from in the world, feels able to come out,” said Ruth Hunt, deputy chief executive of the British gay rights organization Stonewall. “The fact that this is a current player adds to the strength of his statement.”

Previously, some pro sports athletes waited until after quitting to say they were gay, including former NBA player John Amaechi and former NFL running back Dave Kopay.

English soccer player Justin Fashanu committed suicide in 1998, eight years after coming out during his playing career.

Amaechi, a center who played five seasons with four teams, became the first NBA player to publicly come out in 2007, three years after the Englishman’s playing career was over. He said Collins spoke with him before deciding to come out and called his decision “groundbreaking” and one that could encourage other gay athletes to follow suit.

“I’m getting tons of messages right now from people talking to me about him, about what he’s done,” Amaechi told The Associated Press. “I’ve spoken to a couple of college athletes in the States and a couple of high school athletes who are very good who have been immensely buoyed by this news.

“They feel a weight lifted off them even if they aren’t out and they aren’t going to come out at this point.”

Sports leagues in Britain and elsewhere in Europe have been trying to combat anti-gay bias. But the taboo remains particularly strong in soccer,

where there are no openly gay players in Europe’s top leagues.

Homophobic chants still occur at some games.

“Football is not going to change,” Amaechi said. “If it wanted to change it would change. It has the resources to do so. It doesn’t want to change.”

Amaechi said he has been in touch with soccer players, including in the English Premier League, who are gay but are not ready to go public.

“Many of them are out already,” he said. “They are out in the way that most people are out in that people they love and that people who care about them know that they are gay. But random strangers don’t know that they are gay.”

Fashanu remains the only top-level British soccer player to have come out publicly, acknowledging he was gay in 1990. The former Nottingham Forest and Norwich City striker was found hanged in a London garage at age 37.

According to an inquest, Fashanu left a note saying, because he was gay, he feared he wouldn’t get a fair trial in the United States on sexual assault charges. Maryland police were seeking him on charges that he sexually assaulted a 17-year-old boy after a party at his apartment.

Robbie Rogers, a former U.S. national team player who played for Leeds in England’s second-tier division last season, went public in February that he was gay, saying on his personal website that “I realized I could only truly enjoy my life once I was honest.” He also said he was retiring from the sport.

Anti-gay sentiment in soccer has been expressed in different ways.

Last year, Italy forward Antonio Cassano said he hoped there were no homosexual players on the national team and used a derogatory word to describe gays. Fans of two-time defending Russian champion Zenit St. Petersburg signed a petition saying gay players were “unworthy of our great city.”

Marcello Lippi, Italy’s World Cup winning manager, caused a stir in 2009 when he said he had never come across a gay player and would advise gay players to stay in the closet.

“The NBA is light years ahead of football, there is no doubt about that,” Amaechi said.

In the U.S., Kopay, who played for five NFL teams over

10 years, was the first pro athlete to acknowledge his homosexuality publicly when he came out in 1977 after retiring, and wrote a book about it.

Four-time diving gold medalist Louganis revealed he was gay in 1994, a year before announcing he was also HIVpositive.

Swoopes, a WNBA star and three-time Olympic gold medalist, disclosed in 2005 that she was gay.

In tennis, women’s greats Navratilova and Billie Jean King came out about their sexuality. Former French player Amelie Mauresmo also spoke about her sexual orientation.

U.S. soccer star Megan Rapinoe came out before she played in last year’s London Olympics. WNBA star Seimone Augustus and the league’s No. 1 draft pick, Brittney Griner, are some of the more recent female athletes to follow suit.

Glenn Burke, an outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Oakland A’s in the 1970s, and Billy Bean, a utility player in the 1980s and 1990s, disclosed they were gay after retiring. Burke died of complications due to AIDS in 1995.

Gareth Thomas, a Welsh rugby star, attracted widespread media attention in 2009 when he announced he was gay; he played until he retired in 2011.

“I was like a ticking bomb. I thought I could suppress it, keep it locked away in some dark corner of myself, but I couldn’t.

It was who I was, and I just couldn’t ignore it any more. I’d been through every emotion under the sun trying to deal with this,” Thomas said in a recent documentary broadcast on British television.

Orlando Cruz of Puerto Rico came out in October as pro boxing’s first openly gay fighter, saying, “I don’t want to hide any of my identities. I want people to look at me for the human being I am.”

Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury came out as gay six years after winning a gold medal in the backstroke at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Former Olympic skiing gold medalist Anja Paerson of Sweden announced last year after her retirement that she was in a long-term relationship with a woman. Australian diver Matthew Mitcham came out as gay before he won the men’s 10-meter platform gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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FRATERNITY “This is a historic moment for MSU, its Greek community, and the men who have worked hard for the last year and a half to make this a reality.” continued from 1 adheres to the development and perpetuation of citizenship, scholarship, leadership and brotherhood. He said they hope to bring in more organizations by 2015, and are looking into not only fraternities, but sororities.

The group was granted a charter by its International Board of Directors on March 6 and received full recognition by MSU’s Interfraternity Council (IFC).

“This is a historic moment for MSU, its Greek community and the men who have worked hard for the last year and a half to make this a reality,” John Bulcock, assistant director of student activities for Greek life, said.

The five men were initiated into the organization after a five-week education process, including a regional conference, workshops and learning how to run the chapter on their own, and

were “birds being kicked out of a tree and ready to run the chapter,” Hill said. They are Tyrone Carter, James Gregory, Tibyus Hill, Maurice Smith Jr., and Darone Spears.

Hill said the organization first started as a sort of clique before becoming a club, and ultimately being recognized as a fraternity with the help of Bulcock who suggested they first start a club. The organization was originally named, “Brothers with a Purpose,” Hill said.

The staff advisor for the Iotas is C. Maxille Moultrie, Director for the Center for African American Affairs and a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. “I would not be a member if it was not for him,” Hill said. “He worked with us a lot and saw to it that we got our mission of bringing a new organization to MSU done.”

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Tragedy abroad

CROSSROADS “It’s all for a good cause, and we just want people to come out and have fun,” said FosWhile domestic terror and a Texas explosion left ter.

At 10 a.m., the 3,200 garment workers were told to leave early for lunch. At 2 p.m., they were told to leave for the day. Few of the workers — mostly migrants from desperately poor villages — asked why. Some were told the building had unexplained electricity issues.

The best factory buildings are well-constructed and regularly inspected. The workers are trained what to do in case of an emergency.

Rana Plaza was not one of those buildings. The owner, Mohammed Sohel Rana, was a feared neighborhood political enforcer who had branched into real estate. In 2010, he was given a permit to build a fivestory building on a piece of land that had once been a swamp. He built eight stories.

Rana came quickly after the crack was found. So did the police, some reporters and officials from the country’s largest garment industry association.

Rana refused to close the building. “There is nothing serious,” he said. The workers were told to return the next morning, as scheduled, at 8 a.m.

Merina, a petite woman with a round, girlish face and shoulder-length hair, never saw the crack.

She comes from Biltala, a tiny village in southwest Bangladesh, where there is electricity but little else. Her father is a landless laborer who grows rice and wheat on rented farmland, and, when he can, travels the seven hours by train to Dhaka to sell cucumbers, cauliflower and other vegetables on the street.

When she was 15, she moved to Dhaka. Some of her aunts were already working in garment factories, and she quickly had a job.

For millions of Bangladeshis, the garment factories of Dhaka are a dream. Every year, at least 300,000 rural residents — and perhaps as many as 500,000 — migrate to the Dhaka area, already one of the most crowded cities on the planet.

Poverty remains the norm across most of rural Bangladesh, where less than 60 percent of adults are literate. To them, the steady wage of a garment factory — even with minimum wage less than $40 a month — is enough to start saving up for a scooter, or a dowry, or a better school for the next generation.

So for a woman like Merina, who like many Bangladeshis goes by one name, there are generations of culture telling

her not to question a command to go back to work.

When some factory workers did speak up Wednesday morning, they were reminded that the end of the month — and their paychecks — was near. The message was clear: If you don’t work, you won’t get paid.

“Don’t speak bullshit!” a factory manager told a 26-year-old garment worker named Sharma, she said, when she worried about going inside. “There is no problem.”

Around 8:40 a.m. Wednesday, when the factories had been running for 40 minutes or so, the lights suddenly went off in the building. It was nothing unusual. Bangladesh’s electricity network is poorly maintained and desperately overburdened.

Rana Plaza, like most of the factories in the area, had its own backup generator, sometimes used dozens of times in a single day.

A jolt went through the building when the generator kicked on. Again, this was nothing unusual. Eighteen-yearold Baezid was chatting with a friend as they checked an order of short-sleeved shirts.

He’d come from the countryside with his family — mother, father and two uncles — just seven months earlier. Since then, he’d worked seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to midnight.

His salary was about $55 a month. But he could more than double that by working so many hours, since overtime pays .37 cents an hour.

Sometime after the generator switched on — perhaps a few moments later, perhaps a few minutes — another, far larger, jolt shook the floor violently.

The building gave a deafening groan.

The pillars fell first, and one slammed against Baezid’s back.

He was knocked to the floor, and found himself pinned from the waist down, unable to move.

He heard coworkers crying in the darkness. One coworker trapped nearby had a mobile phone, and the seven or eight people nearby took turns to call their families.

Baezid wept into the phone. “’Rescue me!’” he begged them.

Like a young boy, he kept thinking of his mother. He wanted to see her again.

In Bangladesh, people in need of help rarely think first of the police, or firefighters, or anyone else official.

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the opposite, but encourages a life that honors someone other than yourself.”

Returning to one of the main pillars of the event, the final two groups embrace the true meaning of a worship band.

Rise to L.I.F.E and the MSU Campus Ministry Band pride themselves on their desire to live and perform for Christian values.

The purpose of the event is not only to have fun, but also to support Kids Against Hunger.

Founded in St. Paul, MN, this is a cause that is close to home.

After seeing the disaster Hurricane Fifi left in Honduras, founding father Richard Proudfit made it his lifelong goal to feed starving children.

Even at the age of 80 years old, he shows no signs of

retiring, reiterating the same response every time, “I can’t.

My children are dying.”

Their mission is simple.

“Our mission at Kids Against Hunger is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world.”

Foster’s team has worked tirelessly to put this event on, while making sure it is affordable enough for college students to want to attend.

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SAVAR, Bangladesh (AP) — Merina was so tired. It had been three days since the garment factory where she worked had collapsed around her, three days since she’d moved more than a few inches. In that time she’d had nothing to eat and just a few sips of water. The cries for help had long since subsided. The moans of the injured had gone silent.

It was fatigue she feared the most. If sleep took her, Merina was certain she would never wake up.

“I can’t fall asleep,” the 21year-old thought to herself, her face inches from a concrete slab that had once been the ceiling above her. She’d spent seven years working beneath that ceiling, sewing T-shirts and pants destined for stores from Paris to Los Angeles. She worked 14 hours a day, six days a week, with her two sisters. She made the equivalent of about $16 a week.

Now she lay on her back in the sweltering heat, worrying for her sisters and herself. And as the bodies of her former coworkers began to rot, the stench filled the darkness.

The eight-story, concreteand-glass Rana Plaza was one of hundreds of similar buildings in the crowded, potholed streets of Savar, an industrial suburb of Bangladesh’s capital and the center of the country’s $20 billion garment industry.

If Bangladesh remains one of the world’s poorest nations, it is no longer a complete economic cripple. Instead, it turned its poverty to its advantage, heralding workers who make some of the world’s lowest wages and attracting some of the world’s leading brands.

But this same economic miracle has plunged Bangladesh into a vicious descending spiral of keeping down costs, as major retailers compete for customers who want ever cheaper clothes.

It is the workers who often pay the price in terms of safety and labor conditions.

The trouble at Rana Plaza began Tuesday morning, when workers spotted long cracks in at least one of the building’s concrete pillars. The trails of chipped plaster led to a chunk of concrete, about the size of a shoe box, that had broken away.

The police were called. Inspectors came to check on the building, which housed shops on the lower floors and five crowded clothing factories on the upper ones.

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LOANS “The path to college campuses across the nation runs through student loans,” Walz told Minnesota Public Radio. continued from 5 steady in terms of forgiveness, others see the issue in a different light.

According to an article published by U.S.News, a term that may better suit the situation is fairness - fairness against paying back loans at even higher rate, especially when college keeps getting more expensive, and the job market for college graduates keeps getting worse.

U.S. Representative Hansen Clarke, a Democrat from Michigan, insists that this will be a boon to college graduates, and contends that the college debt structure in place now can be a dream ender.

“Everyone tells us to go to school and work hard and we’ll be rewarded for our dedication,” Clarke told U.S. News. “But the promise of a dream can turn into a nightmare for so many people.”

Clarke also claimed that he has seen people paying off student debt from their social security checks, which, according to him, provided a motivation to propose this bill.

Nationwide student loan debt currently tops a trillion dollars, exceeding even credit card debt.

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RIVER “You can’t teach a kid about empathy and compassion; you can’t teach them that the world cares. You can’t teach them, but you can show them. And that’s what we were there to do.” continued from 4 from Duluth.

Established nearly 50 years ago as a means of Christian outreach in the deceptively secluded woods of northern Wisconsin, Camp Amnicon has since grown into a fully functioning high-adventure camp, specializing in making those who are far to often ignored feel loved once again.

With a staff of just over a dozen, we paired off and led groups of campers, many of whom had been designated “at risk” for one reason or another, on weeklong adventures into territory that many of them had never been given the chance to experience.

They came from churches and community centers, foster homes and youth groups.

Some were religious, and some were not.

Some were battling personal demons, while some battled a life that had torn them down.

We spent just short of a week with each group, guiding them through a few days of paddling, camping and bonding along the river.

During that time, from the moment that they took their first often-tentative steps out of the car, to the moment when we inevitably waved goodbye, these were our kids, our precious responsibility.

We were to keep them safe and fed, happy and whole, but we had another job, one that felt just as important: to do some of that aforementioned showing.

To show them that glistening water and those lazy currents, to show them a world

that wouldn’t mock them or judge them, a safe place where they were free to be themselves, to find themselves.

It was our job to show them that even though the world could be cruel, it is also full of love.

But first, I had to do a little self-discovery of my own.

I arrived at camp in June, just a few weeks after finishing out my fourth year at MSU and failing to land a coveted sports media internship.

My career, I thought, was certainly in shambles. With no internship and just one year left on my long-gestating Mass Media degree, I loaded a box full of essentials into my little Honda and made the long drive up to camp.

Suddenly, I found myself flung fully from my admittedly narrow comfort zone.

Lake Superior’s bizarre weather patterns sent cold nights creeping into my sleeping bag, while the amplified sounds of nature were foreign to my city-raised ears.

It was life like I’d never known it before.

But after a few weeks spent adjusting to this new lifestyle, including a crash course in the finer points of water safety, first aid and the thousand-andone other skills required of a guide, I began to feel something.

Or rather, I stopped feeling something.

The change was by no means sudden, a growing contentment, a building sense of ease.

It began with my new

coworkers, as we first started to form the bonds that would eventually support our burgeoning family, despite our diverse backgrounds and assorted quirks.

And one day, with the lengthy training process finally behind me, standing knee deep in Wisconsin’s Flambeau River, it dawned on me: I was content.

For the first time in years, years spent carefully plotting my way to the career that I had set my heart and future on, the stress was gone.

It was there, as I watched my laughing charges tackle a set of rapids that might have broken their tender confidence a few days before, that I found it, that ever-elusive bliss.

In serving others, in separating myself fully from the trials and tribulations of college life and the age of the Internet, that I found myself, that I learned to put my problems aside.

Immersing myself in the task at hand, in ensuring the safety and happiness of my young group, had changed me in ways so subtle that I hadn’t noticed the monumental shift.

Camp became home, and my coworkers became the best sort of family, one where we were each accepted, quirks and all, just as our campers were.

In helping my young group to overcome, they had helped me to a new state of mind, one that permitted the stresses of life to fall away, replaced by the peace of mind that comes of seeing greater things.

Even now, nearly a year later, that feeling has endured.

With graduation just a few weeks away, and the promise of an uncertain future not far behind, I can feel content in the knowledge that the world will continue spinning, regardless of whether or not it all plays out according to my neatly laid plans Forget the plan.

Somewhere out there, down the block or across the street, is a child grappling with problems for which there is no plan. Children who deserve the chance to see the true goodness of the world with their own eyes.

Because while throwing yourself into camp life may not sound like the perfect solution, there is peace to be found in putting your own problems aside for a while, in giving life a chance to take over.

College isn’t just the means to an end, a stepping-stone on the way to greater things.

College is a time to explore, a time to discover, a chance to see life in new ways and to branch out in wild and unexpected directions.

So take risks Mavericks, explore the unexplored.

Forget your transcripts and your grades for a while, and find your own bliss, your own way to make our suffering world a better place.

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MENTORS “We want every child in Minnesota who needs a mentor to have a mentor through one of these quality programs,” explained Mai-Anh Kapanke, one of the directors of MPM’s operations.

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Until Monday, when there was no hope left for survivors and heavy equipment was brought in to move tons of concrete, many of the rescuers working inside the rubble were volunteers. They were garment workers, or relatives of the missing. Or, in the case of Saiful Islam Nasar, they were just a guy from a small town who heard people needed help.

Nasar, a lanky mechanical engineer from a town about 300 kilometers (185 miles) away, runs a small volunteer association. They get no funding and have no training. They buy their supplies themselves. For the most part, the group offers first aid to people who have been in car accidents. During the monsoon rains, they help whoever they can as the waters rise around the town.

When he saw the news, Nasar gathered 50 men, jumped on a train and reached Rana Plaza about 11 hours after the collapse.

He made his way into the rubble with a hammer and a hacksaw, by the light of his mobile phone. In six days, he says he has rescued six people, and helped carry out dozens of bodies.

That first night, he slept on the roof of the collapsed building. Then for two nights he slept in a field, and now he has a tent.

But he can’t sleep much anyway, because the images of all the corpses keep running through his head.

Told that he was a hero, he looked back silently.

Then he wept.

Merina was sitting at her knitting machine on the fourth floor, in the Phantom TAC factory, when the world seemed to explode.

She jumped to her feet and tried to run for the door, but pieces of the ceiling slammed down on her. She crawled in search of a place to hide, and found one: a section of the upstairs floor had crashed onto two toppled pillars, creating a small protected area. About 10 other men and women had the same idea, including Sabina, a close friend. The two women clutched hands and wept, thinking their lives would end in a concrete tomb. “We’re going to die, we’re going to die,” they said to each other.

The group could barely move in the tiny space. Merina’s yellow salwar kameez was drenched with sweat. The air was putrid with the smell of death.

As time passed, desperately thirsty survivors began drink-

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ing their own urine. One person found a fallen drum of water used for ironing and passed around what was left in a bottle cap. Merina sipped gratefully.

She kept thinking of her sisters, who shared a single bed with her in a corrugated tinroofed room near the factory.

Her sisters, though, had been luckier.

Merina’s older sister, Sharina, ran out just in time.

She turned around to watch the building she had toiled in for years fold onto itself in an instant.

Their parents booked tickets on the next train to Dhaka.

They arrived Thursday morning, joining hundreds of other relatives who had thronged to the scene. Merina’s mother prayed hard, promising God a devotional offering — a valuable gift from this rural family — if Merina got out alive.

“If you save the life of my daughter, I will sacrifice a goat for you,” she promised.

On Friday, Merina finally began to hear the sounds of rescuers cutting through the slab above her with concrete saws.

“Save us! Save us!” she and Sabina yelled together. But by the time the rescuers reached her Saturday morning, she was disoriented and barely conscious. She was put in an ambulance and people surrounded her. “Where are you taking me?” she asked them. “What happened?”

“Don’t be afraid, you’re going to the hospital,” someone told her.

On Saturday, as Merina lay on her side resting, her mother stroked her hair, fed her and rubbed her back. Tears rolled down Merina’s face, and she squeezed her father’s hand.

That night, Merina slept fitfully, replaying the ordeal in her mind. She woke with a new conviction. “God has given me a second life,” Marina said later, speaking from her hospital bed. “When I’ve recovered, I will return home and I will never work in a garment factory again.” Baezid said the same thing: He’d never go back to the garment factories.

Many survivors, though, will return. The choices are just too few.

Baezid’s two uncles also worked in Rana Plaza. The three went to the factories together last Wednesday.

The two uncles have not been seen since. They are presumed dead.

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unteer opportunities, conducting the Big Brother/Big Sister program.

Mentors and mentees are not limited in the activities that they can do together.

In the school-based programs, the mentor is paired with a student and can read with them, look at their assignments and help them academically.

At the YMCA, partners can meet over lunch and do social activities. In the community-based programs, the sky is the limit when it comes to activities.

You can go on a walk in the park, play basketball, go canoeing or play a game – what’s important is not necessarily spending money on the child, but more importantly building a relationship.

Having that time where they can just talk and build together is what makes a lasting impression and the time commitment can range from one hour to how ever many hours you are willing to commit.

There is a network of 300 mentoring youth programs in Minnesota, 188 are registered, which means they are looking for mentors. These

188 programs operate on quality practices and have emphasized the need for more male participation in the various programs.

There are an estimated 250,000 at-risk young people who need and could benefit from an adult mentor and there are easy ways to help squash this statistic by dedicating as little as an hour a week to an awesome program. Local programs in Mankato include the YMCA and YWCA, as well as the Girls on the Run organization.

The State of Mentoring study is conducted every other year, and measures the collective impact of mentoring on Minnesota youth through a statewide survey.

This allows MPM to analyze the effectiveness of the youth mentoring in the state.

This lead to three strategic areas MPM focuses on.

They are: Increase and support quality mentoring, champion and promote the value of quality mentoring, and generate sustainable resources for further the mentoring movement.

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shows the powerful impact college students can have on students of all ages.

One example in particular involved a college student from the University of Minnesota, who devoted his time to Julio, a seventh grader, through a local mentoring program; sharing interests in athletics and academics.

They immediately developed a close bond and as she expressed, some relationships take off gradually, while others like this form immediate bonds and perfect matches. The dedication of this college student’s time has been a huge asset to Julio.

It’s not only Tommy and Julio who have benefitted from this relationship, many individuals have similar success stories from their mentoring partnerships, so consider helping out by seeking out a mentee.

MSU students looking to get involved, can simply go to the MPM website at mpmn.org and check out the “Find a Program” tab, which provides plenty of information about the program and can assist potential mentors in finding a match.

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Mavericks take three of four from Wayne State, remain in second of NSIC With just two games remaining in their NSIC schedule, the MSU baseball team used their offense to earn three big victories over Wayne State to keep them in the hunt for another conference championship with one week remaining.

REECE HEMMESCH

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In their second-to-last weekend of the season, the Minnesota State University, Mankato baseball team needed a convincing series against Wayne State to stay ahead of the Wildcats in the conference standings and keep up with top dog St. Cloud State. Thanks to an offensive explosion and reluctant pitching from MSU, the Mavericks took three of four from Wayne State to remain in second place in the NSIC with just two games remaining.

The four-game set would be the first time the Mavericks played in 12 days, since their four game sweep of Southwest Minnesota State on April 15.

No. 11 MSU now sits at a 29-8 record on the season and 18-4 in the conference, giving them the no. 3 spot in the first central region rankings, falling behind Central Missouri and Missouri Western State of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association.

MSU started off their weekend Saturday with their top-two pitchers taking the hill in senior Harvey Martin and junior Jason Hoppe. The two would be on fire as usual as MSU took game

one 15-4 and game two 6-0 at the Pete Chapman Baseball Complex in Wayne, Neb. Though Martin’s prowess on the hill was good enough for his sixth victory of the season, MSU’s offense displayed its arsenal with 17 hits in game one to achieve the victory, with the first inning being the only inning the Mavericks did not put up a run.

Sophomores Nolan Johnson and Taylor Branstad would lead MSU offensively, both finishing the game 3-4 with two doubles.

Johnson would score twice and knock in two RBIs, while Branstad crossed the plate three times with one RBI and a triple.

Senior Lucas Skjefte would add three hits for MSU and three RBIs of his own.

Martin would go six innings, allowing eight hits and four earned runs, with senior Tony Vocca coming on for the seventh and retiring the Wildcats in order for the win. The victory would be the 200th career victory for MSU head coach Matt Magers in his fifth season of holding the purple and gold’s reigns.

MSU’s offense would produce six runs on 12 hits in game two but it was not needed as starting pitcher Jason Hoppe

compiled one of his best outings of the season, giving up only four hits while striking out 14 in the complete game shutout to improve his record to 6-1 on the season and earn his second straight victory.

The Mavericks got their offense going in the third inning with a sacrifice fly from Johnson, which scored Branstad, to make it 1-0. That score would stay until the sixth when junior Mike Andries smacked a two-run homer to make it 3-0.

He would follow that up in the seventh with an RBI single, and Johnson would double in the eighth to bring in another run, giving the game its final score of 6-0.

Andries, along with sophomore Connor McCallum and junior Stetson Olson, would lead MSU with two hits apiece.

Andries also knocked in three RBIs in the game.

Keeping up their persistent hitting display, MSU opened up day two with an 8-1 win over the Wildcats, accumulating 10 hits in the process and six extra-base hits for the victory.

The Mavericks started their day with a two-run homerun from Skjefte in the second

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MSU gets share of NSIC title with five wins in final six games

The Mavericks softball team finished their 2013 campaign strong with five wins on the weekend to earn them a share of the regular season conference title for the second year in a row.

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The Minnesota State University, Mankato softball team set out to complete their Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference schedule last week.

They started Thursday with a sweep over Sioux Falls, before splitting a pair against Duluth on Saturday and St. Cloud State on Sunday.

MSU overcame Sioux Falls in game one with a score of 1-0.

Senior Courtney McKelvogue’s effort earned MSU the victory in her complete game

shutout. In seven innings, McKelvogue allowed no runs on five hits, while walking one batter and punching out eight.

Zero runs scored through the first six innings made for an interesting game on the Gustavus football field in St. Peter.

In the top of the seventh inning, junior Kelly Wood cracked the goose egg with a solo-shot.

In the bottom half of the seventh, McKelvogue allowed just one runner to reach first base before closing the door. McKelvogue improved her overall record to 17-6 with the win.

In game two, MSU trumped

Sioux Falls 12-4.

Sophomore Brittany Lauterbach earned the win for the Mavericks in her six innings of work. Lauterbach allowed four runs on three hits, while striking out three batters.

Sioux Falls struck with an unearned run in the bottom of the first inning.

Junior Lindsay Erickson knotted things up in the top of the third inning with a RBI single.

Another RBI single came from the bat of freshman Tatum Klein in the fourth inning, giving MSU the 2-1 lead.

Erickson achieved her second

and third RBIs of the game in the fifth inning off her two-run blast.

Junior Anna Cole connected on a solo home run one batter later and increased MSU’s lead 5-1.

In the sixth inning, Cole and Erickson were back at it.

Cole earned a RBI after reaching on a fielder’s choice and Erickson followed that up by capitalizing on a catcher’s error and scored from third base increasing the lead to 7-1.

In the bottom half of the sixth, Sioux Falls did the majority of their damage, first scoring on an unearned run then scoring two-

runs on a sacrifice fly to center field.

With the score set at 7-4, MSU added five insurance runs in the top of the seventh inning, first, with senior Abby Sonner knocking in a RBI single.

Next, Erickson slugged her second home run of the day, bringing in three runs and then junior Samantha Hollen hit a one-run bomb to seal the inning.

Senior Jenna Peterson finished the last half of the seventh inning by forcing three straight groundouts. Lauterbach improved her

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MSU SOFTBALL continued from 11 season record to 8-2 with the victory.

Erickson, who went 4-5 with six RBIs and three runs scored, Cole who went 2-5 with two RBIs and one run scored, and Sonner, who went 4-4 with one RBI and three runs scored, led MSU offensively.

In their only two regular season games at home, MSU lost game one to the University of Minnesota, Duluth by a narrow score of 2-1 before shutting them out 8-0 and sending them home.

McKelvogue earned the loss for MSU in game one with her 6.1 innings pitched. McKelvogue allowed two runs on three hits while walking one and striking out one.

UMD struck first in the fourth inning when Kierra Jeffers connected on a RBI single.

The game remained 1-0 until the top of the seventh inning when MSU senior Lauryn Morris tied the score with a RBI single.

Unfortunately for the Mavs, a fielding error at the start of the inning allowed the UMD base runner to be brought in by a sacrifice fly, giving UMD the walk off win.

With the loss, McKelvogue’s overall record dropped to 17-7.

The loss only seemed to motivate the Mavs, putting up crooked numbers in each of the first five innings, prevailing 8-0 in game two.

Lauterbach earned the win by going all five innings for MSU, allowing three hits.

Erickson started the scoring for MSU with a solo-shot in the first inning. Cole then added a RBI triple before Wood capped off the inning with a RBI single and gave MSU a 3-0 lead.

In the second inning, Morris connected on a RBI single, giving MSU a 4-0 lead.

Wood put her bat to use again in the third inning when she walloped a two-run home run and increased the margin to six.

In the fourth inning, Wood earned a RBI off of a sacrifice fly to a Huskie infielder.

Morris finished things in the fifth inning with a one-run shot, increasing the score to 8-0.

Lauterbach’s overall record improved to 9-2 with the win.

The offensive side of the field for MSU was led by Wood, who went 2-2 from the plate and contributed four RBIs and scored one run, Hollen, who went 3-3 and scored two runs, Morris who went 2-3 with two RBIs and scored one run and Erickson who went 2-3 with one RBI and scored one run.

On Sunday, MSU traveled to St. Cloud to take on the Huskies in two NSIC games, prevailing 3-2 in game one and 7-3 in their second bout.

McKelvogue earned the win for MSU in game one with her seven innings of work from the circle. She allowed two runs on four hits while walking two and

striking out one batter.

The game was dry in terms of offense until the sixth inning.

Erickson knocked in a RBI single to center field in the sixth inning, giving MSU a 1-0 lead.

However, in the bottom half of the sixth inning, Nicole Steinle cracked a two-run double to left center, giving the Huskies the 2-1 lead.

MSU didn’t back down though.

Morris earned a RBI after grounding out to the shortstop, tying the score, and Sonner backed that up with a RBI infield-single to give MSU the 3-2 advantage.

McKelvogue sent St. Cloud down in the bottom half of the seventh with little problems, improving her overall record to 19-7 with the win.

MSU’s offensive production was led by Erickson, who went 2-3 with one RBI, Sonner, who went 1-3 with one RBI and Morris, who went 0-2 with one RBI, walk and run scored.

Game two started on the wrong foot for MSU, but their ability to consistently score runs earned them the 7-3 win over the Huskies.

Lauterbach earned the win for MSU with her 5.2 innings of work from the rubber. Lauterbach allowed three runs on four hits, while walking two and striking out one.

St. Cloud’s Mikayla Hogan squared up the ball and sent a two-run shot in the first inning.

MSU was put on the board when Morris sent a RBI double down the line in the third inning.

In the fifth inning Hollen knotted the score with a RBI after reaching on a fielder’s choice.

MSU’s bats finally warmed up in the sixth inning. With Morris’ patience earning her a RBI after taking ball four with the bases loaded. Next, Sonner’s two-run single to left center. Morris scored on a passed ball before Cole concluded the sixth inning on a fielder’s choice bringing in another run and increasing the score 7-2.

In the bottom half of the sixth inning, the Huskies managed to produce a run from Kelsie Fitch’s RBI double down the line.

Both teams went down in order in the seventh inning to end the game.

Peterson relieved Lauterbach from pitching duties for the last 1.1 innings. Lauterbach’s overall record improved to 10-2 with the win.

Morris, who went 2-3 with two RBIs and two runs scored, Sonner who went 2-4 with two RBIs, and Klein, who went 2-4 and scored two runs, led MSU’s offensive attack.

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MSU BASEBALL continued from 11 to make it 2-0. Olson would follow that in the third with a two-RBI single through the left side, and Johnson and Olson would each homer in the fifth to put the game out of reach for Wayne State.

Four Mavericks would have multiple-hit games in the first.

Olson was 3-4 with four of MSU’s seven RBIs coming from his homerun and a double while Johnson, Skjefte and junior Parker Sullivan each added two hits. McCallum would not register a hit in this game, ending his hitting streak at 16 games dating all the way back to March 29.

Junior Bryce Bellin would get the win for MSU on the hill, starting his first game since March 11, going six innings and giving up no earned runs and three hits, while striking out seven to improve his record to 2-1.

In the final matchup of the series, MSU’s sticks ran out of juice when they were halted to just five hits, falling 3-1 to the Wildcats.

Senior Nick Sutherland would start game four on the bump for MSU, taking the loss in six innings pitched while giving up three runs. Junior Chris Williams would go the final two innings in relief for MSU, facing seven batters with one walk.

Wayne State would jump out to an early lead getting a run in the first and second innings from RBI hits from CJ Nolen and Brett Kelm.

MSU would answer back with a run of their own in the sixth off the bat of junior Todd Standish for his sixth home run of the year. It would be an attempt to get back in the game, but the Mavericks were silenced in the bottom half of the inning off a solo shot from WSC’s Kevin Andersen to give the game its final score of 3-1.

From here the Mavericks will play today against Concordia St. Paul at the MSU Baseball Complex to finish out their NSIC schedule, followed by a trip to Kirkland, MO. to take on Truman State in a non-conference series to end the year.

Concordia St. Paul comes into the matchup with an 8-6 record in conference play and currently sits seventh in the NSIC. The Golden Bears will be hungry for a couple victories in order to try and take the final spot in the conference tourney from Winona State, since only the top six teams move on to postseason play in St. Cloud.

With Hoppe and Martin both pitching Saturday, one would think they could possibly go Tuesday for MSU to try and stay towards the top of the conference, possibly ousting St. Cloud State from the throne and earn their fourth straight

conference championship.

Junior TJ Larson did not throw over the weekend and is a possibility on the hill as well, which could result in a possible joint-effort from Martin and Hoppe in the second game of the doubleheader.

Concordia used all their top pitchers in the their weekend series with Sioux Falls, so their attack from the mound may have to be a hodgepodge against the streaking MSU offense. Those games are slated for 1:30 and 3:30 start times on Tuesday.

Conference-leader St. Cloud State has a doubleheader with Augustana and a four-game series with Bemidji State to round out their NSIC campaign, meaning it will be tough for them to finish anywhere but no.

1. They already boast a 15-1 conference record, playing the top-six teams behind them in the standings only four times, an advantage to their record in this cancelled-ridden season.

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Currently MSU, St. Cloud State and Wayne State all have top-8 statuses in the regional rankings, but that can all change pending their performances in the conference tournament. MSU is currently the highest-rated NSIC team at no. 3.

Even though the season has been filled with rain and snow outs, it appears that everything should stay intact for the remaining weekends. The next month of baseball will be huge for MSU as they attempt to get back to the College World Series for the second year in a row.

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Purple takes down white in MSU spring game

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It looked as if MSU’s spring game would not be too spring-like, but the weather cleared up Saturday as the Mavericks took the field to showcase their talent for their 2013 campaign.

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After looking outside earlier last week, it seemed there was no way the Minnesota State University, Mankato football team would get a game in, let alone a “spring” game, but the squad got the weather they needed to get some work done in front of the MSU community at Blakeslee Stadium on Saturday.

With the squad split into purple and white, the purple team took a 28-7 victory over white on Saturday, led by junior quarterback Jon Wolf. Wolf, who started most of the games this past fall, finished the game completing 7-of-11 passes for 100 yards and a passing touchdown.

Even as the stadium presented some gusty winds, the quarterbacks showed some great poise in the air. For the white team, freshman quarterback Nicholas Pieruccini, who didn’t take a snap all fall, threw 10of-18 attempts for 160 yards, a touchdown and one interception.

The Chicago native also led both

squads with 66 yards on the ground.

Backing up Wolf for purple, redshirt freshman Mitch Brozovich, who played very well when Wolf was out due to an injury this past season, ran for 51 yards and threw 7-of-11 for 73 yards and two touchdowns.

In the running game, the two workhorses in freshman running back Connor Thomas and sophomore running back Andy Pfeifer didn’t take as many carries as they usually would, as Thomas finished the game with 25 yards and Pfeifer with 36.

Freshman running back Chad Zastrow, who Interim Head Coach Aaron Keen believes has a shot for the third running back spot, rushed for 33 yards.

The defensive line for the purple squad brought a world of hurt for the white squad, as both junior defensive ends Chris Schaudt and Shonquille Dorsey tallied two sacks each. Schaudt was a First-Team All-NSIC South Division pick as he led the team with 11.5 sacks this fall.

The AFCA All-American placekicker in junior Sam

Brockshus didn’t get to kick a field goal, but went 3-for-4 in extra-point kicks. This past fall, Brockshus put through 59-of-61 PATs and hit 21-of-27 field goal attempts.

The first score of the day came from an eight-yard touchdown pass from Wolf to senior

receiver Dennis Carter. With Brockshus missing the PAT, the white team would take a 7-6 lead in the second quarter after Pieruccini hit freshman receiver Connor McKeen for a 12-yard touchdown.

Freshman cornerback Jared Gillespie made an impact on

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special teams after returning a blocked punt for a touchdown to give the purple their lead back.

From then on it was the Brozovich show as he threw two passing touchdowns in the second half to give the purple their 28-7 win.

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Accompanied by John Munson, Chan Poling and Southside Desire, Saturday night featured an array of talent

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Saturday night, the Cedar Cultural Center in the Twin Cities hosted an album release show for singer/songwriter Lucy Michelle, lead vocal from the famed Velvet Lapelles. The night was a tribute to her first solo CD, Attack of The Heart, accompanied by Chan Poling and John Munson, with upand-coming girl group Southside Desire opening the seated show.

With her distinct, sweet voice and calm, yet confident attitude, Lucy Michelle was described by an audience member as resembling Betty Boop.

Lucy was a refreshing performer to watch, accompanied by instrumentation of saxophone, piano, guitar, drums and more.

Michelle was selective when choosing the right individuals to work with on her new album, and narrowing it down to the talent she did was definitely a step in the right direction. You may be familiar with Chan Pol-

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ing from The Suburbs and John Munson from Semisonic or The New Standards. Both of these musicians were crucial components of her solo album and the show on Saturday.

Months ago, Michelle launched a Kickstarter, to assist with raising money to go towards completing the mastering and production of the recording process, with a video and a lengthy note describing the vibe of her new album and its inspiration During 2011, she and her new husband were on honeymoon at Madeline Island (Northern Wisconsin). The peaceful experience from that trip gave her an introspective look at her life and motivated her to create solo work.

“I felt like I really needed to create something that felt like my own,” Michelle said.

It was perfect timing for a solo album, due to the recent events in her life: getting married, frequent travelling and the success with her band. She decided to quit her job and

become a musician full time.

Michelle’s solo work shows her capability to take on a different role without the whole band, highlighting her personal talent.

Sparked from her songwriting and receiving a ukulele from her grandfather, Michelle’s work with the Velvet Lapelles started back in 2007. Described as “acoustic genre-hoppers,” the Lapelles showcase an array of sounds in their work including the genres of folk, roma, flamenco, polka, and punk, to name a few. Michelle aspired to bring her songs to life and formed the band. The Lapelles began by playing shows around the Twin Cities and hit the studio to make their first album, Orange Peels and Rattlesnakes.

The Velvet Lapelles were at one point dubbed “Best New Band” by City Pages and continued their journey by touring around the country, attracting fans all over the U.S. while maintaining the strong fanbase back home in Minnesota.

Their second album, Special Party Time for Everybody, showed the band’s ability to broaden their musical scope by incorporating exquisite saxophone solos and piano riffs.

In 2010, the Lapelle’s third album, Good of That, hit stores,

ing all over the United States for the Lapelles, performing to audiences from Los Angeles to New York.

This year, the Lapelles are experiencing success measurable by many accomplishments, as well as Heat being named

“Michelle’s solo work shows her capability to take on a different role without the whole band, highlighting her personal talent” where the band showcased their pop style. They have played with a number of great bands like Trampled by Turtles and The Head and the Heart, and have recorded with Matt Boynton of MGMT in New York.

Created by the trip to Brooklyn, the album Heat sparked emotion with lyrics full of isolation and longing. The release of this album at First Avenue started a year of tour-

“one of the breakout records of the year” by 89.3 The Current.

Songs from this album have been featured on MTV, as well as commercials for Apple and Target. Their VEVO channel is also thriving, with over 65,000 views.

The new album is available on Vinyl and CD, and Lucy looks forward to working on a new album which should be out in 2014.

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There you are: sitting in serene silence at a choir concert as the ensemble is singing its solemn song about tragedy and something comes to mind that gives you the overwhelming desire to chuckle, if not f lat out howl.

Now, you may be an awful person or you may just have been remembering your last game of Cards

ing things so raunchy and oddly specific that trying to make it through saying them aloud is a challenge enough.

Each player then takes turns to draw and read a black card that contains a phrase or situation, and the other players must provide one of their white cards that they think will be named the most (in)appropriate winner by the person with the black card.

For example, it’s your

one, especially the faint of heart or easily offended.

The box itself comes with a warning that the age range of the game is 17+.

Since its release in 2011 with the help of the everreliable Kickstarter, online retailer Amazon.com has had trouble keeping the game on the shelf. Cards Against Humanity has also released two expansion packs, just in case you didn’t have enough examples to be vile and cynical

“If those semi-mild examples pushed your buttons, then you’ve already picked up on the fact that the game is not for everyone, especially the faint of heart or easily offended.”

Against Humanity. But given the nature of the game, it could be both — nah, it’s most likely both.

Cards Against Humanity has been a recent development in the world of “Jesus Christ, how did they get away with this,” and a popular one at that. The card game is essentially the same concept as the hit game Apples to Apples, now suped up with an added elixir of steroids and wretchedness.

Each player holds 10 white cards all the time with content ranging from anything as simple as “Sean Penn” and “A falcon with a cap on its head,” spiraling into more dangerous territory like “white privilege” and “Harry Potter erotica,” and finally reach-

turn to read the black card.

The situation you get on that card is “What did U.S. troops rain down on the children of Afghanistan?”

There are many possible answers on white cards you have been handed, including lovely things like “MechaHitler” and “civilian casualties” but you can’t resist going with the answer of “sweet, sweet vengeance.”

Whoever handed you the “sweet, sweet vengeance” card gets to keep that black card, and whoever has the biggest number of black cards at the end of the game is the winner.

If those semi-mild examples pushed your buttons, then you’ve already picked up on the fact that this game is not for every-

about the first time around.

With summer nearly upon us, and schedules hopefully opening up soon, Cards Against Humanity is out there, lurking in the shadows at parties and waiting for you to give in to its putrid humor.

Unfortunately, it knows it’s right — Cards Against Humanity is an absolute blast and will make you weep with tears of laughter.

Leave your shame at the door.

Maybe avoid playing it with your parents or within close proximity of a somber choral concert, but don’t put too much effort into figuring out if you’re a scumbag for liking it.

After all, it does tout itself as being “A party game for horrible people.”

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Mental illness is a funny thing but it usually isn’t portrayed as a “funny” thing without disastrous results.

Along comes Silver Linings Playbook, a film so charming in its character portrayals and message that it succeeds where others have failed.

Pat Solitano has had a run of bad luck. After a brief stint in a psychiatric hospital due to his bipolar disorder, brought on by catching his wife cheating on him, Pat’s looking to reinvent himself to win her back. But after meeting Tiffany Maxwell, a young recent widow with issues of her own, he may just have found a shot at a silver lining.

Sometimes you can tell when a project is personal.

Director David O. Russell reportedly made this movie in honor of his son, who suffers from some of the same psychological disorders and the finished product is nothing short of a labor of love.

Russell’s sharp dialogue and natural humor make what could be the run-of-the-mill romantic comedy into something that has weight, yet never feels heavy.

Russell’s use of realistic, likeable characters sets the movie on high. Bradley Cooper is finally able to show us he’s an actor in this role

and does justice to a complex character.

Likewise, Jennifer Lawrence was not the first person to come to mind for her role, but boy did her commitment pay off with that Oscar.

Instead of taking the selfserious approach to mental illness, Russell uses the power of laughter to get the point across, which in many ways is the most earnest way of doing it.

The many quirks of these characters (Pat’s wearing of a garbage bag while jogging, Tiffany’s sudden explosion) and the rapid-fire interplay between actors makes all the craziness seem so natural.

You’re never laughing at them; rather you’re finding humor in the whole crazy situation.

Silver Linings Playbook became something of a phenomenon when the word started to spread. This is a clear indication that there is some justice in the world. A movie like this deserves to be shouted about from the roof tops.

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An Editor’s Thought: Charcoal or Gas? EMRE K. ERKU

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Starting tomorrow, it’s time to hit the gym. The gym of clean cut grass, sun, super soakers, and bar-b-que, that is.

The means of this type of body building involves grilling succulent meats until they’re golden brown with a slight crisp, slurping suds in ill-mannered fashion, and kicking the ass of any poor sap who has the courage to take you on in bags.

But becoming the Arnold Schwarzenegger of this seasonal world takes dedication and prowess. It doesn’t happen overnight. You can’t be Mr. or Ms. No cook one-day then be the god of grill the next. Actually, that’s a joke. You light the grill, crack open the cold ones, and then you’re pretty much set. But for those who are new to this lifestyle, here are some nifty little tidbits on how you can make your grilling adventures even better.

First, if you’re trying to save money, charcoal grills are an inexpensive choice. For less than $40, you can purchase yourself something at Walmart or

your

Sears that will endure years of partying and inclement weather.

Trust me, I’m the kind of guy who uses empty cases of beer as living room decorations – this, for me, is basic mathematics.

And with charcoal, your meats are smoked in such an aroma that your taste buds will write a thank you letter.

If you’re more of the impatient type, go with propane gas grills. When hunger pounds on the walls of your stomach, within 20 minutes you will be savoring the sweet juices of bratwursts and steak like the carnivorous animal that you are. One major setback, though, is the cost it takes for maintenance. Compared to charcoal, gas almost costs twice as much to fuel the fire. You’ll be paying more than $15 for every time you refuel.

What you won’t be paying through the nose for is the meat itself. More often than not, grocery stores sell brats at $1 a piece, and as far as steaks, pork chops and chicken breasts are concerned, beautiful slabs of protein-filled goodness can be purchased for less than a measly 10 bucks a pop. Just make

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Drinking is regarded as an unhealthy activity as well, so go with light beer. Chances are you and your massive group of friends are swilling ‘em down without any regards for the future, therefore a case of will-not-break-the-bank is a proper way to avoid getting mad at your buddies for obliviously drinking your Leinenkugels behind the back of your inebriated self. And it makes for easy drinking, maybe drinking responsibly?

Last but not least, one should truly try to perfect the art of making a proper beer brat. Even when you purchase links at the store and the label says “beer brats,” take it back home and boil the delicious bastards in one can of beer and a ½ a diced onion before tossing them on the grill. Believe me, your mouth will be enjoying a heavenly ballet of zest while your stomach resonates in the brat’s aftertaste.

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Mark of a legend: the career of Mark Schuck Anyone affiliated with Minnesota State University, Mankato athletics has to have heard of Mark Schuck, the legendary cross country and track and field coach of the Mavericks who is retiring at the end of the 2013 season.

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It’s kind of cliché when someone is asked how they got to where they are in life and the person responds, “I was in the right place at the right time.” That may be true, but it definitely wasn’t the only reason that Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s cross country and track and field head coach Mark Schuck has coached here for 35 years.

To start filling in the pieces of his coaching career, the first piece was in high school.

Remember when you had no idea what you wanted to do after high school? There were the options of going to college or working full-time. Many people still don’t know exactly, but Schuck knew right as he started high school. During his freshman year, the sixth grade boy’s basketball team was looking for a coach and Schuck took the challenge headon. It was love at first sight.

“After high school I thought to myself about what I should do and I couldn’t think of doing anything else. So I was pretty lucky. In the right place, at the right time,” Schuck said.

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Once his collegiate career (or what he likes to call the “good old days”) came to an end, Schuck worked for his master’s here while volunteering to help the MSU cross country team. To Schuck, that was the reason Athletic Director Bob Otto brought him in to his office with a contract to sign.

“Right place, right time, very fortunate,” Schuck said.

It wasn’t a “here you go, good luck to you” situation at MSU when Schuck was handed the keys and whistle. He was handed a rich tradition and was expected to keep the tradition alive.

Even with great athletes and a decent indoor track, it was nowhere near the facilities that MSU possesses now. In December 2001, the school built an 8-lane 200-meter indoor track that has already been the site of the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championship twice.

“Oh it was great. We had a lot of people working with that, the alumni and administration here to get that to be good enough to host a national championship. It is just a great thing for the community, a great boost for MSU and the Mankato community,” Schuck said.

During his years of coaching, Schuck was thinking of writing

a book called “Going down the road in a Van,” to detail how the trips have changed while being the head honcho. When Schuck first started riding down with his athletes, they all had the same taste in music and had a handle on what was popular. As the years passed, Schuck has compared the van to a blue glow that is going down the road.

“Everybody has their computers or cellphones on and there’s this blue glow that’s there, so that’s kind of different from 30 years ago. The music is a little different. Every once in a while, I’ll give them my version of rap song to keep them laughing.”

What made this job permanent for Schuck was his ability to learn and adapt. When he first started to fill in the lineups for meets, it couldn’t take too long to figure out which athlete should run in this race or which four guys should run this relay. You can coach and teach all you want, but if a coach doesn’t learn quickly and figure out where to put athletes so they can achieve the best, then Schuck wouldn’t still be here.

When a track and field athlete walks through the Myers Fieldhouse doors for the first time, they see the sport as an individual sport, which is mostly true, but Schucks will give himself four or five years to teach them “life is a

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ON your marks... get set... go enjoy your retirement coach mark schuck Thank you for all that you have done for MSU Athletics and the Community.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

The view from both sides of the track

Former four-time national champion and now-assistant coach Jim Dilling shares his perspective of playing for Schuck and coaching underneath him.

ADAM PIERSON

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Many have come and gone throughout the years at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

One man has been here the last 35 years and has developed both men’s cross country and track and field teams into some of most dominant sports MSU has ever seen.

Mark Schuck has been that man for MSU. Schuck has been the head coach for MSU’s men’s cross country team for 35 years and the men’s head track and field coach for 15 years. During his time at MSU, he has had four national individual championships from Jim Dilling in the high jump.

Dilling, who is a former student-athlete at MSU has been lucky enough to be both coached by and coached with Shuck.

“As an athlete I would have described Schuck as an individual who is completely unselfish and would go out of his way to do anything for you. He has been around the sport a long time, and has a great way of taking his experiences and relating them to others in difficult situations to help them through,” Dilling said.

“As a freshman, I had many struggles in the sport as I was developing. I no-heighted at the National Championship meet that year and was taking it pretty hard.

He approached me afterwards, saying that I had many more opportunities ahead of me. He was right. Coach Schuck was always

spinning negatives into fuel for motivation,” Dilling said.

“He created a culture of mutual respect where the athletes had some say in their training and would adapt to the individual’s needs. He knows not everyone is the same and he has always said, “You can’t undo 18 years of bad parenting, so you better learn to adapt,” Dilling said.

Dilling described Schuck’s personality as, “laid back, except the week of the conference meet.”

Dilling compares Schuck’s work ethic to him playing one-onone basketball.

“Relentless,” Dilling said.

“If you aren’t giving it your all, he will show you up on the basketball court,” Dilling said.

Among the things Dilling enjoys most about Schuck is his passion for the sport, school, athletes and everyone involved.

“His passion for the sport and goal to give his athletes the opportunities to compete at the level which they deserve, as well as his experience, competitiveness, realistic approach to training, and motivation through humiliation if need be are among his best qualities,” Dilling said.

Dilling has many memorable quotes from Schuck over the years and refers to them as “Schuckisms”: “You can’t undo 18 years of bad parenting.”

“Dance with the girls who are there.”

“If you always do what you

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Conference Indoor Place

National Conference Indoor Place Outdoor Place

7th 8th 6th 29th 7th 7th 6th 36th 3rd 19th 2nd 16th 2nd 8th 1st 7th 2nd 12th 1st 7th 1st 13th 1st 3rd 1st 16th 1st

5th

National Outdoor Place

7th 9th 8th 5th 9th 7th 4th 3rd 1st 2nd 1st 1st 1st 1st 3rd 1st

41st 41st 37th

50th 23th 11th 17th 21st 54th

17th

* denotes Indoor Coach of the Year ^ denotes Outdoor Coach of the Year Three-time NCC Indoor Coach of the Year (2004, 2006, 2008) Three-time NSIC Indoor Coach of the Year (2009, 2010, 2012)

Three-time North Central Region Indoor Men’s Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2010) NCC Oudoor Coach of the Year (2008) Three-time NSIC Outdoor Coach of the Year (2009, 2010, 2012)

2006 USTFCCCA NCAA Division II Men’s Indoor Track Coach of the Year

Coach Schuck, Thank You! Thank you for the Life Lessons you taught myself and others. Best wishes as you start a new journey!

- Bob Davis

Mark & Judy Meyer (952) 921-2121 rsdavis@financialcompass.com www.facebook.com/financialcompass

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Mark Schuck Commemorative

The top 5 moments in the career of Mark Schuck The long, illustrious career of Mark Schuck has had numerous moments that any coach would be proud of. These 5 moments are the ones that resonate the most in the eyes of anyone involved in MSU cross country and track and field.

TIM FAKLIS

staff writer

It’s been a great run.

The Mavericks’ head track and field and cross country coach Mark Schuck has been at Minnesota State University, Mankato for decades and his levels of success has never wavered. Winning coach of the year honors in three different decades at varying levels, and even winning a national championship in 1988, as cliche as it may sound, his resume truly speaks for itself.

The following is a list of five of Coach Schuck’s many achievements during his tenure as the Mavericks’ head coach. That said, it does not include his total resume, nor does it fully summarize the impact he’s had on the athletic program since his arrival in 1979. However, it does give people a good representation of not only his history of success, but his consistency.

5. Winning his first conference title (cross country) - 1981 Coach Schuck was hired

by MSU as the head coach of the cross country program in 1979, and only two years later, won his first conference title. It ended up being one of many for him; he was able to compile a total of 9 conference titles during his tenure, and that’s just for his work with the cross country team.

4. Indoor track and field team finishing second in the nation - 1989 The late 1980s were a good period for coach Mark Schuck

and the Mavericks. Finishing second nationally, and first by a fairly wide margin within the conference, the Mavericks were able to put up a historic season in 1989, featuring AllAmerican efforts by the likes of Moo Muhammad, Harvey Mills, Mike Yonkey, Robert Kern, Curt Maertens, and Mike Schweizer. With that many athletes competing on a national stage, it’s hard not to have the kind of success they were ultimately able to have.

1. 1988 season accolades If there’s one season to look back on with the most amount of joy and nostalgia for a fan of MSU track and cross country, at 1988 would be a good place to start. Not only were the Mavericks able to win the North Central Conference and the region, not only was Mark Schuck

named Conference and Region Coach of the Year, but the Mavericks were able to call themselves national champions in cross country.

Tying Edinborough University, their national title is still something talked about among fans of the sport to this day. In the same year, the indoor track team topped the conference and finished fifth

nationally. On top of all the individual and team accolades that Schuck saw pile up, he came away with the title of NCAA DII Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year.

The Mavericks have had success since then, but not quite like 1988. That was a special year encapsulated in a special career.

3. North Central Regional Cross Country Coach of the Year - 1999 In 1999, Mark Schuck was not only able to have success finishing first in the North Central Conference, but also finishing third nationally.

Highlighted by the work of Joseph Kogo, the Mavericks were able to have one of their best seasons under coach Schuck’s tenure, winning the region and having great success in the national circuit.

2. 2006 USTFCCCA NCAA Division II Men’s Indoor Track Coach of the Year Highlighted by the decorated indoor track star Jim Dilling, Schuck saw some of his best success in 2006, highlighted by the decision of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association to name him the Coach of the Year for the season. The Mavs finished first in the North Central conference and finished ranked seventh overall in the national standings.

photo courtesy of MSU athletic communications Of Mark Schuck’s career at MSU, no moment must have been prouder then hoisting the NCAA cross country national championship trophy in 1988.

coach schuck, Thank you for all that you do and have done for the MSU Track and Cross Country programs the past 34 years! Enjoy your retirement!

Jen Blue and the Women's Track/Cross Country Team

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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Sitting down with a legend In his last season as head coach of the cross country and track and field teams at MSU, Reporter writer Joey Denton sits down with Mark Schuck to talk about his unbelievable career holding the reigns of the purple and gold.

JOEY DENTON

staff writer

1. Why did you take the job at MSU? “Well, I love track and field and it’s always nice to have a job. That was kind of my dream situation for someone who wants to be in physical education and coaching and to end up at your alma mater. It was pretty nice.”

2.When you first started coaching here, what were the facilities and team like?

“We’ve always had good track teams. You know it’s always been the history of MSU, I was all a part of that and we had the old track which was tore down. At the time there was a decent track.”

3.How big was it for the program to get the new outdoor track?

“It’s a state of the art, it’s the best they make, it’s top of the line Mondo, which is a noted track company that makes tracks. It can’t get any better than that.”

4. Is there a specific track and field event you like to coach? If so, which one?

“I’ve always been involved with the distance runners. You know I’ve been the cross country coach and worked with the distance runners. I’m the head track coach but that’s the easiest group to work with, being laid back and self-motivating. It makes the job pretty

easy to do. We’ve always had good distance runners and worked hard and loved running and that’s what it’s all about. Fun and easy.”

5. What has it been like to coach at the Drake Relays?

“Oh it’s probably the best track meet in the country for the collegiate level. I really like going to the Drake Relays. It is a very special meet. That’s what we call ‘big time’ track and field.”

6. From when you started, how much have you changed as a coach?

“Hopefully my years of experience have made me a little wiser on some situations. I don’t think I get as excited over the little things.

I think I’m better at seeing the big picture with the kids, the team and program. I think I’ve somewhat mellowed in those things, which makes life easier.

7. Has there been a difference in the athletes since you have started coaching?

“No, the athletes I think are pretty much the same.

Sometimes people would say it’s different, but I think the world is different, the world around us. Your stomach turns when you are called to the line and the gun goes off, and my stomach still turns a little bit just from thinking back on my days. If you have a competitive spirit in you, which most of my kids do, when the gun goes off you want to win. Kids are basically the same when you get down to what is really

important.”

8.What’s your favorite part of coaching MSU? “I like the kids. If you don’t like kids you are in the wrong profession. Go into accounting to get a back room. I like the interaction with the kids. I like the strategy of putting together a team, trying to win the conference championship. I’m a competitor at heart. If you lose that competitive edge then you should get out of coaching. If they keep score, I want to win.”

9.Least favorite?

“Well of course when you get beat. That’s my least favorite experience. That doesn’t happen very often here at MSU and I have been very fortunate enough to get good athletes that make me look like I know what I’m doing.”

10. Was there a point early in your career where you saw yourself being here for 35 years?

“You don’t think that, I don’t think. Especially when you are younger, you don’t think it is ever going to end and then when it gets close to ending, you say ‘am I doing the right thing here?’

I never thought this time would even come.”

photo courtesy of MSU athletic communications

COACH SCHUCK, Thank you for a great 34 years!

Every mile mattered.

Dr. Angela Schuck Dr. Keith Flack 507-625-CARE (2273) mankatodentist.com

"Thanks for being a great coach and when it comes to being a Dad and father-in-law, you're the BEST!"

Enjoy your run at retirement.

PRESIDENT RICHARD DAVENPORT

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MSU Cross Country under head coach Mark Schuck

Year Conference Place National place 1979 1st 15th 1980 2nd 5th 1981 1st 3rd 1982 4th 1983 5th 1984 4th 1985 3rd 8th 1986 3rd 5th 1987 2nd 2nd 1988 1st 1st 1989 5th 1990 3rd 16th 1991 3rd 11th 1992 1st 8th 1993 1st 4th 1994 3rd 1995 1st 5th 1996 3rd 5th 1997 2nd 12th 1998 3rd 6th 1999 1st 3rd 2000 3rd 11th 2001 2nd 13th 2002 4th 2003 2nd 8th 2004 1st 12th 2005 1st 21st 2006 1st 9th 2007 1st 5th 2008 1st 8th 2009 2nd 2010 3rd 2011 1st 2012 2nd 20th Nine North Central Conference Championships

One Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Championship

Eight-time NCC coach of the year One-time NSIC coach of the year Two-time North Central Regions coach of the year 25 National meet appearances 16 top-ten finishes One National Championship 1988 NCAA Division II coach of the year

Coach Schuck, To a dedicated and hardworking coach.

Congrats on a tremendous career!

Donna & Dave Ricks

Mark Schuck Commemorative

Different style helps Schuck connect with players Mark Schuck has always had a good, withstanding relationship with his players in both sports. Some of his current players discuss how the man is so liked in every group he coaches.

SHANNON RATHMANNER

staff writer

After 35 years as head cross-country coach and 15 years as the men’s track coach, Mark Schuck has decided to retire. With several conference titles and just as many ‘Coach of the Year’ honors, he has an impressive record in both cross-country and track & field. However, Schuck is seen as more than just an outstanding coach to the athletes.

“All the athletes love competing for him because he is a great coach and a great guy,” says Nathan Hancock, a sprinter and heptathlon athlete for the men’s track and

field team. “He always made everyone happy and made sure we not only competed well, but had fun doing it.”

One of the things that make coach Schuck stand out from the rest is his unique coaching style.

“I think coach’s style is a little more laid back than most,” says Hancock. “He is by far the best track coach I have ever had and his methods work. Since I’ve been here, we haven’t lost for either the indoor or outdoor conference.”

“His coaching style is very unique,” says Keyvan Rudd, a high jumper for the men’s track team. “He has been coaching for a very long time so he has a wide range of

experience under his belt, and he utilizes his techniques and skills with his athletes and other coaches.”

While his coaching style and experience takes most of the credit for his accomplishments, many of the athletes believe that his interaction and camaraderie with the athletes and other coaches plays a large roll in the team’s success as well.

“Everyday Schuck bounces around the track talking, coaching, and joking around with both track teams during meets and practices,” says Rudd. “He has a new story to tell us everyday about his past athletes and how they relate to a situation one of us are

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MARK schuck Thank you for all the years and enjoy your retirement!

From 3 generations of Petersen.

Chuck, Cevin, AJ

coach schuck Thanks for remembering the alumni and for encouraging us to return and get involved at MSU. To meet with these exceptional student athletes and watch them perform is special. You bring out the best in people you have touched.

Ted Nelson '60 Lowell Norland '61

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

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team sport.”

“We are all in this together.

You help kids get through their situations,” Schuck said.

Also, during your time on the track and field team, you will learn to have some fun.

“It’s not easy to have fun in track. I say to the guys, ‘if you go to the line and say what the heck am I doing here or I could be home watching Oprah then you probably don’t take it serious enough,’ but my job is to make it fun. I’m not the most knowledgeable guy in track, but I try to make it fun when we go on the road. We are living in the good old days.”

All the track athletes and enthusiasts know how glorified and fun the Drake Relays are and for the last 16 years Schuck had the great opportunity to coach at the event. Out of all of the times Schuck has made the trip down to the blue track in Des Moines, Iowa, this past weekend was the meet he won’t forget, not because it was the latest one, but because of the competition he saw down there.

“The competition was just amazing this year at the Drake Relays. Of course we were in the college division, and we were very fortunate enough to win the 4X200 meter relay and the 4X100 meter relay,” Schuck said.

Winning such prestigious races such as the Drake Relays is what Schuck lives and works for.

Every day he comes in to work to see athletes become superior athletes, boys become men, slackers become hard workers. He got a real taste for it when his 1988 cross country team brought home its first and only NCAA Division II Men’s Cross Country National Championship.

What has kept him on the track or cross country course for 35 years is his competitive edge. The fire is still burning.

“I’m not a real good spectator, but I love the competition,” Schuck said.

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PLAYERS “His coaching style is very unique. He has been coaching for a very long time so he has a wide range of experience under his belt and he utilizes his techniques and skills with his athletes and other coaches continued from 6 in. He really encourages us a lot before, during, and after meets to ensure his commitment to his athletes and the program.”

“He knows how to get results out of each athlete. He is a great communicator and is very nice. If he has something to say he will let you know right away. He always has the team’s best interest in mind,” says Hancock.

Coach Schuck has gotten close with all of his athletes over the past 34 years, and has left a mark on those he’s coached and worked with.

Many describe him as one of the funniest guys you’ll ever meet. At the same time, however, he knew what was best for the team, and always knew the right thing to say.

“I think we are all going to

miss the stories and personality of Coach Schuck,” says Rudd. “One thing he always told us was that there was one thing he had an advantage over all of us and it was experience. That related to everyone and anything his athletes needed help with or to talk about we could go to Coach and he’d have some helpful words. All the jokes, laughter, and fun while he was here will be remembered forever.”

“I think we will all miss his sense of humor the most,” said Hancock. “From him rapping us a song with his hat on sideways to his jokes, he was always the funniest guy in the room.”

“He will be missed so much by anyone who has ever been a part of the Track and Field program here at MSU.”

photo courtesy of MSU athletic communications

From 1968 until NOW – his advice has never changed.

Coach Schuck, Congratulations on Your Retirement!

From your friends at

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- The Mankato Wilson Track Team

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Thanks for carrying on the Kato Cross Country and Track & Field Tradition!

Yours, Jim Sackett

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Mark Schuck Commemorative

April 30, 2013

DILLING PERSPECTIVE “As a freshman, i had many struggles in the sport as I was developing. He approached me afterwards, saying that i had many more opportunities ahead of me.

He was right. Coach Schuck was always spinning negatives into feul for motivation.” continued from 3 did, you will always get what you got.”

“You don’t get anything for losing.”

Since 2012, Dilling has been Schuck’s assistant coach for both men’s and women’s programs, working exclusively with high, triple and long jumpers.

“The man hasn’t changed in 34 years through my interactions with alumni, as a member of the team, or as his assistant. His current and former athletes all have similar experiences to what I had under him so the trend seems to continue,” Dilling said.

In Schuck’s tenure at MSU, he has been named Cross Country Coach of the Year eight times in the NCC and once in the NSIC, named the North Central Region Men’s Coach of the Year in 1988 and 1999 and led MSU to their only NCAA Division II cross country title in 1988. In 1989, Schuck’s indoor track and field team finished second in the nation.

Including 2012, under Schuck the Mavericks have had 25 appearances at the NCAA cross country meet and earned 16 top ten finishes. Shuck earned the NCC Indoor Coach of the Year in 2004, 2006 and 2008 as well as the NSIC ITF Coach of the Year

in 2009, 2010 and 2012.

In 2006, 2009 and 2010 he was named the North Central Regional Indoor Men’s TF Coach of the Year.

Schuck is also a four-time league Outdoor TF Coach of the year in 2008 for the NCC, 2009, 2010 and 2012 for the NSIC. Schuck has also earned National Coach of the Year twice, once in 1988 as the NCAA Division II Men’s Cross Country Coach of the year and in 2006 he was named the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division II Men’s Indoor Track Coach of the Year.

Schuck is a Nicollet, Minn. native and a former MSU studentathlete who participated in cross country, track and field and basketball. After graduating in 1969, he started coaching at Mankato Wilson High School and was the athletic director for eight years.

While at MSU, Dilling was a four-time national champion, twice indoor and twice outdoor.

Dilling won the USA Track and Field high jump with a jump of 7’5 ¼” as well as representing the USA at the World Track and Field Championships.

Dilling has also been named a five-time All-American hon-

ors, a four-time North Central Conference outdoor champion, and three-time indoor champion.

Dilling ended his career owning the school record in both indoor and outdoor with a 7’6 ½” high jump, and the NCC indoor and outdoor record with a 7’6 ½” high jump. Dilling was also a 15-time NCC Athlete of the Week and a

photo courtesy of MSU athletic communications

two-time league outdoor champion in long jump, as well as the 2007 Minnesota State Men’s Athlete of the Year.

Dilling is originally from Fond du Lac, Wis., and graduated in 2007 from MSU majoring in Construction Management. Dilling is currently working on his master’s degree in Sports Management.

“Coach Schuck has done tremendous things with the cross country and track and field programs here at MSU and as a staff, we hope to continue to progress the programs to a national level and build off of the foundation upon which he has laid,” Dilling said.

Good times are behind you and good times are ahead of you but now is the best time of your life!

Some Mark Schuck "Pearls of Wisdom" "Eighty percent of success in life is just showing up. Ten percent is staying awake and the last ten percent is putting forth at least a little bit of effort." (At orientation) "Can we get a discount? We're from a poor Christian school in Minnesota" (To all the restaurant managers on road trips) “It’s better to err on the side of undertraining than overtraining.”

(To those ambitious CC guys) "Just do what you did to get to nationals, and you’ll be All-American."

(To the guys looking for that last piece of wisdom at Nationals) "Eating, sleeping and taking a dump..." (On wasting time) "The hay is in the barn." (We are ready to go!!)

To a New World Order

"You've got to dance with the girls that are there." (On making the most of any situation) "You've got to be good, and a little bit lucky, but mostly, I don't know...it's magic, I guess." (On how he gets all those outstanding athletes)

Congratulations on a wonderful career from your lovely wife, Jane, brother Tom and your daughters, Angie and Kelly.