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KOLSTAD UPDATE - PG. 2

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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Support pours in toward Kolstad efforts

Friends and family rally as second suspect is identified, arrested.

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press Candle light vigil held on the campus’ Myers Field House, in honor of Kolstad and to support him and his family through this rough time.

JOEY DENTON Sports Editor Blue Earth County Jail officials identified a second suspect in the assault case on ex-Minnesota State University, Mankato football player Isaac Kolstad that took place in downtown Mankato last week.

Trevor Steener Shelley, 21 years old and of St. Peter, was identified in a downtown surveillance video. The video showed a man in a red t-shirt running across Cherry Street. At 7 p.m.

Monday, Shelley was booked on suspicion of first and thirddegree assault, the same charges the first suspect Philip Nelson is currently facing.

Shelley allegedly ran over to Kolstad and struck him first.

Kolstad fell to the ground hard, was possibly knocked unconscious, and that’s when Nelson came in and kicked Kolstad in the head multiple times. Kolstad, 24, was rushed to the emergency room in the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato, where he is still in critical condition.

He suffered a skull fracture on the left side of his brain where he was kicked, which could severely impede his brain’s functioning if he makes a comeback from critical condition. However, it’s been recently released that Kolstad has made minor improvement, the swelling on his brain having gone down. He will continue to be stabilized by a medically induced coma.

Nelson, 20, was taken into

custody on Sunday night after several witnesses saw him kick Kolstad, and according to reports, smelled of alcohol.

Tuesday morning, Kolstad had surgery and remains in critical condition, according to Blaine Kolstad’s, Isaac’s dad, post on caringbridge.org.

Nelson, who was a Minnesota Gopher quarterback before transferring to Rutgers, was released from the Blue Earth County jail on a $20,000 bail on Tuesday. He was also dismissed from the Rutgers football program that same day.

Kolstad, who was celebrating his graduation on the night he was assaulted, started all 12 games for the Mavericks at linebacker this season. His 59 tackles and 4.5 tackles for loss gave him NSIC South Division AllConference First Team Defense honors. He and his wife Molly are expecting their second child.

Before asking for a transfer to Rutgers, Nelson threw for 1,306 yards and nine touchdowns and six interceptions and ran for 364 yards and six touchdowns in the Gophers’ 2013 campaign.

Both Kolstad and Nelson played high school football in Mankato as cross-town rivals with Kolstad suited up as a Mankato East Cougar and Nelson a Mankato West Scarlet.

On request of Kolstad’s family, no additional information will be made public, save reports on his medical condition.

Over a week ago, friends and family of Kolstad’s gathered for a candlelight vigil,

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which was held in Myers Field House. Players on the Minnesota State Mankato football team have been using the hashtag ‘#22strong’ to support Kolstad and his recovery on Twitter, as have many fans, friends and family.

This Thursday, co-workers of Kolstad’s will be hosting a

benefit from 4 to 7 at Fastenal, located on Pauly Way, just off Highway 169. Fastenal is right behind Mankato’s HarleyDavidson. If you’d like to donate O money directly, you can find their youcaring.com page, where n over $42,000 has been raised in p efforts to support Kolstad and c n all that he is going through. t a T U fi a 2 d M

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MSU awarded with an outstanding donation State-of-the-art 3D printer given to campus department to help educate.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer

The ExOne Company (ExOne), one of the most prominent three dimensional (3D) printing machine corporations currently on the market, donated an X1-Lab 3D printer to the Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato. ExOne first installed the equipment at MN State in the summer of 2013 for trial and then officially donated it to the university in March 2014.

The X1-Lab with cuttingedge technology in additive manufacturing (3D printing) will be employed for teaching and research in the department.

This equipment has a significant meaning in education in that it makes it possible for students and faculties to apply the developed technology to the actual field.

Moreover, the equipment not only helps students to develop the process of powdered metal and glass materials, but also oprovides crucial information to future engineers and powdered metal scientists.

“The X1-Lab is an outstanding equipment which can be used in from the automotive or manufacturing engineering technology to other potential areas,” Kuldeep Agarwal and Winston Sealy, assistant professors in the Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology at MSU, said.

Agarwal stressed that this X1-Lab printer would help the MSU manufacturing and engineering majors to understand the key components of the entire technology system.

He believes that the students will augment the benefits from the experience in using the 3D printer.

According to Sealy, the equipment was given to Minnesota State Mankato because the university’s Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology has a great academic reputability, especially in teaching and research.

“The ExOne will be also able to examine the performance of the printing technology and reinforce the strength and make up for the weakness of the equipment through the MSU students using it.”

In fact, there is a huge accomplishment regarding the X1-Lab this spring semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Student Michael Doyle, a manufacturing engineering technology major, presented his research, “3D Printing of Stainless Steel for Engineering Applications,” at the Council on Undergraduate Research’s 18th annual undergraduate poster session at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on April 28 to 29.

Doyle participated in the national event which only accepted 60 projects as the representative of a Minnesota college or university with just one more student. In his research project, Doyle presented the effects of differing aspects of metal additive manufacturing by using an X1-Lab printer donated to MSU from ExOne. “Metal additive manufacturing makes solutions of problems in diverse engineering industries attainable.” Agarwal, his project mentor, said.

ExOne’s website, www. exone.com, provides more information on the performance of the product.

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Web Photo A model of 3D printer by the ExOne line, which was donated to one of our campus departments.

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Can Rio de Janeiro pull it together before it’s too late?

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RAE FRAME A & E Editor When I came across a Reddit selfie taken in the middle of a Rio river, I was expecting the gorgeous blue water that tourism advertisements have sold me.

Instead I found a murky green puddle that was saturated with garbage. The poster’s caption, “The waters of Rio de Janeiro, what a shame” doesn’t really do justice to the filth that has become an Olympic-sized concern.

In its 2009 bid to host the Olympics, Brazil promised to reduce pollution and clean up the waterways that would be needed for summer sports like sailing.

According to recent studies, however, these goals may be impossible to reach.

With two years until the 2016 games, officials are now racing for a solution to the widely

untreated pollution. Whether the games could be cancelled or moved is unknown, but there are obvious reasons for concern— namely hepatitis, dysentery, and cholera.

The Olympics serves as a sign of global connection and occasionally can bring peace between restless neighbors, but it can only motivate a country to improve its rivers (or skies, as we saw with the Beijing Olympics) until the final tourist has left for home.

I am not sure if I’m ready to jump on the bandwagon of responsible environmentalism, or pick up a picket sign, but I’d be terribly impressed if countries had half as much ambition to purify their cities when the Olympic torch wasn’t being dangled in front of their faces.

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Web Photo Photo found on Reddit, depicting the gross amount of trash which has the Rio river so congested.

One editor observes California culture and dodges fires.

San Diego is quite the place.

If you have visited the Southern California city of over a million residents, you already know that.

If you haven’t been there and have the opportunity to visit, jump all over that. If you already

MOHAMMED ALJUDAYBI, AVIATION “It is disgusting, and I feel that they should get a ticket for doing it [littering].”

live there, well, you’re just crazy but that’s beside the point.

Having been born and bred in this motherland we know as Minnesota, this writer had only rumor and popular representation to go on for what the golden coast was like. Does it really never rain in Southern California?

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Not surprisingly, California is a place all its own and an experience in the waiting. Other than the realization that I had a great time with some very dear family and friends, visiting San Diego was a great way to play a little compare and contrast with the lifestyles in the Land of 1000 Lakes and those of the Golden

State.

School’s out News alert: fire is scary.

Within days of us landing, the recent wildfires in the San Diego area had started. The relatives we stayed with lived just four to five miles away from the blazes,

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“How do you feel about littering and the punishment it deserves?”

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w c m D m t r t t BADER ALMUTAIRI, IT “I feel very upset about it. There should be a warning first, and then it should affect students’ records.”

YOUSF ALSHAMMARI, IT “Littering is a stupid thing. We need a cleaner city. As punishment they should first be adviced, and the second offense should be reported.”

KAYLA FOX, ELEMENTARY EDUCATION “It makes our school look like we don’t care about the environment.

There is a garbage can for a reason.

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ASHLEY GEURTZ, SPECIAL EDUCATION “It makes it looks as if people don’t care. It looks disgusting. There are plenty of garbages on campus so throw your trash away.”

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Dayton and his tax bills make the cut This past Tuesday, Governor Dayton pushed budget and tax bills into law.

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press Dayton at legislature, speaking while history was made.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A set of major bills that parcel out money from Minnesota’s budget surplus or authorize construction borrowing became law Tuesday as Gov. Mark Dayton signed them in full, foregoing his power to use line-item vetoes to trim them.

Dayton signed a tax bill providing another $103 million in property and business tax cuts on top of earlier rollbacks this session. He approved $303 million in spending on schools, health care workers, broadband technology and other items.

And he endorsed a pair of construction bills that contain $1.1 billion worth of projects, which Democrats say will put thousands of people to work.

Dayton coupled the action with a sharp-toned news conference in which he and majority party legislative Democrats previewed their message for this fall’s election. Dayton, who is up for re-election, called the last two years of one-party rule at the Capitol some of the most productive in memory.

“We chose to be ambitious.

We chose to solve problems,” added House Majority Leader

Erin Murphy, DFL-St. Paul.

“We have a great story to tell — one of sharp contrast.

Minnesotans will choose this fall: a productive Legislature prepared to deliver on their

priorities or a return to ideological gridlock that stalled progress in Minnesota.”

Republicans hope to make the campaign about restoring a check and balance by

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urging voters to give them control of the House and the governor’s office, opposite a Democratic-led Senate that isn’t on this year’s ballot.

“The reality is if Democrats continue to have a majority in the House, we’ll continue to see backroom deals and a lack of interest in what the other half of Minnesotans think,” said Assistant House Minority Leader Kelby Woodard, R-Belle Plaine.

“The fact is they went wholehog on taxes. They went whole-hog on spending.”

Taxes went up on the wealthy, on smokers and on corporations by a combined $2.1 billion a year ago to help plug a budget deficit and pay for new spending on schools and other programs. By nearunanimous votes this year, the Legislature cut or repealed a total of $550 million in taxes by tapping into a $1.2 billion budget surplus.

Dayton said most people will experience tax breaks as a result of the last two

sessions because property tax refund programs were augmented and new credits were made available on the income tax side.

“The average Minnesotan has come out very well from a tax standpoint,” he said.

While the state added $150 million to a rainy day reserve, the bulk of the surplus was turned back as tax relief or new spending. The governor previously called the spending levels “excessive” but said he chose not to strike individual items as he could have.

“I decided that, in the spirit of a good session and collaboration, it would be better if I go along with what was decided,” Dayton said.

Dayton has until the end of May to act on two dozen legislative bills that remain.

Other major bills include legalization of medical marijuana, which he intends to sign, and a measure revoking some of the Minnesota Lottery online games, which he said he remains torn over.

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Campus organization honored by receiving national diversity award Life-changing LEAD event nationally recognized for hard work.

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Web Photo Banner for the APWA, which awarded MSU the diversity award.

HANNAH KLEINBERG News Editor On August 18th, our campus’ very own LEAD Initiative is set to be rewarded the prestigious 2014 Diversity Exemplary Practices Award, which comes from the APWA, or the American Public Works Association.

Aside from when the award was first created in 1997, this is the first time it has been awarded to a Minnesota organization or initiative. This award aims to recognize individuals and organizations have made great strides toward achieving diversity.

Our victor, the Latino Engineering and Academic Day (LEAD), has been a recurring event for the past six years. On this day, high school students from the surrounding area— Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop, Albert Lea, Blaine, et cetera— come to our campus and spend a full day shadowing our University’s engineering professionals, experience Latino-specific college preparations, and even have a chance to get hands-on work with the engineering department, as well as many other educational events.

It’s LEAD’s soul mission is to give Latino a high school students a chance to access higher educations by bringing them onto campus and giving them a taste of the University. Recruitment and retention advisor, as well as active LEAD worker, Victoria Hidalgo-Gonzalez, elaborated on this.

“LEAD is an event that empowers Latino high school students to continue their education and most importantly, to make a step towards progressing their future,” she said. “It has inspired many students and it is our hope that it continues to bring prospective students to our campus. With a growing com-

munity, a college education is vital for Latino students and it is our hope that our university can help achieve that goal.”

The LEAD initiative is directed by MN State’s Institutional Diversity division, and also collaborates with the College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Center for Latino Affairs, O.A.S.I.S. and many other on-campus sites. They also work in conjunction with sponsors like Bolton & Menk, Inc. and Hormel Foods. Bolton & Menk, Inc., who are proud sponsors, are the ones who nominated the LEAD program for this year’s

outstanding diversity award.

Over the years, LEAD has had over 1,200 participants, 150 of which attended this past year. Of those who participated in LEAD, 8 of them now attend Minnesota State University, Mankato and are enrolled in engineering programs.

Our president, Richard Davenport, couldn’t be prouder of the University’s success.

“I’d like to congratulate all of those who have worked on the LEAD initiative on receiving this Diversity Exemplary Practices Award,” Davenport applauded. “Latino Engineering

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Nadia Crooker, who is involved in the Sleep Eye Public Schools’ outreach program to migrants, agrees with the APWA’s choice of winner this year for the diversity award.

“Since its inception, this event has been one of a kind,” she explained. “It has targeted Hispanic youth who never dared to even think about engineering as a career. It has shown them

that they, too, can attend college, and that a career in engineering is very attainable to them.

By bringing in Latino engineers to this event every year, these students have gained role models and something they may not have had before, and that is hope.”

The LEAD program plans to stretch their reach to Twin Cities locations, as well as continuing our campus’ efforts.

The 2014 Diversity Exemplary Practices Award will be award on August 18th in Toronto, Ontario, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

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2014-15 ‘Common Read’ book named This year’s book revives history and delves into the perspectives of civil rights warriors.

HANNAH KLEINBERG News Editor Coming of Age in Mississippi has been elected the book for this year’s Common Read program, which is in its fifth year. Written by Anne Moody, it was first published in 1968.

‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ is her personal memoir of what it was like growing up as an African-American woman in the 1940s-50s.

A Google eBook description of the piece reads, “In this now classic autobiography, she details the sights, smells, and suffering of growing up in a racist society and candidly reveals the soul of a black girl who had the courage to challenge it. The result is a touchstone work: an accurate, authoritative portrait of black family life in the rural South and a moving account of a woman’s indomitable heart.”

To celebrate and honor this novel, several events are projected for the 2014-15 University year, all themed to surround the grave topics tackled by Moody’s work.

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September 9th, friend of Anne Moody and civil rights activist Joan Mulholland and historian M. J. O’Brien will be coming to our campus to give a presentation regarding the Jackson Civil Rights Movement and highlight Moody’s part in it. The event will be free of charge and open to the public, but will also be streamed live online.

The following day, September 10th, “An Ordinary Hero” will be shown on screen in the Ostrander Auditorium. This documentary features previously mentioned Mulholland’s struggles and experiences in the Civil Rights Movements. Joan Mulholland will be present after the 90-minute feature to take questions and personally speak on the matter.

There will also be community discussion groups, which will be scheduled in the future and dispersed throughout September and October. These discussions will be led by those who read the book for the Common Read program, community members and University students alike.

Organizations and businesses are encouraged to read the book together in order to enable communication about the literature amongst peers. To schedule a discussion, which would be moderated by a University student, contact Chris Corley at (507) 389-5191.

The Common Read program is an attempt to unite readers throughout the community, on and off campus alike. They choose a book every year and try to get people to become interested and read it, in hopes of stimulation conversation and provoking influential thoughts and movements within Mankato.

Those who are interested in participating in the fall’s events are encouraged to read the chosen book before the fall semester begins. Copies of ‘Coming of Age in Mississippi’ are available at public libraries, bookstores, and even the campus’ own Memorial Library. More events to come as it draws closer to September.

Emeritus Professor publishes yet another success HANNAH KLEINBERG News Editor Minnesota State University, Mankato emeritus, William E. Lass, recently published a novel which investigates and reveals the meaning of our state lines, called Shaping the North Star State: A History of Minnesota’s Boundaries.

In this, Lass explores the treaties made by the U.S. and Great Britain, which later birthed Minnesota’s northern border, as well as the statehood campaigns of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan, which also resulted in Minnesota’s southern and eastern boarders. According to Lass, “[the western boundary] was an offspring of Minnesota territorial politics, when there was a dispute between advocates of a north-south state (the present shape) and an east-west state stretching from the Mississippi and St. Croix rivers to the Missouri River.”

Shaping the North Star State will push other questions such as why certain lakes and forests are cut in half by the border, how long rivalries have existed between Minnesota and Wis-

consin, and etc.

William E. Lass, a veteran history professor, began teaching at (what was then) Mankato State College in 1960. From then on, he flourished throughout the college, pursuing his interests and teaching students until 2002, when he retired.

However, he didn’t let retirement tame his ambitions; soon after retirement, he established the “William E. Lass Student Research and Writing” scholarship, which has been awarded to people annually throughout the history department. He’s also since published several books and dozens of articles, leaving an impression on the area’s history and literature.

Published through North Star Press in St. Cloud, Minnesota, it is available for purchase at northstarpress.com for $16.95 in paperback form, or $9.99 in e-book form. Other works by him include Minnesota: A History, Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature’s Highway, 1819-1935, Minnesota’s Boundary with Canada: Its Evolution Since 1783, and many more.

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SAN DIEGO “Here in the Midwest, school is cancelled because weather makes it impossible to leave the house. In California, school is cancelled because you have no choice but to leave your house/immediate area.” continued from 4

which meant their balcony in Rancho Bernardo had a lovely view of burning for a few days.

You’d mistake it for haze if you didn’t know any better.

Several of the area museums and attractions were free during the week of the emergency, so that almost made up for the fact that fiery death was in the area.

Several of the local schools were cancelled in response to the imminent danger, giving kids from K-12 an impromptu four-day weekend. As someone who never had to deal with this type of emergency, the ironies of the whole situation became clear. Here in the Midwest, school is cancelled because weather makes it impossible to leave the house. In California, school is cancelled because you have no choice but to leave your house/immediate area.

It’s certainly a rare occurrence but it’s crazy to think that this is nothing new for Californians.

Cutting edge Though they can’t compare with Minnesota on corn qual-

ity, California is leading the effort on culture trends in several ways, food included. While they are no strangers to the sit down restaurants and fast food joints we have here, everything pointed to the people of San Diego being a little more health conscious. Farmer’s markets are a big thing in the residential communities, touting fresh kale because have you even tried kale?!

Even the delicious In-and-Out Burger chain that permeates the southern region is known for its fresh cooking methods. The latest health effort I was exposed to was the attempt to minimize chemicals in the food, while anti-gluten sentiments were starting to take over.

Similarly, think for a minute about the radio situation for new music in Minnesota: tons of commercial stations playing pop and country with only a few small, independent stations playing new indie progressive tunes. In California, our underground has been out long enough to be their mainstream.

Yes, roughly five commercial radio stations play what we consider cool, hipster tunes from

bands like Foster the People and Fitz & the Tantrums and they don’t even need member drives and state support to do it.

Color me jealous.

Burning rubber Remember when I said you’re crazy for living in San Diego? This is the reason why.

The roads in California, especially the freeways, are an iron maiden of anger and anxiety.

One does not simply change lanes in a smooth controlled manner. It’s near whiplash or nothing. In a state that houses one out of eight American citizens, it’s not a huge surprise that the roads are so congested.

It just sucks. It didn’t even matter how many times you rode past Miramar Marine Base and thought of Top Gun. Saying you survived the freeway alone should be bragging rights.

Funny thing is, you know that just 100 miles north in Los Angeles it’s even worse. Unimaginably worse. For every one woman we saw cutting her hair while driving in San Diego, there must be five more there.

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Third time’s a charm After getting knocked out of the NSIC tournament, the Mavericks swept the NCAA Central Regional bracket to keep their 2014 campaign alive.

JOEY DENTON Sports Editor For the third season in a row, the Minnesota State University, Mankato baseball team is making its way to the NCAA Division II College World Series, taking place in Cary, N.C. this upcoming weekend.

Their two previous trips didn’t end with the championship trophy coming back to Mankato, but both times came close. Af-

and took home third place. The 2013 Mavericks swept their opponents coming in to the championship game. Even though it was a double-elimination tournament, the top team in Division II is decided by one game, and that game didn’t belong to the Purple and Gold. Harvey Martin, arguably one of the greatest Maverick pitchers in program history, gave up five earned runs in the first inning and that was all Tampa needed. The 42-9 squad lost 8-2 and took second place, the best finish in program history.

Tampa wouldn’t meet the Mavericks unless they would make it through their respective brackets, but the Mavericks have their work cut out for them. Seton Hill, Colorado Mesa and St. Thomas Aq. stand in the way of their second-consecutive championship game.

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ter surrendering two runs in the ninth, the 2012 Mavericks were eliminated by Delta State 6-5.

They finished their season 51-12

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The Griffons of Seton Hill come in to the tournament with a 40-15 record and are on a fourgam winning streak, sweeping the Atlantic Regional.

Like most of the squads in this tourney, the Griffons are a wellbalanced team with great pitching a pop in their bats. With nine players batting over .300, junior infielder Cody Herald leads the way with a .348 batting average with 15 doubles, two triples (both leads team) and four home runs.

Junior infielder Taylor Schmidt seems to be the team’s slugger with the lowest batting average of the nine (.311) but has hit the most home runs (7) and tied for most RBIs (37).

On the mound, sophomore Mike Bittel is their ace with a 1.82 ERA in 69.1 innings pitched.

His 52 strikeouts and .202 opponent batting average leads all starters. If the squad has the lead after eight innings might as well call it good. While he also plays in the infield, sophomore Jesse Cooper is also the team’s closer with 16 saves and has only allowed four earned runs in 23 innings pitched.

“They are going to be aggressive. They are going to try to steal some bases. They have three guys with more than 20 stolen bases, more of a scrappy team,” Magers said. “They’re coached

Arnold Bagamba • MSU Reporter Playing in all 54 games, junior shortstop Connor McCallum owns a .270 batting average with two home runs and 29 RBIs.

well so we know that otherwise for us to win the first game we are going to have to come out and play pretty well.”

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Softball program says bye to outstanding senior class, ready to reload for 2015 JOEY DENTON Sports Editor The Minnesota State University, Mankato softball season was a fun ride in 2014. It featured a NSIC regular season championship, a 22-game winning steak, a historic head coach winning her 1,000 career win and a roster that consisted of the NSIC Player of the Year, NSIC Freshman of the Year, NSIC Pitcher of the Year and NSIC Coach of the Year.

The Mavericks finished their 2014 campaign with a 43-13 overall record and 25-3 conference record that earned them their third-consecutive NSIC regular season title. The team found themselves short in two games in the NCAA Central Regional, and their season ended

shorter than had hoped.

“It was a very good season.

We won the regular season conference, and I think when you look at that, it means that for five

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weeks we were the best of best in the NSIC,” head coach Lori

Meyer said.

Four years ago, three Mavericks stepped on to MSU’s campus and little did they know that in 2014 they would leave the campus as one of the greatest senior groups in program history.

“They’ve got to leave as one of the most successful (groups),” Meyer said.

To put it into perspective, all four seniors that were position players ended the season the first four batters in the Mavericks’ lineup. Shortstop Samantha Holien led it up, followed by catcher Lindsay Erickson, outfielder Anna Cole was third and third baseman Kelly Wood cleaned up.

These four made it look easy at the plate—so easy that Meyer has a lot of stats to fill for next season.

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“I like our returners coming back. They have had a lot of at-bats, a lot of innings,” Meyer said. “I’ve got to replace 189 RBIs, 39 doubles, six triples and 33 home runs.”

Erickson, arguably leaving as the best softball player in Mey-

er’s tenure at MSU, finished with the majority of the career batting stats and was named NSIC Player of the Year twice, including this season. The Big Lake native finished her senior season with a .435 batting average with 11 home runs, 57 RBIs and three triples. She will hear tonight if she becomes an All-American for the fourth time in four years, which is the most in the program’s history.

After two seasons with North Dakota State, Holien changed to the Purple and Gold and instantly became a great leadoff batter for the squad. She batted above .500 for nearly half of the season and finished batting .417 with eight home runs, 40 RBIs and 14

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BASEBALL “That’s something you really can’t teach a kid or buy, it’s just something you have to experience, and I really look for that to allow us to get comfortable and be able to stay in the moment and take one game at a time,” Magers said. continued from 9 season in 12 starts. In 68.2 innings, he’s won seven games and struck out 40 batters.

“They’re a good team,” head coach Matt Magers said. “Traditionally they are one of the better teams in that region.”

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The Spartans own a 38-16 overall record and 16-8 ECC record. Even though they lost the ECC Baseball Championship, they started a four-game winning streak in the East Regional to bring them to Cary, N.C. The squad doesn’t have as much pop in their lineup as the three other teams in their side of the bracket, but they sure can

Arnold Bagamba • MSU Reporter Junior pitcher Mathias Butala has 47 innings this season to earn a 5-2 record with a 2.11 ERA.

Colorado Mesa The RMAC tournament champion Mavericks own a 44-11 overall record and an unprecedented 31-7 record in the conference circuit. In their fivegame skid in the regional, the Mavericks scored more than seven runs in every game, including a 12-8 win over no. 14 St. Edward’s University.

Scoring runs isn’t a problem for Mesa. In 55 games, the squad has 466 runs cross home plate and has a .361 team batting average. Even though the team has three batters batting over .400, senior outfielder Austin Kaiser is by far the best batter for the Mavericks. The 2014 RMAC Player of the Year is currently batting .495 and leads the team in home runs (11), RBIs (59), triples (4), doubles (23), slugging percentage (.797) and only struck out 17 times in 212 at-bats.

Pitching on the other hand has seen some troubles in 2014.

With a 3.88 team ERA, junior right-hander Matt Delay owns a 9-0 record in 12 starts with a 3.55 ERA and leads the team in strikeouts with 55 and innings pitched with 83.2. Senior Kyle Davis also hasn’t lost a game this

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hurl the ball. Other teams need to worry about the Spartans taking off on the bases, with 98 stolen bases in 54 games. Junior outfielder Rich Baerga has the batting title with a .369 batting average and has seven triples (the team high) and has brought in 36 batters. On the bases, Baerga has swiped 17 bases in 25 attempts.

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This squad could possess the scariest pitching staff in the

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tournament. Their 3.33 team ERA doesn’t say how productive is as eight pitchers have an ERA below three. Sophomore righthander has been their ace with a 2.61 ERA and owns a 7-2 record.

He also leads the team in strikeouts (53) and innings pitched (58.2).

“They’ve got hot at the right time,” Magers said. “It looks like they have the worst overall record, but sometimes that doesn’t mean something when you get into tournament setting. I’m sure they’re anxious to get in to the tournament and continue to play like they have.”

Minnesota State University, Mankato MSU also swept their regional bracket to Cary, N.O., and they own a 45-9 overall record and finished 28-4 in the NSIC. At the plate, the squad possesses one of the strongest line-

ups with 34 home runs in 54 games. With a .322 team batting average, the lineup has been led by junior catcher Nolan Johnson and senior first baseman Stetson Olson. Johnson has the batting title with a .375 batting average and second on the team in RBIs with 50. Olson has a .345 batting average while leading the team in home runs (13), RBIs (57) and slugging percentage (.638).

The no. 4 Mavericks are bringing the NSIC Pitcher of the Year in Jason Hoppe, and he’s pitching to his standards as of late. Even though the Mavs lost, he threw a complete game and only allowed two earned runs on four hits and struck out nine Wildcats in a NSIC tournament game. He earned himself a victory in his last start with another complete game, allowing four earned runs on six hits with 10 strikeouts.

The Mavericks may not be the number one seed coming into the tournament, but they are for sure the most experienced squad when it comes to playing in the World Series tournament. According to Magers, there are eight players on this roster that will make their third appearance.

“That’s something you really can’t teach a kid or buy, it’s just something you just have to experience, and I really look for that to allow us to get comfortable and be able to stay in the moment and take one game at a time,” Magers said.

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in both of his races. For the 100-meter dash, the St. Louis, Mo. native bested at 10.37 while 20.86 was his fastest time in the 200-meter dash.

The men’s team finished 11th in the final USTFCCCA Poll and freshman hurdler Myles Hunter rounds out their outdoor championship participants. His 110-me-

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e e The Minnesota State Univeresity, Mankato men’s track and nfield team is sending three athdletes to the NCAA Division II oOutdoor Track and Field Chamspionships in Allendale, Mich., rwhile the women’s team is sending two athletes to the championyships. t This will be the third time -senior thrower Chris Reed will tbe at the national meet and is aleready a four-time All-American, ttwice in the shot put and once in ”both the hammer throw and discus. His best shot put toss was 60’ 7 ¾”, and it was the fourth best throw in Division II. Reed’s longest throw in the hammer

throw was 215’ 11” and he threw the 12th best throw in the discus and that was tossed 172’ 11”.

Senior sprinter joins Reed in

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the third-time participant club and has ran the sixth best time

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ter hurdle time of 14.06 that he ran at the Beach Invitational in Long Beach, Calif. put him sixth in the competition.

Both of the women’s team’s participants will see their first outdoor championships this weekend. Junior Morgan Stampley will be participating in the hammer throw while junior Bryanna Sudman will be pole vaulting. Stampley, a St. Paul native, broke the school record with a throw of 180’ 4”, which is the 14th best throw in division II. Sudman, an Eden Prairie native, qualified with a vault of 12’ 6 ¼” and that also was the 14th best measurement in division II.

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Keen, who went 24-2 as acting head coach in 2012 and 2013 will be competing on a much bigger stage next year, coaching in the Mid-America Conference for the Eagles and under first-year head coach Chris Creighton.

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stolen bases.

Cole also transferred here after two seasons of division I ball and she provided some pop at the third spot in the lineup. She batted .344 with seven home runs and 42 RBIs. It doesn’t show on the stat sheet, but Cole was one dependable outfielder, making timely and acrobatic catches.

Kelly was the other original senior that started all four years at MSU. She bounced around in positions but found a home in the hot corner at third base. She even earned a NSIC Gold Glove Award there. She finished 2014 with a .370 batting average with seven home runs and 50 RBIs. Pitcher Brittany Lauterbach was listed as a junior, but she has graduated and left her imprint on

the pitching side. She went 18-5 with 126 strikeouts in 159 innings pitched.

It will be very difficult to replace this group, but the squad

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has a pitcher to build around in

freshman Coley Ries. She had to be redshirted in 2013, but she made an immediate impact in 2014. The NSIC Freshman of the Year and NSIC Pitcher of the Year ended her freshman campaign with a 1.92 ERA with 242 strikeouts in 193.2 innings pitched. She also had a 23-8 record. The Eagle Lake native jumped in on a team that had high hopes and had to earn the upperclassmen’s’ respect.

“You don’t come in and demand respect, you have to come in and earn it, and she came in with her work ethic, she came in with her mentality that this is about the team—this isn’t about me,” Meyer said. “That’s how you earn the upperclassmen’s respect.”

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Touting the theme “Built for the Bold,” Minneapolis won largely on the appeal of the futuristic stadium replacing the Metrodome. But the city turned Minnesota’s legendary winters into a selling point, too.

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Plans call for turning the Nicollet Mall into a nearly milelong Super Bowl Boulevard to showcase outdoor activities.

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Big sound, little resonance Human characters sacrificed by spectacle in massive new Godzilla film

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Do you hear that? That far off rumble is a mega-million dollar hit approaching, dripping with anticipation and assumed dead.

Yes, Godzilla has been busy selling Snickers and Taco Bell for the past decade but the King of Monsters hasn’t had much screen time as of late – until now. Gareth Edwards’ take on Toho’s classic film creature comes at a time where big is the new norm and the only option is to up the ante. Godzilla is the very definition of a massive summer movie, with a scope unmatched by most. But in blowing things up to epic proportions, everything else (namely the human element) feels awfully small.

After a tragic nuclear accident 15 years earlier, Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) has moved on, living with his wife and son and working as a bomb diffuser for the military. But his

nuclear scientist father, Joe (Bryan Cranston), is convinced the events of that fateful day were no accident. After investigating the nearby Japanese town, the pair discovers that something monstrous has been hidden.

With this new creature wreaking havoc across the globe, humanity’s only hope may have arrived in the form of an ancient alpha male, recently awakened to show everyone who’s boss.

In bringing Godzilla back, Edwards plays coy for much of the film, saving the reveal of the big boy himself for much later.

In place of showcasing early on, Godzilla plays up a strong sense of dread and unchecked disaster; unseen forces are revealed only after the terror of the unknown sinks in. The mood of Godzilla is key and the filmmakers have found just the right mix of dour and exciting to make a Godzilla flick that feels modern and classic.

Seeing the enormous beast in action on the appropriately

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large IMAX screen is a cinematic match made in heaven as Godzilla’s sheer force is totally realized. It’s everything surrounding this that keeps the movie from ascending. Godzilla is a monster movie that is viewed from the people on the ground.

Problem is, the people on the ground are boring and joyless.

Taylor-Johnson is mostly a card-

board catalyst for action and Ken Watanabe’s Dr. Serizawa and his associate (Sally Hawkins) are mainly there to look awestruck and give the necessary exposition. Only Cranston turns in truly charismatic work—despite being severely under utilized.

Many characters are meant to be throwbacks to the original archetypes of the series, but they are

archetypes and not much more.

The lack of character is compensated well enough in the film’s first half, as Edwards’ slow-build approach and the desire for answers are in full swing. It’s only once the monsters start taking center stage that you begin to realize that the most uninteresting part is getting in the way.

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Summer music in the midwest Between a rock legend and several up-and-coming groups, venues are filling up in the Twin Cities this summer.

RAE FRAME A&E Editor Rock the Garden This year’s two-day lineup at the Walker Art Center gives the Minneapolis festival twice the time to host both local talent and alternative rock icons. Though the complete list of performers has not yet been released, partial lineups featuring the talents of Valerie June, Jeremy Messersmith, Dessa, and Spoon have locals buzzing.

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The legendary Sir Paul McCartney will be visiting the Twin Cities for the first time since 2005; and with the release of his sixteenth studio album, New, McCartney’s impressive anthology gives fans a lot to catch up on before the big event, which will take place August 2nd, at Target Field. McCartney’s official website provides details on both his upcoming “Out There” tour and album notes that might give concertgoers a little preview: “I’m really excited to see how the songs will sound—“ he says on producing New, “there are a few I have my eye on that were made to play live!”

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An introduction to Eurovision, the world’s most prestigious talent show.

RAE FRAME A&E Editor With the runaway success of American talent shows like American Idol and The Voice, it is strange that Americans haven’t tuned in to the most widely celebrated talent show on the globe— Eurovision.

Broadcast annually since 1956, Eurovision has included 43 countries in its search for the next celebrated artist. Each year, a system of televoting names one winner—with the exception of the 1969 four-way tie between Spain, UK, Netherlands,

and France. Ireland has claimed the most wins (a total of seven times), and Portugal has yet to claim first place despite many impressive entries.

Though America doesn’t participate in the festivities, several Eurovision winners have made a splash in American pop culture—notably, the Swedish band ABBA and Switzerland’s champion, Celine Dion. ABBA is a Eurovision icon thanks to their single, “Waterloo”, which won the 1974 contest as well as recognition at Eurovision’s 50th anniversary celebration. Celine Dion claimed first place for Switzerland in 1988 with the song “Ne

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The competition is fierce, but the contest has an affinity for silly songs and crazy costumes— an aspect that other talent shows simply don’t appreciate; Finland, Russia, Greece, and Ireland have all made a splash in past Eurovision contests. Current style duo, twins John and Edward Grimes, displayed a distinctly Gaga-esque look when they took eighth place in this year’s Euro-

vision.

Thomas Neuwirth, better known by the wildly popular drag persona Conchita Wurst, is the winner of Eurovision 2014.

Forward-thinking social activist (and total babe), Wurst was chosen to perform Austria’s orchestrated entry, “Rise Like a Phoenix”, The soulful performance was met with immediate fandom, the pairing of Wurst’ vocals with the ballad has created a large fan

base calling for Wurst to sing the next Bond theme.

Now they’ve got our attention.

With social media websites celebrating Wurst for social activism and vocal excellence, it may be this unexpected performer that brings Eurovision into the American eye.

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GODZILLA “The mood of Godzilla is key and the filmmakers have found just the right mix of dour and exciting to make a Godzilla flick that feels modern and classic.”

Foster the People Breakout indie band Foster the People will be bringing their imaginative music to the Myth Live Event Center on August 4th. After their summer of success in 2011, the band released their second studio album, Supermodel, which features a very different sound from their previous album, Torches. Concertgoers can expect a little bit of both sounds, but are guaranteed the same energy and full-tilt lyricism that will be on every playlist this summer.

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Exciting as monster-on-monster beat downs may be (and they certainly have their charm here), the film has a frustrating rhythm that makes the final hour of the film feel monotonous: humans try to get something done in the midst of a monster attack. The idea itself may sound cool but without escalation and something special for each sequence, it all seems like it’s going through the motions.

The film pulls more than one bait and switch, just as the audience thinks it’s getting the goods and then has to wait longer. It’s

an interesting tactic, but one that doesn’t pay off because of the underwhelming mixture of human and monster; more than once the unsatisfied feeling “is this it?” overtakes the viewer.

With a sequel already in motion, Godzilla has made a colossal comeback. It’s now apparent that the King of Monsters has found the right tone and scale to connect with audiences; the next major battle for this franchise will be finding good characters and blending them in the right way.

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