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Construction projects pave the way this summer Renovations take over as improvements are made throughout campus.

ALISSA THIELGES News Editor Minnesota State University, Mankato’s campus is getting a facelift this summer.

New construction and renovations are happening all over campus. For those who have been around campus already this summer, the construction is pretty hard to miss. Many of the roads coming to and around campus have detours or orange cones blocking them.

These construc tion projects are part of the ongoing maintenance of the campus.

“We are always looking at annually doing some sort of parking lot and street maintenance,” said Nathan Huettl, Planning and Construction Director. “This is just a part of the upkeep.”

Huettl said that the roads under construction haven’t been repaired since

(CC BY-SA 2.0) by Oregon State University 1990 and that the recent construction and bus traffic have deteriorated them to the point where they needed fixing. Both South Road and West Road will be getting a rehabilitated pavement surface, while West Road will also be getting some storm sewer work done to alleviate some draining issues for people who live downhill to the west side of campus.

Parking Lots 18 and 19 will also be repaved with an additional storm sewer drain

included for Lot 18.

Work on Stadium Road started this week; construction is hoping to be completed before the Vikings Training Camp. While not actually on campus grounds, Stadium Road is a vital route for people to get to and from campus; MSU was involved in the discussions of the planning in order to upgrade the road to it’s best potential.

While more conspicuous to outside eyes, the outdoor constructions are not the only

renovations occurring this summer. Indoor projects are also taking place, the most obvious change being the renovation of the upper level food court in Mav Ave. It will include most of the original food options, but some, such as Noodles and Green, will now be split up and have different counters for people to order from in order to keep the orders flowing as smoothly as possible. Mav Ave will also have a much more open feel to it, since

the food will be made and served right in front of the customer.

This renovation is the second half of the improvements that Sodexo is making as part of their food service contract with MSU, which stipulates that they must invest money to be spent in improving their dining facilities. The first part of the improvements took place this past year with the renovation of the lower level food court in the CSU. Other indoor projects include: window replacements in D-Hall in residential life, painting in Armstrong and Pennington Hall, carpet replacement in Armstrong and library, replacing carpet with tile in Ford Hall and Wigley Administration building, and a new heating and cooling system in the racquetball courts in Pennington. Most of these are changes you wouldn’t notice or see unless

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Kids to improve literacy skills at Camp Maverick this June STEPHANIE VOGEL Staff Writer This summer, kids from grades Kindergarten through 5th grade will be attending a camp where they can have fun and learn literacy at the same time. The camp, called “Camp Maverick - Rec ‘N Read,” will take place daily from June 5 to 30, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The camp will take place on the campus of Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Brooke Burk, an assistant professor in Recreation, Parks, and Leisure Studies,

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explains, “Our home base will be the new Clinical and Health Sciences building.

We’ll be in the library, we plan to use some of the gym space, and we’ll be outside as much as possible.”

The camp is for kids who have trouble reading and writing and are falling behind in those areas in school. Some of them may have learning disabilities. The hope for this camp is to help kids enjoy reading and writing and to teach them that learning is fun.

The schedule for the camp, Burk says, is this: “Each day

will have about five hours of recreation activities and then three hours of targetedspecific literacy intervention.”

The “targeted-specific literacy inter vention” encompasses three areas of focus. Burk explains these areas: “One is letter recognition and pairing the sounds of letters together.

Then we’ll have one that’s specifically targeted on reading, then another on writing.”

There will be four different themes for each week of camp, which are superheroes, the great outdoors,

imagination station, and sports and games. There will be fun, recreational activities as well as reading activities associated with the theme.

“The first week will be superheroes,” Burk said. “We’ll have a lot of different activities related to superheroes. We might be doing different games, they might make a cape or a mask. Then the books that they’re reading will be about superheroes, and the writing that they’re doing might be poems about being a superhero. It’s all going to be connected.”

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All of the kids attending camp will be placed into groups based on their age and their reading and writing levels The kids need to take an assessment prior to camp, so that the camp counselors and organizers know which group to put them in.

“Each child’s literacy intervention is designed specifically for them, so there’s going to be variation

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Traveler should have drawn scrutiny before flight

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man acted strangely long before he caused a disturbance on a plane that prompted fighter jets to accompany it to Hawaii, but a lack of communication and an airline’s hesitancy to be caught on video booting a passenger could have played a role in allowing him to fly, experts say.

Anil Uskanli, 25, of Turkey, had purchased a ticket at an airline counter in the middle of the night with no luggage and had been arrested after opening a door to a restricted airfield at Los Angeles International Airport. Airport police did not notify the airline, but they said it isn’t common practice.

After bizarre behavior on board Friday, including trying to get to the front of

the jet, he was arrested by FBI agents and charged with interfering with a flight crew.

A federal judge on Monday ordered him to undergo a mental competency evaluation, which Uskanli’s attorney said he requested based on conversations with his client that he would not detail.

The first alarm should have been Uskanli buying his ticket around midnight with no bags other than a laptop, a phone and items in his pocket, said Doron Pely, a director at TAL Global, an international security consulting firm focusing on aviation security.

“Right there, that’s enough red flags to really look into this guy with curiosity,” Pely said. “He had trouble written all over him.”

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But Uskanli went through a security screening without raising suspicion and only drew the attention when he opened a door leading to an airfield ramp around 2:45 a.m.

Airport police said he smelled of alcohol but was not intoxicated enough to be charged with public drunkenness, so he was given a summons to appear in court and released.

Police said officers confiscated his boarding pass and walked him to a public area of the airport. He got another boarding pass and went through security again.

It isn’t uncommon for people to open doors to restricted areas, airport police spokesman Rob Pedregon said, and Uskanli

said he was looking for food when he was stopped by officers.

“Had it not been serious, it would have been comical,” Pely said. “How many times do passengers go back to the check-in counter and say, ‘Police confiscated my boarding pass. Can you please reissue a boarding pass for me?’”

Uskanli went to a different airport terminal, requested a wheelchair and was brought to the gate, American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said.

Flight attendants helped Uskanli at the door of the plane, authorities said.

Before takeoff, he sat in first-class and had to be asked

several times to move to his economy seat, according to a criminal complaint.

“This is a situation where red flags were not accumulating properly because they were not transferred,” Pely said. “If you see one red flag, you may let it go, but if you see three red flags and you let it go, you should be let go.”

Airline employees may have been worried about preventing Uskanli from flying because of recent viral videos of flight crews ejecting passengers and may have been more tolerant of his behavior because they didn’t know about his airport arrest, he said.

CONSTRUCTION Continued from page 1 you were in the immediate area a lot, said Huettl.

Another project that has been ongoing since November 2016 is the replacement of all lights across campus to energy efficient, LED lights. This is a part of the Guaranteed Energy Savings Project that MSU is involved in, which is a project to make campus as efficient as possible when it comes to reducing energy costs.

“They are construction sites and it’s exciting to see the campus improving,”

said Huettl. “We keep working on it and keep things better for you guys.”

Bigger projects are being looked into, including a redesign of Armstrong Hall, a new College of Business building, renovations for athletics, and a new football stadium, according to Huettl. These projects are on the “long range horizon” and wouldn’t occur in the near future, says Huettl, but would be in planning for the next five to ten years.

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New policy center at University of Wisconsin raises alarms MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker and fellow Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday announced the formation of a new public policy center at the state’s flagship university, which liberals said would be nothing more than a taxpayer-funded

to campuses across the state.

Vos said the new center will have no agenda and will be dedicated to “maximum free speech.” He later said the center would not be partisan but would counter what he said were “left-ofcenter leaning” research

“The announcement comes as free speech issues have grown more contentious on college campuses across the country.” conservative think tank.

The announcement about the new Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership comes as one of the architects of the deal, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, is pushing a bill that would punish students who disrupt free speech on college campuses.

“Far too often, we feel like there’s only one legitimate viewpoint on campus,” Vos said. “This is just going to ensure we have diversity of thought. ... It’s not a conservative think tank.

Hopefully it will be able to offset some of the liberal thinking.”

Vos and other backers of the new center at the University of WisconsinMadison promised that it will serve as a bridge between the academic and political worlds and bring in speakers

organizations on the Madison campus.

The announcement comes as free speech issues have grown more contentious on college campuses across the country. Republicans are worried that conservative speakers don’t get equal treatment, while some students have criticized invitations extended to speakers who they believe engage in hate-speech.

The new Thompson Center, which must be approved by the Republicancontrolled Legislature, would be run by a director overseen by a seven-member board within the university’s political science department and the La Follette School of Public Affairs.

UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank joined Walker and Republican legislative leaders in praising the

creation of the new center, which is slated to start next year. She said the center would build closer ties with the university’s researchers and state policymakers.

Blank said the center will embody the three principles of Thompson, the former 14-year Republican governor for which it is named. She said those are a belief in the value of objective, nonpartisan research to inform public policy; a belief that public universities and their faculties have a central role in public life; and a belief in the Wisconsin Idea — the dedication to ensuring that discoveries and knowledge on college campuses are spread across the state and beyond.

“Just as he did during his

time as governor, the Tommy G. Thompson Center is going to be dedicated to bringing people together,” Blank said.

The center’s creation also won praise from Badger Advocates, a private group that advocates for the Madison campus. The group’s director, Matt Kussow, called it “yet another bond between our great state and our great state university.”

It would be funded with $3 million in taxpayer money over the next two years along with unspecified private donations.

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Gordon Hintz, who sits on the Legislature’s budget committee, said he suspects that university leaders don’t want to criticize creation of the center because it could

put their funding from the Republican-controlled Legislature at risk.

“Does anyone think spending $3 million on a separate conservative public affairs school is a good use of $?” Hintz tweeted.

Scot Ross, director of the liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now, accused Vos of “bullying students, faculty and administrators” by creating a conservative think tank to spread “Republican propaganda as widespread on campuses as possible.”

“There is no doubt right-wing foundations, corporations and millionaire Republicans will finance what taxpayers don’t get stuck paying,” Ross said.

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Continued from page 1 within each group,” Burk said. Putting the kids into groups will help them to make new friends at camp.

The cost for one kid to attend the camp is $170 per week. However, there is financial assistance available.

When the parents sign up online, they indicate what amount they are able to pay.

“We have written grants in order to offset costs

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that families are unable to afford. Many of the families have been unable to afford any part of camp, so it’s nice that we have those funds so that we don’t have to turn anyone away,” said Burk.

The Allied Health and Nursing and Education programs, as well as the Mankato Clinic Foundation, are providing support.

The camp is put on

by the Allied Health and Nursing and Education departments at MNSU. There will be 14 staff members, including the camp counselors, who are compensated with the grants. Camp counselors are students from the previously mentioned programs or from Social and Behavioral Sciences.

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Billboard Awards gives commentary on state of music Does getting an award for music sales really mean anything?

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GABE HEWITT Editor-in-Chief Award shows have always been weird to me.

One reason is because it makes me uncomfortable to see someone win in their category and the fake reactions of those who didn’t.

Another reason is what I see to be the purpose behind them. Sure, it’s exciting to see a professional in their field awarded for their work on a large scale, but it all boils down to money. Award shows are part of a business.

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The rapper also won in two categories that speak to the nature of this particular awards show: Top Billboard 200 Artists and Top Song

“Sure, it’s exciting to see a professional in their field awarded for their work on a large scale, but it all boils down to money.” music awards show on Sunday. The show attracted an estimated 26 million viewers who tuned in to watch Drake win a Billboard record 13 awards including

Sales Artist. In addition to publishing content about the music world, Billboard is also known for its music charts.

Awards are usually handed out for achievements and it’s

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true that it’s an achievement that Drake led other artists in his category in song sales, but do sales amount to talent?

There are other award shows that are geared towards awarding individuals for their talent such as The Grammys and The Oscars.

Shows like the Billboard Music Awards and the People’s Choice Awards are designed to give awards to popular candidates. This is why they were created, of course; however, the issue here lies with the kind of merit that comes with awards handed out at these shows. Should more people listen to Zayn since he won the Billboard award for Top New Artist?

Should they respect Twenty

One Pilots more since they won the Chart Achievement Award presented by Xfinity?

Award shows like this one from Billboard were created to award popular musicians and, in turn, increase their music and concert sales from its audience being exposed to them. It’s this purpose that could have serious implications during the creative process in the music industry. It’s no secret that the popular songs on the radio are popular because of the way they sound and are structured. They were essentially written and

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Landslide on California highway part of $1 billion in damage BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — A massive landslide that went into the Pacific Ocean is the latest natural disaster to hit a California community that relies heavily on an iconic coastal highway and tourism to survive, and it adds to a record $1 billion in highway damage from one of the state’s wettest winters in decades.

The weekend slide in Big Sur buried a portion of Highway 1 under a 40-foot layer of rock and dirt and changed the coastline below to include what now looks like a rounded skirt hem, Susana Cruz, a spokeswoman with the California Department of Transportation, said Tuesday.

More than 1 million tons of rock and dirt tumbled down a saturated slope in an area called Mud Creek.

The slide is covering up about a one-quarter-of-amile (0.40-kilometer) stretch of Highway 1, and authorities have no estimate on when it might re-open. The area remains unstable.

“We haven’t been able to go up there and assess.

It’s still moving,” Cruz said.

“We have geologists and engineers who are going to check it out this week to see how do we pick up the pieces.”

It’s the largest mudslide she knows of in the state’s history, she said. “It’s one of a kind,” Cruz said.

One of California’s rainiest and snowiest winters on record has broken a five-year

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press drought, but also caused flooding and landslides in much of the state and sped up coastal erosion.

“This type of thing may become more frequent, but Big Sur has its own unique geology,” said Dan Carl, a district director for the California Coastal Commission whose area includes Big Sur. “A lot of Big Sur is moving; you just don’t see it.”

Even before the weekend slide, storms have caused just over $1 billion in highway damage to 424 sites over the fiscal year that ends in June, Mark Dinger, also a spokesman for the state transportation agency, said Tuesday. That compares with

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$660 million last year, he said.

Big Sur along narrow, windy Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles has experienced an especially tough winter, s tate tr anspor tation spokesman Colin Jones said. Repeated landslides and floods have taken out bridges and highways, closed campgrounds, and forced some resorts to shut down temporarily or use helicopters to fly in guests and supplies.

Big Sur is one of the state’s biggest tourist draws in a normal year, attracting visitors to serene groves of redwoods, beaches and the highway’s dramatic oceanside scenery.

The state already had closed the Highway 1 along Mud Creek to repair buckled pavement and remove debris after an earlier slide triggered by one of California’s rainiest winters in decades.

Authorities removed work crews from the area last week after realizing that saturated soil in that area was increasingly unstable, Jones said.

Last year, a wildfire burned for nearly three months in the Los Padres National Forest and on private land, sparked by an illegal campfire.

Thousands of visitors were shut out from signature state parks and the businesses that cater to those tourists.

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of the Big Sur Chamber of Commerce and owner of the historic Nepenthe Restaurant, said the slide may prove a blessing, stabilizing land that Caltrans was working to shore up.

On the other hand, he acknowledges his theory may be wishful thinking.

“There’s no question if you live and own a business in Big Sur, you live in a very dramatic landscape and we know historically, whether it’s fire or a mudslide or a landslide from one year to the next it’s not very predictable,” said Gafill, whose restaurant is serving two to three dozen local diners a day rather than the 600 to 1,000 typical for this time of year.

Gafill said repairing this landslide is not as critical for business as replacing Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge, a famous span on Highway 1 that had to be demolished earlier this year after it was badly damaged by slides from heavy rain in January and February. The new span is scheduled to open in September.

Kurt Mayer, who owns Big Sur Tap House, was also taking news of the slide in stride. He said Tuesday he wouldn’t trade in his work location for somewhere safer.

“We’re all going to make it, I’m pretty sure,” he said.

“Big Sur can scare some people, and those people usually come and go pretty quickly. And those who can hang, they’re still there and they’ll continue to be there.”

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Advocates slam Trump plan to reduce aid for college students WASHINGTON (AP) — Education advocates say President Donald Trump’s budget contradicts his campaign pledge to make college more affordable with its proposed elimination of subsidized student loans and cuts in other programs that help students pay tuition.

The 2018 budget, unveiled Tuesday, slashes discretionary funding for the Education Department by 13.5 percent and overall funding by 46.9 percent.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement that it “reflects a series of tough choices we have had to make when assessing the best use of taxpayer money. It ensures funding for programs with proven results for students while taking a hard look at programs that sound nice but simply haven’t yielded the desired outcomes.”

But critics said it contradicts President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to make college more affordable at

nomination last year, Trump had said, “We’re going to work with all of our students who are drowning in debt to take the pressure off these people just starting out in their adult lives. Tremendous problem.”

His first budget seeks to save over $1 billion by eliminating subsidized student loans.

For undergraduate students who qualify, the government pays the interest while they remain in college. Students can borrow up to $23,000 during their four years in college.

The current interest rate is 3.76 percent.

An additional $859 million would be saved by ending student debt forgiveness for those who enter public service.

The program was launched in 2007 with the idea to motivate university graduates to take government and teaching jobs in remote rural areas.

Under the program, the remainder of a student’s

“The program provides funding to colleges and universities to create jobs for students, which help them pay tuition.” a time when student debt is ballooning.

“Donald Trump ran as a populist, but he is a governing as an elitist and this budget is a clear indication of that,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

When he accepted the Republican presidential

debt is forgiven after he or she makes 120 qualifying payments, or typically after 10 years.

Natalia Abrams, executive director of Student Debt Crisis, an advocacy group, said that over 550,000 borrowers are currently enrolled in the debt forgiveness program. The Education Department said

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press those already in the program will not be affected by the change.

“We need to make it easier for people to go to and pay for college, this budget does the exact opposite,” Abrams said.

The budget also proposes to nearly halve the federal work-study program to $500 million. The program provides funding to colleges and universities to create jobs for students, which help them pay tuition.

It maintains funding for Pell grants and makes them available year-round.

For mer Educ ation Secretary John King called Trump’s budget “an assault on the American dream” and said it will make it harder for students to attend and finish college. “They are harming the long-term future not just of students but also of the country,” he told The Associated Press.

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Continued from page 4 their own beings and can create and experiment however they would like, but you have to wonder if a band like Linkin Park changed their sound in order to appeal to a more general audience and increase its own music sales.

Music is just one form of entertainment media and like its other types, it’s meant to sell. There will always be those musicians who create quality and creative content for themselves and for its fans to enjoy. And there will

launching a sweeping $20 billion school choice project that Trump talked about on the campaign trail.

The American Federation of Children, a school choice advocacy group, which DeVos used to head, praised the increase in school choice funding.

“We’re pleased to see the administration put funding muscle behind their pledge to facilitate an expansion of school choice options across the country,” the group said in a statement

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produced by people who know how to sell music to the general public.

When a musician or band doesn’t follow this formula in its early life and suddenly start doing so, they’re often labeled as “sellouts” by its fan base. Rock band Linkin Park has received this kind of criticism in recent weeks following its recent “One More Light” album release which features a more pop centric sound than its preceding albums.

Obviously, musicians are

president the National Education Association, describes the document “a wrecking ball of a budget” and that they would work to defeat it.

For elementary and secondary education, the budget seeks to expand charter and voucher-type programs for private schools around the country. It calls for an additional $1 billion in funds to encourage school districts to advance choice options, $250 million in scholarships to lowincome families to attend private schools and $167 million to start or expand charter schools. However, the budget stops short of

always be musicians who will be known for creating music that sells.

I wrote an article last spring about music shaming and in no way am I saying that listening to popular music is a deciding factor in your humanity. I’m just hoping that this trend of awarding individuals for their music sales doesn’t affect the way music is created going forward.

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MSU softball rallies, advances to NCAA Division-II Elite Eight The Mavericks faced a 6-3 deficit before rallying back and keeping their terrific season alive.

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer Minnesota State’s softball team are the NCAA Division-II Central Region Champions. It was a long weekend for the Minnesota State Maverick softball team, but the squad picked up the two wins they needed in order to advance to the NCAA Championships.

The women traveled to Searcy, Arkansas where they took on Harding University as the Mavericks picked up a 1-0 shutout in 10 innings in game one, dropped game two with a 3-2 loss, and finished out the series with a 7-6 win to earn the Elite-Eight bid.

Game one was filled with defensive plays and low scoring but Minnesota State was able to edge out Harding with a 1-0 win in 10 innings of action. The game-winner came from Amber Kral, as she drilled a solo home run in the top of the 10th.

Senior pitcher Coley Ries (35-2) picked up the game one win, pitching all 10 innings while allowing only

Photos by Hara Goo three hits and striking out 10.

Minnesota State’s program-best 28 wins-in-a-row came to an end in game two.

Harding evened up the bestof-three series picking up a 3-2 win over Minnesota State on Friday. The Mavericks got on the board first with Jess Meidl crossing the plate to put the Mavs up 1-0 in the first inning.

Harding responded with a

run in the third inning and the Mavs would not answer back until the sixth inning to earn the 2-1 edge heading into the seventh inning. Harding continued to battle to stay in the fight and picked up two runs in the seventh, including an unearned game-winning-run from Lindsey Duncan.

Ries took the game two loss which marked only the third loss of the year for the star senior. Ries pitched all seven innings while allowing four hits and striking out five.

Mother nature seemed hell-bent on making sure the drama of the rubber-match game was highly relevant.

After going down 4-3 to start the game on Friday afternoon, the game was delayed until Sunday due to lightning and rain.

With the action starting on Friday, the two teams got one inning of action in. The Mavericks earned three runs in the top of the first. Harding came out in the bottom of the first ready to attack and quickly got out of the hole that Minnesota State put them in as they tallied four runs.

As action resumed on Sunday, Harding continued to build on their lead, adding runs in the third and fifth innings to go up 6-3 over Minnesota State. With their backs against the proverbial wall, the Maverick women began the comeback in the sixth inning.

The Mavericks began to chip away at the deficit, as Kral smacked an RBI single, scoring Paap. Esselman would

add another RBI in the frame to bring the deficit to only one entering the final frame.

Thell, a senior, would prove to come through in the clutch,

shuffled between two different arms.

“We are so excited to have the opportunity to play in the National Tournament. This is a dream we all had the second we stepped on campus, so to be able to achieve that goal is incredible,” said Ries.

“We had a really tough region so we have a lot of confidence going into the tournament that we can [defeat] anyone if we play our game.”

Head softball coach Lori Meyer gave her take on the nail-biting weekend experienced by her Mavs.

“The fight that team 33 has is amazing…the grit that we have continued to show throughout the season has been tremendous,” Meyer said. “I am so proud of this group of young ladies as for everything they have accomplished as student-athletes.

They represent MSU proudly.”

“The fight that team 33 has is amazing…the grit that we have continued to show throughout the season has been tremendous,” Meyer said. “I am so proud of this group of young ladies as for everything they have accomplished as student-athletes. They represent MSU proudly.”

as she tied the game up at six. Esselman would follow that up with an RBI double, scoring Thell and giving the Mavericks a 7-6 lead heading into the bottom of the inning.

Ries finished off the ballgame in the bottom of the seventh, pitching all seven innings while allowing nine hits, six runs, and fanning eight.

Ries pitched all 24 innings over three days while Harding

The second-seeded Mavericks begin Elite Eight action as they push towards the NCAA Championship against seventh-seeded Southern Indiana on Thursday in Salem, Virginia. The two teams met earlier this season at The Spring Games in Clermont, Fla. and Minnesota State was victorious, 2-1. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. central time.

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Warriors defeat Spurs in four-game sweep Golden State becomes the first team in NBA history to start the playoffs 12-0.

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Golden State made sure the inevitable was unavoidable.

Heavily favored to beat the Spurs, especially once Kawhi Leonard sustained a series-ending injury, the Warriors completed a dominant sweep in the Western Conference Finals.

Stephen Curry scored 36 points and Golden State beat injury-ravaged San Antonio with a 129-115 victory Monday night, becoming the first team in league history to start the playoffs 12-0. “(Being) 12-0 is great, but it doesn’t mean anything going into the next series, and we understand that,” Curry said.

Golden State led by as many as 22 points in cruising to its third straight NBA Finals. The Warriors await a possible third straight championship matchup with Cleveland, which leads Boston 2-1 in the East finals.

“It’s great to be one of the last two teams standing, we’ll see how it goes,” said Kevin Durant, who had 29 points and 12 rebounds.

San Antonio’s only lead came on the opening possession when Manu Ginobili tossed in a left-handed scoop shot. The Spurs started Ginobili in what could be his final game with the team. The

said, ‘But you know once this starts, we’re going to try to kick your (butt). I said, ‘Ok, it’s on.’”

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Photo courtesy of The Associated Press game, you think it may or may not be his last game that he ever plays in, and I did not want to miss the opportunity to honor him in front of our home fans for his selflessness over the years.”

Unsure if the beloved veteran will return, the crowd serenaded Ginobili with “Manu, Manu” chants as the game came to a close.

“He kind of worked us pretty good these four games,” said Draymond Green, who had 16 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the Warriors. “So, I think he’s got quite a bit left in the tank. Obviously, it’s up

Parker and David Lee. “Obviously it (stinks) that Kawhi wasn’t there and Tony wasn’t there and David wasn’t out there,” Green said. “But, at the end of the day, a win is a win and you have to beat whoever is out there against you.”

San Antonio didn’t go down without a fight despite the injuries.

Anderson dove on the court for a loose ball that the Spurs had tipped away defensively, pushing the ball upcourt to Patty Mills who fed Ginobili for a 3-pointer that pulled San Antonio to 108-94 with 7 minutes remaining.

The effort made Popovich smile and clap at times, but the Warriors’ depth and talent proved too much for short-handed San Antonio.

“It’s the second time we’ve gotten swept in 15 years, and those are the easiest to digest because you’ve been overplayed,” Ginobili said.

“The opponent was better than us, and in this case, way better than us.”

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39-year-old had maintained he will not ponder whether to retire or return until after the season.

“We started him tonight out of respect,” San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich said.

“That was the whole reason for starting him. Before the

to him how much longer he wants to go. But one thing about it, he’s definitely not a liability on the floor.”

Ginobili finished with 15 points in 32 minutes.

Kyle Anderson scored 20 points to lead the Spurs, who were without Leonard, Tony

Golden State has won five straight games over San Antonio, including the regular season, which is the team’s longest against the Spurs. ..

Warriors starting center Zaza Pachulia missed his second straight game with a bruised right heel. Pachulia’s absence allowed him to escape the ire of the Spurs fans, who blame him for Leonard’s absence after his controversial close-out on a 3-pointer that Popovich called “dangerous” and “unsportsmanlike.” ... Golden State has won six straight road games in the postseason, which is a franchise record.

Leonard missed his third straight game with a sprained left ankle. Popovich announced his All-Star forward

would not play about two hours prior to tipoff. ... Ginobili had come off the bench in 55 straight playoff games prior to his start in Game 4. ... Murray’s four steals in the first half tied Ginobili’s franchise record for most steals in a playoff game.

NOTHING BUT LOVE Golden State coach Mike Brown said it was tough competing against Popovich, his longtime friend and one of his mentors, but the veteran coach put the series in perspective during a phone call prior to the start of the series.

“He called, we talked, we laughed,” Brown said.

“He said, ‘Hey, I love you. I told him I loved him and he

Spurs forward LaMarcus Aldridge closed out a disappointing series with his second eight-point effort against the Warriors.

He entered Game 4 averaging 18 points, but was held to 4-for-11 shooting in 22 minutes in the series finale.

Aldridge didn’t address his own personal struggles, but praised the team’s effort.

“No excuses but a lot of unfortunate things happened, but we still tried to compete and do the best we could do,” Aldridge said.

“They’ve been the best team in the west for the last few years and they proved it again. (Warriors) came out and competed, they had a good game plan for the guys that we had out there, we just came out and did everything we could do.”

GRANDPA? Ginobili’s closest friend on the Spurs is Mills, which puzzles the 28-year-old.

“I don’t know why we have such a good relationship, he is so much older than me, you know,” Mills said, jokingly. “It’s weird, it’s like grandpa and grandson, but still very close.”

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Maverick baseball season ends against Central Oklahoma Minnesota State earned an early lead, but faltered late on key plays Sunday.

CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer The Mavericks baseball team ended their 2017 season with a 3-2 loss to Central Oklahoma Sunday afternoon in Emporia, Kansas during the 2017 National Collegiate Association (NCAA) Division-II Baseball Central Region Tournament.

Ranked seventh, Minnesota State lead 2-0 after three

the fifth and a single in in the seventh. The winning run came with runners on the corners. After the runner from first stole second, the Mavericks threw to second while the runner from third advanced home to secure Central Oklahoma’s win.

Nick Belzer took the loss for the Mavericks, going six innings, allowing six hits while striking out six and walking only one.

“Minnesota State finished the 2017 season with a 46-11 record and picked up their 10th Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) regular season title. Minnesota State went on to win the NSIC Tournament Championship, their first since 2014.

This year also marked the team’s 36th appearance in the NCAA Division-II Baseball Tournament, and their 12th in-a-row. “ innings. Junior first baseman Dylan Dresel started the game off with a home run to left field in the first while Hunter Harnisch added another homer in the third.

The Bronchos responded with three unanswered runs, starting with a home run in

Minnesota State finished the 2017 season with a 46-11 record and picked up their 10th Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) regular season title. Minnesota State went on to win the NSIC Tournament Championship, their first since 2014. This year

Reporter Archives also marked the team’s 36th appearance in the NCAA Division-II Baseball Tournament, and their 12th in-a-row.

Despite finishing their season, the post season accolades have started rolling in for various Mavericks. Junior pitcher Dalton Roach has been named one of the 12 finalists for the 2017 Brett Tomko Award among pitchers from schools such as USC-Aiken, West Texas A&M, Columbus State and Florida Southern. The award, which is given to the NCAA Division-II pitcher of the year, is named after former-Florida Southern pitcher Brett Tomko. Tomko pitched a total of 14 seasons in the majors and tallied 100

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Roach finished the 2017 season with a 1.56 earned run average (ERA) over 86.2 innings on the mound. He allowed 52 hits while striking out 128 batters and walked only 12.

Eric Peterson was named to the NCAA Division-II Baseball Central Regional All-Tournament Team for the first time.

The senior third baseman finished with a .396 average and a .520 on-base percentage. He also tallied 62 runs on 78 hits and 34 runs batted in (RBI) in his 197 at bats. Peterson had a career-high eight home runs, three triples and 14 doubles. He finishes as the career leader in runs with 225

for the Mavericks and ranked in the top five in eight additional categories in program history. Peterson finished second in most at-bats with 735, hits with 257, total bases with 382 and third in doubles with 48, tied for third in triples with 10, fourth in games played with 210, stolen bases with 56 and fifth in sacrifice hits with 24.

Dresel finished his junior season leading the RBI category for the Mavericks with 57 and home runs with 13, putouts with 364, and fielded 27 double plays. His 13 home runs and 57 RBI’s put him third in the conference while his 51 runs scored earns him the fourth-place spot.

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2017 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs unpredictable to many Nashville just clinched their first ever Stanley Cup Final appearance on Monday.

RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer The 2017 NHL playoffs have been one of upsets and mishap as teams that hockey fans probably would not have guessed are in the conference finals vying for a spot in the Stanley Cup Final. With Nashville clinching their first ever trip to the Stanley Cup Final, the Eastern Conference features one team (Pittsburgh) that many expect to win it all and another team (Ottawa)

that no one really expected to be here. Let’s dive into the action and break down why each team has a legitimate chance to win it all.

Pittsburgh Penguins Oh the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team that everyone enjoys to hate because they are in a position to win every year since the arrival of perennial All-Star Sidney Crosby in 2005. This team is fueled by power-play op-

portunities (ranking third in the league) and putting the puck in the net at a high rate (ranked first in goals scored).

The defensive side of the puck is where Pittsburgh is struggling, as they rank in the bottom half of the league in both goals against and penalty kill percentage. The Penguins are currently up 3-2 in a series against the Senators and look to close things out with a win on Tuesday night.

Nashville Predators After punching their ticket to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history on Monday, the Predators turn their attention to the winner of the Senators/ Penguins series. The squad started off the NHL playoffs by shocking the world and sweeping the Blackhawks 4-0 in the first round, followed up by a 4-2 series win against St. Louis in the second round.

The Predators again took care of business against the Ducks when everyone was doubting them. Nashville closed out the series in six games after a dominating 6-3 victory. Many are starting to cheer on the Cinderella story as they are one of the lowest seeds to ever make a Stanley Cup Final. Will the team keep playing their best hockey of the year or will their fairytale have a not-so-happy ending?

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Photo courtesy of The Associated Press The Senators are another team not many expected to be here. Facing off against the Penguins, no one initially gave them a chance. Ottawa came out firing and took a 2-1 series lead. Since then however, the Senators have dropped two straight and are on the brink of elimination Tuesday night against Pittsburgh. Ranked 22nd in goals/ game, power play percentage and penalty kill percentage, the Senators make their money defending, allowing

only two and a half goals per game, good enough for tenth in the league. The Senators will have to play great defense in order to win twostraight against Sidney Crosby and company.

There is plenty of good hockey remaining this season. With one Conference Finals series complete giving us Nashville’s first ever birth in a Cup Final and another that might head to seven games, keep your eyes on these games as they will be highly enticing.

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Chris Cornell left the world with music to be shared Soundgarden, Audioslave frontman’s lyrics told a relatable story for many.

RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer Chris Cornell will always be a hero and a soldier who touched lives with his voice and talents. If 2016 wasn’t a tough enough year for losing influential celebrities, the addition of Chris has devastated fans who grew up listening to his music.

While Cornell battled depression throughout his life, his songs reflected both his humanity towards theirs, and lifted spirits with similar struggles.

Although Cornell is highly esteemed as one of the most well-known artists from the 90s and many recognized him for his talent, he is no different than the next person.

His suicide cries for others to grow a sensitivity towards those who deal with mental illness on a regular basis.

As a Facebook friend and a diehard Cornell enthusiast said on the day the news hit: “Depression kills people, not just by way of suicide but it robs them of life each and

(CC BY-SA 2.0) by Josh Jensen every day they live…We need to stop shaming those who seek help for mental illness.”

Yet as a humble musician, Cornell’s songs did not solely focus on his depression but his depression motivated how his ability to speak to hearts and pour emotion into

them by painting pictures and composing stories. The images and stories were of people living their daily life and seeking fulfillment and expressing longing.

Because there are far too many songs in his career I could discuss, I will stick to

the magical number three.

“Outshine” describes a person who is “looking California and feeling Minnesota,” showing the conflict raging inside them that others have no idea about. When one thinks of California, sunshine automatically pours

into their mind whereas their initial impression of Minnesota is a dead, cold winter.

When everything seems fine, everything may not be. While the person has hope, they feel like everything that surrounds them outweighs what they do have.

Another song “Like A Stone” expresses the anguish when a person is longing for someone they love to return home and wrestle with the memories left behind: “The sky was bruised/The wine was bled/And there you led me on.” Anyone who has experienced heartbreak will feel the aching wish for restoration even when they remember their own past love, no matter how long it has been since they lost it.

Most popular of all his songs appears to be Black Hole Sun, as bloggers and people outside of the web have talked most about.

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Film review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Family theme pervades in Marvel Studios’ sequel to intergalactic hit.

RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer WARNING: The review may contain spoilers.

When I saw “Guardians of the Galaxy” released in Fairmont on its opening night, fans only left about every other seat empty. But despite most film critics’ opinions that the movie did not live up to its potential, I heard many say how they liked the sequel better when I milled out into the lobby with other moviegoers.

After some distance in forming my own thoughts about the sequel, I have to agree. The only thing that did bother me was the overuse of computer generated graphics. At different parts throughout the film it felt like Director James Gunn relied too heavily on them to evoke emotion, especially when characters were trapped

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But other than that, I enjoyed the movie down to the small moments when characters remained consistent to their adoring personalities.

For instance, Rocket would

become fired up when another character called him cute or mistake him for another animal that would blow his cover for acting tough.

Baby Groot also tugged at my heart strings with his awkward shortcomings whenever

he misunderstands situations, like in a mission he and Rocket pursue together. Of course anyone also enjoys the little tree’s announcement of, “I am Groot!” especially when the plot calls for comedic relief.

Overall, the sequel plays on the theme of each character’s walls and what one does to keep them up, but the walls are broken down when Peter Quill meets his unknown but biological father Ego. It brings the whole team even closer in their varying relationships to each other. Quill still is interested in the green woman with fiery hair and agile superhuman body, Gamora, who resists his affections, but expresses her fear when the crew nearly loses him.

It is also revealed that Ego has motives darker than what is inferred, that he will kill anyone without hesitation who stands in his evolving journey to become a god. In fact, Quill lost someone close to

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Drake dominates, Cher reflects at Billboard Music Awards

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Drake was a high roller in Las Vegas, beating Adele’s record for most wins at the Billboard Music Awards. Cher and Celine Dion each reflected on their own iconic careers and amazing songs on Sunday night’s awards show, while a moment of silence was held for rocker Chris Cornell, who died Thursday in Detroit. Miley Cyrus delivered an emotional, but low-key performance and Vanessa Hudgens shined as co-host.

These are the top moments from the awards show.

DRAKE’S LUCKY 13 The rapper broke Adele’s record with 13 wins for the night as well as an eye-catching performance in the mid-

dle of famous Fountains of Bellagio. With the streams of water and fireworks timed to his song, “Gyalchester,” the Canadian rapper danced around a platform in the water.

He already had 10 awards by the time the show began, but made sure to give a shout out during his acceptance speeches to his friends in the audience including Nicki Minaj, co-host Ludacris and Lil Wayne. The Chainsmokers, who tied Drake with 22 nominations, won four awards, while other top winners, Beyonce and twenty one pilots, both won five each, but did not attend.

ICONIC CHER When Cher got up to ac-

cept her Icon Award, she wasn’t afraid to do a little bragging. The singer and actress noted that she had been lucky to have a dream career for more than five decades, and at the age of 71, she said she can still hold a plank for five minutes.

She certainly showed off that athletic bod in a revealing outfit with pasties and a blonde wig as she performed her ‘90s dance hit “Believe,” then changed into a teased up curly black mane and leather jacket for her performance of “If I Could Turn Back Time.”

She noted she was told early on that she never was the most beautiful or the most talented, but she was

CORNELL Continued from page 13 While many noted Cornell appeared to have reached a high note, “Black Hole Sun” emphasizes on the truth that nobody knows the demons people, like him, war against in their darkest times. It evokes the true story of anyone who has wished at least once that they would disappear.

On the night of his final show, Cornell tweeted a positive note: “#Detroit finally back to Rock City!!! @soundgarden #nomorebullshit.”

While other such signs may not indicate his normal harsh reality behind-the-scenes, Cornell may have reached a point where he could not suffer anymore. He needed eternal relief from his continued pain. As the last lines in Black Hole Sun go: “In my time of dying, I want nobody to mourn/All I want for you is to take my body home.”

Suicide is more complicated than what some may give credit for and there are no easy answers or solutions. No one knows what factors drive home in a person’s heart when they are as sensitive as Cornell. Despite how famous or successful a person might be, they do not always have it together and sometimes the voice inside their head wins.

In the end, we as a people can only thank Cornell for his gifts in his time that he gave us. We can also honor his memory by keeping his music alive in sharing it with others.

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GUARDIANS Continued from page 13 him because of his father.

The turn of events is when Ego reveals darker motives, including universal dominion. As Ego begins to show Quill around the worlds that he designed, the plot also unfolds from the other characters’ points of view as they discover more about themselves when Ego threatens their existence.

They come to terms with how much is missing when there is a missing link in their group—Quill in this instance.

Meanwhile, Yondu, who has been there for Quill since his childhood, sacrifices and risks more than the rest of the team because he cares about Quill so much. Even though they have been on adventures with each other since

special and added that “luck has so much to do with my success with a little bit of something thrown in.”

HARD GOODBYE Rock fans were stunned to learn about the death of rocker Chris Cornell, who was found dead Thursday in his hotel room in Detroit.

The lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave and leader of the Seattle grunge movement was honored with a moment of silence during the awards show, which was a shorter than expected tribute to the 52-year-old singer and songwriter.

Quill’s mother died, they don’t realize how strong the bond they have is until it is almost too late.

The reason why the sequel is so powerful is because while it takes place in other worlds, it is truly down to earth in this reality. It could tug at the hearts of any who grew up without parents, absence of one or both or others who feel like their parents were not as empowering as they could be.

It creates a positive awareness to look for older mentors already in one’s life who grow and help them move forward.

Sometimes one takes for granted the relationships they have in life but it is never too late to appreciate them.

However, Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons summed up his career succinctly, noting he was “a true innovator,” ‘’a musical architect,” ‘’a prolific songwriting” and “a legendary performer.”

CELINE DION Two decades after a movie and a song captivated the country, Celine Dion revisited her iconic hit “My Heart Will Go On,” with the same passion as ever. The Canadian singer returned to celebrate the Oscar-winning song 20 years after it topped the charts as the theme to the blockbuster “Titanic.”

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Roger Moore had prouder achievements than playing 007 Late James Bond actor starred in hit TV series and was UNICEF ambassador.

LONDON (AP) — Sir Roger Moore saw more to life than a well-mixed martini.

“I felt small, insignificant and rather ashamed that I had traveled so much making films and ignored what was going on around me,” he would say years after starring in seven James Bond movies and upon accepting a role that his friend Audrey Hepburn inspired him to take on, goodwill ambassador for UNICEF. Moore, who died Tuesday at age 89, didn’t seem to take Bond that seriously even while playing him. Burdened with following Sean Connery

as Agent 007, Moore kept it light, using a wry, amused tone and perpetually arched eyebrow as if he had landed on the set by accident. Connery embodied for millions the role of Bond as the suave drinker, womanizer and disposer of evil. Moore didn’t so much inhabit the character as look upon him with disbelief.

“To me, the Bond situations are so ridiculous, so outrageous,” he once said. “I mean, this man is supposed to be a spy and yet, everybody knows he’s a spy. Every bartender in the world offers him martinis that are shaken, not stirred. What kind of se-

rious spy is recognized everywhere he goes? It’s outrageous. So you have to treat the humor outrageously as well.”

The handsome, darkhaired actor had long, full lives before and after his debut as Bond, in 1973.

He was remembered warmly by fans of the popular U.S. 1950s-60s TV series “Maverick” as Beauregarde Maverick, the English cousin of the Wild West’s Maverick brothers, Bret and Bart. He also starred in the 1959 U.S. series “The Alaskans.” In England, he had a long-running TV hit with “The Saint,”

playing Simon Templar, the enigmatic action hero who helps put wealthy crooks in jail while absconding with their fortunes. By the time the series, which also aired in the United States, ended in 1969, his partnership with its producers had made him a wealthy man.

He succeeded even as critics scorned. His performance opposite Lana Turner in the 1956 movie “Diane” was likened by Time magazine to “a lump of English roast beef.”

In the 1970s, New York Times reviewer Vincent Canby dismissed Moore’s acting abilities as having “reduced all

human emotions to a series of variations on one gesture, the raising of the right eyebrow.”

He was more inspired when helping others. He became the UNICEF ambassador in 1991 and five years later attended the World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, and disclosed that he too had been a victim.

“I was molested when I was a child — not seriously — but I didn’t tell my mother until I was 16, because I felt that it was something to be ashamed of,” he told The Associated Press at the time.

51st annual Highland Summer Theatre kicks off with ‘The Odd Couple’

Photo courtesy of Amanda Dyslin MANKATO – It’s all there – the Neil Simon hilarity centering around two mismatched roommates, one anal-retentive and neurotic and the other sloppy and casual.

But don’t start picturing Oscar and Felix just yet. Simon put an updated twist on his beloved comedic play “The Odd Couple” in the 1980s – a female twist – and that’s the version kicking off the 51st season of Highland Summer Theatre at Minneso-

ta State University, Mankato.

In “The Odd Couple” (Female Version), Florence Unger and Olive Madison are constantly at odds. The two share an apartment, and their differences make for a lot of conflict and laughs.

Made possible by the Minnesota State Mankato Legacy Society, the play runs 7:30 p.m. May 31-June 3 in the Andreas Theatre, Earley Center for Performing Arts, Minnesota State Mankato.

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