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Summer programs offered for MSU students and faculty Student Activities has planned five events to keep students busy this summer.

ALISSA THIELGES News Editor The Student Event’s Team is kicking off summer in style with a variety of programs for students and faculty to participate in throughout the summer months. They include a bike ride, sports events, an outdoor movie, and even a tasty BBQ sampling.

“This is an opportunity for [students] to continue to be engaged throughout the summer,” said Bill Tourville, assistant director of Campus Programs. “Students go to class in the summer, they are still here, and we want to provide some things for them.

That’s our responsibility.”

The first event kicks off Wednesday at 3 p.m. with the Dam Bike Ride. The 24-mile loop will begin at the Centennial Student Union and ride to the water dam in Rapidan, Minnesota where

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by guernseysports people can make a pit stop for some delicious pie before heading back. The group will be following the Red Jacket Trail. The trip will take about two and a half hours to complete, said Tourville.

This program is an annual event and usually has a group of 20 to 25 people ride together each year. Three of the assistant directors of Student Activities will be joining the ride this year.

The next event will be an MNSU Night at the Mankato MoonDogs June 15 at 7:05 p.m. Thanks to the MoonDogs, MNSU students will be able to purchase a discounted ticket package for $10, which will include a reserved seat, a meal deal— hotdog, chips, and a drink— and a MoonDogs baseball cap.

This is a new event that people have been asking

about for a few years, and Tourville said that it’s nice that MNSU and the MoonDogs were able to work together to make it happen.

Tickets can be purchased in advanced at mnsuevents. com or at the event with a valid MavCARD. Students can purchase up to 5 tickets to give to family and friends.

On Thursday, June 22, the film “Beauty and the Beast” will be playing in the outdoor

amphitheater. The movie will start at approximately 9 p.m., or when it is dark enough to play.

The outdoor movies have been a popular event and always has a good turn out, said Tourville. Last year’s showing of Zootopia was attended by 450 people. It is suggested to come early to snag a good spot. People are encouraged to bring blankets and lawn chairs to sit on. Concessions will be available Campus Kitchen and Campus Cupboard will be in attendance accepting donations. Donations of non-perishable food items will be rewarded with a free small popcorn, limit two free popcorns per family.

On Tuesday, June 25, the Student Events Team, Student Activities, and the Centennial Student Union are taking students to a Minnesota Lynx game. The

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Cool ways to stay active during hot summer days

MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer The summer season is basically here meaning that it is time to break out the summer dresses, shorts and sunglasses. The summer atmosphere is quite lovely with breathtaking sunsets, longer daylight hours and warm weather. However, the intense heat during the day could be a major

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discouragement, causing one to feel lazy and just want to stay indoors. This should not be the case as there are several activities one can indulge in that aid an active lifestyle and break the monotony of the summer heat.

One ideal way to stay active in the summer and beat the heat is to have a great exercise routine planned out. The summer heat should not act as a good excuse to shun healthy habits. Exercising early in the morning around dawn and later around dusk offer the most suitable conditions to get a great workout in

during the summer. It is also best to do heavy workouts indoors as one can lose a lot of water under the sun when your body tries to naturally cool itself by sweating. Walks at the at the end of the day are also conducive in terms of mental and physical health as one is able to clear and reset their mind after going through a lengthy day.

Another way to stay active in the summer is to cool off in the water. Swimming is an excellent way to relax, socialize and stay healthy and can be a complete workout.

There are also numerous activities that revolve around the water. Beach parties,

pool parties, cookouts, and bonfires are amongst several other activities that can take place by the water, which gives people the opportunity to socialize and make new friends, thus expanding their personal networks.

Channeling one’s inner child and making it game time is also another superb way to stay active in the summer. The logic here is to reenact the same games one played as a child with family, relatives and friends.

Games such as hop scotch, hula hooping, jumping rope, tag and many others are a great way to keep busy.

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such as soccer, basketball, kickball or tennis is also another awesome way to not only get in shape, but also to stay active during the summer season. Games help strengthen the bonds between people and are a classic way to spend quality time with loved ones.

Traveling and exploring the great outdoors is another great way one can stay active during the summer. The summer offers comfortable

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Accused leaker shared harsh opinions on Trump before arrest AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Before she was charged with leaking U.S. government secrets to a reporter, Reality Leigh Winner shared sometimes scathing opinions on President Donald Trump and his policies for the whole world to see.

The 25-year-old U.S. government contractor has worked since February in Augusta, Georgia, for a federal agency that neither prosecutors nor her defense lawyer will name and where she had access to sensitive documents. But the secretive nature of her job didn’t stop Winner from speaking freely on politics and other topics on social media accounts accessible to anyone.

She posted on Facebook three months ago that climate change is a more important issue than health care “since not poisoning an entire population seems to be more in line with ‘health’ care, and not the disease care system that people voted for a soulless ginger orangutan to ‘fix.’”

Winner remained locked up Tuesday on federal charges that she made copies of classified documents containing top-secret material and mailed them to an online news organization.

She was scheduled to appear before a federal judge

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Thursday for a detention hearing.

In her spare time, Winner lifted weights and taught the occasional yoga class.

She served six years in the Air Force before she moved to Georgia early this year, according to her mother, Billie Winner-Davis. Reporters gathered Tuesday outside Winner’s small, red-brick home in a neighborhood dotted with overgrown yards and houses in disrepair.

“She’s got a good heart,” Winner-Davis said. “She serves her community, she served her country. She believes in always doing what’s right.”

Gary Davis, Winner’s

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stepfather, said she turned down a full college scholarship to join the Air Force. Court records say Winner held a top-secret security clearance.

“I know my daughter. She’s a patriot,” Davis said. “She served with distinction in one of the highest classified jobs in the Air Force.”

Winner’s mother said she was stunned when her daughter called over the weekend, saying the FBI had come to her home and she was being arrested. Winner asked if her mother and stepfather, who live in Texas, would travel to Georgia to help feed her cat.

“Mainly she was concerned about her cat,” Winner-Davis said.

Court documents accuse Winner of mailing a classified report written on or about

May 5 to an unnamed news organization. The website The Intercept reported Monday it had obtained a classified National Security Agency report dated May 5 suggesting Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year’s presidential election.

Winner’s defense attorney, Titus Thomas Nichols, would not confirm whether she was being charged with leaking the NSA report cited by The Intercept.

On social media, Winner mostly shared glimpses into her life far removed from politics — such as watching Dr. Who with her cat and serving her family a vegetarian meal of barbecued jackfruit.

“I just know she cares about her world and taking care of people and animals,”

Winner-Davis said. “I never termed her as a political activist at all, ever.”

But Winner’s Facebook page does mention reaching out to Sen. David Perdue, a Georgia Republican, after Trump nominated Scott Pruitt to head the Environmental Protection Agency.

And in an angry reply to a report that Trump said he wasn’t hearing complaints about building the Dakota Access oil pipeline, Winner wrote on Facebook: “I’m losing my mind. If you voted for this piece of (expletive), explain this. He’s lying.”

In the legal case, authorities say Winner admitted to leaking the classified report once government officials traced her as the source.

An affidavit by FBI agent Justin Garrick said the government found out about the leaked documents from the news outlet that received them. He said the agency that housed the report was able to identify six people — including Winner — who had made copies of the report.

A pattern of tiny yellow dots on the leaked documents themselves would also have offered the government a way to track down the alleged leaker, security blog Errata noted late Monday. At the request of the government, recent model color printers automatically leave a unique stamp on the documents they produce. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A rusted fragment of

Continued from page 1 tickets are located in the lower level, Section 115.

Students can buy a ticket for $18, while the general public can buy one for $25.

The money will cover the cost of bus rides to and from the game. The bus will leave from the CSU at 4 p.m. to make it to the 7 p.m. game.

Last, but certainly not least, the summer program series will end with the 5th annual BBQ Tasting and Demo from a former MSU student, Pat Nelson, who is the owner of Big Boned BBQ. Nelson competes in the local RibFest competition. The tasting and demo will start at 11:30 a.m. and go until 1 p.m. in the CSU Mall.

Last year, a Maverick Meal Deal was offered and sold out almost immediately, so Student Events is offering that same deal again this year. The deal is $6 and comes with a pulled pork sandwich or

a brisket sandwich, a side of coleslaw, and a side of cornbread. While tickets can be purchased at the event, Student Events is asking that people preorder if they want a meal so that Nelson will know how much food to prepare.

Depar tment orders can be placed in order to cut down on money transactions.

Student Events would also like to plan a film showing with the Minnesota Vikings as they did last year, but negotiations are still taking place.

“We do our best to program with almost no budget.

Everything is done on enough money to print,” said Tourville.

“The Maverick community doesn’t stop in the summer; it continues throughout the year. The big thing is to come back and enjoy this campus.”

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New National WWII Museum exhibit looks at fight on homefront the battleship USS Arizona sunk at Pearl Harbor, a woman’s munitions plant uniform and ration books all tell the complex story of life on the homefront in a new exhibit at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

“Salute to the Home Front,” which opens Saturday, explores the bitter

treaty that ended the war in 1918 was “punitive and did not really solve the social and cultural ills” that led to the war, according Owen Glendening, the museum’s associate vice president for education and access.

“With democracy and capitalism under question, the rise of authoritarian regimes really shook the

“The announcement comes as free speech issues have grown more contentious on college campuses across the country.” fight about entering the war, racial and gender prejudice, and the development of the atomic bomb.

Museum President and CEO Nick Mueller said most of the museum’s 6-acre campus shows how the war was won on the battlefield but the new permanent exhibit explains “why it was fought and how it was won on the homefront.”

The 10,000-square-foot exhibit begins with the years after World War I. The peace

world,” he said.

Among the artifacts are British gas masks for children — one that might fit a 5-yearold and a much bigger one designed to hold an infant from head to waist. Gas had been a major weapon of World War I, and people feared that gas bombs might be dropped in civilian areas.

“Fortunately, it never happened, but the population was scared stiff,” Glendenning said.

Headlines and newsreels

show the strident debate between U.S. isolationists and internationalists, which ended when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

Survivors’ accounts of that attack are among more than 50 videotaped oral histories interspersed throughout the exhibit.

“The signature of this museum is to engage people in personal stories. ... We hear from survivors of Pearl Harbor, people on Main Street USA. ... We hear firsthand stories about people who went into factories or into the service to fight,” Mueller said.

The exhibit’s Main Street USA has a newsstand, a theater marquee and a store window filled with propagandistic wares such as Victory bobby pins and a charm bracelet of military service insignia.

Within the picket fence outside two rooms representing a 1940s-style home, one wall is covered with a photo of a victory garden. Nearby are a real hubcap and other metal items for a scrap drive.

Inside the kitchen, the shelves display pamphlets

with titles such as “Victory Begins at Home!: Recipes to Match Your Sugar Ration” and “Health for Victory Club Meal-Planning Guide.” Pull open kitchen drawers and you see items including ration books, matchbooks and an icebag.

A living-room wall displays a framed map: “Esso War Map II: Invasion Edition.” It’s designed, an introductory statement says, so people can “follow the strategy of the Allies as it develops from day to day.” An open closet in the same room displays

children’s military dolls, toy guns and dress-up uniforms.

Glendenning said the gallery on the rush to turn from a peacetime economy to a wartime one holds two of his favorite artifacts: a cutaway ship model from the Higgins boat-building plant in New Orleans, built as a reference to show workers how everything fit together, and the overalls and cap worn by a female munitions factory worker.

“It has such a ‘40s sense of style,” he said. “I love the big red buttons at the hip.”

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GABE HEWITT Editor in Chief When I first discovered memes in high school, I was guilty of pronouncing the word like “me-me’s” and “may-mays.”

As horrible as this is, the pronunciation of the word didn’t take away from the immediate connection myself and others felt with these memes.

It’s difficult to give a single definition to memes.

There are different genres of memes in addition to the many subgenres. Simply, a meme is an image or video on the Internet that’s intended to be funny. This is usually achieved by placing text over the media or have it contain something humorous in general.

We see them everywhere.

Some websites, like Reddit and Tumblr, are breeding grounds for all things memes. Other social media like Facebook and Twitter are flooded with them as well.

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Another thing that doesn’t change is the connection that memes can create within a community. When my peers and I created tasteful memes about our school and teachers, it gave us all common ground to come together and share a laugh.

Memes are supposed to be relatable. They should be selfies of the soul, giving Internet life to our everyday occurrences. They brought

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people together at my high school and they do the same thing on a larger scale across the world. Memes can be enjoyed by people across different cultures because they’re often a universal language, much like basic rhythms in music.

What’s trending at the moment has a hand in the creation of memes. When President Donald Trump accidentally t weeted something with the word “covfefe” in it, the Internet used it as an opportunity to create a plethora of memes.

Since Trump is in the world spotlight, these were memes that could be enjoyed by a larger number of people across cultures. It’s truly

magical when people from around the world can come together in the creation of this kind of content.

There’s also a sense of nostalgia that goes into some genre of memes.

Memes related to TV shows people watched as kids, such as Spongebob Squarepants and Arthur, seem to resonate more with them because of their nostalgic weight.

Memes have weaved their way into our everyday culture. Not a day goes by where we don’t see a meme and share it with someone we know. That’s the thing about memes: they’re sharable so that they can bring us closer together.

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Fear of deportation drives people off food stamps in US NEW YORK (AP) — A crackdown on illegal immigration under President Donald Trump has driven some poor people to take a drastic step: opt out of federal food assistance because they are fearful of deportation, activists and immigrants say.

People who are not legal residents of the U.S. are not eligible to take part in what is formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

But many poor families include a mix of non-legal residents and legal ones, such as children who have citizenship because they were born in the U.S. In those cases, it is often an adult who is not a legal resident who submits the application.

Some now feel that is too dangerous under a president who has made immigration enforcement a priority. Throughout the U.S., there are accounts of people

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press phenomenon. The number of food stamp recipients has declined as the U.S. recovers from the Great Recession and people could drop out for various reasons.

A 52-year-old woman

“The food stamp program provides monthly payments, typically about $125 per eligible household member, to poor families to buy essential staples.

Going without can be an extreme decision, advocates say.” resisting efforts of nonprofit organizations to sign them up for food stamps, letting benefits lapse or withdrawing from the program because of the perceived risk.

“They don’t want to put their name and address on a form for a government public benefit out of fear that they’ll be sought out and asked to leave,” said Teresa Smith, executive director of Catholic Charities of Orange County, California.

The food stamp program provides monthly payments, typically about $125 per eligible household member, to poor families to buy essential staples. Going without can be an extreme decision, advocates say.

“This means less food on the table, fewer meals in houses where the kids have rights because they are U.S. citizens,” said Andrew Hammond, an attorney for Chicago’s Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law. It is not possible to determine the extent of the

interviewed in New York City, a Mexican in the country illegally, told The Associated Press she was motivated in January to drop a benefit that was supporting her teenage daughter, a U.S. citizen, purely because she was afraid of being in the food stamp system, which requires applicants to state their immigration status.

“I had been told that it’s OK to apply for food stamps.

But, for the moment, I don’t want to take any risks,” said the woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of her immigration status and was introduced to AP through an organization that helps immigrants, the Mexican Coalition of the South Bronx.

“I need it but I have peace of mind because my case is closed,” said the woman, who makes $8.50 an hour cleaning houses and lives in small apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

A Honduran immigrant and single mother with one child in Silver Spring, Maryland, decided not to renew the

food stamps she received when they expired in January.

“We fear deportation,” said the 29-year-old immigrant, who also spoke on condition of anonymity and was introduced to AP through a local nonprofit. She normally earns about $350 per week answering phones at a travel agency but has been working extra hours cleaning homes to make up for the loss of about $150 per month in food stamps.

Mark Krikorian, a wellknown advocate for reducing immigration to the U.S., said their situation reflects the fact that many people who come to the country lack the skills to earn enough money here. “It is an attempted

moral blackmail to say ‘If you Americans don’t give me your money, I can’t stay here and feed my children,’” he said. “Well, it’s your choice.

No one made you sneak into the United States.”

About 3.9 million citizen children living with noncitizen parents received food stamps in the 2015 fiscal year, the most recent available data, according to the Department of Agriculture, which administers the food stamp program.

The Department of Agriculture says a lower percentage of noncitizens who qualify for the program known as SNAP have historically used the benefit than citizens because of an

incorrect perception that it could affect their immigration status or hurt their chances of becoming a U.S. citizen.

“It is important for noncitizens to know they will not be deported, denied entry to the country, or denied permanent status because they apply for or receive SNAP benefits,” the agency says on its website.

Driving the most recent fears about the program is an increase in immigration enforcement.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested nearly 40 percent more people suspected of being in the country illegally in the first 100 days under Trump than in the same period a year earlier. The agency said nearly 75 percent of them had been convicted of criminal offenses but “noncriminal arrests” were up by more than 150 percent.

Immigrant advocates see the aversion to food stamps as a reflection of a climate of fear that drives people in the country illegally deeper underground, which in some cases also makes them reluctant to report crimes.

“We should care if people are afraid to interact with institutions that all of us rely on for our health and wellbeing,” said Tanya Broder, senior attorney at the National Immigration Law Center.

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Wonder Woman shows true forgiveness and compassion Wonder Woman teaches strength in knowing who you are.

RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer “Wonder Woman” appeals to anyone who believes in their place to change the world and brings to the surface the obstacles that emerge, internal and external.

“Wonder Woman”, just released, has topped Iron Man with its popularity and a gross amount of over $100 million as of June 4, according to writer Anthony D’ Alessandro from Deadline. It shows how much women are gaining a voice in both the characters they play, and orchestrating the film’s narration which bestows a powerful resonance.

Too few women are known for what they do in the film industry, let alone on any other corporate level. Director Patty Jenkins is a superhero herself, having finished shooting the movie in ten months without deleting any scenes despite the rumor that spread about how her project was a mess.

Jenkins sounds as though she might have the same passion to save Wonder Woman’s reputation as Diana did in the film about saving the world. Like Diana, Jenkins exercised self-control over her frustration. In answer in an interview posed to Jenkins about if she wanted to tweet about her anger, she said she did because of how false the rumor was.

“Then you have to restrain yourself because you’ll start

(CC BY-NC 2.0) by Pink Cow Photography going crazy if you start doing that all the time,” she told writer Steve Weintraub from Collider In “Wonder Woman”, what is most powerful is Diana’s unrelenting desire to prevent killing, even though she ends up doing some of that herself later in the film.

From a young age, she scampers from the side of her mother Queen Hippolyta, and observes warriors train.

An audience member feels the same awe as the young Diana did witnessing the warriors develop their flexibility, and how to pull themselves up if they were falling from

a horse, but still persisting in the mock battle. Diana mimics them until her mother finds her and retrieves her, despite her protests.

Her aunt offers her lessons without Hippolyta’s knowledge. The Queen, keeping Diana’s birth origins a secret, only told her that she was sculpted from clay after a prayer to Zeus. She continued with the story about Ares, the god of war who rebelled against Zeus and began destroying humans because of his jealousy.

When Hippolyta finishes the story, Diana makes it her goal to find Ares and kill him

so she saves the world, but later her promise backfires when she is face-to-face with him.

Her chance to accomplish her goal arrives when she rescues Steve Trevor, a spy who nearly drowns when Germans tie him to a boat.

After an exchange of arrows between the Amazonians and the Germans, the Amazon council interrogates him with a magical lasso which compels him to tell the truth.

Even then they express their reluctance to free him because they lack complete knowledge of his full intentions.

But under the cover of night, Diana helps him escape under the condition that he takes him to Ares since she sees him as her chance to do good. Hippolyta catches Diana just before they leave, not to stop her as Diana thinks, but to say goodbye.

Diana is just as heartbroken but, she asks a legitimate question: “Who will I be if I stay?” It becomes a question for audience members and those of us who are desperate for a need, for a change we see in our lives and we know it never happens without sacrifice.

As Diana observes the suffering the war has caused, her compassion continues to build and fuels her. Ares challenges Diana in her beliefs about humans by countering it with the pain and suffering they bring into the world.

He makes an offer to Diana to join him and recreate the world so it is new. Eventually Diana sees all humans’ abilities for both good and bad.

It is easy to give up what you fight for when you start believing your cause is lost, but when you remember what matters and what you believe, it is worth the pursuit. You need to remember your strength in who you know you are, despite what rises against you.

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Oh the Places You’ll Go! Dr. Seuss museum opens SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — From the squiggly, pink handrails outside the entrance to the front hall decorated with scenes from “And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street” — a real street just blocks away — the new Amazing World of Dr. Seuss museum says, “You’re off to Great Places!”

Walking into the museum that opened to the public Saturday in the author and illustrator’s hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts, is like walking into one of his

beloved children’s books.

The museum dedicated to Theodor Geisel — who under the pen name Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated dozens of rhyming children’s books including “The Cat in the Hat” and “Green Eggs and Ham” — features interactive exhibits, artwork never before displayed publicly and explains how his childhood experiences in the city about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Boston shaped his work.

“He would absolutely be at ease here,” said Leagrey

Dimond, one of Geisel’s stepdaughters (He didn’t have any biological children).

“And to know that he’s going to be here permanently, safe, protected, that people who want to know more are going to make this trip here to see him, it’s perfect.”

Examples of Geisel’s early advertising work and World War II-era propaganda and political illustrations that critics consider racist are conspicuously absent, but that’s because the museum is aimed primarily at children,

said Kay Simpson, president of the Springfield Museums complex.

The organization has in the past hosted exhibits of Geisel’s wartime work, she said.

Kids are definitely the focus of the first floor of the museum, created in conjunction with Dr. Seuss Enterprises, the family company that protects Geisel’s legacy. It features games and climbable statues of Horton, the stack of turtles from “Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories” and Thing 1 and Thing 2 from

“The Cat in the Hat.” “This museum is about visitors encountering the creatures that sprang out from Ted Geisel’s imagination — Horton, the Cat in the Hat, the Lorax, Sam I Am — that got kids excited about reading, which was really his preoccupation later on in his career,” Simpson said.

Visitors are taken through Geisel’s boyhood bedroom,

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Film review: Dead Men Tell No Tales New Pirates of the Caribbean does not deliver quite like Black Pearl.

RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer When Disney announced that they were releasing another “Pirates of the Caribbean” film, I have to admit that I had my doubts that it would turn out decent. I acknowledge that everyone’s opinion is not the same as mine when it comes to the sequels, but I disliked how they were split up.

I can stomach the second movie, but I truly lose interest by the third and fall asleep despite many valiant attempts to stay awake and how many times I’ve tried to give it a chance.

“Dead Men Tell No Tales” opened with a scene in the dark with a young boy who has curly hair falling over his dark eyes who scampered from his room. In his room he had a map which read “Father’s Curse,” which gave a pretty good idea of what the plot may be about.

Henry snatches a relic and heads onboard “The Flying Dutchman” where the audience finds out that Will Turner is his father.

Will tells Henry that there is no place on the ship for him. After a shattering ocean quake, they get separated, but Henry takes his father’s word as a challenge and vows he will find a way to free him.

Still doubting the movie, I exercised my criticism for how it would live up to expectations in regards to my initial impression. It ended up being a mixture of disappointment and surprise.

Photo courtesy of the Associated Press The theme was more consistent and bounced off the first movie which I took as the characters discovering who they were. At the same time, since I was introduced to Henry in the first scene, I believed that the story would mainly be about him, but other characters soon took priority. The plot revolves around Will and Carina’s search, but still jumps around as Captain Jack Sparrow comes into the picture and learns an enemy, Captain Salazar, has returned from the dead and plans to include Sparrow in the curse.

The audience is soon introduced to Carina; who society considers evil because

she is a witch. She studies the stars with intention of finding her father like Henry. Her father left her a diary with a constellation engraved on it and where she believed she would find him. Like in the first movie, British soldiers chase after her when she escapes from her hanging after Henry distracts the crowd. The plot with Carina and Henry proved a perfect balance because of their common goal to find their fathers and I wished their plot would have expanded more.

Who Carina later discovers as her father is shocking but a nice character reveal – Captain Hector Barbossa himself. The most touch-

MUSEUM Continued from page 7 his grandparents’ bakery and brewery and different rooms painted in brilliant blues and radiant reds, and decorated in almost fanatical detail with scenes from the books.

The museum’s second floor has a more intimate feeling with the actual furnishings and assorted knickknacks from Geisel’s studio from the La Jolla, California, home where he lived until his death in 1991 at age 87.

Even his collection of 117 bowties is on display.

But by not referencing Geisel’s wartime work, which often stereotyped the Japanese, the museum is telling only half the story, said Katie Ishizuka, who has written on Geisel’s work.

“They don’t acknowledge the full picture of him or they try to minimize that or sweep it under the rug,” said Ishizuka, director of The Conscious Kid Library, which lends what she says are more diverse and appropriate books for young readers.

Even in his children’s books, characters of color are subservient or secondary to the white characters, or depicted as stereotypes and caricatures, she said.

Dimond never heard a prejudiced word out of Geisel, she said, and knows he had some regrets about the wartime work.

“If there is criticism of Ted, it has its place,” she said. “I would never try to,

and he would not want any of us to try to hide away anything he did. I know that he changed with the times.”

Richard Minear, a professor emeritus of Japanese history at the University of Massachusetts, who wrote “Dr. Seuss Goes to War” about his political illustrations, says Geisel certainly had a blind spot on race, but it’s not fair to judge his entire career on that work.

“He matured and he developed a whole lot from those early years,” Minear said, noting that “Horton Hears a Who!” was an allegory about post-war Japan and the nation’s relationship with the U.S.

ing and heart-wrenching part in the movie is a crosscut during the final battle when Carina is desperately trying to pull Barbossa up and is looking down at him when she spies the constellation tattooed on his arm.

She asks him, “What am I to you?” and he responds, “Treasure!” just before he cannot hang on any more and let’s go.

To sum up my review, the movie helped me relive the old memories and reminders in why the first “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” grew as a fast favorite. I appreciated the reappearance of the two British commodores, who gained some weight and looked older in contrast to the previous movies. I wished I would have seen them more since they provide adequate comedy relief and add spice to Pirates of the Caribbean overall.

I also thought the reunion between Elizabeth and Will was too short-lived and that they needed more develop-

ment in the movie as well.

Instead “Dead Men Tell No Tales” reintroduced Captain Jack Sparrow, my favorite, because he stays true to himself. Although as usual, he fabricates lies so he manipulates the other characters for his own gain.

What has most appealed to me about him is his pursuit for freedom. For him that means maintaining a single status and enjoying the simple pleasures around him, including women and rum.

But beneath the surface, it always has been more than that for him. It is being allowed the means to have new adventures and to have his own ship and be in charge despite his shortcomings.

I especially loved the scene at the end when Captain Jack Sparrow’s crew readies itself to take off again and he takes control at the wheel. He runs his hand it as the sun sets after he exclaimed, “What a revolting sight!” when William Turner and Elizabeth Swann and Henry Turner and Carina indulge in a romantic reunion near the nostalgic bell tower from The Curse of the Black Pearl. Just like in the first movie, Captain Jack Sparrow refused to compromise who he was.

Because it is “Pirates of the Caribbean”, I will definitely add “Dead Men Tell No Tales” to my collection, despite the devastating disappointment from the other movies. Still, “Dead Men Tell No Tales” is the best since “The Curse of the Reporter 4 Black Pearl”. Rating

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Maverick softball: NCAA Division-II Champs!

Minnesota State captured their first-ever National Championship in Salem, Virginia.

CHELSEA DORVAL Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks softball team earned their first National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Championship title May 29 in Salem, Virginia. The team completed the two-game sweep of the Angelo State Rambelles with a 5-1 win.

“Going and being apart of the National Tournament is an indescribable feeling.

Being there with your best friends is something so special. This tournament was an unbelievable experience and I will never forget the journey we took as a team to get to the College World Series,” junior outfielder Jess Meidl said of the experience. “Having the opportunity to play in the National Championship game as our last game together was perfect. I couldn’t think of a better way to end our season.”

Minnesota State ends its 2017 season with a 64-7 record, second-most wins for an NCAA Division-II National Champion since North Dakota State’s 2000 season where they finished 68-10.

Pitcher Coley Ries finished her career as a Maverick with an impressive 41-3 record after tossing a complete game and retiring 14 Angelo State batters. Ries totaled a career 1.60 earned run average (ERA) with 119 wins, 29 shutouts over 999.1 innings in the circle. She has struck out a total of 1481 batters in more than 4000 batters faced. Ries

finishes as the Schutt Sports / National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division-II National Player of the Year, Division-II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) Pitcher of the Year, D2CCA All-American First Team, NFCA All-American First Team, CoSIDA Academic All-American First Team and a finalist for the D-II Honda Athlete of the Year for Softball.

“The entire week was like a dream. It still doesn’t feel real. This is something all of us have dreamed about since we were little and so few people are able to attain it. Going into that final game, as seniors, we knew it was our last game day- win or lose. We wanted so badly to go out on top and make it happy tears to end our careers,” Ries said.

“Being able to strike the last girl out was amazing, but truly I just wanted her to get out any way possible so I could run in and celebrate with my team. I can’t thank the athletic department, professors, community, friends and our families for all of the support.

We could feel the love all the way in Virginia.”

The game remained scoreless until Ashley Thell connected on a double to left-center to bring home McKenzie Paap in the third inning. The Mavericks added two more in the fourth, with Carly Esselman bunting to send Samantha Buhmann to third before scoring on a throwing error. After two more bunts by Dana Mogren and Alyssa Rickels, Esselman

Photos by David Bassey scored on a fielder’s choice.

“It was an unbelievable experience. As a coach you work hard everyday toward that goal of being a National Champion, and now it has happened, it is such a surreal experience. This season and Team 33 have been phenomenal. They have been driven, focused, and they bought into the process and trusted it,” head coach Lori Meyer said. “They just continued to get one percent better each day since I asked that of them back in the fall. When you are a team of 18 [players and coaches] getting one percent better each day over nine months that allows for success and success leads to confidence, and team 33 did that. They played loose and relaxed at the National Tournament.”

The Rambelles lone run came in the top of the sixth with a homerun off the bat of senior pitcher Kenedy Urbany. The Mavericks responded with two more in the bottom of the inning to secure the title. Jess Meidl singled to left, bringing home Rickels and Kennedy. The team recorded a total of five runs on nine hits.

Meidl, Rickels, Esselman and Paap were named to the 2017 Division II All-Tournament Team following the game while Ries was named Most Outstanding Player.

“The whole thing was an experience of a lifetime. We kept saying the hardest part

is to get to Salem; once we made it there, the pressure was off and we were able to just go play ball. Playing in the National Championship and winning it is something you dream of as a little girl. To be able to make that dream a reality is nothing short of remarkable,” Rickels said. “This

team is my second family and to be able to get to share this with them is truly special. We will have bonds and memories that last a lifetime because of what we accomplished not only during this past week, but the entire season. It’s an honor to be apart of a team that will have such a

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So far, so good for Minnesota Twins

RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer

The Minnesota Twins are currently surpassing most people’s expectations thus far, as the team is five games over .500 and leading the AL Central by one game over the defending AL representative in the World Series, the Cleveland Indians.

Over the course of the first third of the season, two players have been carrying the Twins to victory. Third baseman Miguel Sano has been slugging his way to becoming one of the American League’s most feared hitters. Batting above .300 all year and slugging 14 home runs thus far, Sano is no longer the young prospect the Twins hoped to develop but rather he is now a true all-star caliber player.

Sano is currently on pace to hit 40-plus home runs and account for 130-plus runs batted in. Starter Ervin Santana is the other Minnesota Twin that has been delightfully surprising this year. At 34

years-old, Santana is in the midst of his best season of his career and looks to continue his high performance into the later months of the year to perhaps help the Twins sneak into the playoffs. The righthander currently sits at 7-3 on the year while boasting a 2.44 ERA. If Minnesota wants to ultimately push for a playoff spot, a number of things have to happen. First, they need other guys to step up outside of Sano and Santana. These two have been unbelievable so far but need help from their teammates as they cannot shoulder this team on their own. There is simply not enough talent on the roster for that. Second, they need rookie Phenom Jose Berrios to keep pitching like a bonafide veteran.

The young pitcher looks like a future ace-in-the-making but for now the Twins would like to see consistency out of him for the rest of the year.

Berrios is currently 4-1 with a 2.77 ERA. Thirdly, the Twins

need to be aggressive for an arm at the trade deadline.

Minnesota does not need a number-one caliber pitcher, but possibly an older veteran that could help propel the team into a wild card berth.

With a three-headed-monster of Santana, Berrios, and someone such as Matt Cain from the San Francisco Giants, the Twins would have a feared threesome at the top of their pitching rotation heading into the playoffs.

It remains to be seen if the Twins can continue this run.

Either way, excitement for this club is higher than it has been, compared to a dreadful 2016 season. Minnesota has lost at least 90 games in five of seven seasons in the stadium and would like to bring some playoffs game back to Minneapolis, which has not happened since Target Field’s inaugural season in 2010.

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Nashville evens Stanley Cup Final up 2-2

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Frederick Gaudreau sure is doing his best to earn his own locker with the Nashville Predators with a Stanley Cup Final debut for the ages.

For now, he insists he is happy enough just to sit on the floor as long as he plays.

An undrafted free agent playing in just his sixth postseason game, Gaudreau scored the go-ahead goal 3:45 into the second period and Pekka Rinne made 23 often-spectacular saves as the Predators beat the Penguins 4-1 on Monday night to even the series at 2-2.

It’s now a best-of-three sprint to the Stanley Cup, and Nashville is riding a wave of momentum after outscoring the defending champions 9-2 in the Games 3 and 4 of their Final debut.

Game 5 is Thursday night in Pittsburgh.

Gaudreau, a 24-year-old rookie, only has a chair in the locker room, but he now is the second player in NHL history to score his first three career goals in a Stanley Cup Final, joining Johnny Harms with the 1944 Blackhawks.

“He’s been unbelievable for us the way he’s come in, and he’s just been so good, timely goals and composed,” Nashville captain Mike Fisher said. “He definitely belongs, and he’s been a huge part of our success.”

Gaudreau is also just

the third rookie to score game-winning goals in consecutive games in the Stanley Cup Final since the NHL took over sole possession of the trophy in 1926-27. Pittsburgh’s Jake Guentzel did it in the first two games of this series and Roy Conacher did it for Boston in Games 3, 4 and 5 against Toronto in 1939.

Calle Jarnkrok, Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg also scored for Nashville, which improved to 9-1 at home and roared back after dropping the first two games of the series on the road.

“We were in a tough hole against a really good team, came home and took care of the home games with the help of all our great fans,” Rinne said. “It’s a great feeling. We played two really good games.”

Pittsburgh star Sidney Crosby scored his first goal in the series after not getting a shot on goal in Game 3. The goal was his first in the Stanley Cup Final since June 4, 2009, a span of 12 games, but it wasn’t enough as the Penguins lost two straight for the second time this postseason.

Goalie Matt Murray lost consecutive games for the first time in his young career.

“It’s hard to win when you score one goal,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan said. “I thought tonight of all nights, we generated the most chances of the highest qual-

ity.”

Nashville tapped country singer Dierks Bentley as the latest star to sing the national anthem, while Jason Aldean waved the towel to rev up the crowd. Former NBA star and TV commentator Charles Barkley also was on hand , accepting NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman’s invitation to watch in person. Carrie Underwood admitted during the first intermission that she didn’t get Fisher, her husband, a birthday present on Monday — holding out hope that a Stanley Cup championship celebration would do the trick in coming days.

“That’s all I wanted for my birthday,” Fisher said afterward of the big win.

Craig Smith ricocheted a puck off Murray’s pads that Jarnkrok tapped in at 14:51 to start the fans yelling louder. Pittsburgh lost a challenge for goalie interference.

Just 66 seconds later, Crosby tied it up for Pittsburgh on a dazzling breakaway. He skated in on Rinne, holding the puck, faking a slap shot and then slipping one past the goalie for his eighth goal and 24th point of the playoffs. He also moved into 20th all-time in NHL playoff points but the Predators clamped down after that.

Rinne kept it tied in the early minutes of the second with a stop of Guentzel before a big save on Chris Kunitz on

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press a breakaway. And then came Crosby and Evgeni Malkin Gaudreau’s goal, confirmed finished with six shots, but only after the horn sounded just the lone goal. and officials reviewed the “It’s a game of execution,” play. They ruled Gaudreau’s Crosby said. “They capitalwraparound attempt slid the ized on our mistakes, and we puck just over the line before have to do the same.”

Murray stopped it, giving Arvidsson made it a 3-1 Nashville a 2-1 lead 3:45 into Nashville lead with his first the second. goal since the end of the first “I heard it on the bench round. James Neal started that it was possibly in the the play, getting the puck to net,” Gaudreau said. “I Fisher who fed the puck up to wasn’t certain. When I heard Arvidsson while falling to the the horn, I sort of thought it ice. Arvidsson beat Murray was in.” under his glove, putting the Crosby had another break- puck just inside the right post away nearly midway through at 13:08. the period, and Rinne “If I make the save there, stopped him not once, but it could be a different game,” twice. Then the goalie slid to Murray said. his right stopping Guentzel Forsberg sealed the win with an assist from Nashville with an empty-netter with defenseman Roman Josi. 3:23 left.

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NBA Finals: everything is ‘Golden’ Golden State have taken complete control as the series heads to Cleveland.

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer After the 113-91 blow out win in game one, I did not see a need for the panic button. There was no need to burn the game plan; the rotation did not need an overhaul and the path they needed to walk for a victory in the series was still clear. Crowding the three-point line, playing big when they forced Golden State into the paint while on the offensive side, LeBron James diced up the defense with spacing given by having J.R. Smith, Kyle Korver and Kyrie Irving on the perimeter. But above all, as a gambler, being against James is a lackluster task that is always daunting because he is the best player in the world.

I had the optimistic, do not sleep on the King, against the grain article ready, but then game two happened.

The Warriors became the first NBA team ever to hold a 14-0 playoffs mark after routing the Cleveland Cavaliers 132-113 on Sunday. The Cavs gave the Warriors, what may be their best shot on the road, and got blown out as a result.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press the defense for the Cavs could not handle the weapons thrown at them.

LeBron had a triple-double (29,11,14) while Kevin Love had 27 points and Irving had 19 points and seven assists.

But it was not enough to keep the opposition in check for a game, as the Warriors never seemed out of control or on their heels. Stephen Curry cruised to a triple-double of his own (32/10/11) while Kev-

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Through roughly 2 1/2 quarters, the Cavs kept things tight, drawing within one at 61-60, staying at three to six points of the home team for over half the game.

Then the barrage came, the separation started, and

in Durant played inspiring defense and Klay Thompson had his first solid game of the postseason. Plenty to dive into with only two games in the books, but this is my best attempt to prepare you for

the rest of the series.

Curry and Durant are hitting their stride at the same time, and it is terrifying. Durant followed up a game one 38-point performance with an all-around game that was sound on both ends, racking up 33 points, 13 rebounds, paired with three steals and five blocks. Curry backed up 28 points in game one with his triple-double to keep pace with LeBron. These two are peaking together and it is special to watch. Secondly, the Cavaliers are starting three players. Tristan Thompson and Smith are gone on offense and pushovers on defense. Thompson has no edge on defense and has given this Cleveland squad no advantage in the paint.

To put it into perspective, he has eight rebounds to Curry’s 16 so far. Smith is having the same problem. He is not making, or even taking, shots and is a no-show on defense.

Finally, what it all comes down to is pacing. The Cavs are trying to keep up with the Warriors pace and transition game, which plays right into Golden State’s hand. When the Cavs have had success against this team in Finals past, it was when they forced the game into half-court ball.

Right now they are playing the length of the court, and the Warriors are taking advantage of all the space.

The Cavaliers need to slow the pace of the game way down and try to keep this from a transition massacre.

They also need the Kyrie Irving that could score whenever he wanted to in the Celtics series and pulled up from anywhere on the court, most importantly scoring more than 19 points on 23 shots (see game two). On defense, Tristan Thompson has to be a

monster on the glass and be the edge for the Cavs in the paint. J.R. should probably ride some pine while Iman Shumpert gets some floor time to try and give the de-

the most of the transition chaos and the third player will always get hot. In game one, Draymond Green had 10 rebounds and 11 assists despite a meager nine points, making plays all over on defense. In game two, Thompson busted out of his playoff slump with a 22-point game, shooting 4-7 from deep. This team is hot and has too much talent to be derailed from the current trajectory.

Prediction Time The Warriors are attempting to make up for a title-less 73-win season with a 16-0 playoff run. They have too much talent to go without a ring this season, as the Cavs went more offensive last offseason to try and keep up with the Durant signing.

Their defense cannot control the game and the advantage of that, with the upgrade at small forward via Durant, has all the cards coming up

“The Cavaliers need to slow the pace of the game way down and try to keep this from a transition massacre.” fense teeth.

For the Warriors, they need to keep up the pace, let Durant and Curry make

Warriors. The Golden State squad takes ring two in five games.

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