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WHAT WE AVOIDED

AVERY CROPP

staff writer

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system won’t shut down on July 1.

The Minnesota Management and Budget office has allowed MnSCU to access their funds and keep campus operations going through the summer and fall terms.

“A shut down would’ve had real, profound, and catastrophic impacts on the University,” Brian Jones, Director of Admissions said. “We routinely admit students in July. Last year we admitted 256 students in July, this year we’re projecting an admission of 270 in July.”

According to Jones, there would’ve been a potential loss of 153 students, and if the shut down had gone longer, MSU may have lost more.

Jones said that a government shutdown could’ve caused a lot of students to start looking at other colleges because they couldn’t visit MSU’s campus

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“If we lose out on the numbers of students in higher education, we receive less state funds which results in less of a tolerance for tuition increases,” Jones said.

MnSCU approved a budget for next year Wednesday, despite not having a higher education budget passed at the legislature. MSU’s tuition price will increase by 4 percent.

Assistant Vice President for Budget & Business Services Steve Smith, is anticipating that the tuition increase proposed will be sufficient to cover next year’s costs if state funding is less than what is expected.

According to Jan Marble, Director of Student Financial Services, the financial aid office is usually expected to have 10,000 applications ready to go in September. Much of the processing has been ongoing for the past four months but the bulk of the processing for fall semester takes place during July and August.

“The timing would’ve been terrible, and with people out of work for an extended period of time the process would be slowed significantly,” Marble said. “If there were students relying on [financial aid] to pay [tuition] bills we could accommodate those billing deadlines, but students who are relying on [financial aid] to live would’ve been very difficult to accommodate.”

International students on campus would’ve been affected as well.

Thomas Gjersvig, Director of the Kearney International Center, requested that the center be considered an essential function of the state. The center has to comply with the federal reporting guidelines of the Office of Homeland Security.

MSU reports these compliance requirements on the students’

behalf. Visa processing would not be affected as students apply for visas at a federal level at their embassies.

Another concern for International students was that if there was an emergency in their home country, the international office would not be able to sign an I-20 which allows students to travel internationally. A plan for providing emergency contact people for student groups and faculty members studying abroad this summer was still in the works at the time MnSCU stepped in.

Gjersvig believes that if MnSCU hadn’t stepped in, the office would still be considered an essential function, and at least one person would be there to assist students, whether it would be someone in the administration or in the international office.

According to Assistant Director of Residential Life Torin Akey, if MnSCU hadn’t stepped

in and the government had shut down, students would’ve had to vacate the dorms at Midnight on June 30. Many of these students are international students.

Akey said that Residential life was just beginning to find alternative housing for students in the dorms if they didn’t have classes. But there was no official announcement about what that plan would’ve been.

“I look at this as a temporary relief to not have major consequences for state employees and for students, but I believe that a more permanent solution needs to be reached,” Akey said.

Director of First Year Experience Nicole Dose said that because students wouldn’t have been able to stay in the dorms during a government shutdown, orientation programs that are currently going on would’ve been changed from a two-day event to a one-day event. Students would get advising and

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Just Kneaded Massage and Events makes impact

After opening up in March, Just Kneaded Massage and Events offers a bit of everything for the people of Mankato to make things a little easier AVERY CROPP

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A new massage place opened in Mankato in March.

The practice offers six types of massage, reiki, reflexology and body treatments. They also host events.

The three massage therapists, Kristy Baker, Kelly Wolf and Stefanie Morgan, have over 15 years of experience under their belts and they love helping their clients improve their life and health through massage.

They started Just Kneaded Massage and Events in order to make more time for their families.

“All three of us worked for other businesses and we thought it was time to start our own,” Baker said. “All three of us are moms of small children, so owning our own business gave us flexible schedules and it’s also a good benefit we can give the community.”

Just Kneaded Massage and Event’s webpage lists benefits of massage, including decreased anxiety, enhanced sleep quality, greater energy, improved concentration, increased circulation and reduced fatigue.

Their services include Swedish massage, hot stone massage, couples massage, pregnancy massage, four-hand massage, chair massage, reiki (which is about channeling energy to restore balance and harmony on an emotional and physical level), reflexology, body scrubs, and feet and hand treatments.

Morgan and Baker are certified in pregnancy massage and help expectant mothers throughout their pregnancy.

“I find pregnancy massage very rewarding because since I’m a mother too I know what they are going through, and I like that I can help them,” Baker said.

Four-hand massage, according to Morgan is something that is unique to their business in the Mankato area.

“This service happens with two therapists in the room and you put four hands on a person.

You find it in the really highend massage places in the cities but now you can find it here.”

Morgan’s draw towards massage therapy was simple “Massage was one of those

things that I was interested in at a very early age. You know when you give back massages to people? I enjoyed that, and a few years ago I figured out that it was what I was meant to be doing in life. I love being a healing influence on people.”

Wolf, on the website, says, “My massage technique is one of relaxation, though I do enjoy working out those knots! I enjoy doing reflexology because I find it to be a beneficial and relaxing massage technique.

On the fun side of massage, I enjoy doing body scrubs. They are a great way to rejuvenate the skin.”

They also offer events at their studio and out in the community. They’ve provided chair massages for Relay for Life in Mapleton and Mankato, the Solstice Music Festival, and have attended several different parades and events in the community.

“We go to corporate industries and do chair massages, which is great because happy workers make a happy work environment,” Baker said.

They also have space available for children’s birthday parties. Just Kneaded provides the conference room and they give kids a 15-minute massage and what they call a mini-pedi, where they provide a foot massage and paint their toes.

“It’s a fun pampering thing for little girls and they love when we do hand treatments because we dip their hand in paraffin wax. They think it’s the best thing ever.” Baker said.

They also host a “Girl’s Night Out” for bachelorette parties. Attendees are given a half-hour to an hour of massage while enjoying the company of their friends.

“We’re in the best location you can get for a Girl’s Night Out. You can get a motel up the road, walk down the street to get massages done and get your hair done and then head out downtown.” Baker said.

Those who take advantage of the events should bring their own food and drink.

For more information, or to schedule an appointment call 507-344-1407. The website for Just Kneaded Massage and events is http://justkneaded. massagetherapy.com/home.

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New sculpture to attract new people

John Helton’s “Crossing Paths” sculpture was unveiled on June 15 at the corner of Stadium and Warren.

MEGAN KADLEC

news editor

Those students and staff members who commute to Minnesota State Mankato on a regular basis may have noticed a new fixture on the edge of campus.

Last week, a sculpture was installed on the corner of Stadium Road and Warren Street near MSU. The sculpture was commissioned to be completed by John Helton of Park City Utah. Helton graduated from Parson’s School of Design in New York City and his work can be found across the country and on the pages of multiple publications.

The large, abstract sculpture titled “Crossing Paths” was unveiled on June 15th at a ceremony where the artist was present to speak about his work.

David Peters and his family, the owners of University Square, have felt a deep connection to Mankato and have commissioned the sculpture to create a distinctive landmark and gathering place for both the citizens of Mankato and the students of MSU. Though Helton specializes in smaller sculptures made out of wood, he reached out of his comfort zone for this project, creating a large-scale piece done in bronze.

“Crossing Paths” was designed to reflect the dynamic of encounters with new people and ideas and the way in which those encounters affect the paths we will

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eventually follow.

“It felt very appropriate for a heavily traveled corner at MSU, where students and area residents crossed paths for short moments and often associations that sometimes turned into lifelong friendships,” said Peters.

Students and community members alike gather at University Square for a variety of reasons, and Peters believes that the sculpture makes the space more inviting.

“We’ve always had a vision for the University Square mixeduse development where people can work, live, dine, recreate, and most importantly, gather,” Peters said. “We think that John Helton’s ‘Crossing Paths’ will add even more creative stimulation to an already active and interesting place to gather.”

“I am inspired by the inner realm of nature,” Helton said.

“My work contemplates the notion that our world is comprised of

an infinite web of forced, conditions and patterns swirling around us – interacting and affecting each other at any given moment. My sculptures are a visual metaphor for the symphony of energy created by this web.”

The sculpture is situated on the corner of Stadium and Warren so that it can be admired from numerous vantage points on the MSU campus and several blocks away.

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Roll your own (with some help from Apple) TYLER WATSON

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Smartphone users, prepare for the grooviest app yet.

Apple has recently rolled out a controversial new application teaching the user how to roll, pack, and perfect a variety of joints, such as the Classic, the Crowd Pleaser, and the Tulip.

“Roll Your Own” gives step-by-step instructions on all the details of joint-making, including tutorial videos that the user can pause or rewind.

All of this after seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger’s stoned, grinning face on the cover screen, telling you to “get da app fah freee!”

This app’s debut on the info-sphere is pushing a few buttons and raising a few questions. Namely, which is worse: drugs, or porn? Considering Apple’s recent “freedom from porn” purge of the more risqué apps from the app store, many have been curious about this smoking new release. Will “Roll Your Own” last, or will Steve Jobs change his mind?

Or, at the very least, will the Governator make a public outcry over use of the infamous college-age picture of him smoking a joint? A recall by the Apple CEO is a definite possibility, but that seems unlikely, as marijuana possession in California has been decriminalized under Arnold’s term.

Some might argue that this overt presentation of drug use, whether the drug itself is good or bad, is not sending the right kinds of messages about drugs. The app’s very existence seems to completely ignore the taboo against drugs in this country, and is a prime example of the occasionally successful counter-movement opposing the War on Drugs.

Others might argue that the app does not teach the importance of drug safety, such as finding a safe environment, safer smoking methods (like a water-pipe or vaporizer), or how to know when to stop using. The safety issue may be another development the app’s creators should look into.

The app, which has been receiving 4 star ratings, is currently only available to users above 17, due to the obvious drug references.

While all this presents a sticky situation for the PR folks at Apple, none can deny that the new iPhone app is a hit. Shortly after its release in December 2010, the free version of “Roll Your Own” had 25,000 downloads in almost

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RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM THE EDITOR Presidential nominees from Minnesota, a show about vampires and talk about sports bobble heads. Nobody every said he was normal.

Here are Kyle Ratke’s random thoughts.

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KYLE RATKE

editor in chief Here we are. It’s almost July. It feels like summer just started yesterday. Now here we are wondering why we aren’t in shape, haven’t gotten a tan and where all the time has gone.

Side-note: I’m tan and in shape, in case any females were curious.

This will be the last Reporter of the summer, so I expect all of you to save it and frame it. I was trying to think of a good voices today and just couldn’t come up with anything, so when all else fails…

Let the random thoughts begin!

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1. Politics in Minnesota are getting kind of exciting.

Anyone that knows me, knows I don’t get real excited about politics. I never have, that’s just how I am. My favorite president is Martin Sheen in the West Wing, so if anything you read during this paragraph or two offends you, please don’t waste your time being furious. If you want to debate, I’ll let you win. There, are you happy? You win!

We’ve got both Tim Pawlenty and Michele Bachmann running on the Republican side to become the next President of the United States.

From everything I’ve read, it doesn’t look like either have

a chance and that Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Then again, we’ve got a long time to go before Election Day. Anything can happen. Just know that the next year in this state could prove to be an exciting one, especially if one of these two makes a run. My bet is that Bachman embarrasses us and we enter her in an insane asylum. We can only pray.

I also think Obama get reelected. The guy just caught the world’s No. 1 terrorist.

Was it George Bush’s mission? Sure, but it happened on Obama’s watch. People won’t forget things like this. Just a hunch.

2. True Blood is not for me.

HBO’s True Blood is a series about vampires and sex.

That’s all that I really know for sure. I’ve watched half of an episode once last year and I couldn’t do it. For every Facebook status or tweet I read that says, “OMG. True Blood is back. I’m. So. Excited” I want to punch someone. I can’t wait until 2020 when we all look back and go, “Shit, did we just spend the last 10 years obsessed with vampires? What the hell is wrong with us?”

Soon Count Chocula will be making a comeback.

3 .For sports, this is arguably the worst time of year.

No basketball. No football.

No hockey. We get mid-summer baseball games, which don’t do much for me. Will I watch games? Yes, because it’s either that or True Blood. I normally don’t start getting excited until August.

Those who know me know I’m a sports nerd. Hell, my desk has nine bobble heads of athletes on it. Reason No. 8,390 why I’m still single. Seriously, come to the office. I’ll show you.

Hopefully the second half of summer doesn’t go as quick as the first half did. Have a great rest of the summer, MSU. As always, thanks for reading.

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WHAT WE AVOIDED The shutdown would’ve impacted 800 students and forced them to reschedule some of their sessions... continued from 1

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This would’ve potentially impacted 800 students and forced them to reschedule some of their sessions which they usually schedule a year in advance.

“Orientation Peer Assistants would’ve had to move out and they wouldn’t have been working,” Dose said. “We would’ve lost some staff and some of those students are counting on that money, they’d have to find different jobs and move out of the residence halls.”

In an email, Interim Dean of Students Mary Dowd said, “It is heart breaking to think about how a shutdown would unjustly penalize our hard working students. Let us continue to hope our elected officials find a speedy resolution. Even if MnSCU is allowed to remain open during a government shut down, we must be cognizant of the many other ways the citizens of Minnesota will be adversely impacted by this grave situation. “ Minnesota State Student Association President Matt Lexcen

said, “The administration have been rockstars. President Davenport’s been off-campus, in administration meetings, and talking with the [MnSCU] Board of Trustees all week. He’s been so busy and he’s really looking out for the students.”

Both Lexcen and MSSA Vice President Moriah Miles, like most people, are frustrated by the situation at the legislature.

“Frankly, I’m quite disappointed in the leadership in the state because they’ve made all these campaign promises and they haven’t come to fruition.

I know they are very busy, and I don’t want to bad-mouth anyone, but it’s disappointing,” Miles said. “I’m relieved they’ve found a solution, because to not start school would be a travesty. All the experiences I’ve had, even this one, have made me value my education even more, and I’m excited to get started in the fall.”

ROLL YOUR OWN “Roll Your Own” is well-formatted, but fans may have to wait for the design team to be properly funded... continued from 3 no time at all. Yet another question might be: will there now be 25,000 more potheads sitting around?

Although the app’s creators at Steah Mobile, a group of 3 close friends from Fresno, have not moved out of their trailer homes just yet, there is clearly a wide open market for this sort of virtual tutorial.

They foresee a number of additions, or even a whole line of these apps, possibly with some (legitimate) celebrity endorse-

ments, like Snoop Dogg or Willie Nelson.

“Roll Your Own” in its first stage is already well-formatted, but its fans may have to wait for the design team to be properly funded before seeing any new developments. Until then, everyone will just have to keep rolling.

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North Dakota flooding means camping for some MINOT, N.D. (AP) — When the Souris River swamped their home as it roared through Minot, the Schaan family could have taken refuge in a shelter. Instead, they headed to Walmart, plunked down $54 on a new tent and joined hundreds of others in a makeshift campground outside the city ice rink.

“We wanted to go camping all summer, but not like this,” said Galen Schaan, 48, a burly but soft-spoken man who works as a roughneck in North Dakota’s oil patch.

As the Souris forced more than 10,000 people from their homes in the past week, many found refuge with family or friends. A few hundred opted for shelters run by the Red Cross or churches. But hundreds more have chosen the same route as the Schaans, camping out in tents, RVs or simply living in their cars in shopping center parking lots and parks that are unaffected by high water.

More than 60 people have been staying for the past week at the Maysa Arena, mostly in RVs and tents, though some were sleeping inside. Outside, the grounds are full of obviously new tents like the Schaans’, and the scene looks like any campground: children riding bicycles and playing, dogs tied up on leashes, barbecue grills smoking next to coolers of food and generators humming.

The children seemed oblivious this week to National Guard helicopters thumping overhead, carrying 1,000-pound sandbags to help protect a nearby school at risk of flooding, and laughed often.

Among adults, smiles were far less frequent.

“Nobody is out here because they want to be,” said Chuck Benjamin, 48, who lost his

home to flooding and was living in a tent with his three dogs, Buster, Bear and Cornflake.

“We’ve got to make the best of a bad situation because this is not going to be fixed overnight,” he said. “This town has a long road ahead.”

The Army Corps of Engineers has said it doesn’t expect any further damage in Minot, barring a levee failure or heavy rains upstream. The level of the Souris has been moving steadily downward from a weekend peak nearly 4 feet above a 130-year-old record.

Yet officials have warned about overconfidence as the river recedes slowly, and the Corps has said it won’t consider the situation safe until mid-July.

Minot is in for a long recovery even if it loses no other homes. A Federal Emergency Management Agency Survey found 4,100 homes damaged, including 805 under more than 10 feet of water and 2,400 under at least 6 feet. Mayor Curt Zimbelman said demolition may be the only answer for nearly one-fifth of the damaged homes.

At the ice arena, one rink remains open but the other has been converted to store household goods, and at least 65 families are keeping belongings there, manager Chuck Emery said. Reptiles and aquatic creatures from the flooded city zoo are being kept in the basement. Some 13 mobile homes towed off flood-threatened lots are being stored outside.

Church groups and businesses have been providing food and hosting nightly cookouts for the flood refugees.

The Schaans, who are camping with their three teenage children, expect to lose their home.

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Nike’s stock recovers, along with others

NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe the global economy isn’t in such bad shape after all.

After weeks of worries about the economy pulled stocks down, indexes have risen sharply for two days in a row.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 120 points in midday trading Tuesday, thanks in part to signs that concerns of a global slowdown may be overblown. Quarterly results from Nike Inc. bested analysts’ expectations helped spark a rally in stocks of clothing stores, restaurants and jewelers. Such companies tend to do well when consumers are less worried about things like high gas prices and are willing to spend on themselves.

Other industries that do well during periods of economic expansion led the stock market higher. Caterpillar Inc., one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow, gained the most, rising 2.3 percent. Industrials gained 1.2 percent overall. Consumer discretionary companies gained 1.6 percent.

Signs that the housing market is improving helped lift Home Depot Inc., a company that benefits when consumers spend money on home improvement. Home Depot gained 2.1 percent following a report that home prices rose in April in 13 of the 20 cities tracked by the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller index. The index rose for the first time in eight months thanks to an annual push to buy homes in the spring.

The long slump in the housing market has been a drag on the U.S. economic recovery.

Housing usually leads the economy out of recessions.

But that hasn’t been the case with the current recovery, which began in June 2009.

A decline in U.S. consumer confidence to a seven-month low, largely because of worries about jobs, did not slow down the gains in stocks.

The Dow gained 121 points, or 1 percent, to 12.164 in afternoon trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 14, or 1.1 percent, to 1,294. The Nasdaq composite index added 34, or 1.3 percent, to 2,722.

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Bonnaroo is one of the country’s largest and most attended music festivals held over the summer music season. This year was its tenth anniversary and was headlined by monster acts such as Lil’ Wayne, Arcade Fire, Eminem, My Morning Jacket, the Black Keys and Buffalo Springfield. Attendance of this year’s fest was said to reach at least 80,000, but rumors spread throughout the event stated as many as 120,000 people showed up, including all the patrons that snuck in through the gates. The festival is held in Manchester, Tenn., which is about an hour south of Nashville.

With all these people, music, drugs, sex, heat and camping, concertgoers get pretty goddam fatigued.

Some of the camping areas are as far as a mile and a half away from the main stages. When it’s 100+ degrees, and you’re tripping curtains on a cocktail of high-powered goofballs, you just don’t feel like walking. That’s where I came in.

My job at Bonnaroo music festival was to drive a gasoline-powered golf cart around the grounds and give folks rides to the stage, their site, some chick’s site, some drug dealer’s site or what-have-you. It was in this process that I met some thoroughly twackedout space cadets from all over our great land.

The company hosting the taxi service is based out of Minneapolis, and provides the same service to a number of festivals around the country.

So they bussed about 30 kids from Minnesota down to Tennessee in a rickety Greyhound bus from 1986. And as everyone knows, us Minnesotans love plenty of humidity and intense sun, being Scandinavian and all.

Our crew arrived two days before the music began to set up camp and learn the ropes of the monster that is Bonnaroo. Already some kids looked like they were about to pass out.

We got ourselves oriented and the music began.

The heat index rose and the sweating and dehydra-

tion began.

Starting out the first day, Bonnaroo attendees fared pretty well. They had just gotten there, they had a fresh pair of legs, they’d only taken a couple hits of acid and they were excited for the weekend ahead. But as the days and artists passed, so did the mental and physical capacities of the patrons.

Bonnaroo has a certain rythym to it. The taxi service’s driving hours ran from 10 a.m. until 5 a.m., and cabbies are encouraged to drive the entire time.

Now, at ten in the morning, hippies are in pretty good moods. They’d had their nice wake-and-bake sessions and the world was bright and sunny. But, at ten in the morning, all the mainstreamers who came for Lil’ Wayne and Eminem were working off their hangovers, and worrying about the one night stand in their tent last night, couldn’t have been hygienic.

And at ten in the morning, the ravers… the ravers… well actually the ravers are always the same, I have pretty good reason to believe they never slept the entire festival, and they’re always pleased and amazed at the “wonderful world, it all looks so good man, I want to lick that tree.”

Lunchtime is when the hippies get the munchies, so they all need rides back to their camps. It’s also the time when the mainstreamers need their naps, “just take me back bro, I can’t take anymore.” And the ravers need to stop back for more glow-sticks and pacifiers, “are you having fun man? I am. God this is fun. Nice shirt! Can I smell it?”

The sun hits its high point and everyone boils.

But then the sun starts to get a little sleepy itself and begins to lower.

Around 7 p.m. people start coming into the festival from out of the grounds. These people buy day passes so they can watch a certain artist or two, and leave for the night to stay at home or in hotels. As a taxi, it’s wise to pick these people up, because they have fresh wallets and five cases of beer each, and

need a lift.

After this period, and you’ve brought everyone back into the festival from the camps, you get to relax a little. This is time to take a piss, refill your water jug, get a cup of coffee and swap stories with other taxi drivers.

You cool off and the sun goes down. And people start to charge out of the festival for the night. At 11 p.m., the hippies are the first to leave. They have switched over from pot to hallucinogens, and they are burnt out. They hand you their grubby money and beg you to drive them back, their faces plastered with a permanent hippie grin; pleasant, but they don’t tip.

The next batch to come out is the day-pass people. These people are usually 30-40 years old and can’t take staying in the raging camps. They came to see Buffalo Springfield, Greg Allman or the Black Keys, they get roaring drunk, forget about their wives and kids for a few hours, and just want to go home. These are prime fares, they know how to handle their booze and they tip immaculately, with fresh bills from their 9-5’s.

At 1 a.m. the mainstreamers start flagging you down. They have bellies full of Keystone and some mushrooms they experimented with at the My Morning Jacket show. They are confused, stoked and ready to keep the party going at their camp with “some smokin’ chicks we met from Alaska, bro.”

Tips vary, but mostly they forget while punching each other in the arms saying “dude, that chick had a mustache, I swear, it tickled.” “Yeah dude, you liked that, you loved her mustache rides, fag.”

After that, it gets cold. Tennessee is humid, really humid, and after the stars hoist up, all that moisture in the air turns to chilly fog. The taxi drivers have

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all been awake for at least 16 hours at this point, and as we pass each other, our feeble high-fives can only do so much to encourage pressing on, waiting for the last group to exit the music area; the ravers.

The ravers don’t leave until security kicks them out. They have been going at it hard all day with Bass Nectar, Ratatat, Pretty Lights and Spongo. But they show no fatigue. They clutch their bottles of water tightly and hold lighting fast conversations, their pupils like black M&M’s floating in bloodshot eyes. They always are appreciative of the ride, but never want to go back to their camps. “I dunno man, drop me off somewhere, anywhere, I don’t care!” As far as tips go, they are the most generous, but they only try to give in pills with Mickey Mouse on them and little blue bags of their friend “molly.” And you have to explain to them with a festival cop on a horse standing right next to you that, “I can’t, I’ll get fired if I take it.” They always look so sad.

In the early morning, the roads are filled with stoned people, half-naked stoned people and naked stoned people, all walking zigzags on unconscious strolls as the Tennessee sun starts to wake up for another round of blistering.

After all that, a stream of empty checkered golf carts with zombie drivers, half dead, pull into the home campsite. Us drivers don’t say much to each other, it’s 6 a.m. and we’ve been running an obstacle course of drugged out freaks and geeks all day. We fall into our tents, fall asleep hard for three hours, wake up cooking in our convection oven tents, and do it all over again.

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Total time spent on cart - 87 hours Number of people given rides - 800+ Hours slept - 9 Cigarettes smoked - 410 Number of haulucinogens taken - 0 Average daytime temp - 101 degrees Gallons of water drank - 7 Cups of coffee consumed - 15 Miles away from Mankato - 911

*as experienced by author over fourday period

Gomez sounds generic Lady Gaga sued Selena Gomez & the Scene, “When the Sun Goes Down” (Hollywood Records) There comes a point when a Disney or Nickelodeon star tries to make the transition to official recording artist. This is Selena Gomez’s moment.

Musically speaking, Gomez is no Miley Cyrus or Vanessa Hudgens — that’s because she’s better. She’s got a decent voice, and showcased it on last year’s “A Year Without Rain,” a pop ballad that still sounds good.

There’s nothing as good as that on “When the Sun Goes Down,” Gomez’s third album with her band the Scene.

“Who Says,” a song about self-worth, is the best track. It’s the lead single, but there aren’t any other songs like it. For the rest of the disc Gomez is typical, offering radio-friendly tunes about “dancing forever” and partying till “the sun goes down.” How original.

Gomez gets help from some heavyweights: She has writing credits from Britney Spears

and Katy Perry, but those tunes sound like leftovers.

She’s better off collaborating with singers who have yet to reach diva stardom: Singer-

songwriter Priscilla Renea co-wrote “Who Says,” and English singer Pixie Lott lends a hand on the enjoyable groove “We Own the Night.”

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DETROIT (AP) — Lady Gaga’s spokeswoman says a lawsuit accusing the music star of misleading fans with an online pitch for donations to victims of the Japan earthquake is meritless.

Lady Gaga’s website is selling $5 wristbands that say, “We Pray For Japan.” The website also allows people to make additional donations and says “all proceeds go directly to Japan relief efforts.”

A lawsuit filed in Detroit notes that sales tax and a

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The Minnesota T’Wolves: The Most Interesting

17-win Team in NBA History From the arrival of Ricky Rubio (center) to the reported firing of Kurt Rambis (left), General Manager David Kahn (right) is making headlines despite zero results on the court.

After holding his head coach’s job status in limbo for over two months, Minnesota Timberwolves GM David Kahn has reportedly finally fired Kurt Rambis. So what was the hold up?

Kahn virtually dug a grave for Rambis in a press conference immediately following the Wolves final game of the regular season, as the team finished a leagueworst 17-65 and limped to the finish line on a 15game losing streak.

Whether it was for financial reasons, lack of interest in the head coaching position from around the league or just because he didn’t mind seeing Rambis dangle, Kahn refused to fire the head coach. As prospects worked out in front of them just a week before

the most important draft in franchise history, Kahn and Rambis sat yards apart giving each other the silent treatment.

As the Wolves’ soap opera dragged on, coaching vacancies in Los Angeles, Houston, Golden State and Toronto were filled by qualified candidates, including former Wolves head men Kevin McHale and Dwane Casey.

In the days leading up to and following Yahoo!’s breaking of the story, analysts rushed to the head coach’s aid and bashed Kahn’s managing style.

The bottom line is: It was the right move made at the wrong time.

Rambis, despite guiding the team to an abysmal 32-132 record in two seasons, still had two years left on his contract

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and looked like he might be safe thanks in part to the looming lockout and new collective bargaining agreement and the organization’s wanting to stay on the cheap. However, Kahn must not have been satisfied with the written report that Rambis reportedly turned in outlining the changes he would make to how the team was run next season.

But why wait until the day before the draft to make this move, partaking in yet another without a head coach? Kahn’s changes to the team’s roster might eventually be proven adequate, but he continues to neglect and lack the most important piece to the puzzle, which is a good head coach.

In his two years at the helm, Rambis failed to prove he was the head

coach that could turn this franchise around. He stubbornly tried to incorporate his triangle offense with a group of young players who didn’t fit the system, such as the recently traded Jonny Flynn. He also struggled to gain his team’s confidence in what he was doing both on and off the court, and had a not-so-positive relationship with the team’s best player, Kevin Love.

One day after Spanish sensation Ricky Rubio arrived last week, Kahn couldn’t wait any longer, dismissing Rambis a day before selecting Arizona standout Derrick Williams with the second pick in the draft. Even though he has yet to make a formal announcement of the move, all signs point to a new head coach for the T’Wolves next season.

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While the move to fire Rambis was the correct one, it is yet another classic example of the team’s GM walking to the beat of his own drum. Although players routinely steal headlines for activities done both on and off the court, Kahn might be the most talked about and critiqued GM of a bottomdwelling professional team in history.

Kahn has every reason to expect more from his new head coach, but 2530 wins remains the ceiling for this young squad next season.

Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor and Kahn are reportedly in search for a low-profile head coach that they don’t have to break the bank for who will run the fast-paced style Kahn is looking for.

Current Washington Hus-

kies head coach Lorenzo Romar has been rumored for the job, as well as current Wolves assistant J.B. Bickerstaff. Bickerstaff’s father, Bernie, is also a possibility to hold the job until his son is ready for it.

This may be Kahn’s last coaching hire for better or for worse, so he better get the right guy. The talent has definitely been upgraded under Kahn, but his belief that a head coach’s presence or input is not needed to draft and assemble a winning team is wrong.

Based on how long it took Kahn to part with someone he had already thrown under the bus, it is not absurd for one to wonder if the Wolves will arrive for training camp in Mankato with a head coach in place.

For more Wolves coverage and a look into what’s new with the Minnesota Wild and MSU athletics, see Page 10

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Wolves’ Youth Gives The Team Options and Optimism for the Future

The Minnesota Timberwolves are like the 1999-2000 TV series Freaks and Geeks.

There were talented, young actors starring in the show, except nobody knew it yet.

They gave us Linda Cardellini, James Franco, Seth Rogan and Jason Segel. Were any of them big when the show came out? No, these kids were just looking for a big break. The show only lasted 18 episodes. But how didn’t someone realize this show could be great? Didn’t someone know that the talent would burst out sooner or later and the show had the potential to be an all-time great?

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Apparently not. Whoever said “no” to season two deserves to be hit in the face with a shovel.

As a nation, we were deprived of a great show. Oh, what could have been. Now these actors put this series in their rearview mirror and moved onto stardom.

Now back to the Timberwolves. There’s plenty of young talent – especially after drafting Derrick Williams last week and the arrival of my man-crush point guard Ricky Rubio. With Williams, Rubio, Kevin Love, Michael Beasley and Wes Johnson, the potential is there.

These are all former top-5 draft picks and at one time or another, someone believed there was plenty of upside. Oh, and not one of these players is over 25 years of age.

The question is, will any of these players turn into a Segel or Rogan? Can one of these players turn into a clutch, coldblooded player? Is Michael Beasley clinically insane? So many questions!

Here’s a rundown of things to watch for from this young cast: How good can Rubio be?

Well, first the guy needs to prove he can shoot. Without a consistent shot he just turns into a homeless man’s Rajon Rondo.

From a source inside the Wolves organization, I’ve been told his shot is nowhere near where it needs to be. Luckily there will be a lockout and he’ll have a few extra months to work on it.

Side-note: I love that he’ll have Luke Ridnour there. Couldn’t ask for a much better guy to groom a young Rubio. Could you imagine if it was just Rubio and Jonny Flynn? It’d be like asking me to cook a Thanksgiving meal and my only help would come from my 10-yearold sister. The house would burn on fire.

What about the logjam at the forward position?

Here’s my logic: When you’re coming off a 17-winseason, you don’t worry about positions. You take talent when you can get it. Would it have been nice to ship Beasley off for a scoring two-guard? Absolutely, but having two combo forwards that can create mismatches against almost anyone is a good thing for any team, not just a really bad one.

I also think that having all of these guys growing up together is a huge benefit. Why didn’t LeBron James win in Cleveland? Because Delonte’ West slept with his mom? Maybe, but he didn’t have a supporting cast and because he didn’t have guys he could trust. He never seemed to have that guy he could trust with everything — being it his hotel key or the last shot. Look at the Thunder. Young guys who love each other and would go to battle for each other. That’s the best-case scenario for the Wolves. The worst is that Beasley kills David Kahn. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

Is Kevin Love going to be a star?

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It is nice to know that we have a career 20-10 guy, though.

I hope he reads this, gets pissed off, proves me wrong, starts playing defense and develops a post game. That’d make my day.

What will the starting lineup be?

PG- Rubio, SG- Johnson, SF- Beasley, PF-Love, C-Brad Miller First off the bench: Darko, Randolph, Ridnour, Webster and Williams For the Timberwolves it’s time to make a giant leap and ideally, hopefully one of these players can take an individual leap. Through all this, I can say that I’m happy to be a season ticket holder. Whether they win or not has yet to be seen, but we do know they’ll be interesting.

Let’s hope they last more than a season and hopefully someone will become the next James Franco.

What if Flynn was the next Franco? Did we get rid of him too early? Ahhhhhhh!!!!

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So, What Else is New?

If you are one of those people who has been having too much fun this summer to keep up with all the goings on in both professional and MSU sports, here is what you’ve been missing: Minnesota Wild: Hired Mike Yeo, 37, to be the franchise’s third head coach ever. Yeo, an Ontario native, coached the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League, the Wild’s minor league affiliate, in 2010-11. After taking over as head coach of the Aeros last June, Yeo led the team to a Western Conference championship in his only season at the helm and was hired by the Wild on June 17.

Last week in the 2011 NHL Draft, the Wild drafted Mario Lucia, Minnesota Gopher head coach Don Lucia’s son, in the second round of the entry draft. The biggest news, however, came when the team’s best and most popular player, Brent Burns, was traded to the San Jose Sharks for Devin Setoguchi, 24, who has scored 73 goals over the last three seasons.

Minnesota Vikings: With the NFL still in a lockout, Vikings fans in Mankato especially have good reason to fear that there will be no training camp here in late July.

Minnesota Twins: Followed an eight-game winning streak with a six-game losing streak. As injuries continue to mount, the Twins’ playoff hopes are dim at the moment.

PGA: Rory McIlroy, 22, won the U.S. Open for his first major championship.

MSU Men’s Basketball: Former Maverick Jefferson Mason, who was a 2011 All-American at MSU, signed a pro contract to play for the Webmoebel Baskets of the German Pro-A League in Paderborn, Germany. Mason averaged 17.6 points and 8.5 rebounds in leading MSU to the NCAA Division II Final Four in 2011.

MSU Men’s Hockey: Former Maverick defenseman Kurt Davis signed a pro contract to play in Sweden next season for Sodertalje SK of the Hockey Allsvenskan league.Davis accumulated 96 points in 150 career games with MSU. MSU Softball: Finished the year ranked fifth overall in the nation.

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It kills me to say this, but no.

He’s a very good player, but in a league full of athletic freaks and killer point guards, the odds aren’t with him. Love had a great season last year and is easily the best player on our team.

He works his tail off rebounding and has developed a nice 3-point shot. But on a winning team, Love should be the No. 2 or No. 3 guy on the team.

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South Carolina wins second straight CWS OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — South Carolina coach Ray Tanner didn’t go into the season expecting to win a second straight national championship.

His Gamecocks did that in record fashion, becoming the first team to go 10-0 in an NCAA tournament and the first since Oregon State in 2007 to go unbeaten in a CWS with Tuesday night’s 5-2 win that completed a two-game sweep of Florida.

“The statistics, the percentages of doing that are stacked against you,” Tanner said. “The only thing I kept holding onto was, ‘Let’s have a good team. Let’s have a good season. Let’s get to the postseason. Let’s get a chance to go to a regional.

“And then you try to do well when you get there.”

Oh, the Gamecocks did well, all right.

The Gamecocks (55-14) retooled their pitching staff, star center fielder Jackie Bradley Jr. missed two months with a broken wrist and first baseman Christian Walker played through the same injury during the CWS

finals.

Two of their five wins here came in walkoff fashion, and they worked out of bases-loaded situations four times over two games and had left fielder Jake Williams throw out a runner at the plate to prevent Florida from scoring the winning run in Game 1 of the finals.

By comparison, the clinching victory was downright boring.

Michael Roth pitched 7 2-3 innings on three days’ rest and the Gamecocks were in control throughout.

The Gamecocks have the distinction of winning the first CWS at TD Ameritrade Park after winning the last one played at Rosenblatt Stadium.

“Beginning of the year I said we finished at the old one, so let’s try to open the new one up,” said second baseman Scott Wingo, voted the CWS’ Most Outstanding Player. “Coach wasn’t sure we would get it, but I’m the type of guy who felt we were going to do it. I was thinking of the Oregon State team the whole year. I had a feeling we would get back and win this thing, and we did.”

South Carolina became the first team to ever go 10-0 in an NCAA tournament and the first since Oregon State in 2007 to go unbeaten in a CWS. The Gamecocks’ streaks of 16 NCAA tournament wins and 11 straight in the CWS are both the longest all-time.

They became the sixth team to win consecutive national titles and first since Oregon State in 2006-07.

“We’re not the most talented team, and we don’t have the best players position for position,” Roth said, “but we go out and stick together as a team. We battle. I can’t describe it. We’re a bunch of average Joes and love each other and come out and battle.”

Peter Mooney doubled to start a three-run third inning in the matchup of SEC rivals and hit the Gamecocks’ first home run of the CWS in the sixth.

After giving up four runs in the first inning of their opener against Texas A&M, the Gamecocks allowed just six in their other 50 innings here.

“They earned this one,” Florida coach Kevin O’Sullivan

said. “They were a little bit better than us in all phases.

They pitched a little bit better.

They hit a little bit better. They played a little bit better defense and they earned it.”

Three of the Gamecocks’ first four wins here came in their last at-bat and included incredible pitching and defensive performances in the late innings.

No drama was necessary Tuesday.

“You have to be a little lucky to win this game,” Tanner said.

“We were living a charmed life.”

Wingo had the winning hit in the bottom of the ninth against Texas A&M and made two great plays to keep Florida (53-19) from scoring late in the game Monday. He batted .333 and drove in four runs.

“He’s been so valuable to this program,” Tanner said. “He loves this program. He has fun.

That’s how you have to play this game.”

Roth (14-3), who pitched seven innings against Virginia on Friday, gave up five hits and two runs before leaving in the

eighth. He started last year’s national championship game but didn’t get the decision.

“Mike has the biggest heart of anyone I’ve seen on the field,” said South Carolina’s Christian Walker, who played the last two games with a broken left wrist. “You want him out there even if he’s not 100 percent.”

Among pitchers who have worked 30 innings at the CWS, Roth’s 1.17 ERA over 38 1-3 innings the past two years ranks second all-time behind Ohio State’s Steve Arlin, who had a 0.96 ERA over 47 innings in 1965-66.

Roth came in with a 0.98 ERA for the season and held Florida without a run after it got leadoff men on base in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.

Roth left with two outs the next inning after giving up a double to Mike Zunino, who later scored on Josh Adams’ single off John Taylor.

Matt Price worked 1 1-3 innings for his 20th save.

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