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Tuition to increase by 3 percent

Minnesota State University, Mankato

Movin’ on up

‘We fought to keep the increases minimal’ MEAGAN STEELE

staff writer

Once again Minnesota State students are finding that they have to take out a little bit more in loans than they had to last year. Or perhaps spend a few more hours at work in order to pay off their student bills. A tuition increase is not a phrase most college students take lightly at any point in time, but in these hard economic times it is feared even more.

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Board of Trustees approved another tuition increase for Minnesota State students this year. The board, which is appointed by the governor, oversees various policies including admission requirements and tuition and fees. Although this year’s increase is due almost entirely to the economic conditions around the state, an increase does occur virtually every year.

According to Chris Frederick, a member of MnSCU Board

of Trustees, the board fought to keep the increases as low as possible. However, being that money is tight, the increase was inevitable.

According to a MnSCU press release, students at Minnesota State will be paying an average of $169 or about 3 percent more.

Though it does not sound like much, it just means that students will be paying a little bit more than they did last year.

“We fought to keep the increases minimal. Some years are better than others, but this year everyone took a piece of the cut,” said Frederick.

Though tuition costs rise annually, because of the economy at this time it could have been much worse. There were various budget decreases this year.

Staff took a pay freeze in order to help cut costs, and there were no increases in contracts at Minnesota State.

And it’s not just here in Mankato. If it’s any consolation,

wale agboola• msu reporter Minnesota State students worked up a sweat Thursday, moving into residence halls with help from family.

Incoming students share their hopes and fears Movin’ / page 3 Kid-focused volunteer program at MSU has ended — What’s next?

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Student assaulted on James Ave.

Attack one of several violent incidents in Mankato JOHN FRITZ

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staff writer A Minnesota State theater student was assaulted in the early morning hours of Aug. 9 outside a friend’s apartment on James Avenue. The assault was one of several violent incidents that have occurred in areas of Mankato where many MSU students live.

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a.m. when they heard cries for help coming from the parking lot. Leaving the ground-level apartment to see what was wrong, they came upon a lone woman sitting on the curb.

When they began asking her questions, a group of males began walking toward them.

The woman said one of these men was her boyfriend and that she was fine. As they approached, one of the group, a black male wearing a yellow

shirt, said he was upset and hit Nelson in the face. Nelson’s friends saw several of the men kicking Nelson as he lay on the ground.

The assault was one of several violent incidents that have occurred this month in areas of Mankato where many MSU students live.

A 27-year-old woman was found the morning of Aug. 7 outside what was once the Blue

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KMSU named ‘Station of the Year’

Minnesota State’s radio station KMSU recognized by peers for new transmitter, diversity awards, portable studio DANNIE HIGGINBOTHAM

news editor

Sometimes a little recognition goes a long way. In the case of KMSU, recently named “Station of the Year” by the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations (AMPERS), the recognition sets the bar for future projects and acknowledges the recent changes KMSU has incorporated.

A group of peers in Independent Public Radio (IPR) chose KMSU for its infrastructure improvements, new portable studio used for broadcast in the Centennial Student Union, where students broadcast the show “A la Carte”, and for winning the Pathfinder Award for diversity.

“It feels great to win the award,” said Station Manager James “Gully” Gullickson. “It’s an honor.”

Gullickson said he appreciates the recognition from other independent stations and noncommercial entities.

“We want to submit to other organizations that look critically at what we do,” he said. “We

wale agboola• msu reporter KMSU General Manager James “Gully” Gullickson hosts the weekday show “Minnesota Mid Day”.

get to prove ourselves and look for opportunities for other scholarships to help us stay current and up to speed. This will help us better serve our listeners.”

Loyal listeners contribute a lot to KMSU. Last spring the station broke its own fundraising records by raising the most

money it’s ever raised, and in the fastest amount of time.

“I think the listeners think the recognition is well deserved,” said operations director Karen Wright.

This isn’t the only reason KMSU has to celebrate. Because of the Legacy Amendment, passed last November, KMSU

and 11 other IPR stations are set to receive approximately $2.65 million by June 30, 2011. The amendment is meant to fund arts, history and clean water initiatives.

With money from the amendment, KMSU plans to work on an audio documentary about the Dakota uprising of

1862.

“We plan to work through ethnic studies,” Gullickson said.

“We want to create good audio pictures, good audio theatre.”

The station plans to collaborate with the Minnesota Historical Society for the project.

The station hopes to become a greater part of the community and help sponsor local folk festivals and clubs, such as the Rockben Folk Fest in 2010. It would also like to set up a live music event aimed at the Latino population.

“We also want to set up a radio day-camp for summer 2010,” Gullickson said. “This would be something like youth spending four hours a day doing production or storytelling. We’d like to be able to be part of that packet students get at the end of the school year filled with summer activities.”

Although KMSU won the award, Gullickson feels a strong argument could’ve been made for WTIP in Grand Maris, calling it a well-respected independent station very connected to the

KMSU / page 4

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From jumpstart to finish Multitasking Literacy program helped connect children, MSU students to learn skills for school NICOLE SMITH

editor in chief

After nine years of service to the campus and community, the Jumpstart program at Minnesota State has ended.

Jumpstart, a volunteer-based literacy program that connects students to pre-school children in the area, ended abruptly at MSU due to the program’s national restructuring.

Program coordinator Mymique Baxter was notified in late June of the program’s decision to close the Mankato branch along with others in the Midwest region, to focus attention to urban areas such as Los Angeles and Atlanta.

Despite efforts to sustain the program, MSU’s appeal was denied and the program was put to rest due to lack of funding. The short-notice stop was met with much surprise and has triggered a scramble for a similar program to fill the gap.

“I want to keep a literacy program on this campus for college students to give back

to the community,” Baxter said of her efforts to pursue a new program. A bevy of positive feedback surrounding Jumpstart in recent years has made it clear to Baxter there is a community need for the program or something similar.

Jumpstart partnered with Children’s House, YMCA and other community centers in the area to pair up college volunteers with pre-school children, helping them acquire the skills they need to prepare for kindergarten.

According to a 2007 Minnesota Department of Education report, 49 percent of children in Blue Earth County and Nicollet County are not ready for kindergarten.

In weekly sessions children ages 3-5 met one-on-one with their college “buddy” for story time and arts and crafts, and got together as a group for circle time- a singing, dancing portion of the program that most volunteers said the children enjoyed the most.

Volunteer Derek Schlager

was part of a team that worked at Children’s House.

“The kids are peaking out the window of the classroom, checking to see if their buddies are there,” Schlager said about arriving to work with the children. “They loved this program and looked forward to seeing us show up.”

Schlager, an elementary education junior, said the most rewarding experience was watching the children’s eyes light up when they learned how to write their name for the first time or how to cross their t’s.

Last year Schlager planned Jumpstart’s first graduation to recognize the children for their progress in the program.

Roughly 50 family members gathered for the grad party, which even included miniature hats and diplomas.

“It was great to see family show up for graduation,” he said, “but part of the downfall of Jumpstart was lack of family involvement. We are trying to

Jumpstart / page 4

mayhem WASHINGTON (AP) — The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it.

That’s the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking.

“The huge finding is, the more media people use the worse they are at using any media. We were totally shocked,” Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford’s communications department, said in a telephone interview.

The researchers studied 262 college undergraduates, dividing them into high and low multitasking groups and comparing such things as memory, ability to switch from one task to another and being able to focus on a task.

Their findings are reported in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

When it came to such essential abilities, people who did a lot of multitasking didn’t score as well

as others, Nass said.

Still to be answered is why the folks who are worst at multitasking are the ones doing it the most.

It’s sort of a chicken-or-egg question.

“Is multitasking causing them to be lousy at multitasking, or is their lousiness at multitasking causing them to be multitaskers?” Nass wondered.

“Is it born or learned?”

In a society that seems to encourage more and more multitasking, the findings have social implications, Nass observed. Multitasking is already blamed for car crashes as several states restrict the use of cell phones while driving.

Lawyers or advertisers can try to use irrelevant information to distract and refocus people to influence their decisions.

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ASSAULT Students walking off campus late at night advised to avoid distractions, dark areas rash of assaults around Mankato isn’t a reason for students to panic, but to become aware and use common sense. “There are things your parents probably told you before you went to school,” he said. “Especially at night, watch who’s around you, what you’re doing, and where you are going.”

He cautioned not to get preoccupied with cell phones, friends, or other distractions when walking around offcampus late at night, and to look for dark areas and alleys where people can be vulnerable.

In the bigger picture, knowing what’s going on in the community before going out on the town is a good strategy for safety, he advised.

community.

“It was a strong method of communication during the fires,” he said, adding that it was often the only method of communication between locals and law enforcement.

WTIP won the award for Broadcaster of the Year,

get a new program going that will better suit the community and give parents more of a chance to be involved.”

Baxter said Jumpstart, an AmeriCorps-funded program, was very popular with students, and was one of the few programs giving students a chance to get involved in the community.

During freshman orientation this year more than 200 students took an interest in the program and signed up to get involved.

Each year roughly 250 people volunteer.

Although the lack of Jumpstart has created a void

in campus involvement and connection to the community, creating a new program could be a great way to adapt to the needs of Mankato. Baxter said a new program should make it easier for children’s families to get involved and should be expanded to allow more children to sign-up.

“I thought the program was a great opportunity to get involved on campus,” former Jumpstart volunteer Megan George said. “It was a good way to be active in college and I’m hoping another program will take its place so other students can take part in the rewarding

experience.”

Jumpstart’s new strategic plan was discussed in late April, according to the memo sent to the MSU branch by a member of the management team. Some of the company’s cited reasons for implementing shifts in location include ensuring financial sustainability and strengthening its impact on children. No Jumpstart representative from the Central Region office was available for comment.

KMSU Though KMSU won Station of the Year, Broadcaster of the Year went to WTIP in Grand Maris. continued from 1

JUMPSTART Each year, roughly 250 people volunteer, spanning from one hour to 300 hours each continued from 3

continued from 1 Earth County Courthouse on Fourth Street. She had severe injuries, including a broken jaw.

An incident Aug. 11 outside the Graif building in downtown Mankato was reported to police.

Two men were seen kicking a third man and ran away after they were told to stop, according to the report.

A woman was attacked Thursday by two Rottweilers near Lincoln Park in west Mankato. Her wrist was broken in the attack.

Mankato Police Department detective commander Matt DuRose pointed out that Mankato is usually a pretty safe place, but like any other city has its share of crimes. “It’s a great community,” he said, “but it’s not Mayberry,” a reference to the idyllic small-town setting of the 1960s sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show.”

MSU spokesman Michael Cooper concurred, saying the

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something Gullickson said it deserved.

Though KMSU won the award, Gullickson expressed a general appreciation for Minnesota public radio.

“I love all our independent radio stations.”

TUITION “The tuition increase doesn’t sound terrible right now, but it will make a difference in the long run...It’s not fun to see that school bill rise.” continued from 1 students at other four-year state schools in Minnesota are experiencing around the same rise in tuition. But it seems like when it comes to money, it doesn’t make much of a difference.

“The tuition increase doesn’t sound terrible right now, but it

will make a difference in the long run, especially when it comes to paying off my college loans,” said Minnesota State senior Michael Franks. “It’s not fun to see that school bill rise a little bit each year.”

With costs rising annually,

there just might not be an escape from the increase in tuition.

Hopefully, though, with a bettering economy the tuition swell will be a bit less painful in years to come.

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Cash for Clunkers comes to a close Government rebate program gave car sales a temporary push WASHINGTON (AP) — Now comes the hard part for the auto industry — luring customers without big Cash for Clunkers discounts.

The popular government rebates gave auto sales a jolt, but it was only temporary. Now car makers and dealerships are forced once again to confront the worst market in a quartercentury.

While Cash for Clunkers may have proved there are still car buyers out there, it is unlikely the heavy demand will last. In fact, the big rush to car lots this month may have had the unintended effect of stealing sales from this fall and next year.

“I am really worried about this winter,” said J.P. Bishop, president of a dealership chain in central Maryland. “If you didn’t buy now, the only reason you are going to buy over the next three or four months is because your car died.”

Cash for Clunkers, which offered drivers as much as $4,500 off the price of a new, more fuel-efficient car, proved

far more popular than anyone imagined. Through Monday, dealers reported selling 625,000 vehicles in just a month with the rebates.

The program was set to come to an end Monday night.

The government had set the deadline on estimates that most of the $3 billion set aside for rebates would be used up by then. Analysts initially figured the cash would last as long as November.

Cash for Clunkers had its complications: Congress had to race to approve $2 billion more for the program after the first $1 billion quickly ran out. Dealers complained the government was slow to reimburse them for deals they made on new sales.

Hours before the Monday night deadline for Cash for Clunkers sales, the government gave dealers an extension, until noon Tuesday, to file the paperwork to get repaid. The deadline for sales was not affected.

The Transportation Department granted the extension after the Web site set

up to handle the claims was temporarily shut down from overload. Later Monday, the DOT said the Web site wouldn’t be fully operational until Tuesday morning, and promised that dealers would have “time to submit pending deals equivalent to the time that was lost this afternoon while the system was down.”

The DOT declined to elaborate further.

For the auto industry, coming off the program could be like a letdown after a sugar high.

Automakers and dealers got a reprieve from a dismal year of plummeting sales, big layoffs and the bankruptcies of General Motors and Chrysler. GM actually added shifts at some plants to meet higher demand.

Cars, trucks and SUVs sold in July at an annual rate of 11.2 million vehicles, the first time this year the figure has crept above 10 million. That’s still far below the 16 million vehicles sold just two years ago.

While Cash for Clunkers has helped the auto industry stabilize, it will probably take a

full economic recovery to give car and truck sales a lasting rebound.

“There’s still a sizable amount of pent-up demand that’s going to be felt,” said Erich Merkle, president of auto industry Web site autoconomy. com. He said the “baton of Cash for Clunkers” could eventually be passed to a “fundamentally stronger economy.”

Sure signs of that, of course, are a ways off. Unemployment is still high and the housing market still weak, enough to keep people shy about making big-ticket purchases, said Rebecca Lindland, a Global Insight analyst.

“While this Cash for Clunkers program provided a respite for an ailing industry, we are not out of the woods yet and we still have a long road to recovery,” she said.

There also simply isn’t much left for drivers to shop for — especially when it comes to the most popular Cash for Clunkers vehicles, such as the Ford Focus, the Toyota Corolla and some hybrids.

GM, Hyundai, Toyota and Ford have ramped up production of their more efficient models because of inventory shortfalls, but those vehicles won’t reach dealers for a while.

Automakers are approaching the next few months cautiously.

They are moving to replenish dealer showrooms, but are wary about building too many cars if demand fizzles.

Ford, for example, has said it will boost production by 33 percent from a year ago during the fourth quarter. But Ford executives say that could change depending on customer demand.

GM spokesman John McDonald said Cash for Clunkers has been “very successful” for GM. He said the company estimates 30 percent of its sales increase during the period came from customers who didn’t qualify for the government rebates but bought cars anyway.

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Opportunities abound

It’s a new year — get an opinion, get involved Each year, students swarm campus the first week, scrambling to new classes and preparing themselves for the loaded semester ahead — a far cry from the relaxing lifestyle that is summer. Although many may be feeling stressed, anxious and nervous, there is an anticipatory buzz present.

The new year means new possibilities, and MSU is ripe with opportunities.

The frenzied Minnesota State campus is electric with energy and potential as students branch out from their parents and venture on the path of self-discovery.

Whether you are interested in anime, athletics or art, there are hundreds of ways to get involved on campus. Join a student organization or volunteer your time to an upcoming event or important cause. But do something. Get involved.

Forbes Magazine recently ranked MSU among the top one-fourth of the nation’s colleges and universities in its “America’s Best Colleges” list. A rank may be just a number, but our high placement on this list signifies something more.

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A letter from the editor

A letter to the editor Continental Congress 2009

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Bailouts, layoffs, foreclosures, social decay, family destruction and endless wars. Most don’t know it but virtually every problem that America now suffers is the direct result of violations of the Constitution by our (servant) government.

Finally, there is hope.

This November, publicly elected citizen-delegates representing the People of each state will convene at a national assembly known as “Continental Congress 2009.”

The purpose of this historic event is to formally

Universities (MnSCU) institution.

According to the Forbes web site, colleges were ranked based on students needs: affordability, interesting offerings and job placement, among other factors.

This campus is as diverse as the students who are enrolled and it has the resources needed to accommodate you.

Whether you take advantage of what’s out there is your decision, but choose wisely.

Either way, we are along for the ride as your primary source for campus news. Our job is to serve you, so if we fail, let us know. The Reporter’s doors are always open and our eyes and ears are ready to soak up any requests, complaints, suggestions or story ideas you may have. Write a letter to the editor or give us a call.

This paper should present you the news, but it should also serve as a reflection of the campus community. So, speak up.

We would love to hear it.

document the violations and develop strategies the People can employ to peacefully resist tyranny and restore Constitutional Order. It’s time to hold our servant government accountable and reclaim the Light of Liberty.

Learn more about CC2009 and the true power of Popular Sovereignty at www.GiveMeLiberty.org.

Sincerely,

Mark Ernest Johnson Jr

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An apple a day...

As The Doctor and I enter the small office, a man in his mid-60s awaits us patiently with his daughter and wife close by. I shake their hands as The Doctor introduces me as an MSU student who will be shadowing him for the day. They give me a halfhearted smile as The Doctor begins to shuffle through his documents. This patient has metastasizing cancer, and with the ctreatment available there is no cure. Understandably, uneasiness lingers in the room as The Doctor begins to ask his patient how he is feeling, how the chemotherapy is going.

Mother and daughter attentively listen to every word The Doctor has to say, pleading with their eyes for even the faintest sign of hope. Screaming despair, the direness of the situation is elucidated by the desperate looks on their faces. The simple fact is, this husband and

father is dying. Chemotherapy, radiation and surgery have all been applied to no avail and the harsh reality has begun to take its toll on this family. Eloquent and soft-spoken, The Doctor is receptive to all their questions and finishes his visit with gentle words of comfort: “We are always here for you if you need us.”

After the visit, The Doctor scurries into his office and immediately begins dictation, an in depth summary that is spoken into a microphone that acts as a synopsis for The Doctor to consult during the patient’s next visit. Simultaneously, the nurse brings in the charts that contain all the info for the next patient. All the while, the Doctor hurriedly shoves apple slices into his mouth like a rabid animal. With 20-plus patients to see in a day there is no such thing as a “lunch break.” A few moments later he looks up at

me and says “Are you ready?”

Inside I think, ‘not really’. I am still a little taken aback by the last patient we had seen. It’s not

Steven Piroso every day that I interact with dying people and desperate families. “Don’t you ever get emotionally attached with your patients?” I ask. “Of course,” he responds, “but if I go into that room thinking of the last patient I won’t be 100 percent focused on the person in front of me.”

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He picks up his papers and off we go. The next patient we see is an elderly man in his 70s. He was there with his wife, and had just completed his first round of chemotherapy. The usual introductions followed by the routine questions. The couple is notably tense as The Doctor looks over the results of the CT scan. “The tumor is responding to the treatment. It’s shrinking,” The Doctor says. The women gasps in a sigh of relief as tears begin to stream down her face, the couple embrace each other with a renewed breath of life; The Doctor and I both smile.

As the hours go by we buzz back and forth between rooms, but never do the moments blend together. Each patient we see, a person, a mother, a father, a son, each with a story to tell.

The last patient we see is an old woman in her late 80s joined by her granddaughter. She is a tiny woman that looks frail

and cannot weigh more than 80 pounds. She breathes through a contraption that roars like a plane taking off. Her cough is deep and a dark green swill fills her tissues. It sounds painful.

After the usual Q and A, The Doctor writes down a few notes on his paper as the old woman asks “Can’t you give me a shot that will take me out of this world? I’m ready to go.” An awkward silence fills the room as we all stand not wanting to acknowledge what is so evident. In those few tense seconds, the old woman looks right into my eyes and smiles.

The hope echoing through that door reminds me of the better angels of our nature that make us who we are: humans, mortal inhabitants of the labyrinth we call life. The vitality of the human spirit, coaxed into its greatest expression via the

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One staff writer discusses the lessons learned from his day with The Doctor

The elements of Ecuador News editor hangs with hippies and journeys to the jungle in part one of a series Avenida Francisco Moscoso y Matilde Garcia Cuenca, Ecuador, Aug. 4 Every day at least half a dozen hippies sit on the stairs outside my school and sell homemade jewelry and other handicrafts.

At first they really bothered me. I had three classes and it was hard for me to concentrate while they played their hippie flutes­­–badly– and drowned out the lectures from my professors.

When I started my second month, with only one class and much less stress, I was more open to listening and talking to the hippies, even the one who made kissy faces at all the gringas as they entered the school.

His name is Luis, but everyone calls him niño because he has the voice of a little kid.

He’s from Colombia and tells me he has a degree in veterinary medicine. After he finished his studies he decided to take some time off. He’s been in Cuenca

about two months– a little more than me.

Luis lives with Marcelo.

Marcelo is from the coast of Ecuador, so he talks really fast and doesn’t pronounce the ‘s’ at the end of words. I can never understand a word he’s saying.

Marcelo smokes a ton of pot and compares Ché Guevara to J.F.K. and Jesus. He’s waiting for his European girlfriend to return to Cuenca. When she left she promised to return in two years when she finished college. That was five years ago. He’s getting agitated but hasn’t lost hope.

For one week I accidently dated Lenny. We went for conversation and juice one night and the next day he introduced me as his girlfriend. Lenny is 23 and has lived in Cuenca all his life. He decided not to go to college after cheating his way through high school and now makes a living as a hippie.

I didn’t find out what the nickname Lenny stood for until the night we broke up.

My friend told me Lenny was a

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nickname for Orlando (ironic, considering my best friend in Cuenca since day one was Orlando). But that night at Zoociedad, the hippie bar by the river that should be world famous for its canelazo, I saw his I.D. card. Lenny stands for Lenin. His middle name is Stalin.

I’m pretty sure Lenin Stalin is just another tiburón: a shark.

Tiburónes prey on the gringa girls, the exotic Americans or Europeans who study in the city for a short amount of time, and try to charm their way into

their pants. You can find them everywhere in Cuenca, but they concentrate in the discothèques.

My first week in Ecuador was overwhelming. I was really excited; it was my first time in another country and I was practically all by myself.

I wanted to see and explore everything.

Around the fourth day I became more frustrated than anything. I had studied Spanish in the U.S. for five years, but no amount of classes in Rochester or Mankato can ever really prepare you for full immersion in a Spanish-speaking country. I was mad at myself for not being able to understand everybody.

I was annoyed with the guys who would drive by and shout “Hola gringa, cómo está?” and it drove me crazy that it was so difficult to be a vegetarian and I was eating rice, potatoes and mushrooms all the time.

By the next week I adjusted.

I learned how every food in Ecuador comes in soup form and that obviously, it should be

eaten with popcorn. I learned being called “gringa” isn’t always meant as an insult but instead as a description or even term of affection, like my host mom’s name for me- gringita.

I didn’t have time to do a whole lot during the week because of class, but weekends meant bars, discothèques (note: the drinking age in Ecuador is 18) and excursions to nearby villages or mountains. Since I had never really been to the mountains before, I never knew how peaceful they could be. It was wonderful to escape from the normal Ecuadorian street sounds of barking dogs and car alarms to the blissful ambience of the Andes, where the only noises to deal with are the wind and the occasional llama.

By the end of the first month, my biggest adventure outside the city had been Susudel, where, as a school, we had gone hiking in the mountains. My biggest adventure in the city had been to

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the ‘discoteca alternativa’- not entirely a gay bar, but pretty close. The night we went turned out to be a special one complete with a stripper, which no one knew about until we got there.

My friends and I stood outside the club for 20 minutes debating before we decided it was just a bit of nudity and went inside.

I’d never seen a stripper before, but I’d still have to say I

think he was a tasteful and very talented lad.

Although it was expensive, my other gringa friends, Cassandra, Elise and I decided we needed to take a trip to the jungle. We made our plans through a travel agency to fly from Cuenca to Quito then take an overnight bus ride to Lago Agrio, in northern Ecuador.

From there we would meet with

our guide who would take us to our lodge in the jungle, where we would be without electricity or running water for three days.

Elise and Cassandra were afraid of the spiders, I was afraid of the snakes, but none of us were afraid of what might happen.

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DOCTOR Students walking off campus late at night advised to avoid distractions, dark areas continued from 7 gentle presence of a dying old woman. Her tranquility in the shadow of death penetrates the deepest slumbers within my soul. The conundrum of fears and worries that vex my existence are concurrently silenced. Perhaps for the first time in my life, I feel a deep peace within my heart. I want to hug her.

Eight hours, two coffees and twenty patients later, I sit in The Doctor’s office with my hands on the sides of my head trying to make sense of everything I have witnessed. I feel perplexed.

Finally, The Doctor strolls back into his office and removes his lab coat. He looks up at me and

says “Son…lets go home.” On the drive home I feel exhausted but worked up at the same time.

The experience has been intense and emotionally draining. I find it difficult to accept that the people I saw are dying, and that no one can save them. Perhaps denial is just a way for me to cope with the unequivocal fact that someday, I, like everyone else is destined to die. I keep staring at my father on the ride home. It is unusual for me to see to see him in such a prestigious light, so professional in his demeanor. When he walks into the office he commands respect.

He leads the front in the fight against cancer; he is humble

with his words and gentle with his delivery. This is the same man that I see coming down from the stairs at wee hours in the morning in his underwear and sandals scrounging the fridge for peanut butter. It’s odd to see such a contrast. That night as I lay in my bed it dawns on me how precious and frail human life is. I realize that the most profound insights within ourselves are not read from books but obtained through experiencing the rawness of human emotion and the unified hopes of those yearning to breath free.

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Politics as usual One writer shares his post-town hall frustrations I’m a fan of politics. It’s kind of like being a fan of the Kansas City Royals: often boring, usually pointless, but hey, it’s something to follow. You can even enjoy the camaraderie of cheering on your favorite players with other spectators.

Take Thursday, for example.

Democratic Congressman Tim Walz was in Mankato for a town hall meeting to discuss the health care reform bill, or bills, to be more precise, wafting their way through Congress. In two hours more than 60 rounds of applause echoed through East High School’s auditorium (yes, I counted). Seriously, I heard more golf claps there than Sunday at the PGA Championship in Chaska.

It wasn’t all Minnesota Nice though. Walz, along with several audience members, received his fair share of boos and heckles from the crowd too.

The polarization began at the front door, where a dozen or more picketers, members of the Teamsters Local 120, waved signs with the headline “UNFAIR,” and gave out placards reading “Health Care Now,” to be held up during the meeting. I was prepared for

this, as unions comprise some of President Obama’s biggest supporters. Also, I had been forwarded an e-mail from a member of one of this very university’s unions earlier in the week.

The e-mails’ introduction outlined its purpose: “how to counteract the Extremist right wing groups that have been disrupting Town Hall Meetings.”

In addition to busing in John supporters from Rochester, also part Walz’ district, the mailing included a document titled “Tips on how to handle anti HC activists.” Here are some of the tips (as Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up): * Do not debate on their “policy” points * Interrupt them when they get disruptive and refocus the meeting *We should demonstrate that we are the majority by chanting The e-mail referred to

opponents of the reform bill as “militants” and “rightwing zealots,” yet its goal of strategically phrasing questions to “help move the message” and lining up supporters with prepared, generic statements seemed, well, militant and zealous.

I entered the school at 4:45 p.m. determined to seek out these fabled right-wingers I had read about in papers and online, so organized and headstrong, who had sullied debates elsewhere by booing and shouting down their members of Congress.

Incredibly, they were nowhere to be found.

Just a bunch of ordinary people, one or two with signs (which were confiscated before they could enter the Fritz auditorium), filled the line.

What I did see was an eager young TV reporter with his microphone thrust toward one of the people with signs, his cameraman shuffling in for a close-up. They didn’t seem real interest in the other 600 or so people there who had nothing to promote.

We got seated about 15 minutes before the scheduled start time of 6:00. In a format supposed to emphasize audience participation, I was surprised

Reporter • Page 9 to be talked at for the better part of an hour. Walz, a former teacher, led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. Then “America the Beautiful” was sung. Then a local pastor (separation of church and state, anyone?) sermonized for 15 minutes. Then forum moderator Dave Durenberger, a former Republican senator from Minnesota, talked for 10 more minutes about what he did for health care in the ‘80s (Ahem…?). Then Walz got up and gave a slideshow (title: Current Course = Disaster) for 10 minutes.

Finally, at around 6:35, the questions began. Many of the questions were actually statements that invited little

room for response, horror stories of individual medical care experience, and off-topic accusations against one party or another.

Walz, like all politicians worth their salt, is gifted in the art of dancing around questions and always returning to the points the he wants to talk about. Most of the jeers he received came when he tiptoed a little to delicately around pointed questions. He also got booed when he made overly sweeping statement about the potential of a public option (basically a government-run health insurance program). He tried several times to co-opt

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Family-run Professor’s relies on good karma to stay in business farthest thing from ordinary.

As an owner of the longestrunning head shop in Mankato, Jean spends her days selling hand-blown glass pipes and other glass products to customers from around the area.

Jean and her husband Ed have been co-owners of Professor’s for the past four years, but the shop has been in the family since her son Dan opened it in 2002.

On a whim four years ago, Jean and Ed quit their “normal” jobs and began putting all of their time and energy into the shop.

While Jean said Professor’s is doing well right now, things weren’t always playing out in the shop’s favor.

Several years ago the Fischers feared the store might be forced to close it’s doors after the

Minnesota government began trying to shut down shops of Professor’s nature. Jean said it was a stressful time, but eventually the whole fiasco fell under the radar.

“If kids are going to smoke, they are going to smoke,” Jean said. “Shutting these places down isn’t going to make kids stop.”

The shop also faced possible problems when another popular Mankato shop, Smokes 4 Less, opened next door to Professor’s.

When she first heard of the shops plans to move from Madison Avenue to right down the block, Jean said she was nervous it might cause Professor’s problems.

She said Dan reassured her, though,

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Michael Jackson’s death ruled a homicide LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson’s death has been ruled a homicide caused by a mix of drugs meant to treat insomnia, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, while his personal doctor told investigators he was actually trying to wean the King of Pop off the powerful anesthetic that did him in.

Forensic tests found the anesthetic propofol combined with at least two sedatives to kill Jackson, according to the official, who spoke Monday on condition of anonymity because the findings have not been publicly released. Based on those tests, the Los Angeles County Coroner has ruled the death a homicide, the official said.

The coroner’s homicide ruling does not necessarily mean a crime was committed.

But it makes it more likely criminal charges will be filed against Dr. Conrad Murray, the Las Vegas cardiologist who was caring for the pop star when he died June 25 in a rented Los Angeles mansion.

Through his lawyer, Murray has said he administered nothing that “should have” killed Jackson.

Murray told investigators that Jackson stopped breathing about 10 minutes after he relented and finally gave in to his patient’s demands for propofol around 10:40 a.m., following a nightlong regimen of sedatives that did not work, according to court documents unsealed Monday.

A search warrant affidavit unsealed in Houston, where Los Angeles police took materials from one of Murray’s clinics last month as part of their

manslaughter investigation, includes a detailed account of what detectives say Murray told them. Manslaughter is homicide without malice or premeditation.

The doctor said he’d been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks with 50 milligrams of propofol every night via an intravenous drip, the affidavit said. Murray said he feared Jackson was becoming addicted to the anesthetic, which is supposed to be used only in hospitals and other advanced medical settings, so he had lowered the dose to 25 milligrams and added the sedatives lorazepam and midazolam.

That combination had succeeded in helping Jackson sleep two days prior to his death. So the next day, Murray told detectives, he cut off the propofol — and Jackson fell asleep with just the two sedatives.

Then around 1:30 a.m. on June 25, starting with a 10-milligram tablet of Valium, Murray said he tried a series of drugs instead of propofol to make Jackson sleep. The injections included two milligrams of lorazepam around 2 a.m., two milligrams of midazolam around 3 a.m., and repeats of each at 5 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. respectively.

They didn’t work.

Murray told detectives that around 10:40 a.m. he gave in to Jackson’s “repeated demands/ requests” for propofol, which the singer called his “milk,” according to the affidavit. He administered 25 milligrams of the white-colored liquid — a relatively small dose — and finally, Jackson fell asleep.

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He declined to comment on the homicide ruling, saying, “We will be happy to address the coroner’s report when it is officially released.”

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Murray’s phone for between 11:18 a.m. and 12:05 p.m., the affidavit said. It’s not clear who received the calls. Murray had told authorities he was administering CPR during that time.

In a statement posted late Monday on his firm’s Web site, Murray’s attorney Edward Chernoff questioned the timeline as depicted in the affidavit, calling it “police theory.”

“Dr. Murray simply never told investigators that he found

withheld its autopsy findings, citing a request from police to wait until their investigation is complete.

It is no surprise that such a combination of medications could kill someone, said Dr. David Zvara, anesthesia chairman at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

“All those drugs act in synergy with each other,” Zvara said. Adding propofol on top of the other sedatives could have “tipped the balance” by depressing Jackson’s breathing

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The 25 milligrams of propofol “is not a whopping amount,” said Lee Cantrell, director of the San Diego division of the California Poison Control System. It was the cocktail of the other sedatives, known as benzodiazepines, that “may have been the trigger that pushed him over the edge,” Cantrell said.

Cantrell said it’s perplexing that someone would give various benzodiazepines if one was found not to be effective.

“This is horrible polypharmacy,” he said, referring to the interaction between the various drugs. “No one will treat an insomniac like this.”

The affidavit, signed by a judge July 20, said that the coroner’s office chief medical examiner told police his review of preliminary toxicology results showed “lethal levels of propofol.”

Besides the propofol and two sedatives, the coroner’s toxicology report found other substances in Jackson’s system but they were not believed to have been a factor in the singer’s death, the official told the AP.

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Other freshmen, like Mankato resident Josh Klaustermeier, chose to attend MSU because the university is close to home. He also heard about the university’s outstanding business program. “[I’m] pretty sure that’ll be what I go for- that or accounting,” Klaustermeier said.

Like most students, Klaustermeier wants to have fun, get good grades and fit in with everyone.

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North Korea invites Obama to negotiate Proposed visit would be the first nuclear negotiation between the two countries under his presidency SEOUL, South Korea (AP)— North Korea has invited top envoys of President Barack Obama to visit the communist nation in what would be the first nuclear negotiations between the two countries under his presidency, a news report said Tuesday.

North Korea recently invited Stephen Bosworth, special envoy to North Korea, and chief nuclear negotiator Sung Kim to Pyongyang, and the U.S. government is strongly considering sending them to the North next month, Seoul’s JoongAng Ilbo daily reported.

There was no immediate response to the report from U.S. officials. Calls by The Associated Press to the U.S. Embassy in Seoul went unanswered.

The JoongAng report, citing an unidentified highlevel diplomatic source in Washington, said the U.S. diplomats might be able to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during the visit, considering Pyongyang’s recent conciliatory attitude.

Yonhap news agency also reported that the North has invited the two officials and that

the U.S. is reviewing the offer.

Such a trip would mark the first nuclear negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea under the Obama administration.

Pyongyang has long sought direction negotiations with Washington about its nuclear program and other issues, hoping to boost its international profile. The U.S. has said it is willing to talk bilaterally to Pyongyang, but only within the framework of six-party talks involving the two Koreas, the U.S., China, Russia and Japan.

Over the past year, North Korea had been stoking tensions with nuclear and missile tests while boycotting international nuclear talks. But in recent weeks, the North has become markedly more conciliatory toward the U.S. and South Korea.

The North freed two American journalists following a trip to Pyongyang by former President Bill Clinton earlier this month. It has also released a South Korean worker it held for more than four months, agreed to lift restrictions on border crossings with the South, and pledged to resume suspended

joint inter-Korean projects and reunions of families separated during the Korean War over five decades ago.

On Tuesday, Pyongyang accepted a South Korean offer to hold Red Cross talks from Wednesday to Friday to organize a new round of reunions of separated families, Seoul’s Unification Ministry spokesman Chun Hae-sung said.

The North also restored a direct telephone line via the border village of Panmunjom, he said.

Separately, South Korea planned to attempt again to shoot its first space rocket later Tuesday after last week’s bid aborted due to a technical glitch. North Korea has warned it would be “watching closely” for the international response to Seoul’s launch.

The rival Koreas are eager to develop space programs, and had aimed to send satellites into space this year. In April, the North launched a threestage rocket it claimed sent a communications satellite into orbit; some experts doubt the mission succeeded.

Washington, Tokyo and others called that launch a

disguised test of long-range missile technology. The U.N. Security Council condemned the launch, saying it was a violation of resolutions banning North Korea from ballistic missile-related activity.

Despite the series of recent overtures from Pyongyang, Seoul and Washington have remained firm that they need to see North Korea taking concrete steps on ending its nuclear programs before they consider softening their stance on a nation known for backtracking on agreements.

“We are sticking to our existing position that we will continue faithfully carrying out U.N. resolutions while urging North Korea to return to six-party talks” on its nuclear programs, Seoul’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Moon Taeyoung said regarding talks over the weekend between Bosworth and South Korean officials.

Washington has been keeping up pressure on Pyongyang to dismantle its nuclear programs, sending a senior official to Asia to seek support for stringent implementation of the U.N. sanctions meant to punish the North for its May 25 nuclear

test.

North Korea has long balanced stoking tensions with conciliatory overtures to extract concessions and head off sanctions.

After a long impasse in the nuclear standoff, Pyongyang carried out its first-ever nuclear test in 2006. The bold move resulted in a U.N. sanctions resolution, but the North got away unscathed by agreeing to return to the negotiating table.

Subsequent talks made some progress, but stalled again later and led to Pyongyang’s second nuclear test in May. South Korea and the U.S. have repeatedly said they don’t want to repeat this pattern.

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saying that Professor’s just needed to keep doing what they were doing and good karma would come around.

Good karma did end up coming to the shop and Jean said Professor’s has actually been the busiest it has ever been since Smokes 4 Less relocated in June.

“I think it actually helps that Smokes 4 Less is right next to us,” she said. “People used to go to [Smokes 4 Less] to get their cigarettes and then they would just stay and buy glass. Well, now he moved right next door, so people walk past [Professor’s] first and come in here.”

She added that even with the competition, the shop seems to just keep growing and getting bigger.

Earlier this month, Professor’s celebrated its seven-

year anniversary. The day was filled with music, food and give aways.

Jean said the shop has no intention of closing its doors any time soon.

To her it’s a special place because it is family owned and operated. Every glass item in the store is chosen by the Fischers and hand-blown.

Nothing at Professor’s is made in a factory.

Jean seemed to welcome friendly competition after learning of Professor’s business growth after Smokes 4 Less moved in.

Only time will tell, though, whether Professor’s will continue to thrive now that the popular Minneapolisbased business Clown Glass opened this weekend on North Riverfront Drive.

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UNIQUE Walz anti-tort reform, pro-Medicare, pro-public option continued from 9 the traditionally conservative talking point of free-market principles. Since he was advocating the government takeover of yet another part of the economy, this argument rang pretty hollow, and the crowd – which I would estimate to be against the reform bill by a margin of 2-to-1 – called him on it.

Still, I got the answers I

came to hear. Walz is against tort reform (no surprise, since trial lawyers are another major constituency of the Democratic Party), pro Medicare reform, pro public option, and against state-to-state competition (whereby people could get health insurance from around the country, which they can’t do now).

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What made The Reporter during the summer May MSU student Alex Daniel Smith, 21, was taken into custody for 20 felony charges for the dissemination and possession of child pornography.

The arrest followed a yearlong investigation by the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA). Around 1,000 videos and 11,000 images of child pornography were found on Smith’s laptop. The images and videos filled seven DVDs and were sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) for possible identification of the victims.

NCMEC received three “cybertips” in March 2008 from YouTube regarding posted child pornography. The tips lead a BCA investigator to 14 videos featuring young boys and girls engaged in sexual acts.

After more YouTube tips surfaced, investigators gathered email and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. This led them to a Faribault home, the residence of Smith’s mother. Investigators also linked a MySpace account from someone named “Smithy” to the address and compared a site photograph to one from the Minnesota Department of Motor Vehicles records to determine whether they were the same person.

Investigators obtained a search warrant for the Faribault home in January and later, for his McElroy dorm room.

Smith appeared in court May 28. He was an elementary education major who worked part-time for a day-care provider.

MSU won the first-place award for diversity in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) system.

The first-time Institutional Excellence in Diversity award recognized exceptional accomplishment in diversity leadership, programming and services.

Vice President for Institutional Diversity Michael Fagin said he believed MSU won the award because of its diversity-related curriculum and out of class programs, such as the Chicano Leadership Institute and Pan African Student Leadership Conference.

“We’re known throughout the state and nation for consistently giving programs that develop leaders for our multicultural and global society,” Fagin said.

The university also won two second places awards. The innovative practices award went to MSU’s pre-doctoral fellowship programs for practices that foster inclusivity.

The other, the student organization diversity award,

went to the Hmong Student Association.

Fagin said the award would act as a motivator for MSU. “I see this as an award to the university, not one single program,” he said. “It’s a symbol for us to continue to strive toward excellence and promote MSU as a welcoming environment to all people.”

July Minnesota State student Jamie Totman competed in a poker competition in Las Vegas.

The pre-med student began by playing for fun at Pub 500 and soon found herself ranked no. 14 out of more than 200 players in a state competition in Mahnomen, Minn. In July she competed against 47 other players from across the country at the national championship in the Palms Casino Resort.

Although she didn’t make it to

the World Series, Totman said the experience was well worth the trip.

Pub 500 co-owner called Totman a “very solid and a very deliberate, good player.” Totman is at the top of her league at Pub 500, giving her the chance to compete at a higher level in the near future. She also plays at Buster’s and Choppers in Mankato but says she is most loyal to Pub 500.

Totman calls poker a stress reliever/ The Mankato-born, human biology and Spanish major wasn’t too worried about playing in Vegas.

“I was obviously nervous playing there, but poker is poker,” she said. “If you don’t get cards there’s not really anything you can do about it…that’s pretty much what happened to me.”

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New way of producing methamphetamines leads to increased usage and fears TULSA, Okla. (AP) — This is the new formula for methamphetamine: a two-liter soda bottle, a few handfuls of cold pills and some noxious chemicals. Shake the bottle and the volatile reaction produces one of the world’s most addictive drugs.

Only a few years ago, making meth required an elaborate lab — with filthy containers simmering over open flames, cans of flammable liquids and hundreds of pills.

The process gave off foul odors, sometimes sparked explosions and was so hard to conceal that dealers often “cooked” their drugs in rural areas.

But now drug users are making their own meth in small batches using a faster, cheaper and much simpler method with ingredients that can be carried in a knapsack and mixed on the run. The “shake-and-bake” approach has become popular because it requires a relatively small number of pills of the decongestant pseudoephedrine — an amount easily obtained under even the toughest antimeth laws that have been adopted across the nation to restrict large purchases of some cold medication.

“Somebody somewhere said ‘Wait this requires a lot less pseudoephedrine, and I can fly under the radar,’” said Mark Woodward, spokesman for the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control.

An Associated Press review of lab seizures and interviews with state and federal law enforcement agents found that the new method is rapidly spreading across the nation’s midsection and is contributing to a spike in the number of meth cases after years of declining arrests.

The new formula does away with the clutter of typical meth labs, and it can turn the back seat of a car or a bathroom stall into a makeshift drug factory.

Some addicts have even made the drug while driving.

The pills are crushed, combined with some common household chemicals and then shaken in the soda bottle. No flame is required.

Using the new formula, batches of meth are much smaller but just as dangerous as the old system, which sometimes produces powerful explosions, touches off intense fires and releases drug ingredients that must be handled as toxic waste.

“If there is any oxygen at all in the bottle, it has a propensity to make a giant fireball,” said Sgt. Jason Clark of the Missouri

State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control.

“You’re not dealing with rocket scientists here anyway. If they get unlucky at all, it can have a very devastating reaction.”

One little mistake, such as unscrewing the bottle cap too fast, can result in a huge blast, and police in Alabama, Oklahoma and other states have linked dozens of flash fires this year — some of them fatal — to meth manufacturing.

“Every meth recipe is dangerous, but in this one, if you don’t shake it just right, you can build up too much pressure, and the container can pop,” Woodward said.

When fire broke out in older labs, “it was usually on a stove in a back room or garage and people would just run, but when these things pop, you see more extreme burns because they are holding it. There are more fires and more burns because of the close proximity, whether it’s on a couch or driving down the road.”

After the chemical reaction, what’s left is a crystalline

powder that users smoke, snort or inject. They often discard the bottle, which now contains a poisonous brown and white sludge. Dozens of reports describe toxic bottles strewn along highways and rural roads in states with the worst meth problems.

The do-it-yourself method creates just enough meth for a few hits, allowing users to make their own doses instead of buying mass-produced drugs from a dealer.

“It simplified the process so much that everybody’s making their own dope,” said Kevin Williams, sheriff of Marion County, Ala., about 80 miles west of Birmingham. “It can be your next-door neighbor doing it. It can be one of your family members living downstairs in the basement.”

A typical meth lab would normally take days to generate a full-size batch of meth, which would require a heat source and dozens, maybe hundreds, of boxes of cold pills.

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The federal government and dozens of states adopted restrictions on pseudoephedrine in 2005, and the number of lab busts fell dramatically.

The total number of clandestine meth lab incidents reported to the Drug Enforcement Administration fell from almost 17,400 in 2003 to just 7,347 in 2006.

But the number of busts has begun to climb again, and some authorities blame the shake-andbake method for renewing meth activity.

The AP review of 14 states found: — At least 10 states reported increases in meth lab seizures or meth-related arrests from 2007 to 2008.

— The Mississippi State Crime Lab participated in 457 meth incidents through May 31, up from 122 for the same period a year ago — a nearly 275

percent increase.

— Several states, such as Oklahoma and Tennessee, are on pace this year to double the number of labs busted in 2008.

The director of Tennessee’s meth task force said the pace of lab busts in his state is projected to be about 1,300 for 2009, compared with 815 for all of 2008.

Some states lack a central database to monitor cold medicine sales, so meth cooks circumvent state laws by pill shopping in multiple cities and states — a practice known as “smurfing” that allows them to stay under restrictions placed on sales.

Traci Fruit, a special agent with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, said law enforcement officials are becoming increasingly frustrated because there’s no way to tell who is buying what “unless we go from store to store ourselves and pull up the records.”

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Quentin Tarantino’s newest masterpiece NATE BRENNAN

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Something that’s relatively lost in our present mass state of film is the Auteur theory developed in the 1950s by legendary French director François Truffaut. His theory states that directors should make films through the lens of their personal creative vision as if they are the film’s primary author.

Yet directors such as Paul Thomas Anderson, Alfonso Cuarón, Martin Scorcese and, of course, Quentin Tarantino, stay true to the directing formulas of the greats of old and continue to produce idiosyncratic films that are beautiful and grandiose achievements in filmmaking.

And Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” is nothing short of an achievement in filmmaking.

In reference to “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino said, “you’ve never seen a Nazi movie like this before.” I’d go one further and say you’ve never seen a war movie like this, period.

The film is told through Tarantino’s usual chapter

system, each section a piece of the elaborate puzzle that is the film. This system establishes a pulp sensibility from the start and works as well here as it has in his previous films.

The pulp in the film is unsurprisingly not contained to the framework of its storyline. Simply by choosing the most hated group and governmental reign of all time to be the antagonists and a ragtag group of their mortal enemies, both racially and regionally, as the protagonists creates an atmosphere of comic proportions.

The film opens with an introduction to the main antagonist, SS Colonel Hans photo courtesy of movieweb.com Landa (Christoph Waltz), arguably the most jovial and Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) carves up some justice while fellow basterd Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth) looks on. enjoyably nefarious villain ever conceived. ease, blithely describes his Landa yells out the window The Inglourious Basterds In Tarantino’s traditional deservedness and pride of his “Auf wiedersehen” (goodbye) themselves are led by a long dialogue-driven scene nickname, “The Jew Hunter.” to her. horrendous rope-burn-toting style, Landa merrily interrogates Landa then promptly In just a few short minutes, Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). The a Frenchman believed to be discovers the hidden Jewish Tarantino has displayed that he group of Jewish soldiers is illegally harboring Jews in his family’s location under the is second to none in his ability dairy farm household. Landa, floorboards and orders his SS to thoroughly develop a scene Basterds / page B4 smoking a tremendously officers in to murder them. and create an atmosphere in large pipe and switching But the 17-year-old daughter, which the rest of the film will between languages with casual Shosanna, escapes and a smiling follow suit.

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Four days in the woods at 10,000 Lakes Festival JASON JENKINS

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Summer music festivals have become a favorite vacation destination for all ages and musical tastes and it’s not hard to understand why.

From Woodstock to Glastonbury, music festivals have long been able to speak on a

universal level, acting on a simple idea - let’s get a bunch of people together and listen to music…outside! Today, whether it’s Chicago’s Lollapalooza, Tennessee’s Bonnaroo or California’s Coachella, festivals are an annual pilgrimage for adamant fans of the live music experience.

And for four days in late July, this year’s 10,000 Lakes

Festival (10KLF) became host to thousands of eager music fans, turning the otherwise quiet northwest Minnesota town of Detroit Lakes into a musical Mecca.

Having never attended a festival, I decided to get dirty and experience 10KLF firsthand.

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‘District 9’ breaks through the mold How Neil Blomkamp gave science fiction its groove back DEAN GORDEN

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The summer of 2009 has played host to the examination of the Science Fiction genre.

Over the past few months, audiences have been exposed to both its exciting potential (Star Trek), as well as its bottom feeding blockbuster bailouts such as “Terminator” and Transformers”.

But as this summer’s exploration of the genre draws to an end, Neill Blomkamp’s “District 9” comes as its best offering thus far.

Produced under the imagination of Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings), “District 9” retains its signature genre roots by failing to substitute its plot lines and engaged storytelling for cheap theatrics and tech showcases.

Originally, the film was slated as the Halo movie, based on the world-renowned video game series. The film that became “District 9” would cease to exist had it not been for the internal disagreements between the film’s financiers, Fox, Universal and Microsoft.

After the Halo film was eventually discarded, Peter Jackson

and those involved gave unproven director Blomkamp the opportunity to direct a featurelength movie. And just like that, “District 9” was born.

Michael Bay fans beware; “District 9” delves further than discovering Allspark cubes or exterminating super- powered robots. A feature-length adaptation of Blomkamp’s short film “Alive in Joburg,” the film expands on its predecessor’s

themes of racial intolerance and parallels the events that occurred under the Apartheid system of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Under this setting, issues such as Apartheid, prejudice and segregation are challenged, offering a gripping story shot through a documentary style exposé.

Moreover, while the ambitions of its storyline exceed

movieweb.com “District 9” manages to pack the same punch as fellow action-packed summer releases without sacrificing the script

those of its more recent predecessors, “District 9”’s visuals and effects make no compromises.

Made on a modest budget, Peter Jackson’s team delivers an engrossing spectacle that maintains a comfortable Shartlo Copley gives a heart-wrenching perforpace throughmance as Wikus Van De Merwe. out the film.

While “District 9” breaks format. The film eventually a noticeable trend by incorporat- distances the relationship of the ing a thought provoking script audience with Van De Merwe, to go along with all of the action the film’s protagonist, costing packed explosions and visual the impact of its own conclusion. effects expected of summer reAlthough these lapses leases, the film does seem to slip in quality do occur at times in its execution. After successthroughout the film, “District fully indulging its audience in a 9”’s originality and approach fear of our human race’s future, make it a must see for any mov“District 9” cuts corners in its iegoer with a taste for science conclusion that leaves viewers fiction and begs to question why wanting more of a resolve. the genre ever settled for films Its documentary style prebased on children’s toys. sentation does a wonderful job of building the storyline and educating the audience of the circumstances leading to the events of the film, but certain plot points get muddled in the

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10KLF “I decided to get dirty and experience 10KLF firsthand.”

GOING IN Packed with equipment necessary for spending four days in the woods - tent, food, clothes and guitar, I ventured into the festival grounds not unlike a tourist visiting a foreign country – excited, scared and expectant of just about anything. To my surprise, Soo Pass Ranch’s four camping grounds were complete with small general stores, a makeshift golf cart taxi service, showers and toilets with running water for those with porta-potty phobias.

THE MUSIC Of course a festival can’t be considered a success without good music and this year’s lineup did not disappoint. Sure the headlining acts are a must see, but checking out new bands can be just as exciting and with over 90 bands on 6 stages, a dizzying endeavor.

As the sun disappeared out over the trees on the first night, so did my music-related expectations. Preparing to hear mostly jam bands and reggae-fused Rasta rock, it was a nice surprise to see an electronic-rave act like Pretty Lights walk the stage armed only with a computer and drum set and light up the night like the many glow sticks in the crowd. It was soon after that I found LA rockers Carney up at the indoor Saloon Stage playing their set which included a pair of Beatles covers much to the crowd’s approval.

MASON JENNINGS Thursday night held perhaps the most impressive and diverse

lineup with Mason Jennings, Wilco and Atmosphere playing back-to-back-to-back. The jangly Minnesota favorite Jennings yielded an electric guitar for most of the set, breaking out a number of new songs from his upcoming album “Blood of Man.” WILCO Wilco took the stage shortly after Mason Jennings (oddly to “The Price is Right” theme song). Covering a thorough arrangement of their nearly two decade career, the band widely coined as “the quintessential American rock band” opened with the cheeky “Wilco (the song),” off the new “Wilco (the album),” showing that they still know not to take themselves too seriously. They were later met with cheers when lead singer Jeff Tweedy announced they would be back to play Minnesota in October.

ATMOSPHERE Over at the Field Stage, rapper Atmosphere hit the stage just before midnight as the storm clouds rolled in. It wasn’t until the skies opened up (and after he got the okay from his sound guy that he had time for one more song before the lightning came) that the Minneapolis native aptly decided to break out the head banging song “Sunshine” that had the crowd singing along in protest. Even having to cut his two-hour set short by an hour, Atmosphere still left the rainsoaked crowd in giddy spirits.

CLOUD CULT Yet another Minnesota band growing in popularity, Cloud Cult played to a full house at the Barn Stage. With their genre-defying upbeat sound and hallmark pair of accompanying painters (the two paintings get sold after every show), Cloud Cult seemed to rightfully earn every devoted fan who was singing along to every lyric.

TRAMPLED BY TURTLES Then there are the musical freaks of nature that make up Trampled by Turtles, the band that ferociously pounds out bluegrass music with punk rock speed, all without leaving the comfort of their chairs. The Onion described the Duluth band as “perhaps the best live band in the state,” and rightfully so.

DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Dave Matthews was the biggest name at this year’s 10klf and played like it on the Main Stage Saturday night to a massive crowd. With seemingly nonstop energy, Dave Matthews ended his three-hour set with a spirited rendition of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” that segued in and out of another classic, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” making the fireworks that followed almost seem redundant.

PERT NEAR SANDSTONE The Twin Cities string band Pert Near Sandstone was unofficially given the job as the closers of 10klf 2009 and did so with enough energy to keep the already four-day tired fest-goers

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wanting more. The smallest venue at the event, the Vitamin Water Saloon hosted the band as they played their old-timey bluegrass with breakneck speed, turning the sardined room into a late night house party that was a fitting end to 10klf 2009.

There were dozens more equally talented and noteworthy acts I could go on and on about, but more words will ultimately fail to bring justice to the overall

experience. It’s safe to say that 10klf has rightfully earned its reputation as Minnesota’s friendliest and fastest growing music festival. The festival has certainly set up a sunny future for itself and Minnesotans who can be proud to call the festival their very own.

Studio pushes ‘Shutter Island’ to February LOS ANGELES (AP) — Paramount Pictures has moved Martin Scorsese’s “Shutter Island” from an October release date to February, which takes it out of awards consideration for this year.

Studio chairman and chief executive officer Brad Grey said Friday that the scheduling shift from Oct. 2 to Feb. 19 was an economic decision.

“This is a situation facing every single studio as we all work through the financial pressures associated with the broader downturn,” he said.

The anticipated thriller marks the latest pairing of Scorsese and star Leonardo DiCaprio, following “Gangs of New York” (2002), “The Aviator” (2004) and “The Departed” (2006), which won the Academy Award for best

picture and earned Scorsese his first directing Oscar. It also stars Ben Kingsley, Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and Michelle Williams.

Based on a novel by “Mystic River” author Dennis Lehane, “Shutter Island” follows the investigation into the disappearance of a murderess from a mental institution. DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal in 1954 Boston looking for the woman, who is presumed to have escaped to the remote Shutter Island. His involvement in the case starts to make him question his own sanity.

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BASTERDS “You’ve never seen a Nazi movie like this before.” continued from B1 brought together, as Raine says in his Appalachian inflection, “to do one thing and one thing only, killin’ Nazis.”

And with Raine requiring one hundred Nazi scalps from each member, kill them they do, in a way both brutal and gut-bustingly-hilarious, a feat by Tarantino both appalling and amazing.

There is seemingly no message to take away from “Inglourious Basterds.” No great philosophies to lay awake at night thinking about. Yet, disguised behind the Nazi scalpings and German propagandist film spoofs (the film “A Nation at War” in the film was directed by Eli Roth who plays Sgt. Donny Donowitz) is a focus on the human element and the way in which humans treat each other at their most desperate moments, for better or worse.

In the opening scene, Landa, in a terser manner of words, summarizes what each character

in the film eventually succumbs to — “what human beings are capable of when they abandon dignity.”

Tarantino really does everything right in his making of

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ASHLEY JOHANSEN

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Indiana Jones fans may have something to look forward to this school year with an art show that is taking place at the Minnesota State Conkling Gallery.

The Works on Paper art club is collaborating with the Mudworks club to put on an art show that takes its theme from the blockbuster “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.”

“This idea started out as an ongoing joke within the group, but then people kept getting more excited and motivated about putting this installation together,” said Mackenzy Albright, vice president of Works on Paper.

The show will feature a unique medium — cardboard — with screenprinted objects to form the club’s vision of the legendary Temple of Doom.

“This installation is a way for us to incorporate our art work, but to bring the community in as well,” Albright said. A popular film tie-in might be the key to bringing in more visitors to the artistic display.

The Mudworks club will incorporate ceramic pieces to contribute to the installation.

“Mudworks is a group of ceramists, and as we all know, ‘Indiana Jones’ is filled with priceless pieces of pottery and ceramic works,” said Jennifer Indy / B7

You don't have to travel far on the Minnesota State University campus to find a fan of South Street Saloon.

Located near the street corner of Front and Cherry in downtown Mankato, Minn., the bar has become a favorite among MSU students looking for a place to spend a night they won't remember.

Styling itself around its namesake, the modern-day saloon boasts stereotypical Western-theme accouterments such as bigscreen televisions, rap music and light beer.

But the establishment really draws its booze-swilling patrons with sweet promises of long

lines, poor service and high prices. This strategy is seen as a bold move against the prototypical tavern which lends its focus toward customer service, drink specials and flavorful themes such as ladies' and karaoke nights, but South Street Saloon remains firm and takes a refreshing approach to the bar business by doing absolutely nothing special whatsoever.

Local alcohol enthusiast and MSU student Ryan Madsen wouldn't have it any other way.

Madsen praised the bar for consistently

having "a sh*t-ton of people in there."

He added, "Dude, you don't even know, I love South Street (Saloon) so much, dude."

And with a limited beer selection and even more limited elbowroom, it's no wonder why more college students prefer the bar over its more unique contemporaries.

Why subject yourself to the exotic and cozy confines of the Red Sky Lounge or spend a night at the award-winning Boomtown when South Street Saloon is just a 10-minute line to get in and another

20-minute line to get a beer away?

Arguably the only thing bad part of South Street Saloon is the atrociously violent punching bag video game which scores boxers' punch strength.

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These Chicago hip-hoppers don’t play by your rules or fit into your stereotype of what a rapper should dress like and what a rapper should act like.

The duo raps about riding chromed-out BMX bikes (“Black Mags”), wearing retro Nike shoes with their tight jeans (“88”) and being generally awesome (“Mikey Rocks”).

Their style may sound corny, but they flow with the best of them, earning them well-received and attended spots at the best summer music festivals.

Former Ima Robot lead singer Alex Ebert (a.k.a.

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The band has been described as a mixture between the Arcade Fire and the Mamas and the Papas — not bad comparisons to get.

Key track “Home” is an outrageously fun sing-along sung as a duet between Ebert and his ex-wife, who is also a member of the band.

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The Arctic Monkeys rose to fame seemingly in a matter of seconds after their first release, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not.” Yet they’re no one-hit wonder English boy-band copping styles to make a quick buck.

Here, singer Alex Turner pens tales of striking out with women at a local pub and drowning sorrows in a pint. It sounds so miserable, but the band plays it like it’s never been more fun to be so upset.

Detroit rapper Finale may be relatively unknown to you, but he is a giant in the underground hip-hop community and a favorite in his hometown.

He’s fierce, smooth and inspiring all at once.

He’s just like all of us aiming for our dreams equipped with only “A Pipe Dream and a Promise.”

INDY Works On Paper and Mudworks combine to make art inspired by “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” continued from B6

Hunter, a Works on Paper member.

According to Albright, this installation was inspired by two different shows he attended — a ‘Star Wars’themed installation using cardboard as the medium and a Walker Art Center exhibit with screen-printed images on cardboard.

Works on Paper was put together by a group of students from the printmaking art department. Although this particular show combines screen-printing and cardboard, the students typically use a variety of artistic methods and mediums.

“This group was created

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There is a buzz in the air surrounding Maverick athletics early in the year LEVI ZIMMER

staff writer The new year has begun and the fall sports season is in full swing. The 2008 fall sports season was packed with success, from the football teams first winning season since 2004 to the women’s soccer team taking the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) tournament championship. The expectations of Maverick’s sports has been on the rise over the past few years and this fall will be no exception.

The football team is looking for its second straight winning season after posting a 9-3 overall record in 2008. The team is looking to build on last year’s success. They are ranked in most of the national preseason polls — as high as twelfth in the USA Today/ Sports Weekly Preseason Poll.

“Things are looking positive,” said head football coach Todd Hoffner. “We need to have confidence going into the

photos courtesy of Sports Pix The MSU volleyball, soccer and football teams are all projected to finish in the top-three in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.

first game, we can’t be argent, confidence is important.”

The women’s soccer team is coming off a 16-4-2 campaign in 2008, finishing the season as conference champions and

ranking No. 19 in the NCSAA/ Adidas Division II National Poll. They are also welcoming back Second Team All-American junior forward Laura Leber.

“Laura’s talents and her in-

dividual accomplishments as an All-American last year — being the third in the programs history — is a tremendous accomplishment,” said head soccer coach Peter McGahey.

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Expectations / page B15

Jutting and Mavericks agree to four-year extension Head coach Troy Jutting will enter his 10th year leading MSU hockey PAT DELANEY

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Minnesota State has been more than pleased with the leadership brought by men’s hockey coach Troy Jutting. Nine years after hiring a first-time college head coach, MSU was able to reach a contract extension that will keep Jutting here for at least another four years.

“It was something we had been working on for a while,” said Jutting. “My intention was always to stay at MSU; I really enjoy both the college and community.”

Jutting has been enjoying it here for well over 20 years. The Richfield native came to MSU in 1982 as a player. After four successful years on the ice, Jutting would turn his attention to the bench, working his way up from graduate assistant to full time assistant, and then becoming MSU’s third head coach prior to the 2000 season.

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In that time, the program has experienced a lot of changes, the biggest being their admission into the WCHA, perhaps the toughest conference in college hockey. Even with bigger programs like the University of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota, Jutting has proven that with him at the helm, the

appearance as a Division 1 program in the NCAA tournament.

The second award came in 2008, a season most fans remember as the year when MSU and the Minnesota Gophers battled it out at the Alltel Center in a bestof-three playoff series. The game resulted in three overtime games with the Gophers barely sneaking out of Mankato on top.

With a new contract in place, Jutting can begin to look forward to having a bounce- Troy Jutting back season this year after an injury plagued the team underachieved Mavericks will compete. last season.

“We always are trying to sell “Last year was disappointthe university, showing students ing because we got off to such that this is a great place to go to school and play hockey,” Jutting a good start, but we have good players with a lot experience said. coming into this season, I’m Jutting’s efforts have brought really excited for this year,” he him two WCHA coach of the said. year awards. The first one in 2003 when Jutting led the MavOne of the first decisions Jutericks to a second place finish Jutting / page B15 in the conference and their first

My intention was always to stay at MSU. I really enjoy both the college and the community.””

web photo Jutting has won the Western Collegiate Hockey Association coach of the year twice in his coaching career.

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Despite rusty Favre, Vikings beat Chiefs MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — In a meaningless exhibition as he began his 19th NFL season, Brett Favre felt the butterflies.

Camera flashes illuminated the Metrodome on each of his eight plays for Minnesota, and only one completed pass was captured on film. After an injury-free night without any major blunders, though, Favre declared his Vikings debut a success.

His predictably brief preseason performance was the obvious highlight of a 17-13 victory by the Vikings on Friday over the Kansas City Chiefs, preserved by a goal line stand by the third-stringers.

"I just didn't want to fumble the snap," Favre said. "Wanted to make sure I got the handoffs.

If you complete passes, great.

But I was nervous about that."

Cheered loudly by the same fans who used to loathe him when he played for Green Bay, Favre played two series and went 1 for 4 for a whopping 4 yards. He moved around all right and his passes had zip, just no direction.

Tarvaris Jackson, whose job was taken when Favre ended another retirement this week, was the more polished quarterback for Minnesota: 12 for 15 for 202 yards and two touchdowns.

Favre's night ended with

a jarring hit by Chiefs version of the West Coast linebacker Corey Mays, offense well, but it will who buried his head in take the Vikings time to the 39-year-old's chest as get in a groove with the he drove him into the turf new guy. to force an errant throw.

"It don't think it Favre got up and walked should take too long," off fine, his purple No. 4 Peterson said, adding: jersey — such a strange "These next two weeks, sight, for sure — pulled we'll be able to smooth down and exposing his things out and get ready left shoulder pad. for the regular season."

"He did tell me that Kansas City's Matt no one's tackled him off Cassel is in the same his tractor," coach Brad mode, his adjustment still Childress said. "Good for in progress after coming him to get hit." in a trade with New EngFavre worked out at land. He led the Chiefs his local high school all on two scoring drives, summer as he built his including a 4-yard touchstrength back following down toss to Dwayne arthroscopic surgery on Bowe early in the second his throwing arm, but quarter once Minnesota's web photo second-string defense after initially telling the Vikings no he didn't join Favre was 1-4 with four yards in his first game with was in. Cassel faced plenty the Vikings. of pressure, taking three the team until Tuesday. field.

But Adrian Peterson, who Yet there he was, three sacks, and finished 9 for carried 10 times for 44 yards, days later, taking snaps with the 14 for 99 yards. was smothered in the backfield first team and trying to find a "Sometimes you just get out for a big loss. rhythm with his new receivers. there and run around," Cassel Favre was off the mark "That'll be an adjustment all said. twice more on the next possesyear. It really will be," Favre New coach Todd Haley sion, misfiring toward Jaymar has been frustrated by Cassaid.

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Said Haley: "The quarterback play across the board was better.

All three quarterbacks looked like they had a handle on what was going on."

With Sage Rosenfels sitting out because of a sprained ankle suffered in a solid game last week at Indianapolis, Jackson played the equivalent of two full quarters.

Jackson, who prompted mild booing when he jogged to the huddle because that meant Favre was done, evaded a blitz on third-and-8 in the second quarter and found Visanthe Shiancoe for a 13-yard score. In the third, Jackson hit Darius Reynaud on a post pattern for a 64-yard touchdown to put Minnesota in front 14-13.

"Whenever you play well, you always feel good," Jackson said. "Regardless of the situation or the circumstances, it felt good. It was a long week for me.

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Sports editor Kyle Ratke gives his thoughts about a certain indecisive quarterback

KYLE RATKE

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Well, here’s the excitement kids — Brett Favre is a Minnesota Viking.

I have mixed emotions, as I am sure all of you do, about the Favre topic. If this decision was made two weeks ago, I would have been completely fine with it and very excited. Now I am not fine with it, but still kind of excited.

When Brad Childress said that he was happy with our quarterbacks, I believed half of it. I didn’t think he was happy with Sage and T-Jack, but he didn’t really have a choice. I thought Favre had moved on, but when I woke up last Tuesday morning, I realized the future Hall of Famer hadn’t.

Do you think Sage was crying in the locker room after he heard the news?

I bet he was.

John David Booty is probably holding him saying, “It’s alright Sage, it’s alright.”

Well, sorry to break it to ya Sage, but no, it’s not. You just got done playing one of the best preseason games of your life against the Colts and your team turns its back on you and signs Favre. You’re a 31-year-old quarterback who doesn’t have the skill to stick around for another five years.

I feel for you Sage, I really do.

Speaking of JDB, do you think Brett Favre will buy him a car for No. 4, or just say, “Hey Booty, give me your jersey.”

“Oh ... Ok Mr. Favre. Whatever you say.”

I understand we just got a future Hall of Fame quarterback, but he is obviously not one right now. Favre is not in the position to be the quarterback the Vikings want him to be — a game manager.

Favre wants to throw the ball.

We all saw how that went down during the second half of the season last season. This is a very difficult situation to be involved in. Brett Favre acted like a hot girl in high school who has all the band nerds whipped.

Think about it. The Vikings said they wanted Favre at OTA’s and training camp. Favre then said, “Nope, I will stay retired.”

But when all the dirty work is over, while Rosenfels and T-Jack work their tails off, Brett decides, “Hey, maybe I will come back now. Thanks for the cash and the starting spot. You don’t mind if

I throw 20 picks do ya? Sounds good, Brad.”

I don’t like it, but then again, think of it like this: Favre, Rosenfels or Jackson?

You’re obviously going to take Favre.

Don’t the Vikings need a game manager, not a game changer?

When you think of game changer you think of Peyton Manning, Tom Brady or Phillip Rivers. They change the game with their skill level to put their team on top.

Here are some other game changers: Alex Smith, Dan Orlovsky and Rex Grossman.

Orlovsky certainly changed the game against the Vikings — by running out of the endzone.

Favre has certainly won a lot of games for his team, but let’s not forget the many he’s lost.

I know this signing is great for the fan base, season ticket holders and possibly the resurgence of Brad Childress’ coaching career.

But do you think it’s best for the team?

Only time will tell.

Remember, this team won 10 games last year with Gus Frerotte and Jackson. Two guys that were asked to manage the game, not change it. I am not taking a solid stance on this topic, because a month ago I was head over heels over Favre — then he broke my heart.

It’s like when you have a secret crush on some girl and then find out she thinks you’re a loser.

You never had her, but she still broke your heart. She calls you back two weeks later and says, “Kyle, wanna hang out?”

I would obviously say yes because these opportunities don’t come up every day, but the Vi-

kings already had a decent mate.

Hell, they had two of them.

As much as we hate on T-Jack, he’s not awful, just inexperienced.

They could have said no to Favre and they would have been respected for it. Either way, I would be split with this decision.

How many times does a team get the chance to sign a Brett Favre?

Not many.

I think we were a 10-win team with Sage and could be a 12-win team with Favre. Are two wins worth this kind of money?

I don’t think so. You can argue that he could bring us to the Super Bowl, but Favre isn’t the golden ticket to a championship team. Try to name the last team that was one 40-year old quarterback away from winning a title.

Don’t worry, I’ll wait.

There are some very good teams in the NFC and it’s not even guaranteed we can get out of our own division with teams like Chicago and Green Bay. Favre didn’t look excellent in his first preseason game with the Vikings, but it’s preseason, nobody really cares. The guy had two practices with the team and is still trying to get on the same page with the wideouts.

As the Common Man from KFAN would say, “Just because you get a date with the promqueen doesn’t mean you’re going to get lucky.”

“But I am willing to take that chance, even though the rejection could be worse.”

Peace out Rosenfels, Jackson and Booty.

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Fantasy football preview 2009

It’s a game of frustrations, yelling and absolutely no athletic ability is needed, but we still do it

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Having a fantasy football team is like being madly in love with a crazy girlfriend.

She’s high-maintenance, needy, depressing and consumes way too much of your time.

One week she’s faking an injury (Brandon Marshall), getting arrested outside of a bar (Plaxico Burress), threatening to end the relationship (Derrick Mason) or threatening to end her own life (Vince Young).

But on any given Sunday, she could surprise you with the most blissful few hours of your life.

Yet, like all crazy girlfriends, your fantasy football team is going to be very unpredictable.

Brees And unless you’re some modern-day Nostradamus, the only way to limit your team’s craziness is to make it more predictable.

Just a few years ago, it was pretty simple to do this.

Just take some stud starting running backs the first two rounds and then for the rest of the draft take whoever is best at your draft position.

But nowadays coaches, in an effort to keep their running backs fresh the whole season and to infuriate fantasy football owners everywhere, have injected you with schizophrenia, also known as the running back by committee approach.

With fewer running backs being of the 20-30 touches a game variety, also known as the feature back, it’s time to switch your draft strategy if you haven’t already.

First of all, if you don’t get a top-notch wide receiver in the first two rounds, good luck having any stability at the position the whole season.

This year, there are arguably 8-10 top-notch wide receivers.

The best receivers in order of personal rank are Larry Fitzgerald (ARI), Andre Johnson (HOU), Calvin Johnson (DET), Steve Smith (CAR), Randy Moss (NE), Reggie Wayne (IND), Gregg Jennings (GB) and Roddy White (ATL). Then you can add Anquan Boldin (ARI) if

you trust him to stay healthy and Terrell Owens (BUF) if you believe the “first year with a new team” trend (I do).

When it comes to quarterbacks, the average point differential from week to week is marginal at best.

Anyone from the upper echelon (in order: Drew Brees (NO), Peyton Manning (IND), Tom Brady (NE)) to the “lowly” David Garrard (JAC) and Trent Edwards (BUF) won’t necessarily hurt your team.

My strategy on the matter, and an increasingly popular trend, is to wait to draft your quarterback until the seventh or eighth round.

And instead of picking one main QB and a bogus backup, pick two within the span of three rounds and go with a double QB approach, based on which has the best matchups.

Tight ends are fairly deep this year and, like always, usually don’t make much of an impact fantasywise. So, it’s best not reach for one, but also not let all the good ones go by in your draft.

Arguably, you can’t go

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wrong in the first round.

Whoever you like, pick them.

Don’t worry about your fellow draft mates scoffing at you.

Two years ago everyone at the draft I was in scoffed when Randy Moss was taken early in the second round and again later when Adrian Peterson was taken in the sixth. Which brings me to my next draft point — mind games. While you shouldn’t be affected by those who disagree with your picks, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be messing with the minds of your fellow fantasy drafters.

A simple “Ha ha!” or

“You picked him?” after an opponent’s pick can do devious wonders to the fragile draft-mode mind. If you see a receiver you want coming up and you think the person ahead of you might take him, just give them a little help with their decision by suggesting their team’s running back depth is a little weak.

Another way to go would be to coyly say aloud that the you’re going to take the next running back on the board or that all the good tight ends are almost gone and you might take one this

round. Unsurprisingly in this competitive environment, a lot of players are chosen simply to spite fellow league members on draft day.

Undervalued Brian Westbrook: You may be wondering how 2008’s preseason third-ranked player and 2007’s most valuable fantasy running back could be undervalued, but the complete feature back has been slipping in drafts with a mid-third round average draft position (ADP) due to his overstated inability to stay healthy through the

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Reporter • Page B13

Sports shorts: Hall of Fame class announced bid into the NCAA tournament.

The Mavericks received 11 Four individuals have been of the 14-place votes. selected for MSU’s Athletics Junior Laura Leber has been Hall of Fame and two named the NSIC individuals for the Hall Preseason Offensive of Distinction.

Player of the Year.

The 1970-71 women’s Leber was named volleyball team will also NSCAA/ Adidas be inducted.

All-America Second The new Hall of Fame Team, NSCAA/ members include wrestler Adidas All-Central Tony Kenning (’96), Region First Team and Amundson NSIC All-Conference softball All-American Heather Hillstrom (’97), First Team. track star Michelle (Clarke) Oman, and basketball forward Volleyball Lyncell (Anderson) Senden (’94).

Over the off-season, The Hall of Distinction class Minnesota State has announced includes Dean Bowyer (MSU that head coach Dennis baseball coach 1977-2008) and Amundson has reached an Dan McCarrell (MSU men’s agreement on a four-year basketball coach 1984-2001). contract extension.

“We are excited about the Soccer progress the program has made under Coach Amundson’s The MSU soccer team has leadership,” said Athletic been picked as the early favorite Director Kevin Buisman. to win the NSIC. “Our team plays in arguably This is the second the best NCAA Division ll consecutive season that MSU volleyball league in the country has entered the year as the and Dennis has done a great job preseason favorite. Last season, identifying student-athletes who the Mavericks finished second are equal to that competitive in the regular-season, but won challenge, and who have also the NSIC Tournament, earning a excelled in the classroom and REPORTER STAFF

the community, as well. We football program.” look forward to future successes The new recruits include in the years ahead.” tight end Taylor Auskes (Akeny, Amundson led the Mavericks Iowa), defensive tackle Junior to a 20-11 overall Aumavae (Palmer, record in 2008. While Alaska), fullback at MSU, he has posted Austin Blashka a 66-49 overall record.

(Menasha, Wis.), He has also guided defensive back Adrian MSU to two NCAA Chapman (Ozark, postseason appearances Mo.), fullback Casey during his tenure and Collings (Waunakee, six players have earned Wis.), defensive Hoffner all-conference honors. tackle Caleb Dennison Including two-time (Lynnville, Fla.), All-American Ashley safety Brennan Nachreiner.

Dickinsen (Augusta, Wis.), wide receiver Leandro Dower Football (Minneapolis), tight end Sam Eischen (Humboldt, Iowa), MSU head football coach defensive back Levi Fossen Todd Hoffner has announced (Waseca), cornerback Tory the signings of 25 football Garrett (Flint, Mich.), tight players to play football for the end Luke Goodson (Marion, Mavericks this upcoming fall.

Iowa), linebacker Michael “I am happy with how Hanson (Del Rio, Texas), our staff solicited a group of tight end Kip Harden (Lake talented student-athletes to Zurich, Ill.), offensive lineman finish up the 2009 recruiting Michael Herera (Naples, campaign,” Hoffner said. “With Fla.), defensive tackle Dontae the post signing day additions, Hosman (Independence, our fall training camp will be MO.), linebacker Zach Hunt very competitive and spirited.

(Robbinsdale), linebacker My assistant coaches worked Derrick Jacobs (Northfield), extremely hard to attract a defensive tackle Brad diversified group of players that Kemitz (Thompson, Iowa), will add to the culture of our defensive tackle Michael

Khalil (Naperville, Ill.), kicker Nick Koskiniemi (Calumet, Mich.), offensive lineman Nick Sabatella (South Pasedena, Calif.), defensive back Alex Spielman (Storm Lake, Iowa), defensive end Don Thomas (Kent, Wash.) and offensive lineman Mark Vukadinovic (Arlington Hights).

The Mavericks have been predicted to finish first in the south division of the NSIC. USA Today Sports Weekly has ranked the squad #12 in the nation.

MSU athletics MSU and Verizon Wireless have reached an agreement to renew a one-year marketing sponsorship deal.

MSU Athletics had a oneyear marketing sponsorship with Alltel Wireless which recently merged with Verizon Wireless and the new agreement will go until June 30.

Verizon’s partnership with MSU is a comprehnensive marketing agreement which fully integrates the Verizon brand through football, basketball and men’s hockey.

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Sports

Tuesday, August 25, 2009T

Athletes in Action 5K run a success Devon Strowder, Emily Stenzel finished first in well-attended run Saturday KELSEY SCHULTZ

staff writer

It was a surprising turnout for the second annual Athletes in Action (AIA) 5K Run at the old Crossview Covenant Church in North Mankato Saturday.

Despite early morning fog, the clouds cleared into a cool, sunny morning and 123 runners from the Mankato area and surrounding communities came together for the 5K, according to race directors Rachel Busch and Heather Stanek.

The winner of the men’s race was Devon Strowder, 19, of Mankato, who finished with a time of 17:41.

“The course was very fast and flat,” said Strowder, who lowered his time from last

year’s race by almost photos courtesy of Kandi Van-Briesen a minute. Runners-up More than 100 participants ran the Athletes in Action 5K in North Mankato compared to 60 participants last year. were Jonathon Scharrer, 22, and Osman “We had a goal of 100 parthat combined athletics and a conferences to help students Jama, 20, both of Mankato, ticipants in May,” Stanek said. religious mission. grow in their faith. While the who finished with a time of “This turn out was phenomAccording to the organirun is sponsored by a campus 18:36 and 18:38 respectively. enal.” zations website, AIA has a organization, it is open to both Emily Stenzel, 20, of North Last year, the AIA 5K Run presence in 86 countries and college students and commuMankato, led the women had roughly 60 participants. almost 100 U.S. college camnity members. to finish first with a time of “We doubled from last puses.

AIA is a branch of Campus 20:48. Following Stenzel was year,” said volunteer Jenna Crusade for Christ (CRU). AIA Nicole Dornfield, 22, and Capuzzi. was founded in 1966 by David Amanda Klanderman, 30.

Capuzzi also said this year’s Hannah who wanted a program Dornfield finished in 21:46 and event had much more sponKlanderman in 23:56. sors.

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EXPECTATIONS Volleyball projected to finish third in NSIC with only two seniors continued from B9

tential when you add in the women’s volleyball team. Projected to get third in the NSIC preseason poll, expectations are high for a reasonably young team with only two seniors Kelly Sandstrom and Ally Kwikkel.

Not a lot of people may be familiar with the men’s cross country team, but they took claim to the 2008 NSIC conference title.

A big part of that team was junior James Krajsa. The 2008 title was the first for the team since 1979.

After finishing third at the conference

championships last season, the women’s team is looking forward to the new season to start.

“Working with our talented student athletes are great, and I think it’s always good to photo couresy Sports Pix have dedicated In his first season as head coach, Todd Hoffner improved the student athletes Mavericks from 4-7, to 9-3. to work with,” Klein will be looking ters Jaymie Halvorson McGahey said. to propel his team to a and Leah Grozdanich New men’s golf better finish then their participated in the coach Geoff Klein, 20th place at NCAA NCAA Division II hired in May, is lookRegionals in 2008.

Championship last ing at a junior filled With a young team last season and are looking roster with a lone season, the women’s to carry this team to senior John Herzog team has high hopes. the next level. and seven juniors.

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FANTASY Visanthe Shiancoe has a chance to emerge as a bigger threat with the addition of Favre

Reporter • Page B15

JUTTING Mavericks and Jutting will be looking for new goaltender continued from B9

COACH JUTTING OVER THE YEARS YEAR BY YEAR RUNDOWN OF MSU HOCKEY

2000-01 — 19-18-1 (.513) 2001-02 — 16-20-2 (.447) 2002-03 — 20-11-10 (.610) 2003-04 — 10-24-5 (.321) 2004-05 — 13-19-6 (.421) 2005-06 — 17-18-4 (.487) 2006-07 — 13-19-6 (.421)

ting will have to make is what goaltender will man the crease this season. The Mavericks have gotten the majority of their starts the last four seasons from Mike Zacharias and Dan Tormey.

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continued from B12 season. Yet reports are flying that Westbrook is 100 percent recovered from off-season surgery and all systems will be go for Week 1, so don’t hesitate to draft him anywhere in the second round.

Vincent Jackson: The Charger emerged as Philip Rivers go to guy in San Diego, putting up 1,098 yards receiving and seven touchdowns, good for tenth best among wideouts in 2008. Even with those strikingly good numbers from last yea r, scouts and beat writers are predicting a “breakout year” for the deep-threat receiver.

Visanthe Schiancoe: I was initially worried that a huge drop-off in numbers was coming with the addition of Harvin and the return of Sidney Rice, but throughout the preseason he’s continued his progression as a receiver and is proving himself a web photo Visanthe Shianco should emerge as a go to guy in the red-zone. The tight legitimate red-zone threat. end caught 42 balls last season for 596 yards and seven touchdowns.

Overvalued Clinton Portis: Even duties, it’s looking only has to compete with Tony with an ADP drop of like Portis will have Gonzalez in the endzone, but nearly 14 slots, Portis a huge downgrade in arguably faces only two weak is way overvalued. production this year. run-defenses the entire season.

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