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How to rock your semester in five easy steps Five tips on how students can make the most of their semester

STEPHANIE VOGEL Staff Writer Adjusting to college can be both stressful and exciting. As a senior at Minnesota State University, Mankato, I have had a few years of experience with the first week of school and getting used to a new routine. Here are five tips on how freshmen, transfer, and returning students can adjust to life as a college student: 1. Don’t be afraid to make new friends. You might be tempted to stick with what or who you know, to go back to the same friend groups you had last year, or to cling tightly to high school friends. Here’s my advice: expand your horizon. It’s not bad to keep old friends, but reaching out to befriend strangers will increase your social skills and self-confidence. Getting to know someone who has different interests, beliefs, or skills will allow you to learn new things and increase your compassion for others. You can’t judge a person on first glance or from hearsay – you have to get to know them as a person.

Photo courtesy of MNSU Photo Library 2. Join a club or organization. Joining a club can help you learn a new skill and make new friends. Last year, I decided to go to the Swing Dance club in the CSU Ballroom on Monday nights starting at 9 p.m. I had made a friend from work who invited me to come the first time and I ended up enjoying it. I didn’t know that I even liked swing dancing until I tried it. This is only one

example of the many things you can try on campus. Other clubs to try include the Fencing club, Ultimate Frisbee, Bridges (where you’ll meet international students), the Water Polo Club, or a fraternity or sorority, just to name a few. A list of student organizations can be found at http:// m s u m a n k a t o s t u d e n t l i f e. orgsync.com/. 3. Stick to a schedule.

When you’re in school, it can be easy to fall behind on homework, sleep, or personal hygiene. Try to develop a schedule; for example, I’m going to do homework at 4 p.m., no matter how lazy I feel. Then I will for sure get at least part of it done and not feel so rushed to finish all of it at the last minute. I will eat at 6 p.m. so I’m not hungry. I will hang out with friends after that. Then, at 11 p.m.,

I will go to bed so that I get enough sleep. Writing down the schedule and crossing things off after you finish them will give you a sense of accomplishment. I’ve found that sticking to a schedule, even if you have to make a different one every day, is a lot easier than wasting a lot of time, then realizing that you only have an hour to meet a deadline. It’s okay to stay up late some nights, but if you’re staying up until 4 in the morning every night, it’s time to put away Netflix and catch some much needed zzz’s. Getting at least seven hours of sleep will improve your mental health, concentration skills, and overall well-being. Believe me, I know from experience. 4. Exercise. It can get very tiring, sitting and staring at the blank Word document on your computer for hours at a time, trying to think of an idea for a paper. To get your brain moving, it is healthy to

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Orientation is an important step for incoming students

MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer Orientation is getting acquainted with one’s environment, acquiring the sense of how to navigate new surroundings and obtaining the knowledge of how to access resources needed for one to succeed. College life is a hassle for any student and locating where one is required as well as finding

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resources proves to be a challenge especially for new students. College orientation is specifically designed for new students to enlighten them on what they need to know in order to enable their college experience to be a breeze. Orientation at Minnesota State University is handled by the office of New Student and Family Programs which is under the department of Student Affairs and the process is not only informative but also fascinating. Jeremy Riesenberg, the Assistant Director of Orientation and Transition programs states that the

office houses a multitude of various divisions mainly geared towards any new student at MNSU. “New students can

Riesenberg said. “Our main goal is to be a one-stop shop for students and family to acquire the resources needed to progress, act as a

“College orientation is specifically designed for new students to enlightened them on what they need to know in order to enable their college experience to be a breeze.” be anyone from a transfer student to a completely fresh student out of high school student looking to further their education in college,”

guide through the process of coming to college and always be present as well as reliable to new students throughout their first years in college or

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more.” The office of New Student and Family Programs usually takes on students after they are admitted and connects them to the resources and services, as well as opportunities, they need at MNSU. There are different types of orientation that the office of New Student and Family Programs offers, according to Riesenberg. First, there is the New Student Orientation

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

MNSU celebrating its 150th birthday through October 2018

University planning over 150 events over the next year

GABE HEWITT Editor in Chief Minnesota State University, Mankato is planning over 150 events centered around its sesquicentennial celebration through October 2018. The celebration will culminate on Oct. 7, 2018, the day when classes were first held on the MNSU campus 150 years ago. The University last celebrated an event like this in 1993 during its 125th anniversary. Theatre and Dance professor Paul Hustoles was involved in the planning of that celebration and is co-chair of the University’s Sesquicentennial Planning Commission this year. “I personally don’t think we celebrate ourselves and

committee will be planning events for the University as a whole while another will be planning community-based events that celebrate the anniversary. One committee is made of representatives of the University’s different colleges and each will be planning events to celebrate the individual histories of the colleges. As chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance, Hustoles is excited to tell the story of Ted Paul during an event series he calls “MavTalks.” “They’re essentially our version of Ted Talks. We’re going to record these suckers and post them online,” he said. The fourth committee is the Publications, Promotions and Preservation (PPP) committee. This committee created the logo for the celebration that’s been used in all MNSU branding. As co-chair of the committee, Integrated Marketing Senior Director Sara Frederick is heading a number of

“All the events in the next 12 months will lead up to what Hustoles calls a ‘blowout party’ in the first week of October 2018.” how hard we work,” he said. “We’re always talking about how bad things are. Let’s talk about the good things. Let’s celebrate.” The Planning Commission is comprised of four subcommittees. One

anniversar y initiatives including a social media campaign. A big part of this will be posting daily facts about the University’s history on social media. “It’s been fun to help build energy around this

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Photo by Alissa Thielges university milestone and to see how many people, both on campus and in the community, are involved in this,” she said. Frederick said one of the hardest parts about planning everything has been coordinating with people. Over 100 people are helping plan events and volunteering. Hustoles expects that number to grow over the year. “I have to credit Paul for his leadership on this; he’s very dedicated to this and is a great person to be taking lead for sure,” Fredericks said. Even events outside of the Planning Commission are being branded as sesquicentennial

celebrations. Many of the events will be accompanied by an array of banners that are designed to show different aspects of the sesquicentennial. All the events in the next 12 months will lead up to what Hustoles calls

a “blowout party” in the first week of October 2018. He’s planning a large-scale parade that will go through downtown Mankato, a gala and fireworks display. “I look at it as a wonderful excuse to say happy birthday to us,” Hustoles said.

Continued from page 1 get up and get your body moving. After exercising, I feel refreshed, energized, and more motivated to take on the paper or the reading that I need to do. Exercise by going to the Otto Recreation Center, walking around campus and enjoying the weather (before it gets cold), or going to fitness classes, which are free for students. You can find the schedule for these free classes at https://www. m n s u . e d u /c a m p u s r e c / fitness/groupfitness.html. 5. Ask for help. There are many resources

on campus that are here to help you. The Career Development Center can help you find jobs, write a resume or cover letter, or prepare for interviews. The Counseling Center offers 10 free counseling sessions to help you be mentally healthy. The Kearney International Center is also there help international students to succeed in Mankato. All of these resources are located on the second floor of the CSU.

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Continued from page 1 for any new entering student, typically fresh out of high school. Second, there is the Transfer Orientation for students transferring to Mankato from various colleges or from the military. Finally, there is the Online orientation which is strictly for students in an extended education program, who are either doing an online only program, taking only online courses or are taking an online class from a partnership school to MNSU and will never physically be on campus. The New Student and Family Programs office, once students are admitted to the University, is responsible

the students who work as Orientation Peer Assistants (OPAs) in the summer. “My big role entails a lot of event planning, scheduling, as well as supervising of a ton of activities,” Riesenberg said. “Orientation is basically a way to get students to get acclimated to the university.” The office also aids the international office in registering international students for classes, since OPAs are already conversant with the process, thus there is a good relationship between the two offices. One of the major goals that New Student and Family Programs hopes to achieve through orientation is that

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for various things, such as reaching out to incoming students, reminding them that they are required to sign up for classes, and hiring all

students feel prepared to start school and are certain that they made the right choice by coming to MNSU. “In the office, we feel that

Students listen to a presentation about MNSU as part of their orientation. Photo courtesy of Jeremy Riesenberg even after the short two-day process of orientation, it’s still [an] ongoing [process] as we still do a lot of

outreach and act as a guide for students throughout their first semester or even longer at the University,” said Riesenberg. Apart from orientation of new students, the New Student and Family Programs office also has a separate orientation for parents. “Parents also tend to pay attention to certain details and openly ask questions as they have cooler nerves during the different orientations throughout the day,” said Riesenberg. The New Students and Family Programs office also keeps in touch with parents and families to inform them of events happening on campus and keep them in the loop of things at the University. The New Student and Family Programs office also plays a huge role in working

with the undecided student population, as most of the staff takes part in advising. The office also plays a role in recruiting high school students and getting them interested in taking credits at MNSU and has a person who runs that division. The office plays a huge role in the retention of students and enabling them to achieve success throughout their entire college experience. The office of New Student and Family Programs is dawned with a task that is truly challenging but its rewards are of unmeasurable capacity. The office seeks to enlighten and acclimatize students to college life at MNSU, allowing them to progress elegantly and turn their big ideas into real-world thinking that truly makes a global change.

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(CC BY 2.0) by TheNoxid throughout the country, is the lack of respect and consideration for human life. People everywhere are losing their concern for their fellow man, the very thing that binds us together as communities. Yes, a man driving a car through a crowd of people shows a lack of concern for

“People everywhere are losing their concern for their fellow man, the very thing that binds us together as communities.” issue—is easily missed. The problem outlined in the Charlottesville, one that is becoming more apparent

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COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer On August 12, the “Unite the Right” group gathered to protest the removal of a statue of General Robert E. Lee in a local park in Charlottesville, Virginia. Violence quickly broke out at what was the largest white supremacist movement in decades. The Virginia governor quickly called a state of emergency and counter protesters took to the street. It was then that James Fields Jr. drove his Dodge Challenger through the crowd of people who took to the streets in protest of “Unite the Right”, killing one and injuring 19 before fleeing the scene. This was a horrible act of violence and a slap in the face for those naive enough to think that racism is all but dead in this country. However, if the first reaction is on the topic of racism, a larger point—a bigger

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other’s well-being, but it is apparent when extended beyond. Before both sides clashed—not protested, but

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clashed—to overpower the other side with the message they came to deliver. It does not matter what you believe or who you are with, for endless months now the point has simply been to shove your ideals down everyone’s throat until they agree with you. Think I am wrong? Or maybe just ignorant? What about the Black Lives Matter protests at Brown University in the library that left students doing homework bloodied? What about the riots in Baltimore that destroyed countless of store owners’ property along with all the people harmed in the wake of the destruction? What about the Ku Klux Klan leader rejoicing over the death of a girl for the furthering of their cause?

I am not advocating for racism, nor am I saying that marches and peaceful protests are out of place. The freedom of speech in this country is one of our most valuable rights. The point I am trying to stress, begging you to see, is that people no longer care about others’ well-being when in pursuit of making their own voice known; they only care that their message is heard. What we are seeing is a lack of compassion for our fellow man, and a rising opinion that the voice we stand with is the only one that matters. The problem our society faces runs so much deeper than racism or equal rights. The problem is a lack of respect for life, for health of our very own.

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“Disappointing. Cloudy (bummer).”

“Interesting. Caught my attention. Pure beauty.”

“I didn’t get to see it.”

“It was cloudy. A little darker, but not by much. Disappointing.”

“A lot of people talking about it, but it wasn’t as cool as I thought it would be.”

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Americans are dazzled as eclipse turns day into night Millions of Americans gazed in wonder through telescopes, cameras and disposable protective glasses Monday as the moon blotted out the sun in the first fullblown solar eclipse to sweep the U.S. from coast to coast in nearly a century. “It was a very primal experience, it really was,” Julie Vigeland, of Portland, Oregon, said after she was moved to tears by the sight of the sun reduced to a silvery ring of light in Salem. “I’ve seen other really magnificent things, but there is nothing, nothing like this. Absolutely nothing.” The temperature dropped, birds quieted down, crickets chirped and the stars came out in the middle of the day as the line of darkness raced 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometers) across the continent in about 90 minutes, bringing forth oohs, aahs, shouts and screams. In Boise, Idaho, where the sun was more than 99 percent blocked, people clapped and whooped, and the street lights came on briefly, while in Nashville, Tennessee, people craned their necks

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press and most-photographed eclipse in history, with many Americans staking out prime viewing spots and settling onto blankets and lawn chairs to watch, especially along the path of totality — the line of deep shadow created when the sun is completely obscured except for the ring of light known as the corona. The shadow — a corridor

“NASA reported 4.4 million people were watching its TV coverage midway through the eclipse, the biggest livestream event in the space agency’s history.” at the sky and knocked back longneck beers at Nudie’s Honky Tonk bar. Passengers aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean watched it unfold as Bonnie Tyler sang her 1983 hit “Total Eclipse of the Heart.” At the Nashville Zoo, the giraffes started running around crazily in circles when darkness fell, and the flamingos huddled together, though zookeepers aid it wasn’t clear whether it was the eclipse or the noisy, cheering crowd that spooked them. Several minor-league baseball teams — one of them, South Carolina’s Columbia Fireflies, outfitted for the day in glow-in-thedark jerseys — briefly suspended play. At the White House, despite all the warnings from experts about the risk of eye damage, President Donald Trump took off his eclipse glasses and looked directly at the sun. It was the most-observed

just 60 to 70 miles (96 to 113 kilometers) wide — came ashore in Oregon and then traveled diagonally across the Midwest to South Carolina, with darkness from the totality lasting only about two to three wondrous minutes in any one spot. The rest of North America was treated to a partial eclipse, as were Central America and the top of South America. With 200 million people within a day’s drive from the path of totality, towns and parks saw big crowds. Skies were clear along most of the route, to the relief of those who feared cloud cover would spoil this once-in-alifetime moment. NASA reported 4.4 million people were watching its TV coverage midway through the eclipse, the biggest livestream event in the space agency’s history. “It can be religious. It makes you feel insignificant, like you’re just a speck in

the whole scheme of things,” said veteran eclipse-watcher Mike O’Leary of San Diego, who set up his camera along with among hundreds of other amateur astronomers gathered in Casper, Wyoming. John Hays drove up from Bishop, California, for the total eclipse in Salem, Oregon, and said the experience will stay with him forever. “That silvery ring is so hypnotic and mesmerizing, it does remind you of wizardry or like magic,” he said. More than one parent was amazed to see teenagers actually look up from their cellphones. Matt Nagy, of Laramie,

Wyoming, said that the eclipse made him “whoop and holler” and that even his two teenage daughters were impressed: “It takes a lot to get a teenager excited about something.” Astronomers were giddy with excitement. A solar eclipse is considered one of the grandest of cosmic spectacles. NASA solar physicist Alex Young said the last time earthlings had a connection like this to the heavens was during man’s first flight to the moon, on Apollo 8 in 1968. The first, famous Earthrise photo came from that mission and, like this eclipse, showed us “we are part of something

bigger.” N A S A’s ac ting administrator, Rober t Lightfoot, watched with delight from a plane flying over the Oregon coast and joked about the NASA official next to him: “I’m about to fight this man for a window seat.” Hoping to learn more about the sun’s composition and activity, NASA and other scientists watched and analyzed from telescopes on the ground and in orbit, the International Space Station, airplanes and scores of highaltitude balloons beaming back live video. Citizen s cientis t s monitored animal and plant behavior as day turned into twilight. About 7,000 people streamed into the Nashville Zoo just to watch the animals’ reaction and noticed how they got noisier at it got darker. The Earth, moon and sun line up perfectly every one to three years, briefly turning day into night for a sliver of the planet. But these sights normally are in no man’s land, like the vast Pacific or Earth’s poles. This is the first eclipse of the social media era to pass through such a heavily populated area. The moon hasn’t thrown

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Big Ben bell falls silent in London for repairs until 2021 LONDON (AP) — After more than 150 years as Britain’s most famous timekeeper, London’s Big Ben bell fell silent Monday for four years of repair work that will keep it quiet on all but a few special occasions. The giant bell atop Parliament’s clock tower sent a dozen deep bongs into a gray sky at noon, marking the hour as it has done almost continuously since 1859. It is not due to resume its regular duties until 2021. Hundreds of parliamentary staff, journalists and lawmakers gathered in a courtyard under the Victorian clock tower to mark the moment, while hundreds more tourists and passersby lined sidewalks and filled nearby Parliament Square, cellphones held aloft. The mood was lighthearted — it is, after all, just a bell — but total silence fell as the first bong sounded. The crowd burst into cheers and applause as the last faded away, and bells at nearby Westminster Abbey pealed a noisy farewell to their neighbor. The bell is being stilled to allow workers to carry out much-needed maintenance to the clock and clock tower without being deafened. But a handful of lawmakers have criticized the lengthy silence, calling Big Ben an important symbol of British democracy. Prime Minister Theresa May said last week that “it can’t be right for Big Ben to be silent for four years.”

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press In response to the criticism, House of Commons officials have said they will take another look at the repairs schedule once Parliament returns next month from its summer break. Labour Party lawmaker Stephen Pound said it was sad to see the silencing of “the chimes of freedom.” “You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone,” he said. And Pound expressed skepticism that the repair work would be finished on schedule in 2021. “Dream on,” he said. “Have you known any government project ever come in on time and on budget?” Big Ben has been silenced

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Continued from page 6 this much shade at the U.S. since 1918, during the nation’s last coast-tocoast total eclipse. The last total solar eclipse on the U.S. was in 1979, but only five states in the Northwest experienced total darkness. The next total solar eclipse in the U.S. will be in 2024. The next coast-tocoast one will not be until 2045. The path of totality passed through 14 states, entering near Lincoln City, Oregon, at 1:16 p.m. EDT, moving over Casper, Wyoming; Carbondale, Illinois; and Nashville, Tennessee, and then exiting near Charleston, South Carolina, at 2:47

p.m. EDT. Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois saw the longest stretch of darkness: 2 minutes and 44 seconds. Kim Kniseley drove overnight from Roanoke, Virginia, arriving in Madisonville, Tennessee, before dawn to get a parking spot at Kefauver Park. He said he could have stayed home in Roanoke and seen a partial eclipse of 90 percent, but that would have been like “going to a rock concert and you’re standing in the parking lot.”

by malfunction and for repairs before, most recently in 2007, but this stretch is by far the longest. Parliamentary

ton (15.1 U.S. ton, 13.7 metric ton) bell became associated with Britain around the globe through World War II radio

“Labour Party lawmaker Stephen Pound said it was sad to see the silencing of ‘the chimes of freedom.’” officials say it will still be heard on special occasions such as New Year’s Eve. The sound of the 13.5 U.K.

news broadcasts. The clock tower — also commonly called Big Ben, but formally named the Elizabeth Tower

after Queen Elizabeth II — is one of London’s mostphotographed buildings. “Parliament and the clock tower and Big Ben are just iconic parts of London and Great Britain and so it’s very exciting to be out here and see it,” said Mitchell Polay, visiting one day recently from Yonkers, New York. “In the States when you think of England, that’s one of the first things that pop up into your mind.” He felt there must be a way to keep Big Ben bonging. “We have an international space station,” Polay said. “I’m sure they could figure out a way to make a bell ring and not damage the hearing of the workers.” During the repair work, scaffolding will obscure parts of the tower, and the clock faces will be covered at times — though at least one face will always be visible. Adam Watrobski, principal architect at the Houses of Parliament, said authorities are well aware of how much interest the bell and the tower generate. “But you know at the end of the day all buildings have to be serviced,” he said. Watrobski added that once this round of work is finished, “the building will be sound and secure for the next 60 years or so.”

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Duke University removes damaged Robert E. Lee statue DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University removed a statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee early Saturday after it was vandalized amid a national debate about monuments to the Confederacy. The university said it removed the carved limestone likeness before

Vincent Price said in a letter to the campus community that he consulted with faculty, staff, students and alumni before deciding to remove the statue. “I took this course of action to protect Duke Chapel, to ensure the vital safety of students and community

“Gov. Roy Cooper has urged the removal of Confederate monuments from public property around the state.” dawn from the entryway to Duke Chapel, where it stood among 10 historical figures. Officials discovered early Thursday that the statue’s face had been gouged and scarred and that part of the nose is missing. Another statue of Lee, the top Confederate general during the Civil War, was the focus of the violent protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, that turned deadly a week ago. Duke University president

members who worship there, and above all to express the deep and abiding values of our university,” Price said in the letter. Durham has been a focal point in the debate over Confederate statues after protesters tore down a bronze Confederate soldier in front of a government building downtown on Monday. Eight people face charges including rioting and damaging property. Days

later, hundreds marched through Durham in a largely peaceful demonstration against racism before an impromptu rally at the stone pedestal where the statue stood. Other monuments around North Carolina also have been vandalized since the Charlottesville protest, and calls are growing to take down a Confederate soldier statue from the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Gov. Roy Cooper has urged the removal of Confederate monuments from public property around the state, though his goal would be difficult to achieve because of a 2015 state law prohibiting their removal. Duke is a private university and outside the scope of that law. The Lee statue had stood for about 85 years between two other historical figures of the American South, Thomas Jefferson and poet Sidney Lanier, along the main entryway to the neoGothic church at the center of Duke’s campus. It was

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press moved into storage at 3 a.m. Saturday and its future is undetermined, university s pokes man Michael Schoenfeld told the HeraldSun of Durham. “We want people to learn from it and study it and the ideas it represents. What happens to it and where it will be is a question for further deliberation,” Schoenfeld said. The decision was

supported by the university’s trustees, Schoenfeld said. Duke has been affiliated since its founding with the United Methodist Church. Luke Powery, dean of Duke Chapel, said Saturday he sees the empty space formerly occupied by the Lee statue as creating a new opportunity to heal the ongoing racism problems confronting the country.

Pope: Rights of migrants trump national security concerns VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Monday urged countries to greatly improve their welcome to migrants and stop collective expulsions, saying migrants’ dignity and right to protection trumps national security concerns. Francis’ politically pointed message was made in view of the Catholic Church’s 2018 world refugee day, celebrated Jan. 14. It comes amid mounting anti-immigrant sentiment in Europe and beyond following waves of migrant arrivals and Islamic extremist attacks. In the message, Francis demanded governments welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants, saying Jesus’ message of

love is rooted in welcoming the “rejected strangers of every age.” He demanded a simplified process of granting humanitarian and temporary

“Francis demanded governments welcome, protect, promote and integrate migrants, saying Jesus’ message of love is rooted in welcoming the “‘ejected strangers of every age.’” visas and rejected arbitrary and collective expulsions as “unsuitable.” He said the principle of ensuring each

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person’s dignity “obliges us to always prioritize personal safety over national security.” Francis has made refugees a priority of his pontificate, making his first trip outside

Rome in 2013 to the island of Lampedusa, ground zero in Europe’s migration crisis. He has repeatedly spoken

out for migrants’ rights, demanded countries build “bridges not walls,” and personally brought a dozen Syrian refugees back to Rome with him when he visited a Greek refugee camp in 2016. Ignoring critics who say his calls are unrealistic and naive, Francis insisted in the new message that border guards must be trained to protect migrants and that each new arrival, regardless of legal status, must be guaranteed access to basic services beyond health care. That extends to guaranteeing access to consulates, the justice system and the ability to open a bank account and survive financially, he said. Unaccompanie d

minors, he said, require even greater protection, including guaranteeing them citizenship and access to schooling, as well as foster programs rather than detention centers. He called for policies that support family reunification, employment opportunities and accelerated citizenship procedures to improve migrants’ abilities to integrate. His call was immediately rejected by the leader of Italy’s anti-immigrant Northern League party, which has opposed government proposals to change Italy’s law to accelerate citizenship for children born in Italy to non-Italians.

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‘Free speech rally’ cut short after massive counterprotest BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans converged Saturday on downtown Boston in a boisterous repudiation of white nationalism, dwarfing a small group of conservatives who cut short their planned “free speech rally” a week after a gathering of hate groups led to bloodshed in Virginia. Counterprotesters marched through the city to historic Boston Common, where many gathered near a bandstand abandoned early by conservatives who had planned to deliver a series of speeches. Police vans later escorted the conservatives out of the area, and angry counterprotesters scuffled with armed officers trying to maintain order. Members of the Black Lives Matter movement later protested on the Common, where a Confederate flag was burned and protesters pounded on the sides of a police vehicle. Later Saturday afternoon, Boston’s police department tweeted that protesters were throwing bottles, urine and rocks at them and asked people publicly to refrain from doing so. Boston Commissioner William Evans said 27 arrests were made — mostly for disorderly conduct while some were for assaulting police officers. Officials said the rallies drew about 40,000 people. Trump applauded the people in Boston who he said were “speaking out” against bigotry and hate. Trump added in a Twitter message that “Our country will soon come together as one!” Organizers of the event, which had been billed as a “Free Speech Rally,” had publicly distanced themselves from the neoNazis, white supremacists and others who fomented violence in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. A woman was killed at that Unite the Right rally, and many others were injured, when a car plowed into counterdemonstrators. Opponents feared that white nationalists might show up in Boston anyway, raising the specter of ugly confrontations in the first potentially large and racially charged gathering in a major U.S. city since Charlottesville. One of the planned speakers of the conservative activist rally said the event “fell apart.” Congressional candidate Samson Racioppi, who

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press was among several slated to speak, told WCVB-TV that he didn’t realize “how unplanned of an event it was going to be.” Some counterprotesters dressed entirely in black and wore bandannas over their faces. They chanted anti-Nazi and anti-fascism slogans,

the rally was going to be “a white supremacist Klan rally.” “That was never the intention,” he said. “We’ve only come here to promote free speech on college campuses, free speech on social media for conservative, right-wing speakers. And we have no intention of

“The program provides funding to colleges and universities to create jobs for students, which help them pay tuition.” and waved signs that said: “Make Nazis Afraid Again,” ‘’Love your neighbor,” ‘’Resist fascism” and “Hate never made U.S. great.” Others carried a large banner that read: “SMASH WHITE SUPREMACY.” Chris Hood, a free speech rally attendee from Dorchester, said people were unfairly making it seem like

violence.” Rockeem Robinson, a youth counselor from Cambridge, said he joined the counterprotest to “show support for the black community and for all minority communities.” TV cameras showed a group of boisterous counterprotesters on the Common chasing a man with

a Trump campaign banner and cap, shouting and swearing at him. But other counterprotesters intervened and helped the man safely over a fence into the area where the conservative rally was to be staged. Blackclad counterprotesters also grabbed an American flag out of an elderly woman’s hands, and she stumbled and fell to the ground. Saturday’s showdown was mostly peaceable, and after demonstrators dispersed, a picnic atmosphere took over with stragglers tossing beach balls, banging on bongo drums and playing reggae music. The Boston Free Speech Coalition, which organized the event, said it has nothing to do with white nationalism or racism and its group is not affiliated with the Charlottesville rally organizers in any way. Rallies in other cities around the country each attracted hundreds of people showing their opposition to white supremacist groups.

Counterprotesters marched through New Orleans, some of them carrying signs that read “White People Against White Supremacy” and “Black Lives Matter.” In Atlanta, a diverse crowd marched from the city’s downtown to the home of the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Meredith Dubé brought along her two daughters, 2-year-old Willow Dubé and 12-year-old Rai Chin. Dubé is white and her daughters are mixed race. She said it is essential to show children at an early age that love is more powerful than hate. An anti-racism rally was held in Laguna Beach, California, one day before the group America First! planned to hold a demonstration in the same place that’s being billed as an “Electric Vigil for the Victims of Illegals and Refugees.” Mayor Toni Iselman told the crowd that “Laguna Beach doesn’t tolerate diversity, we embrace diversity.” In Dallas, a large crowd attending a rally against white supremacy on Saturday evening called for the city to take down the city’s Confederate statues. “Now is the time to do what is right in the city of Dallas,” said the Rev. Michael W. Waters who addressed the group at City Hall Plaza, a short distance from the city’s Confederate War Memorial. “Now is the time to bring these monuments down.” Police officers on horseback moved in to break up a scuffle between people at the rally and supporters of Confederate monuments. Police officers on horseback monitored the situation, and a police helicopter circulated above.

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NFL: NFC early season predictions Staff writer Ryan Sjoberg gives his thoughts on what to expect from the NFC in 2017

RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer It appears as if a number of teams in the NFC are built well enough to make a Super Bowl run in January. Today, we will break down NFC Conference predictions, sleepers and teams that may disappoint when the end of the regular season is here. First of all, there are two teams in particular that should make the playoffs in 2017. The Seattle Seahawks of the NFC West is one. The Seahawks should once again be amongst the best in the crowded NFC playoff picture. Seattle has the tools returning on defense to be a topfive group while the offense should take another step forward with the emergence of a young offensive line. The other team comes from the NFC

North in the Green Bay Packers. It does not matter what the rest of your roster looks like when you have a guy like quarterback Aaron Rodgers slinging the football around for your team. The Packers are absolutely loaded on offense yet again after adding tight end Martellus Bennett, and are looking for their defense to take a step forward after a terrible year in the secondary. There is another category of teams that should make the playoffs, but will fail to accomplish the feat. One team will be from the NFC South, the Atlanta Falcons. After an epic Super Bowl collapse in which the world witnessed the Falcons blow a 28-3 lead in the third quarter, the world is expecting big plays from this high-flying offense this year. I believe they will pump

the breaks and will not underestimate the power of a ‘Super Bowl Hangover.’ Another team will be the Dallas Cowboys from the tough NFC East. This young star-studded squad is facing a potential six-game suspension for its star running back Ezekiel Elliot. That smells like trouble for second-year quarterback Dak Prescott, who will be asked to do more than he did in his rookie campaign. Dallas also lost a lot of talent in the secondary and present a below average pass rush that may have trouble getting opposing offenses off the field. Their talented offensive line may face more problems as time goes on as well.

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Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers may have the best chances in the NFC to reach Super Bowl LII.

MLB postseason races remain hot Different scenarios are brought to the surface by staff writer Colton Molesky

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer As summer gradually slides into fall and football begins to build momentum through the dog days of August, the marathon of the baseball season is under 40 games until completion and the pressure is on to grab the final spots left for postseason action. When committing even the shortest amount of time to viewing the baseball standings and stats, it is easy to see the teams in postseason contention separating out into three groups: Deep Threats, Strugglers and Wild Card Runners.  The Deep Threats - Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros and Washington Nationals All of these teams have the juice going into the home stretch to make it to a World Series, with as near-tocomplete rosters as can be hoped for and key aspects that give them an edge. The Dodgers have a great pitching staff, with Clayton Kershaw claiming 15 wins and

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Boston Red Sox’s Xander Bogaerts, left, celebrates on the field with Jackie Bradley Jr., right, after the Red Sox defeated the New York Yankees 5-1 in a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, in Boston. 168 strikeouts. Alex Wood and Kenta Maeda have 14 and 11 wins respectively, and Kenley Jansen has 33 saves. This is a great pitching staff top to bottom, evident in the

+220-scoring differential that leads the league. Paired with a 51-14 record at home, this is a formidable playoff team. The Red Sox and Nationals both have great offenses

and can bat their way out of a pinch. The Red Sox are incredibly deep, with Mookie Betts, Jackie Bradley Jr., Dustin Pedroia, Xander Bogaerts and Andrew Benin-

tendi are all reliable hitters. But the depth they have can help with the unexpected, like Eduardo Nunez and Rafael Devers stepping up in a huge way to compensate for the Pedroia injury. The Nationals also are deep at the plate, with Bryce Harper, Daniel Murphy and Ryan Zimmerman all hitting over .300 in over 100 games with the squad. Yet again, clutch additions have helped bolster the hitting through the end of the season, with Howie Kendrick joining the team over the last 19 games and hitting .344 for the Nationals. Or the Astros, with just a little bit of both. On the pitching staff, they have studs like Mike Fiers, who has 131 strikeouts on the season and a closer like Ken Giles with 24 saves. At the plate, Jose Altuve holds a .362 batting average and Marwin Gonzalez has 72 RBIs on the

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“Tampa Bay is a very young up-and-coming team. They have a young quarterback in Jameis Winston who has a plethora of weapons at his skill positions. This young defense should take another step forward, making the Buccaneers my bold prediction to win the NFC South this year. “ Some teams saw the misfortune of missing the playoffs in 2016. The Minnesota Vikings should be a team to think about come playoff time. The Vikings defense is legit and should be a top-five group this coming season. The offense needs to take a step forward in order for this team to compete for more than just a wild card berth. Quarterback Sam Bradford looks more comfortable in his second year in the Vikings system and now has bell cow-running back Dalvin Cook to hand the ball to. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are also on the rise. Tampa Bay is a very young up-andcoming team. They have a young quarterback in Jameis Winston who has a plethora of weapons at his skill positions. This young defense should take another step forward, making the Buccaneers my bold prediction to

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Photo courtesy of The Associated Press New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is hoping for some more playoff football, as the Pro-Bowler has only played in one career game (2016 at Green Bay). win the NFC South this year. Last of this group involves the Arizona Cardinals. This team is in “win now” mode. Run-

ning back David Johnson is an absolute game-breaker at running back, but other than that the Cardinals offense is

full of aging stars. The defense should be good yet again and the Cardinals could sneak into the postseason.

As for the NFC Playoffs, the Vikings will sneak in as the sixth seed at 9-7, while the Cardinals will be the other wild card team with the fifth seed and a 10-6 record. The Buccaneers will achieve the fourth seed at 10-6, the New York Giants are slated for the third seed at 10-6, the Seahawks at 11-5 will clinch the second seed, and the Packers will be sitting atop the NFC with a 13-3 record. The Giants win against the Vikings and the Cardinals defeat the Bucs, advancing to the second round. The one and two seeds will be victorious, setting up an NFC Championship involving Seattle and Green Bay. This is the year of the Packers, as Green Bay will be in their first Super Bowl since 2011.

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“The best race is in the National League, with the Brewers 2.5 games out of the wild card race and only two games out of their division race, meaning the Cubs could get through into the wild card down the stretch.” year. George Springer, Yuli Gurriel and Josh Reddick have all hovered around the .300 batting average mark. The common thread for all of these teams is they can look to multiple players to step up and get a play, instead of trying to win on one or two player’s successes.  Strugglers - Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians Both of these teams are

Indians barely holding off the Minnesota Twins and the Cubs having only a sliver of light between them and the Milwaukee Brewers or St. Louis Cardinals. The Cubs only have a +54run differential and their trouble separating from competition is what has been their consistent problem. While the +130-run differential for the Indians looks good, they

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press (From left to right) Eddie Rosario, Max Kepler and Brian Dozier will be some of the names relied on for Minnesota down the stretch. clinging to their divisions by only a few games heading down the stretch, with the

only have hung on to the division lead ahead of the Twins. The Indians only have

one batter, Jose Ramirez, who has consistently hit over .300 through the entire season. They have great pitching in Carlos Carrasco and Corey Kluber; both have 12 wins and over 160 strikeouts. But the depth at pitcher has much to be desired as well, not having any studs outside of the top-tier. Both the Cubs and Indians suffer from not having a slew of B+ players surrounding their All-Star talent. Wild Card Runners - New York Yankees, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles Angels, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Milwaukee Brewers. These are the scrappy wild card teams, scratching their way into postseason action with only a few games to make the cut. The Yankees obviously have the best spot, as they have the leg up on both the Angels and the Twins by 2.5 games and while Aaron Judge has cooled off, they still possess a +111-run differential to help keep them ahead. The Twins are in a tight contest with the Angels, but despite having a poor bullpen, they still have a large mass of hitters in Miguel Sano, Joe Mauer, Eddie Rosario, Brian Dozier and Max Kepler who can all get hot. The best race is in the National League, with the Brewers 2.5 games out of the wild

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have some very good pitchers to bolster their defense, with Zach Davies claiming 14 wins while Jimmy Nelson has reached 169 strikeouts and Corey Knebel has 26 saves to his name. The Brewers have become the most interesting wild card story heading into the postseason.

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Zimmer says Vikings prefer 3 QB’s on roster

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — As long as Sam Bradford stays healthy this season, the Minnesota Vikings won’t be worried about their quarterback situation. There’s a lot of uncertainty behind Bradford on the depth chart, though. Teddy Bridgewater remains immersed in his rehabilitation program, of course, trying to push his knee back into playing shape. He’s on the physically unable to perform list, where he’ll likely start the regular season. So if the Vikings decide to keep a third-stringer on the active roster behind Bradford and backup Case Keenum, they’re currently looking at Taylor Heinicke or Mitch Leidner. Heinicke is the third-year project who went undrafted out of Old Dominion and has never taken a snap in an NFL

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press The Vikings are adding extra depth to the their quarterbacks position, as Teddy Bridgewater will not be available and Sam Bradford (above) taking the starting snaps once again.

“You just never know how it’s all going to play out. You just want to keep developing the quarterback position throughout the season and especially during training camp, so that if for some reason you need a guy, you have a guy ready to go,” offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said. regular-season game. He’s most famous for severing two tendons in his foot from an ill-fated kick through a glass

pane of a door to his friend’s apartment that they were locked out of. Leidner is the local rookie who signed with the team on

Sunday. He’s the only player in Minnesota program history to rush (33) and pass (36) for 30-plus touchdowns in his career. Leidner was driving around meals for the restaurant delivery service Bite Squad in between workouts while waiting on a call from an NFL team. Heinicke has had a spotty preseason. He sat out of practice on Sunday and Monday because of an injury. Leidner produced just three passing scores against 11 interceptions over eight Big Ten games in his senior year. The Vikings cut Wes Lunt, an undrafted prospect from Illinois, at the beginning of training camp. The question, then, is whether they’ll reserve a 53man roster spot for an un-

proven prospect at the position as long as Bridgewater is sidelined. “I think it’s extremely important that you’re always developing quarterbacks,” offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur said. “You just never know how it’s all going to play out. You just want to keep developing the quarterback position throughout the season and especially during training camp, so that if for some reason you need a guy, you have a guy ready to go.” The practice squad would be a natural place for such a developmental player. Last season, with Bridgewater on injured reserve and Heinicke on the non-football injury list, the Vikings kept only Bradford and Shaun Hill on the

active roster to start while stashing Wisconsin product Joel Stave on the practice squad. Coach Mike Zimmer, asked about the subject after practice on Monday, said the team would “like to” keep three quarterbacks on the initial 53-man roster. “You look around the league, and when quarterbacks go down, then you start scrambling and finding guys on the street and things like that,” Zimmer said. Keenum, for his part, has played well in two preseason games. He drew praise from Shurmur for the crispness and mobility he’s shown in the pocket. With two more exhibition games remaining, then, the spotlight will be on Heinicke and Leidner or whoever else might wind up in camp to audition for an active roster spot. “It’s been a lot of months of just grinding and hoping this moment would come,” Leidner said. Practice on Monday was held inside the fieldhouse, with stormy weather in the afternoon. There was also the matter of the solar eclipse that peaked at the start of the workout, with the potential distraction that came with that. “I can watch it on CNN or something, I guess,” Zimmer said, shrugging off the missed opportunity to witness the scientific rarity. Then the coach who’s had eight eye surgeries in the past nine months quipped: “Hey, I’ve only got one good retina. You don’t get two.”

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US beats Europe in Solheim Cup

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Four years ago, Team Europe celebrated the most decisive win in Solheim Cup history — on American soil, no less. Captain Annika Sorenstam and her team will likely spend their trip back across the Atlantic wondering when they’ll be ready to compete with the U.S. again. Lexi Thompson, 22, and her resurgent U.S. teammates finished off their most-decisive Solheim Cup victory in more than 20 years, beating Europe 16 1/2-11 1/2 on Sunday at Des Moines Golf and Country Club. Though Europe played the U.S. even on Sunday, the Americans dominated foursome and four-ball play to put the Europeans in a major hole. The Americans are now 10-5 in the biennial tournament after their biggest win since a 17-11 triumph in 1996 in Wales. They rallied to win in Germany in 2015 and have taken five of the last seven matches — the exception being that 18-10 blowout that Europe handed the U.S. in Colorado in 2013. “We just got outplayed, no

doubt about it,” Sorenstam said. “I’m just so proud of how hard they fought. What can I say? Just congratulate the USA because they played some awesome golf.” Cristie Kerr and Paula Creamer won key matches, and Gerina Piller sealed it with a birdie putt that put her 3 up over Florentyna Parker with three to play in a 4-and2 victory. “They just bonded. They believed in each other. They played for the person behind them and in front of them. And they played some amazing golf,” said Juli Inkster, who joined Judy Rankin as the only U.S. captains to win the Solheim Cup twice. Kerr beat Mel Reid 2 and 1 for her record-extending 21st point in the competition, and Creamer edged Georgia Hall 1 up to raise her total to 19 1/2 — second on the U.S. career list. Thompson ended up halving with Anna Nordqvist, and Angel Yin halved with Karine Icher as the teams split the 12 singles matches. Lizette Salas and Danielle Kang also won for the U.S. Salas edged Jodi Ewart Shadoff 1 up, and Kang beat Emily Pedersen 3 and 1.

For Europe, Catriona Matthew beat Stacy Lewis 1 up, Caroline Masson topped Michelle Wie 4 and 2, Charley Hull edged Brittany Lang 1 up, Carlota Ciganda beat Brittany Lincicome 4 and 3, and Madelene Sagstrom defeated Austin Ernst 3 and 2. Her team five points down entering the day, Sorenstam tried to keep the mood light by dressing up in a blue and yellow Viking hat and wig and dancing for the cameras before play began. Nordqvist did her best to set the tone for the Europeans in the opening match, winning the first four holes. But after a birdie on No. 10, Thompson holed out from 112 yards for eagle on the 11th hole — a shot so impressive that even Nordqvist was compelled to high-five her. Thompson followed with an eagle putt on the 15th hole, and a birdie on 16 put her ahead for the first time. Though Nordqvist rallied, earning the half-point by sticking her 154-yard approach on No. 18 within a foot, an American win was inevitable after Thompson’s run.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press United States’ Lexi Thompson, right, hugs Europe’s Anna Nordqvist, of Sweden, after finishing on the 18th hole during their singles match in the Solheim Cup golf tournament, Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Europe also knows that they’ll likely have to deal with Thompson — the highest-rated player in the event — for a long time. “To me, that was like six points,” Inkster said. “It’s probably fitting they both got half a point. Both played amazingly. It just shows the heart of her and her determination. You think she’s out of it and then the switch goes

off.” Europe knew it would be a big underdog heading into the tournament, especially after star Suzann Pettersen threw out her back and withdrew. But the 47-yearold Matthew was 3-1 after replacing the injured Suzann Pettersen. Nordqvist went 3-0-1 during the week to lead the Europeans.

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150 years of theatre and dance will be celerated this season aly and became the ancestor of the Romans. Dr. Paul J. Hustoles will be directing this production that will run Oct. 12-15, and 18-22. Running Nov. 2-4 and 9-12, “The Diary of Anne Frank,” written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, will be playing on the main stage. Heather Hamilton will be directing this brilliant script. Kristin Fox, also a graduate student, will then be directing the drama, “These Shining Lives,” written by Melanie Marnich, which opens Nov. 15 and closes on the 18. The play takes place in a watch factory in Illinois, and follows the lives of four women who work under unsafe conditions. The Fall Dance Concert will take place on the Mainstage, December 1-2. All dances will be choreographed by both Julie Kerr-Berry and Daniel Stark, and will showcase an

KATIE VAN DEINSE Staff Writer 150 years of theatre and dance will be celebrated at Minnesota State University, Mankato this upcoming season. Each of the six Main stage productions represents a 25-year segment of the 150-year history, making this season extra special. This season will open in the Andreas Theatre with a hilarious play called, “Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them,” written by Christopher Durang. The play focuses on Felicity, who wakes up from a night of drinking and finds herself married to a charming yet intimidating young man named Zamir. Directed by graduate student, Donald Hart, this production will run Sept. 15-16. The first Main stage production of the season will be the classic story, “Little Women,” with book by Allan Knee, lyrics by Mindy Dickstein, and music by Jason Howland. Follow the lives of the March family in

Photo Courtesy of Minnesota State University, Mankato this beautiful story, running Sept. 28-30 and Oct. 5-8. Directed by Melissa Rosenberger, this should

be an extraordinary performance. The Latin epic poem, “The Aeneid,” written by

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The Farthest Voyager in Space airs on PBS NASA, PBS marking 40 years since Voyager spacecraft launches

Fla. (AP) — Forty years after blasting off, Earth’s most distant ambassadors — the twin Voyager spacecraft — are carrying sounds and music of our planet ever deeper into the cosmos. Think of them as messages in bottles meant for anyone — or anything — out there. This Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of NASA’s launch of Voyager 2, now almost 11 billion miles distant. It departed from Cape Canaveral on Aug. 20, 1977 to explore Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 1 followed a few weeks later and is ahead of Voyager 2. It’s humanity’s farthest spacecraft at

13 billion miles away and is the world’s only craft to reach interstellar space, the vast mostly emptiness between star systems. Voyager 2 is expected to cross that boundary during the next few years. Each carries a 12-inch, gold-plated copper phonograph record (there were no CDs or MP3s back then) containing messages from Earth: Beethoven’s Fifth, chirping crickets, a baby’s cry, a kiss, wind and rain, a thunderous moon rocket launch, African pygmy songs, Solomon Island panpipes, a Peruvian wedding song and greetings in dozens of languages. There are also more than 100

electronic images on each record showing 20th-century life, traffic jams and all. NASA is marking the anniversary of its back-toback Voyager launches with tweets, reminisces and still captivating photos of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune taken by the Voyagers from 1979 through the 1980s. Public television is also paying tribute with a documentary, “The Farthest - Voyager in Space,” airing Wednesday on PBS at 9 p.m. EDT. The two-hour documentary describes the tense and dramatic behind-the-scenes effort that culminated in the

wildly successful missions to our solar system’s outer planets and beyond. More than 20 team members are interviewed, many of them long retired. There’s original TV footage throughout, including a lookback at the late astronomer Carl Sagan of the 1980 PBS series “Cosmos.” It also includes an interview with Sagan’s son, Nick, who at 6 years old provided the English message: “Hello from the children of Planet Earth.” Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco — who joined Voyager’s imaging team in 1980 — puts the mission up there with man’s first moon landing.

“I consider Voyager to be the Apollo 11 of the planetary exploration program. It has that kind of iconic stature,” Porco, a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, told The Associated Press on Thursday. It was Sagan who, in large part, got a record aboard each Voyager. NASA was reluctant and did not want the records eclipsing the scientific goals. Sagan finally prevailed, but he and his fellow record promoters had less

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Jerry Lewis, comedy star and telethon host dies at 91 Host of annual muscular distrophy telethons leaves legacy LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jerr y Lewis, the manic, rubber-faced showman who jumped and hollered to fame in a lucrative par tnership with Dean Mar tin, set tled down to become a self-conscious screen auteur and found an even greater following as the tireless, tear y host of the annual muscular dystrophy telethons, has died. He was 91. Lewis died Sunday of natural causes in Las Vegas with his family by his side, publicist Candi Cazau said. Tributes from friends, co-stars and disciples poured in immediately. Jim Carrey called him an, “Undeniable genius and an unfathomable blessing.” Carl Reiner said on Twit ter that Lewis was, “A true comic icon.” In Las Vegas, Ceasars Palace, where Lewis was once a headliner, featured a message honoring him on a marquee, and in Los Angeles, fans gathered at Lewis’s t wo Holly wood Walk of Fame stars — one

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press of which was for television and one for film. Lewis’ career spanned the histor y of show business in the 20th centur y,

beginning in his parents’ vaudeville ac t at the age of 5. He was just 20 when his pairing with Mar tin made them international

in Mar tin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy” and appeared as himself in Billy Cr ystal’s “Mr. Saturday Night.” In the 1990s, he scored a stage comeback as the devil in the Broadway revival of “Damn Yankees.” In his 80s, he was still traveling the world, planning to remake some of his earlier movies and working on a stage version of “The Nut t y Professor.” He was so ac tive he would sometimes forget the basics, like eating, his associates would recall. In 2012, Lewis missed an awards ceremony thrown by his beloved Friars Club because his blood sugar dropped from lack of food and he had to spend the night in the hospital. In an inter view with The Associated Press from 2016, Lewis, at 90 and promoting the film “Max Rose,” said he still

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TRUMP Continued from page 21 want to attend the gala “given his indifference or worse regarding the arts and humanities.” Trump has recommended eliminating funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dancer Carmen de Lavallade said on her website Thursday that she was honored to be recognized, but would not go to the White House. “In light of the socially divisive and morally caustic narrative that our existing leadership is choosing to engage in, and in keeping with the principles that I and so many others have fought for, I will be declining the invitation to attend the reception at the White House,” she said. Singer Gloria Estefan had said she would set her personal politics aside to accept the honor, now in its 40th year. She said the image of a Cuban immigrant like herself being honored is important when Latino immigrants in particular have “taken a beating in the recent past.” Estefan once hosted a Democratic fundraiser attended by President Barack Obama. She said she

and her husband, Emilio, are not affiliated with a political party. Representatives for the remaining honorees — hip-hop artist LL Cool J, who had not yet said whether he would show up at the White House, and singer Lionel Richie, who described himself as a maybe — did not respond to requests for comment. Some celebrities supported Trump. “Wise solution. Recipients wanted to boycott; @ POTUS deferred and graciously withdrew. Problem solved. A perfect metaphor. #DISENGAGE,” tweeted actor James Woods. Musician Ted Nugent said on Fox News Channel this week that Trump was not unambiguous in his remarks. “We condemn all violence. That’s what President Trump said. And all lives matter. If you don’t agree with, that you’re a racist,” he said. Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein and President Deborah F. Rutter said they respected Trump’s decision. “In choosing not to participate in this year’s Honors activities, the

Continued from page 19 than two months to rustle everything up. The identical records were the audio version of engraved plaques designed by Sagan and others for Pioneers 10 and 11, launched in 1972 and 1973. The 55 greetings for the Voyager Golden Records were collected at Cornell University, where Sagan taught astronomy, and the United Nations in New York. The music production fell to science writer Timothy Ferris, a friend of Sagan living then in New York. For the musical selections, Ferris and Sagan recruited friends along with a few professional musicians. They crammed in 90 minutes of music recorded at half-speed; otherwise it would have lasted just 45 minutes. How to choose from an infinite number of melodies and melodious sounds representing all of Earth? Beethoven, Bach and Mozart were easy picks. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven represented jazz, Blind Willie Johnson gospel blues. For the rock ‘n’ roll single, the group selected Chuck Berry’s 1958 hit “Johnny B. Goode.” Bob Dylan was a close runner-up, and the Beatles

also rated high. Elvis Presley’s name came up (Presley died four days before Voyager 2’s launch). In the end, Ferris thought “Johnny B. Goode” best represented the origins and creativity of rock ‘n’ roll. Ferris still believes it’s “a terrific record” and he has no “deep regrets” about the selections. Even the rejected tunes represented “beautiful materials.” “It’s like handfuls of diamonds. If you’re concerned that you didn’t get the right handful or something, it’s probably a neurotic problem rather than anything to do with the diamonds,” Ferris told the AP earlier this week. But he noted: “If I were going to start into regrets, I suppose not having Italian opera would be on that list.” The whole record project cost $30,000 or $35,000, to the best of Ferris’ recollection. NASA estimated the records would last 1 billion to 3 billion years or more — potentially outliving human civilization. For Ferris, it’s time more than distance that makes the whole idea of finders-keepers so incomprehensible.

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JERRY LEWIS Continued from page 20 woke up ever y day at 4:30 or 5 in the morning to write, and had a handful of standup shows on the schedule. “When the truth comes down to the truth, I am so grateful that I’m on that stage or in front of that camera. I still feel it like it’s the first day,” Lewis said. “To have a career that I had in film, I’m the luckiest Jew that ever lived. I’m so grateful for it. I don’t take advantage of it. I don’t use it

improperly. And I love the fac t that there’s nowhere I can go where people don’t know me.” A major influence on Carrey and other slapstick per formers, Lewis also was known as the ringmaster of the Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Association, joking and reminiscing and introducing guests, sharing stories about ailing kids and concluding with his personal anthem, the ballad “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

From the 1960s onward, the telethons raised about $1.5 billion, including more than $60 million in 2009. He announced in 2011 that he would step down as host, but he would remain chairman of the association he joined about 60 years ago. His fundraising effor ts won him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 2009 Oscar telecast, an honor he said “touches my hear t and the ver y depth of my

THEATRE Continued from page 19 immense amount of talent from the dance students! Wrapping up the semester will be the Fall Dance Showcase, with each dance choreographed and directed by students in the program. This will be a one time matinee performance on Dec. 3 that will feature these students’ hard work and passion for dance. The spring semester will begin with the play, “1984.” The famous book written by George Orwell, was adapted to the stage by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan in 2013. Winston Smith learns how to live in a world full of violence and little freedom while he makes his way through life under the eye of Big Brother. You will not want to miss this production directed by Heather Hamilton, which will run Feb. 1-4, and 7-11. The historical musical, “Ragtime” is next on the main stage, running Feb. 15-17, and 22-25. Book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and music by Stephen Flaherty, “Ragtime” is set in the early 20th century and portrays the lives of three people from completely different lifestyles who come together because of their beliefs in the

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community for the future. Dr. Paul J. Hustoles will direct this production on the mainstage that will run Feb. 15-17, and 22-25. Next up, “Talley’s Folly,” written by Lanford Wilson, will be playing in the Andreas Theatre on March 28-31. This play that will be directed by graduate student, Trevor Belt, tells the story of two young lovebirds, Matt Friedman and Sally Talley, who struggle to push through their pasts in order to discover their true feelings for each other. Melissa Rosenberger will be directing the next musical. With book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse, “Bye Bye Birdie” will take the mai stage from April 5-8 and 12-15. The musical is set in 1958, and tells the story of Conrad Birdie, a character based off of Elvis Presley. Directed by graduate student, Seth Honerman, “Melancholy Play” will be the final theatrical performance of the season, April 18-21. Watch Tilly, Frank, and the other characters learn about themselves through a very emotional performance. Julie Kerr-Berry and

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soul.” But the telethon was also criticized for being mawkish and exploitative of children, known as “Jerr y’s Kids.” A 1960s muscular dystrophy poster boy, Mike Er vin, later made a documentar y called “The Kids Are All Alright,” in which he alleged that Lewis and the Muscular Dystrophy Association had treated him and others as objec ts of pit y rather than real people. Responded Lewis: “You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair, stay in your house!” He was the classic funnyman who longed to play “Hamlet,” cr ying as hard as he laughed. He sassed and snarled at critics and inter viewers who displeased him. He pontificated on talk shows, lec tured to college students and compiled his thoughts in the 1971 book “The Total Film-Maker.” “I believe, in my own way, that I say something on film. I’m get ting to those who probably don’t have the mentalit y to understand what ... ‘A Man for All Seasons’ is all about, plus many who did understand it,” he wrote. “I am not ashamed or embarrassed at how seemingly trite or saccharine something in my films will sound. I really do make films for my great-great-grandchildren and not for my fellows at the Screen Di-

rec tors Guild or for the critics.” In his early movies, he played the kind of fellows who would have had no idea what the elder Lewis was talking about: looselimbed, buck-toothed, overgrown adolescents, trouble-prone and inclined to wail when beset by enemies. American critics recognized the comedian’s popular appeal but not his aspirations to higher ar t; the French did. Writing in Paris’ Le Mondnewspaper, Jacques Siclier praised Lewis’ “ap ish allure, his conduc t of a child, his grimaces, his contor tions, his maladjustment to the world, his morbid fear of women, his way of disturbing order ever y where he ap peared.” The French government awarded Lewis the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1983 and Commander of Ar ts and Let ters the following year. Film critic Andrew Sarris obser ved: “The fac t that Lewis lacks verbal wit on the screen doesn’t par ticularly bother the French.” Lewis had many girlfriends and t wo marriages, one to Pat ti Palmer, that resulted in six sons and ended in divorce after 36 years in 1980, and a second to Sandra Pitnick, his wife of over 33 years with whom he has a daughter, Danielle Lewis.

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