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Back to school do’s and don’ts Tips for making your first week a success.

NICOLE SCHMIDT News Editor Welcome back, Mavericks!

Now that the leisurely (or not so leisurely) summer months are over, the 15,376 students at Minnesota State University, especially the 3,000 plus freshman, may be feeling the pressure to get back into the swing of things.

To make this first week and fall semester as smooth as possible, follow the top ten dos and don’ts for back to school to give yourself an edge in the classroom, make new friends, and make your time at MNSU a bit easier.

Don’t show up late.

First impressions can be hard to reverse. Stumbling into class apologizing profusely under your breath, simultaneously crawling over your classmates to get to the last seat in may not be the most ideal way to begin your first day. Not only will showing up on time save you the

embarrassment, but it also gives you a chance to pick a good spot for yourself (I myself am a front-row sitter.)

It is pertinent that showing up early becomes a habit. Being in college requires a certain amount of professionalism and is expected of students. Therefore, set your clocks ten minutes earlier and be to class ten minutes before class starts.

However, showing up late is better than not showing up at all. Many professors have an automatic drop policy if you skip your first class, and absences throughout the semester can result in a lower grade as compared to a tardy or two. Bottom line, you can never go wrong showing up early for class!

Do dress up.

I know sweatpants are probably far more comforting and appealing compared to jeans, but dressing smart for class puts your best self forward, especially during

the first week of classes.

Once again, avoiding sloppy clothes shows your professors that you are going to take his or her course seriously and hope to do your best.

You might also feel a bit more confident raising your hand for the first time or introducing yourself to other classmates.

Don’t show up unprepared.

Surprise! Your English teacher isn’t just going through the syllabus today.

Instead, you are to write a one-page essay on your favorite summer event. There is only one problem: you showed up empty-handed expecting a 15-minute class.

To avoid this, always come to class prepared. You never know when you will need your textbook or a clean piece of paper. Also, if your class requires a laptop, be sure to bring your charger. The last thing you need is your poor computer dying just as you

are about to hit submit.

This rule-of-thumb can certainly be applied during the entire semester: Edge on the side of over prepared and avoid the stress of sitting there empty-handed.

Do introduce yourself.

MNSU is comprised of over 15,000 students. Professors see quite the number of faces each day besides your own.

To give yourself more than just a name on a class roster, approach your professor after class and introduce yourself. A warm smile and a firm handshake will set you apart from others who may have been too shy to try. When an instructor can put a face to your name, you are likely to be happily accommodated should you need help during the semester.

Don’t skip meals.

It’s easy to skip a meal

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Thrifty travel tricks for a student budget Part one: It’s time for you to think outside the hotel.

LUKE LARSON Staff Writer This article is the first part in a series focusing on tips for traveling on a tight budget and will be dealing with how to save money on lodging expenses.

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page,” as the fourth century Saint and philosopher Augustine once said. He gave no advice, however, on how one manages to travel the world while also spending obnoxious sums of money on books for classes.

This summer, my friend from Saint Paul and I went on a 1,500 mile journey northward to Canada. Over the span of six days, we explored Winnipeg, camped in Riding Mountain National Park, and made it as far as Regina, Saskatchewan. The important part for two poor college students like ourselves, who had worked all summer to pay tuition, was that it came out to a total of just under $150 for each of us – less than $25 a day. Considering that

Photo By Luke Larson a night at a hotel often costs upwards of $100, a gallon of gas can cost $3, and a meal at a restaurant can easily reach $15, $150 begins to look very reasonable. Though school is now in session and your opportunity for a summer road trip may have already come and gone, here are some underutilized tips for making your next travel experience

kinder to your budget.

Lodging is often one of the most major expenses for any trip. Every night spent at a hotel – or even a motel – puts another big dent in your wallet. Fortunately, there are a number of effective ways (some of which have only become available within the last decade or so) to bypass hotels and eliminate lodging

expenses altogether.

The first of these options is known as “couchsurfing” (www.couchsurfing.com). If you take away only one thing from this article, let it be this.

Free to join, couchsurfing. com allows members to contact hosts from every corner of the globe who offer up their homes to travelers. It’s an incredibly simple, yet rev-

olutionary concept.

The site, which claims ten million members spread across every country on earth, was founded in 2004 as a way to offer travelers the opportunity to “travel like a local, stay in someone’s home and experience the world in a way money can’t buy.” Staying with a host is completely free, and the host is only required to provide a place to sleep, be it a couch, a spare bed, or some space on the basement floor.

More than just an affordable travel strategy, couchsurfing provides an amazing opportunity for cultural exchange. The incentive for hosts is the ability to meet and gain knowledge from travelers of every culture, language, and nation. For travelers, it is an opportunity like no other to see your travel destination through the eyes of locals, who are generally more than happy to show you around and impart their knowledge of the local area.

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TOP TEN...Continued from page 1 when in college, especially when heading out the door for an early morning class.

However, getting a quick bite to eat before a class will give you an extra boost of energy.

Keep a stash of granola bars at all times, and don’t forget to throw a few in your backpack. You never know when you might get stuck on campus for longer than you expected.

If your granola bar stash runs dry, the Centennial Student Union offers a variety of foods for purchase including pasta, salads, sushi, pizza, and a various other fast foods and snacks.

Do go to the gym.

It has been proven over and over again that exercise is good for your body. That being said, do not avoid the gym! Schedule time a few times a week to step away from your book and step onto a treadmill. If the gym is not for you, consider taking a class offered through MSU, such as Zumba, yoga, HIIT (high intensity interval training), and more. Other activities such as tennis, basketball, volleyball, climbing wall, and the new Frisbee golf course are all great ways to get moving, have some fun, and maybe make a friend or two!

Don’t hide in your room.

Moving into college for the first time can be scary; however, resist the urge to stay shored up in your room with the lights off watching The Walking Dead for yet another time. MSU puts on a pretty exciting welcome week, so visit the school’s website and pick events that draw your interest. Remember that you’ll never make a friend if you don’t take that first step out of your dorm or apartment.

Do know the bus routes.

If you are living a sizeable walking distance from campus or have friends off campus, it would be wise to memorize (or at least take a picture of) the bus routes that

right? Don’t text in class, or Facebook, or Twitter, or anything else on your phone! It’s surprising how hard this has become for students. Please remember that being on your phone in class is being rude to your teacher. Put it on silent, put it away, and show your professor that you are professional and respect him or her.

Do capitalize on IT Services.

Did you know that IT Services offers free Microsoft office downloads and Internet protection? Neither did I until this semester. Our IT department, located on the third floor of the Memorial Library, offers services when our oh-so-picky technology decides to go haywire on us.

Seek help from IT if you are experiencing issues with WiFi, a virus, or any other technical difficulty. Luckily, most help is free!

This semester may present challenges at times; yet we can take comfort in knowing that most of these pains can be resolved by our own work.

Making the right choices along the way will make you proud of yourself and your accomplishments when the semester ends.

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go to and from campus. Your MavCard allows you to ride any campus bus for free, so capitalize on that. Knowing the bus routes will also help you know when to be at the CSU to catch a ride home.

If you do not have a car at school, MSU buses also have routes that head to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. For a bus schedule, go to the cubbies to the left of the Campus Hub. Don’t text in class.

It seems pretty simple,

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“The important part for two poor college students like ourselves, who had worked all summer to pay tuition, was that it came out to a total of just under $150 for each of us – less than $25 a day.”

“I’m a frugal person and I love to travel, so couchsurfing is a great way to be able to spend more on experiences,” says John Bulcock, Assistant Director for Student Activities here at MSU. “I like to travel solo, too, so it’s nice to be able to connect with people who actually live in the cities I’m visiting. It makes the experience more authentic.”

This summer, John used couchsurfing to visit Major League Baseball stadiums across the United States.

“It’s not nearly as creepy as some people think it may be,” he adds. “I’ve met some awesome people while surfing couches!”

On my summer road trip to Canada, my friend and I had our first experience with couchsurfing in Winnipeg.

We stayed with a very hospitable and friendly lifelong native of the city who recommended a variety of places to us.

Though my experience with couchsurfing and the experiences of those I’ve talked to have been almost unanimously positive, there are some inherent risks involved in staying at a stranger’s house in a foreign place.

Couchsurfing.com acknowl-

edges this and offers a number of safety tips on its website, including “[being] informed about the culture where you are traveling,” “[reviewing hosts’ online] profiles carefully,” and “[having] a backup plan.” Perhaps it’s not for everyone, but I see the risk as slight and one worth taking.

WWOOF (pronounced “woof”) is another interesting program similar to couchsurfing. World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (www. wwoof.net) is a network of organic farmers who open up their farms to travelers willing to help with daily chores.

Unlike couchsurfing, there is a registration fee which varies by country and WWOOF hosts must also provide their guests with meals in addition to a place to sleep. WWOOF obviously offers less freedom than couchsurfing as it tethers you to one location and requires physical labor on your part, but it is still a cheap alternative and offers immersion into an authentic rural lifestyle of another part of the globe.

Greg Wilkins, Associate Director for Student Activities, is a regular couchsurfer and “wwoofer” and highly

Scary good house deal PER R YO P O L I S — C e l e brate your purchase of this lovely four-bedroom Victorian with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

The house that was used as the home of psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 film “The Silence of the Lambs” is up for sale.

The production crew took six weeks to turn the 3-story house into the squalid home of the killer played by Ted Levine. A film crew spent three days shooting in the foyer and dining room of the home near Perryopolis, about 30 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

The owners, Scott and Barbara Lloyd, both 63, were married in that foyer on Feb. 13, 1977, a couple of months after buying the house.

The Lloyds are asking $300,000 for the home, which also features an inground pool and a vintage caboose as pool house.

“The Silence of the Lambs” won five Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Anthony Hopkins played Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a crazed, cannibalistic psychiatrist whose macabre clues help Clarice Starling, the rookie FBI agent played by Jodie Foster, track down and kill Buffalo Bill in his home.

About that: The basement dungeon where Buffalo Bill kept one would-be victim, and where he was eventually killed, doesn’t exist. Those scenes were shot on a sound stage, Scott Lloyd said.

Still, real estate agent Dianne Wilk is hopeful that the 1910 home’s spooky pedigree will attract rather than repel buyers. Wilk said she could even envision someone turning the house into a bed-and-breakfast with a horror theme.

recommends both programs.

“I have loved the sense of adventure, appreciated the kindness of strangers, and have met amazing people,” he says.

For his upcoming sabbatical he plans to travel across New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, and Bangladesh.

“House sitting” is another intriguing option. As an article for the Guardian entitled “House-sit and See the World for Free” by Bill Coldwell explains that, as a house sitter, you live for free in a house that has been left temporarily vacant by its owners in exchange for taking care of and watching over the property.

“The best part about the whole experience has been the ability to really dig in to a destination and get to understand the culture,” Dalene Heck, founder of the blog Hecktic Travels who has been traveling the world along with her husband since 2009, is quoted as saying in an article

by BudgetTravel.com. “We get to know people and visit places that regular tourists never would.”

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Are your textbooks leaving you broke?

One student ponders the stress of overly-priced books.

YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer The new semester has arrived after a long summer break. Like most other students, I am pretty excited for my new classes, but I am also afraid of my upcoming hectic schedule.

Because of my slight fear for the new semester, I wanted to prepare before my classes started, so the first thing I did was email my professor to ask about the textbook for the class so that I could buy it beforehand. I find the school bookstore, Barnes and Noble, too expensive and there are many cheaper online options.

The problem, however, was that I could not find my class’ textbook online. I went to Barnes and Noble to inquire about it and the manager said the textbook was specially customized by my professor, along with others teaching the same class. The professors had combined different chapters from multiple books into a single textbook. The manager told me the only way to get the book was through Barnes and Noble, which I’ve tried to avoid using.

What’s worse is that there were neither used nor rental books because the book has a single-use access code.

Since it’s not possible to resell textbooks with access codes at the end of the se-

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www.huffingtonpost.com mester, I was very bummed about the fact that I have no choice but to buy a new book for $178 just for one class.

Still not losing hope, I emailed my professor again to ask if there was any other way to purchase the textbook and he responded recommending a new website where the access codes can be bought separately. However, the access code itself costs upwards of $120.

I may be biased when it comes to textbooks because they are generally under $50 in my home country of South Korea. Before I moved here, I had thought that even the $50 textbooks were pretty expensive for me as a college student, but it’s hard

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to find new textbooks under $100 here in America.

“Here is my strategy for buying books this year because they are really expensive,” said Luke Larson, costaff writer for The Reporter.

“If there’s a book in the library then I will use that.

The textbook rent system is really good. You can rent textbooks for 24 hours. So I will try to use the library as much as possible.”

“Also,” he added, “I haven’t bought my books yet and I won’t until I am done with my first classes because sometimes you don’t even need the book.

What really annoys me is the books with the access codes.

For my Spanish classes they consistently cost more than

like $120 for the book and we don’t even use it all that much,” he continued.

“First of all, textbooks are so expensive,” said Gideon Jansz, IT major at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

“When they come out with a new edition, you have to buy new one. We are living on student salaries. You can easily spend $500 to $600 for textbook,s and that’s almost a rent.”

I really hope my professor will use this textbook in the class frequently so that I get my money’s worth out of it.

Although my original plan to buy my textbook cheaper online fell flat because of the access codes, I hope to learn a lot from my fancy, expensive new textbook.

“What was your most expensive textbook?”

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“Physics. It was $225, but I got it at a reduced price at $160.”

“My drug, society, and human behavior book. It was $180.”

“Fundamentals of communication.

It was $150.”

“My calculus 1 textbook was $215.”

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It sure is great to be back in Mankato Students return to find the city building to be better for the future.

RAE FRAME Editor in Chief Whether you’ve been in town all summer or just moved in for the first year of college, we would like to offer a warm welcome to the fall semester of the 2015-2016 academic year at Minnesota State University, Mankato. There are many exciting things going on during these busy first few weeks of school, so be sure to check out some of the following events and projects going on in the city.

Campus Construction Between the McElroy dining hall construction, installation of new volleyball courts, and the Clinical Sciences building construction, campus is full of the sounds of new beginnings. Be sure to watch for parking changes and plan ahead to find a route to class that does not involve walking near the busy machinery and or taking high-traffic roads.

If you are itching to play

Photo by Yohanes Ashenafi some volleyball, ask the front desk if you can check out a ball with your student ID or consider purchasing your own if you think you will be

mnsu.edu IMPACT recently changed their name to Student Events Team (SET).

playing until the snow falls (or perhaps even after).

Student Events Team Formerly known as IMPACT, the Student Events Team (SET) is a “student-led organization that produces fun, interactive, educational events where students make lifelong memories and celebrate their Maverick pride.”

The new re-branding project was finalized over the summer and SET will continue to host exciting campus events like the Centennial Student Union Haunted Takeover, Color Rush, and LGBTQ Film Festival throughout the semester.

Students who are interested in joining the team, are encouraged to attend Student Events Team meetings on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Meetings will begin Aug.25 in CSU 245.

By getting involved, students can expect to meet others, develop leadership skills and engage in unforgettable opportunities.

For more information on Student Events Team or rebranding contact Sarah Galaszewski at 507-389-6076 or by email sarah.galaszewski@ mnsu.edu. For more information on Student Events Team, visit http://www.mnsu.edu/ studenteventsteam.

Downtown Construction The downtown skyline has changed a great deal in the past year, with new apartments, office buildings, and parking structure going up between Riverfront and Front St. The new parking ramp is now open for those looking for great food or a night out without the pressure of crowded parking.

There are also several new or revamped businesses in the downtown area that include Moonshiner Patio Bar

on South Front St. and Johnny B’s in the downtown mall.

Coffee Hag Renovations Regularly voted Mankato’s favorite coffee shop, The Coffee Hag has started a large-scale renovation for their kitchen, which will be followed by a dining area and stage renovation in a few weeks. The Hag has temporarily opened a coffee cart (during pleasant weather) so that they can keep some of their signature creations brewing throughout the next few weeks. You can follow the renovations on Twitter by following @TheCoffeeHag or visiting their Facebook page.

Vikings Exhibit If you’re a Minnesota Vikings fan, you won’t want to miss the Blue Earth County Historical Society’s (BECHS) new exhibit, dedicated to the fifty-year relationship that the city has shared with the football team.

The display features over 100 items that have been loaned to the Historical Society by football fans in our community. All items are being showcased in cases that were designed for the Vikings’ 50-year anniversary celebration in 2011. If the exhibit is popular, the cases may be used next year or become a traveling exhibit program for the Historical Society.

The Historical Society is open Tuesday–Friday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Be sure to visit the History Center Museum Gallery exhibit to learn more about Mankato’s growth and history. For more information, visit www.BlueEarthCountyHistory.com.

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TRAVEL...Continued from page 5 “I’m a frugal person and I love to travel, so couchsurfing is a great way to be able to spend more on experiences” Like WWOOF, house sitting is not the best option for a spur of the moment road trip, but with some long-term planning, it is one of the best ways to see the world on a budget. There are a number of websites designed

with someone you know you can trust.

Don’t have any friends in any exciting places that you would like to visit? Make some! You have a golden opportunity here at MSU, a college with a vibrant inter-

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to link willing house sitters with home owners, including TrustedHouseSit ters.com, HouseSittersAmerica.com, and MindMyHouse.com, all of which do charge a small membership fee.

Staying with strangers isn’t the only choice available, of course. Plan your next trip based on places where you have friends and relatives. My first time out of country was a trip to the Czech Republic where my family stayed with my dad’s college friend who was living in Prague at the time. Perhaps you can stay with cousins in New Zealand for a week. Or maybe you can backpack across Europe, visiting all your European friends along the way. You get the free lodging and cultural immersion that couchsurfing, WWOOF, and house sitting provide, but you also strengthen your long-distance connections and have the peace of mind of staying

national community. I have made many friends from other countries during my time here, and I consider it one of the most enriching parts of my college experience. You will not regret seeking out friends from different cultural and national backgrounds.

If, for example, you love India and dream of trekking across the subcontinent, make an effort to meet some Indian students and let them know of your interest in their country. Chances are they would love to host you and introduce you to their homeland once you get to know them. Most importantly, you now have rewarding new friendships from which you can gain a deeper understanding of a foreign culture.

Last (and probably least), you can sleep in your car if all else fails. While certainly not the most glamorous of the options, getting some shut-eye in the back seat is

convenient, free, and legal in many locations, making it a great idea to consider as long as you’re willing to risk a stiff neck in the morning. WalMart stores Inc. is generally very open to overnight stays in their parking lots according to Gone with the Wynns, a blog put together by a husband and wife RV travel duo.

However, be forewarned that there are many Walmart locations that do not permit this, a list of which can be found at www.walmartlocator.com/no-park-walmarts/.

Roadside rest stops and truck stops can also serve weary travelers looking for a place to spend the night. I did some research online and was not able to find any very authoritative resources discussing this. There are numerous blogs and forums (City-Data. com, RoadTripAmerica.com, and Survival Guide to Homelessness among them) that do mention truck and rest stops as legitimate places to sleep.

The Wikitravel “Rest Area” entry notes that laws vary by state in regards to rest stops, but there appears to be no issue with truck stops.

It lists safety considerations, as well, such as avoiding isolated stops. I recommend

doing your own research before planning on using this

way, though.

If traveling by plane, sleep-

money-saving strategy. On my Canadian road trip this summer, my friend and I had not arranged for anywhere to stay between Regina, Saskatchewan and Grand Forks, North Dakota. We ended up pulling up next to some semis around midnight at the Flying J truck stop in Minot, North Dakota. It worked fine, but the experience was akin to trying to fall asleep on an airplane. A few hours of sleep was all we really needed any-

ing in the airport is another solution, and is recommended by travel expert Rick Steves on his website.

If you’ve read this far, you should be well-equipped for the next adventure you embark upon. Take what you like and leave what you don’t.

Most of these strategies will likely take the average American tourist out of their comfort zone, but that, I believe, is part of what makes a travel experience worthwhile.

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Trump calls for the end of birthright citizenship Tensions rise as GOP candidate says, “they have to go.”

WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wants more than a wall to keep out immigrants living in the country illegally. He also wants to end “birthright citizenship” for their children, he said Sunday. And he would rescind Obama administration executive orders on immigration and toughen deportation, allowing in only “the good ones.”

Trump described his expanded vision of how to secure American borders during a wide-ranging interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” saying that he would push to end the constitutionally protected citizenship rights of children of any family living illegally inside the U.S. “They have to go,” Trump said, adding: “What they’re doing, they’re having a baby.

And then all of a sudden, nobody knows...the baby’s here.”

Native-born children of immigrants — even those living illegally in the U.S. — have been automatically considered American citizens since the adoption of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution in 1868.

The odds of repealing the amendment’s citizenship clause would be steep, requiring the votes of two-thirds of both houses of Congress and support from three-fourths of the nation’s state legislatures. Republicans in Congress have repeatedly failed since 2011 to pass bills aimed

Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press at ending “birthright citizenship.” Some conservatives believe the provision could be changed without amending the Constitution.

“They’re illegal,” Trump said about families that might face deportation. “You either have a country or not.”

Trump’s remarks came as his campaign website posted his program for “immigration reform.” Among its details: Making Mexico pay for a permanent border wall.

Mandatory deportation of all “criminal aliens.” Tripling the force of immigration officers by eliminating tax credit payments to immigrant families residing illegally in the U.S.

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He said that families with U.S.-born children could return quickly if deemed worthy by the government.

“We’re going to try and bring them back rapidly, the good ones,” he said, adding: “We will expedite it so people can come back in. The good people can come back.”

Trump did not elaborate on how he would define “good people.” But echoing earlier controversial remarks that

Mexico was sending criminals across the border, Trump said a tough deportation policy was needed because “there’s definitely evidence” of crimes linked to immigrants living in the country illegally.

The a New York businessman said he would waste little time rescinding President Barack Obama’s executive actions aimed at allowing as many as 3.7 million immigrants living illegally in the U.S. to remain in the country

because of their U.S.-born relatives. Obama’s November 2014 actions were halted by temporary injunctions ordered by several federal courts in rulings challenging his executive powers to alter immigration policies without Congressional approval. The cases could lead to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We have to make a whole new set of standards,” Trump said. “And when people come in, they have to come in legally.”

Trump’s plan was endorsed

by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who chairs a Senate subcommittee on immigration.

“This is exactly the plan America needs,” Sessions said in a statement. “Crucially, this plan includes an emphasis on lifting struggling minority communities, including our immigrant communities, out of poverty, by preventing corporations from bringing in new workers from overseas to replace them and drive down wages.”

On Sunday, Ohio Gov. John Kasich echoed Trump’s call to finish construction of an incomplete system of barriers on the nation’s southern border with Mexico. There are still gaps in the barriers, which have been under con-

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Safety and success in the fall semester A student shares some advice for navigating the college experience.

RAE FRAME Editor in Chief College is a whole new world to incoming students, and there are many obstacles that are scattered around the college experience—from paying the bills to pulling all-nighters to study for finals. I wish I had all the answers to getting that ideal college experience, but I do not! Instead, I’d like to offer a few words of advice that I hope will help you to have a safe and successful college semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Home & Transportation Whether it’s your new bicycle or shared apartment, you work hard for the things you own and should be sure to care for them throughout the semester.

Lock up your bikes with a strong lock (I swear by Kryptonite) and remember to thread the chain through both wheels and the bike frame. Many bikes have quick-release front wheels, which means the frame of the bike can be removed from the wheel and taken in a matter of seconds. Check out

mnsu.edu Nicollet Bike Shop on Riverfront or visit a sporting goods store for a selection of locks and some great advice on how to care for and protect your bike.

Take photos of your new place when you move in so that you won’t be charged for damage that was already there when you moved in—

“Knowing your limits and being mindful of what you put into your body is as important in the dining hall as it is when you’re at a party.“

many property owners will even provide you with paperwork for you to record existing damage. If you plan to go away for winter break, be sure to follow all the policies in your lease to avoid big issues like frozen pipes or blown circuits.

Parties I’ve found that information on party safety is greatly lacking on campuses all over the country, so the most important thing is to acknowledge the importance of attending get togethers with people that you trust will look out for you—and to be prepared to look out for those around you.

Knowing your limits and being mindful of what you put into your body is as important in the dining hall as it is when you’re at a party.

Along with the obvious advice of keeping an eye on your drinks, you should know and respect your personal

boundaries because everybody is different and what may be fine for some people could cause serious harm to others legally or physically.

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Speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Kasich said he would “finish the wall” but would then work to legalize 12 million immigrants now estimated to live in the U.S. illegally. Kasich said he would “make sure we don’t have anybody — any of the criminal element here.” He would also revive the guest-worker programs that previously brought in temporary workers to aid in farming and other industries hobbled by

labor shortages.

Most other GOP candidates also back completing the border wall but differ over how to treat immigrant families already living in the U.S. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush recently released his own immigration plan calling for the use of forward bases and drones to guard the border, but also backing an eventual plan to legalize the status of immigrant families.

Bush disagrees with Obama’s use of executive actions to

unilaterally enforce the policy.

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Good Thunder Reading Series at MNSU Nine talented authors to appear throughout the fall and spring semesters.

NICOLE SCHMIDT News Editor Throughout the 2015-2016 academic year, Minnesota State University Mankato will be hosting nine authors over the course of six meetings in the Good Thunder Reading Series.

In the series’ 34th year, Good Thunder Reading is sparing no quarter with writers such as Roxane Gay, Lynda Barry, Michael Torres, Jenny Yang Cropp, and Luke Rolfes for the fiurst semester.

Each writer has a specialty, such as fiction, nonfiction, cartoonist, poetry, or many more specialties.

The series aims to encourage budding writers to explore the vast expanse of writing and creating. Each speaker tells of experiences in the writing world, and can specifically answer questions from the audience to enhance their experience.

paper, a pen and their curiosity.

Craft talks are an opportunity to hear the writer speak more in-depth about craft or the writing life. Talks last 2530 minutes, and are followed by 20 minutes of audience questions.

Readings give audiences a meaningful way to engage with the writer, the work and each other. Just like going a concert is a richer experience than listening to the radio, and seeing a film at a theater has a greater impact than viewing it on a laptop, hearing work read by its author deepens our understanding. Hearing it in a roomful of other listeners transforms a solitary experience into a communal one.

Why is writing so important?

In her TED Talk, novelist Chimamanda Adichie discusses the danger inherent within the power of stories—

Roxane Gay, author of An Untamed State, will be the first writer featured this year.

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The presentations dates are as follows: Sept. 10, Oct. 8, Nov. 12, Feb. 11, March 1518 , and April 14.

I recently asked Diana Joseph a few questions about the events: What can those who attend learn from attending?

Writing Workshops last 60 minutes. During the first half, the writer presents a mini-lesson on a specific technique/ craft issue, then provides a related writing exercise.

During the second half, attendees share their work; the writer offers feedback. This activity enables attendees to generate creative work. The environment is relaxed and informal; attendees are expected to bring nothing but

the danger of only knowing only one. The danger is that, a single story, repeatedly told, perpetuates stereotypes and misconceptions.

Our 2015-16 program provides many stories, told by diverse voices and in varied forms. While some members of our audience will recognize themselves in a particular writer’s work, others in that same audience will hear a story that disrupts, or even negates, the version they’d previously been told.

Any additional comments or thoughts on the Good

Thunder Reading Series as a whole?

Something that’s new this year is that there will be twenty minutes of live music before the readings, starting at 7:10 p.m..

Also, our first writer this year is Roxane Gay. She’ll be here on Thursday, September 10. She is having a breakout year: her two recent books were published only months apart; both received glowing reviews. The child of Haitian immigrants, Gay often writes about the Haitian diaspora experience. Her novel An

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Untamed State is set in Haiti; Bad Feminist is a collection of essays about gender, politics and popular culture. Gay has an active online presence: she authors a popular blog, has over 84,000 followers on Twitter, and writes for Salon and The Rumpus.

This event is open to the public and anyone interested in writing is encouraged to attend. For more details, visit the Good Thunder Reading Series website or visit mnsu. edu.

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COREY YUMAN Staff Writer School is back in session.

Days are getting a little shorter. The air is feeling different.

This can only mean one thing.

Football is back! The MSU Mavericks are returning to the field after a tremendous 2014 outing. The squad is

looking to build off last year, and become an even more dangerous team for teams to go up against.

The Mavs are coming off a season where they went 14-1 on the year. Their record remained unblemished throughout the season. Making the playoffs they pounded through Pittsburgh State, Minnesota Duluth, and Con-

cord to make it to the NCAA DII Championships. Unfortunately, this is where the lone loss on the year would come from. CSU-Pueblo would defeat the Mavs in Kansas City, KS 13-0.

“Lots of high expectations, but ultimately it boils down to our will to win, our competitive nature, and what’s in the hearts and minds of our

young men will show up on the scoreboard,” head coach Todd Hoffner said when addressing how to build off last year.

When talking about players to watch out for, the first name that Coach Hoffner

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Women’s soccer opens season ranked sixth TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer Here is the good news: the Minnesota State women’s soccer team is facing a new season after having a historically fantastic season in 2014.

Now the even better news is the team has many returning impact players, such as the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) 2015 Preseason player of the year Korey Kronforst. The team will have to adapt to some fresh faces in the net, as Molly McGough will surely be missed from her unflappable performance last season. The Mavericks are ranked first in the 2015 NSIC Coaches Poll,

and they are ranked sixth in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Preseason poll.

The team this season will feature a more youthful approach, as there are only four seniors out of the 34 players on the roster. Senior goalkeeper Lauren Hoeppner will be getting the starts in the net this year, as she had some appearances in 2014 behind McGough.

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“The Mavs are coming off a season where they went 14-1 on the year. Their record remained unblemished throughout the season.

Making the playoffs they pounded through Pittsburgh State, Minnesota Duluth, and Concord to make it to the NCAA DII Championships.” pointed out was Joshua Gordon. Gordon is a defensive end hailing from Milwaukee, WI. Gordon is entering his senior year, coming off a season where he started all 15 games. Gordon also broke the single season sack record for MSU, stacking up 17.5 over the course of the season.

ball is good hands as well, with Senior Connor Thomas. from Chicago, IL, is returning to the role of running back.

doesn’t have to overly rely on one side of the ball.

“On a day to day basis the battle goes back and forth,”

in a playoff rematch against Minnesota Duluth. It’s also the first of five home games, and will be aired on ESPN3.

Kickoff is at 6pm at Blakeslee Stadium.

Connor Thomas

Joining him on this defensive side of the ball is defensive back Justin Otto. Otto, coming here from Kenosha, WI, also started every game for the Mavericks last season. Otto proved to be a ball hawk, and grabbed 4 interceptions, 2 forced fumbles, and deflected 10 passes.

Otto also achieved the honor of being named to NSIC South Division All-Confer-

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Josh Gordon ence First Team Defense These are just a few of the valuable seniors that had Coach Hoffner refer to this group of Mavericks as having “more experience, and more maturity on defense”.

The offensive side of the

“(Thomas) is our leading rusher in school history. He holds the record as a junior, so he hasn’t even taken a snap as a Senior,” Coach Heffner said when speaking of him.

Already having the school record for that, Thomas also broke the record for all time rushing touchdowns for MSU. Thomas is looking to further stamp his name in the record books this season.

Both the offensive and defensive have high caliber players, with the accolades to match. The Mavericks are a well-rounded team, that

Coach Hoffner said speaking on which side is looking better early on.

The Mavericks have a lot to prove, but their overall goals are simple, and to the point.

“Our biggest goal, and our team goal is just to finish 1-0.

That’s our slogan, That’s our motto, that’s what we’re all about,” Coach Hoffner said.

Coming into the season the Mavericks made the top of the list, and were ranked number one by Lindy’s Sports and also were placed at number six by Sporting News.

The Mavericks will kick off the season on September 3rd

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“Now the even better news is the team has many returning impact players, such as the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) 2015 Preseason player of the year Korey Kronforst.” minutes of play, she posted a spotless 0.00 goals against average, and she is also an NSIC All-Academic Team member.

Senior defender Emily Erickson is back after being a key player to a defense that only allowed eight goals all last season. Erickson can also handle the rock well for a defender, as she led all Maverick defenders with 28 shots on goal, as well as 11 goals scored. Erickson will be the only senior defender on the 2015 squad.

Junior midfielder Dana Savino will be another solid go-to on the field, as she was second on the team last season with ten goals as a sophomore. She was named NSIC Second Team All-Conference, and she is looking to build on a fantastic year in 2015. Savino also tallied the best shooting percentage amongst starters last season, with a .185 mark.

Junior midfielder Kiana Nickel is a great facilitator to the rest of the team, as well as a scorer. She recorded 29 points total, which ranked second on the team last season. She was second in assists (11) and third in goals scored with nine.

This upcoming season will rest upon the shoulders of the defense that played an up-tempo pace and suffocated opposing offenses in 2014. There was no fluke in going 22-1 on the season and undefeated in conference play. The squad has enough firepower to give the Mavericks a shot in each and every

Photo Courtesy of Reporter Archives game, but the defense will have to repeat a season that will be difficult to mimic.

Grand Valley State University will once again be a top challenge for the Minnesota State, as last year they remained powers as they won the championship in 2014.

The Mavericks last season split a two game set with GVSU Lakers, as they lost

the first game 3-1 and won the second 1-0 in Mankato.

The rematch in 2015 will be September 13th in Allendale, Michigan. The schedule for the upcoming season looks a tad bit more difficult than last years, but this will truly test the team’s perseverance early on.

They also play Central Oklahoma on September 6th,

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Volleyball is set to win in 2015 LUKE LONIEN Sports Editor The Mavericks had a huge highlight when they knocked off Concordia-St. Paul at home early in the 2014 season, and MSU will look to bring that same energy in 2015, with a new head coach.

Lori Rittenhouse-Wollmuth will take over for long-time coach Dennis Amundson in the 2015 season. Rittenhouse-Wollmuth is very excited to get the ball rolling in 2015.

“Its great to have a staff to work with,” Rittenhouse-Wollmuth said.

“Resonating with the players. We are so well connected, in tuned and focused on our goals that it will be a real fun season.”

As a team the Mavericks want to finish in the top four of the NSIC and to bring home the first NSIC championship in MSU history.

“Short term we are really focused on the preseason which we want to go 8-0,” Rittenhouse-Wollmuth said.

This is a tough goal for the Mavericks to meet as they go up against some ranked opponents in Colorado to open their season.

“To prepare for the NSIC you have to play the big teams,” Rittenhouse-Wollmuth said.

“Once we get in NSIC play and more long-term we are looking to finish in the top four of the NSIC, which gets you into the NSIC tournament. Really specific to this team they really want to bring home the first NSIC

The Mavericks are looking to build off a solid 12-8 NSIC record in 2014.

conference championship.

It is a pretty lofty goal but is nothing unattainable with the players we have and the systems we run.”

The new head coach has some stellar players returning including Junior Middle Blocker Krista Hassing, whom had a breakout season

in 2014, and was named the NSIC player-to-watch in 2015.

“She is easily one of the most athletic players in our conference. She has really

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VOLLEYBALL continued from 20 “‘We are so well connected, in tuned and focused on our goals that it will be a real fun season.’ Rittenhouse-Wollmuth said.” system she is going to be a real tough person to stop,” Rittenhouse-Wollmuth said.

“She is just so quick and explosive and so determined.”

Hassing led the Mavericks with 380 kills and 25 solo blocks in 2014, which helped her earn NSIC All-Conference First-Team honors. She also finished with a .286 hitting percentage.

Another key returning player for the Mavericks is Junior lebeiro Haley Fogarty.

“She is by far the most competitive player on the team and she is finally starting to let that competitiveness that drive and focus on strictly winning to infect the other players,” Rittenhouse-Wolmuth said.

“I’m really excited to see her floor leadership really come into play in all of our NSIC matches.”

Fogarty led MSU in 2014 with 444 digs while collecting 65 assist. She also recorded 12 service aces and three kills in 2014.

MSU also bring back a key piece in Senior Setter Ellie Van De Steeg.

“She should be a seasoned veteran, she understands the game and matchups. It is kind of nice to have some of those key components in the mix as well as one of our strengths this year will be having tons of depth,” Rittenhouse-Wollmuth said.

Van De Steeg led the Mav-

program to reach the 3,000 assist mark.

Depth will be another key for the Mavericks this season, and it will be much needed to get through the always-tough NSIC. “To get through a grueling season were you have probably have a lot of four or five set matches, you are going to need players who can enter the lineup without your level of play dropping at all.”

The Mavericks finished their 2014 season with a 1612 record, 12-8 in NSIC play.

Their conference record was good enough to get them in the NSIC tournament where they fell in the opening round Concordia-St. Paul.

The Mavericks open their season with four matches in Golden Colorado for the Oredigger Volleyball Classic on September 4th and 5th.

MSU then travels to Illinois to play four more matches before coming back to the Taylor Center for the home opener against NSIC foe Winona State University on September 17th. First serve is set for 7 p.m.

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Maverick golf preparing for season TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer The Minnesota State Men’s Golf team last season showed great consistency match after match. As a team during Tournament time, they never finished lower than fifth place and they won first place

third round of the tourney.

The Mavericks finished first out of 15 total teams. This season, the group is looking to build upon last year’s successes. Minnesota State head coach Bryant Black began his tenure just last summer, and he has already left a mark in only a single season. Black

six times. Their best performance was at the UNK Invitational, where they recorded a season low 279 score in the

named NSIC Coach of the Year, as well as guiding the Mavericks to a fifth-place tie at the 2015 NCAA Division-II Midwest/Central Region Championship.

The Mavericks will be taking a blow in losing two seniors from last season in Rob Kraft from Superior,

All-Academic, an NSIC Myles Brand Award recipient and a Maverick Achievement Award winner. Miller was the rock of last year’s team, as he was named the team captain his final season after leading the Mavericks in scoring as a junior. The Maple Grove native was a winner of the 2014-2015 NSIC Men’s Golfer of the Year, as well as an All-NSIC First Teamer. Miller was a medalist in five events and was the NSIC Golfer of the Week three times. Miller most certainly filled the stat sheet, and it will be difficult to replace someone of his caliber.

The team will be led by one senior this season in Michael Greenberg. Greenberg last

season as a junior averaged a 77.6, and he finished in the top five twice, top ten three times, and the top twenty four times. The big name to watch after an under-the-radar year is sophomore Kelton Schmitz. With Miller’s success on the course last season, it cannot be forgotten what Schmitz did in just his freshman year. Schmitz averaged the lowest score besides Miller on the team last year, with a 74.8 mark. Schmitz will continue to make big strides this season, as his game is already more mature than his years.

As for the women’s team,

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“Their best performance was at the UNK Invitational, where they recorded a season low 279 score in the third round of the tourney. “ Nick Campa will be entering his 27th year as the Mavericks head coach. Campa has won three District Coach of the Year awards, three Conference Coach of the Year

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floating around. Two seniors from last year’s team will be missed in Tabitha Kunst and Dani Selberg. Both of them last season were in the top three in averages, and now

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the team will look elsewhere for top performers. The Thailand native Kanyapak Sethasompobe will be a senior this year, and she was last season’s top performer for the Mavericks. She averaged the lowest score on the team with a 79.7. She also finished in the top five four times, top ten eight times, and top twenty ten times. Sethasompobe won the Mustang Invitational and the Fort Hays Spring Invitational last season as well.

She will be the one to watch on Campa’s team for the

2015-2016 season.

The women have a pretty young team this season, as other breakouts could come from senior Bobbie Bohlig, sophomore Genie Short and Senior Hannah Van Amber.

Something to note: since Campa has taken over as the head coach for the Minnesota State women’s golf team, the sport has taken home more than 70 tournament victories during his tenure.

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DANCE Photo Courtesy of Curtis Johnson RAE FRAME Editor in Chief Minnesota State University, Mankato will be hosting Minnesota’s internationally-acclaimed men’s vocal performance group, Cantus, on Tuesday, September 29, so mark your calendars for an incredible evening of music.

Cantus is one of only two full-time vocal ensembles in the country and the nine members work without a conductor, rehearse, and per-

form as chamber musicians, each contributing to the entirety of the artistic process.

The Four Loves is a program that explores love on all sides and features four newly commissioned works.

Cantus regards love as the greatest and most fragile gift in The Four Loves with world premieres by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, Ysaye Barnwell, Roger Treece and Joseph Gregorio, as well as music by Beetho-

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Performance Series Director Dale Haefner says, “The Department of Music is honored to present this renowned vocal ensemble as part of our Fall Performance Series season. This is a concert that you will not want to miss.”

The ensemble is heard frequently on public radio as regular guests on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor and on American Public Media’s annual Thanks-

giving program, Thanksgiving with Cantus, heard each year on more than 300 public radio stations nationwide.

Cantus will perform in the EJ Halling Recital Hall of the Early Center for Performing Arts on Tuesday, September 29 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to The Four Loves are $15 General Admission and $13 for MSU students and are available in advance at mnsu.edu/music/ events or at the door on the evening of the concert.

Barbie Super Star in review WES HUNTINGTON Staff Writer Barbie is one of the most recognizable icons in the American toy industry. Naturally, when video games came around, you just had to realize that a video game adaptation of the popular toy had to be developed. Enter Barbie Super Model, which was released for the Sega Genesis in 1992 and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. The game was developed by Hi-Tech Expressions, a company known for developing creative programming for PCs, and also some educational video games such as 1991’s Sesame Street Countdown

that was released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

The game was also published

by Tahoe Software Productions. The game is a straightforward game, just basically moving forward and back to the beginning of the stage without losing your sole life.

There are roughly four or five levels in the game, detailing a different city, and a different climate to navigate Barbie around. This includes driving Barbie’s very 1990s-style convertible around Hollywood, rollerblading on a beach in Hawaii, walking through an ice-covered road in Vail, Colorado, and bicycling through Central Park in New York City.

As mentioned elsewhere, the gameplay can be pretty

straightforward for a typical Barbie game of the era – most were simple memorization games with very little action or firing weapons.

Avoid the obstacles without getting hit four times – they are symbolized as hearts underneath the “chance” portion at the top of the screen – and complete each stage.

Along the way, there are two mini-games you must complete in each of the four or five levels. They both require some pretty decent memory recall skills. The first one is identified on the ground as being a pink handy bag with blue dots on it. When you run into it, you’ll be taken into the mini-game. It will ask you to match Barbie to the Barbie

on a cover of Barbie magazine. Remember the outfit and the colors exactly or else you will lose out on potentially an additional 300 points to your overall score.

The second mini-game you must complete in each stage is harder than the first.

It is identified on each stage as an old-fashioned blue flash camera with a pink trim around the big lens and the viewer. You have to match up a second cover of Barbie – this time a close-up shot of her – with the hair, earrings, etc., with the cover. This one requires quite a bit more memorization as the close-up shot

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Six summer blockbuster films in review WES HUNTINGTON Staff Writer It is now the beginning of the school year, and summer has come and gone way too fast. In case you missed it, there were some high-profile movies that came out during the summer that maybe you didn’t see or didn’t wish to see. Anyway, it makes sense to review six of the films that came out over the summer box office season that may be of interest to you. #1: Jurassic World (Universal Studios; released June 12) This highly-anticipated fourth film in the Jurassic Park franchise is not a sequel at all toward the previous films, though subtle nods are made to the original 1993 film as the time period is 22 years after the original. In fact, Jurassic World starts a whole brand-new trilogy of films, and seeing how well the film had done this summer – over $1 billion worldwide – we are in for quite an exciting ride, with the sequel due out on June 22, 2018.

Without giving away too much of the plot, a genetically-engineered dinosaur gets loose in the park, now called Jurassic World, and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), an expert in velociraptors, must try to find a way to stop it. It was a bit long—the exposition seemed to drag down the overall action—but it is fun to watch.

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Hollywood.com #2: Avengers: Age of Ultron (Disney; released May 1) The sequel to the 2012 film Avengers, it centered on an artificial intelligence named Ultron (so brilliantly played by James Spader).

We also get some pretty hilarious lines throughout the action, so much so you forget it’s a Marvel movie and instead you get an action-comedy. Still, the acting from all of the characters is excellent, but Spader definitely stole the show as Ultron.

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#3: Terminator Genisys

(Paramount Pictures; released July 1) It’s been six years since Terminator Salvation hit theaters and was critically panned at the box office.

Terminator Genisys starts up a brand-new franchise, and it was awesome to see Arnold Schwarzenegger back in the role that made him a superstar in the first place. Genisys serves as the fifth sequel of the overall franchise, but it also reboots the franchise as well by the means of how the timeline changed which is evident in the film.

There was good acting from Schwarzenegger, but the actor who really stole the show was Emilia Clarke, who takes over for Linda Hamilton in the role of Sarah Connor.

Clarke is British, but she nails the American accent so much so that you wouldn’t be able to tell she was even British to begin with.

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#4: Inside Out (Disney-Pixar; released June 19) Inside Out is the latest film in the Pixar canon, and it is an enjoyable family film.

Set in the mind of a girl by

the name of Riley – who is a Minnesota girl and loves hockey, among other things – the film deals with how people can lose their entire personality just by losing the joy they once had as Riley and her family move from Minnesota to San Francisco.

The film was definitely a joy to watch – you’ll laugh from the hilarious one-liners from Amy Poehler as Joy and Phyllis Smith as Sadness; you’ll cry when Riley starts to run away then cry at her parents. It is an absolute joy to watch; even the short romantic-singing film Lava, which is right before the movie, is a joy to watch too.

I recommend that all psychology students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato watch the film.

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#5: Pixels (Columbia Pictures; released July 24) Based on the 2010 short film of the same name, it centers on an alien invasion that takes original video games from the early 1980’s and uses them to attack the human race, who mistake them as a declaration of war.

It stars Adam Sandler as Sam Brenner, Kevin James as Will Cooper, President of the United States, and Josh Gad as Ludlow Lamonsoff. It was a pretty funny film to watch, but some of the cursing that is used in the film isn’t suitable for children. However, in every Sandler and James film, you expect Sandler to steal most of the funny lines away from James. In this case, the funny lines mainly came from James himself as his character is routinely laughed at and made fun of by the news media as the President. Sadly, however, this film uses Ashley Benson (ABC Family’s Pretty Little Liars) only as eye candy for Gad’s character and doesn’t have any lines. However, Q-Bert, making his second overall appearance in a video-game type of film (the first was Disney’s 2012 film Wreck-it Ralph), actually speaks English for the first time.

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#6: Spy (20th Century Fox; released June 5) An R-rated spoof of the James Bond film series, it stars Melissa McCarthy as Susan Cooper, a CIA analyst who is chosen to volunteer as a field agent to track down a suitcase nuke before it is sold on the black market. It is an enjoyable film, provided you don’t mind the characters spewing every swear word in the dictionary.

It’s an R-rated film, so it is expected that you get the occasional swear word. In the case of Spy, the swearing is played for laughs, as they say them when something doesn’t go a certain way.

Other than that, it is an enjoyable 90 minutes.

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Boston police hold two for online threats Arrests made at World Pokemon Championships.

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BOSTON — Two men from Iowa made online threats against Pokemon competitors — referring to the Boston Marathon bombings and the Columbine High School massacre — then drove 25 hours to Boston, where they were stopped as they tried to register for the World Pokemon Championships, police said Monday.

Kevin Norton, 18, of Ames, Iowa, and James Stumbo, 27, of Boone, Iowa, were ordered held without bail on gun charges Monday pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for Sept. 1.

Lawyers for the men did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Boston police Commissioner William Evans said the men made threatening statements in a closed online Pokemon forum and on other social media before driving to Boston for the competition. Both were experienced players invited to attend the event at the Hynes Convention Center.

The moderator of the Pokemon forum notified security at the convention center, then Hynes officials notified police, Evans said. The two men were stopped as they entered the convention center Thursday and were detained for questioning.

Police seized their car, which they believed they had guns and ammunition, but they released the men as they waited for a search warrant, Evans said. Norton and Stumbo were arrested Saturday morning at a hotel in Saugus, just north of Boston.

Officers found a 12-gauge shotgun, an AR-15 rifle, sev-

eral hundred rounds of ammunition and a hunting knife in their car, police said. They said neither man was able to produce a gun license.

Evans said police are not sure exactly what they intended to do, but believe they posed a “serious threat” to the people at the competition.

“Inside, there were a lot of kids, a lot of gamers ... thank God we were able to cut off whatever these two individuals coming from Iowa were up to,” Evans said during a news conference.

In a Facebook chatroom conversation involving several people, Stumbo referred to his AR-15 rifle, stating, “MY AR-15 says you lose,” prosecutors said. They said Stumbo acknowledged posting, “Kevin Norton and I are ready for worlds Boston here we come!!!” as the caption below a picture of Norton’s car with the AR-15 and shotgun displayed on its trunk.

Prosecutors also said Norton, when barred from accessing a chatroom that he was banned from for bullying another person, stated, “Oh, ok, that’s fine then I will just shoot him on Friday thanks.”

Players from more than 30 countries competed at the three-day, invitation-only event for a share of more than $500,000 in scholarship awards, including $10,000 for each Pokemon Video Game World Champion and $25,000 for each Trading Card Game World Champion.

Norton’s Facebook page includes a photo of him firing a handgun. It says he attended Ames High School from

2011 to 2015 but doesn’t specify if he graduated. A spokeswoman for the school said she could not release any details under student privacy laws.

Norton also lists Fareway grocery store as a workplace. An assistant manager who answered the phone at one of two Fareway stores in Ames declined to comment on Norton or give details of his employment.

Boston Police Superintendent Paul Fitzgerald, chief of the Bureau of Intelligence and Analysis, said authorities do not know what motivated the men.

“They made references, but they were pretty obvious references — bullet holes and bombings and that kind of thing,” he said.

Norton and Stumbo are not currently facing charges for the threats they allegedly made online. Police said the investigation is continuing.

“Due to quick action, the potential threat was resolved,” the Pokemon Company International said in a statement. “The Pokemon Company International takes the safety of our fans seriously and will continue to ensure proper security measures are a priority.”

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only lasts for 30 seconds.

In fact, the first magazine cover with the outfit flashes on the screen for about the same amount of time as the close-up shot one, so remember it and remember it fast. However, the close-up one is a little bit harder than the outfit on as the screen will flash when you change Barbie’s hairdo – she will have changed from all of her hair up to wearing a purple bonnet to a winter-style cap.

In each level, the magazine covers’ outfits and close-up will change depending on what level you’re on. Be realistic with the memorization – it wouldn’t be right to have Barbie style a bikini while she’s in Vail, Colorado for example. Finally, you have to memorize a four-button runway sequence that you will have to do at the end of the level, when Barbie gets

to showcase her outfit and hairdo for a fashion show.

In retrospect, the game can be difficult for its high memorization skill you have to demonstrate, the music is excellent for a 16-bit game and can be catchy, but can drive you insane after a while because they’re on a 15-second loop. The obstacles can be silly to hit – like a snowball in the Vail scene. It is a good game, but one life without losing your chance hearts then restarting can detract from the overall experience of the game. Since this game is geared toward the female demographic, it could enjoyed by all genders for its simplistic gameplay.

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Banksy reveals newest project “Dismaland” showcases artists’ work.

New Orleans band to play Minneapolis venue Band that formed after Hurricane Katrina comes to the Midwest.

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press LONDON — The elusive British graffiti artist Banksy has unveiled his latest project — a parody of a seaside theme park called “Dismaland” complete with a derelict castle, a dead Cinderella and a Grim Reaper in a bumper car.

The artist, best known for his subversive, stenciled street art, said it was a “festival of art, amusements and entry-level anarchism.”

“I guess you’d say it’s a theme park whose big theme is theme parks should have bigger themes,” he said in a statement.

While Banksy said it was “not a swipe at Disney,” it’s difficult to ignore the reminders of Disneyland — from the gray castle and the skewed sculpture of Ariel the mermaid in front of it, to the exhibit of Cinderella in her carriage. Only this princess hangs out of her crashed carriage, apparently dead, as paparazzi look on.

The project, staged in a run-down site in southwestern England’s Weston-super-Mare, is Banksy’s biggest show to date. It includes new works from Banksy, as well as art galleries featuring some 50 international and British artists including Damien Hirst. Musical performances and arcade games complete the experience.

Among the exhibits: a sculpture of a woman attacked by a cloud of seagulls, a killer whale leaping out of a toilet bowl and a pond where visitors can steer model boats crammed with migrants.

Local residents had been kept in the dark about the project, and were told the space was being turned into a film set.

The park opens to the public Saturday and runs until Sept. 27.

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Online, the official website was down for most of Friday as it apparently crashed under the flow of traffic.

Banksy, who has never disclosed his full identity, began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England and has become one of the world’s best-known street artists.

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Beatles contract headed to auction Band’s first recording contract to be sold next month.

NEW YORK — The Beatles’ first recording contract was signed in Hamburg, Germany, where the band honed its craft playing gigs in the city’s boisterous nightclub district.

The 1961 recording session produced the single “My Bonnie.” It was released on the Polydor label in Germany only and never hit the top charts. But the tune led directly to the Beatles’ discovery back home, a contract with EMI the following year and their first hit, “Love Me Do.” Heritage Auctions will auction the six-page contract in New York on Sept. 19 for an estimated $150,000. It’s the centerpiece of a Beatles collection spanning the band’s entire career. It’s being sold by the estate of Uwe Blaschke, a German graphic designer and noted Beatles historian who died in 2010.

“Not many people know that the Beatles started their careers in Germany,” said Beatles expert Ulf Kruger.

“The Beatles had their longest stint in a club in Hamburg at the Top Ten Club.

They played there three months in a row, every night.

The style they invented in Liverpool, they cultivated in Hamburg.”

“Without this contract all of the pieces wouldn’t have fallen into place,” added Dean Harmeyer, Heritage’s consignment director for music memorabilia, who said the band was “a ramshackle, amateur band” when they first went to Germany. “They were

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press probably a C class in the pantheon of Liverpool bands.”

But their stints in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962 changed that.

“It really is where they honed their musical skills to become the Beatles,” he said.

“They set about learning new material, they worked on their instrumental abilities.”

But it was “crazy luck” that got them to Hamburg, he said.

Their booking agent fortuitously ran into a club owner looking for rock ‘n’ roll bands to perform in his Hamburg nightclub. The Beatles were not the agent’s first choice and wound up going only after other bands declined.

When the Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and original drummer Pete Best — were later hired to be the backup band for British singer/guitarist Tony Sheridan at the Top Ten Club, German record producer Bert Kaempfert signed them and Sheridan to record a rock ‘n’ roll version of “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean.”

“My Bonnie” netted the Beatles about $80. It was

credited to “Tony Sheridan and the Beat Boys” because Kaempfert felt the name “Beatles” would not cut it with Germans.

“The Beatles didn’t care what they were signing as long as it was for a recording contract,” said Kruger.

The only copies that made it out of Germany initially were the ones sent to the Beatles back home in Liverpool, England. After a local club disc jockey got his hands

on one and started playing it, music fans began asking for it. That got the attention of Liverpool record shop owner Brian Epstein, who decided to hear them perform at the Cavern Club.

“He immediately sees their potential. He tells them ‘I want to manage you and I’ll make you successful’” — and he did, going on to secure them a record contract with EMI, Harmeyer said.

“Every great collector wants their collection to be illuminative of the subject, and Blaschke’s collection does this so well largely because it also covers the German period,” he said. “It covers everything else. He’s got stuff from ‘Sgt. Pepper’ and ‘Abbey Road’ and the later things ... but he’s got this great trove of things that are specific to Hamburg. That’s really where the story started ... it’s where they really become the Beatles.”

Other highlights and their pre-sale estimates include: — A 1962 autographed copy of “Love Me Do,” the first single recorded with Ringo. $10,000.

— A 1960 postcard Ringo sent to his grandmother from Hamburg. $4,000.

— A Swiss restaurant menu card signed by the Beatles while they were filming “HELP” in 1965. $12,000.

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Caitlyn Jenner faces potential criminal charge Celebrity and spokesperson could spend up to one year in jail after fatal February crash.

LOS ANGELES — Caitlyn Jenner could face a vehicular manslaughter charge after sheriff’s investigators found she was driving unsafely when she caused a chain-reaction crash that killed a woman in February, officials said Thursday.

Investigators determined Jenner was driving at a speed “unsafe for the prevailing road conditions,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said.

Jenner was hauling an offroad vehicle on a trailer behind her Cadillac Escalade on Feb. 7 when she steered to avoid cars slowing for a traffic light in front of her on the Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu.

Jenner was unable to stop in time and her SUV rear-ended two cars, pushing a Lexus into oncoming traffic and also hitting a Toyota Prius. The Lexus driver, 69-year-old Kim Howe, was killed when her car was struck head-on by a Hummer.

Daniel W. Vomhof, an accident reconstructionist, said the additional weight from towing a loaded trailer makes it more difficult to stop a vehicle quickly.

Sheriff’s officials do not make official recommenda-

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tions on charges. However, the investigation found enough evidence to support a vehicular manslaughter count, Nishida said.

If convicted, Jenner could face up to one year in county jail.

Investigators will present their findings to the district attorney by the end of August and that office will de-

termine what, if any, charges Jenner will face.

Jenner’s attorney Blair Berk declined comment.

Because Jenner has no prior record, it’s unlikely she would face any jail time if convicted, said Vomhof, who’s testified in 3,500 cases.

He said Jenner would more likely face a fine or probation — or even an ultimately less-

er charge such as driving too fast for conditions.

Vomhof said Jenner’s experience towing a loaded trailer may come into play in determining what’s ultimately charged, as well as how detailed the police investigation was in recording speeds and distances at the accident scene.

The fatal crash occurred

months before Caitlyn Jenner’s transition. She was formerly known as Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic decathlon champion and Kim Kardashian’s stepfather.

Howe’s stepchildren have filed suit against Jenner claiming they’ve suffered enormous damages.

The lawsuit by Dana Redmond and William Howe does not specify how much they are seeking. They claim Jenner was negligent when she collided with their stepmother’s car, causing them and other relatives “great losses.”

Attorneys for Howe’s step-children, Dana Redmond and William Howe, did not immediately return email messages seeking comment.

Another woman, Jessica Steindorff, who was driving the Prius, also filed suit seeking unspecified damages.

A phone message for Steindorff’s attorney, Brad Simon, was not immediately returned Thursday.

Jenner’s transition has played out in public over the past several months. She’s vowed to use her to celebrity platform to urge acceptance for others who are transgender.

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Trump leads in the polls and the ratings Controversial Republican front-runner sets TV audience records.

NEW YORK — Opinion polls are one thing, but Nielsen numbers speak more loudly to television executives: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s ability to pull in viewers makes him catnip for news programs and wins a level of coverage that feeds on itself.

NBC’s “Meet the Press” had its biggest audience in more than a year for its Trump interview on Aug. 16, leading that show’s biggest competitors — ABC’s “This Week” and CBS’ “Face the Nation” — to feature phone interviews with the New York businessman this past Sunday.

After CNN turned Jake Tapper’s interview with Trump into a prime-time special last week and earned its best ratings at that hour in a month, the network repeated it two nights later. Two Trump interviews on Sean Hannity’s Fox News Channel show this month both brought in around 2.2 million viewers, well above his typical audience.

Trump is generally considered the biggest reason why Fox reached a startling 24 million people for the first GOP presidential debate earlier this month — the most watched program in Fox News history. That instantly made him a big “get” for TV producers, and the media savvy ex-reality show host has eagerly played along.

Keenly aware of his drawing power, Trump suggested in a Time magazine interview that he could ask CNN to pay $10 million to charity for his participation in the next GOP debate.

“He’s getting a lot of attention that he should get because he’s doing so well in the polls and he’s getting a lot of attention because he’s Donald Trump, and you nev-

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press er know what he’s going to say,” said David Bohrman, a television consultant and former CNN Washington bureau chief.

“It’s not negligence to cover him,” he said.

Aware of that drawing power, cable news outlets cover Trump events with an intensity the other 16 Republican candidates can only envy. A town hall meeting in New Hampshire last week drew live coverage. CNN and Fox News both cast aside regular programming Friday to pick up Trump speaking at a rally in Alabama.

Trump’s unpredictability is a bonus. His critical comments about Fox’s Megyn Kelly for her debate questions, made during an interview with CNN’s Don Lemon on what would normally be a sleepy August Friday night, put that show in headlines for the entire weekend.

Viewership during the seven call-in interviews that Trump has given to MSNBC’s

“Aware of that drawing power, cable news outlets cover Trump events with an intensity the other 16 Republican candidates can only envy.“

“Morning Joe” since June 18 rose 22 percent from what the talk show averaged 10 minutes prior to his call, the Nielsen company said. On July 24, the size of the audience jumped 47 percent in only a few minutes when Trump spoke.

Danny Shea, editorial director of The Huffington Post, compared the attention news networks are giving to Trump to CNN’s non-stop coverage of the missing Malaysian airliner last year. He was on “Morning Joe” last week to defend HuffPo’s declaration that it would only cover Trump’s candidacy in its entertainment section, a decision that grows harder to defend with each new poll.

“There’s an open secret that (Trump’s campaign) is a joke and a spectacle,” Shea said, “and by going wall-towall on it you’re just legitimizing it.”

Morning Joe co-host, Joe Scarborough, rejected the argument that Trump had more ratings than news value.

During off-the-air meetings, “nobody ever says, ‘OK, Donald Trump is great for ratings.’

What we say is, ‘what the hell is going on? Can you believe this? What is happening?’ He is a very real story, and the longer he stays in front, the more of a story he’s going to be.”

In past campaigns, the media’s “invisible primary” gave bursts of early attention to candidates before voters settled things, to which Gary Hart, Howard Dean, John McCain, Jimmy Carter can attest. None matched Trump for attention, said Thomas

Patterson, acting director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Only two months ago the GOP had a shapeless field of candidates, and now the nonTrumps are so starved for attention that some will struggle to survive until voting begins. Bohrman said Trump is getting a level of attention he normally doesn’t see until spring of an election year,

when nominations are all but decided.

“It’s kind of a ‘no time for losers’ policy in the newsroom,” Patterson said.

Trump frequently mixes it up with the media, often through Twitter. Sometimes he’s playful, like suggesting that “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski be paid more than Scarborough. Often he’s quite serious, and his reaction to Fox’s Kelly struck some who heard it as offensive.

At the Alabama rally, Trump asked the audience what they thought of cable networks. Fox got cheers and MSNBC boos, making the latter network’s decision not to televise the speech live fortunate.

At this point, it’s hard to tell how much attention Trump is receiving because he’s a frontrunner, and how much is because producers know he’ll provide a reliable ratings bump.

“At the end, does it really matter if both are valid reasons for covering him?” Bohrman said. “There’s not a lot of other compelling stuff on television now. It’s the reality show of the season.”

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