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Mankato ranked in most affordable college town list YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer Mankato was recently selected as one of the most-affordable college towns throughout the nation, in a recent list compiled

by Great Value Colleges. More importantly, Mankato is the only Minnesota college town on the list of top 50. The main reason for this selection is the fact that Mankato is famous for its low cost-of-living and reasonable rental rates.

Mankato population is largely comprised of people who work or study at the university, In fact, Minnesota State University, Mankato has more than 15,000 students out of the population of 53,000 in the Greater Mankato area. Nearby Bethany Lutheran College has about 600 students.

On the new list of the nation’s most-affordable college towns, the cost-of-living index scores were used. The index scores were calculated based on factors like the cost of groceries, housing, utilities, transportation, and health care, according to the Council of Community and

Economic Research.

Mankato, a town with more than one university, is ranked 36 on the list. By the index, the average cost for a one-bedroom apartment in Mankato is $717, which is considered a reasonable price. The cost-of-living index score is 93. Considering that the average index score is 100, Mankato’s score comes in high.

In comparison with the costof-living index score of the highest ranking city, Cookeville in Tennessee, Mankato’s score is even higher than Cookeville, which sits at 85.7.

From this research, MSU, the most prominent university in the Mankato area, has also gained a good reputation when it come to affordability, which creates a synergy effect for the city and the university. It is projected that MSU would be a more attractive university to potential college students, thanks to this list.

Dan Benson, director of Media Relations at MSU, said that this research is a big asset for MSU and helps its students to pursue their educational goals, in respect that the cost of college is a big concern lately.

“We are always happy to

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hear that we are ranked among affordable colleges, but we are most proud of what we are able to offer students academically,” Benson said. “Our tag line is ‘Big ideas. Real-world thinking’ and whether it is undergraduate or graduate students, we just think it is an outstanding place for students to continue their education.”

In addition to the high costeffectiveness of the city, MSU also is known for its diverse interests among students,

according to the Council of Community and Economic Research.

As a start, the Minnesota Vikings have their summer training camp at MSU. Which helps the university to gain notoriety from fans, parents and students as an attractive university.

Secondly, MSU is the first university in the country to offer a Fine Arts degree in Forensics. For the students who are interested in the field, MSU

is the right university to pursue and fulfill their academic goals.

Considering all of the factors above, there is no doubt that MSU is a prominent university for potential academic pursuers.

In addition to Mankato, other cities were ranked in the index including Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Appleton, Wisconsin; Louisville, Kentucky; Memphis, Tennessee; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Mysterious black helicopters looming over Twin Cities

DYLAN ROBINSON Staff Writer

Last Tuesday, residents of the Minneapolis and St. Paul area described seeing black helicopters flying overhead.

Something you would see straight out of an action movie in theaters, but this very well happened.

A handful of low-flying, black helicopters were reported zooming between buildings and over rooftops.

People all around the area started questioning this sighting and brought this to the local police. Why would there be such a need to be flying over urban areas so close to the general public?

Information surfaced and they later found out these planes were called Night Stalkers, or more formally, the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Questions started to arise from these viewer’s wondering what exactly the need for the training of this act was for, as these were stealth choppers flying with some kind of a purpose.

The Department of Defense claims to be in charge of this operation while the Minneapolis and St. Paul police reportedly played a supporting role, apologizing for any alarm or inconvenience the training may cause.”

Further research reveals more detail of this manner from the Night Stalkers website claiming secrecy is the name of their game. The motto they follow being to “… guard my unit’s mission with secrecy, for my only true ally is the night and the element of surprise.” The Night Stalkers group also boasts it is “highly trained and ready to accomplish the very toughest missions in all environments, anywhere in the world, day or night, with unparalleled precision.”

A small gathering formed together later that night advocating and communicating the exercise was an unwelcoming sight.

They were questioning on the matter of this act. The substantial reason of this training is something being suppressed to help keep the secrecy of the unit. A Minneapolis resident, Daniel Feidt, spoke about this

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exercise’s manner, saying, “I think the scale of the domestic military exercises is not a good idea. It’s a waste of tax payers’ money, and I think it’s inappropriate for Special Forces to be operating in American cities.”

The Minneapolis police claim this training has been planned months in advanced.

This training continued into last Thursday and the Minneapolis police say the exact times and locations cannot be released because of

the security concerns within.

They do not want to draw in attention with crowds of people because it could then create what they consider a public safety issue.

The Minneapolis police also claim this is a routine training, which is being conducted by military personnel in cities all across the country.

A former Navy SEAL told WCCO-TV News that the military prefers to put pilots in surroundings they

are not familiar with which in return, forces them to adapt quickly as if it were a real life situation. On a mission in a place they have never been before.

The real reason for this so called training act still remains unknown because of the stealth implicated into this event performed by the Department of Defense.

Questions still remain open.

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Deputy battling ALS suspected of murdering two

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When Andrew Steele retired as a sheriff's deputy, his career cut short by the advance of ALS, he had no bigger cheerleader than his wife. Ashlee Steele spearheaded a drive to raise $75,000 for his medical care, and her Facebook feed is filled with the shrieks and laughter of the coldwater challenges the couple's family and friends were eager to accept.

Now, Andrew Steele is a suspect in the killings of his wife and her sister, Kacee Tollefsbol, at the Steeles' home in suburban Fitchburg, Wisconsin on Friday.

Steele himself is being treated for an apparent suicide attempt that, police say, they never saw coming.

"Nobody closely aligned with Andy and his family expected something like this to occur," Dane County Sheriff Dave Mahoney told The Associated Press on Monday. "We believe his diagnosis had an impact on the family but they were moving forward."

Mahoney said Steele, 39, had been a deputy since November 1998. He had worked for the past several years in the county jail but resigned in June after he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS attacks nerve cells and can lead to complete paralysis and death. The average life expectancy is two to five years after diagnosis.

Police said Ashlee Steele, 39, and Tollefsbol, 38, of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, were shot.

It was unclear when prosecutors might charge Andrew Steele. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne didn't immediately return a phone message Monday, and Fitchburg Police Lt. Todd Stetzer said he had no information to release on the case.

Before Friday, Mahoney said deputies had been talking with Steele about joining the family's "Tough as Steele" effort to raise money for his medical care and other family expenses.

The Steeles have two children while Tollefsbol was the mother of four.

"We're trying to understand what could possibly have gone wrong and resulted in the death of two young women and the fact that there's now six children without a mother," Mahoney said.

Steele's family started the "Tough as Steele — Taking Down ALS" campaign via the website GiveForward.com. The site said the loss of his income had been crushing to the family.

As of Saturday, supporters had raised nearly $23,000 toward their $75,000 goal, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.

The campaign appeared to have been removed from the site over the weekend.

Ashlee Steele's Facebook page contains several videos of law enforcement colleagues and other friends taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in Steele's honor. They include Madison Police Chief Mike Koval offering prayers and firefighters from three departments cheering as a

ladder truck hoses them down.

"I never would have expected the type of reaching out people have done," Andrew Steele told WMTV earlier this month.

"People that have donated, people that I don't even know very well, I haven't seen or talked to in years. It's hard to describe that."

Ashlee Steele had taught

3-year-olds in the preschool at Christ Memorial Lutheran Church in Fitchburg, staff coordinator Elsa Gumm said.

"She was very organized, just full of joy in general," Gumm said. "She was so great at being hands-on with the kids.

She just made kids and parents alike feel at ease."

Gumm said she had never

met Andrew Steele and couldn't offer any insights into why he would have hurt his wife.

"That's the big question in our minds as well," she said.

"What we keep turning to is we may not get answers to those questions, so we just cling to our hope in Jesus Christ."

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VICTOR ONGULE Staff Writer Ferguson is nothing but one of the pots of racial concoction brewed in America for centuries.

If you have been watching the news for the last two weeks, I am sure you are familiar with the happenings in Ferguson, Missouri. If not then let me give you a recap of the events

MOHAMED MOHAMOUD, COMPUTER ENGINEERING “At the end of the day, they are in the line of duty for our protection and that is what matters.”

leading to the chaos: Michael Brown, an African-American teenager, was gunned down in broad day light by a white police officer. According to witnesses, Brown was unarmed and allegedly had his hands up during the whole fiasco. The bottom line is he paid the ultimate price and the African-American community in Ferguson is outraged and seeking answers through protests.

The people of Ferguson have the right to assemble as stipulated under the first amendment of the United States constitution, yet the whole situation has been marred by controversies as witnessed on television with police cracking down on protesters and even arresting several members of the media covering the event. Looters and vandals have exploited the opportunity and taken

away from the message. The images have been nothing but what could be mistaken for a warzone or a third world nation under civil strife.

How does a nation proclaim itself a human rights champion while it constantly exalts the abuse of part its citizenry on a daily basis? Racial tensions, flawed criminal justice system, a botched education system

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“Do you feel most police are discriminant against race?”

PETER XIONG, BIOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGY “I’m not sure, I don’t have a lot of experience.”

CHETAK AGRAWAL, INFORMATION SYSTEM “I see the security dealing with all kinds of people, regardless of the race.”

SHELDON CHRISTENSON, COMMUNICATION STUDIES “Most police officers don’t discriminate by race. I can’t say the same for other people on campus.”

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The sad state of Earth’s energy situation ERSIN TOGMEN Staff Writer With world energy currently relying on oil, coal, and natural gas, there are limits on these resources that are available. Without fully considering untapped proven and unproven reserves in the ground, in the nearto medium-term we need to increase the current 80 million barrels per day of oil. This will push the competition for oil to dangerous levels in five to 10 years, and without more aggressive oil supply development, it will be much worse in 15 to 20 years.

But we aren’t taking the actions needed to prevent those conflicts. People talk about wars over oil, including both Iraq wars. China has become a significant player in bidding for oil. Beyond its own region, it is negotiating future supplies

from Iran and South America.

But large-scale initiatives to meet energy needs in order to limit future conf licts are generally inadequate.

China and India have taken major initiatives. Russia will also make significant contributions. There will be an economic war, as well as possible shooting wars. In that war, China already has the substantial leverage of its enormous dollar holdings more than $600 billion.

But if, at some point, U.S. and European monopolies on oil from the Middle East and elsewhere are seen as severely damaging to China’s need for oil to maintain its development, we will increase global tensions significantly.

At the same time, fortunately, the United States and China have large supplies of coal. China has enormously expanded coal production and use over the last 20 years.

It produces 65 percent of its total energy from coal. It is currently opening about one coal plant per week.

But this has come with

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enormous environmental destruction, from using older, cheaper, quicker technologies, both to mine it and to burn it, covering many cities and rural areas with black soot.

This has had substantial health consequences, in addition to about 6,000 deaths per

year to miners. China has already expressed its intent to reduce dependence on coal; it is pushing the growth of hydropower which it is doing with the large dam projects and nuclear power, and many wind power projects.

But because of current high

costs, and allowances for intermittent generation, wind power is not now planned to be a significant contribution to China’s long-term national energy needs.

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The Gaza war: Will the ceasefire hold?

ERSIN TOGMEN Staff Writer

After a month of horrendous bloodshed in Gaza, both sides are looking for a way out. But it will be hard to turn a ceasefire into a more durable settlement.

Nearly a month after Israel began its onslaught against the Islamists of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, local fishermen this week again tentatively dropped their nets into the sewage-ridden harbour off Gaza City.

The bigger question in the minds of Gazans and Israelis was whether the lull, the longest since the war began, could presage the start of deeper negotiations.

The Al-Badia coffee shop on Gaza City’s main street has lifted its shutters to sell its beans, but not yet to reopen its upstairs café for the well-todo. Hamas’s middle-ranking officials are turning on their mobile telephones, less nervous that Israeli drones buzzing overhead will track them down and try to kill them. Unlike previous ceasefires, which each side broke almost as soon as they began, this one feels a bit more solid. Israel has withdrawn most of its forces.

Egypt is hosting Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, albeit at separate tables. Once the haggling begins in earnest, the ceasefire may well be extended, though Hamas sounds less keen than the Israelis.

Both sets of belligerents claim victory. Hamas and its fellow armed groups boast that they have halted one of the world’s most powerful armies.

Their leaders are still alive and unbowed. Hamas’s commandand-communications networks are still more or less intact. They claim the moral high ground, too. “We killed their soldiers,”

says a Hamas fighter. “They killed the people.” According to the UN, more than 1,800 Palestinians have been killed during the fighting, threequarters of them civilians, against 64 Israeli soldiers, two civilians and a Thai worker.

Each side so far is still rejecting the other’s demands.

“If they have a defence minister, why shouldn’t we?” asks a Gazan farmer who has lost his 4,000 chickens. For so long as such differences remain unsettled, inertia may take hold. The blockade would be likely then to remain, as it did after the last serious ceasefire agreement at the end of 2012.

Hamas may well start firing rockets again at Israel and begin planning another uprising. The cycle of violence, which has erupted three times in the past five years, may resume.

Its officials claim that the 32 tunnels Israel says it has destroyed will be easy to rebuild; the acres of debris provide good construction material. The blockade may limit fresh arms supplies, but Gaza’s own rocket-production lines can be brought back into service. “This isn’t the time for crying,” says a Hamas official.

“Algeria lost a million people fighting for freedom, Vietnam more. This is the tax we have to pay.”

Lest they have been labelled traitors, many Gazans echo such defiance. “My life is gone, but I want a better one for my children,” says a fisherman, surveying the wreckage of his bombed-out boat. “We’ve lost 2,000 people,” says another.

“What difference does it make if we lose another 1,000?”

Mr Netanyahu may also face dissent in his own ranks. If the ceasefire holds, Israelis will back him, though opinion polls suggest that a majority wanted the war to go on until the Israeli army had “finished the

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If the ceasefire were to erode, so too could public support. Hawks on the right of Mr Netanyahu’s ruling coalition are already accusing him of vacillation.

So there is ample scope for an early bust-up between negotiators in Cairo. The current administration there is loth to give much leeway to Hamas, which it regards as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, whose government in Egypt it

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FERGUSON “How does a nation boast as the human rights champion while it constantly exalts the abuse...”

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and rogue police departments that discriminatively serve the public are just but a few of the decays that have infiltrated the American society for decades.

As an African-American male, my mistrust for the system especially law enforcement, is unquestionable. I am wary in public places not knowing the perception of people around me and if some white police officer is looking at me as a public contempt. My skin color is reason enough to be shot down or put in jail under frivolous charges. If I am not mistaken, this is a mutual feeling among much of the African-American community, especially men.

We are a marked target for the law enforcement. This is not an excuse, but a reality and anyone with an otherwise opinion is welcome to table it.

In the case of Ferguson, the police department is predominantly white in an AfricanAmerican ocommunity. That in itself is a systematic genocide on a race that has endured oppression efor so long. Changes should tbe made not only in Ferguson, ebut nationwide if at all we are tserious about racial equality. It nis obvious from the images that protesters have an inordinate hankering to be noticed, embraced and appreciated.

And they do it the only way they know how – through untamed exhibitionism. May be that is the only way their voices will be heard.

America the land of the free?

Give me a break, it is more like the land of the oppressed, abused and constantly ridiculed minorities. What freedom do I have in a society where I am only defined by the color of my skin rather than my character? What is the justification of wantonly incarcerating a certain group of the populace while the others enjoy unlimited freedom? It is an outrage that every citizen of this nation ought to be ashamed of.

Michael Brown may not have had the best of character, but to be executed in broad day light is beyond logic.

Even murderers have the right to a fair trial. Daren Wilson, the officer involved had many options to explore before pulling the trigger. But Michael’s skin color was a reason enough to warrant the shooting. What a sad world we live in.

Not all of us AfricanAmerican males are of questionable characters. Some of us are outstanding citizens with potential, but have been victimized by the systematic rot. The same goes to our

Caucasians counterparts who also have bad elements amongst them, but you never hear a police officer shooting them down unarmed.

Many people have condemned the actions of the protesters as an overreaction, but I dare them to take the walk down the black lane in America for a day and have a feel of it. Yes there have been lawlessness during the whole process, but can you really blame them.

Anyone with some sanity would realize that the Nation’s demographic is changing and we don’t live in the medieval period. America is a diverse society and that should be reflected in all public sectors especially in law enforcement.

Police departments should take the initiative of training their officers in racial sensitivity as an ongoing effort to eradicate racism. I don’t predict this problem vanishing on its own without efforts from all the stakeholders. We can embrace the status quo or take action to change it.

I think we need to see more of Ferguson across the nation whenever these types of incidents arise, if that is the only way to a solution.

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ISIS’ global reign of terror America attempts to ward off efforts of extremist group

JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria fighters in Iraq hasn’t stopped them from threatening Americans.

ISIS took a picture on twitter in front of the White House and stated “we are in your state.

We are in your cities. We are in your streets.” In response, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security has asked police to look for possible ISIS threats. Even though a warning has been issued, it is not apparent there is any credible evidence to suggest there will be an attack in the U.S., according to the Daily News.

“This is an organization that has an apocalyptic end-ofdays strategic vision that will eventually have to be defeated,” said chairman Gen. Martin E. Dempsey.

President Barack Obama has been trying to contain rather than irradicate ISIS. The U.S. is trying to keep troops out of Iraq by performing airstrikes in Iraq, but not in Syria. The U.S. has completed 90 airstrikes since Aug. 8 to slow down ISIS’s advance to Erbil.

“For now, attacking ISIS command and control sites, support areas and critical

pathways can do a great deal to begin the process of dismantling the organization,” said retired Marine Corps gen. John R. Allen.

Some military officials are saying that the only way to fight ISIS fighters is on the battlefield because they are mobile. There are more than 10,000 fighters associated with ISIS. Most of Eastern Syria is under ISIS control and Obama has refused to recognize the caliphate they established, according to the New York Times.

ISIS responded to the airstrikes by releasing video footage of the execution of American journalist James Foley. The terrorist said they will kill TIME magazine journalist Steven Sotloff, whom is being held hostage, if Obama does not meet ISIS’ demands.

“The Life of this American The situation America faces with ISIS looks progressively worse. citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision,” said the masked executioner in the video footage.

The state department particular reason. ISIS has made because Obama didn’t want spokeswoman has claimed it clear they will kill anyone who to get involved in a civil war, that the U.S. will not make is not Muslim no matter the age. according to CNN. concessions with terrorists, Republicans in congress are “I don’t want to hear from and the U.S. has not taken the trying to get Obama to begin the President about how he’s position to never negotiate with Military attacks in Syria. Sen. reacting to the events. I want to terrorist, in early June. ISIS is John McCain believes the U.S. hear a strategy how he’s going executing children and burying has to hit ISIS at its base of to fend ISIS off,” said U.S. Rep. people on their march across operations to take them down. Paul Ryan.

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Taking steps towards safer churches with new law enforcement

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(AP) —The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis on Monday named a former head of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension as its point man for dealing with allegations of sexual misconduct by clergy.

Timothy O’Malley spent over 30 years in law enforcement, mostly at the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, which he led as superintendent from 20062010. He started out as a patrol officer in Rochester, was an FBI agent, and has led SWAT teams.

He currently is the state’s deputy chief administrative law judge.

O’Malley begins work Sept.

15 as the archdiocese’s director of ministerial standards and safe environment, a position proposed by a church-commissioned task force last April. The panel found “serious shortcomings” in how the archdiocese had been handling the sexual abuse icrisis and recommended that the sarchdiocese put a lay person in ycharge of dealing with misconnduct allegations and preventing efuture abuse. h Archbishop John Nienstedt dhas been under fire for allegedly mishandling clerical misconduct cases since last year, when his top adviser on church law resigned in protest and went

public. He has rejected calls to resign.

In an interview, O’Malley said had a “very blunt conversation” when he met one-on-one with Nienstedt. He declined to go into much detail about their discussions, but said he asked for the meeting after he was offered the job, and that he got to see the archbishop the next day.

“He’s made it clear that his expectation is I will be very candid and frank to him in my recommendations,” he said. “I’m a direct report to him for a reason.”

O’Malley said he’s been troubled and disappointed by the church’s response to the crisis, but that he believes the archdiocese has made good progress over the past year toward putting its house in order.

He grew up in an active Catholic family, served as an altar boy and attended a Catholic college, St. Mary’s in Winona. But he said he’s not very active in the church these days. He said he attends Mass three or four times a year, mostly when he’s visiting his mother.

O’Malley said one of the main things he brings to his new job an appreciation of people whose lives have been turned upside down by serious crimes.

While he said he’ll work to prevent clerical sexual abuse from happening, he also said he’ll be aggressive at getting law enforcement involved in future cases from the start. He said he can’t change the past, but he can do his best to make sure that victims’ needs are met, that justice is served and that people are held accountable.

He said he believes he’ll have sufficient access to the archbishop and the authority to “to close the door and challenge the status quo” to get the job done.

“The archbishop looked me right in the eye and made it clear I’m not serving him or the archdiocese well if I’m not offering my best thinking,” he said.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests issued a statement calling on O’Malley to put “the safety of kids before the reputation of the church and predators. ... We hope O’Malley sticks to what he says and exposes predators and those who cover it up, reports abuse to police, and is open and transparent about child sexual abuse. Only then Photo Courtesy of Associated Press will change begin to happen and children will really be safe.”

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A summer-y summary: one student’s vacation JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer Summer always seems like a dream when it is over. It goes by so quick it’s hard to remember exactly what happened. At least that’s what summer is to me.

Summer started out with a bang when I had to have my appendix taken out. So the beginning of the summer was spent like most people would imagine the perfect summer vacation would be, except for the pain; in a chair leaning back, relaxing and sipping lemonade.

Of course the dream couldn’t last long, bills had to be paid. As quick as I recovered I was back stocking shelves at the local Home Depot. I worked nights at the Home Depot, so naturally I would sleep in through the mornings.

Going to Lake of the Woods for a fishing trip was one of the more exciting things to happen to me this summer. It’s always fun sitting in my Dad’s 16-foot boat when seven-foot waves threaten to capsize us at any

moment. Fishing can always be fun, even without catching anything.

My new fiancee spent most of her summer planning the wedding, so naturally I spent mine trying to manage my fiancee. Wedding planning can be fun, but it also adds up a lot for two college students.

My personal trainer friend, Tandy Juell, spent most of his summer waking me up to go work out. So I am no longer friends with him. Getting into shape was a big thing for me this summer and he helped a lot.

As summer dwindled on it became easier to choose to stay inside and do nothing. Staring at a blank wall all day seemed more fun than going outside to sweat any more. The few times I did make it away from my wall was pretty fun.

I went and played paintball with my friend Chris Kolb one Saturday.

Paintball can be painful. The rush of trying not to get shot and the thrill of winning against a group of 14-year-old

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kids is why I loved it.

As much as I enjoyed my car being totaled in the beginning of summer in a parking lot, everything worked out. It was a bad way to start summer as well as my surgery, but it all worked out. I got a new car and I’m much lighter now that I don’t have an appendix weighing me down.

As much fun as the summer was I was ready for school to start. This will be my final year at Minnesota State University, Mankato and I want to get it started. Summer was an awesome experience, as it is for most people, but it had to end.

The first day of school seems to haunt my dreams at the beginning of the summer, but

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p t towards the end is seems like al dream that I can’t jump into yet.t This dream has just started fors my final year and maybe otherc students believe there nightmarea just started with the beginning$ of school. j School is a great place tofi meet new people and learn newf skills, which is why I am excited4 for summers end.

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton makes the case for a second term, a major theme he’s pressed is that the state economy has outperformed most of the Upper Midwest on his watch.

How voters view the economy will go a long way in determining how Dayton, a Democrat, fares in November. Republicans concede things have turned around but they say the recovery has been far from robust. There’s no shortage of ways to measure the economy, and each side will spend the next 10 weeks debating whether the glass is half-full or half-empty.

The market value of taxable property in the state hit an alltime high this year at $592 billion, surpassing the 2009 mark that tumbled during the recession. Minnesota’s per-capita income is nearing $48,000, well above the national average of $44,500. Tens of thousands more jobs exist now than on Dayton’s first day, and unemployment has fallen from 6.8 percent in 2011 to 4.5 percent today.

“We’ve got Minnesota un-

questionably headed in the right direction,” Dayton told The Associated Press in an interview this week. “There’s more that needs to be done. There are still people out of work. There are still people who want better opportunities.”

Republicans argue that the good-looking numbers are misleading and that many people are “underemployed.” They point to research from the state’s Department of Employment and Economic Development pegging 53 percent of Minnesota workers as in positions beneath their qualification level. ___ Health care success causes Minn. clinic to close MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minneapolis medical clinic is closing, largely because more people are obtaining health insurance through the Affordable Care Act and seeking care elsewhere.

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While 3,000 patients will be without a medical provider when it shuts down Friday, its dental and mental health clinics and senior and youth programs will continue.

Because of the Affordable Care Act, some clients now have health insurance through MNSure, the state’s online insurance marketplace. Others qualified for Medicaid when the state expanded eligibility to 35,000 lowincome adults.

Clinic CEO Patsy Bartley says the drop in paying patients has resulted in a 30-percent cut in revenue since January. ___ Congressional hopeful stands by old blog posts MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Republican congressional hopeful Jim Hagedorn is standing by his years-old blog posts where he lambasted women, American Indians, gays and national political figures.

The posts were written between 2002 and 2008 on a now-defunct blog titled “Mr. Conservative,” according to the Star Tribune (http:// strib.mn/1p2JOquhttp://strib. mn/1p2JOqu ).

In a 2002 “masterpiece analysis,” Hagedorn called two female senators from Washington “bimbos in tennis shoes.” In 2008, he thanked Sen. John McCain for picking former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on the Republican ticket and commented on Palin’s appearance.

“On behalf of all red-blooded American men: THANK YOU SENATOR McCAIN, SARAH’S HOT!” Hagedorn wrote.

He also railed against gay marriage and accused Democrats in South Dakota of using deceased American Indians’ names on absentee ballots. ___ Late spring delays Minnesota’s wild rice crop MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota’s wild rice crop is behind schedule this year because of the late spring.

Wild rice harvesting opened last weekend, but most rice stands are not ripe yet, according to the Star Tribune (http://strib. mn/1l3rBhr).

Beth Nelson, executive director for the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council, said harvesting is usually complete by Labor Day but this year it will likely be mid-September before it’s done, as long as the weather remains mild.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said people who harvest rice may want to scout areas because some stands that were abundant last year may not have any harvestable rice.

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MAVERICKS 2013 Record: 11-1 (11-0 NSIC) Head Coach Todd Hoffner Offensive Coordinator Jason Eck Defensive Coordinator Jake Dickert Key Departures QB Jon Wolf DE Chris Schaudt K Sam Brockshus WR Dennis Carter LB Isaac Kolstad OL Andrew Essman Key Returners DL Barry Ballinger LB Tyler Henderson OL Josh Meeker DB Nathan Hancock DB Patrick Schmidt DL Josh Gordon DB Justin Otto RB Connor Thomas RB Andy Pfeiffer RB Chad Zastrow Key Transfers QB Ricky Lloyd WR Jameer Jackson

The Minnesota State University, Mankato football team hit a rocky road this past spring, going through coaching changes and losing key players, but it’s late August and now the team can now just keep their focus on football and their 2014 campaign.

After missing two seasons with the Mavericks, head coach Todd Hoffner feels “energized and rejuvenated” and is excited to be walking across Stadium Street and into his office again.

“We’re very forward thinking. Players want to focus on the games and I want to focus on the games… I want to help these young men be great people, great students and great football players, and that is where my focus is and that’s where the rest of our staff is and obviously winning is a tremendous by-product of how you do things and hopefully we’ll do things the right way,” Hoffner said.

Replacing Legends The 2013 roster handled the NSIC Coach of the Year, NSIC Offensive Player of the Year and the NSCI Co-Defensive Player of the Year, and not one of them is on the 2014 roster. Replacing players like quarterback Jon Wolf and defensive end Chris Schaudt is impossible but this program is at the level where they have multiple players that can compete for those spots, which according to Hoffner, enhances productivity.

First, the squad hasn’t solidi-

MSU Reporter Archives Running back Connor Thomas (5) led all of the Mavericks’ running backs with 956 rushing yards and scored 10 touchdowns.

fied their starting quarterback but have narrowed it down to two finalists. Sophomore Nick Pieruccini was competing with Mitch Brozovich during the spring, but Brozovich decided to take his talents elsewhere. But Hoffner and his staff brought in junior Ricky Lloyd, who transferred from Southern Mississippi, to also compete for the starting spot.

Pieruccini only saw action in two games in 2013 but has had two impressive performances in their annual spring game, including completing 5-of-10 passes for

47 yards this past May. Before suffering a seasonending injury, Lloyd put up 277 passing yards and went 22-for-44 on his passes with one touchdown and three interceptions for Southern Mississippi. In high school he led the state of California in passing yards with 4,451 yards. Both guys are competing hard, which is making it a tough decision for Hoffner and his staff.

“We still haven’t crossed that bridge yet. We’re still developing both of these young men, and they’re both doing a tremendous

job in Nick Perucini and Ricky Lloyd,” Hoffner said. “They’re both doing outstanding work so they’re performance has been elevated… Both of them just want our team to win and they want us to be successful.”

When it came to the defensive end position, the Mavericks will fortunate enough to have Schaudt and junior Josh Gordon’s names on the depth chart. Now with Schaudt graduated, Gordon

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Women’s soccer team ready for 2014 campaign DEREK LAMBERT Staff Writer

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The Minnesota State University, Mankato Mavericks soccer team is back on the field this fall after an incredible season in 2013. After posting an astonishing .818 winning percentage with a record of 17-3-2, the Mavs went on to win the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournament with wins over Minot State, Upper Iowa, and a championship shootout victory over the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Receiving a first round bye in the NCAA Tournament, Minnesota State was among the final 16

teams in the NCAA when their season was ended by Southwest Minnesota State University in a 2-1 loss during the second round of the tournament. Though the loss ended the Mavericks’ season too soon, there is reason to believe 2014 will be just as successful.

MSU starts their season ranked 15th in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll and returns five NSCAA All-Central Region players to form a deep lineup this season. First team All-Central Region forward Korey Kronforst returns for her junior season after leading the team and NSIC

in scoring last season. Kronforst posted 18 goals and 43 points in 22 games, all of which she started, collecting NSIC Offensive Player of the Year and Daktronics First Team All-American honors. With her outstanding season, Kronforst was the first Maverick in program history to be named a First Team AllAmerican and ranked eighth nationally in scoring.

Seniors Bre Steele and Emily Moris also add to the Mavericks’ depth, being named NSCAA First Team All-Central Region.

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What do we know about the 20142015 Minnesota Vikings?

ERSIN TOGMEN Staff Writer The Vikings have enjoyed one of the greatest careers at running back the NFL has ever seen. Adrian Peterson is entering his eighth season and has already surpassed the ominous 2,000-carry plateau. While he has changed the way we think of recovery and sustainability at his position, expecting that to continue much longer is pretty irresponsible. It’s for that reason that Bridgewater should start right away.

A great running back serves as a young quarterback’s best

protection. Defenses have to react to play action fakes with Peterson, allowing for more time and space for Bridgewater. If Peterson can be snuck in behind the linebackers in those play action sets, he becomes a lethal target on fairly easy throws as well. All this is worthless, however, if Peterson is not 100 percent if and when Bridgewater takes over.

If the Vikings are in win now mode, Cassel makes sense. He’s steadier and has much lower downside compared to his rookie counterpart. That being said, does anyone really think Minnesota can win more than two playoff games with Cassel as their

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quarterback?

The Vikings spent nearly three weeks and practiced 15 times at 2014 Mankato Vikings Training Camp. In that time, there was a lot to learn about the Vikings. There are still two preseason games and nearly three weeks in front of the regular season, but here’s what we learned about the Vikings in this year’s training camp.

The Vikings entered camp with Matt Cassel atop the depth chart and both Teddy Bridgewa-

ter and Christian Ponder behind him, and that seems to still be the case after camp. Bridgewater has flashed the past couple weeks, but Cassel has had a solid camp and remains atop the depth chart as the Vikings prepare for their second preseason game.

Jerick McKinnon is just a rookie and yes he plays the same position as Adrian Peterson, the best running back in the NFL. Even still, McKinnon looks to be a player who will contribute to the Vikings offense immediately.

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FOOTBALL “We’re very forward thinking. Players want to focus on the games and I want to focus on the games... I want to help these young men be great people, great students and great football players,” Hoffner said. continued from 17

needs to be ready to anchor that position and help push the other guys to compete for the other side, and according to Hoffner, that is Gordon’s strength.

“Josh Gordon is definitely a leader in that group and so we are looking for great things out of him from leadership and also from a performance standpoint,” Hoffner said.

In 11 games Gordon made 47 tackles and nine of them for a loss and forced two fumbles.

Hoffner has four guys competing to play opposite of Gordon, including senior Shonquille Dorsey and sophomore Colt Nero who both made good strides in 2013.

(New) Staff Meeting The squad had to fill both the offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator positions this spring and Jason Eck and Jake Dickert were the winners. Eck was, and still is, the offensive line coach, but this spring game he got to add making the play calls to his list of duties of an offensive coordinator.

Dickert got his first defensive coordinator gig at Augustana last season and led them to the NCAA Division II top 20 list for points allowed per game with 19.5. Hoffner likes his new staff. o “Work with the coaches is outstanding,” Hoffner said. “They’ve been putting our players in great positions, we’ve had a very physical (camp) and I think it’s been just the right amount of everything that we are doing from a practice standpoint and preparing for our opponent.” r Three-headed Dragon e The Mavericks averaged 294.7 rushing yards per game, second in -the NSIC, and scored 43 touchdowns on the ground in 2014. Even -though Wolf was the rushing leader, all three running backs in Andy tPfeiffer, Connor Thomas and Chad Zastrow are back in Purple and dGold. l “When it comes to our running backs we have a full stable of runsning backs… Those guys are learning,” Hoffner said. “They want to sknow what their role is and we are going to put them in position to .make plays.” n Thomas led the way for the three-headed rushing attack with 956 arushing yards and averaged 7.1 yards a carry with 10 touchdowns.

Pfeiffer finished with 509 yards and six touchdowns and Zastrow averaged 7.2 yards a carry and finished 2013 with 465 yards and four touchdowns.

Starting 2014 Strong The NSIC couldn’t have had a better showdown last December when the Mavericks and St. Cloud State’s shootout at Blakeslee Stadium so they decided to try to remake that magic right off the bat for week one.

“I don’t know if you could as for a bigger venue for more excitement. I hope people understand how great a game this could be if we could all get out there and support these student athletes.”

Kickoff is slated for 6 p.m. on Sept. 4 at Blakeslee Stadium.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER “With the Mavs’ leaders on the pitch returning this season along with 15 other players who saw minutes last season, 2014 looks to be a good season for MSU Soccer. The preseason accolades have set the bar high, but the Mavs will look to live up to the high expectations.”

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Steele, a defender, logged 1,817 minutes in 2013 while helping MSU post 11 shutouts and a stingy goals against average of .75 goals against per game.

Steele was also named the preseason pick for NSIC Defensive Player of the Year. Moris collected five goals, including two game winners, to go along with 15 points in 22 starts while finishing second on the team in shots with 86.

With second year head coach Brian Bahl having a season and an NCAA Tournament appearance under his belt; the Mavs were selected to finish first in the 2014 NSIC Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Perhaps Bahl’s

biggest asset returning for the Mavs is between the pipes in senior goalkeeper Molly McGough.

The Centennial, Colo. native collected 7.1 shutouts in 2013 during 18 starts to go along with a .781 save percentage and an .88 goals against average. McGough has been climbing the national record charts throughout her career as well, with her 32 career shutouts ranking 15th all time in NCAA Division II and her .56 career goals against average ranks 20th all time. The senior also is in good position to become the all-time leader in shutouts in the NSIC, needing six shutouts this season to break

the current record.

With the Mavs’ leaders on the pitch returning this season along with 15 other players who saw minutes last season, 2014 looks to be a good season for MSU Soccer. The preseason accolades have set the bar high, but the Mavs will look to live up to the high expectations.

MSU kicks off the regular season at Southwestern Oklahoma State next Friday, while a rematch against SMSU looms on Sept. 21 in hopes to redeem themselves after the Mustangs ended the Mavericks’ 2013 season.

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Another rough summer for the Twins Besides the all star game, there weren’t many fireworks going off for the Twins this summer, but their future still looks bright.

TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer The Minnesota Twins’ most recent home series against the Detroit Tigers (2nd in AL Central) certainly displayed what kind of season the Twins have experienced in the year of 2014.

They won the first game 206, spanking out 20 hits and 4 homeruns. The following game they won 12-4. The next two however they lost to the Tigers, having the finale score result in a 13-4 drubbing.

This season has had a roller coaster feel to it, but besides hosting the 2014 All Star game Twins fans have seen some brighter spots than past years.

STILL NOT THERE YET The Twins have made surges this year at certain spots, more so the beginning of the season when they were hovering around .500 and playing great baseball. With the current roster and some bad breaks with injuries, it just wasn’t

going to last.

Ricky Nolasco this season has been a huge disappointment. Nolasco was signed in the offseason to bolster a bottom of the league rotation and instead he has gone 5-9 with a 5.96 ERA. His career year-by-year numbers before joining Minnesota was 13-11 with a 4.29 ERA. Elbow problems have been an issue as well, and hopefully Ricky can have a better year next year.

Injuries have taken down guys like Joe Mauer too, as the club was on a hot streak into June when Mauer went down with a leg injury. By the time the rock of the team came back, the team was pretty much out of contention.

The Twins are slightly below average when it comes to team batting average. Homeruns are still an issue with this club, as year-after-year they remain towards the bottom of the league in that category.

The biggest issue that still

needs to get better is the pitching on this team. The bullpen has held its own when the starters do their part and go deep into games, but that still is something that is a work in progress unfortunately.

THERE’S ALWAYS POSITIVES Believe it or not, the Twins actually made some big steps in the right direction this year. Catcher Kurt Suzuki has been a fantastic surprise at the plate, hitting over .300 for the first time in his career and making his first All-Star game. Suzuki has filled the spot Mauer vacated for first base, and it will give the Twins time to develop the young Josmil Pinto.

Third basemen Trevor Plouffe has also made strides to improvement this year as he sits currently in the MLB’s top five in doubles.

Plouffe has been sidelined some of the year due to injury, and has still made strides in becoming a better asset to the club.

Brian Dozier is also a bright

Web Photo Oswaldo Arcia was one of the many Twins that suffered from injuries. In 75 games, he’s batting .226 with 14 home runs and 40 RBIs.

young star for the club, with some dazzling plays in the field and some power in the batter’s box.

Phil Hughes is currently tied for the league for wins (13)

which no one expected to say the least because of some disappointing years with the New York Yankees. Hughes will

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Matt Cassel named week one starter for Vikings

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press Matt Cassel hit his stride last season in the team’s 48-30 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles completing 26 of his 35 pass attempts for 382 yards and two touchdowns.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Matt Cassel has seen a lot in 10 years in the NFL, including by his count seven different offensive coordinators in his last six seasons in the league.

So when Cassel re-signed with the Minnesota Vikings in the offseason and started to digest Norv Turner’s new system, he knew he’d have to work harder and study longer than he ever had before to win the starting job.

Mission accomplished.

Cassel was named the starting quarterback over first-round draft pick Teddy Bridgewater on Monday for the regular season opener against the St. Louis Rams, an achievement that resonated with a player who has evolved from no-name rookie to backup sensation to embattled starter and then to a journeyman veteran scratching and clawing to get another shot.

“I’ve been through a lot in my career,” Cassel said. “I’ve

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been through the ups, I’ve been through the downs. I’ve been through the highs and the lows.

At this point nothing really surprises me in my career. Because of those (experiences), it callouses you to a few different situations that as a younger player I might not have taken it as well.”

One of those situations happened last year in Minnesota, when Cassel outplayed Christian Ponder and Josh Freeman during the season, but wound up starting only six games during a miserable 5-10-1 season. The Vikings fired coach Leslie Frazier and the rest of the staff after the season, hired Mike Zimmer and Turner to turn things around and brought Cassel back to bring some stability to the position.

Cassel has been sharp while starting all three preseason games. He has completed more than 66 percent of his passes for 367 yards with two touchdowns and one interception.

“Matt did not do anything to lose the job this preseason,” Zimmer said. “I think he’s played great. The team has a lot of confidence in him. They feel good about his veteran leadership and presence.”

The Vikings traded back into the first round on draft night to get Bridgewater with the 32nd pick and have pegged him as the long-term answer for the team’s unsettled quarterback spot. After an understandably up-and-down preseason opener, Bridgewater has played well in the last two games. In all three games, Bridgewater is 26 of 40 for 266 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions while getting most of his action with the backups and has impressed with his unflappable demeanor and low-key presence.

“I told Teddy this morning that I’m so happy he’s here with us,” Zimmer said. “I’m glad he’s the guy we picked. I’ve loved ev-

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be an important piece for the Twins’ rotation going forward, as will the young Trevor May and Kyle Gibson. Gibson has had a solid season after having Tommy John Surgery last year and continues to get better every start. Trevor May is just getting his feet wet with the Twins this year, as he has a great shot of making the rotation in 2015.

Keep an eye out for guys like Alex Meyer, Miguel Sano, Eddie Rosario, Kennys Vargas and the number one prospect in Major League Baseball Byron Buxton. Meyer struggled with control most of the year down in AAA Rochester, but he’s expected to be a top pitcher in the

Twins’ organization for years to come.

Sano had elbow surgery this year but is expected to be the Twins’ next third baseman to rely on for years to come.

Eddie Rosario doesn’t have a main position, as he came up as a second baseman. With Dozier manning that spot, it looks like Rosario’s explosive bat will have to find another spot on the field. Down in AA New Britain this year, Rosario played a lot of outfield.

Kennys Vargas looks like the second coming of a young David Ortiz, as the young switch hitting powerful slugger has driven in 22 RBI in 21 games

played since getting called up to the show.

Byron Buxton will be someone the entire league will be watching after a tumultuous, injury plagued 2014 season. The 20-year-old experienced some wrist problems early in the season, which carried into midseason, and never fully hit his stride. His season ended when he collided with fellow teammate Mike Kvasnicka. It resulted in a concussion, and we can only hope as fans for this season to just be a bump in the road for Buxton. Just hold on Twins fans, the future is still bright.

erything that he’s done. It wasn’t anything that Teddy did or didn’t do. Teddy will be, still in my estimation, a great player for this franchise for years to come.”

Bridgewater took the news in stride, saying he was looking forward to learning from Cassel, continuing to refine his understanding of the offense while staying ready if he’s needed at any point this season.

“When camp first started, I just wanted to learn as much as I could and try to get better each and every day, try not to make the same mistakes twice,” Bridgewater said. “So I take my hat off to Matt. He’s been playing great this preseason. I’m just going to continue to learn under him.”

In his first season as a head coach, Zimmer was asked if Cassel was his starter for the entire season or if there was a chance for Bridgewater to see time at some point in his rookie year.

“We will hold the quarterback position to the exact same expec-

tations as we do every other position. If you perform, you play. If you don’t perform, then the next guy will get an opportunity at some point. And when we decide to do that, we sit down and discuss it.

“That position, just like the outside linebacker spot, we have an expectation of performance and as long as those guys perform, they play.”

Notes: The Vikings announced their first round of cuts on Monday. Safety Mistral Raymond was waived/injured with a leg injury after three seasons with the team. The other cuts were: CBs Derek Cox and Robert Steeples, WRs Andy Cruse, Kamar Jordan, Ty Walker and Erik Lora, tackles Pierce Burton and Kevin Murphy, DLs Kheeston Randall, Tyler Scott and Jake Snyder, TE Kory Sperry and S Brandan Bishop. ... TE Chase Ford was activated from the physically unable to perform list.

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Timberwolves needed to trade Kevin Love MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Everyone knew the Minnesota Timberwolves needed to trade Kevin Love.

The face of the franchise played six seasons in Minnesota without a postseason appearance. He clashed with previous president David Kahn over his contract extension and spent last season putting up the best individual performance of his career while occasionally butting heads with teammates in a fractured locker room.

Love wanted out of Minnesota. The fans wanted his wish granted. And reuniting for seventh season together seemed to be fraught with peril.

On the face of it, the Wolves had little leverage. So owner Glen Taylor, President Flip Saunders and general manager Milt Newton had to convince the sharks circling around them that they didn’t HAVE to trade Love.

A summer-long dance culminated on Saturday when the Wolves sent Love to Cleveland, Alexey Shved, Luc Mbah a Moute and Miami’s first-round pick in 2015 to Philadelphia and received No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett from the Cavaliers and veteran forward Thaddeus Young from the 76ers.

Getting the last two No. 1 overall picks in the draft and an athletic, 26-year-old forward who averaged 17.9 points per game last season for a superstar who had one foot out the door required patience, discipline and plenty of luck along the way.

When Saunders replaced Kahn last summer, his biggest priority was trying to convince

Love to stick around for the long haul.

By the time the season ended and the Wolves finished 40-42 and in 10th place in the Western Conference, it was clear that wasn’t going to happen. And that’s when the bidding began.

Taylor made an appearance on NBA TV at Las Vegas summer league stating that his preference was to keep Love, Saunders made several public statements saying he was comfortable starting the season with him on the roster and the Wolves set about convincing the rest of the league they weren’t bluffing.

“We told all the teams from Day 1, we’re happy to coach him for this last year,” Newton said.

“They realized we weren’t going to give him away. What that did was made teams put their best foot forward to start with and see if it could get better from there.”

There was pressure at every turn, never more so than in the days leading up to the draft, when many felt the Timberwolves would have the most amount of leverage and get the best return for Love. They had extensive conversations with the Golden State Warriors, who decided not to include Klay Thompson in their offer, which proved to be a deal-breaker.

The Boston Celtics, Chicago Bulls and Phoenix Suns all came at them as well, but Saunders and Newton weren’t satisfied with the offers, so they hung tight.

“We knew we had a hell of a player. We knew that he was in demand by other teams, and so we weren’t going to make rash decisions because we were

around the draft and we supposedly had to move him,” Newton said. “We knew that if we let it play out and did our due diligence that we were going to walk away with a package that we felt really, really comfortable with and that’s what happened.”

As the draft concluded without a deal, the Wolves appeared to be in danger going into the season with a player who didn’t want to be there and a fan base that was preparing to boo him at every turn.

“We went through who we considered were cornerstones of trades with any team that’d call.

If cornerstone wasn’t involved, we probably weren’t going to pursue that,” Saunders said. “I believe that the No. 1 issue was, as the season progressed and maybe more so when I took over as coach, teams then believed we were not hesitant to bring Love back.”

Then LeBron James surprised many by deciding to return to Cleveland and everything changed. The Cavaliers pursued Love before the draft, but only increased their efforts now that James was in the fold.

The Cavaliers initially refused to include Wiggins — the player the Wolves coveted — in the offer. Once again, Saunders rebuffed early offers and the Wolves privately waited for James to exert his influence on the Cavaliers to push the deal through.

Taylor and Cavs owner Dan Gilbert met in Las Vegas and came to that understanding, and a framework was established.

That’s when Saunders and

Newton engaged the Sixers to try to land Young, who had been on the trading block since last February. The Sixers initially wanted Bennett included to be a third team, but Saunders and Newton insisted that the biggest piece they would offer in return for a player who can become a free agent next season was the No. 1 pick they were getting from Cleveland.

By Thursday, the Sixers committed to the deal, which also gave the Timberwolves a nice $6.3 million trade exception to possibly use in future deals as well.

Moving on from the secondbest player the franchise has ever

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known was not an easy decision, and it wasn’t a smooth process to make it happen. Once it was over, they wasted little time turning the page.

“One thing you can’t do in this business as coaches, general managers, presidents, you can’t fall in love with players because the dynamics change,” Saunders said. “What happens is you make decisions based on the personality and not based on the facts.

“Kevin, he looked and he made a decision that he felt was a business decision for himself and there were a lot of factors that led into that decision, not just what happened this past year.”

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The Barr is set high for this guy Barr, so far, has shown he can.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The crowd at Minnesota’s preseason games has given Teddy Bridgewater quite the welcome.

Anthony Barr is the one more likely to hear those cheers from Vikings fans throughout his rookie year.

The quarterback was always going to be the featured offseason acquisition for this team, considering the passing problems of the last four years, and the smiling soft-spoken kid coming off a high-profile career at Louis-

ville has been met with great anticipation from the masses. Further proof: those “Teddy! Teddy!

Teddy!” chants throughout his time on the field during the first two exhibitions.

In those same games, though, Barr’s play was just as obvious.

The outside linebacker has a sack and a half, a quarterback pressure and a forced fumble so far.

“Doing all right. Getting better. Made some mistakes,” Barr said.

He won’t make a name for

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himself with measured comments like those, but the ninth overall pick in the draft -- 23 spots ahead of Bridgewater -- is poised to make a big impact on coach Mike Zimmer’s scheme.

The converted fullback from UCLA, who played only two seasons on defense in college, has the combination of size and speed to be a disruptive and productive player for the Vikings if he can quickly adapt to the pace and the complexity of the NFL game.

“Anthony has so many good things going for him. He is extremely smart. He hardly makes the same mistake twice. He takes unbelievable notes, and he is a great athlete,” Zimmer said recently, before going on to praise the way Barr has handled his criticism: “He does not get shaken up, and he does not go in his shell.”

Barr, at 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds, has the prototypical pass-rusher body, and the Vikings have been trying to take advantage of that. He’s the starter in the base alignment at the strong side spot and stays on the field for the nickel package with Chad Greenway when the middle linebacker leaves for a third cornerback.

Barr, however, has been moved to defensive end at times in those passing situations with the nickel group as the Vikings work on varying his role with the goal of making it more effective and less predictable. The sack Barr recorded for a 9-yard loss at the end of the first half against Arizona on Saturday came during a play that started with him in a three-point stance with his hand on the turf.

“It’s fun, yeah,” Barr said. “It gives me a different look.”

Already, opposing tackles have begun to shift back a bit to give them a better chance of blocking Barr on his rush.

“He’s got great instinct. He’s a great kid, he works hard, he’s humble and he wants to be great,” Greenway said. “So the sky’s the limit for him.”

Barr’s progress has also eliminated one position of concern on a defense that still has several.

Jasper Brinkley and Audie Cole are continuing to compete for the middle linebacker job, and Zimmer said on Monday “it’s close.” Then there’s strong safety, with Chris Crocker, Kurt Coleman, Robert Blanton, Andrew Sendejo and Jamarca Sanford all remaining in the mix.

Blanton, who has been bothered by a hamstring injury, was on track for a full week of action.

Xavier Rhodes and Captain Munnerlyn are set as the top two cornerbacks, but the nickel back spot is still wide open. Marcus Sherels played there extensively last Saturday. Rookie Jabari Price hurt his arm in that game, and Shaun Prater suffered a concussion. Then there’s Josh Robinson, who has been unable to stay healthy all camp.

“The other guy?” Zimmer said derisively, when asked about Robinson’s return. “Who knows?”

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MSU clubs want you!

Where to find your niche at MSU. RAE FRAME A&E Editor Social obligations and homework can seemingly consume our lives, which makes free time incredibly valuable; so even though Netflix is calling, it may pay to check out some of the 250+ clubs organized at MSU—it’s a great way to meet people who love what you love, or learn a new skill without paying for the credits!

Whether you are looking for some exercise, or an academic resume builder, MSU is full of student organizations that cater to your hobbies and obsessions.

I want to learn something!

Clubs like The American Sign Language Club offer beginner-friendly meetings (to quote the site, “you do not need to know a single sign!”). Clubs that offer introductory skills are great for adding productivity to your week and can help you to learn quickly without the stress of taking a class.

I want to get moving!

The Maverick Hip Hop Club, MSU Climbing Club, and the Swing Dance Club are just a few of the athletic/special interest groups that will get your heart racing—better to sweat with others than by yourself, right? Many clubs feature big events that offer you a chance to perform for other students, or compete with similar groups from other Minnesota colleges, so check out a rehearsal or watch your club’s Facebook page for updated events.

I want to volunteer!

IMPACT, Campus Cupboard, Habitat for Humanity at MSU, the LGBT Center, SAGE, VARP, and the Women’s Center all offer outreach programs and community involvement in Mankato. Contact for more information on how you can get involved!

I want to tune in!

Voice and Vision, Maverick Machine Athletic Band, Chorus, Theatre, and Jazz groups are all waiting for your voice!

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forming ensembles are open to the student body—you need not be a major to lend your talents! Can’t fit it into your schedule? MSU student body usually features karaoke in the Bull Pen (basement of the Centennial Student Union) on a weekly basis.

I want to play!

Then perhaps the Chess Club, Herd, Assorted Misfits Gaming, Longboard Club, and Ultimate Frisbee Club might be up your alley? Take some time to check out the many special interest stores in Mankato— Nicollet Bike Shop and The Dork Den, to name a few.

There are so many clubs, boards, and organizational groups that we couldn’t list them all! For a complete list, visit http://msumankatostudentlife.orgsync.com/ or go to the MSU website and search “clubs”.

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E3/Gamescon summer review MATTHEW EBERLINE Staff Writer

It has been a decidedly dry summer for gamers, with few new releases and an ever growing list of games delayed into 2015. It’s a good thing, then, that with summer comes convention season and all the big news and reveals that go with. The year’s largest gaming conventions, E3 (shorthand for Electronic Entertainment Expo) and Gamescom, may be over, but there are still plenty of goodies to sort through.

Here’s a rundown of all that went on in gaming over the summer.

Microsoft kicked off E3 in June with its annual press conference, just one month after the software giant announced consumers would be able to purchase the Xbox One for $399, without the formerly required

Kinect. A handful of titles were announced at the conference, including Rise of the Tomb Raider (the sequel to the hit 2013 reboot), a next-generation remake of Phantom Dust (a cult-hit from the original Xbox), and Sunset Overdrive – a third-person action game featuring eight-player cooperative (co-op) gameplay.

In contrast to last year’s event, Microsoft’s conference was surprisingly focused on games, with hardly a mention of the Kinect or Xbox’s live TV function.

Sony’s conference offered its own set of reveals, including Little Big Planet 3, Bloodborne (a new game from the developers of Dark Souls), Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, Dead Island 2, and a remastered version of Tim Schafer's Grim Fandango, set to release for the PlayStation 4 (PS4) and the PS Vita.

The beta test for Sony’s upcoming streaming service –

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PlayStation Now – also launched on July 31st.

As in the past, Nintendo opted to stream its announcements through its Nintendo Direct service, rather than host a press conference. Several new games were announced during the event, including Kirby and the

Rainbow Curse, Mario Maker (where players can create their own levels in 2D or 3D), Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Splatoon (a new team-based thirdperson shooter), Mario Party 10, Hyrule Warriors, and Yoshi’s Wooly World.

Nintendo also announced its

new line of Amiibo figurines.

Similar to the popular Skylanders figures, Amiibos allow players to access special characters and abilities in supported games simply by touching the figure to the Wii U Gamepad. A Nintendo

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Tuesday, August 26, 2014

MSU Theatre presents its mainstage & studio season.

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MSU’s own Theater and Dance Department has released the performance lineup for both its Main Stage and Studio, which is bright and full of variety. Whether you plan to attend for extra credit, entertainment, or for date night, there’s a show for any student, faculty or community member.

Planning on attending every show? Minnesota State University, Mankato students are offered a six show deal for only $50.00, stop by the box office 4-6 p.m. weekdays to purchase your discounted tickets.

The following information has been distributed by the Theatre Department in their season brochure, contact Mike Lagerquist michael.lagerquist@mnsu.edu for hard copy or questions.

Mainstage Productions Disney’s Beauty and the Beast 7:30 p.m. October 2-4 & 9-11 and 2 p.m. October 4, 5, 11 & 12, 2014 in the Ted Paul Theatre Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, this stage version includes all of the wonderful songs you’ve come to love. When Maurice becomes lost in the woods on the way to the fair, he seeks shelter in an old castle, but the master of the castle is a horrible beast that takes him captive. Maurice’s daughter, Belle, must then give up her freedom to save his life. Belle’s taming of the unfortunate Beast and his ultimate transformation back into a handsome prince enthralled Broadway audiences for over 13 years, and this version is making its Minnesota State Mankato debut.

To Kill a Mockingbird 7:30 p.m. October 16-18 & 23-25 and 2 p.m. October 19, 25, & 26, 2014

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in the Andreas Theatre The events of the trial of a oung black man falsely accused of raping a white woman show the bigotry in the American South in the 1930s. Atticus Finch, the lawyer who defends him, shows courage in living up to a society’s highest standards, no matter how unpopular, a point that does not go unnoticed by his young daughter, Scout. To Kill a Mockingbird was presented at Minnesota State Mankato in 1999.

Our Town 7:30 p.m. November 6-8 & 13-15 and 2 p.m. November 15 & 16, 2014 in the Ted Paul Theatre Narrated by a stage manager and performed with minimal props and sets, audiences follow the Webb and Gibbs families as their children fall in love, marry and eventually—in on of the most famous schenes in American theatre—die. Minnesota State Mankato presented Our Town in 1950 and 1993.

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A halftime show to remember The Maverick machine is marching once more.

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For over twenty years there has been no official marching band for the Mavericks. Last year, the newly hired Professor Michael Thursby resurrected the Machine in the form of the pep band, which returning students will recognize from the football, hockey and basketball games. This year, pep band returns with something

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new—a full-fledged marching band that will be featured during the football halftime periods, starting September 4.

For Alumni and lifelong Maverick athletics fans, the return of the marching band will bring back a beloved element of the gams, while new fans will usher in enthusiasm for the athletics program they support, and music that they know and love.

The Maverick Machine

is made up of students from all majors and minors, and is constantly recruiting for those who are interested in being more involved with the games they’re already attending— part of The Herd? Join the Machine!

Contact Michael Thursby at michael.thursby@mnsu.edu.

THEATRE “Auditions are open to all MSU students.” continued from 25 Assassins 7:30 p.m. January 29-31 & February 4-7 and 2 p.m. February 1, 7, & 8, 2015 in the Andreas Theatre This most American of musicals lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States, in a one-act historical “revusical” that explores the dark side of the American experience.

From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman bend the rules of time and space. This is its Minnesota State Mankato debut.

Life is a Dream 7:30 p.m. February 19-21 & 26-28 and 2 p.m. February 28 & March 1, 2015 in the Ted Paul Theatre Astrological omens predict that if King Basilio’s son Segismundo is crowned, he will become a horrible tyrant who will bring destruction to his ckingdom in this classic Spanish Renaissance drama. Basilio imprisons Segismundo for life, but decades later he decides to let his son prove his ability to defy the stars. Allowed to rule the palace, Segismundo wreaks bloody vengeance on the kingdom, confirming the prediction of the stars, and the prince must face his fate. This is its Minnesota State Mankato debut.

The Pirates of Penzance 7:30 p.m April 9-11 & 16-18 and 2 p.m. April 18 & 19, 2015 in the Andreas Theatre A fresh take on one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular comic operas, this updated version of The Pirates of Penzance took New York by storm when it premiered in Central Park in 1980, leading to a subsequent smash-hit Broadway run. Wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was

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when it first opened in 1879, this operetta spins a hilarious farce with characters morally bound to the often ridiculous dictates of honor and duty. Minnesota State Mankato presented The Pirates of Penzance in 1987.

Studio productions A Piece of My Heart 7:30 p.m. September 17-20, 2014, Andreas Theatre This is a powerful, true drama of six women who went to Vietnam: five nurses and a country western singer booked by and unscrupulous agent to entertain the troops. The play portrays each young woman before, during and after her tour in the war-torn nation, and ends as each leaves a personal token at the memorial wall in Washington. A Piece of My Heart premiered in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club. This is its Minnesota State Mankato debut.

Gabriel 7:30 p.m. November 19-22, 2014, Andreas Theatre Gabriel is set around a largely forgotten moment in British history—the German occupation of the Channel Islands during World War II. A naked young man washes up on a Guernsey beach. Unnervingly handsome and fluent in both German and English, he has no recollection of who he is—patriot or Nazi, innocent or madman. This is its Minnesota State Mankato debut. boom 7:30 p.m. March 25-28, 2015, Andreas Theatre “Sex to Change the Course of the World”—A grad student’s online personal ad lures a mysterious journalism student to his subterranean research lab under the pretense of “no strings attached” sex.

Twerk the Garden Minneapolis festival for everyone.

RAE FRAME A&E Editor Rock the Garden has set up shop in the Sculpture Garden off Hennepin Avenue in Minneapolis for over a decade, filling an entire field every year with local music fanatics in an event that brings together so many different voices. De La Soul, Lizzo, Matt and Kim, Best Coast, and Jeremy Messersmith ran incredible sets in full June sun on Saturday, while Sunday brought out Dessa, Guided By Voices, Kurt Vile and the Violators, Valerie June, and Spoon to close out the festival.

What I love about the Twin Cities music scene, from radio groups like The Current to the wide variety of music venues, is

that almost everybody welcomes change and diversity in the music they love, and this concert series succeeds because they aren’t just catering to one taste—if you attend Rock the Garden, you’re there for old hip hop, new hip hop, southern soul, and singersongwriters who cover Miley Cyrus (now go and think about what you’ve done, Jeremy Messersmith).

Summer music festival season is nearly over, so we’ll have to wait a year before rocking in any more gardens, but local music is always thriving—you don’t need to be stageside to discover amazing new music.

For set lists, concert recordings and scenic photography, visit thecurrent.org.

But when a major global catastrophic event strikes the planet, their date takes on evolutionary significance and the fate of humanity hangs in the balance.

This is boom’s Minnesota State Mankato debut.

Venus in Fur 7:30 p.m. April 22-25, 2015, Andreas Theatre Thomas Novachek is the writer-director of a new play, an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs by Austrian author Leopold von SacherMasoch, which inspired the term Masochism. He is lamenting the inadequacies of all the actresses who showed up to audition for Wanda von Dunayev when a new actress, Vanda Jordan, bursts in. During this reading, Vanda shows astonishing insights into the novel and her character and the balance of power shifts as the actress establishes total dominance over the director, exactly as in the novel. This is Venus in Fur’s Minnesota State Mankato debut.

The MSU Dance Department has scheduled its dance showcases December 5 & 6, 2014 and May 1 & 2, 2015 and will welcome Theatre Latte Da for a performance residency of Steerage Song, “a musical kaleidoscope” of American immigrant’s journeys through the Island of Hope, Island of Tears—Ellis Island.

Pricing, updated events, and box office information is available at MSUTHeatre.com, MSUDance.com, or in the Performing Arts Center. Discounts and multiple show deals available through the box office.

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Summer of sci-fi

While not every movie this summer lived up to the hype, one genre brought its “A” game JAMES HOUTSMA Editor-in-Chief With summer all but over and non-film-centric life settling back in, it’s that time again to look back at the sweet promise Hollywood always plants in spring of a whambang summer film spectacular and remember that promises are made for breaking.

And while this summer season, just like all of them, had its share of bleak spots and areas where improvement is needed, an unlikely genre stepped forward to become a shining beacon of hope for audiences who appreciate qual-

ity films.

First, the elephant in the room needs to be addressed: people are still not going out to see movies anymore. This summer made that depressingly clear. For the first time in a while, this summer stretch from May to August didn’t produce a single film to break $400 million in the United States. In fact, there hasn’t been a movie this summer or year that has made even $300 million. The closest film to that marker, Guardians of the Galaxy, just recently came out and is still in the middle of its theatrical stretch.

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including The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Godzilla, underperformed and just barely broke $200 mill in the U.S., while the luckier films of the lot tapped out at just above that.

Meanwhile on the global scale, some films, despite diminishing success stateside, still brought home the bacon.

The prime example here is Transformers: Age of Extinction, which, thanks to parts of the film being shot in and marketed to China, became the country’s highest grossing movie ever in a heartbeat. It’s also the only film this year to crack $1 billion.

Take that lesson to the bank, hopeful filmmakers: if audiences here start catching

wise to how bad big movies are and stop going, Hollywood will just export its audience somewhere else.

Sequels and superhero flicks, once thought instant cash cows, didn’t necessarily come to the rescue either. At least, not to the degree that the big studios were hoping.

Fan sentiment hasn’t warmed any to Sony’s latest Spider-Man series, as both critic and audience reactions came out in something of a dead-split on the Spider-sequel. Sony was hoping for a much bigger return on Amazing Spider-Man 2 (the film still brought in just over $700 million globally), which has caused them to switch up their future franchise plans. Don’t

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expect to see The Amazing Spider-Man 3 until 2018 now. e On the subject of suspectt sequels, the ever-popularm Transformers series is start-s ing to show signs of wear andp tear. Once thought critic proof,v Transformers: Age of Extinc-T tion (currently sitting at a subterranean 19 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) showed that maybe people are growing tired of chaotic robot nonsense, as part four hasn’t even come close to its predecessors’ U.S. intake.

Director Michael Bay is reportedly now looking to pass the franchise off to some other poor soul for future installments.

Still, there were some pleas-

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GameCube controller adapter was also announced for the Wii U and will release for $20 this holiday season alongside the hotly anticipated Super Smash Bros. for Wii U. Other games announced include the long awaited next installment in Ubisoft’s Rainbow Six series, Rainbow Six: Siege, and EA’s newest Battlefield game, Battlefield Hardline.

Arguably the most anticipated game shown at E3 was No Man’s Sky, a massive space-simulator in development by independent studio Hello Games. No Man’s Sky features an entire galaxy developed through procedural generation and will allow players to explore and discover new planets and life forms on their way to the scenter of the galaxy. g Gamescom, Europe’s largest gaming event, began earlier tthis August in Cologne, Gerrmany. As with E3, Microsoft -started the event with their own dpress conference where they re,vealed titles such as SuperHot, -The Escapists, Smite, Below, -and ScreamRide – a new roller ncoaster based action-simulator. eGameplay demonstrations were falso shown for Halo: The Master tChief Collection, an indie game otitled Ori and the Blind Forest, .and Quantum Break – a time -bending third-person shooter in sdevelopment by Remedy Enterrtainment.

- Sony’s press conference offered plenty of new trailers and -reveals for games such as The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (an 1occult mystery game), Volume (a

stealth based futuristic retelling of the classic Robin Hood story), Hollowpoint (a four-player coop game developed by Paradox), Rime (a third-person open-world game in development by Tequila Works), and Hellblade – an independent hack-and-slash game developed by Ninja Theory.

Sony also revealed Wild, (an open-world game produced by the brand new Wild Sheep Studios), a new survival horror game titled Until Dawn, and a horror game called P.T. – later revealed to be a playable teaser of Silent Hills – developed collaboratively by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro. Bioware also took the stage at Gamescom to announce their newest game – Shadow Realms – an old school action role-playing game set in a modern fantasy world with fourversus-one multiplayer.

Other announcements from Gamescom include the revelation that Rise of the Tomb Raider will launch initially as an Xbox One exclusive, and Sony’s unveiling of the Share Play function on PS4, which will allow PlayStation Plus subscribers to play on a friend’s console without being physically present or even owning the individual games. Microsoft also announced that the Halo 5 multiplayer beta test will run from December 29 to January 18. In contrast to the influx of news that came from Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo offered few announcements or reveals and instead opted to show games previously announced at or before E3, including Splatoon, Su-

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per Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS, and Yoshi’s Wooly World.

While only a handful of titles are set to release this year, it seems gamers have plenty to look forward to in the near future. If E3 and Gamescom are any indication, 2015 will bring the flood of innovative and exciting games that the new console generation sorely needs right now.

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Zipcar is an 18+ year-old car sharing service launching at Minnesota State this fall that gives members 24/7 access to vehicles parked right on campus.

Rates start at $7.50/hour and $69/day, with gas and insurance included (we accept international students too!).

This year, enjoy all the freedoms of owning a car without any of the hassle.

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SCI-FI“If audiences here start catching

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wise to how bad big movies are and stop going, Hollywood will just export its audience somewhere else.” continued from 28

by Jenny Joseph When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me.

And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.

I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth.

I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick flowers in other people’s gardens And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children.

We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now?

So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

ant surprises this summer, for audiences and number crunchers alike. Hollywood might finally start getting the message about the demand for femaleheaded blockbusters after this summer, as films like Maleficent and Lucy had respectively strong showings.

Despite some lukewarm critical reactions to both, the Sleeping Beauty retelling, starring Angelina Jolie, had enough good will from audiences to keep the film in the box office top 10 for over two months. As of August, Maleficent remains one of the films with the sturdiest legs all summer.

Lucy, meanwhile, capitalized on Scarlett Johansson’s action movie persona and made the trippy actioner a surprise hit in its opening weekend.

But maybe the most pleasant surprise this summer came for science fiction fans. The past three months saw a focus influx of sci-fi based blockbusters that, out of any genre this summer, delivered the most on the promises of both summer thrills and quality filmmaking.

The sequels that left the best impression this summer all shared strong sci-fi roots.

At seven movies, one would think the X-Men series would

be growing stale. On the contrary, X-Men: Days of Future Past, thanks to its time travel-based plot that unites franchise veterans and new X-blood, became the highest grossing X-Men film to date and a hit with critics and audiences alike -- at least according to its 91 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.

The same can be said with the latest installment of the Planet of the Apes saga. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes went steps further than its predecessor and delivered an engaging, adult blockbuster that stands tall in the genre. It also made a good deal of money and shares a similar RT score as X-Men. Though it didn’t make a huge splash in theaters, audiences who did go out for Tom Cruise’s latest, Edge of Tomorrow, know that the film used its plot about resetting the day to a tee. It may not have busted too many blocks but Edge of Tomorrow did win over a lot of skeptical audience members.

On the smaller side of things, one of the biggest independent successes was Snowpiercer. The dystopian tale of class warfare set on a giant train containing the last survivors of the human race only opened in limited release but got huge boosts from word of mouth online. The limited

release action pic also took a gamble by releasing the film to rent on video on demand while it was still in theaters, for which it saw big reward.

And just look at the biggest film of the summer, Guardians of the Galaxy. Essentially Avengers in space, Marvel’s space opera, action-comedy became among their most popular smash successes. I repeat: the film with the talking raccoon and tree is the movie that won most people over this summer. Process that for a minute.

Analysts will probably count summer 2014 as a loss, due once again to the fact that box office intake continues to go down while ticket prices go up. The fact that the most marketed films didn’t exceed expectations won’t help either.

But that shouldn’t discount the real victories that took place as well. For those who like their fiction with a twist of science and their blockbusters smart and involving, summer 2014 was nothing short of a win.

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