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50 years of Progress

50 Years after Martin Luther King Jr’s I have a Dream Speech, substantial progress has been made for racial equality.

According to some, more needs to be done.

Web Photo Martin Luther King Jr. gestures to the crowd during his famous “I have a dream” speech.

SAM WILMES News Editor August 27, 1963 — Washington, D.C., civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivers a speech that changed the civil rights movement and the world.

Speaking to a crowd of over 250,000 in front of the Washington Monument, King spoke about a society that would not judge people based on the color of their skin, but on the content of their character.

Before then, racial equality was only a dream and race relations a nightmare marred by vicious police dogs and water hoses. Institutionalized racism — separate white and

colored bathrooms, drinking fountains and schools permeated the South. A black man who mingled with a white woman could be beaten or killed and the white perpetrators needn’t fear justice from biased juries.

Things have undoubtedly changed in the five decades since. We have a mixed race president who won two general elections without carrying most southern states. While progress is praise-worthy, debate continued on how far we have to go to eradicate one of the darkest periods of American history when blacks were treated as something less than fully human.

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ress has occurred, more needs to be done. A junior, Qualah said that racism wasn’t a major issue for him.

“It’s obviously not bad,” Qualah said. “But here in Mankato you kind of notice.

You say hi to a Caucasian person, and they either look like they don’t want to talk to you or won’t acknowledge you.”

Qualah said that it’s unlikely he will ever see a race-less society.

“It’s not going to get better,” Qualah said. “It’s going to take a lot of years — there’s not going to be a time when there is no racism.”

Junior Jon Speers, an engineering student, shares a similar viewpoint.

“There’s always going to be racism as long as there are differences,” Speers said. An African-American, Speers wouldn’t necessarily classify ingrained biases as racism. “I don’t see much racism — more like cultural ignorance,” Speers said. “Not the color of your skin, but how you are dressed.”

He said people need to be more aware of the different cultures that built the nation.

“Awareness is key. The structure likes to separate and target us.” Speers said.

Sophomore William Anderson, a biology major, isn’t sure about the extent of racism. “I think there is a degree of racism in most people,’’ he said.

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I think it will hang around for a long time.”

Anderson, who is white, said black actor Morgan Freeman has said he dislikes Black History Month. Anderson says Freeman thinks there needs to be an end to “special privileges” for minorities.

“There’s too much overcompensation,’’ Anderson said.

More education needs to be done on the things people say and do to promote racism. If people stopped making racial jokes, stopped promoting it, then these ideas would not spread.”

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The Summer of Equality

The summer of 2013, a summer that saw gays and lesbians allowed the right to marry in Minnesota, will never be forgotten in the LGBT Community.

RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer Minnesota has come a long way since the 1971 Baker v. Nelson case, in which the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that stated that defined marriage as only a union between two members of the opposite sex did not violate the U.S. Constitution. Now, 42 years later, Minnesota has shifted its stance. August 1st was a joyous day for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender community across the state as the new law legalizing gay marriage went into effect.

Mayor R.T. Rybak was present at the Minneapolis City Hall to witness couples’ vows and distribute certificates once the clock struck 12:01 A.M.. After a long and heartbreaking battle, countless debates, and marches galore, those wishing to marry their significant others of the same sex stand victorious.

The road towards equality was a rough and sometimes bloody one, and looking in the past at the violent crimes committed towards LGBT individuals would make some people cringe.

From the death of Howard Elfland by members the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970, to the 1990 stabbing of James Zappalorti, who was a Vietnam veteran, a quick Google search will show many sad stories of persecution – ultimately ending in death.

Think that all of this hatred has stayed in the past? A recent report presented by the FBI in 2011 showed that 20.4% of all hate crimes were directly related to sexual orientation bias with an increasing trend of violence towards Transsexual individuals.

However, this data doesn’t include 18 states, which don’t include crimes of sexual orientation and gender identity in their reports.

In the face of such

statistics, MNSU remains a safe place for people of any orientation.

Our own LGBT center, located in CSU room 194, is the second oldest such center located on a United States campus. Founded by Jim Chalgren in 1977 as the Alternative Lifestyles office, the work done in the center has allowed MNSU to become one of the top 100 LGBT friendly campuses nationwide.

“I see nothing but growth,” Zachery Lewis, a senior who frequents the LGBT center said. “It’s my fourth year here and I always see new faces stopping by.

With Pridefest coming up the center plans on being involved in all aspects of it.”

The 10th annual Pridefest, hosted by South Central Minnesota Pride, boasts a long list of activities ranging from live music to kid friendly activities to bingo and inflatables. It’s completely free and located on 109 W Rock St. downtown.

The LGBT center plans to participate as much as they can during the activities and promoting their values.

Mike Ramirez, current Vice Chair of Minnesota State University Student Association, is proud of the way MSU welcomes students of different backgrounds.

“When I think of our LGBT center being the second oldest, it shows our university is very forward thinking with the inclusion of our students to make them feel as welcome as possible.”

Despite the efforts of the LGBT community across the country, many states still retain their stance against same-sex marriage or will only go so far as to allow same-sex civil unions.

With the nation still divided and opinions still strong, it’s evident this social issue won’t be dimming down anytime soon.

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The I-35 Bridge. Although difficult to see, this bridge was lit up in many different colors on August 1st to celebrate gay marriage in Minnesota.

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MSU sports bubble delayed- for now

Citing a limiting budget, MSU Athletic Director expects the idea to be revisited, just not immediately.

SAM WILMES News Editor MSU has decided against building an on-campus sports dome. While an interesting idea, the University decided against it, mainly because it would have taken extensive financial support to keep it operating on a profit margin.

According to an article in the Mankato Free Press, cost was the main issue. The article stated that the bubble couldn’t break even without between $350,000-$500,000 in rental fees from various University programs, including intramural and athletic use.

According to Athletic Director Kevin Buisman, the University went through the rational steps in making a decision.

“We had to go out with the feasibility study. We had to estimate some of the costs,” Buisman said.

The feasibility study measured the level of interest in the community, and found encouragement. “We had more possible revenue then we had imagined,” Buisman said.

“There was still a gap- we need to go back and assess whether there is interest from students to athletics.”

At this point Buisman insists that it would only be speculation to say when and if the bubble will be built.

“Intercollegiate athletics are just beginning. We’ve got to complete the master planning process before we get to that.”

Buisman expects the master planning process to be completed this fall.

Buisman is anticipating a

sports bubble at some point in the community.

“There is certainly demand,” Buisman said. “My guess is it will happen.”

Buisman said that while there is a definite chance that MSU will one day see a sports bubble, he wouldn’t guarantee it.

“My guess is there is a chance based on outside interest,” Buisman continued. “But it’s not going to happen immediately. Student fees may have to be raised- there is a possibility,” Buisman said. The project has seen signifincant support from outside sources.

There were commitments from outside the University.

Mankato’s youth soccer club was interested in $67,825 worth of usage. A league was also interested in nearly $60,000 worth of use.

According to a consultant, commitments of over $600,000 of rental time were found for the bubble.Price estimates for the dome ranged from around $5 million to $9 million.

Proposed sites for the facility included the former site of Gage Towers, or the free lot.

The proposed hourly fee ranged between $300-$400.

The study featured a lot of details, including the work hours of the employees of the facility, and the cost of paying them.

What may have been the final blow to the proposed plan was daytime rent. While a different owner may have been able to charge daytime users, MSU would face stiff demand from on-campus users that couldn’t keep up with the cost.

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Obama leads ceremony to commemorate King anniversary

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama arrived to lead civil rights pioneers Wednesday in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech roused the 250,000 people who rallied there decades ago for racial equality.

Large crowds gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, where the first black U.S. president was expected to speak just after 1900 GMT — the same time that King delivered his spellbinding speech.

The first march was early in the turbulent 1960s, when the South still had separate restrooms, schools and careers for blacks and whites, and racism lingered across the country.

In the two years following the march, President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act to outlaw discrimination, and King received the Nobel Peace Prize.

Obama has said King is one of two people he admires “more than anybody in American history.” The other is Abraham Lincoln. Obama will be joined by former Presidents oJimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, with thousands of people in at. tendance in wet weather. Oprah Winfrey, Forest Whitaker and Jamie Foxx were among the celebrities.

Winfrey said King forced the nation “to wake up, look at itself and eventually change.”

Obama will offer his personal reflections on the civil rights movement, King’s speech, the progress achieved in the past 50 years and the challenges that demand attention from the next generation.

International commemorations will be held at London’s Trafalgar Square, as well as in the nations of Japan, Switzerland, Nepal and Liberia. London Mayor Boris Johnson has said King’s speech resonates around the world and continues to inspire people as one of the great pieces of oratory.

On Aug. 28, 1963, as King was ending his speech, he quoted from the patriotic song, “My Country ‘tis of Thee” and urged his audience to “let freedom ring.”

“When we allow freedom to ring — when we let it ring from every city and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants

and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, ‘Free at last, free at last, great God almighty, we are free at last,” King said.

The civil rights leader was assassinated five years later.

The Rev. Bernice King opened the celebration Wednesday at an interfaith service.

King said that her father is often remembered as a freedom fighter for equal rights and human rights, but he was most importantly a man of faith.

Not everyone at the latest march was celebrating progress. “I thought we would be a lot further along than we are 50 years after hearing King’s speech,” said John Pruitt, 83, a voter rights advocate who attended the first march as well.

Organizers of the rally broadened the focus well beyond racial issues, bringing speakers forward to address the environment, gay rights, the challenges facing the disabled and more.

Whitaker told the crowd it was their “moment to join those silent heroes of the past.”

Obama considers the 1963 march part of his generation’s “formative memory.” A halfcentury after the march, he said, is a good time to reflect on how far the country has come and how far it still has to go, particularly after the recent acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager.

Race isn’t a subject Obama likes to talk about in public, but the Martin case is one time he has done so.

In an interview Tuesday on Tom Joyner’s radio show, Obama said he imagines that King “would be amazed in many ways about the progress that we’ve made.” He listed advances such as equal rights before the law, an accessible judicial system, thousands of African-American elected officials, African-American CEOs and the doors that the civil rights movement opened for Latinos, women and gays.

“I think he would say it was a glorious thing,” he said.

But Obama noted that King’s speech was also about jobs and justice.

King’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, spoke on NBC of staggering unemployment among young black men.

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The case for Trayvon While not perfect, a dead teenager should not be a target for political games.

SAM WILMES News Editor With the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s march on Washington, this may be a good time to evaluate where we are as a country with race relations.

The recent George Zimmerman trial and acquittal exposed America’s ugly side and reopened festering wounds. It is not easy to understand why some people have painted Trayvon Martin — the black teenager shot and killed while returning from a visit to his father’s townhome — as a thug who got what he deserved.

I understand that in the legal sense there may not have been enough evidence to convict Zimmerman and the case against him was perhaps weak.

Was there a need to paint Trayvon Martin as a scary monster? He may not have been perfect, but no one is.

There is no evidence that Martin posed an immediate threat to Zimmerman. In fact, a 911 operator told Zimmerman that he shouldn’t proceed any further, that no additional action was needed.

What is despicable to me about how this case was handled, especially by conserva-

tive talkers and blog-hounds, was the shocking callousness they showed for Martin.

Martin was just 17 when he died. Disgusting references to him as “Thugvon,” just shows that this case was more than met the eye — this case was about painting the victim as the perpetrator and the perpetrator as the victim.

I’m not saying Zimmerman is a racist. I’m saying that a lot of people who sat back and hurled accusations at a dead boy should look at themselves in the mirror.

Their intent was to demean Trayvon Martin and in the process demeaned themselves much more. Did they do so to increase ratings or gain attention? Are they incapable of understanding that Martin’s death is a tragedy that didn’t and shouldn’t have happened?

I am not sure why the vast majority of these people were conservatives. I looked at a conservative website called “The Last Refuge.” The website declared that there were two obvious tragic aspects to his death. One was the shooting, and the other was a life cut short.

While that paragraph is fine, the next paragraph begins with the word but.

That word essentially cancels

the last paragraph out. It then says, “With a full measure of brutal honesty, another is the culpability of his nonengaged parents in creating a morally undisciplined teenager.”

First of all, that morally undisciplined teenager is now six feet under. Second, “Morally Undisciplined?”

That is the best descriptive term you have for him?

I just don’t understand why the Pro-Zimmerman crowd had to take it this far.

Articles cite that Trayvon was suspended three times for drugs again. This has no relevance to this case — since when has smoking dope made you into being a gang-banging thug? If that were the case, MSU would be full of them.

Sites also cite the fact that Martin had stolen women’s jewelry in his pocket. Trayvon had said he got the jewelry from a friend. No evidence was ever found that indicated that the jewelry was stolen. While Martin has been called “Thugvon,” and “morally undisciplined,” it is important to note that Martin did not have a juvenile record.

People who slam a dead teenager should take a look at Zimmerman. In 2005 he was

arrested and charged after he shoved an undercover cop after an underaged friend got caught drinking. He was ordered to take anger management courses.

His ex-fiancé had also filed a restraining order against him, citing domestic violence. While Zimmerman has his flaws, he has saved lives, and participated in a protest of police treatment of a black person.

I’m not calling either George Zimmerman or Trayvon Martin a thug. All I ask for is an end to the insults directed at Trayvon. George was acquitted and will live the rest of his life. What happened that awful night?

Nobody but George Zimmerman knows.

A compelling case could be made that George Zimmerman was innocent, and he has been found innocent by a court of his peers. Just let the poor kid rest in peace, and never ruin the reputation of anybody who can’t defend themself.

America’s out-of-control gun culture is bad enough and made worse by people who shoot verbal bullets at others for cheap political gain or to get attention. Martin’s family deserves better and so does the United States.

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Stock market mlimbs As Syrian conflict looms NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market edged higher Wednesday as investors continued to focus on the likelihood of a U.S.-led attack on Syria.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 68 points, or 0.5 percent, to 14,844 in early afternoon trading. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained nine points, or 0.5 percent, to 1,639.

The Nasdaq composite rose 26 points, or 0.7 percent, to 3,605.

The escalating tensions between the U.S. and Syria hit the stock market hard Tuesday, sending the Dow down 170 points. Traders pushed gold to a three-month high and crude oil rose to its highest level in a year and a half.

The quick rise in the price of oil has worried investors.

Costlier oil almost always translates into higher fuel expenses for businesses and consumers, weighing on consumer spending and the economy. While Syria produces little oil, a regional conflict in the Middle East could lead to supply disruptions in an area where half the world’s proven oil reserves lie.

“When you add it all up -the problems in Libya, Egypt, Syria -- you’re looking at 3 million barrels a day in potential production outages,” said Nick Koutsoftas, a commoditiesfocused portfolio manager at Cohen & Steers.

Oil rose $1.03, or 0.9 percent, to $110.03 a barrel. It went as high as $112 a barrel overnight.

Energy companies were among the biggest gainers in the S&P 500. Shares of oil producer EOG Resources rose $4.39, or 3 percent, $160.66. Dow component Chevron climbed $3.04, or 2.6 percent, to $121.80.

While the selling in stocks appears to have abated for now, the overall trend for the market has been down over the last couple of weeks. The S&P 500 has lost 4.6 percent since

reaching an all-time high on Aug. 2, while the Dow is down 5.6 percent. Fund managers said investors will have little reason to enter the market until next week’s employment report or until the Federal Reserve holds its mid-September policy meeting.

“You may be watching stock prices, but you’re not placing any orders in this market,” said Chris Hyzy, chief investment officer at U.S. Trust.

Before Syria grabbed the headlines, the focus had been on the Federal Reserve and whether the central bank was going to pull back on its massive bondbuying program, which has kept interest rates extremely low.

If oil prices remain at these elevated levels, the Fed may have to delay easing back on its bond purchases, said Quincy Krosby, market strategist with Prudential Financial.

“The Fed would see higher oil prices, particularly if they linger at these higher levels, as a definite hindrance to employment and consumer spending,” Krosby said.

Hyzy said oil would have to rise above $125 a barrel before it has a noticeable impact on consumer spending. Cohen & Steers’ Koutsoftas said he believes the U.S. consumer has gotten used to higher fuel costs, and oil would have to go to $150 a barrel before it might impact consumer behavior.

The Syria standoff comes during what is typically a quiet week for stocks. There is little economic data being released and only a handful of corporate earnings. It’s also the week before Labor Day, when many on Wall Street are on vacation.

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Diversity at MSU at an all-time high

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As campus once again begins to fill up with the hustle and bustle of a university during the school year, Minnesota State University, Mankato has reached new heights in one category of enrollment: international students.

According to Thomas Gjersvig, the Director of International Students and Scholar Services, MSU has 295 new international ostudents enrolled in the fall .semester, a new record for the university when it comes to

first-time international students.

The 295 new students play into a total of around 800 international students on campus, which is also a new stature for the school.

The heads of the international organizations on campus believe that new recruitment methods can be the base of where these new students are hearing about a mid-size, fouryear university in southern Minnesota.

“We have purposefully done a lot more with social media recruitment,” Gjersvig said.

“We did facebook ads and sent

information to branches of the U.S. consulate around the world through an extension program called Education U.S.A. As people stop by and want information about the U.S., they could learn about MSU-Mankato and its faculty and admissions office.”

“Some of the things we are doing are innovative,” said Stephen Stoynoff, the Interim Dean of International Affairs.

“They represent some modest changes in the way in which we used to do things and we believe that those are contributing to the increases we have seen.”

As effective as the new recruitment methods can be, the two also see the old fashioned way of “word of mouth” also assisting the off-the-charts numbers.

“We’ve had good numbers of international students in the past and we’ve worked hard to keep them satisfied and to retain them here and they share that information with their friends back home as well as siblings and cousins,” Gjersvig said.

“If students aren’t happy with their experience, word gets out really quickly and you would not be successful at increasing your numbers,” Stoynoff added.

“You might replace the ones you lose but your not going to

be growing unless you’re able to satisfy the customer or a student in a degree program.”

As new elevations are being made in the international department, Gjersvig and Stoynoff see it as the perfect beginning for a year-by-year increase model in the amount of international students that call MSU their home. Bringing in students from around the world isn’t all the new model will entail, but sending some out as well to study abroad.

“I think that (a new model) is exactly what we will spend the year thinking about and coming up with what we believe is a meaningful plan for projecting out and continuing to grow the numbers of international students that are coming to us as well as our students that are going abroad,” Stoynoff said.

“There has been a lot of effort and this year we are trying to fashion that effort into a model that we can sustain so we can see planned growth as opposed to just growth.”

Some international students are still arriving on campus because of delays and problems with visas in regards to travel.

Priatibha Dhamala, a fourthyear international student from Nepal, could only explain the immigration offices as inquisi-

tive towards the travelers.

“They ask a lot of questions,” Dhamala explained. “They want to know where you work and if you will be working illegally in the United States.”

Another student, Heejin Soh from Korea also had trouble getting through the airport. She was detained in Dallas for two hours as she forgot her I-20, a certificate of eligibility for nonimmigrant student status before contacting school officials to help her out of the situation and get her to Minnesota.

Once they finally get to Mankato, the students sit in for a three-day long affair of orientations and guidelines, which include everything from a resource fair on campus to using community resources and more specific information like student conduct, plagiarism issues, meeting with their advisors, learning how to use their e-services and getting their mavmail set up.

With “real world thinking” being one of the cornerstones the university is trying to build on, getting students from every corner of the world is an admirable start.

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Deadly Day in Iraq Leaves Dozens Dead

Web Photo Soldiers and civilians view a blown-up car on the streets of Baghdad, part of the violence that left dozens dead.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Car bomb blasts and other explosions tore through Shiite districts around Baghdad during morning rush hour Wednesday in a day of violence that killed at least 70, intensifying worries about Iraq’s ability to tame the spiraling mayhem gripping the country.

It was the latest set of largescale sectarian attacks to hit Iraq, even as the government went on “high alert” in case a possible Western strike in neighboring Syria increases Iraq’s turmoil.

A relentless wave of killing has left thousands dead since

April in the country’s worst spate of bloodshed since 2008.

The surge in violence raises fears that Iraq is hurtling back toward the widespread sectarian killing that peaked in 2006 and 2007, when the country was teetering on the edge of civil war.

Most of Wednesday’s attacks happened within minutes of each other as people headed to work or were out shopping early in the day.

Insurgents unleashed explosives-laden cars, suicide bombers and other bombs that targeted parking lots, outdoor markets and restaurants in predominantly Shiite neighbor-

hoods of Baghdad, officials said. A military convoy was hit south of the capital.

Security forces sealed off the blast scenes as ambulances raced to pick up the wounded.

The twisted wreckage of cars littered the pavement while cleaners and shop owners brushed away debris. At one restaurant, the floor was stained with blood and dishes were scattered on plastic tables.

“What sin have those innocent people committed?” asked Ahmed Jassim, who witnessed one of the explosions in Baghdad’s Hurriyah neighborhood.

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Iraq “Both the increasing frequency, and statistically, the increasing deadliness of their coordinated nationwide bombings in Iraq underlines the extent of their operational reach and the huge depth of their resources,” he said.

continued from 10 Sunni rebels are fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, who is backed by regional Shiite powerhouse Iran.

Iraq’s government, which has bolstered ties with Iran in the years since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, has an officially neutral stance on the Syrian civil war.

It has long called for a negotiated political settlement to the conflict.

Al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, said Wednesday that Iraqi security forces and other government institutions are on high alert to protect against any domestic consequences of a possible Western-led military

action in Syria.

The prime minister did not elaborate, but Iraqi officials fear that Sunni extremists fighting in Syria could bring their fight to Baghdad if Assad is toppled.

Further unrest in Syria also could send more refugees into Iraq. More than 44,000 have flooded into the north of the country just since Aug. 15.

“We have taken every necessary action to protect our country from any dangerous developments that may result from the Syrian crisis and from the possible strike,” al-Maliki said in the televised address.

Web Photo Civilians view the remnants after an explosion. The bombings only fuel the worries about increasing violence .

“We hold the government responsible.”

The northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah, home to a prominent Shiite shrine, was among the worst hit. Two bombs went off in a parking lot, followed by a suicide car bomber who struck onlookers who had gathered at the scene. Police said the attack killed 10 people and wounded 27.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, but they bore the hallmarks of the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida, which operates in Iraq under the name the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

The group frequently targets Shiites, which it considers heretics, and carries out coordinated bombings in an attempt to incite sectarian strife.

Charles Lister, an analyst at IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center, said the group is increasingly showing “huge confidence and military capability.”

“Both the increasing frequency, and statistically, the increasing deadliness of (their) coordinated nationwide bombings in Iraq underlines the extent of their operational reach and the huge depth of their resources,”

he said.

In one particularly brutal attack, a Shiite family was shot dead at home in the largely Sunni town of Latifiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad. Four children, ages eight to 16, were killed along with their parents and an uncle, police said. Authorities said they had previously fled the town after being threatened and had returned only three weeks ago.

Many of the day’s blasts targeted morning shoppers. One parked car bomb in a commercial area in Baghdad’s northern Shaab killed nine. Parked car bombs that went off in outdoor markets killed 19 in the sprawling slum of Sadr City, the northeastern neighborhood of Shula, the southeastern Jisr Diyala district and the eastern New Baghdad area.

Blasts also hit the neighborhoods of Bayaa, Jamila, Hurriyah and Saydiyah, killing 12.

Yet another car bomb exploded in the evening in Baghdad’s southwestern Amil neighborhood, killing four.

Outside the capital, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a restaurant in Mahmoudiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles)

south of Baghdad, killing five. And in Madain, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a roadside bomb struck a passing military patrol, killing four soldiers.

Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures, which included more than 210 wounded.

All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information.

The deputy United Nations envoy to Iraq, Jacqueline Badcock, condemned the blasts and urged authorities to do more to protect the Iraqi people.

The violence follows months of protests by Iraq’s Sunni minority against the Shiite-led government that began late last year. Attacks have been rising since a deadly crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest in April. In response, clerics and other influential Shiite and Sunni leaders have called for restraint.

More than 510 people have been killed so far in August, according to an Associated Press count.

The sectarian tensions fueling Iraq’s spiraling violence are being exacerbated by the civil war in Syria, where largely

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Rapist of dead teen gets 30 days

Outrage sparked after an original fifteen year sentence turns into a month with time served.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A former Billings Senior High School teacher who pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old student who later killed herself has been sentenced to 30 days in jail by a judge who said the victim was “older than her chronological age” and “as much in control of the situation” as the teacher.

District Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced Stacey Dean Rambold to 15 years in prison for sexual intercourse without consent, with all but 31 days suspended. He gave Rambold credit for one day already served, The Billings Gazette reported.

The girl’s mother repeatedly screamed, “You people suck!” and stormed out of the courtroom Monday.

Rambold, now 54, was charged in October 2008 with three counts of sexual intercourse without consent alleging that he had an ongoing sexual relationship with Cherice Morales, starting the previous year when she was 14.

Morales took her own life in February 2010 while the case was pending.

In July 2010, Rambold entered a three-year deferred prosecution agreement with prosecutors that said the charges would be dismissed if Rambold completed a sex offender treatment program and met other conditions, including having no contact with children. He also admitted to one rape charge.

The case was revived last December when prosecutors learned Rambold had been terminated from the sex offender treatment program.

Treatment provider Michael Sullivan said Rambold started missing meetings in August 2012, but Sullivan said he met with Rambold and he appeared to be back on track with his treatment.

Rambold was terminated from the program in November when it was learned that he had been having unsupervised visits with minors, who were family members, and did not inform counselors that he had been having sexual relations with a woman.

Defense attorney Jay Lansing said Rambold has since continued his treatment with a

Web Photo Stacey Dean Rambold(Left) raped a then 14 year old Cherice Morales (Right)Morales committed suicide while the case was still pending in 2010 .

different program and an evaluation found him at low risk to re-offend.

Baugh said he was not convinced that the reasons for Rambold’s termination from treatment were serious enough to warrant the 10-year prison term prosecutors recommended.

The judge said he listened to statements given by Morales before her death and believed that while she was a troubled youth, she was “as much in control of the situation” as Rambold and was “older than her chronological age.”

Yellowstone County Attorney Scott Twito told The Associated Press on Tuesday that he would not appeal the judge’s sentence.

“We respect the court’s sentencing decision. We obviously disagree with it, based on the recommendations my attorneys made, but it appears to be legally permissible,” he said.

Asked about Baugh’s reasoning that a 14-year-old girl below the state’s age of consent had an equal share of control of the relationship, Twito declined to answer directly.

“The judge’s reasons are his reasons and his reasons alone.

He has broad authority under state law, given the proper

criteria,” Twito said. The case resulted in a $91,000 wrongful death settlement between the

school district and Morales’ family.

Rambold reached a confi-

dential settlement with the girl’s family.

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Piquing interests, one show at a time United States of Tara

BY ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer Once in a while, a television gem airs unnoticed by viewers, resulting in its cancellation and a lonely life on the DVD shelves or streaming on Netflix. A show that is so creative and brilliant, it defies understanding how most people didn’t know about it.

Showtime’s United States of Tara, a three-season series from the mind of Juno scribe Diablo Cody and executive produced

by Steven Spielberg, is one such

show.

Based in Kansas, Tara (Toni Collette) is a mother suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID, or commonly referred to as multiple personality disorder), where at any time one of her “alters” can take over her body without her control.

There’s “T”, the stuck-at-16 rebel, “Buck”, the male triggerhappy biker thug, “Alice”, the stay at home ‘50s mom with a high voice and old time sensibilities and as the series goes on, many more take over, ranging from a caveman-esque primi-

tive to a therapist sounding like Barbara Streisand. With the help of her family, husband Max (John Corbett), daughter Kate (Brie Larson) and son Marshall (Keir Gilchrist), Tara tries to navigate living her life at the mercy of her alters and tries to backtrack and pinpoint exactly what trauma in her life lead to the emergence of these personalities.

Even great actors can’t salvage a poor script and that’s painstakingly noticeable in nearly all Hollywood productions these days. United States

Goosebumps

BY JAMES HOUTSMA A & E Editor Netflix is a beautiful thing.

In addition to streaming current television masterpieces like Breaking Bad and United States of Tara, Netflix can act as a revival of old classics. While it may only be a “classic” in the minds of those who grew up with it, Goosebumps is a totally fun, often creepy punch to your nostalgia button and a worthy Netflix obsession.

Based on the best-selling

books for kids by R.L. Stine, Goosebumps hit the airwaves on Fox Kids in 1995 to haunt the dreams of youngsters everywhere. The show ran from ’95 to ’98 and featured such terrors as haunted masks, living dummies, headless ghosts and scariest of all, a cheap Canadian production.

The opening piano notes in the main titles alone are enough to induce the titular skin condition, as is the narrator’s foreboding warning of “viewer beware, you’re in for a scare.” From there on out the show unfurls

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into a wide variety of stories and a wider variety of effectiveness.

Yes, Goosebumps was a show aimed at the 7-13 age range and sometimes it was treated as such. While it wasn’t apparent to the nubile 6-year-old who grew up with it (moi), it’s pretty obvious now how inconsistent the show could be. Most of the time it can slip by since nearly every episode is a different story but you never know what you’re in for each time.

Some episodes could effectively ratchet up the tension, breathe in a true horror atmo-

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The Newsroom

BY REECE HEMMESCH Editor-in-Chief *The Newsroom is available on HBO GO instead of Netflix HBO original programming is a step-up world from basic cable, as it should be considering you pay more. But the one of the latest dramas to come out of the Home Box Office is another political drama from the mind of Aaron Sorkin, who brought us A Few Good Men and The West Wing.

His newest brainchild, The Newsroom, quite possibly thumps them both as the real world of political news televi-

sion has been revealed since its beginnings in 2012.

The Newsroom features the trials and tribulations of the fictional cable news channel, ACN and their attempt to put out the best nightly news show they possibly can. The series revolves around the news anchor Will McAvoy, who trades in his Jay Leno-like, laid back atmosphere on the show to become a strong figure in American news, much like an attempt to turn himself into a new world Edward Murrow.

Jeff Daniels, who I honestly had not seen in anything important since Dumb and Dumber, plays the sometimes ill-tempered news anchor to perfection as his nonchalant

exterior makes him perfect for the role. Will’s world is turned upside down in episode one of the show when his ex-girlfriend MacKenzie McHale, played by Emily Mortimer, is hired by ACN and attempts to turn the show back into a real news segment by presenting everything on an even playing field.

The show is enhanced with excellent acting from the secondary characters including Alison Pill and Thomas Sadoski as Maggie Jordan and Don Keefer, two producers at the network with an on-and-off relationship.

Law and Order’s Sam Waterston also plays a prominent role as, Charlie Skinner, the outspoken, sometimes drunk news division president.

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TARA “Tara tries to navigate her life at the mercy “The opening piano notes in the main theme of her alters and backtrack and try to pinpoint alone are enough to induce the exactly what trauma in her life led to the emergence of these personalities” titular skin condition, as is the narrator’s warning of ‘viewer beCONTINUED FROM 17 ware, you’re in for a scare” GOOSEBUMPS

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sphere and display images that will stick in the viewers mind for years. Sounds of deformed faces longingly crying out in “The Haunted Mask” and shots of house plants growing human appendages in “Stay Out Of the Basement” have stuck in mind for years after, as has the thick ‘ghosts of the sea’ ambiance of “The Headless Ghost” and “Ghost Beach”.

Others found a mid-ground where the episode was still mostly effective but the filmmaking wasn’t as strong as the source material or vice versa.

The two “Night of the Living Dummy” stories, while almost iconic to ‘90s kids in the imagery of Slappy the Dummy, start to fall apart when it’s noticed that our antagonist is often a short person running around in a giant puppet headpiece.

Then there are those that are just plain horrendous. Inexperienced child actors, slipping directors and cheap effects together make for entire episodes that come off as corny and ridiculous rather than genuinely creepy. Sometimes they can be enjoyable on how bad they are – mostly they’re just painful.

Check out the two-cent fun-

house mirror effect used to make our main character look like he’s rapidly gained weight in “Say Cheese and Die – Again!” -- it’s craptacular.

Maybe it’s just the warm, bumpy memories this writer has of it, but for all its faults, Goosebumps is still a trip down memory lane and, for all intensive purposes, a commendable introduction for young viewers into the realm of horror. Seasons three and four essentially implode on themselves (“The Ghost Next Door” is one of few exceptions), but seasons one and two retain most of the show’s integrity. And, yes, it features a young Ryan Gosling in one episode but it’s up to you to find out which.

All four seasons are now on Netflix, though sadly the twopart primetime specials that feature the most high-end production and genuine frights (“The Haunted Mask 1 & 2”, “The Werewolf of Fever Swamp”, “A Night in Terror Tower”, “Welcome to Dead House”) have not yet been added to the site’s streaming roster. Keep an eye out for them in the future but first tune your eyes to the rest of Goosebumps if you dare.

of Tara, though, is one of the best possible examples of exquisite scripts met with supremely talented actors. With Cody at the helm, it’s no surprise the dialogue is snappy, full of pop culture references and masterful wordplay, making it instantly memorable and quotable.

The series, in its three years, frequently steered direction away from predictable plot points, instead constantly providing fresh and genius plots and innovative directions.

These feel like real, flesh-andblood characters with their own thoughts, traits and attitudes, which are beautifully brought to life with a stellar cast.

Toni Collette gives a tour de force performance, effortlessly zigzagging between these personalities and giving each a very distinct voice, physicality and attitude, making them instantly distinguishable with nothing more than a simple look or slouched shoulders. Her performance is genuinely gold and half the pleasure of the series is watching the actress own these different personalities so completely.

Just as impressive is Brie Larson (21 Jump Street), an actress who can easily match a seasoned performer like Collette

with vigor and comedy. Her character is one of the most interesting -- a young woman trying to navigate her way through life and figuring out what she wants from it.

John Corbett plays the man in love with an unstable woman beautifully, showing the weight her disorder bears on him and yet showing the untarnished love he still feels for her. Keir Gilchrist gets the pleasure of portraying the character who is most troubled by his mothers antics, with all the rage and disappointment that comes with that.

The series also boasts stellar guest stars, such as recurring comedian Patton Oswalt as Max’s friend and potential lover to Tara’s sister Charmaine (Rosemarie Dewitt), Academy Award-nominee Viola Davis as a struggling artist and Eddie Izzard as a college professor who doesn’t believe in DID but nonetheless takes an interest in Tara’s eccentricities.

Three seasons, twelve episodes a piece, were binged in less than a week thanks to the phenomenal writing and cast.

Tara is an immediately engaging character from the first moment of the first episode and it’s a thrill to see her transition

from one personality to the next, constantly keeping the viewers and the family, on alert. Kate’s search for self-identity is a relatable one and how she goes about it is very unique and very in tune with the interesting character she is. Marshall’s success and failures as a gay teenager trying to find love in high school are rife with drama and comedy.

If there are any pitfalls to United States of Tara, it’s that sometimes important moments or arcs are glossed over, such as the mystery surrounding Tara’s trauma. It’s not given the same weight and necessary screen-time it calls for, but it’s the smallest of complaints for a series that felt like it was firing with some of the best creativity on television for three whole years.

The series, which had been canceled well after the third season was shot and edited, closes on a note that’s fulfilling enough it serves marginally well as a series finale, providing closure to a long running thread, but as i the final episode cuts to credits, s these 36 episodes still won’t be N enough. All three seasons are a streaming on Netflix now, don’t t hesitate, get addicted to United T States of Tara. g M s

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NEWSROOM “Daniels

plays the sometimes ill-tempered news anchor to perfection as his nonchalant exterior makes him perfect for the role” CONTINUED FROM 17

Dev Patel, the title character in Slumdog Millionaire brings some youth to the party playing, Neal, who covers Will’s blog and is obsessed with a few tall tales he is convinced are real.

The main group is brought together with the acting of Olivia Munn who plays the quirky and socially awkward economist

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Sloan Sabbith.

All in all, Sorkin nails this political drama in the head as it has turned into a current events teachers dream come true, using actual events of the most recent past and putting their own new spin on it, like the decision on whether or not to report the notyet confirmed death of Osama

Bin Laden, or information on a nuclear crisis in Japan after the earthquake in 2011.

The show has a dark humor to it, as most of the main characters are very job obsessed, making any attack at humor a backdoor one, considering there is not much joke telling on a newsroom set. The only change

I would make to the show would be to slow down the dialogue between characters from time to time.

I get it, they’re in a newsroom so they need to talk fast and have short conversations to keep an eye on the ticker, but looking down from the show for more than a minute could lead to

scratching your head for the next hour wondering what’s going on.

Past a slower dialogue, the show has great potential through a season and a half and could last a while as the show’s writers just need to hope that news keeps occurring for them to continue with the show.

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Biblical proportions com

BY ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer Seth Grahame-Smith has made a career out of taking historical people, as well as novels, and adding his own supernatural spin to them. His claim to fame was revealing Abe Lincoln’s secret life before becoming President of the United States as a skilled vampire hunter bent on revenge in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and then reached cultural status infusing a Jane Austen romance with some much needed zombie flavor in Pride and Prejudice in Zombies.

With Unholy Night, GrahameSmith is at it again, shining a light at the Three Wise Men of the Bible, who they were, what they wanted, and where their ties with Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus took them.

The central character is Balthazar, a notorious thief known as “the Antioch Ghost” for his bountiful gems he’s procured and difficulty in dying.

Ultimately he’s captured by the erratic and mentally unstable King Herod and sentenced to death. True to his legend, Balthazar escapes execution, infuriating the King even more, who then recruits the Romans to construct a vast army to bring them down – including a different kind of warrior, one skilled in the supernatural. While a captive, Balthazar frees two prisoners who shared his cell, and as they owe him a life debt, they pledge themselves to his service

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in life or death. Fleeing the Roman army, Balthazar and his two comrades come across Joseph and Mary, who has just given birth to the prophesized messiah that Herod will do anything to kill. Forced to become allies, the Three Wise Men and the new parents run for their lives from a legion that wants them all dead and a supernatural warrior who can follow their every move.

Creative liberties, as can be seen, have naturally been taken with the story of the Three Wise Men but Grahame-Smith stays well within the parameters of the Bible’s narrative and, true to form, crafts this enormously thrilling tale of adventure, revenge, mysticism and prophecy.

Smith’s prose is easy and accessible, breaking the narrative into sections, allowing a chapter to end on a comedic note, or a quasi-cliffhanger, which gets the reader even more involved in the action. The characters are well rounded and fleshed out, given their own respective motivations thanks to Smith’s use of third person omniscient narration. As the book plays out, one can’t help but imagine the film playing in crisp detail – GrahameSmith never breaks down the narrative rhythm with too much information, remaining concise and never bridging on superfluous detail.

While a fun ride, Unholy Night disappoints in only a couple regards, and they’re minor complaints. The resolution of the story, specifically Balthazar’s personal vendetta against

a Roman general, comes across as slightly convenient, but with god on his side, it would appear all logical leaps of what a person can do or can’t do become irrelevant.

The book does an amazing job at building tension throughout its pages, constantly upping the ante with each new hurdle, and then it sort of abruptly ends.

The plot threads are resolved, the characters go their ways, but with everything that came before it, the ending can’t help but feel rushed and a little flat. Small nitpick as it is, a greater emphasis on the supernatural, considering the subject matter, would have been appreciated.

Small gripes aside, it’s a thrill to experience Balthazar and his men miraculously fight the Romans as they’re relentlessly pursued, engaging to experience Balthazar’s belief in a god be questioned with each new bewildering event before his eyes, riveting as King Herod’s ability to cope becomes more and more difficult, and rewarding as all the loose ends are tied up and Grahame-Smith wraps the characters stories in a neat little bow that directly ties into Biblical events. It’s not blasphemous in its propositions, it’s not daring in its contents, it’s simply a fun adventure story of three thief’s growing a conscience and fighting a legion, all for a small baby.

Unholy Night is available in hardcover and paperback, 320 pages, Grand Central Publishing.

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Young, inexperienced volleyball team looks to compete in the NSIC After losing five key seniors, the Mavericks brought in some young talent that not only will be valuable down the road, but will play a key part in their 2013 campaign.

JOHN HECKT Staff Writer

MSU Reporter Archives The volleyball team brought in seven freshman this offseason and most of them will be thrown in to the mix. They start their season in Oregon next weekend as they participate in the Western Oregon Invitational.

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The Minnesota State University, Mankato volleyball head coach Dennis Amundson will certainly have no shortage of youth on his roster this season.

He and his team will welcome seven new freshmen to MSU this fall.

“Yes, we have a lot of freshmen this year, but we graduated five starters so we will have a very new team. There is a healthy competition for playing time and it is possible some of the freshmen may emerge,” Amundson said.

Amundson chooses not to have captains on his team, but there is no question the team’s lone seniors, Briel Hendricksen and Kelli Elhardt, will assume a leadership role this year.

Hendricksen finished second on the team in 2012 with 19 service aces and a .899 serving percentage. She recorded 242 digs with an average of 2.57 a game. She also earned one Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Defensive Player of the Week award.

In 2012, Elhardt tied for second on the team in assists with 39. She recorded 13 service aces and finished second on the team with 249 digs.

The two were apart of a

Maverick roster that went 18-11 overall and collected an impressive win against the eventual national champions at Concordia University. Last year, the NSIC was one of the more competitive conferences in Division II Volleyball, sending five teams to the NCAA tournament.

Amundson’s squad is aware of the challenges that face them in the NSIC. “In the Northern Sun, there is a high degree of parity in volleyball. The old football addage of any given Sunday rings especially true in our conference. We will be prepared to play them all,” Amundson said.

Regardless of their opponent, the team plays very well at home. Last season they went 8-2 in matches played at Bresnan Arena. They will look to improve their 5-7 road record with their new look roster.

The Mavericks will kick off their 2013 season at the Western Oregon Invitational on Sept. 6.

Their first opponent: Western Washington. The Vikings are coming off of an overall record of 24-4 last season. They made it to the West Regional Semifinal of the NCAA tournament, only to lose to BYU-Hawaii.

After a series of matches in Oregon, the Mavericks will return to Mankato to host the Maverick Invitational. They

kick off their NSIC conference play against Winona State on Sept. 19. They hope to redeem themselves after a close loss to the Warriors in 2012.

Amundson brought in some athletic recruits as most of them competed at a high level in multiple sports in high school.

Defensive specialist Haley Fogarty will be the third Fogarty to play for MSU and is a great athlete. Standing at 5-8, she also competed in basketball, track and field and golf. In Volleyball, she was an all-stater her senior year.

For St. Croix Falls High School in Wisconsin, middle blocker Sydney Geisness played in 78 sets and recorded 271 kills, 76 blocks and 57 service aces in her senior year.

6-1 middle blocker Courtney Anderson received all-state honors in her senior year and led Tipoli High School to five consecutive Iowa State High School championships.

Minnesota State is picked to finish sixth in the Preseason NSIC Volleyball Coaches’ Poll.

Considering the amount of seniors that graduated last year, this ranking may be indicative of a solid incoming freshman class. Regardless of the rankings, Amundson’s team will surely be ready to play, they always are.

Let’s get a stop defense!

Most teams and fans try to forget and move on from previous seasons, but how can you forget the defense the Minnesota State University, Mankato football team had? The crew that allowed only 32 yards of total offense against Minot State and finished seventh in the country only allowing 285.93 yards per game. With just three starters leaving, we could witness the same high-flying, physical group out at Blakeslee Stadium in 2013.

The Mavericks are fortu-

nate enough to bring back their entire starting defensive line, which anchored this defense last season.

“Last year I think (the defensive line) was the strength of our defense and I think it will continue to be the strength,” interim head coach Aaron Keen said.

This line possesses the animal that is senior defensive end Chris Schaudt. The Slator, Iowa native led the Mavericks in tackles for loss with 17.5 and sacks with 11.5 in 2012. Those numbers made him a first-team all-NSIC South Division pick.

On Aug. 22, he was named the 10th best Division II football

player in the country, according to D2Football.com. Keen wasn’t surprised.

“He’s a very special football player, plays the run, the pass and he can do all that from the defensive end postion, plays with an extremely high motor,” Keen said. “He’s hard to stop.”

Sophomore defensive end Josh Gordon was thrown into the mix at the beginning of his freshman year last season and became a great addition to the line. In his 13 games played, he totaled 48 tackles, with 10.5 of them for a loss and will most likely be the other defensive end next Saturday.

If teams try to go outside, they were met quickly by these two, but if they tried up the middle, there was a wall consisting of junior defensive tackles Barry Ballinger and Bryan Keys. The two possess great strength and it’s scary how quick they are off the ball.

It will be near impossible to fill the shoes of former linebacker Marcus Hall-Oliver, the Mavericks second-leading tackler in 2012, but the linebacking corps sits pretty solild. With junior linebacker Kris Fleigle and senior Isaac Kolstad returning, the Mavericks spent the offseason finding their third, and

they think they have their guy.

Mankato native sophomore Tyler Henderson had a great spring and has continued to improve through the fall camp. Coach Keen is, “really looking forward to watching him play against someone else.”

As a Scarlet for Mankato West, Henderson averaged 10.5 tackles per game.

The defensive backfield is a different story for the Mavericks. While sophomore cornerback Justin Otto is continuing to blossom into their shut down corner, the Mavericks will miss

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With already a 1-0 record in exhibition play, MSU welcomes the new women’s soccer head coach Brian Bahl. During his six year tenure at Upper Iowa University, he lead the women’s team to 64 wins and 46 wins as the men’s head coach.

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Courtusy MSU Athletic Communications “My first impressiona is that he is here and he is ready to win. He is ready to improve not only improve himself as a coach, but ready to improve each individual player,” junior goalkeeper Molly McGough said.

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The Minnesota State University, Mankato women’s soccer team’s new coach Brian Bahl is keeping high expectations for his team in 2013.

Brain Bahl was named the Mavericks women’s head coach this offseason after the previous coach Peter McGahey decided to leave Mankato for the Division I program at Central Michigan.

Bahl will have high expectations following one the best seasons in Mavericks women soccer, but he has high expectations for the team himself.

“Are goals every single year here are to win the conference, win the conference tournament and win the national championship and that’s kind of our yearly three. That’s a theme that we will carry throughout,” Bahl said.

Bahl brings a similar style of coaching as McGahey, but has an organized and high energy style while also being very approachable and willing to explain what he expects, according to junior goalkeeper Molly McGough.

“My first impression is that he is here and he is ready to win.

He is ready to improve not only to improve himself as a coach, but ready to improve each individual player,” McGough said.

Bahl has been coaching at the college level since 1999 but has spent the last six seasons coach-

ing men and women’s soccer at Upper Iowa. Over that span the women’s team won 64 matches with 17 ties and qualified for five Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference tournaments, including home field advantage in two of those tournament games. The men have also done well, claiming 46 victories and five ties.

Bahl mentioned that a notable accomplishment in the past was the successful turnaround of soccer programs, including Upper Iowa where he left the program after the women’s soccer team’s most successful season in terms of wins (15-3-2), but Bahl also felt good about his players experience while playing for him. His players staying in the soccer program and graduating are very important to him he said.

“We’ve been very fortunate to always have been able to create an atmosphere where academic success is the number one priority, and we have been fortunate enough to have all of our teams every year I have been a head coach to have won national team academic awards and have typically been towards the top or the top GPA-wise of all the athletic programs at the schools that we have been at,” Bahl Said.

Bahl is coaching a slightly different system than the Mavericks used last year, but has made the process of learning much easier. He does not have an aggressive coaching style and

avoids yelling at players. Instead he focuses explaining on an individual basis what he wants from each player.

“The whole team is there, but if we need to focus on something with a player we will pull them a side and kind of speak to them right there and then let them go back out and let the game do a lot of the teaching,” Assistant Coach Ben Jones said.

“We have that open door policy at all times, a lot of communication with our players. You learn a lot from that aspect.”

The transition from different systems and coaching styles can be challenging for players to adjust to, but Bahl has made that not become an issue and has created a smooth transition, according to McGough.

“I think he brings something that we haven’t seen, but is familiar to us. It’s a mixture of brand new ideas along with some old philosophies.” Graduate Assistant Bryce Wick said.

“He has done a great job of helping us transition and I think he has made a wonderful impact on us so far.”

Jones, who has played for and worked with Balh throughout the past, said that he would describe Bahl as being a player’s coach.

“He knows the time we need to work hard, push up the intensity, but at the same time he understands when the time is to back down and have fun,” Jones said.

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No time left to Ponder

After two seasons with Ponder, there are still questions surrounding his ability to lead the team down the field through the air. Last season he didn’t have many weapons to throw to, but with the additions of Greg Jennings and Cordarrelle Patterson, these questions should be answere thes season.

ADAM PIERSON Staff Writer Third year quarterback, Christian Ponder enters the 2013 season as the Minnesota Vikings starting quarterback. With his 12-14 career record as a starter, if he isn’t ready yet, there should be no more time wasted on the former 12th overall pick.

It’s not time to pull the plug, yet. At least that is the approach the Vikings are taking this season with quarterback Christian Ponder.

Ponder who has improved dramatically since his first season as a starting quarterback still has a lot of room to improve. Ponder came in at number 27 on former quarterback and current ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski’s quarterback list this summer.

With the big additions of Greg Jennings and Cordarrelle Patterson and the opposition focused in on Adrian Peterson, Ponder should have no problem executing his job this year.

So far, Ponder has combined for 31 touchdowns passing and two touchdowns rushing but has turned the ball over 25 times via interceptions and 16 times via fumbles.

In 2012, Ponder completed 28 passes that were more than 20 yards. That was the fewest of any 16-game starter, by a long shot. Really the only game he

played exceptionally was the season finale against Green Bay, or did Peterson’s 34 rushing attempts for a total of 199 yards that caused Ponder to succeed in that game?

The concern for me isn’t if Ponder will improve, because I think eventually he will. If the Vikings wait for Ponder to develop, whom will they lose in the mean time? Age, injury and off the field incidents can dramatically effect an entire team’s outlook at any moment.

They don’t call him “All Day,” or “Purple Jesus,” for no reason. He is the heart and muscle of the Vikings’ offense.

There have been few running backs through the NFL that run as hard as Peterson does. Even less have came back as strong as Peterson did after his torn ACL in 2011.

The average running back’s career in the NFL is approximately three years. Peterson is entering his seventh season as a Viking and hasn’t showed any signs of slowing, yet.

If you ask me, the Vikings’ time is now. There is no more time for development when your current team looks the way they do. All the pieces are there, except at quarterback.

Vikings’ fullback Jerome Felton has been suspended for the first three games for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy.

Felton, who made the Pro Bowl last year could be regarded as, “the best blocking fullback in the NFL,” according to Vikings coach, Leslie Frazier. So there is no doubt Ponder and Peterson will miss Felton’s protection in the backfield.

Frazier has also commented on the fact that they want a more balanced offensive attack for the 2013 season. In 2012, the Vikings ran the ball 486 times and passed it 483 times. “All Day,” had 348 rushes himself.

Meaning Peterson took the ball 35.9 percent of the time, that’s a heavy load for an aggressive runner to maintain.

While I feel the Vikings missed a great opportunity when Alex Smith left San Francisco, a proven quarterback who is used to playing on a run-oriented football team, the Vikings will just have to make due.

The Vikings’ current backup quarterback, Matt Cassel is entering his ninth season as an NFL quarterback Cassel has had an injury prone career, but when healthy his numbers have been better than Ponders.

If the season starts poorly for Ponder, I do believe it is time for the 25-year-old Ponder to sit and learn from the veteran Cassel.

If the Vikings’ coaching staff decides to sit back and let Ponder develop, it will be another year of “All Day,” potential running down the drain.

David Bassey • MSU Reporter In his first season in the NFL Ponder only played 11 games and finished with 1,853 passing yards with 13 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. After his first full season, he throw for 2,935 yards with 18 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. Between his first two seasons he’s fumbled 10 times and has a 59.2% passing completions.

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Everybody seems to be giving up on the Twins in their 2013 campaign as they sit 18.5 games back in the AL Central. Not to worry. With the A-list prospects in the minors, the Twins are looking to return to the top of the standings in a few years. ting average only sits at .223.

Let’s not forget he tallied 27 hits in 88 plate appearances two years ago at the age of 23.

Second Base Brian Dozier or Eddie Rosario Age: 26 or 21

Web Photo In his second season in the Twins organization, Buxton has bounced around the farm system. For the A+ team in Fort Myers he’s batting .330 with four home runs, 21 RBIs and has stolen 21 bases in 197 at-bats.

REECE HEMMESCH Editor in Chief 2013 is over; well, not technically as the not-so-mighty Minnesota Twins still have 30-plus games left heading into September, but figuratively, the season is over. With a 57-73 record heading into the final months, the Twins find themselves in fourth-place of the A.L. central, making it three years running of spending the majority of the season in the cellar.

The good news from the squad though, there is hope. As Minnesota sports fans we can all agree that hope is one of the things we strive on when looking at the top of the league from the bottom, especially after a successful campaign in the early 2000’s when the Twins boasted six central division titles in a nine-year span.

Though the confidence for the future has come mainly off two top-five prospects, power hitting third baseman Miguel Sano and five-tool outfielder Bryon Buxton, Minnesota possesses the best prospect status in all of baseball, being named the top minor league system by many esteemed baseball writers lately.

Sano and Buxton help, but the Twins have a good crop of young talent heading their way that could help the team get back to the old days. It is unclear whether this group of boys will be playing in the fall classic someday or chasing after a pennant, but they should be able to keep up with the big boys in the division and more than likely get Minnesota away from Houston and Miami in the bottom feeder section of Major League Baseball.

Here is a look at what the twins got cooking in their

organization for the near future that could see impact as early as 2015.

Catcher Joe Mauer Age: 30 With his most recent blow to the head, many speculate what the future holds for the all-American boy Joe Mauer. He has seen ups and downs during his tenure behind the dish, but he is still the face of the franchise and should be for years to come or until it is his time to go.

A .323 lifetime hitter, Mauer will be seen in the two or three spot depending on a few of the other youngsters that are still unclear. Having a starting catcher with his experience will also help out the youth the Twins possess in the pitching rotation of the future. With names like Trevor May, Alex Meyer and Kyle Gibson all in their early 20’s, the Twins will need Joe Mauer to help ease the process and get the pitchers into the feel of the MLB. First Base Chris Parmelee Age: 25 Though Parmelee has spent a lot of time in the Twins outfield, he also plays first base for the squad and should in the future, unless Justin Morneau hangs around for a while. A big man with 230 pounds to his name, Parmelee can get the job done at first and has shown that he has some power to go with the build.

It is tough to rate a player who has been up and down in the majors and minors for a while, but Parmelee looks ready to take over a larger role with the squad, even if his 2013 bat-

Sometimes you get a position and think, “man, that is a pretty big question mark at that spot.”

Most of the time it refers to a lack of talent that makes you wonder what is going to happen. For the Twins, it is quite the opposite.

Many thought like Buxton and Sano, Rosario was another youngster who just had to wait his time before making it to the majors. Rosario made a splash in early 2013, making the roster for the Puerto Rican National team that finished second in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.

After flourishing with the Fort Myers Miracle in High-A ball, Rosario currently plays with the Twins’ AA-affiliate, the New Britain Rock Cats, where he is hitting around .287 at the age of 21.

Many thought Brian Dozier was just the stepping-stone to get from where we were to the future with Rosario, but if 2013 has taught us anything, Dozier’s not going down without a fight.

After looking mediocre in his first season in the big show in 2012, Dozier has looked a little better this season, batting .243 and belting 13 homeruns, something we all thought was impossible after watching him as a rookie.

Time will tell if the Twins will deal Dozier or set up a position battle with him and Rosario, but either way the crew will see a positive swing at second base.

Third Base Miguel Sano Age: 20 The Twins knew they had something special when they signed “el bocaton” for $3.15 million in 2009. Since then, Sano has been making his way up the farm system ladder and is currently with Rosario in New Britain.

He is a top-five prospect in most eyes and the top third base prospect according to MLB. com. Sano amazes everyone that watches him with his raw power and quick hands through the zone. Though it is unclear when his time will come for the

big leagues, experts believe he might even get a crack in the September call-ups of this season, just to get him a few major league at bats and possibly even a start. Known to be proned to strikeout in the minors, the Twins are making sure that he is not called all the way up too quickly in order to enhance his swing with two strikes.

He has been the subject of criticism after former Twin Doug Mientkiewicz, now the manager for the Single-A Fort Myers Miracle, benched Sano for an extended period after showing up an opposing pitcher after a homerun. Sano is known for having a big mouth, which is the origin of his nickname, but hopefully matures in the next couple of years to come back as a developed mid-20s, powerhitting third baseman.

Shortstop Pedro Florimon or Eduardo Escobar Age: 26 and 24 Like Dozier, few knew what the Twins would ultimately do with the Dominican shortstop in the early years of his career.

Though he still struggles hitting the off speed, Florimon has shined on defense for the Twins, posting a .978 fielding percent-

age in 2013, even though defense does not win championships in baseball, it is still nice to have some stability up the middle.

On the other side of the position, Escobar has been turning heads since his two-run double off Phil Coke to give the Twins their first win of the season but has since been fluctuating up and down between pro ball and triple-A. Like Florimon, Escobar’s offensive stats are down but is solid on defense. If either of these two figures out their swings, the Twins would be set in the infield for years to come.

Left Field Oswaldo Arcia Age: 22

Another product of being called up at a young age, Arcia has played his fair share of outfield for the Twins in ’13 and should be a premier starter in a few years, more than likely batting in the 5-6 range of the lineup. Arcia current batting average sits at .254 in the pros with 10 homeruns this season, but the Venezuelan should see those numbers go up once he has solidified a spot in the pros.

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in 148 less plate appearances.

Like any player, if Arcia can spend some time in a consistent place and lineup, he should be able to become the 41st best prospect that Baseball America had him billed at towards the beginning of the season.

Center Field Bryon Buxton Age: 19 Baseball has five tools: throw, run, field, hit and hit hard; coincidentally, Buxton also has five tools, making him a five-tool player and the no. 1 prospect in all of baseball. Many knew the Twins made a splash when they drafted Buxton with the second overall pick in the 2012 MLB amateur draft, but few predicted the mediocre rise he has gone through.

Buxton started out the year around 10th in the prospect list, but after an amazing first half has jumped up to the top spot.

After tearing up A-ball in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Buxton now plays high-A with Fort Myers, where he is currently hitting .330 with four homeruns in 51 games. His HR total is a little than some expected, but Buxton makes up for it by shining everywhere else, including 53 stolen bases in 2013 with the two squads.

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Remember that name if this is the first time you have heard it Twins fans, because Buxton is the real deal and should be the staple of the Twins’ outfield for many years to come.

Right Field Aaron Hicks Age: 23 I know, when Twins called up Aaron Hicks as their opening day starter in center field in 2013, it did not end well. Even after making a comeback to the big leagues, Hicks’ batting average still sits below .200 to add to his minuscule stat line as a Twin, but he is still young.

He has shown he can play the position and has the arm to pull off right field, but it is Hicks’ stick that scares everyone, as the beginning of the year made him look helpless at the plate against some heavy pitching. But if he can straighten out his problems at the plate, I don’t see why Aaron Hicks cannot become the starting right fielder and possibly move back into the leadoff role in the future.

If the organization just lets him progress in the minors for a little while, he may come back strong and ready to be a full starter.

FOOTBALL continued from 22 the production they got out of Earl Brooks and Robert Gunderson. Otto finished his freshman year with 32 tackles and two interceptions.

At the safety position, the team seems to have that covered between juniors Nathan Hancock and Sam Thompson, along with senior Jordan Hale.

Between the three, they totaled 128 tackles and six interceptions in 2012.

For the other cornerback position, the team has a lot of young talent, such as sophomore Patrick Schmidt and junior Kelend Smith.

To say a team can win games without special teams doesn’t count for the Mavericks. They probably wouldn’t have been 13-1 without such a great special

teams corps. Senior placekicker Sam Brockshus had a season to remember, making 59 of 61 extra points and hitting 21 of 27 field goal attempts, including two that ended the game.

He was also named in the preseason top 100 Division II player list at 66, quite a confidence booster.

“I think his confidence has to continued to increase, and he’s not afraid now to let me know when he feels like he can make a kick and stick his neck out there a little bit, and I certainly trust him to do that,” Keen said.

Brockshus has continued where he left off from his impressive junior year, according to coach Keen. He even hit a 49-yard field goal during a scrimmage on Tuesday.

“I’ve been very pleased with the way he’s handled his success last year and leading in to what should be a very special senior season for him,” Keen said.

For those of you that have been at MSU long enough to remember receiver Dennis Carter, he has returned to the purple and gold after missing a year. In 2011 against Augustana, Carter returned a kickoff and punt for a touchdown, and he will be back returning this season.

For punting, sophomore Darin Howell took most of the snaps last season and got better as the season progressed. In his 47 punts, he averaged 35.5 yards and his longest was 56 yards against Northwestern Missouri State.

MSU Reporter Archives Defensive end Chris Schaudt has been a vital part of the Maverick’s defense for the last three seasons, and he and the team are expecting the same production as a year ago.

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