International Atomic Energy Agency also reported Sunday that radia tion levels were normal, that two of the Zaporizhzhia plant’s six reactors were operating and that while no complete assessment had yet been made, recent fight ing had damaged a water pipeline, since repaired. In another apparent at tack Sunday, Russian forc es shot down an armed Ukrainian drone targeting one of the Zaporizhzhia plant’s spent fuel storage sites, a local official said. Periodic shelling has damaged the power sta tion’s infrastructure, Ener goatom, said Saturday.
Panahon complimented the faculty, department chairs and college work group that consist ed of students, faculty and staff for their diligence, despite the initial hesitant and fearful feed
Courtesy Photo Christopher Brown (above) is the new Dean of College of Humanities and Social Sciences which formed over the summer on July 1.
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OnDirectorJuly1, Minnesota State University, Mankato combined their College of Arts and Hu manities and the College of So cial and Behavioral Science to now officially become the Col lege of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS). The two colleges merged to facilitate collaboration amongst faculty. HSS Dean Christopher Brown noted how since both of the colleges have a liberal arts curriculum that the joining of the two colleges will give stu dents more options for their aca demic“Whencareers.Iwas the Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, students talked about interdisci plinary [learning], wanting more of those connections. With these colleges, the goal is to initiate more of those kind of connec tions,” said Brown. “I learned from my Student Advisory Board that they desire to get out of their department silos and see what’s going on in other depart ments and so hopefully [with the new] college, we can create thoseWithconnections.”twolargecolleges join ing as one, the university made the decision to have a dean and associate dean. Former Psychol ogy Department Chair Chip Panahon recently took his new title as HSS Interim Associate Dean on Aug. 15. Panahon shared how honored he was to receive his new position.
“I was one of the candidates nominated for the [Interim As sociate Dean search] and I inter viewed with the HSS Dean Staff as well as the Provost Hood,” shared Panahon. “I’m excited and humbled to be starting my work in this new role.”
Russian Defense Min istry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Sunday that Ukrainian forces had attacked the plant twice over the past day, and that shells fell near buildings storing reactor fuel and ra dioactive waste.
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The new Maverick Garden is in full bloom and provides fresh fruits and vegetables to Minne sota State University, Mankato students through the Maverick Food Pantry. Located on the University Dining Center Lawn next to Carkoski Commons, the Maverick Garden brings oppor tunities for students to volunteer and learn more about where their food comes from. The garden is sponsored by the Diversity, Equity and Inclu sion team and run by Liz Stein born-Gourley, the Director of the Women’s Center. Planning for the garden began in Febru ary of 2022. “The pantry was just getting started and we’re having conversations about ways we could continue provid ing support. The garden seemed like a nice next step,” said Stein born-Gourley.Thegarden sits at 750 square feet and is currently home to various tomatoes, leafy greens, strawberries, and many more kinds of produce.
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Women’s Center Director Liz Steinborn-Gourley stands in front of the Maverick Garden where 100% of the produce goes to the Maverick Food Pantry.
atomic energy agency painted an ominous picture of the threat Sunday by issuing a map forecast ing where radiation could spread from the Zapor izhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which Russian forces have controlled since soon after the war began. Attacks were reported over the weekend not only in Russian-controlled ter ritory adjacent to the plant along the left bank of the Dnieper River, but along the Ukraine-controlled right bank, including the cities of Nikopol and Marhanets, each about 10 kilometers (six miles) from the facility.
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“One projectile fell in the area of the sixth power unit, and the other five in front of the sixth unit pumping station, which provides cooling for this reactor,” Konashenkov said, adding that radiation levels were normal.TheU.N.’s
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“In a space this size, we’re never going to be a mass producer for the food pan try. But what we can do, is pro vide a taste of something won derfully fresh and get students engaged in the understanding of where their food comes from,” saidGrowingSteinborn-Gourley.producetakes lots
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A newly unsealed FBI doc ument about the investigation at Mar-a-Lago not only offers new details about the probe but also reveals clues about the ar guments former President Don ald Trump’s legal team intends to make.AMay 25 letter from one of his lawyers, attached as an exhibit to the search affidavit, advances a broad view of pres idential power, asserting that the commander-in-chief has absolute authority to declassify whatever he wants — and also that the “primary” law govern ing the handling of U.S. classi fied information simply doesn’t apply to the president himself.
It’s not clear from the affida vit whether Trump or anyone might face charges over the presence of classified records at Mar-a-Lago — 19 months after he became a private cit izen — and FBI officials are investigating who removed the records from the White House to the Florida estate and who is responsible for retaining them in an unauthorized location. The FBI recovered 11 sets of classified records during the Aug. 8 search, and the affida vit made public Friday said 184 documents with classified markings also were found in 15 boxes removed in January. The Justice Department, re sponding to a Trump team re quest for a legal special master to sort through the materials, said Monday that officials had completed their own review of potentially privileged docu ments.No matter the outcome of that latest issue, the affidavit makes clear that investigators are focused on potential viola tions of three felony statutes, including an Espionage Act provision that criminalizes the willful retention or transmis sion of national defense infor mation. Another law punish able by up to three years in prison makes it a crime to will fully remove, conceal or muti late government records. And a third law, carrying up to 20 years imprisonment, covers the destruction, alteration or fal sification of records in federal investigations.TheEspionage Act statute regarding retention of national defense information has figured in multiple prosecutions. Past investigations have produced disparate results that make it hard to forecast the outcome in the Trump probe. But there have been convictions.
But many legal experts are dubious that claims of such presidential power will hold weight.“When someone is no lon ger president, they’re no longer president. That’s the reality of the matter,” said Oona Hatha way, a Yale Law School profes sor and former lawyer in the Defense Department’s general counsel’s office. “When you’ve left office, you’ve left office. You can’t proclaim yourself to not be subject to the laws that apply to everyone else.”
When it comes to handling government secrets, there are indeed some differences that could possibly be considered: Presidents, for instance, don’t have to pass background checks to obtain classified in formation, they’re not granted security clearances to access intelligence and they’re not formally “read out” on their responsibilities to safeguard secrets when they leave leave office.
“There’s no intelligence community directive that says how presidents should or shouldn’t be briefed on the ma terials,” said Larry Pfeiffer, a former CIA officer and senior director of the White House Situation Room. “We’ve never had to worry about it before.”
By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press of hard work and dedicated care. This past summer, Stein born-Gourley had the help of Mai Ker Thao. Thao is the graduate assistant for the Vio lence Awareness and Response Program at MSU. “As a student, I’ve used the food pantry. It’s hard to save money as a college student be cause you don’t have time to be working. It’s also why I wanted to be involved with the garden. I was excited when Liz told me it was for the food pantry,” said Thao. Many other mem bers of the Maverick commu nity volunteered their time over the summer to cultivate a full harvest this fall and the work is not done yet. “The biggest priority is wa tering and we harvest twice a week. Sometimes we need folks to come by on the weekends. It depends on what the rain is do ing,” stated Steinborn-Gour ley. Just as the Maverick Food Pantry serves all students at MSU, all students have the option of volunteering at the Maverick Garden. “We are flexible. Some of us are learning as we go. I think you have to be comfortable with the fact that there are grasshoppers and bugs and be ing warm. We’ll meet students where they’re at with their knowledge and skills,” said Steinborn-Gourley.Thaoalsoencourages inter ested students to give garden ing a “It’stry.a great way to get in volved. If you’re someone who really likes hands-on things, the garden is a great way to meet people. It’s really reward ing to put a seed in and watch it become something over time,” said Thao. 100% of the produce grown in the Maver ick Garden goes to the Food Pantry. The new pantry hours are listed on the MSU website along with a form to create an appointment. Students who are interested in volunteering can stop by the meeting at the garden on Friday, Sept. 9 at 8:30 am, or contact Stein born-Gourley.
Harold Martin, the ex-NSA contractor, pleaded guilty in 2019 to storing troves of clas sified information inside his home, car and storage shed, including handwritten notes describing the NSA’s classi fied computer infrastructure. Which is why the Trump legal team may look to play up his status as a former president.
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The arguments weren’t per suasive enough to the Justice Department to prevent an FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate this month, and the affi davit in any event makes clear that investigators are focused on more recent activity — long after Trump left the White House and lost the legal au thorities that came with it. Even so, the letter suggests that a defense strategy an chored around presidential powers, a strategy employed during special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation when Trump actually was pres ident, may again be in play as the probe proceeds. It’s perhaps not surprising that Trump’s legal team might look for ways to distinguish a former president from other citizens given the penalties im posed over the years for mis handling handling government secrets, including a nine-year prison sentence issued to a for mer National Security Agency contractor who stored two de cades’ worth of classified doc uments at his Maryland home.
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It notes that a president has the absolute authority to declassify documents, though it doesn’t actually say — as Trump has asserted — that he did so with the records seized from his home.
Former President Donald Trump departs Trump Tower, Aug. 10, 2022, in New York, on his way to the New York attorney general’s office for a deposition in civil investigation. Questions remain on one of his documents.
On Sunday, both sororities and fraternities hosted their bid day, a chance for new incoming members to find their new home away from home.
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The woman was crumpled on the floor of a mangled Mer cedes, unconscious and strug gling to breathe. The French doctor had no idea who she was and just focused on trying to save her. Twenty-five years later, Dr. Frederic Mailliez is still marked by what happened in the Alma Tunnel in Paris on Aug. 31, 1997 — and the realization that he was one of the last peo ple to see Princess Diana alive. “I realize my name will al ways be attached to this tragic night,” Mailliez, who was on his way home from a party when he came across the car crash, told The Associated Press. “I feel a little bit respon sible for her last moments.” As Britain and Diana’s admirers worldwide mark a quarter-century since her death, Mailliez recounted the aftermath of the crash. That night, Mailliez was driving into the tunnel when he spotted a smoking Mercedes nearly split in two. “I walked toward the wreckage. I opened the door, and I looked inside,” he said. What he saw: “Four people, two of them were apparently dead, no reaction, no breath ing, and the two others, on the right side, were living but in severe condition. The front passenger was screaming, he was breathing. He could wait a few minutes. And the female passenger, the young lady, was on her knees on the floor of the Mercedes, she had her head down. She had difficulty to breathe. She needed quick as sistance.”Heran to his car to call emergency services and grab a respiratory bag. “She was unconscious,” he said. “Thanks to my respi ratory bag (...) she regained a little bit more energy, but she couldn’t say anything.”
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JEROME DELAY • Associated Press Police services prepare to take away the car in which Britain’s Diana, Princess of Wales, died in Paris, in a car crash that also killed her com panion Dodi Fayed, and chauffeur nearly 25 years ago in August 1997.
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The doctor would later find out the news — along with the rest of the world — that the woman he treated was Di ana, Britain’s national treasure adored by millions. “I know it’s surprising, but I didn’t recognize Princess Di ana,” he said. “I was in the car on the rear seat giving assis tance. I realized she was very beautiful, but my attention was so focused on what I had to do to save her life, I didn’t have time to think, who was this“Someonewoman.”
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behind me told me the victims spoke English, so I began to speak English, saying I was a doctor and I called the ambulance,” he said. “I tried to comfort her.” As he worked, he noticed the flash of camera bulbs, of paparazzi gathered to docu ment the scene. A British inquest found Di ana’s chauffeur, Henri Paul, was drunk and driving at a high speed to elude pursuing photographers.Mailliezsaid he had “no reproach” toward the photog raphers’ actions after the crash. “They didn’t hamper me hav ing access to the victims. ... I didn’t ask them for help, but they didn’t interfere with my job.”
Firefighters quickly came, and Diana was taken to a Paris hospital, where she died a few hours later. Her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver also died.“It was a massive shock to learn that she was Princess Diana, and that she died,” Mailliez said. Then self-doubt set in. “Did I do everything I could to save her? Did I do correctly my job?” he asked himself.“Ichecked with my medical professors and I checked with police investigators,” he said, and they agreed he did all he could.The anniversary is stirring up those memories again, but they also come back “each time I drive through the Alma Tunnel,” he said. As Mailliez spoke, standing atop the tunnel, cars rushed in and out past the pillar where she crashed, now bearing a stencil drawing of Diana’s face.
Italian authorities scram bled on Sunday to relieve overcrowding in shelters after scores of boats carrying a to tal of about 1,000 migrants reached Italy’s southern shores and two of its tiny islands over theNearlyweekend.50 boats arrived between Friday night and Sat urday on Lampedusa island off Sicily, according to state radio and other Italian media. Other boats carrying migrants reached Pantelleria, another tiny island favored by vaca tioners.Hundreds of migrants stepped ashore from the virtual flotilla of smugglers’ vessels on those islands. Several of the ves sels launched by migrant smug glers held as few as eight pas sengers. But others had around 100 passengers aboard, many of them from Tunisia, accord ing to the reports. Other boats reached the shores of the Italian mainland on Saturday, either unaided or assisted by Italian coast guard vessels.The Italian news agency ANSA said that 92 migrants, most of them from Afghan istan, reached Puglia — the “heel” of the boot-shaped pen insula — in a sailboat on Satur day. Still other migrants sailed to Calabria in the “toe” of the peninsula, while other boats reached Sicily and Sardinia, It aly’s two biggest islands, in the last two days. On Sardinia, Carabinieri paramilitary police spotted 29 migrants walking along a road, ANSA said. The humanitarian organiza tion Doctors Without Borders tweeted that one of its rescue ships, Geo Barents, saved 25 migrants, including five minors, from a small boat in distress in international waters near Libya on Saturday night. Geo Barents already had other mi grants abroad plucked to safety in other rescue operations, the groupWithsaid.the disembarkation of hundreds of migrants from boats in the last days, the resi dence temporarily housing res cued migrants on Lampedusa quickly became overcrowded.
López said small mine own ers were required to submit proof they complied with labor laws, which in Mexico govern mineButsafety.even the president ac knowledged that the Pinabete mine had not complied with the few existing safety and la borAccidentsstandards. at small coal mines have been depressingly frequent.
Three members of the Dutch Commando Corps, who were training at a center, were shot outside of the hotel in downtown Indianapolis early Saturday morning. The Dutch Defense Ministry says that one has died.
In June 2021, seven miners were killed at a similar small mine in Muzquiz town ship, about 80 miles (130 ki lometers) southwest of Eagle Pass, Texas. The shaft at the Micarán mine also flooded and partially collapsed, and it took days to recover the miners’ bodies.The operations resemble wildcat mines from the U.S.
A 2012 Senate bill proposed “the outright ban on vertical coal mines, also known as ‘poc itos,’ because that is where the greatest risks occur.”
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Old West: Horizontal coal fac es spread out from the bottom of the shaft and are shored up with wooden poles. At some mines, the pit-head winches used to extract miners and coal are run off old car en gines placed on blocks. Lawmakers already knew the dangers of the narrow, un reinforced vertical shafts; ex plosive gas accumulations and flooding risks are common. As far back as 2012, Mexi can legislators tried to pass laws to do away with such primitive mines.The 2006 tragedy in the nearby Pasta de Conchos mine, where 65 miners died after a gas build-up caused a fire and explosion, was still fresh in their minds. That was a larg er mine where gas monitoring proved to be insufficient.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador enacted a plan two years ago to revive coalfired power plants in northern Mexico and give preference to buying coal from the smallest mines.The purchases were part of the president’s policies to give more income to the poorest Mexicans.Indoing so, the administra tion resuscitated a form of coal mining so dangerous that law makers in both houses of Mex ico’s Congress had tried to ban it a decade ago. Experts say that mines so narrow and primitive that only one miner at a time can be low ered into a narrow shaft — and only one bucket of coal extract ed — are inherently unsafe. At some pits, known as “poc itos,” or “little wells,” air is pumped in and water pumped out through plastic hoses. Some don’t even have that. There are usually no safety exits or auxil iaryFifteenshafts. men were working inside the Pinabete mine in Sabinas, Coahuila, about 70 miles (115 kilometers) south west of Eagle Pass, Texas, on Aug. 3. A wall of water from an abandoned mine next door — and possibly wastewater pumped in from a nearby town — filled the single shaft about 40 meters (yards) deep. It blew out so many wooden supports that they have formed floating barriers to rescue crews. Five workers managed to escape as the mine flooded, but there has been no contact with the rest. Promoting coal is part of López Obrador’s effort to shore up the state-owned power utili ty, the Federal Electricity Com mission, headed by old-guard politician Manuel Bartlett. Not only was the policy questioned by environmentalists; many also said it endangered miners.
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Two Dutch soldiers wound ed in a downtown Indianapolis shooting that killed another member of their commando unit could soon return to the Netherlands, city police said Monday while providing no new information on the search for the other people involved. The 26-year-old member of the Dutch Commando Corps died of his injuries “surround ed by family and colleagues” after the shooting early Sat urday, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. The Marion County cor oner’s office in Indianapolis identified the victim as Simmie Poetsema but didn’t immedi ately release any additional in formation.Poetsema and the two other soldiers were shot after what Indianapolis police believe was a disturbance outside the hotel where they were staying about 3:30 a.m. Saturday near sever al downtown bars and night clubs, authorities said. The soldiers were in the U.S. for training exercises at a southern Indiana military base. City police said they were working with U.S. and Dutch agencies to coordinate family members coming to Indianap olis and returning the victims to the Police,Netherlands.however, released no additional information Mon day about the circumstances of the shooting nor made any police officials available for in terviews.Noarrests have been an
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It is unclear why those laws were never passed.
The government utility had defended its decision to buy about two-thirds of coal for power generation from small mines.“We had to have the mind set of favoring the smallest (producers) because we had to make their economic conditions more equal,” Miguel Alejandro López, the subdirector of pur chasing for the company, said in July, describing the orders he got under López Obrador. “Be cause as he (the president) has said, one of this country’s main failings is inequality.”
“Manuel Bartlett’s brilliant idea of buying more coal from the smallest producers, and less from big producers, gave rise to a black market that wound up in the exploitation of mines that lack the safeguards needed to protect the lives of the work ers,” Miguel Riquelme, the governor of Coahuila state and member of the opposition Insti tutional Revolutionary Party, said after the accident.
In 2013, a bill in the lower house stated, “Coal mining ac tivities have generalized risks, because their techniques are artisanal and rudimentary … Risky mining practices must be minimized or eliminated.”
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As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current ad ministration’s populist policies have driven the revival of the dangerous, primitive mines that continue claiming lives.
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The administration of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has resuscitated a form of coal min ing so dangerous and primitive that both houses of Mexico’s Congress tried to ban it in 2012.
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Mine safety activist Cristina Auerbach noted that coal is po litically sensitive in Coahuila, especially among the impov erished communities that once made a living from it.
The 27-year-old undergraduate student hoped he would return to school quickly but immedi ately took a job as a taxi driver to pay Unfortunatelybills. for him, the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities has now clocked six months and Ayo mide’s hopes of returning to classes anytime soon grow thin.
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Talks between the lecturers and the government ended in deadlock this month, dashing hopes of a compromise agree ment.Lecturers have faulted the government’s position, arguing that the government has still not provided higher pay for lectur ers and more funds for the edu cation sector which it agreed to in 2009.Ifthe government has not fulfilled a promise made in 2009 by 2022, how can it be trusted? asked Femi Atteh, a lecturer at the University of Ilorin in north central Kwara state who now works with his wife to run a food retail business.
“I just see ASUU (the union) trying to fight for the rights of its people. ... Nigerian lecturers are far behind in terms of wel fare when compared to others,” saidAttehAtteh.said some of his col leagues are moving abroad for better opportunities and im proved“Ourpay.situation in this coun try is just in a sorry state,” said lecturer Sabi Sani at the Univer sity of Abuja. After 12 years of teaching, Sani said his monthly salary is “not even enough to pay my children’s school fees.”
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“Nobody is talking about school again,” said Ayomide, who said he is working more than one job and the budget he had for getting through universi ty now looks unrealistic. University strikes are com mon in Nigeria, which has more than 100 public universities and an estimated 2.5 million students, according to Nigeria’s National Universities Commis sion.The universities here have re corded at least 15 strikes cover ing a cumulative period of four years since 2000. The latest strike, however, is biting harder on an education sector that is struggling to recov er from a COVID-19 lockdown and an earlier strike that lasted for most of 2020. No alternative means of learning is provided for students because “more than 90%” of lecturers in Nigerian universities are members of the academic staff union, according to Haru na Lawal Ajo, director of public affairs at Nigeria’s universities commission.Thestriking lecturers are de manding a review of their con ditions of service including the platform the government uses to pay their earnings, improved funding for the universities and the payment of their salaries withheld since the strike started.
Nigeria Labour union protest in solidarity with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, on the street in Lagos, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 26. A strike declared by lecturers in Nigerian public universities has now clocked six months.
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There may be no Breakfast Club at Minnesota State University, Mankato, but there are plenty of other enjoyable Recognized Stu dent Organizations, or RSOs students are able to join. Although we are back in classrooms and can meet new people that way, oftentimes students are too busy completing classwork or listening to lectures to build long-lasting relationships with their classmates. However, RSOs can provide that opportunity for us as students.Organizations on campus range from academic, major-focused groups to Greek Life to specific interest clubs. This large list of RSOs leaves something for almost every student. College may be for students to hone in on specific skills, but it is also about developing life skills. Through clubs, students can learn to collaborate with peers, discover new interests, and network with others to build their resume. Commitment to hobbies is admirable and builds character. Fur thermore, it can allow you to explore avenues with faculty that can impact your future careers and scholarship applications. MSU students who are involved in RSOs are able to gain the opportunities to spend more time enjoying the campus and are more aware of what is going on pertaining to campus events. Speaking of campus events, at RSO involvement fairs, students can shop for their club of choice and can even search out volunteer ing and job opportunities. If a student is unable to make it to an in volvement fair, they can scan organizations on the school’s website. Students can scan by category, or browse the list as a whole to find the right fit for them. Yet, if the desired club isn’t found among the sea of tables at in volvement fairs, students can even create their own! This can be a great way to search out people with shared interests and network with those interested in a niche topic. In order to start an organization, a student would need to create a club title and constitution, recruit five members and select a staff advisor to work with the group. We as students should take advan tage of that opportunity since it is our home for most of us the next fewContinuingyears. interests from high school via clubs at university can act as a sense of familiarity in a period of transition for students and can help campus feel more like home and solidify a sense of self. The college experience is not only built on sleepless nights and studying homework, but also on building friendships and going through self-discovery. RSOs are a constructive, yet fun way to en gage with peers and create
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While the United States champions democracy across the world, our own democ racy is under siege. Nothing is more fundamental to de mocracy than the right to vote - yet there is no explicit guarantee of the right to vote in the U.S. Constitution. The U.S. ranks near the bottom of industrial democracies in vot er turnout. This isn’t acciden tal - many states purposefully create barriers that make it difficult to register to vote or to cast a ballot. The sensible answer to this is to create -- and enforce -- the right to vote for every citizen. The 2020 presidential election witnessed the high est turnout in recent history. Eighty million people voted for Joe Biden; 74 million for Donald Trump. Yet, another 80 million who were eligible by age and citizenship did not vote. In midterm elections, like the upcoming election this year, voting turnout plummets to an average of about 40 per cent of eligible voters casting ballots.Part of this low turnout comes from neglect: cam paigns focus their resources and attention on targeted segments of the population. Too often poor and working people get no attention. Part of this comes from intentthe purposeful suppression of theAtvote.the founding of the nation, U.S. leaders pur posefully limited the right to vote. Initially only white, male landowners could vote. After the Civil War, the 15th Amendment outlawed dis crimination on the basis of race in the right to vote, yet across the South, that right was systematically sup pressed, through organized terror, poll taxes, literacy tests, or ridiculous hurdles like correctly guessing the number of beans in a jar. Af ter much struggle, the Voting Rights Act, the centerpiece of the civil rights struggle, outlawed those tactics and Black turnout surged across theInSouth.the wake of Barack Obama’s victorious presi dential campaigns, however, the Republican Party became ever more intent on making voting more difficult - partic ularly for Blacks and Latinos and the young. And after Donald Trump’s defeat - and Republican em brace of his Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, Republicans in various states have launched a concerted drive to restrict voting and to give Repub lican partisans more power over the casting and counting of votes.Over 400 bills have been introduced to make registra tion and voting more diffi cult.In 2020, a presidential election held in the midst of the pandemic, record num bers of voters - particularly people of color - elected to vote by mail or to vote ear ly, in order to avoid crowds and lines on Election Day. Forty-three percent of voters cast a ballot by mail; only 21 percent cast their ballot on Election Day So Republicans - partic ularly in swing states where they control the state legisla ture - have passed measures to make voting by mail more difficult, to make it easier to disqualify such votes, to cut early voting days, to cut back on the number of polling stations particularly in ur ban areas. In all, The Voting Rights Alliance lists 61 differ ent measures created to make voting more difficult, ranging from punishing voter regis tration groups to excessive purges of the voting rolls, to limits on student voting or on voting by those with a crimi nal record, to voter intimida tion at the polls and more. These measures - pushed particularly in the so-called swing states - are given greater power because of the structural impediments to de mocracy in the U.S. For ex ample, Democrats have won the popular vote in seven of eight presidential elections since 1992, but because of the electoral college, have won the presidency only five times.Add to that the obscene role of big money and increas ingly dark money in politicsunleashed by decisions of the activist right-wing judges on the Supreme Court, and the principle of one person, one vote is Standingeviscerated.inthe way of rectifying voter suppression is another structural impedi ment to democracy - the Sen ate created “filibuster rule” which requires a supermajor ity of 60 of 100 senators to overcome a filibuster to get anything done. In just the last two years, Republican senators have re peatedly used the filibuster to block electoral reform, torpe doing the For the People Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, and COLUMN on page 7
Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10.6 inches (27 centimeters) -- more than twice as much as previ ously forecast — according to a study published Monday.
Study lead author Jason Box, a glaciologist at the Greenland survey, said it is “more like one foot in the grave.” The unavoidable ten inches in the study is more than twice as much sea level rise as scien tists had previously expected from the melting of Green land’s ice sheet. The study in the journal Nature Climate Change said it could reach as much as 30 inch es (78 centimeters). By contrast, last year’s In tergovernmental Panel on Cli mate Change report projected a range of 2 to 5 inches (6 to 13 centimeters) for likely sea level rise from Greenland ice melt by the year What2100.scientists did for the study was look at the ice in balance. In perfect equilibrium, snowfall in the mountains in Greenland flows down and re charges and thickens the sides of glaciers, balancing out what’s melting on the edges. But in the last few decades there’s less re plenishment and more melting, creatingStudyimbalance.authorslooked at the ratio of what’s being added to what’s being lost and calculated that 3.3% of Greenland’s total ice volume will melt no matter what happens with the world cutting carbon pollution, Col gan“Isaid.think starving would be a good phrase,” for what’s hap pening to the ice, Colgan said. One of the study authors said that more than 120 trillion tons (110 trillion metric tons) of ice is already doomed to melt from the warming ice sheet’s in ability to replenish its edges. When that ice melts into wa ter, if it were concentrated only over the United States, it would be 37 feet (11 meters) deep. The figures are a global average for sea level rise, but some places further away from Greenland would get more and places closer, like the U.S. East Coast, would get less. Although 10.6 inches may not sound like much, this would be over and above high tides and storms, making them even worse, so this much sea level rise “will have huge socie tal, economic and environmen tal impacts,” said Ellyn Ender lin, a geosciences professor at Boise State University, who wasn’t part of the study. “This is a really large loss and will have a detrimental effect on coastlines around the world,” said NYU’s Da vid Holland who just returned from Greenland, but is not part of the study.
“It’s dead ice. It’s just going to melt and disappear from the ice sheet,” Colgan said in an interview. “This ice has been consigned to the ocean, regard less of what climate (emissions) scenario we take now.”
Time is the key unknown here and a bit of a problem with the study, said two out side ice scientists, Leigh Stearns of the University of Kansas and Sophie Nowicki of the Univer sity of Buffalo. The researchers in the study said they couldn’t estimate the timing of the com mitted melting, yet in the last sentence they mention, “within this century,” without support ing it, Stearns said. Colgan responded that the team doesn’t know how long it will take for all the doomed ice to melt, but making an educat ed guess, it would probably be by the end of this century, or at least by 2150. Colgan said this is actually all a best case scenario. The year 2012 (and to a different degree 2019 ) was a huge melt year, when the equilibrium between adding and subtracting ice was most out of balance.
FELIPE DANA • Associated Press A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs in eastern Greenland on Aug. 15, 2019. Zombie ice from the massive Greenland ice sheet will eventually raise global sea level by at least 10 inches (27 centimeters) on its own.
Zombie ice from Greenland will raise sea level up 10 inches
This is the first time scien tists calculated a minimum ice loss — and accompanying sea level rise — for Greenland, one of Earth’s two massive ice sheets that are slowly shrinking because of climate change from burning coal, oil and natural gas.Scientists used an accepted technique for calculating min imum committed ice loss, the one used on mountain glaciers for the entire giant frozen is land.Pennsylvania State Univer sity glaciologist Richard Alley, who wasn’t part of the study but said it made sense, said the committed melting and sea lev el rise is like an ice cube put in a cup of hot tea in a warm room.
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That’s because of something that could be called zombie ice. That’s doomed ice that, while still attached to thicker areas of ice, is no longer getting replen ished by parent glaciers now receiving less snow. Without replenishment, the doomed ice is melting from cli mate change and will inevitably raise seas, said study co-author William Colgan, a glaciologist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland.
“It will give students a great er opportunity to utilize a va riety of sources from other de partments in ways that will help them as they move forward in their career,” said Brown. “I think bringing both colleges together will only enhance the student’s learning experience.”
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Since the two colleges com bined, there haven’t been any new roles for professors. Brown and Panahon are hoping that the new college will facilitate some co-teaching opportunities by having different departments work together. Brown and Panahon are currently in the process of combing two depart ments into one: Mass Commu nication and Communication Studies. They plan on merging other programs as well. “I think there’s a lot for each department to learn about each other before we facilitate bringing [certain] departments and programs together,” said Brown. “There’s a lot of syner gy that needs to happen before we move in that direction.” With the amount of stu dents that are currently enrolled in each college, the plans for graduation are still underway. Panahon explained how HSS is still working on the particulars of the ceremony, making sure each student gets their proper recognition.“Ibelieve graduation is all about celebrating the student’s success and how they earned their degree, so we are still try ing cross our t’s and dot our i’s about some of the pomp and circumstance of each college and how we plan to make it a unified ceremony,” said Pana hon.Brown is optimistic about the integration of interdisciplin ary collaboration and all the possibilities the new college will offer students.
“You have committed mass loss from the ice,” Alley said in an email. “In the same way, most of the world’s mountain glaciers and the edges of Green land would continue losing mass if temperatures were sta bilized at modern levels because they have been put into warmer air just as your ice cube was put in warmer tea.”
back about the merging of the two“Oncecolleges.[the university] found out that this merger was going occur, many people spent hours upon hours trying to have this transition go as smooth as pos sible,” said Panahon. “They took time out of their busy weeks to meet [with both col leges] to really try to sit here and say ‘When July 1 comes, what do we need to know? How are we similar and how are we different?’”
COLLEGE from page 1 the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. These would have limited big money in poli tics, made voting registration easier, policed voter suppression in the states, and revived the Voting Rights Act to impede suppression measures targeted on minorities. A minority of senators representing a largely white minority of voters are blocking reforms that would empower the American people to vote and make their voices heard.Democracy should not be a partisan issue. Voting should be grounded on the right of citizenship, not the interests of politicians.
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“It was standing-room only in the gym. People were lined up all the way down the street for the game,” Mason said. “Not only was the community there for us, not only did we play really good basketball, it also propelled us to our first elite eight and eventual final four. It was also one of the last games I played in the Taylor Center and one of the biggest in school’s history.” During that game Mason had a to tal of 26 points and 17 rebounds, his career. He later received 2010 NSIC Defensive Player of the Year. That game brought in a crowd of 3,926 fans while the team ended up playing in the NCAA Division II Fi nal Four for the first time in Maver ick history. The team ultimately fell to the Bellarmine Knights in SpringField, MA.Originally from Crystal, MN, Ma son started to play basketball seriously around age 12. He began his collegiate career at Northern Colorado, then lat er transferred to MSU in 2009. After his time at MSU concluded, Mason, a 6-foot-6-inch All-Ameri can, went on to play professionally in Germany, Romania, Luxembourg and also NBA D League for the Dallas Mavericks.Coming full circle, Mason said he was surprised when he received a phone call from Paul Allan earlier this year.“I was ecstatic when I found out and It brought me to tears because it was a combination of the work I did in my basketball career from a youth level, to high school, to college to then playing professionally,” Mason said.
Tennis fans pose for photos next to a life-sized image of Serena Williams during the first round of the US Open tennis championships, Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, in New York.
Jefferson Mason played at Minnesota State University, Mankato from 2009-11. Himself along with his teammates on the MSU
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2010-11 Men’s basketball team will be inducted into the Minnesota State Hall of Fame on Sept. 23.
CHARLES KRUPA • Associated Press
By JULIA BARTON Editor in Chief Jefferson Mason, who played at Minnesota State University, Mankato from 2009-11, is set to be inducted to the Minnesota State Hall of Fame in dividually as well as with the 2010-11 Men’s Basketball team next month. Mason recalls his most memora ble game he played during his time at MSU was the championship game against Fort Lewis in the NCAA Di vision II Central Region finals in 2011 hosted at MSU’s home court in Bres nan Arena (Taylor Center).
Mason to be inducted into the Maverick Hall of Fame
Serena Williams is the center of attention at US Open as end nears
Creating everlasting memories with the community and teammates that historic season, Mason is proud of many things his team accomplished. “The biggest thing I’m proud of is the memories we’ve created for the city of Mankato. I’m 34 almost 35 and I’ve had some students who are actually at Mankato now and are like, ‘Hey I watched you when I was 12-years-old.’ So those memories that were created for the younger athletes through our team and coaches I think are the most impactful and the best thing that came out of Stillit.”impacting the community
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They came to the U.S. Open on Monday from far and wide for Sere na — no last name required, befitting someone as much an icon as superstar athlete — eager to see her play or, if not lucky enough to hold the right tick et, hoping for an autograph, a glance at her practicing or merely the chance to breathe the same Flushing Meadows air as her. As thousands waited in lines to en ter the tournament grounds hours be fore her match, then headed to small er courts for earlier action or simply around, waiting and wading in the palpable excitement, no one present could know for sure how many more opportunities there will be for any of it. Folks were there to watch, or just think about watching, Serena Wil liams swing her racket the way she did to 23 Grand Slam singles titles, more than any other person in the profes sional era of tennis that began in 1968, because she has said she is ready to move on from her playing days. And they were there to honor her and show appreciation for what she’s done on the court and off. Williams was scheduled to play her first-round match in Arthur Ashe Stadium against Danka Kovinic, slated to start sometime shortly after 7 p.m. She means a lot to a lot of people. As a tennis player. As a woman. As an African American. As a mother. As a businesswoman.“Whenshestarted out, female ath letes weren’t getting recognized. She’s done so much,” said Quintella Thorn, a 68-year-old from Columbus, Geor gia, making her eighth trip to the U.S. Open. “And now, she’s ...”“Evolving,” chimed in Thorn’s friend, Cora Mon roe, 72, of Shreveport, Louisiana, which she noted is where Richard Wil liams — the father of Serena and sister Venus, and the central figure in the Os car-winning film “King Richard” — is from, too.
By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press
“To be inducted into the hall of fame shows the time, effort, and energy you put in. I’m excited for the event and to know I’ll be etched in history forever is just a surreal feeling.”
For McIlroy — and the en tire FedEx Cup playoffs, for that matter — it was a remind er that while winning starts with having a chance, it can require a little more.
By RONALD BLUM Associated Press
Tiger Woods once said it can’t be considered a great year without a major. That’s still true. It was a great year for Scheffler.
There was a lot to unpack from McIlroy winning the Tour Championship and the symbol ism of the strongest voice in the fight against LIV Golf winning what the PGA Tour describes as its “ultimate prize.”
Will Zalatoris hit a tee shot in Memphis that nearly went out-of-bounds. Patrick Cantlay hit a drive in Wilmington that landed in just the right spot to bounce over a bunker and into the fairway. McIlroy hit a chip in Atlanta that should have gone off the green on the 70th hole but the pin got in the way. McIlroy knows what it’s like to be the MVP without win ning the Super Bowl. He won two majors in 2014 and lost to Billy Horschel on the final day at East Lake in 2014. He won two playoff events in 2012 and lost the FedEx Cup to Brandt Snedeker.“The more times you just put yourself in the position, the law of averages suggests that you’re going to get it done at some point,” McIlroy said. “And that’s sort of what I’ve done in this tournament.”
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It was about more than money.
Rory McIlroy walked to ward the stage in the media room at East Lake, the FedEx Cup silver and shiny on the ta ble, when he raised his arm and declared with a smile, “Super BowlThatchamp!”wasmore another dig at LIV Golf than sizing up his season. The reference was ban ter he had exchanged with a reporter at the start of the Fe dEx Cup playoffs when asked if it was the hardest trophy to win. McIlroy would know bet ter than anyone now that he’s a three-time winner, who also twice failed to win as the No. 1 seed.“Isthe Super Bowl the hard est trophy to win in football?” he asked on Aug 10. Few things are lost on McIl roy. The lead attorney for LIV Golf had argued in a court hearing the day before that the FedEx Cup was the “Super Bowl of golf” in his unsuccess ful bid for three players from the Saudi-funded league to play theMcIlroypostseason.rarely resists troll ing LIV Golf or Greg Norman. There also was plenty of truth to his eventual answer — McIlroy is not big on “yes” or “no” — on the difficulty of winning the FedEx Cup. “It’s a weird one,” he said, and no one would dispute that when it comes to any playoff system in golf. “You have to play consis tently good golf over the course of a 30-week season and then you have to get hot at the end of it again, as well.” And that’s what he did. He wasn’t as good as Scottie Schef fler or Cameron Smith, but he was good enough to have a chance at the end. He was a long shot at the start and go ing into the final round, but he played his best on Sunday — with a lot of help from Schef fler and a little from Sungjae Im — to rally from six shots down and claim the $18 million prize. Super Bowl champ? Sure. Before he laid his hands on the trophy, however, McIlroy was quick to point out that Scheffler was the MVP. “Firstly, there’s only thing I want to say: I feel like Scot tie deserves at least half of this today,” McIlroy said at the trophy presentation. “He had an unbelievable season. I feel sort of bad that I pipped him to the post, but he’s a hell of a competitor. He’s an even better guy.”He ended his praise by keep ing score, and that also was telling. “I told him we’re 1-all in Georgia,” McIlroy said. “He got the Masters. I got this.” McIlroy was runner-up to Scheffler at Augusta National, though he was never seriously in contention. And it’s foolish to even ask which one McIl roy or any player would rath er have. There are the majors. And there is the FedEx Cup. At this stage in his career, money is not as meaningful as winning. McIlroy spoke of the three “Calamity Jane” putters in his trophy case — the prize for winning the Tour Cham pionship. He is the only threetime winner of the FedEx Cup. Left unsaid is that those “very cool” trophies all were won since he last captured a major. That remains the ultimate mea sure.McIlroy was the only player to finish in the top 10 at all the majors this year. Of the three times he was in the mix, none crushed him more than the British Open at St. Andrews, where Smith simply outplayed him. “I’ve been knocking on the door so much this year. St. Andrews was really hard for me,” McIlroy said. “This softens the blow a little bit. It doesn’t make it that much eas ier to get over, but it’s great to end the season on a high note like this.” Perhaps that’s why his best friend and caddie, Har ry Diamond, said to McIlroy when they finished, “All the good golf you played this year, you deserve this.”
The staff of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, which formed two years ago, quit and will work for the MLBPA. The union gave the minor league group $50,000 last November.
McIlroy a ‘Super Bowl’ champ in a year without winning major MLB players’ association try ing to unionize minor leaguers
JASON GETZ • Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP The Major League Baseball Players Association is attempt ing to unionize minor leaguers, reversing decades of opposi tion.The players’ association said Monday it is circulating union authorization cards among players with minor league contracts to form a sep arate bargaining unit from the big leaguers. While the average major league salary is above $4 million, players with minor league contracts earn as little as $400 a week during the sixmonth“Theseason.working conditions facing these players have been nothing short of offensive,” union head Tony Clark wrote in a letter Sunday to player agents. “Poverty wages, op pressive reserve rules, disci pline without due process, ever-expanding offseason obli gations, appropriation of intel lectual property, substandard attention to player health and safety, and a chronic lack of respect for minor leaguers as a whole (to name just a few) — these cancers on our game ex ist because minor league play ers have never had a seat at the bargaining table. It’s time for that to change.” The union’s executive board unanimously approved the minor league ini tiative on Friday. Clark was not available to respond to questions, spokes man Chris Dahl said. Signed cards from 30% of minor leaguers in the bar gaining unit would allow the union to file a petition to the National Labor Relations Board asking for an union au thorization election. There are 5,000 to 6,500 U.S.-based mi nor leaguers at any given time, MLB estimates, the number increasing when new players sign each summer. An autho rization election would be de cided by majority vote. MLB also could voluntarily recog nize the union representing the bargaining unit, a process that typically can occur if a majori ty of the unit signs cards.
RICHARD DREW • Associated Press
By DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press
“This generation of minor league players has demonstrat ed an unprecedented ability to address workplace issues with
Rory McIlroy reacts after making a birdie putt on the fifteenth green during the final round of the Tour Cham pionship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in Atlanta.
Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark answers a question at a press conference in their offices in New York, Friday, March 11, 2022.
Jimmy Garoppolo is staying in San Francisco after agreeing to a reduced contract to be the backup to Trey Lance on the 49ers.Aperson
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Garoppo lo will receive a $6.5 million fully guaranteed base salary, $500,000 in roster bonuses and the chance to make nearly $9 million more in playing time bonuses. The deal also includes a no-trade clause and prevents San Francisco from using the franchise tag on Garoppolo nextTheoffseason.Niners had been un able to find a trade partner for Garoppolo and were facing a deadline with rosters being cut to 53 players on Tuesday. They were unwilling to keep Garoppolo as a backup at his full salary, and with no chanc es at a starting job on another team, the two sides found a compromise.Garoppolo had not taken part in a single practice or meet ing with the team this training camp, working out on the side on his own as he works his way back from offseason shoulder surgery.Butafter spending the past five years in San Francisco, he should have little problem get ting back up to speed on coach Kyle Shanahan’s offense and he gives the Niners insurance if Lance struggles or gets hurt. The other quarterbacks on the roster are seventh-round rookie Brock Purdy and Nate Sudfeld, who hasn’t started a game in the GaroppoloNFL.arrived in San Francisco with plenty of fan fare in 2017 when he was ac quired from New England be fore the trade deadline in San Francisco’s first season under Shanahan and general manager JohnTheLynch.Niners lost their first nine games that season and were 1-10 when Garoppolo took over as starter and led the team to five straight wins. That led San Francisco to give him a five-year, $137.5 million con tract that offseason. But Garoppolo had a sea son-ending knee injury in the third game of the 2018 cam paign and also missed 10 games with injuries in 2020. In the two seasons when he was mostly healthy, San Francis co had great success as a team even if Garoppolo had limita tions at quarterback. San Francisco went 31-14 in his starts, while going just 8-28 with other quarterbacks under Shanahan. The Niners made it to the Super Bowl in the 2019 season and the NFC title game lastSanseason.Francisco had set in mo tion the plan to move on from Garoppolo before the 2021 season when the 49ers traded three first-round picks to draft Lance third overall. Lance spent most of his rookie season on the bench adjusting to the NFL but was put in the starting role at the start of the 2022 off seasonLanceprogram.hasstarted just three games the past two seasons in college and the pros after start ing for one season at lower-lev el North Dakota State in 2019. Lance bring elements that were lacking with Garoppolo with the ability to run and a stronger arm that should open up the offense for more deep passes to talented receivers like Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk.Garoppolo completed 67.7% of his passes in five sea sons in San Francisco, averag ing 8.4 yards per attempt with 66 TDs, 38 interceptions and a 98.3 passer rating. Garoppolo’s strength was getting the ball to his playmakers in space and let ting them make big plays after the catch.
49ers rework deal to keep Garoppolo as backup
Players with ma jor league contracts, of which there are approximately 1,200, are represented by the union, which since the 1981 strike settlement also has negotiated terms for those on option to the minor leagues. MLB raised weekly minimum salaries for minor leaguers in 2021 to $400 at rookie and short-season levels, $500 at Class A, $600 at Double-A and $700 at Tri ple-A. For players on option, the minimum is $57,200 per season for a first big league con tract and $114,100 for later big league contracts.
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a collective voice,” Harry Ma rino, the executive director of Advocates for Minor Leaguers, said in a statement. “Joining with the most powerful union in professional sports assures that this voice is heard where it matters most — at the bargain ing table.”
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familiar with the deal said on condition of ano nymity Monday that the sides are finalizing a deal to reduce Garoppolo’s $24.2 million base salary for 2022. The person spoke on condition of anonym ity because the deal hadn’t been announced.ESPNreported
MARK J. TERRILL • Associated Press Courtesy photo San Francisco 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo throws during the second half of the NFC Championship NFL football game against the Los Angeles Rams, Jan. 30, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. Garoppolo is staying in San Francisco after agreeing to a reduced contract to be the backup to Trey Lance on the 49ers.
Mason was a 6-foot-6 guard for MSU was named the 2010 NSIC De fensive Player of the Year.
By JOSH DUBOW Associated Press today, Mason spent time coaching basketball after his professional career. “All throughout my years playing professionally I al ways coached when I came back and that initially start ed with the Minnesota Tim berwolves and Lynx Youth Academy. I directed camps for them and their pro play ers for five to six years,” said Mason.When he retired from his professional career Mason went on to pursue Dr. Dish Basketball where he current ly holds a seat on their lead ership team and works as the Director of Basketball Expe rience.“My role is to create amazing basketball experi ences, whether that’s skills and drills, social media con tent, or gaining partners like Luka Doncic and other NBA and WNBA players that bring credibility to our com pany.”Mason says he’s excited to reunite with his team. “I found out first that the team was going to be induct ed and I was even more excit ed to hear that, than the in dividual induction, because I was always a team guy. All the individual stuff I received has come from team suc cess,” said Mason. Now over a decade later Mason, along with six oth er individuals and his team mates are set to be inducted into the Minnesota State Hall of Fame back on MSU’s campus Sept. 23.
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Adding to the overall feel ing of transformation is the revisit to the gallery itself. Before becoming a teacher, Sikkila studied as a student at MSU.“It’s really great to come back as an educator now, to show in that same space, and to show my personal reflection of how my work has changed. It’s great to be able to have that reflection point because you are in that same space.”
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The way that the message comes across in the work is through the symbolism used. “And so, the idea of the hands and the eyes, [is] being able to predict what’s the best thing for me to do next and trying to visualize that. I use the symbolism of the hands like being able to palm read. Fortune teller symbolism — I’m always attracted to that. My hands are dictating what I do next as a maker. I need my eye to envision what it is, and my hands to do what it is. “Then the idea of the bee is the idea of the maker and the worker. Bees are known for working together to make a society and a community run; that’s their hive. People can look at it, and it’s visually appealing to them, but for me, it’s more about those objects that connect to the way that I’m thinking and the way that I’m currently feeling.”
The space is familiar, as is the sense of wonder towards
Turkish pop star jailed over joke released to house arrest
Photos by AJAY KASAUDHAN with discovering how to better make art from home. “I’ve been trying to figure out: how can I work more at home versus just in the stu dio?” she said. “That’s where painting came in. I’m able to print-make on the wooden panels and then paint into them. It’s a process of accessi bility and what I enjoy doing.”
Depot Photo via AP Turkish pop star Gulsen performs during a concert in Aydin, Turkey, March 27, 2022.
A Turkish court on Monday released pop star Gulsen from jail but placed her on house ar rest as she awaits trial on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” for a joke she made about Tur key’s religious schools. Last week, the 46-year-old singer and songwriter Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning, and ordered arrest ed and jailed pending a trial. Her arrest sparked outrage on social media and deepened concerns about the Turkish judiciary, whose independence has been questioned by opposition par ties.The charges were based on a joke the singer made where she quipped that one of her musi cians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school.Istanbul court released her from jail on the condition that she not leave her home, the staterun Anadolu Agency reported.
A Turkish court on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, released pop star Gulsen Colakoglu from jail but placed her on house arrest.
The singer had previously be come a target in Islamic circles due to her revealing stage outfits and for unfurling an LGBTQ flag at a concert. A video of the singer’s comment on religious schools began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her arrest.
Dana Sikkila uses imagery of butterflies to express the feeling of being in a state of transition - something new students find themselves in.
Government critics said the singer’s arrest was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conserva tive supporters ahead of an elec tion next year.
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Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sun day before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new al bum.“I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out Oct. 21,” said Swift after she won video of the year for her project “All Too Well: The Short Film” (10 minute version), which claimed best long form video and direction. “I will tell you more at midnight.”
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SYKES • Associated Press Kevin Hart already has a thriving comedy and acting ca reer, and now he’s aiming for people’s stomachs. The prolific actor-comedian opened his first plant-based, fast-food restaurant called Hart House on Thursday in the Westchester neighbor hood of Los Angeles near the city’s airport. He wants this new venture to attract regular plant-base eaters along with those who haven’t yet been introduced to that world of healthy“Oureating.business is in the busi ness of feeling good. That’s what Kevin Hart is about,” he said in an interview before the restaurant’s official open ing, which got off to a strong start with a long lines of cus tomers. While sitting along side his wife, Eniko Hart, the actor scarfed down a plantbased crispy chick’n sandwich, chick’n nuggets and tots. Rapper Lil Baby showed up to the preview to place an or der from the fully plant-based menu that also features burg ers, salads, fries, ice teas and a limeade. The restaurant’s milk shakes are made from an oatand-soy blend. “I say this all the time: ‘Live, love, laugh,’” Hart continued. “Here, we say ‘Eat your hart out.’ People have a curiosi ty about plant-based food. It’s something I eat. It’s really good. When you look at other restaurants, Hart House is just as good and maybe even better in some respects.” Hart felt the need to create a healthy space within the fastfood spectrum that’s affordable for customers.
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Harlow’s name was called to come right back onstage to collect the show’s first award for his guest appearance on Lil Nas X’s song “Industry Baby,” which won for best collabora tion, art direction and visual effects. Harlow, Lil Nas X and Ken drick Lamar each entered the awards tied for leading nomi nees with seven apiece. “This one is for the cham pions,” said Lil Nas X before Harlow thanked him for the collaboration on the chart-top pingHarlow,single. in addition to per forming and winning awards, joined LL Cool J and Nicki Mi naj as the show’s hosts. Minaj performed a medley of her career’s biggest hits from “Roman’s Revenge,” “ChunLi,” “Moment 4 Life,” “Beez in the Trap,” “Anaconda” and “Super Bass.” After her set, the rapper accepted the show’s Video Vanguard award, which MTV has said she’s receiving for her artistry, barrier-break ing hip-hop and status as a globalThesuperstar.honoris named after MichaelDuringJackson.her acceptance speech, Minaj paid tribute to other music icons such as Jack son, Whitney Houston and Lil Wayne.Shespoke about the impor tance of mental health. “I wish people took mental health seriously, even when you think they have the perfect lives,” said Minaj, who later won best hip-hop for her song “Do We Have a Problem?” fea turing Lil Baby. Harry Styles won album of the year for “Harry’s House.” He was unable to attend the awards due to his show at Madison Square Garden in NewBadYork.Bunny performed his hit “Titi Me Pregunto” from Yankee Stadium after he won artist of the year. “I have been saying it and I always believed from the be ginning that I could become great,” he said. “That I could become one of the biggest stars in the world without having to change my culture, my lan guage, my jargon. I am Benito Antonio Martínez from Puerto Rico to the whole world, thank
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Swift said on social media that her upcoming 10th studio album would be called “Mid nights,” which she says will involve “stories of 13 sleepless nights scattered throughout my life.” Her upcoming album comes after she released “Folk lore” and “Evermore.” Both projects came out five months apart two years ago. “Folk lore” won album of the year at the 2021 Grammy Awards.
The pop star’s reveal came at the end of her acceptance speech where she praised the other women in the category — which included Doja Cat and OliviaSwiftRodrigo.spoke earlier about creating her first short film, giv ing thanks to several including actors Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien who starred in the project.“We put our entire hearts into this,” Swift said. Rapper Jack Harlow made his mark throughout the entire show. He kicked off the show with a performance inside a mock airplane walking down aisle while performing his hit song “First Class,” which was sampled by Fergie’s “Glamor ous.” The rapper joined Fergie onstage — who wore a spar kling silver dress with the red words “First Class” — while she sang her 2006 jam. “Thank you to Fergie for coming out with me tonight and clearing this song,” said Harlow after “First Class” won the award for song of the summer later in the show. “The beauty of this song is that peo ple don’t realize it’s so hip-hop because of the sampling. To bring Fergie into the mix in this way means the world to me. It’s truly full circle. ‘Glamorous’ was one of the most important songs of my childhood.”
Kevin Hart poses for a portrait at the opening of his new vegan fast-food restaurant “Hart House” on Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022 in Los Angeles.
Taylor Swift accepts the award for best longform video for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Ver sion)” at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, in Newark, N.J.
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Johnny Depp made a sur prise appearance as the Moon Man nearly three months after the verdict in his defamation trial with his former wife Am berTheHeard.59-year-old actor ap peared to float from the ceil ing while wearing the iconic astronaut outfit with his face digitally inserted into costume’s helmet.“And you know what? I needed the work,” Depp told the audience at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Lizzo had Taylor Swift danc ing out of her seat while she performed her new single “2 Be Loved (Am I Ready).” Liz zo won an award for video for good for “About Damn Time.”
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For director and actor Oliv ia Wilde, the dream of Venice was woven into the fabric of her new film, “ Don’t Worry Darling.” Ending up at the fes tival became a shorthand for the type of movie she wanted to make.“We had several studios and streamers who wanted to make this film and I sat down with all of them and I said, ‘The path that I see leads us to Venice. Which one of you un derstands what kind of movie were making based on that dream?’” Wilde said. “To me, a Venice film is a film that re ally embraces everything that is ambitious and romantic and beautiful about cinema. And this film is truly a love letter to movies.”Wilde went with New Line and Warner Bros. and her wish came true: The stylish psycho logical thriller starring Flor ence Pugh and Harry Styles as a picture-perfect couple in an experimental postwar commu nity will have its world debut out of competition on Sept. 5. Styles, Pugh and Wilde are just some of the stars expected to pose on the docks outside of the opulent Hotel Excelsior and grace the red carpet out side of the Palazzo del Cinema. Their presence, alongside lifetime achievement recipi ent Catherine Deneuve, Hugh Jackman, Tilda Swinton, Pe nelope Cruz, Chalamet and many others, helps transform the Lido, the laid-back beach town across the Venetian La goon from St. Mark’s Square, into a bastion of glamour, fan tasy and cinema on the Adriat ic. This year’s festival is stacked with highly anticipated films and performances in the main competition slate: Ana de Armas is making her debut as Marilyn Monroe in Andrew Dominik’s “ Blonde ”; Brendan Fraser’s turn in Darren Aronof sky’s new film “The Whale” is already being hailed as an awards-worthy comeback; and Cate Blanchett is playing a re nowned conductor in “ TÁR,” director Todd Field’s first film in over 15 years. “Todd Field is as major a film artist as has ever been,” said Peter Kujawski, the chair man of Focus Features.
The latest “Minions” movie subtly reinforces a message for Chinese audiences that viewers in other countries won’t see: Crime doesn’t pay. A postscript added to the version in Chinese cinemas says a villainous character, who ends the movie as a free man, is later jailed for 20 years. Foreign films have long been targeted in China for references to subjects sensitive to the rul ing Communist Party, such as Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and human rights. In recent years, China’s film board appears to have expand ed its purview to ensure that films deliver the right message, and not one deemed harmful. That can be a challenge in a movie in which the central character is a villain.
NG HAN GUAN • Associated Press Visitors outside the Universal Studio Beijing theme park pass by a shop selling memorabilia for the latest “Minions: The Rise of Gru” movie in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022.
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By CAROLINE CHEN Associated Press the future. Sikkila said, “A lot of my work, I hang up and more of a collage style. It’s not paintings on the wall in a straight line. I like the work to be a little chaotic and a little all over the place, maybe a little visually over whelming, because that’s how I feel when you’re asked the question: what are you doing next? We have that in ternal feeling of chaos.” It’s OK to feel that chaos. It’s something that Sikkila faces, and she encourages students to stop by her gal lery and accept this reality in a positive way.
Warner Bros. Entertainment via AP This image released by Warner Bros. Entertainment shows Harry Styles, left, and Florence Pugh in a scene from “Don’t Worry Darling.”
“Minions: The Rise of Gru” is a prequel that tells the story of the early years of Gru, the bumbling criminal plotter of the “Despicable Me” animated series.The solution: Add individ ual postscripts about the char acters, a series of them, inter spersed with the credits at the end.One says that Wild Knuck les, an older, mentor-like villain to the young Gru, was later bundled off to prison for 20 years because he tried to com mit another crime. Before the credits, he simply drives off into a suburban hori zon.The postscript for Gru says he gives up evil, joins the good guys and, in his biggest accom plishment, is the father of three daughters.Theactual story, told in the original “Despicable Me” in 2010, is a bit more complicat ed. Gru adopts three orphan girls for his plot to steal the moon. But the adorable or phans, who see in him a dad, melt his icy heart. Chinese movie bloggers pointed out the added post scripts in social media posts, drawing varying reactions. Some people said the additions were an overreaction to what is an animated comedy. Others said they demon strated correct values, especial ly for kids. “I think the ending with positive energy doesn’t have to exist at all,” said one cinema goer, Jenny Jian. “It’s totally unnecessary.”Positiveenergy is a catch phrase that emerged in China about a decade ago and has been promoted by the Commu nist Party to push for uplifting messages from the media and the arts, according to the China Media Project, which monitors mediaThetrends.China Film Adminis tration, which oversees the film board, did not respond to faxed questions. The distributors, China Film Co, and Huaxia Film Distribution Co., did not respond to emails. China doesn’t have a film rating system that assesses a movie’s suitability for different audiences.Instead, authorities ask pro ducers to delete or alter what they consider inappropriate before movies are approved for release.“Minions: The Rise of Gru,” which has taken in 114 million yuan ($17 million) at the box since opening in China on Aug. 19, is hardly the first time Chinese authorities have altered a movie’s end.
At 90, the Venice Film Festi val looks better than ever
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Cinema’s biggest stars just seem to shine a bit brighter at the Venice International Film Festival, which begins this week in the Northern Italian city.Think of Lady Gaga, a woman who has never shied away from a grand entrance, somehow topping even her self delicately perched over the edge of a moving water taxi and vamping for the cameras like a classic screen siren. Or Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck evoking old Holly wood glamour to make their official debut as a couple just lastWhetheryear. you’re a celebrity gliding down the red carpet in front of hundreds of flash ing cameras or an onlooker an ocean away daydreaming about Timothée Chalamet’s crystal-studded Haider Acker mann suit, or that electric mo ment between non-couple Jes sica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, it is the kind of occasion that ignites the imagination. And that’s all before you even step inside the theater.
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