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Getting the opportunity to be a role model for some one is a unique and special feeling. Two students at Minnesota State University, Mankato have decided to dedicate their time to be ing a positive figure in their someone’s life through the YMCA Brother/Sister pro gram in KenryMankato.Atubel,a graduate student pursuing an educa tion degree and MSU track athlete, has been a mentor for the program for rough ly four months. His expe rience becoming a mentor was more challenging than he anticipated.“Inthebeginning, I had to learn to be okay with being uncomfortable, you both don’t know much about each other so getting to know one another, and enjoying each other’s com pany while working toward a goal was something I’ve never done,” Atubel said. Since pursuing a career in education, this was his first experience mentoring those in the program. “This was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, you never know how much you can affect someone’s life. Just by being yourself, you can change someone’s life,” Atubel said. The YMCA Brother/ Sister Program was created to form a bridge to connect adult mentors to the youth to enhance their self-con fidence and communica tion skills. All mentors go through a series of training to understand how to re spond to certain situations these mentees may be going through.Alot of the mentees come into the program deal ing with life’s issues, wheth er at home or in school. Ashtin Gravley, a senior at MSU who is majoring in exercise science, joined the program about a year ago as she helps her mentee sim ply by just being someone to who they can open up to. “I never had a sister growing up, so for me, it helped me grow as a person in ways that I didn’t even
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The Nursing Program received a new manikin with a darker skin tone help ing to increase diversity within the program.
What makes the new mani kin stand out is its slightly dark er skin tone, the first one the simulation center has received.
The Center for Rural Be havioral Health partnered with Christian Family Solutions to provide students and staff the knowledge and tools to prevent an opioid overdose with Nal oxone, also known as “Nar can.”The event took place in the Centennial Student Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and drew over 80 at tendees.Thad Shunkwiler, the cen ter’s director, hopes events such as the prevention training and events in the future will spread awareness of the issue at MSU. “Every single day in Min nesota, three people die of an overdose. I don’t think we talk about that enough. More peo ple die from overdose than in car crashes. Awareness is always step one and step two is to get that life-saving medicine into as many hands as possible,” said Shunkwiler. Stephanie Jordan is a licensed alcohol and drug counselor from Christian Family Solution, a faith-based counseling service in Mankato, and led the group training session. “We want to be able to help saturate campus with Naloxone, help bring awareness to over
OverDirectorthepast decade, the us age of technology has not only helped the way professors teach, but improve student’s education by giving them more hands on experience. Minnesota State University, Mankato’s College of Allied Health and Nursing recently received a new manikin for the Maverick Family Nurs ing Simulation Center. The manikins in the simula tion center help students apply the skills learned in their class es in a safe environment. The simulation center currently has around 12 to 15 high fidelity manikins from a brand called Laerdal. The manikins range from adults, children and in fants. These manikins are able to breathe, talk, and bleed, allow ing students to practice a num ber of skills. Professors can pro gram a variety of scenarios that simulate experiences and illness real patients could face.
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Maverick Family Nursing Sim ulation Center Coordinator and Assistant Professor Megan Dohm explained how it’s help ing increase diversity in the pro gram.“[Laerdal] is based in Nor way and so their facial features are very caucasian and that’s true across many of the manne quin brands that are out there,” said Dohm. “This new one has different facial features and shape of the face so it’s not so Northern European looking. We specifically ordered one that had a little bit darker skin tone to try to increase the diversity of the mannequins in the center.” Senior Mallory Steinmetz is in her third semester of the nurs ing program. Steimetz praised the program for increasing the theme of “Fosteringdiversity.that theme of di versity is super important in nursing because we need to have that cultural awareness so we’re able to make it an inclusive en vironment [when we] practice MANIKIN on page 5
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“The push to hold more training sessions came from a Minnesota Department of Health Report this summer that showed that we had a 22% in crease in overdoses from 2020 to 2021. We suspect that 2022 will have another jump. We’re seeing overdose rates at an alltime high in Minnesota,” said Shunkwiler.Despitethe growing number of deaths relating to drug over think about. I have helped my mentee through a couple of mi nor family issues, like if she gets in a fight with her mom, I’ll talk her through it,” Gravley said. “We also do some crafts that are pretty fun, we play some games or go to the mall.” Overall, the program is very “college schedule friendly” as mentors can pick and choose when to meet up with their mentee.
doses and people who have lost their lives to overdoses already and do things in their honor,” saidJordanJordan.demonstrated to at tendees how to use their Nal oxone kits. In addition, she de tailed the history of the opioid crisis, signs of an overdose and Steve’s Law which protects peo ple who call 911 in response to an overdose in Minnesota. “Steve’s Law expanded ac cess to Naloxone through phar macies and third-party pre scriptions, and provides some civil and criminal immunities if you are providing assistance for an overdose. Criminally, Steve’s Law protects from up to a third-degree drug possession charge,” Jordan stated. Christian Family Solutions reached out to Shunkwiler over the summer about holding a training session for the MSU community.
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“I think this is a perfect fit for MSU students. I’ve already talked to my friends and re cruited a couple people to the program,” said Gravley. Anyone can become a men tor, however, boy mentors es pecially are needed in the pro gram according to Gravley. “There’s a lot of boys in the mentee program who don’t get assigned to anyone, and then they age out of the program, it’s so sad. We really need guys specifically,” said Gravley. Only having to meet a few hours at most, the YMCA Brother/Sister Program is a way to volunteer your time for a good cause. “The flexible scheduling is nice because you can kind of choose your hours, it’s one to two hours a week at most,” said Gravley. “If you’re willing to put in a little effort with a child and make someone’s day, it’s a great opportunity.”
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one inmate, prosecutors say he engaged in predatory conduct with at least six women from 2014 to 2019 — including one he counseled at a veterans hospital where he worked be fore joining the federal Bureau of Prisons, where allegations were routinely “Highhouseignored.ruined my life — he truly did,” one in mate said in a victim impact statement. “I don’t even go to Church anymore because of him. I have no trust in the Church and really, I don’t trust anyone because of what he Highhouse, enabled by a toxic culture of abuse and coverups at the prison — known to many as the “rape club” — warned victims not to report him, telling one of them “no one will believe you because you’re an inmate, and I’m a chaplain,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo randum.Atthe same time, prosecu tors wrote, a prison counsel or would rail about inmates “snitching” on employees, suggesting they instead “tell Trump about it,” referring to then-President Donald Trump. Highhouse’s lawyers are seeking a two-year prison sen tence, the low end of the 24 months to 30 months recom mended in federal guidelines. In their sentencing memo randum, Highhouse’s lawyers noted that he served as an Army chaplain in Iraq and Af ghanistan and is seeking treat ment for post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Kenry Atubel (top) and Ashtin Gravley are members of the YMCA Mentor Program. The program allows mentors to help their youth mentees improve their self-confidence and communication skills.
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Inflation hits 9.1% in Europe
Russia, a major energy producer, has been reducing the flow of gas to European countries that have sided with Ukraine in the war, a move that’s wreaked havoc with pric es. At the same time, nearly half of Europe has been afflicted by an unprecedented drought that’s hurting farm economies, crimping production of staple crops like corn, and driving up foodPriceprices.rises for manufactured goods like clothing, appliances, cars, computers and books ac celerated to 5%, and the cost of services rose 3.8%. The euro’s weakness is an other factor keeping prices high.The currency has slipped below parity with the dollar, which can make imported goods more costly, particularly oil, which is priced in dollars.
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By KELVIN CHAN Associated Press doses, knowing how to prevent a death from overdose is not common knowledge. Saron Lemma is a freshman at MSU who attended the pre vention training. “I’m taking a health and environment class, and the professor encouraged us to come. I learned a lot. I didn’t know about the access we have to Naloxone or how it works, or how to help some one with an overdose.” Al though the numbers have risen across the state of Minnesota, the issue has yet to affect MSU on a large scale. “I think of this as preven tion. If just one of these stu dents is able to use Naloxone to save someone’s life, think about how impactful that one hour on campus is,” said Shunkwiler.Theprovidor of the preven tion kit, the Steve Rummler Hope Network, offers a map of access points for Naloxone in Minnesota on their website. 3
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who set out to revitalize the Soviet Union but ended up unleashing forces that led to the collapse of communism, the breakup of the state and the end of the Cold War, died Tuesday. The last Soviet leader was died after a long illness, according to a state ment issued by the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow. No other details were given. Though in power less than seven years, Gorbachev un leashed a breathtaking series of changes.Butthey quickly overtook him and resulted in the col lapse of the authoritarian Sovi et state, the freeing of Eastern European nations from Rus sian domination and the end of decades of East-West nuclear confrontation.U.S.President Joe Biden called Gorbachev a “man of remarkable vision” and a “rare leader” who had “the imagina tion to see that a different fu ture was possible and the cour age to risk his entire career to achieve“Theit.result was a safer world and greater freedom for millions of people,” Biden said in a“Hardstatement.tothink of a single person who altered the course of history more in a positive di rection” than Gorbachev, said Michael McFaul, a political analyst and former U.S. am bassador in Moscow, on Twit ter. “Gorbachev was an ideal ist who believed in the power of ideas and individuals. We should learn from his legacy.” Gorbachev’s decline was humiliating.Hispower hopelessly sapped by an attempted coup against him in August 1991, he spent his last months in office watching republic after repub lic declare independence until he resigned on Dec. 25, 1991. The Soviet Union wrote itself into oblivion a day later. A quarter-century after the collapse, Gorbachev told The Associated Press that he had not considered using wide spread force to try to keep the USSR together because he feared chaos in the nuclear country.“The country was loaded to the brim with weapons. And it would have immediately pushed the country into a civil war,” he said. Many of the changes, in cluding the Soviet breakup, bore no resemblance to the transformation that Gor bachev had envisioned when he became Soviet leader in March 1985. By the end of his rule, he was powerless to halt the whirlwind he had started. Yet Gorbachev may have had a greater impact on the second half of the 20th century than any other political figure.
Inflation for the European countries using the euro currency hit a record in August, fuelled by soaring energy prices mainly driven by Russia’s war.
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Inflation in the European countries using the euro curren cy hit another record in August, fueled by soaring energy prices mainly driven by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Annual inflation in the eu rozone’s 19 countries rose to 9.1%, up from 8.9% in July, according to the latest figures released Wednesday by the Eu ropean Union statistics agency Eurostat. Inflation is at the highest lev els since record-keeping for the euro began in 1997. The latest figures add pres sure on European Central Bank officials to continue raising in terest rates, which can tame in flation, but also stifle economic growth.Prices are rising in many other countries as Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, trigger ing unprecedented increases for energy and food that are squeezing household finances. Disruptions to global manufac turing supply chains caused by the coronavirus pandemic have also played a role in pushing up prices.This summer has seen a wave of protests and strikes around the world by workers pushing for higher wages and people fed up with the high cost of living. Inflation in Britain, Den mark and Norway, which have their own currencies, is also surging, according to of ficial data released earlier this month. U.K. residents face an 80% jump in annual house hold energy bills, regulators warned last week. Inflation is also high in the U.S., adding urgency for the Fed to keep raising interest rates.Prices were up 8.5% in July compared with a year earlier, thought that was lower than 9.1% in June. In the euro zone, energy prices surged 38.3%, though the rate was slightly lower than the previous month, while food prices rose at a faster pace of 10.6%, according to Eurostat’s preliminary estimate. The agen cy’s final report, released about two weeks later, is usually un changed. “Specific European prob lems continue to push inflation higher,” ING Bank senior econ omist Bert Colijn wrote in an analyst note. “The gas supply crisis and droughts are adding to persisting supply-side pres sures on inflation at the mo ment.”
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Mikhail Gorbachev, who broke Soviet Union, dead at 91
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DAVID LONGSTREATH • Associated Press Russian news agencies are reporting that former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died at 91. The Tass, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies cited the Central Clinical Hospital.
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The updated boosters are only for people who have al ready had their primary vacci nations, using the original vac cines. Doses made by Pfizer and its partner BioNTech are for any one 12 and older while Mod erna’s updated shots are for adults — if it has been at least two months since their last pri mary vaccination or their latest booster. They’re not to be used for initial There’svaccinations.onemorestep be fore a fall booster campaign begins: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention must recommend who should get the additional shot. An influential CDC advisory panel will debate the evidence Thursday — including wheth er people at high risk from COVID-19 should go first.
The big question is whether people weary of vaccinations will roll up their sleeves again. Just half of vaccinated Ameri cans got the first recommended booster dose, and only a third of those 50 and older who were urged to get a second booster didHere’sso. the rub: The original vaccines still offer strong pro tection against severe disease and death from COVID-19 for generally healthy people, espe cially if they got that important first booster dose. It’s not clear just how much more benefit an updated booster will bring — beyond a temporary jump in antibodies capable of fending off an omicron infection. Still, “people have to realize this is a different kind of boost er than was previously avail able. It will work better at pro tecting against omicron,” said virologist Andrew Pekosz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Even people who had an earlier omicron version still can get reinfected so “you should definitely go for the booster even if you’ve been infected in the last year,” added Pekosz. He thinks “if we can get good buy-in to use this, we might re ally be able to make a dent” in COVID-19 cases.
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Pfizer via AP Fans of the late Princess Di ana placed tributes outside the gates of her Kensington Palace home on Wednesday, marking the 25th anniversary of her death in a Paris car accident. An arrangement of white chrysanthemums spelling out “Princess Diana” sat among dozens of photos and messag es left by admirers, some of whom said they make annual pilgrimages to the spot to re member the tragedy. “We just come here, do the memorial and, you know, we just chat about things that she used to do, you know, to … let people know that we will nev er forget the princess, we will never forget what she’s done,’’ said Julie Cain, 59, who trav eled 300 miles (480 kilome ters) from Newcastle in north ern England. “We just want her legacy kept, like, going as long as Dianapossible.”diedon Aug. 31, 1997, at the age of 36, stun ning people around the world who felt they knew the prin cess after seeing her successes and struggles play out on TV screens and newspaper front pages for 17 years. The tributes left outside Kensington Palace on Wednes day were a small reminder of the mountains of flowers piled there in the days after Diana’s death.Diana was the focus of con stant media attention from the moment she was engaged to marry Prince Charles until the night she died.
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The U.S. has purchased more than 170 million doses from the two companies. Pfizer said it could ship up to 15 mil lion of those doses by the end of next week. Moderna didn’t immediately say how many doses are ready to ship but that some will be available “in the coming days.”
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FDA vaccine chief Dr. Pe ter Marks stressed the agency considered “the totality” of evidence. Pfizer and Moderna have previously brewed vaccine doses updated to match earlier mutants — including the omi cron strain named BA.1 that struck last winter — and tested them in Thosepeople.earlier recipe changes were safe, and the BA.1 ver sion substantially boosted vi rus-fighting antibodies — more than another dose of the orig inal vaccine — although fewer that recognized today’s genet ically distinct BA.4 and BA.5 strains. But instead of using those BA.1 shots, FDA ordered the companies to brew even more up-to-date doses that target those newest omicron mutants, sparking a race to roll themRatherout. than waiting a few more months for additional human studies of that very sim ilar recipe tweak, Marks said animal tests showed the latest update spurs “a very good im muneTheresponse.”hope,Marks said, is that a vaccine matched to cur rently spreading variants might do a better job fighting infec tion, not just serious illness, at least for a while.
ALASTAIR GRANT • Associated Press U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today’s most common omicron strain. This was moved on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration. A floral arrangement and messages of remembrance for Princess Diana are displayed on the gates of Kensington Palace, in London, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Wednesday marked 25 years since Diana’s death.
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The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days. The move by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives.The hope is that the mod ified boosters will blunt yet another winter surge — and help tamp down the BA.5 omi cron relative that continues to spread“Thesewidely.updated boosters present us with an opportu nity to get ahead” of the next COVID-19 wave, said FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf. Until now, COVID-19 vac cines have targeted the orig inal coronavirus strain, even as wildly different mutants emerged. The new U.S. boost ers are combination, or “biva lent,” shots. They contain half that original vaccine recipe and half protection against the new est omicron versions, BA.4 and BA.5, that are considered the most contagious yet. The combination aims to in crease cross-protection against multiple variants. “It really provides the broadest opportunity for pro tection,” Pfizer vaccine chief Annaliesa Anderson told The Associated Press.
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR Associated Press here,” said Steinmetz. The program is going be yond ethnicity for diversity. One of the most beneficial sim ulations Steinmetz took part in was regarding a transgender patient. Steinmetz hadn’t had any prior experience working with an LGBT individual and their preferred pronouns, but Steinmetz explained that the simulation helped give her ex perience.“What people prefer to be called in society became more popular and accepting and it threw me for a loop because I don’t have much experience with [preferred pronouns], so being able to practice that now was helpful,” said Steinmetz. “We should be caring for every one with respect and same level of care. I think it was helpful to make me comfortable with sit uations like that.” Besides the use of manikins, the nursing program has also purchased Oculus Virtual Re ality Headsets and plans to de velop simulations that students will be able to participate in. Steinmetz feels that the technol ogy the program uses has been beneficial to her education. “Sometimes clinical time is cut down or some of our other opportunities that might be on the schedule might not happen because of difficulties and so being able to use things like the simulations and manikins or even VR headsets is so benefi cial,” said Steinmetz. The use of technology has helped increase student’s con fidence. Steinmetz plans to find a job working as a nurse on a medical and surgical floor in a hospital post-graduation. Stein metz feels like the practice she received from the manikins has helped prepare her for her ca reer as she feels her knowledge gained will keep her calm in stressful“[Usingsituations.the manikins] helped enhance my future ca reer as a nurse because I’ll be prepared to deal with certain situations compared to col leagues who might not have had that experience,” said Steinmetz.Foranyone interested in learning more about how the manikins are used at the uni versity, more information can be found on the Maverick Fam ily Nursing Simulation center’s Instagram page @mavfamsim.
But scientists wonder: Can the zombie cell buildup be stopped?“The ability to understand aging – and the potential to intervene in the fundamental biology of aging – is truly the greatest opportunity we have had, maybe in history, to trans form human health,” LeBras seur says. Extending the span of healthy years impacts “quality of life, public health, socioeco nomics, the whole shebang.” With the number of people 65 or older expected to dou ble globally by 2050, cellular senescence is “a very hot top ic,” says Viviana Perez Montes of the National Institutes of Health. According to an As sociated Press analysis of an NIH research database, there have been around 11,500 total projects involving cellular se nescence since 1985, far more in recent years.
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An over 60 years and older group of women run a 200 meter race during the National Senior Games, Monday, May 16, 2022, in Miramar, Fla. Exercise has been shown to help increase one’s overall quality of life. Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out of pandemic restrictions and venues opened up.
MARTA LAVANDIER • Associated Press Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by sig nificant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases began to move out of pandemic re strictions and public venues re opened, The Associated Press hasMirroringlearned. the increase in those reports is the disclosure that close to 36,000 service members said in a confidential survey that they had experi enced unwanted sexual contact — a dramatic increase over the roughly 20,000 who said that in a similar 2018 survey, U.S. defense and military officials said.The latest numbers are cer tain to anger lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been critical of the Pentagon’s ef forts to get a handle on sexual crimes and misconduct. According to officials, the overall increase is largely fueled by a nearly 26% jump in re ports involving Army soldiers. It’s the largest increase for that service since 2013, when such reports went up by 51%. The increase in Navy re ports was about 9%, the Air Force was a bit more than 2% and the Marine Corps was less than 2%, said the officials, who spoke on condition of an onymity because the reporting has not yet been made public. Army officials said the num bers are alarming and that they certainly could have an impact on recruiting.
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In an unfinished part of his basement, 95-year-old Richard Soller zips around a makeshift track encircling boxes full of medals he’s won for track and field and long-distance running. Without a hint of breathless ness, he says: “I can put in miles downStepshere.”away is an expensive leather recliner he bought when he retired from Procter & Gam ble with visions of relaxing into old age. He proudly proclaims he’s never used it; he’s been too busy training for competitions, such as the National Senior Games.Soller, who lives near Cincin nati, has achieved an enviable goal chased by humans since ancient times: Staying healthy and active in late life. It’s a goal that eludes so many that growing old is often associated with getting frail and sick. But scientists are trying to change that — and tackle one of humanity’s biggest challeng es — through a little known but flourishing field of aging research called cellular senes cence.It’s built upon the idea that cells eventually stop dividing and enter a “senescent” state in response to various forms of damage. The body removes most of them. But others lin ger like zombies. They aren’t dead. But as the Mayo Clin ic’s Nathan LeBrasseur puts it, they can harm nearby cells like moldy fruit corrupting a fruit bowl. They accumulate in older bodies, which mounting evidence links to an array of age-related conditions such as dementia, cardiovascular dis ease and osteoporosis.
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Financial Planning can be a headache, whether your personal fi nances or figuring out how you are going to pay for your education which oftentimes includes your textbooks, tuition bills, housing and grocery. The importance of financial planning cannot be stressed enough, as the sooner you start saving, the better. Understanding from a young age that saving is important is a very valuable lesson to learn. We as students growing up in the early 2000s were mostly taught that college was the only way to be successful in life. However, the cost of living and the cost of education has gone up tremendously. Filing for FAFSA is just one of the many ways we as students are able to educate ourselves about our financial options. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is one of the easiest forms of aid. This form is the largest student financial assistance in the country. They frequently deal with grants, loans and are compatible with al most every university in the United States. We as students should take advantage of these opportunities as well as apply for every scholarship under the sun. It would be silly notScholarshipto. month at Minnesota State University, Mankato is in February. Faculty or our advisors can aid us in finding all the oppor tunities best fit for us to apply. Utilizing your resources is a huge factor most students ignore. As a college student it can be easy to eat out everyday or buy dinner on campus, however, The Maverick Pantry is an on campus place available for all students. The more students use their service the more the school can fund it as shown in the new Maverick Garden where 100% of the pro duce go toward the pantry. Speaking of using your resources, another big money saver is to take the max credits each semester. Whether you take 12 or 18 credits, the price is the same. This way you may even end up graduating a semester or year early. Students can also consider renting books instead of purchasing them.Ifrenting options are unavailable, students may be able to sell their books back to the school at the end of semester to earn back some cash for their next semester. Overall, going to get an education is expensive.
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One unfortunate trend I have noticed since I started attending Minnesota State University, Mankato is how the number of affordable food options in the Centenni al Student Union keeps going down.First, it was the removal of the pizza station in the base ment of the CSU where single slices of pizza could be pur chased for a few bucks. Now, they’ve replaced Jazzmans with Starbucks on the first floor. No more stopping by there for a cup of joe in the evenings I guess, since a cup of drip coffee is almost three bucks.Inany event, as a diabetic, I feel that trying to find sugar free or low sugar options for beverages just got a bit hard er. That is just one annoying detail with regard to cam pus’s dining options. Return ing students might also notice that the homophobic chicken restaurant, Chick-fil-A, not only moved down to the CSU basement, but also expanded in size as part of the move. Chick-fil-A has a reputa tion as being a homophobic, anti-LGBTQ company with its CEO Dan Cathy having a history of vocal opposition to marriage equality on top of Chick-fil-A’s history of donat ing money to anti-LGBTQ organizations. In 2012, Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy twice affirmed his opposition to marriage equality in statements made during an interview with the Ken Coleman Show as well as to the Biblical Recorder.
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“I think we are inviting God’s judgment on our na tion when we shake our fist at Him and say, ‘We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage,’” Cathy said on the Ken Cole man Show. “I pray God’s mercy on our generation that has such a prideful, arrogant attitude to think that we have the audacity to define what marriage is Organizationsabout.”that Chickfil-A have donated to in the past include the Salvation Army and Exodus Interna tional.Exodus International, which no longer exists, once promoted conversion thera py, a pseudoscientific prac tice that can best be described as torturing LGBTQ people into not being LGBTQ. Chick-fil-A has also do nated to the Southern Pov erty Law Center designated hate group, The Family Re
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• Associated Press As winter nears, European nations, desperate to replace the natural gas they once bought from Russia, have embraced a short-term fix: A series of roughly 20 floating terminals that would receive liquefied natural gas from oth er countries and convert it into heating fuel. Yet the plan, with the first floating terminals set to deliver natural gas by year’s end, has raised alarms among scientists who fear the long-term conse quences for the environment. They warn that these terminals would perpetuate Europe’s re liance on natural gas, which re leases climate-warming meth ane and carbon dioxide when it’s produced, transported and burned.Some scientists say they worry that the floating termi nals will end up becoming a long-term supplier of Europe’s vast energy needs that could last years, if not decades. Such a trend could set back emis sion-reduction efforts that ex perts say haven’t moved fast enough to slow the damage being done to the global envi ronment. Much of the liquefied nat ural gas, or LNG, that Europe hopes to receive is expected to come from the United States. The need arose after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shattered its ties with Europe and led to a cutoff of most of the natu ral gas that Moscow had long
Third-graders are at a particularly delicate moment. Everything after third grade will require reading compre hension to learn math, social studies and science, so they must master reading during their third grade year.
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Atlanta has taken more drastic steps than most other cities to make up for that lost learning.The50,000-student district was one of the only school sys tems to extend the school day. Elementary school students at tend seven hours of school, half an hour more than before the pandemic.“Weknow that part of the best practice (to improve) per formance is to have time with students,” said Atlanta Super intendent Lisa Herring in a re centSheinterview.andher team settled on adding time to the school day because it was one of the only things they could control, she said. They also added summer school seats, but couldn’t re quire it for most students. During the extra 30 min utes, students who are behind attend small-group tutoring. If done well, tutoring has a great er impact than most other in terventions, studies show. Grant’s student Malaysia Thomas, 8, attended summer school for reading and math, and now attends small-group tutoring for both subjects. “It’s fun,” Thomas said of tutoring. “But there are all of these big words I can’t read.” Her mother, Diamond An derson, interjects: “I have seen her tremendously improve … and I’m grateful for any extra help,” she said. Brandi Thomas noticed her daughter Drew, who is also in Grant’s class, fell behind during the
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A tugboat helps guide a French ship, known as the LNG Endeavor, through Calcasieu Lake near Hackberry, La., on March 31, 2022. Since Russia cut off Ukraine’s natural gas, they had to resort to other plans.
By CATHY BUSSEWITZ Associated Press search Council. It is true that Chick-fil-A has pledged multiple times to stop donating to anti-LGBTQ organizations, most recently in 2019. The problem is they have broken that promise almost as frequently as they have made it. Most recently, a report by the Daily Beast in 2021 re vealed that CEO Dan Cathy is one of the biggest donars to the National Christian Charitable Foundation. Right now, the National Christian Charitable Foundation is currently bank rolling efforts to prevent pas sage of the Equality Act, pro posed legislation that if passed, would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual ori entation and gender identity. When I first started at MSU Mankato, it seemed like ChickFil-A was our campus’s dirty lit tle secret tucked away in a back corner of the CSU dining area. To see it given expanded space in the basement was, therefore, a disappointing surprise. Given MSU Mankato’s stated val ues of diversity and inclusion, I have a lot of questions as to why Chick-fil-A was not only allowed to continue operations on campus, but was seen fit to be given a larger space.
Five of the 19 students in teacher Chelsea Grant’s third grade classroom are reading below grade level. When it’s time to read aloud on a recent Friday, the students show vastly different levels of skill and confidence. “Remember you read with expression, feeling and fluen cy,” Grant told her Atlanta stu dents. “I want to feel it.” Two girls puff up their chests and read like they’re trying out for the school play, while the rest stay seated. Some read slowly and haltingly. Many trip over tricky words – “phosphorescent” and “radi ance” – and a few get stuck on simpler ones. Others don’t vol unteer at Grant’sall.students -– “my ba bies” as she calls them –- spent the better part of the 20202021 school year learning from home. It was first grade, a cru cial year for learning to read. Many are still far behind. Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent most of the time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an ac ademic year of learning. That’s twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year. Third graders are at a partic ularly delicate moment. This is the year when they must master reading or risk school failure. Everything after third grade will require reading compre hension to learn math, social studies and science. Students who don’t read flu ently by the end of third grade are more likely to struggle in the future, and even drop out, studies“Thoseshow.students are very vulnerable,” said John King Jr., former U.S. Secretary of Educa tion and president of the Educa tion Trust, a Washington, D.C., think tank that advocates for improving access to high-qual ity education for low-income students and students of color. “You just worry, are kids going to get all they need? If not, there’s the risk of a lost generation of students.”
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expansiondiscussmeetingPresidentstoCFPTheuniversitypresidentswhooverseetheCollegeFootballPlayoffarescheduledtomeetFridaytodiscussexpandingthefour-teamformat,re-openingthepossibilitythatanewmodelforcrowningachampioncouldbeimplementedassoonasthe2024season.TwopeoplefamiliarwiththesituationtoldTheAssociatedPressonWednesdaythatCFP’sBoardofManagers,ledbyMississippiStatePresidentMarkKeenum,issettoconvenebyvideoconference.Thereisnoguaranteethepresidentswilltakeanyofficialactionorvotetoapproveanexpansionmodel,butanotherpersonfamiliarwiththesituationtoldAPtheywouldliketoaccelerateaprocessthathadgroundtoahaltsixmonthsago.AllthepeoplespoketotheAPonconditionofanonymitybecausetheboard’splanswerenotbeingmadepublic.TheCFPmanagementcommittee,comprisedof10FBSconferencecommissionersandNotreDame’sathleticdirector,isscheduledtomeetnextweekinDallas.ThemanagementcommitteeisresponsibleforhashingoutaformatfortheCFP,butthepresidentshavethefinalsayonwhathappenswiththeplayoff.BackinFebruary,CFPExecutiveDirectorBillHancockannouncedexpansiontalksamongthecommissionershadfailedtoproducetheneededunanimousconsensusintimefortheformattochangebeforetheendofthecurrentcontractwithESPN.Thatdealrunsthroughthe2025.TheCFPrecentlyannouncedthesitesofthechampionshipgamesforthefinaltwoseasonsofthecurrent12-yeardeal.HancocksaidbackinFebruarythatexpansiontalkswouldresumelaterintheyearwithafocusonwhattheplayoffwouldbestartingin2026.
Mavericks open against #22-Ranked Beavers
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AfterWritera long 292-day off season, the unranked Minne 2022 season, and both teams are looking to make state ments and form an identi ty that would carry them throughout the season. However, don’t expect a replay from last year’s match up as both teams have made significant changes to their lineup.Asa team, the Mavericks return seven starters from last year’s team that went 6-5 during the season and finished eighth in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference(N SIC). Of those seven starters
The Mavericks are at Bemidji to face the Beavers today at Chet Anderson Stadium at 6 p.m. (Chance Bowen)
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briefly about his confidence in Ekern and how he’s been able to develop from last year. “I would not consider Hayden Ekern to be youthful,” Hoff ner said. “I see him as being mature and experienced. He’s been in 10 NSIC games and hopefully he can use his past experiences and what he’s learned to be able to help us in the future.”
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Hoffner also assured soph omore quarterback Mitch Randall, and the ability of using a two-quarterback tan dem strategy in the future, will benefit the team. “I think he’s done well enough to play,” Hoffner said. “We have a two-quarterback tandem scenario and we have plans depending on how the games progress.” In addition to Ekern and Randall, the Mav ericks also return junior run ningback Kaleb Sleezer, who led the team with 491 rushing yards and was named to the NSIC All-Academic Team. Of his 491 rushing yards, 114 came in his standout perfor mance against Bemidji. As for the Beavers, they re turn 14 starters including ju nior quarterback Brandon Alt who led the team to a 10-3 overall record and a share of the 2021 NSIC Champion ship. Alt also returns after setting an NSIC single-season passing touchdown record last year with 46. Among the other return ing Beavers is junior running back Jalen Frye, who missed the entirety of 2021 with an injury. During his sophomore year in 2019, Frye ranked fifth nationally with 148.6 rushing yards per game and was named to the Don Han sen All-America Second Team Offense.Inhis 13 seasons with Min nesota State, Hoffner knows the first game of the season always comes with a sense of uncertainty and unpredict ability. “The first game that Bemidji played last year was a very low scoring college foot ball game and our first game went into overtime,” Hoffner stated.“There’s a lot of uncertain ty coming out of fall camp and figuring out how you get into the flow of a football game,” Hoffner continued. “But we’re doing the best we can and working to put our players in a position to be suc cessful. It’ll be a tough chal lenge and we’re gonna have our hands full on the road.”
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“I feel bad for the older play ers that didn’t have the oppor tunity to get money from this,” Stroud said.
SCOTT HECKEL • Associated Press Ohio State quarterback C.J. Stroud sits in the drivers seat after he received a 2019 Mercedes G-Wagon G63 in Canton, Ohio on June 8, 2022.
PETER MORRISON • Associated Press Northwestern quarterback Ryan Hilinski (3) looks to pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Nebraska, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022, at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland.
By MICHAEL MAROT Associated quarterbacks give some Big Ten teams new look
Glance around the parking lot of the Woody Hayes Athletic Center at The Ohio State Uni versity this fall and you might come across a $200,000 palace on wheels, the kind of luxury ride more likely to be found in the garages of movie stars, mu sic moguls and titans of business than on a college campus. That’s assuming Buckeyes quarterback C.J. Stroud hasn’t swapped out his silver Mer cedes-Benz G-Wagon for a Bentley or a Porsche, which his name, image and likeness deal with Sarchione Auto Gallery al lows him to do every 45 days. “It’s definitely changed my life for the future,” Stroud said of the several NIL deals to flow his way over the past year, “and I think it’s a jump-start to being a businessman before you get to the NFL, if that’s your path.” More than a year ago, the NCAA lifted long-standing re strictions on players profiting from their celebrity status, and in some cases it turned elite play ers such as Stroud and Alabama quarterback Bryce Young into instant millionaires. But the financial benefits for some athletes are being weighed against the possibility that such deals will divide locker rooms, create tension within programs, produce an uneven playing field across college athletics and overwhelm students stretched for time. “As far as NIL goes in the locker room, you see stuff, but no one ever talks about it,” Oklahoma wide receiver Mar vin Mims admitted. “It’s never like, a competition, like, ‘Oh, I got this much more money than you did. I’ve got this deal. You couldn’t get this deal.’ But you do notice the NIL deals that other guys are getting.”College football has witnessed the big gest impact from NIL legisla tion, though athletes in all sports have tapped into the sudden cash flow. Of the estimated $1.14 billion that will be poured into the pockets of athletes in Year 2, the NIL platform Opendorse predicts nearly half of it will be spent on the gridiron. The larg est and most prominent deals are going to individual athletes who have successfully leveraged their exceptional ability, poten tial, influence and exposure: Young’s portfolio is believed to have exceeded $1 million be fore he ever took a snap for the Crimson Tide, while Alabama teammate Will Anderson signed an NIL deal that allows one of the nation’s best linebackers to drive a $120,000 Porsche Cay enneAtGTS.Texas, running back Bijan Robinson has deals with Rais ing Cane’s restaurants, C4 Ener gy drinks and sports streaming platform DAZN, while also forging a partnership with an auto dealership for the use of a Lamborghini.AtNotre Dame, tight end Michael Mayer has parlayed his first-round draft stock into deals with clothing brands Levi’s and Rhoback.Theyare precisely the types of endorsement contracts, and cozy relationships with boosters and businesses, that once landed players on suspension and pro grams on probation.
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Northwestern quarterback Ryan Hilinski looked like a dif ferent player in the season open er. Illinois quarterback Tommy DeVito and Nebraska quarter back Casey Thompson actual ly did become the new faces of their programs. Connor Bazelak could join the club Friday in In diana’s opener. In a conference where upper classmen and experienced start ers are all the rage this season, it’s the new and improved quar terbacks generating some (very) early hype and plenty of hope for teams looking to turn things around.Notmany can match the way DeVito started his first game with the Fighting Illini. “His first handoff was a big run and his first pass was a touchdown,” Illinois coach Bret Bielema said Monday. “I think Tommy will have a significant amount of improvement in a short amount of time, not that Saturday was bad, just that he’s so driven, very on task.” Most teams crave stability at football’s toughest position and there are plenty of those around the Big Ten — Sean Clifford at Penn State, Tanner Morgan at Minnesota, Aidan O’Connell at Purdue, C.J. Stroud at Ohio State and Taulia Tagovailoa at Maryland.Eventhe competitions look familiar with Cade McNamara and J.J. McCarthy at Michigan and Spencer Petras and Alex Pa dilla at Iowa. But a handful of schools spent the offseason trying to go in a new direction and what has been dubbed Week Zero show cased three of those. DeVito brought a strong re sume from Syracuse where he finished in the top 10 in career completions, completion per centage, passer rating, TD pass es and yards passing. Then he had to beat out Artur Sitkwoski, who helped the Illini beat Penn State in nine overtimes last sea son.Turns out, DeVito was worth the wait. He went 27 of 37 with 194 yards and two scores while leading Illinois to a sea son-opening victory over Wyo ming. Illinois plays Friday night at Indiana.“Ididalright,” DeVito said Saturday. “I’m a lot harder on myself than people would think. I’ll probably pull out my iPad and go look through every sim ple throw and every decision I made on the field.” At least he chalked up a vic tory. That’s the next goal for the Hoosiers, who will have anoth er new quarterack as they try to snap an eight-game losing streak and a nine-game skid in league play. Injuries forced Hoosiers coach Tom Allen to use four starters last season but has de clined to publicly announce his opening-night starter. It could very well be Bazelak, a transfer from Missouri who is hoping to replicate DeVito’s inspiring de butBazelakperformance.wasthe SEC’s 2020 co-freshman of the year but struggled in 2021, throwing 16 touchdown passes and 11 inter ceptions.“Some new faces there, and I’m excited for those guys,” Al len said. “Anxious to see our guys go out there and compete.” Nebraska and Northwestern also are eager to see the encores of their own starters.
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Texas’ Christian Jones (70) blocks against Louisiana-Lafayette during the second half of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2021, in Austin, Texas.
“We’ve given out thousands and thousands of dollars to the athletes, but we haven’t given out millions and millions of dollars to the athletes.” According to the NIL plat form INFLCR, the average transaction involving a college football player is $3,396, while a similar platform called Ath liance puts it at $3,391. But those numbers are skewed by exceptionally large deals signed by elites such as Robinson and Ohio State’s C.J. Stroud; the median deal through INFL CR’s platform is just $53. That’s hardly enough for a tank of gas in Robinson’s flashy orange Lamborghini. Jones can at least count himself among those cashing in better than that. At Texas, the Horns With Heart NIL group has pledged to pay ev ery scholarship offensive line man $50,000 a year for work on behalf of charities. It’s not millions, but it’s still a lot com pared to most. “The most common request I get from athletes is, ‘Can you help me get a NIL deal to get grocer ies this month?’ Or, ‘I got a flat tire in my sidewall and I don’t have the money to cover it. Can you help me get a NIL deal?’” Brandon recalls telling a local Utah business. “So the majority of people in college football, if you look at the broad spectrum, are not walk ing away with six-figure NIL deals. They’re more likely to be walking away with a couple extra thousand dollars.” They’re more like the deals found on the Opendorse plat form, where Tennessee fans can get a recorded shoutout from linebacker Tyler Baron for as little as $10 or an au tograph for $25. Kansas State quarterback Adrian Martinez will author a targeted social media post starting at $125 while Memphis defensive back Quindell Johnson is open to custom requests. The Opendorse offers are take ’em-or-leave ’em oppor tunities, allowing athletes to decide what makes sense for them. “For me, it’s been nothing more than fun,” said Martinez, the prolific former Nebraska quarterback who will start for the Wildcats this season. “I’ve never wanted it to stress me out.” The additional stress is why some players, such as Iowa’s Riley Moss, have opted out of NIL deals entirely.
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Texas offensive lineman Christian Jones remembers walking up to Bijan Robinson not long ago and asking for a lift, figuring it was least the All-American running back could do for one of the big guys doing all the blocking. “He said there’s a height limit,” Jones said with a smile. Turns out there’s not much space in a Lamborghini for a 6-foot-6, 328-pound team mate.“The suspension would probably be messed up,” Jones added. Thanks to a bold new era of name, image and likeness compensation deals across col lege sports, plenty of star play ers are cruising around campus in a fancy ride. But for every NIL millionaire like Robinson, there are thousands of athletes who have hardly struck it rich. “For sure, you have the haves and the have-nots,” said Jake Brandon, who founded a NIL collective at BYU to help put some extra money in the pockets of Cougar athletes.
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The Big Ten’s top defen sive back last season, Moss declined to participate in a players-led collective called the Iowa City NIL Club so that he could focus on this season and, with any luck, embark on a far more lucrative NFL career. Other athletes take on NIL activities only in the summer. And in many cases, the few hundred dollars they get can supplement an often modest stipend that they get from their schools.“You know, after work outs, you might have gotten in an extra workout or you might have done some things, but now they might say you have to go to this event,”Dante Stills
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The NCAA women’s bas ketball title game will be broad cast this season on ABC for the firstThetime.championship game, which usually airs in prime time, will be played at 3 p.m. Eastern on April 2. The wom en’s Final Four is in Dallas this year.“Scheduling the Division I Women’s Basketball Cham pionship on ABC has been a goal for quite some time in our ongoing efforts to maxi mize the exposure of women’s sports in collaboration with the NCAA,” said Burke Magnus, ESPN’S president for program ming and original content. “Women’s NCAA Cham pionships continue to generate strong audiences across the ABC/ESPN networks and this move represents yet another unique opportunity to show case this marquee event and the student-athletes who are competing for a national cham pionship.”ESPNsaid it will have the 2023 and 2024 championship games on ABC and would look at moving the game back to prime time in the future but currently has commitments to entertainment shows the night of the Backgame.inthe 1980s when the women’s tournament first start ed, the Final Four and champi onship games aired in the after noon on CBS. ESPN took over the entire tournament in 1996 and the title game aired in the evenings every since. Last season’s championship game, in which South Caroli na beat UConn, was the most viewed women’s title game in nearly two decades, drawing 4.85 million viewers. The national semifinals av eraged 2.7 million viewers, up 21% year over year, and was the most viewed semifinals in a decade. The full tournament averaged 634,000 viewers, up 16% from the previous year’s coverage.ESPN has the rights to broadcast the women’s tour nament through 2024 as part of the NCAA championships package. The network has aired NCAA women’s tournament games on ABC for the past two seasons but not the title game.
“It’s a benchmark an nouncement for women’s bas ketball in being able to show case the national championship game in Dallas for an expanded audience on ABC for the first time in 2023,” said Beth Goetz, chair of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Commit tee and athletic director at Ball State.“We are grateful to ABC/ ESPN for the partnership in the continued growth of the game andThechampionship.”NCAATournament ex panded to 68 games last season and this season will have its re gionals in two sites, with eight teams playing in Greenville, South Carolina, and the other eight in Seattle. The tournament will follow this format through 2027. The Division II and Division III championship games also will take place in Dallas on the same weekend as the Division I FinalIt’sFour.the first time that the three championships have been played in the same city since
2016.ERIC GRAY • Associated Press Mississippi State center Teaira McCowan (15) and South Carolina for ward A’ja Wilson (22) reach for the ball on the opening tipoff of the final of the NCAA women’s college basketball tournament Final Four. to air NCAA WB game for 1st time
RSOs recruit students at involvement fair
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Some organizations at the fair also noted that this year’s attendance was import ant in order to build up mem ber numbers post-pandemic.
Mikalyla Waskul, president of the anime club, was able to snag a table for the event. The club gave out anime stickers at their table to encourage stu dents to stop. There, students could chat with Waskul and other members about the club. “It’s all about getting peo ple connected to anime. Just getting a bunch of people to enjoy movies together and play games together and hope fully enjoy some conventions,” Waskul said. “We are brain storming about funding right now.” “It’s free to join,” said Waskul. “If you have sugges tions of what you would like to do with the anime, whether it be special nights like cosplay nights, or pizza movie nights, whatever you have it, please give us suggestions and we can make it Tableswork.”atthe involvement fair ranged from sports teams to church groups. In addition to clubs, the fair also adver tised volunteering and career opportunities. RSOs are a great way for students to get involved and build their re sume while on campus. Al though it can be difficult to add more commitments to a busy schedule, there are plen ty of groups that function in a ‘come as you please’ format, allowing freedom for sched uling.
Quinn Ellingson, an MSU junior working the Women’s Lacrosse table noted, how the numbers were lower during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Wednesday, Minnesota State University, Mankato students had the op portunity to window-shop for clubs at the campus and com munity involvement fair. Recognized Student Or ganizations, or RSOs, could apply for a spot at one of 45 tables in the campus mall to introduce themselves to stu dents and recruit new mem bers. Additionally, the school offered free food to students and invited live performers to campus for the event. The band “Fat City All Stars” cov ered a combination of rock and country music as a part of the Serendipity Music Series.
“We’re still rebuilding. Last year was definitely a re building year for us,” said El lingson. “But this year, we’re looking to hit it pretty hard and do well in our season. So we’re always looking for more girls.” Ellingson shared the success of the event. “I actually had a few girls come. It’s really interesting meeting new people,” said Ellingson. “They’ll be like, ‘Oh my God. Yeah, sure. I’ll try it,’ so that’s always nice to see. We love that.”Ellingson encouraged any one that while it’s quite com petitive, they are open to all girls
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“Wejoining.only practice twice a week and we play games all throughout the spring. We practice all year long and it’s really nice getting to meet new girls, get together, and play sports.”
Students test their luck with games to win prizes and get in touch with future school involvement opportunities. The fair offered clubs, part-time work, and volunteer groups in the campus mall, accompanied by live music and free food. Over 45 RSOs were in attendance in efforts to reach more students and make new connections.
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At the Venice Internation al Film Festival, virtual reality is only a small part of the im mersive experience. On a small island just a short water shuttle ride from the main festival head quarters on the Lido, festivalgo ers can step into the metaverse. They can play games, or “world hop” with a tour guide, dress up in costume with background dancers, or even help Coco Chanel develop her Chanel No. 5 perfume.Theprogram curated by Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac runs from Sept. 1 through Sept. 10 and provides a hands-on glimpse into the future of story telling.“It’s the biggest edition we have ever done,” Rosenthal said.The forms have also evolved in the past two years when the Venice virtual program had to go virtual itself. So for this grand return to the Lazzaretto Vecchio, they’ve also given the program a new, more inclusive name: Venice Immer sive.“We wanted to refocus on how quickly the field is diver sifying,” Reilhac said. “We did not want to focus on one tech nology like VR, but to try to represent all kinds of different ways of offering an immersive experience.”Ofthe43 projects, only some require a VR headset. Some are massive 360-degree installa tions and others offer a hybrid “mixed reality.”
By BEN FINLEY Associated Press tosses suit that tried to deem books obscene
Venice Immersive via AP This image released by Venice Immersive, the official immersive competition category of the Venice International Film Festival, shows an image from “Rencontre(s),” by Mathias Chelbourg.
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Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in recent weeks on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.
Venture into the metaverse on Venice Immersive Island
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A judge in Virginia dismissed a lawsuit Tuesday that had sought to declare two books as obscene for children and to restrict their distribution to mi nors, including by booksellers andThelibraries.books in question were “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe and “A Court of Mist and Fury” by Sarah J. Maas.Both books describe or illus trate sexual acts that prompted the lawsuit. In a petition to the court, Tommy Altman, a tattoo shop owner and former Repub lican congressional candidate, said the depictions were inap propriate for children.
One of their most ambitious undertakings has been commit ting to giving tours of virtual worlds to small groups. Worlds is a general term that essential ly means a space where people can gather virtually — it can be a beach, a forest, a fantasti cal science fiction space. In the worlds, you can just hang out, or do activities like play mini golf or even train dogs, Reilhac explained. Like many things in Venice Immersive, the worlds, and world-hopping is something best“We’reexperienced.aiming to reveal al terations to the planet that are caused by nature and that are also caused by human centered industries,” said “Framerate” director Matthew Shaw. “We see sites of destruction, ex traction, habitation, we see har vests, we see growth, and we see erosion.”Toexperience “Framerate,” audiences enter a dark room where they’re surrounded by screens that act as “holographic portals” into vast scenes, like a 200-foot cliff eroding and crum bling into the sea over a year or a forest transforming across 12 months. You can stand any where in the room, move about and choose what to focus on, whether it’s the cliff or a single pebble.The team working on the project captured these scenes in Norfolk and Glasgow, where they filmed daily for a year. It wasn’t, Shaw said, just someone setting up a camera and tripod and leaving it to film. And it re quired a fair amount of R&D and innovation to make it hap pen.Both Reilhac and Rosenthal hope that cinema lovers at the festival venture over to Immer sive Island to try out some of the experiences.
Altman asked the court to issue an order under state law against distributing, selling or loaning the books to minors. The suit was filed in April and dismissed Tuesday before it could proceed to trial. Circuit Court Judge Pame la S. Baskervill struck it down on jurisdictional grounds, cit ing state law as well as the U.S. Constitution.Forexample, Baskervill wrote that Virginia law doesn’t give her the specific authority to determine whether the books are obscene for minors. The judge also wrote that restricting the books’ distribu tion would authorize “prior restraint” of speech and violate the First Amendment. The judge also described concerns about prosecuting someone who didn’t know they were selling or loaning books that were deemed to beTheobscene.judge’s order comes at a time when book challenges and bans have surged across the U.S. to levels not seen in de cades. Virginia has been on the frontlines, with public school curricula and books serving as a major prong for Republican Glenn Youngkin’s successful run for governor last year. Author and publisher groups hailed the judge’s decision. Maria A. Pallante, president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers, said Tues day that it was an “unequivocal victory for the free speech rights of readers, authors, publishers, booksellers and libraries.” Eden Heilman, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said “access to diverse perspectives is a huge part of our democracy, and any efforts to thwart that are really concerning.”Heilman, who represented independent booksellers and other parties in the suit, said her organization will continue to fight such legal efforts. Many of the targeted books have focused on sexuality, gen der identity or race. Kobabe’s “Gender Queer,” a graphic nov el that contains explicit illustra tions of oral sex and masturba tion, has served as a particular flashpoint.
Tim Anderson, Altman’s at torney, said the lawsuit “was never about trying to ban gay literature or trans literature.”
“This was simply just saying these (books) have really sexual explicit content and it’s not ap propriate for kids,” Anderson said.“Fundamentally, what we’re trying to do is get to a point where parents are more in the driver’s seat of what their chil dren are consuming,” Anderson said.
By LINDSEY BAHR Associated Press
Defense Minister Lee Jongsup told lawmakers that he ordered officials to implement a survey quickly. He said his ministry will also look into BTS’s economic impact, the importance of military service and overall national interest.
The ministry said the results would be only one of the many factors determining BTS mem bers’ military status. By law, all able-bodied men in South Korea must serve 18-21 months in the military under a conscription system established to deal with threats from rival North Korea. But the country gives exemption to athletes, classical and tra ditional musicians, and ballet and other dancers who win top places in certain competi tions because they are consid ered to have enhanced national prestige.Some politicians and others have called for expanding the scope of exemptions to include K-pop stars such as BTS be cause they have elevated South Korea’s international image significantly as well.
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The production — rated TV-14 for violence versus the “Game of Thrones” prequel which is TV-MA for violence, language, and nudity — is one of the most expensive in histo ry, with Amazon spending at least $465 million on the first season in New Zealand, where the series employed 1,200 peo ple directly and another 700 indirectly.Intotal, the season has re portedly cost $1 billion.
“It’s kind of the gateway for new fans in that it’s kind of the first chapter, the adolescence of Middle-earth, where the films you could imagine are the adulthood of Middle-earth,” said Walker. “So we’re seeing all these characters we know and love — and some that we’re being introduced to — take the first steps on their jour ney in becoming their destined selves.”
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
The return of dragons on the small screen has been a huge hit. Now it’s time for the return of the elves and dwarves. Amazon Studios is launch ing “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” an ambi tious, years-in-the-making and very expensive salvo that will go head-to-head with another costly streaming fantasy epic: HBO’s “Game of Thrones” spinoff “House of the Drag on,” which recently became the most-watched series premiere in HBO history. The series is based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings and asides about Middle-earth’s Second Age, which preceded the Third Age’s “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” films and books. Tolkien’s grandson, Simon Tolkien, was a creative consul tant.“We say Tolkien sort of left a series of stars in the sky. Our job was to connect the dots and form the constellation and then sort of draw in between the constellations to give a little more specificity to it,” said J.D. Payne, a showrunner and exec utiveAmazonproducer.Prime Video will debut both the first two “The Rings of Power” episodes on Friday. After that, the remain ing six episodes arrive weekly on TheFriday.hour-long episodes are stuffed with action and humor but buckle up: Payne and his co-showrunner Patrick McKay plan to use a 50-hour canvas to explore their nuanced char acters and complex histories. These first eight episodes are like an Earlyappetizer.ones shift across the various regions of Mid dle-earth, our planet’s imagined mythological past. Here, some 4,000 years be fore “The Hobbit,” are elves involved with royal intrigue, dwarves who mine inside mountains, hobbitlike harfoots who are pastoral, humans who seem unusually prone to vio lence, and evil orcs. Despite being set centuries before the books and films that make up the Tolkien’s canon, fans of “The Lord of the Rings” will notice some familiar characters, based on the long lifespan of some of the creatures, including Galadriel, Elrond and Isildur. Sauron, the evil force, is unseen in the first two episodes but a malevolent presenceMorfyddthroughout.Clarkgrew up in Wales to parents who adored Tolkien’s epic book series and her dad read her “The Hobbit” when she was 9. The films came out when she was 11, accelerating the ob session. Now she finds herself playing a young Galadriel, a powerful elf played later in the films by Cate Blanchett. “I think there’s a lot of hope in Tolkien’s world, and with hope comes bravery to stand up and have courage for what you think is valuable,” she said. “The world needs to be safe enough for the smallest and most vulnerable. And I think that’s something that’s import ant to remind yourself — just because something suits you, it doesn’t suit everybody.” That sense of hope is some thing that distinguishes the se ries from “House of the Drag on,” which revels in a cynical, bloody view of mankind. McK ay notes that Tolkien emerged from World War I with a com plex fairy story, unlike many of his literary peers who were writing about wastelands and darkness.“Middle-earth is a funda mentally optimistic and hope ful place. He was writing about positive values and friendship and brotherhood and under dogs,” McKay said. “He was telling you that in the dark est, deep of Mordor — in his wasteland — friendship could win the day and good could tri umph over evil.” The show’s tone shifts de pending on which place is be ing visited. Harfoots, who have Irish accents, are whimsical, communal and clever, while dwarves have Scottish accents, are fond of a drink and are a littleElvesrough.are elegant and elite, with upper English class ac cents and a fondness for billow ing cloaks and long, elaborate ceremonies.Thecast — a massive en semble of 22 actors — is mul tiethnic and composed of ac tors of different ages and fame, from Tony-nominated Benja min Walker to up-and-coming Charlie Vickers, who graduat ed from drama school in 2017. “It’s a very heterogenous world and if it wasn’t, we’d be dealing with dystopia,” said Trystan Gravelle, who plays a royal advisor in an Atlantis-like kingdom. “I think it’s very fit ting as well in 2022 that we reflect that as well. And I think it enriches everything. The world’s a richer place for it.” The cast filmed in New Zea land during the pandemic and were away from loved ones for almost two years. The actors rarely visited the sets of rival fictional races, but all gathered for potluck lunches and holidays, often at Walk er’s house where a mean fried chicken was served. “I got a bunch of babysitters out of it,” he joked.“What that did is it sort of forced us to to lean on each other and that is a bonding experience like no other,” said Nazanin Boniadi, who plays a human healer and single moth er. “That fellowship that you see on screen was forged very much behind the scenes.”
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The new series debuts in the long shadow left by Peter Jack son, whose film trilogy adap tation of Tolkien’s books won critical and commercial praise in the early 2000s and claimed the best picture Oscar for “Re turn of the King.” For the se ries, there was more freedom to create as long as it was true to the“Weauthor.really tried to just go back to Tolkien. That was our mantra from the beginning: ‘Just go back to the books, go back to the books, go back to the books,’” said Payne. “We always have Tolkien at the base of what we’re doing.” The new series has lots of big themes to chew on, including overcoming racial differences, environmentalism, the power of friendship, women’s strength and how even the smallest per son can change the world.
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Ambitious ‘Lord of the Rings’ prequel S. Korea may survey on BTS members’ military duty
By MARK KENNEDY Associated Press
Amazon Studios via AP South Korean Defense Minister Lee Jong-sup speaks during a meeting of the parliamentary defense committee in Seoul, South Korea, Wednes day, Aug. 31, 2022. This image released by Amazon Studios shows Benjamin Walker, from left, Morfydd Clark and Robert Aramayo from “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.”
South Korea may conduct a public survey to help deter mine whether to grant exemp tions to mandatory military service to members of the K-pop boyband BTS, officials saidTheWednesday.issueofactive military service for the band’s seven members has been a hot-but ton topic in South Korea be cause its oldest member, Jin, faces enlistment in December, when he turns 30.
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