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Intramural registration due by Tuesday Students are set to have a ball this season.

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NICOLE SCHMIDT News Editor It’s time to break out those tennis shoes; intramural season is upon us yet again here at Minnesota State University, Mankato! Students wishing to play must register before deadline on Tuesday, Sept.

8, to get their team in the books.

MSU offers a variety of intramural sports to play during the fall. These include 4-person sand volleyball, flag football, soccer, softball, team bowling, golf singles, tennis singles, volleyball, and 2-person golf scramble. That diversity of sport choices gives students a chance to try something new or simply stick to what they know and love.

Soccer, volleyball, flag football, and softball all have

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a registration fee of $60/ team, while 2-person golf scramble is $30/team, bowling and sand volleyball are only $20/team, and tennis and golf are free. Each fee is reasonably priced when considering the number of teammates the cost will be split between.

Before you reject the idea of playing intramurals, please know that it can a fun way to get some exercise and show

your competitive side, take a break from studying, and meet new friends. I personally have enjoyed my experience playing intramurals and would recommend it to anyone on the fence about joining!

If you wish to register for a team (or two), you can do so online. Simply go to www. mnsu.edu, search ‘intramural registration,’ and click the first option which reads

‘Event Registration- Minnesota State University, Mankato.’

It will then take you to a list of all of the options.

If you have any questions about an individual sport or want more information in general, you can contact Ben Nelson at benjamin. nelson-2@mnsu.edu, or visit www.mnsu.edu and search “intramurals.”

Good luck with your season!

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Student Senate public forum report

GABRIEL HEWITT Staff Writer The Minnesota State Student Association (MSSA) Sept. 2 meeting in the Hearth Lounge covered a number of subjects including expanding the Maverick Textbook Reserve service and changing diversity requirements

for graduation.

Open Forum An unnamed representative from the English department proposed relaunching and renewing funds for a campus literary magazine to be featured monthly in an issue of The Reporter. The campus will be hosting several events on Sept. 17 in commemoration of Constitution Day. Officer Reports President Mariah Haffield and Vice President Sam Al-Mohamadi have been meeting with MSU’s Inter Faculty Organization (IFO) and presented plans on expanding the library’s Maverick Textbook Reserve program. Through a part-

nership between Barnes & Noble and Library Services, students are able to rent out required text for classes. The university currently funds over $17,000 into the textbook reserve and the IFO and MSSA are looking for ways to expand and better advertise the service. Expansion includes increasing the university library’s hours and increasing availability of online e-textbooks.

“It’s a great program and it’s helped students cut the cost of their textbooks,” Al-Mohamadi said.

Student Affairs Committee member Nelsie Yang asked about whether the service has been advertised enough and Al-Mohamadi

stated that he and the IFO have been working to urge professors to tell their students about it.

President Haffield and a committee of three students have also met with the IFO about changing the university’s diversity requirements.

MSU students are required to fulfill a diversity requirement for their degree by taking a certain number of diversity-based courses. The committee have proposed changing that requirement so that students could attend

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ISA to host Americas Night Sept. 26 North American, Latin, and Caribbean cultures take the spotlight.

YUESEONG JEON Staff Writer The International Student Association (ISA) will host its first signature night event called “Americas Night” at 6 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom.

Americas Night will showcase all continental American cultures including North American and Latin, and Caribbean cultures, aiming to have around 300 attendants.

ISA invites applicants to perform at the event. Students who can showcase their talents of any genre regarding any culture of the Americas are highly encouraged to apply.

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ISA will have auditions Tuesday, Sept. 8, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., as well as 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in CSU 264. Whoever is interested in participating in the event as a performer can receive more information regarding the audition at the

Kearney International Center.

“I want to open the auditions to all the public,” said Rudy Correa, lead coordinator of the event. “I am excited to work with all of you and make this event memorable.”

According to Correa, the

food and performances will celebrate the different cultures of the American Continent.

“I would like to thank all for participating and showing a commitment in this new project. I can assure you that this

experience will help you grow as a leader,” Correa said.

All international students are especially encouraged to participate in the event for leadership and contribution hours’ opportunities.

Students can sign up for the event on Org Sync starting next Tuesday.

ISA is also looking for student coordinators to be involved in the creative process of planning the event. ISA takes applications for the positions.

The committee meetings for Americas Night take place every Thursday from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the ISA office in CSU 264 for the event’s action plan, auditions and volunteer requests.

Tickets for the event will be available starting from the second week of September.

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MSU receives 5 year, $1.6 million grant A 25 year tradition of academic support continues.

Mankato, Minn. – Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Student Support Services, a federal TRIO program, was recently notified by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs that it was selected to receive a grant worth more than $1.6 million over the next five years.

Student Support Services at Minnesota State Mankato will receive $322,026 for the first budget period (Sept. 1, 2015 to Aug. 31, 2016), with similar funding anticipated for each of the following four years.

“We are thrilled to receive this grant,” said Margaret Hesser, director of Student Support Services at Minnesota State Mankato. “We can now continue our program’s 25-year tradition of providing critical academic support services to low-income, first-generation college students and students with disabilities.

The grant-writing and sub-

mnsu.edu mission process could not have been successful without the support and assistance of our campus community.”

The Student Support Services program at Minnesota State Mankato originally received funding in 1990. The

program serves 175 students per year.

The purpose of the Student Support Services is to provide academic and other support services to low-income or first-generation college students or college

students with disabilities to increase students’ retention and graduation rates, facilitate their transfer from twoyear to four-year colleges, and foster an institutional climate supportive of the success of low-income and first

generation college students and individuals with disabilities.

Through the U.S. Department of Education’s grant competition, funds are awarded to institutions of higher education to provide opportunities for academic development, assist students with basic college requirements and to motivate students toward the successful completion of their postsecondary education. According to the Council for Opportunity in Education, a total of 1,071 Student Services Programs nationwide were selected for funding out of 1,476 proposals.

For more information, contact Margaret Hesser by phone at 507-389-2797 or by email at margaret.hesser@ mnsu.edu.

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College students and their furry friends Getting a pet may not be what you expect.

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JAMIE KANKAALA Staff Writer The start of college can be extremely stressful for many people for countless different reasons. But the other day you were walking passed someone with a dog and may have thought, “Wow, a loving dog would solve all of my problems.” So now you find yourself looking at a big, brown-eyed fluff ball from the shelter that you just can’t go home without.

Stop!

Before you take on the huge responsibility of owning a pet, you may want to consider why young college students living in dorms or apartments should reconsider owning animals.

First off, animals take up almost all of your time, especially when you adopt them. They need to be potty trained, taught not to chew on your expensive shoes or scratch your leather furniture, and taught basic animal manners.

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Animals like dogs, for example, also need constant attention. You cannot leave them home alone all day or all night. If you have a full day of classes or even a job, you will need to find time to go home and let your dog out before it has an accident all over the floor.

You also need to find time in your busy schedule to make sure your pet has the proper amount of exercise.

A dog cooped up all day in a small apartment will definitely need long walks or runs when you get home. If you

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have roommates that kindly help take care of your animal, don’t forget that there are going to be times he or she is going to be away from the apartment and the animal will be stuck alone.

If you take on the responsibility of an animal you need to take into consideration that your life as of now will not be the same. You will find it difficult to have weekend getaways with your friends, vacations over spring break, parties in your apartment, and party weekends in general.

Which brings me to my second point: the standard college student lifestyle is way too stressful for any animal to endure. Let’s face it, young adults are loud (arguably obnoxious), and a lot of us like to party. If you have ever been to a party that had a pet, for example a dog, you may have noticed its body language and actions. It was

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Thrifty travel tricks for a student budget Part two: Saving money on the road and in the air.

LUKE LARSON Staff Writer This article is the second part of a two-part series focusing on tips for traveling on a tight budget. The first part ran last Tuesday and focused on saving money on lodging expenses. This part will mainly deal with saving money on

transportation costs.

Transportation is certainly one of the most expensive aspects to any vacation. For shorter trips, it can easily surpass the cost of lodging. It’s not like you can somehow avoid transportation costs altogether – travel, by definition, obviously requires movement from point A to point B. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways to reduce the amount of money it takes to get from A to B. For Americans, the most common forms of travel are airplane and car, but trains and buses should also be briefly acknowledged.

If backpacking across Europe, the rail system will be

“Various student/ youth discounts are provided by all of these services. Transportation discounts are just one of many cost-cutting opportunities for students.”

www.hercampus.com your lifeline and your go-to site will be www.eurail.com, where multi-country rail passes can be purchased. Amtrak (www.amtrak.com) is a great way to see America. In terms of buses, Greyhound (www. greyhound.com) and Megabus (www.megabus.com) are two great options which connect to Minnesota. Greyhound connects to Mankato, in fact. Various student/youth discounts are provided by all of these services. Transportation discounts are just one of many cost-cutting opportunities for students, explains seasoned traveler Greg Wilkins, Associate Director

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When it comes to planes, the key is frequent flier miles. You don’t even need to be a frequent flier to obtain frequent flier miles. In an article for BBC Mundo, Ben Schlappig, a 25-yearold American who has been traveling the world for almost an entire year, recommends using credit cards that earn frequent flier miles with every purchase. Different cards have make different offers. If you are a frequent flier, it is

best to stick with one airline in order to maximize miles earned, says global traveler Matt Kepnes in an article for Forbes by Alexandra Talty.

It is possible to play the system right to book cheaper flights, as well. An article for the Thrifty Nomads blog entitled “How to Book the Cheapest Flight Possible to Anywhere” lists twelve tips for booking cheaper flights.

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“The Minnesota State Student Association (MSSA) Sept. 2 meeting in the Hearth Lounge covered a number of subjects...”

campus diversity events rather than take academic courses. The subject is planned to be discussed further at MSSA’s next public meeting on Sept. 9 at 4 p.m. in CSU 238.

“I believe students should have a formal opinion about it,” Haffield said.

New Business The MSSA is looking into adding two Zip Car rental service cars to the campus.

The MSSA is partnering with the RSO Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) to help promote MSSA meetings and events.

Announcements Arts and Humanities Senator and KMSU student employee Wes Huntington

and the radio station will be broadcasting live from the State Fair on Friday, Sept.

4 from 1 to 3 p.m. and on Sept. 5 from 1 to 2 p.m.

Vice President Al-Mohamadi is interested in the MSSA having a presence during Homecoming Week in October.

President Haffield was pleased to see students observing the meeting from around the Hearth Lounge and on the CSU second floor. The MSSA expects to discuss points from the Sept. 2 meeting more at their next meeting on Sept.

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A WWII veteran’s story of service MECHANICVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — Stephen Dennis enlisted in the Navy soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. Less than a year later, the raw 19-year-old recruit was thrust into fighting off the Solomon Islands and survived one of the fiercest naval battles in the South Pacific.

By the end of the war, the young sailor from upstate New York was a shipboard radioman helping news organizations get the word out to the world that the Japanese had officially surrendered on Sept. 2, 1945.

As Wednesday’s 70th anniversary of the surrender approached, Dennis reminisced recently about his military service, which began aboard the ill-fated USS Atlanta.

“I was fighting all the time,” Dennis, 93, said inside the public library in Mechanicville, his hometown 18 miles north of Albany.

Dennis enlisted four days after the Dec. 7, 1941 aerial assault on Hawaii brought the U.S. into the war. After an accelerated boot camp that lasted just 14 days, he was assigned to the Atlanta, a newly commissioned light cruiser.

By the spring of 1942 the Atlanta was in the Pacific, where the ship participated in the Battle of Midway.

On Nov. 13, 1942, the ship was hit by a torpedo and surface fire from enemy ships as well as friendly fire from the

USS San Francisco during a chaotic night battle near the island of Guadalcanal, the largest in the Solomon Islands. Dennis was below deck in the forward part of the Atlanta, helping load powder for guns that got so hot “we had to hose them down,” he said.

More than a third of the Atlanta’s crew was killed, including the admiral commanding the ship, which was later scuttled because it was so severely damaged. The U.S. lost five other ships, casualties of the Japanese navy’s superiority in night fighting early in the war.

Boats were sent out from Guadalcanal to rescue the surviving Atlanta crewmembers. When Dennis stepped on shore — “I didn’t even get my feet wet,” he recalled — a buddy from back home who was serving in the Marines spotted him.

Despite the drubbings the U.S. suffered in the sea battles, the outgunned and under-supplied Navy helped turn the tide of the war in the Pacific in the Allies’ favor, said Mark Evans, historian at the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command in Washington, D.C. Dennis was sent to the nearby island of Tulagi, where he was trained as a radio operator working with torpedo-equipped PT boats based there. He eventually was sent home for a brief leave before

being assigned to a destroyer. A case of tonsillitis kept him from returning to the Pacific aboard the destroyer, so he was assigned to the USS Ancon, a communications command ship. The Ancon participated in the Okinawa campaign in the spring of 1945 and was later sent to Japan, where it anchored near the Missouri for the formal surrender ceremony.

Working in the Ancon’s radio shack, Dennis spent Sept.

2, 1945, assisting U.S. wire service reporters by punching their stories of the surrender into a teletype machine and transmitting the accounts to their news organizations for distribution worldwide. “If I didn’t send it, they didn’t get it,” Dennis said.

Hours later, when he was finally finished, Dennis said he told his commanding officer: “I’m done. You can’t keep me anymore.”

Back home after four years in the service, Dennis and his wife, Mary, raised three children while he worked more than 30 years at the local paper mill. In August 2014, Dennis was awarded six medals he was entitled to for his WWII service but never received. He considers himself fortunate to have survived some of the war’s biggest sea battles, especially that horrific night when the Atlanta met its doom.

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TRAVEL...Continued from page 5 “Transportation is certainly one of the most expensive aspects to any vacation. For shorter trips, it can easily surpass the cost of lodging.”

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If you happen to have a connection with someone in the airline industry, they can give you the ability to fly standby.

“You have to know someone who works for the airline, and then you’d have to figure out a flight that you want to fly and then you’d have to show up to the airport and hope that there’s an empty seat on that plane,” says Andrew Bute, a second year aviation major at MSU.

“If there’s no seat on that plane available – which is really hard right now since they overbook a lot of planes – you get rejected. Your chances of getting a standby seat are very slim during normal hours. Your only chance would be super awkward times when no one is flying a lot, and then you might get a seat.”

Customers who fly standby often fly for free, he adds, or at least at a discounted rate.

He also notes that those who have an in with some working for an airline also have the opportunity to score deals on discounted tickets. Or you

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When it comes to road trips, your main consideration is the cost of fuel. There are, of course, two options for reducing costs: using less fuel or spending less on fuel.

There seems to be no quick fix to using less fuel.

You could shorten the length of your road trip, which is something to consider on a

tight budget, but otherwise you’re going to need a fuel efficient car. If you’re planning a road trip with friends and you have a choice between multiple cars, choose the more fuel efficient one because more miles to the gallon equals more money in the wallet. Next time you’re in the market for a new car (in the somewhat distant future, perhaps), make fuel efficiency a priority. It can save you lots of money in general, not just on travel.

If you’re willing to put in a little work and go hardcore on fuel efficiency, there is a very intriguing option for you.

It is possible to run your car on free waste vegetable oil.

“Every restaurant and probably most bars in your community are currently paying somebody else to come and haul away their waste vegetable oil,” writes Brad Whipple in an article for Matador Network.

“Develop a relationship with the manager or owner of local establishments. Tell him or her that you’re interested in collecting their waste vegetable oil. Offer to do it for free.”

The article goes on to explain that obtaining this free fuel does require some effort on your part. You must pro-

cess the oil at home so that it is usable in the gas tank and your car must be equipped with a diesel engine.

An article by Adrianne Jeffries for inhabitant.com does note that getting your car converted to run on veggie oil can cost as much as $4,500 or as little as $1,000 for a doit-yourself kit. Assuming gas prices at $3, a driver with a car that gets 20 miles to the gallon would make the $4,500 upfront payment cost effective after 30,000 miles.

While it may not be a viable option for your Labor Day weekend drive to Duluth, it is certainly an idea to keep in mind for the future. The ability to travel without having to worry about paying for gas is too good to pass up.

In terms of paying less for gas, if you haven’t heard about a handy little app called gas buddy, it’s time to hear about it. Free to download and available for iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, and Blackberry, Gas Buddy shows you a map of all the nearest gas stations to your

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Animals may take some of the stress away of being a college student, but your lifestyle may not be the best fit for your furry friend’s life.

You may also want to contemplate how much a pet will cost. College students are known for being rather poor, so there is a high possibility you could not even afford to have a pet. Many people

don’t take into consideration everything that an animal may need and how much it will cost.

For example, a dog needs food, treats, toys, skin and coat care products, expected/unexpected veterinary bills, dog sitters, collars, leashes, cleaning products, and more. According to www.petfinder.com, the yearly total costs of owning a dog comes to $766-$10,350.

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Many people don’t take into account how much time and money an animal takes.

They also might not be thinking about the animal’s emotions and overall well-being.

After people go through the whole process of adopting an animal, sometimes it just isn’t what they thought it would be.

Owning an animal isn’t

easy. Sure, it has its perks like cuddles and kisses, but it is also A LOT of work that many students just don’t have the time for. This can result in owners surrendering their pet back to the shelter, or even forcing their pet out onto the streets to become a stray.

Since I worked at an animal shelter this summer, I have seen this issue firsthand.

The animals are completely

heartbroken and terrified. It is completely cruel to force the animals to go through such stressful situations. So before you make the major decision to adopt a pet, make sure you have the time, money, and patience to give them the love and attention they greatly deserve.

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www.dailypicsupdate.com current location and allows you to compare prices. It ensures that you will always pay the lowest available price for gas. Though you will only be saving pennies on the gallon, it adds up over time. Make sure, of course, to resist the temptation to use the app while driving; give that duty to one of your passengers or pull over if driving alone.

Be strategic about at what points on your road trip you will buy gas, too. On the Gas Buddy website (www.gasbuddy.com), you can find a very useful map that shows average gas prices by zip code. Geographic trends in gas prices are very evident.

California, for example, has some of the highest prices in the country, while South Carolina has some of the lowest. Minnesota currently has relatively low prices compared to the Dakotas, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Plan your trip accordingly. If you’re leaving the state this weekend, fill up before crossing the border.

If you’re planning a road trip for next spring break, heading down South will be less expensive than heading out west. When I drove to Canada with my friend this summer, we made sure to fill up in the United States, where gas is much cheaper.

Another cost effective mode of travel is to team up with other travelers you meet along the way.

“If you are at a youth hostel, you will want to look at their bulletin board and chat it up with other travelers who are staying there,” says Greg Wilkins. “Oftentimes folks are looking to host others in their caravan for a small dollar amount. You not only save on transportation and food costs, but you also meet some amazing world travelers that can give you travel ideas or places you might want to visit.”

For poor college students, cutting costs is essential. And cutting costs means making sacrifices. It means giving up the luxuries of hotels (as described in the first part of this series) as well as restaurants. When I returned from my Canada this summer, I was asked what I ate during the trip. “Not much,” was my honest response. For three days of hiking in the wilderness of Riding Mountain National Park, my friend and I subsisted on a bag of beef jerky and a box of Salted Nut Rolls. Instead of restaurants, we ate ham sandwiches in grocery store parking lots.

We stopped at Subways for the free Wi-Fi and unlimited

pop. It wasn’t the healthiest nor the tastiest strategy, but it kept the overall cost down and helped to make the trip possible.

It can also mean cutting back on the size of the trip itself. Maybe you would love to go to Australia, but maybe a road trip to Yellowstone is more realistic. When heading to California, a trip to Death Valley National Park will be cheaper (and more worthwhile) than a trip to Disneyland. Think pragmatically. It is great to be idealistic and have dream travel destinations, but if those dreams and tuition can’t coincide, it might be time to consider saving those plans for some other time. My friend and I had initially planned on driving out to Québec and eventually making it as far as Prince Edward Island. That wasn’t feasible for us and so we decided on a shortened trip to Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

It wasn’t Québec, but it was an incredible experience!

If you have made use of these or any other strategies for inexpensive travel, feel free to share them in the comments section of this article on the online home of the Reporter, www.themsureporter.com.

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chase the tickets with a discounted price for $7 or $10 on the day of the event. The tickets can be purchased at the Kearney International Center at CSU 250, online, and at TBD tabling hours in the CSU MavAve. “Your tickets includes food, beverages, and a voyage to experience the diversity of the continent,” Correa said.

The menu will include a variety of traditional foods from American cultures, such as Quesadillas with beans, cheese arepas, cuñapez (cheese bread), Baseball-style nachos, potato mini tacos, rice with fried plantains, Mexican esquites (prepared corn), pancakes with assorted toppings, cheesecake, shave ice, salsa bar, horchata, jamaica, lemonade, and

coffee.

“ISA hopes to see everyone come and enjoy the delicious cuisine and Salsa lessons we have prepared for you,” Correa said.

ISA is a diverse community established to provide programs to support and serve the needs of international students. It aims to engage with the wider MSU community over international issues through festivals, workshops, food fests, fun events, sports and ISA cafes, and enhance the cultural diversity on the campus.

For more information about the event, please contact Sofia Espana at sofia.espana-perez@mnsu.edu or Rudy Correa at rodolfo.corr e a - a b o g a r o @ m n s u. edu.

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“Black Lives Matter” under scrutiny after protest Controversy arises after questionable chants at Minnesota State Fair.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the Minnesota State Fair this weekend, hoping to bring attention to the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of police.

Inside the fair, a booth had T-shirts bearing the slogans “Black Lives Matter” and “All Lives Matter” for sale. Todd Gramenz, who reserved the booth, chatted with fairgoers while the other protesters were kept outside.

The competing activities in Minnesota underscore the challenge that Black Lives Matter faces as it evolves from social media hashtag to full-blown movement. Its fluid, organic nature generates confusion about exactly who is in charge, who can legitimately speak for the group, and even whether it can be blamed for violence that some say may have been inspired by its rhetoric.

Tracing its roots to the fatal 2012 shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Florida, the Black Lives Matter movement

Photos Courtesy of the Associated Press gained national ground after 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.

Since then, deaths of other unarmed black males at the hands of law enforcement officers have inspired protests under the “Black Lives Matter” moniker.

Some are affiliated with the original Black Lives Matter network founded by Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza and their allies.

But some are not, although they use the slogan.

Some similarly loosely organized social movements, like Occupy Wall Street and the tea party, evolved beyond their grassroots beginnings, while some died.

Others followed the lead of the 1960s civil rights movement, which birthed groups like the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Having small nebulous

groups linked through social media and a shared cause may be enough for now, but odds are against such groups surviving for the long haul, said Deana A. Rohlinger, a Florida State University sociology professor who studies social movements and collective behavior.

Activists claiming to represent the group interrupted a speech about to be delivered

by Bernie Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate,

and met with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush.

And a Texas sheriff criticized the movement after one of his white deputies was shot and killed Friday at a Houston gas station; a black man has been charged with murder. Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman questioned whether it was spurred by anger over the killings of black men by police.

But Garza called any attempt to link the Black Lives Matter with the killing “racist and ridiculous.”

The Minneapolis march has come under criticism by police for a 30-second chant “pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon” uttered by some protesters during Saturday’s four-hour march. Rashad Turner, the lead organizer of the Black Lives Matter protest, said the chant was meant to call for similar treatment between black people and police officers.

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A&E Conkling art gallery hosts new exhibit

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“679 (feat. Remy Boyz)” by Fetty Wap, Remy Boyz DANCE Photo by Debora Kouame DEBORA KOUAME Staff Writer What do Bradley Coulter, David Hamlow, Ellen Schofield, Amy Toscani, and Joshua Winkler have in common?

Any guesses? They currently have their artwork showcased at the Conkling Gallery, and they are all new Minnesota State Mankato art faculty! I went to the opening reception on Monday, August 31st at the Conkling Gallery. First of all, it was a great way to interview the faculty/ artists about their work, but

also printed on the flyers was the word “reception,” which strangely rhymes with every student’s favorite words: free food. The pita chips and hummus were to die for, but I believe for this time my appreciation for art took over the desire to fill my growling stomach.

As I entered the Conkling Gallery, I was amazed by how eclectic the artwork was. The art works were all different from each other but they still completed each other. As the faculty welcomed their new members, I was staring at the

different artworks, and let’s be honest, I was enjoying some pita chips as well. The first thing that grasped my attention at the art exhibition was a set of beautiful and colorful 3-D shapes and flowers.

At first sight, they looked like random shapes and flowers, but as I looked closer, I could see that the empty space between the shapes were abbreviated states names. It was neat, well adjoined, and very geometrical, but the flowers brought some roundness to the different sets and balanced them out. For this

art piece, the artists used the laser technique, a paper cutting technique whereby laser technology is utilized to cut away certain unmasked areas of the paper. The cutting is a result of the exposure of the paper to the laser ray, which actually evaporates the paper. Ellen Schofield and David Hamlow, the author of the art works, state, “In graphic design, the art is often flat but lasers allow the creation

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Dedication ceremony to be held for local sculpture

MATTHEW EBERLINE A&E Editor On Friday, September 11, 2015, the City Center Partnership and the Twin Rivers Council for the Arts will hold a dedication ceremony for the sculpture called “G-0048” at 10:00 am on the lawn of the Intergovernmental Center in Mankato. The sculpture, cre-

ated by artist Greg Mueller, is a bench composed of Kasota Stone and steel fragments collected from the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001.

Originally purchased by All American Foods in 2014, the sculpture was donated back to the city of Mankato and will be permanently installed on the Intergovernmental Center lawn located at 10 Civic Center Plaza, Mankato.

Each year, the City Center Partnership and Twin Rivers Council for the Arts host the CityArt Walking Sculpture Tour, a year-long collaborative project exhibiting a number of unique outdoor sculptures located around the Mankato and North Mankato

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ART Continued from page 11

Photos by Debora Kouame of a dimensional composition”. The technique may sound complicated, but it is totally worth it because their work is a delight for the eyes.

Not only had I learned that lasers could serve another purpose than being featured in a Star Wars movie, but also that cornflake boxes

and eye drop bottles could serve an artistic purpose. David Hamlow, one of the new faculty/artist, used recycled cupboards to create artistic

items. According to David, “We consume a lot, but fail to notice how our consumption rhythm yields a considerable amount of waste. This artwork represents more than 20 years of consumption.”

David’s approach is interesting to the extent that it could be a great alternative to recycling. I liked the fact that he showcased different articles that we usually don’t pay attention to, such as a plastic spoon or a piece of rubber.

To me, his work was an eye opener, an appeal to reevaluate the importance that we give to material possession.

I also had a talk with another faculty member, Amy Toscani. When I asked her if there was a meaning behind her work she said “Art does not need a backstory, every

piece of art is influenced and is a reflection of other people’s work and a thousands of other pieces”. Her words made me understand why the art featured where all different in style and techniques, but completing each other in an aesthetic manner.

Overall, the new faculty members are talented and up to date with the new art techniques. More importantly, they are looking forward to sharing their knowledge and talent with the students.

I would summarize my experience in three words: eye-opening, fun, and different. Don’t take my words for granted, the art faculty work is featured in the exhibit, on display, at 139 Nelson Hall, the Conkling Gallery from 9am to 4pm until September

Fox News anchor to sue over toy likeness PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that shares her name — and possibly even her resemblance.

Harris Faulkner sued Hasbro this week over its plastic Harris Faulkner hamster, sold as part of the Pawtucket, Rhode Island-based company’s popular Littlest Pet Shop line. She says the toy wrongfully appropriates her name and persona, harms her professional credibility as a journalist and is an insult.

“Hasbro’s portrayal of Faulkner as a rodent is demeaning and insulting,” says the lawsuit, which was

filed Monday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey.

Faulkner has been at Fox News for a decade.

She hosts the daytime show “Outnumbered” and anchors a Sunday evening newscast.

Her lawsuit says that in addition to sharing her name, the toy bears a physical resemblance to Faulkner’s traditional professional appearance, including its complexion, eye shape and eye makeup design.

The Harris Faulkner toy was introduced in 2014, according to the lawsuit, and was sold in a package as the pet hamster of a terrier named Benson Detwyler.

Other toys in the popular

line include animals named Pancakes Watkins, Puffball Petrovsky and Pepper Clark.

The lawsuit says Faulkner never gave permission for Hasbro to use her name or likeness and that she even demanded in January that Hasbro stop using it. More than three weeks later, it was still for sale on Hasbro’s website, the lawsuit contends. It says that as of July, Faulkner’s name was still being used on a Hasbro website to sell Littlest Pet Shop products, and the plastic hamster that bears her name can still be bought at other online retail stores.

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Last Titanic lunch menu up for auction Antique is estimated to sell for $50,000 to $70,000.

Photos Courtesy of The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The Titanic’s last lunch menu — saved by a passenger who climbed aboard the socalled “Money Boat” before the ocean liner went down — is going to auction, where it’s estimated it will bring $50,000 to $70,000.

The online New York auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs is offering the menu and two other previously unknown artifacts from Lifeboat 1 on Sept. 30. The auction marks the 30th anniversary of the wreckage’s discovery at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Abraham Lincoln Salomon

was one of a handful of firstclass passengers who boarded the lifeboat — dubbed the “Money Boat” or “Millionaire’s Boat” by the press because of unfounded rumors one of them bribed seven crew members to quickly row the boat away from the sinking ship rather than rescue others.

The menu, which listed corned beef, dumplings and other savory items, is signed on the back in pencil by another first-class passenger, Isaac Gerald Frauenthal, who escaped on another lifeboat.

It’s believed the two men lunched together that fateful

day in 1912.

Salomon also took away a printed ticket from the Titanic’s opulent Turkish baths, which recorded a person’s weight when seated in a specially designed upholstered lounge chair. It bears the names of three of the five other first-class passengers with him on Lifeboat 1. One of four weighing-chair tickets known to exist, it’s estimated it will bring $7,500 to $10,000.

The third artifact is a letter written by Mabel Francatelli to Salomon on New York’s Plaza Hotel stationery six months after the disaster.

She had climbed into the No. 1 lifeboat with her employer, aristocratic fashion designer Lucy Duff-Gordon and her Scottish husband Lord Cosmo Duff-Gordon, who it was alleged bribed the crew to row them to safety in the boat that had a capacity of 40.

The Duff-Gordons, who were the only passengers to testify about the disaster, were cleared by the British Wreck Commissioner’s inquiry, which determined that they did not deter the crew from attempting to rescue other people but that others might have been saved if the boat had turned around.

A letter by Lady Duff-Gordon grumbling about the “disgraceful” treatment they received from the press and public upon their return to England sold at an auction in Boston earlier this year for nearly $12,000.

“We do hope you have now quite recovered from the terrible experience,” Francatelli wrote to Salomon.

“I am afraid our nerves are still bad, as we had such trouble & anxiety added to our already awful experience by the very unjust inquiry when we arrived in London.” It’s estimated it will sell for $4,000 to $6,000.

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Everest opens the Venice Film Festival Initial reviews on film thriller seem largely positive so far.

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Jake Gyllenhaal and Jason Clarke lead the cast but the mountain is the star of “Everest,” a high-altitude thriller that opened the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.

Based on real events, Baltasar Kormakur’s film follows two expeditions caught in a blizzard while attempting to reach the summit in 1996.

Shot in 3-D and on the super-sized IMAX format, the film is a nerve-shredding, life-or-death battle between the mountain and the windwhipped, snow-blinded, oxygen-deprived climbers.

Some live and some die, but as one character notes, “the last word always belongs to the mountain.”

“Part of telling the story is telling it in the elements,” said Kormakur, who took his cast high into the Himalayas and imported snow to England’s Pinewood Studios in his quest for authenticity.

“The story happened in the elements.”

Kormakur, director of the Icelandic indie classic “101 Reykjavik” and the Hollywood action comedy “2 Guns,” said growing up in sub-Arctic Iceland made him especially suited for the job.

“I trained for this film every day when I went to school, basically in a blizzard, as a kid,” he told reporters Wednesday ahead of the movie’s red-carpet premiere.

The film focuses on New Zealand climber Rob Hall (Clarke) and American moun-

Director Baltasar Kormakur and actor Jake Gyllenhaal. taineer Scott Fischer (Gyllenhaal), who pioneered commercial expeditions on Everest. Both are depicted as passionate climbers who, perhaps unwittingly, unleashed a lethal combination of money, hubris and nature.

The film is implicitly critical of the Everest climbing industry, which has seen several thousand people scale the mountain in the last two decades and more than 250 die. But Kormakur says he understands the “almost animalistic” desire to pit oneself against the peak.

“In some ways you get the most real version of yourself,” he said. “You get to the core of who you are.”

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Written by William Nicholson, the co-writer of “Gladiator,” and Simon Beaufoy, whose scripts include endurance saga “127 Hours,” the film brutally depicts the effects of high altitude on the body.

Kormakur put his cast through grueling paces, filming in Italy’s Dolomites and near Everest base camp, more than 5,300 meters (17,000 feet) above sea level.

“People started getting really sick at that point,” Kormakur said. “And we had to evacuate people with a helicopter pretty quickly.”

“I think Jake worded it very well when he said there’s a difference between pain and

injury. I put them through a lot of pain, but no injury,” he said.

Josh Brolin, who plays a member of Hall’s expedition, said the pain and deprivation forged camaraderie among the cast — though they initially didn’t know what they were in for.

“A lot of directors say, we want to do this for real, we want to bring you in the elements, we want it to be you against nature,” he said.

“And most of them aren’t telling the truth.”

“Everest” — which features Keira Knightley and Emily Watson in supporting roles — is not among the 21 films competing for prizes

at the festival, which runs to Sept. 12.

But the opening-night slot carries considerable cachet, and pressure. The last two Venice openers — “Gravity” in 2013 and “Birdman” in 2014 — went on to multiple Academy Awards.

Early reviews of “Everest” were largely positive. The Hollywood Reporter called it “gripping and immersive,” while London’s Time Out praised the “astonishing” craft of Kormakur’s 3-D spectacular. The film also has a tragic timeliness, opening months after an April earthquake in Nepal killed almost 9,000 people, including 19 mountaineers.

The 1996 Everest disaster has been the subject of several books, including John Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air,” and debate still rages about whether mistakes were made

by Hall and Fischer.

Gyllenhaal said depicting real people and events brought “tremendous responsibility.” He said Scott Fischer’s children had contacted him, “a bit worried about how their father might be portrayed.”

“It was actually a beautiful thing to sit down with the two of them and hear who their father was to them,” Gyllenhaal said.

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Sports American League award picks

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FOOTBALL VIKINGS September August 29, 3, 2015 2015 Mavericks.

Vikings....................................... .............................. 35 28

September 1, 2015 UMD..........................................

Cowboys..................................14 21

VOLLEYBALL TWINS Twins...............8 September August 28, 11, 2015 2015 White Sox. ...6

Mavericks.

Twins..............................................3 .............................. 35 Maryville Astros..........................................0 University.......... 21 August 28, 2015 Tigers.............6 CROSS Twins..............................................3 ............5 Royals.

COUNTRY Astros..........................................0

TOMMY WIITA Staff Writer As we are descending into September baseball, the award races are heating up in the American League. There are some faces that we have not seen before mentioned in these races, as well as some familiar faces making a difference this season. A few players have made tremendous impacts on their respectable teams’ success, and others are unfortunately surrounded by a losing organization. Here are my opinionated picks for this year’s hardware-winning ballplayers.

September 20, 2015 Mavericks. ..............................

35 August 28, 2015 UMD.......................................... 21 Twins..............................................3 Astros..........................................0

Dodgers........2 GOLF Giants.............1 September 11, 2015

Mavericks............................... 35 Maryville University.......... 21

Dallas Keuchel has been great for Astros with his 2.24 ERA AL Comeback Player of the Year: Manny Machado, Third baseman, Baltimore

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Orioles This has become one of the tighter races we have

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NEXT UP: FOOTBALL September 3, 12, 2015 2015 UMD @ Northern State Aberdeen,Stadium Blakeslee SD

The rise and fall of RG3

VOLLEYBALL September 4, 17,2015 2015 @ University Winona State ofUniversity Findlay Taylor Center Golden, Colorado

CROSS COUNTRY September 27, 2015 @ Augie Twilight Roy Griak Invitational Sioux Falls, SD Minneapolis, MN

GOLF September 18, 2015

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer 2012 doesn’t feel that long gone, yet at same time it feels like decades ago. Especially when it comes to Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. At one time heralded as the savior of the Redskins franchise, he is now looked at as just about anything but that. Through triumph, potential, injuries, coaching disputes, and benchings the man known as RG3 is currently one of the most polarizing figures in sports. But just how did we get to this point?

Before the 2012 draft

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RG3 won Rookie of the Year over Andrew Luck in 2012. started there were two obvious choices that were going to get taken at the top, Andrew Luck and RG3. As history would have it the Colts would choose to take Andrew Luck to lead them in their post-Peyton era. The only question that remained was where would RG3 go?

The St. Louis Rams, who originally were in the number two spot, already had their QB in Sam Bradford so it was no secret that if a team wanted RG3 their pick was up for grabs. Cue the Redskins.

In desperate need of a franchise QB, Washington’s management saw that in RG3.

Photo Courtesy of newsday.com The team would go all in to move up in the draft, giving up a whopping three first round picks, and a second

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RG3 continued from 15 “Before the 2012 draft started there were two obvious choices that were going to get taken at the top, Andrew Luck and RG3.” round pick to snag the number two spot from St. Louis.

All seemed well in Washington.

ratio from a rookie as well.

He would end the season on the highest of notes, defeating franchise archenemy

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RG3 started off his rookie campaign showing exactly why Washington would want to give up all that they did for him. A season full of highlights, including a 76 yard touchdown run that Minnesota Vikings fans would rather forget, he ended the season breaking the record for highest quarterback rating from a rookie, and had the best touchdown to interception

Dallas Cowboys, and leading the team to the playoffs. The icing on the cake was being named the Offensive Rookie of the Year. Things could only go downhill from there.

In December of his rookie campaign RG3 suffered a knee injury, but in a sport where quarterbacks are often unfairly judged by their toughness (see Jay Cutler) he continued to play on.

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This would only make things worse, and in their playoff game it showed. After a visibly showing that he was hurt, he was taken to the back, only to return just to have his knee buckle. Does the blame get placed on RG3 for thinking he could come back, or then coach Mike Shanahan for not pulling him from the game?

RG3’s knee was a wreck, with it being reported that he tore his LCL, ACL and meniscus. This would cause him to miss out on playing in the Pro Bowl, and all he could do was look to rebound in 2013.

In the movies this is where the feel good comeback story would start, but this is no movie. After missing out on all of the pre season due to still recovering from injury, RG3 failed to recapture the magic of his rookie season.

Not only would he have to deal with the sophomore slump, he would be caught in the crossfire of a very public falling out between Redskins owner Dan Snyder and Coach Shanahan. It even escalated to RG3 and Shanahan taking shots at each other in the public eye. All this would culminate in RG3 being benched for the last 3 games of the season in favor of Kirk Cousins. Shanahan would say it was to help preserve

the health, but it was no secret Shanahan was unpleased with him.

Shanahan would end up being fired, thus making way for Jay Gruden to take his place.

The 2014 season would not show to be any better, as in week two RG3 would fall to yet another injury. This time it was a dislocated ankle, and he would not see any action until week 8. His return didn’t last long, as he was benched yet again, this time for Colt McCoy. Gruden would take the Shanahan approach, and publicly dismiss RG3. Even wide receiver DeSean Jackson would make headlines after he posted a picture quote on instagram that read “you can do epic shit with basic people”, an apparent shot at RG3.

McCoy would also fall to injury though, and RG3 was primed for yet another return.

This time he would end the season on a high note, but sadly that high wouldn’t last.

In week two of the 2015 preseason, RG3 would suffer a concussion against the Detroit Lions. Despite it being an early preseason game, he played four possessions, and Gruden left him in to get hit 6 of 8 times he dropped back before the injury. After

Gruden said RG3 would start the next game, doctors advised differently and RG3 was forced to sit out. Kirk Cousins would go on to start against the Ravens, and subsequently the starting spot was named his after.

Now, we’re at a crossroads. After two coaches that pretty clearly didn’t want him, and arguably put him in situations where was bound to fail, RG3 is left in a tough situation. Does he quietly accept his role on the bench, or campaign to be shipped off somewhere else? The answer seems clear. The once bright future of RG3 in Washington is over. Even if he never fulfills the great potential of his rookie year, a new environment is needed. At this point it isn’t a matter of IF RG3 will be gone from Washington, but more of a matter of WHEN. All we can do as fans is sit back, and hope that the once poised for greatness quarterback can find a home where he is welcome, and somehow finds what made him great once again.

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“A few players have made tremendous impacts on their respectable teams’ success, and others are unfortunately surrounded by a losing organization” season and his stats suggest he is hitting his stride. He is on pace to have a career best RBI total (71 in 2013, 66 in 2015), career best batting average (.290), on-base percentage (.355), slugging percentage (.496), homeruns (26) and on-base plus slugging percentage (.851). According to FanGraphs, Manny Machado has also saved the Orioles 16 runs which leads the American League. He is the true definition of “Comeback Player of the Year.”

AL Manager of the Year: A.J. Hinch, Houston Astros The key factor when considering this award is consistency. Ned Yost’s Kansas City Royals look even better than his World Series team last year, but that was sort of expected out of the club. John Gibbons’ Toronto Blue Jays have been dismantling teams

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Photo Courtesy of baltimoresun.com Machado’s .290 average and 71 RBI would be a career highs seen this season. It looked as if New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez was going to be a clear-cut winner after missing basically two years. The case could also be made for Prince Fielder of the Texas Rangers, Machado’s teammate in Chris Davis and Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira. Rodriguez has come

back stronger than most expected, as he has been one of the key veterans to have the Yankees as the number one seeded wild card team going into September.

Chris Davis has blasted 36 homeruns this season, after a down 2014 season. Both Fielder and Teixeira have bounced back to the players

they once were after being sidelined by injuries last season.

Machado stands out as the most respectable however, as he is a classic two-way player that makes a difference in a game with either a glove on or a bat in his hand. After only playing 82 games last season, Machado has played 132 this

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Twins’ Sano stormed into MLB MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Torii Hunter, Minnesota's 40-year-old right fielder in his 17th full major league season, was at the plate last week with the bases loaded.

Miguel Sano, the rookie slugger, was shouting more than simple encouragement from the dugout.

He was giving Hunter hitting advice.

"Make him come to you!

Make him come to you!" Sano bellowed, cautioning Hunter against chasing a pitch outside the strike zone.

Twins manager Paul Molitor called the scene "a little bit comical," the way the 22-year-old Sano earnestly warned Hunter to be patient.

"But it was good, because I think how he was thinking Torii should be thinking was how he thinks when he's the guy doing that," Molitor said, "which is not easy to do when you're a young guy in a big situation."

The Twins have put Sano in plenty of those big spots already in his not-quite-twomonth-long career, and the broad-shouldered Dominican has delivered more than his share of big hits.

In just 49 games, Sano has 13 doubles, 13 home runs, 40 RBIs and a whopping .989 on-base-plus-slugging percentage while facing a majority of off-speed pitches. He hasn't played enough to officially qualify, but the only American League hitter

Photo Courtesy of Associated Press with 50 or more at-bats and a better OPS percentage than Sano is two-time AL MVP Miguel Cabrera.

Called up at the beginning of July from Double-A Chattanooga, Sano might not have enough time to beat out front-runner and Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa for the AL Rookie of the Year award. Still, a better prize for Sano would be powering the Twins to an AL wild card. With a 67-63 record, the Twins were 1 1/2 games behind Texas for the second spot before the Rangers played Monday night.

Cabrera, now with the Detroit Tigers, won a World Series as a rookie at age 20 with the Marlins. That got Hunter daydreaming, as much of a long shot the Twins might be to make it that far.

Sano's discipline at the plate, despite never playing in Triple-A, has made the Twins the most proud.

Though his 74 strikeouts in 206 plate appearances are alarmingly high, a rate putting him on pace to lead the major leagues while playing a full season, Sano has shown discipline beyond his years.

He has 33 walks, roughly one every six times he steps in the batter's box. With an average of 4.34 pitches per plate appearance, Sano is behind only Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout (4.39) among AL players with 200 or more plate appearances.

"Every at-bat I try to read the pitcher and try to look for my pitch," Sano said recently.

"When they make a mistake I need to make them pay for that."

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With Trevor Plouffe at third base and Joe Mauer at first base, the Twins have used Sano mostly as a designated hitter. His 6-foot-4 and 260-pound frame has shaped the perception that's his permanent role, but the

Twins have long touted his sufficient athletic ability to be a long-term corner infielder once there's an opening. He was signed at age 16 as a shortstop, after all.

Sano's legacy will ultimately be with the bat, though, no matter how he fares in the field. Again, Sano hasn't yet collected enough at-bats to qualify, but his .287 batting average is by far the best for the Twins.

"He's going to get his home runs by being a good hitter," Molitor said. "When he gets a little greedy, sometimes he's been paying a price for that. I wouldn't blame him with that skill set to try to take a shot now and then, but just being a good hitter is what's making him valuable."

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AL Picks continued from 17 “Machado stands out as the most respectable however, as he is a classic two-way player that makes a difference in a game with either a glove on or a bat in his hand.” since the All-Star Break.

Even Paul Molitor’s Minnesota Twins has received the respect he very well should for having the Twins in the postseason hunt in his first year managing. Then there is

award.

AL Rookie of the Year: Carlos Correa, Shortstop, Houston Astros The first thing many will think here is “What about Miguel Sano?” Sano, the third

Donaldson’s 29 go-head hits leads MLB. the consistent pace we have seen all year from manager A.J. Hinch of the Houston Astros. His squad has over-performed with the mix of raw, young talent, and terrific starting pitching during his first season with Houston.

Gibbons would have more of a chance to win the award, but the trades involving Troy Tulowitzki and David Price are credited to Toronto’s General Manager Alex Anthopoulos.

Hinch has turned a team that lost 93 games last season to a team that will be a legitimate threat come playoffs. That is enough to credit him with this

The former number one overall pick in the 2012 MLB Draft, Correa has easily made quite the impact for the Astros. He is batting .279, with 16 homeruns (most ever by a shortstop before his 21st

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baseman/designated hitter for the Minnesota Twins has been on a monster tear since he has been called up to the majors in July. The only problem is: he was called up in July. Give Sano more atbats, and this race could have been neck and neck until the last game of the regular season. Other names such as Billy Burns of the Oakland Athletics, Roberto Osuna of the Toronto Blue Jays and Francisco Lindor of the Cleveland Indians could be mentionable for the award. Carlos Correa stands out as a superstar inthe-making.

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birthday) and has the highest on-base plus slugging percentage for a 20 year-old shortstop since Alex Rodriguez did in 1996. Correa continues to get praises from all over the league, and the potential he obtains has no ceiling.

AL Cy Young Award: Dallas Keuchel, Houston Astros To be honest, this award could be a toss-up between Dallas Keuchel of the Houston Astros, and Sonny Gray of the Oakland Athletics. The A’s have not seen much this season to cheer about, but Gray has been completely

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dominant on the hill. Through September 1st, the righty has a 12-6 record with a league best 2.13 earned run average.

He also has held opposing batters to the lowest batting average in the league, at .201.

The biggest reason why Keuchel beats him out is simply for the fact that Houston is playoff bound, and Oakland could finish in last place in the same division this season. Keuchel does not win the award based solely on that; the southpaw is 16-6, with a 2.24 ERA. Keuchel has been one of the more consistent starters this season as well, and is really starting to show how much talent he truly has.

Others like David Price of the Toronto Blue Jays, Chris Sale of the Chicago White Sox, teammate to Keuchel Scott Kazmir, and Chris Archer of the Tampa Bay Rays should all get their respects when considering the award, but Keuchel deserves this one.

AL MVP Award: Josh Donaldson, Third baseman, Toronto Blue Jays This award will take the rest of the season to determine. Josh Donaldson of the Toronto Blue Jays is having a spectacular season, but it is Trout’s MVP to lose. The biggest factor going into voting this season will be about who makes the playoffs and who does not. As of September 1st, the Angels trail 3.5

games of the second wild card spot. The Blue Jays have a 1.5 game lead on the New York Yankees for the American League East Division.

Donaldson has had a lot to do with the North Side’s success, and that may be considered as an advantage for Donaldson to win the MVP over Trout. The numbers are very similar to each other: TROUT: .296 AVG, 33 HR, 74 RBI, .397 OBP, .574 SLG, .971 OPS DONALDSON: .301 AVG, 36 HR, 108 RBI, .369 OBP, .584 SLG, .953 OPS The stats may suggest Donaldson could be a clearcut winner, but Trout’s defense is unmatched to anyone else in baseball. Donaldson may have the edge however as it is getting down to the wire in the last month of regular season baseball. Trout for the month of August hit just .218, and Donaldson has not missed a step. The item of importance to note when deciding the Most Valuable player is coming through in the clutch. With a league leading 29 go-ahead run producing hits, Josh Donaldson is the guy you want at the plate in those situations. Unless Trout can have a historic month of September, we may be seeing our first MVP in Toronto since George Bell won it in 1987.

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