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Pridefest returns to Mankato area “Shine Bright” will light up the community

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South Central Minnesota Pride will be hosting its thirteenth annual Pridefest this weekend, September 5-7, in Mankato. This year’s celebration, themed “Shine Bright,” promotes visibility, pride and outreach for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied community through activities and events.

The group, SCMN Pride, creates events yearround centered on LGBT awareness, but Pridefest is the organization’s biggest celebration.

Festival Committee leader, Jessica Flatequal, stated,

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“Pridefest is a celebration of the courage and spirit of every single person who found the strength to come out and live an honest and true life.”

As to this year’s theme, “Shine Bright,” Flatequal said it “demonstrates how Mankato Pridefest serves as a beacon of hope for all the folks who would love to come out, but just aren’t ready yet.”

Pridefest will begin with an annual Pride Parade this Saturday, September 6. The groups line up at 10:30 AM and begin to step off at 11:30 AM. The route they will follow is down Riverfront Drive from Mulberry Street to the final Pridefest location at Riverfront Park.

At the parade’s arrival, noon, the festival will begin. Local exhibitors, kid’s activities and crafts, sponsored by Little

Stars Daycare, will fuel the all-ages celebration until 5:00 p.m. Refreshments from Jake’s Pizza, WowZone, Hy Vee, Friessen’s Bakery and Chenelle’s Citrus Stand will be offered for purchase, including alcoholic beverages for those over 21.

The main stage will offer live music throughout the afternoon and entertainer drag diva Gosh Alice Jones. Believe Music Productions has partnered with Pridefest to bring the stage several great bands. The Key of Joy, a Colorado Spring’s band, will begin the line up followed by performances from City of the Weak and The David Yellen Band. Afternoon shows end with Gender Bending performances.

The festival continues with the Pride Dance at 8:00PM at the Morson-Ario VFW. Tickets

are available for purchase at the Coffee Hag for $5 and will be $7 at the door. Guests must be 18 to attend and 21 or older to drink.

“Shine Bright” Pridefest is open to all individuals LGBTidentified, their families and allies. This festival is dedicated to Mankato PFLAG, who, Carol Hansen, a member, said for the group, “We are looking forward to being an even bigger part of Pridefest this year”. To demonstrate their commitment to the festival, members of PFLAG will be passing out miniature rainbows during the parade.

Pridefest hopes for a great thirteenth year in Mankato.

Flatequal stated, “We know their struggle and we want them to know, they are not alone”.

SCMN Pride’s top sponsors this year are Minnesota State

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University, Mankato’s LGBT Center and Women’s Center, the City of Mankato, Swanson Hinsch & Co., Lavender Magazine, the Rainbow Health Initiative, and Jean Burkhart.

Additional sponsors include Cactus Tattoo, Dar Vosburg Realty Executives, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, St. John’s Episcopal, Pub 500, Keeper’s RV, Chelsley Kroon, Harvey and Carpenter Law Firm, Journey Towards Healing, Urban Birth, Angie’s Kettle Corn, Urban Birth and numerous community members.

Information can be found around campus in the LGBT center or visit scmnpride.org for more information including a detailed schedule of events, hotel reservations, exhibitor information, directions and maps.

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North Korean capital receives rejuvenation Pyongyang revisited YUSEONG JEON Staff Writer

North Korea’s capital, Pyongyang, is getting modernized. The city has developed incredibly within a short amount of time. New buildings and an amusement parks will replace the old and dismal city. Now, it is even hard to believe that Pyongyang is a city in North Korea, considering its poor economy.

No more than a few years before, even though Pyongyang is the capital city of North Korea, almost all of the cities in the country were devastated because of the poor domestic economy, deriving from its closed economic policy.

However, Pyongyang is being changed. The city is becoming alive. There are a bunch of new modern buildings being built in the city. A giant water park was recently settled. According to a recent foreign visitor of the city, there were also many expensive imported cars on the streets, such as Lexus sports, late models of BMWs, and Audis.

Even the way people wear clothes in the city is changing in a more modern and luxurious way, reflecting on the ongoing development of North Korea.

Many of North Korean women in Pyongyang wear very fashionable clothes, with fancy accessories and shiny heels.

Now they appear as modern girls, which would’ve been hard to picture for North Korean women.

The capital, Pyongyang, is currently being developed that the city is even unrecognizable compared to the one a few years ago.

However, while the capital

is changing its appearance so rapidly into a modern city, the rest of the areas in North Korea still remain extremely devastated.

The problem is the North Korean government does not aid other people in the rural areas at all. Most of people besides the one living in the capital are still suffering from hunger, disease, and unbelievably low life quality.

Considering that most of Pyongyang citizens are the main politicians or family or decedents of the leader Kim Jung-Eun in the communist country, this shows clearly that the gap between rich and poor, or the gap between politicians and general public citizens in North Korea. This is only worsening.

Moreover, the unfair economic disparity also exists within the capital. Even in Pyongyang, the signs of poverty can be found on the edge of the city.

Evans Revere, a former U.S. diplomat with a long career spent dealing with North Korea, stated that the current North Korea’s policy is just for showcasing their stable economy to the international society, which does not reflect the reality in the country at all.

“The theme parks, amusement parks, water parks, equestrian parks — these are all directed at the elite, while people in the rest of North Korea are not doing well at all,” Revere said. “The regime is making every effort to present an image of economic success.”

What is even worse, although the fancy city is apparently misleading people, the general publics in North Korea truly believe that their economic growth is widespread throughout

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MSU to host blood drive Upward Bound leads blood drive efforts ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer

Minnesota State University, Mankato, Upward Bound and the Red Cross will be sponsoring their first of a four blood drives throughout the 2014-2015 school year.

On Monday, September 8, the MSU Ballroom will host the blood drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

A majority of the blood donated will go to those in the area who are in need.

George Corey, director of Upward Bound, expressed the need for donations this time of year.

“The blood supply is low right now. You don’t see as many donations in the summer, with every on vacation or out and about,” Corey said. “And it is also a big time for accidents.

Now is the time of the year when we try to get all of the students back.”

Students shouldn’t worry about missing class. The whole process usually takes less than an hour, depending on what time of the day students show up. The biggest rush of the day usually comes around lunch time, from 12 to 1 pm.

“It usually takes between 40 to 50 minutes, depending on how many donors are in line,” Corey said. “However, if students come earlier in the morning, before the big rush, it’s possible to get in an out in less than half an hour.”

This is the first of four blood drives the university has hosted annually throughout the school year for more than 15 years.

The other drives take place in November, February and June.

A good majority of the blood donated at the drive will go to victims from the surrounding area. The blood drive’s regional chapter covers the counties of Blue Earth, Brown, Cottonwood, Eastern Nicollet, Faribault, McLeod, Redwood, Renville, Sibley and Watonwan, and the North Central Blood Region, responsible for Red Cross blood donations throughout the Midwest, is headquartered in St. Paul, Minn.

Gladys Barbeau, an administrative assistant with Upward Bound, has been involved with blood drives on MSU’s campus for the past ten years.

“I never donated until I got involved with this. It was kind of like reverse peer-pressure. If those college kids can do it, so

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can I,” Barbeau said.

There are few restrictions to donors. According to the Red Cross website, donors must be at least 17 years old, 110 lbs and in general good health.

“The main cause for denial are past international travel,” Corey said. “But that is only a few countries, and hopefully shouldn’t affect many students.”

Donors who choose to make a “single” donation, must wait 56 days in between donations.

Donors who choose to make a “double” donation, must wait 112 days in between donations, both of which Upward Bound takes into account.

“We space out the donations so donors have enough time to recover in between,” Barbeau said. “We have next year’s drives with the Red Cross already planned.”

Anyone who wishes to donate can make appointments by calling Upward Bound’s office at 507-389-1211, or by visiting www.redcrossblood.org, website of the Red Cross.

“It’s such a good cause,” Barbeau said. “It takes just a little bit of your time. You don’t realize how many people and places benefit from these drives until you start working them.”

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Save the Kasota Prairie, Prairie Restorations, Inc., and Unimin Corporation are extending a free public invitation to visit Unimin Kasota Prairie site.

The public is invited to tour the prairie, learn the importance of these special grasslands, and view the progress being made in restoring the area. Guided tours by professionals in prairie restoration and wildlife preservation will be available from 8am to Noon.

Directions to the Kasota Prairie: Approximately 1.5 miles south of the City of Kasota on Le Sueur County Highway 21, go west on 480th Street 1.5 miles, turn north on 367th Avenue for approximately 1 mile to Kasota Prairie parking lot.

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Gender dysphoria: a growing dysfunction

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Web Photo Photo shows Wyatt, on the left, and Jonas, on the right. They were born identical boy twins, and Wyatt decided to transition into a female.

‘Supprelin’ is an implant that goes in the arm and provides enough hormones to block puberty for a year. It’s a thin, inch-long capsule filled with the hormone stuff. With this, girls who long to be boys may avoid developing breasts and other methods of maturation, and boys wanting to be girls evade facial hair and other pubescent

nuances.

This growing swell of children who seek early gender reassignment suffer from a condition known as “gender dysphoria.”

According to the DSM, gender dysphoria is the “conflict between a person’s physical gender and the gender he or she identifies as.”

Dr. Olson tells CBS News that the number of people with this odd condition has had a 330 percent increase over the year of 2013. Estimated, it effects 0.5 percent of the adult population, or 700,000 Americans.

Who’s to say why this condition is suddenly poking its

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“Should children young children be able to decide what gender they are?”

JENNA DUSKE, ENGLISH EDUCATION “Yes, I think they should be able to.”

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In a land of freedom, controversy proceeds. While some new scandalous trend is emerging every day, there’s one particular LGBT (famed for their questionable morals) fad that is hitting the surface: transgendered children.

This one has republicans dazed and confused and parents wrapped in knots. Children as young as five years old are being given the chance to choose which gender they’d like to mirror. In this, parents allow their daughters or sons to wear the opposite sex clothing, and they take further measures to present the appropriate gender’s style, i.e. long or short hair, or in older ages, makeup.

It’s arguable to say that there should be no borderline for people and what they do, and all should be able to choose what they wear and do with their hair and faces limitlessly, but it is clear that parents and their children are going for choosing between a boy or a girl for their everyday life. In fact, in ages as young as eleven, parents have taken steps to insuring that puberty is stinted for their children by administering a certain drug.

For Dr. Olson, a specialist in this bizarre condition in Los Angeles, it is called ‘Supprelin.’

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IKTHEDAR CHOWDHURY, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING “I don’t think so.”

CEZAR TEIXEIRA, CIVIL ENGINEERING “Once they’re born they’re either a boy or a girl, so I don’t think they have a choice.”

DARIUS SWEAREGENE, UNDECIDED “Yes. I don’t see why not.”

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BARSHA SHRESTHA IT “No, I don’t think they will have a strong decision making capability at that age.”

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TRANSGENDER “In reported cases of gender dysphoria, 89 percent of children experience harassment at school or other social venues. ”

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Web Photo ISIS Agent stands with Sotloff while giving his latest message to Obama, just before beheading Sotloff,

BROOKE EMMONS Staff Writer Just thirteen days after the execution of American journalist, James Foley, by the Islamic State, they have proven to stand by their threats by taking the life of another American journalist, Steven Sotloff.

Sotloff, a thirty one year old freelance journalist from south Florida, was taken captive in August of 2013 while reporting in Syria. Prior to this he informed friends at home that he was afraid he was on a list by extremist group, ISIS. His family took a quiet approach to negotiating with the ISIS from the start. They stayed out of media, requesting no reporting on Sotloff’s state for the past year, until last week.

After Foley’s execution, ISIS displayed an image of a Sotloff, threatening to execute him if Americans continued with their airstrikes against the group in the area. Sotloff’s mother, Shirley Sotloff, pleaded with ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, to return her son saying, “You, the caliph, can grant amnesty. I ask you please to release my child. I ask you to use your authority to spare his life.”

The terrorist group ignored Sotloff’s mother’s plea, and on

Tuesday September 2, the ISIS released a video of Sotloff’s execution. Whether the video was recorded the day it was released or not is still under investigation.

The executioner of Sotloff has many like qualities as the executioner seen in the video of Foley. Both wear the same clothes, black head to toe, with only their eyes showing. They have guns slung around their shoulders and are holding the same weapon, medium sized knife, which was used to behead the journalist. But, analysist currently believe that these in fact are not the same men, just intended to appear so. They are, however, speculated to be from the same area. Their accent leads specialists to believe the executioners are from greater London. Many extremists had previously left this area at the start of the revolution to join the ISIS. The prisoners, Foley and Sotloff, also wore the same clothing, appearing in the same orange jumpsuit. This, many analysists believe, is a statement about Islamist extremists being held captive at Guantanamo Bay, the United States base and prison in Cuba.

In the video the executioner

stated, “I’m back Obama.

And I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy toward the Islamic State.”

Sotloff, clearly distressed, stated before his death that he was “paying the price” for US intervention.

President Obama, who was traveling at the time of release, responded Wednesday morning in a press conference calling for justice. The President stated, “These horrific events only unite us.”

Obama has been known to gather all facts before making a statement and this situation is no different. By waiting until Wednesday to speak to the press, the President was able to confirm the authenticity of the video.

Obama then stated that the Islamic State has already failed, “they’ve failed because like people around the world, Americans are repulsed by their barbarism.”

The video ends with threats towards yet another journalist, British hostage, and showing him held by the collar in the same way Sotloff was held in the Foley video. But, Obama reassured, “we’re going to get it done. I’m confident of it.”

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head? Is it a matter of more children being born with this dysfunction? Is it something in our food or something in our lifestyle? Or is it merely the way of life morphing into that of a more accepting one? With the growing LGBT support, with numerous allies all across the world, it could be that people who had long suffered with this condition are coming out of the woodworks, and in turn encouraging children to do the same. Our young people are being taught that it’s most important to feel comfortable in your own skin, despite the repercussions.

In reported cases of gender dysphoria, 89 percent of children experience harassment at school or other social venues. Most children wouldn’t voluntarily choose to be picked on, so who’s to

say that these kids actually have a choice as to what skin they live in? This couldn’t be some game to them if it meant risking any friendships they once had to be the black sheep.

Many agree that the parents are to blame, as well.

But according to Cristy and Enrique, who let their son dress as a girl at six years old, they felt they had no choice.

“She was in pain,” she tells Braver with CBS News. “I don’t see that there was another option. She was uncomfortable, she was unhappy. You can’t see your child suffer like that.”

Hundreds of families like Cristy and Enrique’s will undergo this problem with their children. The next time you see it and judge, however, just think about what you would do.

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Geography Colloquium launching soon JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer Come one, come all to the Minnesota State University, Ma n k at o G e og r aphy Colloquium, starting Sept. 12.

The geography department at MSU has been with the university since day one.

Defransa Swann started the Colloquium in 1890, and is the longest running speaker series at MSU. Everyone is invited to the presentations as well as participate in the discussion after. The colloquium will be held most Fridays in Armstrong Hall, room 15, at 3 p.m. throughout the fall term. The presentations hold a variety of interesting topics that branch out to a broad audience.

“There’s a little bit for everyone,” said Dr. Donald Friend.

The first discussion on Sept.

12 is on stream restoration versus stream naturalization. Dr. Bruce Rhoads is a well-known river researcher. He has focused much of his research on river management and how to restore them. He is from the geography department at the University of Illinois.

The next colloquia will take place Sept. 26. It will include student presentations on

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geographic information systems, or G.I.S. It will also include archeological excavations in three dimensions and will be led by MSU’s department of geography graduate student Andrew Brown. The last part

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will be led by Courtney Kitzer, who is also a part of MSU’s department of geography, on mapping and analyzing historic buildings in Lincoln Park.

The Oct. 3 presentation is on the endings of the Greenlandic

Norse by Dr. Trisha Jackson.

Jackson is a part of the geography department at South Dakota State University.

Dr. Joaquin Villanueva with the department of geography at Gustavus Adolphus College will

U C w N o Yohanes Ashenafi • MSU Reporter o t be a part of the Colloquium.i Villanueva will be exploringw urban methodologies and grasping urban change on Oct.o t 10.

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North Korea holds Americans JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer

Three Americans that have been detained in North Korea had foreign media access on Monday.

The three American’s detained are calling for Washington to send out representatives to help negotiate their freedom. One of the three Americans, Kenneth Bae, has already faced trial and was sentenced to 15 years hard labor in a camp for eight hours a day. When Bae spoke with his

family he claimed that his health was failing.

Bae has a list of health problems and he has claimed that he lost 15 pounds. Bae suffers from back pain and a sleep disorder. Bae has been diagnosed with diabetes, an enlarged heart and liver problems. Bae’s family and the U.S. State Department has asked for his release on humanitarian grounds.

Bae was arrested in Nov. 2012 when leading a tour group.

He was charged and convicted of crimes against the state. He

claimed he didn’t realize before the trial he was violating any laws and refused to go into detail.

“I’m desperate to get back to them,” said Bae. North Korea claimed that the other two being held, Jeffrey Fowle and Mathew Miller, committed hostile acts. Fowle was suspected of leaving a bible at a nightclub in Chongjin.

Trying to convert people to Christianity is a crime in North Korea.

Miller entered North Korea on Apr. 10 on a tourist visa. He

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JAMES HOUTSMA Editor in Chief “Validation” is the message of the 2014 Dementia Care Conference, which takes place today, September 4.

Hosted by Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Chesley Center of Aging, the conference will feature renowned speaker Naomi Feil, who will present on her groundbreaking method of “validation”, a therapy technique meant to help better .interact with individuals dealing gwith dementia. d Feil will also provide training .on validation therapy throughout the day. The Dementia Care Conference runs from 9 7a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Verizon Wireless Center and is meant as an opportunity for nurses, psychologists, administrators, social workers and chaplains to further their education on dementia.

According to the World Health Organization, roughly 35.6

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The site also states that the costs of caring for dementia in the U.S. alone top $600 billion, with the disease taking a heavy physical, emotional and economic toll on the caregivers of those with dementia.

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tore his visa in half at the airport and shouted that he wanted to seek asylum in North Korea.

Fowle and Miller both said they are expecting to be tried within the next month. Both men do not know what charges they face nor the punishment that could befall them, according to Fox News.

Bill Clinton made trips to Pyongyang to secure the release of American citizens in the past.

It looks like North Korea is looking for another high ranking U.S. representative to make the trip out.

“The only hope that I have is to have someone from the U.S. come. But so far, the latest I’ve heard is that there has been no response yet. So I believe that officials here are waiting for that,” said Bae. Kim Jong Un is the communist dictator of North Korea. Dennis Rodman became friends with Kim and bonded over the game of basketball. Rodman used to play in the NBA for the Chicago

Bulls. Even Rodman pleaded to Kim for Bae’s release, but in an interview later on Rodman made remarks to suggest Bae was guilty.

In Dec. 2013 North Korea released an 85-year-old veteran who was arrested and charged with crimes during the 1950-53 war. The veteran was released after a videotaped confession of his crimes. The veteran claimed after his release that the confession was given against his will, but he was treated generally well while being detained.

Not many U.S. citizens travel to North Korea each year and the State Department advises against it. Since 2009 North Korea has held more than seven Americans. North Korea generally secludes itself from other countries, but recently has been trying promote tourism to bump up its economy.

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continued from 6 “Increasing transportation hazards in North America: fracking and the logistics of Bakken crude oil,” will be the topic on Oct. 17. Dr. Cynthia Miller with the department of geography at MSU will be presenting this topic.

Oct. 31 will bring the topic of glacier change, water supply, and the vulnerability of the Andean Ecuador lifestyle.

Dr. Jeff La Frenierre with the department of geography at Gustavus will explore the topic.

Nov. 7 will explore the commemoration of the after effects of the 1862 Dakota-U.S. war. Dr. Gareth John with the

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“A Geomorphic History of the Lower Chippewa River, West- Central Wisconsin,” will be presented on Nov. 14.

Dr. Douglas Faulkner with the department of geography and anthropology at University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire will present the topic.

The topic on Nov. 21 is called: “Dam Yankees: Hydropower in the Northeastern USA.” Department of economics and geography at St. Michaels College Dr. Laura Stroup will

present this topic.

The last topic will be held on Dec. 6 and is “Malaria, environment and development in Argentina.” Dr. Eric Carter with the department of geography at Macalester College will present this topic.

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Celebrity privacy abolished Jennifer Lawrence and other famous faces exposed after iCloud services are compromised in hacker attack (AP) - As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn’t what it used to be.

Whether famous or seemingly anonymous, people from all walks of life put all sorts of things online or into cloudbased storage systems, from vital financial information to the occasional nude photo. Periodic cases of hacking fuel outrage, but there’s no retreat from digital engagement or any imminent promise of guaranteed privacy.

“We have this abstract belief that privacy is important, but the way we behave online often runs counter to that,” said Nicholas Carr, whose extensive writings about the Internet include the 2010 book, “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.”

“I’d hope people would understand that anything you do online could be made public,” Carr said. “Yet there’s this illusion of security that tempers any nervousness ... It’s hard to judge risks when presented with the opportunity to do something fun.”

The latest headlines involved nude photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities which were accessed via hack-

ing and then posted online. Apple, which created the iCloud and other content-sharing systems, says individual accounts of some of the celebrities were targeted and hacked.

Privacy experts said users of online and cloud technology need not be famous to be vulnerable.

“What we’re seeing is people who innocently and in many ways naively are lulled into sharing information that they wouldn’t share with their next-door neighbor,” said Marlene Maheu, a San Diego-based psychologist whose TeleMental Health Institute trains mental health professionals in how to expand their practice online.

Maheu offers this advice in regard to anyone with privacy concerns: “Would you be comfortable sharing this information at Thanksgiving dinner? If you’re not, a red flag ought to go up.”

Worries about privacy are part of a complex attitude that many Americans have toward their digital engagement.

Even as they share more information online, they also want to better control over who can see it, according to a study last year by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American

Life Project.

According to Pew, 50 percent of Internet users were worried about the information available about them online, up from 33 percent in 2009. While 86 percent had tried at least one technique to hide their activity online or avoid being tracked, 59 percent did not believe it was possible to be completely anonymous.

Eleven percent of Internet users said important personal information had been stolen online, such as their Social Security number or bank account information, according to the study, and 21 percent said an email or social networking account had been compromised or commandeered. And those findings came before disclosures of massive credit card data breaches at Target, Home Depot and other retailers.

The Pew study, done with help from Carnegie Mellon University, was based on data from 792 Internet and smartphone users contacted by telephone by Princeton Survey Research Associates International. The margin of error was 3.8 percentage points.

The director of Pew’s Internet project, Lee Rainie, said most Americans view digital

engagement as a trade-off, deeming the benefits — including social networking and online shopping — to be worth the risks.

“They say they’re concerned about their privacy, yet they act in ways that don’t necessarily show these concerns are a high priority to them,” he said. “Old boundaries that people used to be able to attach to their identities and personal information are obliterated.”

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court came down emphatically in defense of digital-age privacy, ruling unanimously that police generally may not search the cellphones of people they arrest without first getting search warrants.

Cellphones are “not just another technological convenience,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court.

“With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans the privacies of life.”

Given such high stakes, there are multiple initiatives underway to educate consumers about threats to digital privacy and teach them ways to better protect it. For example, educators at more than a dozen top U.S. law schools have de-

veloped a curriculum aimed at equipping adolescents with a deeper understanding of the choices facing them in regard to online privacy.

Sherry Turkle, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who has written extensively about computers and technology, says she is struck by the readiness of people to put things online or into cloud systems despite possible risks.

“The experience of being on ‘your’ page — that experience of being alone with the screen — makes it hard for people to experience the truth: that they are in a fragile, relatively unprotected environment and it is not a good place to put private things,” Turkle said in an email.

“But it has become our main place to put private things. Our photos go directly to the cloud.

We feel they are there, where we want them, under our control,” she said. “That sense of privacy, in people’s minds, is not overshadowed by the reality.”

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Minnesota political races updated ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Several upcoming events on the calendar could help energize campaigns for Minnesota governor and legislative offices, driving the messages voters will hear from candidates and their allies over the next two months.

For Democrats, back-toschool week brings a chance to brag about the launch of statewide all-day kindergarten where parents aren’t hit with fees or school districts don’t have to absorb costs of the extra classroom time. Over the next month, thousands of homeowners, renters and farmers will receive property tax refund checks from the state because of expanded eligibility and new money the Democraticled Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton designated for those programs.

“We made a lot of great strides this year and people more and more are seeing the tangible results of that,” said House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis.

“It does make an impression on people.”

For Republicans, the anticipated release in early October of health insurance premium information will focus new attention on the problem-riddled MNsure, Minnesota’s virtual storefront for buying insurance that people are required to carry under federal law. And a quarterly update on

tax collections due around the same time could give the GOP fodder to raise doubts about the health of the state budget — or rob them of a talking point.

House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, said the fact five of the past six monthly revenue reports have come in below the mark spells trouble.

“They’ve taken a recovery and turned it into a flat-line at best,” Daudt said of Democrats. “It’s not me looking for a storm cloud.

It’s an absolute fact and the realities of the policies they’ve put in place not working.”

Democrats are in defense mode as the party tries to retain the governor’s office, a U.S. Senate seat and total control of the Legislature. Republicans, lacking any foothold of state political power, are attempting to push nominee Jeff Johnson past Dayton and retake the state House.

The top-of-the-ticket contests will get the most attention between now and Nov. 4, but who snags the House majority will have a big bearing on what gets accomplished when the next session starts in January.

Dayton and House Democrats hope voters will appreciate investments in education, from preschool through college, even if it took tax increases to get there. Universal all-day kindergarten is the signature piece.

Increased state funding is meant to get rid of a patchwork where some schools offered the full-day to kindergartners at district expense while others didn’t bother or had parents pay as much as $2,500 to get their children more than half-day.

Denise Specht, president of the Education Minnesota teachers union, regards it as the biggest change to education in a generation and said it will get young learners off on the best foot. The union is running television ads highlighting the program’s introduction that don’t directly connect the political dots. But Specht said the spots are meant to highlight what happens when more money is spent on schools.

“I hope what this ad will do is open up a conversation about what’s next,” she said, calling for added preschool funding and moves to reduce elementary school class sizes.

On property taxes, lawmakers made more people eligible for enhanced tax credits that are supposed to buy down what people owe, depending on their income.

An estimated 500,000 homeowners will qualify for average refunds of $837, with the payouts arriving as the fall season does.

Some of the roughly 350,000 eligible renters are already seeing refunds averaging $643. And as

many as 94,000 farmers could get a special credit of up to $205 by mid-October.

Republicans argue it all comes at a steep cost. State taxes on smokers, corporations and high-income filers went up by hundreds of millions of dollars per year. An Oct. 10 budget update will show whether the tax haul expected from July through September actually materialized.

The GOP is also eagerly awaiting the Department of Commerce’s publication of new premiums for insurance plans of-

fered through MNsure. The rates could be out by Oct. 1 and Republicans believe consumers will encounter substantially higher prices for comparable policies.

“There absolutely are people who are winners, who have done well and who are paying less or in some cases getting insurance that they haven’t been able to get before,” Hoppe said.” But I think the number of people who have benefited is going to be dwarfed by the number of people paying a lot more for their health insurance.”

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Free all-day kindergarten offered in St. Paul ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Most school districts in Minnesota are now providing free all-day kindergarten for the first time this school year.

Thousands of youngsters starting kindergarten this week will be the first to try out the state’s new system, the Star Tribune reported (http://strib. mn/1A15No6 ). Roughly 54,000, or 95 percent of the state’s kindergartners, will participate, according to the state Department of Education.

Educators hope the $134 million initiative will improve early education across the state. Most kindergarten teachers are excited about spending more time with their students, especially because some children come into the classroom before knowing their ABCs or how to write their names.

“Socially, emotionally, cognitively . everything is hitting the fan at this age,” said Becky Magnuson, a longtime kindergarten teacher in the Forest Lake School

All-day kindergarten is on the rise District. “The time we have with them is very important.”

Studies conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota have shown that allday kindergarten can give kids an academic boost through first and second grade, as well as providing enduring benefits to poor students, non-native English speakers and kids with special needs. State officials think the new initiative could help reverse the achievement gap between white and minority students.

“When you factor in the work we’ve done with the 0 to 3 population and our work with early learning scholarships for preschool, we feel like all-day kindergarten could really be a game changer,” said Bobbie Burnham, director of early learning services for the state Department of Education.

The extra class time will help ensure that every student is a proficient reader by third grade, Burnham said.

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schools offered free full-day kindergarten previously. Others offered it at a cost of $2,000 to $4,000 a year for parents.

Renee Blue is the president of the Minnesota Kindergarten Association. She’s also a veteran kindergarten teacher at Rum River Elementary in Andover, where full-day kindergarten, half-day kindergarten and fullday programming every other

day is offered. She said it was easy to tell the students apart at the end of the year based on skills.

“I really saw a huge difference in their writing samples,” Blue said. “The kids who were there every day for a full day were writing pages of words.

Others weren’t.”

All-day kindergarten also helps with what Magnuson re-

fers to as the “nest-in period,” when students learn everyday expectations like hanging coats and lining up for the bus.

“When you have the consistency of all-day kindergarten, you start to see that anxiety decrease quicker,” she said. “With half-day, I might have tears all the way to December.”

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Beautiful auditions, beastly competition During audition season, things can get ugly.

CHELSEY DIVELY Staff Writer Fate was decided in little over a minute for the 71 students auditioning for Minnesota State University, Mankato’s production of Beauty and the Beast.

Students had only this short time

to transform themselves into another character and leave a lasting impression in the judges’ eyes. The students were ushered through the room like parts on an assembly line; so an effective technique for their transformation was crucial. According to Sophie Jones, a third year the-

atre major, the most important aspect of an audition is to “listen to the song and the lyrics and try to figure out where the song is in relation to character growth.”

Understanding the placement and impact of a production’s music is key.

The next step in giving a good audition is to make it your own. Students characterized the roles through the use of gestures; for example, those auditioning for the part of Lumiere would hold their arms up as if they were actually candlesticks.

Expression is equally important, because the face carries the soul of the character one is trying to portray.

Dressing the part was another trick of the trade utilized by the auditioning students. Many dressed to suggest the part they desired—not a costume, but rather a suggestion of the atti-

tude of the character or the time period in which the play took place. Sophie Jones even dyed her hair from red to brown to further “create the illusion” of

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the part she desired.

Anxiety was another big factor in the auditioning process.

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Penny for your thoughts?

Seattle convention leaves gamers looking forward to 2015.

MATTHEW EBERLINE Staff Writer The Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) kicked off its main convention in Seattle on Friday, bringing plenty of new announcements and demonstrations for gamers to pore over.

Team Meat, the two-man team behind the ever popular Super Meat Boy, announced Super Meat Boy Forever, a new iteration of the game designed with a heavy focus on touch screen controls. The game will feature an endless mode and randomly

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generated levels, as well as a full story told through six chapters.

Super Meat Boy Forever is set to release for smartphones, tablets, and the Steam Store for PC in 2015.

Team Meat also announced that it is putting the development of its latest game, Mew-Genics,

on hold. The team cites a desire to revise the game and narrow down its core premise before continuing development.

Bethesda revealed its newest title at PAX, called Battlecry, a free-to-play multiplayer hackand-slash game with a steampunk flair. The game will feature up to thirty-two players competing in a battle arena setting. The beta test for Battlecry will appear sometime in 2015.

Deep Silver Volition brought a multitude of cool announcements to PAX this year, including the release of the software development kit (SDK) for Saints Row 4 on PC. Players can use the SDK to create their own custom modifications to the game.

Volition also announced a new standalone expansion to Saints Row 4 – called Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell – that will not require a copy of the origi-

nal game to play. The expansion follows Johnny Gat and Kinzie Kensington as they descend into Hell to rescue their boss, the Saints gang leader and President of the United States, who players controlled in the original game. The setting features a city similar to the original Steelport, which players can fly around us-

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Govenaires return to Pridefest

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Following NY championships, local corps are looking for area musicians to join them for the Mankato Pride Parade.

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ing the all new demonic wings.

Other additions include weapons and gadgets inspired by plagues and stories from the Bible. The game will feature two-player cooperative gameplay with one player as Johnny and the other as Kinzie. Gat Out of Hell is set to release on January 27 at $19.95 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and Microsoft Windows.

ArcheAge, the popular Korean MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game) came to PAX and was finally given a release date of September 16 for western audiences. The game takes place in a sandbox-style fantasy world, featuring open world player-versus-player (PVP) combat. The open beta for ArcheAge runs from September 4–8.

Many more games were showcased at this year’s PAX, but most won’t see a release date until sometime next year.

With so many new titles coming from the AAA and indie scenes, it seems 2015 will be an exciting time for gamers, especially those looking for a reason to jump into the new console generation.

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Fresh off the bus from the Drum Corps Associates championships in Rochester N.Y., The Govenaires Drum and Bugle Corps are looking for trumpet and low brass players from

by special guest and honorary grand marshal Lucy Stools, a local drag queen who has also appeared at MSU performances.

John Mayer, Corps President and Drum Major, is excited to participate in Mankato Pride for the second year running: “We believe this is an

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Founded in 1927, the Govenaires are three-time DCA Class A champions. The St. Peter-based ensemble performs throughout Minnesota in parades and field shows.

the Mankato community to fill out their ranks for their appearance at the Mankato Pride Parade this Saturday, September 6 at 11:30 a.m.

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our support it is by doing what we do best—playing our horns, beating our drums and spinning our flags.”

The parade route goes through Riverfront Drive, starting at the Blue Earth County Library and ending at the festival grounds in Riverfront Park. The parade is the one of the kick-off events for Mankato Pridefest, which runs from noon to 5 p.m. at Riverfront Park.

Area musicians and dancers are invited to participate in the parade with the Govenaires. If you’re interested, contact us at membership@govenaires.org and we’ll pass on parade music or any other necessary information.

For more information, contact at www.govenaires.org or facebook.com/govenaires.

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For the benefit of Mr. Kite...

Rare attraction offers big talent, great atmosphere despite conflicts.

CHELSEY DIVELY Staff Writer

North of nowhere but still south of Canada lies the Big Top Chautauqua—a unique concert venue that has more seats than its host town, Bayfield, WI, has permanent residents. Nestled in the large, rolling hills, the Big Top is a giant, 950 seat, blue and white canvas circus tent that hosts bands like Willie Nelson, Trampled by Turtles, Bonnie Raitt, and its own house band, the Blue Canvas Orchestra. The ticketing prices vary for different guest artists, but all house shows are $22 for adults and $11 for children during a season running from June until the second week of September. The season’s final event, The Big Tap, is a beer tasting and a popular attraction.

Everything at the venue is housed within tent, with a replica circus tent merchandise area that sells t-shirts, hoodies, blankets, and CDs and a food tent off to the right that sells beer, brats, bean burgers, and other favorites.

There is also the mysterious Spirit Cottage to the left of the big tent, where performing artists receive the royal treatment

use as a green room while offstage. Only a few employees are allowed within while artists are on the grounds.

The past few winters Mt. Ashwabay has been struggling to remain open for the full season and Big Top, concerned with

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Tents such as these were more popular in the 1800s, but now the Big Top may be the last of its kind. It is a magical venue, drawing people in by the thousands, but the future of the tent remains uncertain. The land is rented from Mt. Ashwabay, which operates as a ski resort in the winter and leases the land to the Big Top in the summer, but the very mention of a merger has the board members in an uproar.

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Eat your feelings Is your Netflix fix sending you back to the fridge?

CHICAGO (AP) — Could action-packed TV fare make you fat? That's the implication of a new study that found people snacked more watching fastpaced television than viewing a more leisurely paced talk show.

THE SKINNY: Cornell University researchers randomly assigned almost 100 undergraduates to watch one of three 20-minute sessions featuring: "The Island," a 2005 sci-fi thriller starring Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor; that same movie but without the sound; or the "Charlie Rose" show, a public television interview program.

The students were all provided generous amounts of cookies, M&M candies, carrots and grapes.

During "The Island," students ate on average about 7 ounces (207 grams) of various snack foods, and 354 calories. That was almost 140 calories more and nearly double the ounces they ate watching interviewer Charlie Rose. Watching the movie without sound, they also ate more — almost 100 calories more — compared with Charlie Rose.

THE THEORY: The faster paced TV seemed to distract viewers more, contributing to mindlessness eating, said Cornell researcher Aner Tal, the study's lead author. The results

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suggest that a steady diet of action TV could raise risks for packing on pounds.

LIMITATIONS: The study was small and didn't last long enough to measure any longterm effects on the students' weight. It's also possible some viewers would find talk shows or other slower-paced TV more distracting and would be more apt to snack more during those shows than when watching action-packed programs.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Tal suggests viewers take steps to prevent mindless snacking, by avoiding or limiting high-calorie snacks when watching TV.

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AUDITIONS “The most important aspect of an audition is to listen to the song and the lyrics and try to The Last Revel bring their unique sound figure out where the song is in back to MSU students this month. relation to character growth.”

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Courtesy of MSU Performance Series MANKATO, Minn. – Diverse Americana music by the trio The Last Revel will be presented by Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Music on Thursday, Sept. 11 at 7:30 pm at the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall of the Earley Center for Performing Arts, 320 Maywood Ave. The group features two graduates of Minnesota State Mankato: Lee Henke (Music Industry) and Ryan Acker (Zoology).

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The Last Revel, a Minnesotabased band, combines folk music with rock influences. The traditional instruments used are combined with raw vocals creating an enjoyable and memorable experience for the listener. The band has spread in popularity with their songwriting ability, performance ability, and entertainment ability.

They group released their CD “Uprooted” in February and currently are touring the Midwest in support of the release. On an interview with CBS Minnesota, band members were quoted describing their sound as Front

Porch Americana with a ton of energy thrown into the mix.

Concert admission is $12; $11 for students with a valid MavCARD. Discount tickets are available online for University students. Advance purchase is strongly encouraged. Those who wish to purchase tickets online should go to www.mnsu.edu/ music. For more information, call the Performance Series office, (507) 389-5549.

Anxiety was used in one of two ways: some students utilized anxiety as encouragement to practice harder, while others indulged in self-deprecation.

More often than not, the harshest critics are not the judges, but rather the actors themselves. The fellow students were encouraging to one another and attempted to combat the nerves of their fellow classmates—even in the brutally competitive world of theatre, there is genuine camaraderie between actors.

Experience in auditioning and acting is helpful, especially for those of the BFA status in the theatre program. The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) program requires the students to take 76 credits verses the 56 required for a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Achieving advanced placement in the theatre pro-

gram is not a guarantee to landing a part, but according to actor Steven Labine, even just “auditioning for the BFA program will give you recognition value from the directors.

People with more performances will have an advantage but that shouldn’t stop people from auditioning.”

The recipe for a good audition is to practice, have knowledge of the character and world of the play, utilize gestures and expression, and above all, have confidence.

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Mavericks kickoff 2014 season hosting NSIC-rival St. Cloud State The no. 5 Mavericks are ready for Thursday night football under the lights at Blakeslee Stadium.

JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato’s football team is prepared to avenge their 2013 playoff loss to St. Cloud State at Blakeslee Stadium tonight.

The MSU football team lost

legs a lot and was a very mobile quarterback and will be hard to replace. Against the huskies tonight MSU will put both of their quarterbacks into play.

“Both those young men want to succeed and win,” head coach Todd Hoffner said.

Both quarterbacks will bring their own set of skills to the game. They will have to be on top of their game against the Huskies defense that had the second-best turnover margins in the NSIC. The Huskies also have the fourth-best scoring defense in the NSIC. “Our goal is to go 1-0, and that’s where our mindset is,” said Hoffner.

MSU is bringing back three impressive running backs from

Josh Gordon

in the second round of last years NCAA playoffs to the Huskies 54-48. MSU is ranked fifth in division two while the Huskies are 12th.

This game will be the 79th time the two teams face off, and St. Cloud is leading in all-time wins with a 42-32-4 record.

MSU graduated a few key players over the offseason, including dynamic quarterback Jon Wolf. The 2013 NSIC Offensive Player of the Year used his

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last year. Connor Thomas led the Mavericks with 956 rushing

yards and 10 touchdowns last year. Andy Pfeiffer was the second leading rusher on the team with 509 yards and six touchdowns. Chad Zastrow had 465 rushing yards and four touchdowns.

MSU will also see Austin Rieder coming back for his senior campaign. In 2013, he finished with 520 receiving yards and five touchdowns. As a unit, MSU brought in 2,262 receiving yards and 20 touchdowns.

On the defensive side of the ball, Tyler Henderson will be looking to have a big season as he led the defense with 69 total tackles, which includes 38 solo tackles. Senior Nathan Hancock and junior Patrick Schmidt both recorded five interceptions, which was a team high. Josh Gordon captured 7 quarterback sacks last year.

Jeff Raymond and Kaleb Wendricks will have to sit out due to injuries during the game

against the Huskies. Both players have started along the defensive line the past three years.

“Football should not be made out to be a complicated game,” Hoffner said.

Last season MSU averaged 43.8 points per game, which was the highest scoring average in the NSIC. They also finished the

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Congratulations Adam Thielen!

JOHN WALFOORT Staff Writer

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Minnesota Vikings’ 53-man roster has been released and a Minnesota State University, Mankato Alum has made the cut.

Adam Thielen has been officially named a wide receiver for the Vikings. An unofficial depth chart the Vikings released shows Thielen right behind last year’s first-round draft pick Cordarrelle Patterson. Thielen’s biggest competitor, Rodney Smith, is listed behind Thielen.

“It’s a good feeling, but the

work’s not over,” Thielen said.

Thielen is being given a chance to prove himself. He has to show value to the team in the next three weeks because that’s when Jerome Simpson comes back. Simpson is serving a threegame suspension for a drunkendriving arrest in November 2013.

Thielen could be let go if he doesn’t continue to impress the coaches.

“In any position you’re in, and even if Simpson wasn’t out, there’s always opportunities or chances that you’re going to get cut. That’s why you have to come

to work every day, ready to get better,” Thielen said.

MSU’s head football coach Todd Hoffner said Thielen was always a dependable player.

Thielen did everything he had to do to help MSU succeed. At each level of football Thielen has done well to stand out, he should have no problem proving his worth these next few weeks.

“Everyday Adam has been here, he got better and everyday he has left here he has gotten better,” Hoffner said.

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Carried team on her back in 2013, now has target on it in 2014 Junior forward Korey Kronforst became an All-American in 2013, but that isn’t going to hold her or her team back with a new season about to kickoff.

MSU Reporter Archives Korey Kronforst (right) was named the 2013 NSIC Offensive Player of the Year.

LUKE LONIEN Staff Writer A year ago, Korey Kronforst led the MSU Women’s soccer team in scoring with 18 goals and 43 total points and was also 8th in the nation in scoring, helping her earn the title of AllAmerican.

But even after all the indi-

vidual accolades, Kronforst is focusing on the team’s success.

“I couldn’t have done any of this without my team. It was a great accomplishment and honor, but without the team it would not have been possible.” Kronforst said.

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“My parents signed me up to play when I was three, and I have been playing ever since.” Kronforst said even when her other siblings found other activities to take part in.

“I was the only kids that kept playing soccer competitively, my older siblings played when they were younger but that was it for them,” Kronforst said.

She kept up with soccer because of one of her biggest influence, a player from her hometown.

“Kelsey played at Northern Illinois. My coach always talked about her, so I went and watched her and ever since I wanted to be like her,” Kronforst said.

A native of Cary, Ill., MSU was not even on the radar for Kronforst while playing soccer in high school, until she played a tournament in Iowa where she heard about Minnesota State University, Mankato.

“I have never heard of MSU before soccer, I got noticed at a tournament in Iowa. I heard about MSU and went on a visit, and I instantly fell in love with the campus and the team and decided to come here,” Kronforst said.

Since becoming an All-American, Kronforst has set her goals and what she wants to bring to

the team.

“I want to bring leadership to the team. Our goals this year are to win the conference regular season, win the conference tournament, then ultimately the National Championship,” Kronforst said.

To do that, MSU will have to avenge last year’s upset lost to Southwest State.

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“We have to play every game like it is the National Championship,” Kronforst said. “We have to take it one game at a time no matter who we are playing and play like it is the National Championship.”

Kronforst is very grateful for her teammates. Even after being the first MSU player named an All-American, she couldn’t help but thank her teammates.

“It’s an awesome accomplishment and honor but honestly I couldn’t do it without my team.

Most of the goals are from perfect passes from my teammates, I did not do it alone at all,” Kronforst said.

While being an All-American Kronforst now has to handle the pressure that comes with that.

“There is a lot of pressure now, especially because teams know me now, but it opens up other opportunities for my teammates too.” Kronforst said The junior knows the mark is on her back, but she recognized more that it’s not only on her back, but the entire team’s back.

“We have a lot of great players coming back, so other teams will have to key in on them too,” Kronforst said.

Head coach Brain Bahl, starting his second year of coaching the team, has high words regarding Korey. “ Korey is a blast to coach. It started right away from the beginning of last season when I got here. To be pretty much handed a player like Korey.”

Bahl has even made some adjustments to Korey’s game and she has improved greatly from that.

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2014 Women’s Cross Country Preview DENZELL CASTROOATS Staff Writer Jen Blue is ready to start yet another campaign with the ladies of the Mavericks cross country team. Going into her 10th year as head coach, she is not slowing down and is looking to lead the group to another successful season.

“Although we lost a couple of key runners from last year in Dejong and Bowler, We have a talented group of returners in Samantha Soupir, Kimberly Allan, Marina Paul and Maddi Sjelin,” Blue said.

At last year’s conference meet, it was Soupir leading the Lady Mavs, coming in at 18th (22:17.64). Paul came in 33rd (22:54.79), followed by Sjelin in 46th (23:19.14), and Allan in at 50th (23:30.61).

Blue is also looking to mesh her returning crew with some new faces added to the team.

“We’ve also added some freshmen in Megan Allen, Erin Baker and Mariah Betzler who all had very successful high school careers and will be tremendous assets to our team,” Blue said.

Allen, a freshman from Grand Rapids, Minn., will bring her speed and endurance to the team this year. She also will be an asset to the Maverick’s track team with her talent in the 800, where she has a personal best of 2:14.11.

Also from Grand Rapids, Baker was a three-time state cross country qualifier for the Thunder Hawks and also qualified in last year’s high school state track and field meet in the 800 with her fellow teammate Allen. Betzler of Monticello was a two-time state cross-country qualifier and twotime Nike National Regional Qualifier and also qualified in 2011 for the Nike National Cross Country Meet.

Senior captain Soupir, who has been added to the 2014 NSIC

watch list, feels confident about entering her last cross season.

“This year we are approaching it as a new year, and a chance to be the best team we can be”, said Soupir. “The dynamic on this team I feel will give us the opportunity for a great season.”

On welcoming the new freshman on the team Samantha said, “We have worked to build an excellent team atmosphere so that everyone is able to contribute and give their best.”

Head coach Blue is looking for encouragement like this to help transition the incoming runners to a good start.

“We have a very good incoming group and all are looking pretty promising, once we can mesh their talent with the core of our returners, I believe we can have a pretty impactful team,” Blue said.

After finishing 6th overall in

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Last season MSU boasted a top ranked defense. Their defense allowed the least amount of yards with a 74.4 average yards per game. They also had the best turnover margin with 1.67 per game. MSU had the second-highest scoring defense last season in the NSIC with 17.8 points per game. The defense allowed only 289.8 yards per game, which ranks them second in the NSIC. Since joining the NSIC in 2007 the Mavericks have a 53-9 record.

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I did not do it alone at all,” Kronforst said. continued from 16

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last year’s conference meet, The Mavs finished 9th at the 2014 NCAA Division II regional meet. The lady Mavericks are placed 6th in the 2014 Preseason coach’s poll, but are hoping to break top 3 in the conference this year.

They start their 2014 season Sept. 5 at the Oz Memo-

rial Meet at the University of Minnesota and then they will compete at the St. Olaf Invitational Sept. 20. The first home meet for the women’s cross team will be Oct. 11 at Land of Memories Park.

“She started out as the outside forward, but then we moved her to more of the middle and she really met the needs of what we needed in that spot,” Bahl said, also noting that Korey gets great passes from her teammates, but she also has an eye for finding open teammates.

Coach Bahl who was the coach at Upper Iowa before getting the MSU job, has seen Kronforst flourish since her freshman year.

“I think she has improved a lot since her freshman year, I saw her play before she got here, and to see how far she has come is great,” Bahl said.

The improvement does not stop for the All-American at all as the Coach said she has im-

proved even since her All-American season a year ago. Bahl said “Teams can key in on her now, but I think she is on a different level. If they think they are going to stop her, they are going to have their hands full.”

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MSU is currently ranked 15th in the country, and with the help of Kronforst they are looking for yet again another successful season. They open the season in Oklahoma against Southwestern Oklahoma State on Sept. 5.

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Lynx’s road to threepeat comes to an end PHOENIX (AP) — Diana Taurasi has always had a knack for playing her best in the biggest games.

Taurasi scored 31 points, including hitting a key 50-footer at the end of the third quarter, to lift the Phoenix Mercury to a 9678 win over the Minnesota Lynx on Tuesday night in the decisive game of the Western Conference finals.

Taurasi improved to 7-0 in her career in winner-take-all games.

“There is no player in the world I would rather have on my team,” Mercury coach Sandy Brondello said.

Down eight points at the half, Minnesota clawed back to tie the game at 67 before Taurasi took over. She hit a jumper and then connected on her shot from the other side of halfcourt to give the Mercury a five-point lead heading into the fourth quarter.

She then scored the first eight points of the fourth to put the game away and give Phoenix an 80-67 lead with 7:19 left. Minnesota had eliminated Phoenix in the 2011 and 2013 en route to winning the title.

“For the most part, going in to the last couple of minutes of the third, they got the momentum, they were playing well, they were feeling good, they were making us feel uncomfortable,” Taurasi said. “Couple of plays turns that.”

Taurasi admitted that she hadn’t made many halfcourt shots in practice.

“I never make them, I don’t think I have made one all year,” Taurasi said. “I’ll miss them all year to make that one.”

Phoenix coach Sandy Brondello noted the shot got the crowd back in the game after Minnesota had erased a doubledigit lead in the final 90 seconds

of the third.

“When anyone makes a big shot like that, you just think, ‘okay, it’s our night,’” Brondello said. “The look in their eyes, we just knew.”

The Mercury, which had the best record in the league, will face the winner of Wednesday’s Chicago-Indiana game.

“I thought that Phoenix played great, they were hard to play against,” said Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve, who got ejected after receiving two technical fouls with 1:58 left. “It’s not like we played that bad. I got a good team. I thought that we just didn’t get done some things we were trying to do on Griner and then Dee. I saw Dee before the game and I told our staff, ‘Dee’s got a bounce in her step.’”

Minnesota, which had made the WNBA Finals the past three seasons, missed its first 10 shots

of the fourth period, falling behind 85-67 midway through the quarter.

Seimone Augustus had 13 of her 21 points in the third quarter as the Lynx erased a 10-point deficit. Lindsay Whalen had 20 points, eight rebounds and six assists but missed four straight shots to start the fourth quarter.

“Taurasi hits a halfcourt shot, tough shot, that was momentum, that was a momentum play for them,” Whalen said. “After that we had a hard time getting stops, we started taking tough shots, they weren’t falling, the shots that were falling in the first, weren’t.”

Moore had 16 points on 6-of14 shooting.

“We put a lot of pressure on Lindsay, Seimone and Maya to have to make plays,” Reeve said.

“I got nothing out of my post players. That was unfortunate

from an offensive standpoint.”

Whalen, Augustus and Moore scored 57 of the Lynx’s 78 points. Center Janel McCarville was held scoreless and Rebekkah Brunson had four points and eight rebounds.

Phoenix outscored Minnesota 56-34 in the lane.

“We just had an aggressive mentality tonight,” Brondello said. “I thought in the second game we did not and tonight we went back to doing what we do best.”

Brittney Griner had 22 points, six rebounds and four assists for Phoenix. DeWanna Bonner and Candice Dupree each added 14 for the Mercury.

Phoenix, 29-5 during the regular season, has not been in the finals since winning the title in 2009. The Mercury have won 18 straight home games, last losing to San Antonio on May 23.

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