September 20, 2018

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Everyone has an identity: Discussing race and politics Panelists discuss race, identity, and immigration in modern America

JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER Identity is a complex thing.

That was one of the central messages from the Controlling Borders and Policing Race panel on Tuesday, which featured four panelists from diverse backgrounds, including two local candidates for city council and mayor, respectively.

The panelists included Aar Maanta, a musician whose humanitarian work has led him to become goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees, and Bukata Hayes, the Executive Director of the Greater Mankato Diversity Council.

Also included were Ayan Musse, a local business

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owner and diversity inclusion specialist, and Fardousa Jama, a candidate for the Mankato City council.

The panelists introduced themselves and were asked a number of questions

related to race, identity, and immigration One important theme was the complexity of identity, and connections to relatives in other countries.

Panelists also discussed

their experiences in America, particularly when they first came. Ms. Jama, spoke about her first days at school in America, where her shoes and notebook were taken from her.

Mr. Hayes, a mayoral candidate in Mankato, spoke about his experiences as a black man in America, as well as the diversity within the black community in general “there’s a lot of diversity among black folks in the United States.”

Ms. Musse pointed out the risks she and other immigrants have faced, both in immigrating to other countries and the difficulties of acclimating to life there.

“Nobody would risk their lives to come to another country if it was safe at home. Nobody would put their children on a boat if it was safe at home.”

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, governments and state officials aren’t always, or even often welcoming. Many of the questions they ask can be downright intrusive. Maanta, who has lived in the United Kingdom, spoke about his experiences with border officials and government

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Leadership Workshops and how students can get involved

MARIA LY STAFF WRITER Leadership workshops, in all honesty, don’t sound very fun. On Tuesday at 5 p.m., Leadership U, a program at MNSU aimed to help students with leadership skills, held their weekly workshop in which I attended. This week’s topic was “Leadership and Receiving Feedback”. My feedback: it was fun.

Upon arrival, students were given an option of a variety of chips to satisfy their hungry bellies. After munching on

their chips, they began the workshop—starting off with an icebreaker. Two groups lined up in a single file as we played “Telephone Charades” fitting with the theme of receiving feedback.

After lots of laughs and a bad impersonation of running after an ice cream truck, students headed back to their seats as the session began.

Guest speaker, Tamarah Frank, a graduate student at MNSU studying counseling and student personnel as well as college student affairs, took the front as she gave an interactive presentation on receiving feedback.

Students discussed their failures in the past and the feedback they’ve received from it. We learned about

constructive criticism vs. destructive criticism. We talked about when feedback isn’t good, and our past experiences with that. We took a survey to see how we are at receiving feedback and

“Students discussed their failures in the past and the feedback they’ve received from it. ” using it. We drew our favorite animals and gave each other feedback on the drawings, some looking like rotisserie chickens with human heads and others as misshapen pandas dipped in acid.

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The workshop ended with a drawing for two $5 Cold Stone gift cards. Although I did not win, I left with a possible friend, a bag of Cheetos, and valuable information in furthering my

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life as a leader.

Leadership workshops are a great way for students to gain leadership skills. When asked the benefits of these workshops, Assistant Director of Leadership U, Ashley Strom

says, “It gives you practice talking with your peers about things that you’re probably not having conversations about in your day to day life.

It’s a nice avenue for you to start talking about what some these things mean to you because then when someone asks you in an interview, ‘So tell me about your leadership style?’ You have a better idea of how to answer a question like that because you’ve had practice talking about competencies.”

These workshops aren’t always about learning, but also having fun. When asked what he enjoys most about Leadership U workshops,

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A club for everyone: the Pointless Debate Club

EMMANUELLA SHOKARE STAFF WRITER Do you enjoy debating?

Are there some topics that most people may find pointless and you want to talk about it? Well, you have it here; the Pointless Debate Club, which debates on pointless topics such as, “Is water wet?” “Should mac and cheese be eaten with a fork, or a spoon?”

Meeting time varies but the club meets twice a month, usually later in the evening at about 7 p.m. Scheduled times and locations are sent via their Instagram page (@ msupointlessdebateclub), their Engage page and emails. They also livestream the debates. The club meets Monday, Tuesday or Wednesdays. The club

is free, does not require any participation fees, commitments, and is open to all majors, races, ages, religious backgrounds and sexual identities.

The club started in March 2018 by Wallace Pope and Brett Marshall who are co-presidents. “The other co-President, Wallace Pope, and I are in a fraternity and we always found ourselves arguing about really pointless things and realized that it was a lot of fun and could be a unique way to network with people on campus, so we found an adviser, applied to be an RSO and have since had two meetings that people have really enjoyed,” said Brett Marshall.

You do not need to be a pro at debating. It is a learning process for all. “The main purpose is to give people a fun experience. Our debates are relaxed and they give people a chance to meet others and work together to try persuade the other side as to why they’re right. And so

far, we feel like people have really enjoyed their time,” said Brett Marshall.

This helps to improve your communication skills, teambuilding skills, how to share your opinions and accepting other people’s opinions, be open, make new friends, and can be added to your resume.

According to their constitution and bylaws, debate topics will be selected through a majority hand vote.

Members can pitch ideas to the president and then each will be voted on until one topic gets a majority. These debates are meant to be fun and lighthearted.

No debate topic shall ever cover sensitive topics including, but not limited to, politics, religion, abortion, drug use, sexual orientations, etc. During the meetings, each person has the right to be in whichever group they choose. There is no use of vulgar language, and each person has their time to talk so that everyone will be heard. The jury is to judge

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fairly with the arguments being made and put their personal opinions aside.

So, if you want to meet new people, have some topic ideas, or want your opinions to be heard, you are more than welcome to join the

club.

For more information, visit their Instagram @ msupointlessdebateclub, or visit their site at: https:// mnsumankato.campuslabs. com/engage/organization/ pointless-debate-club.

A reflection on the 2016 election RACE Continued from page 1 Opinion

JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER “Another shady businessman who would make things worse,” bared a television ad.

I’ve seen the ad numerous times, as I’m sure anyone who frequents the dining hall on a daily basis does.

A sense of deja vu came over me. I was reminded of my freshman year, when the 2016 election was under way, and American political norms were falling to pieces like a house of cards, reduced to the sum of their parts, those being empty rhetoric and excessive moralizing.

The 2018 elections will soon be upon us, and their results will no doubt lead to more turmoil, whichever party wins The time has come, I suppose, to reflect upon those sordid times of two years’ past, to reflect on those wretched events, which turned polarization into a civil war fought with tweets and insults, with jeers and

howling.

What makes the 2016 election remarkable, and what makes it an event worthy of historical consideration, is not that someone with no experience won the White House; it was only a matter of time before America’s distrust of experts and intellectuals came home to roost.

Indeed, Trump’s win was inevitable in one sense.

Celebrities have been part of American political culture for a long time, and that one would win the White House in such a fashion is not surprising.

Nor is it surprising, upon reflection, that a Republican won. Parties rarely control the presidency for more than eight years.

No, what makes the 2016 election a historic event is that it was radically awful. There is nothing virtuous or seemly to be found within it, nothing tasteful to be discovered. It unleashed a Pandora’s box of evils, a veritable maelstrom of civic destruction.

The two most unpopular nominees in the history of polling the subject. The open usage of racist and sexist rhetoric, parties being divided over a nominee’s legitimacy, ideological disputes, violence in the streets, pundits who use vile rhetoric to inflame the passions of their audiences,

and finally, a president who lost the popular vote but won the electoral college.

The 2000 election pales in comparison, 1968 is more apt, but even that did not have electoral results so contested.

If you were to judge an election based on how many political science books said election would render obsolete, it would be difficult to hand the prize to any election other than that of 2016.

If you were to judge an election in recent memory on the basis of how badly it divides Americans, ruins friendships, puts the world into turmoil, and inflame every single tension that has ever existed in American society, 2016 would stand out as a major contender, if not winning outright.

This election spawned articles that advocated for the breakup of the Union itself, the effective end of the American experiment.

The wounds that have been exposed and reopened by 2016 will not easily heal.

Not while Trump is in office, and likely not for a long while after.

But heal they must, if America is to fix its ills.

agents. “It’s not unique to the United States” he said.

He recounted that he has been asked how often he prays, and whether or not he goes to pubs and bars.

“These questions come up all the time.”

And they don’t come up in isolation; Maanta said that many people of Somali descent in the US and UK that he has spoken to said that similar things had happened

to them, their relatives, or friends.

One of the last topics raised during the panel was related to how teachers can make immigrant and minority students, particularly those with different identities, feel safe and accepted at their school. Ms. Musse responded “The only thing I will say is, celebrate them. Celebrate them.”

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Police: 3 injured, suspect dead in Wisconsin office shooting MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — A shooter opened fire inside a Wisconsin software company on Wednesday, wounding three people before responding officers fatally shot the assailant as workers ran from the office building or hid inside, according to police and witnesses.

Middleton Police Chief Chuck Foulke said officers were alerted to an activeshooter situation at WTS Paradigm around 10:25 a.m.

Foulke said the suspect was taken to a hospital after being shot by officers but later died.

He said there were no other suspects in the attack.

Foulke didn’t release details about the suspect, a possible motive or how the attack unfolded in Middleton, a city just west of Madison.

He said officers were still conducting interviews after witnesses and other people at the scene were taken in school buses to a nearby hotel.

Judy Lahmers, a business analyst at WTS Paradigm, said she was working at her

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desk when she heard what sounded “like somebody was dropping boards on the ground, really loud.”

Lahmers said she ran out of the building and hid behind a car.

She said the building’s glass entrance door was shattered.

“I’m not looking back, I’m running as fast as I can. You just wonder, ‘Do you hide or do you run?’” she told The

Associated Press.

She said she knew one co-worker had been grazed by a bullet but was OK. She didn’t have any other information about the shooting but said it was

“totally unexpected. We’re all software people. We have a good group.”

Two hospitals in Madison said they were initially treating five people from the shooting: one who was in critical condition early Wednesday afternoon, two who were in serious condition, and one whose condition wasn’t released.

The fifth person was a walk-in patient who was treated and released.

It wasn’t immediately clear if one of those patients was the shooter. Police also haven’t released details about the injured, but Foulke said police would release more information about the shooting later Wednesday.

Police conducted a secondary search of the office building early in the afternoon to ensure there were no more victims or suspects — and officers discovered some people still hiding in the building, which also houses

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US agrees to improve worker safety at polluted nuclear site SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. government will test and implement a new system to capture and destroy dangerous vapors released at the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site as part of a settlement agreement reached Wednesday.

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson told reporters that the agreement represents a major win for hundreds of workers who have been getting sick for years while cleaning up the nation’s nuclear waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington.

“Those workers deserve to be protected,” Ferguson said.

He added that the U.S. Department of Energy did not take the issue seriously and resisted putting protections in place.

“There’s no way to sugar coat this,” Ferguson said.

The Energy Department will for the first time test a new technology that Ferguson called “game-changing” that would protect workers from the vapor exposures.

Under the agreement, the agency will pay $925,000 in fees and costs to the state and Hanford Challenge, a watchdog group that has for decades been warning about worker safety. The agency

will also install a new vapor monitoring and alarm system and maintain safety measures that are currently in place, including supplying air and respirators.

The Department of Energy said in an emailed statement that the agreement “acknowledges the extensive actions” that the agency, and its contractor, Washington River Protection Solutions LLC, have taken to protect workers from potential exposure to chemical vapors.

The agency said they continue to “take a very conservative approach to protecting workers from potential exposures to chemical vapors” and that agreement reinforces the ongoing effort.

The state, Hanford Challenge and the pipefitters union Local 598 sued the Energy Department in 2015 and its contractor for tank farms containing nuclear waste, seeking better protection for workers at risk of inhaling vapors or gases that leaked from underground storage tanks.

The agreement puts that federal lawsuit on hold while the Energy Department tests and implements a new system to capture and destroy vapors escaping waste tanks. Ferguson said if the federal agency doesn’t

meet its obligations, legal action could resume.

“Hearing and documenting dozens of stories of sick workers was heartbreaking,” said Meredith Crafton, a lawyer representing Hanford Challenge, whose voice broke as she spoke to reporters.

The agreement protects workers in the interim but also creates incentives to find better technology to protect

workers in the future, she said.

The 586-square-mile (943-square-kilometer) Hanford nuclear site located along the Columbia River in Eastern Washington state produced up to 70 percent of the plutonium for the U.S. nuclear arsenal since it was established in World War II. Hanford has 177 underground tanks made

of steel that contain more that 54 million gallons (204 million liters) of radioactive and chemical wastes.

Ferguson said studies over the last 20 years, including by the Energy Department and other government agencies, have shown workers falling ill after being exposed to the vapors. They’ve experienced dizziness, nausea and other issues.

Singing

of Welsh Hymns

(English and Welsh in 4-part congregational singing)

2018 Minnesota Welsh Hymn Festival Sunday, September 23rd at 1:30 p.m.

First Presbyterian Church, 220 East Hickory, Mankato MN Free Admission and Te Bach (Refreshments) after hymn sing.

For more information about this and other Welsh events, check the website: mnwelshassociation.weebly.com & www.facebook.com/MinnesotaWelshAssociation

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KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER In a heart wrenching decision last weekend, the European Union Parliament voted in favor of an extremely controversial copyright directive that would force tech giants like Instagram and Reddit to stop the spread of copyrighted material on their platforms. The directive, called “The European Union Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market” officially, is the Union’s best idea of a way to update copyright law for the internet age.

Until now, the responsibility for enforcing the laws has rested mostly with the owners of the properties, but with this new change, the platforms themselves will be required to uphold policies.

Does this mean the end of memes as we know it?

Well to be frank, no one really knows. Some of the legislators advocating for the bill have said that memes fall into the category of parody, thus meaning they are free to be shared because one

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person won’t get the same meaning he or she would from the meme that he or she would have got from the original source.

Those guys are the good ones, you should support those men and ladies all the way. Well, not in every issue.

I’m sure some of them suck in other ways, but on the “Meme Ban”, they’re the good guys. On the other side of the argument are the evil, dumb dummies who say that since the article covers all copyrighted materials, and memes include copyrighted materials, memes obviously should be restricted. This is a very stupid thing to believe in, and it proves how out of touch politicians can be.

Personally, I think this ban is less about the copyright law and more about getting rid of memes because some

companies and groups dislike how their images have been used. They are images that are being related to things they do not want them to. Like Spongebob being literally anything but a children’s cartoon.

Companies do not enjoy not having control over their own properties, and I kind of get that. If I made a cartoon for kids and saw it being used on Twitter in a very un-kid friendly way, I might be a little annoyed. But does that give me the right to stop that person from using it that way? Hell no. If that’s how things worked, parody as a whole would be gone forever.

Another reason some are speculating this decision was made is due to the stigma some memes have. Justifiable or not, some believe memes

originated from right wing trenches of the internet.

For example, look at Pepe the Frog. Pepe started in a comic, was adopted by 4chan, and due to his use on R/the_donald, a subreddit praising Donald Trump, he was declared a hate symbol in 2016. Again, I think that reasoning is dumb, as I’ve seen Spongebob memes on R/the_donald as well, and he hasn’t been declared a hate symbol—yet.

Memes are a way for people all over the world to connect and go “Heh, yeah that’s pretty funny”. This law will make our world a much less enjoyable place unnecessarily and cause our world to take one more step towards a total Orwellian nightmare. In summation, this is stupid and memes are good for the world.

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Meet the Mixed Martial Arts Club MARJAN HUSSEIN STAFF WRITER Mixed martial arts is a growing phenomenon among young people worldwide today with athletes from all over the globe taking the ring to contend for championship status. According to an article in the New York Times (Quenqua, 2012) on the Fight Club Generation the idea of mixed martial arts is to create space where a fighter can use any style of combat to subdue an opponent.

The article also states that fandom of mixed martial arts keeps increasing as even MMA themed birthday parties are gradually becoming a thing in the U.S. William Rivard, a senior pursuing a degree in Mechanical Engineering and the president of the MMA Club at MNSU states that MMA is an ideal sport that engages one fully requiring them to be in top shape to compete.

“The MMA Club at MNSU acts like a stepping stone for those who plan to continue with the sport after graduation plus is an excellent way to get a workout in,” Rivard said. MMA includes different

fighting styles such as boxing, wrestling, jujitsu, karate, Muay Thai along with other combative styles of fighting.

Rivard has been actively participating in the sport for almost a decade and states that when he first joined the MMA Club at MNSU the atmosphere invigorating.

“When I first joined the club, I was stunned by the focus of the guys who were training themselves and pushed each other to always keep working, it was quite surreal,” Rivard says.

Rivard aspires to bring about the same atmosphere of dedication, passion and motivation to the club.

“The Club is free for MNSU students to join thus if you have any experience in the sport or no experience at all, the club is all access to students,” Rivard says.

Rivard states that it was a hassle managing his time in the past but over time he has learned a ton of organization skills over time thus things have gotten easier.

Rivard is also the Vice President of the Engineers Without Borders Club and states that he is gains significant leadership skills

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from both clubs he is involved in.

The MMA Club has a strong presence in social media, Facebook to be specific where most communication about the club occurs. MMA and UFC are highly interlinked as the article in the New York Times states and though some people may term it as cock fighting, the sport is legit with numerous rules that must be adhered to.

Dan Moret, current UFC

fighter and one of the founders of the MMA Club at MNSU is a great example of how far involvement in a small club at college level can take one. The MMA Club members always feel inspired when Moret talks about his humble beginnings at MNSU. Rivard states that apart from Dan Moret, John Castaneda is also another prominent fighter in the UFC who started out at MNSU. Rivard is keen on keeping

the club active and ensuring all participants have fun whenever they attend a training session. Sports offer individuals the opportunity to try something new in addition to exploring different ways to stay active.

Sports builds character, instills discipline and creates lifelong bonds thus joining the MMA Club could be the start of a route that leads one to do impeccable things.

Europe’s solutions to migration create humanitarian crises One of Europe’s main solutions to migration — Greece’s overcrowded, unsanitary Moria migrant camp — has suicidal children and conditions that a psychiatrist compared to “an old-fashioned mental asylum.”

In another heavily criticized solution to immigration, imprisoned men and women have been shuttled away from one gunbattle only to end up incarcerated on the front line of another, vulnerable to both trafficking and new abuse.

The jammed Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and the dangerous migrant detention centers in Libya serve as a sober reminder to European leaders that their statistical success in curbing migration into the continent has spawned what the U.N. and others condemn as massive humanitarian failures.

Deeply divided over how and where to control Europe’s borders, leaders are meeting Wednesday in a summit in Austria.

Migrant sea arrivals to Europe have plummeted this year, but each journey now carries increasing risks of death or indefinite detention in squalid

conditions. More than 1,700 people have already died on Mediterranean crossings this year.

Abbas Elnaser, an Iraqi who arrived in Moria about three weeks ago, said his 8-year-old daughter’s health had always been frail and she was deteriorating quickly in the camp that was built for 3,100 but now houses over 9,000 people.

“She has problems breathing most of the time, she has problems in her lungs,” he said. “The tent is surrounded by garbage.”

In the central Mediterranean, Europe has effectively outsourced sea rescues of migrants to the Libyan coast guard, whose boats have returned 13,000 migrants to Libyan detention centers this year. In some of those centers around the Libyan capital of Tripoli, migrants ended up on the front lines of gun battles as militias fought for control of the city.

At one point in the fighting, detainees abandoned by their jailers for days broke out of at least one center but ended up caught in gun battle. A half-dozen people were shot, according to Ibrahim Younis,

head of the Libya mission for the aid group Doctors without Borders.

As a Tripoli cease-fire brokered by the U.N. threatens to fracture, food for the detainees there is dwindling.

Libyan officials complain that both they and the migrants have been largely abandoned

by Europe. In the Janzour detention center, around 900 people were crammed into a space intended for half that many.

“We have difficulties in providing subsistence, difficulties in providing food, and difficulties in sheltering them,” said 1st Lt. Jamal Hussain. The government, which runs the facility, refused to allow an Associated Press journalist to speak to detainees.

The official number of asylum-seekers and refugees in detention in Libya is around 5,000, but thousands more are believed to be captive in warehouses and other buildings, where there have been widespread reports of slavery, sexual abuse and other atrocities.

This month the U.N. broke its silence over Europe’s policy of allowing the Libyan coast guard to

intercept migrants, saying it was untenable and putting thousands of people at risk of being jailed indefinitely in inhumane conditions.

Detailing allegations of torture, sexual abuse, violence and “nightmarish” conditions, the U.N. refugee agency said Libya doesn’t

remotely meet the criteria “as a place of safety.”

In all, around 56,000 refugees and asylum-seekers are registered with the U.N. in Libya and neighboring

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Two women drown as van swept into floodwaters COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two women who were being transported to a mental health facility drowned when a sheriff’s department van was swept away in rising South Carolina floodwaters, according to authorities.

Two Horry County deputies were driving a van carrying the two women in the back on Tuesday night when it was overtaken by floodwaters in Marion County. Officials said the van was near the Little Pee Dee River, one of the bodies of water state officials are watching closely following the heavy rains of Florence.

“They got out and tried to open the van to get the ladies out,” Horry County Sheriff Phillip Thompson told reporters on Wednesday.

“They were unable to do so.

I’m not sure if it was the way the van was positioned, against a guardrail, or if it was pressure from the water, but unfortunately they were not able to get the van doors open and get the ladies out.”

Thompson said it took rescue crews about 45 minutes to find the van and get to it via boat. By the time they got there, the van was underwater, and the deputies were on the roof.

It had gotten dark, and responders decided it wasn’t safe to try to retrieve the women’s bodies from the van Tuesday night. That effort resumed Wednesday morning, but Thompson said a specialized crew was being flown in from Charleston to assist.

Thompson identified the women as Windy Newton, 45, and Nicolette Green, 43.

Earlier Wednesday, Marion County Coroner Jerry Richardson had identified Newton with a different last

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name.

“They’re still under the water,” Richardson told The Associated Press early Wednesday. “It’s come up 2 feet (0.6 meters) since just last night.”

Richardson said the van came across rising water and was carried off the road.

“They were trying to negotiate through fastrunning water, and it just didn’t work out,” he told AP. The incident has spawned investigations by the State Law Enforcement Division and Highway Patrol. Thompson said he has also begun an internal investigation and put the deputies involved — Joshua Bishop and Stephen Flood — on administrative leave.

Thompson said he did not think the women were in

restraints in the back of the van, noting that restraints are used for combative patients “and I understand they were not.” The sheriff said that the women were being transported as part of a court order, telling reporters that his agency acts as a courier in such situations, to follow a judge’s wishes.

“Once those orders are issued, we don’t place those people in a detention center,” Thompson said. “When we get the order, we transport them.”

Thompson also said he didn’t know if the deputies had driven around any barricades blocking the roads.

Neither woman has an arrest record in South Carolina, according to documents obtained from

state police. Their names also yielded no records in the Horry County jail and court index systems.

Newton had posted on her Facebook page that she had been previously hospitalized for mental illness. She also posted multiple times about her struggles.

State police spokesman Thom Berry told the AP that agents were on the scene aiding in the recovery effort.

Justin Bamberg, a state lawmaker and lawyer who has represented the families of several people injured or

killed by law enforcement officers, said Wednesday he’s perplexed by the decision to transport anyone in such uncertain weather conditions.

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EUROPE Continued from page 5 Niger, which have accepted millions of euros in exchange for European promises to evaluate a portion for resettlement.

But, critics say, resettlement simply isn’t happening. A total of 657 people had left for resettlement in Europe as of last week, out of 3,886 slots promised over a year ago in 11 European countries and Canada.

Meanwhile, the Libyan and Greek detention centers continue to fill, with migrants and refugees waiting a year or more for a decision in their cases. That, however, suits many anti-immigrant populists in Europe just fine.

“Until the message is made abundantly clear that illegal economic migrants will not be processed, that boats will be turned back, thousands and thousands more sad and desperate lives will be lost in vain, all for your feelings of virtue,” said Nathan Gill, a British member of the European parliament, accusing fellow legislators last week of being soft on immigration. “You’re not really helping people.”

If migrants have made it to the Greek island of Lesbos, they’re already one step ahead of those trapped in Libya. But conditions are hardly better. Raw sewage flows out the main entrance in Moria, garbage piles up outside the containers where igrants sleep.

Luca Fontana, who works for Doctors without Borders

in Lesbos, said a quarter of the minors there had either attempted suicide, had suicidal thoughts or were harming themselves.

“Only last week had to suture the wrists of a couple of unaccompanied minors, they tried to cut their veins inside Moria camp,” he said.

Psychiatrist Alessandro Barbero of Doctors without Borders said Moria was as grim as “an old-fashioned mental asylum, not seen in parts of Europe since the mid-twentieth century.”

Any hope of an easy solution to Europe’s immigration dilemma has faded.

Paolo Campana, who has studied the smuggling networks that lead through Libya, believes a solution is only possible if legal migration into Europe opens up at the same time as peace, stability and prosperity emerge in violence-plagued nations like Iraq, Syria, Ethiopia and Eritrea.

“We need to be humanitarian and to be pragmatic,” he said.

As of last week, 73,696 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea this year along with over 11,000 land arrivals, compared with 128,993 sea arrivals in 2017 and 298,663 in 2016.

European leaders in June proposed creating centers to process migrants in North Africa but those governments quickly rejected the idea. The EU now is pitching plans of an

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Continued from page 3 Esker Software.

Gabe Geib, a customer advocate at Esker Software, said he was working at his desk when he heard what “sounded like claps.” He said he then saw people running away from the building at “full sprint.”

“We knew at that point that something was going down. A ton of people were running across the street right in front of us,” he said.

Geib said he and his colleagues were still huddled in their cafeteria, away from windows, more than an hour after the shooting. Jeff Greene, who also works at Esker, said police told those gathered in the cafeteria to go a nearby hotel to make a statement about what they saw.

Three yellow school buses full of more than 100 people, including witnesses, were

unloaded at a hotel about 5 miles (8 kilometers) from the office building. Some people hugged as they were reunited with loved ones.

Others stopped to pet a dog that had been brought by someone picking up a worker.

WTS Paradigm makes software for the building products industry.

A Wisconsin State Journal profile from 2014 listed company employment at about 145 employees, and noted the company was looking to move to a larger location at the time. The company’s website was down Wednesday.

A shopping center next to the building was temporarily put on lockdown at the direction of police.

Middleton is about 90 miles (145 kilometers) west of Milwaukee.

upgraded border force.

Last week, Austria and Italy’s right-wing interior ministers called for shipboard screenings of migrants on the Mediterranean, raising new questions about whose ships and where — given that Italy has blocked humanitarian groups from docking with migrants rescued at sea, favoring Libyan boats instead.

Riccardo Magi, an Italian lawmaker from the tiny leftwing +Europa party, said Libya’s deteriorating crisis risks sending migrants and refugees on ever smaller boats into greater danger.

“What is sure is that the departures will continue and that deaths will continue to occur and that there will be fewer and fewer eyes” on the sea to rescue those in need, Magi said.

Two survivors of a deadly wreck who were picked up by the coast guard were later imprisoned and tortured, said Giorgia Linardi, a spokeswoman for the SeaWatch rescue boat. The two escaped in July and again set sail, this time being rescued by the NGO ship Aquarius.

Linardi said at least one of the two has brought a case to the European Court of Human Rights for alleged violation of the EU convention banning torture.

Trying to tackle the enormous problem at Moria, Greece on Tuesday agreed to transfer 2,000 asylumseekers from the camp on

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Lesbos to the mainland this month. The move can’t come soon enough for the migrants there. Ali Sajjad Faizy, a 19-year-old from Afghanistan, said conditions at Moria

have steadily worsened and residents must stand in line “for four or five” hours just to get food.

“It’s completely full,” he said.

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To binge or not to binge: “BoJack Horseman” Season five is as zany as ever

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER Oh Jesus. Why does BoJack have to be so bad at being a person? It’s like every time you think he’s making strides towards improving himself and becoming a better person, he does something to completely ruin it all? But I’m getting ahead of myself. Over the weekend, I binge watched the newest season of “BoJack Horseman”.

This show has been one of the deepest, most well written programs to ever be produced, and this season continues that tenfold, by delivering the most accurate look into someone losing control of their lives that I’ve

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ever seen.

The cast of characters are all in different phases of their lives to start this season, as Diane and Mr. Peanut Butter are in the middle of a divorce

and are both handling it very differently. Todd is trying to find out who he is, while also juggling a new, exciting and hilarious job.

Princess Carolyn is jug-

gling trying to run BoJack’s show and adopting a child. A new character, Henry Fondle, is one of the funniest the show has ever had and adds some much needed laughs towards

the end of this season.

And finally BoJack has just started his new show, a crime drama named “Philbert”, in an attempt to continue his career renaissance and deliver meaning to his life.

This season sees the show focus more on the dark dramatic side of things, as the laughs are fewer and further between this season.

That isn’t a bad thing at all, as I have always felt that the shows darker and more dramatic moments have always been the better ones.

Every season the show has two episodes of note that are either starkly different than all the rest, like season three’s “Fish Out of Water” or season four’s “Stupid Piece of S---”, or the notoriously heavy episode 11 of every season.

This season those epi-

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“BTS” hits No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums Wait, who is “BTS”?

MARK REYNOLDS STAFF WRITER

Last week, Korean Pop group BTS jumped to the top of the charts with their album “Love Yourself: Answer.”

The group from Seoul, South Korea became the first K-pop group to have a No. 1 album with a previous album “Love Yourself: Her” and have done it again with this new album.

Since the band’s debut, they have sold an estimat-

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ed 9 million albums worldwide.

BTS is known for their

strong social media presence. They were the most tweeted about celebrity

in 2017, being liked or retweeted over 502 million times.

But where did this surge of music come from? And why has it blown up in America?

While many people’s first exposure might have been through “Gangnam Style,” which in 2012 became the first YouTube video to reach one billion views, it started much earlier.

Seo Taiji and Boys was the first “modern” K-pop group. They formed in 1992, and through their use of rap in Korean pop music, they pioneered what would develop into the $5 billion industry it is

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Fashion & Commercial Photography Club: Setting the trend SAMUEL OLUWADOROMI STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER It is that time of the season where the trees change into beautiful colors. The fall season is here and the fashion trends all change for the next couple of months. At the Fashion and Commercial Photography Club (FCPC), an RSO on campus at MSU, we are always up to date on the latest trends in the fashion world.

As we prepare for the FCPC Fall Fashion Show which is to take place on November 8th from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the CSU ballroom, the club will be organizing a couple of fall fashion inspired photoshoots every Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in build up to the event.

The first photoshoot took place on September 13, 2018 in the beautiful field

behind Julia Sears Residence Community. The photoshoot started with two models, and more models arrived later. In total, there were three female models, two male models and two photographers. The photoshoot lasted an hour and a half, as it ended at sundown.

During the photoshoot, there was music, giggling and everyone had fun. This is the first out of many photoshoots to happen this semester and the fun part is that the photoshoot is open to all students.

The pictures from every photoshoot will be reviewed every Tuesday at 8 p.m. in CSU 256.

The theme for the next photoshoot is “Galaxy Projection” and is set to take place tonight in CSU 245. Interested participants should check out the FCPC Instagram page (@fcpcmankato) to get more information on the look of the day.

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Success Buttons of knowledge is one of the most dreadful diseases. It is basic that you cannot rise above the level of what you know. Knowledge has a way of affecting and influencing an individual’s personality and well-being. If you do not know something, you cannot use it. You cannot reap what you have not sown. There must be sowing before reaping. So you cannot use knowledge you do not possess.

That is why the world says, “Knowledge is power.”

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At new birth, you entered into a covenant relationship with God. This covenant covers all areas of your life. God has done everything to make you a success. He made a grand design of success for you. His will for you is success and it is spelt out in His word.

The problem with many of God’s people is that they lack the knowledge of this truth. They do not know that God has planned and programmed them for success.

So, they continue to live purposelessly. They do not have knowledge of their success.

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Arthur Mitchell, pioneering black ballet dancer, dies at 84 NEW YORK (AP) — Arthur Mitchell, who broke barriers for African-Americans in the 1950s as a ballet dancer with the New York City Ballet and who would go on to become a driving force in the creation of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, has died. He was 84. Mitchell died Wednesday at a New York City hospital according to his niece, Juli Mills-Ross. She said the death came after renal failure led to heart failure.

Born in Harlem, Mitchell started dancing with the New York City Ballet in 1955 under famed choreographer George Balanchine.

Balanchine put him in several leading roles, including one pairing him with a white female dancer in “Agon” in 1957. In a January interview with The New York Times, Mitchell recalled the daring of that choice.“Can you imagine the audacity to take an African-American and Diana Adams, the essence and purity of Caucasian dance, and to put them together on the stage?” he said. In 1968, impacted by the assassination of

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Martin Luther King Jr., Mitchell started a dance school that grew the next year to include the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

Anna Glass, the executive director of the Dance Theater, told The Associated Press that Mitchell “truly was a vi-

sionary.”

“He believed in a world where all people could have access to this beautiful art form,” she said. “He really sought to ensure that all people saw themselves in” ballet.

Among those recognizing his

HORSEMAN Continued from page 10 sodes were “Free Churro” and “The Showstopper”. In “Free Churro”, BoJack has to give an eulogy at someone’s funeral and the episode consists of just that, the eulogy.

There are no cutaways. No escapades with todd. No anything. Just BoJack and the eulogy and it might be the best episode yet.

Episode 11 this season, “The Showstopper”, is the

culmination of a lot of things, and it shows BoJack at maybe his lowest point yet.

If you have been on the fence about watching this show, I cannot stress how good it really is. It is one hundred percent worth the watch, even if it leaves you feeling empty inside because that emptiness is a good emptiness, an emptiness that leaves you feeling wiser and

more in sync with your inner self afterwards. Reporter Rating 4 I’m not saying that this 5 show is the best show ever. I’m just saying that it might be my Twisted Tea favorite show ever, and that if 18 Pack Variety anything deserves a chance, (9) Regular/(9) Half & Half it’s BoJack Horseman. Not the character though. That guy’s a piece of work.

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Most K-pop music comes in the form of idol groups. In TIME magazine’s list of the best K-pop artist, all six artists are idol groups.

These groups are reminiscent of the boy band era of the early 2000s, with different members having unique personalities to appeal to a variety of fans.

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The first “idol” group, a group with many iconic, multi-talented members, appeared in 1996. The group, H.O.T., showed the potential of the Korean scene and even performed in a benefit concert with Michael Jackson.

That potential, which some call “Hallyu,” the Korean wave, has truly shown in BTS. Their newest album could very well have been 26 singles.

impact following his death was Misty Copeland, the first African-American female principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre. In a post on Instagram, she wrote, “You gave me so much, through our conversations, your dancing and by simply existing as a brown body in ballet.

But you were so much more than a brown body. You’re an icon and hero.” Choreographer and television producer

Debbie Allen tweeted, “The world has lost another visionary” with Mitchell’s death.

“Arthur Mitchell claimed ballet as an American art form,” she said. “His legacy lives through all of us.”Mitchell was born in 1934, and grew up with four siblings. He started formal dance training in high school, and upon graduating, took the offer of a ballet scholarship with the School of American Ballet, founded by Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein.His dancing years also included choreographing his own works, performing on Broadway, and working with dance companies in other countries. The Dance Theatre of Harlem performed internationally and has been artistically acclaimed even as it went through some periods of financial upheaval.

He stepped down as director almost a decade ago.

Glass said Mitchell had most recently spent time at the company last month, during a two-week residency in which he restaged one of his older ballets to be performed next April as the company marks its 50th anniversary. “This was a moment that all of us were looking forward to,” Glass said. “I know we will miss him tremendously.”

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Mavs football looks to dismantle rival Winona The team trots into Saturday’s matchup coming off a dominant performance last weekend at home

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER This weekend, our #1 ranked Mavericks look to keep the season perfect with a win against the Winona State Warriors on the road.

This will be the 57th time these teams have met in their illustrious rivalry, a rivalry in which the Mavericks hold a 34-18 lead.

In the most recent match up, the Mavs defeated the Warriors at the Blake last season, dismantling the team by the final score of 27-6, in what was a total defensive affair for the Mavericks throughout the game.

This season, the offense has been the story for this team. Offensively this season, the Mavericks might be the most dangerous team right now in D-II, as they’ve been able to 44.3 points and 543 yards of offense per game this season.

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Using a balanced run and passing attack, the offensive yards are split up a near even 279.3 rushing yards per game and 263.7 passing yards a game.

Defensively, the teams haven’t been able to execute nearly as well, averaging a measly 20.7 points per game and 357.3 yards per game.

Junior tailback Nate Gunn

spearheads the MSU rushing game, with 304 rushing yards and an impressive six touchdowns.

Sophomore runner Justin Taormina has been a nice complementary piece, amassing 190 rushing yards and a touchdown so far in three games for the Mavs, while sophomore JD Ekowa has also added 160 yards and

a touchdown on the ground this year.

Junior quarterback Ryan Schlichte has thrown for 597 yards and three touchdowns this season. He is currently averaging 199 passing yards a game and has completed 65.3% of his passes.

The Maverick receivers are led by the duo of talented juniors in Shane Zylstra

and Justin Arnold. Zylstra has tallied a cool 269 receiving yards and three touchdowns, while Arnold has snagged 11 passes for 182 yards.

Junior Zach Robertson leads the stiff defense with 19 tackles, including 2 tack-

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Minnesota Vikings shorted again by kickers

As simple as it may look, the Vikings still struggle to find an accurate kicker when it matters most

KEVIN KORBEL SPORTS EDITOR This past Sunday, the Vikings made headlines again in the NFL, and not in a positive way for the franchise. The team cut rookie 5th round kicker, Daniel Carlson, on Monday after going 0/3 on field goal attempts against the Packers last Sunday at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, WI. Once the team cut the rookie kicker, the team went out on the open market and nabbed the 2nd most accurate kicker in NFL history, former Dallas Cowboys kicker

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Daniel Carlson (pictured, head down) has been just the recent Vikings kicker to miss field goals in clutch moments for the purple and gold in recent memory.

Dan Bailey.

While this is all well and good that the team has found

a reliable kicker to kick for the team this season, the Vikings have seen too much kicker

turnover in recent memory to sit comfortably in their chair this Sunday without a hitch.

Here are just a few moments Vikings kickers have missed field goals in recent memory: Daniel Carlson 0/3 on field goals in Lambeau While mentioned already in this article, it’s good to start fresh in the minds of Vikings fans. Special Teams coach, Mike Priefer, is quoted saying that the best kickers in this league don’t miss twice on field goal attempts.

Carlson had his back against the wall in his final field goal attempt this past Sunday, with a made kick by him giving the Vikings the win if he kicked it right.

Unfortunately, he caught a case of the “yips” and missed the field goal with seconds

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Butler’s trade demands leave the “Timberbulls” in check After recently voicing his frustrations with the team, the Timberwolves may need to deal the talented player JOHN LAFOREST STAFF WRITER

The Minnesota Timberwolves have gone through a lot of changes in the past year and half as a franchise.

Everywhere from the general manager of the team, to the head coach, to the player roster has been gutted from top to bottom for this team, a lot of them interesting enough coming from the Chicago Bulls franchise.

These changes bestowed the nickname “Timberbulls” because of the amount of former Bulls players and coaches on their current roster.

The upcoming season for the Timberwolves will feature, as of right now, four former players of Tom Thibodeau, who also the former head coach for the Chicago Bulls.

The former Bulls players currently on the team in Jimmy Butler, Taj Gibson, Derrick Rose, and Loul Deng have now all reunited together on the Timberwolves, all joining the team respectively in that order.

The Wolves are coming off a first-round exit at the hands of the Houston Rockets last season in five games.

The team had not been to the playoffs since the 2004-2005 season when they had the future Hall of Famer in Kevin Garnett.

The success of last year’s team can be heavily credited with the “Timberbulls” or the former Bulls players, with Butler being at the forefront of the core of former Bulls on this team.

Butler was named an AllStar and an All-NBA player for the team and lead the team in PPG, and most nights looked like the best player on the floor. Now, he wants to leave the team and make a name for himself elsewhere.

While Butler wanting to leave might be an issue for this team, the team has a lot of talent to at least make the playoffs.

Former MVP Derrick Rose seemed to be a bright light toward the end of the season for the Wolves, especially in the playoffs. He is known for being the youngest MVP but hasn’t been the same after multiple knee surgeries on both knees. The postseason is where he really shined and showed flashes of his time when he was in Chicago. He averaged 14.2 PPG off the bench and was by far the team’s best bench scorer,

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Jimmy Butler (right) has expressed his disinterest with the franchise lately, pleading to be traded from the team due to internal things surrounding his contract, and the organization. providing that spark.

Even former Wolves player, and future Hall of Famer, Kevin Garnett, commented on Rose and what his role should be this upcoming season and whether he should start over last year’s starting point guard Jeff Teague, which led Garnett to say: “He’s more crafty now than ever in the pick-androll. He’s able to get shots for guys and he’s able to knock shots down”.

From 2010-2015, Tom Thibodeau served as the head

coach for Chicago Bulls.

Serving as head coach for the Bulls gave Thibodeau a lot of success. The team went to the postseason every year, going as far as the Eastern Conference Finals.

It’s not all sunshine on the history with the players and coach Thibodeau.

Jimmy Butler decided not to sign an extension with the team this offseason which raised some eyebrows and questions on how committed he’s going to be this season, and now with the only nota-

ble signing for the Wolves this season being Loul Deng, who is way past his prime and serves more as a mentor, it begs the question: will this team recover if they indeed trade Butler?

The upcoming season for the “Timberbulls” should be interesting with these storylines. In the end, the Wolves hope to find themselves in the playoffs this season, and maybe hit a few lucky shots at the end of games.

WEEK #3 • REPORTER PICK ‘EM JETS @ BROWNS

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49ERS @ CHIEFS

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KEVIN KORBEL Sports Editor AARON YOUNG Sports Writer MANSOOR AHMAD Staff Photographer KOLBY SPOMER Sports Writer DAVID BASSEY Editor in Chief LUCAS “MEEP” TORBORG Office Meep MADISON DIEMERT News Editor DANA CLARK Production Mgr.

After a long week two in the NFL, a lot of shiftting has gone on in the standings headed into week three. Madison has resurrected herself from the dead, and has climbed back into the race for first, tying with Kevin and Dana, for 2nd. This week, it looks it’ll be a little more clearer as to who really is top dog in our standings. With Kevin losing his first place spot in the standings, he looks to shoot back up to the top of the leader board with an interesting week in the NFL coming up. The first team he’ll have to rely on to win this week is the Cleveland Browns, which, looking at who picked who this week in our pick ‘em game, could either really help him out, or come back around to bite him in the arse. This season has been uncomfortable at times for this sports editor, knowing that a chick in the office who picks teams based on best looking logo is tied with him in the standings. Hopefully it evens out this weekend.

STANDINGS After Week #2

1ST PLACE Aaron Young

2ND PLACE (TIE) Kevin Korbel

2ND PLACE (TIE) Madison Diemert

2ND PLACE (TIE) Dana Clark

3RD PLACE Mansoor Ahmad

4TH PLACE (TIE) Meep

4TH PLACE (TIE) David Bassey

LAST PLACE Kolby Spomer

Overall (19-13) Last Week (11-5)

Overall (18-14) Last Week (8-8)

Overall (18-14) Last Week (11-5)

Overall (18-14) Last Week (10-6)

Overall (17-15) Last Week (8-8)

Overall (16-16) Last Week (7-9)

Overall (16-16) Last Week (8-8)

Overall (15-17) Last Week (7-9)

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FOOTBALL Continued from page 13

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les for a loss. Sophomore Cole Schroedermeier has impressed, notching 15 tackles so far this season, while junior Alex Goettl has tallied 15 tackles, including 1.5 tackles for a loss, and 1.5 sacks.

On the other side of things, Winona is reeling from an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the previously winless Upper Iowa Peacocks.

Offensively, they’ve been consistently putting points on the board, averaging 30

points and 398 yards of offense per game this season.

They are potent through the air, however, amassing 8 of their 10 touchdowns through the air, which means their run game is yet to be proven.

Players of note on the offensive side of the ball for the Warriors include quarterback Owen Burke, who has thrown for 733 yards and eight touchdowns this season, and defensive back Isaiah Hall,

who leads the defense with 21 tackles, including 5.5 for a loss.

Defensively, they’ve been allowing other teams to average 25.6 points and 390.3 yards of offense a game this season, which may be a telltale sign that the Mavericks will rely on their offense on Saturday to stack points on this bend, but don’t breaktype defense.

Expect a close game between these two rivals, as the

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Warriors look to bounce back from last week’s heartbreaking loss, while the Mavericks try to keep their seat at the top of the conference.

Kickoff time is scheduled

for 1 p.m. this Saturday in Winona, MN. Stream the game online through the team’s athletic site, or listen to the game on 1230 THE FAN

If the Vikings want to rewrite history in a good way this season, the time is NOW for them to figure out what might be the most underrated, yet most high-pressured job in the NFL.

Dan Bailey, welcome to the Vikings, but remember that Rick Spielman and Mike Zimmer brought you on this team, and they’re not afraid to kick you off it!

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Photo Courtesy of the Associated Press

Blair Walsh (pictured above) is one of many former Vikings kickers to miss field goals for the Vikings when it mattered the most. left in the game. The next day, he’d be cut and replaced

by Dan Bailey.

Blair Walsh vs. the Seahawks, NFC Wild Card round The Vikings were marching down the field late in this game. The crowd’s eyes at TCF Bank Stadium were completely frozen to the field that day, watching Teddy Bridge-

water drive the offense down the field in subzero weather to put the Vikings in field goal range to move on in the playoffs.

Every Vikings fan knows what happened next. After watching Walsh go 3/3 on field goals that day, everybody in the stadium that day was confident that he’d make the most important field goal.

Unfortunately, he missed the field goal and the Vikings went home that day wondering what could’ve been.

Gary Anderson miss vs. the Falcons in 1998 After a 15-1 regular season, Minnesota led Atlanta 27-20 on Jan. 17, 1999, at the Metrodome when Anderson lined up for a 39-yard fieldgoal attempt with 2:11 remaining.

During the regular season, Anderson had made all 35 of field-goal attempts and all 59 of his extra points. Overall, he had made 122 consecutive kicks.

It was a chip shot, and if Anderson made it, the Vikings were all but certain to be headed for Super Bowl XXXIII, their first since 1977.

But Anderson didn’t make it at all; the ball drifted a few feet left and Minnesota ultimately lost 30-27 in overtime.

Anderson played four more seasons with Minnesota. After two years with Tennessee, he retired after the 2004 season as the leading in scorer in NFL history with 2,434 points.

He eventually was surpassed by Morten Andersen, who remains the top scorer with 2,544 points and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2017.

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