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IMPACT showcases homecoming week with numerous events RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer Gusting winds, chilly weather, changing leaves and Ugg boots give credence to the presence of Fall in Mankato.

Don’t forget to bring out your purple and gold- Homecoming is here, and in full swing with events lined up the whole week. The presence of IMPACT has allowed the festive week to take place.

This Homecoming will be

one to remember; with events such as the Medallion Hunt and annual Parade, there’s no excuse for you to take a break from studying and join in the festivities.

Groups registered for Homecoming will be gathering canned food for the canned food sculpture contest at 10 a.m. on Thursday.

This event, which goes until 3 p.m., challenges groups to create a masterpiece using corn, beans and other items

that will be donated.

The group with the most canned food wins and is entitled to all the spoils (points).

A Lip sync activity with coronation following at 7 p.m. will take place in Bresnan Arena.

Maverick volleyball will face St. Cloud at Bresnan Arena at 7 p.m. Thursday.

After the game, there will be an outdoor movie showing at 9 near the Koi Pond outside of the CSU. Saturday is filled with

Spectators dance to a DJ monday at the Yell Like Hell event outside the Performing Arts Center.

events starting bright and early.

With the end of Homecoming on Saturday, IMPACT plans on ending in with a bang.

Events are lined up all day, starting with the Homecoming 5k at 9 a.m. at the fitness trail and the annual parade at noon.

At 2 p.m., the Mavericks will face Northern State in the Homecoming Football game at Blakeslee Stadium.

Don’t forget to sit in the student section, where The

Herd, an organization dedicated to supporting Maverick pride at sporting events through chants and cheering, will be located. The Homecoming carnival will take place from 3-11pm at Lot 20.

IMPACT has been promoting the carnival as a family fun event open to the community and free for students.

Live music from Scarletta will be performing at 8 pm.

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Increased police presence expected for Homecoming weekend Commander of the Mankato Police, Jeremy Clifton realizes the importance of staying safe over homecoming and abiding the law.

HANNAH KLEINBERG Staff Writer With homecoming upon us, you would expect the crime rate to increase as well, but The Mankato Public Safety Department says otherwise. Commander of the Mankato Police Force Jeremy Cliffton says that there is actually no noticeable spike in crime—even in minors or DUIs. “The city is not the campus,” Cliffton said. Cliffton explained that with homecoming comes a large of influx of people in the city, but while temporary population grows, the crime rate does not.

There is a recognized increase in workload, though, and to make up for the influx of visitors they send out more officers and other officials to compensate.

Cliffton refrained from disclosing the number of increased officials, contending that police tactics and numbers are private information- not to be discussed with organizations or media.

Even though alcohol-related busts don’t directly correlate with homecoming week, he doesn’t dismiss the threat as readily present, nor does any of the force.

Commander Cliffton said that to him DUIs and minors are a misdemeanor, and unless the offender does something further to break the law (such as injury to another or destruction of property), it has the ability to evolve into a gross misdemeanor.

With misdemeanors come fines—in Minnesota numbers vary and are doled out by the state—and other consequences, such as temporary revocation of driver’s licenses and in worst case scenarios up to 90 days of jail time or $1000 fine.

People of all ages are vulnerable to DUIs and minors. While he said that there was no specified age range for DUIs and minors, it’s safe to assume that the majority of offenders are between the ages 18-21.

Cliffton said that people in this age range are more active drivers and are prone to social drinking, and therefore more at risk to violate the laws.

That doesn’t mean that he targets that pool of people, he reassures. Everyone is capable of illegal activity.

Alcohol and parties are inevitable for a college homecoming, making Cliffton’s job essential this weekend. His advice revolved around staying inside the parameters of the law. This includes not drinking and driving and as he coins as his own motto, “It’s very simple: have a plan. If you know that you’re going to a function where drinking is possible, have a plan. Be aware of how you’ll be getting home and make sure it’s a reliable and safe mode of transportation.”

He also says that if you question whether or not you’re safe to drive then you’ve drank too much. He refers to the current slogan- “Buzzed driving is drunk driving.”

Cliffton does not condone any of these activities, but also knows it’s absurd to dismiss that they happen every day. However, there are plenty of ways to stay safe and still have a good time during homecoming.

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Wal-Mart, Washington worries whack stock market Wal-Mart and the budget battle in Washington are responsible for the 5th consecutive day in which the stock market dropped.

NEW YORK (AP) — WalMart spooked the stock market Wednesday — helping push stocks lower for a fifth straight day.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 61 points, or 0.4 percent, to 15,273.26. The Dow was dragged down by Wal-Mart after Bloomberg News reported that the world’s biggest retailer is cutting orders with suppliers as unsold merchandise piles up.

Wal-Mart spokesman Dave Tovar said the report was misleading and that in some categories, the discounter was ordering more, and in other areas it was ordering less.

“This is business as usual,” Tovar said, noting that it was part of an ongoing process of managing the seasonality of the business based on consumer demand.

Wal-Mart fell $1.10, or 1.5 percent, to $74.65, taking the rest of the market with it.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell five points, or 0.3 percent, to 1,692.77. Its five-day losing streak is the longest this year.

The Nasdaq composite lost

seven points, or 0.2 percent, to 3,761.10.

Worries about the economy and the growing possibility of a government shutdown also continue to weigh on investors’ minds. In just a week, the mood of investors has shifted from giddiness over more Federal Reserve stimulus to concern that a government shutdown could harm the fragile U.S. economic recovery.

Two financial deadlines for the U.S. government loom.

Congress needs to pass a funding bill to keep the government operating after Oct. 1, when the Federal government’s new fiscal year starts. There is also the issue of the nation’s debt ceiling, which needs to be raised before Oct. 17, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Congress in a letter Wednesday.

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives has passed a temporary spending bill and a vote in the Democratcontrolled Senate is expected later this week. However, a conflict between the two parties over funding the Affordable Care Act, also known as

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“Obamacare,” has yet to be resolved. Both chambers of Congress have yet to address the issue of the debt ceiling.

“The action over the last few days has been far more tied to the intractably of Congress and the president than the concerns about what the Federal Reserve is going to do next,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank, which manages $66 billion in assets.

Ablin said investors have bad memories from August 2011, the last time Congress and President Barack Obama fought over the debt ceiling and the budget, which ultimately led Standard & Poor’s to downgrade the credit rating of the U.S. Although the U.S. and Europe are in better shape two years later, there are concerns about real damage to the economy if the budget battle turns ugly. U.S. economic growth slowed considerably in the third quarter of 2011, the same quarter as the downgrade. The slowdown was caused partly by a drop in non-defense-related spending.

The Dow went through

nearly three weeks of tripledigit gains and losses during that month, a rough ride that made even hardened Wall Street traders nauseous.

“All we’re doing now is worrying,” Ablin said.

Wall Street is also looking to next Friday, Oct. 4, when investors get the September jobs report. If hiring is strong enough, the Federal Reserve could decide to start pulling back on its economic stimulus at a two-day policy meeting later in the month.

At the end of its last meeting on Sept. 18, traders had expected a small cut in the Fed’s $85 billion monthly bond purchases, which are aimed at keeping long-term interest rates low to encourage borrowing. When the Fed kept its bond-buying intact, the Dow and S&P 500 index soared to all-time highs. Wall Street celebrated that the central bank would keep borrowing rates as low as possible.

But the Fed’s decision also left traders worried that the economy wasn’t healthy enough to grow without the Fed’s help.

Investors did get an unex-

pectedly positive August durable goods report on Wednesday. Orders for long-lasting manufactured goods rose 0.1 percent last month, following an 8.1 percent decline in July.

Among stocks making big moves: JC Penney fell $1.78, or 15 percent, to $10.12, as more Wall Street analysts continued to downgrade the department store chain’s outlook. An analyst at JPMorgan Chase said JC Penney might right out of cash by next year.

Mako Surgical soared $13.29, or 82 percent, to $29.46 after medical technology company Stryker said it would buy Mako for $1.65 billion, or $30 per share.

Ascena Retail Group shares jumped $2.74, or 16 percent, to $20.06. The parent company of Lane Bryant, Dressbarn and Maurices, reported results that were significantly better than financial analysts expected in its most recent quarter.

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The Perils of “Exceptionalism” While great, this country has a ways to go to match our self-proclaimed appointment of being the best in the world SAM WILMES News Editor A dangerous concept has been frequenting the airwaveseveryone from President Obama to pundits nationwide have been talking for years about the idea of American exceptionalism: an idea that something separates us from any other country, an idea that

we are by name greater than others.

That by definition is arrogance. In most cases, arrogance and ignorance go hand in hand.

Republicans are unfortunately proving this. While many on the right have criticized President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, they also scream that the President doesn’t believe in American

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exceptionalism.

While not only rejecting the concept of Obamacare, which has it’s own flaws, they offer no solutions of their own, no solutions for a country that until 2010 was the only industrialized nation not to have universal health care.

Claiming exceptionalism while not investing in the citizens that make this nation great is akin to claiming to be an A student while not attending class.

Unfortunately for them, the numbers don’t quite jive with their concept of our own greatness, if measured by the way we care for our own citizens.

Our health care system is ranked 38th in the world according to the World Health Organization- behind the likes of Singapore, Oman, Cyprus and Portugal.

We also spend the most per capita on health care - $7,960, more than $2,500 more than 2nd place Norway.

We rank 17th in Pearson’s global rankings on education, behind Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and many others.

A citizen of this country has a better chance of being shot dead on the streets of Chicago then on a foreign battlefield- soldiers have a higher risk of suicide upon returning home than they do of being

killed in the line of duty.

We have the highest incarceration rate in the world- 716 people are currently incarcerated out of 100,000 people.

All of these situations speak to the reality of the situation we face as a nation: the constant reminder that we have a long ways to go to reach our full potential.

Simply claiming we are exceptional is dangerous. When we do this without putting in the necessary investments, our words ring hollow.

Think about what it takes to get to the top: the drive, the acknowledgement that while we have achieved great success, there is still a long ways to go.

What motivation do we have to get better as a nation if we already think we are better than others, and in some cases the best?

Needed investments in education, health care, and our prison system won’t solve all of the problems we have as a country- poverty, unemployment and the credit crisis all speak to the improvements we need to make.

While not fixing the total problem, they at least provide a starting line to a solution for the problem that many can’t see.

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Teen accused of killing mother, brother found on Las Vegas Strip LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-area teenager who had been sought in the U.S. and along the Mexican border following the butcher knife slayings of his mother and younger brother was arrested Wednesday while he sat alone in a food court on the Las Vegas Strip.

An unidentified tipster who recognized Adrian NavarroCanales from media reports told Henderson police the 16-yearold was at the food court at the Showcase mall, police spokesman Keith Paul said. NavarroCanales offered no resistance when police approached him at about 10:30 a.m.

“He was sitting at a table,” Paul said. “The two detectives walked up to him and took him into custody.”

Navarro-Canales was booked into juvenile detention at the Clark County Detention Center in downtown Las Vegas to await an initial court appearance.

Paul said investigators think Navarro-Canales walked the 9 miles to the Strip from the suburban apartment where the bloody bodies of his mother and

brother had been found Friday.

They don’t believe he returned to the apartment, and they were still trying to determine where he had been staying.

Navarro-Canales was named as an adult in a warrant issued Monday accusing him of killing Elvira Canales-Gomez, 40, and Cesar Navarro, 9.

Police say the mom was found with multiple stab wounds and a butcher knife in her chest. The boy was stabbed once in the chest and was found in the bathtub.

Police think the killings happened Sept. 17 — sometime after the mom picked up the 9-year-old from school and a day after she, the two boys and Canales-Gomez’s boyfriend, Carlos Rubio-Villanueva, celebrated Navarro-Canales’ 16th birthday.

Navarro-Canales was initially named as a possible victim, not a suspect. The Associated Press typically doesn’t identify minors accused of crimes but is naming Navarro-Canales because of the seriousness of the crime and because he was

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identified by authorities while they searched for him.

Officers went to the apartment three times last week at the request of Canales-Gomez’s niece and Rubio-Villanueva — once Sept. 18 and twice Thursday — before entering and finding the bodies Friday.

The niece, Ana Martinez, 23, told investigators her cousin didn’t have any friends that she knew of in the Las Vegas area, didn’t like living in the United States and wanted to go back to Mexico. She described NavarroCanales as anti-social and said he spent most of his time in the apartment playing video games.

The mall, next to the MGM Grand casino-resort, is marked by giant M&M and Coca-Cola displays, several shoe and apparel retailers, and an eight-plex movie theater. It also features a video arcade.

Navarro-Canales was enrolled as a junior at Coronado High School in Henderson but hadn’t attended classes since school began in August, Clark County School District spokeswoman Melinda Malone said.

A police report said the teen’s passport and border documents were found in the apartment off Eastern Avenue and Sunridge Heights Parkway.

The mother’s vehicle was found parked outside.

Paul said he didn’t know

Navarro-Canales’ nationality.

The teen’s father, Adrian Navarro Soto-Mayor, flew from San Jose, Calif., to Las Vegas and issued a plea last weekend in Spanish for his son to contact him or other family members

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Living Homecoming Week through the eyes of a senior

Participate in whatever suits your needs, but whatever you plan on doing, involve yourself with those around you.

REECE HEMMESCH Editor in Chief As my fourth homecoming at MSU comes to its fruition this week, I can honestly look back and say that if I could change one thing about my tenure here, it would probably be to get a little more involved with things when it comes to homecoming, but that’s just me.

After all, homecoming is what each of you make it.

Some may see this time as a great week of student activities on campus that involves a lot of other students, and just an overall fun atmosphere around campus.

Others may see it as a waste of time and money for the university and wish that it could

just go away, like the festivities did at St. Cloud State just a few years ago.

And then there is that other group of people who see homecoming as a way to try and put down as many beverages they can over the next few days in the nature of school spirit and togetherness. They are all fine arguments.

To be perfectly honest, I never thought of homecoming as anything more than just a weekend for alumni and devout students on campus to get together and share common bonds with one another. In my freshman year, the extent of homecoming to me was catching a half of the football game and a couple sets of the volleyball match and that was it.

I didn’t really go out at night due to fear of being charged with a minor consumption and didn’t do anything on campus simply because I didn’t know how much went on; and it was fine.

I didn’t look back the week after and hit myself thinking, “Man, you should have done a lot more this week than just sit around the whole time,” even though those thoughts are now catching up to me with age.

My sophomore year my family went on a weekend vacation to Green Bay to watch a football game during the course of homecoming weekend, so once again I was out of the spotlight when it came to doing anything involved in activities. That’s two years down in college, two

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As stated before, homecoming is what we make of it, not what the school plans for us.

Anything that you have planned for the week (and weekend) of homecoming is completely up to you. For those of you who are into the activities on campus, live them up. Take in every second of what goes on during this week because believe me, there is a lot.

If you’re not into the activities portion of the agenda, that’s fine too; I never really was either, which is why I have not seen too many on-campus events go down during this week.

For me, obviously due to my background, I was more into the sports scene of homecoming throughout my life. I attended all the events in high school that we had to offer but it was the football game and the other sporting events that made homecoming what it is to me.

If you’re like me and that’s your thing more than the activities scene, you are at about the most perfect school there is in this state when it comes to success in athletics and this weekend is like Christmas to those who are involved with Maverick sports. Football, Volleyball, Women’s soccer, Women’s hockey and Swimming all have events going on in Mankato this weekend, making up a perfect storm of sports for the purple and gold.

Finally, if your entire homecoming week culminates on getting after it these next few

nights with all your buds and pals, well that’s just fine too.

Once again, homecoming is what you make of it, not what others believe it is.

I have a vast amount of friends who I believe will spend their entire weekend with a beverage in their hand, soaking in every last second of, what is for most, their final weekend of homecoming here at MSU. Togetherness is really the key concept when it comes to homecoming, no matter what the outcome of the events might be.

Please do not sit in your house or dorm all weekend, looking outside to see what everyone else in town is doing from afarfind your group of people that want to do the same thing as M you do and do it.

S Maybe you and your friends want to see every event that goes on from now to the end of the weekend, maybe you and your friends just want to get drunk every night in the spirit of homecoming, and maybe you and your friends just don’t really want to get involved in anything at all, these are all fine outcomes for the weekend, as long as someone is around you.

After all, homecoming is all about bringing people together to have fun, whatever you might be doing. You don’t want to end up an old man like me who looks back on his homecoming career with a big question mark and a full plate of what-ifs.

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KMSU celebrates 50 years on the air KMSU has faced many trials and tribulations, but is still going strong after humble beginnings 50 years ago.

Yohanes Ashenafi • MSU Reporter Current Manger of KMSU James Gullickson is thankful for the students and volunteers who make it possible for KMSU to stay in business.

MIKELL MELIUS Staff Writer Through 50 years, KMSU has moved, gone through struggles and thrived while providing Minnesota State University, Mankato and the surrounding area with great radio. A celebration dinner will be held on Saturday, September 28, at 6 p.m. in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom to commemorate the 50th anniversary.

First licensed in 1963, KMSU is one of Minnesota’s

oldest, non-commercial, educational FM stations. Before the official licensing, Mankato State Teachers College (MSTC), was using Mankato’s commercial station, KYSM, to broadcast radio shows, and would allow students to broadcast two radio shows to learn about the broadcast industry and share information. The two shows, “The College Hour,” and “The Voice of Mankato State,” were both aired on Monday nights.

By the 1960’s, the school

had its own station so students could air their shows through KYSM while staying on campus.

John Hodowanic, with the support of MSTC President James Nickerson, was the reason for this independent radio station. In June 1962, the Federal Communications Commission- (FCC), issued a construction permit, granted the call letters KMSU, and assigned a frequency of 90.5. The station was accepted into the National Association of Educa-

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tional Broadcasters in August of 1962.

The first broadcast for KMSU was on January 7, 1963.

It broadcasted from 12- 8 p.m., with only two students running the station.

Throughout the 60s, KMSU continued to grow. It hit milestones, being the first station in the U.S. to broadcast Russian language lessons and distinguished itself as a solid news source by providing a timely announcement of President Kennedy’s assassination.

Throughout the next couple decades KMSU went through some struggles.

They faced changing environments, a shift in listener preferences and had various struggles with its impact on campus.

In 1979, money also added to the list of hardships. At this time, KMSU was still functioning on 10 watts and the FCC was requiring stations to operate at a minimum of 100 watts.

The 1980s brought increased funding for the station and transformed it back into a vital part of the community.

The 80s were a highpoint for KMSU. Vice President of University Advancement Joe Farnham praised the radio station.

“KMSU has truly estab-

lished itself as a cultural entity in South Central Minnesota.

The quality of programming has improved continually and I am proud of its accomplishments.”

When the 90s began, KMSU moved for the last time, stationing themselves on the second floor of the Alumni Foundation Center.

Although KMSU found its permanent home, money struggles resurfaced. University budget cuts were looming. While funds were found to keep the station on the air, KMSU felt the hit their budget took.

What has kept KMSU afloat is the constant support from the college and the surrounding community.

Anytime they were faced with budget cuts, or the prospect of being shut down, the community provided an outcry in wanting their local radio station to stay.

While they have had to downsize and cut back on staffing, the constant flow of volunteers has been the key for KMSU. “Were so blessed to have the students and volunteers, because of their time and passion,” current Station Manager for KMSU Jim Gullickson said.

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A homecoming confession

Trying to make your last homecoming in college a one to remember can be tough, but that won’t keep some from trying.

ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer As heinous as it sounds, I, Alex Kerkman, a 22-yearold senior at Minnesota State Mankato, have never attended an MSU homecoming.

For reasons out of my control (a funeral, Packers tickets, an out of town 21st birthday) I have still not been able to enjoy homecoming weekend through my first three years of school. The week leading up to it has been fun every year, but clearly Saturday is the day everyone looks forward to.

My friends still fondly remember our university’s past three homecomings (or at least attempt to fondly remember), and every time they bring it up, I’m jealous. This year I have nothing planned on Saturday so the situation begs the question: How do I cram four years of homecom-

ing into one day?

Obviously an early start will be crucial to my plan.

If I were a freshman (and by freshman I mean still in shape), I would have definitely joined the Homecoming 5K, which will take place at the campus fitness trails.

For those of you running in the 5K, I salute you.

I ran crosscountry in high school, but four years later I am worried about having a stroke every time I walk up to the third story of my house.

Since I am not in shape, the President’s Free Community Pancake Breakfast is my most likely destination.

The breakfast, which is open to all students, will be held at the Alumni tent next to Blakeslee Stadium from 9 -11 a.m.

A nice, free and sugary

of people as others march by is a perfect way to digest three pounds of pancakes.

Luckily, the Homecoming Parade is located only a short gut- busting walk away from the Alumni Tent.

The parade starts next to Preska Hall, works its way down Maywood Avenue, takes a right on Warren Street before finishing in parking lot 20.

The start time is set for noon, and pile of awesomeness to start should take between 60- 75 my morning should be absominutes. lutely delicious; especially The football game is a given. This year our Maveron the off chance I fall ill on Saturday. icks play Northern State at 2 Standing in a large group p.m. In the past five seasons,

“Before you know it four years of your life passes, and you are scrambling to have as much fun as you can before the real world smacks you upside the head. I can’t wait for homecoming this year. I just hope I can remember it all.”

MSU is 4-1 in homecoming games, and seeing as how the team is ranked number 2 in the nation, I like our chances to improve on that record.

If all goes to plan, I can celebrate a Mavericks victory with a quick nap (don’t judge me, I’m getting older), before attending the Homecoming Carnival in Lot 20, where this year’s main performance is the band Scarletta. Country Music fans should definitely attend the show, which will take place from 8 to 10 p.m.

Whether you’re a sports fan, music fan, or just a fan of a good time, my advice from freshman to seniors is to not miss homecoming.

Before you know it four years of your life passes, and you are scrambling to have as much fun as you can before the real world smacks you upside the head.

I can’t wait for homecoming this year. I just hope I can remember it all.

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Pakistanis struggle for food, water after earthquake DALBADI, Pakistan (AP) — Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets Wednesday, a day after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 285 people in southwestern Pakistan and pushed a new island up out of the Arabian Sea. While waiting for help to reach remote villages, hungry people dug through the rubble to find food. And the country’s poorest province struggled with a dearth of medical supplies, hospitals and other aid.

The quake flattened wide swathes of Awaran district, where it was centered, leaving much of the population homeless.

Almost all of the 300 mudbrick homes in the village of Dalbadi were destroyed. Noor Ahmad said he was working when the quake struck and rushed home to find his house leveled and his wife and son dead.

“I’m broken,” he said. “I have lost my family.”

At least 373 people were also injured, according to a statement from the National Disaster Management Authority, which gave the latest death toll.

Doctors in the village treated some of the injured, but due to a scarcity of medicine and staff, they were mostly seen comforting residents.

The remoteness of the area and the lack of infrastructure hampered relief efforts.

Awaran district is one of the poorest in the country’s most impoverished province.

Just getting to victims was challenging in a region with almost no roads where many people use four-wheel-drive vehicles and camels to traverse the rough terrain.

“We need more tents, more medicine and more food,” said a spokesman for the provincial government, Jan Mohammad Bulaidi.

Associated Press images from the village of Kaich showed the devastation.

Houses made mostly of mud and handmade bricks had collapsed. Walls and roofs caved in, and people’s possessions were scattered on the ground.

A few goats roamed through the ruins.

The Pakistani military said it had rushed almost 1,000 troops to the area overnight and was sending helicopters as well. A convoy of 60 Pakistani army trucks left the port

city of Karachi early Wednesday with supplies.

Pakistani forces have evacuated more than 170 people from various villages around Awaran to the district hospital, the military said. Others were evacuated to Karachi.

One survivor interviewed in his Karachi hospital bed said he was sleeping when the quake struck.

“I don’t know who brought me from Awaran to here in Karachi, but I feel back pain and severe pain in my whole body,” he said.

Jan said he didn’t know what happened to the man’s family. He was trying to contact relatives.

Local officials said they were sending doctors, food and 1,000 tents for people who had nowhere to sleep.

The efforts were complicated by strong aftershocks.

Baluchistan is Pakistan’s largest province but also the least populated.

Medical facilities are few and often poorly stocked with supplies and qualified personnel. Awaran district has about 300,000 residents spread out over 29,000 square kilometers (11,197 square miles).

The local economy consists mostly of smuggling fuel

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The area where the quake struck is at the center of an insurgency that Baluch separatists have been waging against the Pakistani government for years. The separatists regularly attack Pakistani troops and symbols of the state, such as infrastructure projects.

It’s also prone to earthquakes. A magnitude 7.8 quake centered just across the border in Iran killed at least 35 people in Pakistan last April.

Tuesday’s shaking was so violent it drove up mud and earth from the seafloor to create an island off the Pakistani coast.

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Zahid Rafi said such masses are sometimes created

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He said these types of islands can remain for a long time or eventually subside back into the ocean, depending on their makeup.

He warned residents not to visit the island because it was emitting dangerous gases.

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Water bubbled along the edges of the island. The land was stable but the air smelled of gas that caught fire when people lit cigarettes, Baloch said.

Dead fish floated on the water’s surface while residents visited the island and took stones as souvenirs, he added.

Similar land masses appeared off Pakistan’s coast following quakes in 1999 and 2010, said Muhammed Arshad, a hydrographer with the navy. They eventually disappeared into the sea during the rainy season.

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Big ideas campaign raises a record amount of money

Money raised since 2006 will help many across campus achieve success

Web Photo President Davenport’s goals were certainly met in the record setting amount of money raised in the Big Ideas Campaign.

SAM WILMES News Editor Minnesota State University, Mankato’s “Big Ideas” campaign has raised a record amount of money, which is opening doors for the continuing advancement of the student body.

The campaign, which ended on Aug. 31, raised $77.8 million.

The amount exceeded the $75 million goal of the campaign.

The money will be used for student scholarship programs, student-faculty research opportunities and future capital projects.

MSU President Richard Davenport’s main goal revolved around rewarding people who have donated to the university, according to a press release.

“It is important to under-

stand the impact of the gifts cannot be measured in dollars,” Davenport said.

Davenport said building momentum is important.

“A big idea from just one student has the potential to change the world,’’ he said. “Our graduates, who benefit from the Big Ideas Campaign, will help shape our future and become the leaders of tomorrow. Their education

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at Minnesota State Mankato has prepared them to tackle the complexities and challenges of our global environment.”

On Oct. 27, 2011 MSU announced its plan to raise $75 million. Most of the donations had actually occurred before then — by that point $57 million had already been raised.

More than three-quarters of the money raised had been generated during the campaign’s silent phase, which began in 2006.

Significant progress has also been made in the last two years as well. More than $20.8 million in additional funds have been raised to close the campaign out.

The program has helped many programs, students and faculty since its inception. Those helped include: • State of the art building modeling software for students in the Construction Management program • Opportunities for faculty and students to come together to conduct research in the growing fields of renewable and alternative energy sources at MSU’s Centers for Renewable Energy and Automotive Research.

• Chances for education majors to study across the globe, from the United States to Austra-

lia to the United Arab Emirates.

• The program allowed for the Nadine B. Andreas Endowment in Arts and Humanities to be built in 2007. The endowment brings together artists and thought leaders to campus for learning experiences that can be transformational.

• Flight training for aviation students.

• Initial funding for the College of Business Global Solutions Center, also including the Integrated Business Experience Program. When completed, the center will allow students and faculty to come together across different disciplines to provide solutions for global issues.

• The opportunity to expand the Map Library.

• Students and faculty in six different areas — audiology, dental hygiene, school psychology, social work and Industrial/ organizational psychology, as well as speech/language psychology — will be helped.

• The Glen Taylor Nursing Institute for Family and Society has been expanded, along with the Becky Taylor Doctoral Fellowship in Nursing and the Glen Taylor Family and Society Endowed Nursing Faculty Chair.

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Anti-shutdown bill advances; big fight looms

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unanimous but far from united, the Senate advanced legislation to prevent a partial government shutdown on Wednesday, the 100-0 vote certain to mark merely a brief pause in a fierce partisan struggle over the future of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

The vote came shortly after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz held the Senate in session overnight — and the Twitterverse in his thrall — with a near-22-hour speech that charmed the tea party wing of the GOP, irritated the leadership and was meant to propel fellow Republican lawmakers into an all-out struggle to extinguish the law.

Defying one’s own party leaders is survivable, he declared in pre-dawn remarks on the Senate floor. “Ultimately, it is liberating.”

Legislation passed by the Republican-controlled House last week would cancel all funds for the three-year-old law, preventing its full implementation. But Senate Democrats have enough votes to restore the funds, and Majority Leader Harry Reid labeled Cruz’s turn in the spotlight “a big waste of time.”

Any differences between the two houses’ legislation must be reconciled and the bill signed into law by next Tuesday to avert a partial shutdown.

The issue is coming to the forefront in Congress as the Obama administration works to assure a smooth launch for the health care overhaul’s final major piece, a season of enrollment beginning Oct. 1 for millions who will seek coverage on socalled insurance exchanges.

Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters this week that consumers will have an average of 53 plans to choose from, and her department estimated the average individual premium for a benchmark policy known as the “second-lowest cost silver plan” would range from a low of $192 in Minnesota to a high of $516 in Wyoming. Tax credits will bring down the cost for many.

Republicans counter that the legislation is causing employers to defer hiring new workers, lay off existing ones and reduce the hours of still others to hold down costs as they try to ease the impact of the bill’s taxes and other requirements.

“Obamacare is destroying jobs. It is driving up health care costs. It is killing health benefits. It is shattering the economy,” said Cruz.

Topsy, a search engine that’s a preferred partner of Twitter, calculated on its website during the day that there had been about 200,000 tweets containing the words “Ted Cruz” in the previous day.

Eight months in office, he drew handshakes from several conservative lawmakers as he finished speaking and accolades from tea party and other groups.

Chris Chocola, president of the Club for Growth, said Americans owe “Cruz a debt of gratitude for standing on principle in the fight to stop Obamacare.”

In addition to the praise, Cruz he drew a withering rebuttal from one fellow Republican, Arizona Sen. John McCain.

McCain read aloud Cruz’s comments from Tuesday comparing those who doubt the possibility of eradicating the health care law to former British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlin and others who had suggested Adolf Hitler and the Nazis could not be stopped in the 1940s.

“I resoundingly reject that allegation,” said McCain, whose grandfather led U.S. carrier forces in the Pacific during World War II, and whose father commanded two submarines.

“It does a great disservice to those Americans who stood up and said ‘what’s happening in Europe cannot stand.’”

Even with the 100-0 vote, the legislation faces several hurdles

that must be overcome as both houses and lawmakers in both parties work to avoid a partial shutdown next Tuesday.

The struggle over restoring funds for the health care law is by far the most contentious unresolved issue.

Senate Democrats also want to increase funding for federal firefighting efforts without making offsetting cuts to other programs. The House-passed bill provides $636 million for the program, but includes reductions elsewhere to avoid raising the deficit.

To avoid a partial government shutdown, a single, agreed-upon version must be approved by Congress and signed by Obama by Tuesday.

Officials pointed out that there is still time for the Senate to restore the funds for the health care law — and for the House to seek a more modest overhaul concession, perhaps a one-year delay in the requirement for individuals to purchase coverage or the repeal of a tax on medical devices that many Democrats oppose.

The shutdown issue is a particularly haunting one for Republicans, some of whom were in Congress two decades ago when the GOP suffered politically as the result of a pair of government closures in the winter of 1995-1996.

In a further complication,

Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Congress that the Treasury’s ability to borrow funds will be exhausted on Oct. 17, and legislation is needed to renew its authority if the government is to avoid a first-ever default.

The House is expected to approve a measure later this week allowing Treasury to borrow freely for another year, although that legislation, too, will include a provision to carry out the Republican campaign against “Obamacare.” While no final decisions have been made, party officials say a one-year delay is likely to be added, rather than the full-fledged defunding that is part of the spending bill awaiting action in the Senate.

If the events themselves were complicated, the political maneuvering was no less so.

At least temporarily, they pitted Cruz and his tea party allies inside Congress and out against the party establishment, including House Speaker John Boehner and the Senate GOP leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.

Little more than a week ago, conservatives in the House rank and file forced Boehner and other leaders to include the defunding provision on legislation required to avoid a shutdown, despite their concerns that it would set the party up for failure.

Within hours after the measure cleared the House, Cruz infuriated his allies by virtually conceding he wouldn’t have the votes to prevail in the Senate, and stating that “At that point, House Republicans must stand firm, hold their ground and continue to listen to the American people.”

Cruz appeared at a news conference the next day to proclaim he would do “everything and anything possible to defund Obamacare,” including a possible filibuster of legislation to prevent a shutdown.

Senate Republicans were less than enthusiastic about that, and several said so and made it clear they would not follow the path that Cruz laid out of seizing every opportunity to slow or stop the bill. By Tuesday, the Texan was under pressure from fellow Senate Republicans to let the legislation pass relatively quickly, to make sure the government stayed open.

When he began his remarks, he vowed to speak in opposition until “I am no longer able to stand.”

Nearly 24 hours later, he offered to shorten the time it would take to debate the measure and voted along with Republicans and Democrats alike to send it over its first hurdle

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Broadway mega-hit Les Miserables to make its MSU debut

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productions. The show is also scheduled to open again on Broadway soon.

Included in the cast is a special guest to MSU, Neil Dale, who plays the part of Jean Valjean. Dale is originally from Liverpool, England and currently works in Los Angeles. No stranger to Les Misérables, Dale has performed twice in productions of the show in a variety of roles and even appeared in the 25th anniversary concert where he performed before the Queen at Windsor Castle. The MSU production will be his first appearance as Jean Valjean.

Also joining the MSU students on the stage are seven child actors from the area, including 7-year-old Sasha Jakovich as young Cosette and 11-year-old Isaiah Miller as Gavroche.

“We have a deep talent pool,” said director of the show Dr.

The MSU Department of Theatre and Dance will be opening their main stage season this year with Les Misérables.

Based on a book by French Romantic writer Victor Marie Hugo, Les Misérables is a story that revolves around Jean Valjean, a man who is unjustly sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread. He makes his escape and is on the run from the law.

This all takes place in addition to other side stories including one of the French revolutions to make up the show.

MSU has the honor of being one of the first universities to perform Les Misérables. While the rights have been available to high schools, they just recently became available to colleges. This was because of fears that performances by colleges would interfere with LES MISERABLES • Page 16 the ticket sales of touring

Dave Bassey • MSU Reporter Fantine (Kaitlin Dahlquist) begs Jean Valjean (Neil Dale) for mercy as Inspector Javert (Adam Yankowy) is ready to make an arrest.

Dexter: a final farewell feature: part 2 ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer The first two years of Dexter were frightening and intense -- a show that did not squirm in showing the darkness of its central character, Dexter Morgan, and dared audiences to root for him instead of condemn his actions.

And root for them they did.

Gradually, Dexter transformed from a genuine monster to a sort of vigilante who dispatches evil-doers worse than him and, deep down, yearns to be a real boy. Attempts at forming bonds to humanity were met with disastrous results, as was the case of Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits), who became manic with the power of holding life and death in his grasp and Arthur Mitchell (John Lithgow), the inspirational serial killer Dexter thought would hold the key to leading a normal life.

In the season four finale, the

writers reminded audiences of whom and what Dexter Morgan was and the consequences that came with being in his life. With the death of Rita (Julie Benz), Dexter’s wife and hope for igniting some humanity in his empty shell, the writers shook the playground of rather stagnant storytelling and seemed primed and ready to deliver just as captivating television in the year to come. Season five, ultimately, is not that victorious repeat of impressive writing but neither does it warrant the despicable reputation it’s been saddled with.

Picking up immediately with Rita’s death at the hands of Arthur Mitchell, Dexter, for the first time in his life, is lost.

He doesn’t know how to react, he doesn’t know how to feel or if he can at all – he’s broken, so he lets loose in the only way he knows how: stalking the guilty and killing at night with renewed vigor. His hunts lead him to the battered and bruised Lumen Pierce (Julia Stiles), who

has been locked up, repeatedly beaten and raped, and left for dead by a pack of demented friends, led by public figurehead Jordan Chase (Jonny Lee Miller), a spokesperson, ironically, for self-healing. Together, Dexter and Lumen hunt down those responsible for destroying her life and in the process learn how to fix their broken selves and be whole again.

Overall, season five is a step down in quality from the spectacular fourth season but it’s important to note they serve different functions. Season four was all about fatherhood and balancing the monster within, whereas this story centers on Dexter’s journey to reclaim himself and figure out where he wants to take his life from here.

To its credit, this season moves at a swift pace, with a clear beginning, middle and end. The writing isn’t top notch but it isn’t cringe-worthy terrible either.

This is, perhaps, one of the most important stories for Dexter

Morgan but ultimately it’s a rather so-so outing and that’s the biggest shame of all.

What does work is Dexter and Lumen, the slow-building trust, the sort of mentorship role Dexter takes over her, the passion that comes with the kill midday through the season and the eventful parting of ways in the season finale. Their dynamic, that of Dexter/Lumen and Michael C. Hall/Julia Stiles, is electrifying, and to see these two characters work together to survive what has happened to them is truly one of the series highlights. The tragedy of the final scene they share together – Lumen realizing that, with the death of all those who had abused her, the darkness she held within has lifted, while Dexter, cowering in the corner of his loft, remains the same – is one of the more powerful of the series and underlines the imbedded monster inside Dexter the series has been lacking in emphasizing as of late.

What doesn’t work is the series biggest crime: the death of Rita and the emotional consequences that has on Dexter isn’t as explored as one would have liked. The season premiere boasts an extraordinary moment of rage on Dexter’s part, as the loss builds up and explodes on an obnoxious hillbilly in a deserted bathroom, but save for a few mentions of Rita sprinkled in the season, the effect of that event in Dexter’s life seems eerily inconsequential. Dexter as a character is already difficult to read but the writers were unable to milk this milestone for all its worth, instead having it seem that Dexter simply doesn’t care. The side characters of the Dexter universe also boast very little traction.

The second most consistent plot of Dexter, outside of the titular character killing bad folk, is Deb’s love life and the writers don’t disappoint in offering her

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Dave Bassey • MSU Reporter Jean Valjean (Neil Dale) sings “Bring Him Home.”

Paul J Hustoles. Many of the students acting in the show have won awards for their talent.

Among the students performing in the show, 10 of the 32 adult roles will be performed by people making their debut to the MSU stage.

Of those making their debut, one that stood out to Hustoles was freshman Adam Yankowy who will be playing the role of Javert, the officer trying to capture the escaped Valjean.

Hustoles went on to say “He is a hundred times better, a million times better than Russell Crowe,” referring to Crowe’s performance in the 2012 motion picture version of Les Misérables.

While the performances of the cast of the movie were good, there is nothing like seeing the show performed live. The cast and crew wanted to capture some of the essence of the original production. To do this they constructed a revolving turntable to use with the scenery. The turntable is actually larger than the one used in London’s West End production. The department went all out to make this show something special.

The show is already making an impact, in more ways than one. Last Friday, the cast performed at the MSU Foundation Gala. One foundation member was so inspired by the performance that he decided to start a scholarship for theatre.

Les Misérables opens at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, October 3, in

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the Ted Paul Theatre. The show runs for two weekends with 7:30 p.m. shows Thursday – Saturday and 2 p.m. matinees on Saturday and Sunday. Tickets are on sale now and are $15 for current MSU students or $22 for nonstudents. The box office is open

from 4-6 p.m. and one hour before performances. Tickets are also available online, however online ticket sales are not eligible for student discount.

The shows have been known to sell out so it is strongly recommended you buy your tickets

Building off of the success of her 2010 release, The ArchAndroid, Janelle Monáe continues her spree of melding genres and transforming expectations with her newest release, The Electric Lady.

Detailing the trials and tribulations of the messianic character of Cindy Mayweather, the fourth part of her Metropilis series maintains both the concept and musical integrity of The ArchAndroid. This album is an amalgam of differing influences that come together to create a unique sonic experience; for that is what The Electric Lady is at its center -- an experience. To call Janelle Monáe a soul or R&B artist would be an extreme understatement -- that doesn’t even come close to explaining the entire spectrum she has covered with her music.

Beginning with “Suite IV: The Electric Overture”, the album kicks into gear with a 1950s guitar riff that is compounded by strings and then

transforms itself into “Givin ‘Em What They Love”, a groove with a rolling feel, a simplistic chorus that speaks to the soul and a guest vocal appearance by Prince. “Look Into My Eyes” has an almost James Bond feel, with the vocal lines harmonizing and accompanying the acoustic guitar jabs and understated orchestration. Continuing the variety, songs like “Primetime” and “It’s Code” recall days of early Motown and the days of 1970s music.

Monáe truly shows her pop music power with such jams as the eponymous “Electric Lady”, “Ghetto Woman” and “We Were Rock and Roll”, which features an upbeat chorus and addicting synthesized drums. Another stand out, “Dance Apocalyptic”, is so delicious that you will find yourself suddenly realizing you have been snapping along to the entire song.

As a way of introducing the second part of the album, “Suite V: Electric Overture” references songs from earlier, giving the record an interesting sense of continuity and maintaining with the narra-

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The Legend of Korra opens chapter two JAMES HOUTSMA A&E Editor It’s a depressing time in the land of traditional television. A once great show (Dexter) has just ended and arguably the greatest television show ever (Breaking Bad) is following suite on Sunday.

But before we mourn for broadcast TV, there are a few rays of life still out there. Besides shows like The Walking Dead devouring the ratings, we have rare gems that transcend the average storytelling of the medium and deliver something truly spectacular.

The Legend of Korra is easily one of those shows.

A follow up to the popular Avatar: The Last Airbender series from several years ago, The Legend of Korra picks up decades after the original series, set in the world of element bending (certain individuals can bend either water, air, earth or fire) with one individual, the avatar, who can bend all four.

Following in the footsteps of the former avatar is Korra, a rowdy young woman from the Southern water tribe. A proficient bender of water, fire, and earth, Korra leaves her quaint tribe and arrives at Republic City, a sprawling steampunk metropolis to master airbending from Tenzin, son of the former avatar.

Throughout the first season we see Korra struggle with her final element, join a probending team, form a group of friends, engage in a love triangle within said group and battle against a dangerous masked man, Amon, whose frightening abilities ignite a revolution to rid the world of bending, permanently.

The Last Airbender was a great show – Legend of Korra is spectacular. Watching our young protagonist fight back against the anti-bending movement, as well as her own uncertainty, is told in every breathtaking way imaginable.

The voice acting is bold, the animation is fluid and beautiful and the soundtrack is easily the best on television right now.

Originally intended as a one-season show to air in summer 2012, the creators caught on to the ever-growing positive word-of-mouth and quickly began work on season two.

Having just arrived on the airwaves, Book Two: Spirits

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tive concept. A fictional disc jockey character is also utilized throughout the record to both act as a transition between songs and also move along the narration within the concept of the album. Obvious lyrical metaphors allude to the issues of today but do not distract from the piece itself.

Combining almost every popular genre of music you

could name, Janelle Monáe delivers a fanciful story of love, loss, and musical prowess to listeners. If you are looking for something that will make you want to dance, feel reflective and bring your understanding of music to a whole new level, I recommend picking up The Electric Lady.

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starts off by giving us a much different look at the world we know.

Season two begins by delving into the past. Returning to her Southern Water tribe, gets caught as the peacemaker in the middle of a brewing storm of angry spirits and learns some familial secrets regarding her father’s past and his relationship with her uncle, Unalaq.

Meanwhile, Tenzin and his family embark on a long-overdue vacation to the air temples and encounter some tension.

It’s still early in the season so things are still feeling very fishy with some characters.

Korra’s uncle Unalaq, despite having some understandable motives for saving the water tribes, screams of being a shifty manipulator. Some great big bad may manifest eventually but seeing how Tonraq, Korra’s father, shares the same backstory as Thor (banished by his king father for a rash

battle decision), that would make Unalaq the Loki of this story.

One regrettable thing the show has featured so far is that even though Korra experienced a fair amount of growth in season one, the opening two episodes see her being very bratty and hostile towards her dad and not often being justified in it. Some of it is necessary to the story and some of it may be due to internal forces but it still feels like a step backwards.

The strength so far in Korra: Book 2 has come from Korra attempting to bring peace and balance, rather than confront a conflict like in season one. That, along with a recurring sense of humor and artwork and music that have somehow transcended what came before, makes for a promising return, writing gripe aside.

The Legend of Korra airs on Nickelodeon Fridays at 6.

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DEXTER “Overall, season five is a step down in quality from the spectacular fourth season but it’s important to note they serve different functions.” continued from 15 a new suitor for this season.

Apparently tragedy has lessened her repulsive view of Quinn and she initiates a relationship with him and, most surprisingly, it’s a relationship that actually works.

Batista and LaGuerta’s days-old marriage is already put to the test and Miami Metro Homicide’s other cast members just twiddle their thumbs, continuing to act through uninteresting subplots. That being said, Quinn becomes the new Doakes, starting to notice something is a little off with Dexter Morgan, and enlists the help of disgraced cop Stan Liddy (an obnoxiously overthe-top Peter Weller), trying to pinpoint what he’s hiding. In a scene of unintentional comedy, the Liddy character is dispatched with all the enthusiasm and care the show gave him.

Suffering through this death in his life, Dexter’s fifth season should have been something amazing or, as some fans argue, where the writers should have began plotting out the shows final episodes to bring it to a natural conclusion. What it is, though, is a season trying to do justice to a compelling story but the behind-the-scenes people involved just weren’t completely up to the task.

One of the big moments of season five, and interesting enough to note, is Deb choosing not to kill the vigilantes in the finale, a subtle foreshadowing of what’s to come in her narrative in the years to come. From there, the series switches gears from its most important and uneven season to one of its most controversial ones.

Season six follows the formula of Dexter chasing the new Big Bad. This time it’s the Doomsday Killer, Travis Marshal (Colin Hanks), who is murdering to appease some biblical ritual to bring about the apocalypse. Coincidentally, Dexter meets Brother Sam (Mos), an ex-con who found religion and now runs an auto-repair shop.

A friendship is formed where Dexter begins to examine faith, the need for light and darkness to coexist and what teachings he wants to pass onto Harrison, if any. It’s not the most nuanced season of Dexter ever, but it’s also not the terrible dribble it’s often proclaimed to be.

While that may be, season six does have the distinct pleasure of featuring two of the single most laughable serial killers in its entire history. Colin Hanks is as straight faced as he could be spouting off religious exclamations of world-ending, whores

and false prophets but the dialogue he’s stuck with and his general physical demeanor create one of the most non-threatening villains anyone is likely to meet. And Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica) is given the thankless task of standing around and doing nothing until one of the worst non-twist ‘twists’ of all time gets revealed and he fades into nothingness, literally.

The biggest laugh comes from the season finale, where Travis Marshal paints a perfect facial replica of Dexter with added demon horns. Regarding the Big Bads, season six dropped the ball something major but, to their small credit, the religious iconography they use is quite a sight to behold – severed body parts strung together riding white horses in broad daylight, the Whore of Babylon sitting on a throne of snakes and another female victim tied up like an angel.

Unfortunately, the sloppiness doesn’t start and end with the villains, as season six also introduces two asinine subplots in the form of Brea Grant as a Miami homicide intern who steals evidence to make a quick buck and Louis (Josh Cooke), a video game designer who takes a creepy liking to Dexter.

Grant’s character comes and goes quickly without much matter but Louis sticks around through season seven and it’s at that point it’s clear the writers had absolutely no idea who this character was and how to use him. He’s then killed off in just as meaningless death as what was afforded to Peter Weller’s Liddy.

The redeeming value of season six is the Morgan clan.

Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) is promoted to Lieutenant, providing Carpenter with some interesting material to work with and her new status as the person in charge gives the character a nice change of pace. For Dexter, his friendship with Brother Sam makes him flirt with faith as a possible means to find happiness. Ultimately, his hope in faith is destroyed with the death of Brother Sam and with it, brings one of the best Dexter episodes. “Nebraska” replaces the ghost of Harry with the ghost of Brian, Dexter’s dead brother and allows Dexter to fully embrace the darkness -- to be an uncompromising killer.

Season six is successful with showing Dexter at his worst but as the closing minutes of the finale unfold, it readies viewers

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with Dexter at its best.

Season seven was marketed with a short tagline that told audiences that the last sixty seconds of the previous finale would not go overlooked – “He Saw. She Saw.” Deb watched as Dexter plunged the knife into Travis Marshal and everything that happens this season explores the consequences of that. Deb is reeling from the discovery of Dexter’s serial killing ways, Dexter is trying to manage his sister and LaGuerta is starting to put the pieces together about Dexter in a relentless pursuit to bring him to justice.

There are so many storylines being juggled this season, it’s amazing it all turned out as well as it did – there’s the Russian crime boss Isaak (Ray Stevenson) who wants Dexter’s head for murdering his lover, Dexter finding his own love with Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahvoski) and not only is Deb trying to figure out how to cope with Dexter nocturnal activities, but in the last two episodes of season six, she realized she’s in love with her adopted brother and now her world is topsy turvy.

It’s with very little doubt that season seven is the best of Dexter’s run. Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter have never been better, especially Carpenter, who owns every line and every scene (and possibly the whole twelve episodes).

The writing is exceptionally top notch, where there’s a large assortment of praise-worthy storytelling than embarrassingly bad bits. The guest stars, Stevenson and Strahovski, are given equal emotional plot-weight and their performances are just as strong. LaGuerta, for the first time since the second season, becomes just as important as the main leads and her arc in these

twelve episodes is nail-bitingly riveting. Dexter realizes that this fake cover he’s been cultivating for years has now become real and he doesn’t want it to change.

He’s willing to do anything to prevent LaGuerta from closing in on him, leading to the most tragic, most intense, most mindblowing last scene of the series.

One of the more interesting parts of season six to the series finale is Deb’s feelings for Dexter. If there was any show or network that should have taken the leap and explored a possible relationship between these unrelated siblings, Dexter would

have been it. Although the series doesn’t go full-on in that department, instead introducing Hannah McKay as Dexter’s new (and lasting) love interest, the series does play with Deb’s emotions well. If Deb didn’t love Dexter unconditionally, she wouldn’t have protected him and she wouldn’t have killed for him.

Every choice she makes, Deb makes out of love. It’s powerful writing but it would have been interesting to see that relationship turn into something more.

This is the season every

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DEXTER “Season six is successful with showing Dexter at his worst but as the closing minutes unfold, it readies viewers with Dexter at its best.” continued from 18 viewer, actor and writer has been waiting years to see and, for once, Dexter delivered. It appeared that quality writing was back, that no one was safe, that the writers knew what they were doing and were heading for an end point that would be just as intense and just as gamechanging as this season had been. What fans got, however, was season eight.

Six months after Deb shot and killed LaGuerta to save Dexter, she’s renounced her brother, quit Miami Metro, became a private detective and has lost herself to booze and drugs.

Dexter, meanwhile, is better than ever.

With LaGuerta’s death, his problems have been solved.

Dexter tries to rekindle his relationship with Deb but she’s too far gone. A therapist, Dr. Evelyn Vogel (Charlotte Rampling), is recruited to help on a case but only has eyes for Dexter. Vogel reveals it was she who helped Harry craft the code Dexter has abided by for years, that she knows all that he has done in his evolution as the perfect killer.

Together, she and Dexter track down Miami’s new serial killer the Brain Surgeon, decide to train a young boy in the ways of Harry’s code and try to patch up his relationship with Deb. Hannah returns and with her, Dexter sees his chance at starting anew in Argentina. But a storm approaches . . .

The thing with season eight

is that it’s forgettable and not written well. Hot off the heels of the shows most creative season, this final outing comes across as if they spent every ounce of energy they had in those prior twelve episodes. The introduction of Evelyn Vogel is a move many shows make in its final run, returning to the past to show how it influenced the present but it takes multiple episodes to show, thanks to Rampling’s excellent charisma, that nobody had any notion what to do with this character. Her stance on Dexter changes from episode to episode, celebrating him as a more perfect killer than she could have imagined and then berating him for being an idiot in some other fashion.

At her encouragement, Dexter takes on Zach Hamilton (Sam Underwood) as an apprentice into a subplot that, until writing this review, had completely been washed from my memory due to its enormous lack of relevance.

If there’s one reason to tune into season eight – aside from a desire to see how the writers wrap up Dexter Morgan’s journey – it’s the Dexter and Deb relationship. Watching these two try to work through their problems is the best part of the season and the first four episodes are the most interesting because of it.

Everything that follows -- for Dexter, for Deb, for each and every character -- is pure

filler. Masuka has a biological daughter, Quinn tries out for Sergeant, Batista walks around and does something constructive presumably, Jamie is sleeping with Quinn and the ghost of Harry Morgan pops up at any time to explicitly state the action happening onscreen and what Dexter is feeling at any given time.

Save Deb, there is no evolution of character for anyone, and that’s the biggest tragedy of all for season eight – it can’t answer the most basic of questions any show faces: why does this all matter?

The series finale is a strange, very polarizing beast and how one reacts to it is dependent on the individuals feelings of where Dexter should end up. Miami Metro does not become privy to the truth that the Bay Harbor Butcher has been their friend for years now, operating without their knowledge. Dexter does not get caught, imprisoned, nor faces any legal justice. Instead the writers envision a fate for Dexter that makes sense in its own poetic way but fails to really hit home due to the atrocious writing and lack of setup it was granted. For viewers who watched the series from episode one to episode ninety-six, they wanted to be rewarded with a finale that pays off everything.

Instead, what’s here feels little more than an afterthought.

Anti-heroes often reap the consequences of their actions.

Vic Mackey lost everything in The Shield, Walter White’s fate will inevitably be sour in Breaking Bad and Dexter is no different. Realizing that he tarnishes everything and everyone around him, he goes into self-imposed exile, renouncing killing, renouncing friends and family, renouncing everything, living in Oregon as a lumberjack, surrounded by the sounds of chainsaws. According to the showrunners, this was an ending two years in the making and, in some ways, it works. Serial killers should not have happy endings and after spending all season building this possible fairy tale escape with Hannah and Harrison, this downbeat ending was inevitable, as the writers have no knack for subtly.

This is an ending that could have worked if season eight had some sort of point to it. It was as if everyone was wasting time until the series finale came along so they could finally write something that mattered.

Hundreds of kills later and nearly a hundred episodes in, Dexter Morgan’s ultimate fate is solitude. All that character building for nothing. Everything that happened to Dexter amounted to him acknowledging how far he’s come, from this empty shell from the premiere, to a fully formed, emotional man who has a good woman who loves him and has an odd nighttime quirk of killing people. All of that renounced.

Deb, likewise, suffers just as an inevitable fate. Shot by the Brain Surgeon in one of the stupidest scenes in the series, she succumbs to her injury and Dexter takes her out to sea on his boat to casts her into the depths, burying her in his own way -- the last victim of his choices. It’s Deb’s death that ignites him into solitude and it’s fitting that she dies from a bullet to the gut, as the season prior she murdered LaGuerta likewise. Debra Morgan was always destined for an end like this and her story, from beginning to end is, to this reviewers mind, the most compelling of the series.

Dexter ended on a season that had none of the vigor or creativity of its brilliant seventh year but delivered an ending that feels suitable for its anti-hero.

The series will go down in history as boasting four consecutively brilliant seasons and went on a creative decline from thereon out. Although it may be true that Dexter’s journey was stretched past its limit and the series is by no means a masterpiece, the showrunners and writers behind Dexter crafted eight seasons worth of interesting analysis of a serial killer thriving to be something else. And for eight seasons, it was sometimes frustrating, but always a pleasure to watch the evolution of Dexter Morgan.

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Crowded Emmys full of surfires and upsets LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Breaking Bad,” the brutal, drug-fueled saga of an everyman’s ambition turned evil, captured its first best drama Emmy Award, denying the online series “House of Cards” a historymaking honor.

“I did not see this coming,” said “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan on Sunday night, tipping his hat to Netflix’s political thriller “House of Cards,” the first digital contender sfor top Emmy honors.

Attention and acclaim for the AMC cable channel’s “Breaking Bad” has built as it nears the end of its five-season run next Sunday, with the final eight-episode arc eligible for next year’s Emmys.

“Modern Family” won its fourth consecutive trophy for top comedy series Sunday even though its oft-honored cast was shut out this time.

Jeff Daniels won the Emmy for best drama series actor for his portrayal of an idealistic TV anchorman in “The Newsroom,” with Claire Danes capturing top actress honors for her troubled CIA agent in “Homeland.”

Daniels noted that he’d also received an age 50-plus acting honor from AARP, which

represents the interests of older Americans.

“With all due respect to the AARP, this is even better,” Daniels said.

Danes, who captured her second trophy for the terrorism drama, paid tribute to one of the series’ writers, Henry Bromell, who died last March and who received a writing Emmy posthumously Sunday.

The ceremony often struck a melancholy note with extended tributes to stars and other industry members who died in the past year.

“Well, this may be the saddest Emmys of all time but we could not be happier,” said “Modern Family” executive producer Steve Levitan.

The show also included upsets, defying the conventional wisdom in several categories, among them the best supporting acting comedy awards for Merritt Wever of “Nurse Jackie” and Tony Hale of “Veep.”

“This just in. Nobody in America is winning their Emmy office pool. Surprises galore,” said host Neil Patrick Harris.

Danes’ win ended the hopes that “Scandal” best actress nominee Kerry Washington would become the first African-American

to win in the category.

“Saturday Night Live” became the most-honored series ever with Don Roy King’s directing award Sunday; its cumulative 40 Emmys top previous recordholder “Frasier.”

Julia Louis-Dreyfus claimed her second consecutive best comedy actress award for her role as an ambitious political second banana in “Veep,” with Jim Parsons again claiming the top comedy acting trophy for “The Big Bang Theory.”

“This is so much good fortune it’s almost too much to bear,” said Louis-Dreyfus. “I’m very grateful to have the opportunity to make people laugh. It’s a joyful way to make a living.”

Parsons added to the awards he won in 2011 and 2010 for the role of a science nerd.

“My heart, oh my heart. I want you to know I’m very aware of how exceedingly fortunate I am,” he said.

Laura Linney was named best actress in a miniseries or movie for “The Big C: Hereafter.” ‘’The Voice” won best realitycompetition program, and Tina Fey won for writing “30 Rock.”

Michael Douglas was honored as best actor for his portrayal of Liberace in “Behind the Cande-

labra,” besting his co-star Matt Damon. The film also captured a top trophy as best movie or miniseries.

“This is a two-hander and Matt, you’re only as good as your other hand,” Douglas said, then got really racy: “You want the bottom or the top?”

Bobby Cannavale, from “Boardwalk Empire,” won as best supporting actor in a drama, and Anna Gunn from “Breaking Bad” won the best actress award in the same category.

In the variety show category, “The Colbert Report” broke a 10-year winning streak held by “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” It also won for best writing for a variety show.

The ceremony’s first hour was relatively somber, with memorial tributes and a doleful song

by Elton John in honor of the late musical star Liberace, the subject of the nominated biopic “Behind the Candelabra.”

“Liberace left us 25 years ago and what a difference those years have made to people like me,” said John, who is openly gay in contrast to the closeted Liberace portrayed in the TV movie.

Jane Lynch paid tribute to Cory Monteith, her “Glee” co-star

who died at age 31 in July of a drug and alcohol overdose. “His death is a tragic reminder of the rapacious, senseless destruction that is brought on by addiction,” she said.

Edie Falco recalled her late “The Sopranos” co-star James Gandolfini, saluting him for his “fierce loyalty” to his friends and family and his work with military veterans, while Rob Reiner remembered Jean Stapleton of “All in the Family” and Michael J. Fox honored “Family Ties” producer Gary David Goldberg.

Diahann Carroll, the first African-American Emmy nominee in 1963 for “Naked City,” created one of the night’s most heartfelt moments when she took the stage with Washington and noted the importance of diversity in the industry and Emmys.

“Tonight, she better get this award,” Carroll said of Washington, who covered her eyes in embarrassment.

HBO received a leading seven Emmys, followed by Showtime with four, ABC and NBC with three each and AMC and Comedy Central with two each.

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Hockey season can’t get here soon enough

With the amount of talent coming back to the Verizon Wireless Center and being the new WCHA favorite, the men’s hockey team has some high expections for their 2013 campaign.

A couple of weeks ago, I did a preview of the new Western Collegiate Hockey Association, the conference that the Minnesota State Mavericks play in for hockey. The preview gave insight to where teams came from and how they are expected to perform in the newly constructed conference. Based on last season’s results, the Mavericks are considered by most to be the early favorite. ESPN analyst and a widely known college hockey supporter, John Buccigross, ranked Minnesota State 7th in the nation in his personal college hockey poll. USA Today had the Mavericks a little lower at 14th, but it’s safe to say they are now on everyone’s radar. Let’s take a look at what we can expect to see from the MSU Men’s hockey team this season.

Last season’s leading goal scorer Eriah Hayes finished with 20 goals on the season and was a constant threat on the power play. He has since graduated and signed with the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League as a free agent. The Mavericks will look to fill that role but may not have to look too far.

Redshirt Junior forward Matt Leitner returns after he finished tenth in the nation among offensive production with 17 goals and 30 assists for 47 points. Leitner also finished third among sophomore players in scoring and will be one of the nation’s most closely watched players this season. Although it cannot go without recognition that goalie Stephon Williams will play a large part in MSU’s success. The sophomore racked up First Team All-WCHA and WCHA Rookie of the Year honors last season. The biggest factor for their success, however, will likely be their depth on the roster.

Although Hayes and Leitner were often times the focal point of the Maverick offense, aside from them, the scoring was pretty evenly distributed across the board. Of the players returning,12 players finished with 10 or more points last season, four of which finished with over twenty. Included in that group is junior forward J.P. Lafontaine, who recorded 35 points to finish third on the team and second in assists with 26. Also among the top returners is senior forward Johnny McInnis who had a breakout season in 2012-2013 scoring 13 goals, five of which were game-winning goals, the most on the team.

Junior defenseman Zach Palmquist recorded 25 points last season to lead all blue-liners in scoring. So what exactly does this mean for the Mavericks?

Heading into the newly constructed WCHA, the Mavericks have many advantages over their opponents. They have a great amount of depth on their roster, which is significant because it prevents Hastings from attempting to match his top line against an opponent’s top line. While teams such as Ferris State, Alaska-Fairbanks and Michigan Tech may challenge MSU in league play, they don’t have the depth to match them. Hastings will be able to put any line of players on the ice and be confident they will get the job done.

The teams in the new WCHA are considered to be inferior to the teams who left the WCHA for greener pastures in the Big Ten and National Collegiate Hockey Conferences. This helps the Mavericks in conference play as the weaker teams will have to play their top players more often to keep up, and will be fatigued easier than a team like MSU, who has many skilled players. MSU also returns playoff experience, which many of the teams in the WCHA do not have. As the only team to make the NCAA Derek Lambert Staff Writer

MSU Reporter Archives Both the Bemidji Pioneer Media Poll and Mankato Free Press Coaches poll put the MSU Mavericks in the number one spot in the WCHA’s first preseason rankings.

MSU Reporter Archives After scoring six goals and assisting on 13 goals in his freshman season, the Mavericks are excited to see what he can do in their 2013-2014 campaign.

Tournament in 2013, the Mavericks will use that to their advantage in attempt to make back-toback trips to the tournament.

The NCAA Tournament format is a bit different this year however, which could help or hurt the Mavericks. The teams from each conference who win their conference tournament get an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, as it has been in the past, but at large bids will be different. The top sixteen teams at the end of the season make it into the postseason tournament, unless a lower ranked team wins their conference tournament, which then bumps the lowest of the top sixteen out. What changes this season is that in

determining the ranking of the top 16 teams, the value of home and away games and strength of opponent is different.

More value will be given to wins on the road than to wins at home. Also, more points will be given in the rankings when defeating a top-20 ranked opponent, with the point value being higher if the team is ranked higher. This could be good for the Mavericks as they should have no trouble being one of the top, if not the top team in their conference. If they can do well in conference play, regardless of home or away games, they should be in good shape. They

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MSU volleyball team starts conference schedule off right

Before starting NSIC play, the Mavericks had a 4-3 overall record. After two games last weekend and one on Tuesday, the squad started their conference schedule 2-1.

LUKE CARLSON Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato volleyball team had an exciting end to last week when it picked up a couple of well-earned wins against its first two conference opponents.

To tee off conference play, the Mavericks had Winona State in town this last Thursday.

In a swift sweep of the Warriors at the Taylor Center, MSU displayed its winning ways once again and was able to snap its two-game losing streak.

In a dead heat in the first set and trailing 16-15, the Mavericks went on a 10-5 run en route to winning the opening set 25-21. Sophomore outsidehitter Chandra Honebrink and freshman middle-blocker Courtney Anderson paced the hitters in the first set with six kills and five kills, respectively, while junior outside hitter Jenna McNallan added six digs.

In the second set it was all Mavericks, as MSU maintained a slight lead throughout the middle tilt on the way to a 25-19 set win. Sophomore setter Ellie Van De Steeg led the offense with 15 assists on 17 Maverick kills. McNallan spearheaded the attack with five kills, while Honebrink and junior outsidehitter Tiana Runck added four kills each.

It was looking dicey later on when the Warriors broke out to an 11-7 advantage in the early going of the third set. However, the Mavericks managed to brave the storm and responded with a six-point run in order to take a

13-11 lead. WSU then managed to tie it back up at 13, but the home team came out strong one more time and went on another lengthy 12-5 run, solidifying the sweep with a 25-18 win. Runck stepped up to lead the Maverick hitters in the third set with five kills, while Van De Steeg remained a solid source of assists, dishing out 10.

After the match was said and done, Runck and Honebrink stood as the leading hitters with 12 kills each, while Van De Steeg led in the assists department with 40 helpers. McNallan ended up with a match-high 14 digs while Anderson was credited with six total blocks, including two solo blocks. As a team, MSU recorded eight total team blocks and hit for .270.

On the road and in the second match of conference action on Saturday afternoon in Fayette, Iowa, the Mavericks edged another young team in the Upper Iowa University Peacocks in a close 3-2 set grind.

It was a slow going opening set for MSU, for both teams in fact, before the Peacocks claimed the win 25-22 with only a .194 hitting percentage. Honebrink had a set-high six kills for the Mavericks.

In the second set, MSU’s offense ignited and charged to a 25-20 win and set tie, with the team hitting .484 and recording 17 kills in the set, Jenna McNallan tallying a set-leading eight kills.

The Peacocks responded in the third with a commanding 2516 victory, hitting .465 as a team and regaining the match lead.

David Bassey • MSU Reporter With some freshman and sophomores getting their first playing time at the college level in 2013, this volleyball team is starting to come together just in time for their most important regular season games.

But junior outside-hitter Olivia Kuker led the MSU comeback with four kills, lifting the Mavericks to a 25-21 win in the fourth set, forcing a fifth set with a 2-2 set tie. In the intense moments of the fifth set, MSU was able to grind out the match victory behind Honebrink’s three kills and a solid .412 hitting percentage and stellar defensive play.

In the match, McNallan and Honebrink led the Maverick offense with 16 kills and 15 kills respectively; Tiana Runck also contributed 12 kills. Van De Steeg bested her assist total from Thursday with 49 assists in the match. McNallan and freshman defensive specialist Haley Fogarty led the defense with 12 digs each.

On Tuesday, the Mavericks

lost their first conference game of the season at Concordia, three sets to zero.

The Mavericks continued conference play this weekend with two NSIC opponents coming to Mankato (8-3). St. Cloud State comes on Friday and the match starts at 7 p.m. and Saturday’s match against the University of Minnesota, Duluth Bulldogs starts at 7 p.m.

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MSU Athletic Director in the running for A.D. job at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

Photo Courtesy of Maverick Athletics Since being hired in 2002, Buisman has done a tremendous job of giving these student-athletes what they need to succeed in their sport, in the classroom and in life.

REECE HEMMESCH Editor in Chief Minnesota State University, Mankato athletic director Kevin Buisman met with a selection committee at the University of

Wisconsin-Green Bay Monday, in an effort to become the school’s new athletic director.

The previous A.D. of UWGB, Ken Bothof, was named the athletic director at Northern Kentucky in August, leaving the

position vacant until now.

“It was really good to get up there and learn more about the opportunity,” Buisman said.

“I got a chance to meet a lot of good people including their chancellors, coaches and other staff in the department.”

Part of Buisman’s activities on campus included a presentation with a theme of the challenges and opportunities that faced a mid-major Division II program. Buisman, with his experience at Division II MSU and Division I Northern Iowa, pointed out the fact that some of the challenges are common across all facets of intercollegiate athletics, not just a midmajor program like UWGB. “The managing of a budget and securing the resources to allow the program to grow and develop is a challenge here and it’s going to be a challenge there,” he said. “Gender equity and title IX compliance are issues across all levels of athletics.”

The selection process plans to interview five other candidates for the position with all of them obtaining knowledgeable experience as an athletic director before being chosen by the Phoenix. Though they all have an understanding of what it

takes to be an athletic director, Buisman has done something at a high level here at MSU that should put his name a little higher up: win.

In his 12th year with the Mavericks, Buisman has turned the athletic program into a national Division II powerhouse, which was probably brought to the attention of Green Bay last year when the Mavericks had one of their best athletic seasons in school history.

2013 brought in the NSIC all-Sports Trophy, given to the school with the most wins in the conference, along with a fourthplace finish in the Directors Cup for the most outstanding Division II athletic program and saw seven teams finish nationally in the top 10.

“Last year was a great year,” Buisman said. “It’s been a great run, and I think I’m very fortunate to preside over a long period of success here and hopefully the totality of almost 25 years of experience in collegiate athletics and the success that we’ve collectively enjoyed here at Minnesota State will make a positive impression on them at Green Bay.” He has proven himself in the win column to say the

least, but there is another layer of Buisman that has yet to be peeled, and that is the role of his student-athletes off the field, who have served as role models for lots in the Mankato area as of late.

“I think that has proven to be the descriptor over time,” Buisman said. “That our student athletes have enjoyed a lot of competitive success but also successful in the classroom and in terms of community service.”

Buisman should find out within the next couple weeks if he has been chosen as a finalist for the job. Though the thought of a new school is there, he has already put the wheels in motion for what should be a long tradition of excellence at MSU that should be in the history books for many years to come.

Through it all, Buisman still smiles when thinking about leaving a legacy.

“We created the moniker, ‘building champions’, to talk about our commitment to the student athletes,” Buisman said.

“Hopefully part of it is making the impression and encouraging the status of institutional pride.”

Are the Vikings out of contention?

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It is hard give up on a team just three games into the season, but I do not believe the Vikings will make the playoffs after how they have performed so far.

The Vikings opened the season with two losses in important games against NFC North Division foes. Then last weekend things got even worse when the 0-2 Cleveland Browns came to Mall of America Field for the Vikings home opener and scored 31 points en route to a Browns win.

The loss felt more embarrassing because leading up to the game, the Browns traded the third overall pick of the 2012 draft, Trent Richardson, to the

Indianapolis Colts, and what was even more embarrassing, losing at the hands of Cleveland’s third-string quarterback: Brandon Hoyer. It appeared as if the Browns were giving up on the 2013 season, but after the game, the Vikings looked like the team that should be more worried about their future.

The major question mark going into the season was what kind of play the Vikings would get from the third-year quarterback Christian Ponder. So far this season there has been no sign of improvement in Ponder’s game. Ponder has thrown for just two touchdowns, which is second worst in the league.

The quarterback play has been tough to watch at times and the interception for a touchdown

he threw in week two at Detroit very well could have cost us the game. If we were to decide if this was the quarterback of the future based off his performance this season, the answer certainly would be no.

General manager Rick Spielman splashed in free agency with the signing of Greg Jennings. Spielman added even more depth at receiver when he traded away four draft picks to move back into the first round of this year’s draft, picking Cordarrelle Patterson.

Through three games, neither Patterson nor Jennings has recorded a touchdown. The two have not been targeted often either. Patterson has just five receptions and Greg Jennings

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MSU baseball’s talent brings multiple MLB scouts to Mankato

As many as 15 Major League Baseball scouts, such as the Texas Rangers, piled in to the MSU baseball Complex and got their radars and stopwatches out to see the talent on the MSU baseball team.

While most collegiate baseball players are in their early forms of the 2014 season, the Minnesota State University, Mankato baseball team spent the better part of Wednesday looking to woo and awe the 15 or so major league scouts that attended their annual scout day.

Head coach Matt Magers realizes how important this day could be in every player’s ultimate goal to sign a big league contract, but also sees it as an enjoyable day for all involved with the baseball program.

“It’s fun for our guys because it’s one of those days that every kid gets a little bit closer to realizing their dream with the opportunity to perform in front of a professional team,” Magers said.

The Mavericks have nearly reached the pinnacle of Division II baseball programs over the past few years, earning a berth to the College World Series three out of the last four years and finishing 2013 as the second-best team in the country.

“With the last couple of years we’ve had quite a few guys get drafted and sign so its pretty average to see this many (scouts),” Magers said. “With the success we’ve had four out of the last five years, scouts are starting to realize that, yes, we are Division II, but we have some higher end talent.”

Scout day is a positive thing for all parties involved with it. Each player gets a few minutes to show off what they can do in front of some people that can alter their future, and the scouts involved get to see some solid, young talent out of the purple and gold early in the season.

“It’s like going from restaurant to restaurant if you’re looking to pick up a girl,” Rick Schroeder, a scout with the Texas Rangers said. “This right here’s what we do except we’re looking for ballplayers.”

“The important thing is to find one now so you can get their information in the computer so the club you represent will have all the information on the person.”

Every healthy MSU baseball player got a chance to show their stuff Wednesday, with all pitchers throwing a 15-pitch bullpen in front of the scouts, all the position guys being evaluated on the 60-yard dash, infielders throwing from short and outfielders throwing from left field. Magers says the day ends with a round of batting practice for the hitters and a “controlled scrimmage” afterwards.

“It’s a normal tryout,” Magers said. “What they would expect to do if they ever go to a major league invite camp.”

Of the players involved, most are still too young to be drafted, as Major League Baseball requires all collegiate athletes to be 21-years old or in their third year of school to be eligible for the draft, but Schroeder believes that it is also important to see the youth so they can be monitored for the future.

“You see a high school player that’s now surfacing into a pretty good player and you say to yourself, ‘hey, I remember that guy two years ago’ and he’s much improved now,” Schroeder said. “So in the fall you get all the names you want to acquire and pretty soon you got a checklist of players you can look at in the spring and make a decision where it really counts.”

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Of the players eligible to be Matheson opted to stay in school drafted after this season, no rather than go pro, making him name sticks out more in the a hot commodity for the 2014 minds of the scouts than Josh draft.

Matheson, the 6’3”, 180-pound Following Matheson, senior sophomore who was taken in the and the co-most valuable pitcher 19th round (572nd overall) by from 2013 Jason Hoppe could the Milwaukee Brewers in the also make a splash in the draft.

2013 draft. After seeing just one MSU BASEBALL • Page 25 start last season with the Mavs,

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Northern State (1-2) at Minnesota State (3-0)

MSU HOCKEY “Heading into the newly constructed WCHA, the Mavericks have many advantages over their opponents.” continued from 21

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MSU BASEBALL “Scout day is a positive thing for all parties involved with it. Each player gets a few minutes to show off what they can do in front of some people that can alter their future, and the scouts involved get to see some solid, yound talent out of the purple and gold early in the season.” continued from 24 Hoppe concluded his junior campaign with an 8-1 record, complimented with a 1.26 ERA and 99 strikeouts in 92.2 innings pitched.

Hoppe received national media attention during the College World Series last season, as he became the record holder for consecutive scoreless innings in a single-season, tossing 55.1

straight innings without giving up a run.

Nolan Johnson, a catcher and team MVP from last season might also be hearing his name on draft day. Johnson, a Bloomington native, hit .359 for MSU in 2013 while belting three homeruns, three triples and 22 doubles.

Though Magers knows he

has a load of talent underneath him, it is always an uncertainty of how many people will get the big call over draft weekend.

“That’s always the million dollar question,” Magers said.

“Traditionally you look at our program and it seems like we have two guys every year that have the opportunity to play at the next level.”

be capped off by the first annual North Star College Cup, a tournament consisting of the Minnesota Division I hockey teams where the Mavericks will play Minnesota-Duluth, followed by a game against either St. Cloud State or Minnesota.

All of these games would be considered away games and raise their ranking if they prevail successful.

Minnesota State kicks off their season with an exhibition game at the Verizon Wireless Center in Mankato on Sunday, Oct. 6 at 5 p.m. against Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). The first regular season game for the Mavericks will be on Oct. 11, when they travel to Providence for a nonconference series.

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RECAP: Since last season, the Minnesota State University, Mankato football team has had the knack of winning the close games, and it wasn’t any different this past Saturday as the no. 2 Mavericks defeated no. 7 Duluth 21-17. For the last 41 NSIC opponents to come up to Duluth, they headed back home empty handed, but the Mavericks were victorious, breaking their streak that started in 2009. With 41 seconds left in regulation, the Bulldogs tossed a touchdown pass to Joe Reichert to take the lead, but the referees threw a flag for holding on Duluth. Two incompletions later, the Mavericks would take over and line up in their victory formation. As a team, the Mavericks rushed for 154 yards with senior quarterback Jon Wolf leading the way with 72 of his own and one touchdown. Sophomore running back Connor Thomas was right behind him with 65 yards. Wolf throw for the least passing yards in the first three games of the season last Saturday with 115 but made some clutch throws, including a 34-touchdown pass to senior receiver Dennis Carter to take a 21-17 lead in the third quarter. Carter caught three passes for 44 yards and a touchdown. Defensively, the Mavericks did a great job preventing the big play as Duluth’s biggest gain from scrimmage was a 23-yard pass. Junior safety Nathan Hancock was named NSIC Defensive Player of the Week after collecting 10 tackles with an interception, a forced fumble and a fumble recovery. Sophomore linebacker Tyler Henderson also had quite the game with 11 tackles and a sack.

HISTORY: The history between MSU and Northern State is as ancient as the Duluth series as this is just the seventh time in school history these two meet. The Mavericks lead the series 5-1 and has taken the last two games. The last time these two played, it was up at Northern Sate where the Mavericks took care of business, 32-10. Even back then, Carter was a playmaker, as he ran for a touchdown and caught three passes for 57 yards. Former receiver LaMark Brown led the Mavericks with 95 receiving yards and one touchdown.

MSU NOTES: The (3-0) Mavericks come in to Saturday’s game in first place of the NSIC-South Division and tied for first overall with St. Cloud State. Even with just scoring 21 points last weekend, the team leads the NSIC in scoring with 41 points a game. Their running game has always been their strong suit and that is still the case as they sit fourth in the conference with 608 rushing yards. Thomas leads the squad with 188 rushing yards, which is also 11th in the NSIC. Wolf is right behind him with 151 yards.

What has been the most impressive about Wolf has been what he can with his arm. After three games, the quarterback has thrown for 504 yards and five touchdowns while completing 65.9 percent of his spasses. Defensively, the Mavericks are giving up 21.3 points a game, which is tied for fifth in the conference. Just like last season, the front seven for the Mavericks have been stopping the run and not giving opposing quarterbacks a lot of time to throw the ball. Right now, the Mavericks are giving up 92.7 yards per game and that has a lot to do with the defensive line, led by sophomore defensive end Josh Gordon.

To have senior defensive end Chris Schaudt on one side and the way Gordon has played on the other makes it really difficult for NSIC teams to get things going.

NSU NOTES: After finishing their 2012 season 5-2 in the NSIC-North and 6-5 in the conference, the Wolves of Northern State are coming to Mankato owning a 1-2 conference record and currently sit tied for third in the NSIC-North Division. They started their 2013 campaign with a 29-27 win over Wayne State but then dropped their next two, losing to Sioux Falls, 45-37, and Upper Iowa 24-17. The Wolves are a pretty balanced team offensively with no preference in running or throwing the ball, but they sit in the bottom half in both categories in terms of yards. They are currently 10th in the conference in both rushing and passing yards per game with 143.3 rushing and 184.3 passing. When looking at the roster, this is a very freshman and sophomore heavy group. Once again, the Mavericks will be dealing with an athletic quarterback in Jared Jacobson as he leads the team in rushing and passing yards. As a rusher, he shares the same amount of carries as their starting running back in John Hughes with Jacobson rushing for 182 yards and Hughes with 132 in three games. They may throw a good amount of times, but more times then not, the ball hits the ground. Jacobson has thrown for 528 yards but has a 41 percent completion percentage. What has really hurt the Wolves is keeping their opponents off the scoreboard. They are 14th in the conference in points allowed per game with 31.3 and the second worse team in the conference in stopping the run. They do possess a very tough and athletic defensive back in Blaine Schmidt, who leads the team with 24 tackles and has one interception and three pass breakups.

PREDICTION: After coming off such a big win against Duluth, it’s hard to get athletes pumped up when the next team that comes to town isn’t the no. 7 team in the nation. The Wolves have such a hard time stopping the run, so the Mavericks should win the line of scrimmage battle. Even though some teams come out a little dull after big wins, the Mavericks do such a great job in applying the 1-0 attitude and shouldn’t have any problem getting a homecoming win.

can also make the NCAA Tournament by winning the WCHA Conference Tournament at the conclusion of league play. MSU also will play a competitive nonconference schedule this season which can help their chances to reach the postseason if they can win these games against ranked opponents.

The Mavericks open up the season with a nonconference series at Providence, who USCHO.com ranked 20th in the preseason poll. The biggest test will be when the Mavericks travel to Mariucci Arena to play Minnesota in a two-game road series on Nov. 15. The Gophers are ranked 5th by USA Today’s poll and even a series split with Minnesota would greatly help MSU in the NCAA rankings.

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VIKINGS “General manager Rick Spielman splashed in free agency with the signing of Greg Jennings. Spielman added even more depth at receiver when he traded away four draft picks to move back into the first round of this year’s draft, picking Cordarrelle Patterson.” continued from 23 has the same number of receptions as Adrian Peterson with just 11.

These are unacceptable stats after what it cost for what the Vikings spent to get them.

Due to the spotlight that quarterbacks get, many people are pointing the finger at Ponder, but by no means is the 0-3 start solely Ponder’s fault. The people that want to see Ponder benched may get their wish because his status for Sunday’s games is in doubt due to a rib injury. It is a real possibility that we see No. 16, Matt Cassel get his chance to run the offense, but I believe that will only make it clearer that this team is not playoff caliber.

Through three games the Vikings have failed to correct problems that led to past losses. Minnesota has now given up a game-winning touchdown in the last two minutes in two straight games. What is even more alarming is that the Vikings were beat on almost identical plays in back to back games. Both games a tight end has burned the Vikings pass coverage in the waning minutes and scored game winning touchdowns in the left side of the end zone.

Even the strength of the Vikings, the running game, has struggled this year. Adrian Peterson has only three rushing touchdowns this year and the running game has not looked as explosive as it has in years past.

The Vikings will travel to London to play the Steelers in a matchup of two winless teams Sunday. Only three teams since 1990 have dropped the first three games of the season and still made the playoffs and it seems highly unlikely that this Vikings team will become the fourth team in more than 20 years to do so.

I guess the only silver lining this Vikings’ season so far is that the Green Bay Packers only have one more win than the Vikings.

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