September 26, 2019

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Conference to develop future leaders to be held in Mankato EMILY ERCK STAFF WRITER Leadership is one of the most valuable assets to have as a friend, co-worker, and as a person in any environment.

The Women for Global Leadership is a second-year program that is helping students cultivate leadership skills they already possess, but are not comfortable using. They help members by picking their strengths and helping them grow into them.

The program is yearlong, including a set curriculum, while also allowing the students to build their own experience with hands-on learning.

Individuals were recommended by staff and sought out to be a part of the program by email. Once contacted, they were encouraged to apply by email and if not contacted were still encouraged to self-apply.

The theme for this year’s conference is “No Gender Justice Without Racial Justice”. The conferences, set

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for Nov. 1, will include many local business owners speaking about personal leadership experiences, nonprofit speakers and different wom-

en mentors.

The members will attend the conference as a group but have the options to branch off into small groups

to experience things themselves. They will learn from women from all different backgrounds and topics from multiple perspectives, as well

as how to promote awareness and become advocates for women’s issues.

The leadership program has chosen 16 students to be a part of the program which will include undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The faculty that will be in charge of this program includes Alissa Morson, Jacy Fry and Elizabeth Steinborn-Gourley.

The diversity in this group is incredibly significant, with over half of the group being international students and the other half being domestic.

The group will come together four times this semester and enjoy the company, wisdom and advice from faculty and community members about their personal leadership experiences.

After listening to a brief lecture, the discussion becomes much more experiential and hands-on.

Once group discussions

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Endeavor Air visits Mankato in search of new pilots ANDREW BRAVO STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Endeavor Air, a subsidiary of Delta Airlines, visited Mankato Wednesday in hopes of recruiting future pilots to join their ever-growing fleet.

The Minneapolis-based airline’s main goal is regional transportation east of the Mississippi River with hub operations in Minneapolis, Atlanta, Detroit and New York City. Regional airlines play a crucial role in flight operations as they are responsible for the connection of smaller cities to larger ones. By transporting passengers using smaller jets, airlines can save money and fuel necessary for larger aircraft and longer trips, such as Los Angeles to

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New York.

Structured around transportation demands, regionals can alleviate the complex logistics behind coordinating

flights both domestic and internationally. In addition, new pilots are able to build up hours at a regional before they are able to transfer to a

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larger airline, such as Endeavor Air to Delta in a matter of a few years.

The recruitment event began with introducing student

pilots to a flight crew, many of whom were Minnesota State University, Mankato graduates, and several onsite interviews for those ready to take the next step in their flight career. By speaking with former students about their experiences with Endeavour, many current student aviators applied for the Student To Endeavour Pilot Program to learn more information and stay in touch the company’s ambassadors.

The program, which prepares students for a promising career in the airline industry, assists students by providing more information, answering any questions and when it’s time to conduct

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Washington plunges into Trump impeachment investigation WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pressed the leader of Ukraine to “look into” Joe Biden, Trump’s potential 2020 reelection rival, as well as the president’s lingering grievances from the 2016 election, according to a rough transcript of a summer phone call that is now at the center of Democrats’ impeachment

probe.

Trump repeatedly prodded Volodymyr Zelenskiy, new president of the East European nation, to work with U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer. At one point in the July conversation, Trump said, “I would like for you to do us a favor.”

The president’s request

Ask the University Note: “Ask the Administrator” has been changed to “Ask the University” as some may answer wihtout being an administrator.

This week’s question was: “Where are we situated with the deficit for our campus? Last year it was mentioned that we could have a 6 million dollar deficit. What is the plan to deal with said deficit?”

Rick Straka answered: “Last spring, President Davenport asked members of cabinet for draft redu c t io n /rea l l oc a t io n plans totaling up to $6 million to account for the projected budget shortfall for the current biennium and also allow for additional investments in high demand student success areas.

The University identified a $4 million budget shortfall for the biennium from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2019, due to a combination of declining enrollment and biennial inflation exceeding revenue increases.

In addition, the cabinet approved investments of approximately $1 million in the areas of Student Success, Student Advising, Marketing and an extension of Emergency Grant Funding as well as other inflationary increases.

Approaches for addressing the budget reduction include Early Retirement Incentives for positions that would not be replaced, elimination of vacant positions, non-personnel budget reductions and reorganizations resulting in staffing reductions.

The current draft reduction plans total approximately $5 million and will be shared when finalized.”

The Reporter has not received another question at this time. Please send questions to: repoter-editor@ mnsu.edu or madison.diemert@mnsu.edu.

Questions will be asked every Monday from now on, and answered by the next Monday thereafter.

Global Spotlight Highlights Student Culture MARIA LY NEWS EDITOR Students from Ecuador will be sharing their culture with MNSU in the university’s first Global Spotlight event on Thursday, Sept. 26.

The event is hosted by the Kearney Center for International Student Services (KCISS). The KCISS aspires to “foster global citizenship across our diverse campus, community and world”. The center does a variety of things such as promoting and supporting global awareness, intercultural understanding, culture, etc.

Global Spotlights is an event that complements KCISS’s mission for spreading the culture of MNSU’s diverse

population. It is also a good way for students to expand their intercultural experiences and celebrate the richness of diversity at MNSU. These Ecuadorian students will be sharing firsthand insights into their country, discuss its natural and cultural diversity as well as talk about their experiences and perspectives as study abroad students in the U.S. Ramiro Viñán Vega, a graduate assistant at KCISS, says, “The purpose of Global Spotlights is to give the community of MNSU a look into one of the 95 countries represented here.”

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for such help from a foreign leader set the parameters for the major U.S. debate to come — just the fourth impeachment investigation of an American president in the nation’s history. The initial response highlighted the deep divide between the two parties: Democrats said the call amounted to a “shakedown” of a foreign leader, while Trump - backed by the vast majority of Republicans - dismissed it as a “nothing call.”

The call is one part of a whistleblower complaint about the president’s activities that have roiled Washington and led Democrats to move ahead with an impeachment inquiry of the Republican president on the cusp of the 2020 campaign.

After being stymied by the administration, members of the House and Senate intelligence committees took their first look at the complaint late Wednesday. Republicans kept largely quiet, but several Democrats, including Intelligence committee chairman Adam Schiff, called the classified account “disturbing.”

Some from both parties want it to be made public.

Congress is also seeking an in-person interview with the whistleblower, who remains anonymous.

Trump spent Wednesday meeting with world leaders at the United Nations, a remarkable TV split screen even for the turbulence of the Trump era. Included on his schedule: a meeting with Zelenskiy.

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In a light-hearted appearance before reporters, Zelenskiy said he didn’t want to get involved in American elections, but added, “Nobody pushed me.” Trump chimed in, “In other words, no pressure.”

The next steps in the impeachment inquiry were quickly developing a day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the probe.

A rush of lawmakers, notably moderate Democrats from districts where Trump remains popular, set aside political concerns and urged action.

One option Pelosi is considering, pressed by some lawmakers, is to focus the impeachment inquiry specifically on the Ukraine issues rather than the many others Congress has already been investigating.

“For me, that’s what’s im-

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portant,” said Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., among the new lawmakers in Congress with national security backgrounds. She said it’s “just an egregious idea that the president of the United States can contact a foreign leader and influence him for dirt on a political opponent. ... That can’t be normalized.”

Pelosi announced the impeachment probe Tuesday after months of personal resistance to a process she has warned would be divisive for the country and risky for her party. But after viewing the transcript on Wednesday, Pelosi declared: “Congress must act.”

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MNSU student passes away What we know (and don’t) about Juul, teen vaping and illness MADISON DIEMERT EDITOR IN CHIEF A 19-year-old woman died in her dorm room Tuesday night.

The woman lived in the Crawford Residence Hall of Minnesota State University, Mankato where first responders and police arrived on scene around 6:30pm.

CPR was preformed, according to the email sent out to students and staff of MNSU. The efforts to resuscitate her were unseccessful.

There is no evidence of foul play and no information on what exactly caused the student’s death.

Her body has been taken to the Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy.

NEW YORK (AP) — An outbreak of vaping illnesses.

A surge in teens using electronic cigarettes. They’re often spoken of in the same urgent breath, but it’s not clear how — or even if — they are connected.

Following a shakeup at Juul Labs Inc., the largest U.S. seller of e-cigarettes, here are some questions and answers about vaping: WHAT HAPPENED WITH JUUL? The San Francisco-based company that controls about 70% of the market announced Wednesday that it will no longer run TV, print or digital advertisements for its e-cigarettes.

Juul, which rose to the top through viral marketing that promoted nicotine pods with dessert and fruit flavors, also said it’s replacing its CEO and promised not to lobby

against a proposed U.S. ban on flavors.

Some health advocates were not impressed.

“No one should mistake the company’s suspension of its marketing efforts as anything other than a naked attempt to ease public pressure and curry favor with elected officials,” American Heart Association chief executive Nancy Brown said in a statement.

WHY ARE OFFICIALS CONCERNED ABOUT JUUL? Health officials say Juul has triggered an explosion in teen vaping in recent years.

Recent surveys found 1 in 4 high school seniors reported vaping nicotine in the month before they were asked about it.

Health officials have said vaping may be a less-deadly alternative for adult smokers who are trying to quit ciga-

rettes, but they’re worried about kids using the devices.

Nicotine is harmful to developing brains, and surveys suggest that as many as 1 in 8 high school seniors vape nicotine daily.

The youth vaping boom has led to backlash. This month, President Donald Trump said the government will act to ban thousands of flavors used in electronic cigarettes because they appeal to underage users.

Rhode Island, Michigan and New York have banned flavored vaping products.

On Tuesday, the governor of Massachusetts ordered a four-month ban on the sale of vaping products. Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said he was alarmed not only by the popularity of vaping but also a rash of vaping-related breathing illnesses that have caused deaths.

ARE THE RECENT VAPING ILLNESSES RELATED? That’s not clear.

Over the summer, health officials in a few states began noticing reports of people developing severe breathing illnesses, with the lungs apparently reacting to a caustic substance. The only common factor in the illnesses was that the patients had all recently vaped.

More than 500 people are suspected or confirmed to have gotten the illness and at least 10 have died.

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‘We’re all in big trouble’: Climate panel sees a dire future NEW YORK (AP) — Earth is in more hot water than ever before, and so are we, an expert United Nations climate panel warned in a grim new report Wednesday.

Sea levels are rising at an ever-faster rate as ice and snow shrink, and oceans are getting more acidic and losing oxygen, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a report issued as world leaders met at the United Nations.

It warned that if steps aren’t taken to reduce emis-

sions and slow global warming, seas will rise 3 feet by the end of the century, with many fewer fish, less snow and ice, stronger and wetter hurricanes and other, nastier weather systems.

“The oceans and the icy parts of the world are in big trouble, and that means we’re all in big trouble, too,” said one of the report’s lead authors, Michael Oppenheimer, professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University. “The changes are accelerating.”

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Continued from page 1 begin, the students are encouraged to start developing their own story- telling methods to advocate for an issue they feel strongly for. Then, each member involved will choose their own unique way to share their personal leadership stories at the International Women’s Day Celebration and the Mankato Area International Festival. However, a certain number of students are selected to attend the Women’s Leadership Conference through the YWCA. If the conference strikes up an interest in anyone, but they are concerned about finance issues, there is an option to apply for the Emerging Leader’s

Scholarship that will cover the cost of the entire trip. All one has to do is have a mentor or supervisor nominate them, and they can become eligible to receive the scholarship.

This scholarship is available to anyone, not just the students that are involved in the Women for Global Leadership program. Morson, when talking about what the program is really focused on, said, “Women’s voices are really important and a great way to help tell our stories. We need to speak up for ourselves. That’s really what this program is about: women telling their own stories.”

The dire effects will be felt on both land and sea, harming people, plants, animals, food, societies, infrastructure and the global economy. In fact, the international team of scientists projected for the first time that some island nations will probably become uninhabitable.

The oceans absorb more than 90% of the excess heat from carbon pollution in the

air, as well as much of the carbon dioxide itself. Earth’s snow and ice, called the cryosphere, are also being eroded.

“The world’s oceans and cryosphere have been taking the heat for climate change for decades. The consequences for nature and humanity are sweeping and severe,” said Ko Barrett, vice chair of the IPCC and a dep-

uty assistant administrator for research at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The report found: — Seas are now rising at one-seventh of an inch (3.66 millimeters) a year, which is

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FALL 2019 EDITOR IN CHIEF:

Hazing has no place in college

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MICHAEL MCSHANE STAFF WRITER As much as college comedy movies like to use it in their plot, the real-life equivalent of hazing has much more serious implications and doesn’t end with people laughing.

It’s National Hazing Prevention Week and the conversation of hazing new recruits into fraternities and sororities has been one of the most controversial in college life.

Hazing takes many forms, all horrible in their own right.

The most common hazing relies on the heavy use of alcohol and that’s where the real danger of hazing comes from – alcohol poisoning.

People end up learning the hard way that too much alcohol doesn’t just leave you with a bad case of a hangover the next morning, but could lead to a trip to either the ER or the morgue. It ruins the fun really quick, but when you look at the history of hazing it becomes a horror story.

Alcohol poisoning is the leading cause of death from hazing. Three cases of college students dying of alcohol poisoning from hazing were reported back in 2017 alone.

This week isn’t just to remember why hazing is a horrid practice, but also to remember those whose lives were cut short because of hazing. It’s to remember

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why hazing is bad in the first place.

I’m not part of a fraternity, but I know that there are great things that go into Greek organizations – friend-

organization. Those that stay and take the hazing aren’t doing it because they like to get dangerously drunk, they do it because they see a frat or a sorority as their way of

“This week isn’t just to remember why hazing is a horrid practice, but also to remember those whose lives were cut short because of hazing.”

ship, community and memories. That is why hazing has no place in Greek life.

Hazing is meant for new members of the organization, but I can’t think of a worse way to treat people simply wanting to be a part of an

trying to make friends.

Those that haze new members are taking advantage of students and are risking their lives just for fun. They don’t understand the ramifications of hazing and the risk it puts on people’s lives.

There should be no fraternity or sorority that condones or allows hazing nor should any college or university.

Losing one life is one life too many.

We’re college students, and we’re going to drink, that’s a universal truth. It goes from being a normal activity into a criminal act when we force another to drink way past their limit. We only know our own limit, and someone shouldn’t tell you to go past it just to get into a group.

Hazing should not be how you get into a Greek organization. If you want to join a frat or sorority, it shouldn’t be a life or death situation.

College is all about having fun and creating long-lasting memories, and Greek organizations can make that happen, but we shouldn’t turn our eyes away from a bad practice that needs to be condemned by all parties.

“What are your views and experiences with hazing?”

Compiled by Mansoor Ahmad

KIRBY CROW, SOCIAL MEDIA

PARRISH MARROW, PSYCHOLOGY

MUHAMMAD UZAIR, MECH. ENGINEERING

“I’m actually part of a fraternity that never had a hazing incident”

“Not a big fan of it, from the things I see, I don’t appreciate it.”

“I think it’s totally wrong to do this kind of stuff.”

ANNUS SHAKEEL, INFORMATION TECH.

MUHAMMAD HAMMAED CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

“It’s not good to do that to people who are in your team” “ As a team, leaderships is a good thing”

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News editor’s early farewell: one door closes another opens MARIA LY NEWS EDITOR I thought about leaving for a very long time. I started my News Editor position last May with high hopes and big ideas.

I did three summer editions while rushing back and forth late Tuesday nights from Rochester to Mankato and vice versa. I worked long and hard in the beginning of school till now and I found myself stuck.

Not in the sense of I’m trapped at the Reporter and held against my will to stay as News Editor, but stuck as in I didn’t feel like I was growing. I felt like I had too much going on in my life that it became impossible to balance it all.

We’ve all had those moments where we pile work on top of work amongst ourselves for the sake of our resume sundaes. But when it gets to be too much, how

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important is it to have it all?

I often wondered this as I began my new position as the news editor. After I gave my fellow intern from this past summer a list of things I wanted to accomplish this he asked me, “Maria, are you sure you can handle all of

that?”

My parents were very proud of me and would often boast about how good it would be for my resume. It was one of the reasons why I kept trucking on despite my stress. I didn’t want to lose the only thing I felt they were

proud of me for.

I spent hours before falling asleep each night, anxiously thinking about whether I should leave. I was going to do what my parents said, suck it up and just do it. Even though I felt so stuck and overwhelmed, I was going to

stay whether I liked it or not.

It wasn’t until one newspaper production night when I called my girlfriend, stressed beyond belief, when I realized that I could not do that to myself. She said to me, “I haven’t seen you happy since the summer.”

I thought about leaving for a long time, and I finally decided to follow through. I’ve decided that I don’t need it all.

I’m not leaving the MSU Reporter as I still have a passion for writing. However, I’m stepping down as the news editor. My email signature won’t be as pretty, but I’m sure I’ll get by.

Instead I’m going to enjoy my senior year at MNSU and focus on classes, work on my personal multimedia projects in bringing light to food insecurity, continue other endeavors with other RSOs, and continue being the professional executive stud muffin lesbian I am. It’s time for me to continue growing.

Student’s nutrition should come before competition MADISON DIEMERT EDITOR IN CHIEF Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Student Government announced on Sept.

23 that there will be a food drive until September 27.

It is a competition between MNSU and Winona State University.

The premise of the food drive is that students will donate to other students via the Student Activities Office, the Student Government Office and the Athletic Office.

Everything collected will then be sent to Campus

Kitchen. Canned goods, toiletries, boxed foods and dollar donations are accepted.

Competing against Winona State University is a great initiative to get students to donate, but there’s a problem with this proposition.

If you remember, a study was done by assistant professor Carol Glasser and her class in 2018 on food insecurity at MNSU. This study found that nearly two-thirds of MNSU’s undergraduate students have or had experienced food insecurity.

While this food drive is a great effort to help students in need, I think that we are forgetting that most of our

undergrad students cannot actually donate.

In the future, I believe MNSU’s Student Government should consider asking faculty and staff of MNSU to donate.

Faculty and staff will generally be able to afford to donate food and toiletry items, or dollar donations.

They will be much more financially secure and will likely have extra items to give away.

I support our Student Government’s efforts in this project, and believe it was organized with good intentions, (and hopefully we beat Winona!).

I also love that our students are so willing to help

each other in need.

But, it could have been planned differently so that students are not pressured to donate their own items that they might also need.

Glasser’s study might not have been taken into account, but hopefully it will be considered in future attempts.

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Analysis: Trump, Johnson and the messiness of democracy UNITED NATIONS (AP) — One leads the world’s most powerful country. He ricocheted across the United Nations this week, talked about putting America first, sent several annoyed tweets and suddenly found himself under an impeachment-shaped cloud.

The other leads the land where common law was born.

He delivered a manic U.N. speech on technology’s pitfalls and possibilities, barely mentioned the existential political morass encircling him, then dashed off for a latenight flight home to deal with a court ruling that says he broke the law.

The appealing thing about democracy is that it gives people the power to chart their own destinies. The messiest thing about it is that that the whole affair kind of has to involve, well, people.

And people are very unpredictable, as was clear this week at the U.N. General Assembly when twin hurricanes named Boris and Donald blew through with the winds not exactly at their backs.

As events unfolded along the East River in Manhattan, the pair’s forays into multilateral territory this week produced some advance field research into how chaotic democratic nations and their leaders can be — and how, when We, the People get to choose who’ll lead us, today’s stability can become tomorrow’s question marks.

For many decades, the United States and Britain — a democratic republic and a functioning parliamentary democracy, respectively — were generally pillars of stability. Even the institutional chaos often happened within a certain, somewhat predictable bandwidth.

This week, Johnson rolled through Manhattan hotly pursued by accelerating Brexit complications, heavy criticism at home and a devastating court ruling that could threaten his premiership only months after he took office.

Would he still be prime minister by the time he left New York? Who knew?

And Trump’s barnstorm through his hometown was punctuated by a whirlwind of accusations that he used his office to pressure a fellow head of state (the new Ukrainian president, who happens to be at the U.N. this week as well) into investigating a potential Democratic election opponent.

By the time Trump was ready to head back out, the speaker of the House — an-

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other pivotal part of the messy American democratic republic — had announced she’d begin an impeachment probe. In between, Trump largely skipped a major climate conference while managing to hit Twitter long enough to take verbal aim at a 16-year-old activist and her supporters.

“Just so you understand, it’s the single greatest witch hunt in American history.

Probably in history,” he told reporters (yet another unpredictable feature of functioning democracies) about the Ukraine investigation.

Vivid? Yes. Predictable?

No. Part of the way that democracies unfold? Absolutely. Like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.

In the United States, Trump is a figure as compelling and viral as he is polarizing. Love him or despise him, you gotta give him this much: You can’t help but look. His promise in the first place, after all, was to upend expectations.

He has delivered.

At the U.N. this week, his emphatic “America first” theme was, it’s true, framed squarely in the language of the United Nations and a respect for others’ sovereignty and patriotism. But Trump’s pointed remarks distilled just how far he has veered from 70 years of calibrated multilateralism pursued by most Republican and Democratic administrations.

“If you want democracy, hold on to your sovereignty.

And if you want peace, love your nation,” he said. “Wise leaders always put the good of their own people and their own country first.”

At the same time, Trump has long cultivated an identity as a self-styled wildcard — a guy who might say or tweet anything at any time and could, say, decide on a dime to go where no U.S. president has gone before and step into North Korea. It’s a persona that he has thrived on since long before the presidency. But in a political system deliberately designed to be messy to begin with, it’s sometimes dizzying. Same with Johnson, who cheerfully tapped into a similar seam of just-below-the-surface chaos in Britain to build his own success — and who used the contentious issue of departure from the European Union to clamber up his political ladder.

When he took the podium at the U.N. on Tuesday night, what came out at the start was a curious goulash of TED Talk, populist rally and getoff-my-lawn screed about the desolate or optimistic futures that technology might bring.

He raised his voice. He waved his arms. He used terms like “terrifying limbless chickens.” Just as actors sometimes play “versions” of themselves on TV shows, this felt like a heightened version of Johnson — Boris, only more so.

And though he barely mentioned his dire political situation, save one quip about Brexit, at one point he presented an almost plaintive outcry that handed his viewers a prism into the way he sees the world.

“How do you plead with an algorithm?” he asked.

“How do you get it to see the extenuating circumstances?”

That’s the thing about de-

mocracy, and about the leaders we might and do elect: None of it is remotely an algorithm. You can’t run data through a democracy and reproduce the results iden-

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Continued from page 1 onsite interviews such as done at the airport.

STEP aims to help students navigate and find success in the aviation world by providing resources and mentorship for interested pilots. Those who go through the program can anticipate great prospects, such as flight experience and a guaranteed interview with Delta once they have proven themselves as professional pilots.

In addition to introductions and interviews, the Minneapolis-based crew gave an informative presentation titled “A Day in The Life of an Airline Pilot” in Armstrong Hall 101, giving prospective students a taste of what they will be doing once they have built up enough hours to be hired.

From the walkaround and inspection of the aircraft prior to takeoff to landing and briefing of the next crew on board, the team’s display drew many to learn about their new potential workspace at thirty thousand feet.

MNSU is one of 17 schools across the nation to have partnered with the STEP initiative in order to have pilots ready to fly as quickly as possible. A part

of the FAA’s 141 program, the University holds the highest certifications for pilot proficiency and numerous connections to employers both commercial and corporate.

Given that one of the biggest challenges in the aviation industry is a massive pilot shortage (which is expected to happen in the next few years), airlines are scrambling to find avid aviators in order to accommodate the increasing demand for air travel.

With a mandatory retirement age of 65, aging pilots are beginning to retire as the need for air travel is only increases across the globe. Given this significant dilemma, airlines are using numerous tactics to recruit fresh workers such as programs like STEP which get students into the cockpit once cleared and certified.

As Minnesota’s only four-year program for professional flight, MNSU’s state of the art fleet and top-notch professionals are prepared to help new students fill this demand. With direct connections to airlines like Sun Country, Delta, United, American and numerous others, it is clear that the future of aviation is in good hands.

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Football to take on Winona State in the Harvest Bowl

The Mavericks look to go 4-0 on the season ahead of Homecoming matchup ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR

The Minnesota State Mavericks are headed into a week four matchup against the Winona State Warriors in the third annual Harvest Bowl.

The Mavericks enter play at 3-0 whereas the Warriors are 2-1, with its only loss coming against the University of Sioux Falls.

Mankato and Winona have matched up well in the last handful of games, but MSU still holds the edge. They are currently 7-3 in its last 10 games between the two teams.

MSU has won two straight games against Winona, 3121 in 2018 and 27-6 in 2017.

Before that, Winona had the Mavericks number and claimed two of its three wins in the last 10 games.

A name to watch on defense is junior Cole Schroedermeier. He has recorded an interception in each of the Mavericks three games and will be looking to push that to four.

Other players to keep an eye on is senior Zach Robertson and junior Jack Leius.

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tacklers on this Mavericks defense. Between the two, Robertson is the only one with sacks (2), with Leius having one interception on the season.

Junior JD Ekowa has led the Mavericks passing game, completing 22 of his 38 passes. He has zero interceptions on the season and two touchdowns.

Senior Ryan Schlichte will look to get things rolling this weekend after a rather slow start to the season. He has completed 34.3% of his 35 passes, with three interceptions and two touchdowns.

He should be able to get things rolling with the Maverick offense alongside him.

Seniors Shane Zylstra and Justin Arnold lead the way

for the Mavericks receiving corps. Zylstra has three touchdowns on the season, along with his 234 yards, whereas Arnold has added 149 yards and will be looking to reach the endzone for the first time this season.

Another focal point on offense is senior Nate Gunn.

Gunn has already compiled 488 yards and four toouch-

downs through three games.

He leads the teams rushing attack and should find similar success again this week.

MSU will be looking to go 4-0 on the season ahead of a tough homecoming matchup against Minnesota Duluth.

The Mavericks will take on the Winona State Warriors at the Blakeslee Stadium at 1 p.m. this Saturday.

Minnesota State women’s hockey to kick off its season

Mavericks travel to New York to face Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute AARON YOUNG STAFF WRITER This weekend, the women’s hockey team laces up their skates and hits the rink for their first game of the year.

They will face off against the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers in Troy, New York.

Last year, the Mavericks season ended at the hands of Ohio State in the WCHA quarterfinals, where they lost 3-2 in overtime in the first game and 3-0 in the following game after going 9-19-7 on the season.

There is no doubt that the girls will look to start the year with back-to-back wins against the Engineers.

The Mavericks come into the season with new captains at the helm in seniors

Emily Antony and McKenzie Sederberg. while junior Brittyn Fleming and sophomore Anna Wilgren are alternate captains.

They are also bringing in a new crop of skaters with six freshmen, them being goaltender Calia Frank, defensemen Charlotte Akervak and Lydsey Howard as well as forwards Kennedy Bobyck, Danielle England and Kelsey King. They also welcome a transfer in Taylor Wemple, who spent the past two seasons in St. Cloud State.

Looking at their opponent, Rensselaer finished last year with a record of 14-18-5. In the last meeting two meetings, Minnesota State won both games 2-0 and 3-1.

The Engineers come into the year with two returning seniors in Blake Orosz and

Sabrina Repachi. Orosz led the team in goals and points last year with a 17-20-1 stat line, while Repachi recorded

seven goals along with 11 assists.

The Mavericks will be looking to start the year off on

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King Felix set for what is likely final start with Mariners SEATTLE (AP) — He arrived as a scraggly teenager with an ill-fitting uniform and curly hair billowing out from underneath his often crooked cap.

He’ll leave as one of the finest players to ever put on a Seattle Mariners uniform after a career worthy of the “King Felix” nickname that was bestowed upon him.

Felix Hernandez will make his final start of the season Thursday night when the Mariners host the Oakland Athletics. It’s an important game for the A’s in their quest to earn a wild-card berth in the American League. But what happens with the A’s will be secondary in Seattle to what happens on the mound, with No. 34 likely taking the ball for the Mariners for the final time.

A career that began in 2005 when he was a freshfaced 19-year-old with all the promise in the world is expected to come to an end, at least as far as Seattle is concerned. Hernandez’s contract with the Mariners expires after the season and both sides seem ready to go their own way.

Whether Hernandez pitches again is unclear.

He wants to.

But after 15 seasons and more time spent on the injured list than on the mound in recent years, there may not be many suitors for a 33-yearold pitcher with decreased velocity and more than 2,700 career innings on his right arm. He is 1-7 in 14 starts this season with a 6.51 ERA. He hasn’t won more than 10 games since 2016, which is also the last time Hernandez had an ERA under four.

“Oh yeah. I don’t want to retire yet,” Hernandez said after his last start in Balti-

more. “I think I can go out there and compete against anybody. It was a tough year with my shoulder. But if I get healthy, I can compete.”

Regardless of what happens next, Hernandez will forever be a Mariners icon mentioned in the same breath as Griffey, Ichiro and Edgar. He was arguably the best pitcher in the American League for a large part of his time in Seattle, where he created excitement and helped make the Mariners relevant.

He brought them a Cy Young Award and arguably should have won a second. He also delivered a perfect game , one of 23 in baseball history.

At his best, Hernandez was must-see on the mound. He was the face of a franchise

that desperately needed one and he cared about Seattle in a way few have. He turned down a chance to go elsewhere — New York, Los Angeles, somewhere bigger and brighter — and instructed his reps to keep him in the Pacific Northwest.

That history is why Thursday night will be emotional, for fans at any rate. Hernandez may be able to deflect the emotions in the moment.

“I mean, I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Hernandez said. “I don’t know if I’m going to be emotional. I don’t know if I’m going to be quiet. I don’t know if I’m going to be happy. I don’t know.”

The night will start when Aloe Blacc’s “The Man”

blares from the stadium speakers as Hernandez walks in from the bullpen.

A sea of yellow-shirted fans in the “King’s Court” will rise in unison and chant as he takes the mound, as he gets to two strikes on any hitter, and will cheer deliriously anytime Hernandez can record a strikeout.

The night will be a farewell, a thank you and an apology all rolled into one.

A Seattle farewell to Hernandez.

A thank you for the Cy Young, the perfect game, the nights when Hernandez demonstrated how much he cared about the organization.

And the apology? That’s for all the games when Hernandez was great and

his team wasn’t. For the 35 career no decisions when pitching seven innings and allowing one run or less, and the other painful one-run losses where Hernandez was at his best and may have helped changed the conversation about his place in the hierarchy of pitchers during his prime years. Ultimately, Seattle’s brightest pitching star since the days of Randy Johnson never got the opportunity to pitch on the grandest stage in the postseason.

“I’m not thinking about any of that yet,” Hernandez said.

“I know it’s going to hit me at some point, but I’m not thinking about any of that yet.

BREWING SOME BUBBLY The Brewers are on the verge of another postseason berth. Milwaukee can lock up an NL wild card with a win over Cincinnati or losses by the Cubs and Mets. Just like last season, when the Brewers put on a late rush to take the NL Central title, they have closed in on a playoff spot with a September flourish. They’ve won 16 of 18, positioning themselves for a wild-card showdown with Washington, and they trail St. Louis by 2 1/2 games in the NL Central. Jordan Lyles starts for Milwaukee against the Reds. He’s 6-1 with a 2.35 in 10 starts since being acquired from Pittsburgh.

CENTRAL POWER

The Twins can clinch their first AL Central title since 2010 with a win over Detroit and a loss by Cleveland against the Chicago White Sox. Minnesota is 97-60, its most victories since going 98-64 in 1970. With three wins in their final five games, the Twins can become the record fourth team in the majors this year with 100 victories. Two years after going undrafted, rookie righthander Randy Dobnak (1-1, 2.01) is set for his fifth big league start for Minnesota.

He’s trying to assure himself a spot on the postseason roster.

GETTING WILD The only real race left is for the two AL wild cards, with

Tampa Bay and Cleveland trailing Oakland in a tight battle for the top spot. The Rays hold a half-game edge over the Indians for the final position and will start righthander Charlie Morton (15-6, 3.15) against the Yankees a day after beating the AL East champions on a walk-off homer by Ji-Man Choi. Tampa Bay has trailed in 14 of its last 15 games, yet is 10-5 in that stretch. Cleveland is sending right-hander Shane Bieber (15-7, 3.23) out against the White Sox. Oakland will start righty Frankie Montas (9-2, 2.70) against the Angels following the end of his 80-game suspension for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.

CLOSING ARGUMENT Bidding for a second straight NL Cy Young Award, Mets ace Jacob deGrom (108, 2.51 ERA) makes his final scheduled start this season against last-place Miami. The right-hander entered Tuesday leading the league in strikeouts with 248 and WHIP at 0.99. He ranked second in ERA and fourth in innings (197). And he’s been finishing strong in September, with consecutive outings of seven scoreless innings the last two times out. He has pitched seven innings in seven straight starts and 11 of his past 12.

New York would be eliminated from the postseason with a loss or a win by Mil-

waukee.

BOSTON GOODBYE? Rick Porcello (13-12, 5.56 ERA) makes his 159th and possibly last regular season start for the Red Sox at Texas. The 30-year-old right-hander is eligible for free agency this offseason after five seasons with Boston, including 2016 when he was the AL Cy Young Award winner with a 22-4 record.

He is 148-118 overall in 11 major league seasons, going 76-63 in six years with Detroit before getting traded to Boston. Even after throwing six scoreless innings in a no-decision at Tampa Bay last Friday, Porcello is 1-2 with a 6.63 ERA.

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Felix Hernandez walks off the field during the fifth inning of the team’s baseball game against the Chicago White Sox, Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019, in Seattle. The Mariners won 2-1 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/Stephen Brashear)

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Giants, Rockies use majors-record 25 pitchers in 16 innings SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Madison Bumgarner is planning to pitch once more this season. After he started Tuesday and tossed seven innings, 12 relievers followed on a night the Giants and Rockies combined to use a major league-record 25 pitchers.

Colorado finally finished off San Francisco 8-5 early Wednesday morning when Charlie Blackmon hit a threerun homer in the 16th inning.

The game lasted 5 hours, 31 minutes, with Giants manager Bruce Bochy making 12 pitching changes — hardly taking it easy in his final week on the job.

Blackmon’s first hit of the night came in his eighth plate appearance and off Dereck Rodriguez (6-10) for his 31st home run.

Both clubs left the bases loaded in the 11th, and Colorado stranded 15 baserunners.

This wasn’t even the longest game between the clubs this season. The Giants beat the Rockies 3-2 in 18 innings and 5:35 on April 12 — the longest game at Oracle Park since an 18-inning loss to Arizona on May 29, 2001.

Colorado also played two games of 16 innings or more in 2006.

Sam Howard (2-0) pitched the final two innings for the win.

With the Cardinals and Diamondbacks also going long, it marked the first time since June 8, 2013 — Mets-Marlins and Blue Jays-Rangers — more than one game went at least 15 innings the same day, according to MLB Stats.

Evan Longoria hit a tying homer in the eighth off Carlos Estevez. Longoria became the third Giants player with 20 homers, and for much of the game the ball carried on an unseasonably warm late-September night.

First-pitch temperature was 78 degrees.

Garrett Hampson hit his second homer of the game to put Colorado ahead in the eighth after losing starter Jeff Hoffman to a knee injury from a line drive, but the Giants kept pushing. The Rockies got great news that it was only a bone bruise for Hoffman, who had crutches.

X-rays were negative.

Trevor Story connected for his 34th homer after a pair of strikeouts to begin his night against Bumgarner, who was still scheduled to pitch Sunday’s season finale against the NL West champion Dodgers though Bochy hinted beforehand there still could be a change if necessary and he didn’t want the

Colorado Rockies’ Jeff Hoffman leaves a baseball game on a cart with a leg injury after being hit by a ball batted by San Francisco Giants’ Alex Dickerson during the fourth inning Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

2014 World Series MVP to feel obligated to start the manager’s send-off game.

Bochy also would like this last week to finish on a winning, positive note for everybody involved.

“I’m here to help us win games and we’ll see what happens,” Bumgarner said.

“But as of right now I’m planning on pitching Sunday.”

Bumgarner drew big cheers as he walked to the mound to start the game, then struck out nine and walked two over seven innings, allowing four runs on six hits.

Hoffman took a line drive off his right knee in the fourth inning and was carted off the field. Alex Dickerson’s sharp single hit squarely on Hoffman’s knee and the pitcher went down writhing in pain, and the ball ricocheted toward San Francisco’s dugout. He was down a little more than five minutes as athletic trainers from both teams tended to him on the mound.

“We’ll see how we can deal with the pain and hopefully get ready for the next start,” Hoffman said. “Between my kneecap and the right side of my knee — pretty much missed all the bones.”

Buster Posey hit a two-run

homer in the bottom of the first for just his seventh home run and first in 123 at-bats since July 31 at Philadelphia.

Bumgarner added a homer of his own but the lefty remains winless in five starts since beating the Padres on Aug. 30. The Giants have lost his last four outings.

Ian Desmond hit a tworun homer in the fourth after Bumgarner hit Blackmon on the left hand area with a pitch to start the inning.

Bochy began what he knows will be an emotional final week on the dugout’s top step. Fans stood and cheered when his picture showed on the big scoreboard during pregame introductions.

“It’s going to be tough to say bye,” Bochy said.

STORY’S MARK Story homered against the Giants for a franchise-record sixth straight game and became the first Colorado player to do so against any opponent over six matchups in a row. Mike Schmidt (1979) and Rogers Hornsby (1922) each homered in five consecutive games vs. the Giants.

Andres Galarraga homered in five straight vs. St. Louis in 1996.

TORRE’S VISIT Joe Torre, now Major

League Baseball’s executive vice president of baseball operations, turned up before the game to offer his best wishes to Bochy.

“He’s a special individual,” Torre said after greeting the manager on the field.

A video tribute from Torre played on the big screen before the fourth inning and Torre said, “You’re a class act and I admire how you go about your business.”

TRAINER’S ROOM Giants: Bochy was unsure whether RHP Johnny Cueto will make another start this season, saying after the game Cueto’s bullpen session Wednesday will determine his status. Cueto (1-1) has made three starts span-

ning 14 innings since returning from a 13-month absence recovering from Tommy John surgery. His next turn would be Friday in the series opener vs. Los Angeles.

UP NEXT RHP Tim Melville (2-3, 5.40 ERA) makes his seventh start of the year and the first of his career against the Giants having gone 2-0 with a 2.13 ERA in two road starts, beating NL West opponents Arizona and San Diego. RHP Jeff Samardzija (11-12, 3.64) has won two of his last three starts vs. Colorado and tries to match his career high of 12 wins accomplished in 2016 during his first year with San Francisco.

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Feeling better, Magic guard Markelle Fultz has high hopes

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — It was time for the last jump shot of Markelle Fultz’s workout on the Orlando Magic practice court on Wednesday. He let a 3-pointer fly from the left corner, and spun around in celebration even before the ball swished through the net.

After two years of problems, he’s feeling good again.

The shoulder injuries that kept him off the court for most of the two seasons since he was picked No. 1 in the 2017 draft are now being managed — he’s hesitant to say healed — and Fultz is expected to be a full participant in practice when the Magic open training camp next week. It’s a significant step forward, though the Magic also know they’ll have to proceed with caution.

“Man, I always have joy every time I step in here no matter what’s going on,” Fultz said after his workout. “As I learned quickly, you can’t take it for granted. You never know when it’s going to get stripped away from you.”

His shot is still a work in progress. Some of his jumpers Wednesday were perfect, some rimmed out and a few took an ugly trajectory to the front of the rim. His release doesn’t appear to be the same as it was during his college season at Washington, part of the re-training he’s done to deal with his shoulder issues.

But he’s on the floor. That’s major progress.

“We’re going to remain patient,” Magic President Jeff Weltman said. “We’re not going to put expectations or timelines on his development. He hasn’t played basketball in a year. He’s played 33 games total in his career. So it’s going to unfold the way it unfolds.”

Fultz has played in 33 regular-season games in his two NBA seasons. His shoulder problems — first called a scapular muscle imbalance, a fancy way of saying the joints in the shoulder weren’t working together properly — took him out of the lineup for the first time after just four games of his rookie season with Philadelphia. He missed 68 games that year before returning for the final few weeks.

Last season was equally problematic.

Fultz started Philadelphia’s first 15 games before things went bad again. He double-clutched a free throw in a game at Miami and was widely mocked on social media afterward. Before long, he was diagnosed with

Orlando Magic guard Markelle Fultz shoots free throws during a voluntary NBA basketball workout at the teams practice facility, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

a new problem — neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome, a condition where blood vessels or nerves around the collarbone and first rib are compressed.

“A lot of people, they would never go play with what I had and knowing they couldn’t shoot the ball,” Fultz said.

By the time doctors figured out what was really ailing Fultz, he had played his last game for the 76ers. The Magic traded Jonathan Simmons and a package of draft picks to Philadelphia for him in February. He never played for the Magic last season, though the move last week to pick up his $12.3 million option for 2020-21 is a clear sign that Orlando believes in Fultz.

“It was a no-brainer,” Weltman said.

Fultz said he’s not motivated by silencing doubters.

But if that was the case, it wouldn’t surprise Mike Jones.

He’s the coach at DeMatha Catholic High in Hyattsville, Maryland, a perennial national powerhouse — the school where Fultz played.

Jones also was the coach who didn’t pick Fultz for varsity when he was a sophomore.

“His whole career has been proving people wrong,” Jones said. “When he didn’t make the varsity here, I truly believe that he spent the next two years here making sure I knew that was a mistake. And now, I think he wants people to keep doubting him — because he’s going to show them.”

Lorenzo Romar, Fultz’s college coach at Washington,

feels the same way.

Fultz spent some time with Romar, now the coach at Pepperdine, last season.

They didn’t talk much about his injury — “the elephant in the room” is how Romar described the situation. But Romar coached Magic guard Terrence Ross in college, has followed Magic forward Aaron Gordon’s career closely and knows the strides that Orlando took last year while getting to the playoffs for the first time since 2012.

Adding Fultz to that mix, Romar said, is only going to

make Orlando better.

“I know the pieces they have on that team,” Romar said. “When Markelle comes back and gets his rhythm back, he’s as good a talented point guard as you will find.

He’s an athletic wizard. You put him out there with the rest of that group when he gets his rhythm, they could be special.”

Fultz doesn’t disagree.

He said he dreams of the day he can play 5-on-5 in a real game again. He raves about Magic coach Steve Clifford, raves about what

the team’s medical staff has done for him — taking tons of time last season to acquaint themselves with his injury, sending people to Los Angeles to work with him this offseason, then putting together the proper balance of on-court work, rest and rehab in Orlando.

His game is coming back.

His confidence is still there.

“I was the No. 1 pick for a reason,” Fultz said. “I knew that I work hard and what I can do on the basketball court. That’s all that matters.”

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Johnson art exhibit stuns students LIDIA VASSAR STAFF WRITER

Mary Johnson, a sculptor with a fondness for familiar materials, gave a lecture in Ostrander this past Monday evening detailing her artistic progression. From ornate and delicate helmets to large scale installations, Johnson has found her inspiration in recycling other people’s trash and making it into treasure.

Johnson spoke very lovingly of each of her works, going into detail on the materials she used to construct them.

Some of her first adventures into sculpture were her warrior-based pieces. She drew a lot of inspiration from warrior legends, including her fascination with the samurai. She carefully crafted helmets using materials she had found, mostly things that would be thrown away, and created collections based off of the scale of the accessories.

Some were human, others were (adorably) dog-sized, and the smallest were made with Barbies in mind. All included the same attention to detail.

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son also utilized dog toys as a medium. A dapper coat made of the hides of many of these toys was one of the pieces she enjoys wearing personally. It was colorful and had a variety of different textures. My personal favorite piece she produced, however, may have to be her Nightingale Rug. A vibrant and varied collection of tex-

tiles, collected neatly into a rectangle, filled with random squeakers… it seems like an exciting addition to any household. Probably a great burglar alarm, too.

Moving on from dog toys (as great a medium as they may be), a truly pivotal point in Mary Johnson’s artistic life was when she created a shanty, just a lovely bit of

rubber arranged as a shed, and orchestrated some performances utilizing the space it provided as a changing room. Decorated performers came in and out of the shanty dressed as fishing paraphernalia. It was the clean up afterwards that really sparked something for Johnson, however. She was instructed to ensure that all plastic was

removed from the site, in order to preserve the local ecology. This got her thinking about how she could use her works to encourage this same priority for others. The next decade of Johnson’s life

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Downton Abbey story ends with dramatic flair RACHAEL JAEGER STAFF WRITER Downton Abbey is a movie which was drawn from a show that played on PBS and ran for six seasons from 2010 to 2015. I would recommend that if anyone is interested in seeing the adaption, that they first begin with the show since a number of scenes refer to plotlines in the series.

While I saw many older people attend the movie on Tuesday, a few social justice themes that I believe would also interest another audience came up, as they did throughout the shows. Downton Abbey is also a show or a movie that is full of comedy through the situations that arise from the character’s varied personalities.

Both the Downton Abbey series and movie maintain the important focus of family with equal acceptance of anyone who passes through

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its doors. The sentiment is conveyed with shots of the castle throughout the movie.

Whether the shot encapsulates Downton Abbey in the distance and standing firm

on a mountain or a sunrise strikes the castle turrets, the motif comes through with such a resonating presence.

Despite the struggles inside and outside of it, ultimately it

is a welcome refuge to anyone who is a part of Downton Abbey.

The core plot of Downton Abbey centers around the excitement of King George

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Your weekly horoscope ALYSSA BUNDE STAFF WRITER

Aries March 21-April 19 You may be feeling off today and that’s completely okay. Everyone has their off days, don’t let this slump consume you. Others care about you and are missing your vibrancy, don’t keep them waiting. If you’re feeling like you’re in a rut, take some time to process and let your emotions guide you.

Taurus April 20-May 20 You’ll have high energy today, but those around you may be experiencing the opposite. It’ll be up to you to decide if you want to share your energy or conceal it for yourself. Don’t be afraid to be selfish, you have many challenges ahead and maybe conserving your energy is what’s right, even if it doesn’t feel that way.

Gemini May 20- June 20 Lately your days have been feeling off and it’s been weighing you down. Seek honest advice from those you trust today, sometimes those around us can see our faults clearer than we can. Try to shake it up to today and get out of your normal routine, your issues may lie in the areas where you’re the most

comfortable.

Cancer 21 June- 22 July Today will be full of fresh energy, so keep busy and take advantage of the motivation. Clean your room, get your assignment done, and invest in making everything around you feel as fresh as you do. In addition, use your motivation to check in on those around you today as they have been feeling neglected.

Leo July 23- August 22 Lately your finances have been out of control. Therefore, today is a good time to sit down and refocus where you should be spending your money and how much of it.

It’s time to face the facts, and deicide if your current actions are beneficial or harmful.

Virgo August 23 – September 21 lately your feelings have been all over the place and today will be no different.

However, take note of these emotions because they are not randomly occurring. They stem from something, so try to meditate on the reasonings and pinpoint where these mixed feelings are coming from. Today is not the day to act on your findings though. Make decisions and come to conclusions, just don’t be rash and start something you don’t need to.

Libra September 22- October 23 Today is a great day to take risks and try new things, good energy will be coming from those around you. Let go of people or things that have been holding you back, this might be hard but it’s necessary. Life is too short to remain in one place for too long, get out of your comfort zone, and reap the rewards.

Scorpio October 24- November 21 Expect new faces to begin appearing in your life, money struggles and the overwhelming urge to move on. More changes will begin appearing and while it may feel scary at first, when they finally arrive you won’t even flinch.

Sagittarius November 22- December 21 Perfection isn’t attainable, remind yourself of this today young Sag. You’ve been striving hard for it and crashing when you can’t achieve it. Let go and just live. Allow the world to send you relief today, and act on the emotions you’re feeling.

Capricorn December 22- January 19 Be cautious of those around you today, as others may not be having a good as day as you are. Be sure to

listen, but don’t allow their problems to become yours.

Listen to your intuition and if something feels right today, go for it. Not everything ends well, but at least you tried, so quit holding back and over calculating.

Aquarius January 20- February 18 Lately you’ve been feeling weighed down and stuck in the same place. Challenges haven’t been exciting you, people feel tiring, and you’ve been enjoying your own company a little too much.

So get out and embrace even the smallest amount of change, sit in a new spot in class, try a new recipe or even hit up a friend you haven’t spoken to in a while.

Pisces February 19- March 20 Recently relationships have become your only focus and today all of that effort will pay off. Those around you will show their appreciation and if they don’t take the time to reconsider their spot in your life. However, today will be a busy one, so try not to overthink your relationships, remain focused and understand that eventually everyone shows their true intentions.

ART

Continued from page 13 included a variety of large sculptures with a theme of recycling and reinvigorating the environment. From a frog to a fish, they all embodied something about the land they were planted on.

This repeated focus on where her materials come from has lent Johnson inspiration for many projects.

One of the most poignant, described by her as being “the end of the line for the materials,” are her lint babies. Strange, almost-cute but also deeply unsettling, Johnson has made over one hundred baby-like lint aberrations. Collecting and taking donations of dryer lint has given her limitless material to work with. With varying colors and textures, each faceless baby has a certain mood associated with it. All feel deeply interactive, as if you’d love to touch them but are concerned about finding what may be buried in their little lint bodies.

Johnson’s works are truly the sum of their parts. She employs aa great degree of care in her constructions, and this can be felt by those who share her appreciation for used materials.

There’s still time, so head to the Conkling Gallery and take a look at her lint babies for yourself. They may just spark something inside your lint body, too.

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Emmy Awards viewership plunges to 6.9 million people NEW YORK (AP) — The Emmy Awards plunged to a record-low viewership of 6.9 million, illustrating a collective shrug by the public for an annual program that celebrates the best of television and is designed to build excitement for a new season.

The Nielsen company said the audience for Fox’s hostless show on Sunday was down 32% from 2018, which was previously the smallest ever. It’s the first time the Emmy audience has slipped below 10 million people.

Competition from an NFL

game between the Los Angeles Rams and Cleveland Browns was blamed for siphoning off some viewers.

More likely, it was because of how television has changed and is less and less of a communal experience.

“The Emmys used to matter because it was all the TV you watched, pitted against each other,” tweeted Myles McNutt, a cultural critic and professor at Old Dominion University. “But now, the Emmys are more likely a place where shows regular people had no idea existed compete

with shows they have a vague understanding of.”

Television’s most popular scripted show, CBS’ now-retired “The Big Bang Theory,” wasn’t nominated for best comedy. Amazon’s “Fleabag” won that Emmy. It’s not clear how many people have even seen the streamed series.

Of the 132 Emmy Awards handed out this year, only 18 went for work on broadcast networks. Except for two awards for NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” broadcast programs were shut out of Sunday’s telecast.

It wasn’t that long ago, back in 2013, that 17.8 million people watched the Emmy Awards, Nielsen said.

The largest Emmy audience in Nielsen’s record book was the 35.8 million people who watched in 1986.

For people who want to follow the awards casually while watching something else, news about winners spreads quickly on social media, further diminishing the incentive to tune in. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” was the biggest winner with 12 Emmys this year, while the HBO

limited series “Chernobyl” won 10.

The awards are shown in late September primarily to generate excitement for the broadcast networks’ new season, which begins this week.

ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox rotate as the host network.

It’s easy to envision a time when those networks lose interest in the Emmys, given how members of the television academy overlook them.

But the broadcast schedule won’t change soon, since the rotation is locked in through 2026.

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ABBEY

Continued from page 13 V and Queen Mary’s visit to Downton Abbey. But instant stress burdens the Downton Abbey servants when they learn that their Majesties’ own attendants and chefs are coming along. The movie also revisits the characters in their different struggles from pride to self-discovery to love.

For instance, I adore Countess Violet (Maggie Smith), the matriarch of Downton Abbey and who is known for her sassy but class humor. Before Countess Violet’s sister Cora (Elizabeth McGovern) arrives, a controversy stirs up because of her choice to give her inheritance to her servant, Lucy Smith (Tuppence Middleton) and when she has no heir— or so it appears, anyway.

I still also appreciated many of the characters for who they were, especially Daisy (Sophie McShera) who battles her low-class state in serving as kitchen assistant but keeps her eye on higher aspirations. Throughout the movie, she catches the eye of one of King’s Majesty’s servants. In turn, kindles the

jealousy of Daisy’s fiancé and causes trouble for the household by breaking the broiler. In turn, that sends the Downton Abbey servants into a frenzy since their visitors lack any hot water for bathing or cooking.

Ultimately, however, Daisy has her mind set on what does matter to her.

Thomas Barrow (Robert James-Collier), who has worked his way up to as the butler, Carson’s position.

During the show, he reveals himself gay and since then, has been in a process in connecting to the world.

While the Downton Abbey enjoy a night with the King and Queen, Thomas sneaks out to engage in fun of his own at an underground gay jazz club. From the camera’s sporadic focus on the couples who are kissing, dancing, or showing affection with each other, the audience can also sense Thomas’ mingled surprise and happiness in feeling like he belongs. His fun is short-lived when the police storm the club and arrest everyone, but then thankfully

Richard, the king’s valet, rescues Thomas. While the duo share a kiss at the end and promise to stay in touch, it creates some disappointment since the ending to their story is still unknown.

If you watch the Downton Abbey series, you do empathize with Thomas more with time when you witness him facing one tragedy or trauma after another.

However, just like in the show, the Downton Abbey comes together at the end.

The visuals are evident with the musicians’ concentration on their instruments while family members and potential new partners dance with each other. The countesses also make up after a conversation and make eye contact across the room.

Later Countess Violet confides her own secret to Lady Mary which leads to Lady Mary’s question is Downton Abbey can still run without the original time and place that it was meant for. Countess Violet tells Mary that she is the best of her and that is how Downton Abbey will live on.

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