October 2, 2018

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Albright & Cox: 2018 homecoming royalty MARIA LY STAFF WRITER Homecoming royalty candidates anxiously awaited as the winners of this year’s

coronation at the annual lip sync battle was announced.

Last year’s king and queen held the crowns as they teased the 10 homecoming court nominees by hovering the crown over each person’s

head like a game of duck duck goose.

Crowds of people screamed as the crown was hovered over their chosen nominee’s heads.

Finally, after a grueling

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three minutes of teasing, the crowns were placed on the lucky heads of Eric Cox, of Black Student Union and Emily Albright, of the Student Ambassadors.

The two quickly jumped

up and down, mouths wide open, victory on their faces as they were finally announced our 2018 homecoming king and queen.

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Meet Encounter: a group full of christian values and love

OLUWATOMIKE BALI STAFF WRITER Encounter is a Christian group that was birthed in 2010. It initially started out with a group of sophomore boys in 2008 who were so passionate about Jesus and decided to meet up every Tuesday evening in Crawford lobby and have real talk.

It was called Real Talk because they would talk about school, their struggles and whatever difficulties they might be going through and would end with prayer. Their aim was to walk through the bridges that people have built within their hearts due to things that they might or are going through and make

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them realize it is absolutely okay to share their struggles and that it was a safe place.

This went on for a while and then their female friends

noticed what they were doing and decided to also start their own group and they named it Real Talk for guys and girls. It was this way until

they noticed the significant growth among both groups and knew they needed to do something about it, so they decided to merge both the

boys and girls group together in 2010 and came up with the

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With a new Nintendo character comes a new meme Opinion

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER Recently, Nintendo announced the new Switch Port of Super Mario Brothers U. In the announcement trailer, they showcased a new gameplay mechanic, in which the character Toadette can transform into Peachette, a cos between Toadette and Princess Peach, by wearing a

himself into Bowsette, a cross between Princess Peach and Bowser, to make Peach jealous.

Or maybe they wanted to get back at her. I don’t know exactly, but the point is Bowsette was born here, and the internet took her/him and ran with it.

Was the original comic funny? Kind of.

To me, the best part of all of this is the reaction it has garnered. Putting a number on the amount of Bowsette images made would be impossible, but it is easily in the hundreds of thousands.

Across Reddit and Twitter, Bowsette is reigning supreme, being shared back and forth.

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“Bowsette is the single dumbest thing to happen on this planet, and nobody could have predicted her reign occurring.” crown.

Soon after this, a web comic was published in which Mario and Bowser are rejected by Princess Peach.

Both heartbroken, Bowser comes up with a plan. Utilizing the crown, He transforms

occurred with Earth-Chan.

This was of course an anime “waifu” version of the planet. Most often depicted as a hyper sexualized Princess Peach with goth features and a turtle shell, Bowsette has

become the new stupid thing people on the internet decide to love and hold onto.

What do I think of all this? I love it. Like a whole lot.

Bowsette is the single dumbest thing to happen on this planet, and nobody could have predicted her reign occurring.

And it has now spawned a new type of meme, (I guess), where other Mario characters don the crown and transform.

Boobette, Yoshiette, and even Walugiette have all been created. And yes, they all look exactly how you would expect them to look.

I advise you look into all of the hubbub yourself, but be warned... It gets pretty weird.

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New book chronicles the history of MSU A history of MSU from 1868-2018 has been published

JOSHUA SCHUETZ STAFF WRITER A new volume on the history of Minnesota State University is being released as part of the commemoration of the university’s 150th birthday.

‘Minnesota State University, Mankato 1868-2018 : A Sesquicentennial History’, will serve as a chronicle of MSU’s history from its founding in 1868, to the present day.

The book’s author is historian Dr. William E. Lass, professor emeritus of history at Minnesota State University.

‘A Sesquicentennial History’ will begin with the history of the school itself.

The contrast between 1868 and 2018 is impressive. When it was first established in 1868, then the Mankato State Normal School, MSU was a small institution comprising just 27 students, offering two year degrees. Today, the University boasts over 15,000 students pursuing undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees.

The book is fully illustrated, and covers many of the most important events in the university’s history, as well as chronicling the histories of the various programs at the school.

For example, it will have a section on the development

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of various academic programs at MSU, as well as histories of the university leadership, and the faculty.

The history of the physical campus will feature in the book as well. In 1922, a fire destroyed the Teachers’ College building on campus.

More constructively, in the 1950s, twin campuses were developed as the university expanded.

Being fully illustrated and featuring photographs from the university archives, ‘A Sesquicentennial History’ will also devote space to a history of the various social movements that took place

ENCOUNTER

Continued from page 3 name Encounter.

Encounter has since then been an active Recognized student organization on campus. They meet up every Wednesday in CSU 245 at 9 p.m. – 10:15 p.m. The primary aim of the RSO encounter is to create an environment for Christians and non-Christians to be able to come and worship, meet new people and build a community. They are also very particular about spreading love to people especially students on campus as they understand that students can go through a lot of difficulties while trying to earn a degree.

According to Alexandra Wilkinson the current president of the organization,

“Encounter is considered a safe place and it is a great place to build a community that actually care and love you. Our main aim is to share as much love as possible to people irrespective of the race, culture or belief of the person”. Membership is open to all college students within the Mankato area as it is a good opportunity to build a community.

Encounter is a good avenue to build friendship, faith and a Christian community that doesn’t judge. As it was stated earlier, Encounter is open to all and as a student looking for how to build a christian community check out this recognized student organization.

on campus and the city of Mankato more generally.

Chief among these are the storied Vietnam protests of the 1960s and 70s. A

of the American government abroad and poor living conditions at home took to the streets and demanded changes large and small. This

“Anyone who is interested in renting or reading the book can go to the Memorial Library at Minnesota State University.” diversifying student body angry at the foreign policy

activism, and the effects that it had on the community,

have been written about in the book ‘Out of Chaos’ and the recent Timelapse issue of the MSU Reporter.

Anyone who is interested in renting or reading the book can go to the Memorial Library at Minnesota State University.

‘A Sesquicentennial History’ is currently on display at the Lass Center for Minnesota Studies.

‘Minnesota State University, Mankato 1868-2018 : A Sesquicentennial History’ is available for purchase on the University’s website, and will be available at the bookstore at a later date.

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A Fetty Wap-less concert

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MARIA LY STAFF WRITER Students lined up as excitement spread throughout the air for the much anticipated 2018 Fetty Wap homecoming concert.

Students jammed to the top 100 hits as they waited for the concert to begin. As bodies started to squish into the outermost edges of the mosh pit, Melly Mike took the stage to pump up the crowd.

His friends joined him as they squirted water on the heads of the students, jumped off the stage, and screamed into the microphone. His performance ended with his shirt on the floor and his abs exposed.

However, students were getting impatient as thirst overtook their dry throats, sweat dripping down their backs, bodies squished on every side of them, the smell of armpits in the air, and the constant loud booing in their ears.

The security attempted to quell the students down as they threw 72 bottles of water into the crowd.

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stage such as Caroline Roman who sported a fuzzy coat and glittery face and social media star Reign Tyeler.

After a long period of stalling by the DJ and radio station Hot 96.7, Silento saved the night with his whip

“With his stunning dance moves, new catchy songs, and handing out roses to the crowd, Silento’s efforts slowly but surely gets the crowd fired up.”

“FETTY FETTY FETTY FETTY,” students yelled aloud after each lackluster performance.

and nae nae.

With his stunning dance moves, new catchy songs, and handing out roses to the

crowd, Silento’s efforts slowly but surely gets the crowd fired up.

That did not last long as they yelled for Fetty once again. After hours of waiting, Fetty Wap’s manager notified the Student Event’s Team that the rapper will no longer be arriving that night. The organizers and students alike left Myers Field House with anger and disappointment weighing down on their hearts.

All I have to say to Fetty Wap is, “Baby, won’t you come my way? Got something I want to say.”

Why did you flake out on us man?

“Who would you like to perform next year?”

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Goettl, defense stomple over the Huskies Minnesota State cruises past St. Cloud State comfortably on Homecoming, defeating the team 45-10

KOLBY SPOMER STAFF WRITER After overcoming a dismal first quarter, the #1 ranked Mavericks had another monstrous game Saturday afternoon, as they defeated St. Cloud State 45-10 in the annual Homecoming game at Blakeslee Stadium.

With the victory, the Mavericks continue their attempt at going undefeated in the year, while the Huskies drop to 3-2 on the season.

The Mavericks have now extended their homecoming winning streak to eight

straight wins, dating back to the 2011 season.

MSU also continued its dominance of NSIC, adding another tally to that winning streak making it a whopping 18-straight regular season game.

Offensively, the Mavericks earned 387 total yards against the Huskies, including 212 rushing yards and 175 passing yards. The real story of the afternoon was the Maverick defense, who held SCSU to just 160 yards of offense and nine first downs.

All of MSU’s 45 points came in the final three quarters, including three touchdowns in the second quarter and two touchdowns in the opening three minutes of the third quarter.

On defense, MSU was impenetrable, with many play-

ers stepping up to make big plays in big moments, including senior Jayme LaPlante and junior Alex Goettl who each returned an SCSU fumble for a touchdown.

Goettl returned a fumble 38 yards late in the second quarter to put MSU up 14-3, before LaPlante zoomed 24 yards into the end zone in the opening minutes of the third quarter. Goettl also intercepted a pass early in the third quarter that he returned it to the SCSU three-yard line.

MSU would score on the next play after sophomore JD Ekowa ran into the end zone from three yards out.

As a team, the MSU defense finished with a staggering 11 tackles for loss, including six huge sacks in the game.

Sophomore Chance Bowen went off, earning a team

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leading seven tackles, to go along with his three tackles for a loss and two sacks.

Goettl, LaPlante, sophomore

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Soccer dominates over weekend Women’s hockey skate The bunch improves to 7-1-1 overall on the season JOHN LAFOREST STAFF WRITER Over the homecoming weekend, the Mavs soccer team had two big reasons to be cheerful, notching two big victories over the University of St. Mary Marauders and the Minot State Beavers.

The first game for the Mavs featured an in-conference game against the University of St Mary whose record certainly doesn’t match the performances the team has put forth this season.

St. Mary had been involved in a lot of competitive games losing by one goal three times this season. The matchup with the Mavs on Friday afternoon wasn’t anything different.

The Mavericks were in control of the pace and possessed the ball for most of the game, especially in the first half. The squad was in attack mode from the beginning. Although they failed to score in the first half, the chances were key motivation factors for the ladies moving forward to the second half.

They held a 7-0 advantage on goal attempts in the first half against the Marauders.

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On paper and on the field, the Mavs were the superior team and officially broke through for their first score in the 60th minute of the game.

Senior Abby Hausken assisted junior Dakota Wendell on the goal. Wendell was very active throughout the game with one assist and five shots with three of those being on goal. The opposition was able to counter, as they tied the game in the 87th minute.

The game went into overtime, and that’s when Wen-

dell went into action. Wendell made a beautiful cross-pass to senior Morgan Cottow in the 96th minute where she connected for the score. The goal ended up being the deciding factor and lifted the Mavericks to the 2-1 victory.

The game was bittersweet for the Mavs, going into overtime for the second straight game, but this time they could close the deal on the Marauders.

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Minnesota State had five different players score over the weekend as the Mavericks won both games in a series against the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers, winning 2-0 on Saturday and 3-1 on Sunday.

The Saturday matchup was defined by a free flow of play and solid defense from the Mavericks. The start was fairly even with both teams getting 10 shots on goal in the first period, but neither team was able to capitalize.

Freshman goalie Abigail Levy made her first collegiate start in this game, making 22 saves in the shutout win.

The Mavs got on the board early in the second period, as senior forward Rebekah Kolstad found the back of the net for the Mavs.

The Mavs would score again late in the period, this time coming off the stick of sophomore forward Mariah Gardner.

MSU was on the attack for almost the entire period, firing 15 shots at Rensselaer goalie Lovisa Selander.

Abigail Levy

Selander would go 30 for 32 on save opportunities.

The Mavericks kept up their offensive early in the third period but failed to score as the RPI defense tightened up.

Rensselaer had a chance to score on a power play, but MSU did a good job of keeping the puck away from the goal.

With under two minutes to play, Rensselaer pulled their goalie, but it would end up in a Maverick power play as two skaters both subbed in for the goalie. As a result, RPI put their goalie back in which effectively ended their chances for a late score.

Sunday’s game started even as both teams struggled

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HOCKEY Continued from page 5

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SOCCER Continued from page 5

Abby Hausken

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to find any offense early. The first goal came eight minutes in, when RPI’s Josefine Hansen snuck a shot under the pads of Levy.

The Mavericks would strike back at the 11:47 mark in the period, when sophomore center Brittyn Fleming scored on a rebound from a shot by Kolstad.

The second period saw little offensive action, with RPI outshooting MSU 10-6.

Rensselaer had an opportunity to score on a power play but missed all three shots before the Mavs returned to full strength.

The Mavs scored the deciding goal midway through the third period when freshman defenseman Anna Wilgren snuck one past Selander.

With two minutes left RPI would pull the goalie and try to tie the game. This back-

fired, however, as senior center Corbin Boyd added an insurance goal just nine seconds after the goalie left the ice.

The Mavericks’ next series will be on Oct. 12 and Oct. 13 when they travel to Columbus, Ohio to face seventh-ranked Ohio State. The Buckeyes are also 2-0 after sweeping Quinnipiac over the weekend.

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Cade Johnson and sophomore Jake Schaper each posted a sack as well.

Sophomore Brady Tuckner also added to the turnover column with an interception of his own.

Junior Nate Gunn tallied 100 rushing yards again, making it his fourth time doing so this year, and 14th time in his career at MSU. Both Ekowa and junior Ryan Schlichte recorded rushing touchdowns.

Schlichte finished his day with a precise 13-of-16 completion

incompletion ratio for a cool 123 yards and a touchdown, while Ekowa completed five passes of his own for 52 yards and a touchdown.

Junior Shane Zylstra led the MSU receiving corps with a respectable five catches for 87 yards and a touchdown.

Junior Ian Pribyl also caught an eight-yard touchdown pass to add to the Mavs score.

Running back Gregory Lewis was seemingly the only SCSU player to show up, as

he led the SCSU rushing attack with 100 yards and a touchdown.

On defense, the Huskies were lacking to say the least, being led by Ben Gutschow who posted eight tackles.

Devon Krzanowski notched six tackles, including two for a loss.

The Mavericks continue their season on the road next week as they take on MSU-Moorhead Saturday, Oct. 6. Kickoff is scheduled for 2:00 p.m.

The second game of the weekend was played Sunday against the Minot State Beavers, 5-0, to finish off the weekend.

Coach Brian Bahl had this to say about their opponent after the game, “This is the team I know. We were on top of our game today winning and beating them to every ball”.

This was high praise coming from the coach after the game who knows the level of play his team can get to and acknowledged that they were at that place on Sunday.

The ladies played Minot State Sunday and beat them 5-0, staying unbeaten in the conference with moving their overall record to 7-1-1.

The Mavericks came out

fast scoring twice in the first 12 minutes of play, without a doubt boosting their confidence early in the game.

They added three more scores in the second half and ended with 31 shots and 15 on the goal. The dominance and the skill overwhelmed Minot State who ended with just seven shots, which all came in the first half There were many contributors for the Mavericks on Sunday getting a collection of scoring across the team.

Morgan Cottew and Maddy Burandt started the scoring off in the first half. Danielle Tazic had the first goal of the second half followed by goals from Zach and Wendell. Wendell now has a team high of five goals on the season.

This game isn’t all about offense, even though it seems to get most of the credit, the goal keeper Alexa Rabune put up her fourth shutout of the season. She denied all of Minot State’s goal attempts.

The team will look to continue its hot streak as they will travel Friday to play Southwest Minnesota State. That match will begin at 3 p.m.

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Timberlake emerges from “The Woods”, lands in St. Paul

“Man of the woods” tour at Xcel Energy Center

GAGE CURETON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Seven months after he began his Man of the Woods tour, Justin Timberlake continued to thrill fans and instill booty-shaking with wellplanned choreography at Xcel Energy Center on Sept.

28.

Timberlake began the set with “Filthy”, a provocative track with undertones of alluring metaphors reminding us to handle our meat with care while preparing it in the kitchen.

The next three songs of Timberlake’s set then seemed to blend into one another as he extended his choruses and lost himself among his well-trained team of dancers.

However, fans remained under a trance racing back and forth between the bar center

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stage and Timberlake himself as his distorted image fell upon a screen; reminiscent of the psychedelic images of the long-lost sixties.

Despite the dancing and astounding visual effects, the

true magic of Timberlake’s show is his versatility and ability to be an entertainer, bartender and a plaid-cladded friend singing to you around the campfire.

Truly a dazzling show,

however I left St. Paul feeling somewhat disappointed. Timberlake’s show is ambitious, energetic, massive and wellplanned, but this takes away from the lyrics and musicality of his songs.

In all, the Man of the Woods at Xcel Energy was the equivalent to Michael Bay’s films; interesting to watch, but lacking in depth.

Billboard No 1. Album Review: Carrie Underwoods’ new album “Cry Pretty”

MARK REYNOLDS STAFF WRITER Carrie Underwood’s sixth studio album “Cry Pretty” reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts this week, making Underwood the first woman to have four No 1. country albums.

The album, co-produced by songwriter and producer David Garcia, is a brilliant reminder of what country music has the potential to be.

It strays from the repetitive clichés of modern country, drawing from R&B and Pop

music while keeping its country heart.

Underwood, who’s debut single “Inside Your Heaven” was the first country single to reach No 1. on the Billboard Hot 100, shows that 13 years later, she still belongs at the top.

“Cry Pretty” is also a rare example of an album that has great, catchy songs, but also tackles tough social issues.

She tackles issues of gun violence in “Love Wins” and “The Bullet.”

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Underwood said the song is “timely but not political. It doesn’t matter what the opinions or feelings are, it just matters that something happened, and it’s about the people that are affected by it at the end of

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the day.”

It also feels like a cohesive album, as opposed to just a collection of songs. It’s easy to listen to the whole thing without it feeling disconnected.

This is a trait that isn’t common but is huge in taking an album to the next level.

“We had the time this past year for me to be able to

spend for me to be able to spend on going into producing for the first time,” the American Idol winner said in an interview with iHeartRadio.

“With everything that I do, I become more and more involved and take more and more ownership.”

And this album shows that the 35-year-old country star

is just as strong of a songwriter and producer as she is a singer.

The album has been received very well, with 226,000 album-equivalent units, with 251,000 being actual album sales, which is especially impressive in the streaming age of music.

The album also received a critic score of 70 out of 100 on Metacritic; generally favorable based on reviews from ten critics.

In conclusion, “Cry Pretty” is a great, emotional album filled with a great blend of country and pop without getting repetitive.

There is variation without loss of cohesion, and I think fans of any genre could find a song that they like on this album.

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