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CSU celebrates 50 years of serendipitous memories The celebration will include an art gallery and video on history of CSU

STEPHANIE VOGEL Staff Writer This Saturday, Minnesota State University, Mankato will celebrate 50 years of having the Centennial Student Union on campus.

The celebration will be held on homecoming day, Oct. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

At 3:30, a private program will be held in the Hearth Lounge, which will open up to the public at 4:15. During this program, CSU Director, Mark Constantine, will give a presentation. President Davenport and David Jones, the vice president of Student Affairs, will also be in attendance.

Lenny K o u p a l, communications director for the CSU, said, “We will also be premiering a short, 8 to 10-minute video that gives a little bit of an overview of the history of the CSU.”

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Next to the Hearth Lounge, an art gallery is already on display featuring the history of the CSU. This exhibit will be open until Oct. 13.

On the main floor of the CSU, an old telephone box is situated in which people are encouraged to submit “serendipitous memories,” which are short videos of you

sharing a memory of the CSU or your time at the university.

“Over the summer and since last spring, we’ve been inviting alumni to send... serendipitous memories,” Koupal said. “It was memories that were shaped in, through, and around the CSU.” The art gallery will be featuring a lot of these

moments.

“We’ll have a number of those exhibits and some wonderful stories about people who created lifelong friendships [and] people [who] were key figures,” said Koupal.

The CSU wasn’t one of the main building structures apart of the university. Before

1967, there was no central building for students to hang out in.

“There were students way back in 1957 who were envisioning this [the CSU],” Koupal said.

Starting in 1962, students started raising five dollars from each student every term, which was divided into quarters back then. Most of these students would graduate before ever even seeing the end result of their efforts, said Koupal.

“What started out as a small grove of trees on the upper campus eventually became the student union,” Koupal said.

Eventually, they were able to raise enough funds for the building.

“The original building cost about $1.5 million. It seems like a bargain by today’s standards,” Koupal said.

Koupal also explained the role that the CSU Ballroom

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Accounting Club about more than numbers and spreadsheets

MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer The Accounting Club at Minnesota State University, Mankato is one of the most active Recognized Student Organizations on campus.

It is one of the only clubs to host accounting recruiters, along with guest speakers at every one of their meeting throughout the academic year.

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meets every Tuesday from 4:50 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. in Morris Hall 103. This key time is convenient as a majority of students have no classes and limited commitments for this specific hour, so attending the meetings and getting to connect with recruiters is a highly constructive way to burn time.

The Accounting Club is open to every student at MNSU, but is keen on getting more students from the College of Business to join as it will prove beneficial for their future. The club not only has guest speakers and recruiters every week, but also has good food at every meeting which aids in

keeping members happy and leaving them informed after each meeting.

Amina Diawara, president of Accouting Club, shows a true passion for her role and always strives to reach greater heights. Diawara is a transfer student and a senior pursuing a degree in Accounting.

“I joined the club because I love to get involved in school activities, making an impact in the community and contributing to the university in other ways apart from academics,” Diawara said.

Diawara stated that when she joined the club, membership was the main challenge and the former

president was influential in her running for the main leadership position in the club. Diawara officially took over as president of the club in spring 2017 and, with the help of her executive team, made massive strides to revive the club.

Diawara re-organized the club, making sure that her executive board had a close bond; if they were going to lead the club to excellence, they

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Trump in Vegas: ‘America is truly a nation in mourning’ LAS VEGAS (AP) — Visiting bedsides and the base of police operations, President Donald Trump offered prayers and condolences Wednesday to the victims of Sunday night’s shooting massacre in Las Vegas along with praise and congratulations to first responders and doctors who rushed to save lives.

“America is truly a nation in mourning,” the president said, days after a gunman on the 32nd floor of a hotel and casino opened fire on the crowd at an outdoor country music festival below. The rampage killed at least 59 people and injured 527, many from gunfire, others from chaotic efforts to escape.

“We cannot be defined by the evil that threatens us or the violence that incites such terror,” Trump declared at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police headquarters, reading from prepared remarks. “We are defined by our love, our caring and our courage.”

Trump and first lady Melania Trump met privately earlier with victims of the shooting at a hospital, praising them and the doctors who treated them as he visited the reeling city.

He also met with police officers, dispatchers and others who had responded to the shooting Sunday night, telling them: “You showed the world and the world is watching, and you showed what professionalism is all about.”

He waved off questions about the availability of firearms — the shooter had a veritable arsenal of weapons — saying this is not the time to discuss the possibility of further restrictions.

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Trump’s first stop was the University Medical Center, where he spent 90 minutes meeting privately with victims, their families, and medical professionals.

He said he’d met “some of the most amazing people” — and had extended some invitations to visit him in Washington.

He also commended the doctors who’d worked to save them for doing an “indescribable” job.

“It makes you very proud to be an American when you see the job that they’ve done,” he said.

On his trip from the airport, the president’s motorcade drove past the Mandalay Bay hotel where the gunman fired down into the concert crowd.

He also passed his own Trump hotel on his way toward the entertainment strip. Before leaving the White House, he had said, “It’s a very, very sad

day for me personally.”

Until his final remarks, Trump focused his comments during the trip on praising recovery efforts rather than on grieving the dead.

At the last, however, he said slowly and somberly: “Our souls are stricken with grief for every American who lost a husband or a wife, a mother or a father, a son or a daughter. We know that your sorrow feels endless. We stand together to help you carry your pain. You are not alone. We will never leave your side.”

Trump’s trip to Las Vegas came just a day after his Tuesday flight to hurricaneravaged Puerto Rico — a pair of back-to-back episodes that

are testing his ability to unite and lift the nation in times of strife. Trump, a leader who excels at political provocation and prides himself on commanding strength, has sometimes struggled to project empathy.

During Tuesday’s trip, he highlighted Puerto Rico’s relatively low death toll compared with “a real catastrophe like Katrina,” when as many as 1,800 people died in 2005 as levees protecting New Orleans broke. He also pointed repeatedly to praise his administration had received for its efforts, despite criticism on the island of a sluggish response.

Trump has a long personal

connection to Las Vegas — a city where his name is written in huge golden letters atop his hotel. He also campaigned extensively across Nevada during his presidential campaign, drawing large crowds to rallies along the Las Vegas strip.

Republicans who control Congress have made clear they have no intention of taking up gun control measures, such as tightening restrictions on semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, in the shooting’s aftermath.

Trump, in a 2000 book, said that he supported a prohibition on assault weapons and a “slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun.” He also said in 2013 that he supported “background checks to weed out the sickos.”

But Trump ran his campaign with a strong pro-Second Amendment message and the backing of the National Rifle Association.

“Gun and magazine bans are a total failure,” read one campaign policy paper.

“Opponents of gun rights try to come up with scary sounding phrases like ‘assault weapons,’ ‘military-style weapons’ and ‘high capacity magazines’ to confuse people. What they’re really talking about are popular semi-automatic rifles and standard magazines that are owned by tens of millions of Americans.”

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The Hearth Lounge, previously an outdoor patio area, was built in 2005. has played in the history of this university.

“In the ‘60s, dances were huge,” Koupal said. “They didn’t have any place to have a dance [before]. Suddenly, they had this huge ballroom where they could have weekly dances. In the ‘70s, it was all about concerts. We had Bruce Springsteen play here, Neil Diamond play here, John Denver play here.”

There is a pillar in the art gallery with about 200 names of famous people who have

been to the CSU. The CSU has been renovated and changed throughout the years. A major renovation that occurred in 2005; what used to be an outdoor patio are became what we know today to be the Hearth Lounge.

“The MavAve used to have a wooden wall around it called the stockade,” said Koupal. “Everything that happened in 2005 created a whole new entrance to the building, gave it a whole new

look and feel.”

The CSU opened on Oct. 27, 1967, on homecoming day. It was the beginning of the centennial year of the university, so they named the building the Centennial Student Union.

Pillars in the CSU depict past photos of students and activities. As part of the 50th celebration, the art exhibit will include a pillar with about 200 famous people who have visited or performed in the building.

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Senate bill to clear obstacles to self-driving cars advances WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation that could help usher in a new era of selfdriving cars advanced in Congress on Wednesday after the bill’s sponsors agreed to compromises to address some concerns of safety advocates.

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved the bill by a voice vote, a sign of broad, bipartisan support.

It would allow automakers to apply for exemptions to current federal auto safety standards in order to sell up to 15,000 self-driving cars and light trucks per manufacturer in the first year after passage. Up to 40,000 per manufacturer could be sold in the second year, and 80,000 each year thereafter.

Action by the full Senate is still needed and differences with a similar bill passed by the House would have to be worked out before the measure could become law.

The bill initially would have allowed manufacturers to sell up to 100,000 selfdriving vehicles a year, but that number was reduced in last-minute negotiations.

In another change, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would evaluate the safety performance of the vehicles before increasing the number of vehicles manufacturers can sell.

Supporters of the bill, which was sought by the auto industry, say it would

be a boon to safety since an estimated 94 percent of crashes involve human error.

They say it would also help the disabled.

The bill “is primarily about saving lives,” but it will also increase U.S. international competitiveness and create jobs, said Sen. Gary Peters, D-Michigan.

Safety advocates said the bill has been significantly improved, but they still have serious concerns.

Joan Claybrook, a NHTSA administrator under President Jimmy Carter, said the bill is one of the “biggest assaults” ever on the landmark 1966 law that empowered the federal government to set auto safety standards because it permits such large and unprecedented number of exemptions to those standards.

Automakers are “making guinea pigs out of their car buyers,” she said.

Under the bill, the NHTSA would have 180 days after an application in which to grant or deny the exemption.

Manufacturers must show that they can provide an equivalent of safety. Safety advocates say six months isn’t enough time for an agency that is undermanned and lacks expertise in self-driving technology to effectively make such determinations.

The bill is broad enough to permit exemptions to standards that protect occupants in a crash, like air bags, safety advocates said.

There are no federal safety standards for many of the technologies at the heart of self-driving cars, like software and sensors, and there is no sign that the Trump administration would create such standards.

Administration and auto and technology industry officials suggest that new regulations would be unable to keep up with rapid developments in technology and would slow deployment of self-driving cars.

The bill pre-empts state and local governments from enacting their own safety

standards in the absence of federal standards. Industry officials have complained that being forced to comply with a patchwork of state safety laws would be unmanageable. But another compromise made to the bill allows states to continue their traditional roles of licensing vehicles and regulating auto insurance even if their actions affect the design of vehicles. Wrongful death lawsuits against manufacturers would also be allowed in states that permit them.

Automakers have experienced the largest

number of recalls for safety defects in the industry’s history in recent years.

General Motors, for example, was found to have buried evidence of an ignition switch defect that ultimately caused the recall of 2.6 million small cars worldwide. The switches played a role in at least 124 deaths and 275 injuries.

Also, about 70 million defective Takata air bag inflators are being recalled in the U.S. The inflators are responsible for up to 19 deaths worldwide and more than 180 injures.

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“The club now has an attendance of over 50 students at every meeting and accounting recruiters are overbooked which goes to show that with dedication nothing is impossible,” Diawara said.

The Accounting Club currently uses several ways to reach out to students, including presentations in different classes, an email list which one chooses to be on when they attend their first meeting, social media and other numerous ways. The club offers

students a rare opportunity to connect and network with recruiters who always make themselves available during every meeting.

Attending a meeting would be a great way for students, especially those in the College of Business, to build strong foundations before embarking into the business world after college. The Accounting Club also plays a key role in aiding the College of Business with their job fair, “Meet the Firms,” where students can meet employers face to face and get more information on

various business firms from all over Minnesota.

Diawara shows great leadership qualities by relentlessly aiming to make the Accounting Club one of the best RSO’s at MNSU. Diawara’s tireless efforts have paid off, but she still intends to do more for the club and make it reach even higher pinnacles.

Passion and determination are qualities that will always get one to where they strive to be and the Accounting Club is fine example of what these qualities can help one achieve.

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GABE HEWITT Editor-in-Chief It’s a no brainer that B.o.B will most likely give a great performance Friday in Myers Field House for this year’s Homecoming Concert, but just like we can’t forget that the Golden State Warriors blew a 3-1 lead in the NBA Finals, we can’t forget that B.o.B. thinks the Earth is flat.

The rapper created a GoFundMe page on Sept.

21 titled “Show BoB the Curve” that’s asking people to donate money to launch satellites into space to prove the Earth is flat. The page is at just over $5,000 raised with a goal of $1 million.

The page indicates that $1,000 alone came from an anonymous user.

“I’m looking for the curve,” he said in a video on the page.

With the kind of discoveries and advancements we’ve made in science, it baffles me that someone could think our planet is flat. The International Space Station is constantly orbiting Earth and the word “orbit” indicates going around in a circle.

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Watching any stream from the station proves our planet is quite curvy.

This belief that the Earth is flat isn’t anything new. Documents can trace this belief back centuries.

The Flat Earth Society is an organization of people that believe in flat earth theory and yes, they do sell merchandise. A proper journalist or researcher would cite evidence to prove that the Earth isn’t flat like a study or an interview with an expert, but I don’t even think that’s needed in this bizarre situation. It would be equivalent to asking someone to prove that water is wet.

While nearly 200 people

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donated to B.o.B’s GoFundMe page, over 3000 people have garnered interest in throwing globes at the rapper during Friday’s concert. MNSU biology student Holly Blooflat created a Facebook event titled “Throw Globes at B.o.B to Prove the Earth Isn’t Flat” and almost 3400 people have marked that they’re interested in the event. It was inspired by a flurry of parody Facebook events that organized people to do such things like steal Minnesota’s lakes. She’s adamant that the event is only a joke and didn’t expect the page to grow so quickly. A disclaimer states that she’s not liable if anyone chooses to participate.

“Everyone is entitled to

their own opinions in life, so long as they don’t harm anyone else, but to deny overwhelming scientific evidence is naive,” she said.

B.o.B is an outspoken conspiracy theorist and anti-establishment member so him not believing in something the majority of the population does isn’t too crazy. This obviously isn’t the worst thing that B.o.B could believe in, but it’s something to easily poke fun at. The man could be conning us all and using this belief as a way to get attention. If that’s the

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Mental health concerns in aftermath of Puerto Rico hurricane SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Locked out of his home and with nowhere else to go, Wilfredo Ortiz Marrero rode out Hurricane Maria inside a Jeep, which was lifted off its wheels by floodwaters in the parking lot. He then endured days without enough food or running water.

The lights are back on at his residence for low-income elderly people in the San Juan suburb of Trujillo Alta, and food has started arriving, but he still waits as long as he can each night to leave the company of others in the lobby. Alone in his room, he sometimes starts to shake.

“You get really depressed,” he said Wednesday.

The hurricane that pummeled Puerto Rico two weeks ago and the scarcitymarked aftermath are taking a toll on islanders’ equilibrium.

The U.S. territory’s government counted two suicides among the death toll, which now stands at 34, and with many communities still waiting for power and clean water, there is concern about others reaching a breaking point.

Students and staff at Ponce Health Sciences University are visiting shelters and people in the hardest-hit communities to provide psychological help, among other services, said Alex Ruiz, special assistant to the university’s president.

“People’s whole worlds were taken from them,” he said. “People will need the proper psychological help to get through this.”

At a news conference on Wednesday, Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the death toll jumped to 34 from 16 on

the basis of a report that he commissioned to consult with hospitals and gain a more complete picture of the number of victims. He said 20 deaths resulted directly from the storm, including drownings and those killed in mudslides.

The count also includes sick and elderly who died in the aftermath of the hurricane, including some who died because oxygen could not be delivered amid power outages. There were also two suicides, but Rossello did not provide details of those.

One elderly woman took her own life Sunday inside a nursing home in Rio Piedras, a San Juan suburb. While the facility’s director, Maria Betancourt, said she didn’t believe the woman was distressed about the storm, the home was stifling hot on Wednesday after power was wiped out nearly a month ago when Hurricane Irma sideswiped the island on Sept.

7, though a generator has kept the lights on. Outside the home there were piles of garbage and fallen tree limbs piled on the side of the road.

Ortiz and other residents of the low-income housing residence in Trujillo Alta said the building administration ordered them to leave ahead of Hurricane Maria, saying the building wasn’t equipped to weather the storm. Some were picked up by family, but Ortiz had no relatives to come get him and had no choice but to stay in his Jeep until the storm subsided and a chain on the building’s door was removed.

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“Everybody’s drained,” said Ruiz, the Ponce university official, who recently toured the city on the island’s southern coast to assess people’s needs. “Spirits have been broken.”

On Wednesday, the governor said power has been restored to 8.6 percent of Puerto Rico’s customers

and the government is hoping to have power back on for 25 percent within a month.

Power is being restored at hospitals, and he said the government is looking into which schools can reopen.

“While we are still in an emergency we are transitioning to establishing some components of normalcy,” Rossello said.

Dr. Olga Rodriguez, the dean of the Ponce Health Science University’s school of medicine, said mental health problems have increased

after the hurricane and need to be dealt with swiftly.

“This is very important so as to minimize the impact and emotional effects,” she said.

“It’s not easy. We’re reaching some people, but the island needs more mental health professionals. If we don’t act, the situation can become problematic.”

“People are unable to go to work, they cannot produce, they do not know when they can return to work,” she said.

“There’s widespread despair.”

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Senator Profile: Travis Higgs B.o.B 1. What’s your major?

Master of Public Administration.

2. What year in school are you?

2nd year Graduate Student.

3. Why did you join MSSA? I have always been interested in student government but never attempted to run as an undergraduate. I believe in servient leadership and want to lead students at MSU by serving them as a senator.

4. What projects are you working on for MSSA (or plan to work on for this semester)?

I want to build a bridge between undergraduates and graduate students by creating a mentorship process within the students’ field of study. I am also restarting the Graduate Student Coalition, an organization for graduate students to network and socialize, with hopes of bringing more resources to graduate students.

5. What do you hope to accomplish with MSSA? As a whole senate, I want better transparency between us and the students. We are here for each one of you and

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be a reliable resource for any concerns the students may have. By the end of our term, I hope that students know why we’re here and who to reach out to.

6. What do you like to do in

your spare time?

I like to take my wife on dates, over indulge in ice cream, and read movie trivia.

case, then he is a fantastic troll and is playing the part well.

“I’m not worried about people donating to his cause as I know if it were to be successful, he would be disappointed in the results and it might convince ‘flat earthers’ that they are wrong,” Blooflat said.

This belief led to a Twitter feud between him and astrophysicist and black science man Neil deGrasse Tyson. B.o.B was making claims such as the horizon is always horizontal no matter where you look at it and Tyson responded with scientific facts as to why. This feud inspired the B.o.B track “Flatline” with the lyrics, “Aye, Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest. They probably write the man one hell of a check.”

People like myself can poke fun and laugh about something like this on the surface of it all, but there could be a much greater issue here. B.o.B may not be the most well-known

musician, but he still has a considerable following.

With this following comes a somewhat sphere of influence. There are people who look up to entertainers like B.o.B and they help shape their own beliefs. It’s dangerous that these people are more willing to believe B.o.B’s beliefs and support them via GoFundMe than the beliefs of someone who’s received prestigious schooling or has been hundreds of miles above the Earth in a giant space station.

“I’ve been studying biology for the last three years and the thought that so many people truly believe that we are on a flat disk, flying through space is astounding,” Blooflat said.

There are some things that can be debated and then there’s some things that are simply yes or no. I definitely won’t sit here and tell you to always believe in science.

I will, however, tell you to believe in common sense.

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BILL HAMM Staff Writer Minutes of the 85th MSSA Senate Sept. 27, 2017 Presentations Karilynn Doffing – General Manager University Dining: Five chefs are available on campus. Many new dining options are offered, such as Jazzman’s, with new late-night hours and hot meals offered.

There are new recipes and new menu cycles that have been introduced.

Bill Tourville – Advisor to the Students Event Team: Homecoming Week overview (Oct. 2 to 7, 2017). Some of the events still going on include: Medallion Hunt, Cram A Van, Competition Team, Lip-sync, Mav Pride Day, B.o.B./Jay Sean concert, Parade, football and hockey games.

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the sponsorship of the “Creation Lecture Series” to be held on-campus in AH 0004 classroom October 17, 18, 19, 2017. The event will be open and advertised to all students. [This club is collaborating with the International Student Outreach Club.]

• Recommend allocating up to $500 for non-food related expenses to the International Student Outreach Club to support the sponsorship of the “Creation Lecture Series” to be held on campus in AH 0004 classroom on Oct. 17, 18, 19, 2017. The event will be open and advertised to all students.

[This club is collaborating with the Maranatha Christian Fellowship.]

Travel Requests • Recommend allocating up to $1,400 ($70/ student x 20 students) for non-food related travel expenses to Encounter MSU to attend a Fall Retreat at the Big Sandy Camp and Retreat Center

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Recommend allocating up to $560 ($70/student x 8 students) for non-food related travel expenses to Sport and Exercise Psychology to attend AASP annual conference in Orlando, FL, Oct. 18 to 21, 2017.

Recommend allocating up to $100 for non-food related travel expenses to the Public Relations Student Society of America to assist 20 students travel to tour the Beehive and Broadhead PR firms in Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN, Sept.

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Recommend allocating up to $700 ($70/student x 10 students) for non-food related travel expenses to the Society for Human Resource Management at MNSU to attend MN SHRM state conference in Duluth, MN, Oct. 8 to 10, 2017.

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New Business Motion 85 l 09 l 27 l 01 Moved by: VP Cremers, seconded by: Senator Warner The 85th Minnesota State Student Association approves the President’s actions at the September Students United Board Meeting.

Motion passes.

Announcements • Senator Goode: Maverick Adventures Ad-Hoc Committee Meeting went well on Sept. 26. Had a better turn out thanks

to MeMe. Meetings will be every other week.

New Co-chair is Erica Thompson.

• Speaker Brinkman: Will have a short meeting in two weeks for TRIVIA challenge against Student Affairs.

• John Bulcock: Asked senators to start thinking about appointments for Constitution Commission (6 seats) and Elections Commission (7 openings).

• Mark Constantine: Elected a SAC Chair: Joe Wolf.

Adjourned at 4:36 p.m.

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Feature Photo: Spirit Lunch, Oct. 3

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Hot 96.7 and Dunkin Donuts were in the CSU Mall Tuesday for Spirit Lunch. Dunkin Donuts was giving out free, Maverick-themed donuts, coffee samples, and coupons to students as they walked by.

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Vegas shooting renews debate on high-capacity ammo magazines IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The rapid-fire shooting that killed or injured hundreds of concertgoers in Las Vegas has highlighted the easy availability of ammunition magazines that allow shooters to fire dozens of shots without having to reload.

Gun-control advocates say magazines that can store and feed 30, 50 or even 100 bullets into firearms increase the potential carnage of an attack.

It’s believed that millions of such accessories are legally owned in the U.S. — prized by gun enthusiasts for recreational shooting and self-defense.

The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether to take a case that revolves around the issue and asks if the Second Amendment gives people a right to possess the high-capacity ammunition magazines.

So far, eight states have passed laws restricting magazine capacity to 10 or 15 bullets.

Magazines that hold 15 or 30 rounds are often considered standard equipment for new semiautomatic pistols and rifles, and are sold separately for as little as $15. Some drum-style magazines can carry 50 or 100 rounds.

Police have said they recovered several highcapacity magazines and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the hotel room and home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock.

It’s unclear how many rounds those magazines could hold, but cellphone videos taken by concertgoers recorded bursts of gunfire so

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rapid and sustained that it sounded like a battlefield.

Authorities say Paddock opened fire Sunday from broken out windows of his 32nd floor hotel room, killing 59 people and wounding hundreds more at an outdoor country music festival. Police stormed his room and found he had killed himself after committing the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history.

Louis Klarevas, author of “Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings,” said it was likely Paddock was using some form of a high-capacity magazine because he fired so many rounds in a short period of time.

“That was non-stop rapid fire,” he said.

Nevada is one of 42 states — along with the federal government — that does not restrict the sale or possession of high-capacity magazines.

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ban of 1994 outlawed the manufacture of magazines that held more than 10 rounds, but Congress allowed the law to expire a decade later.

Klarevas said his research shows the use of high-capacity magazines has become more common since then in mass shootings. The magazines were used by gunmen who killed elementary school children in Connecticut and moviegoers in Colorado, among others.

Klarevas favors a federal ban on magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

California moved toward such a law last year after voters approved an initiative prohibiting people from possessing ammunition

magazines capable of holding more than 10 bullets.

However, the law was blocked in June by U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez, who warned that it would turn law-abiding citizens into criminals if they didn’t give up their high-capacity magazines. He intends to issue a final ruling later but believes the law will likely be declared unconstitutional.

Meanwhile, a coalition of gun rights advocates wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Maryland law restricting magazines that hold more than 10 bullets. A divided 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law.

The appeals court held that such magazines are most suitable for military and

law enforcement purposes and are not protected by the Second Amendment.

The court noted that Adam Lanza, who gunned down 20 first-grade students and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, was able to fire more than 150 rounds in less than five minutes.

Lawyers for Maryland argued that limiting shooters to 10-round magazines would allow bystanders and police more time to intervene or get to safety during pauses in firing.

Maryland is among the handful of states to enact restrictions since the Newtown tragedy. Eight states now have restrictions on high-capacity magazines, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which calls the limits in California, Hawaii, New Jersey and New York the most comprehensive.

Colorado and Massachusetts are the other states with restrictions.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry trade group, opposes such laws.

It has argued that the rules infringe on the rights of lawabiding citizens and do little to prevent crime.

It would not discuss its position in the wake of the Las Vegas attack.

“Not now,” spokesman Mike Bazinet said Tuesday.

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Feature Photo: Maverick Pride Booth

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Student Events Team had a booth for students to showcase their Maverick Pride with a bunch of different props student could use. Pictured above are some of the students from the competition team, Mavasians; the group placed third in this event.

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Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe WASHINGTON (AP) — For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves.

They failed repeatedly until two years ago when they finally spotted one. Then another. And another. And another.

Three American scientists — including one who initially flunked out of MIT — won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday that launched a whole new way to observe the cosmos.

Sweden’s Royal Academy of Sciences cited the combination of highly advanced theory and ingenious equipment design in awarding Rainer Weiss of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Barry Barish and Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology.

“It’s a win for the human race as a whole. These gravitational waves will be powerful ways for the human race to explore the universe,” Thorne told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

The trio were part of a team of more than 1,000 astronomers who first observed gravitational waves in September 2015. When the discovery was announced several months later, it was a sensation not only among scientists but the general public. These are waves that go through everything — including us — but carry information on them that astronomers could not get otherwise.

“The best comparison is when Galileo discovered the telescope, which allowed us to see that Jupiter had moons. And all of a sudden, we discovered that the universe was much vaster than we used to think about,” Ariel Goobar of the Swedish academy said.

Weiss said he hopes that eventually gravitational waves will help science learn about “the very moment

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when the universe came out of nothingness.”

Gravitational waves were first theorized a century ago

by Einstein, but he didn’t think technology would ever be able to detect the tiny wobbles, smaller than a piece of an atom.

The waves are like “a storm in the fabric of space-time that is produced when two black holes collide,” Thorne said. The first detection came from a crash 1.3 billion lightyears away. A light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles.

apart — in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana. They came about 7 milliseconds apart, consistent with the speed of light.

A new detector in Italy went online and helped in the discovery of the fourth wave.

With the technology that the three developed “we may even see entirely new objects that we haven’t even imagined yet,” said Patrick Sutton, an astronomer at Cardiff University in Wales.

The German-born Weiss, 85, who initially spearheaded

“These are waves that go through everything — including us — but carry information on them that astronomers could not get otherwise.”

The prize is “a win for Einstein, and a very big one,” Barish told the AP. The waves are detected by a laser device, called an interferometer, which must be both exquisitely precise and extremely stable in a project that cost $1.1 billion dollars.

The first observation involved two of the devices about 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers)

the research effort, was awarded half of the 9-millionkronor ($1.1 million) prize amount. Thorne, 77, a theorist, and Barish, 81, who was a project director, will

split the other half.

For decades, the scientists pushed for money to start the massive LIGO project, getting their first National Science Foundation grant in 1992. The first version of the detector went through six long runs looking for gravitational waves, but didn’t find them because it wasn’t technologically precise enough, Barish said.

And computer programs needed to solve Einstein’s equations weren’t quite right and “the quest was foundering,” said Thorne, who peeled away from the detector work to form another collaboration to get better computing for detection.

Two decades after construction “we finally struck gold,” Barish said.

Weiss also overcame failure. After flunking out of MIT, he didn’t have anything to do so he offered himself as an electronics technician to a lab at MIT and learned how to solder and deal with people.

He returned to school, got his bachelor’s and doctorate at MIT and ended up as a

professor there.

“There was a person who thought I was OK. I wasn’t a complete dope,” Weiss said.

“I got some confidence out of that.”

In a moment of poetry aimed at making the distant and infinitesimal phenomenon understandable to non-experts, the academy announcement said gravitational waves “are always created when a mass accelerates, like when an iceskater pirouettes or a pair of black holes rotate around each other.”

Professor Alberto Vecchio, from the University of Birmingham’s Institute of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, said this discovery will produce results for decades to come.

“They have taken me, as well as hundreds of my colleagues, through such an intellectually rewarding and recently adrenaline-packed journey that we could not have even remotely imagined,” he said. “The best part is that this is just the beginning of a new roller-coaster exploration of the universe.”

For the past 25 years, the Nobel physics prize has been shared among multiple winners.

Last year’s prize went to three British-born researchers who applied the mathematical discipline of topology to help understand the workings of exotic matter such as superconductors and superfluids.

The 2017 Nobel prizes kicked off Monday with the medicine prize being awarded to three Americans studying circadian rhythms — better known as body clocks: Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young.

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Mankato River Ramble fundraiser bike ride this Sunday MANK ATO, Minn., October 4, 2017 - The 7th annual Mankato River Ramble will hit the road this Sunday, October 8. This much-loved fall ride starts at Land of Memories Park at 8 a.m. and tours the sights and colors of the Minnesota River Valley with stops at Minneopa State Park, Rapidan Dam, Lake Crystal, Minnemishinona Falls, and (new in 2017) in the historic town of Good Thunder.

The Ramble is a community-wide celebration for cyclists, music lovers and foodies of all ages and attracts riders from across Minnesota and surrounding states. In fact, some families have three generations of riders participating on Sunday. The ride includes six Rest Stops, each with live music (from Billy and the Bangers to the Misty Trio, and more) and local baked goods, like pie from the Dam Store, Peace Coffee and fruit.

Attendance this year is

expected to surpass the 1,700 rider mark. Media is invited to the Rest Stops and ride start/finish at Land of Memories Park.

The Mankato River Ramble is an annual fundraiser for the Greater Mankato Bike & Walk Advocates and the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota.

Funds raised go toward bike-friendly work including educating kids about safe walking and bicycling, bike education classes for adults, working with local and state leaders to make our state more bike-friendly and more.

The Mankato River Ramble is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Mankato Clinic and the Orthopaedic & Fracture Clinic, as well as the support of more than 50 other sponsoring organizations.

Same day ride registration is available at Land of Memories Park from 8-10 a.m. Visit BikeRiverRamble. org for more information.

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Netflix Picks: Gerald’s Game is a horrific film This Stephen King adaptation movie is one of the best yet

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When audiences go to a horror movie they often times expect the screen to be filled with monsters such as a chainsaw wielding ghoul or a killer clown that feeds on fear.

However, monsters exist in real life, just not how people expect.

These monsters can be a person’s parent or even their spouse. This is one of many interesting topics that is explored in the new Netflix original film “Gerald’s Game.”

“Gerald’s Game” is yet again another film this year adapted from a Stephen King novel. The

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1992 book of the same name was very controversial for its subject matter and was thought to not be filmable. Nevertheless, the streaming platform Netflix, known for giving directors and writ-

ers creative freedom, was not afraid to adapt the novel. In doing so they may have created one of the top five best Stephen King movies.

The film is directed by horror genre filmmaker

Mike Flanagen (director of “Oculus” and “Ouija: Origin of Fear”) who explores the real life horrors of domestic abuse in his most recent movie.

The story centers around Jessie Burlingame (Carla Guingo) who

is married to Gerald Burlingame (Bruce Greenwood). The middle-aged couple decide to spend the weekend at their lake home in an attempt to spice up their love life, hoping that it will fix their broken marriage.

After arriving at their cabin Gerald brings Jessie to the bedroom and handcuffs Jessie to the bedpost in an effort to rekindle the spark in their sex life. Jessie goes along with it until she is no longer comfortable with the situation and tells him to un-cuff her. Before doing so Gerald drops dead from a heart attack.

A vicious, hungry, and wild dog enters the cabin through an open

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SPOILERS AHEAD A father with unusual parents decides to send his three children in a cabin near a mountain for the summer. The strange thing about the mountain is that it holds a secret that the kids have encountered during their stay.

“The Legend of the Mountain” is a fictional film with no audio, and only ASL (American Sign Language) with closed caption. As the film starts, I was confused why a car

was driving up to the mountains.

Inside the car is a father driving with his three children, two boys and one girl. The children are all relaxing and listening to music with their headphones on. Then, it cuts to a shot where they’re at a gas station and out of nowhere one of the father’s children began to argue with him outside of the car.

The girl was angry because she didn’t want to stay at her grandparent’s cabin for the summer.

This shot alone could have been fixed with a backstory of the girl on why she was angry.

As the film continues, the father and children are brought to their grandparent’s cabin. On a side note

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Legend of the Mountain Man portrays hellish nightmare A summer vacation at a cabin holds secrets for three siblings

LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAIN MAN you can’t hear the wilderness, but you get to view the forest, mountains and cabin of the grandparents.

Speaking of the cabin this

is where things get stranger in the film.

The two boys were wandering around the house and they discovered their

grandpa’s room. As they

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Tom Petty, rock superstar, dies at 66 One of the most beloved members of the rock community

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Tom Petty, an old-fashioned rock superstar and everyman who drew upon the Byrds, the Beatles and other bands he worshipped as a boy and produced new classics such as “Free Fallin,’” “Refugee” and “American Girl,” has died. He was 66.

Petty died Monday night at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles a day after he suffered cardiac arrest at his home in Malibu, California, spokeswoman Carla Sacks said.

Petty and his longtime band the Heartbreakers had recently completed

a 40th-anniversary tour, one he hinted would be their last.

“I’m thinking it may be the last trip around the country,” Petty told Rolling Stone last year.

“We’re all on the backside of our 60s. I have a granddaughter now I’d like to see as much as I can. I don’t want to spend my life on the road. This tour will take me away for four months. With a little kid, that’s a lot of time.”

Usually backed by the Heartbreakers, Petty broke through in the 1970s and went on to sell more than 80 million records.

GERALD Continued from page 18 door. Jessie is unable to release herself from the bedpost while she is in her isolated cabin with no one to hear her screams. Jessie must quickly find a way to escape before she gets killed by the dog or dies from dehydration.

The film may sound like a grotesque horror movie, but at its core it is a character piece.

The majority of the story consists of flashbacks and hallucinations of her dead husband speaking

to her. Through this the viewer begins to learn who Jessie is and starts to strongly feel and understand for her.

Mike Flanagen proves that he is truly a master filmmaker. The cinematography and editing is phenomenal. Flanagen blends the present narrative and the flashbacks perfectly making them appear as if Jessie is literally watching the flash backs like it’s a stage play.

The lighting in the film

The Gainesville, Florida, native with the shaggy blond hair and gaunt features was loved for his melodic hard rock, nasally vocals and down-toearth style. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which inducted Petty and the Heartbreakers in 2002, praised them as “durable, resourceful, hard-working, likeable and unpretentious.”

He was a beloved member of the rock community and musicians sent their condolences.

Bob Dylan, a longtime friend, tweeted “I thought the world of Tom. He was great peris also outstanding. Flanagen uses red undertones of lighting within the film, which adds beauty to such a dark, ugly, but often true story.

Carla Guingo does a great job as Jessie Burlingame. It is obvious that she put a lot of hard work into this movie, as she is on screen the entire running time of the film. Guingo brings a multi-layered performance making the audience feel as if she is not even acting.

The only criticism I have for this movie is

former, full of the light, a friend, and I’ll never forget him.”

Ringo Starr, featured in the video for “I Won’t Back Down,” tweeted “God bless Tom Petty.”

Eric Clapton issued a statement that Petty was “such a huge part of our musical history, there’ll never be another like him.”

Petty’s albums included “Damn the Torpedoes,” ‘’Hard Promises” and “Full Moon Fever,” although his first No. 1 did not come until 2014 and “Hypnotic Eye.” As a songwriter, he focused often on daily struggles and the will to overcome them, most memorably on “Refugee,” ‘’Even the Losers” and “I Won’t Back Down.”

“It’s sort of the classic theme of a lot of the work I’ve done,” he told The Associated Press in 1989. “I think faith is very important just to get through life. I think it’s really important that you believe in yourself, first of all. It’s a very hard to thing to come by. But when you get it, it’s invaluable.”

Petty didn’t just sing about not backing down, he lived it. In 1979, he was enraged when his record label was sold and his contract transferred. Stating that he would not be “bought and sold like a piece of the ending. Story-wise I like the ending, but it feels very out of place with the rest of the movie. It over explains the themes and symbolism present throughout the movie, which really took me out of the story.

Overall, “Gerald’s Game” is very dark and focuses on many different forms of domestic abuse. It may be hard for some to watch, but it’s message is something everyone should hear.

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meat,” he self-financed what became “Damn the Torpedoes” and declared bankruptcy rather than allowing his label, MCA, to release it.

He eventually reached a new deal with MCA, for better terms. In the early 1980s, he was again at war with MCA, this time over the label’s plans to charge extra money, a dollar higher than the standard $8.98, for his album “Hard Promises.” He again prevailed.

Petty was both a musician and obsessive fan, one who met his childhood heroes and lived out the fantasies of countless young rock lovers.

He befriended Byrds leader Roger McGuinn and became close to George Harrison, who performed on “I Won’t Back Down” and joined Petty, Dylan, Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynne in the impromptu supergroup the Traveling Wilburys.

Petty inducted Harrison into the Rock Hall in 2004; two years earlier Dylan’s son Jakob inducted Petty. In the 1980s, Petty and the Heartbreakers supported Bob Dylan on a nationwide tour.

He would speak of being consumed by rock music since childhood, to the point where his father, whom Petty would later say beat him savagely, thought he was “mental.”

Awed by the chiming guitars of the Byrds, the melodic genius of the Beatles and the snarling lyrics of Dylan, he was amazed to find that other kids were feeling the same way.

“You’d go and see some other kid whose hair was long, this was around ‘65, and go, ‘Wow, there’s one like me,’” he told The Associated Press in 1989.

“You’d go over and talk and he’d say, ‘I’ve got a drum set.’ ‘You do? Great!’ That was my whole life.”

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Nobel literature prize: Honoring the elusive ‘ideal’ The literature award one of the most debated and entertaining

STOCKHOLM (AP) — When Alfred Nobel established the literature prize in his name, he perhaps could have benefited from an editor. The terms of his will leave the prize’s exact intentions tantalizingly vague — making the literature award one of the most debated and entertaining of the Nobel Prizes.

The Swedish industrialist said he wanted the prize to recognize “the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.”

On Thursday, the Swedish Academy will announce whom it considers to have met the criterion of “ideal” for the 2017 laurels.

A look at some aspects of the Nobel Prize in Literature: The Swedish Academy hasn’t ever had a consistent view of this, but appears to cycle through concepts.

In an article on the Nobel Prize website, academy member Kjell Espmark traced at least seven distinct periods in the 20th century interpretations, ranging from the early years’ “conservative idealism” honoring church and family, through an Everyman period in the 1930s when Sinclair Lewis and Pearl Buck won, and more recently, a determination to award the prize to writers outside Western traditions.

Just five countries have accounted for nearly half the literature prizes since 1901: France, the United

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States, Britain, Germany and Sweden.

In 2015 and 2016, the award went to writers outside the conventional conception of “literature” as novels and poetry. Svetlana Alexievich’s books are artistic sociopolitical reportage, and Bob Dylan’s lyrics arguably have more power as song than on the page.

If the academy is determined to be adventurous, it could find other forms of art to consider as literature.

Graphic novels, for example, arguably have built up the moral weight and imaginative power to be considered literature that goes beyond entertainment.

A Nobel prize for graph-

ic novels “doesn’t seem unreasonable at all,” Gabriel Winslow-Yost, an editor at the New York Review of Books, told The Associated Press.

Like Alexievich, “some of the best of the past couple of generations of American cartoonists have been especially concerned with the effects of large-scale political forces on particular individual lives; that’s true of Art Spielgelman, true of (Chris) Ware, true of Dan Clowes,” he said.

And if Dylan’s song lyrics count as literature, is there a case to be made for opera librettos?

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Aside from that “there are probably a few librettists who would tell you that they should get Nobel prizes. But they would be wrong,” he said.

Kenyan novelist, playwright and essayist Ngugi wa Thiong’o leads the speculation at many bookmakers, with perennial

favorite Haruki Murakami behind by a nose.

Another name that surfaces year after year may find her chances marred by popularity. “We’ve had to cut Margaret Atwood’s odds ... following ‘The Handmaid’s Tale”s Emmy win last week,” Alex Apati, a spokesman for Britain’s Ladbroke’s betting house, said in an email.

In any case, setting Nobel odds appears to be less rigorous than assessing sports teams’ prospects, relying on the wisdom of the crowd rather than deep reading.

“While we don’t employ someone specifically to work on pricing up this market, between them the traders keep a close eye on things,” Apati said.

Amos Oz, Ismail Kadare, Adonis and Don de Lillo also are regarded as strong contenders, according to the odds.

Bookmakers are offering potentially lucrative bets upwards of 1000-to-1 on Kanye West and President Donald Trump. complexity and inventive rhymes constitute a kind of poetry.

But Trump’s prose rarely rises above the entertainingly pedestrian — and it’s unclear whether the books are his work or the production of ghostwriters.

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Media titan Samuel ‘Si’ Newhouse is dead at 89

Parent company of some of the nation’s most prestigous magazines NEW YORK (AP) — S.I. Newhouse Jr., the low-profile billionaire media mogul who ran the parent company of some of the nation’s most prestigious magazines, died Sunday. He was 89.

Newhouse’s death was confirmed by his family, who said he died at his New York home.

The chairman of Conde Nast since 1975, Si Newhouse, as he was known, bought and remade The New Yorker and Details magazines and revived Vanity Fair. Other magazines in the Conde Nast

stable included Vogue, Wired, Glamour, W, GQ, and Self.

The glossy titles helped set the nation’s tastes, reached millions of aspirational readers and appealed to upscale advertisers.

“In all realms, he wanted Conde Nast — and its writers, artists and editors — to be at the center of the cultural conversation,” Bob Sauerberg, the company’s CEO, wrote to staff in announcing Newhouse’s death.

As Newhouse himself put it in a rare 1988 inter-

MOUNTAIN MAN Continued from page 18 were investigating the room, they found two odd things inside the room. The first thing they discovered is that the photo frames in the room were blank, yet they had the frame outside of it. Lastly, they found a photo of their father as a young child fishing with an unknown boy.

This part of the scene was starting to get eerie because one of boys believed in a folktale that one of their uncles was talking about at midnight.

In the next scene we are brought to the boys sleeping in a bedroom.

The shots and angles of this scene were amazing and a must see to understand. The young boy woke up from a strange noise from the door as the boy was waking up.

The camera began to move slightly left and right as the boy got near the door.

When the boy got near the door slammed by itself.

He turned around and saw another door crinkly opening slowly and saw two glowing eyes in the peak of the shadow of the door. This time instead of the door closing he went inside the room where it was dark and the light in the room was flickering like crazy.

The boy saw an unknown figure siting down in the middle of the cage. As he began to get near the unknown figure it began to stand up. Once he got near it the lights began to flicker even more crazy and the unknown figure attacked him in a viciously manner.

Sorry, to tell you this, but this scene alone was a nightmare from the boy sleeping in the bedroom. He was then awakened up by his grandmother with a bucket filled of water.

This film it was a requirement for my class to watch and to understand proper American Sign Language. What I expect ed from this film was to focus on a legend of a man who ventured his way to the mountain and finding the secrets of life. Instead, it is about a mythic creature in a bigfoot costume a.k.a. Sasquatch that apparently understand Sign Language when one of the boy tried to claim him down.

But, the film itself is not too bad and it’s a film that flows pretty well. I wish the film at least had sound to make it more entertaining to watch.

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Samuel Newhouse

view with The New York Times, “Our magazines represent a certain tone and audience.”

Under Newhouse, Conde Nast was famously extravagant, paying editors huge salaries, throwing lavish parties and rarely sticking to budgets — if budgets existed at all. Its expense accounts were legendary, with dresses flown from Paris to New York on the Concorde and elephants brought in to menace models at fashion shoots.

“He was passionate about journalism and he supported journalists and editors,” his nephew Steven Newhouse, who is the chairman of Advance Publications Inc., which owns Conde Nast, told The Associated Press. “He set an

example of caring about the right things in media, which is great stories, great design, great magazines, great websites.”

Newhouse’s vision extended beyond magazines. Before selling the Random House book publishing empire, he spotted a magazine profile about a rising young real estate mogul and commissioned the first book of a future president: Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal.”

Some of his editors became celebrities in their own right.

“He loves magazines, meaning the whole and all of it, the variety of things published, the business details, the visions and actions and personalities of his editors, the problems, the problem-solving, the

ink and paper,” New Yorker editor David Remnick told New York magazine in 2009.

Newhouse also brought in buzz-obsessed Britons Anna Wintour and Tina Brown as editors, while abruptly firing staffers who fell from his graces.

Grace Mirabella learned she was being axed as editor-in-chief of Vogue in June 1988 when her husband saw it on TV. That same year, Val Weaver was let go as head of Self magazine when Newhouse knocked on her door and asked, “Would you mind if we made a change in editors

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Let’s Make a Deal host dies Philanthropist Monty Hall was 96

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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Monty Hall, the genial TV game show host whose long-running “Let’s Make a Deal” traded on love of money and merchandise and the mystery of which door had the car behind it, has died. He was 96.

Hall, who had been in poor health, died Saturday morning of heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills, said his daughter, Sharon Hall of Los Angeles.

“Let’s Make a Deal,” which Hall co-created, debuted as a daytime show on NBC in 1963 and became a TV staple. Through the next four decades, it also aired in prime time,

in syndication and, in two brief outings, with hosts other than Hall at the helm.

An episode of “The Odd Couple” featured Felix Unger (Tony Randall) and Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) as bickering guests on Hall’s program.

Contestants were chosen from the studio audience - outlandishly dressed as animals, clowns or cartoon characters to attract the host’s attention — and would start the game by trading an item of their own for a prize. After that, it was matter of swapping the prize in hand for others hidden behind doors, curtains or in boxes, presided over by the leggy, smiling Carol

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The query “Do you want Door No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3?” became a popular catch phrase, and the chance of winning a new car a matter of primal urgency. Prizes could be a car or a mink coat or a worthless item dubbed a “zonk.”

The energetic, quick-thinking Hall, a sight himself with his sideburns and colorful sports coats, was deemed the perfect host in Alex McNeil’s reference book, “Total Television.”

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PETTY Continued from page 19 By his early 20s, Petty had formed the group Mudcrutch with fellow Gainesville natives and future Heartbreakers (guitarist) Mike Campbell and (keyboardist) Benmont Tench. They soon broke up, but reunited in Los Angeles as the Heartbreakers, joined by bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ eponymous debut came out in 1976 and the band’s following steadily grew, fitting in well with the New Wave sounds of the time and appealing to those who loved the rock music of the ‘60s.

“Damn the Torpedoes” was Petty’s first top 10 album and included his first top 20 singles, “Refugee” and “Don’t Do Me Like That.”

His music was always popular, a staple on classic rock stations and used in the films “Cars 3,” ‘’The Silence of the Lambs,” ‘’Mad Love” and “Sing,” among many others. On recent TV, his songs were featured in “The Office” and “Criminal Minds” (which both used “Here Comes My Girl”), “The

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The world changed more than Petty did over the past few decades, even his marriage to Jane Benyo (with whom he had two children) broke up and he battled heroin addiction in the ‘90s.

In 2014, around the time he received an ASCAP Founders Award, he told The Associated Press that he thought of himself as “kind of a music historian.”

“I’m always interested in the older music, and I’m still always discovering things that I didn’t know about,” said Petty, married to Dana York since 2001.

“To be honest, I really probably spend more time listening to the old stuff than I do the new stuff.”

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HALL Continued from page 22 “Monty kept the show moving while he treated the outrageously garbed and occasionally greedy contestants courteously; it is hard to imagine anyone else but Hall working the trading area as smoothly,” McNeil wrote.

For Hall, the interaction was easy.

“I’m a people person,” he said on the PBS documentary series “Pioneers of Television.” ‘’And so I don’t care if they jump on me, and I don’t care if they yell and they fainted — those are my people.”

The game show gave rise to an academic exercise in which students are asked to weigh this question: In guessing which of three doors might conceal a prize car, and after one is eliminated as a possibility, should you switch your choice to the one you didn’t pick?

The puzzle sparked heated exchanges in Marilyn vos Savant’s Parade magazine column.

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ty Hall Problem, Hall and others said, was yes, take the switch — but only if the contest is set up so the host cannot skew the results by offering some guests the chance to switch doors and not giving others the same option.)

After five years on NBC, “Let’s Make a Deal” moved to ABC in 1968 and aired on the network through 1976, including prime-time stints. It went into syndication in the 1970s and 1980s, returning to NBC in 199091 and again in 2003. In 2009 it returned on CBS with host Wayne Brady and is still on the air.

His name and show remain part of the language.

Typical is the quotation in a 2006 Daytona Beach (Florida) News-Journal profile of a no-nonsense bail bondswoman who says, “I’m not Monty Hall and this isn’t ‘Let’s Make a Deal.’ “

SI Continued from page 21 in chief?” according to a 1995 biography of Newhouse by Thomas Maier.

Newhouse said the company that his father bought in 1959 for $5 million was following in the tradition of its founder, Conde Montrose Nast.

The company struggled in recent years with the advertising meltdown.

Since 2007 it has closed magazines including Gourmet, Modern Bride, House & Garden and Golf for Women.

The ambitious business magazine Portfolio shuttered in April 2009 just two years after its launch, burning through an estimated $100 million.

Forbes said in March 2009 that the downturn had sliced Newhouse’s fortune in half, but his estimated net worth of $4 billion still left him among the world’s richest men.

Newhouse and his brother, Donald, owned New York-based Advance Publications Inc., which in addition to Conde Nast has over 20 daily newspapers

in the U.S. and a cable television company.

Unlike other media moguls who seemed obsessed with building an empire to make money, influence opinion or bask in the spotlight, Newhouse seemed to have no grand plan. He rarely spoke to the media and had no discernible political views.

Associates said he simply enjoyed the magazine business and rubbing elbows with the cultural elite.

“He likes the buzz, there’s no question,” Wintour told The Times in 2008. “If you have lunch with a celebrity or political figure, he’s thrilled to hear about it.”

On Sunday, Wintour called Newhouse a “humble, thoughtful, idiosyncratic man, possibly the least judgmental person I have ever known.”

Short, mild-mannered and often described as socially awkward, he usually arrived at his office around 5 a.m. in gray slacks and beat-up loafers.

Many hands were wrung when Newhouse bought The New Yorker in 1985.

In 1992, he brought in Tina Brown from Vanity Fair, who transformed the idiosyncratic literary journal into a more newsy read with shorter stories, a staff photographer and splashier color.

Newhouse lived with his wife, Victoria, an architectural historian, in a Manhattan apartment near the United Nations and in a house in Bellport, Long Island. Newhouse had two sons and a daughter by his first wife, Jane Franke.

During his second marriage, the couple lavished attention on a black pug named Nero, who died in 1997, and Nero’s successor, Cicero.

A former member of the board of the Museum of Modern Art, Newhouse had a major collection including works by Picasso, Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns.

He was also a major movie buff and enjoyed theater and the opera.

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Mavericks face Augustana on homecominng weekend No. 5 Minnesota State puts a 5-0 record on the line this Saturday at Blakeslee Stadium

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks have reached a ranking of No. 5 and now have the chance to go 6-0 this weekend against the Augustana Vikings over homecoming weekend.

The team is remarkably good on a weekend that holds numerous festivities and has so many distractions for the team. They hold a 4933-2 all-time record on homecoming, along with a 5-0 record against the Vikings on the day. However, the Vikings have a 24-23 record against the Mavs, which makes this the biggest test of the Mavericks’ season. The Vikings are out, not only to ruin the five-game streak that the Mavs are on, but also wreck the six-game winning streak that the Mavericks have on homecoming that dates back to 2011.

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Blakeslee Stadium is bound to be filled up this Saturday afternoon, as the Mavericks will play Augustana in a NSIC matchup. a 2-3 record, looking to rebound from last weekend’s loss to Wayne State 16-13.

The Vikings have averaged 351.8 yards per game on offense and have a solid duo in the backfield. Running backs Ryan Bradberry and Rudolh Sinflorant have a combined 520 yards along with three rushing touchdowns on the season.

On the defensive side of the ball, the Vikings have

looked solid as well, only allowing 299.4 yards per game.

The problem is that the offense has not scored nearly enough touchdowns, and have been forced to settle for field goals as opposed to touchdowns, only averaging 18.4 points per game.

“We started out last weekend with two three-and-outs which was crucial to starting out for our defense,” said Mavs head coach Todd

Hoffner of the defense. “But every team is different and Augustana could pose some problems with that big offensive line.”

While the line may cause some problems, the Mavericks front seven has spent the majority of their time in the opponent’s backfield and should be able to throw a wrench in the offense of the Vikings, which already has problems finishing drives.

The strategy of the Mavericks’ “bend but don’t break defense”, as coach Hoffner calls it, is what will make this team tough for the Vikings to beat out.

“Ryan is doing the things we ask him to do, I think J.D is doing the same,” said coach Hoffner on the offensive balance. “The quarterbacks are working through the system and just doing the things they need to for us to move the football and score touchdowns.”

While the offense was definitely one-sided last weekend, as the Mavs ran for 482 yards to 99 passing yards.

The ground game that is led

by Nate Gunn and an impressive line looks to be enough to roll over the competition with ease.

“We’ll do what the defense gives us, if they give us one-on-one matchups on the perimeter, we have to take advantage of that,” said Hoffner. “But if someone is going to sell out on stopping the pass then we’ll run, but I think a balanced attack is important moving forward.”

Prediction: The Mavericks win 45-20 on homecoming and Nate Gunn rushes for 105 yards and two scores.

Drop the puck! No. 18 MNSU to kick off season Saturday The men’s team is looking for better success after a somewhat letdown last season

SEAN MORAWCZYNSKI Staff Writer Minnesota State, Mankato Men’s Hockey returns to the ice, eager to find the back of the opposing net many times this season. The men’s team had its season ended last year by the Michigan Tech Huskies in a three-game home series for the Huskies.

The Mavericks missed the Division-I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship tournament in Chicago with the loss to

the Huskies. Despite the underwhelming outcome of the postseason, the Mavericks were able to perform well in the regular season, finishing with a record of 22-13-4.

Entering the 2017-2018 season, the Mavericks are the No. 18 ranked team in Division-I Men’s Hockey according to the USCHO.com poll. Minnesota teams control a lot of the territory in the rankings. The Mavericks are currently the lowest-ranked Minnesota team in the poll with the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities leading the way in the third spot. Last year’s national championship runner-up UMD Bulldogs are ranked sixth. St. Cloud State slips in three spots behind the Bulldogs at nine, followed

by the No. 18 Mavericks.

The Mavericks will be in great shape for another attempt at the postseason if they can replicate or improve upon last year’s regular season. The disappointing end to the season didn’t reflect what the team accomplished in the regular season.

If Sunday’s exhibition game against University of Regina of Saskatoon is any indication of what to expect this year, MNSU fans will be in for a treat. The 8-0 shutout of the Cougars at home gives a glimpse into why the Mavericks were able to secure an impressive 13-3-3 home record last year.

Minnesota State’s homeice advantage will be put to the test this homecoming

weekend when the No. 9 St. Cloud State Huskies pay a visit to the Verizon Center.

The Mavericks handled the Huskies well in the only two meetings last season. St. Cloud State lost both games to Minnesota State at the Verizon Center, producing 10 goals in that series to the Huskies’ five. This weekend’s opener will be just one game rather than a series; the Mavericks will travel to St. Cloud later this season for the two teams’ second game against each other.

Head coach Mike Hastings enters his sixth season as the head coach of the Mavericks and hopes to reach at least 20 wins again this season, which would be the sixth-straight year MNSU has

accomplished this feat. The team has several key returning players to help Hastings reach that benchmark 20 wins in the regular season.

Senior defenseman Clint Lewis is in position to hold down the fort against attacking teams in the defensive zone. Posting a plus/minus rating of +12 in 39 games played last year, the team can look to Lewis to provide security on the ice again this year in a leadership role for the Mavericks.

Junior goalie and Omaha, Nebraska native Jason Pawloski also returns to give the

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OJ Simpson freed; parole officer says he’ll live in Vegas The former football and Hollywood star was let go after serving nine years for armed robbery LAS VEGAS (AP) — Officials at a remote Nevada prison where O.J. Simpson was set free after nine years for armed robbery arranged the former football and Hollywood star’s dead-of-night departure to avoid public scrutiny.

It worked. Simpson signed release paperwork and disappeared into the darkness early Sunday, minutes into the first day he was eligible for release. Through efforts by prison officials to keep the time and place secret, there were no journalists outside the prison gates to capture the moment.

Though publicity-prone in the past, Simpson apparently took the advice of people in his inner circle that he avoid the spotlight. He was neither heard from nor seen publicly, except when a television news crew found him in a car at a gas station on the way to Las Vegas and he declined to be interviewed.

State Division of Parole and Probation Capt. Shawn Arruti told The Associated Press that the former football hero and celebrity criminal defendant plans to live at a home in the Las Vegas area for the foreseeable future. Arruti declined for what he said were security and privacy reasons to disclose the exact location of the house.

Simpson was released at 12:08 a.m. PDT from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada, state prisons spokeswoman Brooke Keast told AP. She said she didn’t know the name of the driver who met him and took him to an undisclosed location.

Keast recorded and released a brief video on social media in which Simpson is told to “come on out” and he responds “OK” after walking through an open door and toward a parking lot bordered by desert scrub brush.

The prisons spokeswoman also took photographs showing Simpson — in blue jeans, denim jacket, eyeglasses, ball cap and white sneakers — signing documents about 10 minutes before midnight. He later left the prison with four or five boxes of possessions in the car. Keast said she had no information about where he was going.

Tom Scotto, a Simpson friend who lives in Naples, Florida, said by text message an hour after the release that he was with Simpson. But Scotto did not answer texts asking where they were going or whether members of Simpson’s family were with them.

Along with Simpson’s sister

and oldest daughter, Scotto had attended the July parole hearing at the same prison where Simpson went after his conviction for a botched 2007 heist at a Las Vegas hotel room — prison time he avoided after his 1995 acquittal in the killings of his ex-wife and her friend.

The 70-year-old Simpson said at the hearing that he wanted to move back to Florida, where he lived for nearly a decade before he was sent to prison in 2008. That return did not appear imminent.

Arruti said the only Simpson living arrangement received, investigated and approved was in the Las Vegas area. The parole official said Simpson doesn’t have permission to leave Nevada.

Florida’s Corrections Department “has not received any transfer paperwork from Nevada” about Simpson that would be required for him to live in that state and be monitored there, spokeswoman Ashley Cook said Sunday.

Though Florida’s attorney general has urged corrections officials to object to Simpson’s return, the department previously has said it would be required to accept a transfer if it met certain criteria.

“We understand we may have to take him, if he was a model prisoner. And two of his children live here, so that’s his hook for coming to Florida,” state Attorney General Pam Bondi said. “If we have to accept him, I certainly want conditions placed on him.”

Simpson’s attorney, Malcolm LaVergne, and state Parole and Probation Capt.

Shawn Arruti, who has been handling Simpson’s case, did not respond Sunday to messages seeking comment about Simpson’s whereabouts.

Las Vegas is a 450-mile (720-kilometer) drive south of Lovelock, and a television news crew reported finding Simpson at a gas station near his destination. Simpson declined to be interviewed, saying he had done nothing since his release but sit in a car for five hours.

LaVergne said recently that Simpson looked forward to reuniting with his family, eating steak and seafood and returning to Florida. Simpson also planned to get an iPhone and get reacquainted with technology in its infancy when he began his sentence, his attorney said.paper Both LaVergne and Scotto said in recent interviews with the AP that they thought Simpson should stay out of public view and focus on fam-

ily and friends.

Keast said the overnight release from the prison about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Reno, Nevada, was conducted to avoid media attention. No media were near the front gate at the time when Simpson’s car left the prison by a back road and entered nearby Interstate 80, she said.

“We needed to do this to ensure public safety and to avoid any possible incident,” Keast said.

She acknowledged Nevada prison officials misled the media with word about the timing and location of Simpson’s release. They had advised it would be no earlier than Monday and possibly in Las Vegas.

Simpson faces restrictions during five years of parole supervision, which could be reduced for good behavior.

He cannot use illegal drugs and can drink alcohol only if the amount he drinks is below Nevada’s blood-alcohol limit for driving. He also is prohibited from associating with felons or anyone who Nevada officials prohibit him contacting. And he must tell the state where he’ll be living and when he changes his residence. The conditions still apply if Simpson ends up out of state.

Simpson bought his home near Miami five years after his acquittal and raised two of his children, Justin and Sydney, there away from the limelight.

He lost the home to foreclosure in 2012.

It’s all a new chapter for the one-time pop culture phenomenon whose fame was once again on display when the major TV networks carried his parole hearing live.

He told officials that leading a group of five men into the hotel room confrontation was an error in judgment he would not repeat.

Simpson told the parole board that he led a “conflict-free life,” an assertion that angered many who believe he got away with killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, in Los Angeles in 1994. He was acquitted the following year in what was dubbed the “trial of the century.”

In a statement released through a family spokesman, Goldman’s parents said they respected the Nevada Parole Board’s decision to release Simpson, but that it was “still difficult for us knowing he will be a free man again.”

Fred and Kim Goldman said they will continue to pursue payment of a $33.5 million judgment awarded in 1997 after Simpson was found civilly liable for the deaths. They also said they’ll keep advocating for domestic violence awareness, victim advocacy and judicial reform.

Simpson is still obligated to pay the judgment, which now amounts to about $65

million, said David Cook, a Goldman family lawyer.

On Sept. 16, 2007, Simpson led five men he barely knew into a cramped room at the Palace Station casino in Las Vegas in an effort to retrieve items that Simpson insisted were stolen after his acquittal in the 1994 slayings.

Two of the men with Simpson in Las Vegas carried handguns, although Simpson still insists he never knew anyone was armed. He says he only wanted to retrieve personal items, mementoes and family photos from two sports memorabilia dealers.

His conviction in October 2008 in Las Vegas came 13 years to the day after his acquittal in October 1995 in Los Angeles. His lawyers called his stiff 9-to-33-year sentence for armed robbery, kidnapping and other charges unfair. Many other people characterized it as payback for his acquittal in the Los Angeles murder case.

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Yankees send Twins home after 8-4 loss in the Bronx Minnesota now has tied an MLB record, losing 13 consecutive games in the playoffs

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Minnesota Twins players watch during the closing innings of their 8-4 loss in an American League wild-card playoff baseball game against the New York Yankees in New York, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017.

RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer The Minnesota Twins lost in their one-game Wild Card matchup against the Yankees on Tuesday night to tie the MLB record for most consecutive playoff losses for a franchise with 13. The Twins did not go down without a fight, however, as the club got off to a hot start only to have the Yankees match. Let’s dive in to the action.

Brian Dozier started things off with a bang in the top of the first inning, as he launched a lead-off bomb into the left

field bleachers to make the score 1-0. Yelling “Let’s go!” while rounding third, Dozier was sure he gave the Twins the early spark they needed.

Three batters later, left fielder Eddie Rosario came up to the plate with one on and one out. With a hitters count, Rosario took the offspeed pitch and hit a line drive that barely snuck over the right field fence to make the score 3-0 in favor of the Twins. The Twins went into the bottom of the first with a 3-0 lead, feeling good… and then Ervin Santana took the mound.

“I was excited about the lead early in the game, but I couldn’t get too excited. The Yankees have a lot of offense so you cannot get too comfortable with a 3-0 lead early in the game,” senior Twins fan Brock Margenthaler said.

Santana took the bump and was a shell of himself.

He lasted only two innings while running the count full on eight of 11 batters and ultimately gave up four runs.

When Santana was removed, the Twins had already seen their 3-0 lead get washed away and were down 4-3 heading into the third.

The fourth inning proved to be a tough one for the Twins as young, up and coming pitcher Jose Berrios took the mound for Minnesota.

The young pitcher struggled to get easy outs, as New York made him work for everything. When Aaron Judge came to the plate, you could sense the electricity in the air from the New York crowd.

They wanted another home run from Judge and he was determined to deliver. With one runner on, Judge blast-

ed a high pitch deep and out of the park for a two-run shot.

That home run was crucial for the Yankees as it completely busted the game open.

The remainder of the game favored the Yankees as the Twins did not manage a run after the third inning, as the dominant New York bullpen completely took over. The Twins did manage to get runners on base, but left an astounding 17 runners on base.

This game would have been a lot closer had the Twins de-

livered some of those runners across home.

Next year sets up well for Minnesota, as this team is young and ready to breakout.

Fans are excited for what’s to come.

“With a young exciting roster, everyone is excited.

There is a lot to look forward to, but I would like to see them spend some money,” Margenthaler said.

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NFL week 4: rookie running backs and teams with blemishes Staff writer Colton Molesky gives an update on what’s happening in the NFL this season

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer Another week is in the books and I am here to break down the games into some digestible nuggets.

Plenty of teams played very tight games, which does not speak to the dominance of one team over the rest of the league, but has made for some fascinating football.

While a lot happened, here are the top two takeaways from the weekend.

Rookie Running Backs Are Stealing The Show Kansas City’s Kareem Hunt is leading the league with 502 yards on the ground, with Minnesota’s Dalvin Cook hot on his heels before the unfortunate injury. Chicago has Tarik Cohen looking great as a speedy pass-catching back, while Joe Mixon stepped into a loaded Cincinnati backfield and stole the show.

Carolina’s Christian McCaffrey has looked great as a receiver, much the same as Alvin Kamara adding another pass-catching dimension in the New Orleans offense.

Even under-the-radar players

like running back Wayne Gallman stepping into the New York Giants’ depleted backfield and impressing immediately in his first chance at playing time.

The crop of running backs coming in is flooding the league with versatile talent that is changing the landscape of the game. Only a few seasons ago, having the backfield of a team like Detroit, with three backs in Theo Riddick, Ameer Abdullah and Zach Zenner would be an outlier. However, most teams now have at least two to three backs that split time on the field and bring a new dynamic, along with depth, to their team. The outlier now is a team like Dallas, who has their workhorse running back in Ezekiel Elliot and not much else to speak of. While this is a trend that the league was moving towards, the huge amount of talent coming in this year has moved a lot of teams that way more quickly.

Nobody Is That Good…

And It Is Great - At first, it looked like teams were struggling with less practice because of CBA rules paired with no starters really playing in preseason due to injury fears. Then it seemed like some teams needed a chance to adjust and regroup. Then it really looked like some teams were separating away from the rest. Now it looks like every team has at least one ma-

jor flaw, but is that bad?

Sure the Kansas City Chiefs are flawless, in record, but their offense looked sluggish when they were unable to hit the big play, barely grabbing a victory over Washington.

The New England Patriots have a terrible defense. The Atlanta Falcons cannot stop turning the ball over. The Carolina Panthers have looked terrible on offense against everyone except the Patriots (and you, me and my sister could put up 30 points on them). The Seattle Seahawks have no offensive line--none.

Every team has a big problem, but we still have had some really great weeks of football. The fact of the matter is, when everyone has at least one obvious problem, one glaring hole to take advantage of, it keeps the league interesting and the separation of power to a minimum.

“But Colton! My team was perfect before an injury! That is part of the problem and not my team’s fault!” Actually it is though. Building a complete roster and staying healthy is very much a skill.

Say what you want about the Patriots defense-- if they suffer an injury to a running back or offensive linemen, they adjust. They use another player, or run the offense a different way to compensate. Pivoting during the season is part of the game, just like injury. So

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New England’s Tom Brady (left) has been rolling with the offense, but the defense has been subpar so far. to all the Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Vikings, Indianapolis Colts and Oakland Raider fans, injury is a part of the game, you are right, and right now it is one of your glaring problems. Adjust, pivot and try to get the next guy ready.

We will all learn about our teams this season, a lot will hinge on the coaches and back ends of the roster as much as the starters if changes are to be made for both injury and field problems alike.

REPORTER PICK ‘EM | WEEK #5 PATRIOTS @ BUCS

BILLS @ BENGALS

JETS @ BROWNS

PANTHERS @ LIONS

49ERS @ COLTS

TITANS @ DOLPHINS

CHARGERS @ GIANTS

CARDINALS @ EAGLES

JAGUARS @ STEELERS

SEAHAWKS @ RAMS

RAVENS @ RAIDERS

PACKERS @ COWBOYS

CHIEFS @ TEXANS

VIKINGS @ BEARS

BYE WEEK: FALCONS, BRONCOS, SAINTS, REDSKINS

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STANDINGS After Week #4

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2ND PLACE (T) Caleb Holdorf

2ND PLACE (T) Alissa Thielges

3RD PLACE Ryan Sjoberg

4TH PLACE Dana Clark

5TH PLACE Sean Morawczynski

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Lynx, Sparks bound for another game 5 showdown Last year’s matchup ended on a sour note for Minnesota, as another winner-take-all is here

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nneka Ogwumike has a bandage under her right eye to mask the stitches she took from an elbow in the paint.

Sylvia Fowles’ right eye is red and bloodshot from the battles being waged on the glass.

The WNBA Finals rematch between the Los Angeles Sparks and Minnesota Lynx has pushed both teams to their limits, and all that remains is one last game in this season.

season, the Sparks and Lynx will need a deciding Game 5 to crown a champion. In the 12 games between the start of last year’s finals and Game 5 of this series on Wednesday night in Minnesota, the cumulative score has been 908908. Last year, the Sparks grabbed the organization’s third title with a last-second put-back from Ogwumike to beat the Lynx at Target Center.

If the Sparks are going to be the WNBA’s first repeat

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Winner take all. Again.

“It wouldn’t be the finals without a scratch here and there,” Ogwumike said. “I enjoy it. It’s a great opportunity to be on this main stage competing with the best. I’m not going to back down. You can’t. It wouldn’t be worth it.”

For the second straight

champion since 2002, they have to win one more game in Minnesota, this time at raucous Williams Arena.

“It challenges your mental more than your physical,” Lynx guard Seimone Augustus said. “We all want to get to this point in our career where we’re playing in

a Game 5 and playing for a championship. This is what we always talk about. College, high school, pro, this is what we live for as athletes.”

The Lynx were on the verge of elimination in Game 4 on Sunday, but responded by pounding the Sparks on the glass and winning 80-69 to send the series back to Minnesota. Fowles, the league MVP, went for 22 points and 14 rebounds to help the Lynx to a 48-28 rebounding advantage.

At this point, after so many games and so many high-pressure moments, there are no more tricks to pull, no more surprises to unveil.

“It’s no secrets. There’s not a play we’re going to call tomorrow that they won’t know. There’s not a defensive scheme that we won’t know,” Augustus said. “Tomorrow is just focusing on details and just heart. Heart and guts.”

The Lynx, who are looking for their fourth championship in seven years, will need to get rugged power forward Rebekkah Brunson going to have a chance against the athletic Sparks. In Minnesota’s two victories in the series, Brunson has averaged 15.0 points and 8.0 rebounds. In their two losses, she has just 4.0 points and 2.5 boards.

“We can look at it as a disappointment that we’re playing a Game 5 or we can look at it as an opportunity,”

Sparks star Candace Parker said. “I think if you poll anyone around the league asking if you had one game and an opportunity to win a championship, would you take it? I’m sure everybody would take that.”

The Lynx pulled more than 19,000 fans into Target Center for Game 5 last year.

Williams Arena, on the campus of the University of Minnesota, has a capacity below 15,000. But in the old “Barn,”

as it’s called, there is no place for the noise to go. And if history is any indication, this one is going to come right down to the closing seconds.

“It speaks to the rivalry ,” Ogwumike said. “I think that’s pretty spectacular.

That speaks to the evolution of the game, the evolution of this competition that we have between each other. I would hope everybody enjoys watching it as much as we love playing in it.”

MAVS HOCKEY continued from 25 team consistency in net.

Pawloski played in 17 games last season and started 14 of them, splitting time with Cole Huggins, who will not be on the roster this season for the Mavericks. The goalie made 353 of the 877 saves Minnesota State recorded last year.

Brad McClure is a senior for the Mavs, returning to build on his 28-point season in 2016-2017. The forward split his stat line evenly down the middle with 14 goals and 14 assists for the Mavericks in the previous year.

Playing in the “State of Hockey” can be challenging sometimes for the Mavericks but the team has shown it can handle adversity well in the past. Minne-

sota State pulled off wins against top-ranked teams like the Minnesota Gophers and St. Cloud State last season, proving they can have a game plan for these tough teams.

That game plan will have to be used several times this year, following the homecoming game against the Huskies; the Mavericks will go to the east coast to take on the current No. 2 ranked Boston University in a two-game series.

Under Hastings’ coaching leadership in addition to that of returning players’, the Mavericks will put forth their best effort to make the NCAA tournament this year with the Frozen Four waiting for them at the end of the season.

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This time, Twins enter offseason with energy and optimism After 103 losses in 2016, the club made history in making the playoffs the following season

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Twins began the season carrying the indignity of those team-record 103 losses last year, an ugly splotch that hung around like a mosquito that had miraculously survived the winter.

The hangover didn’t last long.

With two new executives, the season had a natural fresh-start feeling and pride on the field came trickling back with a four-game winning streak to start things off.

Continued overall improvement and an ability to avoid long losing streaks, coupled with a sluggish start by the defending American League champion Cleveland Indians, allowed the Twins to take the division lead and hold it for five straight weeks until mid-June.

Even after a rough road trip prompted trades of two veteran pitchers for prospects before the non-waiver deadline, these Twins roared back in early August. An onslaught of offense propelled them to the second AL wild card for their first postseason appearance in seven years.

The fun lasted less than four hours in New York, with an 8-4 loss to the Yankees . The game was their 13th consecutive postseason defeat, tying a major league record, and extended for the franchise and its fans a maddening narrative of October failures against the storied Yankees.

Only one player, Joe Mauer, can claim that experience, though. Nobody else on the roster was around in 2010.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press

Twins Manager Paul Molitor finally brought some playoff baseball to Minnesota for the first time since 2010. Molitor may be up for some Manager of the Year votes after a miraculous season.

The confidence built by the 2017 success and the belief in still-unreached potential will be what follows the Twins into the winter. Those who were a part of the 2016 team will always be a trivia-question answer, but the 26-win turnaround this year served as a formal burial of that brutal 59-103 record.

“We’re not satisfied by any means, but at the same time you learn from these things,” second baseman Brian Dozier said. “Just the optimism that this team has day in and day out, expecting to win every single day, I can’t be more proud.”

The youth and balance of the lineup is the best asset the Twins will take forward, followed closely by their de-

fense and speed on the bases. What made their surge down the stretch so impressive was the variety of position players who contributed while All-Star third baseman Miguel Sano sat out.

The handful of 30-somethings on the roster, from the $23 million man, Mauer, to backup catcher Chris Gimenez, who was in spring training on a minor league contract, remarked often about this being the most enjoyable season of their careers.

“This is the type of year that can make an old guy feel young,” Gimenez said.

Here are some important issues surrounding the Twins heading toward the 2018 season:

SKIPPER STATUS Paul Molitor’s work put him in strong contention for the AL Manager of the Year award, but he finished his third season on the job on an expiring contract without promise of more from chief baseball officer Derek Falvey and general manager Thad Levine. Molitor’s status will be the first order of business, but a dismissal at this point would be difficult to see.

“He does so much, having his hands in on every single thing,” Dozier said. “When you’ve got a guy like that, we feel lucky.”

SLOW RECOVERY Sano fouled a ball off his left shin on Aug. 19 and didn’t return until the final weekend of the regular season, failing

to display enough progress to be included on the wild card roster. Sano led the Twins with an .859 on-baseplus-slugging percentage, posting 28 home runs and 77 RBIs in 114 games. His health and conditioning will remain a concern until he can play a full year without going to the disabled list.

ROTATION HOLES Ervin Santana, his wild card clunker at Yankee Stadium aside, gave the Twins a reliable front man for a starting five that stumbled through the previous five seasons. Jose Berrios made major strides after a bad rookie year. Kyle Gibson bounced back from two Triple-A demotions, with the Twins winning each of his last eight starts. But help is still needed.

Adalberto Mejia had a mixed at best rookie season.

Bartolo Colon will be 45 next year. Phil Hughes and Trevor May are coming off surgeries.

Trading for an established veteran is likely the quickest avenue to improvement.

CLOSING TIME Glen Perkins likely threw his final pitch for the Twins after an inspired comeback from a shoulder injury. Brandon Kintzler, who along with one-start-and-done pitcher Jaime Garcia was dealt at the deadline, will be a candidate to re-sign. Kintzler’s replacement, Matt Belisle, is also a free agent. Determining the 2018 closer is another top item to settle.

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Bears’ Trubisky to debut against Vikings Monday night The rookie quarterback was drafted high by Chicago, and now the time has come for playing time

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears are going to give prized rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky a try.

The No. 2 overall draft pick from North Carolina will start against the Minnesota Vikings next Monday night after Mike Glennon struggled in the first four games. The team announced the move Monday.

It’s hardly a surprise that the Bears (1-3) will go with Trubisky considering how badly Glennon has struggled.

He has five interceptions and three lost fumbles. He got

“It was just a decision I thought needed to be made,” coach John Fox told Chicago’s WBBM 780-AM. “We’ve had 10 giveaways in the first four weeks of the season, and you can’t win football games that way. Not that they were all one guy’s fault, but the combination of that, we’re going a different direction.”

Fox informed Trubisky and Glennon of the decision on Sunday night. Glennon becomes the No. 2 quarterback, with veteran Mark Sanchez remaining in the No. 3

trading up a spot with San Francisco to grab him on draft night. He started only 13 games at North Carolina and worked primarily out of the shotgun in a spread offense with few similarities to Chicago’s scheme.

He started third on the depth chart behind Glennon and veteran Mark Sanchez.

But with his mobility and arm strength, he progressed quicker than expected. Trubisky sparked a debate over who should start with a strong performance in the preseason opener against

“‘We’ve had 10 giveaways in the first four weeks of the season, and you can’t win football games that way. Not that they were all one guy’s fault, but the combination of that, we’re going a different direction,’ head coach John Fox said.” picked off twice, lost a fumble on a sack and had another snap ricochet off his knee for a lost fumble in Thursday’s 35-14 loss at Green Bay.

spot.

The Bears had envisioned this as sort of a redshirt season for Trubisky even though they made a bold move by

Denver, though he was more ordinary in the next three exhibitions.

Glennon played turnover-free ball in a 23-17 sea-

son-opening loss to Atlanta and had the Bears threatening for a last-second touchdown after struggling for much of the game. Things only got worse for Glennon in a blowout loss at Tampa Bay, and he didn’t play well in a surprising win over Pittsburgh, either.

Having a banged-up offensive line and depleted receiving corps didn’t help.

With Cameron Meredith tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament in the preseason and Kevin White breaking his shoulder in the opener, the Bears are missing their top two targets.

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