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Mavericks defeat Vikings 42-21 Minnesota State improves record to 6-0 after Homecoming victory

RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer The fifth ranked Minnesota State University, Mankato

Mavericks continue to impress this season piling up win after win. This weekend was no different as the Mavericks defeated the Augustana Vikings on Homecoming this Saturday, 42-21 in front of an electric home crowd.

The players were revved up for this matchup as the past few contests against the Vikings have been very close. The Mavericks were

determined to give their large crowd a Homecoming win. Let’s recap Saturday’s action.

The Mavericks fed off the crowd early, getting off to a blazing fast start that began with a field goal to put them ahead 3-0. A couple minutes later, freshman quarterback JD Ekowa threw a dart to wide receiver Shane Zylstra for a 17-yard touchdown to

put Minnesota State ahead 10-0 late in the first quarter.

The following drive for the Mavericks looked rather familiar as they once again found the end zone. This time it was running back Nate Gunn. Gunn plunged in for the score from 15 yards out and the Mavs followed up the score with a successful twopoint conversion attempt to give MNSU the lead 18-0.

For Augustana, things were looking rather bleak.

They managed to answer on the following drive as quarterback Kyle Saddler threw a bomb to wide receiver Trevor DeSchepper for the score, bringing the

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B.o.B. concert, featuring Jay Sean, dazzled audience

MADISON DIEMERT Staff Writer Minnesota State University, Mankato kicked off homecoming weekend with an amazing performance from B.o.B and special guest, Jay Sean.

Myers Field House was transformed with purple, blue, and white spotlights and fog seeping up behind

the Student Events Team said.

“An additional 300 guest tickets were gone within the day.”

Over 2,000 gave off a lot of excited tension and heat as the crowd waited for the opening act to come on the stage.

Jay Sean kicked off the concert at about 7:30 p.m.

He opened the night with an original song. He also DJ’d and sang another hit of his, “Down,” which definitely got the audience of students pumped up as the song no doubt reminded them of memorable, awkward, middle-school dances. He

“Jay Sean’s songs definitely got the audience pumped up as the song no doubt reminded them of memorable, awkward, middleschool dances.” the stage where a DJ played house music as people filed in. The dancefloor was soon full of people by 7 p.m.

“1,450 free student tickets sold out in less than 70 minutes,” Alex Weiland, concert committee chair for

ended his performance after about an hour and quickly left the stage for B.o.B, who was waiting backstage to come on and sing to his fans.

“I’m excited to preform,” said rapper B.o.B. “You guys seem like a great audience.”

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And he was totally right.

The crowd reacted wildly as he performed hits like, “So Good,” “Magic”, “Both of Us,” and “Beautiful Girls.”

Students threw their t-shirts and cell phones on stage for B.o.B to sign, and he even invited four MNSU students to dance on stage with him.

“College kids are the best type of audience,” B.o.B said.

“You guys really know how to get someone pumped up, ya know?”he said.

Engineers: lives lost in Mexico quake could have been saved MEXICO CITY (AP) — Nearly two-thirds of the buildings that collapsed in Mexico City’s monstrous earthquake last month were built using a construction method that is now forbidden in seismic hotspots in the United States, Chile and New Zealand, according to new data compiled by a team of structural engineers at Stanford University.

The suspect building technique called flat slab — in which floors are supported only by concrete columns — caused 61 percent of the building collapses in last month’s magnitude 7.1 quake, which killed 369 people and blanketed tree-lined avenues in rubble.

Now, several prominent engineers say some of those structure failures could have been prevented and lives could have been saved had Mexico City officials only gone forward with a proposal to forbid that type of construction when they toughened building codes after the 1985 earthquake in

Mexico’s capital.

“We have known for 30 years that this system killed lots of people, so why are we still using it?” asked Eduardo Miranda, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford and global expert on earthquakeresistant design who compiled the data obtained by The Associated Press. “The right decision after ‘85 would have been to completely ban this kind of construction. We could have saved lives.”

Anahi Abadia and her husband were among the fortunate: they were in Home Depot when the earthquake hit, shaking the store so fiercely the structure screeched.

Minutes later, a text came in from their neighbor: The elegant apartment they had purchased only six months earlier had collapsed, rendering their new home a pile of crushed concrete.

Two women working in Abadia’s trendy apartment building died on Sept. 19 when the structure collapsed after a corner column failed,

B.o.B even crowd surfed and stage-dived into the crowd and the crowd was able to keep him up. He took Snapchat pictures with fans and signed more hats and t-shirts. He also signed a few odd things like someone’s crutch, a shoe, and a few bras from girls standing near the front of the stage.

The students screamed at surprise in this. It definitely wasn’t something anyone was expecting and that was something that made the entire performance so memorable.

B.o.B ended the eventful night with his most popular and well-known song, “Airplanes,” which features

Hayley Williams from the band Paramore. This was another song fans went wild for and it was quite a finale, with extra fog and spotlights for effect.

“It was one of the best top three concerts I’ve ever been to,” said Trevor, an MNSU student. “He was such a great performer.” He wasn’t the only one who thought so. Trevor’s friend expressed his enjoyment and said that he “would definitely see him again.”

It was great to see such positive responses to the show. Hopefully the spring concert will yield similar excitement and delight.

and the flat-slab structure pancaked, Miranda said.

The concrete slabs used to build floors and ceilings can be cast to include some rebar for reinforcement, and give builders greater flexibility in room layout and allow for higher ceilings.

But in an earthquake, without reinforced concrete walls or lateral bracing to resist forces pushing structures sideways, buildings with that design can move too much. The columns, and connections between the slabs and columns, can easily break, prompting collapse, as was the case at a school where 26 people died, most of them children.

But at Abadia’s building, the construction method was only the start of the problems: The units were designed by an architect whose license lapsed, and approved in a

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Service hours become a breeze with Mavs in Action EMMANUELLA SHOKARE Staff Writer Mavs in Action is an on-campus organization that is looking for motivated students who are interested in planning and implementing a wide variety of future volunteering hours and community service events available at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

These students go behind the scenes to plan events for other students in order to get their volunteering hours. This organization is a branch of the Community Engagement Office; it is run by students to help them create a leadership experience. They meet every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Community Engagement Office, CSU 171 in Student Activities.

Students do not get service hours from the meetings but at the meetings, they are able to sign up early to events. This is a volunteering organization which is beneficial for students who would like to have some leadership experience. It also helps develop teambuilding skills and the ability to be able to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

The goal is to “unite campus and community with the events involving community

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service and volunteering hours,” according to their webpage.

There are no requirements to join. Students can come to the meeting and see if it is something they want to be a part of. There are supervisors on board who are there to oversee everything and to help guide students through the process of planning these events and make sure that the students get everything right and in the right place.

There are also different committees within Mavs in Action that give students the

opportunity to think critically, problem solve, establish connections, work with others, and more. Students from all majors and racial backgrounds are encouraged to join.

There are approximately six members in this group so far—more members means more volunteering

and community service opportunities that can be planned and students would be able to get their hours done. New members can also apply for leadership roles within the organization, such as president, vice president, secretary and other positions that students can be a part of and have more experience in

other fields.

Students who would like to attend meetings do not need to sign up on OrgSync, but simply need to show up. This would be a great opportunity to be involved in something that would improve student communication, critical thinking, leadership, teamwork and problemsolving skills. Also, students would have the opportunity to work with people from a different background from theirs, which would prepare them for the outside world.

Students are encouraged to follow Mavs in Action on facebook via the Community Engagement Facebook page, “MNSU Community Engagement.” For more information about Mavs in Action, you can contact them by email community. engaement @mnsu.edu, through OrgSync, https:// orgsync.com/62632/chapter or http://www.mnsu.edu/ engagement/, or students can stop by the Community Engagement Office in CSU 173.

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Experts concur that the devastation caused by last month’s earthquake in the city of 8.9 million people could have been much worse had the building codes not been so strong, but it also has forced an uncomfortable conversation about their shortcomings. Now, as experts race to toughen standards to retrofit hundreds of damaged buildings, they are grappling with the reality that corruption has allowed hundreds of structures to be built outside the rules atop the soft soils of Mexico City’s ancient lakebed.

In the crisis following the 1985 quake, a group of academics, building officials and engineers drafted emergency recommendations to

strengthen Mexico City’s seismic codes, which were swiftly passed into law.

Some architects and builders were opposed to an outright ban on flat slab construction, said Miranda, who wrote reports that informed the committee.

“There were lots of builders and owners who were not going to be happy that you just stopped their construction,” said Miranda, who later served on Mexico’s code committee in the 1990s, and on committees funded by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. “These things start as technical conversations but then you run into policy and politics.”

The new codes allowed flat slab construction if

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FALL 2017 2015 CALEB HOLLDORF A&E Editor The NCAA is an organization that regulates thousands of institutions as well as the individuals involved.

Creating various laws and polices for those within a university, the NCAA is required to uphold the implemented laws and policies when one of them has been broken.

Once laws and policies are in place, individuals must follow by what is stated in the fine print or otherwise face the consequence. Yet the NCAA seems to have an interesting history of handling—more so mishandling—violations committed within their athletic umbrella, or at least cases that do not involve fraud and money.

Morality is what is in question here, and how the NCAA can more accurately account for the laws and policies in which universities must follow.

I first learned about the NCAA’s power as an organization to destroy a school’s athletic program when I saw ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary, “Pony Express.” The film chronicles the NCAA dishing out what is

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Schools in the past have since been considered to experience the same fate, but SMU is the only school to have officially received it.

Around 1986, SMU was facing allegations of players being paid large amounts of money. They were considered one of the best football powerhouses across the nation.

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More recently, there is the University of Baylor. I was a little disappointed in myself since I was unaware in finding out about what has been happening. Since about 2011 though, according to ESPN’s sport’s journalist, Stephen A. Smith, there have been 125 reports of sexual assault or harassment at Baylor from 2011 to 2015 and 19 football players have reportedly assaulted 17 women since 2011.

Upper officials within the University were accused of ignoring victims’ emails and phone calls, as well as bribing police to stay quiet about the incidences.

It baffles me how the

NCAA issues a punishment like the Death Penalty to a football program for illegally paying their athletes, yet there is a football program at Baylor with evidence of multiple women being gang raped and abused by their players and the NCAA won’t do anything.

The NCAA doesn’t have rules against those interfering with moral issues such as rape. They seem to punish schools with allegations involving money and cheating on-field versus off-field. There needs to be a heightened awareness from the NCAA to revise the policies they have in place and how to become stricter in how their universities are punished for violations.

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flat slab, although he is not convinced prohibiting the method outright would have worked.

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Photo courtesy of The Associated Press developers designed the building to be seismically stronger than structures with beams or concrete walls.

Authorities did pay enough attention to evaluating if existing flat slab structures needed a seismic retrofit, Miranda said.

“It would have been better to have insisted very much about not using flat slab,” said Roberto Meli, a renowned structural engineer who served on the code committee in 1985, and went on to head the federal Center for Disaster Protection founded after that quake.

The new codes gave more responsibility to a network of private engineers who are hired and paid by developers, and who submit structural plans to borough authorities. In practice, that means private engineers — not government experts — vet projects’ structural safety, and corruption can intervene.

“Corruption can come in many forms, from the moment someone accepts a bribe to when someone falsifies documents, or fails to present the right structural plans to borough authorities,” said Renato Berron, head of

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the Institute for the Security of Constructions of Mexico City, a city agency.

In recent decades, middleclass enclaves close to the city’s center have experienced vertiginous growth, and many unpermitted helipads and illegal, multi-floor garages have sprouted up between historic homes. In the last 15 years, residents of Abadia’s Benito Juarez borough and two others nearby have sent in the highest number of complaints about land-use violations to a city watchdog agency.

Now, those same boroughs are home to dozens of damaged buildings, according to data from the Mexican Society of Structural Engineering. Miranda, whose team compiled the data on the 44 collapses through in-person visits and detailed structural analysis, estimates that hundreds of damaged buildings were built with flat slab systems, including some built relatively recently.

Meli said he and the committee will seek to strengthen retrofitting standards first, and by early next year may reexamine

Abadia said she hopes shoddy builders will be held responsible.

MNSU’s condolences for the three German exchange students To Our University Community: The untimely loss of any member of our community fills us with sorrow. It is with a heavy heart that I share that three of our German exchange students from Friederich-AlexanderUniversitat ErlangenNurnberg were fatally injured in an automobile accident while on personal travel in Wisconsin this past Sunday evening. The students, Laura Margaret Prechtel (Marketing), Melina Sofia Orfanidis (International Business), and Christine Damer (Automotive Engineering), joined the Minnesota State Mankato community at the beginning of the fall semester for a onesemester study abroad opportunity.

We have worked closely with the German Consulate and the students’ families this past week.

Please join me in extending our deepest condolences to their families and friends, our European partner institution, and their Minnesota State Mankato friends and classmates.

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Men’s hockey lacks offense in opener, lose to SCSU 4-0 The Mavericks lose their third home opener in four years, travel to Boston next

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Sophomore Marc Michaelis (20) tries to avoid a St. Cloud State player during Saturday night’s contest at The Verizon Wireless Center. The Mavericks lost 4-0, moving theirt record to 0-1.

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer The Minnesota State Mavericks men’s hockey team faced off against the St. Cloud State Huskies over homecoming weekend, taking a tough loss in the first game of the season by a 4-0 score.

“We did some good things but right now it’s a bitter pill to swallow,” said head coach Mike Hastings. “We just got done playing a very good hockey team and we’re going to go play another one soon, so we have to get ready in a hurry.”

While the Mavericks had 42 shots on goal, the SCSU defense held up and was able to turn good defense into great offense, scoring in the first period and adding a goal in the second, followed by two more in the third. The Huskies also had versatility in their offense, with each goal being netted by a different

player and never needing to rely on one source for the scoring.

“From the bench, the one thing I regret other than losing the hockey game is not giving a crowd of 5,000 plus who took their time and spent their money, something to cheer about,” said Hastings on the opening game let down. “I think if we get them involved in the game it could, potentially be a little bit different.”

Mavericks goaltender Jason Pawloski recorded 22 saves against the Huskies 26 shots, having a rough game against an offense that stayed efficient. The particularly damning period was in the third, when the Huskies had two goals on five shots.

In the other net, Jeff Smith had 46 saves on the night. He was particularly impressive in the third period, stopping 16 shots to keep the Mavericks from any chance of a comeback.

“I don’t want to single out anybody and I want to be fair about it, I don’t want to get completely lost in that we lost the hockey game. That’s the end of it.” said Hastings.

“We’ve got be better than we

were tonight, to get shutout at home, we have to make sure that isn’t duplicated.”

After being ranked first in a preseason poll, the home loss by a wide margin is stunning.

However, this is not the team that will be lost for months on a home opener stumble. The team is returning stars like Daniel Brickley, Marc Michaelis and C.J. Suess (formerly Franklin) to the squad and will look to rebound quickly.

The Mavericks head out to the road to play the Boston University Terriers on the road in Boston on Oct. 13th and 14th. The Terriers will be another team to test the defense of the Mavericks, putting up 12 goals in three games thus far this season.

The team is 2-0-1 heading into the home stand. Minnesota State will learn a lot about their team this weekend, coming off a bad loss and having to find wins on the road will show what kind of team the Mavericks are already forming into. The Huskies head home to face Alaska Fairbanks for a twogame stint over the weekend, looking to add to their early success.

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Volleyball drops two matches against UMD, St. Cloud The Mavericks look to get back on track at home game in Taylor Center on Friday

SEAN MORAWCZYNSKI Staff Writer Mavericks volleyball dropped two in-state matches this past weekend against the University of Minnesota – Duluth and St. Cloud State. Friday’s match at the No. 6 UMD Bulldogs ended with the Mavs getting swept in three sets (13-25, 18-25 and 26-28). Saturday’s match went a little more in the Mavericks’ favor, but defeat was still the outcome against SCSU (26-24, 25-22, 23-25, 15-25 and 11-15).

Riding high after last week’s victory over MSU – Moorhead, the Mavs moved north to face a formidable opponent in UMD. The Bulldogs are ranked sixth with a 14-2 overall record with an NSIC record of 7-1, the only confer-

ence loss being to Southwest Minnesota State in Marshall.

The Bulldogs’ other loss was early in the season in their final game of the 2017 Shark Invitational, held in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

MNSU went ahead 3-0 to start the first set in Duluth, scoring off of two attack errors by the Bulldogs along with a kill from senior Jackie Jones. UMD matched the Mavericks’ opening three points with three of their own, followed by six more points only interrupted by a service error. The Bulldogs didn’t release any pressure as they continued to score; attack errors becoming the Mavericks’ worst enemy at this point. MNSU gave up nine points in this set due to either attack or service errors with the Bulldogs only giving up four to the Mavs.

Minnesota State held its own early in the second set, holding a lead until UMD tied the score at 10-10. A more efficient offense came out to play than its opening set version. The Mavericks raked in 6 kills of the first ten points

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they scored; Jones and sophomore Morgan Olson with two each to start things out.

The attack error issues returned for MNSU, losing their foothold on the Bulldogs in the second set. The Mavs offense would slightly return throughout the rest of the set and UMD committed a few errors themselves but were still able to prevail. The Mavs lost the second set 18-25.

The third and final set was Minnesota State’s best chance to take down the No. 6 Bulldogs. Both teams had their fair share of kills in the beginning of this set. The first six points scored were all kills; the set was tied at 3-3 before the first non-kill point went for the Mavs. With limited mistakes, the Mavericks held a lead over UMD for most of the entire last set.

They couldn’t hold on in the end, as the Bulldogs crept back to force extra play, ultimately defeating MNSU 2826.

Although a much more contested match, the Mavs had similar results against the St. Cloud State Universi-

ty Huskies on Saturday. This match went into five sets as the Mavericks started hot, winning the first two sets but ran out of gas in the final three to lose their second straight match of the weekend.

The Mavericks did fight back in the first set when the Huskies started with a 9-3 lead. SCSU’s offense showed up in the first set, scoring kill after kill on the Mavericks defense. MNSU became the beneficiary of attack errors against SCSU, unlike their match against the Bulldogs.

The team gradually dug into the Huskies’ lead and took a late lead off of three straight St. Cloud State errors. The Mavericks ended up winning the first set 26-24 on a SCSU attack error.

Despite efforts by the Huskies to overtake the Mavericks in the second set, MNSU stayed strong and closed it out 25-22, without letting SCSU lead at any point in the set. St. Cloud kept the Mavericks on their toes at the end but increased their late onepoint deficit, allowing MNSU

to win the second set of the match.

The Mavericks’ second set win would be their last for the match. They would have a similar story to St. Cloud’s in the third set, losing 23-25 after being down by six to start the set. The fourth set was the least productive for the Mavs in this match, unable to spark much offense they lost to the Huskies 2515. The match would officially be a loss for MNSU after the fifth set, as the Huskies held a consistent two-point lead over the Mavs in the last set to go on and win 15-11.

A bright spot in the schedule arrives on Friday Oct. 13.

The University of Minnesota – Crookston comes to the Taylor Center to take on MNSU who now have a 2-1 home record with a 9-8 record overall. The Mavericks swept the Eagles convincingly in their last meeting (16-25, 8-25 and 12-25) in Aberdeen, S.D. This will be the first conference match between the two teams. The Eagles are 1-7 in the NSIC while the Mavs sit at 3-6 in conference play.

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“The fourth quarter started and the Mavericks were quickly trying to put the game out of reach. On their first possession of the quarter, Minnesota State went 52 yards on just four plays, capped off by a 26-yard touchdown run from Nate Gunn to extend the lead 35-14. “ Vikings within 11 points.

Augustana forced a punt and was hoping they could make it a single digit deficit before halftime. This was not the case as Minnesota State

forced a key turnover that gave the Mavericks the ball inside the red zone. Only three plays later, Zylstra caught another touchdown, his second of the day, to put

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MNSU ahead 25-7 with 7:42 to go in the first half.

The Vikings did manage to find the end zone before halftime however, as just seconds remained when AU scored to make the score 25-14 at half.

The third quarter was a defensive battle as the Mavericks managed to put a field goal on the board while shutting out Augustana. The score heading into the final quarter was 28-14.

The fourth quarter started and the Mavericks were quickly trying to put the game out of reach. On their first possession of the quarter, Minnesota State went 52 yards on just four plays, capped off by a 26-yard touchdown run from Nate Gunn to extend the lead 35-14. Augustana answered back with a touchdown of their own, but that was all the fight they had in them as the Mavericks delivered the final dagger late in the game as Shane Zylstra caught his third touchdown of the game to extend the lead to 42-21, virtually eliminating

any chance Augustana had to win.

Zylstra was named NSIC offensive player of the week on Monday for his impressive performance. He ended the contest with ten receptions, 147 yards and three touchdowns.

With the win, the Mavericks improved to 6-0 on the season

and Augustana dropped to 2-4. Minnesota State begins a two-game road trip the next couple weeks as they battle Upper Iowa and Southwest Minnesota State University in the upcoming games. They will return home on Oct. 28 to defend their home turf against Winona State for the Harvest Bowl.

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The Aeneid opens Thursday on the mainstage Roots of play come from the epic Latin poem in American debut

KATIE VAN DEINSE Staff Writer

The talent is continuing to pour out of the Performing Arts building here at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

“Little Women” had their final performance this past Sunday, and another show is coming to life this week.

The Latin epic poem, Photo courtesy of MNSU Theatre Department “The Aeneid,” will be next Some of the cast from The Aeneid. up in the Andreas Theatre.

“The Aeneid” is going to crew. Originally written by flee their destroyed city of the history of MNSU. be a very special show be- Virgil, this performance is in search of finding a new The toughest spot to fill, cause it will be the Ameri- a modern retelling of the place to call home. according to the director can debut of the show, and heroic story about surEvery mainstage pro- Dr. Paul J. Hustoles, was that is extremely exciting vival. It tells the story of duction this season rep- the last. for the director, cast and a band of refugees who resents a 25-year segment “I saw a production of

“The Aeneid” and I just loved it. The actual date it was rewritten happened to be 2008. I immediately became very clever and thought this was going to count into our last slot even though the story is over 2000 years old. It all worked out very well,” he said.

Mitchell Evans, who plays Aeneas, shared why “The Aeneid” is such an important show and his favorite part about his character.

“I’d have to say my favorite part about Aeneas is getting to ride his rollercoaster of emotions and trying to immerse myself into his experiences of be-

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Blade Runner 2049 delivers a ripe sequal to the original Touches of the dystopian and neo-noir genres mix well

TIM STARMAN Staff Writer

This very ripe tomato achieves with giving homage to the classic, but lacks the authentic style it was so memorable for.

“Blade Runner 2049” is a science fiction movie starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford. It is a hit with critics getting a very ripe 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. This film is the sequel to the famous cult-following “Blade Runner”.

Both films are based in future LA; the first movie took place in the year 2019 and the sequel in 2049. Both stories are

Ryan Gosling as Office K

based around the engineering of “replicants” who are equally as intelligent as humans. At first a very straightforward idea becomes very philosophical.

“Blade Runner 2049”

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press

is stunning. Every frame and scene is a visual piece of art. Each scene is well motivated and has its own color palette that is as interesting as the next. One of the most impressive aspects of the film is the

ability to modernize the original, while making the view feel at home in dystopian LA. It is as if the story got a facelift but remains in the same body.

The amount of homage to the first film is immense.

The environment is almost identical to the original, large neon billboards the likes of Coca-Cola and Atari. For example, new Blade Runner Officer K (Gosling) brings a new generation and edginess to the series, while showing the same mannerisms that Deckard had in the original. “Blade Runner 2049” shows reminiscent quirks while giving fans a fresh narrative.

“Blade Runner “ was praised heavily for being an ideal example of neo-noir. This is a direct correlation to film noir, French for black film. The movie came off impressively modern for the early

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Book review: Committed by Elizabeth Gilbert Topics of marriage, expectations and surprises explored

RACHAEL JAEGAR Staff Writer

Over the summer, I read the book “Committed” by Elizabeth Gilbert who also wrote “Eat, Pray, Love”—a popular novel that became so popular that it got turned into a movie in 2010.

Gilbert burns with a fervent desire for freedom and her eight chapters of “Committed” fall into different topics related to marriage: “Marriage and Surprises,” “Marriage and Expectation,” “Marriage and History”—to name only a few.

Summer feels like a dream that has faded away by now, but I needed time to think about what I wanted to say because the book struck me as so powerful. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say so I needed

time to think about it and what I want to say has to do with dreams. Because like summer, they, too, can fade and we might wonder where they went if we don’t pay attention.

We all have dreams. In “Committed,” Gilbert examines how difficult it can be, especially a woman, to achieve them for the expectations that burden her.

Gilbert expands on some of the stories when she walks her readers through the different lives women have in the cultures and traditions in the countries she visited.

One of Gilbert’s highlights is about society and its expectations to keep it strong which includes women raising families while the men worked. She discusses her observations of a young couple, 21 and

19, she had befriended in southeast Asia. The couple lived a simple lifestyle and the man worked hard for both of them especially since they were expecting a baby.

In the same village that they lived in, more young women were becoming aware of the opportunities that lay ahead of them. Instead of marrying young and keeping the population going, the women had discovered the benefits education provided and so many were starting to pursue them and sometimes leaving the village for good. That began to concern the older people and leaders of what they considered to be “Western world problems.” One woman even asked Gilbert if she knew a rich educated man from America who

AENEID Continued from page 10 ing a refugee trying to find a new home. It really kind of re-wires preconceived notions about people whose actual lives fall similar to this story,” he said. “I think this is such an important role surrounded by such an important show that I hope teaches its audience(s) empathetic intelligence, by showing part of what life’s really like for people experiencing this every day. Especially where we are as a people and a country right now,

I find both my role and this show so relevant.”

Hustoles is enjoying his time directing this incredibly powerful show and getting to do things a little differently.

“This was an experimentation and in many ways the story is like a film. Set changes are instantaneous. It is all about the story,” he said.

The show will run for two weekends, opening Thursday, Oct. 12 and closing on Sunday, Oct. 22. Tickets are available

to purchase for any show online at http://www. mnsu.edu/theatre/, over the phone at 507-3896661, or at the box office Monday-Friday from 4 to 6:00 p.m. Regular tickets for “The Aeneid “ sell for $16, discounted for $14, and $11 for Minnesota State University, Mankato students.

“The Diary of Anne Frank” will be next up on the mainstage, directed by Heather Hamilton. That production will open Thursday, Nov. 2.

2049 Continued from page 10 80s, shocking young eyes excited to see what the future would really be like.

But beyond this amazing technology and VFX, the film is rooted in the noir style. Narrative story telling style through voice over and every shot being drenched in lowlights is all the evidence you need.

Where “Blade Runner” exceeds, “Blade Runner 2049” fails. The new addition is reminiscent of its predecessor, but is not grounded in neo-noir.

Most scenes are bright

with a solid color and only hinting at shots that are examples of neo-noir. It is as if they wanted to trick the audience without putting the effort in production to execute the style.

Overall, “Blade Runner 2049” is fantastic. The narrative is original and visually you can’t get any cooler.

Unfortunately with every pro there is often a con.

This film is just too long.

The editor could have cut out 60 minutes out of the 164. By doing this cut the narrative would make

more sense. By being so long it is hard for even the most cunning to stay attentive throughout.

“Blade Runner 2049” is a must see if you are interested in the genre. Stick this movie out and it will make a mark. This story is rather confusing and loses focus, so I suggest a few viewings to really understand this complex film.

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would want to marry her daughter.

In “Part Five: Marriage and Women,” Gilbert also dives into personal stories of her mother and grandmother, comparing and contrasting the two. Her grandmother traveled and saved her own money before she married, including buying a wine-colored coat decked out with fur. Later to ensure she met all of her seven children’s needs, she cut up her coat so she could sew clothes for them during The Depression.

Gilbert’s mom also worked at Planned Parenthood as a nurse but when Gilbert and her sister became sick, she gave up her career.

Why? Because their father had no willingness to assist their mother with their care and lacked the insight of how to care for them like she did.

Once Gilbert believed she had found freedom in her new life with her lover Felipe, her grandmother asked her if she would “get married and have children and stop writing books.”

That felt like a dagger to Gilbert’s heart, which is how I would take it, too.

Nobody can mess around with the matters of the

heart and when you write from the heart, it is an insult. But when someone like me can see it from the grandmother’s point of view, she is concerned about her granddaughter.

But here’s one problem: what one person’s happiness is does not equal the same amount for another.

Here’s another problem: society has its ideas of what will make a woman happy and it includes family and it means putting them first before yourself to the point that you lose yourself. That often becomes a detriment for marriage since women may feel stifled because of all their giving and not having something they do that they can take pride in.

I recommend this book for any woman, no matter who they are, what their background is, and where they wish to go in life. Even though I have thought about the topics Gilbert relayed through her stories, I learned something new: I’m not alone in my struggles in my future decisions, especially when it comes to relationships and what I view as my own path.

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