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Toughest questions proposed at annual “Grill the Bishop” Students get ready to dig into questions on theology, Christianity, and bishop life.

ALISSA THIELGES Staff Writer The St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center is welcoming Bishop John Quinn to their Theology on Tap night this Wednesday at 7 p.m. in an event called “Grill the Bishop.”

This event is a twist on the Newman Center’s annual “Grill the Priest,” where a priest or two would be asked questions from students.

This time, Bishop Quinn will be in the spotlight and available for questions.

Students can come ready to ask about anything they have questions about, from the Catholic Church and Christian teachings, to what life as a bishop is like.

“It’s open to any kind of questions and discussions about the Catholic faith,”

said Father Jason Kern, the priest at the Newman Center.

The idea to invite Bishop Quinn to the Newman Center began back in August, when Joe Bakken, the Center’s Campus Minister, first suggested it.

“Joe suggested that we do a ‘Grill the Bishop,’ and he meant it as a joke, but I said, ‘Let’s try’,” said Father Kern.

Bakken said they’ve had a lot of events in the past that have always been popular and students have liked them.

“We thought it would be interesting to see if the bishop would even be available to come,” he said.

“And he was.”

After e-mailing the bishop’s secretary a range of dates, he responded with one that he said would work, stating that he was eager to come and spend the day here on campus.

“He loves seeing the college students and talking with them, being able to share the church’s teachings,” Father Kern said.

Students will be asked to

Photo Courtesy of Catholic Mavs write their questions down on pieces of paper and then will be collected. In order to save time, similar questions will be condensed or combined together so as many questions as possible can be answered.

Bakken said they are planning on fifty to a hundred people to attend, but are hoping for more, especially with such a special guest.

“It’s not very often that the bishop, the head of our diocese, is going to be coming down and there is

an opportunity to ask him questions about the Catholic Church and learn from him,” he said.

Previous “Theology on Tap” event themes have been talks on theology of the body, angels, the ethics in health care, the Church’s understanding of sexuality, drug and alcohol addictions, and beauty. The Newman Center tries to find “dynamic speakers” who not only dive into a topic that interests people, but also help students learn and grow

through knowledge of the church, said Bakken. The topics are usually relevant to today’s culture.

“Hopefully, it gets the students thinking more about theology and faith, and asking good questions so they can pursue some of that,” he said.

The event is free and open to everyone. The night will include free pizza and 1919 root beer to anyone who attends and will take place in Halloran Hall at the Newman Center.

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Volunteering Mavs: Get your animal fix at BENCHS From dog walking to crafting, BENCHS won’t keep fun on a leash.

KALEB NORTH Staff Writer

When I moved to the Mankato area to attend MNSU, I quickly found I had some free-time. I began working part-time, would exercise, and made sure to schedule time with family and peers. But they weren’t always available. As a result, I had to find other ways to occupy my time.

This article and a few others that follow, will share different volunteering opportunities in the local area. Some of these opportunities are well known, while others are obscure and do not receive a lot of coverage.

In the spring of 2012, I found BENCHS’ Regional Pet Shelter as I was bike riding the Rex Macbeth River Trail, which is situated directly behind the shelter.

“BENCHS is an acronym for Blue Earth Nicollet County Humane Society. Riverside Regional Pet Shelter is the name of the building we live in,” said Terri Hanson, Dog Adoption Specialist at BENCHS. The shelter is home to 18 dog kennels and 13 cat condos.

One of my favorite pasttimes in Mankato is dog

(CC BY-NC 2.0) by The Bees walking at BENCHS. After completing a generic volunteer application and waiver, new volunteers attend an orientation session. The orientation is held on Dog Walking Days, 3:15 p.m.

Dog walking days during the months of March 01November 01 are MondayWednesday from 3:30 p.m.6:00 p.m.

In addition to the orientation, the shelter holds a dog walking training session several times a year.

The training is conducted by Shannon Lloyd, a local and professional dog trainer.

“Shannon trains the

certified dog walkers. They are an advanced group of committed volunteers who are able to dog walk throughout the entirety of the day. This is great for people who have busy or unpredictable work schedules,” said Terri.

The hour and a half training session is rather educational.

Shannon uses one of the canines from the shelter as a training aid. Lecture topics include proper approaches to introducing yourself to a new dog, leash handling techniques, and methods to prevent aggressive dogs from fighting.

Other volunteering

opportunities are available at the shelter as well. The shelter’s “Adopt-a-Condo” program is quite popular. The program allows volunteers to visit one of the 13 cat condos and spend time with the condo tenants.

After socializing with the condo inhabitants, the volunteer then cleans the space, refills water and food.

Before departing though, volunteers make sure to properly say goodbye to each member of the condo.

The volunteers can sign up for as many condos or days as they like. I typically fulfill

my Caturday fix on Saturdays.

Besides fulfilling my passion for writing with The MSU Reporter, I also write for the BENCHS Monthly E-Newsletter. The shelter is always welcoming any and all writers to help with the monthly content.

General cleaner positions are available as well, like helping to clean and put away laundry, cleaning dog kennels etc. A receptionist, who is customer service oriented, normally greets and directs volunteers around the shelter. Crafters are welcomed too for all who can sew, knit and crochet blankets, beds and toys for the shelter’s residents. If your apartment or house allows pets, you may also foster a kitten, cat, puppy or dog.

If you’re an animal lover, volunteering at BENCHS does not feel like volunteer work. I have introduced many students, peers and family members to the shelter who have either adopted or have volunteered there over the years. Not to mention, it’s a great date idea to take your girlfriend or boyfriend to, or that cute girl/guy in your class who you’ve been meaning to ask out.

MNSU homecoming royalty crowned at coronation Duo Spencer Sulflow and Courtney Sill take home coveted royalty title.

ELLYN GIBBS Staff Writer A dynamic series of lip sync routines created an energetic atmosphere for the Homecoming coronation on Oct. 6, in Bresnan Arena.

Students had from Monday

morning through Wednesday night to vote for their homecoming royalty from a pool of ten candidates.

Spencer Sulflow and Courtney Sill chose to run for homecoming as a team, and both won the majority vote. Sulflow is a junior majoring in exercise science with a minor emphasis in prephysical therapy. Sill is also a junior majoring in physical education and health science with developmental adaptive physical education.

“Courtney and I have been friends since our freshmen year and we’re both in the honors program,” said Sulflow.

Their long-las ting friendship from freshmen to juniors is an accurate illustration of connections formed in the #Mavfam.

Once a Mav, always a Mav, and the people you meet at Minnesota State University, Mankato often remain friends for life.

“This is a total blessing and

a cool way to represent the school,” said Sill, who wore a black lace overlay gown and held her homecoming bouquet – purple and gold carnations and sunflowers – loosely on one arm. “It’s also a chance to reach out to a lot of people and inspire other people to want to be students – to want to be Mavericks. And if you know me – you know I’m not afraid to talk to anybody!”

Sill is obviously well loved by the student body, as

numerous students, family, and friends swarmed up to snap photos with her. She was sincerely excited to receive congratulations from everyone who crowded around.

Sill was especially thankful to her community from Crawford, a hall of 700

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RACHAEL JAEGER Staff Writer On-Campus Smoking Last Wednesday, the Minnesota State Student Association addressed the issue of smoking on-campus as it has become a violation of the policy and unless the students file a complaint about the issue, the Student Senate is powerless to do anything about it.

The students were asked how many have seen smokers, and a show of hands went up.

The other MSSA members and the students were asked how many disapproved of smoking.

An equal amount of hands, if not more, were raised.

Currently, a member of the senate is working on the smoking policy through the MSSA. A meeting on Friday at noon was set to discuss concerns further.

Rugby Team Later on in the meeting, the MSSA set the record

straight in regards to why the men’s football rugby club had been cancelled. Part of the miscommunication that occurred had to do with the exchange of emails and Facebook messages sent between two students, Nick Price and Ashley Hertter.

Last Wednesday, Hertter visited to share her side of the issue and to act as representative for the men’s football rugby club. Yet it did not fulfill the requirement to attend the MSSA meeting as she later stated that she could not be responsible for the men’s football rugby team or someone from the men’s football rugby team could not act on behalf for the women.

However, Hertter stated the facts, starting with an explanation that, for a recreational student club to be recognized, the members had to go through a twostep process. After she had emailed the details about that, she heard back from

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“Spencer Sulflow and Courtney Sill chose to run for homecoming as a team, and both won the majority vote.” residents, who banded together to support her in any way that they could, even volunteering time to table for her in the CSU. Sulflow, suited up and wearing shoes like mirrors for the ceremony, said he had not been one hundred percent confident he would win.

“I honestly had no idea,” he said.

He mentioned that while other candidates for homecoming king are involved in fraternities and had their fraternities rooting for them, Sulflow is not a member of a fraternity, but instead, a lot of random clubs. Thankfully for Sulflow, these clubs banded together and casted their votes.

Cru, a Christian

organization, is one campus group in which Sulflow is highly involved. He has a confident faith in God and is unafraid to explain those beliefs to others. “[God] works in such marvelous ways that he is able to use something as simple as me running for homecoming king to reveal his glory. We are all broken and searching for something, and Jesus is the only way that ‘something’ will be satisfied,” Sulflow said.

Acceptance and passion are only two of the qualities which made Sulflow and Sill ideal figureheads as homecoming royalty, and allowed them to inspire the rest of the Maverick family to greatness.

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Price but the representative, Daniel Griese, who was supposed to be included on the roster list, but was not.

Each member needed to be included on a roster which required each student’s tech identification.

After Hertter researched the history, she provided additional explanations. Back in 2014, Griese was initially included as the representative for the football rugby team from January to March and rejoined in Fall 2015. That was around the time Price was coming off the roster which was when Hertter had bluntly called him off but to which she apologized for. She discovered, as she had dug deeper into the computer records that when Price was cleaning out the portal while he trying to update the rooster, some technical issues arose that somehow deleted Grease. On Sept. 25, however, Griese suddenly got back on.

That’s when the MSSA ordered the prosecution to rest and allowed Price to take the defense. On Sept. 13, Hertter had asked Price to update to five new members on the roster. Price said he had done that over Facebook

with the MSU identifiers.

Because Griese had taken a year off from the club, he failed to register again and seek a new representative.

Price also missed orientation but neglected to seek a replacement.

“I have a question I think is important to ask,” said Mark. “...It was my understanding that there wasn’t a waiver form in the campus rec office for Daniel Griese when other waivers had been turned in for other officers as well. Can you explain why he hadn’t had a waiver form in the office if he was supposed to be on the team?”

Price responded that the mascot selection was the one responsible for waivers and travel itinerates, and constantly communicates with the union so they know what time the team plans to travel. Price said that he had turned in stacks of waivers which he delegates to the mascot since he is in and out of the office.

Price said he also hands them out during practice times but if the student football rugby players fail to bring their insurance card, they give the waivers back.

So Price said it is easy for

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him to lose track of who has turned in waivers and who has not.

“We were going to ask the other officers if he had one but at this point, it’s extremely suspicious that all of a sudden yesterday he turns in a waiver that was dated at the time it was filled out,” Price said. “I don’t know. It just doesn’t look good. That’s really the only thing I have to say.”

President Faical Rayani asked if Griese had paid the mandatory dues for the football rugby club membership.

Price said Grease has not paid the dues since he assists with fundraising.

“We don’t ask every player that they have to turn in their dues or they can’t play,” Price said. “That goes against what a RSO is. That would be just financially discriminating.”

Instead Price said the club has recently set up a type of fundraiser for anyone who can bring money in for the club in separate ways, it counts towards those dues.

Regardless, the MSSA voted that this year, the men’s football rugby team has been put on hold until next semester.

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Escape from the land of screens Opinion

LUKE LARSON Staff Writer We spend far too much time staring into the bottomless pit of our laptops and phones. Perhaps it’s not quite the uniquely Internet Age dilemma we think it is.

Was our parents’ generation any less addicted to the TV? Or their grandparents’ generation to the radio? I suppose it doesn’t help that our source of addiction is no further than our pocket.

Whatever the case may be, it’s an issue and one that we would do well to address as a society and in our own personal lives.

An article by Kelly Wallace for CNN cites a poll conducted by Common Sense Media which found that 50 percent of teens feel addicted to their phones and 80 percent of them check their phones at least hourly.

The detrimental effects of excessive screen time are abundantly evident. I’ve found my reading attention span (and maybe my attention span in general, to some extent) isn’t what it was when I was a kid. Years of surfing the instant gratification-

driven Internet, jumping from article to article has taken its toll on me.

The social impact is undeniable, as well. It seems the more that technology has facilitated communication, the more opportunity it has given us to isolate ourselves.

Before class begins, most students are not having conversations and building new relationships with those around them – they’re buried in their phones.

We’d often rather send a text than have a real, face-toface conversation. We prefer to hide in the virtual world behind the screen rather than interact with the real world that surrounds us (making the prospect of virtual reality all the more terrifying.) We allow our devices to eat so much time out of our day. How I long for the days when I could do homework without Facebook’s incessant siren song.

There are many productive, worthwhile ways to use technology, but so often it’s not used in moderation. It interferes with the things that matter most to us, like school, hobbies, and work. Studies have even shown that various forms of screen addiction can even produce negative physiological impacts on the brain, according to an article

by Victoria Dunckley for Psychology Today. Examples include loss of brain tissue volume and “impaired cognitive functioning.”

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The first step to combatting excessive screen time is discipline. Though I didn’t enjoy it at the time, I’m glad now that my parents enforced rules on the amount of time I spent on the computer and watching TV. These days it takes self-motivation, but I also understand the value of it now.

Create rules for yourself. If you don’t take the initiative, nothing will change.

Currently, I’m only using Facebook on Sundays. You could try checking your phone no more than once an hour or committing to no more than one episode on Netflix a day. An article by Tova Payne for lifehack.org

suggests simple steps such as staying off your phone for the first half hour after you wake up and create “no-phone time zones” – chunks of the day when phone use is offlimits. The key is to make sure the goals are realistic. Setting a goal that you can’t keep is no different than setting no goal at all.

In addition to restricting yourself, set positive goals too. Have one conversation with someone you haven’t talked to in a class. Instead of another top 10 list online, go to the library and check out a real book to read.

Take five minutes and examine the ways screen time is negatively affecting your life. Set a handful of goals for this week. If you have five minutes to scroll through your Twitter feed, you have five minutes to take steps to make a positive change in your habits.

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“The Internet, like Snapchat.”

“My phone, the news app that comes with my phone.”

“Social media, Facebook.”

“Twitter and Snapchat.”

“My Twitter and the Yahoo news app on my phone.”

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Unlike first, second debate doesn’t set viewership record NEW YORK (AP) — An estimated 66.5 million people watched the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, down from the record-setting audience who saw their first match but on par with the ObamaRomney contests four years ago.

The first debate reached a total of 84 million viewers, more than for any other presidential debate on record, the Nielsen company said on Monday. The previous record of 80.6 million had been set for the only debate between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan in 1980.

In 2012, an estimated 65.6 million people watched the second debate between President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, after 67.2 million saw their first debate.

On Sunday, the two candidates were competing against the NFL’s prime-time contest between the Green Bay Packers and the New York Giants, which was seen by 16.6 million people on NBC. A football game aired

opposite the first debate, too, but it was on cable’s ESPN and reached only 8 million people.

Sunday ’s debate, moderated tightly by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC News’ Martha Raddatz, was dominated early by questions surrounding Trump’s lewd conversation with Billy Bush in a recently resurfaced “Access Hollywood” outtake.

In another clip getting wide airplay on Monday, Trump tells Clinton that “you’d be in jail” if he were elected.

Raddatz on Monday said she could feel the tension in the room from the start.

“When they came together at the beginning and didn’t shake hands, you knew you were in for a long evening,” she said on “Good Morning America” on Monday.

The candidates shook hands at the end, following a disarming question from an audience member, who asked each candidate if they could think of one thing positive to say about the other.

Raddatz and Cooper received generally good

reviews for their sharp questioning and attempts to keep the candidates in line. Trump complained at times about not being treated fairly. At one point, when Trump objected to the Obama administration signaling in advance about an attack on ISIS positions in Iraq, Raddatz interjected with possible reasons for this tactic, including warning civilians to get out of harm’s way.

On Monday, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted this message: “Was Martha Raddatz the worst moderator of all time?

All signs point to YES.” With 16.5 million viewers, CBS led all networks in audience. Sunday is traditionally a strong night for CBS, and the network benefited from NBC’s withdrawal from the political competition.

CNN had 11.2 million viewers and Fox News Channel had 9.9 million, essentially flip-flopping their positions from the first debate. While that may be a reflection of a CNN personality serving

as a moderator Sunday, it may also be an ominous sign of growing disinterest in the contest among Fox’s Republican-dominated fan

base. A Fox personality, Chris Wallace, moderates the scheduled third and final debate Oct. 19.

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After hurricane, chaos lingers in water-logged N. Carolina LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — With floodwaters from Hurricane Matthew on the rise, at least one North Carolina city appeared near chaos Monday, its police station shuttered and sporadic gunfire in the air, and authorities worried that more communities could end up the same way.

The storm is gone, but it left behind a water-logged landscape where flooding was expected to persist for the rest of the week. At least three rivers were forecast to reach record levels, some not cresting until Friday. In many areas, the scene resembled a repeat of Hurricane Floyd, which caused $3 billion in damage and destroyed 7,000 homes as it skirted the coast in 1999.

Officials were concerned that other cities could suffer the fate of Lumberton, a community of 22,000 people about 80 miles from the ocean.

The Rev. Volley Hanson worried that stress from the lack of running water and electricity might push people over the edge. Robeson County, which includes Lumberton, had North Carolina’s highest violent crime rate in 2014.

“The cash is going to be running out. We’ve already got street vendors hawking water, Cokes and cigarettes.

Cigarettes are at seven bucks a pack,” Hanson said. “It’s nuts here, and it’s going to get worse.”

The storm killed more than 500 people in Haiti and at least 23 in the U.S. — nearly half of them in North Carolina.

Photo Courtesy of The Associated Press At least three people were missing.

The full extent of the disaster in North Carolina was still unclear, but it appeared that thousands of homes were damaged, and more were in danger of flooding.

One silver lining may be that emergency planners now have sophisticated models that can precisely determine a river’s crest and pinpoint which buildings will be flooded. But even those models have their limits. They cannot predict when a levee or a dam will fail. A levee in Lumberton appeared to fail overnight, but officials later concluded that floodwaters had flowed around it.

About 1,500 people had to be rescued early Monday.

Most of them were in kneedeep water, but some fled to rooftops as the brown waters swirled around them.

Rescuers still have not made it to all the submerged cars or figured out exactly

how many people are missing or dead, county Emergency Management Direc tor Stephanie Chavis said.

“I’ve been here right at 28 years,” Chavis said. “This seems to be the worst one we’ve had in my career.”

Damien Mosher and his fiance were trying to make it to their coastal home in South Carolina but were detoured to Lumberton because Interstate 95 — a major artery for the East Coast — was closed. Shelters turned them away because of their two dogs so they ended up in the police department parking lot, listening to occasional gunfire around them. The department’s doors were locked and most of the 75 or so officers were out helping with traffic or rescues.

The Lumber River crested 4 feet above its record level Sunday in Lumberton and was forecast to remain there until Saturday.

River flooding was

happening in other places, too. In the tiny town of Nichols, South Carolina, downstream from Lumberton, at least 100 people spent the night on the third floor of the town hall.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory pleaded with residents to heed evacuation orders and to be careful. The seven-day forecast of clear, cooler weather was good for cleanup, but might lure people into a false sense of security.

“This is going to be a prolonged hurricane for us even though the skies are blue,” the governor said.

Engineers had no estimate on when I-95 would reopen.

Driving was difficult, if not impossible because hundreds of roads were closed, in some cases isolating entire towns.

Dozens of school districts and East Carolina University canceled classes for the entire week. Nearly 1 million people in North Carolina and South Carolina were without power, two days after the

eye of the hurricane moved out to sea.

In addition to the 11 deaths in North Carolina, there were five in Florida and three each in Georgia and South Carolina. One death was reported in Virginia.

Authorities in coastal Georgia and South Carolina warned residents it may take days or even weeks to restore electricity and clean up all the debris. People who tried to go home but were blocked by authorities who said the damage was still too severe grew increasingly frustrated.

Maureen Miller, her family and dog finally did make it back to their coastal Georgia home. She now wishes she hadn’t listened to the dire warnings to leave or drown after finding her house unscathed.

“I will never evacuate again,” Miller said. “If we stayed, we’d be fine. I’m sure there are a lot of people who feel the same way.”

Matthew’s flooding in North Carolina was made worse by heavy rains in September. Many areas east of I-95 got at least twice their normal amount of rain in September, in part because the remnants of Tropical Storm Julia parked off the coast for several days.

That’s a lot like what happened with Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Weeks of heavy rain preceded the storm.

“Floyd.

That’s what everybody is saying,” said Blake Griswold, who was at a park watching a creek flow over its banks. “That was a 100-year flood. It’s been 16 years, and we have another one.”

Nancy O’Dell: Locker room no excuse for Trump LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Entertainment Tonight” host Nancy O’Dell says women shouldn’t be objectified, even in the locker room.

In remarks to air Monday on the entertainment news show, O’Dell addressed crude, taped comments made about her by GOP presidential contender Donald Trump in 2005 and his response to their release.

Referring to a statement issued Saturday, O’Dell repeated her assertion that “there is no room for objectification of women” or anyone. She then added, “not even in the locker room.”

During Sunday ’s debate with Democratic contender Hillary Clinton, Trump dismissed his taped

remarks to then-”Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush as “locker room talk.”

The candidate apologized for the vulgar banter, which included his assertion that he tried and failed to sleep with a married woman he called “Nancy.”

“Access Hollywood” has identified O’Dell as the woman Trump referred to.

In the recording that was published Friday by The Washington Post and NBC News, Trump also said, “When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything,” adding, “Grab them by the p----. You can do anything.”

Bush, now with NBC’s “Today,” has been suspended from the job he started just two months ago.

In her remarks Monday, O’Dell says she’s been a journalist for 26 years and “it is my job to bring you news about others rather than turning the focus on myself.”

But the release of the tape that’s become national news and part of the presidential race has “thrown me in the middle of the political arena of which I didn’t ask to be a part,” O’Dell said.

In her weekend statement, she said “it was disappointing to hear such objectification of women.

The conversation needs to change because no female, no person, should be the subject of such crass comments, whether or not cameras are rolling.”

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Winner named at annual giant pumpkin weigh-off in California lives outside O l y m p i a, Was hington, said her pumpkin grew steadily since she planted it in April, spending much of that time in a greenhouse with heated soil. She said the secret to growing giant pumpkins is using the right seed.

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Cindy Tobeck, 42, who Tobeck beat out more than

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Mavericks, Huggins too much for Huskies Minnesota State cruises to 2-0 start in 2016-2017 season.

COLT JOHNSON Staff Writer The 19th ranked Minnesota State Mavericks men’s hockey team swept the 17th ranked Michigan Tech Huskies last weekend in a twogame series that has them starting the season off fast and strong.

After starting off the 2015 season with five consecutive losses, the Mavericks attempted to reverse course for the start of the 2016 season. The Mavericks were able to sweep Michigan Tech in a two-game home stint where

Reporter Archives Senior goaltender Cole Huggins looked spectacular in the opening series, letting up a single goal in 46 shots on goal.

Minnesota State outscored the Huskies 7-1, shutting out Michigan Tech in the second game of the series. Mavericks’ Head Coach Mike Hastings was happy with the results over the weekend, and the performance of Senior goaltender Cole Huggins.

The Centennial, Colorado native made 45 saves and earned Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) defensive player of the week for his contributions.

“Yeah, we’ll take that,” Hastings said. “I think [Michigan] Tech made a push. I thought Huggins was good, he stopped the ones he should and a couple he shouldn’t and we’re going to

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Minnesota State notches two shutouts Soccer has won their past six of seven matches in shutout fashion.

COREY YUMAN Staff Writer Minnesota State’s soccer team, led by goalkeeper Alexa Rabune and forward Morgan Cottew, posted two shutout victories over Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) opponents over this past weekend. They opened up the weekend with a home game vs. Wayne State and followed that up with an away game at Augustana.

The Mavericks are now sitting with a 7-3-1 record having won six out of their last seven games with shut out victories.

The weekend’s victories puts the women at 6-2 in the NSIC and fourth place overall in the conference standings.

“We really have been focusing on taking one game at a time and just giving everything we can into the game at hand and I think that is what we did this past weekend and will continue to do throughout the rest of the season,” Rabune said.

Opening up the weekend last Friday at home versus Wayne State, the Mavericks worked out a 4-0 win. The women got off to a very quick start and scored three of their four goals in the first half of play.

Alesha Duccini got things started seven minutes into the game when she nailed a goal off an assist from Abby Hausken.

Cottew got her first points of the weekend on an unassisted goal just over 20 minutes in. Cottew went on to contribute two assists on the final two goals of the game.

Cottew’s first assist went to Kiana Nickel just four minutes

after the previous goal. The game went into the half with the Mavericks holding onto a dominating lead of 3-0.

At the 60-minute mark, MSU struck again when Cottew assisted Julia Mixon for the team’s fourth and final goal of the game.

Rabune got the win with two saves in the game. Minnesota State outshot Wayne State on goal, 8-2.

The Mavericks then hit the road on Sunday to play at Augustana. The Mavericks once again notched a 4-0 win.

They did not quite get off to the quick start that they did against Wayne State, but the women still showed a quickness to getting to the goal. At exactly 24 minutes, Cottew got the first goal of the game off assists from Nickel and Duccini. Just over eleven minutes later, Cottew would make her presence felt once again off another assist from Duccini which gave the Mav-

ericks a 2-0 lead as they headed into half-time.

As the second half began, roles would be reversed a bit and Minnesota State’s third goal came from Duccini off of an assist from Cottew. Just over a minute later, Nickel scored the fourth goal that came unassisted.

Rabune got the shutout win with three saves. It also marks her fourth shutout of the season. Minnesota State has started three goalies in the season and between the three they have combined for seven shutouts.

“I’ve learned a lot from playing and practicing with them. We all really work hard during practices keeping it super fun and competitive,” Rabune said on learning from fellow goalkeeper teammates Ryann Rydeen and Taylor Livermore.

Minnesota State had 12 shots on goal to Augustana’s three.

Cottew led the team in points with nine from her three goals and three assists.

Duccini has also been making her presence felt thus far and is tied for second with Nickel for most goals this year with six on the team. Her 16 points on the year has in her third place, behind only Seniors Nickel and Cottew.

“I think we have found our footing in the season. We just keep taking it day-by-day and treat the next game like it’s the biggest one yet,” said Rabune.

The Mavericks will continue NSIC action as they prepare for a big week that will see them play three games against conference opponents on the road. They will play Concordia-St. Paul on Wednesday in St. Paul; Minnesota State-Moorhead on Saturday in Moorhead and Northern State on Sunday in Aberdeen, S.D.

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Mavs walk all over Concordia-St. Paul MNSU dominates from start to finish in annual Homecoming game.

JAMES ANDERSEN Staff Writer The Minnesota State University football team beat up on Concordia-St. Paul on Saturday by a score of 45-10.

This latest win marks the sixthstraight homecoming win for the Mavericks, and they performed in front of crowd of 6,123 fans, the sixth-largest attendance in school history.

MSU now holds a 4-2 overall record, and a 1-1 record among the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) South opponents. As for the Golden Bears of Concordia-St. Paul, they’re looking at a 2-4 overall record and an 0-2 division record after the loss.

Offensively, Saturday went smoothly for the Mavs as they racked up 484 total yards.

291 of those yards were through the air, led by junior quarterback Nick Pieruccini, who threw for 197 yards and two scores. Senior Ricky Lloyd and freshman Ryan Schlichte each contributed to the passing game, as they both had a touchdown pass each.

It was a platoon of receivers that made a signifi-

Photo by David Bassey Junior tight end Erik Fuller stretches across the goal-line for one of his two touchdowns during Saturday afternoon’s contest against the Golden Bears at Blakeslee Stadium. into a reliable target for the Mavs as he also caught two touchdown passes in the second half.

The Mavericks were hard to stop on the ground as they compiled for 193 total yards, with an average of 6 yards per rush. Senior Virgil Hammond

Photo by David Bassey Junior quarterback Nick Pieruccini looks to get up field against Concordia-St. Paul’s defense. cant contribution this week.

Ten players all had at least one catch, and the receiving corps was led by Junior tight end Erik Fuller who had four catches for 65 yards and two touchdowns. Redshirt freshman wide receiver Shane Zylstra is continuing to develop

led the way with 115 yards, the third time he’s reached 100 yards rushing in his career at MSU. Senior running back Isaac Rodriguez also had a significant contribution to the Maverick run game as he finished with 41 yards on twelve attempts and a rushing touch-

down to go along with it. All three of the MSU quarterbacks that played combined for 37 yards on the ground.

Pieruccini gave the praise to the offensive linemen, stating “Most importantly, we were able to control the line of scrimmage up front and opened up stuff for us in the passing game.”

The Maverick defense played terrifically against the Golden Bears as they gave up 254 total yards, with 128 on the ground and 126 through the air.

“For starters we held them to only 10 points and I was proud how our defensive backs have responded,” stated Senior linebacker Marcus Gooden.

Senior linebacker Ruben Ibarra was making plays all over the field, as he notched a game-high twelve tackles.

Another impact player on the defense was sophomore Zach Dodge, as he tallied three tackles behind the line of scrimmage. Senior Alec Vesper and sophomores Michael Palme and Jayme LaPlante each got a sack as well.

The Mavericks also got a lot of help from special teams this week as they were able to block a punt and return it back for a touchdown. Freshman place kicker Anders Gelecinskyj also notched a field goal, making it four made field goals on the season.

The next opponent on the Mavericks’ schedule is Augustana University out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Like the Mavericks, they are 4-2 overall with a 1-1 South Division record. Their latest game was a 44-31 win against Wayne State College. MSU last played Augustana in the 2015 homecoming game as the Mavericks edged them out, 35-27.

This season, the Vikings are prolific on offense as they are the top-scoring team in the NSIC averaging 43 points per game. They’re second in the league in passing offense as they throw for an average of 328.7 yards per game. They are also ranked 10th in the conference in rushing yards

per game with 149.8.

The Vikings’ offense is led

by Senior Quarterback Trey Heid, as he leads the team in both passing with 1,834 yards and 21 touchdowns, also in the rushing category with 328 yards and four touchdowns.

The Vikings also have a pair of running backs that will have an impact in the run and pass game with junior Jackie Davis, who leads the team in rushing touchdowns with 5, and sophomore Caden Quintanilla.

The receiving corps is led by a couple of Lakeville, Minn.

Seniors in wide-outs Matt Heller and Charlie Hayes.

Heller seems to be Heid’s top target as the wide out leads the team with 797 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Defensively, they are right in the middle of the conference in total defense, giving up 400.2 yards per game.

Passing wise, they give up around 211 yards, and 189.2 rushing yards per game. The team is anchored by sophomore linebacker Kirby Hora, as he leads the team with 62 tackles. Another impact defensive player is Senior defensive lineman Bryson Hamilton who leads the team in sacks with 3.

Augustana will host the Mavericks on their homecoming week, which is cleverly called ‘Vikings Days.’ Kick-off is set for 1 p.m. Saturday, October 15.

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““With having five freshmen up front, we need some of the leaders to assert themselves and I thought they did,” Hastings said. “CJ Franklin might not have had a lot of offensive opportunities, [yet] I thought he was effective in the offensive zone. He defended [and] he was hard to play against. Brad McClure I thought asserted himself and played very well..” need him to be that type of goalie for us.”

In the first game of the series, the Mavericks got off to a very fast start scoring three goals in the first period, two by way of the power play.

Scoring in the first period was center CJ Franklin and forward Zeb Knutson with two goals in the first. The three goals in the first gave the Mavericks the momentum and they rode it all the way until the third period, where Michigan Tech started to make a late push that Hastings mentions.

“I think you could see as the game wore on they had a bit more push. I think you could tell it was their third game as the game wore on, but I thought we had some guys show a lot of fortitude there with us getting into penalty kill trouble,” Hastings said.

The power play was a major component in the first win of the 2016 regular season, but the second game was all about the Senior Huggins. In three periods, Huggins saved 25 shots earning him his 11th career shutout as the Mavericks beat Michigan Tech 4-0. In two games, Huggins has saved 44 of 45 shots and posts a .978 save percentage, while averaging .50 goals

against on average. Not a bad way to begin a season.

The Mavericks played well in their first two games and were able to stomp out the late push by the Huskies, although penalties were a real issue for Minnesota State in their first two games. In the second game alone, Minnesota State and Michigan Tech totaled 42 minutes of time in the box. However, Hastings thinks that it’s just a product of the changes the league and the NCAA are making and the adjustment period of the players adapting to the change in style.

“The league and the way the NCAA is they want to enforce the standards, so we got to adjust to that. We have to learn from what we saw tonight and make sure that we don’t repeat those offenses and go out and play,” Hastings said. “Hopefully our league can continue to develop the idea of a skating game and we’re going to have to do a better job tomorrow then we did tonight as far as staying out of the box.”

As players try to adjust to the changes being made and the uptick in sensitivity by the referees, leaders on the team are going to have to step up while the Mavericks run such a young lineup while some

of the upperclassman get healthy. As the season develops, Hastings will be looking to see if the leaders of this team can emerge and this weekend was a good start.

“With having five freshmen up front we need some of the leaders to assert themselves and I thought they did,” Hastings said. “CJ Franklin might not have had a lot of offensive opportunities, [yet] I thought he was effective in the offensive zone. He defended [and] he was hard to play against. Brad McClure I thought asserted himself and played very well and we need guys to step into that role that might not have been in that role last year. So it was great to see upperclassmen step up.”

Up next, the Mavericks are scheduled to play St. Cloud State at home in a WCHA rivalry match up. Minnesota State will attempt to continue and add on to their two-game winning streak at home. The Puck drops at 7:07 p.m. this Friday and Saturday on October 14th and 15th at the Verizon Wireless Center.

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Album review: Middle Western doesn’t disappoint Horseshoes and Hand Grenades album sets a new bluegrass standard.

CHRIS BERTRAND Staff Writer With so many wacky, electronic sounds filling our ears these days, it’s nice to settle down, dig out the old whiskey jugs and jam to a little bluegrass.

There’s something about that revved up sound that speaks to the soul, and I understand that it can sometimes be difficult to find the good stuff. But fear not, my eager bluegrass friends! Just beyond the eastern Minnesota border lies the homeland of one of the most monumental bluegrass bands around today, and their name is Horseshoes and Hand Grenades.

Listening to Horseshoes and Hand Grenades makes a guy want to pull his buddies close, hoot and holler, pour some whiskey over his heart and laugh till the moon sinks.

The five-piece met at college in Steven’s Point, Wisconsin a number of years ago, and since their meeting they have not stopped writing and performing across the nation. I have had the pleasure of seeing the Wisconsin natives live twice (once here in Mankato and once in Seat-

(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by OneTigerFan tle) and let me tell you: these guys are the real deal. True string-pickers to the core (with the exception of largelung David Lynch on harmonica.) And because of the time they have dedicated to performing wherever they can, they’re only getting better.

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades has a unique, retro method of performing – they gather together, football huddle style, around one mic.

That’s it, no fanciness about

it. If the guitar needs to take precedence in the mix, guitarist Adam Greuel will step up with his instrument and the rest of the guys will fall back. Once Sam Odin finishes a stand-up bass solo, he’ll reverse penguin waddle his instrument to the rear of the group and never miss a note.

The effect is dynamically tremendous. I’ve never seen a band share a physical, auditory space the way Horseshoes and Hand Grenades

does, and I sincerely doubt that I ever will.

The group’s first two albums, Another Round and This Old Town, are drenched with fantastic lyricism and have an impressive range of tenderness and grit, but their most recent album, Middle Western, sets a new bluegrass standard. The band refers to Middle Western as a “time capsule of memories,” and they could not be more correct. “Old Man and Me”

realizes the importance of the love and friendship needed to pass gratefulness through the generations.

With a baritone voice that seems like it should belong to Laura Ingalls Wilder’s father, fiddler Collin Mettelka sings, “Consider, friend, as you walk by/ As you are now so once was I/ As I am now you too shall be grateful for today/ Work hard, and play till you can’t breathe/ your love is all that you could need/ time lost is something you should grieve, but not for me,” all supported by a violin and vocal melody that harkens back to John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane” and makes the listener want to dip into a bottle of brandy wine and sip it slowly with a lover. Such is the stuff of grandfatherly wisdom.

Middle Western’s lyrics promote a mutual respect for the earth as well. The group’s consideration and gratefulness towards nature is unprecedented, especially

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The Flash and Elementary return for the fall One writer recaps what’s happened so far in CBS’ and the CW’s sucessful dramas.

Central City’s hero. To make things even better, his father is released from prison.

Things in season 2, however, are far from normal.

The singularity that Barry was able to eliminate creates a series of gateways that open up the multiverse and to Earth-2 where viewers are introduced to the villain Zoom. The new villain wants the whole Speed Force to himself and will kill anyone connected to it, including the Flash.

The season ends with Barry going back in time and creating the flashpoint paradox

JOHANN HOLLAR Staff Writer The week of Oct. 2 saw the return of Sherlock Holmes and Barry Allen, aka The Flash.

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It’s not you, it’s Gym: Otto Recreation Center On-campus gym offers convenient location for students.

KALEB NORTH Staff Writer This week’s review will cover the MNSU Mankato Otto Recreation Center (Otto Rec).

According to the Otto Rec website, the center includes three basketball/volleyball courts, a three-lane walking/ jogging track and “TechRec” cardio area, weight room, a central check in point and equipment checkout desk, locker rooms, a student lounge and pool.

Vishnu Jamunar (Vish), will be evaluating the gym facility this week. Vish is currently in his junior year, he is studying Exercise Science.

His evaluation follows: Regarding the parking structures, is there sufficient parking? Is it free or included in the rate of the membership? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the parking structure. One being the worst, five being the best.

Rating: 1 - “Parking is not free and requires a parking pass. It’s convenient to those who have the $300 dollar pass, but you will have to do lots of walking to the gym.”

In your opinion, are the membership fees/rates reasonable? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the membership fee prices.

Rating: 5 - “It’s free and a great gym to go to if you are on campus looking to get a workout.”

What are your thoughts regarding the size of the facility? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the size of the facility.

One being the worst, five being the best.

Rating: 2.5 - “The weight room is very small. If you do pull ups on some of the machines, you can hit your head.

Bench presses are set against

the wall, so if you are struggling with a rep, it’s very inconvenient for someone to spot you.”

What are your thoughts regarding the gym staff, are they helpful, do they answer your questions-if you’ve had any? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the staff.

Rating: 4.5 - “They leave you alone when you work out, always work on wiping down equipment and putting weights and accessories away. It would be nice if they gave you feedback on your workouts saying good job, or even greeting you when they see you. There are some people who like that kind of feedback.”

What are your thoughts regarding the equipment availability? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the equipment availability.

Rating: 4 - “They offer a variety of equipment that does an excellent job to train your muscles. I love the deadlift platform and squat racks.”

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in Russel Pedersen’s “For a River” where he personifies a river as a woman whose “kiss is worth a thousand little tunes.” After a few times through, the listener begins to realize how valuable an unpolluted river can be. A similar environmental message is found in “Ring Out” where Pedersen once again critiques the treatment of land throughout history and asks the listener to take responsibility for their environmental footprints: “Take what you will and reap what you do sew/ It’s a tender hand that’ll

help this garden grow.”

And yet, despite the many worthy candidates, Mettelka’s “Forest for the Trees” takes the cake. The entire song is brilliant. It has a classical, cheerful melody that reminds me of a Disney movie scene placed in a medieval English tavern, and the lyrics relate the codependent classes of nature to the segregated and ignorant nature of government and politics: “Said the bird up to the oak tree/ ‘You don’t even care about my song/ You don’t sing along, you’re just stand-

Photo by Kaleb North What are your thoughts regarding the non-machine equipment? (dumbbells, z-curl bars, mats, dip/pullup bars, cardio-what type of cardio equipment do they have) On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the equipment.

Rating: 4 - “There’s a good amount of pull up and dip bars. If you are looking to do pull ups on the cable machine or squat rack, watch you head. I like the mats and foam rollers included, there are always a sufficient amount.”

What are your thoughts regarding the locker room, plenty of lockers, showers, etc.? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the locker rooms/ showers/bathrooms.

Rating: 5 - “I like that you can always rent a locker and showers are always available.

It’s very convenient that you can rent a key and you can lock your belongings in a locker while you work out.

Locker room is always clean.”

Is the cleanliness of the

ing there.’” Mettelka’s voice speaks for the low-level voiceless and creates a huge conversation between the ground and the sun all while the rest of the band plunks away behind him with vigor.

Seriously. It’s gold.

To describe Middle Western any further would lessen its greatness, so just take my word for it and listen. If you’re a bluegrass fan, I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Reporter Rating

4.5 5

facility satisfactory, above standards, or exceptional?

On a scale of 1 to 5, rate the locker rooms/showers/ bathrooms.

Rating: 5 - “Exceptional.

The facility is always clean.

Staff does a really good job cleaning up.”

In your opinion, what is the environment like? Are people friendly, or mainly keep to themselves and focus on their workouts? On a scale of 1 to 5, rate gym atmosphere.

Rating: 3 - “People keep to themselves, and focus on their own workout. I’ve never had any problems asking

people if I can rotate with them on the machine or equipment they are using.”

What are your thoughts on the additional amenities, like tanning, massage chairs? Beverages, food, apparel? On a scale of 1 to 10, rate the amenities. One being the worst, five being the best.

N/A - There is none of that at this gym because there are all those other amenities either on campus or around campus.

Vish’s Evaluation: Gym Facility Grade: 68 percent; average score: 3.4 Highest Scores (scored 5/5) Membership Fees, Locker room, Cleanliness.

Second Highest Scores: (Scored 4.5/5) Gym Staff, (Scored 4/5) Equipment Availability, Non-machine Equipment Lowest Scores: (Scored 1/5) Parking, (Scored 2/5) Size of facility.

The Otto Rec Center has varying operating hours during the semester and breaks. They can be viewed on the facility’s website.

“Beginning of the semester is when the gym is always crowded, because people have the ‘New semester, new

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Elementary is another incarnation of the most famous fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, created

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Unlike Sherlock, which takes place in England and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as the famous detective along with Martin Freeman as his partner John Watson, Elementary takes place in New York City and stars Johnny Lee Miller as the famous detective with, interestingly enough, Lucy Liu as Joan Watson.

The series began on Sept. 27, 2012 with Sherlock falling from grace into a drug induced depression after the loss of his lover.

He is then helped back onto his feet by his new sober companion, Joan Watson, a former surgeon.

Over the course of time spent with her, he finds her medical expertise to be quite useful and she herself begins to develop a fondness for the same consulting investigation work that he had performed for Scotland Yard. The two work as consultants with the NYPD and mostly answer to Captain Gregson (Aidan Quinn), who had

worked with Sherlock back at Scotland Yard, and often work with Detective Marcus Bell, who thought Sherlock’s methods were peculiar.

Season 5 begins with the episode “Folie a Deux,” where Sherlock is trying to talk down a murderer and prevent him from killing himself, when he gets a text from Captain Gregson that an innocent man has been blown up by a homemade bomb in a soccer ball. The episode also centers on Sherlock asking Watson if she is losing interest in her career as a consulting detective. Sadly, the show’s music writer Eric Justen, died of a heart attack on Aug. 11. The end of the episode was dedicated to his memory.

In three episodes will be the one-hundreth episode of Elementary. The Flash teased the new role of Tom Cavanagh along with Cisco going into therapy and Catlin Snow possibly becoming Killer Frost.

What other surprises will await the Flash and Sherlock? Stay tuned.

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me’ attitude,” said Vish.

“I love the deadlift platform. The round plates are really convenient for deadlifting since they don’t roll. The hexagon plates would always roll then the weight gets impacted on the ground, and would set the lifter out of the proper optimal deadlifting position,” stated Vish, regarding his favorite piece of equipment.

I asked Vish what equipment or machines he would like to see in the facility: “I would like to see chalk bowls.

For plates, I would prefer round steel plates, since they are more convenient for deadlifting. And, the sound of steel hitting steel gives you a rush of adrenaline and makes you feel like a monster.”

“I love this gym, it’s not perfect and could use some improvement, but you can still get a great workout there. When I’m reviewing this gym, I’m comparing it to Los Campeones, which is a non-commercial gym in the Twin Cities that I train at over

break. I would call that gym, Los Campeones, the most perfect gym I’ve ever been to. In the end, I would give Otto Rec an 8 out of 10,” Vish said, regarding any final comments about the facility.

Though Vish gave an overall 8 out of 10 rating, his final percentage was 68 as illustrated from his evaluation ratings.

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NBC suspends Billy Bush for role on Trump tape NEW YORK (AP) — NBC on Sunday suspended “Today” show personality Billy Bush indefinitely after he was caught on a videotape from 2005 in a crude conversation about women with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

“Today” Executive Producer Noah Oppenheim said in a memo Sunday that “there is simply no excuse for Billy’s language and behavior on that tape.” Bush, who hosts the third hour of the “Today” show, has been suspended “pending further review of the matter,” Oppenheim said.

NBC announced its decision two days after the videotape from the “Access Hollywood” archives surfaced.

Bush was a host for that show

in 2005, and he was taped in a hot-mic discussion with Trump when the future presidential nominee was on a Hollywood set to make an appearance on a soap opera.

On the tape, Trump brags about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife.

Bush joins in, laughing at some of Trump’s comments and later encouraging an actress to hug Trump.

Bush, 44, has been brutalized on his own Facebook page since the tape surfaced. Hundreds of hostile comments were attached to Bush’s last posting Friday — of him distributing a plate of bacon to “Today” viewers outside of the show’s studio. “You are sickening!” one woman wrote, in a comment

that nearly 5,000 had “liked” through Sunday afternoon.

Angering women viewers of a show as important to NBC’s bottom line as “Today” is no small matter.

Many viewers upset by 2012’s messy dumping of Ann Curry as “Today” host took it out on colleague Matt Lauer; the show’s ratings still haven’t recovered. Women make up the majority of “Today” viewers, particularly in the last two hours.

Bush has only been at “Today” for two months, where he’s had a rocky start. He was the reporter to whom American swimmer Ryan Lochte lied about being robbed at the Olympics. When Bush later tried to defend Lochte on “Today,” he was dressed down by colleague Al Roker.

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