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Woman power celebrated at Black Girl Magic dinner Black excellence a key talking point, aimed to empower women of color

STEPHANIE VOGEL Staff Writer On Monday, Oct. 16 in CSU 253/4/5, the Black Girl Magic event took place. This is the event’s second year and is a collaboration between the Women’s Center and African American Affairs in the Multicultural Center.

Re n e e Mi t c h e ll Matsuyama, assistant director of the Women’s Center, said

that the goal of the event was to “have a space and an event that is in celebration of the awesome things that black women do, both students and faculty as well as community members.”

The event consisted of a dinner, keynote speaker Rosalind Sullivan, a panel discussion, and an award ceremony.

Sullivan is a lawyer and activist who created the organization HerStory, which is meant to highlight the stories of black women.

The panel discussion consisted of staff and faculty at MNSU and a woman from the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). The Photo by Gage Cureton

staff included Tracy Stokes Hernandez, an advisor in the College of Science and Engineering, Dr. Maria Baxter, former director of Diversity Outreach, and Tiffnie Jackson, the director of Racial Justice at the YWCA. Matsuyama believes that it is important for there to be events like Black Girl Magic.

“It’s important to have spaces that can make students feel affirmed and uplifted,” she said. “I think

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it’s a needed type of event for black women students and people to see role models of women that are doing awesome things in our community and on campus.

And a space where we can celebrate black women students’ accomplishments.

That’s why we have the award ceremony, so we give a certificate of leadership [and] excellence to students [who] have been nominated.”

L atisha Townsend,

president of the organization Black Motivated Women (BMW), was an emcee at the event, along with the organization’s vice president, Caelen Terrell.

“As an emcee, we were tasked with introducing

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University Dining Center: fresh food and helping dreams come true

MARJAN HUSSEIN Staff Writer Nourishment is one of the most important aspects in any individual’s life. The source, quality and type of nourishment also play a vital role in determining how an individual develops throughout their lifetime.

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The University Dining Center on campus is one of the main sources of nourishment for students, faculty and staff. The dining center is also one of the youngest buildings on campus and has been in operation for less than a year and is closely related in administration with the Residential Life office.

Offering quality, freshly prepared food along with fine service in providing sustenance for all on campus is among the main goals of the University Dining Center.

Cindy Janney, director of the Residential Life office,

states that the University Dining Center is a sustainable building, meaning it not only provides fresh, customizable

through the use of recycling, reducing and composting waste.

“After about a decade

“Offering quality, freshly prepared food along with fine service in providing subsistence for all on campus is among the main goals of the University Dining Center.” food for students but also reduces the waste that comes with food service operation

of conducting extensive studies on dining areas, it was decided that instead of

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constant renovations of the facilities that were present, building one center that had all the functions of food service operations and that would accommodate all that is needed in terms of dining would be best,” Janney said.

“The design of the University Dining Center is such that it promotes staff interaction with the people they get to serve and offers transparency

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Continued from page 1 ourselves, explaining what black excellence means to us as well as black girl magic,” Townsend said. “We had to introduce our keynote speaker, also just keeping the energy in the room high.”

Townsend explained what is meant by black excellence.

“I know that, as a black person, there [are] so many factors that we have against us—environmental factors, political factors, social factors,” she said. “So, for me, black excellence is really just pushing through all of those things that keep coming at us as obstacles

and still getting to the point where we know we want to be, but at the same time bringing other people up with us.”

For those interested in discussions similar to those that took place at the Black Girl Magic dinner, BMW has meetings bi-weekly at 6 p.m.

Thursdays, in CSU 253/4/5.

Townsend encourages people of all race to attend these meetings and events such as Black Girl Magic.

“Anyone of any race can come to this,” she said. “I think it’s actually important for people of all cultures

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to come in and see what we’re talking about, because it’s almost like a lesson in

cultural competency. I think it’s important to know how we feel, why we feel this way,

what you can do to help us, [and] what we’re willing to do to help you understand us.”

MPR journalist to discuss storytelling at MNSU Mankato, Minn.

– Minnesota Public Radio journalist Riham Feshir will give a presentation titled “Storytelling: From Print to Radio to Podcasts” Monday, Oct. 23 at 6 p.m. in Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Ostrander Auditorium, located on campus in Centennial Student Union.

Feshir’s presentation is free and open to the public.

Feshir was one of the creators of a Minnesota

Public Radio podcast titled “74 Seconds,” which told the story of the July 2016 police shooting of Philando Castile in a Saint Paul, Minn., suburb.

The podcast examined the legal nuances of the case and the stories of the individuals involved. In her presentation, Feshir will address how the MPR team brought the podcast to fruition and how they made a cohesive series out of a variety of episodes.

Feshir graduated from

the University of Minnesota’s journalism program in 2008.

From there, she worked at newspapers in greater Minnesota and the Twin Cities. She joined MPR three years ago and now reports on immigration issues in Minnesota.

For additional information, please contact Rachael Hanel, Minnesota State Mankato assistant professor in the Department of Mass Media, by phone at 507-389-

1247 or by email at rachael. hanel@mnsu.edu.

The event is sponsored

by University’s Department of Mass Media and is made possible through a grant from the Nadine B. Andreas Foundation.

The Department of Mass Media is hosting Feshir because of her experience with radio and podcasts. Her appearance aligns with the Mass Media Department’s mission to teach its students

the most current ways in which to deliver information to the public.

Minnesota State Mankato’s Department of Mass Media is part of the University’s College of Arts & Humanities.

Minnesota State Mankato, a comprehensive university with 14,712 students, is part of the Minnesota State system, which comprises 31 state institutions.

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Continued from page 1 “Making the University Dining Center feel more like home instead of just another building is what the staff always try to do,” Maples said. in that one can clearly view the food as it is prepared.”

Richard Wheeler, assistant director for environment in the Residential Life Office, was the project manager during the the building of the University Dining Center.

He states that the element of natural light is unique in this building as everyone receives it through the numerous windows in the building.

“The aspect of lighting was one that was taken into consideration when plans were being set forth and the benefits it would have to people especially for the staff working in the University Dining Center was key in the designing the building,” Wheeler said.

Wheeler also said that, with the new University Dining Center, quick solutions to small challenges are easy to come up with, as there is a good amount of space to work with and make able modifications to suit the required needs.

The attractive environment of the University Dining

Center has drawn in more people and the building has a family-feel to it, which makes it distinct. Imelda Maples, a University Dining Center Supervisor is the ideal personification of what the building hopes to provide to students.

“Making the University Dining Center feel more like home instead of just another building is what the staff always try to do,” Maples said. “The majority of the students are away from home or get homesick in their freshman year, thus something as little as seeing a smile from the person serving their food gives a heartwarming feeling.”

Maples has worked in fast food and had several experiences over the years with food that has equipped her with the right expertise for her job. She joined Minnesota State University, Mankato as a cook before recently being promoted to supervisor.

“I felt that I would apply for the promotion as I wanted

Photo courtesy of David Bassey Imelda Maples, University Dining Center Supervisor, standing in front of the building.

something more challenging that would test me in terms of responsibility and workload,” Maples said.

Maples states with her new position the work is more intense but she strives to always be focused and do her best at her job.

“With general staff, the student staff always look up

at us to set an example for them, thus we always aim to be super efficient in whatever we do,” she said.

Maples aspires to reach higher pinnacles in the dining sector as her mother acted as a role model for her, starting her own restaurant and showing her that when hard work is combined

with dedication, nothing is impossible.

The University Dining Center is without a doubt proving to be a great asset to MNSU as its beauty not only lies in the magnificent structure that it is, but also in the people who make acquiring sustenance an unforgettable experience.

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Five ways to beat stress and stay healthy

You don’t have to feel so overwhelmed with these solutions

Opinion EMMANUELLA SHOKARE Staff Writer Yes, there comes a time when we become overwhelmed and stressed out. Here are some tips on how to manage stress: 1. Planning: It is said that “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” First of all, it is a good idea to get a planner to write down deadlines for exams, assignments and other things that need to be done. This will help you keep track of what needs to be done, when it needs to be done and what you have done. You can either have a paper copy or an online copy, such as the Outlook Calendar that every student has access through with their MavMail. It is beneficial to always look at your planner to know what you need to do before officially starting

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saying. Sometimes it is hard to start an assignment or an assigned class reading; you might be tempted to say, “I will do it tomorrow.” It is better to do it now than tomorrow, as this will help you manage your time. You can do the assignment at the time you need to do it simply by disciplining yourself to do it at the appropriate time and

“It is beneficial to always look at your planner to know what you need to do before officially starting your day.” your day.

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not end up having so much work to do.

3. Eat healthy and get enough sleep: It is hard to

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get a good home-cooked/ healthy meal such as vegetables and whole grain while in college and even harder to keep up with eating healthy. But if you can find the time, maybe on a day you are less busy, in order to cook or maybe get some healthy food stocked up in your fridge, you can easily grab something healthy to go, or microwave a pre-made meal.

This would help you reduce the times and amounts of junk food you eat. Also, it is advisable to get enough sleep; it is hard to get to sleep at 3 a.m. and wake up for an 8 a.m. class. An adult needs to get at least seven hours of sleep—this helps you retain your memory and also get enough rest after a long day of classes, assignments and, work.

4. Exercise: Sometimes after a long day and having

so much work to do, you become stressed and may just want to sleep; however, sometimes it is more beneficial to do at least 20 minutes of physical activity to reduce stress levels. Exercise can be anything from going for a run, to doing yoga, or even doing some deepbreathing meditations.

5. Get emotional support: Adjusting to college can be difficult and sometimes talking to someone about how you feel can go a long way to help reduce stress.

You can meet with a friend or family member that will not be judgmental and is willing to listen to you, or you can go to the Counseling Center at MNSU. Talking to someone and seeking help will help you adjust and reduce the amount of stress that you feel.

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Sen. Vicki Jensen dodges questions at College Democratic meeting

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BILL HAMM Staff Writer “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” is the movie I thought I was watching at the College Democrat meeting Oct. 17.

The speaker doing the politician shuffle was State Sen. Vicki Jensen, and a skilled shuffle it was. She thoroughly dodged detailed answers on every question put to her. The impressions left in her wake have horrific ramifications for education, healthcare and racial justice.

Let’s start with education, something that is supposed to be sacred to every democrat, young and old.

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When questioned on the achievement gap and the school to prison pipeline, she acknowledged them both and went on to state that the legislature was doing

“Senator Jensen’s position on education was a boilerplate for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party in her opening statement and differed a bit under questioning.”

Labor party in her opening statement and differed a bit under questioning.

everything they could.

Even after her years on a school board, Jensen

showed little knowledge of what either of these problems are and absolutely no understanding of the causal relationships behind either of these two racial issues. It is still not clear to this writer that she even understands, let alone recognizes, what this problem is even when given an example from the city of Duluth. She clearly makes no connection between hiring practices that keep teachers of color out as any part of the problem or that any racial targeting in school discipline exists.

She supports incremental building on Obamacare.

Under questioning, it became very clear that she supports the continuation of the Castebased healthcare system we have now. Her position

is solidly against removing insurance companies from the profiteering position they presently hold. She also clearly admitted that she still takes campaign money from insurance company supporters, who are her fellow insurance agents.

She steadfastly refused to support the one-size-fits-all universal healthcare, leaving the strong impression that she does not believe poor people have the same right to quality healthcare as her upper- and middle-class people.

Now comes the huge gorilla on the fence: racial justice, an issue the

state party is reaching out to correct, but not Sen. Jensen—she steadfastly refused to recognize that any problem exists. When ask about police brutality, her answer supported the police, not the victims. When ask ed about drug warfare, she fell back on the “more study is needed” line. When it was pointed out that the DEA stifles studies on cannabis, she said she would work to change that, a cop out answer. When confronted about the racist targeting evident in cannabis arrests, she again was ambivalent and fell back on supporting the police and suggesting that more training would cure this blatant racism. While she recognized our compassion on these issues, she showed absolutely none herself, and continues standing steadfast against legalization of cannabis regardless of the facts given her.

I believe our campus communities of color need to make a concerted effort to help Sen. Jensen understand the racial ramifications of her belief systems. Help her understand that this is the 21st century and refusal to recognize racial justice issues is unacceptable in the new progressive realities of the Minnesota DFL, if it is to grow and be truly inclusive.

Invite her to your meetings and make her listen. We must bring these party dinosaurs into reality or retire them.

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Olympics Minnesota’s State Bowling MINNEAPOLIS—October 2, 2017—Nearly 450 Special Olympic athletes will be hitting the lanes at the 2017 Special Olympics Minnesota (SOMN) state bowling competition on November 11 & 12 at WOW! Zone in Mankato, MN. Local volunteers are needed to help make the event successful.

Volunteer opportunities include assisting as a lane monitor, preparing and handing out awards and serving lunches. Volunteers must be 15 year of age and will receive a free volunteer t-shirt. SOMN volunteers not only directly impact athlete’s lives but also walk away with memories that last a lifetime.

Bowling is one of the most popular sports for Special

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For more information or to register as a volunteer, visit somn.org/volunteers or email Jay Pedersen at jay. pedersen@somn.org.

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Files reveal details of US support for Indonesian massacre JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Declassified files have revealed new details of U.S. government knowledge and support of an Indonesian army extermination campaign that killed several hundred thousand civilians during anticommunist hysteria in the mid-1960s.

The thousands of files from the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta covering 1963-66 were made public Tuesday after a declassification review that began under the Obama administration. The Associated Press reviewed key documents in the collection in advance of their release.

The files fill out the picture of a devastating reign of terror by the Indonesian army and Muslim groups that has been sketched by historians and in a U.S. State Department volume that was declassified in 2001 despite a last-minute CIA effort to block its distribution.

In 1965, Indonesia had the world’s third-largest communist party after China and the Soviet Union, with several million members, and the country’s president, the charismatic Sukarno, was vociferously socialist and antiAmerican.

U.S. officials despaired

Indonesian army. Historians had already established that the U.S. provided lists of senior communist party officials, radio equipment and money as part of active support for the army.

The documents also show that U.S. officials had credible information that contradicted the Indonesian army’s lurid story that the kidnapping and killing of seven generals in an abortive coup by junior officers on Sept. 30, 1965, which paved the way for the bloodbath, was ordered by the Indonesian communist party and Beijing.

The documents specifically mention mass killings ordered

by Suharto, a general who within months would seize total power and rule Indonesia for more than three decades, and the pivotal role in carrying out the massacres by groups that today remain Indonesia’s biggest mainstream Muslim organizations: Nahdlatul Ulama, its youth wing Ansor and Muhammadiyah.

A Dec. 21, 1965, cable from the embassy’s first secretary, Mary Vance Trent, to the State Department referred to events as a “fantastic switch which has occurred over 10 short weeks.” It also included an estimate that 100,000 people had been

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of Indonesia’s apparently unstoppable drift into the communist fold and were ecstatic when conservative generals imposed martial law in Jakarta, seized state radio and set out to annihilate the country’s communist party on the pretext that it had tried to overthrow the government. Within months, the army would prevail in its power struggle with Sukarno, shifting Indonesia’s political orientation to the U.S. and opening its huge market to American companies.

The newly released files underline the U.S. Embassy’s and State Department’s early, detailed and ongoing knowledge of the killings and eagerness to avoid doing anything that would hinder the

slaughtered.

In Bali alone, some 10,000 people had been killed by mid-December, including the parents and distant relatives of the island’s pro-communist governor, and the slaughter was continuing, the cable said. Two months later, another embassy cable cited estimates that the killings in Bali had swelled to 80,000.

A cable that was part of the 2001 State Department volume showed that by April 1966, the embassy was staggered by the scale of the murders and acknowledged, “We frankly do not know whether the real figure is closer to 100,000 or 1,000,000.” Even the Indonesian government had only a “vague idea” of the

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true number, the cable said.

The release of the documents coincides with an upsurge in anti-communist rhetoric in Indonesia, where communism remains a frequently invoked boogeyman for conservatives despite the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly three decades ago and China’s embrace of global capitalism.

Discussion of the 1965-66 period that departs from the Suharto era’s partly fictional account of a heroic national uprising against communism is still discouraged. A landmark symposium last year that brought together aging survivors of the bloodbath and government ministers sparked a furious backlash. And last month, an anti-communist mob led by retired generals attacked a building in central Jakarta where activists had planned to discuss the killings.

“The mass killings of 1965-66 are among the world’s worst crimes against humanity, and our country’s darkest secret,” said Veronica Koman, an Indonesian human rights lawyer. “The 1965-66 survivors are all very old now, and I’m afraid that they will not see justice before they die.

Hopefully with these cables coming to light, the truth can emerge and perpetrators can be held accountable.”

U.S. Senator Tom Udall, who in 2015 introduced a resolution in the Senate urging Indonesia’s government to create a truth and reconciliation commission, said the U.S. must also confront its role in these “terrible acts.”

Indonesia’s Muslim mass organizations are among those reluctant to face scrutiny for their role, which in the fevered atmosphere of 1965 was characterized by Islamic leaders as a holy war against atheists.

Under the direction

of the army, the Muslim organizations Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah were enthusiastic participants in mass murder, carrying out indiscriminate killings as well as organized executions, according to the documents.

They also mention the army’s recruiting of Catholics to help with its extermination campaign in central Java.

A December 1965 cable from the U.S. Consulate in Medan, Indonesia, reported that preachers in Muhammadiyah mosques were telling congregations that all who joined the communist party must be killed, saying they are the “lowest order of infidel, the shedding of whose blood is comparable to killing chicken.”

A detailed four-page

report covering mid- to late November 1965 by the U.S. Embassy’s political affairs officer, Edward E. Masters, discussed the spread of mass executions to several provinces and the role of youth groups in helping to solve the “main problem” of where to house and what to feed PKI prisoners. PKI is the Indonesian acronym for the country’s communist party.

“Many provinces appear to be successfully meeting this problem by executing their PKI prisoners, or killing them before they are captured, a task in which Moslem youth groups are providing

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Twitter vows new crackdown on hateful, abusive tweets NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter is vowing to crack down further on hate speech and sexual harassment, days after CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweetstorm that the company is not doing enough to protect its users.

The company has spent the last two years trying to clamp down on hate and abuse on its generally freewheeling service.

Dorsey echoed concerns of many users and critics who say Twitter it hasn’t done enough to curb the abuse.

But others worry that it’s muzzling free speech in the process.

In an email Twitter shared with The Associated Press Tuesday, the company’s head of safety policy outlined the proposed new guidelines that tighten existing rules and impose some new ones.

They aim to close loopholes that allowed people to glorify violence, for example.

The email was sent to the company’s Trust and Safety Council, a group of outside organizations that advises Twitter on its policies against abuse.

“It’s good that Twitter is thinking these things through and being fairly transparent about what they are doing,” said Emma Llanso, director of the free expression project at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that’s a member of the Trust and Safety Council. But, she added, it will be very important to have a clear appeals process and ways to review whether the policies are effective.

Twitter sent it to the group for input, and the changes

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are not yet final. News of the changes was first reported by Wired .

WHAT’S CHANGING? Some of the changes are aimed at protecting women who unknowingly or unwillingly had nude pictures of themselves distributed online or were subject to unwanted sexual advances.

They would also try to shield groups subject to hateful imagery, symbols and threats of violence.

Among the proposed changes, Twitter said it would immediately and permanently suspend any account it identifies as being the original poster of “non-consensual nudity,” including so-called “creep shots” of a sexual nature taken surreptitiously.

Previously, the company treated the original poster of the content the same as those who re-tweeted it, and it resulted only in a temporary suspension.

It said it would also develop a system allowing bystanders on Twitter to report unwanted

exchanges of sexually charged content, whereas in the past it relied on one of the parties involved in the conversation to come forward before taking action. Twitter already allows bystanders to report other violations on behalf of someone else.

The San Francisco-based company also said it would take new action on hate symbols and imagery and “take enforcement action against organizations that use/have historically used violence as a means to advance their cause,” though it said more details were to come.

It didn’t say what the hate symbols might be and enforcing this could prove difficult. While some hate symbols, like the swastika, are widely recognized, groups have also adopted lesserknown, seemingly innocuous symbols to show hate. Those include “Pepe the Frog,” a cartoon frog that has become a symbol for the “alt-right” movement known for racist

and misogynist views. The milk emoji has also been used by white supremacists as an online symbol.

Twitter already takes action against direct threats of violence, the company said it would also act against tweets that glorify or condone violence.

IS IT ENOUGH? TOO MUCH? On Friday, Dorsey foreshadowed the coming policy changes in a series of tweets, saying the company’s efforts over the last two years were inadequate.

“Today we saw voices silencing themselves and voices speaking out because we’re (asterisk)still(asterisk) not doing enough,” Dorsey tweeted.

At the same time, Llanso said, Twitter also must tread carefully not to sweep up

legitimate discourse along with hate speech and abuse.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter permits anonymity. While this can be used as a tool for abuse and harassment, it also allows for people and groups to speak out when they otherwise couldn’t.

“Any kind of policy that is about taking down speech online, will be used for its intended purpose, but also by others who are looking to get things censored online,” she said. “People out there looking to silence voices they disagree with are very savvy.”

In the end, whether the policies work will have to be tested out in the field, by Twitter’s users.

“There will definitely be mistakes,” Llanso said.

RUSSIA SCRUTINY The moves also come amid intense scrutiny from congressional investigators into how Russian agents used Twitter, Facebook and Google to influence last year’s U.S. election. Twitter has said it would appear at a public congressional hearing on Nov. 1 after already briefing a Senate committee.

The company has handed over the handles, or profile names, of 201 accounts it believes were linked to Russia. It has also said at least $274,000 in U.S. ads were bought by Russia Today, a Russian-government-linked media outlet, last year.

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Continued from page 6 assistance,” the report said. A cable from earlier in the month mentions an estimated 62,000 prisoners in the province of Central Java alone.

Ansor, the youth arm of Nahdlatul Ulama, was responsible for “brutal attacks” on communists, according to a Dec. 10, 1965, cable, but also caused problems by doing the same to non-communists involved in personal feuds with its members.

Possibly the earliest mention of systematic bloodshed in cables to Washington is a midOctober 1965 record of conversations between

the embassy’s second secretary and Bujung Nasution, a special assistant to Indonesia’s attorney general involved with intelligence matters. Like other intermediaries of the Indonesian army and its allies sent to approach the embassy, Nasution was apparently trying to assess whether the U.S. would object to the extermination campaign.

According to Nasution, the army had already executed many cadres, but this information, he said, must be closely held because the army needed more time to break the communists.

The memo described Nasution as alarmed that reports of atrocities had been leaked to the Malaysian press. It said he warned that it was critical that Sukarno did not learn of the extent of the army’s repression, especially from the foreign media.

In response, the second secretary, Robert G. Rich, reassured Nasution.

The U.S. government was fully aware of the sensitive nature of the current events, said Rich, and was “making every effort to avoid stimulating press speculation.”

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Feature Photo: Candlelight Vigil, Oct. 18

Photo by Jeremiah Ayodele

A vigil took place to honor the lives of Christine Damer, Melina Sofia Orfanidis and Laura Margaret Prechtel, who were tragically killed recently in an automobile accident. The three students were attending MSU as part of a one-semester exchange program with Friederich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany.

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Imagine Dragons stop in St. Paul to rock out Excel Opening acts K. Flat and Grouplove help make a great concert

TIM STARMAN Staff Writer

Imagine Dragons swung by St. Paul to rock the Excel this past Sunday. With front liners K. Flay and Grouplove, all three bands brought their own style to the stage.

The night started with K. Flat around 7:30 p.m.

K.Flay is the stage name for Illinois native Kristine Meredith Flaherty. Her style is very unique; she effortlessly switches from technical rap to lovely melodic refrain lines.

The stadium was about half full when she began, and the crowd didn’t seem interested, eagerly

Lead singer Dan Reynolds

waiting on Imagine Dragons. K. Flay is worth a listen based on her unique blend of alternative rock and straight up rap.

The second group be-

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fore Imagine Dragons was Grouplove. They are most known for “Tongue Tied”, and have a strong recent album “Big Mess.”

Their new single “Re-

member that Night” is getting a lot of airtime on alternative stations.

The breaks between sets seemed way too long and unnecessary,

and eventually a set of inflatable teeth were set up. Christian Zucconi is the lead singer, with his iconic raspy voice.

I heard many people call his voice a whine.

In many of Grouplove’s songs we hear Christian’s voice go into a high falsetto, as well as his screeching yells.

In the records the screams are tasteful and his whiny tone is rather refreshing, but he went overboard with it in his live performance.

His duet partner Hannah Hooper has a clean and very likeable voice. It is obvious that the male voice gives Grouplove

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Brockowitz Duo - Phil Markowitz, piano, Zach Brock, violin Music based on traditions of jazz, contemporary classic, and more

MANKATO, Minn. – The Brockowitz Duo featuring Phil Markowitz, piano, and Zach Brock, violin, will perform on Saturday, Nov. 4 in the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall of the Earley Center for Performing Arts, 320 Maywood Ave. The performance in funded through the Nadine B. Andreas Visiting Artist Endowment.

Phil Markowitz (Chet Baker, Toots Thielemans) and Zach Brock (Snarky Puppy, Stanley Clarke) have created new repertoire for piano and violin that draws on the traditions of jazz, contemporary classical, and the “roots” music of their respective backgrounds.

It cuts across genres to create new environments for contemporary and improvisational chamber

music. The first iteration of this new direction appeared on the 2014 release “Perpetuity” and they have been expanding their duo repertoire ever since.

While an affinity for American jazz is front­- and­-center, Brock’s Appalachian roots and Markowitz’s Eastern European ancestry have sown deep threads that run through the new compositions.

The audience will hear an unorthodox combination of post-­ Romantic, serialist, and jazz dialects fused with rhythms from West Africa, South America, and the Balkans.

Phil Markowitz, thirty plus year veteran of the Zach Bloch International Jazz scene is dedicated to realizing the jazz idiom.

He performs origifull potential of improvisational music within the nal compositions, which

Photo courtesy of Dale Haefner

range from hard-cutting chromaticism to the most lyrical post-romantic bal-

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Spy, temptress, victim? Mata Hari eludes definition Condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent in WWI LEEUWARDEN, Netherlands (AP) — A century ago on Sunday, an exotic dancer named Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad, condemned as a sultry Dutch double agent who supposedly caused the deaths of thousands of soldiers during World War I. Her life and death became fodder almost overnight for one of the greatest spy stories of all time — featuring an alluring temptress who could dance, dazzle and draw secrets from the hapless military men unable to resist her.

Increasingly, though, Mata Hari — the stage name adopted by Margaretha Zelle — is also being reinterpreted as a victim of a time when a sexually liberated woman with artistic ambitions faced harsh judg-

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Mata Hari

ment.

The irony is not missed on Yves Rocourt, curator of “Mata Hari. The Myth and the Maiden,” an exhibit opening this week-

DRAGONS Continued from page 9 its unique voice, but in almost every song she balances him out.

The blending of their voices is Grouplove’s largest ammunition.

After an encore cover of the Beastie Boys, Grouplove left the stage. The crowd was now completely packed awaiting their gods. We waited in agony, every minute felt like hours until they finally appeared.

Each member stood side by side, each body had a light shining down on them, making their “Evolve” colors come alive. They began with “I don’t know why” giving the concert a much needed shot of espresso.

We went from exciting sets to a surprising move to a small stage in the back. Imagine Dragon’s vocalist Dan Reynolds sounded strong singing an unplugged version of rock ballad “Bleeding Out”, as well as a heartfelt tribute to Tom Petty.

They triumphantly ran back up to a new set getting things back in gear with their most recent radio hit “Thunder”. “Walking the Wire” and “Believer” wrapped up the show.

Imagine Dragons put on a great show technically, but they lack a sense of charisma.

Reynolds had a few good talks discussing the massacre in their hometown Las Vegas, and a serious talk about depression before the crowd favorite “Demons”.

Although obviously cheesey, these talks felt real and genuine, giving life outside of the strictly technical cadence of their music.

Although not my top concert I have ever seen, Imagine Dragons puts on a show far superior to their age. A fiveyear-old band plays like a decade old group; they know what they’re doing. I will definitely be at their next show and you should be too.

end in Leeuwarden, the Dutch town where Zelle was born in 1876.

“Unfortunately, issues like money and having to sleep with someone in a position of power to achieve something are not time-related,” Rocourt said.

“You cannot help but think about what is go-

ing in Hollywood at this very moment,” said Julie Wheelwright, author of the biography “The Fatal Lover.” ‘’All these allegations that are coming out now and you just wonder, ‘But what’s changed in 100 years?’ Not much.”

On a canal close to her childhood home, where

vicious winds and icy temperatures can freeze the water for months, a statue erected in 1976 shows Mata Hari in her typical stage regalia.

Dressed in little more than pearls and veils, she stands with legs apart and arms outstretched, ready to take on the world.

How she got to the glittering salons and theaters of Paris and Berlin before ending up in front of a firing squad was due to desperation as much as boldness.

Her comfortable youth was disrupted when her father went broke and her mother died.

At age 18, she answered an ad placed by an aristocrat military officer seeking a wife.

Soon, she was living in the Dutch East Indies, in what is now Indonesia.

The couple had two children despite her

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Nooky Jones to return to campus in November MANKATO, Minn. – Smooth, neo-soul group Nooky Jones returns to the University campus to perform on Thursday, November 2 at 7:30 pm at the Elias J. Halling Recital Hall of the Earley Center for Performing Arts, 320 Maywood Ave. With Nooky Jones, lead singer Cameron Kinghorn has the opportunity to explore the types of vocals inspired by the music he’s been listening to lately -- D’Angelo, Kendrick Lamar, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and recently Bilal. “And are you familiar with Robert Glasper?” Kinghorn asks.

Glasper is a Grammy-winning jazz piano

player who is featured on Kendrick Lamar’s latest album.

Nooky Jones is a place for all of the musicians involved to do something a little different with their style and sound. Most of the group is deeply embedded in the Minneapolis/ St. Paul music scene already.

All of the members participate in several other projects at the same time. Trumpet player Adam Meckler has his own eighteen-person orchestra and also performs with the Youngblood Brass Band, a group that tours internationally.

Since forming in 2014,

the band has delivered its sound to several major venues in the Twin Cities including First Avenue, Icehouse, and The Fitzgerald Theater.

Nooky Jones has also toured the Midwest performing shows in Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago.

Concert admission is $15; $13 for students with a valid MavCARD. Discount tickets are available online for University students. Advance purchase is strongly encouraged. Those who wish to purchase tickets online should go to www.mnsu. edu/music. For more information, call the Performance Series office, (507) 389-5549.

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MATA HARI Continued from page 10 husband’s violence and unfaithfulness and Margaretha’s own fiery, flirtatious personality.

After their son died, the marriage disintegrated and her ex-husband refused to pay alimony. Zelle, facing being a single mother without financial support, gave up custody of her daughter and in 1903 left for Paris, where she reinvented herself.

“I am tired of struggling against life,” she wrote. The choice she saw was to “be a decent mother or live life as it is dazzlingly offered to me here.”

Lourens Oldersma, who edited a book of Mata Hari’s letters published late last year, said “she evolved from being a flirt into the woman that started living this loose, decadent life.”

Building a dance repertoire on the sensuous temple dances she had observed in Asia, Mata Hari had her breakthrough performance at the Paris Musee Guimet on March 13, 1905. She soon became a sensation across Europe.

But the brilliant life she envisioned was expensive to maintain, especially as she got older and her popularity as an exotic dancer declined.

When World War I broke out, she used her passport from a neutral country to contin-

ue traveling and took wealthy, well-connected lovers from all sides of the conflict.

The promise of a steady supply of francs to support herself persuaded Zelle to accept an offer to spy, first for Germany and then for France.

“She thought that spying was just another role. It was another kind of performance,” Wheelwright said. “She was very naive.”

French intelligence eventually intercepted a German telegram discussing the work of an agent codenamed H-21.

The details revealed Mata Hari as a double agent two-timing France. She was arrested while having breakfast in her suite at the Elysee Palace Hotel.

During 16 interrogation sessions, she cracked and admitted to working for the Germans. At 41, she was shot at a military ground close to Paris at dawn on Oct. 15, 1917.

The rest is history — and an awful lot of books and movies, including one starring Greta Garbo. Mata Hari’s story ebbs and flows with the mood of the times and geography.

“When I was talking to people in France, even until quite recently, their view was very much more that ‘Here was this decadent woman who was re-

sponsible for all these deaths, so why should we feel any sympathy for her?’” Wheelwright said.

In the Netherlands, there was more ambivalence.

“They stressed more the spy story and the exotic dancer rather than the fact she was a decadent woman,” Oldersma said in front of the Mara Hari statue as it was being restored for the commemorations.

With the publication of his book last year, “people started realizing that, yes, this is also a mother, and she had to go through a fight,” he said.

Still, the question of who Mata Hari really was defies easy answers. One year she refused to pose naked for a painter, the next she slept with men for money.

The verdict on whether the secrets she gained from her lovers’ lips’ doomed thousands of young Allied soldiers continues to be debated but seems increasingly unlikely.

“There is a kind of paradoxical thing going on,” Wheelwright said. “On the one hand, she is very vulnerable.

But then on the other hand, she’s also got a sense of manipulating people.”

The mystery of Mata Hari still confounds Rocourt, the exhibit curator.

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lads. Inventive, virtuosic, and accessible, Markowitz presents a forward-looking vision for contemporary music. His credentials span a cornucopia of jazz from the traditional to the avant-garde from his early associations with Chet Baker and Toots Thielemans, and through his respective twenty and fifteen-year affiliations with Bob Mintzer and David Liebman.

Phil has received endowments and grants from The Howard Foundation, Chamber Music America, The Doris Duke Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts and The New York Foundation for the Arts.

Heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation,” Zach Brock is a violinist and composer whose music draws on the traditions of jazz, classical, world, and popular music.

Zach received his first Grammy Award in 2017 for his work on Snarky Puppy’s album “Culcha Vulcha” and Downbeat Magazine named him the ‘Rising Star Violinist’ of 2013.

His acclaim as a bandleader has grown through appearances at venues such as Carnegie Hall

and festivals like “Tudo é Jazz” in Brazil, while his reputation as a sideman has spread through his work with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke, contemporary instrumental super-group Snarky Puppy, and jazz masters Phil Markowitz and Dave Liebman.

Zach Brock has made ten recordings as a leader or co-leader and is the first violinist to record for the venerable Dutch jazz label Criss Cross. Zach has also represented the U.S. State Department as a Musical Ambassador in the Solomon Islands, has performed as a featured soloist for two Sundance Festival feature film scores, and is currently an “Artist in Residence” at Temple University in Philadelphia.

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Mavericks swim and dive team aiming high Experience may be the only thing to hinder the team, as the talent is there to make some noise

SEAN MORAWCZYNSKI Staff Writer Two meets into the season, the Minnesota State swimming and diving team is looking to get into the deep end of NCAA championships in March. The team finished in 13th place at last year’s championships in Birmingham, Alabama. The Mavericks mostly dominated the competition last season and thus far into the schedule, the team has repeated last year’s performance.

Head coach Nathan Owens wants to get over the hump that is St. Cloud State on the way to the NSIC conference championships where the Mavericks finished second in the 2016-2017 season.

“St. Cloud St. was strong from top to bottom of their roster, which made them tough to beat at the end of the season,” Owens said.

Photos by Jeremiah Ayodele

“This year we have 12 freshmen on our roster. They add depth and talent that should makes us more competitive and a stronger team overall.”

Along with the freshmen swimmers on the roster, the coach looks to the senior women to lead the team throughout the season and onto the championship

meets. Four of the seniors on the team are All-American athletes from the 2016-2017 season. Seniors Cecilia Hake, Kylie Gaeth, Taylor Bass and sophomore sprinter Maggie Knier have all achieved the accolade of being an All-American in Division-II of the NCAA. “All these ladies are look-

ing to end their careers on a high note,” said Owens. “I’m expecting our seniors to have a big year.”

The coach is extremely impressed with Knier’s performance early in this season and said that she is posting some of the fastest times he’s ever seen. According to Owens, the team has several

swimmers who can potentially qualify for the National meet if they keep up the pace they are currently on. The depth of the team last year was a concern in big meets, in order to improve on that as a team, training properly and consistently is crucial for the Mavericks.

The team focuses on increasing the workload with the volume and intensity of their training in the early part of the season. Coach Owens said the team generally rests for about a week before an important meet.

“Staying healthy and training at a high level through the first 3 months of our season is critical to success,” said Owens. “If athletes can improve their conditioning, get stronger, and progress during that time, then they’re setting themselves up to have some good performances.”

After the second-place finish at the NSIC Championships, the team wants to take that next step and be able to call themselves champions this year. St. Cloud State will be waiting for the Mavericks at the end of the season as Minnesota State tries to claim the title belt. Before that happens, the team has other hurdles to jump. The mid-season meet held in Rochester will be an important test for the team, according to Coach Owens. The Rochester Invite will be the Mavs’ final meet in 2017, and they go to Hawaii for a Winter Break training trip before returning in 2018 to take on the University of Sioux Falls on January 13.

“Performing at our best during these three meets is the primary thing that we focus on throughout the year,” said Owens.

Matching last year’s record so far through the 2017-2018 season, the Mavericks lost their first meet against South Dakota with a tight score of 154-146. The team took care of business last Friday in Eau Claire, Wisconsin as they defeated the UW – Eau Claire Blugolds 234-65. The next meet will be in Mankato with Augustana visiting on Oct. 27.

Minnesota State handled the Vikings in last year’s meeting, winning the meet with a score of 163-106 in the 2016-2017 season.

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NFL week 6: health becoming major concern With the latest injury involving Aaron Rodgers, the NFL faces more problems

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer Another week of football is in the books and plenty of upheaval has happened. The Atlanta Falcons lose to the Miami Dolphins, the Philadelphia Eagles continue to look good and the last unbeaten team took a loss. But the dominant story here are the injuries.

Everyone has seen the hit quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers took from linebacker Anthony Barr of the Minnesota Vikings. With a broken collarbone, the star quarterback is going to be out for the rest of the season, destroying the playoff chances for the Packers.

It has been one of the many injuries this season. Here are some of the star players that have experienced either a season-ending injury or serious enough injury to miss more than half of the NFL season: -Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt -New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr.

Photo courtesy of The Associated Press Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) is attended to by medical staff after being hit by Minnesota Vikings outside linebacker Anthony Barr in the first half of an NFL football game in Minneapolis, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017.

-Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson -Carolina Panthers tight end Greg Olsen -Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck -Miami Dolphins quarterback Ryan Tannehill -Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook These are not only big injuries for the teams they play for, but also for the league, capped by the Rodgers injury. These players are out for

nearly the entire year, if not the whole season. These are the players in the interviews and press conferences, players on your fantasy teams and in commercials. This is not only taking away from the quality of the NFL games, but also hurting the marketable side of their business.

Over the next few weeks, two things will change in the NFL, with fascinating repercussions for the league.

The playoff race

shifts because of these injuries. The quarterbacks are really impactful because of the effect that signal callers have on the game, specifically players like Rodgers and Luck. Both are essential to their teams and the way they play offense. Rodgers makes most of his plays on broken plays and improvisation, while Luck combated the poor Colts defense with high powered offense. Even players like Watt take effect

on the playoff race, with his loss badly hampering the defensive pass rush. The Cardinals running game may be bouncing back with Adrian Peterson, but still lost a lot with dual threat back Johnson gone.

And what of the divisions?

Now the NFC North is wide open from one injury, with Detroit and Minnesota in position to take the North because of the impact that Rodgers’ absence will have.

These are stories to watch not just last weekend, or next weekend, but the rest of the season.

The NFL has always stuck to the mindset that the game, the shield, the brand that is the league has been more important than everything else.

They have showed that with their success despite the 3.5 year average career length of the player and the idea of non-guaranteed contracts.

Now the stars are dropping like flies, meaning the theory will be tested. There are plenty of backups forced to step up in the place of starters. Less names people know and more role players. It is also in a year when rookies are stealing the show with their performances. The league will be tested with the big names taking a seat this season and the stand-ins involved in the win or lose games for your favorite team.

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Maverick soccer records 11-straight shutouts Minnesota State is hot at the right time, with four regular season games remaining

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RYAN SJOBERG Staff Writer The No. 13-ranked Minnesota State University Mavericks continue to roll as they defeated Northern State University and Minnesota State University-Moorhead over the past weekend. MNSU has not allowed a single goal over their last 11 games.

Their last goal given up was against the number-three team in the nation, Grand Valley State, on Sept. 10. Let’s catch up on what took place over the past weekend.

The Mavericks first match came against Northern State University who came into the game with a record of 4-7-1.

Senior Abby Nordeen put the Mavs on the scoreboard first, heading home a corner kick in the 11th minute to give Minnesota State the early 1-0 lead.

The Mavericks went on crush the Wolves’ hopes in the first half, scoring two goals within a minute of each other. Freshman Molly Sarafolean gave sophomore Taylor Kenealy a beautiful pass and Kenealy capitalized, finding the back of the net to push the count to 2-0. Sarafolean was awarded with a goal of her own just a minute later, finishing from a couple feet out in the 31st minute to give the Mavericks a 3-0 lead and a good feeling going into halftime.

Shortly after the half, Jenny Hoerter extended the Maverick lead. On a pass from teammate Anna Mixon, Hoerter was able to finish off the play and score the ball as this goal ended up being the end of the scoring for the game as it ended 4-0.

Minnesota State outshot the Wolves from Northern State 13-2 and dominated in every facet of the game.

The next day MNSU took on Minnesota State-Moorhead, who came into the match with a record of 1-8-3.

This battle was a defensive

one in the early stages, as the Mavericks failed to score until the 30th minute when junior Julia Zach sent a pass to fellow Maverick Lauren Kizlik who capitalized and scored her fourth goal of the season.

This was the only action of the first half as the teams went into halftime with a score of 1-0 favoring the Mavericks.

The Mavericks dominated the second half, scoring a couple goals and playing stout defense. They extended the lead in the 63rd minute when forward Dakota Wendell kicked the ball to

teammate Molly Riley. Riley made a few moves and found pay dirt making the score 2-0.

In the 83rd minute, MNSU extended their lead and delivered the dagger as Julia Zach scored her fourth goal of the season.

The game ended 3-0 and the Mavericks held a 25-1 advantage in shots on goal.

Goalkeeper Taylor Livermore recorded her seventh shutout of the season and Minnesota State continued to dominate on the defensive end as they extended their program record shutout

streak to 11 matches.

The Mavericks have four matches left before postseason play. This weekend they hit the road to North Dakota as they take on University of Mary on Saturday and Minot State on Sunday. They close the regular season with games against Upper Iowa on Oct. 27 and Winona State on senior day, which will take place on Oct. 29.

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The injury that was Teddy Bridgewater’s There are many things that come into play when discussing the impact on the Vikings

COLTON MOLESKY Staff Writer The Minnesota Vikings are out a quarterback in Sam Bradford and forced to make due with Case Keenum until

someone gets healthy. After last season’s repercussions from the Teddy Bridgewater injury during last year’s preseason, it may be the most impactful injury to the Vikings ever.

Let us go through the timeline. Bridgewater goes down last summer and forces Minnesota to take action and trade their first round pick for Bradford. Bradford played well in his 4-0 start, throwing for six touchdowns. However,

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Teddy Bridgewater (5) has been cleared to rejoin the Minnesota Vikings for practice, roughly 14 months after a dislocation and multiple ligament tears in his left knee put his leg and career at risk.

he went 3-8 with the team and threw for 14 touchdowns along with five interceptions to finish the season.

After the season, the team drafted running back Dalvin Cook and center Pat Elflein as their notable picks in the second and third rounds.

They gave Xavier Rhodes and Everson Griffen extensions, keeping together a stud defense but extending neither of their quarterbacks, leaving question marks about the future of the signal caller. Now Bradford has gone down with a knee injury yet again, and are forced to stick with Case Keenum at quarterback.

Cook is out and the Vikings are stuck with the same problem as they had last season: a great defense that will probably have to carry the team yet again.

What could have been If Bridgewater stays healthy, they do not trade away the pick, and because of the team chemistry and the way the team performed under Bridgewater the year before, this could have been a playoff team.

Whether they win or lose they still have their pick. Their pick was the 14th in the first round at 8-8. At that spot they could have taken star defensive end Derek Barnett, which is who the Eagles took. Safety Malik Hooker, defensive end Jonathan Allen and cornerback Adoree Jackson were also available at the spot. Or assume that they play better and grab a 21st pick. They still could get a player like tight end

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O.J. Howard, defensive end Takkarist McKinley or corner Tre’Davious White. With either spot, they grab a great defensive player while still grabbing Cook and Elflein.

The other side The other side of this is they sustain the Bridgewater injury, but take the loss to the season. Of course hindsight is 20/20, but the move would have been to just accept the injury, going with a mediocre season and then taking the pick along with the next season assuming that Bridgewater recovers, as he seems to be doing. Instead they lacked a great team last season and are stuck with a backup quarterback to start this season anyways, but have no draft picks to compensate.

Overall The intent is not to blame

Bridgewater for an injury he has no control over. Nor to blame the organization for going after an ulterior option at quarterback in an attempt to save the season. It is more to magnify the impact of an injury, especially to a quarterback. It is also a great reminder on why teams stay pat and try to use a backup to plug a hole made by injury. The price of the trade can be incredibly steep and there is no guarantee that the new players stay healthy. This is a cruel game that offers plenty of twists and turns, with every move holding weight.

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Thursday, October 19, 2017