October 22, 2019

TUESDAY OCTOBER 22, 2019

Small Business Development Center gets early Christmas present MARIA LY STAFF WRITER The Small Business Development Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato was recently awarded a twoyear grant for $274,000.

The SBDC was one of the 13 nonprofit groups awarded by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development who offer grants to groups who provide services and technical assistance to businesses and entrepreneurs in Minnesota.

The grant awarded to the SBDC was part of the Business Development Competitive Grant program that provides funding to groups that offer business assistance to targeted demographics such as women, minorities, rural residents, etc.

Mike Hanh, the regional director of the SBDC, said, “We were able to receive a fairly large award from it and what

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that does, it kind of signifies and really recognizes our region as being a hotbed for entrepreneurship. And it provides us an ability to continue to offer those free services that we offer to many communities within our region.”

The SBDC is hosted by the

University and is part of Strategic Partnerships at MNSU who match the skills, talents, and expertise of MNSU students, faculty and staff to the needs of business, education and communities.

The SBDC who is funded by the U.S. Small Business

Administration and regional support partners, offers free one-on-one confidential consulting or low cost classes to people who are currently in business or ones who are considering an entrepreneurial venture.

Hanh said, “We help folks

with basically everything from a business plan to learning about new marketing techniques, to doing such things in regard to securing capital for a business venture. Essentially we provide the business community with free and sometimes low cost technical services and technical advisors.”

Some of the services include start-up assistance, business plan development, access to capital and loan packaging, marketing, eCommerce, social media, websites, human resources, etc.

The SBDC plans to use the money from the grant to continue offering these free and sometimes low cost services by keeping contracts with their consultants. The SBDC contracts with roughly a dozen business consultants in a variety of different disciplines

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Women in STEM offers networking advice EMILY ERCK STAFF WRITER The Women in STEM networking dinner kicked off at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Centennial Student Union.

The dinner was a place for women from all different domains of STEM careers to network with one another and converse about common interests.

Minnesota State University, Mankato alum Sarah Kruse welcomed attendees to the event. There was also a panel of women in STEM available to answer questions the attendees had about STEM careers. Professors, alumni, students and others interested in STEM attended.

STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. For a long time, careers falling under the STEM domain were widely taken up

Associate Professor in the Computer Information Science program, Sarah Kruse, talks to a group of students at a table during the Women in STEM Dinner event in the Centennial Student Union Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 Mankato, Minn. (Jack Linell/MSU Reporter)

by men, but now, women are starting to make force than ever before.

The panel at the event was

made up of three women, each representing a different career. The first was Jessica Davis, a 2001 graduate

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of MNSU, and current math teacher at South Saint Paul Secondary School. She was voted 2019 Minnesota Teach-

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Another MNSU graduate, Alyssa Lillehaugen, graduated in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Technology. She now works at Securian Financial in Saint Paul. The third panel member was Sarah Lloyd, a project manager at Bolton and Menk engineering firm.

The increase of women in STEM careers has been steady over the years, and when the panelists were asked if they noticed an increase in their particular field, Lloyd said she noticed a significant increase.

“I graduated with about 10 to 15% females in civil engineering and I think we’re at about 50% [females] within the engineering side of our firm,” she said.

She also expressed that she is passionate about recruiting more women to her

field and hopes she sees more women in engineering in the future.

The panelists also answered questions that were very relevant to undergraduate students on the lookout for internship or job opportunities.

An audience member asked, “As we look for internships or entry level positions, what are your recommendations to what might set me apart from other candidates?

What are the biggest impact factors?”

Lillehaugen, who’s also a recruiter for Securian and answered, “Give me a story that I will remember so that when I’m looking at your resume, I can write that down.

That way, when we’re looking back through the 50 to 100 resumes, we have something to remember you by.”

Lillehaugen stressed the

importance of making a good first impression when you walk into the interview.

She said additional experience from jobs or internships can help set you apart from other candidates.

There are many more events and Recognized Student Organizations for women to get involved with STEM. One club exclusively for women is Society of Women Engineers, or SWE. Find this organization’s information on the MNSU website. For more information on the Women in STEM networking dinner, visit the Women’s Center or check out the Her Campus MNSU magazine.

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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US may now keep some troops in Syria to guard oilfields GRANT

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. may leave some forces in Syria to secure oilfields and make sure they don’t fall into the hands of a resurgent Islamic State, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Monday, even though President Donald Trump has insisted he is pulling troops out of the country and getting out of “endless wars.”

The Pentagon chief said the plan was still in the discussion phase and had not yet been presented to Trump, who has repeatedly said the Islamic State has been defeated.

Esper emphasized that the proposal to leave a small number of troops in eastern Syria was intended to give the president “maneuver room” and wasn’t final.

“There has been a discussion about possibly doing it,” Esper told a press conference in Afghanistan before heading to Saudi Arabia. “There has been no decision with regard to numbers or anything like that.”

Still, the fact that such a plan was under consideration was another sign the administration was still trying to sort out its overall strategy amid fierce criticism from the president’s Republican allies of his abrupt decision to pull U.S. forces back — essentially clearing the way for Turkey’s military incursion into the border region to push back the American-allied Kurdish forces.

A White House official said GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham raised the issue of keeping U.S. forces in eastern Syria to protect the oilfields and that Trump supported the idea.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal discussions.

Trump said Monday at the White House that he still wants to get all U.S. troops out of Syria, but “we need to secure the oil” in one part of the country while Israel and Jordan asked him to keep some forces in another part.

“Other than that, there’s no reason for it, in our opinion,” he said.

Esper said the main goal of leaving some troops around the oilfields would be to make sure the Islamic State doesn’t gain control of the revenue they generate.

The defense secretary said American troops around Kobani are withdrawing and that the U.S. is maintaining combat air patrol over U.S. forces in Syria as the withdrawal goes on. He said the U.S. is using overhead surveillance to try to monitor the recently negotiated cease-fire “as

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American military convoy stops near the town of Tel Tamr, north Syria, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019.

Kurdish-led fighters and Turkish-backed forces clashed sporadically Sunday in northeastern Syria amid efforts to work out a Kurdish evacuation from a besieged border town, the first pullback under the terms of a U.S.-brokered cease-fire. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad)

best we can.”

While Trump has insisted he’s bringing home Americans from “endless war” in the Mideast, Esper said all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American military will continue operations against the Islamic State group.

Esper told reporters over the weekend that the fight in Syria against IS, once spearheaded by American allied Syrian Kurds who have been cast aside by Trump, will be undertaken by U.S. forces, possibly from neighboring Iraq.

But he said in a tweet Monday that the U.S. would only “temporarily reposition” troops from Syria “in the region” until they could return home.

Esper did not rule out the idea that U.S. forces would conduct counterterrorism missions from Iraq into Syria.

But he told reporters traveling with him that those details will be worked out over time.

Trump nonetheless tweeted: “USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones.

We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!”

The Republican president declared this past week that Washington had no stake in defending the Kurdish fighters who died by the thousands as America’s partners fighting in Syria against IS extremists. Turkey conducted a weeklong offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish fighters before a military pause.

“We never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting Monday.

Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, asked about the fact that the troops were not coming home as the president claimed they

would, said, “Well, they will eventually.” He told “Fox News Sunday” that “the quickest way to get them out of danger was to get them into Iraq.”

Trump ordered the bulk of the approximately 1,000 U.S. troops in Syria to withdraw after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made it clear in a phone call that his forces were about to invade Syria to push back Kurdish forces that Turkey considers terrorists.

The pullout largely abandons America’s Kurdish allies who have fought IS alongside U.S. troops for several years. Between 200 and 300 U.S. troops will remain at the southern Syrian outpost of Al-Tanf.

The U.S. has more than 5,000 American forces in Iraq, under an agreement between the two countries.

The U.S. pulled its troops out of Iraq in 2011 when combat operations there ended, but they went back in after IS began to take over large swaths of the country in 2014. The number of American forces in Iraq has remained small due to political sensitivities in the country, after years of what some Iraqis consider U.S. occupation during the war that began in 2003.

Esper said he will talk with other allies at a NATO meeting in the coming week to discuss the way ahead for the counter-IS mission.

from marketing to capital acquisition and so on.

All consultants are experienced business people with most owning their own businesses at one point in time.

Hanh said, “This grant allows us to continue a contract with all of those consultants and anyone in our region who needs help with their business can work with that consultant free of charge through our center, and what we’ll do is work with the client to define as far as what areas of specialization they need and assign a consultant to them” The best way to sign up for a consulting meeting is through their website my minne s ot ab u s ine s s . com at the “apply for services” section.

The SBDC serves about 500 clients annually with clients from existing businesses, start-ups, emerging entrepreneurs, and non-profits.

The SBDC is not only for Mankato residents but also serves the nine counties in the south central Minnesota region. The SBDC provides services to Sibley, Nicollet, Le Sueur, Waseca, Blue Earth, Brown, Watonwan, Martin and Faribault.

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FALL 2019 EDITOR IN CHIEF:

Phone addiction is real and serious

MADISON DIEMERT

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AARON YOUNG STAFF WRITER It seems like everywhere I go I see people on their phones on social media, texting and calling their family and friends. or listening to music.

Being a college student, I don’t think there was a student on campus I have seen that doesn’t have a phone on them. According to yougov. com, 45% of college students get anxiety when they don’t have their phones.

An even more astonishing statistic is the average phone usage a day is three hours and fifteen minutes, which pans out to almost 23 hours a week on your phone alone (Guardian). My Screen Time app says I spent two full days on my phone this past week, with the most used app being YouTube. Early on this year, I checked my phone at least 50 times a day too.

Our cell phones have become essentially a part of our identity, and without it most people wouldn’t know what how to function.

Which begs the question: How would especially college students function without a phone?

I was forced to answer that question sophomore year of college for three whole weeks. One night I hear a crash on the wall to find out the next morning my phone was busted. I notified my dad

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and everyone about it so they knew. What proceeded was a roller coaster ride, to say the least as I force outside my comfort zone in many ways.

First off, I couldn’t listen to music on Spotify on my way to class or any time I didn’t have a computer on me. This was excruciating for me because music is a big part of my life and I wasn’t able to discover new songs quicker.

I could no longer use my phone to text or call people and get a faster response. Instead I used email to communicate or messenger on my computer.

Lastly, I wasn’t able to catch up on the latest breaking news on my phone. I was in the dark for a while, so to speak.

However, there were benefits. I remember the first couple of days I felt a sense of peace come over me. I was more aware of my surroundings and my anxiety went down at times. For instance, whenever I am on my way to class, I checked my phone at least five times to make sure I wasn’t late. Without a phone, I got there when I got there.

I was more productive and efficient with my studies because I wasn’t distracted checking social media or changing songs on YouTube every four minutes.

I also wasn’t on my phone for an hour before I slept going to bed with my eyes hurting, and waking up feeling groggy. Nor could I check it first thing in the morning.

The biggest takeaway, however, was the face-toface interaction. I needed to see people in person to catch up with them which brought about close friendships.

Over this past weekend, I attended a seminar about being addicted and leveraged by technology. We discussed how phones help us keep in touch with friends from around the world as well as doing research on school papers. However, phones can lead to a culture of isolation and loneliness. There were a few steps the speaker gave us to have a healthier relationship with technology. It

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Liberal icon Trudeau fights to stay in power as Canada votes

MICHAEL MCSHANE NEWS EDITOR President Donald Trump found an interesting way of getting the U.S. out of those pesky endless wars.

How have we not thought of this, in all our long history of being a world superpower and wielding one of the most impressive and modernized military forces, to get out of the War on Terrorism all we had to do was pack up and leave.

Allies, what allies? Who needs them? A terrorist group allowed to break out of prison and begin plotting against those who put them in said prison, it won’t affect us! The Kurds are at the mercy of the Turkish government, not our problem!

That, at least, is what President Trump think of the situation. What I think, is that this whole withdrawal idea was a humongous mistake. I’m as tired as everyone else knowing we still have soldiers on the ground in the Middle East risking their lives every day. I want to see them home just as much as everyone else.

I can’t, in good conscious, believe that we should forsake our allies and the effort it took both American forces and Kurdish forces in fighting against ISIS. Remember when ISIS was huge. The horrific videos of them executing prisoners, the bombings, the mass shootings. All of it done by ISIS and now the leash is off. Trump said when he was questioned on whether ISIS would target the U.S. after the prison break, and he responded that Europe would be the ones dealing with the aftermath.

What a great way to show your appreciation for your allies! No, this withdrawal will have long-lasting damage to not only the region but to our foreign policy as a nation.

As much as we want to see our soldiers come home, this was the wrong place and the wrong time to do it.

It would be a long shot if it happened, but Trump needs to reverse his decision to pull troops out of Syria and help the Kurds that have lost men and women in the war effort to combat ISIS. We’ve already seen what Turkey is planning for the Kurds and it isn’t right for us to turn tail and abandon them.

TORONTO (AP) — Justin Trudeau faced a possible humiliating defeat as Canadians voted in parliamentary elections Monday, just four years after he channeled his father’s star power to become prime minister.

Handsome and charismatic, Trudeau reasserted liberalism in 2015 after almost 10 years of Conservative Party government in Canada, but a series of scandals combined with high expectations have damaged his prospects.

Early results had the Liberals leading in 24 of the region’s 32 ridings, or districts.

The Conservatives were leading in six and the NDP in one.

But many of the ridings only had a handful of polls reporting and some of the races were extremely tight, and it was too soon to tell whether Trudeau would be able to fend off a strong challenge from the Conservative Party led by Andrew Scheer.

Trudeau, son of the liberal icon and late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is one of the few remaining progressive leaders in the world. He has been viewed as a beacon

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, second from left, votes with wife Sophie GregoireTrudeau, and children Xavier, Ella-Grace and Hadrien in Montreal, Monday, Oct. 21, 2019.

Trudeau faced the threat of being knocked from power after one term as the nation held parliamentary elections on Monday. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Scheer, 40, calls Trudeau a phony who can’t even recall how many times he has worn blackface.

Trudeau also was hurt by a scandal that erupted this year when his former attorney general said he pressured her to halt the prosecution of a Quebec company. Trudeau

“Not in 84 years has a firstterm Canadian prime minister with a parliamentary majority lost a bid for re-election.” for liberals in the Trump era, even appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine under the headline “Why Can’t He Be Our President?”

Polls indicate Trudeau’s Liberal Party could lose to the rival Conservatives, or perhaps win but still fail to get a majority of seats in Parliament and have to rely on an opposition party to remain in power.

“It’s a coin toss,” said Nik Nanos, a Canadian pollster.

Not in 84 years has a firstterm Canadian prime minister with a parliamentary majority lost a bid for re-election. Perhaps sensing Trudeau was in trouble, Barack Obama made an unprecedented endorsement by a former American president in urging Canadians to re-elect Trudeau and saying the world needs his progressive leadership now.

But old photos of Trudeau in blackface and brownface surfaced last month, casting doubt on his judgment.

Scheer is a career politician who is seen as a possible antidote to Trudeau’s flash.

has said he was standing up for jobs, but the damage gave a boost to the Conservative Party.

No party is expected to

get a majority of Parliament’s 338 seats, so a shaky alliance may be needed to pass legislation.

If Conservatives should win the most seats — but not a majority — they would probably try to form a government with the backing of Quebec’s separatist Bloc Quebecois party. Trudeau’s Liberals would likely rely on the New Democrats to stay in power.

No one party is expected to draw support from across Canada, with the Conservatives strong in the western part of the country, the Liberals dominating Ontario, the Bloc in Quebec and the New Democrats perhaps leading in British Columbia, Nanos said.

“One of the outcomes of this election might be the rise of regional division,” Nanos said.

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Continued from page 4 could be as simple as recording your use of technology on social media, computer, TV, or video games. A more extreme step would be turning off your phones for a whole day.

Either way, bringing it back, I learned a lot from this experience. As soon as I got my phone and activated it boy did it blow up with notifications, especially on social media.

Sometimes going without your phone can be a good thing. So put the phone down for a while even if it’s for five minutes. and those snaps and tweets can wait.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

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Mankato Marathon draws thousands of people

Professors and students at MSU speak on their experience running ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR The Mankato Marathon is a nationally known event and arguably the biggest thing attached to the cities name. The marathon was first created in 2009 and sets as a qualifier for the Boston Marathon, an even bigger event.

It was a perfect day for the event, as the sun was shining and Minnesota allowed for a warm 73 degree fall day.

There were thousands of people participating on the side and in the race. Groups from Minnesota State University, Mankato, were also present.

There were 379 entries in the marathon, but there are other races for people to participate in if they want to be a part of this big day. There is the 10K (803 entries), Half Marathon (1,111), Marathon Relay (37), Pork Power 5K (699), diaper dash, KidsK and Toddler Trot.

Shane Bowyer, a professor at MNSU, decided to run the marathon for the first time.

The road to get to this point has a lot of significance for

him. 10 years ago, he helped Visit Mankato and thought to himself that one day he would like to be one of the runners.

The reason run it grew bigger a few years ago, he said, “I said I will do a marathon for my dad’s twin brother who passed away from cancer. I would take a breaks and run while spending time at the hospital and said someday for Uncle Don.” He went on further to say, “Then I ended up having a couple knee surgeries and thought it may never happened. I started running again and felt good, then in August I decided now is the time.”

Preparing for the marathon, a 26.2-mile run, is not an easy thing. For Bowyer, he’s always jogged, but didn’t know how to get ready for something like this. He designed workouts based off questions he asked his friends who have done marathons before, as well as doing cross training and long and fast short runs.

Bowyer said the people cheering, especially his family and friends helped motivate

him. By the end of the race he mentioned that he found himself running faster feeding off the crowd cheering.

During the race he saved podcasts to listen to and that helped him take his mind off running. One podcast in particular helped him the most.

Bowyer said, “One podcast I saved for a few months to play for the first time during the marathon was the NPR broadcast of Dan and Angie Bastian building BoomChickaPop. I didn’t know if they would talk about my Uncle Don, but I thought they might as he worked for them.

It helped remind me of his last week at the hospital.”

Bowyer wasn’t feeling tired, but it was a relief mentally to finish the race.

Knowing the goal he accomplished was exhilarating.

“Seeing my family there was great. Kissed my wife and said it’s done,” Bowyer said after completing the race.

Heather Camp is also a professor at MNSU and finished fourth among women in the marathon.

Camp wanted to run in the marathon because she’s

Two participants run through the countryside during the 2019 Mankato Marathon Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 in Mankato, Minn.

(Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

from the Mankato area and wanted to represent her hometown. She wanted to

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MSU football tackles UMary in record-breaking fashion ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR The Minnesota State football team broke the school’s record in points scored in a game after they rolled over the University of Mary Marauders 74-17.

The Mavericks got off to a quick start offensively and defensively, as junior Cade Johnson took it to the house with a pick-six interception, just 13 seconds into the game.

UMary would answer back with a touchdown of their own a few minutes later, bringing the score to a tie at 7-7.

Senior Ryan Schlichte would break the tie with a 32yard pass to senior Shane Zylstra. After the two-point conversion, the Mavericks were sitting with 15 points.

Senior Justin Arnold had yet to reach the endzone this season, but that would soon come to an end. He would take it to the house with a 41-

Minnesota State running back Nate Gunn (23) runs with the ball in the first half of a football game against the University of Mary at the Blakselee Stadium Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 in Mankato, Minn. (Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

yard run. Despite this being a run and still without a receiving touchdown, Arnold would then find the end zone almost

three minutes later on a 24yard pass.

Arnold finished the day with three carries for 55 yards,

42 receiving yards and two touchdowns. This was his best game this season and should find more success this

Saturday.

The Mavericks defense and offense were firing on all cylinders, but the special teams were just as good. Senior Parrish Marrow returned a punt for 92 yards and would give the team a comfortable 36-7 lead.

Zylstra would find the end zone for the second time on Saturday, but this time, it was on a six-yard rushing attempt.

That was his only rushing attempt of the day but led MSU in receiving with 91 yards and a touchdown.

The passing attack of MSU would come to an end and the rest of the points came from runs and one field goal.

Schlichte ended the day with 104 yards and two touchdowns. Whereas sophomore Brevin Kaiser connected with six of his seven passes for 67

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Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Minnesota State hockey takes care of UND ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR

The Minnesota State Mavericks men’s hockey went 1-0-1 against the North Dakota Fighting Hawks.

In the first game, the Mavericks found themselves taking the early lead after junior Walker Duehr and freshman Nathan Smith assisted freshman Lucas Sowder on his second goal of the season.

UND went on a run of their own, blanking MSU and finding themselves up with a 3-1 lead. MSU trailed the majority of the game but kept it

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yards. Junior JD Ekowa would only complete one of his four passes, but he made up for it with 42 passing yards.

Senior Nate Gunn would bring the Mavericks into the half with a 50-7 lead, after a 58-yard run.

Junior Justin Taormina would also break out for a large run to open things in the second half. He would score on a 41-yard run and would soon see his second touchdown of the day after UMary would get its second and final touchdown. Taormina’s second touchdown was a 26-yard touchdown. He finished with seven carries for 91 yards and two touchdowns.

MSU didn’t stop there, as they would get its fifth rushing touchdown from redshirt freshman, Kaleb Sleezer. He ended things with 10 carries for 68 yards.

Finally, the Mavericks reached the end of its scoring barrage after sophomore Ashton Garner would hit a 20yard field goal.

By the end of things, MSU would win 74-17.

The defense gave up 17 points, ending their streak of stopping opponents from scoring more than 10 points.

However, the defense came to play and performed against the Marauders.

Junior Cole Schroedermeier led the team with five tackles.

Junior Lukas Burrington would follow with four tackles, one of which was a sack.

He would be joined by senior Garret Jansen (2) and redshirt freshmen Logan Josephson (1) and Nic Dahlke (1.5) in the sack department.

Jansen would also force a fumble, adding to his already big day on defense.

MSU will now play Minnesota Crookston on the road

competitive throughout the game.

After North Dakota went up 3-1, senior Edwin Hookenson scored on an assist from Sowder and Smith early in the second period.

As soon as it seemed MSU was going to make a comeback, UND denied that opportunity when they score late in the second period.

Not long after that, Smith continued his big game with an unassisted goal about a minute later.

Smith and Sowder would then assist junior Connor Mackey on a goal late in the third period that eventually brought the game to a tie at 4-4.

The game would go into overtime, but after five minutes of play, there was no winner – resulting in a tie.

Smith finished the game with one goal and three assists. Sowder ended the night with a goal and two assists. Both players made up for most of the Mavericks offense.

The second game was just as tight, but the Mavericks would end up winning the game 2-1. The Fighting Hawks got off to a quick

Minnesota State forward Walker Duehr (17) shoots the puck in the second period of a hockey game against the University of North Dakota at the Mankato Civic Center Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 in Mankato, Minn. (Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

start, scoring the first goal midway through the first period.

Right off the bat, senior Marc Michaelis scored 26 seconds into the game off of a Sowder and Mackey assist.

Hookenson would break the tie five minutes into the third period, after Michaelis assisted him. Michaelis was a huge part of the Mavericks offense on Oct. 19. He finished with one goal and an

assist.

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lead of 11 and ended the game 25-15.

Olson led the team with 15 kills and at Nelson added 10 of her own. Sophomore Dana Schindler brought in a match-leading 30 assists and 12 digs.

On Saturday, the Mavericks traveled to Minot, North Dakota to face the Minot State Beavers. Just like the day before, the Mavericks started the first set with a 10-5 lead, due to the strength of the front line and the attack of Olson and Nelson.

MSU was able to carry their lead for the rest of the set and win 25-21.

The second set continued with a 5-2 Maverick push, but the Beavers wanted to have their shining moment and they fought hard. The Mavericks front line was too strong for the Beavers to break, resulting in another win (25-21).

Set three was no different than the rest of the game, where the Mavericks shut down the Beavers 25-16.

Olson ended the match with 19 kills, senior Anissa Janzig had 11 and Nelson finished with 10.

Schindler completed the game with a match high of 45 assists and Minnesota State recorded seven blocks,

whereas Minot State had only one.

The Minnesota State volleyball team will be playing at the Taylor Center

in Mankato this weekend against Northern State on Friday, followed by a match against the Minnesota State Moorhead on Saturday.

Volleyball stays hot, wins 2 more ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR The Minnesota State Mavericks volleyball team continues to amaze fans after adding two more wins to their record.

On Friday, the team traveled to Bismarck, North Dakota, to take on the University of Mary Marauders.

The first set started off evenly with each team keeping a close score, until the Mavericks were able to get ahead by three points.

Even though the Marauders had a few small runs to take advantage of the game, they just fell short.

Senior Morgan Olson helped the team offensively with seven kills in the first set and MSU was able to take the win, 25-21.

Fans and players could tell right away that set two was going to be another Maverick win. Freshman Jessica Nelson pushed the team to a 13-6 lead early in the game with four kills and eventually winning 25-18.

The third set was another quick win for the Mavericks, giving no hope of a win to the Marauders. The Mavericks took an early seven-point lead, which evolved into a

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Mavericks soccer continues to shut out its opponents ANDREW NEURURER SPORTS EDITOR The Minnesota State women’s soccer team continued their winning streak, extending it to five games with wins over Minnesota Crookston and Bemidji State. They are now 11-2 on the year and 8-2 in conference play.

In their first game on Friday, Oct. 18, the Mavericks ran the field and dominated the Golden Eagles 7-0. This was the team’s third straight win in a row during their three-game home stretch.

Sophomore Jenny Vetter, named the NSIC offensive player of the week, kicked off the stampede on a penalty kick in the 27th minute of the game. She followed up with another goal 20 seconds later. Vetter is shooting for MVP year, as she leads the Mavericks in goals with 12 and six assists.

Another player who has played well was freshman Allie Williams, recording a hat-trick and bringing her to seven goals on the year. Her

Minnesota State forward Jenny Vetter (4) shoots the ball at the goal in the second half of a soccer game against the Bemidji State University at the Pitch Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 in Mankato, Minn. (Mansoor Ahmad/MSU Reporter)

first goal was on a free kick, assisted by junior defender Taylor Barzowski in the 58th minute. Barzowski also assisted on another one of Williams’ goal in the 77th minute.

Sophomore Nadia Lowery kicked in her fourth goal of the year and senior Julia Nellis scored her first in the 7-0 victory.

Minnesota State recorded 21 shots, with 11 on target

and kept Crookston to just two. In addition to this, the Mavericks had an 8-0 advantage on corner kicks against the Eagles.

Their next game was a lot tighter. In what was indeed

year and by the end of it, you get a commemorative free beer.”

Much like the reason he wanted to participate in race, his answer of staying positive had a similar response. He said, “The fans on the sides cheering you on is motivation enough but getting the free beer and snacks after completing the race also helps with that.”

But by the end of the race, Fazio was feeling dead, but the happiness of completing it outweighed how tired he was.

Another student to run

the half marathon was senior Joelle Anderson.

Anderson did well in preparing for her half marathon, as she would get ready for her big race by running twice a week and doing plenty hill workouts.

Anderson has run in the race the last two years, but this year was even bigger because her brother wanted to join her in running. Much like Fazio, the fans were a huge motivational factor while she was on her quest to finish the race. But the race added a virtual race element as well.

In Mario Kart, when a driv-

a nail-biter the very end and resulted in a Mavericks defeated the Beavers 1-0.

Once again it was Vetter, who scored for the Mavericks, but only after both teams failed to find the net for almost the entire game.

Vetter got the better end of the Beavers goalie in the 88th minute and sent the fans home happy.

Goalkeeper Alexa Rabune recorded eight saves on the day. Minnesota State played more physical than their opponent, as they had 12 fouls, compared to Bemidji’s seven.

However, the Beavers were given seven chances to score on free kicks but could not capitalize.

Minnesota State gave the Mavericks fans what they wanted, two victories on their home turf. Now, the girls look ahead to their next meetings on the road.

First up is a date with the Northern State Wolves in Aberdeen, South Dakota, followed up by a meeting against Minnesota State Moorhead on Sunday.

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Continued from page 7 celebrate the day and to also recognize how fortunate we are to be living in this town.

She notes that she has great support from her running group and that helps her train. Physical wise, she uses track workouts, tempo, long and recovery runs.

In order to finish as one of the top racers, Camp said on how she stays motivated, “Crowd support is a powerful motivator. At the Mankato Marathon, runners benefited from MSU’s fantastic Sports Psych Cheer Teams and enthusiastic community volunteers and spectators.”

She said that the encouraging words were awesome and helped her run faster.

By the end of it, she was exhausted and elated at the finish line. But mentions she was, “so grateful for good health, gorgeous weather, and the prospect of a hot shower in my near future. It was a memorable day.

Ashley Grengs, a student at MNSU, participated in the half marathon.

Grengs said on why she wanted to participate, “I’ve been running 5k road races since I was 9 years old and in that time, I did 5k and 10k road races. Along with running varsity cross country and track. It’s always been a goal of mine to run a half marathon and ultimately a

full marathon one day.”

Eventually she would like to run in the Boston Marathon and believes that running the half marathon is a good steppingstone to eventually doing that.

Grengs prepared for the half marathon by training since March. In that long span of time, she would do a variety of run workouts, cross training and maintain a healthy diet.

It’s not easy to stay motivated when you’re running or feeling tired for that matter, but she has a clever way of staying in the right mindset.

From her time in cross country, they would write down something on their hand to keep them motivated.

That thing for Grengs on Saturday was herself, family, friends and getting one race closer to her goal of the Boston Marathon.

Grengs said on how she felt when crossing the finish line, “Wow, I made it and I’m ready to pass out on the finish line.”

Riley Fazio, a senior at MNSU as well, participated in the 10K. Fazio said he didn’t prepare well enough for his race, saying that he ran two miles each time he’d go out.

As for wanting to participate, he said, “My mom and I participate in the race every

er would get a mushroom, it would cause the character to get a boost. In the Mankato Marathon, there was a mushroom button that helped Anderson and other racers get a sense of a boost as they would smash the button.

By the end of the race she said, “I was happy to be done, but completing the race was such a rewarding feeling.”

There were thousands of people that were present at the Mankato marathon and with it being such a beautiful day, it only enhanced the races flare.

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Dick Kimmel performs for love of music and biology RACHAEL JAEGER STAFF WRITER Dick Kimmel, bluegrass musician who integrates his biology interests into his songs, took the stage on Thursday at 7:30 in the Elias J. Recital Hall as part of the Performance Series.

His music partner, Kelly Coyle, also was present and the duo exchanged playful banter during their show.

They started with a few older bluegrass tunes, including “Keep on the Sunny Side”, which was about maintaining a positive look while life felt down.

Ada Blenkhorn wrote the song in 1899, inspired by her disabled nephew who asked if she would push him in his wheelchair on the sunny side of the street.Coyle added that it had also been featured in the 2000 musical, “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”

He led in the singing while

Kimmel joined him in the chorus.

The two created a team and balanced each other out in their rhythms and their natural comedic personalities and attitudes.

After Coyle announced

pointing: “Do you want to go over there and stand in the corner?”

As the show went on, it became evident that Bob Dylan had influenced both these local musicians.

Before they played “Ain’t

All in all, while the musical experience was different, it was refreshing and it was inspiring to witness two musicians, who have played professionally for years—forty for Kimmel. that they would play “You Ain’t Going Nowhere”, a newer song from Bob Dylan, Kimmel stared at Coyle, taking pretend offense.

“It’s only forty years old!”

Coyle exclaimed.

Kimmel asked, while

Going Nowhere”, Kimmel mimicked Dylan’s pitch and scream while he ran his fingers through the guitar he was playing. In the back, a few members in the audience cheered, also acknowledging their love of Dylan.

After the musicians had their fun, they resumed their own style.

They also resorted to another song called “Turn Your Radio On”, composed by an enterprising pastor who lived in the Appalachian Mountains.

Kimmel asked the audience, “Do you say AppleLATCH-in or Apple-LAYcian.”

A show of hands revealed that it was the latter. When Coyle responded, it was the more Southern sounding, but Coyle had also spent some time down South.

Kimmel told Coyle that sometimes when they perform, that when Coyle sings, it slips into the other way.

Coyle had not realized that.

Kimmel concluded the evening with his favorite song and one that he had written called” Fly Away to New Mexico”.

As a biologist, he learned that every generation of

monarchs goes through cycles of migration of different journeys when the weather becomes warmer, such as from Texas to Iowa or Minnesota to Canada.

Recently, New Mexico invested in land for the monarchs’ preservation which is the central theme of the song’s focus. It is all about a new generation of monarchs hatching and surviving, then flying away down in New Mexico.

All in all, while the musical experience was different, it was refreshing and it was inspiring to witness two musicians, who have played professionally for years—forty for Kimmel.

Kimmel has recorded more than a few dozen albums, including his four most recent works for Copper Creek. A feature article for Bluegrass Unlimited magazine called him the “Ambassador of Bluegrass”.

World of Warcraft creators siding with China?

ALYSSA BUNDE STAFF WRITER In the midst of the Hong Kong protests Blizzard Entertainment, one of the world’s foremost video game companies, has found itself involved in the controversy.

Dissent towards Blizzard arose after the company banned a Hearthstone esports player named Ng Wai Chung, or Blitzchung online, for a year after showing support for Hong Kong protestors.

Chung is a professional esports player. He has played in multiple Hearthstone tournaments and has been ranked seventh in the Hearthstone Grandmasters.

According to Time magazine, Chung was featured on the official Taiwan Hearthstone stream after the Grandmaster’s second season of 2019 ended. Then abruptly in the middle of the interview Chung puts on a ski and gas mask and in Chinese stated, “liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our age.”

Blizzard entertainment responded promptly and on

their Hearthstone website released a statement explaining Chung’s actions violated their 2019 Hearthmasters official competition rules section 6.1 (o).

This section states, “engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image will result in removal from Grandmasters and reduction of player’s prize total to $0 USD, in addition to other remedies which may be provided for under the Handbook and Blizzard’s Website Terms.”

The entertainment company followed through. They banned Chung for a full year and stripped him of all of his prize money.

Blizzard Entertainment describes itself as a premier developer and publisher of entertainment software.

They are an American company based out of Southern California and have been established since 1994.

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Continued from page 10 They created popular MMO (massive multiplayer online) game World of Warcraft, in addition to esports mega hits Overwatch and Hearthstone.

Knowing this, it’s easy to wonder why this American gaming company is involved with China at all.

Many American businesses have sought out doing business with China. The countries esports community is vast and rapidly growing.

Therefore, it makes sense for Blizzard to gravitate towards doing business there.

Blizzard has strong partnerships and ties with China.

According to Quartz, 12% of Blizzard’s revenue is derived from the Asia Pacific market.

Tencent, a successful Chinese gaming company, has a 5% stake in Blizzard’s company. In addition, NetEase, a Chinese internet company, also has an 11-year and recently extended partnership with Blizzard.

This American business is stuck between its interest in freedom of speech and it’s loyalty to China. However, it seems they’ve already decided as Chung wasn’t the only one banned for showing support for the Hong Kong protesters.

According to CNN, three American university esports players were also suspended for six months after holding up a “free Hong Kong, boycott Blizz” sign during a live-streamed championship game. Blizzard told CNN Business the decision was made because the students “knowingly broke the rules.”

One of the students, Casey

to get banned, but it was “good to see equal treatment” between US esports players and those in Hong Kong.

According to BBC, the Hong Kong protests began in June after a bill was introduced that would allow for criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China under certain circumstances.

All in all, while the musical experience was different, it was refreshing and it was inspiring to witness two musicians, who have played professionally for years—forty for Kimmel.

Chambers, voiced his reasoning in a public statement.

He explained that he and his friends we’re previously supportive of the Hong Kong protests: “We just happened to have an amazing opportunity to protest an American company bowing down to China, within the context of the Hong Kong protests.”

The gamer further explained their goal wasn’t

While city leader Carrie Lam agreed to suspend the extradition bill, protests continued and demands for full democracy surfaced.

Unfortunately, these demands have not been met peacefully as both protesters and officers continue to attack and use violence against each other.

An example of said violence is taken from a Guardian article published this past

Nyong’o honors her mother NEW YORK (AP) — As Lupita Nyong’o accepted an award from the Harlem School of Arts — and entered the stage to Beyoncé’s anthemic hit “Brown Skin Girl” — the actress mainly had two people to thank for fueling her passion for the arts as a child: her parents.

“I was thinking about (the Harlem School of Arts) and

ly nurtured my artistic spirit.”

So it was only appropriate that the Oscar winner’s mother, Dorothy Nyong’o, also received the Visionary Lineage Award alongside her daughter at The Plaza Hotel.

“I really didn’t do much,” Dorothy Nyong’o said to laughs from the audience, which included staff and students from the Harlem

“Dorothy Nyong’o said she noticed her daughter’s interest in the arts as a child and so she looked “for opportunities to nurture that.” what it does for children and its students (and) I didn’t have an institution where I’m in from in Nairobi, Kenya.

And so the only way my interest in the arts thrived was because I had parents who valued those interests,” she said Monday night at the school’s annual Mask Ball in New York City. “And my mother in particular, she real-

School of Arts, board members, donors and more.

Lupita Nyong’o and Dorothy Nyong’o.

Dorothy Nyong’o said she noticed her daughter’s interest in the arts as a child and so she looked “for opportunities to nurture that.”

“My job was really to facilitate it and I’d like to encourage parents to do it. Some-

times we make the mistake of trying to make our children what we think we want,” she said.

Dorothy Nyong’o won over the audience with more sweet words for her 36-year-old daughter, who has appeared in films such as “Black Panther,” Star Wars,” Us” and “12 Years a Slave,” for which she won an Academy Award.

“I’m proud of her. She makes me shine.”

Lupita Nyong’o, who earned a Tony nomination for her lead role in Broadway’s “Eclipsed,” thanked her mom for all of her support, explaining that when she was a teenager her mother “drove to rehearsals after a long day at work” and sat “in the car for five or so hours ... and she never complained.”

“The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah introduced the Nyong’os to the stage, and they left the stage as “Brown Skin Girl” — a song celebrating dark-skinned women where Beyoncé namedrops Lupita’s name — blasted in the background.

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Sunday. A peaceful protest turned violent as protesters threw petrol bombs at police and even vandalized shops in the area.

Police reacted with tear gas, rubber bullets, and baton charges. In addition, the police later used a water cannon on protesters. This cannon had water dyed blue and contained a painful pep-

per solution.

With violent protests, gaming controversies, and American business involvement the Hong Kong protests are a wildfire that likely won’t be extinguished anytime soon.

This Blizzard controversy is an example of skewed morals and will acts like this will continue unless consumers take action.

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