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Ballroom renovations benefit students

MSU gears up for a busy week of events in the renovated ballroom

The new ballroom features 17 projection screens and a recycled wood ceiling.

JANAY HENRY

staff writer

After almost a year of renovations, the Centennial Student Union is unveiling its remodeled ballroom. More than $4.5 million has been put into the CSU Ballroom to appeal to the student population and to upgrade specific functions such as the heating and cooling systems, and also the roof.

What looked like “moon craters” in the ceiling of the old ballroom held moderate levels of asbestos. Its removal was significant to the proposal to renovate the CSU Ballroom. The ballroom was one of the last places on campus that still contained asbestos.

No state tax money was spent on the funding for the

CSU Ballroom. Most of the funding for the renovations came from student fees and revenue dollars from food vendors inside the CSU, such as Stacks and Jazzman’s.

The ballroom is going to have significant technologies that illustrate innovation, and phenomenal creativity for upcoming events for the students here at MSU. “There’s all kinds of possibilities that this (ballroom) is open up to exploring and it’s going to be a dynamic, and exciting space,” CSU Communications Coordinator Leonard Koupal said.

“This is going to be something unique to this region, not just to this state. I don’t know of any other campus that’s going to have something similar or something close to any kind of this

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technology.”

The lobby of the ballroom will present the present, past, and future of our school with a journey painting and feature an engraved Kasota stonewall. The ballroom will feature 17 projection screens that can be used as a video wall in a 360-degree video and a Kinetic LED lighting system, put into the space, designed with energy-efficient, high-intensity lighting

by Kaas Wilson architecture.

Kaas Wilson also teamed up with Schuler Shook, a theatre lighting company out of the Twin Cities and technology consultants Elert and Associates of Stillwater, Minn. This is their first project at MSU. “I just want to see how the technology will be useful to the students,” said first

year student Jimmy Rogers.

Remember the phrase, “Something old, something new?” Well, with all of the new equipment installed for the ballroom, there was also a piece kept from the old space. The wood paneling that was on the walls of the old ballroom can now be found on the ceiling of the renovated one. The importance of this derives from the fact that the wood came from a forest that no longer exists in northern Minnesota.

“We were green, as well as preserving a heritage, (and) preserving a part of the ballroom. The legacy lives on with a part of the old ballroom up there, and it’s wonderfully done, and elegant (using) the wood,” Koupal said. “It’s a great space, I suspect it’s going to be booked pretty solid after people get to experience it.”

Many of the events will begin this week on Wednesday, with the Major Fair held by the Career Development Center at 10:30 a.m. where students can explore all MSU has to offer in undergraduate degrees, and their organizations.

Later that day, the space will be creatively decorated for the “Monster Mash” dance, free for students at 7:30 p.m. Students are free to dress in costume and enjoy a dance party in the renovated

ballroom.

The celebration will continue Thursday with the Big Ideas capital campaign announcements and the annual Social and Behavioral Sciences Scholarship dinner at 5 p.m. recognizing the scholarship recipients, donors and advisory board.

On Friday, Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Warren Nelson’s Big Top Chautauqua, song-andphoto presentation, will be performed displaying the history of Minnesota.

Saturday the ballroom will hold the first annual Pakistani Night at 7:30 p.m., displaying MSU’s cultural diversity.

Mankato Native and National Geographic photographer, Jimmy Chin is an alumnus and will be one of the features during the finale of the unveiling of the CSU ballroom next Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. with a multimedia show after the ribbon-cutting ceremony with President Richard Davenport and the Greater Mankato Growth at 11:30 a.m.

“The Centennial Student Union is the students’ building, and we hope this space will be a source of pride, camaraderie and enrichment for all our students,” said Centennial Student Union director, Laurie Woodward.

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Mankato man sentenced in Credit Union robbery

MEGAN KADLEC

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A Mankato man has been sentenced to 97 months (or more than eight years) in prison Friday for driving the getaway car in the Dec. 16, 2010 robbery of the Affinity Plus Credit Union at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Anthony Akiti, 24, was convicted May 25 of one count of armed credit union robbery and one count obstruction of justice.

Chop Nguot Tang, 23, was sentenced to 60 months (or five years) in prison July 8 on one count of armed bank robbery. He pled guilty on April 8 after being indicted Feb. 8. Tang admitted to stealing more than $17,000 from the credit union.

Just after 4:30 p.m., a tall black male, later discovered to be Tang, entered the Affinity Plus Credit Union located in the lower level of the Centennial Student Union at MSU. Tang approached a teller, flashed his silver handgun and demanded money. He again demanded cash from two other tellers before stuffing the cash into a black bag and fleeing the premises.

The police officers responded to the call and followed a trail of

footprints in the snow to a nearby apartment complex. Witnesses reported that they had seen a man running down a hill to a white Cadillac waiting on the street.

The car fled after Tang jumped in.

Police later learned that Akiti was the owner of the white Cadillac and arrested him at his home. After his arrest, Akiti, who concealed a portion of the robbery proceeds in his apartment, directed his wife to dispose of the money.

The white Cadillac ended up playing a major role in finding Akiti, though not by standard means of searching a license plate number.

“We didn’t have a license plate at all, but one of our Patrol Officers recognized the car having stopped it in the previous weeks for a traffic violation,” said Mankato Public Safety Commander Matt DuRose.

During his sentencing, United States District Court Judge Patrick J. Schiltz called Akiti a “bully,” who had “no regard for the law.”

Because Tang pled guilty and Akiti did not, it’s no surprise that Akiti received a longer prison sentence than his partner in crime.

“By taking the case to

• web photos Left, Anthony Akiti was sentenced to 97 months in prison for the Dec. 16 2010 robbery of the Affinity Plus Credit Union at MSU. Right, police responded to the scene.

trial, Akiti ran the risk of being sentenced to a longer term as opposed to agreeing to a plea like Tang,” DuRose said.

After the crime, many Mankato residents made a link between previous liquor store robberies and the robbery of the credit union. The Mankato police never made a connection between the crimes.

“I believe there was an implied link because of the suspect description, but anything beyond that was speculation,” DuRose said.

The Affinity Plus Credit Union robbery was the first such

case DuRose ever worked on.

“I managed the case and had a great team of investigators that worked it, including our local FBI Agents. It was a group effort that, in the end, paid off,” DuRose said. “This is the first bank robbery case that I have worked in this role so I really don’t have anything to compare it to.”

While many criminals have dim futures before their prison sentences, others, like Tang, ruin their chances at what could have been bright futures.

“It did stand out in the fact that one of the suspects, Chop Tang, was once a promising

young athlete that was given the gift of athletic ability and it will more than likely be a thing of the past in a few years when he leaves prison,” DuRose said.

While the crime was a shock to the community, MSU can be grateful the robbery occurred at a time when few students were on the campus.

“It [could] have happened while classes were in session, which would have added hundreds of people in the CSU at that time,” DuRose said. “That would have put more people in danger and at risk of harm with a firearm being involved.”

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Student-supported recognition

MB A P r o g r a m a t M S U o n e o f n a t i o n’s b e s t MEGAN KADLEC

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Minnesota State University, Mankato is at the top of the pack, at least when it comes to the Master’s of Business Administration Program.

MSU’s MBA Program has been listed as one of the nation’s best in the Princeton Review’s 2010 business school guidebook. The MBA program is relatively new; the program’s first graduating class was in the spring of 2006.

Instead of listing the schools from one to 294, the book includes 11 ranking lists of the top-10 business schools in various categories.

The rankings were put together from looking at a program’s statistics, but also afrom conducting more than 19,000 surveys of students attending the schools.

“We chose the 294 business schools in this book based on our high opinion of their academic programs and offerings, as well as our review of institutional data we collect from the schools,”

said Robert Franek, Princeton Review senior vice president and publisher. “We also strongly consider the candid opinions of students attending the schools.”

The student surveys were conducted in 2010 and 2011, and featured a mostly gridbased style of mainly multiple-choice questions.

“In compiling these lists, we average students’ responses to each question for each school and generate overall scores. In this way, we are able to compare each aspect of the business student experience at different schools,” according to Princeton Review’s website Frequently Asked Questions.

There are also several open-ended questions that allow students to write their own answers.

“We quote students’ written comments when composing our “Students Say” narratives; and we analyze statistics based on students’ responses to the multiple choice questions and qualitatively evaluate their written comments when determining what we will write about

• web photo Students in the MBA program can study in Mankato or at MSU’s satellite location, 7700 France.

each school,” Princeton Review’s website said.

The business school guidebook does not seek to rank the universities in terms of overall quality, but instead by using student surveys and university statistics to identify key aspects of the school that are of different levels of importance to different ap-

plicants.

“We don’t believe that any one business school is the best overall. Instead, we believe there is a best business school for you. Moreover, the prestige of an academic program does not constitute the exclusive criterion by which a school should be (or is) judged,” according to the

Princeton Review website.

“Among other factors (such as location, cost, and size), the campus culture is very important, and this is something that varies considerably from one school to another.”

Each university featured has its own profile in the guidebook, including infor-

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What are you going to do with that degree?

MEGAN KADLEC

Whenever I tell someone I’m double majoring in Mass Media and Political Science, that someone tilts their head, obtains a quizzical look in their eye and asks, “What are you going to do with that degree?”

To me, the answer is simple. I want to work as a foreign correspondent for a major newspaper, writing about United States foreign policy and informing the nation as to what goes on outside our borders.

If the average person doesn’t know what one can do with a degree like mine, I wondered what other degrees people don’t understand. After sifting through a recent undergraduate bulletin, I found there is more than one major I simply don’t understand.

Gender and Women’s Studies, Scandinavian Studies and Anthropology are just a few of many degrees I’m not sure how students utilize upon their graduation.

I’m not trying to bash certain degrees. If a student knows what they want to do with a specific degree, cool.

The problem I have comes when they choose a seem-

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ingly bizarre degree with no idea how to use it upon graduation.

For example, I have a friend who received her undergraduate degree in Theatre and is now attending graduate school for Gender and Women’s Studies.

Normally, I would wonder what she could possibly do with these two seemingly irrelevant degrees.

However, she knows exactly how she wants to combine these two degrees.

She has written her own full-length play focusing on issues relating to sexual assault and domestic violence and tours the production around the Midwest to various colleges and universities.

What I don’t understand are the students who choose to study for a degree in, let’s say, Urban and Regional Studies, without a legitimate understanding of what they want to do after graduation.

When asked the question, “What are you going to do with that degree?” these students respond with a muttered, “Uh, well, I don’t actually know. You see, I was an undeclared major and I just picked something

that seemed interesting.”

I see this a lot with English majors, though I’m not singling English out as a pointless major, either. “I really like writing, so I figured English made sense.”

Well, Mister or Miss English major, what are you going to do with that degree?

There are only two logical careers paths I can think of: a struggling writer who spends their days working at a coffee shop or an English teacher or professor. While the first may not seem like a valid career path, the second is quite common.

Why, then, are these students wasting valuable time and money going to college in pursuit of a degree they don’t even know how you’ll use? What’s the point in doing so?

The average student spends four years in college, which equals to about $29,000 over eight semesters. This estimate does not include room and board, books or other living expenses. When comparing MSU’s tuition rates to other colleges, it’s relatively low.

At least Mavericks aren’t paying more than $30,000 a year like some of my friends who are studying at private universities.

These students will probably end up with jobs that have nothing to do with their major, possibly working as the manager at the newest retail store or fast food chain.

As I was doing research for this article, I stumbled upon numerous degrees I’m happy to say MSU does not offer. Religion, Surfing Studies and Latin are examples.

The number one most pointless degree I found was – Now brace yourself,

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this is difficult to hear – David Beckham Studies.

This degree, only offered in the United Kingdom, is the epitome of pointless. What ever could someone do with degree focusing on a soccer player? No one even watches soccer - at least not in this country.

Our society has everyone believing that college is a necessary part of life, that if you don’t go to college, you won’t have a happy and fulfilling life. I, on the other hand, beg to differ. If a teenager in high school doesn’t know what they want to do after they have that diploma, they should not be forced to attend university. Taking a year off to explore the world or work isn’t necessarily a bad thing. At least the potential student wouldn’t be wasting time taking classes they don’t need, or spending money they don’t actually have.

Before coming to college, I had always considered taking a year off to spend working or traveling. My

dad wasn’t too fond of this idea, and I immediately reconsidered my options.

I’ve known what I wanted to study since I was in middle school. I guess you could say college was the route for me. However, now that I’m here I probably could have just landed a few internships and called it good.

I’m not saying all undeclared students should drop out of college or that every student with a seemingly arbitrary major should seek a different degree.

I simply think that all students, regardless of year or major, should look at their education and ask those serious questions: Where do I want to work after I graduate? How will my current major help me obtain this job? Is there another major I should consider instead? What about my minor or second major – does it mesh well with my primary major? And ultimately, what am I going to do with this degree?

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Running wild Mankato Marathon draws a crowd MEGAN KADLEC

a half marathon, a 10K, 5K and a KidsK run.

The shorter races were seen as a welcome addition to the Mankato Marathon. There were many individuals who love to run, but haven’t quite worked up to running a full marathon yet.

“I got in this race because I wanted to be part of the Mankato Marathon in some way,” said Lisa Brown. “It’s kind of a big deal.”

Brown was the first woman to finish Friday’s 5K with a time of just over 20 minutes.

“Mankato is a nice course,” said Warren Taylor. “It’s not

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Most individuals dream of sleeping in on a Saturday morning, waking up without an alarm clock and relaxing.

For more than 3,500 runners, however, this is not the case.

Runners from across the country came together Friday night and Saturday morning for the Mankato Marathon.

Last year’s inaugural Mankato Marathon yielded 2,200 participants.

The Mankato Marathon offered races for runners of all endurance levels. The marathon featured a full marathon,

the hardest course, but it’s not the easiest, either.”

Taylor, age 65, has been running marathons since 1991 when he finished a tour of duty in Iraq. After Saturday’s marathon, he will have completed 50 marathons.

On Friday, the Mankato Marathon sponsored a Pasta Feed and was also a part of the Orthopedic and Fracture Clinic Speaker Series. The speaker series, an important part of the Scheels and New Balance Sport and Health Expo, featured more than seven speakers. Most notably,

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• web photo More than 3,500 runners participated in the Mankato Marathon Saturday.

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MBA PROGRAM “The professors are aware of the present business environment and their research provides them with a keen sense of future environment.” continued from 5 mation about student life, admissions, academics and career placement.

MSU’s MBA classes are offered in eight-week modules of night classes, “an arrangement that works out very nicely for those working full time and trying to go to school,” the book’s profile says.

Students take one or two classes per module and can, if desired, complete the program in just two years.

MBA students are also able to take classes at MSU’s satellite site in Edina, an easier option for many business professionals living in the Twin Cities area.

While MSU is selective with their applicants, the University offers affordable tuition, according the guidebook.

The MBA program also offers “a great atmosphere … small classes … a wealth of

resources and technology and an outstanding faculty,” the book adds.

MSU offers two concentrations for their MBA program: International Business and Leadership/Management.

The program utilizes realworld business situations in the classroom, allowing students to apply their knowledge. Students are able to interact with and learn from business leaders through an executive seminar class.

A student from MSU who was surveyed for the book elaborates on what makes MSU’s MBA program stand out: “The professors are aware of the present business environment and their research provides them with a keen sense of future environment. The coursework and experience have added significantly to my professional skill set.”

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Car care should be winter priority You and your passengers Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. As well as the things you should be carrying on every journey regardless of the weather, you should make up a winter emergency kit to keep in the boot – hopefully you won’t need it but you will be very glad it’s there if you do.

• web photo It’s possible that your car might look like this in the next few months. While scraping ice is inevitable, there are precautions one can take to (hopefully) avoid serious car troubles.

KYLE RATKE

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It seems like yesterday was just the first day of summer.

I know. A time when you had your window down and radio up, those were the days.

Now we find ourselves in late-October. After Halloween, it’s all downhill. Soon, the only reason you’ll have your window down is to see while driving because you were too lazy to scrape your windows (this might not end well).

The season of winter comes with a lot of things we don’t like; cold, snow, ice, a fourmonth cold and your grandma’s horrible chocolate chip cookies that you’ve pretended to like since ’98. With all of this, there’s one thing that goes under the radar during this time: Making sure your car is ready for a few brutal months of winter.

I’ve been known to pull the “Shoot, My Tire Is Flat, But Instead Of Patching it or Figuring Out What’s Wrong With It, I’ll Just Stop At Kwik Trip And Pump It Up Everyday” trick. I can assure you that every auto repair shop in Mankato would

advise against this, along with many other things that I’ve done (or haven’t done) with my car over the last few years throughout the winter months.

Example: Last year I drove around with no side-mirror for two months. My head was out of my window looking back for traffic. In retrospect, I probably should have been looking forward.

This, along with many other things, need to be looked at before the winter months get here and you become too lazy to go out and check your tire pressure, check your oil or make sure you don’t have a 12-pack of Mountain Dew in the back of your car that will explode the first day of winter and spill all over your baseball glove and you don’t realize until the next spring during your first softball game that your glove is sticky and won’t open.

(If that wasn’t a rant, I don’t know what is.)

Is your coolant low? Do you know what coolant is? Have you tried your heater out lately?

Do you have a scraper ready?

These are all obvious questions heading to the winter months,

and at the Reporter, we decided it’s better to be on top of it and get it done now, rather than be stuck in mid-December with a flat tire and no heat. That doesn’t sound like very much fun at all.

Make sure your insurance is up-to-date and bug your mom to make sure it’s in your glove box. Put a blanket in your trunk, along with some food in case you ever get stranded. I know, “it will never happen to me.” That’s how I think, too.

But you’ll be thanking me when you’re in the middle of a cornfield with nothing to eat but the apple core on your floor.

Grab a pair of scissors and cut out the car care advice, along with the information of auto shops around the area, to the left (or below) of this article.

Post it on your fridge. Maybe you’ll use it, maybe you won’t, but you’ll know who to call if something were to happen.

Let’s hope we get a few more weeks of solid weather, because before you know it, you’ll be wearing four layers to class.

Enjoy your week and as always, thanks for reading.

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MARATHON “The data on the connection between exercise and good health is growing.” continued from 7 Frank Shorter, 1972 Olympic Gold Medalist and 1976 Olympic Silver Medalist was the keynote speaker for the event.

The Biggest Loser winner, Rebecca Meyer also spoke at the expo. Meyer discussed how some runners are born, but others work hard to become runners.

The Mankato Marathon was produced through a partnership of the Greater Mankato Convention & Visitors Bureau and Final Stretch, Inc., a

professional race management company. The marathon was presented by the Mayo Clinic Health System.

Before the marathon began, President and CEO of Mayo Clinic Health System Greg Kutcher applauded runners on their dedication to good health.

Kutcher said Mayo’s sponsorship of the marathon link directly to the goals of the health system.

“The data on the connection between exercise and good

health — physical and emotional health — is growing,” Kutcher said. “And this fits in with our move in health care from just managing illnesses to improving people’s health.”

Shakopee resident Brian Sames, age 25, won the second annual marathon with an unofficial time of 2:37:19 while Mankato resident Kim Scheel, age 35, was the first women to finish the race with an unofficial time of just over three hours.

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.A. Bondy is not a household name. A.A. Bondy is not a staple name in singersongwriter vocabulary. A.A. Bondy doesn’t even really sound like a name, more like a drywall adhesive paste. But A.A. Bondy is an exceptionally talented and clever musician whose Sept. 13 release of his third LP, Believers, stands as a beautiful and ghost-inducing statement in today’s over-saturated indie market.

A.A. stands for Auguste Arthur and belongs to the Alabama-based artist who broke out on his own in 2007 with his first release, American Hearts.

Bondy stepped out of his role as founder/singer/guitarist of the band Verbena in 2003, and promptly took to roots acoustic, harmonica and vocal song writing. He did so in recording American Hearts in a barn in the Catskills, and focused his poetry on simple and traditional folk groundings.

Bondy continued his minimalist, striped down approach when he signed with the blues/ folk label Fat Possum and released his second effort, When The Devil’s Loose, in 2009. The record perpetuated the persistence in Bondy’s focus on writing and intimate performance.

There is no epic in Bondy’s bag of tricks, there is only bare stories and music of emotional and human resonance.

In 2011 we see Bondy painting a fuller sounded picture in his music. The music is not

Where there is lull in the music to allow listeners to tune into Bondy’s vocal play, there is a great swell of radiating organ and bowling-ball bass waiting just behind to wash the listener deeper into the record.

necessarily “bigger,” rather it is much more rounded out.

Believers sounds like it was recorded in an empty, high-ceilinged train station during a

Believers progresses along in this fashion.

Flourishes come up and down like wind gusts. Where there is lull in the music to allow listeners to tune into Bondy’s vocal play, there is a great swell of radiating organ and bowling-ball bass waiting just behind to wash the listener deeper into the record.

“Skulls & Bones” lays a “No Quarter” (Led Zeppelin) type of rambling organ that dances and swims along with a gentle plodding guitar, all the while Bondy packs as much emotion and hurt as he can into his vocal notes without sounding brash or ill-composed.

The record’s closer, “Scenes From A Circus,” walks listeners down from the wide soundscape Bondy has created here. When “Scenes From A Circus” begins, it is doubtful that Believers can hold listeners’ attention for much longer without furnishing some surprises. But Bondy preserves the albums integrity by cutting it off at just more than 40 minutes. If the LP would have been allowed to continue for any longer, it would feel winded and lose its appeal.

As a first time listen, Believers may seem like the ideal record to combat insomnia, having the aural effect of Nyquil. But as the layers are peeled back, and the delicacy and restrain of the intentions of the record are explored, Believ• Ted Newsome ers becomes a very personal record which is ideally absorbed in intimate full moon on Friday the thirteenth in late fall.

Each note on the record is allowed to stretch and introspective moments.

The album feels like Bondy recorded it for out and fully express itself as a singular noise. himself. Not to say that Believers is indulgent High amounts of reverb and echo make every or apathetic to an audience, rather that Bondy part of the music come alive with rich and feels free in his creativity. The songs have a vibrant accent. comfortable presence that is neither alarmNearly the whole album is drenched in meling nor uninteresting. Instead, the songs stand ancholy. However, it ushers an optimistic sort alone as genuine statements of self and run toof sorrow. gether into a fairly exposing portrait of 2011’s The opening track, “The Heart Is Willing,” A.A. Bondy. sets the tone instantly with ethereal sounds Believers is the kind of record where if you which listen like apparition trails and a oneattended one of its supporting shows and there two-one-two rhythm that sets the table for were more than 30 people at the venue, someBondy’s gritty vocal performance. The fourthing would be lost. minute song brushes train-yard hobo, graces As a statement, Believers works. As a mood, country, and kisses psychedelia in a successBelievers works. As a progression of a fairly ful attempt to keep interesting in an overdone new artist, Believers works. And as enjoyable genre and format. music, well, it does that too.

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Third Installment Breaks Box Office P Records, And Viewers’ Composure

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or years, every Halloween the Saw franchise was the reigning victor in the box office, presenting a tightly woven narrative with gory death traps, making it a cash cow for the studio. In 2009, Paranormal Activity, an independent production made for a reported $15,000, dethroned Saw VI, rounding out its theatrical run with $107.9 million.

Despite no original plans to continue the series, Paranormal Activity 2 hit theaters the following October, surpassing its predecessor in box office and delivering more effective chills.

And now, a third installment enters theaters with a record breaking $54 million opening weekend. Suffice it to say, Halloween now belongs to Paranormal Activity.

Going back in time even further, before Paranormal 2, the third film (and second prequel) is set in 1988, shown through old, discarded VHS tapes, chronicling exactly what shenanigans young Katie and Kristi are up to with that pesky demon that will inevitably cause them trouble later in life.

Video recorded by Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith), boyfriend of the sisters’ mother Julie (Lauren Bittner), he sets up three cameras: one in their room, one in the children’s bedroom, and one downstairs covering the kitchen and living room (humorously duct taped to a fan).

As the nights roll on, the cameras pick up unusual images and weird exchanges between Kristi and an invisible entity.

Paranormal Activity 3 is highly effective in its ability to build tension. The moving camera attached to the fan may be the single most brilliant invention of the entire trilogy, making audiences cling to every inch of the frame to see what may be coming and when.

This device is brilliantly used during a scene involving a ‘ghost’ and a babysitter.

Although the film has a bit of a slow burn until the unusual phenomena begins, it does allow viewers to get to know Dennis and Julie, and even become fans of both of them, especially Dennis (whose reactions to everything are comedic gold). In fact, it’s with a long, intimate scene with them that delivered the most effective spine-chilling freak out of them all.

Another runaway success is the utterly natural, realistic performances of the child actors playing Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) and Katie (Chloe Csengery). Not one bit of their performance feels phoned in, and because of the level of realism with these two, when the demon becomes aggressive it’s absolutely horrifying.

And not just because it’s a bit scary, but because we come to care for the kids and don’t want bad things to happen to them.

That’s quite the accomplishment when typically, audiences are or more or less rooting for the demon. The casting here is nothing short of exquisite, boasting the most likable and personable cast of the trilogy.

The film is one long tense production that culminates in a chaotic crescendo.

It’s the scares and the characters that make Paranormal 3 a success, but that doesn’t mean it’s entirely perfect. staff writer

As opposed to the previous two, this one doesn’t feel quite as complete, and when the end credits roll, the theater was collective in their reaction of, “That’s it?”

There should have been, and could have been, more to the story, or more scares. It just seems to end awfully sudden.

Following in the footsteps of Paranormal 2, a few more layers of its mythology is unraveled, this time involving a strange symbol that may be connected to the demon. The last film was very mythology heavy, but all its twists and turns made sense in the context of the narrative and added up to the original film’s framework really well. What’s brought to the table in the closing minutes of Paranormal 3 doesn’t nearly jive as well, coming out of left field more than making sense in the context of what has come before.

Paranormal Activity 3 isn’t perfect, but it’s highly effective in its scares, it’s tense from beginning to end, and offers the most likable cast of actors in the whole trilogy. Where the series will go from here is uncertain, but judging from phenomenal box office receipts, a fourth helping is all but certain.

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Lana Del Rey Garbles Convention And Criticism

CHRISTIAN HAGEN

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usic writers love to divide their tastes into categories; to stamp their approval on the arms of young upstarts and indie artists, and to stamp their disapproval onto the foreheads of popstars. Ask an indie blogger if appearance is important in the music they listen to, and you’ll likely hear vehement denials; a true music critic should never be reduced to the shallow realm of pop image.

Enter Lana Del Rey. A young chanteuse from New York, Del Rey has become the focus of a massive upturning of the sensibilities of music writers across the web. It’s not because of her music; her simple piano ballads are at best haunting and at worst a little boring. No, the debate has centered largely on Del Rey’s image. On her stoic, plastic sexuality, and the question of her sincerity is challenging everything music critics believe about their biases.

Del Rey’s first major video, for the song “Video Games,” is a hodgepodge of cobbled-together stock footage mixed with shots of the singer herself, leaning emotionless against a wall, cooing sensually but displaying little physicality. Her inflated lips purse as she asks, “I heard you like the bad girls honey, is that true?”

The reaction to her presence has been vitriolic and wild; Pitchfork named “Video Games” a ‘Best New Music’ track upon its release. Yet other writers have claimed that her persona is manufactured, plastic, evidence of a major label’s attempt to fashion a pop star for the quiet indie scene.

But Del Rey isn’t a revolutionary. Her music, her image, her presence isn’t anything that’s never been seen or heard before. The question of her sincerity, of whether she is a manufactured idea or a singer caught in the middle of an industry-wide nightmare is irrelevant.

What matters about Del Rey is what the reactions to her existence reveal about the world of music critics.

Everything about “Video Games” seems designed to make an indie blogger question their ethics. Do I like or dislike this because of her voice, or because of her face?

If I like this song, how do I justify lyrics like, “I say you the bestest/lean in for a big kiss”? Is she actually criticizing the sex kitten attitude she’s taken on, and revealed its shallow dullness?

Before I ever heard “Video Games,” I heard and saw the name Lana Del Rey all over the web. I thought, ‘So another pop star has a song out, who cares? I mean, it’s called “Video Games” for goodness’ sake.’ Then, watching the video, I was struck by just how little the singer moved, how blank her demeanor.

And then I heard the song. It was nothing like I expected; hushed and longing, a little beautiful.

Suddenly there’s a tabloid star for the indie crowd, a character for the blogosphere that’s selling sex for money in her music. But why is this so damaging to our sensibilites? Why the anger?

All Del Rey is doing, even if she’s doing it unintentionally, is revealing that indie kids are shallow too. That for all their snobbery, bloggers do care if a singer looks like a model and sings about love like a high school girl. And whether that is upsetting or freeing to listeners, it says a lot about how they think about the musicians they love.

Lana Del Rey’s entire milieu is an act of defiance, even if it’s implied. She’s sexy to make you consider her sexuality and whether or not you should care. Her singing voice is beautiful, but she sings about trifles. What the indie world needs to do is take a long look in the mirror and acknowledge the truth: No matter how invulnerable we think we are to shallow considerations, we are no less culpable than any pop critic or fan. And maybe that should be a launching point for a long discussion to follow. staff writer

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‘Fight Club’ Author Returns CHRIS TALBOTT (AP)“Damned” (Doubleday), by Chuck Palahniuk: “Damned” is gross, sick, nasty, silly, all the things you want from the merry madman of American letters, Chuck Palahniuk.

How can you not be instantly transfixed by an opening like this?: “Are you there, Satan? It’s me, Madison. I’m just now arrived here, in Hell, but it’s not my fault except for maybe dying from an overdose of marijuana.”

And so begins the kind of goofy, but hypnotically endearing tale of a 13-year-old girl who, completely lost in life, finally starts to discover herself in Palahniuk’s demented

version of the afterlife.

In Chuck’s hell, demons from various cultures and religions over the millennia prey on the damned for meals and sport. Cash and jewels have no meaning. Bribes are paid with marshmallow peanuts and candy bars. The landscape is dominated by The Great Ocean of Wasted Sperm, The Great Plains of Broken Glass, The Swamp of Partial Abortions and a menagerie of vomit-inducing locales.

Our heroine doesn’t let her new situation get her down, though.

With unusual pluck she assembles a group of outcast friends — billed as a kind of underworld “Breakfast Club” — and confronts her new environs head on.

To give away more would be to rob the story of its magic. As always, Palahniuk’s writing is peppered with laugh-out-loud details and strange twists on familiar themes. The author of “Fight Club” and “Choke” had been on something of a stylistic voyage with his last two books, the challenging “Pygmy” and the vaudevillian “Tell-All,” hemming himself in with language and rules and stunts.

With “Damned,” Palahniuk opens the fire hose to full bore again, stripping away the veneer on American society and showing us the yucky parts we don’t want to see.

Do not look away.

Man Comes Forward With Possible Michelangelo

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A possible 16thcentury Michelangelo painting that hung for years in a local family’s home is being displayed in Rome as part of an exhibit of Renaissance art, a development its owner calls a major milestone as he works to have it accepted by the art world.

Scholars disagree on whether “La Pieta With Two Angels” was painted by Michelangelo or by one of his collaborators.

For now, the 19-by-25-inch work is described as “Michelangelesque” in a show sponsored by the philanthropic Rome Foundation, which transported the painting from the Buffalo area to Rome and funded its restoration over the past six months. It will be one of 170 pieces on display from Tuesday through Feb. 12 as part of “The Renaissance in Rome: A Token to Michelangelo and Raphael.”

The circa 1545 painting, which shows Mary with her arms open over the body of Jesus, whose arms are held by angels, has been restored “to near its original splendor,” said owner Martin Kober, who was in Italy for the opening.

“It’s a major milestone for the painting to be included in an exhibit of this caliber and hang beside generally acknowledged works by

Michelangelo, Raphael and other major Renaissance painters,” Kober said.

The painting was the subject of a book, “The Lost Pieta,” by Italian art historian Antonio Forcellino, who’s convinced it’s a Michelangelo.

The book was published last year, around the time Kober went public with the family heirloom and his efforts to see it take its place in art history.

For many years, the painting hung at the Kober family home, where it was affectionately known as “The Mike.” Kober, who lives in Tonawanda, north of Buffalo, recalls it deflecting an errant tennis ball when he and his brothers were roughhousing as kids. It eventually was tucked into a leather art portfolio for safekeeping and was stored behind a couch for 25 years after being knocked off the wall while being dusted.

Kober began researching the painting full time following his 2002 retirement from the Air Force, and he got Forcellino to take a look. If the painting is, like the Sistine Chapel and the statue of David, the work of the Italian master, it’s estimated to be worth from $100 million to $300 million.

According to Kober, the painting originally was created for Michelangelo’s friend Vittoria

Colonna when Michelangelo was about 70 and was passed to a Catholic cardinal, an archbishop and a family in Croatia that hung it in palaces. Kober says that through marriage it found its way to a German baroness who willed it to his great-great-grandfather’s sister-in-law.

The painting, after arriving in America in 1883, hung briefly in a Syracuse museum and in a temporary exhibit at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition opening Tuesday marks the first time since 1885 that it has been publicly displayed.

Michelangelo authority William E. Wallace, after examining the painting last year, stopped short of saying it was the work of Michelangelo’s brush — but didn’t rule out the possibility.

“There’s never proof, unfortunately,” Wallace, an art history professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said then. “You can do scientific analysis of the paint and the surface and the panel, and all that tells you is we’re dealing with something old from the 16th century.”

Even so, Wallace said, the painting’s age and well-documented history make it deserving of display and the chance for scholarly debate about its origins.

Sports Tuesday, October 25, 2011 www.msureporter.com/sports

MSU Football: The Mavericks (6-1 NSIC) game against Augustana (5-2 NSIC) this Thursday at Blakeslee Stadium could very likely determine who wins the NSIC South division this season.

The game will also be televised nationally on CBS College Sports Network as the network’s Division II Game of the Week.

Maverick soccer in the NSIC driver’s seat

MSU used a first-half goal and suffocating defense to finally take care of Winona State.

JOEY DENTON

staff writer

angela kukowski • msu reporter Sophomore midfielder Tori Meinhardt scored the game-winning goal for the Mavericks late in the first half on an assist from junior Brianne West.

Football

The Minnesota State, Mankato women’s soccer team had some mixed feelings after last weekend’s win against rival Winona State and tie against the Upper Iowa Peacocks the following day.

On Saturday, the co-leaders of the NSIC went head-to-head at The Pitch, as the Mavericks came out on top in a hard-fought 1-0 victory over the Warriors.

The Mavericks were the first to draw blood as sophomore midfielder Tori Meinhardt scored her second game-winner of the season off an assist from the NSIC assists leader, junior midfielder Brianne West, at the 39:31 mark of the first half.

Then the Maverick defense took control of the Winona State Warriors, shutting them down and getting the team’s seventh consecutive shutout.

“It was a huge accomplishment for us to beat Winona on Saturday,” said junior forward Brittany Henry. “We came out strong and played all 90 minutes to get the job done.”

The game was hard-fought to say the least, as both teams got yellow-carded in the game.

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ona,” said senior defender Sarah Schellinger. “Every game is a big one at this point, but there is always a little more emotion and excitement when you beat a team like Winona.”

The Mavericks had control of the game for the most part, as they outshot the Warriors 26-8, and freshman goalkeeper Molly McGough recorded her seventh shutout this season.

The win gave the Mavericks the confidence they needed as they get ready for postseason play.

“Beating Winona gave our team confidence because of who they’ve beaten,” said West. “It showed us that we do have the ability and talent to go far.”

On Sunday, Maverick seniors Schellinger, defender Marissa Santana and goalkeeper Briana Hendricks were honored for their dedication and contribution to the women’s soccer program, but they didn’t get the result they wanted for their last regular season home game as the team tied Upper Iowa 0-0.

“Coming off a game that was so emotionally and physically draining on Saturday may

have inhibited us to come out as strong as we needed to on Sunday, unfortunately,” said Schellinger.

Despite the mental setback, the Mavericks are still in great position heading down the stretch.

“As a team we just have to forget about that tie and focus on Bemidji and Duluth this weekend,” said Henry.

The Mavericks had their chances to score, getting 15 shots on the goal, but unfortunately couldn’t get one to hit the back of the net.

Hendricks made her first start of the season in net for the Mavericks, and had eight saves while recording her first career shutout. She played a huge part in increasing the team’s shutout streak to eight games.

After last weekend the Mavericks now lead the NSIC in shutouts, and Schellinger thinks that has a lot to do with their mentality.

“The key has been our shutout mentality,” said Schellinger.

“Collectively we have been playing high-pressure defense, which has made it very difficult for other teams to even get decent shots off.”

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The Maverick defense intercepted the Wildcats four times, while junior wideouts Adam Thielen and Dennis Carter each caught seven passes for 100-plus yards and a score for MSU. TIGE HUTCHESON

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It’s not often that a team can afford to give up more than 500 yards of total offense and still walk away with a victory.

But while the Wayne State football team racked up offensive statistics marching up the field, time and time again they were unable to solve Minnesota State, Mankato’s pesky red-zone defense, as the Mavericks took advantage of four Wildcat turnovers to run away with a 45-23 home victory.

“I thought we played a very ambitious, enthusiastic and focused football game,” MSU head coach Todd Hoffner said.

“I’m very proud of our efforts and I thought that the guys were playing at a very high level and were playing together, and we weren’t going to be denied today.”

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second play of the game with a 45-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Jon Daniels to junior wide receiver Adam Thielen.

On their second offensive drive of the game the Mavericks needed only five plays to put up points, this time with a 33-yard touchdown pass to junior wideout Dennis Carter that once again exposed just how vulnerable Wayne State’s defense was behind that aggressive, sackheavy defensive line.

After setting the tone early, it became clear that the MSU offense had too much firepower for the Wayne State defense to contain.

“The past couple of weeks we’ve been pretty frustrated

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shannon rathmanner • msu reporter Redshirt freshman Andy Pfeiffer rushed for 113 yards on 27 carries for the Mavericks, including a 15-yard touchdown run in the second quarter to give MSU a 28-14 lead. The Mavericks improved to 6-1 in the NSIC with the win.

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No. 19 Mavericks pick up two huge NSIC wins on road

The weekend featured two record-setting performances, as senior setter Brittany Stamer became MSU’s all-time assists leader and junior Chelsea Fogarty joined the 1,000 kill club.

REECE HEMMESCH

staff writer

After taking down Wayne State last Tuesday night, the Minnesota State, Mankato volleyball team kept the ball rolling into the weekend to win two big conference matchups; defeating Upper Iowa 3-1 Friday night and Winona State 3-2 on Saturday.

The two wins give the Mavericks a winning conference record for the first time since defeating Winona State in the first conference matchup almost six weeks ago.

“We stayed together through adversity,” said MSU junior outside hitter Chelsea Fogarty.

“When times got tough we decided to keep fighting,” Things would get tough early, as Friday’s match against Upper Iowa saw MSU trailing early in the first set 13-6, but with a chance to mount an early comeback. Then the Mavericks gave up another big run to Upper Iowa, who finished the first set with a colossal 25-12 win.

Instead of hanging their heads after the early loss, the Mavericks used it to motivate themselves to try and win the next set. After trailing most of the second set, MSU used a late rally to come out ahead and take set two 25-22.

Set three featured MSU leading only 16-14 halfway through the set, but the Mavericks went on a 9-4 run to close out the set and go ahead 2-1 in the match heading into set four.

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MSU was again looking to get another key win and very quickly the fourth set was tied at 14 points apiece. The Mavericks would use another big run to take the game away from the Peacocks and win 25-19 to claim the 3-1 victory.

“Basically we just became more aggressive in every aspect,” Fogarty said of the changes made after the first set.

Fogarty led the team Friday night with 16 kills, which helped her become the ninth Maverick in school history to join the 1,000-kill club.

Three other Mavericks also had double-digit kills Friday night, as junior Courtney Steinhauser, junior Jill Storlie, and sophomore Jenna McNallan had 11, 11 and 10 kills, respectively.

Senior Brittany Stamer setter Brittany Stamer added a game-high 45 helpers to the mix. She also led the team in digs with 17.

Sam Dale also added doubledigit digs with 14, and senior Alli Rice totaled 11 on the day.

Saturday’s matchup against Winona State saw another major milestone occur, as Stamer need-

ed just five assists after Friday’s matchup to become the all-time school leader. She achieved this in the first set, putting her past former Maverick Jen Blendermann with sole possession of the record.

Set one and two both went the Mavericks way by the same score of 25-20, as they took an early 2-0 lead in the match heading into the locker room; but the next three sets would not be as easy.

The third set featured 11 ties and four lead changes before the Warriors finished the Mavericks off, defeating MSU in extra points by a score of 27-25.

Set four started out with a 9-9 tie between the two teams, but Winona would go on a 16-7 run to tie the match at two sets apiece.

In the deciding set, MSU would deny the Warriors a late rally and win the set 15-13 to give the Mavericks the close 3-2 win.

“Winona just kept working through the entire match,” Fogarty said of her opponent, a team that has changed a lot since the teams’ first meeting six weeks ago. “They were adjusting to things that we had in our game plan for them.”

Fogarty would again lead the Mavericks offensively with 17 kills on the evening, while McNallan added 12 and Storlie added 15 as well. Stamer ended the matchup with a game-high 56 assists.

angela kukowski • msu reporter Junior Chelsea Fogarty joined the 1,000-kill club Friday night against Upper Iowa. Fogarty tallied 33 kills on the weekend for the Mavericks.

It was a big night for MSU on the defensive side of the ball as well, as the Mavericks achieved 109 digs as a team with five players receiving doubledigit digs. Rice led the way with 28, while Stamer and Dale earned 23 and 20 respectively.

With two wins on the weekend, the Mavericks jumped up one spot in the rankings, putting them at No. 19 in the nation.

This weekend’s matchups feature MSU taking on Southwest Minnesota State Friday night and Minnesota-Crookston on Saturday, two teams that have previously beaten the Mavericks earlier in the season.

“Next weekend we have to believe we can beat Southwest,” said Fogarty. “We are also out for revenge against Crookston.”

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Men’s Hockey

Banged-up Mavericks swept on road in Denver MSU DEN

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Despite leaving many of its and Max Gaede. All of these key players back in Mankato players did not fly with the team due to various injuries, the Minto Colorado, leaving MSU with nesota State, Mankato men’s virtually no bench. hockey team battled hard on the After the Mavericks’ inspirroad against the No. 3 Denver ing first period, the Pioneers Pioneers over the weekend. answered in the second with two The Mavericks’ spirited goals courtesy of senior Luke hockey wasn’t enough to upset Salazar, the second coming with the mighty Pioneers, however, under a minute left in the period as Denver took both for the 2-1 advantage. contests by scores of But MSU kept fight4-2 and 10-2. ing, knotting up the score MSU entered 2-2 just over a minute Friday’s series opener into the final period when in Denver with barely sophomore forward Zach enough healthy bodies Lehrke notched his first to compete, yet got on goal of the season off a the scoreboard first feed from senior forward Lafontaine just over four minutes Adam Mueller. into the game when The depleted Mavericks freshman phenom Jean-Paul battled the rest of the third peLafontaine put a rebound past riod, but ran out of steam in the Pioneers’ goaltender Adam end, as Denver went ahead 3-2 Murray. Junior blue-liner Evan at the 6:18 mark of the period Mosey assisted on the opening and completed its 4-2 win with score. an empty-netter with 42 seconds The Mavericks held the early left. lead despite playing without the Brothers Drew and Nick services of captains Michael Shore tallied the difference-makDorr and Tyler Elbrecht, along ers for the Pioneers, who outshot with Chase Grant, Danny Heath, MSU 38-25 in the victory. The Eriah Hayes, J.P. Burkemper Mavericks ended the game in

Photo courtesy of msumavericks.com Senior goaltender Austin Lee kept MSU in Friday’s contest with 34 saves, but was pulled in the second period Saturday after allowing four goals.

a rut with the man-advantage, falling to 0-22 on the season in power play chances.

The Pioneers made sure they took care of business on Saturday, jumping on MSU with two scores in the first five minutes.

Denver added five more goals in the second period for a commanding 7-0 advantage heading into the final period.

Down 8-0 in the third, the Mavericks finally got on the scoreboard when Lafontaine registered his team-leading third goal of the season on the power play. Freshman defenseman

Zach Palmquist made it 8-2 with a power play score of his own, his second goal of the season, as MSU finally solved its woes with the extra attacker.

Denver capped the scoring with two power play goals of its own to complete the dominating 10-2 win. The weekend sweep propelled the Pioneers to the No. 2 spot in the polls this week, while the Mavericks fell to 1-5 overall on the season.

MSU is off this weekend before resuming WCHA action on the road against Michigan Tech in two weeks.

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with ourselves for not going or even pull ahead, Minnesota deep, when we have the weapState’s red-zone defense came to ons to do it,” said Daniels. “This life halfway through the second week there was an emphasis quarter, beginning with senior to go deep, and we had a good cornerback Andre LaGrone’s week of practice doing it, so momentum-changing intercepcoach [Aaron] Keen felt comtion at the MSU two-yard-line, fortable letting us go during the followed by Hale stealing all of game.” the momentum again with a deDefensively for MSU, Wayne moralizing interception with his State came out and surprised the feet in the end zone with 1:03 MSU defense with a no-huddle left in the half. offense. After struggling to The Mavericks managed make substitutions, being forced to fend off multiple red-zone to call some timeouts and adjust- charges by the Wildcat offense ing to the tempo of the Wildcats in the opening half and came out early, MSU’s defense eventually without so much as a scratch, calmed down, stayed poised and shutting out Wayne State in the became a force in the remaining second quarter. The Mavericks three quarters. carried a 31-14 lead “I’m going to be into the break and never honest, for the first looked back. couple of possessions I “[Our offense was] was pretty tired,” said very explosive,” HoffMSU strong safety ner said. “Putting up 31 Jordan Hale. “We points in a half to a team haven’t seen a nothat had a shutout on huddle since probably the defending national the first game, so it champions, which is very Jordan Hale might’ve caught us impressive in and of itself, off-guard a little bit but for us to score early even though it is something we and often like that really speaks should be prepared for. But I volumes of our preparation and think we came into it well and the attitudes of the players. We after the first couple possessions, tried to give people the opporwe pretty much stomped them tunity to go out and make plays out. They’d get into the redand they went out and shined.” zone and we played really good Even the roller-coaster ride red-zone defense today, which in the final couple minutes of the helped out a lot.” second quarter that was marked Hale was named the Northern by two interceptions 33 seconds Sun Intercollegiate Conferapart couldn’t phase the Maverence Defensive Player of the ick defense.

Week after finishing with a pass “We made a few mistakes; breakup and two interceptions nobody’s perfect. There were a that he returned for 81 yards. lot of intense moments on the With the score all knotted up field and I thought our players at 14-14 after the first quarter, responded well to the adverthe Maverick offense again sity,” Hoffner said. “For [Wayne wasted little time responding as State] to march down so many senior LaMark Brown ended a times and be in a position to 10-play drive by punching in a score, and for us to come up two-yard run to give the Maverwith either stops or turnovers is icks a 21-14 lead. exceptional, and I really truly While the Wildcats had believe that was the key to the plenty of chances to tie the game game.”

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Men’s and Women’s Cross Country

Maverick men take second, women fifth at 2011 NSIC meet REPORTER STAFF

The No. 13 Minnesota State, Mankato men’s cross country team finished last Saturday’s 2011 NSIC team championships second overall in Moorhead, Minn.

Eighth-ranked Augustana took first overall at the meet with 24 points, and the Mavericks finished second with 52.

MSU had three individuals finish in the top 10 at the meet.

Junior Garrett Eklof was the highest finisher for the Mavericks with a time of 24:58.0 that was good for sixth place overall.

Freshman Josiah Swanson was eighth overall with a time of 25:11.6. Junior Jacob Bastyr completed the outstanding trio with a finishing time of 25:20.3, good for tenth overall.

The MSU women also did well in taking fifth place over-

all at the meet, as sophomore Sarah Bowler led the way with a 16th-place finish in 22:10.0 for the Mavericks.

Bowler was joined in the top 25 by freshman Sarah Baltisberger, who finished 24th overall with a time of 22:31.4.

Augustana also took top honors in the women’s meet, scoring only 22 points. The Mavericks finished with 132.

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Sports

Women’s Hockey

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MSU struggles offensively against Golden Gophers

LEE HANDEL

sports editor

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After some promising offensive displays in its early non-conference action, the Minnesota State, Mankato women’s Alli Altmann hockey team failed to get anything going in dropping two games to the University of Minnesota at Ridder Arena last weekend.

The Golden Gophers shut out the Mavericks 3-0 and 7-0 last Thursday and Friday for the series sweep, as MSU appeared overmatched at times on both ends of the ice.

This came on the heels of six non-conference games in which the Mavericks totaled 27 goals and never scored fewer than three in a contest.

Things changed drastically at the beginning of WCHA play, however, as MSU spent the majority of its time on the defensive side of the ice in Minneapolis.

The Gophers, on their homecoming weekend, began Thursday’s opening game of the series determined to put away the Mavericks with 23 shots on senior

goaltender Alli Altmann. Altmann was up to the task, however, turning away all but one shot to keep MSU close and trailing 1-0 after one period.

Minnesota’s Sarah Davis notched the first goal for the Gophers, and added another score less than two minutes into the second period for the 2-0 lead.

Despite 16 more saves for Altmann in the second, the Gophers scored again with 20 seconds left to head into the final period with a 3-0 advantage.

Altmann saved all 11 shots she faced in the third period, giving her a career-high 49 in the game, but the Mavericks failed to score in losing 3-0.

“It’s always fun getting a career-best, but a win is the most important thing to me,” said Altmann. “I much rather would have wanted a win against the Gophers.”

The Mavericks’ offense struggled, getting outshot 52-20 in the game. Sophomore forward Kathleen Rogan led the way for MSU with only four shots on goal.

Friday’s game followed a similar script, but Altmann was unable to stand on her head two nights in a row as the Gophers

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MSU Reporter archive photo Sophomore forward Kathleen Rogan (13) was unable to add to her team-leading six goals as the Mavericks were shut down on offense by the University of Minnesota last weekend in Minneapolis.

rolled to a 7-0 victory.

Four of Minnesota’s scores came on the power play, as the Mavericks found themselves in the penalty box frequently in the contest. MSU also missed out on a golden opportunity to crack the scoring column with a 5-on-3 advantage trailing just 2-0 in the second period.

“I wouldn’t say we were less locked in [on Friday], I’d say we

had a lot of unlucky bounces and penalties hurt us a lot,” Altmann said.

The Gophers made it 3-0 late in the second with the extra attacker, and blew things open with four goals in the third to romp to the 7-0 win.

Three of the final four scores came on the power play, as the ultra-talented Gophers were too much for an MSU squad that may

eventually prove to be third-year head coach Eric Means’ best yet.

“We have a lot of talent in the locker room and we all are very hard workers, which will bring us far,” said Altmann. “We just have to get all aspects of the team to click at once.”

The Mavericks (4-4-0, 0-2-0-0 WCHA) host Ohio State this Friday and Saturday at All Seasons Arena.

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