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Students strike back against John “the Baptist” Demonstrators protest during Chisham’s church service YOONKI KIM

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On Oct.17, 12 demonstrators from the Minnesota State Mankato’s LGBT community entered the church service of John “the Baptist” Chisham in response to Chisham’s speech at the MSU campus on Sept. 28.

The speech, which was led

by Chisham and was a near replica of the one from the previous year, seemed to rile up many MSU students who were simply walking to or from their classes. Among the targets of the demonstration were the LGBT community, who left heavily offended, according to protest leader Tara Mitchell.

Chisham’s church service was held at a conference room at the YMCA in Marshall, Minn. In the middle of Chisham’s service, protesters made their way to the front of the room, where they stood bearing signs commemorating the gay and lesbian youths who have committed suicide

submitted photo Students from the LGBT community stood at the front of the service to remind people of lives recently lost.

after being bullied.

Chisham said he asked the protestors to keep their signs down, but they refused to do so. Someone then called the police, but police officers didn’t take further action outside of staying in the

YMCA until the protestors left. James Dimock, an associate professor in the communications department who accompanied the those protesting, said Chisham explicitly gave protesters permission to stand with signs

during the service and they never violated any policy or refused any request. The service went on as Chisham ignored demonstrators.

Mitchell said everyone went outside when the sermon was over.

“We stood on the corner where we can peacefully protest,” said Mitchell. “John came up and said some really nasty things to us, which included a homophobic, sexist comment.”

Dimock said he’s willing to participate in any additional demonstrations if Chisham chooses to come back to the MSU campus.

“I will participate as fully as my time, resources and conscience allow,” said Dimock. “If Tara Mitchell and the other brave young people from our campus plan an additional protest, I would support it. I encourage them to widen their efforts.”

Dimock referred to Chisham as “the narcissist” for spreading his own hatefilled interpretation of the bible to a number of campuses in the area.

“I encourage students from all those campuses to go to the River of Life Alliance conference room/ church and stand up to him,”

Protest / page 7

Exploitation or fun? What to be, what to be

Women’s costumes more sexualized than ever GRACE WEBB

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Plunging necklines. Tight bodices.

Microscopic skirts. No, these aren’t hooker ensembles — they’re Halloween costumes available to women. There’s everything from a NASCAR pit crew outfit with Daisy Duke shorts to a nun costume featuring a miniskirt. Granted, there are more traditional (and less revealing) women’s costumes available, but sometimes it can seem pretty difficult to find a fun Halloween costume that’s cute without being slutty.

Why have women’s Halloween costumes become more and more daring over the past years? Blythe

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Newburg, the marketing coordinator for the Minnesota State Mankato Women’s Center and second-year graduate student at the university, said costumes are getting racier because of culture as a whole.

“Our culture sexualizes women, and [Halloween] costumes are a manifestation of that,” Newburg said.

She said men can also be exploited with “hyper masculine” costumes, but women’s costumes really show how sexualized the view of women has become over the years. She also said racy costumes have started making their way into the kid’s aisles.

“It’s getting difficult to find a

Revealing / page 8

Lady Gaga top for women, men opt for Mario and Lugi ANNE LEMERE

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Halloween changes when people grow up. As children, it is a time to dress up and collect as much candy as possible. Then it becomes about vandalizing and scaring others.

By the time people are in college, it is about dressing up and having fun. With growing up, not only do the traditions change, but so do the costumes.

Spencer’s employee Jaden said that their costumes are mostly female based. So far they have sold many nurse outfits. Jaden said the store mainly carries revealing costumes.

Lady Gaga is one of the most popular costumes, and Jaden said Spencer’s

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has accessories like wigs and glasses that have been selling. Kathie Leskey, a Halloween Express employee, said that they are also carrying Gaga wigs and glasses. Hot Topic employee Kelsey White said that the store sells a lot of lingerie and tights for Gaga costumes.

White said the most popular female costume at Hot Top has been a “True Blood” Merlotte’s waitress outfit. Ragstock employee Leah Mortensen said females are buying ‘80s costumes. The store has many retro prom dresses on sale and Mortensen said many girls are buying them to turn them into corpse bride dresses. There are also

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Voicing opinions New concepts in the kitchen

Administration to listen Business class volunteers, brings new to concerns regarding ideas to campus food project planned reductions JENNY POLLOCK

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Minnesota State Mankato is hosting a “Budget Open Forum” Thursday.

According to MSU vice president Rick Straka, the forum is meant to be more of a listening session. “[We want] to listen to people’s concerns about the reductions we’re planning,” Straka said.

Straka said a time limit would be imposed on the comments to allow the greatest number of groups and individuals to express their concerns.

The subject of this forum is the non-academic cuts the administration is proposing.

Straka said non-academic cuts include all areas outside of academic programs, such

as athletics and the Office of Student Affairs.

Straka said the cuts currently proposed are based on the worst possible situation. What cuts actually need to be made won’t be clear until MSU knows how the state government will address its deficit.

“We need to be prepared for the worst; we hope for the best but plan for the worst,” Straka said.

Straka said to meet the worst case scenario, MSU would need to reduce its budget by $6-10 million.

The forum will be in Centennial Student Union room 253 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Thursday.

Information on the proposed cuts can be found on MSU’s website (http://www.mnsu.edu/ finadm/budgetoffice/).

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The Minnesota State Mankato Principles of Management class, taught by Professor Brenda Flannery, has a project that helps students gain more knowledge about management by helping Campus Kitchen.

Campus Kitchen’s motto is: “Teach. Reach. Feed. Lead.”

The organization works to provide food to those in the area who cannot afford it.

Campus Kitchen is a partnership between University Dining Services and the Student Activities Office. Any student can, and is encouraged to, get involved and volunteer.

“You help people who are in need and you deliver food directly to their house,” said Tina Freese, a junior at MSU. There are two different types of shifts at Campus Kitchen.

One consists of food packaging and the other is delivering food to the people in need.

“I got involved with Campus Kitchen my freshman year because my roommate was doing it. It was actually a lot of fun,” Freese said.

The class is divided into teams, and each team has proposed a concept to help Campus Kitchen grow.

“My team will be selling Campus Kitchen wristbands on campus and will be asking for a $2 donation for each wristband,” said Lucas Johnson, a junior who is in charge of public relations for the team.

All the money goes directly to Campus Kitchen because enough funds were secured to purchase all the wristbands.

The wristbands are purple and gold. One side says “Campus Kitchen” and the other says “MSU.” A pamphlet with information

on volunteer work and how it can boost a student’s resume will go out with each wristband.

“By wearing the wristbands it will increase awareness so people don’t forget about Campus Kitchen,” Johnson said.

The team is in the process of getting the wristbands and they should arrive within the next two weeks, so keep an eye out for them at a table on campus soon.

“Our team works well together; it’s been easy to work with all of them,” Johnson said.

“While doing this project, it teaches management skills so it’s setting us up for our career with hands-on work and we’re raising money for a good cause.”

One team is arranging an open skate night at All Seasons Arena where students and community members can bring nonperishable food items to receive free ice skate rentals and

Kitchen / page 8

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The LGBT Center will host its annual Gender Bender Drag Show from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. tomorrow in the Centennial Student Union Ballroom.

The Gender Bender Drag Show has been a favorite of Minnesota State Mankato students since its premiere performance a decade ago, and students are advised to buy their tickets in advance.

“It is usually one of people’s favorite programs. It is not uncommon that we have to turn people away at the door because so many people come out,” said Director of the LGBT Center, Jessica Flatequal.

The concept for this event is laced in mystery and intrigue. Flatequal said

the history of the event is ultimately unknown, but the show has become a core part of the work done in the LGBT center.

“It was before our time. It’s just been something that we have always done and we have gotten pretty good at it over the years,” Flatequal said.

The show will feature three performers from the Mankato area along with three performers from the Twin Cities. In previous years, shows have featured exclusively MSU talent, but the LGBT Center has stepped up the excitement level this year by featuring outside performers.

“We know that the talent will be really good. Our expectations of the actual performers are phenomenally high,” Flatequal said.

The Gender Bender Drag

Show serves two purposes to the LGBT Center. One is to introduce students to the center and allow them to have a fun evening. The second is to challenge gender roles.

“What’s cool about the Gender Bender Drag Show is that it is a lot about just having a good time,” Flatequal said.

“Part of the work we do in the LGBT Center is challenging gender and the stereotypes associated with gender. That’s the thing that is cool about all these performers; they really make you think about what makes a man and what makes a woman.”

For fans of Lady Gaga, her music will undoubtedly be featured in the show.

“There will be some Lady Gaga, don’t worry. It may not be the original, but it will be

The budget cuts continue, but this one isn’t all bad for Minnesota State Mankato.

The Office of the Chancellor for the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities announced it will have to eliminate 41 positions by July 1, 2011.

The decision to reduce the Office of the Chancellor’s budget by $4.2 million is what brought on the eliminations, but Minnesota State Student Association Vice President Brett Anderson said this is actually the kind of cut MSU likes to see.

He said the people who were cut were mostly behind-the-scene people, not professors, and they were mostly eliminated through retirements, resignations and severance packages.

“If they can cut $4.2 million,

institutions [of MnSCU] don’t have to cut,” Anderson said.

Anderson described the plan as not filling open positions and centralizing departments. He said there will not be a great deal of firing in this case.

Melinda Voss, public relations director for MnSCU, said universities will most likely notice that the type and number of services available might change because of reductions made in areas like Information Technology.

She said faculty may notice a difference after the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning is restructured, because that division provides in-service training for

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EDITORIAL: In defense of the First Amendement... and ourselves In our last issue, we ran a letter to the editor written by one of Minnesota State Mankato’s least favorite uninvited speakers, John “the Baptist” Chisham, one of two evangelists whose interpretation of the bible is that damn near all of us sin-filled college kids are going to hell unless we lead our lives the way they see fit. And based on that interpretation, homosexuals really don’t have a chance if they aren’t willing to change their “lifestyle,” as if it is that easy.

So when we received the letter written by Chisham, we were not at all surprised when it was about himself being protested by MSU’s LGBT community. Hell, we congratulated them in doing so and were on our way to dumping it in the trash can until we read further and realized he wasn’t filling it with his ideals or the same old narrow-minded rhetoric MSU students are accustomed to hearing from his speeches. Instead, he was simply concerned with the students approach to their protesting, in which they entered the congregation service ran by Chisham, which, for someone who wants to be taken seriously, is kind of hilariously held in a YMCA conference room.

Then the letter made sense to us. It wasn’t a man spewing disgusting dialogue, it was a man concerned of his rights to free speech, and questioned whether his opponents were using theirs correctly.

So, we published it.

Then, the backlash came. Contentious comments ranging from wild to mild hit our website and our voicemails, wondering why we would give this whacko a platform.

Well, along with our previously stated view, there are a few reasons why…

1. We don’t actually get that many letters from you. It seems that too many people with strong opinions are more willing to be strong-willed and audacious behind the guise of Anonymous than put their name on something and let people know what they think.

2. We’re not Fox News. We’ll give people we don’t agree with the same amount of freedom as those we do, granted they have something somewhat meaningful or insightful to say.

3. He had a point. It’s somewhat ironic that champions of the oppressed were so willing to oppress this man’s freedom of speech when given the opportunity. It would pain us to see such a worthwhile cause tainted by using the same tactics as those you disagree with.

Chisham’s associate, Shawn Holes, was arrested and fined in Scotland, whose speech laws are less forgiving than in the USA, for an anti-gay tirade. Guess who came to his defense? Longtime UK gay rights activist Peter Tatchell, who said: ““Shawn Holes is obviously homophobic and should not be insulting people with his anti-gay tirades. He should be challenged and people should protest against his intolerance. However, in a democratic, free society, it is wrong to prosecute him. Criminalization is not appropriate. The price of freedom of speech is that we sometimes have to put up with opinions that are objectionable and offensive.””

So while his message isn’t even within the same hemisphere of justification, you would hope to have the same rights to speech.

It’s not just the majority’s inalienable right, and it’s not just the minority’s, it’s everyone’s. Until there is a American law against the upsetting vernacular Chisham and Holes use, you better be damn well be willing to fight for their right to use it. Don’t be such a Hetero. You’re better than that.

KYLE RATKE sports editor In May of 2007, when I was a junior in high school, I probably heard the scariest news a 17-yearold kid could hear.

My mom came down into my room around 9:30 p.m. (late for a school night, remember?) on a Thursday in May and told me I should go to my dad’s house.

My parents were divorced when I was just a baby. My mom, step-dad Mike and two sisters, Madison and Amanda, lived in Cold Spring, Minn., while my dad, step-mom Diane, sister Lexi and brother Aaron lived in Foley, which was roughly an hour away.

I was planning on visiting my dad the next day, so I was curious as to why my mom would let me skip class to go out there a day early. She looked at me emotionless, as if she didn’t want to give anything away.

The dumb kid in me thought nothing of it. I simply started up my car and made the trek to Foley. I was jamming to TLC and O-Town on the way there (don’t judge, “No Scrubs” is a classic), and thought that I would simply enjoy this three-day weekend.

I did anything but enjoy that weekend.

As I walked into the house, Diane looked at me with swelled eyes. I immediately went from “I am going to play X Box 360 all night” to “Uh oh, what the hell is going on here?”

Diane led me to my dad who was sitting on the couch, looking at me with his little smirk. But I then saw his eyes, fighting back tears, and he looked at me. He tried to talk but was unable.

(Side note: I have only seen my dad cry once before and that’s when my grandpa died. I didn’t know my grandpa all that well, but seeing my dad like that instantly filled my eyes up with tears. It doesn’t help that I am a sucker when it comes to crying.

I am pretty sure I cried during “Tarzan” when I was 10, just so you get an idea on this.)

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My dad looked at me and I tried to brace myself, but I really had no idea what was happening.

He looked at me and told me he had cancer on his tonsils and lower into his neck. It took the word cancer to force me to grab my dad and give him the biggest hug ever. Tears rolled down my cheeks and the one question that kept going through my head was “am I going to lose my dad before he’s even 40 years old?”

We all know the time will come sooner or later, but we don’t think it’ll be before we graduate high school. That summer, I decided not to play baseball in Cold Spring, but to play softball with some cousins and friends in the Foley area so if anything happened to my dad, I would going to be there for all of it. After a successful surgery (and the most worrisome day for everyone in the waiting room. I have never seen so many, “How are you doing? Okay, I don’t care. I am going to hug you anyway because this is scaring the crap out of me” looks in my life), my dad was scheduled with a summer full of chemotherapy, radiation and something ounding like Chewbacca (the radiation burnt his throat so bad for a while he had to write everything down, which made it extremely difficult on Diane, who I give all the credit in the world to along with my grandma and our great family base for keeping everything together).

Even with going through such a tough summer, my dad had time to sponsor my softball team and actually made it to the majority of the games. He read inspirational books, took advice from anyone about what he was going through he could and even ate organic food (not a very Ratke thing to do). He was willing to do anything for his family and make sure he wasn’t going to leave them behind.

When people talk about a hero or an inspiration, sometimes they look too far, not realizing what they are looking for is right in front of them. When I went back home last weekend, nothing had changed. My dad and I wrestled like old times, and once again, I lost.

Adjustments have been made over the last three years, but he is still with us, and on Saturday Rob Ratke will be celebrating his 42nd birthday.

To my dad and all the cancer survivors out there, this is for you. Happy birthday Pops.

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POPULAR Men typically wait until closer to Halloween to purchase costumes continued from 1 lot of flapper accessories that females are associating with their costumes. White said Hot Topic has sold many Princess Peach, Goth fairies and standard cop costumes.

Superheroes are also common ideas for girls, she said, and the store has Batman, Superman and Spiderman T-shirt designs. The Hello Kitty outfit is popular among young girls, she added.

Leskey said Alice in Wonderland costumes and accessories at Halloween Express this year, because there is a costume available for all ages. She said the sexy Alice in Wonderland deck of cards dress is the most common from the film, along with many other naughtyrated-R style costumes.

Jaden said he was not sure exactly what costumes men were getting yet because the trend is that men usually come in the day before Halloween. He did say, though, that the Where’s Waldo costume is common and Spencer’s has sold out of them. Leskey and White agreed that at both Halloween Express and Hot Topic Mario and Luigi have been big hits with men.

Mortensen said at Ragstock many men seem to be going as nerds, and even more are buying Top Gun suits. She also said men purchase random items like metallic leggings, but she’s not sure what costume they are creating with them. She has also seen a lot of mafia costumes, and lots of people have picked gorilla costumes and tried them on, but she said $90 is too much for most people.

V for Vendetta has also been a popular search for many, said Leskey, but Halloween Express no longer has any in stock. Some have even done the couples theme.

Leskey said the most popular couples costumes this year have been pimps and hoes along with the Flintstone’s Fred and Wilma.

internet photos Lady Gaga costumes are very popular for women this year, probably because of the wide variety of options available.

Alice in Wonderland and 80s costumes are also popular.

internet photos Top Gun suits, Mario, Luigi and Where’s Waldo costumes have been popular for men so far in Mankato.

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PROTEST “I encourage students from all those campuses to go to the River of Life Alliance conference room/church and stand up to him,” Dimock said. continued from 1

give speeches, challenge one another,” said Mrja. “So the preacher is exercising his constitutional rights when he comes to campus and gives his speeches. A public university, above all else, should allow for a free ‘marketplace of ideas’ for its students, faculty and guests.”

On the other hand, the First Amendment does not protect demonstrating inside official churches because they are considered private forums.

Mrja may not have had a constitutional right to do that, no matter the justness of their cause.

“Would we allow a neoNazi group to hold up signs during a service in a temple?

Of course not,” said Mrja.

“I support the goals of the LGBT community 100 percent. However, the solution for speech you disagree with is more speech, as the Supreme Court puts it. You must allow for speech — particularly for free speech that you despise. Let any speaker come to MSU. If you do not agree, walk away. Give him no audience whatsoever.

But you cannot stop him from speaking.”

Jessica Flatequal, the director of LGBT Center at MSU said the protest was not done by the center, but some students involved. Flatequal said she’s very used to such conflict as Chisham has been coming to Mankato for several years, and, before him, others were doing the same thing. She said she’s been witnessing similar speeches since she was an MSU student 20 years ago. She said the LGBT Center does not plan to

submitted photo While LGBT community members participated in the protest, the LGBT Center does not plan to participate in an open debate with Chisham.

participate in anything like an open debate between the two factions.

“We don’t want to provide a platform to say we shouldn’t be here. It’s a fact that we exist,” said Flatequal.

Chisham confirmed again Monday that he will keep coming back to Minnesota State Mankato as well as the Universities of Minnesota and South Dakota, even though he knows his speech will make people who he believes are not with Christ very upset.

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said Dimock. “The pleasant conversations I had with members of the River of Life outside and unpleasant conversations with his wife suggest that they have no idea the hateful things he says and does on our campuses. I don’t think the community of Marshall is aware that they have Minnesota’s version of Fred Phelps in their town.”

The confrontation sprung from Chisham’s September visit to MSU. He made his speech in front of Armstrong Hall in the afternoon. His speech targeted on LGBT, immodest women, feminists, and anyone who consumes alcohol, Jews, Muslims and others he refers to as “so-called Christians” who do not share his interpretation of the bible. Dimock said Chisham called women prostitutes just because they wear sleeveless blouses.

“He was hatefully calling people’s names and saying a lot of inappropriate things,” said Mitchell. “You shouldn’t say it to people, especially when you don’t know them.

I was really enraged and I think a lot of people thought that way.”

Mitchell said she doesn’t want Chisham back because she knows how much it hurts.

“When your speech is directly affecting other people, like when speech is trickling down into the minds of these other children who then go to school and make fun of kids who are different, you know that’s just enough to make someone do irrational things — like committing suicide,” said Mitchell.

Despite Mitchell’s wish, Chisham does hold every right to his speeches on campus under current law.

The MSU mall area is public forum that is open to all expression protected under the First Amendment. Ellen Mrja, a professor in the mass communications department at Minnesota State Mankato, has been teaching First Amendment law for more than 28 years. “[The university] is a place that traditionally has been where people congregate,

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Another team is working to increase awareness and gain more volunteers so when students leave over breaks Campus Kitchen still has help.

If you would like more information about volunteering with Campus Kitchen visit their website at www.mnsu.edu/ activities/kitchen.

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internet photos Revealing costumes have become the norm for many women, and students looking for something with a little more fabric might be better off going for something funny or scary.

3-year-old’s costume that isn’t sexy,” Newburg said.

MSU students have mixed feelings about women’s costumes and how revealing they have become. Female students were especially diverse in their views. Some thought showing lots of skin was fine, while others thought it looked cheap.

“I think they can be too slutty, but it’s the person’s choice of how slutty they want to be,” said one female student.

“It’s just fun,” another female student said. “[Halloween is] the one day a year we can dress up like that.”

“I think that it’s just come to be that way,” said a third female student. “If you don’t want to dress slutty, you can dress scary, [like] witches or devils.”

However, not all female

students agreed.

“I think that they’re disgusting and it’s an excuse for slutty people to show off,” one female student said.

While females had a wide range of responses, most of the males who were polled seemed to agree that revealing costumes aren’t a big deal as long as the wearer is comfortable.

“It’s up to them if they want to wear it,” one male student said.

“Some may take it a little too much to the extreme, but some don’t,” another male student said. “I think it’s up to the women themselves. It’s the one night everyone can be silly and crazy.”

Still, some male students did voice concerns about just how much is sometimes revealed.

“For being in a public setting, [the costumes] are

a little revealing,” one male student said.

“If someone wants to show off their body [so much], I think it’s really unclassy,” another male student said.

“I don’t like to stare at that.

It’s communicating that Halloween is an opportunity [where] you have the right to dress slutty. Wear what you want and proceed at your own risk — you can get in trouble having guys stare at you.”

Newburg said there are other ways to have fun at Halloween if women don’t want to wear revealing costumes. She suggested finding costumes that are more scary than slutty or making a costume at home. “[Find] costumes that are fun and scary,” she said, “not just lingerie with animal ears.”

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The LGBT Center has high expectations for the event and hopes that students will enjoy the planned performances.

“We hope it will be a huge hit, and in the past it has been,” said Laura Schultz, a graduate assistant at the LGBT Center. “People have really enjoyed it, and hopefully [students] come away from the event having learned something as well.”

Tickets for the Gender Bender Drag Show are $1 in advance and $2 at the door.

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President excites rallygoers, backs Dayton MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — President Barack Obama told the crowd at a Minnesota rally Saturday to “defy the conventional wisdom” and put Democrats like gubernatorial nominee Mark Dayton in office.

The two former colleagues in the U.S. Senate worked to motivate the Democratic base 10 days from an Election Day that could prove difficult for their party.

Obama said electing Dayton would keep Minnesota moving forward, praising him as someone who “spent his life fighting for Minnesota. And now I need all of you to fight for Mark Dayton.”

The president also put forth a defense of the Democratic

record, from health care changes that extend coverage to more people to a financial industry overhaul meant to stop abuses on Wall Street. He said Republicans want to undo that agenda.

“You can’t have the keys back,” Obama said of the GOP. “You don’t know how to drive.”

Obama was concluding a tour of states where Democrats have the opportunity to head off a Republican surge in the Nov. 2 election. In Minnesota, Dayton is running against — and ahead of — Republican Tom Emmer and the Independence Party’s Tom Horner.

Dayton, usually reserved, got worked up as he pressed the crowd to push him and other

Democrats to victory.

“All of us need your help in the last 10 days,” Dayton said, mentioning a late investment in the race of $1 million from the Republican Governors Association. “It’s not from Minnesota, it’s from the Big Oil companies, it’s from the big drug companies. They don’t care about Minnesota’s future, they care about their own.”

The university said 7,000 people packed the Field House to see Obama, and about 4,000 more watched from the Sports Pavilion across the street from the rally — two blocks from the stadium where the Gophers football team fell to Penn State.

Officials said the line to see the president was nearly a mile long.

“They talk about an enthusiasm gap. Look at this room,” said St. Paul mayor Chris Coleman, surveying a crowd of several thousand.

“Does this look like an enthusiasm gap?”

Obama has been encouraging Democrats not to be complacent. Waiting to get into the rally, Nduba Namoonde, 48, was thinking the same thing. The financial compliance officer had poured himself into the 2008 campaign, knocking on doors and making calls for Obama in Minnesota and Iowa.

“I don’t see how someone who voted for Obama sits home

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His friend, Delta Air Lines ground worker Gladstone Natala, 50, said he thinks the mood is shifting as the election nears.

“People underestimate his ability to excite people,” he said of Obama.

University of Minnesota student Mark Brandwein and other students wore T-shirts reading “Obama 4 Coach” and “Better than Brewster,” the Minnesota Gophers coach fired six days earlier after a bad start to the season.

“I’m more engaged since 2008. I’ve seen things progress.

I’ve seen things changing,” Brandwein said. “You can’t give up now.”

Not everyone there was as enthused. St. Thomas University senior Erica Borgen, a 21-yearold graduating in May with a degree in elementary education, voted for Obama in 2008 and leans Democratic. But she considers herself undecided with this election rapidly approaching.

Borgen said she’s been turned off by negative ads she sees on TV and isn’t enamored with her choices.

“I don’t trust either one of them, but I have to vote,” said Borgen, who was leaning in Dayton’s direction.

While in Minneapolis,

Obama also was helping raise about $600,000 for House Democrats at a fundraiser attended by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others.

Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty released a video in which he welcomed Obama to Minnesota with a tonguein-cheek vocabulary lesson, introducing him to local expressions like “uffdah” and “yikes.”

“As in the sentence, ‘The federal deficit was over a trillion dollars the last two years, and will be next year too. Yikes!’”

Pawlenty said in the video posted on YouTube.

Pawlenty has said he’ll decide next spring whether to shoot for the White House. His second term as governor expires in January.

Emmer, the Republican candidate for governor, appeared at a rally in Woodbury on Saturday with Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann.

A few dozen College Republicans stood outside the field house with signs for Emmer and shirts ridiculing Obama. Taylor Fast, a sophomore at a public university in Mankato, was one of them willing to “get yelled at. That’s what America is all about.”

He said the Obama visit does just as much to motivate Republicans.

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Condom NJ introduces ‘anticontroversy AIDS effort changes views GENEVA (AP) — Catholic churches in the central Swiss city of Lucerne have sparked controversy among believers with an AIDS awareness campaign that involves giving teenagers condoms bearing the slogan “protect thy neighbor as thyself.”

The churches started handing out some of the 3,000 condoms Monday as part of an effort to engage young people, many of whom may be turned off by the Vatican’s long-standing opposition to the use of condoms, said a spokesman.

“We needed something to appeal to people who wouldn’t dream of talking to the church about that kind of issue,” Florian Flohr told The Associated Press.

The campaign is targeted at teenagers as young as 14 and includes talks to school classes about the devastating effect that AIDS is having in Africa, he said. “It’s not about promoting promiscuous activity at all.

We’re using the condoms to prompt people to think about HIV and AIDS.” Flohr said the campaign so far has drawn mostly positive reactions, but some Catholics have expressed concern.

Officials at the diocese of Basel, of which Lucerne is a part, didn’t respond to requests for comment Monday, but a spokesman in the neighboring diocese of Chur was quoted by Swiss television as describing the condom campaign as “a mistake.”

“It sends the wrong signal,” Christoph Casetti told SF1 television. “From a medical point of view, I also think it’s wrong because we know that condoms don’t provide certain protection.”

Asked Monday about the Lucerne campaign, a Vatican spokesman said he hadn’t heard about it but recalled the church’s position opposing artificial contraception and said the use of condoms doesn’t correspond to it.

Although the Vatican has no specific policy concerning condoms and AIDS, the Catholic Church opposes their use as part of its overall teaching against artificial contraception. Pope Benedict XVI came out strongly against condom distribution last year, saying a moral attitude toward sex — sexual abstinence and marital fidelity — would help fight the spread of HIV.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey lawmakers introduced an “anti-bullying bill of rights” Monday that one advocate said would be the toughest state law of its kind in the nation, a proposal that follows the widely publicized suicide of a Rutgers University student who was humiliated online.

The proposal was introduced by a bipartisan group of legislators and advocates and seeks to augment laws New Jersey passed eight years ago.

It would require anti-bullying programs in public K-12 schools and language in college codes of conduct to address bullying.

State Sen. Barbara Buono, a Democrat from Metuchen who was one of the main sponsors of the 2002 law, said she has learned since then how prevalent bullying is as parents of tormented children have called her office.

The original law only encouraged anti-bullying programs and wasn’t doing enough, she said.

“It’s approaching 2011, and it’s unfortunate that we’re legislating things like this,” said State Sen. President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat from West Deptford.

Nearly every state now has some kind of law seeking to prevent or deal with bullying in school. Such laws began appearing after two students believed to be seeking revenge for being bullied killed 13 people and themselves at Colorado’s Columbine High School in 1999.

The proposed New Jersey legislation, though it’s been months in the making, was introduced after a nationwide

wave of suicides by teenagers who were tormented because it was believed they were gay.

The most visible was last month in New Jersey when 18-year-old Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River after his roommate allegedly secretly webcast Clementi’s dorm-room tryst with a man. The roommate and another student are charged with invasion of privacy, and authorities are considering whether a hate-crime charge is merited.

In a news conference Monday organized in part by Garden State Equality, the state’s biggest gay rights group, parents of gay teens who face bullying told heartfelt stories.

They included David Zimmer, of Ridgewood, who said his 16-year-old son is taking most of his classes online rather than face the students who call him “fat faggot” and the school officials he said haven’t always done enough about it.

It’s not just gay students who are targeted.

Stella Serpa, now 37, an Army veteran and administrative caregiver at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, recalled how she was tormented as a child because her mom was poor, then as a high school student for her thick glasses and thin physique. Twenty years later, her eyes welled up as she remembered hearing other girls call her “surfboard” and throw their bras at her in the locker room.

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Newly released documents show the Diocese of San Diego long knew about abusive priests, some of whom were shuffled from parish to parish despite credible complaints against them.

Attorneys for 144 people claiming sex abuse made the papers public Sunday, after a retired San Diego Superior Court judge ruled last week that the previously sealed documents could be released.

The nearly 10,000 pages of records were from the personnel files of 48 priests who were either credibly accused or convicted of sexual abuse, or were named in a civil lawsuit.

The documents detailed one decades-old case in which a priest under police investigation was allowed to leave the U.S. after the diocese intervened.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit settled with the diocese in 2007 for nearly $200 million, but the agreement stipulated that an independent judge would review the sealed personnel records and determine what could be made public.

The files show some church leaders moved priests around or overseas despite credible complaints against them. Some of the moves occurred decades before any allegations became public.

“We encourage all Catholics, all members of the community, to look for these documents,” attorney Anthony DeMarco said at a news conference.

“These documents demonstrate

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years and years and decades of concerted action that has allowed this community’s children to be victimized, and it is not until the community looks at these documents that this cycle is ever going to be ended.”

In a statement Monday, the diocese said it had voluntarily complied with all aspects of the lawsuit settlement reached in 2007.

“It is the ongoing hope of the diocese that all victims will continue on the path toward healing and reconciliation,” the statement said.

The files were released after a three-year legal battle.

At least one of the priests, Gustavo Benson, was still in active ministry in the Diocese of Ensenada in Mexico. The diocese’s website lists Benson as the current treasurer.

Benson, now 64, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of molesting a 13-year-old boy in 1987 after striking a plea deal. He had been accused of molesting two teens at his home in Barstow and at his cabin in Forest Falls, as well as giving young boys beer and wine coolers.

Benson’s secretary Guadalupe Cochran said Monday the priest was on vacation for two weeks.

She said she did not know if he had gone to the United States or was vacationing in Mexico.

Calls to the Archdiocese of Tijuana, which oversees Ensenada, were not immediately returned.

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Winona delivery driver caught drinking Busted twice in one night

WINONA, Minn. (AP) — Police said a sandwich delivery driver was cited for drinking and driving twice in one night.

Police told the Winona Daily News the 19-year-old was drunk Saturday when was making a delivery for Erbert and Gerbert’s Sandwich Shop. Police said the Winona man parked in the middle of street and turned off his lights, and a taxi nearly struck his car.

Officers contacted his manager, who said he wouldn’t make any more deliveries that night.

Police cited the driver for underage drinking and released him, telling him not to drive.

But police said they later spotted him driving a different vehicle.

Police said he was arrested for underage drinking and driving and taken to jail, where his blood-alcohol level was measured at 0.06 percent, The legal limit is 0.08 percent for adults.

Theif gives loot back Victim was homeless

YORK, Pa. (AP) — Police say an armed robber gave back everything he stole from a homeless man after learning he lives at a shelter.

The York Dispatch reported Thursday that 22-year-old Larry Sanderson was outside the York Rescue Mission on Wednesday night when a man displayed the handle of a revolver and told him to empty his pockets.

The paper said Sanderson turned over his wallet, cell phone, MP3 player and cigarettes.

When the armed man asked Sanderson if that was all he had, Sanderson explained he lives at the shelter.

Police say the robber replied, “I can respect that,” returned the man’s property and walked away.

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Cop shoots thief while getting her hair done NEW YORK (AP) — Feris Jones’ make-my-day moment came Saturday evening at a Brooklyn beauty salon.

The New York Police Department officer was off duty and getting her hair done when an armed bandit came in and announced a holdup. Police say she coolly drew her own pistol and exchanged fire.

The result was cinematic: Jones managed to both shoot the suspect’s gun out of his hand and the handle off the front door, briefly blocking his escape.

After following a trail of blood, police arrested the alleged robber shortly after midnight Monday at a flophouse. He remained hospitalized with hand injuries as word of the officer’s exploits spread, drawing praise from superiors and comparisons to former NYPD officer Arlene Beckles, who became an instant folk hero in 1994 by outdueling three armed bandits in a hair salon shootout.

Officer Jones’ “reserve under fire was only matched by her marksmanship,” Police Commissioner Raymond

Kelly said Monday through a spokesman.

It was unclear whether Jones’ marksmanship was intentional, police said. The NYPD trains officers to aim at “center mass” when using deadly force.

Jones, 50, a Barbados native and divorced mother of an adult child, had never fired a gun in the line of duty during her two-decade police career. Officials described her as a respected member of the force, most recently assigned to the crime lab.

The botched robbery began around 6:30 p.m. Saturday after employees buzzed a nervousacting woman into Sabine’s Hallway Beauty Salon, a narrow shop with three styling chairs.

She asked a few questions about services and left the door ajar — on purpose, police now suspect.

The alleged gunman, Winston Cox, burst in moments later with a .44-caliber revolver raised.

“This ain’t no joke!” witnesses recalled him shouting. “This is a robbery! I will kill you!”

The 19-year-old Cox ordered the four women in the salon — Jones, another patron, the owner

and an employee — to put their valuables in a black bag he was carrying as he herded them into a back bathroom, police said.

When he went to retrieve the owner’s handbag on a counter in the middle of the salon, Jones pulled out her off-duty five-shot revolver, held it at her side and told the other women, “Everyone get down.”

Police said Jones faced off with Cox at a distance of about 12 feet and identified herself as a police officer. They say Cox responded by opening fire. The officer shot back.

His four shots missed. Her five rounds disarmed him and disabled the door.

Cox picked up his pistol and tried to flee but found himself trapped, police said. He was forced to kick out a window and crawl out to the sidewalk.

Responding to a 911 call from Jones giving a description of the suspect, police launched a manhunt using bloodhounds. It led them to his mothers’ nearby home, where they found a bag holding stolen wallets and his bloodspattered gun, police said.

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At first glance, media artist David Ryan’s photo gallery “Dark Figures Come” may seem like a collection of scattered images that blur the idea of what an average photo gallery should look like. There are no photos of your standard sunset on a beach, or any black and white images of a long dusty road with a broken-down sign and tumbleweeds passing through.

No, Ryan’s photos definitely have a unique essence about them that is readily apparent from the first glance. But not until the method behind the madness is understood, and when the photos are examined with a closer eye, does Ryan’s gallery show that the intangible quality to his photos goes much deeper than originally thought.

“For some time, I have been fascinated with the way dreams rework experiences from waking life into meaningful commentary,” said Ryan. “Events and characters from every day events serve as raw material through which the unconscious expresses itself.”

Ryan, a professor at Gustavus Adolphus College, has always been captivated by what the human mind can do when it is simply shown an image. Using “the stuff that dreams are made of,” Ryan draws on the visual aesthetics that people can relate to in his work to spark an emotional response. Whether it’s inspiration, catharsis or something entirely different depends on the viewer. Either way, the process is meant to allow people to confront that which is hidden from our waking minds.

“Carl Jung characterized dream figures as parts of the personality that were split off and disowned by the conscious mind in an effort to negotiate the complex order of family and culture,” Ryan said. “To encounter and engage these figures is part of the psyche’s natural healing process.”

Ryan received his MFA in film from Ohio University. His artistic talents have garnered him plenty of recognition from prestigious venues around the world, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Video festival and the Locarno video art festival in Switzerland. He has been honored with numerous fellowship awards, most recently the 2003 Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship and the CalArts Alpert/ MacDowell Fellowship Award.

From Ralph Eugene’s Meatyard to recent blockbuster “Inception,” Ryan’s work fits perfectly into the gray area of art that challenges the viewer’s understanding of what it is they are seeing, and, more importantly, how it effects the way they feel. Ryan provides a different perspective on creation, an artist who focuses on the people who view his art, and how it influences their ideas on subconscious life. “[My] images don’t try to portray specific dreams. Rather, I wanted to follow the process utilized by dreams – to start with familiar images, ones already coated with personal meanings, and rework them into other kinds of figures,” Ryan said.

“Dark Figures Come,” the digital photography exhibit by David Ryan, can be seen at the Gallery 720 at the Locust Street Hotel at 720 S. Minnesota Ave. in St. Peter until Dec. 2.

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Put some clothes on Fashion Battle: ISU vs. MSU

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Iowa State may have corn, corn, corn, corn and football, but let’s see if they have style.

As I hopped the border this weekend and headed south into foreign territory, the last thing I expected to see was any sort of high fashion from America’s Heartland — the great state of Iowa. I was naïve to think that our little school up here in Mankato would have this one in the bag.

The first thing I noticed while strolling around the Iowa State campus was the vast prettiness of its nostalgia-inducing buildings mixed with modern art sculptures set amid the backdrop of fall leaf colors. More stylish campus: 1 point to ISU. All the students pictured I found within minutes of each other. Granted, almost double the size (around 26,000 students compared to MSU’s 15,000) leads to more diversity and, potentially, well-dressed people, but ISU freshman Calli Sandahl said there’s another reason.

“A lot of people here are design and merchandising majors,” Sandahl said, “so most everyone I see dresses well around campus.”

Originally from Savage, Minn., with a boyfriend attending MSU, we can trust Sandahl’s statement as valid and not a biased comment out of rivalry.

The apparel merchandising and design program at ISU has been in existence since 1982. Its

yearly fashion show has become one of the largest student-run fashion shows in the country.

Its website shows its creativity, littered with avant-gardecouture-clad models posing on the runway. Surprised? The video claims that “the best of young, fresh talent is right here in Ames.” Major points to Iowa: let’s go with 12.

Did I mention they have their own fashion magazine on campus? Trend makes my column look like a crying baby. Another point to ISU. At this point, I feel we are in desperate need of a gimme.

So, I will cheerfully remind you that it’s about time for us to start whipping out boots, hats and an extra layer of skin, ladies and gents. The ability to bear a slightly harsher winter climate: 1 point to MSU. We could snab another childish win by claiming better proximity to Minneapolis, a stylish metropolis and home of MNFashion. But, they could choose to counter with their closeness with star player Chicago, whose daring urban street style gives the Midwasteland a leg up.

Maybe it’s the fact that my dear mother was born and raised in Iowa that I have a sort of attachment and feel a need to defend its good name, but I’ll say it once: There are fashionable people in Iowa!

But, as the final decisionmaker, it is Iowa (do they have electricity?), so 100 points awarded to MSU. Game over.

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Gasping and squirming to look away, audience members are glued to the screen, unable to turn from Clint Eastwood’s “Hereafter,” which details the lives of three individuals around the world dealing with traumatic experiences and death.

The film chronicles a bluecollar American worker (Matt Damon) who has an unusual tie to the afterlife; a French journalist (Cecile de France) who has a near-death experience, shaking her reality; and Marcus, a London schoolboy (Frank/George McLaren), who loses the person closest to him and frantically searches for answers. The three distinct stories diverge toward the end of the film in an anticlimactic, yet interesting, manner sure to aggravate some viewers.

The cinematography in this film is excellent. Camera angles and intense shadows combine with the dialogue, acting and an interesting storyline to create a variety of intense emotions. “Hereafter” seamlessly

evokes a wide array of feelings, including sadness, love, empathy and even happiness.

The acting is brilliant and leaves viewers with the feeling that they are, in fact, a part of the story. The viewer finds oneself rallying for the characters, yearning to discover their fates.

The opening of the movie uses French dialogue and English subtitles, and, though insignificant to some, proves to be a selling point for others.

Some movie-goers are passionate about their hatred towards subtitles. If you possess some of these strong feelings toward subtitles, you may want to see another movie.

The slow, melodic music could easily be the soundtrack used to lull a small child to sleep. Unfortunately, this can summate to audience members, especially college students who don’t sleep, nodding off during the slow-paced film.

“Hereafter” proves that Clint Eastwood is a truly talented and diverse director who is able to break the mold developed by many American cookie-cutter directors. Eastwood shows audiences a different side of his

directorial talent with a gentle, quiet and thoughtful film.

Peter Morgan’s script shines as well, providing an intriguing and unpredictable storyline that allows Eastwood’s superb directing abilities and the above-average acting to take center stage.

The film, which brings death to a personal and human level, is a true success. Eastwood explores death in a way that provokes the viewer and allows him to form his own opinions about not only life after death, but life in general. This sensitive film does not attempt to challenge our existing opinions, or form new ones; it simply urges the audience to think.

Expectations of a mindbending, spooky film are shattered when audience members encounter subtle surprises and unexpected humor and leave the cinema with more questions than they have answers.

The latest Clint Eastwood film is a must-see for anyone who values patience and character development and enjoys pondering films long after the reel stops turning.

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Kanye West: ‘I contemplated suicide’

West speaks openly at screening of his new provocative short film LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kanye West told an audience at a screening of his film, “Runaway,” that he thought about killing himself, but now feels a responsibility to make a meaningful contribution to pop culture and art.

Describing himself as a pop icon and “soldier for culture,” West told the crowd “there were times that I contemplated suicide.” However, he said, “I will not give up on life again.”

“There’s so many people that

will never get the chance to have their voice heard” as loudly as his, West said Monday. “I do it for them.”

West, who didn’t say when he had considered suicide, is credited as director of the abstract 35-minute film, which features portions of nine new West songs, boldly colorful visuals and off-kilter camera angles.

The mostly dialogue-free piece, set to premiere this weekend on MTV, VH1 and BET, will accompany West’s upcoming

album, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” which will be released Nov. 22.

After a prelude featuring narration from rapper Nicki Minaj, West’s character, Griffin, is seen driving a black MTX Tatra supercar down a country road. Lying next to a hole in the pavement is a phoenix fallen to Earth, played by model Selita Ebanks in pink, gray and brown feathers.

He takes her home and offers this advice: “First rule in this

world, baby: Don’t pay attention to anything you see on the news.”

The phoenix sits on a lawn with a deer, rabbit and sheep, then joins West at a private parade featuring fireworks, a marching band and a float depicting Michael Jackson.

Playing over those visuals are West’s next single, “All of the Lights,” which he said features Elton John on piano and an all-star chorus including Alicia Keys, Rihanna, Fergie and John Legend.

Ballerinas in black tutus perform in a scene featuring his current single, “Runaway.”

When the tune ended, there was applause from both the on-screen and live audience. In attendance were Morgan Spurlock, Ryan Phillippe, Pete Wentz and others in the entertainment industry.

The 33-year-old West told them that after a “long, hard year,” he’d found his “creative sweet spot” by thinking like “a 5-year-old at all times.” Besides his mother Donda West’s death in 2007, West said he’d also lost three other parental figures in the last three years.

“Everything has been taken away from me,” he said. “I’m so not ... scared. I so don’t care.”

After the Taylor Swift inci-

dent last year, which he called “a moment of sincerity,” West took a six-month break. (At the MTV Video Music Awards, Swift’s acceptance speech for best female video for “You Belong with Me” was disrupted by West, who took the microphone to say Beyonce should have won instead for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).”)

West said he moved to Rome and “was interning at Fendi” before finding the inspiration to get back to music.

He has hinted at the subject of suicide in his recent song “Power,” which includes the repeated lines: “Now this would be a beautiful death - I’m jumping out the window, I’m letting everything go.”

That song’s remix is among the 10 tunes that West has released for free in recent weeks through his website, a buzzbuilding initiative he dubbed “G.O.O.D. Fridays” for his label imprint, Getting Out Our Dreams Music.

The producer-turned-rapper said that after “Fantasy” - recorded in Hawaii with the likes of Q-Tip, DJ Premier, RZA and Pete Rock - he will release an album of songs with Jay-Z and another with Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell Williams under the name Child Rebel Soldiers.

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Mavericks finally get in the win column After starting off the season with a loss and three ties, the Mavericks took down No. 19 Colorado COllege Friday night PAT DELANEY

msu reporter archive Senior defenseman Kurt Davis was credited with two helpers on Friday.

staff writer The brooms were out Saturday night at the Verizon Wireless Center as the Mavericks looked to come away with four points against Colorado College. The Mavericks put forth a five-goal effort Friday, earning a 5-4 victory — the first of the season for MSU. The offense lacked Friday’s punch throughout the second game of the series, being shutout 1-0. Despite putting 35 shots on goal, the Mavericks struggled to find the back of the net. CC goaltender Joe Howe kept the Mavericks off the board despite seven powerplay opportunities.

“I thought the kids did a good job Saturday putting forth the effort,” said MSU head coach Troy Jutting. “We just didn’t make a play.”

The special teams have been frustrating for the Mavericks so far this season. Despite leading the WCHA with 21 power-play opportunities, the

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Mavericks have only been able to come away with three goals.

“Our special teams have been kind of hurting us,” said senior forward Ryan Galiardi.

“We could easily be 4-0 if we’d done a little bit better on special teams.”

Despite the loss Saturday, MSU was able to get its best goaltending performance of the season. Phil Cook was excellent all weekend in the nets.

After his Friday night victory, Jutting wanted to see what the sophomore could do for an encore.

It turned out to be the right move keeping Cook in net, as he would end up tying his career-high in saves with 40.

The play of the goaltenders and the defensemen has been one of the positives through the Mavericks first two WCHA series.

While the team was disap-

pointed that they were not able to earn the sweep, being able to come away with two points was especially important this weekend in front of the Mavericks faithful. Getting swept would have put MSU in an early hole in the WCHA. The Mavericks will now be on the road for their next four series and will not be home again until Dec. 3, when they host Minnesota.

Coming up with a split against a ranked team like CC could be a step in the right direction. The Mavericks have identified themselves as a defensive team and if they are able to become more consistent on offense, the Mavericks could be a surprise team in the conference standings when they finally return home.

“I think five-on-five we’re a really good team right now,” said Galiardi. “We just need to pull that part of the game through.”

Women’s hockey

Rogan, Mavericks split with No. 6 UND Behind freshman forward Kathleen Rogan’s hat trick on Friday night, the Mavericks shocked the Fighting Sioux at home

LEE HANDEL

staff writer

Playing host to the sixthranked University of North Dakota, the Minnesota State Mankato women’s hockey team picked up a well-earned series split over the weekend at All Seasons Arena.

MSU opened up its home portion of WCHA play with an impressive 4-2 triumph over UND on Friday night.

The Fighting Sioux responded Saturday afternoon, however, corralling the Mavericks by a score of 5-1.

Youth stole the show for the Mavericks on Friday night, as the phenomenal play of two freshmen in particular guided the team to victory over a streaking North Dakota squad.

Freshman forward Kathleen Rogan paced the offensive attack, recording the team’s first hat trick in two years with three goals in the 4-2 Maver-

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ick win. Fellow highly-touted rookie Danielle Butters did not disappoint in her first WCHA start in net for the Mavericks, turning away 28 UND shots to preserve the victory.

Despite taking three of four from the Sioux last season, UND entered the weekend a totally different squad in 2010 after taking three of its first four WCHA games against conference powers MinnesotaDuluth and the University of Minnesota. This turnaround has largely been due to the transfer of two of the best female players in the world, twin sisters Monique and Jocelyne Lamoureux, to the Sioux from the University of Minnesota.

After falling behind the favored Sioux 1-0, the Mav-

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dan moen • msu reporter Freshman Forward Kathleen Rogan (13) scored three goals on Friday night in MSU’s 4-2 win. She has four on the season.

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Looking ahead at the not-sodistant Regional Tournament, the fourteenth-ranked Minnesota State Mankato volleyball team picked up two conference victories over the weekend, launching themselves above a .500 record they had going into the weekend.

The Mavericks began their postseason push on Friday night with a 3-1 victory over the visiting Upper Iowa Peacocks.

Chelsea Fogarty played well, posting 13 digs and a team-high 17 kills. Kimber Kuhl also led the Mavericks on offense, recording 13 kills on an impressive .429 hitting percentage. The Mavericks outplayed the Peacocks, but were unable to pick up the sweep due to a momentary lapse in confidence, allowing the Peacocks to take the second set.

“We got scrambled and a little jittery on the court,” Kuhl said.

“We just need to learn to let that stuff roll off our backs and play through it.”

Defensively, the Mavericks were led with 13 digs from Fogarty and Samantha Dale, but were unable to take advantage of one of the NSIC’s worst offensive teams, allowing the Peacocks to put up 52 kills.

“I think we could’ve done a little better. It wasn’t bad, but I thought our energy was a little low,” said MSU’s setter Kelli Elhardt. “We kept moving behind the block instead of moving around it. I think we can improve on that.”

But a win is a win, and the Mavericks followed up by working out the kinks and pulling off

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a convincing sweep over Winona State on Saturday afternoon by scores of 25-17, 25-21 and 25-11.

The Mavericks rode an impressive .353 team hitting percentage to three easy wins.

Amanda Beekman led the way on offense, running up a team-best 13 kills on an impressive .500 hitting percentage.

“When we were good it was because our passers were passing well and our setter was setting well. When they set you up like that, it’s easy to get kills” said Kuhl, who chipped in 10 kills against the Warriors.

MSU’s setter Brittany Stamer also put together an impressive weekend. Stamer recorded totals of 79 assists and 27 digs on the weekend, leaving her fingerprints all over MSU’s offensive efficiency.

The Mavericks face their final test against a nationallyranked team on Saturday when the Southwest Minnesota State Mustangs come to Bresnan Arena.

The Mustangs are one of the best offenses in the country, leading the NSIC with 15.43 kills per game behind two of the biggest offensive threats in conference: NSIC Offensive Player of the Week Devin Diedrich and Mary Groth.

MSU will look to take advantage of its final opportunity against a ranked team to prove to the rest of the country they belong with the rest of the top dogs, and to send a not-so-friendly reminder not to count the Mavericks out.

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Soccer

Conference rivals stop surging Mavericks

MSU had won six straight NSIC games before being swept by Upper Iowa and Winona State over the weekend

LEE HANDEL

staff writer

A potentially promising weekend turned into disappointment for the Minnesota State Mankato women’s soccer team, as the squad dropped a pair of tough road games to Upper Iowa and Winona State.

The Mavericks entered the weekend controlling their own destiny in the NSIC, but returned to Mankato with a steep hill to climb in the conference standings.

The Mavericks were riding high and on a six-game winning streak as they journeyed down to Iowa for Saturday’s matchup against a Peacocks team that found themselves in the bottom half of the NSIC standings. With a big showdown against rival Winona State the next day, it was imperative that the Mavericks kick the weekend off on the right foot. Though the effort was there, the favorable result was not, as the Mavericks fell to the Peacocks 2-1.

MSU came out strong in the first half and put the pressure on Upper Iowa the majority of the first 45 minutes. Despite outshooting the Peacocks 101, the Mavericks just simply could not capitalize on any of their quality chances as the two teams played to a scoreless tie in the opening half.

Although the Peacocks did not get many good looks at a goal, they were money when the opportunity to score presented itself. Forward Alyssa Petersburg scored the first goal of the game early in the second

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half, giving Upper Iowa the 1-0 lead. If that wasn’t enough, the Peacocks officially put the Mavericks in panic mode when they doubled their lead five minutes later 2-0.

The Mavericks finally broke through when sophomore Brianne West got to a rebound and found the back of the net to cut the deficit to 2-1. MSU gave it all they had from there on out, but the Peacocks held on 2-1 despite being outshot 22-6 in the contest.

“The devil is in the details,” said head coach Peter McGahey. “We had a five-minute lapse and dug ourselves too deep a hole to dig out of. I feel we created enough chances to pull it out.”

Saturday’s setback made Sunday’s game against Winona State even more crucial for the Mavericks, as they would still be in great shape with a big win over the rival Warriors.

MSU looked sharp in the first half, outshooting the Warriors 7-3. However, just like the previous day, the Mavericks had no goals to show for their efforts. Sophomore forward Brittany Henry finally capitalized five minutes into the second half, giving the Mavericks the 1-0 advantage.

Henry’s team-leading ninth goal of the season was the first goal allowed by the Warriors in the month of October, a shutout streak spanning over seven and a half games. She was assisted by fellow sophomore

shannon rathmanner • msu reporter After dropping both games this weekend, the Mavericks now find themselves in fourth place in the NSIC.

forward Nicole Dooher on a beautiful pass in which the ball never touched the ground.

“I was so excited,” said Henry. “1-0 is not a lead that you can be fully confident in keeping, but I thought if we kept control of the game from then on we would get the win.

We did keep control, we were just very unlucky.”

Unfortunately for MSU,

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Dangle Gate Could be the least of our worries KYLE RATKE

sports editor Oh, Brett Favre.

Who would have thought three years ago when you retired from the Packers that you would still be hogging up ESPN all day?

Well, probably most Americans.

The once-so-loved Favre isn’t so loved anymore. Most is because of a combination of his play with balls – on and off the field.

Yep, you know exactly what that means.

There is so much talk surrounding Favre after Sunday night’s loss that I think I might punch Trent Dilfer in the face if I have to listen to him talk again.

Seriously, if a Minnesota team loses a big game, the last thing that I want to do is watch highlights or see some guy who has thrown a career-high of 21 touchdowns in a season rip apart a future Hall of Famer. That has never made sense to me. Maybe I am a poor sport.

Okay, rant over.

The thing is, this might be the first time ever that someone has gotten more attention for his play on the field, than his, well, play off the field.

Ex. Kobe Bryant could have put up 100 points per game during his rape case in 2003 and nobody would have cared. If he would have averaged eight points over five games, people would be yelling, “it’s because he feels bad about the rape!” That’s how it is.

We hate to give credit, but love to take it.

So why haven’t we given Favre more garbage for what he’s done? The guy is in his 40s, has a wife and family and was prepared to cheat on his wife as soon as a text message was sent back.

Fortunately for everyone, Jenn Sterger decided not to give in to a future HOF. Props to her.

Side note: Favre admitted to sending the voicemails, but not the picture mail, even though it’s from the same phone number. Did Kellen Clemens snatch Favre’s phone and take a picture of his junk and send to her? Obviously

not. Take the blindfold off, guys.

This next week, unless he gets suspended out of nowhere, which is unlikely, Favre will be the main attraction of many talks, it’s going to involve a lot more than Dangle Gate. Here’s what we’re dealing with: The Allen Iverson/Larry Brown Factor: When Favre came into Minnesota he claimed to know the offense better than Michael Jordan knows casinos.

This was also the same time in which every Vikings fan (including myself) believed Brad Childress knew less about the offense than I know about females. Trust me, it’s about as low as it gets.

So they were bound to clash, right? A player who has been known to overpower an offense by changing plays is teaming with a coach that had been unwilling to admit that Tavaris Jackson wasn’t exactly what Childress thought he was. This wasn’t going to end well.

After Sunday’s press conference when Childress threw Favre under the bus, which I loved.

As much as I hate Childress, he is the head coach. Favre is the quarterback. Childress didn’t throw the picks, Favre did. If Adrian Peterson had fumbled three times, wouldn’t Childress say he needs to do a better job of holding onto the ball? Exactly.

There’s no difference, but because it’s Favre, we care more.

This won’t get better unless Favre gets benched or Chilly gets fired. Neither will happen.

Unless…

2. The Bob Sanders Factor As of now, Favre has a stress fracture in his ankle, tendinitis in his throwing arm and looks like a bus has hit him after every play.

He slowly gets up, grabs his arm, grimaces in pain and then does his weird little smirk. I don’t know what that smirk means, but at times it looks like a “I am going crazy. I might kill someone” kind of look. Not good for Brad.

According to a source, the

fracture in Favre’s ankle, with surgery, takes up to six months to recover from. And this is from a 24-year-old kid. Not a 41-yearold quarterback. According to Childress he doesn’t need surgery, but who knows.

The tendinitis hasn’t seem like a problem of late. I had tendinitis during high school baseball and it killed. And I rarely played anyways, so I can’t imagine what Favre was going through. I had to throw the ball back to the pitcher after being bullpen catcher, not 40 yards downfield when a 300-pound lineman is chasing me.

Every time Favre goes down, America looks to see if he gets up. It has almost become a game of Whack-a-mole. Favre always seems to lift his head up. I have a feeling the whacker is going to get the best of him sooner or later, if he hasn’t already.

3. The Tim Couch Factor Okay, if you ignore Dangle Gate, the coaching dispute and his injuries, there is one thing that sticks out with Favre in 2010.

HE IS PLAYING HORRIBLE. We all knew he is a risky player, but we told ourselves he was struggling early on because we didn’t have receivers in place.

Well, um, Minnesota. Sorry to burst your bubble, but…

This season Favre has seven touchdowns and 10 interceptions. He is on pace for about 16 touchdowns and 22 interceptions.

Um, Sage Rosenfels? Yeah, about before. We are sorry, but really.

We need you.

Can’t you see Childress hoping/praying that Favre can’t go next week so he can put Jackson in?

“Muah hahaha. I told you he was good. I TOLD YOU!!!”

Who knows what’s going to happen, but Cris Collinsworth may have said it best when calling the game, “After all the injuries he’s been through, what if the one thing to knock Favre out of the game would be the commissioner himself?”

Something to think about.

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ericks evened the score at one apiece just nine seconds later when Rogan scored on a pass from sophomore forward Lauren Smith.

Rogan was clutch again in the second period, giving MSU a 2-1 lead on a short-handed unassisted breakaway. After another Sioux score in the second frame, the Mavericks took the lead for good 3-2 in the third period when freshman Tracy McCann notched the game-winner on assists by senior Amy Udvig and fellow freshman Nicole Germaine.

Rogan would add another unassisted breakaway goal to seal the 4-2 win and give her the elusive hat trick.

“We were able to control their top group and we kept the Lamoureux twins in check and finished all of the quality chances we got,” said head coach Eric Means.

Rogan’s offense made the difference for the Mavericks, who were outshot 30-21 in the contest. Butters’ solid play in net and 28 saves kept the highpowered Sioux attack in check, giving the freshman goalten-

der her first career victory.

This year’s freshmen class is already impressing coach Means.

“They all possess a high hockey IQ and are going to get lots of opportunities,” he said.

“So far they have played hard and done a good job for us.”

The Sioux came into Saturday’s game ready to play, as Jocelyne Lamoureux picked up a hat trick for the Sioux in the 5-1 blowout. The Mavericks gave up three power play goals, playing a lot less disciplined than the night before.

“We took way too many undisciplined penalties that put us behind the eight-ball,” said Means.

The lone highlight came when Germaine recorded her first career goal to amount for all of the Mavericks’ offense.

Butters had her second consecutive solid showing in net, saving 34 shots.

The Mavericks will hit the road this weekend for Madison, where they will take on the No. 1 team in the country, the Wisconsin Badgers.

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https://kariglynn.scentsy.us 507-461-3872

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Host a party, purchase products or join my team!

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Nov. 18:

Starting a Business Orientation 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Employment Networking 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Creative Job Search 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Starting a Business Orientation 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Resume I 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon Employment Networking 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Resume II (Resume Writing I Prerequisite) 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon Career Exploration 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

To see available jobs, go to Minnesotaworks.net All workshops are open to the public and free of charge.

Call 389-6723 to register.

2010-2011 Global Solutions Lecture Series

Bridging Across the Cultural Divide: Myths and Realities Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 - 4pm Centennial Student Union, Ostrander Auditorium FREE and Open to the Public

Dr. Mitchell Hammer

Professor Emeritus of American University • International expert in intercultural competence, critical incident management and crisis negotiation and resolution.

• Author of "Saving Lives" and "Processes of Crisis Negotiation: Theory, Research and Practice."

SPONSORED BY:

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Tuesday, October 26, 2010