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Mentoring program guides students in college

By JULIA BARTON Staff Writer

Minnesota State University, Mankato’s Village Mentoring Program’s goal is to assist students of color during their transition into college as navigating a new campus can be daunting.

Officially starting the spring semester of 2020, the

program first was brought up in the fall semester of 2019 which was endorsed and supported by the previous MNSU President, Richard Davenport.

This program’s main objective is to assist and support students of color in navigating their overall college experience.

“Research shows that

mentoring programs help students find a sense of connectiviness and community.

When it comes to our black, brown, BIPOC and students of color other institutions have similar programs that are deemed to be successful so that’s why I proposed we should have one as well,” said Kenneth Reid, founder of the Village Mentoring Pro-

gram and Director of African American Affairs.

“There may be some angst as a result coming to a new institution, but we can minimize that by having you enrolled in this program and connecting you with someone who can hold your hand and be your support system,” Reid added.

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Scooters a huge success, going into hibernation

By JENNA PETERSON News Director

After only two months after its unveiling, the Bird scooters across Minnesota State University, Mankato have been a huge success.

These scooters were implemented into campus life in August to help students quickly and efficiently move around while having fun.

The MNSU Student Government made the decision to purchase the scooters last winter to bring something new for students to enjoy. As they predicted, the scooters are a big hit for students and staff alike.

David Cowan, Facilities Services Director, is thoroughly impressed with the impact the scooters have had on students. With 11,000 rides calculated thus far, it’s clear that students are enjoying this method of transportation to get BIRDS on page 5 u

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DYLAN ENGEL • The Reporter Comedian Charlie Berens performed to a sold-out crowd of over 2,600 attendees at the Taylor Center during the annual Family Weekend Saturday evening. Berens is well-known for his Midwestern humor and YouTube channel “Manitowoc Minute”.

Charlie Berens cracks jokes with students and families

By LILLY SCHMIDT Staff Writer Charlie Berens, Emmy-winning journalist, comedian and host of “Manitowoc Minute,” performed before a sold out crowd at Taylor Center at Minnesota State University, Mankato Saturday.

He describes himself as, “born Catholic, raised guilty,” and a true Midwesterner. Originally from Wisconsin, Berens can speak fluent “uff-da” and “Don’t ya know.”

Any Mankato student not originally from the area may want to consider taking a look at Berens’ book, “The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat … Everything with Ranch,” Berens pleads, “I was dropped as a child.

Just go with me here.”

However, his humor has found him lots of popularity recently. His act was sold out last Saturday, and on TikTok he has 1.5 million followers.

MNSU freshman Sophie Alinder attended the comedy sketch.

“I thought it was good,” she said. “I’ve seen him on TikTok, but never in person.”

Alinder was able to catch on to the Midwestern humor Berens used throughout his comedy bits, as she has also experienced this. Specifically, she mentioned, “Uff-da.

I say that so many times it’s insane.”

Caden Kantorowicz, another MNSU student said, “I thought it was fun, I enjoyed it,” with his favorite section of the show being where Berens talked about road intersections.

As Berens elaborated in his show, the Midwest four-waystop is dangerous because there’s always a chance you can get caught in an endless loop of waving for the other person to go. It’s the kind BERENS on page 3 u

To celebrate Halloween, the Centennial Student Union is hosting the return of the “CSU Haunted Takeover,” delivering scares from various different organizations from across campus.

After taking a year’s hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic that caused the cancellation of most events last year, the Student Events team is back with their 10th Haunted Takeover event.

Prior to the event, various organizations from across the University are given a room within the union to decorate and design their own style of scare. Then, on the day of the event, students file through the different rooms to receive spooks and scares from their peers.

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Billionaire tax takes shape as Biden pushes for budget deal

J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE • Associated Press Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., a key holdout vote on President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, chairs a hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Democrats are working frantically to shore up the revenue side of President Joe Biden’s domestic package, poised to unveil a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for his social services and climate change plan after earlier tax plans fizzled. Biden said Monday he’s hopeful the talks with Congress can wrap up overall agreement on the package this week. It’s tallying at least $1.75 trillion, and could still be more.

Biden said it would be “very, very positive to get it done” before he departs for two overseas global summits.

“That’s my hope,” the president said before leaving his home state of Delaware for a trip to New Jersey to highlight the child care proposals in the package and a related infrastructure measure. “With the grace of God and the goodwill of the neighbors.”

Resolving the revenue side is key as the Democrats scale back what had been a $3.5 trillion plan, insisting all the

new spending will be fully paid for and not pile onto the debt. Biden vows any new taxes would hit only the wealthy, those earning more than $400,000 a year, or $450,000 for couples.

The White House had to rethink its tax strategy after one key Democrat, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., objected to her party’s initial proposal to raise tax rates on wealthy Americans by undoing the Trump-era tax cuts on those earning beyond $400,000. Sinema also opposed lifting the 21% corporate tax rate. With a 50-50 Senate, Biden has no votes to spare in his party.

Instead, to win over Sinema and others, the White House has been floating a new idea of taxing the assets of billionaires and another that would require corporations to pay a 15% minimum tax, regardless of if they show any profits. Those both appear to be gaining traction with another pivotal Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va.

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How months of tensions led to Sudan’s coup ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday’s military coup in Sudan threatens to wreck the country’s fragile transition to democracy, more than two years after a popular uprising forced the removal of longtime autocrat Omar alBashir.

The move comes after months of mounting tensions between the military and civilian authorities. Protesters are in the streets denouncing the takeover, and troops have opened fire, killing some of the marches, opening the door for greater turmoil in the country of 40 million.

Here is how Sudan reached this point: WHAT HAPPENED MONDAY? The military dissolved the transitional government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok as well as the Sovereign Council, a power-sharing body of military officers and civilians that had been ruling Sudan since late 2019.

Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan announced that the military would hold power until elections can be held in July 2023. Declaring a state of emergency, the top military official said a government of technocrats would be formed to administer until elections are held. His announcement came hours after the military arrested Hamdok along with several other senior officials and political leaders.

WHAT HAPPENS NOW?

ASHRAF IDRIS • Associated Press A pro-democracy protester flashes the victory sign as thousands take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday Oct. 25, 2021.

The United States, European Union and United Nations have denounced the coup, but much depends on how much leverage they put on Sudan’s military. The country is in need of international aid to get through its economic crisis.

On the other side, Sudan’s generals have strong ties with Egypt and Gulf countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which so far have stopped short of criticizing the takeover, instead calling for calm. Burhan said he is serious about holding elections on schedule. But a year and half is a long time, and it is not clear whether the powerful military is willing to release the grip it has had on power for decades.

Protesters fear it will steer the process to ensure its

control and are vowing to keep up their pressure in the streets, raising the likelihood of new confrontations.

WASN’T THERE A DEMOCRATIC ‘REVOLUTION’ ALREADY IN SUDAN? The pro-democracy movement, which was a mix of groups including professional unions, political parties and youth groups, won the removal of al-Bashir in April 2019. But it was only a partial victory, with protesters unable to push the military out of politics completely.

Al-Bashir, who came to power in a 1989 coup, had ruled for 30 years with an iron grip, backed by the military and Islamists. Months of massive protests finally forced the military to remove and imprison him.

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Apple threatened Facebook ban over Mideast maid abuse ASSOCIATED PRESS Two years ago, Apple threatened to pull Facebook and Instagram from its app store over concerns about the platform being used as a tool to trade and sell maids in the Mideast.

After publicly promising to crack down, Facebook acknowledged in internal documents obtained by The Associated Press that it was “under-enforcing on confirmed abusive activity” that saw Filipina maids complaining on the social media site of being abused. Apple relented and Facebook and Instagram remained in the app store.

But Facebook’s crackdown seems to have had a limited effect. Even today, a quick search for “khadima,” or “maids” in Arabic, will bring up accounts featuring posed photographs of Africans and South Asians with ages and prices listed next to their images. That’s even as the Philippines government has a team of workers that do nothing but scour Facebook posts each day to try and protect desperate job seekers from criminal gangs and unscrupulous recruiters using the site.

While the Mideast remains a crucial source of work for women in Asia and Africa

SPOOKY Continued from page 1 Ryan Leistikow is a junior majoring in computer engineer technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is also the special events chair for the Student Events team.

“The special events chair puts on a handful of different events throughout the year,” said Leistikow, referring to his role within the organization.

The Haunted Takeover has traditionally seen very large crowds, but the Student

BERENS Continued from page 1 thing to do, after all, which Midwesterners do best.

Berens also touched on roundabouts, hunting, the awkward plastic bag pile we all have, church, and the fanciest type of beer.

Additionally, Berens had his iconic “Craigslist Kicker” portion of the show, where he went onto Craigslist, found the oddest item he could close to the location of the show, and purchased it, only to auction it off at his show.

hoping to provide for their families back home, Facebook acknowledged some countries across the region have “especially egregious” human rights issues when it comes to laborers’ protection.

“In our investigation, domestic workers frequently complained to their recruitment agencies of being locked in their homes, starved, forced to extend their contracts indefinitely, unpaid, and repeat-

edly sold to other employers without their consent,” one Facebook document read. “In response, agencies commonly told them to be more agreeable.”

The report added: “We also found recruitment agencies dismissing more serious crimes, such as physical or sexual assault, rather than helping domestic workers.”

In a statement to the AP, Facebook said it took the

problem seriously, despite the continued spread of ads exploiting foreign workers in the Mideast.

“We prohibit human exploitation in no uncertain terms,” Facebook said. “We’ve been combating human trafficking on our platform for many years and our goal remains to prevent anyone who seeks to exploit others from having a home on our platform.”

This story, along with others published Monday, is based on disclosures made to the Securities and Exchange Commission and provided to Congress in redacted form by former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen’s legal counsel.

The redacted versions were obtained by a consortium of news organizations, including the AP. Taken as a whole, the trove of documents show that Facebook’s daunting size and user base around the world — a key factor in its rapid ascent and near trillion-dollar valuation — also proves to be its greatest weakness in trying to police illicit activity, such as the sale of drugs, and suspected human rights and labor abuses on its site. Activists say Facebook, based in Menlo Park, California, has both an obligation and likely the means to fully crack down on the abuses their services facilitate as it earns tens of billions of dollars a year in revenue.

“While Facebook is a private company, when you have billions of users, you are effectively like a state and therefore you have social responsibilities de facto, whether you like it or not,” said Mustafa Qadri, the executive director of Equidem Research, which studies.

Events team is getting ready for a larger crowd this year.

“Normally we get around 1,400 people, but this year we have seen an uptick in attendance at our events,” said Leistikow, noting the growth in the amount of students coming to events, largely due to the lack of events last year, “I am hoping for 1,600 to 1,800 students.”

The theme for this year’s haunt is “ 10 years of terror”, which involves recreating some of the spookiest rooms from each year the event has taken place.

Each room in the haunted

house is designed by a different organization from campus that have been invited by the Student Events team to take part.

Some notable rooms that will be included in this year’s takeover include an insane asylum room, a purge room, and a plague room.

The Latinx Student Union will be returning with their popular “Day of the Dead” themed room for the Haunted Takeover this year.

The event will close down the CSU at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, guiding students throughout a route on the sec-

ond floor of the union.

Students both involved in the event and attending will be required to wear a mask while indoors, following the standard COVID-19 procedures on campus.

There will be a sizable line, so the Student Events team

gives students wishing to bypass the line the opportunity, by signing up for their text message alerts. To do this, students can text “student events” to 76626, then while at the line, show it to a team member who will escort you to the fast lane.

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For MNSU students, the item being auctioned off at this show was an empty moonshine bottle. The bidding started at $3, what Berens paid, and ended at $200.

And, unfortunately, bidding may have ended higher if MNSU wasn’t a dry campus, a campus detail Berens made sure to rub in students’ faces multiple times.

Berens paused during his show for a Q&A session, where he got down to the nitty-gritty: tater tot hotdish or chicken wild rice soup (both are good), favorite Kwik Trip

(the location off I-94 with the big semi truck), favorite section of Fleet Farm (fishing pole section), and opinions of Wisconsinites who are Vikings fans (outlook not so good).

For anyone who missed the show, Berens has several short Midwestern comedy videos posted on his website, some of which he played during the show.

To end the night, Berens sent everybody home with a proper Midwestern goodbye: “I lack the capacity to tell you I love you, so I’ll tell you to watch out for deer.”

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Sheriff: Newly ID’d Gacy victim’s death was news to family ASSOCIATED PRESS When the discovery of more than two dozen bodies stashed under John Wayne Gacy’s house near Chicago was making headlines all over the world in the late 1970s, Francis Wayne Alexander’s family in North Carolina didn’t think much of it.

The way they saw it, Alexander had cut off communication with them because he wanted to be left alone.

Then came news this month that for more than 40 years, the man they knew as Wayne was known as Victim #5 in the city where he had gone to start a new life.

They were told that DNA tests on the remains of one of the half-dozen unidentified victims of the notorious serial killer were Alexander’s.

“They just loved him, but they thought that he wanted nothing more to do with them, so that’s why there was never a missing person’s report,” Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said at a news conference Monday announcing the latest victim identification.

Though Dart said Alexander’s mother and other relatives didn’t want to speak publicly about his identification as a Gacy victim, Alexander’s sister, Carolyn Sanders, made clear that the family never stopped thinking of what might have become of him.

“It is hard, even 45 years later, to know the fate of our beloved Wayne,” Sanders

Courtesy of the Cook Country Sheriff’s Office via AP This undated photo provided by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office shows Francis Wayne Alexander.

wrote in a statement released

by Dart’s office. “He was killed at the hands of a vile and evil man. Our hearts are heavy, and our sympathies go out to the other victims’ families. ... We can now lay to rest what happened and move forward by honoring Wayne.”

Alexander’s remains were among 26 sets that police found in the crawl space under Gacy’s home just outside the city. Three other victims

were found buried on Gacy’s property and another four people whom Gacy admitted killing were found in waterways south of Chicago.

Eight victims, including Alexander, were buried before police could determine who they were.

But Dart’s office exhumed the eight sets of remains in 2011 and called on anyone who had a male relative disappear in the Chicago area

in the 1970s, when Gacy was trolling for victims, to submit DNA. Within weeks, the sheriff’s office announced that it had identified one set of remains as those of William Bundy, a 19-year-old construction worker.

In 2017, it identified a second set as those of 16-year-old Jimmy Haakenson, who disappeared after he phoned his mother in Minnesota and told

her that he was in Chicago.

Dart and Lt. Jason Moran shared what they knew about Alexander.

Born in North Carolina, he moved to New York, where he was married, and then on to Chicago in 1975, where he soon divorced.

The last known records of Alexander’s life were traffic tickets he received, the last of which came in January 1976.

Unlike many victims who were lured to Gacy’s home with the promise that he’d get them construction work, Alexander worked in bars and clubs and there was no record of him working in construction or having made contact with Gacy.

But Alexander did live in an area that Gacy frequented and that was where some Gacy’s other victims had lived, including Bundy.

Unlike with Bundy and Haakenson, who were identified because family members heeded Dart’s 2011 call for the public to submit DNA, Alexander was identified through a partnership between the sheriff’s office and the DNA Doe Project.

The nonprofit compared Victim #5s DNA profile to profiles on a genealogy website to find potential relatives.

That led it to Alexander’s family, and Alexander’s mother and half-brother provided their DNA for comparison.

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Judge sets final ground rules for Rittenhouse trial evidence ASSOCIATED PRESS A Wisconsin judge laid out the final ground rules Monday on what evidence will be allowed when Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial next week for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality, ruling he’ll permit testimony from the defense’s use-of-force expert and on how police welcomed Rittenhouse and others carrying guns during the demonstration.

The hearing was likely the last before Rittenhouse goes on trial Nov. 1 for the shootings during chaotic demonstrations in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020, two days after a white police officer in that city shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back while responding to a domestic disturbance.

Rittenhouse, 18, of Antioch, Illinois, was among a number of people who responded to calls on social media to take up arms and come to Kenosha to respond to the protests.

Rittenhouse, who is white, is charged with homicide and other crimes in the fatal shootings of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, all also white.

Rittenhouse’s attorneys want useof-force expert John Black to testify that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.

Prosecutors have asked Judge Bruce Schroeder to block Black’s

MARK HERTZBERG • Pool Photo via AP Kyle Rittenhouse attends a pre-trial hearing at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. A Wisconsin judge laid out the final ground rules Monday on what evidence will be allowed when Rittenhouse goes on trial next week for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in August 2020.

testimony, arguing that jurors don’t need an expert to understand what happened that night.

Schroeder told the attorneys that Black wouldn’t be allowed to testify about what Rittenhouse was thinking when he pulled the trigger or whether he definitively acted in self-defense.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said if Schroeder allowed

Black to testify only about the timeline of events that night he wouldn’t call his own expert to the stand.

Defense attorney Mark Richards agreed to the deal.

Binger asked Schroeder to bar a video that shows police telling Rittenhouse and other armed militia members on the streets that they appreciated their presence and tossing Rittenhouse a bottle of water.

MSU Reporter • 5 BIRDS Continued from page 1 around campus.

Cowan wanted to make sure the student government had an opportunity to ride the scooters, as they were the ones who helped bring them to campus.

“They [student government] all have ridden the scooters because I made sure that they all got on the scooter on my nickel,” he stated.

To use the scooters there is a small price tag attached to it, with the University making some money off the scooter rides.

“MNSU gets a commission, we get 10 cents out of every dollar that starts up the scooter,” Cowan stated. “It has nothing to do with the minutes, the 39 cents a minute, we don’t get any of that.”

As of now, the University has made approximately $1,100 from the scooters.

One thought about the scooters is whether or not students will be utilizing them as much after the snow melts away and the scooters are safe to ride again.

“I think they’re here to stay. I think it’s a remarkable thing that in two months we can have 11,000 rides. That’s pretty remarkable,” Cowan commented.

As the weather reaches the cooler temperatures the scooters will be put into hibernation, as Cowan calls it. The scooters will be put into storage in early November and will then be brought back out next April, with weather permitting. This will help prevent any injuries that may take place with the snow that is sure to be here in the next few weeks.

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Esports deserves more recognition

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By DANIEL MCELROY Sports Editor

Competitive esports have been on the rise for the better part of a decade and show no signs of slowing down. Most recently, collegiate esports has become more popular by the day.

We are seeing esports programs throughout the country put in hundreds of thousands of dollars in recruiting, scholarships, and even training facilities for their student athletes, with Minnesota State University, Mankato being the most recent to do so.

So now the question is, how much recognition do these programs deserve, and is it the same level as NCAA sports?

Esports should be more widely recognized as a collegiate sport, and not just a club or a fun hobby.

Athletes in varsity programs have a lot of similarities to athletes in traditional sports. A contract must be signed to participate, esport athletes have required practice time each week with the team and by themselves, watch VOD reviews (similar to watching film) to learn about themselves and their opponents, and so much more.

MNSU has sponsored their esports program, giving them all the resources they need to succeed. In only its second year of existence, the program is a finalist for the top

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Collegiate Esports Program in the annual Esports Awards.

The program has sunk a lot of resources into recruiting for this season, and have even reached the top 10 in the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War power rankings.

Despite this, ranging across all of their titles, the program only averages around 75 viewers per stream on any given game with just under 500 followers on Twitch, in a school that has an enrollment of over 14,000 students.

With at least some of the 500

followers being alumni and the current athletes on the team, that’s an astonishingly low number of support for a school sanctioned and nationally recognized program.

With that being said, it is much more of a niche thing to understand. It is a lot harder to throw on the stream on your TV and immediately know what’s happening than it is with traditional sports like football, baseball, or hockey.

There should still be more support for these teams because the players put in just as much

work to represent our University and put Mankato on the map for one of the top collegiate esports in the country.

Some ways you can support MNSU teams is to follow their Twitch channel, their social media accounts, and their games. The schedule for every team’s matches are on the MNSU website.

Give esports athletes the support they worked hard for and deserve, and help put MNSU on top as the top collegiate esport program in the country.

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Storm douses drought-stricken Cali

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Across Northern California, crews worked Monday to clear streets of toppled trees and branches and to clean gutters clogged by debris carried by rainwater from a massive storm that caused flooding and rock slides, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.

Despite the problems, the rain and mountain snow were welcome in Northern California, which is so dry that nearly all of it is classified as either experiencing extreme or exceptional drought. The wet weather also greatly reduces the chances of additional wildfires in a region that has borne the brunt of another devastating year of blazes in the state. When the storm arrived during the weekend, people joyfully dusted off rain boots and jackets and children stomped in puddles. Social media filled with pictures that showed windshields splattered with droplets of water and single-word posts: RAIN!!!

Earl Casaclang of San Francisco kept waiting for a break in the rain Sunday to go out and smoke a cigarette.

“It was crazy! I kept thinking it was going to stop, but it just kept going and going,” Casaclang said Monday as he headed to his job as a security guard in the Financial District. “We need it to keep raining, but hopefully not that hard.”

The National Weather Service called preliminary rainfall totals “staggering,” including 11 inches (28 centimeters) at the base of Marin County’s Mount Tamalpais and 4 inches (10 centimeters)

MENTOR Continued from page 1 Not only does the program help students academically, it also supports them socially and personally.

“My goal is to make sure that the students are getting their needs met, or whatever personal goal that they bring. I want them to have the confidence and have this supported structure,” Javiann Lewis, the Village Mentoring Program coordinator and graduate assistant for African American Affairs stated.

“Some of my duties are to not only support the mentors but also to support the mentees. This can include facilitating conversations or facilitating the connections because some students are

NOAH BERGER • Associated Press A car crosses a flooded parking lot in Oroville, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.

in downtown San Francisco, the fourth-wettest day ever for the city.

“It’s been a memorable past 24 hours for the Bay Area as the long talked-about atmospheric river rolled through the region,” the local weather office said. “We literally have gone from fire/ drought conditions to flooding in one storm cycle.”

Northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, 5.44 inches (13.82 centimeters) fell on downtown Sacramento, shattering the one-day record for rainfall that had stood since 1880. The storm was accompanied by strong winds that knocked down trees and even toppled two big rigs on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Pacific Gas & Electric reported Sunday evening that 380,000 homes and businesses lost power, though most had it back Monday.

Water rose so quickly that two people and a dog needed rescuing from rising creeks in separate incidents early Monday in San Jose. San Jose Fire crews located one person

clinging to a tree in the Guadalupe River at 3:30 a.m., but were unable to locate a second person. An hour later, crews rescued an individual and their dog stranded on an island in the middle of Coyote Creek. As the storm headed south, precipitation levels fell, though a flood warning still was issued Monday afternoon for Los Angeles County.

Interstate 80, the major highway through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Reno, Nevada, was shut down by heavy snow early Monday.

The same storm system also slammed Oregon and Washington state, causing power outages that affected tens of thousands of people.

Two people were killed when a tree fell on a vehicle in the greater Seattle area.

Lake Oroville, a major Northern California reservoir, saw its water levels rise 20 feet (6.10 meters) over the past week, according to the state’s Department of Water Resource.

a little more shy and need a bit of encouragement,” said Lewis.

All together there are about 100 students who are part of the Village Mentoring Program.

Matching mentors with mentees consists of filling out an application that asks simple questions of a student’s interests and hobbies as well as their major and academic interests.

Regarding the mentor and mentee relationship, they are able to meet at any time that works for them and are recommended to meet about once a month.

The program is also offered to second year students and encourages them to join as well as any student who has been put on academic probation.

To keep the engagement up they also host workshops and other social events about once a month with most of the events taking place in the Multicultural Center.

Other goals the program strives for include, as stated on the MNSU website, “Improve retention rates of students of color at MNSU, create an environment where students find affinity with one another as well as gain a sense of community, and educate students about campus resources and opportunities that will help them graduate and achieve personal success.”

The program is always on the lookout for new mentors and mentees as students can apply on the MNSU website.

REBECCA BOONE • Associated Press Police close off a street outside a shopping mall after a shooting in Boise, Idaho on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.

ASSOCIATED PRESS A suspect is in custody after two people were killed and four injured — including a police officer — in a shooting at a shopping mall Monday in Boise, Idaho, police said.

At a news conference, authorities said officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect. The majority of the mall has been cleared, but police were still looking for any additional victims.

Police didn’t release any other information about the victims or the suspect, saying the investigation was ongoing.

Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee said the shooting was reported to law enforcement about 1:50 p.m. on Monday — including a report that one person was “shot and down” at that time.

When the officers arrived, they spotted someone who matched the description of the suspect.

“There was an exchange of gunfire that ensued shortly thereafter, resulting in the officer’s injury, as well as the

suspect being taken into custody,” Lee said. He said investigators believe there was only one shooter, and there is no ongoing danger to the public.

“We really cannot at this time speak to any motivation behind it,” Lee said, calling any speculation premature.

“I cannot stress enough how traumatic this event is for the community at large, as well as for those that were witnesses, or are the families of those involved or involved themselves,” Lee said.

After the shooting, several witnesses stood in the rain outside the entrance to Macy’s — one of five large department stores at the mall — waiting to be interviewed by police or told they could leave. Patrol cars from several agencies, ambulances and fire trucks filled a section of the mall parking lot. Officers from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were assisting in the investigation.

About a quarter of a mile away, officers closed part of a road near a busy intersection to the shooting incident.

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Facebook profits rise amid revelations from leaked documents ASSOCIATED PRESS Amid fallout from the Facebook Papers documents supporting claims that the social network has valued financial success over user safety, Facebook on Monday reported higher profit for the latest quarter. The company’s latest show of financial strength followed an avalanche of reports on the Facebook Papers — a vast trove of redacted internal documents obtained by a consortium of news organizations, including The Associated Press — as well as Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s Monday testimony to British lawmakers.

Facebook said its net income grew 17% in the July-September period to $9.19 billion, buoyed by strong advertising revenue. That’s up from $7.85 billion a year earlier. Revenue grew 35% to $29.01 billion. The results exceeded analyst expectations for Facebook’s results. The company’s shares rose 2.5% in after-hours trading after closing up 1% for the day.

“For now, the revenue picture for Facebook looks as good as can be expected,” said eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson. But she predicted more revelations and described the findings so far as “unsettling and stomach-churning.”

CEO Mark Zuckerberg made only a brief mention of what he called the “recent debate around our company.”

MATT DUNHAM • Associated Press Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen leaves after giving evidence to the joint committee for the Draft Online Safety Bill, as part of British government plans for social media regulation, at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.

Largely repeating statements he made after Haugen’s Oct. 5 testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, he insisted that he welcomes “good faith criticism” but considers the current storm a “coordinated effort” to paint a “false picture” of the company based on leaked documents.

“It makes a good soundbite to say that we don’t solve these impossible tradeoffs because we’re just focused on making money, but the reality is these

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questions are not primarily about our business, but about balancing difficult social values,” Zuckerberg said.

Haugen, meanwhile, told a British parliamentary committee Monday that the social media giant stokes online hate and extremism, fails to protect children from harmful content and lacks any incentive to fix the problems, providing momentum for efforts

by European governments working on stricter regulation

of tech companies.

While her testimony echoed much of what she told the U.S. Senate this month, her in-person appearance drew intense interest from a British parliamentary committee that is much further along in drawing up legislation to rein in the power of social media companies. Haugen told the committee of United Kingdom lawmakers that Facebook Groups amplifies online hate, saying algorithms that

prioritize engagement take people with mainstream interests and push them to the extremes. The former Facebook data scientist said the company could add moderators to prevent groups over a certain size from being used to spread extremist views.

“Unquestionably, it’s making hate worse,” she said.

Haugen said she was “shocked” to hear that Facebook wants to double down on what Zuckerberg calls “the metaverse,” the company’s plan for an immersive online world it believes will be the next big internet trend.

“They’re gonna hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to work on the metaverse,” Haugen said. “I was like, ‘Wow, do you know what we could have done with safety if we had 10,000 more engineers?’” she said.

Facebook says it wants regulation for tech companies and was glad the U.K. was leading the way.

“While we have rules against harmful content and publish regular transparency reports, we agree we need regulation for the whole industry so that businesses like ours aren’t making these decisions on our own,” Facebook said Monday.

It pointed to investing $13 billion (9.4 billion pounds) on safety and security since 2016 and asserted that it’s “almost halved” the amount of hate speech over the last three quarters.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

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Soccer stays red hot with nine in a row

By DANIEL McELROY Sports Editor One of the most dominant teams in the NSIC right now continued their streak over the weekend when the Minnesota State soccer team (122-1, 10-1-1 NSIC) took down Minot State and UMary 3-0.

The Mavericks have been red hot since the start of the season, and continued to display their excellence with their sweep over the weekend.

Minnesota State got into it right away, following a lazy turnover from the Minot State defender, passing it directly to MSU’s Sophie Eskierka. Eskierka passed it along to Caitlin Brown who took a shot and managed to bounce it off the hand of Minot’s goalkeeper, and into the net for the 1-0 lead.

Less than 30 seconds later, Brown crossed the ball from the corner, allowing Maille Mathis to take the initial shot that was saved, but Nadia Lowery grabbed the rebound and buried the ball for the 2-0 lead.

With the MSU having all of the momentum, their tear didn’t end. Jenny Vetter, one of the top goal scorers in the NSIC, made a phenomenal offensive play by forcing a turnover and made a break for the net all by her lonesome.

Vetter netted her 15th goal of the year off of the play, and the Mavericks third goal in a span of 2:57.

By DANIEL McELROY Sports Editor

DYLAN ENGEL • The Reporter Jenny Vetter (4) is the NSIC leading goal scorer with 15 goals, averaging one goal per game.

The match went on scoreless for the remainder, with the Mavs’ defense and goalkeeping holding the Beavers scoreless.

Mackenzie Rath stood tall between the pipes for MSU, stopping all seven shots she faced, earning her sixth shutout of the year.

MSU took down UMary in similar fashion on Sunday, just not quite as quick.

The Mavericks were able to force a turnover in the offensive zone following a throw in and make a rush for the net.

Mathis made a cross to the net that was deflected by the

UMary defender that ended up at the feet of Tia Martin.

Martin fired at the net and took the 1-0 lead for MSU. The first half ended a bit quieter than their previous game, but took charge in the second half.

Minnesota State showed why they are one of the top teams with phenomenal passing and moves around defenders, with Lowery’s second goal of the weekend, assisted

by Ashlyn Watt.

With 25 minutes remaining in the half, Mathis and Lowery connected for the third of the goal of the game, and

Mathis’s second goal of the season, sealing the 3-0 win for MSU. Rath had the net all to herself again in this matchup, stopping all five shots that came her way, and improving to 7-1-1 on the season.

Vetter’s one goal on the weekend keeps her tied in first in the NSIC in goals with 15, averaging one goal per game.

Rath tops the list of goaltenders by a large margin in goals against average with just .332 goals allowed per game, along with saves at 42, earning her a .933 save percentage.

A disappointing season to say the least for the Mavericks this year. After years and years of recent success including an appearance in the National Championship in their last full season, the Mavs now find themselves on the verge of elimination.

It is not completely over yet for the Mavs in their search for a spot in the NCAA Division II playoffs, but all seems over with in their recent loss to Augustana. Minnesota State has three remaining games left on the schedule including games against similarly overall Winona State and Sioux Falls at 5-3, and bottom half Southwest Minnesota State at 2-6.

Winona State and Sioux Falls will both prove to be difficult matchups for the Mavericks, despite recent success against both teams. The Mavs must win both matchups including the one against Southwest Minnesota State and have several other implications go their way if they are to make the playoffs.

From here on out, it is a must win situation for the Mavericks, so we are surely going to see the best of them over the next few games.

Augustana was a tough matchup for Minnesota State this past weekend, with the Vikings coming into the game 6-1 and ranked highly overall through NSIC standings.

The Mavericks also brought a nine-game winning streak at

MANSOOR AHMAD • The Reporter

Football falls to Augustana, playoffs in question

By KOLE BUELOW Staff Writer

Volleyball drops two over weekend

Nyles Williams had four receptions for 80 yards and two touchdowns in Minnesota State’s 45-35 loss to Augustana.

Blakeslee Stadium versus the Vikings into Saturday’s game, which now returns back to zero.

The game script was not kind to the Mavs in this

one, especially in the beginning of the game. Augustana did a great job on defense against the Mavericks and were able to chew clock on each of their FALLING on page 10 u

The Minnesota State volleyball team is finding themselves in a deeper hole than they were in prior to this week, following two losses to No. 14 Southwest Minnesota State and Sioux Falls.

The Mavericks went on the road to Marshall, Minn. to take on a top 15 team in Division II in the SMSU Mustangs.

The Mavericks were able to hold their own a lot of the first set, staying within one point, and even holding the lead at times, with the Mustangs.

It wasn’t until a timeout from MSU when SMSU started to take control.

SMSU extended their 1311 lead, to a sudden 2515 set win to take the first set.

The Mustangs came out a lot more explosive in set two, starting out with a 6-0 lead. It seemed as though the Mavs did not stand a chance, only being able to close the gap to a five point deficit in set two, and eventually dropping the set 25-15 for a second time.

It was a steep mountain to climb for the Mavericks to come back in the third set, and they could not quite manage it. SMSU jumped out to another demanding early lead, and would not be able to come up with a win, and were sent out of Marshall with a 3-0 sweep.

The mavericks started Saturday in similar fashion to how they started Friday, in a close neck and neck battle, but it ended all too familiar, as well.

USF was able to jump out to a 16-13 lead after a close first set, leading to an MSU timeout.

Head coach Corey Phelps tried to bring his team back in it with a plan and closed the gap to just one point at 17-16, but it would not be enough, as the Cougars went on to take the first set 25-21.

It was the same story

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Fab Four of July acquisitions lead Braves to 1st World Series since ‘99

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ • Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS Atlanta had just stumbled again, losing its seventh straight attempt to reach .500.

“This isn’t going to define our season, this series,” Braves manager Brian Snitker said that night at New York’s Citi Field.

Little did he know.

Two days later, general manager Alex Anthopoulos obtained outfielders Eddie Rosario, Adam Duvall and Jorge Soler along with reliever Richard Rodríguez in four swaps in the hours before the July 30 trade deadline, adding to the acquisition of outfielder Joc Pederson two weeks earlier.

Rosario, Duvall and Pederson combined to drive in 17 of Atlanta’s 28 runs in its six-game NL Championship Series win over the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers. Rosario was selected MVP as the Braves advanced to a World Series matchup against the Houston Astros starting Tuesday night.

Pederson especially has been a pearl of an addition.

Even before the Braves tried to earn the team’s first World Series championship rings since the Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Chipper Jones club of 1995, he became known for perhaps the most-seen strand of pearls since Jackie O’s.

“I just saw the pearls and I was, like, you know what?

That looks cool,” Pederson said. “I’ve done the black chain and the gold chain and all those different ones and — I think a lot of other players have. But I don’t know, kind of caught my eye. I was, like, you know, those look good.”

Anthopoulos, a 44-yearold Canadian hired as general manager in November 2017 and promoted to president of baseball operations last year, had to remake his outfield in midseason.

Opening day center fielder Cristian Pache injured his right hamstring on May 13 and didn’t have another big league at-bat until October.

Left fielder Marcell Ozuna broke his left middle and ring fingers with a headfirst slide on May 25, then was arrested four days later on charges of aggravated assault and hasn’t returned.

Star right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. tore his right anterior cruciate ligament on July 10, an injury sidelining him until next year.

Many GMs make midseason additions. Seldom do so many jell.

With the deal for Pederson, Anthopoulos sent the clubhouse a message “that we believe in you,” recalled star first baseman Freddie Freeman, the reigning NL MVP. Anthopoulos had gone to his boss, chairman Terry McGuirk, for permission to spend and lifted payroll from $136 million on opening day to $149 million on Aug. 31, still 14th among the 30 teams.

The four outfield acquisitions added $7,743,280, factoring in $500,000 that Atlanta is receiving from Cleveland this year as part of the Rosario trade.

“Terry McGuirk came to me at the All-Star break and said you got whatever you need to go make this club better. Whatever you need. And we went full-speed ahead,” Anthopoulous said.

Atlanta lost at Milwaukee hours after the trade dead-

line, dropping to 51-54. The Braves were third in the NL East, five games back of the New York Mets, one game behind Philadelphia and two games in front of Washington.

“The one thing that’s fortunate for us is we’re playing in the NL East in 2021,” Anthopolous said after the trades. “We’re all in it.”

Atlanta won five of its next six games to move above .500 for the first time all season on Aug. 8. A nine-game winning streak lifted the Braves into first place on Aug. 15.

“It’s two different teams, really, from the first half to the second half, if you really look at it,” the reigning NL MVP said. “So we just had little weapons waiting in the wings all over the place and then we unleashed them and here we are sitting in the World Series.”

An improbable fourth straight division title was clinched on Sept. 30 with three games to spare. The Braves finished with a 6 1/2game lead.

“Even teams that don’t have great years get on a run. Even the bad teams. We hadn’t got on a run yet and we weren’t a bad team. We just had a hard time putting everything together for an extended period of the season,” Snitker said.

“But we were a good team and I just kept thinking, man, our best baseball’s ahead of us at some point in time, and then I think Alex helped that out a lot with the acquisitions.”

Pederson, 29, was obtained for minor league first baseman Bryce Ball and hit .247 with seven homers and 22 RBIs.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 FALLING Continued from page 9 possessions.

The first quarter was absolutely abysmal for the Mavs, who were unable to get any points on the board while also only having run six offensive plays.

It seemed the defense was out there for the whole quarter, with Augustana controlling the whole game.

It did not get much better throughout, only seeing the Mavs come close to Augustana’s lead once, at the start of the third quarter.

Minnesota State scored on their opening drive to tie the game at 21 but Augustana pulled away again on their proceeding drive.

It was a great offensive showdown to say the least, however, where both teams recorded over 400 yards with the Vikings holding the edge at 567. Both quarterbacks were fantastic, despite interceptions.

Augustana quarterback Kyle Saddler threw for 438 yards and five touchdowns while Minnesota State quarterback JD Ekowa threw for 369 yards and five touchdowns.

Outside of the quarterback matchup it really came down to the run game, where Augustana held the edge by a dominant margin.

The Mavericks were only able to collect 43 rushing yards against Augustana’s front seven, while the Vikings totalled 129 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown. Both

defenses were great as well, but the Mavericks inability to get going early eventually cost them down the stretch when trying to climb back into the game.

Up until their last game against Upper Iowa, Minnesota State had used a two-quarterback approach, using Ekowa and redshirt freshman quarterback Hayden Ekern equally.

Coach Hoffner went back to Ekowa again against the Vikings, explaining “JD had a fantastic game the week before. He was confident and explosive and scored a lot of points.”

Hoffner went on to say, “we thought it was the right thing to do to give our senior quarterback every opportunity to be in that inherent leadership role and take our team and hopefully guide us to victory.”

It was yet another tough loss for the team but another learning experience for all of the players. “They came back and responded... Really good teams find a way to win,” coach Hoffner explained when commenting on Augustana’s take over in the second half.

“We gotta regroup as coaches, and we gotta do a much better job at giving our student athletes a chance at winning a football game.”

The Mavericks will surely have to do so against their next conference opponent Sioux Falls, who comes into their upcoming contest with the same overall record of 5-3.

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Sports

Brady hits another milestone, one that could be totally untouchable

JASON BEHNKEN • Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS Tom Brady’s latest milestone is another untouchable one.

Brady became the first player to throw 600 career touchdown passes and then tacked on two more in Tampa Bay’s 38-3 rout over Chicago on Sunday.

Seven Super Bowl rings, 602 TD passes, 81,479 yards passing.

And he’s still going strong at age 44.

“Yeah, the numbers, they’re staggering and they’ll probably never be broken,” Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said. “I say that, but who knows when the next Tom Brady is going to come. They are staggering, but when you watch him practice every single day, you don’t see the age.”

Brady is on pace to throw a career-best 51 TD passes this season as the defending champions (6-1) aim for a repeat. Even if he called it quits now, 602 seems quite safe.

Consider this: Aaron Rodgers is fifth on the all-time list and trails Brady by 175 TD passes. Rodgers, who turns 38 on Dec. 2, would have to average 35 TD passes per season for five more years after Brady retires to catch him. Ben Roethlisberger (403), Matt Ryan (359) and Matthew Stafford (301) round out the top five among the active QBs. They have no

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chance at all.

Russell Wilson is next on the active list with 277 TD passes. He’s injured and turns 33 on Nov. 29. Wilson averaged 30 TD passes over his first nine seasons. That wouldn’t cut it. He would need to throw 36 per season for nine more years once Brady hangs up his cleats to surpass him.

Patrick Mahomes is way behind with 132 TD passes, but he has been so prolific that he could potentially challenge the record if he stays healthy and keeps playing for at least another decade.

The 26-year-old Mahomes averaged 38 TD passes his first three seasons as a starter and is on pace to throw 44 this year despite his recent turnover struggles. Mahomes would need to average 38 TDs for 12 1/2 more years once Brady is finished playing.

With passing numbers on the rise across the NFL and an extra game added to the regular season, it’s realistic to think single-season records will be broken whether it’s Peyton Manning’s mark of 5,477 yards or his 55 TDs. But topping Brady’s career numbers requires longevity and sustained excellence.

Brady’s accomplishments are unprecedented in team sports.

His teammates throughout his 22 years deserve plenty of credit. Arians made sure to spread some praise around.

“I doubt seriously that there will be another team like the one he was on for all those years and the one he’s on now because he has a bunch of individual records in a team sport,” Arians said, referring to Brady winning six Super Bowl titles with Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots. “I always harp about it, it’s not just Tom, there’s 10 other guys out there with him and 11 on defense. That defense he had in New England and the defense he’s got here has helped him win a bunch of games — those guys up front keeping him clean.”

Brady doesn’t miss a chance to credit his teammates.

“There’s nothing about this sport that you do by yourself,” Brady said. “It’s the ultimate team sport. It challenges you physically, mentally, emotionally, every week, every day of practice.

This is not a sport you can just go out there and mail it in. It takes 100% of what you have every single day to go out there and be successful. I’m just grateful to have amazing teammates, coaches.

To be able to do it for as long as I have is really an incredible blessing in my life.”

Brady set another record Sunday by simply showing up to face the Bears and 22-yearold rookie Justin Fields, making it the largest age gap between starting quarterbacks.

13 deficit, and not being able to crawl themselves out of the hole they found themselves in. The set ended with a 2518 score, and one last chance to take at least a set away

from the home team.

But the Cougars were too tough a team on that day to overcome, taking away the 25-16 set win, and the 3-0 match sweep.

MSU Reporter • 11

Marmol takes over in St. Louis ASSOCIATED PRESS As Oliver Marmol transitioned into a coaching career with the St. Louis Cardinals, it became clear he had the potential to become a big league manager one day.

That day has arrived — a little earlier than expected.

The 35-year-old Marmol was promoted from bench coach to the majors’ youngest manager on Monday, taking over the Cardinals almost two weeks after Mike Shildt was fired in a surprise move by one of baseball’s most stable franchises.

“I really felt like Oli was going to be a major league manager at some point. I did not think it was necessarily going to be 2022,” said John Mozeliak, the president of baseball operations for the Cardinals.

Marmol is the team’s youngest manager since Marty Marion at age 34 in 1951.

Marmol, a New Jersey native who traces his lineage to the Dominican Republic, also becomes the franchise’s second minority manager.

Cuban-born Mike González managed the team for parts of the 1938 and 1940 seasons.

“Some of the neighborhoods we lived in early on ... these opportunities don’t come across the table to the majority of the people that grew up like that,” Marmol said.

“For them to be able to identify and see someone of

color in a position of leadership, especially for a franchise, a winning franchise, one with a history that the St. Louis Cardinals has, is extremely meaningful.”

Marmol was picked by St. Louis in the sixth round of the 2007 amateur draft out of the College of Charleston, but his playing career stalled at Class A Palm Beach.

After coaching and managing in the minors, he joined the Cardinals’ major league staff in 2017 as the first base coach.

He spent the past three years as the bench coach under Shildt, helping St. Louis to three consecutive postseason appearances.

The Cardinals used a 17game win streak in September to move into playoff position, but they lost 3-1 to the Dodgers in the NL wild-card game.

As late as the flight back from Los Angeles, Mozeliak didn’t think the Cardinals would be making a change at manager.

But Shildt, 53, was fired Oct. 14 over what Mozeliak described as “philosophical differences” between Shildt, the coaching staff and the front office.

“We had internal issues we felt we could not resolve,” Mozeliak said. “We felt the best path forward was to make a change for the organization, regardless if it was not a popular one. We did not take this lightly.”

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Wild’s win streak ends in 5-2 loss against Nashville Predators ASSOCIATED PRESS Roman Josi had a fourpoint game, Connor Ingram won his first NHL start, and the Nashville Predators beat Minnesota 5-2 Sunday night, snapping the Wild’s season-opening four-game win streak.

Ryan Johansen scored twice, Josi, Tanner Jeannot and Filip Forsberg had goals and Matt Duchene added three assists for the Predators, who have scored nine goals in two games after scoring eight total in their first four outings.

“I thought the games coming in before we had a lot of chances, a lot of good looks, just didn’t score. You can’t get frustrated,” Josi said. “If you create chances, at some point they’re going to go in.”

Nashville has won eight of its last nine games against Minnesota, allowing two or fewer goals in seven of those wins.

The 24-year-old Ingram finished with 33 saves and is the second goaltender in Predators’ history to earn a win in his NHL debut, joining Pekka Rinne in 2005.

“I still don’t think it’s hit me a little bit. Ignorance is bliss at this point where you don’t really realize what’s going on yet, but it felt good,” Ingram said. “My first shot in the Western League, my first shot in the American League both went in, so I was kind of half-expecting it to go in

ANDY CLAYTON-KING • Associated Press Nashville Predators center Ryan Johansen (92) scores a goal on Minnesota Wild goaltender Kaapo Kahkonen (34) in the first period of an NHL hockey game, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, in St. Paul, Minn.

today, but it didn’t so that’s a nice way to start.”

Nick Bjugstad and Nico Sturm scored for Minnesota, which was looking to open the season with five straight victories for the first time since 2007-08.

“Today was one of those nights where it’s like the harder we tried it seemed like we were kind of spinning the wheels in the sand there,” Sturm said. “It was like the harder we tried the less it seemed like it was going to go

our way. We just didn’t keep it simple enough.”

For the fifth straight game, Minnesota allowed the game’s opening goal.

Although this time it was the first two goals as the Predators recorded a pair of power-play goals in the first six minutes — and three goals in the opening period.

A shot from the point hit Duchene in traffic, and Josi knocked in the loose puck.

Johansen converted on a rebound just over two minutes

later after Kaapo Kahkonen couldn’t handle his initial redirect of a shot from Forsberg.

Both goals came with a man advantage, a situation in which Nashville finished 2 for 6, its second straight game with two power-play goals.

Minnesota was 0 for 5 on the power play.

“Special teams is a big factor in the games, and obviously power play has been a big factor in the last couple of games. Penalty kill was huge today, 5 on 6 was big. I just

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In his first start of the season, Kahkonen stopped 24 shots.

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Josi recorded an assist and is the only defenseman in the league to have three points in a period this season.

Bjugstad converted an outlet pass off the boards from Jon Merrill to get Minnesota within 3-1 midway through the second, before Forsberg deflected in a slap shot from the blue line by Josi less than two minutes later to restore a three-goal lead.

Jeannot batted the puck out of midair past Kahkonen with 85 seconds left in the second period for a 5-1 lead.

Sturm scored on a rebound in the waning seconds of the period.

NOTES: Josi has 13 career games with three or more points.

The only Predators defenseman to record more is Shea Weber with 15. …

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How to look fine on a dime on Halloween

By EMMA JOHNSON Staff Writer

Halloween, while an exciting holiday for most, can be stressful for others. Getting a party invite is great until you realize that you have nothing to wear.

On a college budget, the idea of purchasing Halloween costumes sounds like throwing cash away.

Costumes you wear once and never again sound troubling, especially if the party you attend requires a costume.

The following ideas and tips will help make sure you look great without breaking the bank.

First, raid your family’s closets. If you’ve never discovered the family attic, now’s the time to rummage through all the chests and trunks.

Chances are you’ll find some clothes that your parents or grandparents have stashed away. If you find enough, base an outfit on the decades. Instead of buying poorly made 80’s costumes, find your mom’s authentic leg warmers or your dad’s letterman jacket from his glory days. Once

Photo courtesy of Flickr Halloween is a holiday where children and adults can dress up as their favorite character for the night.

Halloween is over, you won’t have spent any money and the clothes can go back in storage — probably for the best.

If you can’t find time to run home to get your grandma’s fur coat, look no further than social media for your inspiration.

Vines, TikToks and memes are all at your fingertips. Go as

your favorite video or meme.

To complete the look, craft stores sell poster boards for under $10.

With some cheap paint, you can transform yourself into the latest viral TikTok trend or your favorite meme from the last decade.

Go to the dollar store for inspiration as well. Spending a

This week’s WOWs events are wicked

By SYDNEY BERGGREN Staff Writer

“Sex in the Dark” lights up meaningful discussions

By EMMA JOHNSON Staff Writer

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Trick-or-treat yourself to a fun night at your residence hall’s WOW event this Wednesday, Oct 27. “What’s on Wednesday” events invite residents to gather for a couple of hours of fun every week, and this week’s events are all Halloween themed.

The McElroy Residence Hall is hosting a reverse tie dye — aka bleach tie dye — event.

“We will be providing t-shirts for residents, but also encourage them to bring their own black items to bleach, like shirts, socks, masks, or whatever else they have,” said Community Advisor Mikayla Witter, who is orchestrating the event alongside fellow CA Chase Belka.

The event will be held outside as much as possible, but McElroy CA staff will make any adaptations necessary for the rain.

“We are also catering in Insomnia Cookies, and will have an assortment of fla-

few minutes in the dollar bins could help you come up with a last-minute costume. Everything is cheap and if it breaks, there’s little damage to your wallet.

Usually, the props found in the bins are the basic vampire and witch themes, but with a crunch for time, it’s better than nothing.

WOW is a weekly event hosted in the campus dorms.

vors,” said Witter.

The WoW will be held in the McElroy lobby from 7-8 p.m.

Across the way in the Julia Sears Residence Hall, Community Advisors Gideon Webber-Peterson and Koshangi Jha will be hosting a costume contest.

“While everyone is free to participate, we request that each floor pick a representative to dress up,” said Webber-Peterson.

Each floor will choose a

representative to help put together a costume for, with any resources that they have.

Three judges, including Hall Director Becky Gwinn and Student Services Coordinator Carly Sylvester, will vote on the winner. The competition will be hosted in the Julia Sears lobby from 7-8 p.m.

The Preska Residence community will be holding their Preska Spooktacular, an event full of fun games and snacks.

Preska CAs Emily Rohoda WOW on page 15 u

If all you come up with is a headband and a couple bracelets, you can at least say you put in the effort.

Consider also making a costume with pieces that can be used year-round. For example, if you want to be a pilot, there might be some pieces in your closet such as a white shirt and black pants.

Go out and buy a bomber jacket and some aviator sunglasses and you’re all set.

Look for high-quality items to sell the legitness of the costume.

While they may be a bit pricier, if you can use the clothing or accessories more than once in casual wear, then it wasn’t a waste of money at all.

If you found out the party is in less than an hour and there’s no time to get a costume, not even enough time to grab a sheet to go full ghost mode, run to the grocery store and grab some appetizers or drinks for the party.

If people decide to make fun of your non-costume, claim that you’re a chef because you supplied the food.

It’s a win-win for all.

People recoil from topics of sex and pleasure as if they were disgusting creatures of the night. It’s awkward, it’s dirty and more importantly, not to be discussed in broad daylight.

On Wednesday, Oct. 20, the Women’s Center, African American Affairs and the Violence Awareness and Response Program hosted the “Sex in the Dark” event.

For two hours, students were allowed to ask anonymous questions to a line of panelists.

Director of African American Affairs Kenneth Reid, Student Health Physician MaryPat Anderson and Safe Relations Founder Sabrina Mercedes were a few of the panelists who responded to the students’ questions.

Graduate student Erin Kotten wanted to help host

the event after past success from similar events that the Women’s Center covered on consent and relationships.

“Sex is usually a taboo subject and a lot of college kids notice that this is the time to start asking questions and try to figure them out,” said Kotten. “We wanted students to have a space to ask those questions and have them answered by people who have knowledge and experience.”

A wide variety of topics were discussed.

The main focus of the event were questions related to sexual engagement such as consent, communication throughout sex, fetishes, kinks, BDSM, what to do if you can’t experience an orgasm and what orgasms feel like, and overcoming the fear of sex and masturbation.

One of the most popular questions that was discussed in length is the fear around sex and pornography addicSEX on page 15u

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Variety

Assistant director of Baldwin film fired after 2019 mishap

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

James Tyler who played Gunther on ‘Friends’ dies

CARLO ALLERGI • Associated Press American actor James Michael Tyler poses for a portrait on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, in New York. Tyler, the actor known widely for his recurring role as Gunther on “Friends,” died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021, at his home in Los Angeles from prostate cancer.

ASSOCIATED PRESS JIM WEBER • Associated Press Alec Baldwin speaks on the phone outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office in Santa Fe, N.M., after he was questioned about a shooting on the set of the film “Rust”.

ASSOCIATED PRESS The assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin the gun that killed a cinematographer last week had been fired from a previous job after a gun went off on a set and wounded a member of the film crew, a producer said Monday.

The disclosure emerged as producers of Baldwin’s movie officially halted filming, and court records showed that investigators seized more than two dozen items from the set on the day after the shooting.

In an email statement to The Associated Press, a producer for the movie “Freedom’s Path” confirmed that Dave Halls was fired from the 2019 production after a crew member suffered a minor injury “when a gun was unexpectedly discharged.” The producer, who asked not to be identified by name, wrote that Halls “was removed from the set immediately.”

Production did not resume until Halls was gone. His firing from “Freedom’s Path” was first reported by CNN. Halls has not returned phone calls and email messages seeking comment.

The producer is the second person to air doubts about Halls’ safety record.

On Sunday, another crew member who worked with Halls said she raised concerns about him in 2019.

Maggie Goll, a prop maker and licensed pyrotechnician, said in a statement that she filed an internal complaint with the executive producers of Hulu’s “Into the Dark” se-

ries over Halls’ behavior. Goll said in a phone interview that Halls disregarded safety protocols for weapons and pyrotechnics and tried to continue filming after the supervising pyrotechnician, who was diabetic, lost consciousness on set. The fatal shooting and previous experiences point to larger safety issues, Goll said, adding that crew safety was a top issue in recent contract negotiations between a union that represents film and TV workers and a major producers’ group. “This situation is not about Dave Halls. ... It’s in no way one person’s fault,” she said. “It’s a bigger conversation about safety on set and what we are trying to achieve with that culture.”

In an email sent to “Rust” crew members over the weekend, the movie’s production team confirmed that work on the Western has been suspended at least until the investigation is complete.

The team said it is working with law enforcement and conducting its own internal safety review. The production company is also offering grief counseling.

The email suggested that work on the film could resume at some point.

“Although our hearts are broken, and it is hard to see beyond the horizon, this is, at the moment, a pause rather than an end,” the email read.

The sheriff’s investigation continued Monday, and new court documents showed that authorities seized three black revolvers, ammunition boxes, a fanny pack with ammuni-

tion, several spent casings, two leather gun belts with holsters, articles of clothing and swabs of what were believed to be blood.

No charges have been filed.

Prosecutors and law enforcement officers were expected to provide an update on the investigation Wednesday.

Moments before the shooting, Baldwin was explaining how he was going to draw the revolver from his holster and where his arm would be positioned, court records show.

The actor had been told that the gun was safe to use for the rehearsal of a scene in which he was supposed to pull out the weapon while sitting in a church pew and point it at the camera, the records said.

Cameraman Reid Russell told a detective that he was unsure whether the weapon was checked before it was handed to Baldwin, and he did not know why the gun was fired. The camera was not rolling when the gun went off and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, Russell told authorities, according a search warrant affidavit released Sunday.

Authorities have said that Halls had handed the weapon to Baldwin and announced “cold gun,” indicating it was safe.

When asked about how Baldwin treated firearms on the set, Russell said the actor was safe, citing a previous instance when Baldwin made sure a child actor was not near him when a gun was being discharged.

James Michael Tyler, the actor known widely for his recurring role as Gunther on “Friends,” has died. He was 59.

Tyler died Sunday at home in Los Angeles from prostate cancer, said his manager, Toni Benson. Tyler was first diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer in 2018.

“The world knew him as Gunther (the seventh ‘Friend’), from the hit series ‘Friends,’ but Michael’s loved ones knew him as an actor, musician, cancer-awareness advocate, and loving husband,” Benson wrote in a tribute.

“Michael loved live music, cheering on his Clemson Tigers, and would often find himself in fun and unplanned adventures.”

Tyler had appeared briefly in 1990s series like “Just Shoot Me!” and “Sabrina the Teenage Witch” before being cast as a background character in the second episodes of “Friends” in 1994.

Over the show’s multiyear-run, he became the most frequently recurring guest star on the series playing Gunther, the Central Perk barista with an unrequited affection for Rachel (Jennifer Aniston).

Tyler was initially cast while working as a barista at the Bourgeois Pig coffee shop in Los Angeles. He didn’t have a line of dialogue on “Friends” until he had made 33 appearances on the show, according to the 2019 book, “Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era,” by Saul Austerlitz. Over the 236 episodes, Tyler appeared in 150 of them.

Warner Bros. Television, which produced the hit series, mourned the death of Tyler, “a beloved actor and integral part of our ‘Friends’ family.”

Once “Friends” concluded in 2004, Tyler made appearances on “Scrubs,” “Modern Music” and he played himself on an episode of Matt LeBlanc’s “Episodes” in 2012.

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First steps made in Congress to honor pop superstar Prince

Variety WOW Continued from page 13 and Maddy Berg are hosting many games including “Ghost Bowling,” “Spooky Graveyard Diving,” (a game where you stick your hand in a box to try to figure out what you are guessing), and a candy-corn guessing contest.

They have a multitude of prizes, and will also have hot beverages and cookies for residents to graze on. The event is from 6-7 p.m. in the Preska lobby.

“The perfect time for a snack before the CSU Haunted Takeover and Crawford

MSU Reporter • 15 Haunted House,” said Rhoda.

The Crawford Residence Hall is hosting its annual haunted house in the basement of Carkoski Commons from 7-9 p.m. They will be taking over the rooms and hallways in the basement and decorating it as a haunted house.

“There will be signage everywhere so you know where to go,” said Hall Director Ivy Packard, who is directing the event. “It’s free for everyone to come. There’ll be candy, you can go through the haunted house, and take pictures in a photo booth- lots of

fun stuff.”

Different from the rest of the residence halls, the Stadium Heights Advisory Board is hosting a Trick-or-Treat night for the Stadium Heights Residence Hall on Tuesday Oct. 26 from 8:30-9:30 p.m.

Residents will be able to go building to building to trickor-treat for candy, apple cider, caramel apples, cupcakes, cookies, and more.

Additionally, on Thursday Oct. 28 from 7-8:30 p.m. the Stadium Heights CA’s are hosting a Halloween party in the Community Room with a costume contest, pumpkin decorating, food, and games.

Women’s studies graduate student MeMe Cronin works part-time as a sex educator for Planned Parenthood.

She felt it was important to speak at the event to break down overall stigmas of sexuality and sexual health.

“College is a great time to [ask questions]. It’s the first time that students are away from home and the stereotypes that they grew up with as a child,” said Cronin. “It’s great to break that stigma to change perspectives, introduce [students] to new things and to get them connected to services to make sure they’re all set.”

At the end of the event, students were encouraged to grab bags that contained various forms of protection.

Each bag included two internal condoms, a flavored condom, lube, and a dental dam.

By the end of the night, students were told to explore their bodies, remain curious and to continue learning about ways to have safe and healthy sex.

An anonymous student claims to have felt more comfortable having attended the event.

“Most of the taboo [subjects] that I thought were weird, I found out others felt the same way and had the same questions,” they said. “A lot of people experience the same thing and people shouldn’t be afraid to ask more questions and talk about sex.”

While the subject of sex and pleasure may be difficult to approach, the more it’s discussed, the more others can break down stigmas and stereotypes to ensure that everyone can lead a healthy sex life, free of restraints.

CHRIS O’MEARA • Associated Press In this Feb. 4, 2007, file photo, Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI football game in Miami.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Minnesota’s Congressional delegation on Monday is introducing a resolution to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to pop superstar Prince, citing his “indelible mark on Minnesota and American culture,” The Associated Press has learned.

The medal is one of the nation’s highest civilian honors and past recipients include George Washington, the Wright Brothers, Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa, the Navajo Code Talkers, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Dalai Lama.

“The world is a whole lot cooler because Prince was in it — he touched our hearts, opened our minds, and made us want to dance.

With this legislation, we honor his memory and contributions as a composer, performer, and music innovator.

Purple reigns in Minnesota today and every day because of him,” said Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who represents the state, in a statement.

Prince, whose hits include “Little Red Corvette,” Let’s Go Crazy” and “When Doves Cry,” died April 21, 2016, of an accidental fentanyl overdose at age 57 at his Paisley Park estate in Chanhassen, Minnesota.

The resolution for Prince is led by Klobuchar and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Democrat who represents Minneapolis in the House.

The full Minnesota delegation serves as original cosponsors, including Sen. Tina Smith and Reps. Jim Hagedorn, Angie Craig, Dean Phillips, Betty McCollum, Tom Emmer, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Omar.

“Prince is a Minnesota icon,” said Omar in a statement.

“He showed that it was OK to be a short, Black kid

from Minneapolis and still change the world.

He not only changed the arc of music history; he put Minneapolis on the map.”

The legislation notes that Prince is “widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation,” with seven Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, an Oscar for the score to “Purple Rain” and a Golden Globe.

It adds that he is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, sold more than 150 million records worldwide and that “Purple Rain” was added by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The bill also puts into the Congressional record the glyph he used instead of his name for a time that Prince called “The Love Symbol.”

Under the rules, Congressional Gold Medals require the support of at least twothirds of the members of both the Senate and House of Representatives before they can be signed into law by the president.

The Prince legislation will be introduced in the House and Senate.

Born Prince Rogers Nelson, the singer, songwriter, arranger and instrumentalist broke through in the late 1970s with the hits “Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?” and “I Wanna Be Your Lover,” and soared over the following decade with such albums as “1999” and “Purple Rain.”

Among his other notable releases: “Sign O’ the Times,” “Graffiti Bridge” and “The Black Album.”

If the gold medal is approved and made, the bill asks that it be given to the Smithsonian Institution, which should make it available for display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture or on loan.

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Minnesota State University, Mankato Clinical Psychology professor Eric Sprankle said that it’s not uncommon to feel that way.

“One person may think it’s enough while someone else may think that it’s too much for them,” said Sprankle. “It all depends on the frequency and if it’s impacting your life in a negative manner.”

Other focuses of the night were based on sexual health, such as regular menstrual cycles and how to prevent STD transmission.

Lengthy discusssions about accepting your sexual identity, asexuality, and how to change the narratives based on society’s heteronormative standards were also talked about.

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