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MSU named gold-medal award winner in Gage implosion SAM WILMES News Editor Minnesota State University’s Office of Alumni Relations has been given a Pride of CASE V Gold Award, based upon the efforts of the team in planning the June 29th implosion of Gage Towers.

The University won gold in the subdivision of “Excellence in Special Events, Individual Event,” an award that recognizes outstanding programs and a single event. Judges decide the event’s amount of success, and met objectives, met in a creative fashion.

“Gage Goes Boom: Planning for an Explosive Experience,” was selected over silver and bronze award-winning Michigan

State University, and Honorable mention University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The 2013 awards will be given at the CASE District V Annual Conference, which will be held on Monday, December 16th at 4:15 p.m. at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers in Chicago, Ballroom I and II. All campus planning efforts for events dealing with Gage Towers’ implosion were conducted by the Alumni Association.

Support from staff was given on the account of numerous departments and offices across the campus, in accordance with more than 20 volunteers. $2,500 was given from lo-

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Borneke crowned Miss Mankato ASHLEY GERKEN Staff Writer Kaitie Borneke was crowned as Miss Mankato 2014 in the Miss Mankato Scholarship Pageant, a preliminary contest to the Miss America pageant. It was “A Night to Sparkle.”

Borneke, a junior majoring in Communication Disorders with a minor in Psychology, plans on advancing for her Master’s degree and eventually get a Doctorate Degree. Her plan is to become a Speech Pathologist.

She participates in National Student Speech Language Hearing Association on campus.

Also, she balances school with working about 20 hours a week.

“I started pageants when I was really little, and I had an older cousin participating in them,” Borneke said. “My dad also encouraged me, and I wanted to make him proud.”

Borneke and other women were judged in the categories of interview, lifestyle and fitness, talent and evening gown.

She has been in seven Miss America Organization pageants before. Miss Mankato was dif-

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ferent than the others.

Her platform had recently changed to “Stop, Look and Listen: Driving Safety,” which is based on driving alertly and in an undistracted fashion. Three months ago, she was involved in a car accident. This accident led her to the idea for her platform.

For Miss Mankato, Borneke practiced interviews and her talent in preparation. The girls practiced Friday night and continued until the start of the competition on Saturday.

Interviews started at 1 p.m., during which she said she was asked questions about her platform and some accomplishments. In other pageants, she has been asked questions about major issues.

The Miss Mankato pageant started at 7 p.m. with an opening number.

Borneke performed a skit for her talent about a 16- year-old who had taken her driver’s test.

Her next step after being crowned is to promote her platform, in which she plans to talk at schools, as well as promoting and raising money for Children’s Miracle Network. In June, 22 girls, including Borneke, will

compete in Miss Minnesota.

Last year’s Miss Mankato was Gabrielle Chavers, also a MSU Student. She attended this year’s pageant along with Miss Minnesota, Rebecca Yeh and other local titleholders.

The Miss Mankato Scholarship Organization made more than $2,100 in scholarships available to women in the area.

Scholarships are also rewarded to winners in the Miss Minnesota pageant. Miss Minnesota 2013 was awarded $8,000.

The Miss Minnesota Scholarship Pageant is a non-profit organization intended to help provide scholarships to help advance women academically and professionally. Participants have achieved major success in fields including medicine, law, business, broadcast journalism, theater, politics, literature and more.

Borneke also said anyone can have an equal opportunity to participate in pageants. Teen pageants are open for ages 13 to 16, and Miss America pageants are open for ages 17 to 24.

Other contestants were Andi Zimmerman, Kirsten Malcolm, Kami Patrin, Alyssa Sandeen,

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a judge, and emcees for the pageant were KARE 11 News Reporter Bryan Piatt, and former KEYC News Reporter Jennifer Hudspeth.

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Opinion: Climbing campus competition slated needs to take for this weekend steps to 3rd annual event gives students the chance to compete in a fulfilling fashion. improve student participation RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer

Campus engagement seen from a different perspective involving the CSU Bullpen.

RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer In my last Op-ed, “More Student Involvement Needed to Grow Experience”, I talked about the problem of apathy on our campus.

To sum it up: leaders need to find creative ways to engage our peers and let them know of all the opportunities on campus.

But how is that achievable? It’s simple really; get the Bullpen to serve students and faculty alcohol.

Not only would serving alcohol encourage students to come to campus during the weekends, but it would also open a plethora of other benefits.

To start, serving alcohol on campus would give the University an enormous amount of money. Not only would students be buying drinks, they’d have the opportunity to play pool or rent shoes for bowling.

The money gained in turn could be spent on maintaining the free lot, giving more money to clubs and organizations, or even towards scholarships.

If alcohol were to be approved for the Bullpen, think of all the fun events there could be; pool and bowling championships, sports watching parties, movie nights, speed dating.

The list goes on and on, and with older students coming on campus rather than going downtown, IMPACT could come up with oodles of events to cater specifically to them.

Clubs and organizations could rent out the area during hours where alcohol would be permitted.

They could pay a fee for the

night, and the Bullpen would be open for them to use and host events. Perhaps a percentage of revenue gained from the alcohol sales could be put towards a specific organization each weekend, encouraging the group’s leaders to bring people to campus that otherwise wouldn’t come.

Perhaps the most important benefit from this idea would be the added safety for students.

Bouncers would be a standard to check IDs at the doors, and there would be periodical transportation to take students from campus to downtown or, if implemented, directly home.

This service would be paid by the alcohol sales and in turn would encourage students to come to campus rather than travel downtown.

Of course, there are many opposing viewpoints to this, and being a school under the MNSCU system means that it would be almost impossible. There would be a list of steps and protocols that would need to be completed before the idea even went to the right people, and when it would the chances of it being passed are limited at best.

However, a simple Google search will yield results of bars on campus being a positive influence and a place of tradition.

This idea may not sound feasible to some, and there are many problems that could arise from this. But in order to combat the problem of apathy, campus leaders have to look outside of the box and put themselves in the roles of their peers.

What would an older student want to do during the weekend?

Go jump on a giant trampoline in the CSU or go have a few beers with their friends?

The “Kato Krusher” climbing competition will be held this Sunday, November 10th from 10:00am until 7:00pm at the rock wall on campus. With large crowds expected this year, the competition will be split in two: beginner and intermediate levels, then expert climbers.

MNSU’s Adventure program has been praised as one of the best services for students. Offering a high ropes course, a climbing tower, and belaying outside during the warm season, indoor programs include team-building activities and two state-of-the-art climbing walls.

“Kato Krusher” represents the third such competition to be held on campus.

With around seventy-five competitors expected to participate, it’s no wonder why people are buzzing about the Climbing program.

Sam Steiger serves as

Program Director for the Adventure Education Program and the climbing walls.

“Climbing is really exploding here at MNSU – last year the indoor climbing wall had an astounding 15,000 climbers!”

Steiger emphasizes the welcoming community and explains the competition in detail, “It isn’t challenging to you as a timed event, the competition challenges to climb what we call ‘clean’, meaning competitors cannot slip off a hold, and not use a hold for your hands or feet that is not ‘on’ (marked with a color coded route tape).”

Spearheaded by the MNSU Adventure Education Program, the event has found sponsors, both local and international, such as Pub 500 and Vibram, to provide prizes and support.

“There are many other students and volunteers that will work hard to make this event a success.” Steiger explains, “The MNSU climbing community is really

strong!”

Open from Sunday until Thursday, 6:30pm-10:00pm, the rock walls located in the Myers Field House are proving to be a great place toT let out stress, improve your climbing, and meet newl friends. The community sur-m rounding rock climbing oni campus has grown substan-g tially in the previous years.

Anyone, from students tod community members, inter-i ested in joining the compe-f tition is welcome to register,O however, unless you weret registered before Octobern 31st, you won’t be guaranteed a shirt. The event startsi at 10:00am, with the firstc climbing session starting ati 11:00am, the second start-u ing at 2:30pm, and the finalsc beginning at 6:00pm at thet s climbing wall.

If you’re interested in ther Adventure Education Pro-s gram, check out www.mnsu.s edu/adventure and like them on Facebook at www.face-i book.com/mnsuadventure.p v

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User burnout could threaten Twitter’s prosperity

As some celebrities are beginning to quit the popular social media site, some are questioning the site’s long-term prospects.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — They loved it. Now they hate it.

A growing number of celebrities, athletes and self-promoters are burnt out and signing off of Twitter. Many have gotten overwhelmed.

Some people built big audiences on the short messaging service only to have their followers turn against them.

Others complain that tweets that once drew lots of attention now get lost in the noise.

As Twitter Inc. begins trading publicly Thursday, the company is selling potential investors on the idea that its user base of 232 million will continue to grow along with the 500 million tweets that are sent each day. The company’s revenue depends on ads it inserts into the stream of messages.

But Wall Street could lose its big bet on social media if prolific tweeters lose their voice.

Evidence of Twitter burnout isn’t hard to find. Just look at the celebrities who — at one time or another — have taken a break from the service. The long list includes everyone from Alec Baldwin to Miley Cyrus to “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof.

Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt lamented “all the negativity” she saw on the service when she quit, temporarily, in July. Actress Megan Fox left nearly a million followers dangling when she checked out in January, explaining that “Facebook is as much as I can handle.” Pop star John Mayer deleted his account in 2011, saying Twitter absorbed so much of his thinking, he couldn’t write a song.

“I was a tweetaholic,” he told students during a talk at the Berklee College of Music.

If Twitter turns off celebrities who have a financial incentive to stay in close contact with fans, how can the company prevent average users from becoming disenchanted?

For some users, Twitter tiredness sets in slowly. At first, they enjoy seeing their

tweets of 140 characters or less bounce around the Web with retweets and favorites.

But new connections soon get overwhelming. Obligation sets in — not only to post more, but to reply to followers and read their tweets.

Many users conclude that Twitter is a time-sucking seduction and turn away. One who calls herself patrilla$$$thrilla excitedly tweeted “first tweet, wocka wocka” just after she joined in July.

On Wednesday, 161 tweets and 27 followers later, the romance was over. She quit to “fully enjoy the little details in life I miss because I’m too busy here,” she tweeted.

The cacophony creeps into everyday life. Twitter fanatics tweet from the dinner table, during a movie, in the bathroom, in bed. Vacations can seem like time wasted not tweeting.

The over-doers suffer from a “fear of missing out” (or FOMO), says Tom Edwards, vice president at themarketingarm, a Dallas-based advertising agency. “Managing our virtual personas, including all of the etiquette that comes with, can be tiresome, especially for those with large followings.”

It happens —even to people who ought to know better. Just ask Gary Schirr, an assistant professor who teaches a course on social media at Radford University.

In August, while vacationing on a beach, Schirr felt a pang of withdrawal because he had stopped tweeting to his 70,000-plus followers. Then he saw an old condemned house about to be washed away and posted a photo to Facebook and Twitter. He felt relieved when the likes and retweets rolled in.

“You feel forgotten if you’re not out there,” he says. “It’s another sign of addiction. You feel bad if you don’t tweet.”

Prolific tweeters stay engaged partly because there are real benefits to a big following, which usually requires tweet-

ing a lot.

Journalists who have large Twitter followings have used them to land better-paying jobs because every click on stories can make more money for their new employer. Actors can land roles on TV or the movies if their digital audience is expected to tag along.

Matt Lewis, a columnist with The Week magazine, says his Twitter following is like “portable equity” that gave him an edge over more established writers earlier in his career. He’s now got nearly 33,000 followers.

Even so, one of Lewis’ more popular stories is titled “Why I hate Twitter.” It goes into why the social network became, for him, “a dark place” overrun by “angry cynics and partisan cranks.” He became demoralized by the criticism, but he couldn’t pull himself away.

“It’s also like a prison. You can’t check out,” he says.

Today, Lewis rarely interacts with his followers and hopes the service will come up with new ways to filter out the hate tweets. “Why should I be harassed if I look at my @ button?” he says.

But he remains amazed at how Twitter has helped him reach new readers, and after some 67,000 tweets, he isn’t giving it up.

Others find that as more people join the service, the deluge of tweets can drown out individual voices.

So says Bob Lefsetz, a music industry analyst who writes an email column titled the Lefsetz Letter.

Twitter, he wrote in July, is “toast.” ‘’Over. Done. History.” His follower count isn’t rising as quickly as before, although it’s still a respectable 57,000-plus. And his tweets don’t see as much action as in the past, which he attributes to too many people tweeting “too

much irrelevant information.”

“In the old days, I’d get 20 retweets. Now I’ll get none,” Lefsetz says. “It makes me not want to play.”

Along with the potential for burnout, there’s also the risk that Twitter becomes uncool to the younger generation, especially when services such as Pinterest and Instagram are a tap away.

Devon Powers, an assistant professor of communications at Drexel University, says many of her students have moved on to Snapchat. But there can still be pressure to keep up with the other services.

“There’s all these new obligations to update and report and check in,” she says. It can make dropping offline feel like a relief.

“If I get really busy, the first thing I stop doing is checking Twitter,” she says. “I’m living my life. I’m not having a commentary about it.”

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Five easy tips on Winter driving Reporter writer gives free advice on how to make a winter road a safer one.

ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer Perhaps I am showing off my nerdy side, but right now the words of Eddard Stark keep flashing across my mind: “Winter is coming.”

With Tuesday night’s first snowfall of the year, winter is already here. For many people this means building snowmen, drinking hot chocolate and not changing out of sweatpants for three days. For me however, winter means one thing: terrible drivers.

Mankato is notorious for its horrible driving, and most likely this won’t improve now that the roads are slick. Normally I recite the Lord’s Prayer every time I have to get behind the wheel in Mankato in the winter. However this year I have decided to do something more practical.

Ladies and gentlemen, count yourselves lucky, as I am about to “reveal” 5 major tips that can keep all safe and sound on the roads this winter. Those of you who are bad drivers (and you probably don’t know who you are) should pay close attention.

1. Check the weather ahead of time People are often “surprised” to be caught in the middle of a blizzard, as if the weather wasn’t available instantaneously by phone or computer. Unless you have to work, or something else really important comes up, make

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sure you check the weather before you drive- don’t go on a Taco Bell run at midnight if there are 6 inches of snow falling.

2. Wipe off all your windows, not just the front ones This one goes out to the guy who clears two small holes straight ahead of him, and neglects his side windows and rear view window. Yes this person exists, and frankly there are too many of them. Let’s not suffer from tunnel vision this winter.

There are more things to worry about on the road then what is straight ahead of you.

3. Wipe off your head and tail lights This is a major pet peeve of mine. Too many people only clear their windows, and not their lights. Supposedly we are either supposed to telepathically understand your intentions on the road, or make an educated guess on when you’ll break suddenly.

It takes two seconds to clear off your taillights, compared to the few weeks of not having your car if I rear end you when you break suddenly.

4. Stay in your lane Just because the snow has fallen doesn’t mean the roads have suddenly shrank from two lanes to one. All too often cars decide they can travel right down the center of a two-lane road. If catch you doing this, I will drive to your house and park smack dab in the middle of your driveway. Good luck trying to pass me.

5. Do the speed limit Last I knew Vin Diesel and Paul Walker did not attend MSU. Unfortunately every Tom, Dick and Jane on campus with a souped up Mustang thinks they were a stunt double in the Fast in the Furious. How about you just stay the speed limit and leave the crazy driving for Hollywood and Audi commercials.

There you go people. These

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were five easy steps to keeping the roads of Mankato safe for everyone this winter. And fair warning, anyone who I catch breaking these rules will be confronted with an angry mob carrying torches and pitchforks.

Don’t believe me? Well if you know your history you’d understand that the students of MSU have a knack for flipping cars over.

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US trashes, sells its unwanted gear in Afghanistan While Afghanis are angry about the practice, the US claims it’s meant to deter the threat of bomb making.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The withdrawing U.S. military is destroying most of the equipment it is leaving behind in Afghanistan after 13 years of war, selling the scrap for millions of dollars to those willing to buy it.

The policy stands in stark contrast to the Americans’ withdrawal from Iraq, when they donated or sold still-usable items worth about $100 million.

The equipment is being trashed, U.S. officials say, because of fears that anything left behind in Afghanistan could fall into the hands of insurgents and used to make bombs. Leaving it behind also saves the U.S. billions of dollars in transportation costs.

Afghans are angry at the policy, arguing that even furniture and appliances that could improve their lives is being turned into useless junk.

“They use everything while they are here, and then they give it to us after breaking it,” said Mohammed Qasim, a junk dealer in the volatile southern province of Kandahar. He gestured toward the large yellow frame of a gutted generator, saying it would have been more useful in somebody’s home, given the lack of electricity in the area.

The twisted mounds of metal, steel and industrial rubber scattered over a vast field had once been armored vehicles, trucks and huge blast walls that protected troops from suicide bombers. Giant black treads were pulled from tanks. Even air conditioners, exercise machines and office equipment were crushed and stuffed into multicolored shipping containers piled on top of each other in the junkyard.

In the last year, the U.S. has turned equipment and vehicles into 387 million pounds (176 million kilograms) of scrap that it sold to Afghans for $46.5 million, according to Mimi Schirmacher, a spokeswoman for the military’s Defense Logistics Agency in Virginia.

The scrapped material was too worn out to repair or not worth the expense of carrying it

back to the U.S., officials said.

Not everything in Afghanistan was destroyed. Coalition forces have handed over $71 million in equipment intact to the Afghans, said Col. Jane Crichton, a public affairs officer for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. She said $64 million of that came from the U.S. “We work closely with the Afghan National Security Forces to determine what equipment they need, if it is in good condition, and ensure they are capable of maintaining it,” Crichton said in an email.

Spokesmen for President Hamid Karzai said the government has “repeatedly” asked U.S. officials to neither destroy nor remove its military equipment from Afghanistan when its combat troops leave.

“We oppose the destruction of any of the equipment and hardware that can be of use by the Afghan security forces,” deputy presidential spokesman Fayeq Wahedi told The Associated Press in an email.

Between September 2012 and the end of 2014, when most U.S. troops will have left, the Americans will move an estimated 50,000 vehicles — tens of thousands of them hardened to make them resistant to mines.

They will also ship an estimated 100,000 metal containers — each about 20 feet long.

Placed end-to-end, the containers would stretch nearly 400 miles (600 kilometers).

The military faced a similar logistics dilemma when it pulled out of Iraq in 2011, but it left most of the equipment with the government, including water tanks, generators, furniture and armored vehicles. Nearly $100 million in equipment was donated or sold to the Iraqis as of 2010, military officials said at the time.

Crichton said the Iraqis were better prepared to receive and maintain the equipment.

“Iraq had a higher number of military and police personnel, and they had a more developed infrastructure at the end of operations to support the equipment,” she said.

The lessons learned from Iraq included how to save money by dismantling, relocating and disposing of equipment it didn’t want to ship home, she said, as well as earning money by selling it as scrap to the locals. The U.S. deployed an estimated $33 billion in equipment to Afghanistan.

In southern Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban where a stubborn insurgency still flourishes, the policy is having unintended consequences.

At a junkyard less than a mile (kilometer) from the sprawling Kandahar Air Base where tens of thousands of NATO and U.S. soldiers were stationed at the war’s peak, ethnic Pashtuns grumble at getting scrap instead of working equipment.

Schirmacher, the Defense Logistics Agency spokeswoman, said a big reason for trashing the equipment before selling it to the Afghans is to remove its potential to be used for bombs.

Even the most innocuous piece of equipment, like a treadmill, a stationary bike or household appliances, have timers or copper wiring that can be used to make roadside bombs, she said.

“Removing those timers or other potentially dangerous internal components renders the property inoperable, and so it is scrapped,” she said, adding that her agency sells the scrap to three Afghan firms. The U.S. military decides what gets turned into scrap, Schirmacher said.

Inside the junkyard office, a half-dozen men sipping green tea scoffed at the concern, saying insurgents can get cheap timers and other bomb-making material in any village marketplace.

“These timers can be bought over there,” dealer Mir Ahmed said, pointing out a grimy window to a row of electrical shops.

“They can buy them cheap.

They can buy a bunch of cheap watches with timers for nothing, but even if they have lots of money and are using this equipment to make bombs, what

about the washing machines?

What can they do with those?” he said “These are things we can use at home with our families or in our business. But instead they turn everything to junk and then they give it to us,” he added.

Ahmed, who said he has paid as much as $4,000 for a large container of junk, said the contents can be kind of a lottery.

Daoud Shah, a rotund man with a long gray beard, compared the impending pullout of

U.S. and NATO combat troops to the 1989 Soviet military withdrawal after a 10-year occupation.

The Russians were better. At least they didn’t leave us junk.

They didn’t destroy everything and then leave,” he said, removing his turban and scratching his bald head.

Shah said he had fought as a mujahedeen, or holy warrior, against the Soviets in a war that was heavily funded by the U.S. and other Western countries.

“But now we’re in even worse shape,” he added.

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MSSA meeting recap RYAN BERNDT Staff Writer The MSSA Meeting on November 6th was largely uneventful, with the majority of the time spent discussing IMPACT and concert planning for next semester.

Cassie Urbano, Chair of the Concert Company branch of IMPACT, presented information gathered from a study conducted about possible musician choices next semester. Urbano led a study via OrgSync, as well as meeting with students in the CSU to discuss opinions on selected acts and ticket prices.

Urbano emphasized that she wants to meet the recommendations of students by hosting a large concert, which can be considered a huge risk.

Urbano mentioned that with risk comes fun, and presented a list of musicians such as All American Rejects, Capital Cities, Easton Corbin, and more.

It was noted, however, the study had some discrepancies in the wording and only 250 people responded.

Much of the discussion afterwards was devoted to speaking

on whether or not MSSA would support the move to encourage a larger concert with a larger risk.

After an argument for and against, a motion was passed that MSSA would encourage students to express their opinions to IMPACT and would support the decision for a bigger concert.

However, further discussion will be needed before MSSA can commit to a larger role in the concert planning, and it is anticipated that a lengthy discussion will occur about the financial details in a later meeting.

Senior Emma Deppa was inaugurated as an Off-Campus Senator for the rest of the year.

Deppa brings leadership skills from her positions within her sorority, Sigma Sigma Sigma.

Announcements were kept brief, and started with President Collins discussing the upcoming delegates and reminding people to keep up-to-date with information. Collins also emphasized that MSSA will start talking about decisions that will make an impact on MNSU in the next ten to fifteen years.

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GAGE “I’m proud to say that we, and CASE, realized the hard work we did and decisions we made led to thousands of alumni and community members having an unforgettable experience.” continued from 1 cal businesses, and music was provided on the day of the event from Radio Mankato.

6,000 community, friend and alumni members came to watch the slightly over 12-second implosion, which garnered news coverage from across the country.

Free breakfasts, cafeteria tray giveaways, photos, buttons, t-shirts, a ceremonial plunger, alumni merchandise, Gage mailboxes, and more were given away.

A Gage demolition video posted online has received more than 13,000 hits. According to a quote taken from a University press release, “Our Alumni team planned this event for months

and months, so it was only fitting that we would submit our hard work to CASE,” Interim Director of Alumni Relations Jen Myers said.

“We felt we did a ‘bangup’ job capturing the emotions of our alumni and what Gage meant to them. The judges must have also seen that we pulled out all the stops for this once-in-alifetime event. We are thrilled to be recognized as the best event in our region!” Myers continued.

According to the same quote, “The planning of the Gage implosion event was unique; no one in our Alumni Relations team had experience with the physical or emotional ramifications of experiencing a building – a

home – coming down with such orchestrated precision.

“All the details, from saving mailboxes to creating a video scrapbook, were new territory A for us and I’m proud to say that S we, and CASE, realized the hard work we did and decisions we made led to thousands of alumni and community members having an unforgettable experience.”

MSU’s gold rating was established out of 482 entries from institutes in many areas- fundraising and development, special events, diversity programming, marketing and communications, alumni relations.

45 categories decided the awards.

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On-campus computer shop, store gives students needed technological resources Need help with purchasing or fixing a computer? MSU is here to help.

ASHLEY GERKEN Staff Writer Computer repair for students is offered at the Information and Technology Services on the third level of Memorial Library. If programs or accessories need to be purchased, the Campus Computer store offers these services to the students on the lower level of the Centennial Student Union.

Electronic Repair Service Center is part of ITS which provides equipment services and problem solving to the Campus Community with a 24-48 hour turnaround time for repairs and replacements. Some services are provided because of the student fees, which is addressed in tuition costs.

“We provide antivirus and basic support with troubleshooting,” said Mitch Wallerstedt, assistant Chief Information Officer for Customer Services. “We also help take care of computers infected by a virus.”

ITS wants to help students resolve the issues they can move on with what they need to do.

ITS also offers services that may come with a charge, which includes system installations, hardware repairs, computer cleaning and many others. The prices can be viewed on the Minnesota State University affiliated site for Electronic Repair.

Out of warranty repair and upgrades on all brands for competitive price is also available.

Hours for the Electronic Repair Service Center are • 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Monday through Thursday • 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Friday • 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Saturday Specialized opportunities for support are also provided for students living in the residential communities. Carkoski Commons is home to ResTech, which offers similar services as ITS, but caters to on-campus students.

ResTech helps students connect to the network of MavNet, remove Malware, troubleshoot hardware and software, install and configure antivirus software, remove viruses and more.

These services are provided by the student fees that students living in residential communities pay for in their tuition.

ResTech has hours that are convenient to students living

on campus. IResTech is open 11:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday through Thursday.

Support does not include devices such as printers, scanners or PDA’s.

The Campus Computer Store provides a place to purchase software as well as accessories and computers. Students can purchase items where prices are modified for the students.

There are accessories, cables, parts, computers that are already approved by the college of business, drives, iPad software and other miscellaneous items. The store does offer warranty service on Apple and Dell products.

Students can shop in store or online, and the store also is likely to order a product that can’t be found for purchase.

The profits are all re-invested into the University.

The store and hardware repair used to be located together in the lower level of the CSU. “Two years ago, Computer Repair was relocated to be more relative with the rest of IT and provide more consistency,” Wallerstedt said.

If software is purchased, ITS will also help students with installing it for free if they do not feel confident doing it themselves.

There are many services

provided by ITS, but if there are any questions contact Customer Service. ITS is open to help students achieve more from their

college careers.

The ITS Service Desk is the first point of contact with ITS, and it will help with email, file

storage, network access and other challenges. Need help? The ITS Service number is (507)3896654.

ARNOLD BAGAMBA • MSU Reporter Information and technological services, located on the third floor of the library, provides needed IT help.

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Protestor takes aim at Federal Reserve SAM WILMES News Editor An anonymous protestor took to the CSU mall on Tuesday wearing a mask, and holding up a sign saying ““End the fed-stop the war,” to protest the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Federal Reserve. The protester, whose main message was proclaimed in his sign, said that he was marching against the corruption he saw in the Federal Reserve.

“They are nothing but war profiteers,” the man said. “They use quantitative easing, in which they give money to their banking buddies, freeing capital. By the time the money, which is not backed up by any hard currency, hits the people, inflation occurs.”

“The banks come out as winners in any situation, whether it be through loans to the military industrial complex, or to the defeated to rebuild.”

The protestor, who drew his political views and anger from his service in Afghanistan from 2003-2010, is a Political Science major.

“When I was over in Afghanistan, I realized that we could easily be seen as as the terrorists,” he said.

He was dismayed when people got sent to Guantanamo Bay after 9/11 and were frequently denied their rights.

“The Neo-conservatives always have to have an enemy to feed the military industrial complex, they have lobbyists from military industrial companies lobbying for war,” he said.

He mentions the Iraq War, begun in 2003, and the first two no-bid contracts that went to Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company Haliburton.

“While we are viewed as the bullies of the world, it’s really only our corporate forces.”

The protestor mentioned the Rothschild bankers and J.P. Morgan as part of the problem, along with the Federal Reserve’s creation in 1913.

He credits the creation of the Federal Reserve with some of the taxes he doesn’t support today.

“Here we are with the income tax, the IRS and the Central Banking System,” he said. He also credits the bubble of the 20’s and the collapse of the banking system in a major way to the creation of the Federal Reserve.

He mentions Charles Lindbergh’s mention of the Great Depression as an “Overextension of

SAM WILMES • MSU Reporter A protestor holding up his sign of defiance to a system he does not support.

the market.”

The protestor’s first step to “Fixing” the Federal Reserve is to “Audit it and find out where our money is at.”

Some of the protestor’s views are not in touch with mainstream thinking.

“I know for a fact 9/11 was a conspiracy,” he said.

We know for a fact Saddam Hussein commissioned our help for Kuwait, but we didn’t want

to get involved. Six days later, Hussein invaded Kuwait, those documents got classified and all of a sudden he was an enemy.”

He insists that several presidents need to be brought up on war crime charges.

“George H.W. Bush was the first one I would have tried,” he said.

“He lied to congress, didn’t tell the people about Saddam’s letter of peace.”

He wants former President George W. Bush and Dick Cheney brought up on charges involving the Iraq War, and President Barack Obama for “Violating the War Powers Act of 1973.”

According to the protestor, Obama changed it to a humanitarian mission before dropping more bombs and Obama failed to inform congress, a constitutional duty.

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Crumbs making a place at MSU theatre table ADAM MILLER Staff Writer An alumnus is back on campus to direct the Department of Theatre and Dance’s third Mainstage show of the 2013-14 season, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, a story about a widowed man and his daughters in 1950s America.

The first show opens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Ted Paul Theatre and will run two weekends.

Back to direct the play is alumnus Lou Bellamy. Bellamy was an associate professor at the University of Minnesota for 38 years. Bellamy has won many awards for his work in the theatre, including an OBIE Award for directing.

Bellamy is also the founder and artistic director of Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul. Penumbra has produced 35 world premieres, with one of the more notable plays to premier at the Penumbra being August Wilson’s first professional production.

The play is something that Bellamy has wanted to do for a long time but something always got in the way, he admitted in an interview that was posted to MSU’s IT service page, MavTUBE. The show is about recently widowed Godfrey, played by third-year MFA acting candidate Reginald D. Haney, and his two daughters, Ernestine and Ermina. Ernestine is played by Gabrielle Chavers, a senior theatre generalist student, and Ermina is played by Kristin Marie Ambrose, a sophomore theatre generalist.

Told through the eyes of one of the daughters, Godfrey is not sure how to handle life as a newly single parent. He moves the family from Florida to Brooklyn in search of a better life and turns to religion for answers. As the issues of the late 1950s start to escalate, so do the personal issues between Godfrey and his sisterin-law Lily, played by Carnetha Anthony, a third-year MFA musical theatre candidate.

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“In order to do what I ask an actor to do they have to have a tremendous amount of craft,” Bellamy said in the interview on MavTUBE. “She (Gabrielle Chavers) has a tremendous amount of god-given talent. We can take talent and push it to another level by training, and show

them how best to exhibit the talent. But you can’t put it there if it isn’t there already. So she brings a tremendous amount to the equation, as do many of the actors.”

The On Stage interview with Lou Bellamy can be viewed at http://mavtube.mnsu.edu/aca-

demics/theatre_dance.html.

Tickets for the show are $16 for regular tickets but $11 for current MSU students. Tickets may be purchased online at MSUTheatre.com, or by calling or stopping by the Theatre and Dance Box Office in the Lobby of the Earley Center from 4-6 p.m.

Batman: Arkham Origins -- retread and revisit JAMES HOUTSMA A & E Editor Batman: Arkham Origins is quite the conundrum. Like a famous cover act, Origins is content to retread on what made the originals great and provide only little spurts of its own ideas to mixed effect. It’s praise that can be taken either way but, in the end, things pull together. After all, if you love everything about “Walk this Way” by Aerosmith, you’ll probably enjoy listening to someone perform it that has the same love for it, even if you know it’s not the real thing.

Set early in his crime fighting career, Batman: Arkham Origins sees Batman at a turning point when on Christmas Eve, notorious crime lord Black Mask puts a 50 million dollar bounty on the dark knight’s head. With the likes of Bane, Killer Croc and Deathstroke after him, along with a corrupt Gotham police force, Batman must race against the clock to see what Black Mask’s true intentions are and just what this person known as “The Joker” has to do with it.

It’s clear from the opening level that we’re in for a similar gameplay experience as the first

two Arkham games but with less time spent polishing the final product. Missing right up front are the atmospheric openings of Asylum and City. Instead of slowly marching into the creeping depths of the asylum or facing the hopeless monstrosity that is Arkham City, the beginning of Arkham Origins literally drops you headlong right into action but to significantly lesser effect.

That, essentially, speaks volumes about Origins one true flaw -- it’s rushed. The amount of glitches and bugs present are a dead indicator, as is the low quality graphics in the cutscenes typical of a quick release.

Announced back in April under a different studio, WB Montreal has the groundwork of the previous game’s system but does little to add to it, instead making it feel like a condensed retread of the previous two games.

Gotham City has never been a bigger, more accessible playground for the caped crusader but it feels abandoned and emptier than it should. There’s still a plentiful amount of side missions to add to the experience but Origins lacks the cool easter eggs and hidden details that make the previous two games special.

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tems of the Arkham series – arguably the two aspects that propel the gameplay so much – thankfully remain intact. Pummeling or sneaking up on thugs hasn’t lost its gusto and continues to be a saving grace for Origins. However, the new gadgets or abilities Montreal has added don’t fulfill much of a purpose other than to provide an easy way out (shock gloves) or perform the same function as a different gadget we’ve seen before (glue grenades, concussion bombs).

Since they are so integral to

the game, it’s far too easy to rip into those parts, while forgetting the things that keep Origins above the run-of-the-mill studio game. Montreal made the right call in not messing with the regular gameplay mechanics and did provide one major area where Origins bests its predecessors: boss battles.

The level of variety in how Batman now combats his significant foes is highlighted in an incredibly brief scrap with the Electrocutioner, followed by a challenging duel with Death-

stroke, capped off later with an epic battle against Firefly atop the Gotham Bridge that may as well have taken a page from a SpiderMan game. This is one area where players can say they feel like they’re living the Batman experience more than before.

Although it’s brief and may feel contrived at points, the main storyline is an interesting Batman story, showing how Bruce Wayne’s crucial first encounters with certain enemies escalate his

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Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! Panic! at the Disco’s latest succeeds on the sum of its parts.

ERIK SHINKER Staff Writer Panic! At the Disco return again with a bit of a change in musical style but continue to show a strong work ethic for creating songs they care about.

Leading the album, “This Is Gospel” showcases Brendon Urie’s vocals with harmonies and a heartbeat kick drum that coincides with the lyrics, “This is the beat of my heart.”

A triumphant chorus and pulsing verses combine to create a good start to the album.

“Miss Jackson” contains a repetitive chorus of the song’s title which does get a little obnoxious after a few listens.

“Girl That You Love” features heavy synthesizer parts and compressed drums that combine to create an effect that is reminiscent of 1980’s new wave music. The electronic sound and constant high hat on the chorus combine to compound the intended effect.

A personal favorite on the album, “Nicotine” has dual guitar parts in different octaves that form a strong lead into the percussion heavy verses. An ambient and underplayed piano part is combined with additional instrumentation provided by tastefully arranged strings. Panic! at the Disco gives their bass player a nice showcase in the funky

lead into the chorus.

Continuing with modulated and auto-tuned vocals, “Girls/ Girls/Boys” contains yet another catchy chorus and a nice switch to a half time feel around the last quarter of the song. The auto-tune seems to have been added to aid with vocals on the chorus in this particular instance.

Moving to a darker tone and type of subject matter, “Casual Affair” is a syncopated song with sustained synthesizers on the chorus and more violin parts. Auto-tune is present for an effect in the song, as opposed to its use in the previous track. The whispered line, “I did it”, adds to the song’s dark and mysterious allure. Ending with a solo piano part, “Casual Affair” is another stand out on the album.

“Far Too Young To Die” is another new wave-esque, synth-pop song featuring digital loops and a building vocal approach during the verses.

An upbeat dance number, “Collar Full” will get your pulse racing and feet tapping.

The vocal lines and harmonies stand out on this one.

“The End of All Things” wraps up the album with a somber piano and vocal combination. Legato lines and a flowing melody join Urie’s modulated and haunting vocals to raise hairs and cause chills in this track’s simple beauty.

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Listeners will find a lot in common with Fall Out Boy’s release from earlier this year, Save Rock and Roll. The two bands have always been similar but this almost seems like an album of left over songs from Fall Out Boy’s album.

However, the songs aren’t bad, just seemingly unoriginal,and perhaps that is just due to the timing of the two releases.

Panic! At the Disco contin-

ues to grow and refuses to be placed in a niche. Clocking in at a little over a half an hour, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! is a collection of synthpop songs that are self-contained and doing just what they need to. While not ambitious, there are definitely good songs on this album. I would recommend just buying individual songs over the entire album.

crusade to clean up Gotham and make him realize how important allies are in his journey. Side missions, including Batman combating the efforts of Enigma (soon to be known as The Riddler) to harvest blackmail info and using the snazzy new crime scene investigation replay tool to track down murderers, act as some beautiful world building and are occasionally more fun than the main story.

Arkham Origins doesn’t quite stand neck and neck with its predecessors due to its hapdash nature, nor will it win any game of the year awards but by repeating the winning aspects of before, it succeeds in the end. Had Origins not kept the winning combat, stealth and layout formulas of Asylum and City, things likely wouldn’t have shaken out the same.

60 dollars is pushing it for a mostly-good cover version of a classic game series but if an opportunity arises to pick it up at a discount price, jump on that because Batman: Arkham Origins still packs some punch.

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Rodriquez’s indestructable federale returns in Machete Kills ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer Filmmaker Robert Rodriguez is filled with more passion, vigor and creativity than most of Hollywood. Trouble is, the tremendously inventive and fun work he releases tends to appeal to a very small niche of the movie market.

Rodriguez writes, scores, edits and directs movies that make him happy, first and foremost, movies that live in their own world with its own rules and own plausibility. Above all, Rodriguez loves telling stories and, like British director Edgar Wright, enjoys telling them in the most creative way possible.

It’s with this understanding of Rodriguez’s work that one enters Machete Kills, the sequel to 2010’s Machete, which itself was a big screen presentation of a trailer-sized idea that was right smack in the middle of Grindhouse, the bloated 2007 love child of Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, that the world is Rodriguez’s plaything, and the audiences are in for a wild ride of bombastic action, clever kills, unbelievably gorgeous women, and indestructible leading man.

Machete Cortez (Danny

Trejo) is the Jason Vorhees of action heroes – no matter how insane and disbelieving the stunt or action sequence is, where by any normal laws of the world he would undoubtedly perish, it instead makes him stronger and, well, cooler. He’s a ruthless and renowned killer with a sizable bounty on his head and nearly every world cartel wants a piece

four hours to go before the bomb explodes. While in hot pursuit by an assassin (Walton Goggins/ Cuba Gooding, Jr./Antonio Banderas/Lady Gaga) and a crazed brothel owner (Sofia Vergara), a new villain reveals himself in the light of technological advancement, Luther Voz (Mel Gibson), who aims to destroy Machete, once and for all.

butcher a man in the groin, etc. – is all cartoonish and extravagant in their execution, but that’s the point of the series. Anything goes. There are vehicles inspired

by Star Wars, a face-changing assassin, hidden drivable tunnels underneath the Mexican/U.S. border, Machete riding a rocket and Machete being blasted off into space for a proposed third

“Machete Cortez is the Jason Voorhees of action heroes - no matter how insane and disbelieving the stunt or action sequence is, it instead makes him stronger and, well, cooler.” of him but the President of the United States (Charlie Sheen, billed as Carlos Estevez) has other plans for the Mexican myth.

The President employs Machete with a mission to kill Marcos Mendez (Demian Bichir), a madman threatening Washington, D.C. with a nuclear missile to exterminate the American government.

Accompanied with a handler, the beautiful Blanca Vasquez (Amber Heard), Mendez is on a race against time with twenty

Machete Kills drops the interfering political mumbo-jumbo from the first film in favor of what the series should have been from the beginning: a grindhouse-esque action film of brutal mayhem and outrageous insanity. The way Machete dispatches bad guys – electrocuting them with his sword, slicing their heads off with helicopter blades, tying them to a helicopter to blow up while they scream “MACHETE!” in a squeaky voice, using a switch blade sword to

and final film. The amount of fun and wide-grinning going on while watching this film is indescribable.

Danny Trejo, in his eleventh collaboration with Rodriguez, just needs to sneer and his performance is automatically awesome. Jessica Alba reprises her role from the first and, thankfully, barely sticks around. Amber Heard and Charlie Sheen are clearly enjoying themselves, being paid to be over-the-top instead of trying to act and the qua-

druple work of the face-changing assassin, played by Goggins, Gooding, Banderas, and Gaga, is the best sort of hammy fun.

But none can top Mel Gibson, who pencils in every clichéd, megalomaniac villain quirk in the book. It’s difficult to feel for certain if this role is the low point of his career, or the first step in a self-satire that just might save him, Tom Cruise-Tropic Thunder style. And Sofia Vergara was hired for one purpose and one purpose only, and it wasn’t her acting chops.

Because of Rodriguez’s small, marketable niche and the diminished box office returns of the sequel compared to the original, the chance of seeing Machete grace the screen again is a slim one, although if there’s one director who could do a space battle and do it well on a limited budget, Rodriguez would be that man.

If Machete Kills is truly the end of the Machete saga, it could not have ended better. Without a hint of a serious bone in its body, Machete Kills is all style, hot girls, and brilliantly illogical action bits. A more enjoyable trip to the cinema couldn’t be asked for.

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New WCHA makes it’s way to Mankato After talking about the seperation of the WCHA for a year, the Verizon Wireless Center will host it’s first revamped WCHA matchup this weekend.

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David Bassey • MSU Reporter Sophomore goalie Stephon Williams, the New York Islanders’ fourth round pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, has stopped 105 shots so far this season.

The Bowling Green State University Falcons will be in town this weekend to face the Minnesota State University, Mankato men’s hockey team in what could shape up to be a new rivalry.

The Falcons joined the Western Collegiate Hockey Association this season after playing in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association since 1971, winning a national championship in 1984.

Last season BGSU finished with a record of 15-21-5 and have struggled the past few seasons to find themselves among the top half of the CCHA but are off to a good start in 2013.

With an overall record of 4-22 including 2-0 in conference play after last weekend’s sweep over Alaska-Anchorage, the Falcons look to be a more competitive team in the WCHA. So far

this season, the Falcons haven’t four points through six games, had too much trouble putting while Bowling Green has six pucks in the net, which could players on their roster with more cause some trouble for the Mav- points than the Maverick leaders.

Also, 19 Falcon players have reericks.

For the most part, the Mav- corded at least one point on the ericks’ goaltending hasn’t been season.

For a team that is expected to quite up to par with what was expected of them. Sophomore goal- rely on their depth, the Mavericks tender Stephon Williams was may have found their match in pulled from the game against the Falcons. Sitting at 3-3 overall Providence in the opening week- and 1-1 in conference play. The end after giving up five goals Mavs aren’t in a bad spot right and last weekend freshman Cole now. Two of their losses came at Huggins got the start on Satur- the hands of a then underrated day night in favor of Williams. Providence team who is now However, the real struggling the number six ranked team in point for the Mavericks has been the nation; while statistically the Falcons look to be a very comtheir goal scoring.

The Falcons have scored 27 petitive team, which they might, goals through eight games this one must not overlook their opseason, while the Mavs have ponents.

Last weekend’s sweep over scored a meager 14 through six games. Leading the Mavericks Anchorage is good for conferare sophomore forward Bryce ence points, but as a long time Gervais and senior forward Johnny McInnis who each have MEN’S HOCKEY • Page 13

Mavericks return the favor to Minot State in first round of NSIC Tourney After being knocked out of the NSIC tournament in 2012 by the Beavers, the women’s soccer team didn’t forget and eliminated Minot State Wednesday.

LUCAS RYAN Staff Writer Two hours later than expected at a site an hour away from the home field they earned, The Minnesota State University, Mankato women’s soccer team kicked off the post season looking to respond from their first loss to an NSIC opponent in more than two years.

The November snow Tuesday night forced the No. 1 seeded Mavericks to play the quarterfinal of the NSIC tournament at a neutral site in a sports bubble (Dane Family Field House) at the Shattuck-St Mary’s campus in Faribault, Minn.

Minot State had not allowed more than one goal in the first

half all season long, but the Mavericks started the game attacking and put the ball past the Beavers goalie three times in the first 40 minutes en route to a 5-3 win Wednesday afternoon.

Junior midfielder Emily Morris struck first for MSU scoring 13:49 into the match on a free kick from 25 yards out. It was a relief to see the Mavericks strike early on a team that really prides themselves on defense.

“It was really nice to get that goal early on to open up the play,” Moris said. “They play really defensively so getting that they started pressuring us more, and it was easier to get behind them.”

The Scoring continued in the 34th minute when sophomore

forward Korey Kronforst scored her 18th goal of theyear with senior forward Courtney Vallarelli credited with the assist. The Mavericks finished the half with anothergoal when freshman forward Maddy Smith blasted the ball into the net on a pass from midfielder Kianna Nickel tomake it 3-0 at the halfway mark.

In the second half Minot State started fast, scoring two goals in the first 15 minutes past junior goalkeeper Molly McGough.

The Mavericks answered back with the final two goals extending their lead to 5-2. Some sluggish play let the Beavers back into the ball game, but the Mavericks adjusted and kept their

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David Bassey • MSU Reporter The five goals the Mavericks scored is tied for the third most goals in one game this season.

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College Gameday Minnesota State (9-0) at Sioux Falls (5-4)

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David Bassey • MSU Reporter Chase Grant (right) and company possess a 3-3 record after splitting their first WCHA series up north against Bemidji State last weekend.

David Bassey • MSU Reporter The Maverick defense has only allowed 13 points and 361 total yards combined in their last two games.

RECAP: It only took less than seven minutes for the Minnesota State University, Mankato football team to take a 21-0 lead and pretty much Wayne State’s hope of a victory this past Saturday. In a 45-3 win, senior quarterback Jon Wolf became the first player since 1997 to rush, pass, and catch for a touchdown, and they were all 43 yards or longer. The Mavericks’ 251 rushing yards marks the team’s seventh game of 200 or more yards on the ground this season, and through the air, Wolf wasn’t the only Maverick to hurl the ball. To go with Wolf’s 159 yards on 10 completions, senior receiver Dennis Carter tossed to Wolf for a 46-yard touchdown in the first quarter. Defensively, the NSIC total yards allowed leading Mavericks only let the Wildcats move 176 total yards, and also prevented their opponent to rush over 100 yards for the sixth week in a row. As senior defensive end Chris Schaudt led the Mavericks in sacks with 1.5 for 16 yards, sophomore cornerback Justin Otto was all over the field and collected a team-high 10 tackles, four of them solo. Junior cornerback Kelend Smith and sophomore cornerback Patrick Schmidt helped prevent the Wildcats from a comeback with an each intercepting a Zach Osborn pass.

HISTORY: These two south division squads have only met once in their school histories, and the Mavericks took that one as to give head coach Aaron Keen’s one of his 22 wins in 23 games dating back to week one of last season. At Blakeslee Stadium, the Mavericks took a 20-3 lead before halftime and never looked back, winning 27-13. Wolf completed 11 of 19 attempts for 200 yards and ran for 31 yards with two combined touchdowns. Former receiver Adam Thielen led all receivers with 93 yards on five catches.

MSU NOTES: The 9-0 Mavericks come into this NSIC matchup with a no. 1 ranking in the AFCA and Division2.com polls for the third straight week. The squad stacks up at fourth in the conference in scoring with 39.2 points per game, and the defense has only allowed 15 points a game, the lowest in the NSIC. This defense has been relentless the past two weeks, only allowing 13 points combined. This strand of three games has shown the best football in all aspects of the game with an average winning margin of just more than 33 points. Not only has the defense allowed the least amount of points in the conference, they aren’t letting teams in the NSIC move the ball on them either. In a conference leading 272.9 yards allowed per game, their last two opponents, Winona State and Wayne State, only achieved 361 yards combined. Individually, Wolf has been a workhorse all season on the ground and through the air, compiling 2,189 yards (1,425 passing and 764 rushing). Sophomore running back Connor Thomas is second in both carries (101) and rushing yards (698). Sophomore defensive end Josh Gordon continues to anchor the defensive line with 5.5 sacks on the season, with three of them coming in their 44-10 win over Winona State. Schmidt’s interception last Saturday bumped him up to tied for second in the NSIC with five on the season, joining junior safety Nathan Hancock.

USF NOTES: As the University of Sioux Falls becomes the 10th team to try to give the Mavericks’ first tally in the loss column, the Cougars are currently tied for second in the NSIC-South with a 5-4 record. This squad has gone back and forth with wins and losses so far this season, just coming up short in their last game 30-28 to Upper Iowa, the Mavericks’ last opponent of the regular season. Sitting in the top half of the conference both on offense and defense, they’ve put up 34.6 points a game while giving up 25.9. Right in front of the Mavericks, the Cougars bring the second best rushing attack in the conference led by Nephi Garcia, a third year running back out of Palm Desert, Calif. Garcia’s 1,068 yards on the ground proves to be the fourth most in the conference. The passing game has a platoon quarterback system with Luke Papilion and Carrington Hanna splitting time under center. Papilion started the season as the starter while Carrington lined up as a receiver until week seven when Harrington was given his first start at quarterback and threw 407 yards and four touchdowns. From then on, the two have switched as the team’s hurler and it has been effective. Defensively, the Cougars are led by linebacker John Batinich, who leads the team in tackles (77) and sacks (3). They have only picked off four passes this season but have a knack at knocking the ball out of position player’s hands with 10 fumble recoveries in nine games.

PREDICTION: 3-1 at home, the Mavericks are heading to an environment that the Cougars are more comfortable, but that seems to be the only edge they have. The quarterback combo might help out to keep them fresh, but the Maverick defense is just too good right now for the Cougars to get enough points to knock off the top dog in the NSIC. 35-13 Mavericks.

MEN’S HOCKEY “For a team that is expected to rely on their depth, the Mavericks may have found their match in the Falcons.” continued from 12 member of the WCHA, Anchorage is a team that finishes among the bottom half of the conference on a yearly basis. Bowling Green has also beat Colgate and Ohio State, but both of those teams are pretty average among this year’s college hockey landscape.

Still, the Mavericks will have to play a very discipline style against the Falcons, who have 10 power play goals on the season. If the Mavs can stay out of the box, they can eliminate these chances.

Playing steady defense will also be a must as the Falcons have seven players with two or more goals, including senior Bryce Williamson and sophomore Ben Murphy who each have six.

Who will start in goal for the Mavericks this weekend? My guess would be Williams will be between the pipes come Friday night. He has proven himself as a go-to goaltender despite a slower start this season. If Williams can play to his potential and the Mavs can find an answer to get on the scoreboard more consistently, then they should be able to walk away from this weekend with a two-game sweep over Bowling Green.

Friday night’s contest will start at 7:37 p.m. at the Verizon Wireless Center in downtown Mankato with Saturday night’s series closer beginning at 7:07 p.m.

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SOCCER “To bounce back and put five up is really encouraging.

That’s something I think has been a strength for us all year so we want to make sure to continue pushing that forward and capitalizing on the opportunities we can get,” Bahl said. continued from 12 lead in check till the final buzzer.

“In the second half I think we got a little bit passive and maybe fell asleep a little bit,” head coach Brian Bahl said. “To Minot’s credit, they really came at us and attacked well there in that second half.”

Bahl was relieved to see their offensive attack back in full swing after being shutout by Winona State last Sunday.

“To bounce back and put five up is really encouraging. That’s something I think has been a strength for us all year so we want to make sure to continue pushing that forward and capitalizing on the opportunities we get,” Bahl said.

This game helped the Mavericks put in perspective that nothing is going to be easy from here on out, and they saw that yesterday.

“In the postseason you’re going to face some adversity and you have to be able to respond to those, and they did that today so I’m proud of them for that,” Bahl said.

With the win, the Mavericks are now the host school of the remainder of the NSIC tournament -- if weather allows. The Mavericks will meet Upper Iowa Friday afternoon for the semifinal of the NSIC tournament.

MSU downed Upper Iowa 3-0 less than a week ago ( Nov. 1), but the 15-4 Peacocks will have a chance for revenge Friday. Upper Iowa is the second best scoring team in the NSIC (Mavericks lead the NSIC) with junior forward Aimee Wronski’s leading the way. She ranks just one spot under Korey Kronforst in all of DII women’s soccer with 15 goals this season.

Defensively, the Peacocks have allowed less than one goal per game (.95).

After their first meeting with the Peacocks, the Mavericks won’t take them lightly.

“They’re a dangerous, well coached team. They’ve had a great year, and they really gave us some fits, especially in that first half the first time we played them,” Bahl said. “Fortunately we were able to break the game open in the second half. We know we will get their very best shot.”

Moris agreed.

“It will be a tough conference match, and hopefully we can just take what we got from this game to the next,” Moris said.

The Mavericks dropped two places to the sixth spot in the newest NSCAA/Continental Tire NCAA Division II Poll, but will have no trouble qualifying for the NCAA tournament. The Mavericks are the highest seeded team in the region and will almost certainly host the first weekend of play. At the moment MSU is in position to host the NCAA Central Region tournament.

While the games over the weekend will not stop the Mavericks from being selected to the NCAA tournament, this will be the final tune up before single game-elimination rounds of the NCAA Division II tournament begin. The NCCA tournament will start Nov. 11 with the selection show next week.

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NSIC Tournament Schedule Friday (3) Minn. Duluth vs. (2) Winona State 11 a.m.

(4) Upper Iowa vs. (1) Minnesota State 2 p.m.

Championship Sunday UMD/WSU winner vs. UIU/MSU winner 1 p.m.

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