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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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Gianna Schiller, Lauren Strachan and Ashlie Tisland. Former MSU Maverick basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter Jermaine Brown was

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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. ED/OP

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