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MIKELL MELIUS Staff Writer While walking to class you may have noticed a playground attached to the Wiecking Center.

That playground happens to be

a part of The Children’s House.

The Children’s House is a nonprofit child care center that is ran

by Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The Children’s House offers child care for a wide range

of ages, from infants to toddlers and young children The Children’s House provides separate, unique care for each age group.

With an atmosphere of care, respect and trust, they make sure every child develops to the best of their ability. They execute this goal by demonstrating caring behavior and mutual respect.

The individual care starts with providing four different rooms for children; the infant room, the red room, the green room and the blue room. The infant room, for those 6 weeks to 16 months, provides an environment suitable for this age. By singing and talking to infants and offering a social interaction with other kids their age, this room directly targets the infant through sensory learning.

The red room provides activities suitable for those 16 months to 3 years old. From playing outdoors to science activities and quiet

time, the red room offers a little more freedom.

The green and blue rooms’ agendas grow with the age of the children. The green room is for three and four year olds, the blue room is for five and six year olds but both rooms encourage children to participate in musical activities, skill building activities in areas such as science, math and language development, and interact with other children in small groups. Each room provides children with a nutritious breakfast, lunch and snack every day.

Access to child care at The Children’s House is easy to obtain since they are open 48 weeks out of the year from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. At the beginning of each academic year an enrollment schedule is provided, including closing dates and important information needed for

parents. With a location right on campus and a staff of college graduates specialized in early child care, The Children’s House is a great resource for MSU students who are also parents.

The Children’s house also offers clinical training for Early Childhood Education Majors at MSU. While supervised by The Children’s House Director Jodi Malecha, students are able to complete their required teaching area of the major. Students also have other lead teachers, all college graduates, serving as mentors, helping through clinical training. The Children’s House offers internships for other disciplines as well.

To obtain more information on The Children’s House visit their website www.mnsu.edu/ tch/ or call them at 507-389-1645.

The main office is located at 150 Wiecking Center.

of Disability Services, located in the library in the lower portion.

The University’s strategic priority funding will take care of the $1.2 million project, and equal contributions came from the CSU and the library.

Junior Kelsey Przymus is excited for the new addition on campus.

“Yeah, I think it will be nice to not have to go outside in the winter,” Przymus said.

Przymus uses the library at

least four times a week.

Przymus, who is in her junior year and is a Nursing major, is skeptical of the necessity based on the lack of distance between the CSU and the library, however, she plans on using the tunnel.

“Oh yeah, whenever I am coming from the CSU,” Przymus concluded.

According to Leslie Peterson, the tunnel will be bring a new dynamic to campus.

“It’s just great,” Peterson said.

“Safer and more convenient access in all weather makes the building more accessible to all, the connection will bring more foot traffic to the bottom of the CSU, bringing more awareness to the services offered there.”

“Connecting the library to the CSU has been long overdue since the renovation to the library 20 years ago, which improved library facilities but did not physically connect the two,” Peterson said.

Tunnel to open Wednesday

SAM WILMES News Editor The long-awaited completion date for the underground tunnel has come. Minnesota State University, Mankato, will be opening a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony for the connection between the Centennial Student Union and the Memorial Library at 1p.m. tomorrow in the lowerlevel corridor in the library.

Several guest speakers, including President Richard Davenport, will make passing remarks at the ceremony.

Stomper, the pep band, and the library drill team are planned to lead guests on an inaugural trip through the walkway from Memorial Library to the Centennial student Union.

Cake and refreshments will be served in the CSU Maverick Bullpen, located at the end of the tunnel.

The completion of the underground tunnel cannot come at a better time, as winter sets in for the estimated 5,000 people who use Memorial Library in a day, and the 9,500 daily visitors to the

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According to the University, the completion of the indoor passageway is part of a greater plan, one that will create a pedestrianfriendly campus.

LED lighting will be located inside the interior of the passageway. The west side wall will be filled with windows, while the east side wall will feature an angled wall, which is supposed to add dimension to the space.

The exterior will feature glass that changes tint depending on the time and day. The materials used on the outside of the building are planned to coincide with the remodeled fountain, located in the Campus mall area.

An outdoor amphitheater will be featured on the west side of the underground link, serving as the site of activities that will be held on campus, including outdoor movies, welcome week events, concerts and more planned events.

The Americans with Disabilities Act will be accommodated by the tunnel, and the construction is expected to improve the accessability of the University’s Office

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An overdose of pills?

With a spike in prescription drug usage, evaluation is needed on how we pick up and treat mental health illness.

HANNAH KLEINBERG Staff Writer Recent studies have announced that antidepressants are the most prescribed drug in the United States, beating out high blood pressure medication by five million prescriptions. As depression and anxiety is on the rise, people have to ask, why?

Has the quality of life declined? In today’s society, where virtually anything is attainable, it’s hard to believe that it’s an issue of not having enough.

Statistics indicate that roughly 40% of those who are diagnosed with depression don’t seek medical help. Of the remaining percent, doctors have prescribed 118 million antidepressants, which attests to the growing issue of depression and anxiety in the country.

Such large numbers have to bring doctors and other educated individuals of the field to question whether doctors are diagnosing mental health issues like depression and anxiety ethically.

According to doctors and other medical practices, depression and/or anxiety requires medication when it’s interfering with everyday life and does not allow the patient to function normally.

Self-depression screenings can be found anywhere online, and with outlets like

Wikipedia and Web MD it’s easy for people to diagnose themselves and feed themselves the placebo effect of anxiety and depression.

Many times people pull themselves down into the sickness, rather than having the true imbalance of chemicals in the brain.

Depression is a condition where the patient feels hopeless, discourage and sad chronically. Seasonal changes can trigger light depression in many individuals, but when the activity lingers for longer than a month it has the potential of being the actual disorder. It’s a lack of serotonin and/or norepinephrine in the brain, which both influence a person to be happy.

People as young as 12 years old have been diagnosed and are being medicated for depression and anxiety; 8% of those who are medicated for either disorder are between the ages of 12 and 16.

Women are twice as likely to get depression as men, and the most medicated for depression and anxiety are women in their mid-40s and early 50s.

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For those who suffer from the disorder, it’s likely to recur throughout their life, especially during major life changes, including a move to

a different state, marriage, or post-pregnancy.

If you believe you may be suffering from depression, anxiety or another mental

health issue, the Counseling Center is located in theA Centennial Student Union inS room 245.

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MSU Alumnus receives prestigious award MSU alum recognized by state-wide student association.

ALEX KERKMAN Staff Writer The 2013 Andrea Ruesch Alumnus Award has been awarded to Tim Huebsch by the MSUSA (Minnesota State University Student Association). He will receive the honor at a Fall Delegates conference in St. Paul on Saturday.

Huebsch graduated from MSU in 2002 with a degree in Computer Science – Management Information Systems, and earned his masters in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in 2007.

Huebsch held many leadership positions at MSU, including having served as Technology Coordinator, Senator and Student Body Vice-President.

Huebsch was named to the distinguished “40 under 40” list in 2012, which honors individu-

als who are successful business people in the Twin Cities area under 40 years of age.

At the time the list was announced, Huebsch was one of only three people who were under the age of 30.

Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty and Minnesota Twins president Dave St. Peter are among those individuals who have appeared on the “40 under 40” list.

Among his other accomplishments and awards, Huebsch has received the Distinguished Young Alumni award from Minnesota State Mankato, and has served as President of the Minnesota State University Mankato Alumni Association.

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Incognito-Martin just another chapter in the American bullying saga The latest scandal to rip apart the National Football League is one that has wrecked this country in its recent history.

REECE HEMMESCH Editor in Chief When playing a sport that involves teammates, you are going to be exposed to some minor harassments coming from the players on your team in a joking matter. If you spend enough time around a group of people over an extended period, these jokes might begin to build up and hurt you a bit, but you just shrug it off and move on with the mindset of, ‘it’s all just for fun, they don’t mean anything by it.’

I was prone to this type of treatment involving the sport of baseball, where my group of teammates spent the better part of a decade sharing a dugout with the same bunch of guys every summer. I can honestly say, there was no filter when it came to what was said in that dugout.

Mothers, sisters, cousins, you name it; we probably harassed one another with it, that’s just how we were, how most teams are. I think if I saw a dugout filled with kids getting along and not entering the danger zone with some of these jokes, I would be upset that they did not possess the chemistry needed to play the game. On that notion, seeing that kind of humiliation inside of sports ensures that your team is a tight group and that they can withstand one another and be successful.

There were times when I looked at my group and thought they were possibly going a little too far with me or another player

on the team, but I just shrugged it off, confirming in my mind that no matter what happens, were still teammates, knowing that all that stuff falls to the side once we get between the foul lines and into a game.

That has been the situation for a long time, until the recent scandal involving Miami Dolphins’ teammates Jonathan Martin and Richie Incognito. Martin, an African-American lineman for Miami left the team almost two weeks ago after citing emotional reasons as his purposes behind the leave.

A little later, it was confirmed that his line-mate Incognito became the leader of a group of text mes-

sages and phone calls to Martin harassing him and using racial slurs.

Since then, Incognito has been antagonized as the face of bullying in this country, a problem that has caused multiple complications all over America in its recent history. The problem became even worse when members of the Dolphins coaching staff asked Incognito to “toughen up” Martin when he missed two voluntary workout programs put on by the Dolphins last spring.

This past weekend, Incognito sat down with Jay Glazer of FOX, claiming to the reporter that he was not a bully and that the arti-

cles he sent to Martin were of the friendly type, the kind teammates sent to one another jokingly. Incognito even referenced the moment Martin walked out of practice, saying Martin sat down at the linemen table and everyone picked up their trays and left, a joke they have played on numerous individuals of the line for a long time.

I am inclined to take Incognito’s side of the affair, knowing as stated before that teammates will say just about anything to one another to try and get a laugh out of them, but where Incognito screwed up was using racial slurs

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Associated Press Martin (right) and Incognito (left) are now the center of attention in the NFL on the question of whether or not Incognito went too far in harassing teammate Martin.

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MARKO CHESETO, GRADUATE STUDENT NUTRITION/DIETICIAN “Yes, it’s a major issue.”

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JONGMOON CHOI, JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS “World-wide it is a major issue.”

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Typhoon victims in the Philippines plead for aid TACLOBAN, Philippines (AP) — Bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and desperate survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine as rescue workers took on a daunting task Monday in the typhoon-battered islands of the Philippines. Thousands were feared dead.

The hard-hit city of Tacloban resembled a garbage dump from the air, with only a few concrete buildings left standing in the wake of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit land, packing 147-mph winds and whipping up 20-foot walls of seawater that tossed ships inland and swept many out to sea.

“Help. SOS. We need food,” read a message painted by a survivor in large letters on the ravaged city’s port, where water lapped at the edge.

There was no one to carry away the dead, which lay rotting along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city along the country’s remote eastern seaboard.

At a small naval base, eight swollen corpses — including that of a baby — were submerged in water brought in by the storm. Officers had yet to move them, saying they had no body bags or electricity to preserve them.

Authorities estimated the typhoon killed 10,000 or more people, but with the slow pace of recovery, the official death toll three days after the storm made landfall remained at 942.

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However, with shattered communications and transportation links, the final count was likely days away, and presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said “we pray” it does not surpass 10,000.

“I don’t believe there is a single structure that is not destroyed or severely damaged in some way — every single building, every single house,” U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy said after taking a helicopter flight over Tacloban, the largest city in Leyte province. He spoke on the tarmac at the airport, where two Marine C-130 cargo planes were parked, engines running, unloading supplies.

Authorities said at least 9.7 million people in 41 provinces were affected by the typhoon, known as Haiyan elsewhere in Asia but called Yolanda in the Philippines. It was likely the deadliest natural disaster to beset this poor Southeast Asian nation.

“Please tell my family I’m alive,” said Erika Mae Karakot as she stood among a throng of people waiting for aid. “We need water and medicine because a lot of the people we are with are wounded. Some are suffering from diarrhea and dehydration due to shortage of food and water.”

Philippine soldiers were distributing food and water, and assessment teams from the United Nations and other international agencies were seen Monday for the first time. The U.S. military

dispatched food, water, generators and a contingent of Marines to the city, the first outside help in what will swell into a major international relief mission.

Authorities said they had evacuated some 800,000 people ahead of the typhoon, but many evacuation centers proved to be no protection against the wind and rising water. The Philippine National Red Cross, responsible for warning the region and giving advice, said people were not prepared for a storm surge.

“Imagine America, which was prepared and very rich, still had a lot of challenges at the time of Hurricane Katrina, but what we had was three times more than what they received,” said Gwendolyn Pang, the group’s executive director.

Emily Ortega, 21 and about to give birth, said she clung to a post to survive after the evacuation center she fled to was devastated by the 20-foot (6-meter) storm surge. She reached safety at the airport, where she gave birth to a baby girl, Bea Joy Sagales, whose arrival drew applause from the military medics who assisted in the delivery.

The wind, rain and coastal storm surges transformed neighborhoods into twisted piles of debris, blocking roads and trapping decomposing bodies underneath. Cars and trucks lay upended among flattened homes, and bridges and ports were washed away.

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NFL BULLYING in the process, which make his “playful” jokes on Martin now seem like an act of racism on a person who Incognito bills as his friend.

This country has such a problem with bullying and I think this is where the problems initially begin; we are at a moment in society when sometimes we don’t realize how much things can hurt other people. My baseball team said a lot to one another about some personal issues, but the issue of race was never one of them, due completely to the concept that every member of our team was white.

Incognito thought he was in the clear by using a racial slur at his teammate and friend, which morethan-likely has been done before by other teammates and friends in the world, but for Martin to not reach out to him and say anything is my biggest concern for the case.

If you have a problem with this guy that has lasted for this long, how do you not just go up to him and say, “I know you were just joking with that last one, but that is taking it a little too far.” One little line of that nature is all you

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need to get out of the situation.

For me, one joke of my father losing his job and being unemployed was all it took to go up to the person who said it and let him know he did not need to bring that information to the table. I never took anything personal when it was said in the dugout, but that one hurt a little too much.

When you let people say hurtful things to you like Martin did, you leave yourself susceptible to getting hurtful things thrown at you on a regular basis. I know sometimes in the art of bullying, you are not in a position to say anything (or your feel like no one would listen anyway), but that is not the case here. With all the regulations that come with the NFL and their players association, there had to have been someone who could have heard Martin’s cries of harassment and the problem could have been averted.

Now, three weeks after the event surfaced, it has all of America shaking their head once again when it could have ended with a simple “stop.”

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TYPHOON “In some cases the devastation has been total,” said Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras.

At U.N. climate talks in Warsaw, Poland, the envoy from the Philippines broke down in tears as he described waiting in agony for news from relatives caught in the massive storm’s path.

“In solidarity with my countrymen, who are struggling to find food back home ... I will now commence a voluntary fasting for the climate,” said the envoy, Naderev “Yeb” Sano, who urged delegates to work toward “meaningful” change.

His emotional appeal was met with a standing ovation.

In Tacloban, residents stripped malls, shops and homes of food, water and consumer goods. Officials said some of the looting smacked of desperation but in other cases people hauled away TVs, refrigerators, Christmas trees and even a treadmill. An Associated Press reporter said he saw about 400 special forces and soldiers patrolling downtown to guard against further chaos.

Brig. Gen. Kennedy said Philippine forces were handling security well and U.S. troops were “looking at how to open up roads and land planes and helicopters” in order to bring in shelter, water and other supplies.

Still, those caught in the storm were worried that aid would not arrive soon enough.

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continued from 5 because relief goods are trickling in very slow,” said Bobbie Womack, an American missionary from Athens, Tenn. “I know it’s a massive, massive undertaking to try to feed a town of over 150,000 people.

They need to bring in shiploads of food.”

Womack’s husband, Larry, said he chose to stay at their beachside home in Tacloban, only to find the storm surge engulfing it. He survived by climbing onto a beam in the roof.

“The roof was lifting up and the wind was coming through and there were waves going over my head,” he said. “The sound was loud. It was just incredible.”

Marvin Daga, a 19-year-old student, tried to ride out the storm in his home with his ailing father, Mario, but the storm surge carried the building away.

They clung to each other while the house floated for a while, but it eventually crumbled and they fell into churning waters. The teen grabbed a coconut tree with one hand and his father with the other, but he slipped out of his grasp.

“I hope that he survived,” Marvin said as tears filled his eyes. “But I’m not expecting to find him anymore.”

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III declared a “state of national calamity,” allowing the central government to release emergency funds quicker and impose price controls on staple goods. He said the two worst-hit provinces, Leyte and Samar, had witnessed “massive

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destruction and loss of life” but that elsewhere casualties were low.

Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands, with winds that gusted to 170 mph.

It inflicted serious damage to at least six islands in the middle of the eastern seaboard.

The storm’s sustained winds weakened to 74 mph as the typhoon made landfall in northern Vietnam early Monday after crossing the South China Sea, according to the Hong Kong meteorological observatory.

Authorities there evacuated hundreds of thousands of people, but there were no reports of significant damage or injuries.

It was downgraded to a tropical storm as it entered southern China later Monday, and weather officials forecast torrential rain in the area until Tuesday.

No major damage was reported in China, though Xinhua News Agency said heavy winds tore a cargo ship from its moorings in southern China and drove it out to sea, killing at least two crew members.

The Philippines, an archipelago nation of more than 7,000 islands, is annually buffeted by tropical storms and typhoons, which are called hurricanes and cyclones elsewhere. The impoverished and densely populated nation of 96 million people is in the northwestern Pacific, right in the path of the world’s No. 1

typhoon generator, according to meteorologists. The archipelago’s exposed eastern seaboard often bears the brunt.

Even by the standards of the Philippines, however, Haiyan was an especially large catastrophe. Its winds were among the strongest ever recorded, and it appears to have killed more people than the previous deadliest Philippine storm, Thelma, in which about 5,100 people died in the central Philippines in 1991.

The country’s deadliest disaster on record was the 1976 magnitude-7.9 earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Moro Gulf in the southern Philippines, killing 5,791 people.

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Mavericks prove soccer is a 90-minute sport, earn second trophy of the season LUCAS RYAN Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato women’s soccer team mounted second half comebacks in the final two rounds of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Tournament to earn them the 2013 conference tournament championship.

The Mavericks were losing the NSIC Tournament Championship match 2-1 in the 87th minute when MSU junior defender Breanna Steele tied the game with a header-goal, forcing overtime.

The goal materialized after a corner kick from junior midfielder Emily Moris was punched into the box by the University of Minnesota, Duluth’s goalie, allowing Steele direct the ball into the net with her head.

“It was just really exciting,” Steele said. “It is just great to get one in at the end and tied it up so we could finish the game up and win the game actually.”

The game remained 2-2 after both overtimes and went to decisive penalty kicks where the Mavericks would complete the comeback. Junior goalkeeper Molly McGough made diving saves during the final two rounds of the shootout to give MSU the victory over UMD. Freshman midfielder

Dana Savino, junior midfielder Sidney Temple and Morris scored shootout-goals for the Mavericks.

“Our girls just kept fighting and battling, and that’s really what they have been about all year long is finding a way to get things done when the going gets tough,” Head Coach Brian Bahl said. “We are expecting to get challenged. I think that we just got to understand that we have to keep fighting, and we will find a way to get it done.”

The Mavericks earned a 4-1 win over Upper Iowa Friday in the NSIC semifinal after scoring four second-half goals. Senior forward Courtney Vallarelli scored twice while Moris and Temple each added one goal for MSU. The Mavericks moved on the championship match against UMD with the win.

The Mavericks now have a 17-2-2 record and extended their NSIC home-unbeaten streak to 36 straight matches, which is 12th best all-time in NCAA Division II history. The streak will likely be put on the line during the NCCA Division II tournament with MSU being the host of the region tournament.

On Thursday, six MSU players were named all-NSIC, including the NSIC offensive player of the year honors going to the Maver-

icks leading goal scorer junior forward Korey Kronforst. Senior midfielder Tori Meinhardt, Vallarelli, Temple, Steele and Moris also received NSIC honors.

Kronforst’s NSIC-leading 18 goals ties for sixth most in NCAA Division II, and she is tied for fifth most points with 41, which is also the most in the conference.

For the past three years the Mavericks have won NSIC Offensive Player of the Year honors.

Bahl had three goals going into this season. Win the NSIC championship, win the NSIC tournament championship and win a national championship.

The first two goals have been accomplished, but the most difficult of them still remains--a national championship.

The Mavericks have positioned themselves as one of the highest seeded teams in the tournament and a team that could make a deep run in the tournament. Last year the Mavericks had their best finish in program history, making it to the elite eight before losing to Grand Valley State in a shootout.

With the conference championship, the Mavericks gained the no. 1 seed in their region and will play the winner of Central Missouri and SW Minnesota State Sunday at The Pitch at Gage Towers.

David Bassey• MSU Reporter In the three games that gave the Mavericks the NSIC Conference Tournament crown, they outscored their opponents 7-2 in the second half.

Men’s hockey bounces back Saturday to split WCHA-home opener versus Bowling Green DEREK LAMBERT Staff Writer Friday night was not the Mavericks’ night. Playing the Bowling Green Falcons at the Verizon Wireless Center in a WCHA matchup, everything that seemingly could have gone wrong, went wrong.

There wasn’t much flow to the first period though the Mavs seemed to move the puck better than the Falcons and the power play unit looked promising early. Only 2:08 in the first period, sophomore forward Teddy Blueger got the Mavericks on the board with a highlight reel power play goal. Skating into the offensive zone, Blueger beat the defenseman wide and lifted a backhand shot into the short side top corner over Falcons’ goaltender Tommy Burke, a Chas-

ka, Minn. native. Sophomore forward Dylan Margonari and sophomore goaltender Stephon Williams were credited with assists on the play.

It wasn’t long before Bowling Green answered back, though.

Just two minutes later, Falcon forward Brent Tate threw a spin around shot on goal that seemed to fool Williams low. Tate’s goal would conclude the scoring for the first period, but the real story of the period was the penalties taken.

The Mavericks took five penalties in the first period, including a bench minor penalty.

Just one minute after junior forward J.P. LaFontaine took an interference penalty, the Mavs got caught with too many man on the ice and were reduced to five-on-three play for a minute.

Then, with the end of the period

in sight, sophomore defenseman Jon Jutzi took a boarding penalty with only seven seconds remaining in the period.

The second period could be looked at as where the Mavericks fell apart in this game. While on the power play early in the period, freshman defenseman Casey Nelson bobbled the puck on the offensive blue line, sending the Falcons on a two-on-one rush. Falcon forward Dan DeSalvo took the puck up the ice and ripped a shot past Williams for a shorthanded goal and a 2-1 lead.

Just 51 seconds later the Mavs responded, tying the game at 2-2 after senior forward Johnny McInnis tapped in a back door goal fed to him from sophomore Brett Knowles. Junior defenseman Zach Palmquist also received an assist on the play.

Once again on the power play,

the Mavericks had a hiccup. An errant pass forced Palmquist to dive in an attempt to keep the puck in the offensive zone, but a Bowling Green defender was right on him. Falcon forward Adam Berkle picked up the puck and went in alone on a breakaway on what turned out to be an unusual sight of a play.

When Berkle reached the Maverick blue line, Williams appeared to catch an edge on his skates and fall back into the net, allowing Berkle to skate around him with ease and casually chip the puck into the open net for a 3-2 lead.

Williams tried to rebound after this goal, but the Falcons were relentless. Halfway through the second period, Bowling Green’s Pierre-Luc Mercier jammed home a rebound from point blank past Williams for a

4-2 Falcon lead. Maverick coach Mike Hastings then yanked Williams from the goal after giving up four goals on 16 shots and put in freshman goalie Cole Huggins.

The third period saw Huggins make saves on all nine shots he faced, keeping the Mavericks in the game. With just over five minutes to go in the game they pulled within one goal of the Falcons.

Freshman defenseman Sean Flanagan scored his first career goal for the Mavericks in what was another highlight reel goal on the night. An unassisted goal, Flanagan gathered the puck in the high slot and ripped a shot off the crossbar and in the net past Burke. Flanagan’s goal wasn’t enough though, as the Mavs

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David Bassey• MSU Reporter The Mavericks continue to struggle to put the puck in the net during power play opportunities. With only four goals in 43 power plays, the Mavericks had one of those this weekend when sophomore forward Teddy Blueger scored his third goal of the season on Friday against Bowling Green.

couldn’t tally another goal, and the Falcons took Friday night’s game 4-3.

Saturday night’s game included a lot of noteworthy moments, but almost no scoring.

Early in the first period, junior defenseman Brett Stern was ejected from the game for checking from behind on a very questionable call. Initially ruled a boarding, the officials took their time discussing the hit and gave Stern the gate, forcing Margonari to serve the five minute penalty.

The Mavs killed off the major penalty, but that was mostly the only action of the first period as there were no goals scored and no notable scoring chances.

The second period saw more action, but yet again no scoring. Twice within a two minute span, the Mavericks were robbed of would be goals by the officials. First, sophomore forward Taylor Herndon took a shot and followed his own rebound, tapping the puck into the net, but the officials blew the whistle early, negating the goal. Shortly after, Casey Nelson blasted a shot from the point that hit the Falcon goaltender in the chest and popped out to LaFontaine for a tap in goal, but again the officials blew the whistle too early. Both teams also rang a shot off the post but just couldn’t find the back of the net.

More frustration with the officials came in the third period when on three different occasions the Mavericks were called offside when on an odd-man rush up the ice. These calls disrupted the flow of the game and neither team could get any legitimate scoring chances, ending regulation time in a 0-0 tie, forcing overtime.

Early in overtime, sophomore forward Bryce Gervais set up junior forward Chase Grant all alone in front of the Bowling Green net, but Grant couldn’t put the puck past the Falcon goaltender. The Mavericks found a savior, however.

Just 1:11 into overtime, McInnis received a spin around pass from LaFontaine and headed up the ice one-on-one. Reaching the offensive zone, McInnis went wide around the defenseman and muscled a shot between the Falcon goaltender’s arm and body for the game-winning goal.

“We needed something to go right for us” McInnis said. “In overtime you just want to get pucks to the net.”

It was a moment of jubilation for the Mavs as their captain celebrated his goal with a belly flop on the ice and the whole team hog piled on top of him. Huggins, a freshman, posted a 33-save shutout which is the first of his career in only his second start. He may find himself starting more frequently while last year’s WCHA Goalie of the Year in Williams finds his groove.

The Mavericks’ ability to rebound from Friday night’s game and get two more points in the WCHA standings is perhaps something to build on going into this weekend.

“I can’t say it was a must win at this time of the year” said Maverick head coach Mike Hastings. “But it was an incredibly important win.”

Friday night the Mavericks travel to Minneapolis to play the University of Minnesota to play the Gophers in a two-game series. The Mavs have played the Gophers tough in recent history, with a four-game season split last season, and a sweep over the Gophers in 2010-2011. Although no longer a conference rival, with Minnesota being the top ranked team in the nation, even one win next weekend would give the Mavericks considerable points in the NCAA pair wise rankings for the postseason tournament. Since the split with Bowling Green, the Mavericks have fallen out of the top 20 rankings, so a good weekend would be huge for them to move back into the top 20. Both Friday and Saturday night’s games are slated for a 7:07 p.m. start at Mariucci Arena.

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Thor: The Double Take Houtsma and Simon bring the thunder to fun, hollow sequel.

JAMES HOUTSMA A & E Editor As the mighty Thor brings the hammer down for the third time on screen in Thor: The Dark World, so too does Marvel studios in solidifying the type superhero movies they make – mainly, highly entertaining, technically proficient thrill rides that don’t amount to much when the credits roll.

Working to maintain order af-

ter the events of the first movie, Thor must turn his attention to a mysterious evil from long ago that threatens the existence of the universe. Outgunned, the son of Odin must reunite with Jane Foster (whom he just kind of didn’t call for two years) and team with his treacherous sibling Loki to overcome this new threat.

Admittedly, a more exciting, crowd-pleasing movie event probably won’t be found this season with Thor: The Dark World.

There’s something in the movie for everyone – otherworldly action, amazing special effects, a rousing score, muscular Chris Hemsworth, a cosmic romance

and the return of a perpetually fan-favorite villain. The second chapter of the Thor saga is a pure, simple excursion into fantasy action territory and delivers what audiences want.

And that, in a nutshell, is what works against the movie.

Marvel’s last outing, Iron Man 3, faced a lot of backlash for a controversial twist involving the villains of the piece. Even the original Thor tried something different by examining a story

where the hero is left powerless for a majority of the runtime.

Nobody is likely to find any daring or different material to object to here. The problem is that this feels completely intentional.

The story is by-the-numbers superhero fluff with no real feeling of danger or lasting effect, peppered with a thick amount of humor and brought forth straight from an assembly line of fantasy adventure tropes.

That’s not to say the movie has no defining strong points.

The performances all around are admirable (Chris Hemsworth’s

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ANDREW SIMON Staff Writer Marvel’s cinematic universe is now in full swing, with phase two shaping up nicely with this summer’s billion-dollar success, Iron Man 3, and now this month’s Thor: The Dark World, continuing the story of the hunky Asgardian prince, Thor, and his never-ending mission to protect the nine realms.

Ultimately, despite being a fun

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into the veins of one Jane Foster (Natalie Portman). Reunited to stop the end of all things, Thor and Jane need the help of one other, the trickster Loki (Tom Hiddleston), to bring Malekith down.

First of all, Thor: The Dark World, despite having the word “dark” in the title, is anything but. In fact, it’s possibly the funniest movie of the entire MCU, even topping Whedon’s masterful Avengers script. There’s

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ride, The Dark World is a disappointing affair, lacking much of the intelligence, complexity and visual artistry of its predecessor.

Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is struggling to bring peace to the nine realms but a new threat from thousands of years ago re-emerges to essentially destroy, well, everything. Malekith (Christopher Eccleston, Doctor Who) is the leader of the dark elves, and as a cosmic aligning of the realsm approaches, he requires the power of the Aether. The black and red watery substance that bends reality and extinguishes all life has not so fortunately found its way

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dozens of one-liners that are hilarious, and with a tone that, overall, doesn’t take itself too seriously, there’s plenty of moments of brilliant jocularity, like a moment near the end where Kat Dennings’ Darcy continues to mispronounce Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir. And that comedy is appreciated but a film needs some depth, too.

There is only one significant event worthy of real kudos and although this particular event could be predicted rather easily once Malekith enters the arena,

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For genre fans, some of the biggest news since last October’s Disney/Star Wars announcement hit last week – Marvel and Netflix are teaming up for a series of streaming shows featuring iconic and lesser known Marvel superheroes, leading to a teamup miniseries event. The four interconnected series in development are Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Iron Fist, and Luke Cage, culminating in The Defenders, featuring the series-starring heroes forming a team of sorts to protect New York. Each series will consist of 13 episodes, will be serialized and will debut in early 2015, starting with Daredevil, with each subsequent series transmitting either months or a year after.

Downton Abbey season 4 has just concluded in the U.K. with American fans waiting until January 5 for the latest season but there’s news worth celebrating for both regions: the British station ITV has commissioned a fifth season to debut fall 2014 in the U.K. A Christmas Special will air in the U.K. next month and will be added as the ninth episode of the U.S. season four transmission.

Season five will, if PBS follows their schedule for the last three years, air January 2015.

Another British show that has garnered international acclaim is Sherlock, which, after two years, will finally return to U.S. television screens Sunday, January 19. Like the previous two seasons, the third series will consist of three 90-minute episodes, which will finally answer the question of how Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek Into Darkness) survived his fall, and how his only friend John Watson (Martin Freeman, The Hobbit) will react to the news his friend is very much alive.

In the category of returning franchises, Universal is finally pushing ahead with

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There’s very little creativity in the direction and fails to create excitement in action sequences that already boast little interest.

Out of the handful of fight-tosave-the-universes battles that rage, the most compelling, best choreographed, and most intricately shot is a sword duel on Asgard with Thor’s mother, Frigga (Renee Russo).

This review might be the mightiest of nitpicking and perhaps repeat viewings of Thor: The Dark World will garner a different opinion, but for now, it’s a so-so sequel with loads of funny bits and a cool scene or two, but following the magnificent work of Kenneth Branagh’s Thor, which had a certain strength of character and story, it pales in comparison -- enormously. It’s still a fun ride but it’s a hollow, forgetful adventure, much like Iron Man 2.

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continued from 9 noble and honest portrayal of Thor remains a delight) and the action, especially the ending battle involving inter-dimensional portals, is inventive and fun.

The return of Loki is the movie’s strongest attribute, and not just his physical return to screen.

Joss Whedon nearly ruined this great character in The Avengers by making him a loud mouth who was completely ineffectual without his mind control staff, being bested by even the weakest members of the team. Here, the brilliant, conniving Loki we know from Thor is back with some actual ability and hints of depth, brought beautifully to life by Tom Hiddleston’s performance.

If only we got more of him instead of the actual villains of the piece. Once again, Marvel proves it has no interest in providing developed adversaries for its heroes, instead going for incredible blandness and two-dimensionality. The dark elves, led here by a tragically wasted Christopher Eccleston as Malekith, are out to destroy the universe because… they’re evil, I guess? Some motivation wouldn’t go amiss now and then and may even give the movie another memorable aspect other than “ooo pretty”.

But that’s just part of the cookie-cutter path Marvel tends to go down now and again. As long as they produce a big, spectacle event with lots of action, humor and an end-credits stinger (the one attached mid-way here being especially horrendous),

TV/MOVIE “Another British show that has garnered international acclaim is Sherlock ...will finally return to U.S. television screens Sunday, January 19.”

they often don’t even concern themselves with creating an imposing threat or giving their stories any complexity and lasting effect (see Iron Man 2 and Captain America).

Yes, Thor: The Dark World is a fun time at the movies. But when its only defining attribute is the technical wizardry instead of story complications, it may just be time to throw the hammer down on the laziness bell to make sure Marvel doesn’t set into its formulaic ways.

the fifth Jason Bourne movie, and the second to not feature the titular Bourne at all. Fast & Furious director Justin Lin is set to direct returning star Jeremy Renner to continue the plot thread of The Bourne Legacy, which followed Renner’s Aaron Cross on the run from those same seedy government agencies. If the series follows the books in title, the next installment will likely be called The Bourne Betrayal, although the title remains unconfirmed.

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it’s how characters, like Loki’s restrained but ultimately vengeful explosion of emotion, react to that event that showcase the movie it could have been. The problem is there’s very little weight to anything in this movie.

Malekith wants to destroy the universe – because. There’s no characterization to the dark elf, nothing other than “I’m evil” and a deep voice. The concept of objects aligning and some disaster coming from that is hardly new or interesting and Thor undergoes the smallest of arcs that only really gets understood by the final scene.

Few directors make the transition from television to cinema seamlessly and, ultimately, director Alan Taylor (Game of Thrones) falls into the percentage that didn’t fare so well. He composes shots as if he were still dealing with the parameters of a TV screen, not fully capitalizing on the scope and sandbox of possibilities working on

HOUTSMA/LOKI “The story is by-thenumbers superhero fluff with no real feeling of danger or lasting effect, peppered with a thick amount of humor and brought forth straight from an assembly line of fantasy adventure tropes.”

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SIMON/THOR “First of all, Thor: The Dark World, despite having the word “dark” in the title, is anything but. In fact, it’s possibly the funniest movie of the entire MCU, even topping Whedon’s masterful Avengers script. There’s dozens of one-liners that are hilarious, and with a tone that, overall, doesn’t take itself too seriously, there’s plenty of moments of brilliant jocularity, like a moment near the end where Kat Dennings’ Darcy continues to mispronounce Thor’s hammer, Mjolnir.”

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