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MSU celebrates veterans

Veterans Appreciation Day asks students to remember

willian cahyadi • msu reporter MOLLY HORNER

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Minnesota State University, Mankato took a special interest in veterans this year, celebrating Veteran’s Appreciation Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Centennial Student

Union. There was a spaghetti lunch served from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. paid for by the president’s cabinet.

76 people attended the event. An email invitation went out to all faculty, students and staff who are veterans or who

are currently serving.

Ashley Strom, Assistant Director for Non-Traditional Students, Registered Student Organizations, and Leadership, and David Schrader, education coordinator with the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, coordinated the event.

They worked with student government and the president’s cabinet.

“It was humbling seeing how willing everyone was to work together to give thanks to members of the campus community who are or have served,” Strom said.

Joel Stephenson, professor in Military Science opened up the event and said a few words of thanks.

Students made videos that played during the event in honor of “remembering all the battles that have been

fought, what American soldiers sacrifice for their country, and leaving their families; unsure of what their future holds.”

President Davenport also said a few words after the airing of the videos.

The Hearth Lounge was decorated by thank you cards from two different elementary schools and both associations wrote poems which were edited with Mark Martinez, CSU Technical Coordinator.

It was an intimate event with great people although many may be surprised on the turnout.

There are 600 plus veterans on campus but under 50 responded to the email invitations that were sent out. Meaning, only 8 percent of those who identified themselves as veterans responded. It may cause one to wonder: are Vet-

eran’s Day celebrations what students are interested in?

“We were hoping for a really big turnout but the response wasn’t as big as we would have liked it to have been from the student population,” Strom said.

In the rouse of Veteran’s Day, MSU plays a big role in getting the community together to appreciate and say thanks to all the extremely important veterans, as well as those serving our county today.

“I was so impressed by the upper administration, support and involvement in the programs,” Strom said.

Veteran’s Day is observed across the world as both Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, and has been an officially holiday in the United States since the end of World War I.

Annual Fall History Forum focuses on Cold War

CHRIS HOUCK

staff writer

Every year, a new page in history is written. And with every spring and fall semester that passes during a students’ time here at Minnesota State University, Mankato, the history department puts aside time to emphasize and further educate young and older learners alike on an area of history that is important to them, as well as relating to the lives of students and community as a part of the school’s history forum.

Mankato’s Fall History Forum lecture took place on Wednesday, and was facilitated by a lecture from European historian and adjunct professor here at the university, Jonathan Trutor. The lecture focused on the media and its communication with citizens during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the western world.

Tao Peng, a professor of Asian history at MSU spoke about the department’s commitment to the forum.

“Basically, we hope to show our university, and wider community, what our faculty is focusing on,” said Peng “We also tend to

see, in terms of the forum, for it to be a social event and try to expand our social connections.”

While the event pertained to historical events, the forum was open to the public and attracted a variety of students to the lecture.

“We like to appeal to people of multiple disciplines and just try to broaden the understanding,” said Trutor, who also said that a creative writing student came up to him and asked about his sources for his presentation for a possible story.

“I thought that was kind of a cool, interdisciplinary moment for me,” said Trutor. “This really connects to somebody in a field that’s completely different from mine, but can use history as a jumping off point for their creativity.”

The presenters are selected to present on the forum based on the research they’ve conducted and the impact it has on university students’ and community’s lives.

“It was an offshoot of an interest of my research,” said Trutor on his lecture, “[It] focuses on British public information films and French public information films, which are kind of like pub-

lic service announcement films.”

In his lecture, Trutor focused on the effect that governmental media and civil safety films had on the European public, relating it to how new modes of media were used back then, such as television, and how new ones are currently being utilized today.

“Ultimately, I think it runs through a lot of different threads in history, one of which is media history,” said Trutor on his presentation’s subject. “There’s a fair amount of interest in how media is used to send messages to people.”

“I think professor Trutor’s topic is very closely related to our own experience,” said Peng.

“What he discussed is about the European people, but we’ve had similar experiences [in the U.S.]” Trutor, in his lecture, emphasized the many possible results that mass media can have on a population.

“More than anything, I think it’s an enlightening look at how the governments and their people interact,” said Trutor. “In many cases it’s a one-sided communication. The government provides information and it’s designed to

web photo The threat of nuclear warfare was very real for many European countries during the Cold War, leading to a surge in educational films.

be absorbed by the listener. But people can see public information as just being merely propaganda and either dismiss it out of hand, or take public information designed to make you feel safe and feel very unsafe because of it.”

The fall History Forum is one of two the history department offers in a school year, the other being held in spring, which covers a broader, less specific area of history. Typically, a forum will have 40 minutes of lecture,

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followed by questions from the audience.

“Sometimes, in classroom teaching, students feel bored,” said Peng. “So an interesting topic like this can be refreshing. Normally, students like this interaction better.”

While there are no plans set in stone for this spring’s History Forum, it is expected that it will continue discussing European history as its focus.

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Roundabout we go Roundabouts bringing safer commutes to Mankato

web photo The new roundabouts in Mankato were designed to reduce traffic accidents and make the streets safer. They haven’t impacted MSU students yet, but they likely will as more are built.

TIM FAKLIS

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MSU students and Mankato residents alike will have to stay more alert on the roads than usual with the implementation and finished construction of Mankato’s first roundabout last Tuesday at the intersection of Victory Drive and Stadium Road.

For some students, the new roundabout will have little impact on their daily commute.

Whether it is by bus, foot, or car, it is fairly easy to avoid these new implementations from the city of Mankato.

There will be more roundabouts built in the near future in and around the Mankato area, however, with plenty of more work to be done.

This means, essentially, that even if residents don’t have a reason to visit the most re-

cent traffic safety upgrade in Mankato, odds are they will be forced to run into one within the next year.

With anything new in the world of traffic is going to come with a fair share of critics. Thus far, the most local of Mankato residents don’t seem to take much issue with it at all.

“I think that the roundabouts are a good way to keep the flow of traffic going in that busy intersection,” said Blake Smisek, a student at Bethany Lutheran College, and a resident of an apartment complex less than a mile away from the roundabout.

“It has made getting to work a little bit easier and faster because you don’t have to sit and wait for a light to change.”

Blake’s roommate, Sports Management major and MSU senior Paul Stenzel, shares Blake’s views.

“The first time I drove through the new roundabout it was a little weird, but I think it will help with the flow of traffic in that spot,” he said. “I know a lot of people who don’t like roundabouts because you have to slow down but coming from an area that has many roundabouts, it doesn’t bother me too much.”

Reactions like these likely wouldn’t surprise anyone involved in the project. Study after study has proven that roundabouts are safer than both traffic circles and junctions.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety studied a sample of roundabouts around the United States, and concluded that 40 percent fewer vehicle collisions, 80 percent fewer injuries and 90 percent fewer serious injuries and fatalities had

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Obama, senators clash over Benghazi

WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting an unflinching tone for his second term, President Barack Obama on Wednesday accused two top Republicans senators of lobbing outrageous criticism at his United Nations ambassador instead of confronting him directly over a deadly attack on Americans in Libya.

“They should go after me,” Obama said, referring to Sens.

John McCain of Arizona, his 2008 White House rival, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

Obama’s comments, at a farreaching news conference, underscored how much the Libya attack shadows the president, how strongly U.N. ambassador Susan Rice is being considered for secretary of state and how eager Obama is for some fights even as he talks compromise on others.

For the first time, Obama reflected on the meaning of his re-election victory, offering a more limited reading of his economic mandate from voters.

He promised to begin work on a major immigration bill soon after his January inauguration and said he would at least pursue broader ways to attack the global-warming climate change.

Pressed on challenges abroad, Obama said he was not ready to formally recognize Syria’s opposition leadership or arm it. The president also insisted there was still time to peacefully solve a nuclear standoff with Iran, saying he

would push again soon for international talks “to get this thing resolved.”

Obama sketched out his first priorities, most urgently a plea for Congress to join him in preventing a new year’s tax increase for families earning under $250,000. That issue is part of a broader set of tax-andspending decisions that must be resolved by Jan. 1 or the economy could tank. Obama himself used the word “recession.”

Despite his hopes for an economic focus, Obama’s postelection began with a scandal unfolding on his watch. He said he has seen “no evidence” of any national security breach in the sex scandal that led his CIA director, David Petraeus, to resign in disgrace over an extramarital affair.

The most memorable exchange of the session with reporters involved the U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice.

Rarely does such a fight unfold before even an official nomination is made.

Obama’s admonishing of McCain and Graham came on a day in which both men had critical words for Rice. To some Republicans, she is the face of the debacle in Libya because of her comments on Sunday talk shows five days after the Sept.

11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that left four Americans dead.

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Just say ‘no’ to GMO’s Giving the choice to opt in or opt out of the Agribusiness science experiment.

web photo Science and agriculture are coming together like never before, as new techniques allow agriculture companies to genetically alter your food.

ELISE KONERZA

staff writer

This election season proposed a variety of movement issues across the states. One in particular that has caused many, including myself, to

question the role of government and corporate interests in average American lives is Proposition 37 in California, a ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically modified foods (GMOs).

GMOs have been a topic

of debate for the last several years as food has been held as a very personal and private issue. I have to argue that this fight for information should not be contained in secrecy, especially in part on the government and large

corporation’s behalf.

Many crops and factorymade foods are created from GMO ingredients in which genes from other plants, viruses, bacteria, animals, etc. are inserted into the genes of certain products such as corn to make them more stable and resistant to drought, disease and pesiticides.

Economically this sounds sufficient, in light of large corporations.

Yet, by some bizarre reasoning, if a farmer downwind of you is using GMO seeds, and they just happen to go up in the air and pollinate your organic non-GMO crops, the patent owner, which most likely is Monsanto – one of the largest food producers in the nation, now owns your crops.

This was challenged in the case, Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, and you can guess the large corporation, Monsanto won this case.

In health respects, because of this cross-breeding, the safety of GMO foods has not been proven. In fact they are literally unknown.

“Are you doing any Black Friday shopping? Where?”

Hassam Fall, Senior, Finance “Yes, H & M and Express.”

Jessica Bush, Freshman, Mass Communications “Maybe, I’ll be in Vegas. Forever 21.”

Trina Trein, Senior, Creative Writing “Chicago! Best Buy and Anthropologie.”

Zainab Janjua, Senior, HR Management “I might go to MOA or the outlet mall in Albertville.”

Widely regarded as a country of obesity, being health conscious is coming to the forefront of issues Americans care about.

The secrets are coming out – yet major food conglomerates pooled their funds together in the California poll race to oppose the measure and outspent the citizens of the “Right to Know” campaign nearly 6 to 1, or in dollars and cents, $45 million to $8 million.

Sitting number one in the list of top donors opposing labeling GMOs, is you guessed it, Monsanto Company at $8,112,069 in donations.

In an attempt to scare voters, some radio advertisements claimed that labeling GMOs would raise prices at the grocery stores.

“Their ads are deceitful, claiming it’s going to cost Californians a lot more money. This is rubbish; in Europe it hasn’t cost anything more,” Arran Stephens, cofounder of Nature’s Path Organic and supporter of the California

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AMBASSADOR “If Sen. McCain and Sen. Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me,” he said. continued from 3 Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me,” he said. “I’m happy to have that discussion with them. But for them to go after the U.N. ambassador who had nothing to do with Benghazi ...

To besmirch her reputation is outrageous.”

“Mr. President, don’t think for one minute I don’t hold you ultimately responsible,” Graham shot back.

Rice’s role is back at the fore because of congressional hearings into the Libya attack and because she is believed to be a front-runner for secretary of state. Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to leave that job soon. McCain has said earlier Wednesday he would seek to block Rice if nominated, and Graham said, “I don’t trust her.”

Obama said he if wants to nominate Rice, he will.

On Syria, Obama spoke after France became the first Western nation to recognize the new opposition group as the only legitimate representative of the Syrian people. “We’re not yet prepared to recognize them as some sort of government in exile,” Obama said.

“But we do think that it is a broad-based representative group.”

The Libya episode is also entangled with the sudden career fall of the CIA chief at the time, David Petraeus. He resigned last week after disclosing an extramarital affair that had been uncovered during an FBI investigation into another matter. The same scandal has also put a cloud of the Afghan

war commander, Gen. John Allen.

Obama said he hoped the scandal would end up being but a “single side-note” in Petraeus’ stellar career. He was more measured in his defense of the FBI and in the way he was just notified about the Petraeus investigation last week, saying he was withholding judgment until more facts come.

Between the personnel controversy and the effort to prevent a fiscal crisis on Jan. 1, Obama conceded he had not had much reflection on the campaign.

“I think everybody forgets that the election was only a week ago,” he said. “I know I’ve forgotten.”

He said he still plans to reach out to his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, to get ideas on improving the government and the economy. And, yes, he must work better with Congress.

“All of us have responsibilities to see if there are things we can improve on,” he said.

“I don’t exempt myself from needing to, you know, do some self-reflection.”

Obama won a second term handily in the electoral college, but about 48 percent of the voting public wanted Republican Mitt Romney in office instead.

“I’m more than familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms,” Obama said.

He said the only mandate he got from voters was simple — “work really hard to help us.”

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Stars align for campus observatory MSU’s Standeford and Andreas observatories offer students the chance to expand their horizons

ADAM KRIESEL

staff writer

When it comes to star gazing, Minnesota State, University has unique opportunities to offer both students and the general public.

The campus is home to two separate observatories that serve various roles within the astronomy department. The more popular Standeford Observatory is located on the south end of campus behind the Gage towers. The Andreas Observatory lies just 150 yards to the east of Standeford.

These two observatories are vastly different in comparison. While Andreas, built in 1990, is home to a more high tech computerrun telescope, Standford, built in 1982, is equipped with more than 15 scopes of varying models to better serve casual viewers.

Each observatory is run by astronomy students under the supervision of faculty within the department.

“Standeford was the first observatory, and it gives us a chance to serve our general education students primarily, and give them a chance to look at the sky through telescopes,” astronomy professor Dr. James Pierce said.

For those interested in viewing the night sky, time is running out. Fall observing hours at Standeford are on Monday through Thursday between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. It is open for public viewing from 8:3010:30 each night, weather permitting. Anyone interested in a close-up look at the sky is welcome to come, as well as anyone curious as to how the telescopes operate.

Many upgrades have been made throughout the years to Standeford. To meet the increasing need of space, it was moved to a new home in 2005.

“We moved to our current location in 2005 where we have more room for more telescopes,” Pierce said.

“We can have lots of people

come down and have lots of scopes for them, whereas Andreas is essentially one telescope.”

The role of Andreas is to mainly serve upper-level astronomy majors. While both observatories are open for public viewing, Standeford is better equipped to serve more people at once.

Since its creation, Pierce estimates that around $5060,000 have been put into upgrades for the Standeford Observatory.

“The original dome was acquired in 1970 for no more than $10,000,” Pierce said. “Since then we’ve acquired numerous telescopes that are an average of $500 or so.”

So for those interested in looking at the stars up close one last time before winter kicks in for good, don’t delay. Cool, clear nights are running out on the fall viewing season. The observatories will reopen in April with the same viewing schedule as the fall.

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Selections from the film will be shown, followed by opportunities for discussion.

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AGRICULTURE “Their ads are deceitful, claiming it’s going to cost Californians a lot more money. This is rubbish; in Europe it hasn’t cost anyone more.” continued from 3 “Right to Know” campaign told Organic Connections in an interview.

If Prop 37 had passed, California would have been the first state in the U.S. to pass GMO labeling legislation.

Japan, Australia, Russia, New Zealand, India, Chile, Saudi Arabia and even China are just a few of the nations that already require GMO foods to be labeled.

The U.S. remains one of the only industrialized nations to “get with it.”

Stunning poll reversal showed around 90 percent of Americans in support of GMO labeling a few months before the election.

One month before the election, California polls showed over 60 percent of support. After the barrage of ads and radio scares funded by Monsanto and other large food conglomerates, polls showed a direct decrease in support; 40 percent in support, and 50 percent opposing the ballot.

This only proves that money still has long-standing control over the American people’s opinions.

Big businesses bought themselves out of what could have been a completely devastating downfall in their profits. Only because, once American people find out what foods have GMOs,

sales will spiral downward.

By any standard this is an unprecedented turnaround in such a short period of time, especially for an issue that seems like an obvious “Yes” vote. I mean come on, who would not want to know what’s in their food?

The campaign to label GMOs is far from over and this is will be the first of many attempts in years to come.

These GMO foods kill bugs and more recently suspicion of dairy cattle deaths in Germany by Syngenta’s Bt 176 GMO corn, so what can it do to our own bodies? What more could three little letters on the side of a cereal box cost?

GMOs were quietly introduced into our food in 1990 by the same chemical company who manufactured Agent Orange and was responsible for many American veteran deaths and birth defects; it’s time to cut GMOs and large food conglomerates out.

Ultimately, the food movemment learned a valuable lesson in the failure of Prop 37.

That is, we can’t outspend Agribusiness and we can’t out campaign them, but we can outsmart them. Let’s not wait for government to cut ties with Agribusiness. Let’s cut those ties ourselves.

MSU, Mankato students are encouraged to participate in the 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR).

Held April 11-13, 2013 at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. Grants are available to help with travel expenses.

As a student presenter, you will get the chance to publish your work in the Conference Proceedings by the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Deadline for abstract submission: December 4, 2012

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ROUNDABOUT “I think that the roundabouts are a good way to keep the flow of traffic going in the that busy intersection.” continued from 3 occurred since their construction and replacement of its old junction.

This roundabout is the first completed out of five, all of which are slated to be built this fall in Mankato. The majority of the remaining roundabouts will be mainly on the highways, and are one of the prime sights of road construction en route to Mankato.

The locations include the interchange of Highway 14 and Blue Earth County Road 12, Highway 14 and Nicollet County Road 41, along with County Roads 6 and 41. Only the latter of the three will be ready for use this fall. There will also be two built in nearby New Ulm. If the early testimonies of the locals and students in the Mankato area are any indicator, more roundabouts will do nothing but help the crash statistics, and make the roads a safer place.

And in a college town, with college drivers, anything to help the safety of everyone else on the road will almost certainly make even the most weary driver crack a smile.

MSSA talks Chick-fil-a, financial concerns, new buildings CHRIS HOUCK

staff writer

The MSSA met for their weekly convergence on Wednesday, with several topics addressed to the student senators, including future financial projects for the school, as well as the student senate taking a stance on the inclusion of a Chik-fil-a in the Centennial Student Union.

Director of Residential Life, Cindy Janney, spoke in front of MSSA, highlighting key projects that her department has planned for Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Janney spoke of a proposed dining and health services building that would eventually replace the Carkoski Commons.

The plan includes beginning the design by 2013, construction beginning in 2015 and for it to be operating by 2017.

According to Janney, the new building is a part of a proposed 10-year plan that would eventually bring a new dorm to campus and renovate the Crawford Commons.

Senator Sam Turner of the College of Social and Behavior-

al Sciences, expressed concern over a proposed change to the International Relations major in the college, which would require students to go overseas in order to graduate.

Turner pointed out that not all students may be able to afford overseas education, as well as the redundancy of foreign students studying abroad. He also stated he is attempting to find out more and perhaps find an alternate to overseas education.

The topic of including Chikfil-a was a heavily debated issue for the MSSA Wednesday.

In the wake of Minnesota elections preventing a marriage amendment to the state constitution, the student senate voted on whether or not to take a stance on the inclusion of the franchise on campus.

With several members of the senate citing such issues as equal rights and freedom of speech, it was decided that MSSA will not disown Chikfil-a and will support its inclusion in the CSU.

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An Editor’s Thought

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hy the hell are we in such a rush all the time?

That is, where can we smell the roses inside the halls of our campus? Too many students are dressed in business attire like their loving parents, scrolls of projects rest between arms and hips while legs pump in an almost endless stride, and high heels click on Minnesota State University, Mankato’s floors like the thousands of cricket chirps in a 19th century southern novel.

The job market awaits the fast times of our generation as life’s last resting place awaits the slowing retirees.

Life to the strong and death to the weak – this is the model of our world, but not to confuse it with constant raindrops on a gloomy day. A career – a craft – is the main ingredient for making a life enjoyable, at the very least, tolerable. Regardless, time still takes its toll and everything recycles itself. The end comes when its time for us to be recycled. So, in the wise words of The Departed’s Frank Costello, “act accordingly.”

Take your time. Before you know it your days are going to be occupied by mommy jeans, broken cradles, late night trips to Lowes, fat-assed elitist bosses, infinite ring tones, neglected NFL Sundays, sneaky cigarette breaks in the garage, dirty diapers, 401-Ks, and a never-ending list of todos. This isn’t all that bad, but face it, we need to smell those pretty flowers to keep that sense of the fountain of youth crisp clean in our hearts before things get too weird.

Stop your stride, stretch your neck, and let the wind of the passer-byes flow seamlessly through your hair. It is only imperative that you do so or else a future of insanity is certain.

Paying yourself first is the best way to stay in shape.

Drop the “I care about my future” act for one second.

There’s music all around us,

people dressed for an eye’s pleasure, students from interesting countries around the globe, and free chili lunches.

To be subdued by the madness of the world and the stress of life without the fine taste of slowing time down for even a few seconds is just as irresponsible as neglecting to give a reach-around during a heated sexual encounter.

Perhaps we are all mad, caught up in the net that is daily life, struggling to get by on a budget of 15 cents and maxed-out credit card from frequenting Mettler’s too much (exclude judgment of yours truly). But financial shortcomings aside, life can be led inexpensively if you’re smart.

Try, for a change, listening to talented performances inside the CSU. It’s free. You’d be surprised by what you hear.

Just Wednesday, a musician – a blues man – jammed out on his piano and serenaded the halls with his Louis Armstrong voice. His name: Tom Hunter.

Hunter has been a jazzman for 25 years. He’s been painting the air with his blues from the Midwest to New York, South Carolina and back.

And according to Hunter’s website, www.tomhunterblues. com, the man has played with contemporaries such as Pete Kanaras of the Knighthawks, Murali Coryell of Chess Records, and Little Sammy Davis of Delmark Records – all established musicians from around the country.

Now the man has enough

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Cinema News: Star Wars, Transformers, Sequels

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ast week, a big announcement was made that shocked the movie industry: Disney purchased Lucasfilm for $4.5 billion, giving Disney ownership of the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises (and effectively making Princess Leia an official Disney princess).

Boss and creator George Lucas would be stepping down, while Kathleen Kennedy, wife and executive producer to Steven Spielberg, would take the reins of Lucasfilm as CEO. Furthermore, Kennedy and Lucas announced the go-ahead to a brand new Star Wars trilogy, Episodes VII, VIII, and IX. Lucasfilm has confirmed that Toy Story 3 scribe Michael Arndt has completed a 40 page treatment for the in-development seventh film of the franchise, and that many more writers are taking a crack at the story.

It’s unclear as to what extent George Lucas will be involved, let alone in the involvement of Original Trilogy stars Mark Hamill,

Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher, or if their characters are involved in the new trilogy in any way.

Two FOX sequels will start shooting in March: the long in-development Anchorman 2, recently announced with Will Ferrell and the gang reprising their roles, is expected to hit theaters winter 2013.

Additionally, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, under the helm of Matt Reeves (Cloverfield) and with Andy Serkis (Gollum, Lord of the Rings) returning to bring Caesar to life, will start shooting the same month in New Orleans, expected to hit theaters summer 2014.

Transformers 4 is officially a go. Michael Bay is returning to direct, and Mark Wahlberg will star.

Not much is known other than Wahlberg will not be playing an older Sam Witwicky, and Shia Lebouf and most of the principal actors from the trilogy will not be appearing, as well.

That said, T4 will take place in the same continuity as the trilogy, its story happening four years after the events of the third movie,

and it’s rumored to have a heavy connection to an intergalactic fight between Autobots and Decepticons.

Updates will follow as they become available. Transformers 4 is expected to hit theaters July 4, 2014.

In other sequel news nobody asked for, Sony expects to release Hotel Transylvania 2 on Sept.

25, 2015, this time a new creative team behind the project without any connection to the original, except the voice cast.

Dreamworks is developing Kung Fu Panda 3 and Puss in Boots 2 for release sometime in the next two years, both in the scripting process.

And now Paramount and Tom Cruise are circling Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) to direct Mission: Impossible 5, which remains without a script but an expected 2015 release date.

Finally, Eli Roth will unleash The Last Exorcism II: The Beginning of the End sometime in cinemas 2013, taking place immediately after the events of the first film.

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Thanksgiving Fashion Clearing the minds of the indecisive fashion addict

TRISH BJERKE

staff writer

Thanksgiving. To some, it is an event created for sweatpants and football. To others, it is a chance to wear your best. To find what you should wear on Turkey Day, answer these questions.

What will my family be wearing? Chances are you will want to coordinate with them in some way. If your brother and dad are wearing shirts and ties, showing up in sweatpants and a Redskins sweatshirt probably isn’t appropriate. If your family dresses up for Thanksgiving, try wearing a dress or skirt with a pair of tights and boots.

It’s advised not to show too much cleavage or too much leg, since Grandpa probably doesn’t want to see his granddaughter dressed in clothing that is typically sported on a Saturday night at Red Rocks.

What do you want your extended family to think of you? If you’re one of the lucky ones who don’t care, wear whatever you want! But most people tend to care a little bit more than that.

Do you want your family to think you are a professional student and not a professional partier? Try wearing a blazer over your outfit. They’re in style now and appear both casual but professional. If

you want your family to think you’re very fashion forward, try mixing colors and patterns, but don’t go too extreme. You don’t want to look like your little cousin’s coloring book.

Will pictures be taken?

For some, Thanksgiving is a chance to get in a picture with all of your family members.

What you wear is important, because you will be seeing this photo for the rest of your life. Be neutral in your choices. Don’t wear something super-trendy or you’ll look back in 20 years and think, “What the heck was I thinking?”

Basic black is always a good option and it’s always in style. Go extreme in your accessories: chunky bracelets, earrings or cocktail rings or bright shoes all come across as trendy for now, and you won’t think you were crazy for wearing that when you show your kids the family pictures.

Do you want to impress your family? If you really have changed since high school and want to show your family you’re not the kid with braces and greasy hair… You don’t have to do much of anything. They’ll notice that corn isn’t stuck in your braces and that your hair no longer looks like you had some leftover gravy in it. Just be you!

How messy do you eat? If

you can eat without spilling your food or drink all over yourself, you’re in the clear to wear whatever you want.

If you’re one of the unlucky ones who end up with stains on everything, don’t wear your nicest clothes. Although if you’re always spilling, chances are you have no nice clothes left.

Dark colors will hide stains, and synthetic fabrics tend to stain less. Definitely do not wear anything labeled “Dry Clean Only” or you might be shelling out some dollars to get that gravy off your $400 dress. Or, if your family has a sense of humor, bring a garbage bag with holes for your head and arms and go to town. Then you could even participate in a pie-eating contest with your creepy uncle.

How much will you be eating? If you’re like the rest of America, you forget eating healthy for the day and try to cram as much in your stomach as possible. This is where comfort comes in. Do NOT wear jeans. Jeans, unless they are too big, tend to be very constricting when your stomach expands.

Leggings, dresses or even maternity pants with elastic waistbands are probably your best options. For guys… Your options are limited to pants or kilts, so wear your biggest ones.

And now for the final and most important question: Will you have to run away from grandma’s house? Sometimes, your crazy family members can be too much. Your uncle is yelling at the football game on TV, your mom is telling embarrassing stories about when you used to wet the bed and your brother is showing your cousins how to twirl his butterfly knife.

If you suspect this will happen, skip the high heels and wear tennis shows. You’ll look silly, but find comfort in the fact that you can run out of there, leaving your crazy family in the dust.

If you’re not going home, lucky you. Plenty of people are jealous that you get to stay in Mankato while they suffer through hours of family time.

If you stay here, you should wear your best Red Rocks clothes, since they’re open on Thanksgiving night.

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EDITOR’S THOUGHT “Life to the strong and death to the weak – this is the model of our world.” continued from 9 kindness in his heart to have played live in the halls of the CSU, which was like a bee hive of students flying fast in the lanes of their lives. They penetrated the bubble of his sound and exited with harsh force and without realizing the precision and flavor of his music.

But this was O.K.; Hunter’s music only added to the atmosphere, it didn’t break it. He chimed away at his piano, playing a tune that almost mimicked the chugging of a train, all the while, just outside the window behind Hunter’s back, students hurried in and out of the library like a frenzy of krill. People were moving to fast to enjoy Hunter’s blues and fine rhythm, and, yet, Hunter infused his sound to the fast paced atmosphere. It was a thing of beauty in the opinion of yours truly – a thing of mastery. It was perfection in its finest hour.

Hunter even agreed that his practice has made perfect.

“Practice is most important. You play what you listen to, you immense yourself into it,” Hunter said. “Even if it’s for 30 minutes a day.”

This was the man’s advice to MSU musicians. As simple as it could be possibly articulated, only practice can perfect and refine one’s craft so sharply that it turns it into a form of meditation and relaxation.

Hunter is absolutely right: craft your trade into a form of relaxation and not a form of work. Work is for the ones who aren’t doing to things right. Well, let yours truly rephrase that, if your not doing what you love, you’re not living right.

So make time for yourself to smell the roses, you can’t grasp onto something without doing so. Time never slows down for you, it’s only up to you to try and slow it down a bit.

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‘Iron Fist’ Lacks the Skill Quentin Tarantino’s new Kung Fu flick takes a hard punch

ANDREW SIMON

staff writer

Nearly a decade ago, Quentin Tarantino made two love letters to kung fu and spaghetti western cinema in the form of his Kill Bill volumes. He imitated the style perfectly, whilst adding his own trademark quirks to the dialogue and characters.

RZA (apparently pronounced “RizA”) makes his big screen directorial debut with The Man with the Iron Fists, a film that is just as much a love letter as Tarantino’s movie, but not even in the same category of good filmmaking.

The drive to be something special is there on screen. It’s obvious RZA loves kung fu cinema and wanted to add his own signature style to it, but overall, Iron Fists is a misfire.

Under more seasoned hands, there’s little doubt this movie would be epic in proportion and insanely fun, yet this final product is a mess of wants without one clear direction.

Plot-wise, the screen-

lethal should be well worth persuading – especially as this is his last performance before his dramatic turn in this holiday’s Les Miserables.

Sitting in the director’s chair, RZA clearly shows his inexperience.

Favoring close-ups instead of wide angles for the fight scenes, and medium shots for quieter moments, he doesn’t give enough space for the audience to see the set or the choreography, the prime factor behind people’s choosing to spend money on a product with violence in it.

There are also shots that any seasoned viewer has seen before a handful of times over, if not more, and RZA repeats them here but

lacking the skill and keen eye to make it look good.

Unfortunately, Man with the Iron Fists has the look and feel of an amateur outing.

What Man with the Iron Fists should be and could be is a spectacular kung fu film with amazing action pieces and performances, with a tight script that is both serious and humorous, and a lead actor who could carry the story.

It’s not quite there, but for the sheer sake of sitting back and enjoying the film, Iron Fists fulfills audience desire. Just a shame, unfortunately, that the movie isn’t as good as it could be.

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play lacks explanation, even when accompanied by a voice over narration (supplied by RZA, who, unfortunately, mumbles his way through words making this tool essentially worthless), but as far as understandable, there are multiple warrior clans who are converging on Jungle Village with the sole interest in capturing a mythical tomb of gold.

These clans enjoy wacky killing sprees, boast eccentric personalities, and are completely one dimensional.

In the midst of this clan battle is a blacksmith (RZA) who seeks to redeem himself for manufacturing the weapon used that ignited this clan war, and a British warrior known as Jack Knife (Russell Crowe) whose allegiances are questionable, but his talents in swordplay are not. As the clans invade Jungle Villain, the blacksmith and Jack fulfill their own agendas to see the clans fail.

Ultimately, the screenplay is a bloated mess.

Rumor has it the original

cut was well over three hours (theatrical release is barely pushing 90 minutes), and it’s worth wishing the director’s cut was put into theaters instead of this jigsaw puzzle of ideas and storylines that never fully mesh well together.

The blacksmith and Jack Knife are the best defined characters, and understandably so, but it’s the basic plot that needs padding in order for the audience to care about what’s happening onscreen.

RZA is passable as the blacksmith, but a dozen more acting lessons wouldn’t hurt in the slightest. Lucy Liu clearly relishes playing the Queen Bee at an Asian brothel, and has the opportunity to show off her martial arts skills she wasn’t able to in Kill Bill.

But it’s Russell Crowe that really shines here, eating up every shot, scene, and line he can. If the idea of seeing a movie that is pure homage and camp doesn’t excite as much, the notion of Russell Crowe going full-on psychotic and

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2:30 pm VOLLEYBALL......................... vs. SW Minnesota State (@ C-SP) 6:07 pm WOMEN’S HOCKEY......................................... @ Minnesota 9:00 am WRESTLING................................. Concorida University Open 4:00 pm MEN’S BASKETBALL.......................... vs. S.D. School of Mines 4:07 pm WOMEN’S HOCKEY......................................... @ Minnesota

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West’s goal propels Mavericks to NCAA quarterfinals

Senior midfielder Brianne West’s lone-goal sunday propelled MSU to a 1-0 over Central Oklahoma, the Mavs’ will now face Central Missouri for a chance to enter the national tournament in Georgia.

JOEY DENTON

staff writer

After getting knocked out of the NSIC Tournament, the Minnesota State University, women’s soccer team rallied back to win 1-0 in the second round of the NCAA Division II central region tournament over the University of Central Oklahoma, sending them to the Championship match against Central Missouri on Friday.

The Mavericks overpowered Central Oklahoma, out shooting them 9-1, but just couldn’t get a ball pass their goalkeeper Meagan Burke.

After a scoreless first half, the Mavericks continued to hammer the Broncos on the offensive end, and all they needed was one of their shots to slip by, and they got it. In the 81st minute, junior midfielder Tori Meinhardt gave the ball to senior midfielder Brianne West, who kicked the ball past a diving Burke and in to the back of the net for her seventh goal of the season, and the game winner.

In a not-so-suprise performance, sophomore goalkeeper Molly McGough stopped all four shots she faced to receive her 14th shutout of the season.

Head Coach Peter MaGahey was proud of how the team came back from their NSIC tourney

loss and continued their streak to 25 games of not losing at home.

“I think it was very exciting today the way the women came out and competed,” MaGahey said. “I think the weather and the challenge of making sort of making their debut in the NCAA tournament, it takes a while to get your feet underneath you, but I thought we put a good character and a greedy performance out there.”

With that victory, the Mavericks head to Michigan to take on the central region’s no. 1 seed, the University of Central Missouri, for the region title.

Coach MaGahey knows there are two very good teams playing on Friday.

“I think it’s two good teams advancing to the finals and we are certainly looking forward to getting after it,” MaGahey said.

This matchup will mean that much more to the Mavericks, as the Jennies of Central Missouri are the only team to defeat the Mavericks, dating back to Sept. 2.

“It’s definitely going to be a tough game. We haven’t seen them since September, so it’s totally going to be a different game then the last time we played them,” senior forward Brittany Henry, who has five goals this season, said.

West agrees.

“Our team is just really looking forward to getting back at them, to prove to them the team we really are,” West said.

And even though the Jennies put the Mavericks only loss in the loss column this regular season, the Mavericks plan to use that motivation to their advantage.

“It’s nice, honestly, coming in losing to them cause we’re going to have a lot more motivation and energy, and we are going to want to come out the win this time,” Henry said.

Winning surely won’t be an easy task as the Jennies finished their regular season with a 16-2-4 record, as the Mavericks come in to the match with a 17-1-3 record.

The Jennies were the MIAA regular season champs with a 100-2 conference record.

The Jennies weren’t the best scoring team in the MIAA, scoring 34 goals in their 22 game season, but they certainly have a tough defense, just like the Mavericks. In their 22 games, they only allowed 12 shots to hit the back of the net, while the Mavericks have only given up eight goals in their 21 game regular season.

The Central Region Championship will begin at 2 p.m. in Allendale, Mich.

david bassey • msu reporter With the clutch 1-0 win over Central Oklahoma, MSU will now have the oppurtunity to avenge their only loss of the season Friday in Michigan when they take on the region’s no. 1 seed, Central Missouri, who beat MSU 2-1 in early September.

The “kato kid” Phillip Nelson looks to lead Gophers victory.

Freshman sensation Phillip Nelson has a lot of work to do with this Gopher offense, but he has been shining as of late winning two pivotal games for the U of M to lift them into bowl eligibility.

REECE HEMMESCH

sports editor

The Gopher faithful have been talking, and the one name that keeps coming up in conversation is that of the upstart, freshman quarterback Phillip Nelson, who has engineered two wins in four starts for the Gophers in his true freshman season.

With the last conference win over Illinois, Nelson has propelled the University of Minnesota to bowl eligibility for the first time since 2009,

when the team was still ran by Tim Brewster, the head coach that brought in most of the upperclassmen on the squad.

But it was current head coach Jerry Kill who brought Nelson to the U as most thought they would be seeing Phil in Wisconsin colors for the tenure of his college career.

Nelson grew up right outside Madison, Wisc. as an avid Badger fan in the younger years of his life. As a teenager, Nelson’s family moved from Madison to their current location in Mankato

where Phillip drew huge success with the Mankato West football team.

Though he still lived in Minnesota, many gopher fans believed he would bring his talents to Madison and play for coach Bret Bielema, who wanted him just as bad as Kill, but the decision was made by Nelson to head to the twin cities and try to start up a program at a school that had been thoroughly waxed for the most part of his life.

Through the first six games of his career, Nelson watched

the games from the sideline with a redshirt on his back preventing him from play.

That status was changed in week seven when Kill made the decision to start Nelson over current starter Max Shortell for their next game.

Their opponent: the Wisconsin Badgers.

Nelson struggled through this game; completing 13 of 24 passes for two touchdowns and two interceptions.

Many Gopher fans once again panicked, as the “quarterback of the future” did not hit

the ground running as many anticipated. Those talks died down in Nelson’s next start, when he amassed 246 yards in the air and three touchdowns in Minnesota’s 44-28 rout of Purdue.

Now the Gophers are bowl eligible and only if Nelson completely lays an egg in the next two games, Minnesota has a solid quarterback in their lineup that could stay their for a while.

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Lakers look for relief in the form of new head coach

Nobody saw Los Angeles’ 1-4 start to the season coming, but if L.A. can find comfort in the run-and-gun stylings of Mike D’Antoni, the Lakers could be seeing another championship banner added to the Staples Center.

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TIM FAKLIS

staff writer

Shock swept the NBA world Saturday when the Los Angeles Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak, and the rest of the Laker organization, decided to fire head coach Mike Brown only five games into the regular season.

With a set of team upgrades that make the iPhone five seem primitive, a 1-4 start to the season didn’t sit well with anyone in Laker nation.

“After five games we weren’t seeing improvement and we made a decision.” Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak said of the firing.

“Maybe it would have changed with this team, we didn’t want to wait five months and find out it wasn’t going to change.”

Kupchak wasn’t slow to find a replacement either, hiring the run and gun offensive mastermind Mike D’Antoni Monday to replace Brown.

There was speculation and rumor surrounding the idea that former Lakers head coach and 11 time NBA champion Phil Jackson would yet again return to the helm in the Staples Center, but according to ESPN’s Chris Broussard, reports indicated that Jackson sought more input over basketball decisions and, and possibly even an ownership stake. That was simply too much for the Lakers to take on, so in the end, the job offer went to D’Antoni.

D’Antoni has a long history coaching in the NBA, and it has more ups and downs than most coaches can claim to own. He got off to a great start in Phoenix, with two-time MVP Steve Nash leading the way. His fast pace offense, a scheme that he partially adopted from coaching great Don Nelson’s equally up-pace style, was adopted by much of the league.

From there, he took his talents to the Big Apple, leaving his comfy coaching situation in Phoenix behind to go to a bigger market with a potential to reel in higher quality players. He got just that, getting into a situation to coach the likes of Carmelo Anthony, as well as his former Suns player Amar’e Stoudemire.

He was also the coach during the beginning of Linsanity, the period where Harvard graduate and 24-year-old point guard Jeremy Lin took the basketball and sports worlds by storm, putting up unheard of numbers, even as he was close to being cut.

There is one great, gaping flaw in that offense that most teams have caught onto, and it is a simple concept. In fact, it is probably what ended up getting coach

D’Antoni fired in New York, or a big part of it at the very least.

When a D’Antoni team is playing defense, typically their main objective is to get out on the fast break as soon as a shot goes up.

With that comes the threat to sag off on defense to make the break more effective, allowing the opponent to put more points in the hoop. Defense, more than anything else, is the downfall of what is otherwise a very exciting, up-tempo style of play. But, as cliché as it may be, defensive teams almost always beat out offensive teams en route to championships in the NBA, and D’Antoni’s lack of hardware in that regard is pretty good evidence to support that.

Even with his history, Coach D’Antoni comes into a very unique situation with a pretty special group of players. For starters, he is reunited with the point guard that got him his level of fame in many ways, Steve Nash. He also has a multiple All Star in post magician Pau Gasol.

What makes his situation especially interesting are the two guys that have defensive prowess, and awards to show for it, those players being Kobe Bryant, who has made the NBA All-Defensive Team a total of 12 times thus far in his career and 2-time Defensive Player of the Year Dwight Howard.

D’Antoni did have Tyson Chandler in his last year in New York, but never has he had a team with the potential to be as sound a defensive unit as this one. That alone could change the landscape of his reputation as solely offensive coach. On the flipside, his offenses in the past have had a plethora of good shooters at every position. This team, outside of Bryant, Nash and backup point guard Steve Blake, is very much lacking in that category.

Like every year Mike D’Antoni has coached, there is a bit of uncertainty in the air as to how he will fare with a new team. Now that he is in Los Angeles, odds are media coverage will watch his every move, just as they did during his time in New York. This isn’t new to him, and pressure shouldn’t be there much. He has to get acquainted with his new guys immediately, and hope that they respond quickly. He’ll have the media, pushy Laker fans, and a very successful front office expecting results as quick as his offensive style.

Odds are he wants a title as badly as the fans do, so more than anything, they’ll have that in common, and it should help them build what most expect to be another winning season for the Lakers.

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Who wants to drive the Zamboni?

RYAN LUND

news editor

“I wanna drive the Zamboni,” Minnesota-based rock outfit “Gear Daddies” once sang, but for the time being the life of a Zamboni driver may not be so glamorous.

Negotiations between the league’s owners and the NHLPA remain at a standstill following the cancellation of the 2013 Winter Classic, originally scheduled for January 1 in Detroit.

The Red Wings were set to square off against the Toronto Maple Leafs in what promised to be the game of the century, literally.

Not one, but two squads of retired superstars would take the ice in the NHL Alumni Showdown at Comerica Park, AHL and OHL teams would square off as well, while a miniature tournament, the Great Lakes Invitational would bring the NCAA into the fold as well.

The attendance numbers alone were expected to demolish the previous record, also set at Michigan Stadium just a few years ago, while league revenues were projected to go through the roof.

The league it seems, would rather redefine “hockey related revenue,” than collect any.

But while the Winter Classic might have fallen prey to greed, the seminal event is hardly the greatest casualty in this clash of egos.

It is an issue rarely considered in these sessions of endless bickering over the salaries of

men who make more in a single season than many doctors will earn in their lifetime.

Sidney Crosby and co. may be more than happy to ride out the current storm from the comfort of their respective pieces of multi-million dollar real estate, but when the players can’t skate, what happens to the men and women who sharpen them?

How do the part-time concessions clerks, full-time Zamboni drivers and seasonal equipment managers make ends meet when the music stops?

Well, many don’t.

The NHL’s entire office staff accepted a 20 percent pay cut in September, while the impact on arena employees and local businesses has ranged from offputting to devastating.

Fans no longer turn out in great numbers at area bars during game nights, visiting fans no longer crowd local hotels and, despite their much-maligned profession, ticket scalpers no longer crowd the streets.

In short, nobody wins.

While the economy may be trending upwards, the fortunes of local business owners and arena employees, many of whom are scraping near minimum wage, are stuck in a lockoutstricken slump.

Everyone may want to drive the Zamboni, but until the NHL’s various interests can come to agreement, the “manager man” and the eponymous song’s narrator can commiserate over the NHL’s absence together.

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NELSON “Those (negative) talks died down in Nelson’s next start, when he amassed 246 yards in the air and three touchdowns in Minnesota’s 44-28 rout of Purdue.” continued from 12

web photo Minnesota freshman quarterback Phillip Nelson might have struggled early in his 2012 tenure, but since has been a huge help to the Gopher Offense, propelling them to bowl eligibility for first time since 2009.

good why did they redshirt him for the first half of the season only to pull it off and waste a year of eligibility?

Kill stated when MarQueis Gray went down with injury towards the beginning of the year that only if the coaching staff believed Nelson would make an immediate impact on the team would they remove his redshirt and let him play out the rest of the season.

After Nelson’s high performance in practice mixed in with Shortell’s abysmal 9 for 19, 103 yard performance against Northwestern, the coaching staff knew they had to take a chance and let the kid run to possibly get to a

bowl game, a huge step of progress for any struggling division-1 program.

Nelson now has a huge task in front of him this weekend as he must take the Gophers to Lincoln, Nebr. and try to steal a win from the no. 16 Cornhuskers. His advantage: a very weak and depleted Cornhusker defense, which has been giving up points to everyone in the conference these days.

If Nelson and the Gophers can get a high-amount of points up on the scoreboard against Nebraska and possibly leave Lincoln with a win, the only game left of the season will come against Michigan

State, who currently sit at 5-5 and are nowhere near what they were hyped up to be early in the season.

The Gophers currently sit at 6-4. It’s a long shot, but if they can get two wins in their last two games of the season and propel themselves to a bigger bowl than just the Meineke Car Care of Texas Bowl, who knows how much the floodgates will open and where this Gopher squad could go after that.

After all, this is a relatively young squad with a high-powered quarterback at the helms, it’s possible that we’re not even close to the full potential of this team.

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