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International Festival celebrates culture and community

By JULIA BARTON • Variety Editor This year’s Mankato Area International Festival brought in hundreds as they celebrated international cultures at Minnesota State University, Mankato on Sunday.

Food, fashion and performances were highlighted during the festival along with a photo contest, trivia and culture booths set up all around Centennial Student Union.

With MNSU having a large represen-

tation of international students on campus coming from roughly 96 different countries, the festival was rich with culture.

“We need to celebrate our differences because that is what makes us special, that’s what makes our community special,” MNSU President Edward Inch said. “This is a real opportunity to come to understand, appreciate, celebrate, and enjoy those differences that make our campus such an incredibly special place.”

International students at MNSU were able to express their culture as well as prepare some of their traditional culinary foods and dresses.

Food, beverages and desserts were prepared for the event that lined Mav Ave. “This is my first time experiencing and meeting so many different cultures since this is my first time out of my country,” said Shizra Tariq, an exchange student

During the Mankato Area International Festival, students and community members tried several traditional international foods.

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at MNSU from Pakistan. “I think everyone should know more about different cultures because even things like marFESTIVAL on page 4 u

Minnesota Milers host 5k for students, community

By CLAIRE BRUNEAU • Staff Writer The Minnesota State University, Mankato Integrated Business Experience company Minnesota Millers held a 5K run this past Saturday at Myers Field House to help sell their products and earn money for the non-profit United Way Making.

This program is a semester-long involvement for students who are looking for real-world business experience. In the IBE program students get put into differ-

ent groups to start their very own company. Students get to take out real loans to start up their business, hold events and sell their products.

“I think It’s a great way to dive into the real world. We get a taste of what it really takes to do some of this stuff. To be able to get real world experience with people all around you that are ready to support you is a great way to learn,” secretary of Minnesota Milers Kristyn Thielbar said.

When this group was brainstorming ideas they knew they wanted to do

something more exciting for this year.

Their intention behind doing the 5k run was to make it more interesting and fun for the students, rather than just selling their product. They felt it would be nice to bring in the community, especially following the COVID-19 shutdown.

Minnesota Milers partnered with local shop Krusty’s Donuts to help bring in people to participate in the run and support the company.

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A Minnesota State University, Mankato professor has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice alleging the university’s new $1 million MavPod project offers unequal access to students with disabilities.

Nancy Fitzsimons, professor of social work, said she and nine students conducted research on the accessibility level of the MavPods.

The research found students with physical disabilities would need to travel further, requiring more time, to find MavPods with the same ease of students without disabilities.

“They accepted my complaint of a Title II ADA violation of discrimination against people with mobility disabilities,” Fitzsimons said. The State’s Attorney’s Office is representing the University.”

The report, compiled

by Fitzsimons and the students, says the MavPods have been “enthusiastically promoted as a beneficial resource to faculty, staff and most notably students. They are scattered across campus, with an invitation to request that additional locations be added, suggestive of plans for continued investment. The MavPODS are now part of the campus tour for prospective students and their families.”

The research was done by calculating how long it would take to find a suitable, nearby MavPod for a person walking, a person in a wheelchair, and a person in a wheelchair who first went to a regular MavPod, then rerouted themselves to a wheelMAVPODS on page 5 u

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Biden signs $1T infrastructure deal

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Russian test blamed for space junk threatening space station

NASA via Associated Press In this image from video provided by NASA, the International Space Station is seen as astronauts in the SpaceX Dragon capsule undock on Monday, Nov. 8, 2021.

EVAN VUCCI • Associated Press President Joe Biden signs the “Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act” during an event on the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington.

ASSOCIATED PRESS President Joe Biden signed his hard-fought $1 trillion infrastructure deal into law Monday before a bipartisan, celebratory crowd on the White House lawn, declaring that the new infusion of cash for roads, bridges, ports and more is going to make life “change for the better” for the American people.

But prospects are tougher for further bipartisanship ahead of the 2022 midterm elections as Biden pivots back to more difficult negotiations over his broader $1.85 trillion social spending package. The president hopes to use the infrastructure law to build back his popularity, which has taken a hit amid rising inflation and the inability to fully shake the public health and economic risks from COVID-19.

“My message to the American people is this: America is moving again and your life is going to change for the better,” he said.

With the bipartisan deal, the president had to choose between his promise of fostering national unity and a commitment to transformative change. The final measure whittled down much of his initial vision for infrastructure. Yet the administration hopes to sell the new law as a success that bridged partisan divides and will elevate the country with clean drinking water, high-speed internet and a shift away from fossil fuels.

“Folks, too often in Washington, the reason we didn’t get things done is because we insisted on getting everything we want. Everything,” Biden

said. “With this law, we focused on getting things done.

I ran for president because the only way to move our country forward in my view was through compromise and consensus.”

Biden will get outside Washington to sell the plan more broadly in coming days.

He intends go to New Hampshire on Tuesday to visit a bridge on the state’s “red list” for repair, and he will go to Detroit on Wednesday for a stop at General Motors’ electric vehicle assembly plant, while other officials also fan out across the country. The president went to the Port of Baltimore last week to highlight how the supply chain investments from the law could limit inflation and strengthen supply chains, a key concern of voters who are dealing with higher prices.

“We see this as is an opportunity because we know that the president’s agenda is quite popular,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday before the signing.

The outreach to voters can move “beyond the legislative process to talk about how this is going to help them.

And we’re hoping that’s going to have an impact.”

Biden held off on signing the hard-fought infrastructure deal after it passed on Nov. 5 until legislators would be back from a congressional recess and could join in a splashy bipartisan event.

On Sunday night before the signing, the White House announced Mitch Landrieu, the former New Orleans mayor, would help manage and coordinate the implementation of the infrastructure spending.

The gathering Monday on

the White House lawn was uniquely upbeat with a brass band and peppy speeches, a contrast to the drama and tensions when the fate of the package was in doubt for several months. The speakers lauded the measure for creating jobs, combating inflation and responding to the needs of voters.

Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican who helped negotiate the package, celebrated Biden’s willingness to jettison much of his initial proposal to help bring GOP lawmakers on board. Portman even credited former President Donald Trump for raising awareness about infrastructure, even though the loser of the 2020 election voiced intense opposition to the ultimate agreement.

“This bipartisan support for this bill comes because it makes sense for our constituents, but the approach from the center out should be the norm, not the exception,” Portman said.

The signing included governors and mayors of both parties and labor and business leaders. In addition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the guest list included Republicans such as Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, Maine Sen. Susan Collins, New York Rep. Tom Reed, Alaska Rep. Don Young and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

In order to achieve a bipartisan deal, the president had to cut back his initial ambition to spend $2.3 trillion on infrastructure by more than half. The bill that becomes law on Monday in reality includes about $550 billion in new spending over 10 years.

ASSOCIATED PRESS A Russian weapons test created more than 1,500 pieces of space junk that is now threatening the seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station, U.S. officials said Monday.

The State Department confirmed that the debris was from an old Russian satellite destroyed by the missile strike.

“It was dangerous. It was reckless. It was irresponsible,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price.

Earlier Monday, the four Americans, one German and two Russians on board were forced to briefly seek shelter in their docked capsules be-

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cause of the debris.

At least 1,500 pieces of the destroyed satellite were sizable enough to show up on radar and with telescopes, Price said. But countless other fragments were too small to track, yet still posed a danger to the space station as well as orbiting satellites.

Even a fleck of paint can do major damage when orbiting at 17,500 mph (28,000 kph).

Something big, upon impact, could be catastrophic.

“We are going to continue to make very clear that we won’t tolerate this kind of activity,” Price said.

He said the U.S. has “repeatedly raised with Russian counterparts our concerns for a potential satellite test”.

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Prosecutor: Rittenhouse provoked the bloodshed ASSOCIATED PRESS Kyle Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two of them and wounding the third, during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year.

Rittenhouse has argued that he fired in self-defense after the men attacked him.

Binger zeroed in on the killing of 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum, who was the first man gunned down that night and whose shooting set in motion the ones that followed.

The prosecutor repeatedly called it murder, saying it was unjustified.

The prosecutor reminded jurors that Rittenhouse testified he knew Rosenbaum was unarmed. Binger also said there is no video to support the defense claim that Rosenbaum threatened to kill Rittenhouse.

Binger disputed the contention that Rosenbaum was trying to grab Rittenhouse’s rifle.

“Mr. Rosenbaum is not even within arm’s reach when the first shot occurs,” Binger said.

He rejected the claim that Rittenhouse had no choice but to shoot, saying he could have run away.

And Binger argued that once Rosenbaum was wounded, he was not even capable of taking away the gun, which was strapped to Rittenhouse’s body, since he was falling to the ground with a fractured pelvis. Rittenhouse kept firing, delivering what the prosecutor called the “kill shot” to Rosenbaum’s back.

“I think we can also agree that we shouldn’t have 17-year-olds running around our streets with AR-15s, because this is exactly what happens,” Binger said.

After killing Rosenbaum, Rittenhouse shot and killed Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, 28, while trying to make his way through the crowd.

Rittenhouse testified that Huber hit him with a skateboard and that Grosskreutz came at him with a gun of his own — an account largely corroborated by video and Grosskreutz himself.

But the prosecutor said Rittenhouse provoked that bloodshed, too.

He said Huber, Grosskreutz and others in the crowd were trying to stop what they believed was an active shooter.

When it was all over, Rit-

SEAN KRAJACIC • The Kenosha News via Associated Press Kyle Rittenhouse, right, looks on as the jury is let out of the room during a break during his trail at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021

tenhouse walked away like a “hero in a Western — without a care in the world for anything he’s just done,” Binger said.

In his own closing argument, defense attorney Mark Richards called Rosenbaum a “rioter” and a “crazy person”

who went after Rittenhouse unprovoked.

“Mr. Rosenbaum was shot because he was chasing my client and going to kill him, take his gun and carry out the threats he made,” Richards said, adding that Rittenhouse never pointed his gun before

being chased: “It didn’t happen.”

Richards said Rittenhouse was then attacked by a “mob.”

The defense attorney accused prosecutors of calling Rittenhouse an “active shooter” because of “the loaded connotations of that word.”

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so far been a great experience for us. They have been very supportive and helpful of the cause,” CEO David Dunne, a senior said.

This group wasted no time and started working and putting pieces together the first day of the semester.

“I learned more doing this than my other two and a half years of school,” Dunne commented.

Aside from this great event, many MNSU students’ favorite part was the donuts.

“I think it’s a great way to show support and to help our fellow students. I just really love donuts too, so obviously I wasn’t going to turn this down,” Joseph Foley, a freshman who participated in the event said.

Alex Goetesz, a senior at MNSU, also thoroughly enjoyed this opportunity to support the program.

“I joined the race because I was in the IBE last semester. I saw them setting up tables and wanted to come support them. It’s a perfect event for me because I also love running and donuts, so I get to support my friends and do what I love.”

Goetez also pointed out how different the Minnesota Milers is compared to other companies. “Most of the IBEs just do products so I thought it was really cool that they were doing this.”

Thielbar reflected on her decision to join the IBE company and what she learned from it.

“I first joined this group for experience. I have learned so much not only about marketing but about teamwork. I made a lot of great friends along the way and learned how to really get something done and to work hard at it,” Thielbar stated.

riages are different here. It’s not just the countries being showed off, it’s also their culture being celebrated.”

The fashion show in the CSU Ballroom featured traditional clothing from all around the world. The countries that walked the runway included Senegal, Nepal, and Japan.

Gloria Lee, a senior at MNSU who represented South Korea, took to the runway.

“I wanted to show my traditional dress because some people may not know about the south as much, especially the traditional dress, so I wanted to share that part of my culture.”

During the event prizes were also handed out to those who were brave enough to guess flags representing different countries.

Representing the Northern part of Ethiopia, sophomore Makda Gebre performed and shared a traditional dance from her culture.

“I’m looking forward to having some fun and letting people know what kind of culture we have and show the traditional moves,” she said.

Majd Alharbi, Maverick global ambassador at MNSU, expressed what today meant to her.

“It is a day where we unify all together. One day where it doesn’t feel like just my culture but an international day where I am heard and other cultures are heard,” Alharbi said.

Usually occurring in the spring, the festival was unable to host this event for the past two years due to COVID-19. This year’s festival was hosted by the Kearney Center, the Centennial Student Union, students and community members.

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Putin discuss deescalating tensions ASSOCIATED PRESS French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian leader Vladimir Putin talked on the phone Monday about the need for de-escalating the tensions around the growing migrant pressure on the European Union’s borders with Belarus, Marcon’s office said.

In the almost two-hour talk, they also agreed upon the “need for a humanitarian effort for the migrants” but did not announce any concrete steps, according to the Elysee statement.

The EU says Moscow has a role in building the migration pressure and could actively help in easing it.

The Kremlin’s account of the conversation said Putin informed Macron about his contacts with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and “emphasized the necessity of discussing the problems that had arisen directly between the leaderships of the EU countries and Belarus.”

Putin also noted “the extremely harsh treatment of refugees by Polish border guards,” according to the Kremlin. Polish forces are blocking people from entering Poland and are pushing back to Belarus those migrants who cross the border.

Also Monday, Lukashenko spoke on the phone with Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel for 50 minutes about “the situation

LEONID SHCHEGLOV • BeITA photo via Associated Press Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gather at the checkpoint “Kuznitsa” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021.

with refugees on the Belarusian-Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian and Belarusian-Latvian borders,” according to Belarusian state news agency Belta.

They discussed “ways and prospects of resolving” the crisis and preventing its escalation, as well as humanitarian aid to the migrants, Belta said. The calls took place as the EU ratcheted up pressure on Belarus by agreeing to slap sanctions on airlines accused of helping Lukashenko wage a “hybrid attack” against the entire bloc using migrants.

The EU is also calling for humanitarian aid as up to 4,000 migrants are stuck in makeshift camps in freezing weather in Belarus while Poland has reinforced its border with 15,000 soldiers, in addition to border guards and

police. The EU has expressed solidarity with Poland’s guarding the bloc’s external border. At least 11 migrants have died in recent weeks.

Polish authorities said Monday that Belarusian services had led a large group of migrants to a border crossing with Poland and made them believe they would be transported by bus to Germany.

Polish police broadcast messages across the border telling the migrants that “they have been deceived.”

“The Belarusian side is deliberately escalating the situation,” said Marcin Przydacz, a deputy foreign minister.

“The situation is unprecedented and unpredictable.”

Belarus’ borders with Poland, Lithuania and Latvia are also the eastern borders of both the EU and NATO.

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New outbreak prompts China to lock down university campus

Critics: Greece criminalizes migration

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Among the prison inmates of the Greek island of Chios, three young men from Afghanistan and Somalia are serving dramatically long sentences: 50 years for two of them, a staggering 142 for the third.

But these are not violent criminals, even according to their trial verdicts.

They were convicted for steering inflatable dinghies carrying them and other migrants after they say smugglers abandoned them in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece.

“I didn’t think saving people is a crime,” said Hanad Abdi Mohammad, 28, a soft-spoken Somali charged as a smuggler after arriving in Greece last December and sentenced to 142 years.

Mohammad told journalists and European Parliament lawmakers visiting the three in prison last week that he had no choice but to drive the boat.

The smuggler forced him to take over, hitting him in the face and threatening him with a gun before abandoning the dinghy in rough seas.

And people’s lives were at stake. Even with hindsight, he said, “I would do it again, as long as I am saving lives.”

Critics say the men’s cases, as well as prosecutions or threats of criminal proceedings against aid workers, illustrate the expanding arsenal of techniques authorities

China has confined nearly 1,500 university students to their dormitories and hotels following an outbreak of COVID-19 in the northeastern city of Dalian.

The order was issued Sunday after several dozen cases were reported at Zhuanghe University City and hundreds of students were transferred to hotels for observation.

Students were attending class remotely and having their meals delivered to their rooms. The lockdown is the latest example of China’s zero-tolerance approach to the outbreak, which has brought considerable disruption to people’s lives and livelihoods.

Quarantines, obligatory testing and travel restrictions have become the new normal for those even remotely caught up in outbreaks. The country’s vaccination rate is among the world’s highest and authorities have begun administering booster shots as winter descends. While those measures have met little open resistance, the recent killing of a quarantined person’s pet dog by health

MAVPODS Continued from page 1 chair-accessible MavPod. Those times varied greatly, with people using wheelchairs left with the longest journeys to find a suitable pod.

The university did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The MavPods were added at the beginning of the semester to give students a quiet place to study. They were immediately met with pushback, however, as most of them are not wheelchair

workers brought a wave of complaints online. The incident in the central city of Shangrao prompted local authorities to issue a statement saying the pet owner and health workers had “reached an understanding.”

Following the incident, the China Small Animal Protection Association called for a quarantine system to care for pets caught in such situations.

“Pets are people’s spiritual partners and should not be harmed under the pretext of fighting the pandemic,” it said in a statement. “If you bring the hand of doom down on an innocent life without the slightest ability to defend itself, then how can you even talk about humanitarianism?”

Beijing, starting Wednesday, will require all people arriving from other parts of the country by plane, train, bus or car to produce a negative virus test taken over the previous 48 hours. On Monday, the National Health Commission announced 32 new cases of local transmission over the previous 24 hours, 25 of them in Dalian.

accessible. The university said there were larger MavPods in the library.

“There is a 13 building (inaccessible MavPODs) to 2 building (larger MavPODS) ratio,” the Fitzsimons class report reads. “There is a 100 inaccessible MavPOD to 4 larger MavPOD ratio. The chairs placed in the larger MavPODs make the space less readily accessible for people with mobility disabilities. The accessible spaces in the library are not private spaces, nor are they comparable to the MavPOD experience.

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THANASSIS STAVRAKIS • Associated Press Hanad Abdi Mohammad, from Somalia, imprisoned migrant on the northeastern Aegean island of Chios, Greece, is seen in this undated photo in an unknown location.

in Greece and other countries are using to deter asylum-seekers.

“It’s not possible that someone who comes to claim asylum in Greece is threatened with such heavy sentences simply because they were forced, by circumstances or pressure, to take over handling a boat,” said Alexandros Georgoulis, one of the lawyers representing the three imprisoned in Chios.

Greek authorities, he said, “are essentially baptizing the smuggled as the smuggler.”

Mohammad’s journey is also a stark indication of the chaos asylum-seekers may experience as they migrate between two countries long divided by deep-seated mistrust.

Fearing for their lives after the smuggler fled, the nearly three dozen panicked passen-

gers abandoned their quest to reach Greece.

Mohammad says he called the Turkish coast guard repeatedly, begging for a rescue. But when it arrived, the Turkish patrol boat circled the migrants’ vessel sharply, sending water into the dinghy and gradually pushing it toward Greece.

In the chaos, two women fell overboard and drowned.

The Greek coast guard rescued the survivors, and Mohammad helped other passengers onto the rescue boat.

He admitted to having driven the boat after the smuggler left.

It didn’t cross his mind that would lead to him being prosecuted as a smuggler.

Aid workers and volunteers have also found themselves in the crosshairs of Greek authorities.

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Study, finals are closer than you think

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Editorial There are only two full weeks left before finals.

Let that sink in.

Well, technically there are three, but only two full weeks of classes, due to Thanksgiving break next week.

If we are honest with ourselves, how much actual studying do we do during a weekend off? Not much.

So that means that we really only have this week and the week before finals to buckle down and get ready for the big exams.

The closer and closer we get down to the wire, the more and more likely we are to just let one or two classes fall to the wayside when it comes to studying.

Take this week to ask your professors what you need to be studying to get ready for these final exams.

Talking to your professor is the single most effective way to really get ahead of the game when it comes to finals.

This is especially important for classes that have a huge weight on exams, particularly the final.

If you don’t know what to study until a week before, you are setting yourself up for failure.

Boot up D2L and find the syllabus from the first few days of classes, and see if there is any information on the final exam.

Often, professors will include the date, time and whether or not it is a cu-

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mulative exam or not.

Whether your final exams are cumulative or just about the current topic, it is best to start studying earlier, rather than the night before.

Scientists refer to this phenomenon as the “curve of forgetting”, which essentially means that ideas are forgotten over time if they are not revisited.

Understanding this, it is important to look back now at what you have learned so far in the semester, so when you go back to do the in depth

studying for the exam, you already have some of the information readily available for you to access in your memory.

Even if it isn’t a full fledged sit down with all of the content of the semester, it is a really good idea to simply look back at what you have learned already and come up with a plan for each of your classes as to how you are going to attack exam prep.

So in these next few days, go through your classes one by one and see what needs to be done and cre-

ate a plan based on that.

Start with understanding what will be on each exam, then look back at all of that content.

Figure out what you know and what you need to know better, then come with a plan to bridge those together.

Finals are the most stressful time to be a college student.

It is vital for your grades as well as your mental health to take the stress off of yourself as much as possible.

The best way to do that?

Prepare, and prepare early.

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Key reason for supply shortages

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Keith Ellison to seek 2nd term as Minnesota attorney general

COURT TV via Associated Press In this image taken from video, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison speaks to the media Friday, June 25, 2021, at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis.

ASSOCIATED PRESS NOAH BERGER • Associated Press Trucks line up to enter a Port of Oakland shipping terminal on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021, in Oakland, Calif.

ASSOCIATED PRESS Take a step back from the picked-over store shelves, the stalled container ships and the empty auto showrooms, and you’ll find a root cause of the shortages of just about everything.

Even as the pandemic has dragged on, U.S. households flush with cash from stimulus checks, booming stock markets and enlarged home equity have felt like spending freely again — a lot. And since consumer demand drives much of the U.S. and global economies, high demand has brought goods shortages to the U.S. and much of the world.

Add the fact that companies are ordering — and hoarding — more goods and parts than they need so they don’t run out, and you end up with an almost unquenchable demand that is magnifying the supply shortages.

That’s where a big problem comes in: Suppliers were caught so flat-footed by how fast pent-up spending surged out of the recession that they won’t likely be able to catch up as long as demand remains so robust. That’s especially so because Americans, still hunkered down at home more than they did before the pandemic, continue to spend more on goods — electronics, furniture, appliances, sporting goods — than on services like hotels, meals out and movie tickets. All that demand for goods, in turn, is helping to accelerate U.S. inflation.

Unless spending snaps sharply back to services — or something else leads people

to stop buying so much — it could take deep into 2022 or even 2023 before global supply chains regain some semblance of normalcy.

“Demand is completely skewed,” said Bindiya Vakil, CEO of Resilinc, a consulting firm that helps companies manage supply chains. “This has now become more and more painful by the day.”

One reason people may eventually stop spending so much is that everything simply costs more now. Consumer prices in the U.S. skyrocketed 6.2% over the past year as food, gasoline, autos and housing catapulted inflation to its highest pace since 1990.

The laws of gravity suggest that the cumulative effect of so much inflation will eventually exert a brake on spending.

For now, manufacturers foresee no end to heavy demand — and no end to beleaguered supply chains or spiking inflation pressures.

A chronic lack of computer chips has forced Ford Motor Co., for instance, to revamp its system of ordering parts that require long periods from order to delivery to try to address shortages.

“It’s highlighted that the “just-in-time” operating model that’s been prevalent in autos may not be the right operating model,” Hau ThaiTang, Ford’s chief operations and product officer, told analysts.

Smaller companies, too, have felt compelled to build up as many supplies as they can so they can still make products. Moriarty’s Gem Art near Chicago, a family business for 40 years, has

been stocking up on gold, silver and platinum to make necklaces and rings, desperate not to run out of supplies as holiday orders pick up.

“We’re ordering a lot more than what we actually have orders for — just in case,” said Jeff Moriarty, the marketing manager.

Even a normal post-holiday shopping lull, though it might help, isn’t expected to be enough to unclog ports, speed shipping traffic or allow factories to replenish inventories.

“The baseline expectation for improvement is around the middle of 2022,” said Oren Klachkin, lead U.S. economist for Oxford Economics. “But I think the risks of that happening later are fairly high.”

Though Americans have increasingly ventured out in recent months, the balance between spending on goods and services remains skewed.

The pent-up demand that followed the economic recovery is still tilted toward goods like furniture and cars and less toward haircuts and concerts. Though services spending has grown in recent months, it isn’t nearly enough to close the gap.

Since April 2020, consumer spending on goods has jumped 32%. It’s now 15% above where it was in February 2020, just before the pandemic. Goods account for roughly 40% of consumer spending now, up from 36% before the pandemic.

U.S. factories have tried to keep up with demand. Production rose nearly 5% over the past year, according to the Federal Reserve.

Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who led the prosecution team that won the conviction of ex-officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, announced Monday he will seek a second term.

Ellison assembled a team of attorneys in private practice and from his office that persuaded jurors earlier this year to convict Chauvin of murder. Floyd’s death last year became a flashpoint in the national conversation about the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of law enforcement and sparked worldwide protests.

Ellison is Minnesota’s

first Black attorney general.

He was also the first Muslim elected to Congress, a job he left in 2018 to run for attorney general. He was a prominent booster for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.

Ellison and Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington led a task force that proposed steps in 2020 to reduce police-involved deadly force encounters, including a bill for a uniform standard for when such actions are justified and a measure to encourage development of new models for policing.

Party officials said that some of Ellison’s endorsers would include U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar.

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Thousands of military families struggle with food insecurity ASSOCIATED PRESS It’s a hidden crisis that has existed for years inside one of the most well-funded institutions on the planet and has only worsened during the coronavirus pandemic. As many as 160,000 active-duty military members are having trouble feeding their families.

That estimate by Feeding America, which coordinates the work of more than 200 food banks around the country, underscores how longterm food insecurity has extended into every aspect of American life, including the military.

The exact scope of the problem is a topic of debate, due to a lack of formal study.

But activists say it has existed for years and primarily affects junior-level enlisted service members — ranks E1 to E4 in military parlance — with children.

“It’s a shocking truth that’s known to many food banks across the United States,” said Vince Hall, Feeding America’s government relations officer.

“This should be the cause of deep embarrassment.”

The group estimates that 29% of troops in the most ju-

nior enlisted ranks faced food insecurity during the previous year.

“It is what it is,” said James Bohannon, 34, a Naval E4 (petty officer third class) in San Diego who relies on food assistance to keep his two daughters fed.

“You know what you’re signing up for in the military,” he said, after emerging from a drive-thru food distribution organized by the local Armed Services YMCA branch. “But I’m not going to lie. It’s really tough.”

In addition to modest pay for junior enlisted ranks, the frequent moves inherent to military life make it difficult for military spouses to find steady work. Also, the internal military culture of self-sufficiency leaves many reluctant to speak about their difficulties, for fear they will be regarded as irresponsible.

The problem is exacerbated by an obscure Agriculture Department rule that prevents thousands of needy military families from accessing the SNAP government assistance program, commonly known as food stamps.

“It’s one of these things that the American people

GREGORY BULL • Associated Press Brooklyn Pittman talks as she sits in her car with her dogs after receiving food from an Armed Services YMCA food distribution, Oct. 28, 2021, in San Diego.

don’t know about, but it’s a matter of course among military members. We know this,” said Sen. Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois Democrat and former Blackhawk pilot who lost both legs in a helicopter crash in Iraq. “We’re the mightiest military on the face of the

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gets dinner tonight?”

Meredith Knopp, CEO of a food bank in St. Louis and an Army veteran, said the problem cuts across all branches of the military. She recalls being a young officer in Texas when she was approached by a new private with a baby.

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

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CHAMPS MOVE SOUTH

Volleyball team finishes season strong

By DANIEL McELROY Sports Editor

Via Maverick Athletics The Minnesota State soccer team won its fifth consecutive NSIC tournament championship, earning a spot in the NCAA tournament.

By DANIEL McELROY Sports Editor For the fifth time in a row, the No. 25 Minnesota State soccer team has claimed the NSIC Tournament Title with their win over No. 6 Bemidji State.

The Mavericks took down the Beavers on their home turf, after what looked to be a long day for Minnesota

State.

Bemidji State scored the first goal of the game just eight minutes in after a clean give-and-go from Sara Wendt, the NSIC’s leading goal scorer, to Allyson Smith.

The scoring slowed down until the end of the first half, when Minnesota State got their first of the game from Maille Mathis, who took a shot from 20 yards out, end-

ing BSU goalkeeper Alyssa Stumbaugh’s seven-game shutout streak.

Mathis struck again six minutes later, firing from 10 yards out and scoring her second unassisted goal of the game.

Sophie Eskierka scored her first goal of the season when she scored the eventual game-winning goal in the 69th minute off a low header

from Molly Mosher. Ashlyn Watt earned an assist on the play from her cross to Mosher.

Bemidji State’s Wendt would bring the Beavers within one when Megan Dahl’s kick landed in the right spot for Wendt to head it into the goal.

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Mavs dominate rivals Bowling Green Falcons

By DANIEL McELROY Sports Editor The most offensively dominant weekend for the Minnesota State men’s hockey team landed them at the No. 3 spot in Division I hockey for the second straight week.

The Mavericks scored more goals over the weekend than any other two-game series in their sweep over Bowling Green State.

Friday, the Mavericks took control and handled the Falcons in a 9-2 win, and completed the sweep Saturday, winning 5-3.

The Mavericks got going right away with Cade Borchardt scoring his first goal of the game 1:30 into

the first period on the powerplay. Akito Hirose made a great pass in front of the crease when he and Borchardt rushed into the zone, giving Borchardt the one-timer goal.

Sam Morton made it 2-0 for the Mavericks when he deflected Andy Carroll’s shot from the point.

By the end of the first period, the Mavericks were up 3-0, when Borchardt scored his second goal of the game, tipping the puck into the top of the net off of a one-timer pass from Nathan Smith behind the net.

Borchardt went on to score his third goal of the game and his first career hat trick in the second period just 30 seconds after Bowling Green scored

MANSOOR AHMAD • The Reporter Cade Borchardt had three goals and an assist Friday night against the Bowling Green Falcons.

their first of the game.

As the game went on, Jake Livingstone, David Silye, and

Smith would each knock one in, and Sandelin scored two SWEEP on page 10 u

The Minnesota State volleyball team’s season has come to an end, although they finished out on a high note.

The Mavericks traveled to take on Minot State and UMary in their season finale, and came out successful in both contests.

In the first set against Minot, Minnesota State struggled in trying to keep a lead, when Minot led the score at 7-6 after getting the first few points.

The Mavericks were able to jump out to a commanding 17-10 lead afterwards, and maintained their lead for the rest of the set, coming out on top 25-16.

Set two was not nearly as close, with the Mavericks leading the way the entire set. Minnesota State jumped out to a 2-0 lead with the 25-7 set win.

Set three looked similar to the first, with the score staying close early in a 5-4 match. It was just then when the Mavericks went on an 8-1 run and brought the score to 13-5.

Despite an eventual six straight points from the Beavers, the Mavericks took the set 25-16, and earned the road sweep over Minot.

On Saturday, the Mavericks had a slow start against UMary right away, going down in 4-1 after earning the first point.

MSU had a lot of time to get back into it, though, and they did so almost immediately. Once the Mavericks got out to a 6-5 lead, they didn’t lose it for the rest of the set, winning 25-15.

Set two was a bit tighter when the Mavericks found themselves down 13-12, until they went on a 13-3 run for the rest of the set and jumped out to a 2-0 lead.

The Mavericks had just one more set to win to close out their season, and did so with a 25-17 win, and ending their season 14-14 (9-11 NSIC).

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Football falls in season finale

By KOLE BUELOW Staff Writer Just like that, the 2021 college football season is over for the Minnesota State Mavericks.

Heading into the season the Mavs were one of the most highly regarded teams in Division II football, finding themselves ranked No. 2 nationally heading into the first game of the season.

From there on out, the season did not go as planned for the Mavericks.

The former No. 2 seed struggled against teams at or above .500 all throughout the season. A story that unfortunately remained true nearly every game MSU played during the season.

The Mavericks finished the season out with a record above .500 just as hoped, but only found themselves one game above the mark for the first time since 2010 when the team finished 6-5 overall.

The Mavs had been nearly unstoppable ever since the 2010 season, with several overall records with only one loss and double digit wins.

MSU finished off their 2021 season visiting the Winona State Warriors on a twogame road trip.

The Warriors were yet another team above .500 the Mavericks would face before completing their season, which proved to be the team’s kryptonite once again.

Heading to Winona, the

SWEEP Continued from page 9 on the night.

Along with the three goal night, Borchardt tallied an assist on Smith’s second period goal, earning him the first star of the game.

“I think there was a weight of the world lifted off his back and I thought he played very well,” head coach Mike Hastings commented on Borchardt’s four-point night.

Minnesota State went on to complete their sweep of the Falcons on Saturday night when the Mavericks won 5-3.

MANSOOR AHMAD • The Reporter Head coach Todd Hoffner, center, hung his head as senior quarterback JD Ekowa, right, spoke to the team after the Mavericks’ 18-16 loss to the Winona State Warriors on the road Saturday afternoon. With the loss, the Mavericks ended their season with a record of 6-5.

Mavs sat at 6-4 overall on the season with the chance at somewhat salvaging a disappointing 2021 campaign with a win over the Warriors.

With only pride on the line, as both teams were already out of playoff contention, the two teams were underway in Winona.

It was a chilly 1 p.m. start for the two teams, as the temperature floated around freezing nearly the whole game.

The temperature proved to be crucial when seeing the two competitors’ gameplan, as both the Mavs and Warriors stuck to a run heavy attack on offense.

Minnesota State was able to get on the board first in this one, thanks to a 21 yard field goal on their first drive of the game.

The game got weirder with the weather from there, with

the next score coming in the form of a safety for the Warriors as the score stood at 3-2 with eight minutes remaining in the first.

The Warriors took advantage of their new found momentum to finish out the first quarter, scoring a field goal and a touchdown to extend their lead to nine heading into the second.

The Mavs were able to respond however, with a field goal and touchdown of their own to bring the half time score to 13-12.

Not much happened in the second half of the contest, as the freezing cold temps significantly hindered any output from either teams’ offense.

Both teams were able to find field goals in the third quarter, and Winona one in the fourth, bringing the score to 18-16 with 10:01 remaining in the

MSU scored two goals in the first 3:49 of play with Napravnik and Ondrej Pavel each snagging one, followed by Lucas Sowder’s first goal since February of 2020. “He’s been putting a lot of effort in. ...Finally getting some numbers to equate his effort is going to do a lot for his confidence,” said Hastings about Sowder’s first goal of the season after dealing with injuries.

BGSU answered with two powerplay goals, but it would be Benton Maass firing one from the point to grab the game-winning goal for the Mavericks.

After the Falcons grabbed one more powerplay goal, Sam Morton sealed the win with a powerplay goal of his own.

Four of the five goals the Falcons scored across the weekend came on the powerplay, something the Mavericks need to clean up for their next series against St. Thomas. “We better,” Hastings said about getting their penalty kill to top shape. “Running those numbers aren’t going to win you a lot of hockey games.”

Dryden McKay added two wins to his record, stopping 19 shots in Friday’s game and 12 in Saturday’s game.

final quarter.

As the Mavericks got the ball back, all they were able to accomplish was chewing their own clock before punting the ball to the Warriors.

Winona State was able to do the same against MSU, only leaving 25 seconds on the clock for the Mavericks to make it into field goal range for the chance at a game winning field goal.

The Mavs were unable to do so, however, falling in their last game of the season to Winona State 18-16.

Senior quarterback JD

Ekowa finished with 74 yards and a touchdown on the day for the Mavs, with junior wide receiver Jalen Sample on the receiving end of most of Ekowa’s attempts.

Sample collected eight receptions for 57 yards and a touchdown while redshirt freshman running back Christian Vasser finished with 104 rushing yards on the ground.

With the loss to the Warriors in the last game of the season, the Mavericks finish out their 2021 campaign at 6-5 overall and eighth in the NSIC.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Vikings get results from increased aggression

MARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ • Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS With their window tightening for playoff contention, the Minnesota Vikings finally won a close game against a winning team by simply letting loose.

By going for it instead of settling for the safer options of kicking and throwing deep to their star wide receivers, the Vikings delivered a signature victory that just might portend a more aggressive approach on offense down the stretch.

“If we get an opportunity to win the game, then we’re going to try to win the game,” coach Mike Zimmer said Monday, the day after beating the Los Angeles Chargers 27-20.

Zimmer kept the offense on the field on fourth down twice Sunday. From the 1-yard line late in the third quarter, Kirk Cousins connected with tight end Tyler Conklin for their second touchdown of the afternoon and a 20-17 lead.

Then on fourth-and-2 from the Chargers 36, just before the 2-minute warning, Dalvin Cook went for 4 yards around the right edge on a toss sweep that allowed the Vikings to run out the clock.

“I thought both fourth down calls were great. They hit,” Cousins said. “I think we needed both of them, too, to be able to win that game.”

The game-sealing run by Cook was preceded by an 18-yard completion to Adam Thielen, the kind of upfield push that was lacking the

previous two games when the Vikings (4-5) wasted fourth-quarter leads and lost to both Dallas and Baltimore.

Cousins was especially productive when targeting Justin Jefferson, who had two acrobatic 27-yard receptions. Cousins spotted him in man-to-man coverage along the sideline in both situations — third-and-6 from their 29 on the final possession and second-and-7 from their 32 midway through the third quarter on the drive that ended in Conklin’s fourth-down TD catch.

“Him just saying, ‘J.J. over there, let me go throw it up and him make a play.’”

Jefferson said. “I like when he does that.”

The special teams units that failed the Vikings so frequently last year and made several noticeable mistakes in the first half of this season have turned it around.

Dede Westbrook had a 45yard punt return Sunday, the second longest in the NFL this season. With 69 yards on three attempts, Westbrook matched Minnesota’s punt return yardage total for the entire 2020 season. Greg Joseph is also 6 for 6 on field goals and 8 for 8 on extra points over the past three games.

Though the Vikings were effective when they sent extra pass rushers on Justin Herbert and rookie safety Camryn Bynum again played well in Harrison Smith’s place, the secondary has been in a precarious position without cornerback Patrick Peterson for the past three games.

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Pitlick scores 1st 3 goals, Wild beat Kraken ASSOCIATED PRESS Rem Pitlick scored his first three NHL goals and the Minnesota Wild beat the Seattle Kraken 4-2 Saturday night for their fifth win in six games.

Nico Sturm added an empty-netter with about 5 minutes left, and Ryan Hartman had three assists for Minnesota. Cam Talbot had 28 saves.

Pitlick became the 31st player in NHL history — and first for the Wild — to get a hat trick in the same game as scoring his first goal.

“It’s hard to put into words,” Pitlick said. “I’m trying to take it all in. Obviously super-excited to get the first one, and then three — I don’t know. I’m just super grateful.”

Pitlick came into the game with four assists in 15 career games — four with the Wild this year and 11 with Nashville last season. Before his scoring outburst against the Kraken, the former University of Minnesota player had only two shots all season.

“He plays the right way and got rewarded for it,” said Wild coach Dean Evason. “What we noticed on the breakaways is that, yes, he made some nice moves and finished nice, but he’s going so fast he just has to skate past goaltenders.”

Marcus Johansson had a power-play goal for Seattle, and Alex Wennberg also scored. Philipp Grubauer finished with 18 saves. The Kraken have lost six of seven since a 4-1 win here over the

TOURNEY Continued from page 9 dji State, with Allie Williams sealing it for the Mavericks with her unassisted goal in the 82nd minute, who left Stumbaugh just standing and staring at the ball as it went in over her head.

Mackenzie Rath allowed two goals in the contest, ending her shutout streak of

TED S. WARREN • Associated Press A worker picks up hats that were thrown onto the ice after a hat trick by Minnesota Wild center Rem Pitlick (16) against Seattle.

Wild on Oct. 28.

“There’s a ton of emotion for our players. They’re working hard,” Seattle coach Dave Hakstol said. “A couple of spots tonight we pressed a little bit too hard and it cost us. I won’t fault our guys’ effort in any way, shape or form tonight.”

Pitlick got his first goal with 7:27 left in the first period. Hartman hustled down the ice to get the puck on the boards near the red line, and his cross-ice pass found Pitlick in front. where he was able to sneak the shot in past Grubauer.

“It was nice for him to set the momentum for me to get that first one,” Pitlick said.

“That first pass was unbelievable. The awareness to see it, even, and then the execution like it was just on a platter.”

Hartman set up Pitlick again midway through the second. Hartman’s hit on Seattle’s Jared McCann led to

a turnover, with Pitlick getting the puck near the blue line for an easy breakaway at 7:44. With 40 seconds left in the period, Hartman again found Pitlick streaking up the ice after a turnover for a breakaway to complete the hat trick.

“Those were three pretty highlight-reel goals, too,” Talbot said. “He definitely earned it tonight.”

Johansson pulled Seattle to 3-1 at 9:19 of the third with the team’s first power-play goal at home. The Kraken had started 0 for 20 with the man advantage on home ice.

After Sturm regained Minnesota’s three-goal lead, Wennberg pulled Seattle back within two with 1:02 remaining. The Wild (10-4-0) have 20 points for the best start through 14 games in franchise history. Minnesota also had 20 points after 14 games in 2015-16, 2006-07 and 2002-03.

397:27, and four total shutouts.

Mathis went on to be named the NSIC Tournament’s Most Valuable Player, with Williams, Rath, Jenny Vetter, and Kelly Friedrich earning All-Tournament Team honors.

Next up for the Mavericks is Oklahoma Baptist in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Mavericks

earned the No. 4 seed in the tournament to take on the No. 5 Oklahoma Baptist Bisons. The Bisons finished their season with a 13-5-1 record and won the Great American Conference title with a 1-0 win over Southwestern Oklahoma State University.

Bemidji State earned the No. 3 seed in the opposite side of the Central Region bracket.

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Washington confirms that injury is season-ending

MARK TENALLY • Associated Press

ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Football Team defensive end Chase Young sits in the bench area with ice on his leg during the second half of an NFL football game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2021, in Landover, Md. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally) Chase Young will not play the rest of this season after injuring his right leg and is scheduled to undergo surgery.

Washington coach Ron Rivera confirmed the prognosis for Young on Monday in the wake of the reigning Defensive Rookie of the Year going down during the first half of an upset of defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay. Rivera did not reveal whether Young tore the ACL in his right knee and did not specify what the surgery is for. Washington said Sunday that Young left the game with a knee injury, and Rivera said it was possibly an ACL tear.

The 2020 No. 2 pick finishes his second NFL season with 1 1/2 sacks. Rookie Shaka Toney is among the pass rushers who will fill in for Young at Carolina and the rest of the year.

“We’re going to rely on some young guys to step up and get opportunities,” Rivera said.

Young got hurt Sunday

while trying to get past left tackle Donovan Smith in order to pressure Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady. He ended up on the grass, wincing and writhing around on the ground for a bit, all the while keeping his right leg straight.

After Young was checked by team trainers, a cart was driven out onto the field. But Young declined to get on and be driven off, instead motioning for teammate Brandon Scherff to give him a hand to help stand up.

Young then headed toward the locker room, draping his arms on the shoulders of two people for support while he limped off. He gave teammates a speech of encouragement at halftime and returned to the sideline on crutches later.

WHAT’S WORKING Washington’s defense shined with and without Young against Brady and the Buccaneers, pressuring the 44-year-old quarterback plenty and intercepting him twice. Third-down defense, which was the unit’s worst category during the first few games of the season, was much better, holding Tampa Bay to a 40% conversion rate.

“We eliminated the stupid mistakes,” defensive tackle Jonathan Allen said. “We made them drive the length of the field and not go over the top on us.

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Arozarena earns Rookie of Year honors ASSOCIATED PRESS It didn’t feel like Randy Arozarena was a rookie this season.

Tampa Bay’s speedy and powerful outfielder certainly didn’t play like one, either.

Arozarena won AL Rookie of the Year honors with a superb follow-up to his 2020 postseason heroics while Cincinnati Reds second baseman Jonathan India earned NL Rookie of the Year on Monday night.

The standout years for Arozarena and India highlight the changing profile of a good MLB leadoff hitter.

Both players have speed and a good eye, but also considerable power. It’s the first time since 1953 that the rookie of the year winners were both primarily leadoff hitters.

That season, Detroit’s Harvey Kuenn and Brooklyn’s Jim Gilliam won.

If it didn’t seem like this wasn’t Arozarena’s first year, there’s a reason. The 26-yearold Cuban provided a stunning lift for the Rays during the 2020 postseason with 10 homers in 18 games during their run to the World Series.

But Arozarena didn’t play enough during the 2020 regular season to lose his rookie status so he was eligible for the award this year.

He followed up his postseason breakout with an excellent season in 2021, finishing with a .274 average, 32 doubles, 20 homers, 20 stolen bases and 69 RBIs while add-

DAVID J. PHILLIP • Associated Press Tampa Bay Rays’ Randy Arozarena watches his home run against the Houston Astros during the ninth inning.

ing excellent defense, helping the Rays return to the postseason.

“I know I was favored to be the rookie of the year,” Arozarena said through a translator. “But for me, my mind wasn’t set on the award or winning the award. My mind and my goal was to have another good season and continue what I had done the year before.”

Arozarena earned 22 of 30 first-place votes in balloting by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, beating out Houston right-hander Luis Garcia and Tampa Bay infielder Wander Franco.

Arozarena is Tampa Bay’s first rookie of the year since outfielder Wil Myers in 2013.

Five AL players received at least one first-place vote in this year’s tally, including Garcia, Franco, Texas out-

fielder Adolis García and Cleveland pitcher Emmanuel Clase. Garcia hit 31 homers this season while Clase had a 1.29 ERA in Cleveland’s bullpen.

The 20-year-old Franco has the label as one of MLB’s future stars and his performance in 2021 did nothing to discourage that billing. The infielder hit .288 with seven homers and 39 homers while playing less than half the season.

The 24-year-old Garcia was instrumental in the Astros’ run to the World Series this season. He had an 11-8 record with a 3.48 ERA and struck out 167 batters over 155 1/3 innings.

India won the NL award eight months after earning the team’s second base job during spring training and never letting it go during a stellar first season.

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“Slasher” kills the patriarchy Horrifying comedy on the clash of feminism

By LILLY SCHMIDT Staff Writer

By EMMA JOHNSON Staff Writer

In the last theatre performance of the semester at Minnesota State University, Mankato, “Slasher” brings a horrifying comedy that redefines the feminist perspective.

“Slasher” focuses on Sheena, a young woman who gets casted in a B-roll slasher film, an exciting opportunity for her to make it big and leave her small town. Her mom, Francis, is a superfeminist and when she discovers the role Sheena is cast in, she will stop at nothing to stop her daughter from getting the opportunity.

When director Sarah Honerman pitched the idea to faculty at the beginning of the season, she was thrilled when they picked it up. Honerman believes the message of self-defining feminism and how society continues to boost women was one of the reasons she hopped on the opportunity to direct the production.

“Horror has not always been kind to women and [the show] lets old-wave feminism and new-wave feminism play out in a horror lens,” said Honerman. “It’s a beautiful look at how horror has championed and failed feminism altogether.”

Billed as a horror comedy, the show’s complexity of balancing topics such as fem-

inism with comedic elements drew senior McKenna Prill to audition for the show. Prill plays Francis, Sheena’s superfeminist mom who wants to stop Mark Hunter’s heinous production that Sheena stars in.

“Originally, when I was reading the script, I didn’t know who to audition for and when I got cast as Francis, I was shocked as I’d never done a horror comedy before,” shared Prill. “The more I read about her, she was so complex and complicated. It was a fun challenge.”

With women’s rights being a hot discussion in society, the ability to transcend those modern ideas and oldwave feminism movements is demonstrated throughout the production and done well in an exciting manner. Senior Via Logan, who plays Sheena, is fond of a certain line

Photos by HANNA MUN • The Reporter MNSU students during a performance of “Slasher” in the Andreas Theatre as the show premieres this week.

that manages to blend the two worlds together.

“In one scene, Francis says ‘You’re dragging us down, you’re supposed to finish what we started,’ and Sheena says, ‘I’m pulling myself up’

which shows that feminism looks different from woman to woman,” said Logan. “I think it really encapsulates the dichotomy by saying that one isn’t better than the other.

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Good Thunder host their final fall workshop

By SYDNEY BERGGREN Staff Writer

This past Thursday, the Good Thunder program hosted recently published but widely awarded poet Su Hwang for their bi-semester reading series. Hwang, author of the lauded poem collection “Bodega,” led writing exercises, a talk on structuring a manuscript, and read excerpts from her book at different points throughout the day.

Folk musician Charlie Parr at MNSU

Hwang, who was born in Seoul and grew up in NYC and San Francisco, moved to the Twin Cities to receive her MFA in poetry at the University of Minnesota. Now, Hwang teaches with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and works as co-founder of Poetry Asylum with fellow poet and educator Sun Yung Shin Hwang’s Good Thunder events drew quite the crowd, with the workshop and craft

talk being particularly popular. At the workshop, Hwang led the attendees through an exercise in blackout poetry, where one takes an existing piece of writing, and blacks words out until only specific ones are left, creating a poem.

At the craft talk, Hwang revelled in the crowd for a moment before asking if she could take a picture of them.

“At the beginning of [my writing career], I said I would never give a craft talk, but here

I am. Never say never,” she commented.

Hwang’s presentation was entitled ‘Order and Chaos: Ways to Maybe Structure a Poetry Manuscript.’ “Its approximations, suggestions, and imitations- I am by no means an expert, none of this is fixed… Writing is an endless quest.”

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Folk musician Charlie Parr performed at EJ Halling Recital Hall with Liz Draper Sunday.

Parr released his newest Album “Last of the Better Days Ahead” in July, and was eager to share some of this new music now that live shows are an option again. According to his website, the album, “represents one full rotation of the boat in which we are adrift — looking ahead for a last look at the better days to come, then turning around to see the leading edge of the past as it fades into the foggy dreamscape of our real and imagined histories.”

Parr has more than 20 folk albums with Smithsonian FolkWays Recordings. His audience reaches from Ireland to Australia and all parts in between.

Between songs Parr shared stories from his youth. He recalled working at a filling station in his youth and bringing his guitar to work to keep himself occupied during long hours.

Draper’s origin in music started early.

“I grew up in a musical family. My dad was a professional musician. I had been playing violin and piano from like the age of four and I enjoyed music, but I didn’t really connect with either of those instruments,” she said. “I was in the school orchestra here in Mankato and in eighth grade I decided I either wanted to quit or play the bass. So I basically picked the bass and I fell in love with it.”

Draper’s personal style is what she describes as “classical folk doom jazz.” She has a degree in classical bass performance with a focus in jazz and improvisation. She started working with Charlie because, “We like the same type of music and I wanted to collaborate. So he invited me to play and it worked really well and we’ve been friends pretty much ever since.”

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SLASHER Continued from page 13 It’s just a new wave of feminism.”

The overall hope of the show is that audiences will come for the laughter, but leave with a new introspect on how feminism is defined by society’s standards and factors that cause different views on feminism.

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“I honestly think he’s one of the greatest songwriters of our time. I seriously think he’s a national treasure,” she said. “He doesn’t usually do setlists. He changes his keys.

So I have to fly by the seat of

READING Continued from page 13 ror, chance, intuition, a dose of magic, blood-sweat-tears, and a bit of dumb luck,” Hwang said. “Even after publishing I am still learning and in the process of figuring things out.”

She talked some about the process of getting published as a poet which, unless you choose to self publish, involves submitting your works to contests and magazines, which was a struggle for Hwang when she was in the process of finalizing her manuscript, as she went through a series of rejections. “Art is subjective, we all know this,” she said.

“It’s about going through the motions again and again until you find someone who resonates.”

The main thing to consider when formatting and finalizing your manuscript, Hwang said, was the question of; what is your book about? You have to be able to sell the idea of your book

“I hope that people laugh but realize that the fright doesn’t come from jumpscares. It comes from the real world of danger that the male characters inherently possess and the true physical harm that they can cause outside of the context of the play,” shared Logan.

“I hope they hear the message that we’re trying to get across. It’s not a slap in

the face about feminism, it’s a sneak. I hope they hear the little tidbits that add up throughout the whole show,” added Prill.

“Slasher” runs in the Andreas Theatre from Nov. 17 to Nov. 20 with doors opening at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and children under 16 and $8 for MNSU students.

my pants, and it’s pretty fun.

And he’s such a kind, kinda soul. He’s brilliant, but he’s a good, good friend, and there’s there’s much to learn, on so many different levels.”

Parr and Draper were pleased with the Mankato crowd. Draper said.

“The audience was, I felt, very attentive. I moved to

Mankato in eighth grade and never really came back until the pandemic. And it’s great to come back to my hometown with my parents and familiar people in the audience. And my partner was in the audience. I got to play for him and his kid. Having people I love in the audience means a lot.”

to someone. What is it’s goal?

If you cannot pinpoint that, and if it is not solid, then you may need to revisit your manuscript. “Focus on core values and be your own best advocate- some people will love your work, some won’t; you can’t please everyone,” noted the poet.

Hwang then discussed the synergy between the poems themselves. “You want the poems to be in conversation with each other- but what kind of conversation?” she said. “Be capacious- in that emptiness between two poems, there is still something there. You’re breaking the fourth wall by creating this other emptiness. Trust your reader to make the leaps.”

“Poems are living and breathing both individually and collectively- they are never static… It’s a human thing to tell stories. It’s how humans communicate. With poetry it’s important to understand that it’s never a straight linear narrative,” Hwang noted on the life and interaction of poems.

The reading event, which occurred later in the evening, was attended by audience members both in person and viewing the program’s Facebook live screening. Hwang was preceded by MFA student Robyn Katona, winner of the Robert C. Wright award.

Hwang read excerpts from “Bodega,” many of which detailed her experience growing up as a Korean immigrant in the laundromat her parents owned. One in particular, called “Five Sonnets,” is part of the Waxwing Literary Journal’s “Fresh Off The Boat” collection, and speaks, in five parts, about the process of the journey to America, racism Hwang and her family faced, language barriers, crime, and the want to assimilate. This one in particular seemed to touch the crowd.

The Good Thunder reading series resumes on Feb. 3 of next year, with author Brett Biebel. Information can be found on the Good Thunder website.

NOREEN NASIR • Associated Press New muppet, Ji-Young, the first Asian American muppet, appears on the set of the long-running children’s program “Sesame Street” in New York on Nov. 1, 2021.

ASSOCIATED PRESS What’s in a name? Well, for Ji-Young, the newest muppet resident of “Sesame Street,” her name is a sign she was meant to live there.

“So, in Korean traditionally the two syllables they each mean something different and Ji means, like, smart or wise. And Young means, like, brave or courageous and strong,” Ji-Young explained during a recent interview. “But we were looking it up and guess what? Ji also means sesame.”

At only 7 years old, JiYoung is making history as the first Asian American muppet in the “Sesame Street” canon. She is Korean Amer-

ican and has two passions: rocking out on her electric guitar and skateboarding.

The children’s TV program, which first aired 52 years ago this month, gave The Associated Press a first look at its adorable new occupant.

Ji-Young will formally be introduced in “See Us Coming Together: A Sesame Street Special.” Simu Liu, Padma Lakshmi and Naomi Osaka are among the celebrities appearing in the special, which will drop Thanksgiving Day on HBO Max, “Sesame Street” social media platforms and on local PBS stations.

Some of Ji-Young’s personality comes from her puppeteer Kathleen Kim.

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K-pop band TWICE basking in global popularity, plans US tour

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When “Red” first came out in 2012 I wasn’t a huge fan of Swift. I loved the albums before that and the albums following this one, but for some reason I didn’t care for “Red”. This could be because I was only 13 when the album came out and the only heartbreak I knew was the realization that One Direction would never know who I was.

To prepare for this groundbreaking record, I made sure to listen to the album on repeat and since Taylor’s Version came out, I once again have the new album on repeat. After listening to it all day for the past four days I’ve gathered a strong opinion about everything revolving around it.

My favorite song from this album has been “The Last Time” because of how much sorrow is behind the lyrics and the chemistry between Swift and Gary Lightbody, who is featured on the song.

In the new version those feelings and emotions are still there and stronger than before.

This song makes me want to sit in the shower fully clothed and reflect on the words being sung. The original singles from the album were some of the songs I was most excited to hear, but some

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of them were slightly disappointing. The energy that was behind the songs weren’t completely there for the re-recording, specifically with “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” and “22”.

These two songs left me feeling as if something was missing and sounded like Swift wanted to get done with them so she could focus on the other aspects of the songs.

Besides these, the other original songs I believe conveyed the grief and heartache written about before.

Of course, the ten minute version of “All Too Well” is what everyone was looking forward to. This song already captured the heartbreak Swift experienced and made everyone who listened to the song sob, and the longer version only captures the emotional

abuse she went through even more.

To go with this song Swift directed a short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien, who acted out the relationship and expressed the joys and pains attached to it.

This 15 minute film left me in shock and pain, now being able to visually see what Swift experienced in this relationship and relate to more of the song.

On this album 10 vault songs were included, with “I Bet You Think About Me” getting a music video that released yesterday, directed by Blake Lively.

Overall, I think this album lived up to the hype for the most part while exceeding my expectations at the same time.

LEE JIN-MAN • Associated Press South Korean K-pop group TWICE poses for a photo after an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021.

ASSOCIATED PRESS TWICE, the nine-member K-pop band with over 9 million Twitter followers, says they feel their growing popularity overseas.

“People didn’t know as much about us as they do now,” band member Jihyo told The Associated Press ahead of last week’s release of the band’s third fulllength album “Formula Of Love: O+T=3, adding that the growing popularity of K-pop around the world has allowed the band to release more English tracks.

The new album has 17 tracks with three all-English songs.

On Monday, they announced a tour that will start

in Seoul on Dec. 24 and will bring them in February to five U.S. cities.

TWICE released their first full English-language single “The Feels” in October, which was their first song to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

TWICE is a household name in South Korea and Japan — where the band regularly tops the Oricon music charts, Japan’s equivalent of Billboard. (Members Sana, Mina, and Momo of TWICE are from Japan.)

The band’s success comes after years of hard work.

TWICE, which debuted in 2015, walked into the interview with full energy even after five hours of intense dance practice.

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