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Tutoring Center recognized with national award Association lauds UMD’s Supportive Services Program BY BRETT DEVINE Statesman Correspondent
Alyssa Lommel (right) sometimes gets a piggy back ride from friend Amy Bechtold, who helps to take care of Alyssa when Alyssa’s mother, Teri, needs a break. KIMM ANDERSON, ST. CLOUD TIMES/SUBMITTED Photos reprinted with permission from the St. Cloud Times.
Nearing normalcy
Healing and adjusting, Lommel eyes return to campus in fall
Four months after she was found unconscious on a neighbor’s porch in subzero temperatures, Alyssa Lommel told the St. Cloud Times she intends to return to UMD in the fall. A sophomore at UMD, Lommel was experiencing hypothermia and severe swelling from frostbite when she was found by passersby on Woodland Avenue the morning of Dec. 7. She was airlifted to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, where she had parts of her hands and feet surgically removed during a two-month stay.
With the help of specially-made prosthetic devices, Alyssa Lommel can now apply her own makeup. KIMM ANDERSON, ST. CLOUD TIMES/SUBMITTED
Lommel spent three weeks in a coma and much of her first month in the hospital resting. Doctors put Lommel on a physical therapy regimen in late Decem-
ber, and she underwent surgery on her hands and feet in January. Skin grafts for the surgeries were taken from Lommel’s thigh. On Feb. 3 Lommel was
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UMD’s Supportive Services Program was named outstanding program of the year at an annual conference put on by the Association for the Tutoring Profession on March 23. Paul Treuer, the interim director for the Supportive Services Program (SSP), said UMD’s program is “a national model for credit-based tutoring.” At UMD, tutors are awarded college credits rather than monetary payment for their work. In addition to being highly cost-effective, a creditbased model allows the program to help students who become tutors by having a set curriculum for tutors to follow. “The whole system is based on training,” Treuer said. Students who have the academic credentials and the desire to become a tutor must go through courses that prepare them for the job. Treuer said one of the first things students do when becoming a tutor is a “pencil test,” where “the tutor can’t hold a pencil; the student has to do all the work.” see TUTORING, A3
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transferred to St. Cloud Hospital, and on Feb. 11 she was released and able to stay at her family’s house in St. Cloud. see LOMMEL, A4
Tutor Daniel Gala (right) works with a student at the Learning Commons in the UMD Library. BRETT GROEHLER/SUBMITTED
With student input, a Ven Den renovation An empty Ven Den on April 15. The area is set for a $250,000 renovation based on a winning student design. JOE FRASER/ STATESMAN
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Walking into the Ven Den can sometimes feel like going through a time machine, and somehow ending up in a Brady Bunch-era lunch room. With fluorescent lights shining on orange-
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checkered linoleum flooring, it doesn’t look like much has changed since the 1970s. But things may change soon. UMD has plans to redesign the space, located on the lower level of Bohannon Hall, through student input. The Office for Student Life
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is holding a competition in which students can submit design ideas for the space and possibly win cash prizes. “I anticipate we’ll get a lot of good ideas,” said Student Life Director Pat Keenan. “We want to bring in a lot of ideas and incorporate the best ideas into the project. The competition is just
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a fun way to get students involved.” Students are able to form groups of up to five people, and are asked to create a 10- to 15-minute presentation showcasing their ideas. The top group’s ideas will be incorporated into the final see VEN DEN, A3
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Arbor Day is on Tuesday, April 22. Here are some fun ways to celebrate!
Pick up trash Melting snow reveals the trash that has been accumulating underneath. Spend some time with friends going down the street and picking up garbage. Whoever picks up the most gets a treat. Plant a tree
Skip the car If at all possible, spend the day using only eco-friendly transportation. This can be anything from walking to skateboarding.
Hit up Whole Foods Make a meal Mother Earth would approve of with fresh, locally-grown ingredients. Focus on plantbased foods, which require far fewer resources to grow than mass-produced meat.
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How long did you spend in prison? 17 years, 8 months and 1 day on death row. What crime were you convicted of? First degree murder and armed robbery. What was death row like? Hell (laughs). And what got you through it? The support of the family, the support of pen pals and being innocent helped a lot (laughs). Did you ever give up hope that the truth wouldn’t be found? Hope is just like a little kid. A little kid will fall down, get up and try to walk again. So I lost it, but I always found a way to bring it back. What was it like to get exonerated? One of the happiest days of my life. Very emotional. It’s hard to explain. There was a lot of emotion involved. But all I can tell you is it’s like a shock, but a good one! Did you keep in touch with anyone that you served time with? No. I don’t, but they know what I’m doing. The newsletter will go inside all the time, and they know exactly what I’m doing. I think they are very proud of me. That’s what I hear. I don’t get in touch with so many of them, but I would fight for them all the time. What did you have in common with other inmates, and what didn’t you have in common with other inmates? Some of them — lots of them — are guilty. Some of them are innocent. Who is innocent? Who is guilty? Nobody knows. One thing I learned, when somebody say he is innocent sometimes you should take it seriously. He can be (laughs). How did being on death row transform you? Change your outlook on life? (Since) I’ve been out it makes me appreciate life more. Being close to death is a hell of a thing to go through. Do you feel like your life was wasted during those years? Not really. I feel like it was a thing that I got to go through, and it’s a fight that I got to finish.
A classic way to celebrate Arbor Day is by planting a tree. If this isn’t possible, try growing an indoor plant instead. This can be especially fun if the plant can be transferred to outdoor soil in the summer.
reduce, reuse, recycle Go the entire day without buying anything to reduce demand on resources. Donate unwanted clothes and books, or find ways to repurpose them. And remember to recycle everything possible.
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What’s been the hardest part of the whole experience? When they execute someone was the hardest part for me. When they kill people. That’s very hard. You mentioned the racism of the prison industrial complex. The racism is more involved with the victim. That’s my understanding, that’s what I see. When a white man kills a black man, a prosecutor is not thinking too much about the death penalty. But when it’s vice versa, they do. Why is it important to go around and educate the public on the death penalty, especially on college campuses? To me, especially college campuses, they got the strength, they got power, lots of power. More power than they think they have. To me they have a lot. And the main thing is I don’t want what happened to me to happen to somebody else. What results from your work have you seen? I (have) seen a lot of results since I’ve been out. I’ve been out 11 years, (and) six states have abolished the death penalty. So what’s life like for you right now? It’s beautiful.
Juan Melendez giving a speech at UMD about his experience of being on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. ALEX GANEEV/STATESMAN
From sap to syrup
RSOP teaches how the sweet treat is made BY ALOYSIA POWER Multimedia Editor
Caught in the middle of spring’s fight against winter are the maple trees in the Bagley Nature Area. One week spring is ahead and the days are warm, encouraging the maple sap to flow up the tree trunks into the branches. The next week, winter strikes back, and the sap flow freezes with the falling snow. It’s been a slow spring for the RSOP Maple Sugar Bush Program, which takes local school groups out to tap the maple trees in Bagley in order to collect the tree sap. This sap is used to make maple syrup. “There was an initial run a week or two before the big storm because it had warmed up so much,” Erin Denny, the Maple Sugar Bush Program Coordinator, said. “Then, it stopped.” For the sap to flow, maple trees need warm days and cold nights. The freezing night temperatures create negative pressure in the trees, causing suction that draws water from the ground through the roots until it reaches all the way up to the branches. The warm day temperatures do just the opposite, creating positive pressure in the maple trees. This pressure is what pushes the sap — now inside the tree because of the cold night temperatures — out of the taps, or lowest points of pressure, that RSOP drills into the trees.
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Because this temperature fluctuation is necessary for the sap to flow, the tapping season doesn’t last long in Duluth — usually about a month. And right now, the sap is flowing. Last Thursday, The Statesman followed Denny out to Bagley to learn how the traditional woodsman craft is done. Step One: Find a healthy maple tree In the summer and fall, maple trees are easy to identify because of their hand-shaped leaves made famous by the Canadian flag. But, in the spring when the leaves have yet to grow and the trees are naked, identifying a maple tree can be a bit harder than usual. “The easiest way to tell if it’s a maple is if you look up at the branches,” Denny said. According to Denny, the twigs on the branches are longer and thinner compared to other trees, and they branch out from the main stem in opposite directions in pairs of two. Maples can also be spotted because of their buds, which are a half-inch to an inch thick she said. The buds look like they’ve been “dipped in maple syrup” because of their brown color. However, not every maple is big enough to tap. The tapping process can stunt a tree’s growth if it is too young. RSOP’s rule of thumb for tapping Bagley trees is that it must be 8 inches through the middle Denny said. Trees that meet RSOP’s minimum diameter can only support one tap, but larger trees can handle more. The standard requirement for two taps is a 21- to 27-inch diameter trunk, and for three taps a 27-inch or greater diameter according to tapmytrees. com. Step Two: Drill a tap hole About a two-inch deep hole is necessary to reach the sap, which flows up through the outer part of the inner tree called the sapwood. see MAPLE, B5
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Denny used an old hand drill to hollow out a nook in the trunk for the tap to sit in. The tap is a small metal spigot that allows the sap to flow out of the tree into a collection bucket. She angled the tap hole so the sap could flow down and out of the tree. Then, she took the tap, placed it in the hole and hammered it into place. “It’s OK to jam it in there because the trees expand and get skinny,” Denny said. “And so, if you don’t pound it in there, it could fall out.” Immediately, the sap began to spew out of the hole onto the ground. Step Three: Collect the sap Once the tap was set, Denny pulled the metal collection bucket from her hiking backpack and hung it underneath the mouth of the spout on a hook attached to the bottom side of the tap. The water-like liquid began to run out of the tree and collect at the tip of the spout, forming a clear, round droplet. After a few seconds, the droplet expanded to a size where it could no longer resist gravitational forces. It slipped off the edge of the spout and splattered on the bottom of the empty metal bucket with a quiet “plop.” This process repeated over the next two hours until a thin layer of the orange-tinted liquid sat in The spigot allows the sap to flow from a tree into a bucket for collection. ALOYSIA POWERS/STATESMAN the bucket. According to Denny, RSOP uses a mixture of metal buckets and plastic bags to collect sap from each tap to show there are many ways to do it. But, they only tap maple trees. “Sugar maples have the highest sugar content,” she said. “You get a lot more bang for your buck.” Once the buckets are full, RSOP volunteers hop on a snowmobile, exchange the filled buckets with empty buckets, then build a fire to boil most of the water off the sap. What’s left is a highly sugar-concentrated golden-brown liquid: Tah-dah! They have maple syrup. Denny said it takes about 32 gallons of sugar maple sap to create one gallon of syrup. Right now, the volunteers have 14 gallons of sap total.
A plastic bag is one way to capture the sap. Another way the sap is collected is by using a metal bucket. ALOYSIA POWERS/STATESMAN
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At 11 a.m. on March 24, two males walked into a classroom in LSBE. The males made non-verbal gestures to each other that included odd facial expressions. One of the males wrote the word “pow-
er” in a notebook. No one in the room confronted the males, but a student later reported the incident to a professor who then called police. A UMDPD officer contacted the student who reported the incident. The student, who reportedly feared for his
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safety because of the actions of the males, had left the class early. UMDPD is investigating the case, and the identity of the males and the nature of their intentions have not been made public. Between March 28 and 30, UMDPD issued four underage consumption tickets and one ticket for underage possession of alcohol. On March 28 at 10:30 p.m., officers were called to Oakland Apartments by a resident assistant who was checking a noisy room. The resident assistant found multiple people with alcohol. Officers diffused the party and sent most of the participants home without a warning. The exception was a female student found hiding in the bathtub. She was issued
a citation for underage consumption. On the night of April 11, officers were again dispatched to Oakland Apartments where several people were reported to have been drinking underage and in possession of marijuana. Six people were cited for underage consumption and one was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia. Around 10:30 p.m. on April 12, UMDPD responded to Heaney Hall and Griggs Hall after reports of two noise disturbances and an intoxicated female who was vomiting. Several of the people found in Heaney Hall were declared sober. All alcohol in the room was dumped out. Warnings were given. Five of the people found in Griggs Hall were issued cita-
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tions for underage consumption. Around 1:30 a.m. on April 13, officers observed an intoxicated male stumbling on Kirby Drive. When the officers contacted the male, they noticed blood on his hands and pants. The male said he had punched a tree, was confused and didn’t know where he was. He was issued a citation for underage consumption and was taken to detox. About an hour later, a male appearing intoxicated was contacted by officers near Lake Superior Hall. The male attempted to run from police but was caught and arrested. The male was issued a citation for underage consumption and fleeing on foot. He was taken to St. Louis County Jail and was held for 12 hours.
Survey: SCSE grads holding relevant jobs 83 percent of SCSE graduates say they hold jobs at least somewhat related to their studies
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According to the Graduate Followup Report compiled by Career and Internship Services, 83 percent of 2011-12 Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE) graduates hold jobs that are at least somewhat related to their fields of study. Of the 222 SCSE graduates surveyed, 68 percent said they held jobs related to their fields of study, 15 percent said they held jobs somewhat related to their fields of study, and 17 percent said they did not hold jobs related to their fields of study.
The numbers compared favorably with the overall rates for UMD graduates surveyed. For graduates of all majors, 57 percent said they held related jobs, 21 percent said they held somewhat related jobs, and 22 percent said they did not hold related jobs. Job relevance rates were exceptionally high for some SCSE majors. All 20 Computer Science graduates surveyed said they held jobs related to their fields of study. And 56 out of 59 (95 percent) Mechanical Engineering graduates surveyed said they held jobs at least somewhat related to their fields of study.
Ven Den redesign. Students are asked to consider things like floor plan layout and wallto-wall interior design. All students are welcome to participate. Cash prizes will be given to the top three teams: $750 for first place, $500 for second and $250 for third. Students interested in participating can visit www.d.umn.edu/studentlife/venden/, or email Keenan at pkeenan@d.umn.edu/. Students planning to submit ideas must notify Keenan by April 28. Presentations will run beginning May 5. “We’re really looking for student’s involvement on this,” Keenan said. “It’s funded by students. With half the money coming from the Student Service Fee Committee, I want to hear what students have to say about it.”
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These courses are substantial enough for students to become accredited through the College Reading and Learning Association, which Truer said “provides a very rigorous process for accreditation.” The skills tutors develop often extend to their professional lives. In a survey conducted by the UMD Tutoring Center, 96 percent of tutors said they developed skills transferable to employment. Jill Strand, an instructor with the SSP, said tutoring looks good on a resume, saying, “It’s tied to academics, but it’s more compelling than an ‘A.’” Treuer agreed. “You have to make quick decisions, because no two students learn the same way,” he said. Treuer also said tutors can typically explain complex concepts to a beginner after two or three semesters
The budget for the project is $250,000, half of which will come from the Student Service Fee Committee. Dining Services has committed $55,000, Facilities Management has committed $50,000, and the Chancellor’s Cabinet has committed the remaining $20,000. “The idea is that we’re just going to take everything out of there — all the seats and machines — redesign it, and then put it all back together,” Keenan said. “It has the possibility of being a really cool space, like the new Kirby lounge, where it’s just a neat place to hang out.” Along with the competition, there will be comment and suggestion boards in the Ven Den and the Kirby Lounge, where students can informally voice their idea for the project. Students are encouraged to create designs that make the most out of the space and open the space to a variety of uses. “The idea is to have a nice relaxing lounge, some kick-back space, some study space,” Keenan said.
of tutoring. Other factors also play into the SSP’s success. Strand said the Association for the Tutoring Profession “loved the idea of the Learning Commons.” Treuer said the idea behind the Learning Commons is collaborative learning. Located on the second floor of the Kathryn A. Martin Library, the Learning Commons offers students a chance to work with each other, oneon-one with a tutor or in a group with a tutor. “Students know they are working with people who went through the same courses with the same professors,” Strand said. This can provide UMD tutors with an advantage over paid tutors, who are unlikely to have completed the same courses or had the same professors. The system has paid off for the students who are tutored. In the Tutoring Center’s survey, 76 percent of students said they felt more comfortable at UMD, 77 percent said they improved academically, and 93 percent said they would recommend being tutored to other students.
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Now, Lommel can walk normally and no longer wears boots designed to protect her heels. She can perform daily tasks, like applying makeup, with the help of prosthetic devices, and she was recently fitted for a prosthetic hand. Teri Lommel, Alyssa Lommel’s mother, has published periodic updates on her daughter’s condition on the family’s CaringBridge page. According to Teri Lommel, Alyssa Lommel and the rest of the family have been adjusting to the lifestyle changes imposed by the incident last December, when Alyssa Lommel was unable to enter her house and spent nine hours in temperatures that reached 17 below zero. “I still wake up some mornings and have to think for a minute … did this really happen, or was it just a horrible dream?” Teri Lommel wrote on CaringBridge. “And then reality smacks me in the face and I know it’s not a nightmare, but the cold, hard truth. If I have these thoughts and feelings, I can only imagine what goes on in her head.” Teri Lommel said last week that Alyssa Lommel seems to have “moved on to acceptance,” and that
she has stopped wearing hand coverings when she is in public. “She impressed me during the interview (with the St. Cloud Times) when she told the reporter: ‘This is me. If you stare, you stare. If you have a question, ask it. But this is who I am now.’ I had to work really hard to hold back my tears,” Teri Lommel wrote. “I’m not saying there won’t be any more hard days to come, but I think she is getting better at handling them.” Alyssa Lommel said she has ordered her textbooks for summer classes and wants to return to campus in the fall to continue her double major in psychology and sociology. “I know she is getting very bored sitting at home with me all day,” Teri Lommel wrote. “Once her classes start for summer session, she will have something to do that she enjoys. I know she is looking forward to it.” Alyssa Lommel said she visited Duluth in February to meet with her roommates and collect belongings she had left at the house. She said she plans to live with the same roommates in the same house this fall.
Alyssa Lommel sits at home surrounded by signs, jerseys, stuffed animals, blankets and other items she has received from friends and well-wishers. KIMM ANDERSON, ST. CLOUD TIMES/SUBMITTED
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Something smells fishy: If I like lasagna and spaghetti equally, why should I have to decide to eat just one? A few weeks ago there was a piece in The Statesman using food to describe the many benefits of ranked-choice voting (RCV). Years ago when I started researching voting methods, I was encouraged by the RCV. However, as I spent more time investigating the method, something just did not seem right. On the surface, many popular claims made in favor of RCV appear great. However, if you peel back the layers, the claims end up not being true. One such claim is that the winner always receives a majority (over 50 percent) of the total votes in the election. Betsy Hodges won the 2013 Minneapolis mayoral election with 48.95 percent of the votes. Supporters claim this RCV election was a huge success in Minneapolis. But a recent Star Tribune survey found that more people preferred the old method (41 percent) over RCV (39 percent). The method is also claimed to save money by eliminating a primary, but a number of other methods, including Score Voting (which will be explained later), would not need primaries. Tallying RCV votes can be costly. Minneapolis found this out when the 2013 RCV election cost the city $1.7 million — $400,000 more than approved. Supporters also say that RCV eliminates the spoiler effect, but spoilers are still alive and well in RCV elections. Because RCV cannot deliver as advertised, a number of municipalities have used it only briefly before rejecting it. These include Burlington, Vermont (two RCV mayoral elections in 2006 and 2009, then rejected by voters
in 2010), Aspen, Colorado (one RCV election in 2009, voted out in 2010), Cary, North Carolina (used as a pilot RCV election in 2007 which was not continued), and Pierce County, Washington (used only in 2008, eliminated in 2009). I do not want to see Duluth in the same boat a few years down the road after we have committed resources and money to implement this same method. To add to these drawbacks, if
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you look in the history books you will find that RCV (then called IRV) was popularized in the U.S. in the early 1900s and died out because it was not successful. This method is not new or innovative; we can expect it to die out once again. In the 21st century, it is just not practical to rank everything in our lives. Ranked-choice voting forces us to distort our preferences by ranking options. Even if you like lasagna much more than spaghetti while I like both equally, my vote can cancel yours when I rank spaghetti ahead of lasagna. A less distorting and more intuitive way to vote would be for each of us to score each of the choices. As a teacher I do not rank my students, however, I give them each scores at the end of the semester (A is 4, B is 3 ... ). As a consumer, trying to rank the 20 restaurants I have been to in the last few months
would be difficult, but I could easily give each a score from 0 to 4. I do not have a rank of the last 50 movies I have seen, but I have an idea of how much I liked each one. If you research anything you are looking to purchase, you will find scores (ratings) associated with each one. This method that we already see everywhere in our daily lives is called Score Voting, where each voter is free to assign a score between 0 and 4 to each of the candidates. Score voting is simple, allows more freedom than RCV, and it just makes sense in the 21st century. To tabulate Score Voting ballots, the scores for each candidate are simply added up and the candidate with the highest score wins. With RCV, each round has an elimination which causes votes to move around. This causes some ballots’ first rankings to be counted with other ballots’ second or third place rankings and a number of valid ballots to drop completely out of the counting. Even worse, because the candidate rankings from the ballots cannot be verified even if all the vote counts for all of the rounds are reported, RCV elections are ripe for unintended election errors, as well as fraud. If Duluth truly wants to be progressive, it should not revert back to a “new” method that failed in Minnesota in the 1930s. With Score Voting, there is no ranking, no elimination rounds and no confusion. Voters can express comparative preferences among all candidates and know exactly how their vote will be used. Using Score Voting, Duluth could be the city that leads the way to improved voting in 21st century. * Erdmann is an Instructor of Mathematics and Statistics and Lenz is a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at UMD.
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&DANCING WOOKIES BY BEN LABERGE labe0091@d.umn.edu
Star Wars Episode VII was announced last year and is set to come out next year. Yet, for all the hype that is being built around any scrap of info being given out on the next chapter in the Star Wars saga, I’m not jumping on the train. In fact, I could care less. It’s not that I have no love for the universe of space-faring adventurers and force-wielding Jedi: I’ve had my share of daydreams about lightsaber duels and ship races amidst asteroids. Yet, I’ve found a much more personal way of entertaining these fantasies that doesn’t depend on the schedule of filming. It might seem a bit archaic in an age where millions of people play MMORPGs, but every week myself and a group of friends get together to play Star Wars: Edge of the Empire, a tabletop role-playing-game. For those unfamiliar, think Dungeons and Dragons. Every player has a personally created character which has certain skills and attributes they use to confront and overcome obstacles. Every action is checked against the role of dice to see if it was successful or not. Stories or missions are provided by a “game master” who can either follow a preconceived campaign or make up story elements as they go to keep things interesting. This is a more personal experience. With movies or video games based in the Star Wars universe, you are always experiencing someone else’s story or
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linear set of actions. In Edge of the Empire characters are made by how the player wants them to be, and stories can be made up on the fly, forcing you to think on your toes in order to succeed. Case in point, our Edge of the Empire band of motley individuals consists of: Peef the gentleman thief, Traxex the veteran pilot, Katarra the albino Wookie and Argon the former Empire diplomat turned hired gun. We recently took a job to shake down a Twi’Lek artist named Iluma who owed a Hutt (think mob boss) a lot of money. We could have gone in guns blazing, risking taking on every trigger-happy drunk on that side of the star system. We hatched a plan where Peef snuck past some guards into a lighting booth and convinced the light-techs to give Katarra the spotlight as he performed an elaborate tribal dance. According to the dice, it was a smash. Needless to say, we had a fight on our hands that left two aliens dead, two more unconscious, and, instead of simply breaking her legs, the wookie punched them clean off (thank the stars for robotic replacement parts). And that was only one of our gritty adventures. I can’t say that all of our encounters have been memorable, but I wouldn’t trade the time we spent for ten more Star Wars sequels. We’re doing things that the films wouldn’t dare to do because we’re making these stories ourselves, and because we’re doing them together, in person, as friends who love Star Wars.
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HOW TO SPEND YOUR SUMMER
WORKING BY CINDY VU Columnist
Although our weather may not be up to par yet with the west coast, summer break is technically just around the corner for students — the majority of them anyways. For those who are looking to get a head start for the upcoming school year, summer internships are always very convenient: There is no school work to worry about, and scheduling is easier to maintain. But even with the success of being hired, it can be difficult to find a paid internship — especially for undergraduate students. Landing my first internship last summer was everything I expected it to be, with the exception of pay. Having a paid internship doesn’t necessarily change the experience. Either way, you’re gaining a meaningful opportunity and the chance to amp up your resume for future gigs that might even be better than the first one. I didn’t have to think twice about accepting my internship because, for a newbie like me who didn’t have any experience, it was just a blessing that someone cared to see my potential rather than my immediate skills. The experience is definitely worth more than what money could ever buy. But once it was over, the burden of having to take on more hours for a real part-time job put me in despair. On top of that, school was starting, and with no extra money I would have to sacrifice a lot of time during the semester to make up for not working during the summer. It’s getting more and more common for universities to offer internships that substitute the pay for credits, mainly because school-affiliated businesses see it as an opportunity to advertise their work to fresh faces. That apparently makes a student’s life a lot easier in many ways because not only will these credits contribute to a faster and more efficient graduation, but they’re also technically worth just as much as a three-credit course in college, depending on how much of a workload is offered through the internship. The positives of this, like gaining a meaningful connection with employers and having the hours count towards school, do outweigh the negatives of not being paid. It’s still worth it. But in this economy we sometimes need more cash than school hours. Internships have become more accessible to students now than they were 10 years ago, and a major factor as to why that might be is that most of them are unpaid positions. It’s somewhat easier to land a job that won’t put an exact price on how much your skills are worth, especially if you’re just starting out. There are instances where sometimes the amount of work that the intern has to fulfill is much more demanding than the school hours that are offered. More cases are starting to pop up around the U.S. where lawsuits are targeted at big businesses for not paying their interns adequately, or at all for that matter. The value of having school credits compensate for the intern work will eventually wear off, and once you already have the experience it’ll be more suitable to have a stable position where your work will be paid for. Since money is so scarce, college students who are entering an unpaid internship are faced with the idea of either being a savvy social networker or just another member of a generation threatened with a really bad economy. Summer is a great time to try and find a position that is offered outside of school. It’s not guaranteed that the pay will be better than any other summer job, but the time that is invested in a paid internship will be worth more. In the long run, having experience from an internship always helps. Ultimately, a well-paying internship would be ideal, but just having an internship that pays even anything at all is preferable to one that just compensates with credits. But if the internship doesn’t pay, then you should maybe consider choosing a job at Caribou over more pointless credits.
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BY NICOLE BRODZIK Sports Editor
Alyssa Brunelli walks through Kirby Student Center with what is essentially a hip-to-ankle robotic exoskeleton surrounding her right leg. Her walking cast of sorts is the most recent step to walking on her own after having a piece of her meniscus shaved off in early January. It’s been over three months since the Bulldog junior tennis player had surgery to repair her torn meniscus, the result of Brunelli falling on the ice on Christmas Eve. “Clumsy,” she called it. But the effects of her injury still take a toll on her physically and mentally. Every year, UMD’s 14 athletic teams see players go down with injuries. The physical representations: casts, crutches and missed games, which are all easily spotted. However, what isn’t seen is the impact sitting out has on these athletes. “When I found out I couldn’t play, I just bawled,” Brunelli said. “I’m not a cryer, and I just broke down. It was horrible.” The athletic training staff and many injured Bulldog athletes have likened the mentality of injured athletes to the five stages of grief. Regardless of the injury’s severity, athletic
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trainers said they see a similar mental process taking place. “I think the five stages of grief play a big role, even if it’s a minor injury like an ankle sprain and we have a big game coming up,” said UMD Athletic Trainer Suz Hoppe. “Sometimes, that can really affect them.” According to the National Institute of Mental Health, grieving people go through five different phases: anger, denial, bargaining, depression and acceptance. However, UMD’s training staff reports UMD defenseman Luke McManus works through his therapy session at UMD. McManus sufthat not all athletes hit every fered nerve damage in his left shoulder, ending his hockey career. SARAH HUGHES/STATESMAN stage, and some athletes say they deal with the stages out describe any season-ending have to be like, ‘No, you’re not in check so you don’t end up injury — as she was able to get ready. I can still see your frac- worse off than when you startof order. ed.” Brienna Gillanders is a a Medical Hardship Waiver. ture. You can’t play yet.’” Next up is bargaining, or an A stage that is most often senior forward for the UMD This means she played in few women’s hockey team. Dur- enough games within the first athlete trying to get back into seen from athletic trainers is ing the team’s October series half of the season to allow her the action too early. This can depression. Players that have with the Minnesota Golden to play a full senior season cause plenty of issues, as con- been working on their game Gophers, Gillanders tore her next year. She’s come to terms tinuing to play can lead to a for the majority of their lives are suddenly told they won’t ACL and had to have her with what that means, but not more serious injury. all athletes handle it so well at Softball senior outfielder be able to compete. Many meniscus cut down. Megan Mullen has gone times they also become seclud“I came off the ice and first. Hoppe works with the men’s through multiple elbow sur- ed from their teams during the knew something was completely wrong, but I convinced hockey team and said she’s geries in her four years as a recovery process. “When athletes are not myself it was nothing. I was seen plenty of hostility after Bulldog. She said that she, like going to be okay,” Gillanders telling a player he won’t be many of her fellow battered able to do team activities yet said. “I tried to skate a shift available to play in the com- Bulldogs, does all she can to and they’re around the team, they’re going to try and do and I couldn’t even turn with- ing games. It’s the anger stage play through injuries. that she says is fairly common “I’ve talked with my docwhat the team’s doing,” said out falling. My coach told me I was done and I just looked when dealing with these situ- tor about what kind of pain I UMD volleyball and men’s can work through and what I basketball Athletic Trainer at her and said, ‘I can’t be ations. “I’ve had athletes yell things shouldn’t,” Mullen said. “A lot Matt Carlson. “That pressure injured right now, this is my at me like, ‘I can play! I can of it’s just communication and isn’t really beneficial for them, senior year.’” Gillanders was lucky — play!’” Hoppe said. “They trusting yourself and trustsee SPORTS INJURIES, B2 if that’s a suitable word to get in that anger stage and I ing your doctors to keep you
Bark of the Bulldog “It was a chance of a lifetime that gave me the opportunity to play basketball and get an education. It was a no brainer.”
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Malosky Stadium sees first ever softball games BY JIMMY GILLIGAN Statesman Correspondent
For the first time in 99 games the Bulldog softball team played at home, but this time not at Junction Avenue Field. Instead, they played three games on a makeshift softball diamond set up in Malosky stadium. These games were part of the One Four Mandy weekend, honoring the passing of former UMD softball player Mandy Matula. The Bulldogs held their own against two of the best teams in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, splitting a doubleheader with Augustana on Friday and falling to Wayne State on Saturday. However, the Bulldogs’ sole focus was not on the scoreboard. Senior Brooke Neuroth, a teammate of Mandy’s, was glad to be able to celebrate One Four Mandy weekend in Duluth. “It’s something (Mandy) would appreciate,” Neuroth said. “She would love to see us play at home.” This weekend’s games leave UMD with a conference record of 4-5, good for ninth place in the NSIC. Their lone win of the weekend came against Augustana, who is ranked No. 13 in the nation. UMD felt like it meant they could play with the best the NSIC has to offer. Wearing purple and black jerseys — all donning the number 14 for Mandy — the Bulldogs took the field, accompanied by a sizable crowd and uncommonly warm April weather. An Augustana home run on the second pitch of the game put the Bulldogs down early,
but UMD persevered, scoring three runs in the fourth inning which would lead to the 4-1 win. “Cayli did a great job,” head coach Jen Banford said. “Obviously giving up a home run like that is tough, and she did a good job holding them for the rest of the game, and (in the end) our hitters came through.” Sadler struck out eight batters and gave up only three hits in the complete game victory. Ashley Lewis led the offensive charge, scoring a run and picking up an RBI on two hits, while freshman Angel Dahl hit a solo home run that came to rest in a pile of snow beyond the right-field fence being propped up by sandbags. The temporary field held up well over the weekend, and the team said it had little affect on play. “We’re used to playing on turf, so we look at it as an advantage, and the few things that come into play aren’t really a factor in winning or losing,” Banford said. The NSIC’s third placeholder, Augustana, got the best of UMD in game two, scoring nine runs on 13 hits. The warm spring weather of Friday’s doubleheader was nowhere to be found for Saturday’s game against Wayne State. A strong wind and temperature of 36 degrees stifled the offense for both teams, and strong pitching further quieted the batters. Cayli Sadler recorded six strikeouts in the winter weather, giving up two home runs that would eventually make the difference see SOFTBALL, B2
Baseball gets swept in the cold BY SAM STROM Staff Reporter
After splitting a four-game series last weekend with Southwest Minnesota State, the UMD baseball team entered Saturday’s doubleheader a spot out of last place in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. The Bulldog’s opponent, the Augustana College Vikings, were third place in the conference. However, the Vikings showed that they are willing to fight for the NSIC title, sweeping the weekend series from the Bulldogs in three dominant victories. Sophomore Bo Hellquist started the first game of the series on Saturday for the Bulldogs. Hellquist dropped to 1-4 on the season, going seven innings and allowing five earned runs on nine hits with three walks in the 6-2 loss. The Bulldogs pulled within two runs in the fifth when shortstop Brian Pierce singled to lead off the inning. One batter later, third baseman Jimmy Heck singled to center, scoring Pierce and tightening the game at 4-2. However, the Vikings would score two more runs in the seventh inning to seal the victory. Left-fielder Cody Aasen led the way offensively for the Bulldogs by collecting three hits, including an RBI single in the third inning. The Bulldogs moved to 0-9 on the season when scoring two runs or fewer. The Bulldogs’ defensive woes continued as they gave up six runs on seven hits with one error in the first inning of the nightcap, eventually falling 15-3. Max Ryan fell to 1-2, giving up seven runs on nine hits in four innings of work. The Bulldog pitching staff allowed 18 hits, including six doubles and two home runs in the game. The Bulldogs managed just four hits in the game, but two were solo home runs. Heck left the yard in the first inning, while designated hitter Grant Farley followed with his own blast in
Brian Pierce singled against SMSU, but it wasn’t enough to put UMD ahead. UMD ATHLETICS/SUBMITTED.
the second inning. Heck would finish with two RBIs on the day. A near-freezing game time temperature of 34 degrees, combined with 33 mph winds, greeted the Bulldogs on Sunday for the third game of the series The Bulldog hitters struck out 11 times in the game and committed seven errors in the 11-3 loss. The Vikings chased Bulldog starter Ryan Lakin after three innings. The sophomore gave up four earned runs on five hits with four walks and two hit batters. The Bulldogs managed just five hits in the game. Second baseman Skyler Wenninger had two doubles and a run scored, and catcher Beau Goff laced a home run to left field in the seventh inning to pick up one of his two RBIs in the game. Down just 5-2 entering the top of the seventh, the Bulldogs were still within striking distance before the wheels fell off. A single and a walk put Vikings on first and second with one out. An errant pickoff attempt by relief pitcher Kyle Fritz allowed a run to score, and the rout was on. The Bulldogs totaled three errors and allowed six hits in the inning, letting the Vikings push across six runs. Only three of the Vikings’ seventh-inning runs were earned. The fourth game of the series was called due to cold weather, leaving the Bulldogs winless over the weekend.
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Softball comes home to honor Mandy
Pitcher Cayli Sadler takes the mound during The Bulldogs held a post-game ceremony Saturday for Many Matula who passed away last year. Her family Friday’s games. MADISON ROLES/SUBMITTED and Bulldog alumni was present for the ceremony. MADISON ROLES/SUBMITTED
The Bulldogs all donned Matula’s number 14 during One Four Mandy Weekend to honor the fallen Bulldog. MADISON ROLES/ SUBMITTED
Infielder Jordan Rice comes up to bat during the double header against Augustana. MADISON ROLES/ SUBMITTED.
A foul ball landed in a snow bank at Malosky Stadium. MADISON ROLES/ SUBMITTED
Outfielder Angel Dahl is greeted by her teammates at home plate after a home run in Friday’s home opener. MADISON ROLES/ SUBMITTED
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in the 3-0 loss. Across the diamond, Wayne State struck out 10 Bulldog batters. Both pitchers seemed unaffected by the blistering cold. “Throughout the first half of the game it wasn’t too bad, it was just the seventh inning when it got to me, but for both pitchers you could see everything was staying low,� Sadler said. “We were just trying to hang onto the ball and deal with it.� At the conclusion of Saturday’s game, the softball program honored Mandy Matula with a touching ceremony that included Bulldog softball alumni and Matula’s parents and brother.
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Head coach Jen Banford reflected the sentiments of the Bulldog softball family on One Four Mandy Weekend. “Win or lose, the important thing for us was to play at home and honor Mandy,� she said. “I am so thankful to our UMD athletic department and (those) that made this possible today. It means everything to us.� The Bulldogs (18-16) will face off against the University of Minnesota Crookston at Malosky Stadium on Tuesday, April 15. For UMD to succeed going forward, the equation is simple. “We have to get our bats going if we want to win games,� Neuroth said.
and you have to get them their own space. But when they’re ready, then you try and include them in as much team activity as possible, or else they get depressed in a sense.� While injured athletes aren’t dealing with the loss of a person or a relationship as these stages are often related to, what they’re mourning is a loss of identity. Many of the athletes competing at the NCAA Division I and II levels have been honing their skills for as long as they can remember. Luke McManus, a Bulldog men’s hockey defenseman, was told that his time on the ice was over this January after suffering nerve damage to his left shoulder. “I’ve played hockey for 20-some years of my life,� McManus said, “and you
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Continued from B1 don’t really know what life without hockey is like. I’ve never had to experience that before.� Despite the fear of the unknown, almost all athletes come to a place of acceptance eventually according to their athletic trainers. McManus is no exception. Even though his time in a Bulldog uniform is over, he is often found in the basement of the Sports and Health Center working with Hoppe on stretching and strengthening his injured shoulder. While he wishes there was a way to play out his senior season as a Bulldog, he’s coming to terms with his injury, and is thankful for the time he had at UMD. As he says, “once a Bulldog, always a Bulldog.�
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Wednesday, April 17 Spelling bee (...with a twist)
8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. in the Kirby Rafters Join the Kirby Program Board for a fun spelling bee. Cost: Free
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Despite the snow and freezing temperatures, a total of 66 musicians from around the state traveled to Glensheen to perform ‘Inuksuit,’ an outdoor percussion piece. Audience members walked around the grounds, experiencing the piece in their own way.
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7:30 p.m. in Weber Music Hall Featuring resident artist Adam Booker on double bass. Cost: $3 for UMD students
Thursday, April 18 Mock Rape Trial
3:00 p.m. in the Library Rotunda Determine whether it was consensual sex or rape by participating in the volunteer jury, or watch the action from a safe distance in the audience. The Honorable Judge Tarnowsky will be presiding over the trial, which is based on actual events. Cost: Free
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6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in 90 Bohannon Hall Film screening and post-film discussion. Co-spon sored by the Alworth Institute and the BeaumlerKaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee. Cost: Free
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6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. in Chem 200 Twenty of the 50 members from the UMD Chem istry and Biochemistry club will perform science experiments. Explosions will be included. Cost: Free
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Miss America gives speech on diversity BY MEGAN CARSON Volunteer Reporter
Only 93 of 8 billion women in the United States have earned the title of Miss America. Born in Syracuse, NY, and raised in India, Nina Davuluri’s determination allowed her to become one of those 93 individuals. The Asian Pacific American Student Association (APAA) got Davuluri to appear at an event in the UMD ballroom in celebration of diversity for the month of April. Davuluri’s platform was “Celebrating Diversity Through Cultural Competency.” She is using her title to her advantage by traveling
more than 20,000 miles a month to promote her platform and celebrate diversity. “I take the negative and make it positive,” Davuluri said. The former Miss New York proceeded to become the first Miss America of Indian descent in the 2014 competition. Following the crowning of the prestigious award, Davuluri Nina Davuluri, the first Miss America of Indian received racist hate mes- descent, giving a speech on diversity. SARAH sages on social media STAUNER/STATESMAN with words such as “terrorist.” The false stereo- that made her stand out Lalli Akurati, Presitypes and hate speech from all the rest. She dent of the APAA, said, only made her more said the talent portion of “She was the perfect determined to inform the competition was the candidate for our event.” her audience about her most meaningful to her. The APAA even made culture. “It was at that moment it possible for audience Davuluri expressed I realized I was impact- members to get individher culture through ing people on national ual pictures with Miss classic Indian dance television,” Davaluri America, something not with a Bollywood twist said. easily permitted.
5:30 p.m. in the Kirby Ballroom Delicious cultural foods and delightful entertain ment, sponsored by the Latino Chicano Student Association. Cost: $10 for UMD students
Monday, April 20 Altworth International Lecture: Urban Sustainability
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Tuesday, April 21 Jazz Combos Concert
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